1929-12-06 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929. NUMBER 25.
Tau Beta Pi Frat
Holds Initiation
On Friday Night
Fourteen Engineering Students
Are Initiated Into Honorary
Group
EXCUSE FROM PT
AWARDED RATS
WINNINGINRACE
First 2 5 Finishing in Cake Race
Will Be Excused From 2
Weeks P. T.
BANQUET IS HELD
Tau Beta Pi to Meet Monthly
Hereafter in Form of
Dinner Club
The ritual of Tau Beta Pi was ad­ministered
to fourteen initiates Fri­day
afternoon, at four o'clock, in
Ramsey Hall. The new men were giv­en
the instructions by the president,
O. W. Bynum, and several members
of the engineering faculty.
Following the initiation, a banquet
was held in honor of the new men at
the Thomas Hotel at seven o'clock. A
five course dinner was served the
party.
A welcome address was given by
Lee Sledge, and during the course of
the banquet, talks were made by the
new men, by faculty members who
belong to Tau Beta Pi, and by rep­resentatives
of other honor societies.
The faculty members who are mem­bers
of the engineering society, and
were in attendance at the banquet
are: Professors Callan, Hixon, Mc-
Kinnon, Baughman, Dixon, Christian­sen,
and Beard. Dr. Fred Allison rep­resented
the Phi Beta Kappa society,
Dr. McCullough the Sigma Xi society,
Professor Killebrew, Phi Kappa Phi,
and Dr. Doner represented Pi Mu
Epsilon, a mathematical society.
President Bynum stated that be­ginning
next month, the Tau Beta
Pi meetings would be held monthly,
and in the form of a dinner club.
The officers of the engineering
honor society are: Bynum, president;
Lee Sledge, vice-president; D. C.
Summerford, secretary; Thorne Win­ter,
cataloguer; and Professor C. R.
Hixon, faculty advisor, correspond­ing
secretary, and treasurer.
Engineers' Club To
Meet Monday Night
Dan Dimmick Will Speak; Officers
Will Be Nominated
Dan Dimmick, president of the
American Casting Company, of Birm­ingham,
will be the chief speaker at
a meeting of the Engineers Club on
Monday night, 0. W. Bynum, presi­dent
of the club, said today. This
will be the first time this year that
an outsider has addressed the club.
Professor Callan, head of the
civil engineering department will al­so
speak; he will explain some slides
which he intends to project on the
screen.
Candidates for offices for the com­ing
year will be nomiated at the meet­ing;
as the holding of this office will
extend ove'r into the next school year,
the new officers will be members of
the junior class. The men nominated
for offices will have their names car­ried
back to the respective societies
and there voted on by the members
of each society.
Faculty Plans Second
Dance Of Fall Season
Auburn Collegians Will Furnish Music
For Faculty Hop
The Faculty Dance Club will stage
its second dance of the season Satur­day
night in the Alumni Gymnasium,
it was announced by M. L. Nichols,
president of the pedagogic organiza­tion.
The Auburn Collegians will
play for the hop.
The faculty club plans, following
this affair, a series of seasonal dances,
each of which will carry out the
scheme indicative of the season in
which each is given.
At the last faculty dance there was
an unusually large attendance, and
Mr. Nichols stated that an even larg­er
number will attend the Saturday
night even, if the enthusiasm dis­played
by faculty members over the
dance is any indication.
SPIKED SHOE ENTERTAINS
3 Finishing First Will Be Honor
Guests at Spiked Shoe
Banquet
The first twenty-five freshmen
who cross the finish line in the An­nual
Cake Race being sponsored by
Omega Circle of Omicron Delta Kap­pa
will be excused from two weeks
Physical Training classes, it was an­nounced
today. Auburn athletic of­ficials
said that it was considered that
the exertion by successful candidates
in the race would be equal to the
work meted out in the classes over
a two weeks period in physical train­ing.
Coach Floyd announced that a reg­ulation
numeral will be awarded the
frosh harrier who finishes first in the
race. Cooperation with the athletic
department has done much toward
making the run really worth while to
every entrant. All freshmen will be
required to start the race.
As the time for the event draws
near numerous inquiries continue to
pour into the athletic office. A large
number of cakes will be presented.
Some of the cakes will be on display
in the windows of the Student Sup
ply Shop on Wednesday preceding the
race which will be run on Friday
December 13.
