1929-01-17 The Plainsman

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FOR EXAMS THE PLAINSMAN MAKE ALL
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TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOLUME LII AUBURN, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929. NUMBER 26
LITTLE THEATRE TO
MAKE APPEARANCE IN
"CLOSE THAT BOOK"
Delightful Comedy Offered To
Public As Cocktail
A U B U R N PLAYERS ALSO
E x c e l l e n t Cast Assembled For
Initial- Presentation
On Saturday evening, January 19,
at 8:00 o'clock in Langdon Hall, the
Little Theater of Auburn will pre­sent
its first play, Susan GlaspelFs
delightful comedy, "Close That
Book", and at the same time the Au­burn
Players will present Stuart
Walkers phantasy, "The Trimplet."
There will be no admisison charge.
"The Trimplet" is presented by
The Auburn Players under the direct
tion of the class in play production.
The cast consists of: Lady Caratina,
Martha Haupt; Lady Bobolor, Evelyn
Henry; Milton Maurice, Marshall
Blackmon; Marquess of Strenathco,
Murff Hawkins; Voice, Langford;
You, Dozier Roberts; Memory, Ddel-le
Stewart; Prologue, Marium Moore.
The Auburn Little Theater will
make its initial public appearance in
"Close That Book", a college comedy
written by Susan Glaspell. It is under
the direction of Dr. Weaver and the
cast-includes: Bessie, Mrs. Lillie T.
Larlovitz; Senator Byrd, N. B. Van
Wagener; Mrs. Byrd, Mrs. Peggie
Barth; Mrs. Root, Mrs. Bess Atkin­son;
Peyton, Mr. C. E. Edwards;
Jhansi, Mrs. Gladys M. Irving;
Grandmother, Mrs. Ralph Donor,
Uncle George, C. A. Baughman.
The performance Saturday even­ing
marks the completion of the
dreams of many of the most prom­inent
people in Auburn who have
sponsored the Little Theater move­ment
for the past several months. It
.is said that Aubunr is the smallest
town in the South if not in the en­tire
country to have a Little Theater.
Last Fall the Little Theater Guild
was organized, the purpose of which
is to enlist the townspeople of Au­burn
and the students and faculty of
A. P. I. into an organization by means
of which some of the best plays of
the times can be presented to the pub­lic
by the local talent. A survey of
the local talent available here was
made by the sponsors of the plan and
they were greatly gratified to find
that there were a number of per­sons
who were not only interested in
such a scheme but had^much natural
talent in such a direction.
A meeting was called of those in­terested
and an organization formed,
officers elected, and a membership
drive started. Next, a program for
the year was made out, and prepara­tions
for the first play, which is to
be presented Saturday night, com­pleted.
Firemen Make Dash
To "Butter" Blaze
The much-talked of Auburn
Fire Department was recently
called out on what promised to be
a sensational blaze. The whole
rear end of Dr. McAdory's
home was enveloped in smoke
and blazes filled the kitchen of
the house. Things began to
look lively.
The fire truck arrived on the
scene, very, very shortly after
the alarm was turned in, cover­ing
the distance from the station
to the scene of the excitement
with its usual meteoric speed.
The firemen alighted from the
truck and dashed quickly into
the house. They found that a
pound of butter was burning
in the oven of the kitchen stove.
Imagine the Fire Department's
embarrassment in not being able
to make a grand display of their
heroism in extinguishing a great
blaze.
To Lead Grand March Friday Night at Junior Dances
DRILL PERIOD TO
BE DISCONTINUED
Monday afternoon drill will be dis­continued
at the beginning of the
second semester, the time being
changed to Tuesday morning from
eleven until twelve. The change was
made so that both Drake field and
the" baseball field will be available
for drill. As it is now both Drake
field and the baseball field will soon
be occupied by the men practicing
spring-football and baseball. Another
advantage of Tuesday drill is that the
large number of athletes who have
missed Monday drill will be able to
make it in the future.
NOTICE
Mr. C. W. Smith, manager of the
Gulf City Dye Works of Mobile, has
announced that a representative of
his firm will arrive in Auburn on
January 21st with a stock of tuxedo
suits and shirts for students who wish
to rent them. He will have a good
line of suits of all sizes, and he feels
sure that he will be able to please
the most fastidious. The representa­tive
will be located at Red's Place,
and those wishing to get tuxedos for
any or all of the three nights should
call by early for a fit.
CALLAN WILL
ATTEND CIVIL
CONVENTION
To Inspect Project Now Under
Construction fn N ew
York City
The Senior class of the Civil En­gineering
Department at a special
meeting Monday presented Prof. J.
A. C. Callan with a trip to New York
City for the pur-pose of attending the
17th annual convention of the Ameri­can
Society of Civil Engineers. The
convention will convene during the
latter part of this week, with a busi­ness
session coming the first two
days and sight seeing and inspection
the remainder of the time.
"Prof. Callan, in outlining his trip
to the class, told of the many large
engineering projects now under con­struction
in the City of New York,
most of which he expects to look
over, bringing the information Eack
to the class.
While in New York, Prof. Callan
expects to see some of his old class­mates
and professors from the Uni­versity
of Illinois, where he received
his degree.
The trip will be of value both-to
Prof. Callan and also the class be­cause
the information that he will
bring back will be right in line with
the class work.
TENNIS TOURNEY
GETSGOODSTART
The freshmen tennis tournament
got off to a good start this week, and
the early matches are now being play­ed.
This tournament is being held on
the "Y" courts, under the auspices of
the Auburn Tennis Club; any "Rat"
wishing to enter should see Don May,
at the Lambda Chi house. This tour­nament
has been promoted for the.
purpose of accustoming the players to
tournament competition, and giving
the coaches a chance to spot likely
material for the varsity racket ag­gregation.
The freshmen tourney will
be followed by the annual college
tournament this spring, in which the
winner will be awarded a large silver
trophy and all leading contenders will
receive prizes.
All matches but the final and
semi-finals, will be two out of three
sets. If one is not acquainted with his
opponent, he may find his address at
the "Y" office. Contestants are
urged to play their matches as soon
as possible. The first round matches
are as follows: Mittell, F. C, Ted
Tart; Gross, Norman Guy; Taylor,
W. M., Adams; Clinton Jones, Bye;
Robert Argo, Wood, J. E.; John
Jewel, Bye; Askew, W. M., Mathews,
T. L.; Carter, Bye; Coleman, Evans;
Oakley, E. F., Bye; Brown, H. B.,
Letson, J. W.; Frank Ellis, Bob Ar­nold;
Kennamer, J. C, Simson, A. J.;
Williams, N., Bye; Burgess, Bye; and
Swan, Mahan.
NOTICE
All Plainsmans will be distributed
next week from Auburn Cafe, Stu­dent
Supply Shop and Red's Place.
Damnitski Goes At
A "Clipping" Rate
Damnitski, Sigma Pi's cher­ished
canine, experienced foot-ballistic
aspirations, a few days
ago, and accordingly went on
a rampage at a "clipping" rate.
Damnitski was solemnly stand­ing
near the post office when
suddenly he imagined that a
nearby liver-colored, long-eared
member of the "bow-wow brood"
was a member of the opposing
team. Damnitski went after him.
The fact that Mr. Cletus Meyer,
who was standing by the post
office with several books under
his arm, was in the way was con­sidered
very trivial and uncon-sequential
by Damnitski. Mr.
Meyer was "clipped". Books and
Mr. Meyer were finally located'
at different points along the
street between Toomer's and the
depot.
MISS BILLIE MOORE
AND HALEY MILLIGAN
LEAD GRAND MARCH
Egyptian Decorations Nearly
. Finished for Dances
M A N Y GIRLS EXPECTED
Craig's Orchestra All Set For
Occasion
MISS BILLIE MOORE OF SAVANNAH, GA.
ANNUAL INFLUX OF
INDUSTRIALISTS TO
AUBURN HAS BEGUN
Telephone Companies L e ad
Van in Annual Trek
The annual trek of industrial lead­ers
of the nation to the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute to select seniors
in engineering for employment after
graduation has begun. Already five
officials of telephone companies have
been in Auburn and other officials of
big concerns are expected from time
to time, according to Prof. Arthur St.
C. Dunstan, head professor of electri­cal
engineering.
A party consisting of Col. Kendall
Weisiger, assistant to the president,
Frank M. Malone and R. O. Lile of
the general traffic department, and
T. O. Brewer, division supervisor of
plant employment, of the Southern
Bell Telephone and Telegraph Com­pany,
and C. N. Thibaut, division em­ployment
supervisor of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company,
were the first to confer with the stu­dents
of the 1929 class. They made
talks to students who expect to grad­uate
in May and held interviews with
individuals interested in employment
by these concerns.
Prof. Dunstan said that these com­panies
will offer employment to a
large number of Auburn students of
the 1929 class and that other national
industrial concerns will do likewise.
Students who have made excellent rec­ords
and who have qualifications fre­quently
receive several offers before
graduation. Record is a big factor
considered by industrial leaders be­fore
offering employment to young
men about to graduate at Auburn.
Annually about this season officials
of big corporations come to Auburn
to select seniors in engineering for
employment after graduation. Con­sequently
Auburn men are now hold­ing
high positions due to their training
at Auburn and diligent application to
duty after completing college work.
Prof. Dunstan anticipates the usual
big demand for Auburn graduates this
year.
PRIZE IS OFFFERED
FOR BEST ESSAY
The Plainsman offers a prize
of five dollars to the student
writing' the best essay on "Au­burn
Spirit." The essays are not
to exceed 250 words in length
and are to be submitted to The
Plainsman before the first of
March. The only requirement
for the author is that he or she
must be a student of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute.
The purpose of this contest is
to get a good definition of that
almost inexplicable something
that we call the "Auburn Spirit."
Those two words are on the lips
of every student of Auburn
dozens of times daily, but do
they know what they are talking
about? Have they a clear con­ception
of what famous "Au­burn
Spirit'' really is? We
should know by March the first.
THREE MEXICAN
STUDENTSARRIVE
Extension Service
Officials Will Meet
At the request of Dr. R. E. Tid-well,
state superintent of education,
officials of the extension service of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
principals of five district agricultural
schools, and Dr. J. B. Hobdy, director
of vocational education, will meet
with him in Montgomery, Friday,
January 18th, to discuss matters per-
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Again Auburn has been chosen
above other engineering schools of
the South by three natives of our
Southern-^neighbor, Mexico. Three
Mexican students arrived in Auburn
recently, in order to become accli­mated
to the ways and customs of
this country, and the peculiarities of
Auburn, before the beginning of the
second semester. The three "to-be
rats" are Raul and Antonio Nieto,
and Carlos Ortega. They arrived on
January 3 to take an abbreviated
course in English at Lee County
High School before assuming college
duties. Their home is Celaya, Quana-juata,
Mexico, near Mexico City; they
are highly recommended by the high
school which they attended there. They
are planning to pursue courses in
electrical and mechanical engineering,
making their home here at 245
Payne St.
DR. KNAPP TENDERED
ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP
LOCAL CIRCLE O.D.K.
Expansive Views Are Taken
In Acceptance Speech
Fraternity Observes
Anniversary Of Lee
On January 19 the members of the
local chapter will observe the birthday
of General Robert E. Lee by wearing
ribbons of crimson and gold, the
fraternity colors, under their pins.
General Lee was the foremost spon­sor
of the Kappa Alpha fraternity, it
being founded at' Washington and
Lee University on December 21, 1865,
when he was president of that insti­tution.
Many times thereafter he
broke a strict rule of the university
by leaving the campus to- organize
chapters at other schools.
Many of the aims and character­istics
of Kappa Alpha are due to the
personality of General Lee,
Dr. Bradford Knapp was tendered
ac^ve membership in Omega Circle
of Omicron Delta Kappa^ the initia­tion
taking place Tuesday evening.
Dr. Knapp is one of four members
of the faculty who holds active mem­bership
in the local circle.
The popular president will remain
an active member of Omega Circle
for four years. Under fraternity
regulations four faculty members may
hold active membership in the or­ganization
for terms of one, two,
three, and four years respectively.
Professors C. A. Baughman, Kenneth
Daughrity, and Coach Wilbur Hutsell
are the other members.
In becoming a member of Omicron
Delta Kappa Dr. Knapp places him­self
among thirty college presidents^
who hold membership in the frater­nity.
Over 1800 leaders in the lead­ing
colleges throughout the country
have become members since the es­tablishment
of ODK, fourteen years
ago at Washington and Lee Univer­sity.
In accepting the honor conferred
upon him, President Knapp said:
"I appreciate the honor that you
have done me in making me a mem­ber
of this organization. I know of
its work; I know of its origin. I have
met colleagues at National meetings
who are members of it at other in­stitutions.
I very highly approve of
its statement of ideals. I can conceive
of nothing more important than that
of working for the success, the prog­ress
and the influence of a great
educational institution. The Alabama
Polytechnic Institute needs just such
organized~loyalty. -
"I hope you know by this time how
much I am personally devoted to the
student body and to young men. I
like to come in contact with them; I
like to have them come to my desk
and discuss things with me. Although
the duties of the president of an in­stitution
are tremendously broad and
absolutely absorbing, I like to take
the time for this personal interest.
Some decisions have to be made which
are difficult to make. Things need
to be done which are difficult for the
administration to do. I shall trust
in this organization, in common with
others in the student body, to help
me in these tasks. I hope you know
that I must deal fairly with everyone
and must have no prejudices what­ever,
and in this spirit it will be a
source of great satisfaction to know
(Continued on page 6)
EDUCATORS TO
HOLD MEETING
IN BIRMINGHAM
Would Make W A P I Serve
Entire State in Educational
Way
At the request of President Brad­ford
Knapp, and in cooperation with
Governor Bibb Graves and Dr. R. E.
Tidwell, state superintendent of edu­cation,
Prof. L. N. Duncan sent today
a request to the presidents of several
institutions of learning in Alabama
and other educational leaders to meet
in Birmingham, January 24, to con­sider
ways and means for making
radio station WAPI render maximum
service in an educational way.
The invitation by Director Duncan
called attention to the fact that it is
the policy of the station to serve the
listeners, as well as entertainment
and other means, and that a carefully
planned coordinated educational pro­gram
in which all may take part is
the object of the Birmingham meeting.
The invitation was sent to Dr.
George H. Denny, president, Univer­sity
of Alabama; Dr. O. C. Car-michael,
president, Alabama College,
Montevallo; Dr. Guy Snaverly, pres­ident,
Birmingham-Southern, Birm­ingham;
Dr. John C. Dawson, presi­dent,
Howard College, Birmingham;
Mrs. Mary Moore McCoy, Athens Col­lege,
Athens; Dr. Walter D. Agnew,
president, Woman's College, Montgom­ery;
Dr. E. V. Baldy, president, Jud-son
College, Marion; Dr. H. J. Wil-lingham,
Florence Normal, Florence;
Dr. C. W. Daugette, Jacksonville Nor­mal,
Jacksonville; Dr. G. W. Brock,
Livingston Normal, Livingston; Dr.
E. M. Shackleford, Troy Normal,
Troy; Frank E. Groves, secretary
Alabama Educational Association,
Montgomery; Dr. C. B. Glenn, super­intendent
of Birmingham Schools,
Birmingham; Dr. C. A. Brown, assis­tant
superintendent of Birmingham
Schools, Birmingham.
It is understood here that Governor
Bibb Graves will attend the meeting
(Continued on page 6)
Beautiful Miss Billie Moore, of Sa­vannah,
Georgia, will, with Haley
Milligan, president of the Junior
Class, lead the Grand March during
the Friday night dance of the most
shining event of the year at Auburn,
the annual Junior Prom. As the dates
for the dances draw near, Pete Cren­shaw,
Chairman of the Social Com­mittee,
reports that all plans are
rapidly nearing completion. The ex­quisite
Egyptian decorations, under
the direction of Charles Davis, are
almost finished—bid cards have been
mailed to one thousand girls all over
the South—Francis Craig's premier
orchestra, from up in Nashville,
Tennessee, sends word that they are
"primed" to play for the best set of
dances ever staged at Alabama
Polytech.
The various fraternities that are
to give house parties announce that
they are in readiness to receive the
hosts of pretty visitors that will grace
the occasion with their presence. In­cidentally,
the. pictures of some of
these fair ones may be seen on the
two middle pages of the Junior Prom
number of the Cajoler, which will be
off the press and ready for distribu­tion
shortly before the beginning of
the dances.
The finishing of the last exam
will herald the beginning of festivi­ties.
Preparations have been made
to receive a record number of guests
—without a doubt, the attendance
will be the largest in years. Already
the spirit of frivolity is irn~ the air.
On the twenty-fouE*3J"of the month
the bomb t>-f"'3liilarity will burst,
spreading joy everywhere.
BANKS DECLARE
LARGE DIVIDEND
FOUR INITIATED
INTO BLUE KEY
Because of their records as leaders
and the excellent examples they have
set, four students at the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute have become
members of the National Blue Key
Honor Fraternity and were initiated
into the organization Tuesday of this
week. The four were Jim Crawford,
Dothan; Pete Booth, Phoenix City;
Charles Davis, Montgomery; and J.
B. McMillan, Talladega.
The purpose of this organization is
to discuss and strive to further the
best interests of the college where
it is located, to promote the spirit of
fraternalism among students, to fos­ter
inter-collegiate relationship, and
to develop a national collegiate spirit
by placing the stamp of approval
upon college leaders, making it pos­sible
to recognize them wherever
they may be found. Membership is
based upon leadership, personality,
and influence, the officials said.
The year 1928 was a good year for
both banks in Auburn. Directors of
the Bant of Auburn met and de­clared
a dividend of 10 per cent to
all stockholders, and, at the same
time, made a substantial addition to
the undivided profits. Directors of
the First National Bank declared a
dividend of 8 per cent and made an
addition to the undivided profits
equivalent to double "that set aside at
the end of 1927.
Both banks reelected all officers.
S. L. Toomer is president of the Bank
of Auburn, Dr. C. A. Cary is vice-president,
and W. D. Martin is
cashier. Other directors are Dr. B.
B. Ross, Prof. C. L. Hare, Prof. B.
L. Shi, C. A. Jones, Emmett Size-more,
Dr. C. S. Yarbrough, and
Thomas Bragg. Emil F. Wright is as­sistant
casfiier.
Officers of the First National Bank
are Felton Little, president, Prof. W.
W. Hill, vice-president, A. L. Thom­as,
chairman, and G. H. Wright,
cashier. Additional directors are
Homer Wright, Prof. J. C. Grimes,
Miss Kate Hollifield, John Huguley,
W. L. Long, Robert Hudson, and B.
W. Jones.
NEW EQUIPMENT
MECHANICAL LAB
* A new testing machine of 100,000
pounds capacity has been installed in
the Mechanical Lab Department, and
will be ready for the junior students
as soon as the necessary wiring de­tails
are completed.
Professor McKinnon, of the Me­chanical
Department, reports the ma­chine
to be of the Olsen make, ad­vanced
type, and powered by three
hrosepower Westinghouse motors.
Other notable features included are,
automate balance, electric clutch,
horsepower Westinghouse motors.
tests tension or compression. The
machine complete is valued at $2500.
Professor McKinnon also reports
that a 40 H. P. Diesel engine is on
the way to Auburn..
PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929.
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Published semi-weekly by the students of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
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Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60
issues). Entered as second class matter
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STAFF
Ludwig Smith Editor-in-Chief
James B. McMillan Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Rosser Alston, '29 Associate Editor
Raymond DeArman, '29 ..Associate Editor
A. V. Blankenship,'30 - - Associate Editor
Victor Savage, '30 Associate Editor
J., D. Neeley, '30 __— •__ Managing Editor
K. R. Giddens, '30__Ass't. Managing Editor
Tom Brown, '31 News Editor
Campbell Blake, '30 News Editor
Robert L. Hume, 31 _- Ass't. News Editor
Roy Sellers, '31 Ass't. News Editor
J. E. McLeskey, '31 Sports Editor
Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor
Bob Handley, '29 Humor Editor
REPORTERS
Robert Baxter, '32; T. S. Coleman, '32;
Kenneth • Cooper, '32; Clarence Dykes,
'32; Thomas Dykes, '31; Edmund Eng­land,
'32; George Harrison, '32; John
Lewis, '31; S. H. Morrow, '32; Alex
Smith, Jr., '31; K. G. Taylor, '32; J. E.
Jenkins, '32; H. G. Tooney, '32; Victor
White, '32; D. Reynolds, '32; Don May,
'29; Virgil Nunn, '31; Gabie Drey, ' 3 1;
Charles Matthews, '32; James David­son,
'32; W. M. Taylor, '32.
BUSINESS STAFF
Grady Moseley, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
H. H. Milligan, '30 Advertising Mgr.
White Matthews, '31 __ Ass't. Adv. Mgr.
Walter Smith, '31 Circulation .Mgr.
J. M. Johnson, '31 Circulation Mgr.
W. A. Files '31 Asst. Circulation Mgr.
J. E. Dilworth '31 -"Ass't. Circulation Mgr.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
Assistants: B. W. Kincail '32; R. A. Mann
'32; Roy Wilder '32, Cleveland Adams '32.
Better Facilities
For Service
Last week we commented on certain con­ditions
which seemed to be prevalent at
the college cafeteria. We have since found
that the management of the cafeteria had,
before the publishing of the editorial, taken
steps to correct these faults. A large
amount of new equipment has been purchas­ed
and installed. The college is doing its
best to provide better and more wholesome
food for the students at moderate prices.
The cafeteria project is one of the most
important functions undertaken by the new
administration. v J n its first year, we realiee
that many difficulties will have to be ad­justed.
Unthought of obstacles will arise
continuously which must be taken care
of. Much of the criticism of the cafeteria
has been grossly exaggerated and promul­gated.
Not only are the authorities anxious to
provide cheaper living conditions for the
students but they are also interested and
determined that such food be wholesome.
The college cafeteria is the only eating es­tablishment
in Auburn - that is regularly
inspected at frequent intervals. This care­fulness
insures the patrons that the food
and service will be sanitary.
The perfect functioning of the cafeteria
was retarded by its newness, and those in
charge are to be congratulated on the re­cent
endeavor to improve conditions. The
faults which have cropped out are but minor
ones and as such should not imbue students
with disloyalty. Any attempt to lower
student expenses certainly deserves the most
considerate loyalty of the student body, for
they are the ones to be benefitted.
Value Honor
Above Grades
With the examinations just around the
corner we cannot help wondering what the
attitude of the students will be. Some will
be facing exams here for the first time,
and in their hearts there will be a bit of
fear. And even in the minds of the non­chalant,
there will be some sort of question.
With the old men exams will be somewhat
of a matter of course—something of a de­testable
nature which must be endured.
Most of us will meet them honestly, while
some will look for a less difficult way to
pass their work. We cannot believe there
are very many in Auburn who will delib­erately
cheat their way through, but we do
know that sometimes students become fran­tic
and desperate in their efforts to make
a creditable grade. This is merely a mark,
for it means nothing as far as their actual
grade is concerned.
They forget about the individual honor
and honesty which people must have if they
hope to succeed not only in later life, but
also on the campus. A student may think
that if he has high grades he will make the
honor fraternities, but he forgets that some­one
in that fraternity knows all about him
and his method of having eligible grades
to his credit.
It is much better for a man to fail on
some of his work and command the respect
of his friends than to cheat, for how many
men care to know or to trust or to honor a
thief? None will and that result is the
only think received by those of that nature
here or elsewhere.
A good character is a man's greatest
asset, and nothing should be allowed to
degrade it any. How many men realize
what the price of cheatipg is? Very few
when the act is committed. That is the
reason people must be punished for their
crime and that is the reason college author­ities
have to resort to drastic measures
when cheating is reported.
Society will not agreeably tolerate the
infamous action of anyone. She must be
protected; therefore her enemies are pun­ished.
But everyone is a part of this human
society, and the best way he can strengthen
it and himself is by watching himself the
little things that later lead to great mis­takes.
• .
Now is the time for each student to
realize that his own honor means too much
to him for it to be destroyed because of
cheating. And each should know that the
best way to preserve and make it stronger
is by playing fairly in whatever he does
and immediately in the coming examina­tions.