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SUBDIVISION IS BEING
PLANNED IN AUBURN
Sub-divided Land on Magnolia
Street to be Sold at Auction
Soon
The development of the property of
P. O. Davis and J. T. High, on Mag
nolia Street, is being rushed to com
pletion preparatory to the approach
ing auction. Leslie C. King and Fred
W. King, of the J. P. King Auction
Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee,
were in Auburn Friday in conference
with the owners and developers, for
the purpose of completing the arrange
ments of the sale. R. Neighbors, who
is in charge of the grading and clean
ing of the property, has been instruct
ed to do everything in his power to
make this the most valuable sub- di
vision in Auburn, it was announced by
the auctioneers.
W. D. Copeland, engineer in charge
of the subdividing and staking of these
lots, states that this is the best avail­able
residence property in the city and
is destined to be filled with beautiful
homes. The lots have wide frontage
and are very deep.
The date, terms, etc., of this prop­erty
sale will be announced in a later
issue of The Plainsman.
"A"ClubToGiveXmas
Dance On December 14
Will Conclude Activities of Day on
Which Cake Race Takes Place
The "A" Club will give its annual
Christmas dance at the Alumni Gym­nasium
Saturday night, December 14.
This dance is usually one of the best
given by the "A" Club during the
year, and if the attendance is as large
as it has been at the former dances
there is no doubt but that it will be
a joyous affair.
This dance is one of a series given
by the "A" Club each year and the
Christmas dance is usually the gala
affair of the season. A throng of
beautiful girls are expected as the
dance will climax the day in which
the Cake Race holds the center of at­traction
for all. The Nomads from
Montgomery will furnish the music,
this being the second dance of the
season for which they have played.
This is the dance that will send all
of the students home in good cheer
and is the last of the social activities
before the Christmas holidays begin.
Holidays Extended
By Action of Prexy
Holidays Will Begin December
19 and End January 3
The President announces that
owing to much discussion among
the student body, it has been de­cided
to slightly change the dates
of the Christmas holidays, making
some concessions at both ends.
The Christmas holidays will there­fore
begin at noon Thursday on
the nineteenth day of December,
-1929, instead of noon Friday, Dec­ember
20, as published in. the
catalogue. The school year will be
resumed after the holidays at 8:00
A.M. on Friday, January 3, 1930,
instead of Thursday, January 2,
as published in the catalogue. This
was done for two reasons:
1. To enable students to get
home and earn some money dur­ing
the period before Christmas
when jobs of clerks in stores and
elsewhere are most numerous.
2. So as to prevent the neces­sity
of leaving home on January
1 in order to reach school in time
for the opening classes.
Kappa Delta Pi Elects
Fourteen New Members
Dr. Kuderna Gives Instructive
Lecture to Society on Night
Of Election
At the regular monthly meeting of
Kappa Delta Pi, Dr. Kuderne gave one
of the most interesting and instruc­tive
lectures that the society has en­joyed
this year.
Dr! Kruderna is the science specia­list
who has come from the Lincoln
School in New York to assume the
duties of critic teacher for the stu­dents
in Education who are majoring
in science or mathematics. His lec­ture
dealt with the organization of
the Lincoln School, its struggle
against adverse criticisms, political
schemers and other obstacles; its prog­ress;
and some of the experiments
that are being carried on there. In
speaking of the faculty, Dr. Kruderna
said: "Nothing is more impressive
than the experimental approach of
the members of the faculty and the
scientific attitude with which they set
to work on the problems that are to
be solved."
In discussing the rsults of some of
the most outstanding experiments, the
speaker stated: "That the speculative
does not appeal to the boys and girls
in the schools is one of the greatest
blunders teachers everywhere are
making. Self respect and respect for
fellow students are three of the most
important things that must be taught
in our American schools."
Following the program, the new
members for this semester were elect­ed.
Those who were elected are: Lot­tie
Collins, Fayette, senior, Home-Ec
Ed; Mary Garlington, Camp Hill, se­nior,
Sec. Ed.; Ruth Jackson, Opeli-ka,
senior, Sec. Ed.; Eugenia Smith,
Roanoke, senior, Sec. Ed; W. B. Story,
Opelika, senior, Ag. Ed.; D. M. Tur-ney,
Hartsell, senior, Ag. Ed.; Eliza­beth
Brownfield, Opelika, junior, Sec.