When Will Students
Elect Class Officers
r
The consensus of opinion among stu­dents
is that a policy of open politics is
the best thing that could be adopted for
the good of everyone concerned. We do
not see how anyone who has pondered over
the matter very much could possibly ar­rive
at any other conclusion. The method
that is used now has been bad enough to
cause certain groups of students to study
and observe the situation as it really is.
It is from these personal observations that
we have received most of our ideas,but
it remains for student opinion to change
this condition.
After discussing the question wit*h sev­eral
students, we have decided that a gen­eral
reform is the only justifiable remedy,
and believe that a hostile reaction to the
past political history on the campus is be­ginning
to assert itself.
One student said, "I don't see how any­thing
is ever done with the election of of­ficers
as it is now, and I can't understand
why the students are putting up with such
rot." We don't see how we have been
doing it either. However we have been
firmly convinced that something must be
done immediately.
When the true leaders of a class are at
the helm, greater influence will be felt and
greater unity of purpose will be displayed
by the students. No half-hearted support
will be given those in office, because they
will be there as true representatives of the
students. The present system is the worst
thing we have in Auburn; its influence is
undoubtedly felt everywhere; it controls
the voice of the students.
To do away with it public opinion must
be changed, and those who are willing to
work for it should see that nothing is left
undone that might help the situation.
Freshman Hazing
Radically different was the reception
given students entering the University of
California at Los Angeles for the first time
this year. Instead of being submitted to a
series of humiliating ceremonies and phy­sical
buffeting, freshmen were cordially
greeted by upper classmen, organized for
the purpose, and offered every assistance in
establishing themselves in their new en­vironment.
Colleges are rapidly getting away from
the process of initiating first year men into
the ways of college. This practice was
started years ago when possibly the gentry
who made up the student body of universi­ties
and colleges of that time needed initiat­ing.
Today, however, the practice has been
found to be detrimental rather than bene­ficial
to the welfare of the whole student
body.
The University of California is not the
first college to make this kind of a move.
It has been in the minds of those controlling
colleges for some time. The movement is
starting in the larger institutions of high­er
education, but it is rapidly expanding to
the smaller colleges and universities.
Psychologists have long wondered what
principle hazing was working under. All
indications are that the practice has been
a failure, and now is the time to correct
that which is not working in harmony with
the best interests of the student body. If
this is a practice which is not for the best of
the group, as all indications are that it is
not, then it should no longer be practiced on
our campus.
Much more could possibly be accomplished
by giving the students a real touch of hos­pitality
than by subjecting them to un­scrupulous
humiliation at the hands of up-perclassmen,
and then a balance made by
giving older students who have proven their
actions worthy, more responsibility through
more privileges.—Daily O'Collegian.
Every husband trembles when his wife
looks at him closely and says, "I want to
talk t c you about something."
" L i t t l e Things"
By Tom Bigbee
"You can soon tune in and get your
education," says Graham McNamee in the
January American; now, won't that be nice
—nothing to do but sit back in an easy
chair and let it "soak" in! But turn to,the
article and read about this wonder for your­self,
. if indeed you haven't already.
A nice, fitting and timely tribute, that
was, paid to one of our prominent pro­fessors
through a letter of a Former Stu­dent
last week. Is that professor dead?
No, indeed; does one have to be in that
condition before nice things can be said
of him? Scatter roses while they live—
that's our ticket. Reckon this stude read
tne recent editorial on "The Man Behind
WAPI."
Dumbhead Reigles, as he is known, you've
heard of him, perhaps. But is all the crit­icism
he is receiving justifiable? The stings
of irate yellow jackets are entirely capable
of upsetting one's mental and vocal actions.
Then perhaps there's a bit of psychology
involved. Solution awaits you on the third
floor, Main Building.
You ladies' men—attention! What do
you think of the slam our Benjamin, over
in the right column there, handed the
inmates of our most dearly beloved sister
institution—Woman's College? He slaugh­tered
the cover of their new publication,'
The Prelude. But he did admit that within
the covers basked .some real literary ma­terial;
we second the complimentary mo­tion,
Benjamin.
In finale, a bunch of little things to bear
on your intelligence: Final exams; insig­nificant—
but pesky just the same!
^ AUBURN FOOTPRINTS m
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
What does "Auburn Spirit" mean? Does
it include a sense of loyalty to the Institu­tion,
to its progress, to its development, to
its-ideals, to its good, its name and fame?
If so then we have some who should think
twice before they act. It is hard for me to
understand how some can send out articles
about things at Auburn which are either
untrue or overdrawn or merely represent
the opinions of one person. I still think
that the sorriest think we do at Auburn
is to write letters and sign a fictitious name,
letters which misrepresent, letters almost
disloyal. There is one good place which we
can really correct mistakes, alter condi­tions,
improve the whole of Auburn and
that is in consultation, in constructive team
work to do things and not talk about them.
I am greatly impressed as we near the
end of a semester with the need of a real
student loan fund at Auburn. I have writ­ten
and spoken on this subject before. Re­cently
I have had inquiries from so many
worthy students, mostly Juniors and Se­niors,
who need $50 or $100 or not more
than $150 to complete their year of work
at the Alabama Polytechnic, that I am again
impressed with that need. I wish we had
a fund which could be loaned on a basis
of careful discriminating decision to those
who are helping to pay their own way
through college on fairly liberal 'terms but
with an absolute guarantee of repayment,
surrounded by fine honest interest in mak-,
ing the fund do its work and keep it invior
late. A spirit can be aroused which would
prompt each borrower to pay his loan
knowing that thereby he is again enabling
a fellow student to receive the same help
in time of need which came to the borrower
in his day in college. •
* * * * *
I have repeatedly said that College life
is the time when one forms character. There
is not a single college in America which is
not troubled at times with the bad check
habit, "hot checks" or "rubber checks", etc.,
as the boys call them. In most states there
is a law against giving a bad check. I
believe that is the law of Alabama. But
law or no law you had far better not have
a college education than to have one at the
expense of your character for honesty and
fair dealing. There may be some here who
are tempted to give bad checks in the hope
that they will be able to make them good.
For your own- sakes do not do it as well as
for the sake of the one to whom you give the
check. Even better than your diploma when
you leave college will be a certificate of
honor and honesty in all business dealings.
You cannot buy or steal a good name any
more than you can buy or steal an educa­tion;
you will have to earn both of them.
A COUNTRY BOY IN A BIG TOWN, OR WHY GIRLS LEAVE HOME
(In Two Parts) !
When I lived in the country we had two race horses. We called one garlic
because he always won by a breath. We called the other Co-ed, he always won by
a neck. I sold the horses for a lot of money and took a trip to the city. I WAS
asked out every night. I was asked out of one place six times. I saw a man fall
off a hundred foot ladder and not hurt himself. Hei fell off of the firsjt rung.
The funniest sight that I saw was a bow legged woman telling a crosseyed man
to come straight home. I went into a cafe or should I say hat and coat exchange.
I met a man as I came out. He asked me if the rates were cheap. I told him that
I got a steak and overcoat for forty cents. He said, "Do you know that I am chief
of detectives in this town. I said, Do you know that I am the biggest liar in
Russel county. To this he replied, "Lad from now on you can lie on your back
in a little cage with bars around you instead of fence railings."
* * * * * * * *
THE MORNING AFTER
Preacher: Gus, I was glad to see you at prayer meeting last night.
Gus (amazed): So that's where I was, is it?
* * * * * * * *
Man (in a cafe) : There's hair in my honey.
Waiter: It probably came off the comb, sir.
* * * * * * * *
DAD TELLS ONE
Pa: "You will never succeed unless you mend your ways. Remember 'The
early bird catches the worm'."
Son: "Wasn't it rather foolish in the worm to get up so early?"
Pa: "That worm had not. been to bed, my son, he was just( getting in from
a party."
* * * * * * * *
FANNIE, MY GIRL
Fannie body wants her they can have her.
* * * * * * * *
Love is a balloon that takes you to heaven; marriage is a parachute that
brings you back to earth.
* * * * * * * *
Boy she's a corker; she works in a bottling works.
* * * * • • • •
MAX AND HIS MUSIC
Get your soup boys and let's yodel, "She was true to me but teeth were false."
* * * * * * * *
!'It was a put up job," said the wall paperer.,
* * * * * * * *
Son: Pa, what is a cyclone? •:'•'•
Pa: A cyclone is something that starts from nowhere, has no particular place
to go, but is in an awful hurry to get there.
* * * * * * * *
Can a cow-hide in a shoe? No but calf skin.
* * * * * * * *
CAPTAIN NICK
Nick Carter went into a jewelry store; the clerk showed him a clock and told
him it would run eight days without winding it. "Yes," said Nick, "and how long
will it run if you wind it?"
* * * * * * * *
"Do you know why a bicycle can not stand alone?"
"It is too tired."
* * * * * * * *
Prof: Do you know what bacteria is?
Stude: No—unless it is the back of a cafeteria.
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
THE GEDUNK
I am the gedunk. I am the boy who
always has a remedy for the current faults
of the college. I continually speak of these
fault. I always return from a week-end
with amusing anecdotes on how I have
been pursued and cajoled by the various
girls. I .am always eager to read extracts
from my letters. I can play football, bas­ketball,
baseball. I am also an expert
swimmer, boxer, and track man. I tell my
friends so and that I do not care to go
out for these sports at such a small and
unimportant college.
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE ALUMNI
One of the members of the editorial
staff of The Courier-Journal, student paper,
at the University of Louisville, writing of
public prejudice against fraternities and
citing the investigation of Texas authori­ties
into a fatality occurring during a fra­ternity
initiation, and the question of
drinking in Michigan fraternity house of­fers
the most sensible suggestion that we
have heard yet in regard to the manage­ment
of fraternities. "Fraternities are cap­able
of much good and an equal degree of
harm, according to the leadership."
The editor's offering for the betterment
of the bad, is improvement by the alumni
members. These elder members, he says,
could exert an influence over the upper-classmen
who rule the Greek leter organiza­tions.
It is a relief for someone to offer some
suggestion for the betterment of the situa­tion
other than ban of the fraternity or
some such drastic measure. We have tired
of "grown" folks advocating the banish­ment
of our fraternities, the life of our
campus activities.
* * * * *
Ice flecked the slippery streets as the
doughty Stillwater fire-department swung
into action at 2 o'clock a few mornings ago.
Visions of girls in billowy nighties being
dragged from the flames rose in the eyes
of smoke eaters as the cold wind ripped
their faces, for the call was from the Pi
Phi house, a sorority.
Sliding around ice corners, the driver
risked his life and the lives of the entire
crew in pleasant anticipation of the heroic
deeds he was about to perform.
A young lady sleepily unlocked the door
and announced that there was no fire. Upon
threatened to be carried to jail, three of
the girls fessed up and were fined $5.00
a' piece.
* * * * *
The University o£ North Carolina is
about to realize one of her fondest dreams
as the plans for her new library are about
completed. The building is to be one of
the finest on the campus and will cost ap­proximately
$625,000. At present they have
200,000 books, in their old library which was
constructed in 1907 at a cost of $55,000, and
are adding new books at the rate of 16,000
a year. This new building will adequately
fill the needs of her growing student body,
now standing at 2800.
* * * * *
Oklahoma believes in useful as well as
ornamental freshmen. In the halves of their
football games the first year men, attired
in red caps and sweaters, got out on the
field to parade and sing for the benefit of
guests. They must have a rather musical
inclined group of frosh, or else?
Tech is the major drawing card of Dixie.
More than 200,000 saw the Golden Tornado
play nine games this past season. Thie
record is not likely to be broken soon. Over
36,000 saw the Tech-Georgia game in At­lanta.
Of course the probable 65,000 fans
present at Tech-California game in Pasa­dena
were counted in on the 200,000.
* * * * *
Plans are now underway to enlarge the
Georgia band of 1929, to one hundred mem­bers,
an increase of fifty members over its
present size. This enlargement will make
the band as large as any in the South,
especially as large as its two most impor­tant
rivals, so Georgia says, the bands of
the University of Alabama and Georgia
Tech.
* * * * *
Few students stop to consider just how
little they know about their own school.
The biennial president's report to the Okla­homa
legislature discloses many interesting
things concerning Oklahoma A. & M. col­lege
which not many of the students stop
to think about.
For instance the graduate students at
A. and M., as a whole, are much cleaner
than the freshmen. This is true if figures
don't lie, for graduate students spend on
the average of $15.10 per semester for their
laundry, while the freshmen average only
$10.71.
Their Seniors also spend the most money
while they are in school, and freshmen
spend the least. Appropriately, a senior
reports an expenditure of $318 a month,
while a freshman only spends $17.34 each
month he is in school. Don't ask me how
.they do it?
* * * * *
The Administrative Council, at University
of North Carolina, met recently to consider
plans for a daily student paper. This hap­pens
to coincide with the plans of the
members of the Plainsman Reporter's club..
Do we want a daily?
* * * * *
Three hundred and sixty-six minutes, or
exactly six hours of football in six con­ference
games is the record this year of
Charles Carrol, University of Washington
halfback. He did not miss a minute of
play during the season. This is probably a
world record for football players, at least
in more modern times.
MEDITATIONS
O N THIS A N D THAT
"SB? ^Benjamin Trovos^-
EDITORIAL NOTE: The opinions ex­pressed
in this column are not necessarily
the editorial opinions of this paper. It is
a column of personal comment, and is not
to be read as an expression of our edi­torial
policy.
* * * * *
HERETOFORE it has been my policy
to avoid encroaching on the province
of the book review column but I par­ticularly
wish to call attention to a book
written by a Birmingham man, James
Saxon Childers. Thinly disguised as fic­tion,
Hilltop In the Rain is apparently an
autobiography, at least a mental autobio­graphy.
This is suggested by Mr. Chil­ders
' (in a "prelude" following the final
chapter. .
The scene is laid in Iron City, an indus­trial
Southern city, obviously Birmingham.
Most of the action takes place on a college
campus. Childers was an instructor on the
faculty of Birmingham-Southern last year.
The fact that the characters are Birming­ham
people and that the scene is so nearby
makes the book particularly interesting.
THE STORY concerns one Morgan
Henley, a young man who feels a call
to write, but who is unable to over­come
economic circumstances which force
him to engage in a distasteful occupation.
His rebellion against this suppression and
his realization of the way out to real liv­ing
come as a result of a cardinal's after­noon
song . . . . but one must read the book.
Childer's characterization of the hero is un­usually
good, due, I suppose, to the fact
that he is narrating incidents from his life
and picturing moods which were his own.
The modern educational system, which
places much emphasis on university de­grees,
comes in for a little criticism. Chil­ders
complains against the custom of re­quiring
instructors to starve themselves in
order to squeeze in summer courses which
teach methods and neglect materials. The
hero, Morgan Henley, must keep chasing
a degree in order to rise in his profession.
He is forced to study useless courses in
Old English. Childers makes this point
well; he does not lug it in laboriously and
ineffectively.
WOMEN'S CLUBS, with their cul­tural
courses, are given a jolt or
two. According to Childers they
cannot or will not apply themselves to Lit­erature
and Art and dig out an apprecia­tion
for themselves, but want to be handed
a condensed dose by a painless lecturer. He
says that the women want a psuedo-culture,
ready-mixed and put in capsules. One is
reminded of Booth Tarkington's Women, in
which the author kids the ladies about
reading before their clubs learned papers
which were written by their husbands.
It is a pleasure to meet such characters as
old Unserheim in modern fiction. He is
the eccentric old bookseller who sells his be­loved
Conrad first editions in order to lend
his needy friend money.
It is generally stated that the South is
not a contributor to American letters.
Maybe Childers will make a lasting contri­bution.
Read Hilltop in the Rain, and see
if you don't think that he will so something
before he is through writing. It will pro­vide
an entertaining event at least.
"T UST NOW most of us are thinking about
I the examinations. There is no need
J for me to comment on them—they are
well remembered! When the exams are
over we will relax (?) and enjoy the mid­term
dances. Every boy in school should
make at least one set of dances each year.
He has missed something it he doesn't. Of
course we hear that dances are but the
froth of college life and a lot of such talk.
Perhaps they are, but they are a part of
the glamor and color which will make up
our memories of Auburn. The usually drab .
Gym, metamorphosed overnight into an
Egyptian temple, the boys one sees in
sweaters everyday all shined up in tuxedos,
the breakfast, luncheon, dinner and supper
dates, the mad while from 10 A.M. till one
gives out, the beautifully and colorfully
dressed girls, the banquets and buffet sup­pers—
all go to make up the brilliant week­end
which comes after exams and before
the work of the second semester begins.
The dances don't cost much; a big time will
be had; get out that "shine suit" boy, and
make plenty of dates.
MY HOUSE
An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower,
A farmhouse that is sheltered by its wall,
An acre of stony ground,
Where the symbolic rose can break in flower,
Old ragged elms, old thorns innumerable,
The sound of the rain or sound
Of every wind that blows;
The stilted water-hen
Crossing stream again
Scared by the splashing of a dozen cows;
A winding stair, a chamber arched with stone,
A gray stone fireplace with an open hearth,
A candle and written page.—W. B. Yeats.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
BENEFACTOR OF DUKE COLLEGE
PASSES AWAY AT NEW YORK HOME
Benjamin Duke, millionaire tobacco
king and, widely known philanthro­pist,
passed away at his home in New
York on January 8. Duke, it will be
recalled, is famous as the benefactor
of Duke University, it being named in
his honor. Formerly this outstanding
school was known as Trinity College,
of less than half the size of the pres­ent
institution. It is well known that
he was largely instrumental in mak­ing
possible removal of the college
from Randolph County, North Caro­lina,
to Durham, and influenced his
father, Washington Duke, to make
early gifts to Trinity.
The story of Mr.. Duke's giving to
Trinity college begins in, 1898 when
he donated $40,000 which was ex­pended
in grading down hills, con­structing,
athletic grounds and drive­ways,
remodeling buildings, and
erecting a gymnasium. On com­mencement
day in 1899 he gave $50,-
000 to the general fund of the col­lege.
He gave $30,000 on benefac­tor's
day, October 3, 1901, for the
erection and furnishing of a dormi­tory.
During 1901 and 1902 he gave
$3,500 to Trinity for campus im­provements.
During the years 1901 to 1913 he
gave $156,500 for the current ex­penses
of the college. In 1911 he
gave $150,000 for the erection of
buildings and the grading of a new
athletic field, and with his brother
gave 27 and 1-2 acres of land ad­joining
the campus. Through these
years Mr. Duke lived close to the
college and -held its welfare close to
his heart.
With James B. Duke, in 1913, he
gave $80,000 to the permanent en­dowment
of the college, and in 1915
gave $50,000 for the erection of a
stone wall around the entire campus
and for extensive improvements in
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di-iveways and walks. He gave $5,000
in 1916 to establish the John Mc-
Tyeire Flowers lectureship.
He made other gifts in 1919 and
1920. He gave $12,000 to be ap­plied
to the current expenses of the
college, and $100,000 as a part of
the sum raised to erect the James
H. Southgate memorial building. He
gave $10,000 in 1921 to current ex­penses,
and the same year, with his
family, $10,000 to the endowment
fund. He* added $33,696 to the en­dowment
fund in 1922, and the fol­lowing
year he and his family gave
$30,000 for current expenses^ In
1924 he gave $40,000 to the college
fund.
Most notable, however, among his
gifts to Trinity college and Duke
university is the Angier Duke loan
fund, made possible with his family,
which has proved of great assistance
to worthy students desiring an edu
cation. This fund amounts to _ap
proximately $1,000,000. From time to
time Mr. Duke added to this fund.
Y. M. C. A. PLANS
STUNT NIGHT
The Auburn YMCA announces, the
approach of College Stunt Nite, to be
staged in Langdon Hall February 8.
A special effort is being made to put
this annual event over in a big way
making it the outstanding occasion
of the college year. All local organi­zations
are urged and expected to
participate.
Proper announcements have recent­ly
been presented the various organi­zations
here by J. R. Carreker, stu­dent
religious chairman. A customary
prize of ten dollars will be awarded
the winning organization, with clean
originality weighing heaviest on the
score cards of the judges.
This is an annual outstanding cam­pus
event, sponsored by the YMCA
in an effort to promote entertain­ment
of the very highest type. In
former years the movement has met
with marked success.
Organizations receiving notices are
urged to begin preparation of stunts
at once, in order that this occasion
may be heralded as by far the best of
its kind here yet.
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MEN AND WOMEN
ATTEND CLASSES IN
HOME ECONOMICS
Men and women alike are welcome
in the classes by members of the staff
of Home Economics. Some new cours­es
are to be offered for the first time
this semester.
One of the old stand-bys, Table Ser­vice,
is to be given as usual by Miss
Gatchell. For the last three years
there have been several men register­ed,
and it is hoped that the precedent
will be followed. Because of the lack
of space the limit of students has
been set at 12.
Mrs. Myron will give a non-techni­cal
course in nutrition, open to any
student, no prerequisites required.
This course will meet twice a week
for lecture and recitations. Any stu­dent
in college who wants some funda­mental
knowledge of feeding children
and adults would do well to elect this
course. Any student who has had or­ganic
chemistry is welcomed in the
regular course in nutrition given by
Miss Glanton.
Another new course is the one in
Advanced Cookery, by Miss Gatchell.
Those who are interested in fancy
dishes and aesthetic effects are sure
to find just what is most beautiful
and newest in style. Miss Spencer
will give courses in Costume Design
and Home Decoration. These cours­es
are open to students with some
preparation in design. All are fa­miliar
with the courses in Child Care
and Training, Foods, and Clothing.
Any course listed in the catalogue
will be given if there are sufficient
registrants. Be sure to look for the
prerequisites as laid down in the cata­logue.
Kapna Delta Pi
Meets On Monday
On Monday evening, January 14,
the local chapter of Kappa Delta Pi,
national honorary educational frater­nity,
held its regular monthly meet­ing
in the education offices. Dr.
Knapp gave a delightful and instruc­tive
talk on the history of Land Grant
Colleges. It was brought to the at­tention
of those who heard Dr. Knapp,
that many of the educational prac­tices
which we think very modern to­day
are the application of dreams and
desires of men who lived over a hun­dred
years ago. Among these was
listed the work done in the field of
Extension. A number of figures com­paring
our institutions with other
Land Grant Colleges, in which we
showed up very favorably, added in­terest
to the discussion.
At the conclusion of Dr. Knapp's
talk, the meeting was turned over to
the social committee, and delicious hot
chocolate and wafers were served by
Misses Lichty and Price, showing that
Dean Judd's office can serve as a
temporary foods lab.
Miss Johnson To
Attend Meeting Of
Extension Workers
Miss Helen Johnston, state chair­man
of home demonstration extension
work, will appear on the program at
the gathering of extension workers
from over the nation at Houston, Tex­as,
early in February. Miss Johnston
will discuss the subject, "The Next
Twenty*-Five Year's of Home Demon­stration
Work."
This is the second time in one year
for Miss Johnston to be invited to
appear on the program of a national
gathering. Several months ago she
was one of the speakers at the an­nual
convention of the American Home
Economics Association which met in
Des Moines, Iowa.
PLANS MADE F.OR
REVIVAL SERVICES
Wirt Society Has Last
Meeting For Term
Completing a most successful
period of literary society work, the
Wirt Literary Society met Tuesday
night for the last time this semester.
Politics held sway for the first
few minutes, and was the most im­portant
subject in the meeting. The
society expects to make much prog­ress
under the following officers:
Robert Kelso, president; Grace Pinell,
vice-president; H. O. Davis, secretary;
Wynn, Treasurer; R. N. Sellers, re­porter;
and Adams, sergeant-at-arms.
Because of the many students who
had not been on the program this
year, an impromptu program was
planned. A debate, "Resolved that
Auburn should have open politics,"
was rendered. Many good points
were brought out, and the judges, in
order to be agreeable, called it a
draw and went to the ball game.
Freshmen Try Out
At Forensic Meet
A meeting of the Forensic Coun­cil,
a society for the purpose of fost­ering
inter-collegiate debating, was
held Friday evening, January 11, at
7:30 o'clock, in the administration
building. Six freshmen were given
trj^-outs at this meeting, and were
taken into the council. They are:
Clifton Kirkpatrick; Baskerville; J.