Ed.; W. W. Cotney, Lineville, junior,
Ag. Ed.; Lane Graves, Mobile, ju­nior,
Sec. Ed.; W. H. Gray, New
Market, junior, Ag. Ed.; L. I. Lump­kin,
Millerville, junior, Ag. Ed; Mrs.
Ellison McCulloch, Auburn, junior,
Sec. Ed.; Frances Moore, Auburn, ju­nior,
Sec. Ed.; J. J. Parks, Scotts-boro,
junior, Ag Ed.; Allen M. Pear­son,
Leroy, junior, Sec. Ed.
SENIORS LEAVE
FOR INSPECTION
Go to Tallassee and Vicinity to View
Construction Work
Seniors in the mechanical and elec­trical
engineering courses left this
morning for Tallassee and vicinity to
inspect construction work on electri­cal
projects there.
The trip will last only one day. The
Martin Dam, and the Upper and Low­er
Tallassee Dams will be among the
power plants and dams visited and
inspected by the party. Professors
W. W. Hill and C. R. Hixon are in
charge of the inspection trip.
PHIBETAKAPPA
CLUBMEETSF0R
THE FIRST TIME
Membership Consists of Six
Fraternity Members Among
Faculty
IS OLDEST HONOR FRAT
Eleven Former United States
Presidents Were Phi Beta
Kappa Members
The Phi Beta Kappa Club had its
first meeting Thursday night, Decem­ber
5, at the home of Dr. Duncan C.
Harkin. It was on the fifth of De­cember,
1776, that the first Phi Beta
Kappa society was formed at William
and Mary College, at Williamsburg,
Virginia.
Friendly discussion of an entirely
impromptu and informal nature only
are scheduled for the various meet­ings
of the club.
The club is composed of members of
the faculty who are members of Phi
Beta Kappa. The following who are
members, and the college and year in
which they were made members of the
society: Dr. Fred Allison, head pro­fessor
of Physics, University of Vir­ginia,
1922; Dr. B. R. Showalter, Di­rector
of extension teaching and pro­fessor
of education and psychology,
Oberlin College, 1917; Walker Kin-kaid,
assistant professor of physics,
Allegheny College, 1924; Arthur Med-lock,
instructor in English, University
of South Carolina, 1928; Asa Clark,
instructor in French, West Virginia
University, 1924; and Dr. Duncan C.
Harkin, associate professor of mathe­matics,
West Virginia University,
1921.
The original Phi Beta Kappa so­ciety
was founded in the Apollo Room
of the historic old Raleigh Tavern at
Williamsburg. The Greek letters Phi
Beta Kappa were the initials of the
motto "Philosophy, the guide of life,"
and the purpose was to "instruct the
species in the arts of humanity and
the science of universal friendship."
The members held convical sumposia
and conducted momentous debates on
such topics as "Whether Freen poll
tics be more injurious than New Eng
land rum," and "Whether the Fair
Sex Conduce to the Improvement of
Ours."
At an .early stage in it's history,
Phi Beta Kappa began to base its
choice of members wholly on distinc­tion
in scholarship. Of its three
watchwords, "Fraternity, Morality,
Literature," is gave up the first two
in favor of the third, and "Litera­ture,"
or scholarship, has long been
the sole test.
The men of Phi Beta Kappa make
an array of varied talent, achieve­ment,
and ability. Of the former
presidents of the United States, the
following have belonged to the socie­ty:
John Quincy Adams, Martin Van
Buren, Franklin Pierce, Rutherford
B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Ches-
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Honors Awarded at
Final Convocation
"A's" Will Be Awarded, Phi
Kappa Phi Bids Extended
It is announced from the Pres­ident's
office that there will be
a special convocation at 11:00
o'clock on Tuesday, December 17,
which is to be known as "Honors'
Convocation". At this convoca­tion,
the President expects form­ally
and publicly to confer the
honor of the "A" upon those who
won this distinction in football
during the year and likewise pub­licly
to confer the Phi Kappa Phi
honor upon those students and
members of the faculty recently
elected to the national honorary
society of Phi Kappa Phi. Also
this will be an opportunity for
the President to wish the student
body and others assembled a
happy and auspicious vacation.
Two Auburn Delegates
Attend Interfrat Meet
Professor Robinson and James
Ware Represent Auburn
At Convention
Dr. W. H. Hudson Will
Address Church Groups
Former Missionary to China Will
Speak Sunday Before Joint
Session
Dr. W. H. Hudson, for twenty-five
years a missionary to China, will talk
to the young people Sunday night at
the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Hudson
is widely known and loved for his
personality and character. He is Ald­erman
of his city, Kashing, China.
The meeting is to be composed of
all the christian young people's or­ganizations,
namely, B. Y. P. U., Ep-worth
League, Christian Endeavor of
the Presbyterian Church, and Chris­tian
Endeavor of the Christian
Church.
The program is being given by the
Christian Endeavor of the Presby­terian
Church and being sponsored
by the Y. M. C. A. Its purpose, as
stated by Rev. Hay, is to bring a
clearer meaning of missions to the
Auburn Campus. The program starts
at 6:00 o'clock with refreshments and
fun at 6:30 Dr. Hudson will, bring
his message. Everyone is invited.
J. M. Robinson, head professor of
zoology and entomology, was Au­burn's
official delegate at the twen­ty-
first annual meeting of the In-terfraternity
Conference at the
Hotel Pennsylvania in New York
city Friday and Saturday following
Thanksgiving. Jimmy Ware repre­sented
the local Interfraternity coun­cil
in an undergraduate meeting held
in conjunction with the national
conference gathering.
This is the first time that Auburn
has had an official representative at
one of thes conventions. Member­ship
in the convention is composed of
delegates from the national fraterni­ties
and guests invited from the
faculty and administrative boards of
the various universities. Sixty-six
national fraternities, and over eighty
colleges were represented by the 200
representatives present.
The keynote sounded at the con­vention
was the necessity of securing
harmony and cooperation between
the local fraternity chapters and the
college officials. The national or­ganization
is working toward this
end, and many speeches made at the
meeting emphasized this point.
At the opening session eight com­mittees
reported, and in subsequent
meetings questions dealing with all
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PAST STUDENT
OPENS MODERN
BAKERY IN CITY
Electrik Maid Bake Shop Opens
Doors to Public Today
IS MODERN THROUGHOUT
Is Under Management of R. D.
Porch Former Pharmacy
Student
All-College Hike
Is To Be Staged
This Afternoon
Hike Will Begin at Langdon
Hall at 1:15 O'clock
The Electric-Maid Bake Shop of Au­burn,
under the management of R. D.
Porch, a former pharmacy student at
Auburn, opened its doors to the public
this morning. The formal opening
of the establishment, however, has
been postponed until one day next
week, due to the non-arrival of added
equipment that was expected.
The bakery is one of the most mod­ern
in this section of the state. It
represents the lastest in clean and up-to-
date baking equipment. The bak­ery
will specialize at all times in a
full line of fancy cakes and pastries,
along with staple products.
Porch, manager of the company,
was a popular student while here and
will doubtless attract his many friends
in and around Auburn to his estab­lishment.
Mr. C. C. Schreeder of West Vir­ginia
will be the head baker, com­ing
here with excellent recommenda­tions.
He has been a baker for twelve
year and has been with the Electrik
Maid Company for three years.
It is of gratification to the residents
of Auburn that this bakery has open­ed
here, as Auburn has been in great
need of just such an establishment for
quite a while.
EATS AND FUN PROMISED
Tug-o'-war Between Frosh and
Sophs Will be Main Event
BURNWORTH LEAVES
FOR NEW ASSIGNMENT
Methodist Minister and Wife
Are Honor Guests at
Farewell Reception
Chemical Society
Plans To Show Film
Subject of Picture to Be Shown Mon­day
Night is "Refining
the Crude"
The Auburn Chemical Society will
show a moving-picture film entitled
"Refining the Crude" in Broun Hall
auditorium Monday night, December
9, it was announced today by the club
president, Lawrence Camp. The show
will begin at 7 p.m. There will be no
charge of admission, and all students
are invited, the president stated.
The film was produced by the Gulf
Refining Company/ It shows the re­fining
of crude petroleum, from the
blowing of the well to the production
of the finished product's, gasolene be­ing
the principal product developed.
Hi School Students
Present Operetta
Theme of Operetta Will Be "The
Feast of the Red Corn"
On Tuesday, December 10, the stu­dents
of Lee County High School will
present a camp-fire operetta, "The
Feast of the Red Corn." The curtain
will rise on the first scene at 8 p. m.