T. Harris; Pyke; Bruce Gregory; and
"Mac" Jones. Members of the council
were given the following subject to
study: Resolved: That the three-to-five-
men jury should replace the pres­ent
twelve-man jury. Tryouts for a
debate on this subject will be held
during the early part of February.
The Student Revival Services be­ing
planned for the coming Spring
here, will involve plans for increased
interest for students of this institu­tion,
according to views of authorities
in charge.
Contrary to the customary proce­dure
of this phase of the year's work,
a revival will be held during an ap­pointed
week at each of the various
churches of the town, and students
will be encouraged to attend services
at the church of his choice.
Formerly these services were held
in Langdon Hall, and sponsored by
the local YMCA; however, tliis ses­sion
the work will be in charge of the
local churches, with the "Y" cooperat­ing.
Ministers of the various churches
will have charge.
Details of the plan and dates for
convening will be made as soon as
they are definitely agreed upon. The
"Y" will join forces with the ministers
in making this yearly event a suc­cess,
and a detailed benefit to the
students at large.
HASKELL INDIANS
ANNOUNCE TEN
GAME SCHEDULE
Plans Completed For
Go-To-Church Month
Letters have been mailed out this
week to Fraternities on the campus
bearing the details of the present
YMCA plans concerning the Go-To-
C h u r c h month here, extending
throughout the month of February.
This activity is being promoted by the
local "Y" organization, with the ob­ject
of stimulating church attendance
among the students here.
According to Mr. T. H. LeCroy who
is chairman of this work, definite
plans for the event have been formu­lated,
and are being presented the
local Fraternities in this explanatory
letter. Fraternity members are being
urged to attend the church of their
choice, for which the one rating high­est
at the end of the month, scoring
based on points contained in the an­nouncement,
will be awarded a hand­some
trophy presented by one of the
Civic Clubs of the town.
Quite similar to this drive, a Go-To
Church Sunday, the first Sunday in
March, will further bear the move­ment.
Mr. J. R. Carreker, religious
chairman, is busy perfecting the plans
for this event; further details will
be released by him at an opportune
time.
AUTO THIEVES
ACTIVE HERE
Automobiles thieves have been pret­ty
busy for the last month or so in
Auburn and Opelika. There have
been reported several cars stolen. Mr.
Meadows reports a ford truck was
stolen from his backyard. It was
found later in Birmingham, driven by
a negro, who was arrested. "Mutt"
Gregory had a car stolen from in front
of the Theta Kappa Nu house. The
car was later found on the Opelika
road, stripped of tires and battery.
This is a warning to keep your car
locked at all times.
Collins Accepts Job
With Texas Oil Co.
Mr. J. F. Collins, instructor in
Freshman Chemistry and Chemistry
Laboratory, is leaving the first of
next semester to accept a position
with the Texas Oil Co. Mr. Collins
graduated in '27 in Chemical En­gineering.
During his Senior year,
he instructed in Freshman Chemistry
Laboratory and was with the Gulf
Refining" Co. after graduation.- He
returned this semester to work on
his master's degree and has com­pleted
about half the work. Mr. Col­lins'
friends and pupils wish him
much success in his new position.
A ten game schedule, representing
one of the most pretentious grid
programs in the history of the school,
and one that embraces game's in vir­tually
every section of the United
States except the far West, will be
played by the Haskell Indians next
next fall.
With the exception of two games
the 1929 schedule is complete accord­ing
to Frank W. McDonald, director
of Athletics. One more contest will
be scheduled away from home and
one will be scheduled at home. Open
dates include October 12, November
9, and November 16.
Two new schools have been added
to the schedule for next year and
three will be played after a lapse of
several seasons. New schools are the
University of North Dakota and Du-quesne
University of Pittsburg. But­ler
College of Indianapolis and Crei-ghton
University of Omaha have
again been placed on the Haskell
schedule.
The North Dakota game promises
to be one of the most colorful on the
entire program, as the contest which
will be staged in Grand Forks will
attract hundreds of Indians from the
northern states. Loyola university of
New Orleans wil be played for the
third consecutive season.
The Indians will be under the di­rection
of a new football coach next
year following the resignation of
John W. Thomas. William H. Dietz,
(Iowa Star), widely known coach,
will be at the helm next fall and
under the direction of this quarter
blood Sioux the braves will engage
in an intensive spring practice. Dietz
will bring to Haskell the Warner
style of play.
The 1929 schedule:
Sept. 28—Friends university of
Wichita at Lawrence.
Oct. 5—University of North Da­kota
at Grand Forks.
Oct. 19—Butler college at Indiana­polis.
Oct. 26—Creighton university at
Omaha.
Nov. 2—Loyola university at New
Orleans.
Nov. 23—Duquesne at Pittsburgh.
Nov. 28—St .Xavier at Cincinnati.
Dec. 7—Tulsa university at Tulsa.
AGE TO ENTER COLLEGE IS BEING
DISCUSSED BY LEADING COLLEGES
Home Economics To Be
Featured In F a r m e r
The next issue of the Alabama
Farmer will be devoted*to Home Ec­onomics.
The history of Home Econo­mics
here at Auburn has been writ­ten
by Miss Gatchell. The courses
given and a number of papers on
topics of interest in Home Economics
have been written by students, and
will appear. It is very generous of
the Alabama Farmer staff to give
this space to Home Economics.
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At what age should a boy begin
college?
Dartmouth College has a 26-year
old freshman this year and three
freshmen under 16. Sixteen-year
old boys do not get into Dartmouth
even with the finest records and
qualifications unless they can prove
to the director of admissions '"that
they would not be greatly benefitted
by waiting a year."
Dean E. Gordon Bill, in charge of
Dartmouth College admissions, dis­cusses
the problems of the boy under
18 in the Dartmouth Alumni maga­zine.
He is definitely against admit­ting
boys much under 18. He tells of
making a practice of urging parents
of "top-notch" boys of 16 and 17 to
give these boys "another year o!f
preparation and maturing."
This is directly contrary to the
philosophy about college age which
President A. Lawrence Lowell, of
Harvard University, has pronounced
in recent discussions of the age ques­tion
with school teachers and in Har­vard
College reports .
President Lowell has scolded the
schools for taking so many years to
prepare pupils for college. He in­sists
that they can and should be
ready at 16.
Dean Bill of Dartmouth says:
"It may be fairly argued that
whereas at a large city university ex­treme
youth and immaturity may not
be a great handicap in getting the
most the institution has to offer, the
writer believes that in a college of
the type of Dartmouth with its com­pact
and intimate community life all
matriculates should have reached a
certain maturity which may come at
15 but usually not before 18. In any
case the office of admissions at the
present time is asking your appli­cants
to prove to it that they would
not be greatly benefitted by waiting
a year."
In spite of Dartmouth's preference
for sons of her own alumni and pro­fessors,
more than two-thirds of this
year's freshmen are boys whose fath­ers
did not go to any college. Only
38 out of the class of 586 are from
homes where both parents are col­lege
graduates. The 183 whose fath­ers
arecollege men are, however, the
largest number of some of college
graduates in any Dartmouth class.
The great majority of the entering
class of them expect to go rather into
business than anything else. Half of
them, however, have no notion what
they are going to do after college.
The New England representation
at Dartmouth has shrunk from 40.4
per cent, of the class that entered a
year ago to • 33.8 per cent, of this
year's class.
Both Massachusetts and New
Hampshire have a smaller represen­tation
than usual, while New York's
numbers have increased. New York
goes to the head of the list, passing
Massachusetts, as the state with the
largest representation. There are 134
New York freshmen to 127 from the
Bay State.
The class averages a shade young­er
than previous classes. It has been
held down to a smaller class than last
year's by 40. This follows a definite
policy to restrict the college to as
near 2,000 as practicable. In cutting
the applications Dean Bill explains a
good many applicants were turned
down who came under what Dart­mouth
lists as "favored groups."
These favored groups include sons of
alumni, natives of New Hampshire,
and boys from the South and Far
West.—Philadelphia Enquirer.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929.
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JACK McLESKEY, CAROL PORTER, AwocUte Editor.
Dick Jones, Tad McCallum, AiiUtant*
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Gentlemen, we have a basket ball team in the S. I. A. A. conference
team this year that is good enough l a s t v e a r a n d w o n t h e championship
. . „ ". ., in the tournament the latter part of
to represent most any southern con- r
the season. He is a new man on the
ference school. Last year we had.a
campus and maybe we expect too
team that was only defeated twice
during the entire year. Both of these
defeats were handed to us by the
team that won the conference in the
last few minutes of play in Atlanta,
the latter part of February. There
was only a difference of one point in
the tournament that kept us from
bringing back to the "Village of the
Plains" all of the laurels of the
championship. We were defeated by
one point in Atlanta by Ole Miss and
one other time here in our own Gym­nasium,
by one point by Ole Miss.
Had you ever stopped to think what
a whale of a team we really had last
year? Do you realize that practically
the entire team were Seniors, and
that only one of the quintet returned?
Frank DuBose was placed on the
All-Southern team of last year by his
stellar work in the tournament at
center and by his wonderful perform­ing
in other games. He played with
two of the fastest guards that the
conference has seen in many a day,
and without a doubt one of the best
forwards that Auburn has ever pro­duced.
Yet, we can not seem to
realize that this combination played
their last game together last year
and that DuBose is handicapped by
playing with a team that lacks the
experience of the veteran team of
last year. He is trying his best at all
times but it will take him some time
to stow down from the rapid pace
that he is used to traveling, and pass
as slowly, as the younger members of
this years team. Some times we won­der
if it would not be the best that
some of the seniors that have not
played previously would drop out and
let the younger boys have their
chance. We can not have champion­ship
teams when they come but so
often -and then when they are at their
best, graduate.
Coach Bohler coached the best
much from him in his first years at­tempts.
To product a team similar to
the one we had last year, his first
year here, would be almost an im­possibility.
There are a number of
sophomores on the team that will de­velop
into wonderful players before
the year is out, and will bear close
watching. We have a number of
Juniors that did not have the oppor­tunity
to perform last year that will
be depended on to carry the burden
of the major portion of the games
this season. With no knowledge of
the basket ball prospects that existed
in our school, we should be proud of
the team that Coach Bohler has de­veloped
so far, and it leads us to be­lieve
that before the year is out he
will have a well rounded group of
cagesters.
In the games that have been play­ed
so far this season we have noticed
the inefficiency in our boys to get
on to real hard passing. This phase
of the game is very important if re­sults
are to follow in favor toward
better team work. Only a matter of
time can be undertaken before we
can expect hard and accurate passing.
There are a number of small men
on the squad. Larger schools are
constantly looking for tall men and
big men, and we are having to play
schools this year that will have men
so much larger that it will be a handi­cap
for our players. Yet it seems
some of the best men we have are
small.
Now let's get together and do some
thinking and see if we can't under­stand
some of the conditions that our
•athletic teams and coaches are facing.
When we lose, do not criticize the
players or coaches but try and re­member
that we are building teams
for the future, and that all of the
boys haven't had any too much ex­perience
before this year.
PROSPECTS FAIR FOR WINNING Rats Progressing
BASKETBALL TEAM THIS YEAR In Daily Practice
For Cage Season
The Rat basketball squad is now
undergoing strenous practice under
the supervision of Coaches Bohler
and Lee and the Cubs are beginning
to show real form in fundamentals
of the cage sport.
The squad has been reduced from
about forty candidates to twenty-four
and further reduction will prob­ably
be in order this week as the
group is still "too large for the limited
time that the coaches have to spend
with the yearling outfit.
Most of the practice period is spent
in a thorough drill of fundamental
basketball,. including passing, drib­bling,
pivoting, and shooting. No
places on the team have been cinched
as yet and it will be some time be­fore
the final selection is made.
On a whole the material is up to
standard although there are no out­standing
performers. The schedule
has not yet been announced but will
probably include games with most of
the leading first year aggregations of
the Southern Conference.
The following men compose the
squad at present: Jordan, Kaley,
Jacobs, Rogers, Turner, Thornton,
Hamilton, Lassater, Lumpkin, Rou-che,
Lutz, McCallum, Aldridge, Stew­art,
Johns, Larsen, Kaley, Hatfield,
Curvin, Wilbe, Cumbee, J. Stewart,
Dupree, Kooiman, and Beard.