The cast of the show will consist
entirely of students of the local high
school. It is said to be one of the
best of the series of plays being pre­sented
by the school this season.
It was announced by the director
that admission price to children and
college students will be twenty-five
cents, to adults thirty-five cents.
An informal reception was given
by the Methodist church workers as
a farewell to Reverend and Mrs.
Burnworth. The reception was held
in the church parlor of the Methodist
church.
Refreshments were served by Mrs.
Ross and Mrs. Baughman. After the
refreshments Dr. Ross presented the
retiring pastor with a beautiful desk
set, in appreciation of the work he
had done while in Auburn. Mrs. Ross
presented Mrs. Burnworth with a
silver cream and sugar set that was
given by the Workers. In a brief
message to Mrs. Burnworth, Mrs.
Ross expressed the love and respect
held by them for the departing pas­tor's
wife.
Registrar Announces
High Scholarship Roll
Great Number of Seniors Average
Over 85 For Three Years
Following is a scholarship report
issued by the registrar. Listed are
the names of those senior students who
have averaged 85 or above for the past
three years. Also, the honor roll at­tainments
of those students are shown.
"D" is for distinction and "HD" for
highest distinction. The years in
which the students made the honor
roll are listed following:
Agricultural Education: Joseph
Marion Henderson, 85.79, D-27, 28;
William Brooks Story, 85.15; Dewey
Mason Turney, 85.84.
Civil Engineering: Fair Jones
Bryant, 90.21, HD-27; DeAlva Clin­ton
Summerford, 86.30, D-29; John
Eugene Walsh, 85.49.
Electrical Engineering: George
Bascomb Ashcraft, 90.54, HD-26, D-27,
28, 29; Douglas Otis Baird^ 88.24, HD-
29, D-28; Courtland F. Brittain, 85.10,
D-2727; Harris James Christensen,
9315, HD-27, 28, 29; Fred Euell Cope-land,
89.24, D-27, 28; Marvin Brock
Dinsmore, 86.82, HD-28, D-27; Wil­liam
Keister, 90.00, D-27, 29; William
Jackson Marsh, 88.10, D-28, 29; Ar-turo
P. Nieto, 87.02, D-29; John Jo­seph
O'Rourke, 95.45, HD-27,28,29;
Lucien Elmore Owen, 90.63, D-27, 28,
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Plenty of free eats and entertain­ments
is promised to all students at­tending
the All Colege Hike which
begins at Langdon Hall Saturday at
1:15. The hikers will proceed north­ward
on College Street from Lang­don
Hall to the spot where the fes­tivities
were held last year.
The band will march with the hik­ers
from Langdon Hall to the scene
of the merriment, where it will help
keep up the pep. The Y. M. C. A.
urges all the students to be there and
to come prepared for the fun.
"A jolly good time. Fun galore!
Eats abundant!" Such are the
thoughts of the future and memories
of the pflst to the "old men" and it
is hoped by the Y. M. C. A. "that the
freshmen, as well as the upperclass-men
who have not attended All Col­lege
Hikes before, will come so that
they may share such opinions with
students who have been on previous
All College Hikes."
The big tug-of-war between the
freshmen and sophomores will be one
of the biggest attractions. All stu­dents
are urged to be there to pull
for their class to prevent it from be­ing
pulled through the water by the
opposing class. In addition to the tug-of-
war; the pie-eating contest the
sack race, the bag relay, and the bat­tle
between the fresman and sopho­more
class presidents will add much
to the fun.
The appetites of the hikers will be
satisfied by all of the hot chocolate,
cakes, marshmallows, weiners, rolls,
and pickles that could be wanted. The
treat will be provided by the Y. M.
C. A.
The All College Hike is an annual
affair sponsored by the Y. M. C. A.
"Old men" who' have been on previ­ous
All College Hikes confirm the
opinion that the hike is one of the
liveliest and most enjoyable events
of the year. The hike is an occasion
at which students and professors dis­card
their dignity and join whole­heartedly
in the fun.
Though practically all arrange­ments
for the hike have been com­pleted,
the special Y. M. C. A. com­mittee
in charge of the festivities is
still hard at work devising new fea­tures
for the entertainment of the
student body at this, the biggest event
on the "Y" calendar.
Education Club-Has
Novelty On Program
Members in Impromptu Discussion
of Important Questions
What is believed to be an entirely
new and novel number in organization
programs here on the campus was in­troduced
at the regular meeting of the
Education Club which convened Tues­day
night, from eight until nine
o'clock, in Room 314-A of the Ad­ministration
building. Originated and
presented to a gathering of near fifty
education students by vice-president
W. B. Story, the topic, "What A
School Teacher Owes the Community
Outside of the Classroom," was pre­sented
for general discussion and con­tribution,
no definite assignments hav­ing
previously made.
This number attracted much atten­tion,
and was heartily engaged in by
a vast number of the attendants. Val­uable
contributions were given by ex­perienced
teachers, which served as
a basis for the discussion. Mr. Story
merely stated the topic for discussion,
and then urged that the attendants
engage in its discussion freely; a
splendid response was obtained.
This feature immediately followed
a splendid address given by Profes­sor
M. L. Beck, associate professor of
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PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929.
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REPORTERS
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G. Taylor, '33; J. C. Johnson, '33; R. P.
Greer, '33; A. B. Hanson, '33; J. R.
Chadwick, '33; C. H. Currey, '33; R. K.
Sparrow, '33; S. A. Lacy, '33 R. T.
Wasson, '33; J. R. Wilder, '32; R. P.
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THE PLAINSMAN
—becomes more cognizant of the rep­utation
and fame of Professor Duns-tan
every day. We know that his con­nection
with the institution carries
great influence for her good. The lat­est
example was when he* was called
nearly a thousand miles to search for
some lost radium—which he success­fully
accomplished.
The College Directory
Is Beneficial Work
One of the most beneficial and far reach­ing
works that has come to our attention
this year is the collgge directory which
was recently issued free to faculty and stu­dents.
It is not a work without errors but
they may be overlooked. The scope of the
pamphlet makes it a valuable contribution
to everyone who must keep in touch with
students and faculty.
The work, while not the conception of
the compiler of the vast amount of infor­mation
contained in it, is a credit to an
efficient, and able executive. President
Knapp has long felt a need for such in­formation
to be found in the directory and
has expressed himself in regard to the
value of such a work to both students and
faculty and even outsiders. ,
Since the beginning of the collegiate
year Mr. Edwards has been engaged in
collecting the information preparatory to
arranging it in a condensed form for the
convenience of the students and people of
Auburn. The issuance of the directory sev­eral
weeks ago is full remuneration for the
time we anxiously awaited its forthcoming.
The Plainsman, being representative of
a greater Auburn, takes this opportunity
to commend the compiled and those as­sociated
with him on the completion of the
valuable work. We are indeed pleased to
know that the issuance of the directory
•vill be annually.
All College Hike Is An
Annual Affair By Y. M. C. A.
The All-College Hike which takes place
Saturday afternoon is one of the best
chances of the year for all the students in
school to have all the free wholesome enter­tainment
they want and at the same time
do themselves and everybody concerned
a lot of good. The Y. M. C. A. is to be
heartily commended on their work in spon­soring
the All-College Hike because it ad­vances
the one thing which this organiza­tion
stands for, in fact, the very thing
which its name implies, Young Men's
Christian Association.
Everyone who has been on one of these
hikes knows of the good time that may be
had. There is the annual tug of war be­tween
the Freshmen and the Sophomores,
the co-ed football game, the pie eating
contest, the sack race and so on down the
list. It might be a good idea for those men
who seldom get out and mix with their fel­low
students to break over for just one
time and see what the other men in col­lege
are doing. One of the main objects of
college is to become acquainted with as
many of our fellow men as is possible. Far
too many men fail to realize the importance
of the association and connections that
are made in school. It is quite true that we
come to college to gain knowledge, but
gaining knowledge is not exclusively re-stricted
to that information which can be
gleaned from the constant reading of
books. To be successful one must be versa­tile
and not one sided. What good is the
extensive knowledge of electrical engin­eering
to a man, if that man has failed to
gain, also, a knowledge of how to conduct
himself in a crowd, or how to mix with
people successfully and make a good im­pression
on men he meets? The knack of
doing this comes only with practice and
college and its various activities present
many opportunities to gain this practice.