TIGERS WORK HARD FOR GAME
WITH SOUTHERN FRIDAY NIGHT
Minus DuBose Auburn Loses to
LaGrange "Y" By 33-29 Score
Georgia Tech Proves
Best Drawing Card
In Southern Football
The Auburn Tigers were downed
by the LaGrange Y. M. C. A. quintet
Friday night in Auburn gymnasium
by the close margin of 33-29 in a
well-played game that required an ex­t
ra five-minute session on account of
the regular time for the game to end
being up while the two team were in
a 27-27 deadlock.
This is the first game the Tigers
have lost on their home court this
year. They fought hard to keep a
clean slate while playing in the
"Plains," but odds were against them
with Captain Frank DuBose, the all-
Southern center, out. The score at
the end of the half was 19-18 in Au­burn's
favor. The Plainsmen were |
also ahead up until a few minutes be­fore
the final whistle blew when the
LaGrange team dropped the ball
through the hoop to tie the score.
Then the extra session was added,
but the Tigers had done about all
they could do. In this extra period
the "Y" cagesters scored six more
points while the Plainsmen were only
able to score two.
Higginbothan, La Grange's hustling
forward, did some great work under
the basket by scoring 18 points, mak­ing
him the high scorer for the night.
He was well assisted by Lester, Cope-land
and Spince, who performed nice­ly
on the floor, as well as under the
basket.
"Moon" Mullin and Louie James led
the scorers for the wearers of the
Orange and Blue. Mullin scored 13
points while James scored an even
dozen. DuBose was out of the game
on account of a death in his family
and was also unable to make the trip
to Birmingham where Auburn met
B. A. C. Saturday night.
Lineup" and summary:
LaGrange Y (33)—Higginbotham
(18) and Lester (4), forwards; Cope-land
(4), center; Spince (6) and
Simpson, guards. Subs: Cooke (1)
and Cursey.
Auburn (29)—Mullin and Kennedy,
forwards; Anderson (2), center;
James (12) and Yarbrough, guards.
Subs: Frazier Chappell, Smith, A. L.
Harmond (2) and Chamblee.
Umpire, Lee (Mississippi College) ;
timer, Hutsell; scorer, Salter (Au­burn).
Bohler Five Loses To
B.A.C. In Return Tilt
The Bohler five dropped their re­turn
game to the Birmingham Ath­letic
Club Saturday Night by the
score of 38-20 on the B. A. C. courts
in Birmingham in a well played game.
The Blue's jumped off to an early
start in the beginning and made it
hard for the Tigers to come up and
lick them. The B. A. C. quintet was
leading 16-4 at the end of the first
half.
With Captain DuBose missing from
the ranks the Plainsmen were surely
handicapped. Chappell, James, and
Yarbrough held down the guards in
fine style and the Magic city lads
were forced to shoot from out past
the foul line which they did often
and with ease. Anderson, Mullin,
and Chamblee led the offense for the
(Continued on page 6)
Georgia Tech, who now has a good
claim as national champions of col­legiate
football proved to be the great­est
drawing card in Southern football
during the past season. An estimat­ed
crowd of more than 200,000 saw
the Golden Tornado in action in the
nine games played, exclusive of the
exhibition at the Tournament of Roses
in California.
The biggest crowd assembled in
Dixie, numbering 36,000 gathered to
see the annual contest between the
University of Georgia and Georgia
Tech at Atlanta. Twenty-thousand
fans composed the smallest crowd
which attended a Georgia Tech game.
With the record crowd of 80,000
in attendance at the clash with the
University of California on New Year,
Georgia Tech might well be termed
the greatest of southern attractions.
Included in the list of the major
grid clashes in Dixie for the 1928
season is our own annual clash with
the University which drew an esti­mated
crowd of 12,000. Other prom­inent
games are as follows:
Georgia Tech-Georgia, at Atlanta,
36,000.
Georgia Tech-Notre Dame, at At­lanta,
27,000.
Georgia Tech-Vanderbilt, at At­lanta,
27,000.
Georgia Tech-Alabama, at Atlanta,
25,000.
Georgia Tech-North Carolina, at
Chapel Hill, 26,000.
Georgia Tech-Tulane, at New Or­leans,
20,000.
Tennessee-Vanderbilt, at Nashville,
25,000.
Louisiana State-Tulane, at New Or­leans,
27,000.
Virginia-North Carolina, at Char
lottesville, 20,000.
Virginia Poly-Virginia Military
Institute, at Roanoke, 20,000.
Alabama-Georgia, at Birmingham,
18,000.
Florida-Georgia, at Savannah, 20-
000.
South Carolina-Clemson, at Colum­bia,
15,000.
Florida-Tennessee, at Knoxville,
15,000.
Florida-Washington and Lee, at
Jacksonville, 15,000.
COACH "SLICK" MOULTON,
who coached the 1928 baseball team
to a Southern Conference champion­ship,
started planting grass on the
Auburn baseball diamond Monday af­ternoon
in order to get the field in
the best of condition in plenty of
time. Prospects are bright for another
"Champ" team and coach Moulton
is working hard with this view in
mind. Coach "Slick" is a former star
on the gridiron and on the mound for
Auburn. His return to coach the
bengals this year had been a matter
of doubt since the close of last sea­son,
now that he is back Auburn fol­lowers
can rest assured that "Slick"
is going to produce a real- baseball
team to represent the "Village of
the Plains."
The Auburn Tiger cagesters are
preparing with extra strength to meet
the Southern College quintet Friday
night in the Auburn alumni gym in
the Plainsman's first college game
in the 192$ season. Southern Col­lege
is coached by a former Auburn
star, on the gridiron and in other
sports, and is .coming to the "Plains"
with blood in his eyes. This means the
Bohler five will have to do some
real hustling to conquer the Southern
lads from Florida.
Coach Bohler has made many
changes in his lineups so far this sea­son
and probably could not say him­self
what the real starting lineup for
this game will be. Captain DuBose
will, however, be a sure starter at
center and Louie James will more
than likely start at a guard or for­ward.
Another that would be count­ed
on to start, if it were not for his
height would be "Moon" Mullins. Mul-lins
has been a consistant player in
all the games he has entered but is
a bit handicapped by being so short.
Nevertheless he is a dead shot under
the basket when a man is not hang­ing
around his neck. Lawrence Cham­blee
and Joe Kennedy have also been
outstanding forwards and if they are
not on the opening lineup they will
enter the game later on. Chappell,
Vines, Frazier and Yarbrough have
been showing the best forms at
guards. From these candidates
Bohler will be more than likely to
pick his starters at guards. Many
other candidates have been showing
good form lately and are paving the
way for a place on Bohler's five
sooner or later. Joe Anderson, who
came up from the Freshman team last
year had developed into a hoop ar­tist
before the season opened and
has earned himself a place on the
squad without a doubt.
S P O R T S STUFF
By "Dusty" Porter
Evryone will be pleased to know can be selected by this method. Every
that we have in Auburn a man that man, little, big, dumb, or what not
will have ample chance to prove to
the various coaches in charge that
has given somewhat into the promot­ing
game. Probably the young man
realizes that there is an opening for
promotion as never before and wishes
to test his ability along the promoting
line before undertaking anything
more responsible.
"Weemie" Baskin, one of the most
prominent track men produced in the
south is the gentleman aspiring to
the promoting profession. His first
undertaking in promoting sports was
very much of a success according to
his story, but we were unable to get
information at this early date, but
we have promises of something very
new and odd to the Auburn life in
the near future. Best of luck to Mr.
Baskin.
* * * * *
A new system of selecting the
freshman baseball team will be inau­gurated
in Auburn this year.
Beginning in February Intramural
Battalion baseball will be all the go
around the campus with games ga­lore
for the Auburn students, and
through this system the freshmen
he is a baseball player and must be
considered. We feel sure that this
system will prove very successful.
* * * * *
The "Battle of the Plains" will be­gin
Friday the eighteenth and such
a battle it will be. This battle is
played twice each year, and at the
present time the students are very
much the underdog. This battle will
rage for one whole week with every­body
taking part. It is generally
agreed that the odds are on the Fac­ulty's
side in the big game and the
betting is now 2 to 1.
Large words and imposible ques­tions
seem to be the foundation upon
which the Faculty will launch this
offense. Each of the battle fields
will be equipped with a sound record­ing
machine, also a moving picture
will be made of the game and studied
afterwards by the Faculty. Bodekers
Detective Agency will see that the
pictures and notes are recorded.
The students will be allowed to
Lanett Defeats Tigers 41-26 To Cop
Second Game From Auburn Cagers
will be given more than one oppor- enter the battle with one pencil, a
tunity to display their baseball abil-j blank look and a prayer,
ity and it is believed that a more ac- We have lost but, we do ask for
curate selection of baseball material | mercy.
Important Matters Decided By S.I.C. Delegates
at Recent Meet; Duke University Is Admitted
At the last meeting of the Southern
Intercollegiate Conference held in
Nashville during the latter part of
December, several important decisions
and rulings, including the admission
of another school into the Conference
were made. The admission of Duke
University located at Durham, North
Carolina, as the twenty-third mem­ber
of the Conference necessitated
the changing the original constitution
of the S. I. C, which provided for
a membership of twenty-two schools.
Instead of the eight players who
were formerly allowed to attend the
S. I. C. Basket-ball Tournament, ten
are now recognized as a quota from
each school, provided the expenses of
two is borne by the school sending the
two extra players. As in the past
few years it was decided that the
tournament for this year be held in
Atlanta and will be held on March
1, 2, 4, and 5.
A plan for a charity football game
which is to be played in Atlanta in
1930 was adopted by the meeting.
The proceeds of the game will go
toward the support of Shrine Hospi­tals
throughout the South. The game
is to be played between two teams
composed of players from the north­ern
and southern sections of the Con­ference.
The annual conference track and
field meet will be held in Birming­ham
on May 17 and 18. Besides this
meet there will be another large track
and field meet held in Atlanta on
May 13 under the auspices of Georgia
Tech and will be known as the South­ern
Relays. The University of Vir­ginia
will be hosts to the boxing
tournament which will be held at
Charlottesville, Va., on March 1 and
2.
For the second successive time Tu-lane
University will be hosts at the
annual Conference tennis tournament
which will be held during the week of
May 14-19.
One of the most important accom­plishments
of the meeting was the
(Continued on page 6)
Lanett defeated the Tigers, 41-26
in the Gymnasium on Tuesday Janu­ary
15, the victory carrying them to
a win of two games in a two game
series. The other game was played
in Lanett last week and was won by
the local boys by the large score of
59-28. Captain DuBose and Mullins,
Yarbrough, James, and DeVaughn
were left behind on the trip to Lanet
which will account for the overwhelm­ing
defeat that was handed our boys.
Thanks to the fact that all similar
phrases have been worn thread bare,
it may be unwise to refer to the game
as "the most exciting game ever
staged in the Gymnasium." But some
form of expression is required to con­vey
an adequate nature of the close­ness
of the game and the atmosphere
of high tension excitement in which
it closed. Eight minutes before the
end, the Lanett boys led by nine
points, and it seemed judicious stall­ing
(an art of which they had already
proven themselves masters) fhey
might hold all or a part of that lead
until the end. But the Tigers closing
spurt was not good enough to over
balance those nine points, neither
were they capable of holding the La­nett
boys to a nine point lead at the
end of the game.
Through out the first half the play
was fairly even. Lanett finished
the period with a total of sixteen
points against the Tigers fourteen
points, but nobody felt that this lead
was ot be considered rally proof
thru the second half or anything like
it. All of the Auburn attacks had
about them a swift and flashing qual­ity,
which meant that at any time
there was a succession of them, and
time would be the only factor that
it would take for Auburn to gain the
lead.
Immeditely after the resumption of
play in the second half, events fol­lowed
precisely the same course as
that of the first half only that the
Lanett lads seemed to have come back
with a better eye for the basket.
Numerous times in succession the
quintet of purple-clad lads twinkled
down the floor, picked a way thru an
Auburn defense which seemed sieve­like
for the time being and dropped
the ball in the basket—and Auburn
could never at any time get the lead.