The All-College Hike Saturday is one of
these opportunities. We encourage every­one
to mingle with his fellow students, to
meet as many as possible and to have a
good time. Doing this will have a much
better effect than that of going to the pic­tures
or perhaps his nose buried in a book.
Awarding Of Numeral
To Winner Of Cake Race
The freshman cake race to be staged
on December 13 by O. D. K. in conjunction
with the Athletic Department promises to
be one of the most interesting affairs of
the year in addition to possibly becoming
an annual event.
Great enthusiasm is being shown by
many first year men, but a large number
are still ignorant of the details of the
race. These men must acquaint themselves
with the race at once if they hope to make
a successful showing. Besides the cakes
to be awarded the winners as was announc­ed
some time ago, Coach John Floyd has
made public his intention to award a nu­meral
to the freshman leading the field,
at the finish. One of the greatest mo­ments
in a freshman's life is when he can
receive some recognition, especially a nu­meral,
for his own achievement.
We encourage the freshmen to take part
in the race with the intention of making
a creditable showing. No pleasure can be
derived from racing if he feels he is forced
to do so, while keen delight can be had from
the event if it is entered with the inten­tion
of winning.
We are looking forward to the most
gigantic affair in the history of the insti­tution
when more than five hundred mem­bers
of the frosh class start out on'the
course.
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor—
A subject which has been discussed pro
and con on the campus reached a climax
last year when a columnist of the Plains­man
earnestly attacked the literary so­cieties.
He created the impression .that
nothing worthwhile was obtainable from
them, and one who did attend was simply
bored for a hour. Even assuming that one
was bored for that length of time, it can­not
be denied that something was not ac­quired
in that hour; after all that is what
we are here for—to learn something, even
though at times it does not seem so. Is
there anyone in this school so bold as to
maintain that every minute spent in the
classroom is interesting, yet all will ad­mit
that it is to our best advantage as a
rule to attend classes?
Such an attitude by the columnist last
year has caused many upperclassmen—
practically all of them—tc advise the fresh­men
to refrain from joining any literary
society; that no good was to be derived
from them. This seems to me to be an er­roneous
idea that has taken root on the
campus. I believe that anyone who has
been called upon to speak before an audi­ence
for the first time will agree with me
that it is a difficult undertaking. Perhaps
literary societies do not make or sponsor
weekly orations, but they certainly improve
one's ability and help him to break the ice
of stage fright. It also aids him in gaining
a poise that nothing else will as any public
speaker will vouch for.
The freshman looks to the upperclassmen
and naturally respects his opinion to a
certain extent (even if it is a fool thing
to do most of the time), and it is, there­fore,
a mistake for the new men to be so
misguided by the older students as to the
true worth to be derived from a literary
society.
The big cry on the campus is that there
is nothing to do in the way of amusement,
while many indulge in the familiar "bull
session." However, I believe an hour spent
at a literary society would prove much
more profitable. The societies can be very
instructive and interesting, and the more
that come out the more talent will be avail­able
and developed.
Many students on the campus would like
to see the societies fail as they do not be­lieve
in them, while in a sister institution
a society was allowed to broadcast its pro­gram
over WAPI, gaining much favorable
mention. Last week only two societies were
represented in the declamation contest; the
others were handicapped by lack of inter­est
and lack of membership. At one time
the contest was much more significant
than now.
The college recognizes the importance
that should be attached to literary socie­ties
by granting credit for it in giving
quality points.
The true worth of attending a society
should be entering one's head and instead
of slamming he could do Auburn and the
students a good turn if public speaking
activities were endorsed to a greater de­gree.
Yours truly, Oswald.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
Sometimes it is
difficult to depart
from a fixed rule,
and I rather expect
that the average per­son
in any official
position gets to the
point where any de­partures
from rules
seems impossible. If
the rule is a good one
and if its enforcement administers justice
and equity under all circumstances, then
it is a pretty good thing to hold fast to it.
If a rule, however, works distinct injury
under conditions where justice and fair
dealing seem the most important thing eith­er
the rule ought to be changed or certain­ly
there should be exceptions to it. We get
into this in education in a good many ways.
There is a fixed habit among a great many
teachers of marking everyone zero for an
absence from class or lecture. The net re­sult
of such a practice is that a man who
might easily make a high grade in a subject
gets either a low grade or a failure. We
get tangled up in the mechanics of trying
to ascertain whether a student knows a
subject or is qualified to pass it and we
may in some cases let the mere question of
attendance permit us to disqualify a per­son
who knows the subject. It is worth
thinking about, especially for teachers who
are sincerely desiring to assist students to
obtain an education.