In this boy Bozeman, Lanett has
a man with an eye for the basket
and one of the best floor men that
have graced the local court this year.
It was due to the untimely accuracy
in shooting of Bozeman that gave the
visitors an early lead. We can not
forget though that this was assisted
for he most assuredly was, by Louis,
a long and rangy center, rather re­sembling
our own Mr. DuBose. Boze­man
turned in eighteen points for the
affray and Louis followed close be­hind
with eleven points to his credit.
The team as a whole functioned well
for the visitors.
To pick an individual star for our
team, eliminating our captain would
be a hard matter. Frank plays a
good game at all times and when he
is not shooting, he is feeding them
to some of the other boys under the
basket. In developing this years
squad, Coach Bohler has an eye on
the future. Anderson, Fraser, Chap-pel,
Kennedy, Harmon, James and
Chamblee have other years to play,
(Continued on page 6)
1929 Basketball Schedule
Date Opponent and Their Score
Jan. 2—Ft. Benning (38)
Jan. 5—Birmingham A. C. (34)
Jan. 9—Ft. Benning (43)
Jan. 11—La Grage YMCA (32)
Jan. 12—Birmingham A. C. (38)
Jan. 18—Southern
Jan. 25—U. of Florida
Jan. 26—U. of Florida
Jan. 28—L. S. U.
Jan. 29—L. S. U.
Feb. 1—Clemson
Feb. 2—Georgia
Feb. 6—Georgia Tech
Feb. 8—Tulane
Feb. 9—Tulane
Feb. 11—Mercer
Feb. 12—Mercer
Feb. 16—Georgia Tech
Feb. 18—U. of Florida
Feb. 19—U. of Florida
Feb. 21, 22, 23—Cotton States Tournament.
Feb. 25—B'ham.-Southern
Feb. 26—B'ham.-Southern
March 1, 2, 4, & 5th—Conference Tournament At Atlanta
urn Score and Place Played
(40)
(37)
(37)
(29)
(20)
nt.
At Auburn
At Auburn
At Columbus
At Auburn
At Birmingham
At Auburn
At Gainesville
At Gainesville
At Auburn
At Auburn
At Clemson
At Athens
At Atlanta
At Auburn
At Auburn
At Macon
At Macon
At Auburn
At Auburn
At Auburn
At Auburn
At Auburn
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE
DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY
PAY TRIBUTE TO GENERAL LEE
"Gen. Robert E. Lee, the ideal
Christian soldier, leader and idol of
the armies of the Confederacy; Gen.
Robert E. Lee, president of Washing­ton
and Lee university, the ideal edu­cator,
who sacrificed his mortal life
that his life-work might become im­mortal."
The following article is taken from
a Virginia newspaper under date of
October-16, 1870, a few days after the
death of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
General Robert E. Lee
"Gen. Robert E. Lee is dead. In the
South, where he was best known and
most beloved; in the North, where his
military genius and worth as a pri­vate
citizen found due recognition;
and in Europe, where his skillful gen­eralship
and personal courage had
won him known renown, the tributes to
the memory of the departed Southern
chieftain have been generous, enthu­siastic
and worthy of his fame.
"It may be truly said that personal­ly
General Lee had not an enemy. His
heart overflowed with love and chari-
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state, but when he sheathed it
again at Appomatox courthouse, there
was not a stain upon its blade.
"When those who were opposed to
General Lee upon the battlefied are
as ready as his most intimate friends
and ardent admirers testify to his
well-deserved fame as a military lead­er,
as well as to his many private
virtues, Of the integrity, purity and
conscientiousness of General - Lee's
character there can be no doubt.
"Since the day of George Washing­ton
this country has produced no man
so generally and so sincerely loved
and esteemed as he who died on Wed­nesday
last at Lexington, Va.
"Had General Lee so chosen his life
since the close of the war might have
been one continuous vacation. Every­where
his path would have been
strewn with flowers and made bright
with welcoming smiles.
"Entering the ranks of civil life, he
pursued his peaceful duties with the
calmness of a pholosopher and the pa­tience
of a true Christian. Neither
praise nor censure drew him from his
retirement. In political movements
he took no part. Devoting himself
to the instruction of youth, and the
welfare and comfort of his family, he
led a pure and blameless life unto the
end. • j
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of the term.
"He was not this merely because of
his- illustrious ancestry, but from cer­tain
innate as well as inborn quali­ties
which made him a peer among
his fellcwmen. He was endowed with
a form almost faultless in its propor­tions,
and with a face which all ad­mired
who looked upon it.
"His large, handsome and far-seeing
eyes, which flashed fire on the battle­field,
wore a slight shade of melan­choly
in private life, but they met
the eye of the world squarely, and
but litfle escaped their notice. The
anxieties and trials of the war had
blanched his hair to snowy whiteness,
but his face wore the healthful .tints
of ripe middle age, and to ordinary
observers he seemed destined to a' long
life of usefulness. .
"That the war in which he took a
prominent part led to his untimely
death as as certain as if he had been
stricken down with a bullet on the
field of battle. Slowly, but surely the
great reaper, Death, is gathering in
the harvest sown in the dark hours of
a nation's struggle.
Bearing is Knightly
"In command of the army, and upon
the battlefied, the bearing of General
Lee was all that was knightly and
chivalrous. A fine horseman, his su­perb
person never appeared to better
advantage than when mounted on his
thoroughbred war stallion, he rode
along lines, his splendid face calm
amid every conflict, though bright in
the quick vigilance of the highly skill­ed
soldier.
"At his approach no wild cheers
went up from the soldierly, such as
usually saluted other favorites of the
army; but every hat went off as the
chief rode by, and each soldier stood
in his place in deep reverance and
profound respect.
"In conquest to this picture, let us
look upon plain citizen Lee. With his
two daughters, Miss Mildred and Miss
Alice, he passed the season of 1869
at the White Sulphur Springs. His
most intimate associates were the late
George Peabody, the great philanthro­pist,
then in his last illness, and W.
W. Corcoran, Esg., the princely and
benevolent banker of this city.
"Though there was every disposi­tion
to lionize General Lee at this pop­ular
Southern resort, his desire for re­tirement
was generally recognized
and carefully respected. He avoided
gaiety, but enjoyed his friends.
"He comes and goes softly and
quietly, with a kind word for all who
approach him; you could see the young
girls crowd around him, and the
sparkle of his eyes as he shakes their
hands; you will see how a patriot
may, 'read his history in his nation's
eyes.'
Biographical Sketch
"Robert E. Lee, the son of Gen.
Henry Lee, of Revolutionary fame,
was born in Westmoreland county,
Stratford, Va., January 19, 1807;
graduated ot West Point, second in
his class, in 1829, and wast commis­sioned
second lieutenant in 1829. He
was assistant astronomer for fixing
the boundary of Ohio and Michigan
in 1835.
"In 1836 was made first lieutenant,
and two years later he became a cap­tain.
"In the Mexican war he was chief
engineer on the staff of General
Wool, and was brevetted major, lieu­tenant
colonel, and colonel for gallan­try
at Cerro Gordo, Conteras, Cheru-busco
and Chapultepec, being severe­ly
wounded in the last named battle.
"From 1852 to 1855 he held the po­sition
of commandant in the academy
at West Point, and in the later years
was made lieutenant colonel of the
Second calvary, receiving the colonel­cy
on the 16th of March, 1861.
"During the war in Mexico, Gen.
Winfield Scott had determined to rec­ommend,
Lee as the future commander-in-
chief of the United States army.
This offer Lee refused, and under
date of April 20, 1861, he wrote the
letter to General Scott resigning his
commission.
"General Lee was not a secessionist
at heart; his heart was sore against
disunion; but, like other Southern
men, he accepted it as a duty which
he owed his state.
"In a letter to a friend soon after
the presidential election of 1860, he
said: 'I fear that the liberties of our
country will be buried in the tomb of
a great nation.'
"After resigning his commission in
the United States army, General Lee
was appointed by Governor Letcher,
general of the Virginia forces, and
was also made military governor of
Richmond.
"When Gen. Joseph E. Johnson was
wounded at Seven Pines, General Lee
became commander-in-chief of the
Confederate army.
"Some months after the suwender
at Appomatox courthouse, General Lee
accepted the presidency of Washing­ton,
college, later the name being
changed to Washington and Lee col­lege.
"In the town of Lexington, Va.,
where he has resided since the war,
the announcement of the death of
General Lee was received with pro­found
sorrow. The labors of the day
were entirely suspended; all the busi­ness
houses were closed, and bore
crepe upon their doors.
"Washington chapel, the college
chapel, the Virginia Military institute
and the Episcopal church,. of which
General Lee was a communicant, were
draped in mourning a few hours after
his death. General Lee was mourned
throughout the South."
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Part Development
Of The New South
"It is ,the power that lies in gen­erated
electricity, power that moves
the machinery of the New South's
great industries. It is the'power that
lies in her mountain torrents, in her
rivers, in her coal deposits, in her
voluminous natural gas. It is the
power that constitutes one of the
fundamental reasons; for the New
South's startling industrial growth
today. In itself, it is one of the
South's greatest resources, already
developed to an amazing point of
efficiency and economy—and still
possible the least developed of all
these resources. For no living man
can estimate with any degree of ac­curacy
the extent of power yet un­developed
in the borders of the
Southern states," writes Arthur Cole­man
in the current issues of Holland's,
The magazine of the South.
Mr. Coleman goes on to say, "In­dustry
is moving Southward. It is
moving in ever-increasing swiftness.
And to meet the demands of industry,
power must be developed; for power
is the sinew of industry. And this ex-palins,
possibly, why in the past 20
years the South has shown an in­crease
in developed horsepower of
178 per cent, while the remainder
of the United States has shown only
105 per cent increase. It is the rea­son
why the developed water power in
the South today is 24 per cent of the
Nation's total. It is the reason for
the increase, since January 1, 1927,
of approximately a quarter million
horsepower in the installed capacity
of Southern hydro-electric plants,
representing as it does more than 41
per cent of the entire country's ag­gregate
gain for that period.
"It is the reason which ultimately
will justify, in all probability, the ex­istence
in the South of approximately
100,500 square miles of coal land,
its five-billion-barrel oil reserves, 'its
untold natural gas supply, and its
vast water-power resources. For the
South, with its mountains and its val­leys,
and resulting swift and husky
streams and rivers, is going in rather
extensively for water-power, develop­ment.
The South is fond of power.
It needs power; and as time goes
on, can use more and more. For
staggering as has been the progress
of the South during .the past six dec­ades,
it is but a beginning—a fore­warning
of the greatness to follow."
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PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1929.
WHY THEY ARE
THANKFUL FOR
THE YEAR 1928
By Dick Jones
Auburn Football Team—Because
the Tigers licked Howard College
after threats had been made that
there would be no letters awarded if
the Bulldogs won.
Chester C. Dillon—Because his
Howard College Bulldogs defeated
Birmingham-Southern in their annual
gridiron classic on Legion Field.
Georgia Tech Football Team—Be­cause
they won the game at Pasa­dena
in the Tournament of Roses.
Warner Mizell—Because, as a
Georgia Tech backfield ace, he made
numerous Ail-American selections.
Red Cagle—Because he was con­sidered
one of the best football play­ers
in the country this season. •
Ken Strong—Because he led the
nation in points scored for a while
and was on the All-American team.
Alabama Polytechnic Quintet—
Because Captain DuBose has returned
to ranks and will be back in true
running form before the opening Col­lege
game with Southern College Fri­day
night.
Alabama Alumni—Because t he
Alumni gridders of thtf University of
Alabama licked the Alumni gridders
of Auburn on New Years Day at
Montgomery.
Rupert Ingram—Because he was the
high point sqorer for the Auburn
Football team this past season.
Auburn Football Squad—Because
of having such a loyal supporter as
•the President of the College, Dr.
Bradford Knapp.
Pop Paterson—Because his third
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string Rats won the only game they
played this past season, thereby win­ning
the championship of their class.
Coach Alexander of Tech—Because
a majority of the "bright lights" of
the. 1928 National Champions on the
gridiron will report for the 1929 sea­son.
Coach Wilbur Hutsell—Because he
has Captain Percy Beard to lead his
harriers through the incoming sea­son.
Coach "Slick" Moulton—Because
prospects are bright for winning
another baseball Championship due
to the nucleus of Varsity men re­turning
from the '28 machine and a
promising group from the champion­ship
Freshman team of last year.
Roy Riegels—Because he has
another season of football to prove
to the fans that he isn't as dumb as
his mistake made in the New Years
Day game made him look.
IMPORTANT MATTERS
DISCUSSED BY S. I. C.
DELEGATES AT MEET
DIXIE CAGEMEN
FACE BIG WEEK
EDUCATORS TO HOLD
MEETING BIRMINGHAM
(Continued from page 1)
"as will Dr. R. E. Tidwell, state super­intendent
of education, and Dr. Brad­ford
Knapp, president of the Alaba­ma
Polytechnic Institute. It will be
held in the studios of station WAPI
on the fourteenth floor of the Protec­tive
Life Building, ^Birmingham, start­ing
at 1 o'clock.
Acting upon the suggestion offered
recently by Governor Bibb Graves
many of the high schools and other
institutions of learning in Alabama
are installing radio receiving gets. It
is expected that the Birmingham con­ference
will determine how to render
the best service, by radio direct to the
schools in- addition to the tens of
thousands of people who have radio
receiving sets in their homes.
Prof. Duncan said that station
WAPI, which is the "Voice of Ala­bama",
expects to make education its
biggest feature and that the invita­tion
to use the station is extended
to other institutions of learning as
well as to the State Department of
of Education.
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adoption of an amendment provid­ing
for the establishment 'of a central
booking office for athletic contest of­ficials.
This change will no doubt
raise the standards of officiating in
S. I. C. contests.
Dr. S. V. Sanford,.of the Universi­ty
of Georgia, was re-elected to the
presidency of the Conference. Other
officers included Dr. J. F. Broussard
of L. S. U., vice-president, and W. D.
Funhouser of the University of Ken­tucky,
secretary and treasurer.
The conference voted unanimously
to accept the invitation of Dr. J. F.
Broussard, of L. S. U. to hold the
conference meeting in Baton Rouge
next year.
Committee On Teacher-
Training Visits Auburn
To confer with President Bradford
Knapp and the deans of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute the committee
which is making a survey of teacher
training institutions with a view to
revising and perfecting teacher train­ing
curricula for all institutions doing
teacher training work, was in Auburn
Wednesday. The committee was
headed by Dr. B. L. Parkinson, di­rector
of teacher training in the De­partment
of Education, Montgomery.
Others in the party were: W. D.
Cocking, C. W. Knudsen, S. B. Hall,
and A. L. Crobb, each of Peabody
College, Nashville.
Dr. Shelton Phelps; of Peabody
College, is the chairman of the com­mittee
but at present is in Europe.
While in Auburn members of the
committee conferred several hours
with Dr. Knapp, Dean Judd, and
other members of the faculty of the
school of education, and also other
deans.
Southern conference basketball
teams this week launch out into the
first major offensive of the season,
19 out of the 23 institutions compet­ing
in 28 games.
Seventeen of the contests will be
between conference quintets while the
others involve foes from without the
organization.
Conference games for the week fol­low:
Monday night: Mississippi vs, Tu-l
«ne at New Orleans.
Tuesday night: South Carolina vs.
Clemson at Columbia. Mississippi vs.
Tulane at New Orleans. Virginia vs.
Maryland at Charlottesville. Ken­tucky
vs. Georgia Tech at Atlanta.
Wednesday night: Kentucky vs.
Georgia Tech at Atlanta.
Thursday night: South Carolina vs.
Duke at Durham. Kentucky vs. Ten­nessee
at Knoxville.
Friday night: Louisiana State vs.
Mississippi at Oxford. North Caro­lina
vs.| South Carolina at Chapel
Hill. Mississippi A. and M. vs. Tu­lane
at New Orleans.
Saturday night: South Carolina vs.
North Carolina State at Raleigh. V.
M. I. vs. V. P. I. at Lexington. Mis­sissippi
A. and M. vs. Tulane at New
Orleans. Virginia vs. Washington
and Lee at Lexington. Louisiana vs.
Mississippi at Oxford. Vanderbilt vs.
Georgia Tech at Nashville.
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"We just got sorry .for the boys,
considering that you girls are so far
out in the country," said Mr. Clayton
Johnson, efficient driver of "Miss
Wesleyan," in explaining the fact
that, through the efforts of the Yel­low
Cab company the Wesleyan bus
schedule is now arranged so that the
young gentlemen of Macon are af­forded
transportation to the college
in Wesleyan's very own bus.
The bus and its skillful driver have
proved important factors in the lives
of Wesleyan girls, and now they play
a new role as an aide to Cupid. Mr.
Johnson's one regret is that girls
don't seem to think that Western
Union time is corrent. "But I've
never left any of them yet," he de­clared.
"I know all the girl's faces—
they just have th? 'Wesleyan' look. I
pick up girls going to Pig and Whis­tle
every day. I think if they're
brave enough to start walking, they
deserve a lift."
Omicron Delta Kappa
Will Meet March 1 - 2
The Home Economics Club held its
regulalr meeting Wednesday after­noon
January 9th. Business was
taken up, then Miss Thelma\Graves
gave a report, on The News Letter,
which is being published by the Home
Economics Club.
A very interesting program follow­ed:
In 1939, Audrey Fuller; The Tem­peramental
Typest, Pauline Watkins;
Women Older—Men Healthier, Em­ma
Joe Atkins; Posture and Good
Health, Odelle Stewart; The Silk­worm
Industry, Arviee Dee Fuller;
Flying Across the Aftlantic, Anice
Weatherwax; The New Type of Col­lege
Freshman, Anne Daugherty.
Miss Glanton, who is the club's
leader and advisor, then made some
comments on the program.
MRS. McKEE DIES
IN NOTASULGA
The students as well as the resi­dents
of Auburn were very sorry to
hear of the death of Mrs. J. D. Mc-
Kee, of Notasulga. Mrs. McKee has
one daughter, Miss Messie McKee,
here in school and also a son and an­other
daughter who have graduated
from this institution. Mrs. NMcKee
is survived by two sisters Mrs. W. E.
James, Mrs. R. T. Moreman, and three
nephews, Ebb, Fob, and Louie James,
of this city.
(Continued from page 4)
and if the current season fails to pro­duce
anything sensational, prospects
for next year should be more promis­ing.
Early in the game some of the
spectators failed to agree with the
referee in some of his decisions.
Coach Bohler, walked into the center
of the floor and gave his approval
of the referees decisiBn and asked
that the students not razz the referee,
for if he were not capable to call
the plays right he would not be of­ficiating.
So loud were the spectators
in their expression of this type of
fair play of the game that the demon­stration
can hardly be permitted 'to
pass without comment Again we must
mention the razzing that was shown
when our opponents were in the lead
and were holding on to the ball in
the closing minutes of the game.
Stalling—the expression is perhaps
badly chosen but there is no real
synonym—is hard on the nerves of
the excited partisians whose team is
on even terms and is denied the
chance to keep ahead, but it is just
as definite and recognized a jsart of
basketball as dribbling or passing,
and for a crowd to boo and groan at
its use by a visiting team shows either
an inadequate knowledge of the
game or a degree of inconsistence on
victory at any cost which is danger­ously
near bad sportsmanship. Let's
try and show all visiting teams that
if we can't win that we are some of
the best sports that they shall ever
see, and that when we win, we want
to win the fair and just way.
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Officers For Term
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At the last meeting of the Wilson-ian,
officers for the second semester
were elected. George Stafford, the
retiring president, gave his farewell
address in a very few words and nom­ination
of officers was called. Those
elected were: W. T. Edwards, presi­dent;
J. W. Mathews, vice-president;
J. J. O'Rouke, critic; R. L. Loworn,
Plainsman reporter. Due to the great
physical strength necessary in execut­ing
the duties" of -a sargent-at-arms,
the society almost unanimously elect­ed
Joe Palant to that office.
The new president, W. T. Edwards,
appointed a committee to arrange for
the society stunt for College Stunt
Night. This committee consists of
George Stafford, Bruce Harkins and
J. W. Mathews.
Students at Cincinatti
Have Chess Matches
BOHLER FIVE LOSES TO
B. A. C. IN RETURN TILT
(Continued from page 4)
Tigers. Their main trouble seemed
to be in getting the ball down their
hoop after the Auburn guards had
got it* off the backboard.
Lineup and Summary:
Auburn (20): Mullin (4), and
Chamblee (8), forwards; Harmond,
Center; James (4), and Yarbrough
guards. Subs: Anderson (2), Ken­nedy,
and Chappell (2).
B. A. C. McKinney (4), and Hil­ton
(13), forwards; .Caldwell (14),
center: Cawthorn (1), and Chapman
(6), guards. Subs: Aerial, Bigham,
and Burns.
Referee, Laney (Boys Club). Scor­er,
Sinn (Simpson).
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OPEHKA, :-: ALABAMA
The national convention of Omi­cron
Delta Kappa, honorary frater­nity,
will be held at the University
of Alabama, March 1 and 2.
It is stated that at least one dele­gate
is expected to attend from each
of the 23 chapters of Omicron Delta
Kappa in the United States. Auburn
and Birmingham-Southern ar,e ex­pected
to send additional delegates.
The number attending the conference
will be swelled considerably by the
return of graduate members of Iota
Circle, says James Free, president of
Iota Circle of the University.
The convention will be opened with
a session of the executive committee
on the evening of Feb. 28. Morning
and afternoon sessions of two hours
each will be held on March 1 and 2,
while delegates will be honor guests
at a banquet on the evening of
March 1.
Committees have been appointed
to complete plans for the annual
assembly of Omieron Delta Kappa
members. S. E. Armistead of Tus­caloosa
has been named transporta­tion
committee of one.
PROGRAM
TIGER THEATRE
™—4
DR. KNAPP TENDERED
ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP
LOCAL CIRCLE ODK
(Continued from page 1)
that the ideals of this organization
are in harmony with the very best
ideals anyone could possibly have for
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
I appreciate this honor and accept it
in the fine spirit in which you have
tendered it."
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Victor McLaglen in
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Also Comedy
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Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook and
William Powell in
"INTERFERENCE"
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THURSDAY, JAN. 24
Thomas Meighan in
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Also Comedy
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FRIDAY, JAN. 25
Billie Dove in
"ADORATION"
Admission 15c & 35c
SATURDAY, JAN. 26
Renee Adoree in
"BACK TO GOD'S COUN­TRY"
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Versatility in all fields of endeavor
is the byword of students of the
University of Cincinatti. Not satis­fied
with merely intercollegiate com­petition
in football, basketball, and
other athletics, they have organized
a chess team; to ,date many brilliant
players have been discovered there.
Some of the feats of the Chessters
recall seemingly miraculous attain­ments
of master players of olden
times. One student there recently
won three out of four games, he
playing blindfolded. Another won
ten games out of twelve at one sit­ting.
Matches are being scheduled
between the University and other
schools in the "chess conference".
Continuation of the health work in
the public school of Auburn was voted
by the Kiwanis club in session this
week. The action was taken after
Miss Katherine Corley, public health
nurse for Lee County, had reported
results of the work prior to the Christ­mas
holidays. Dr. B. F. Thomas,
member of the club and also physi­cian
of the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
asked that the work be con­tinued.
During the last seven weeks of 1928
underweight children in the grammar
school were furnished milk by the Ki­wanis
club. The work was directed
by Miss Corley in cooperation with
Miss Annie Heard, principal of the
grammar school.
Miss Corley reported rapid gains
in weight of the children who parti-cipted
in the health program conduct­ed
under her direction. Children
were enthusiastic about it.
EXTENSION SERVICE
OFFICIALS WILL MEET
Trade with the advertisers.
(Continued from page 1)
taining to starting and operating dem­onstration
farms at these schools.
Extension service representatives
who will be present are Prof. L. N.
Duncan, director, and District Agents
J. T. High, R. G. Arnold, and J. B.
Wilson. The principals of the agri­cultural
schools at Abbeville, Blounts-ville,
Lineville, Jackson, and We-tumpka
will attend.
An act of the last Legislature of
Alabama provided for establishing
and operating a demonstration farm
at each of the district agricultural
schools of the state. Others will be
started later, Prof. Duncan said.
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