* * * * *
I cannot say that the experience of head­ing
straight for a deep ditch in an automo­bile
at a fair speed is an enjoyable experi­ence,
but it surely shows how quickly a
thing can happen. There are always com­pensations,
however, in everything—even
in an accident. One always feels thankful
when he is not hurt and then I always feel
a great deal of happiness at how promptly
people come to help a person under such
circumstances. The other day down at
Brundidge, they were calling me "Dr.
Knapp" in five minutes after the accident.
Somehow they found out who I was and
all kinds of help was available promptly.
People are mighty kind in this world. I
think we are not always able to show our
full appreciation. Surely one touch of mis­fortune
makes us all akin.
* * * * *
I hope there will be a good attendance
at the "Honor's Convocation" Tuesday,
December 17. It is a type of occasion
which we would like to foster in this insti­tution
where more recognition is given to
the recipients of honors in athletics, in
scholarship, and other fields than the mere
publication of names or the mere announce­ment
of names in the group to which one
may belong. We are trying this as an ex­periment.
I am anxious to see how it will
work out.
The football schedule is rapidly being
shaped up and Auburn is going to have a
fine schedule for next year, though it is
not going to get teams to come here and
play us under favorable conditions until
we can get the stadium for our own home
games. Where you can furnish seats for
only three or four thousand people, it
doesn't mean a great deal. We need seats
here at Auburn for ten thousand at least.
This leads me to say that in spite of the
boasted drawing card of an Alabama-
Georgia game at Birmingham, I am pretty
reliably informed that the crowd which at­tended
the Tech-Auburn game in Atlanta
on Thinksgiving exceeded in number those
who attended the Alabama-Georgia game
at Birmingham. That is a source of a great
deal of congratulation.
* * * * *
I want to compliment the yell leaders
who during the game on Thanksgiving call­ed
for "three hi's" for Alabama when the
announcement was given on the field that
Georgia was ahead. Later announcement
of Georgia's apparent victory brought a
cheer from a lot of Georgia people. I
heard' a man who I am sure was an Ala­bama
man charge that the cheer to the Au­burn
crowd. I do not believe he was correct.
He said some pretty mean things about
Auburn, but I think he failed to remember
that Auburn had put up a cheer for Ala­bama
not more than ten or fifteen minutes
before that. Of course the vast majority
of people in that stand was people from
Georgia. I think he severely misinterpret­ed
the attitude of the Auburn crowd. He
accused us of not having the heart to play
Alabama. My only reply is that we are
willing to play them any time they are
willing to play us and have been every
since I have been here and are going to
keep on. We understand the situation
fully and are not discouraged regarding
it.
^ AUBURN FOOTPRINTS °$
Be not anxious about tomorrow. Do to­day's
duty, fight today's temptation, and
do not weaken nor distract yourself by
looking forward to things which you can­not
see, and could not understand if you
saw them.
It is told that one of our professors was heard crooning baby talk on the train
coming down from Atlanta Saturday night. And there weren't any children aboard
either.
* * * * * * * *
We are like th'e Jew, who, sentenced to be hanged immediately, was given a
chance to choose his own delicacy for his last repast, choose strawberries, and on
being told that it wasn't the season for them said, "I can wait." We could have very
easily have waited several more days before resuming the grind again, for who
doesn't know how the work bears down after Thanksgiving.
* * * * * * * *
MY BABY
My Baby's gone and left me;
I sit alone and ponder—
She's with another, maybe;
I cannot help but wonder.
Those soft, enthralling kisses,
That made my heart-springs tighten;
Those sweet, romantic blisses,
Perhaps a new heart brighten.
That thought my mind envelopes,
And makes my eyes see scarlet,
Dislike at once developes
For the poor and harmless varlet.
I'll tear him all asunder;
This bird that stole my Baby;
I'll show that guy, by thunder,
I'm mad and don't mean maybe!
And she can go to Hades,
And go with my best wishes; »
That's just the place for ladies
Who play their men for fishes.
I'm mad as purple blazes;
I'm blue with rampant fury,
'Cause one of those damned ladies
Ran off when I loved truly.
But lo! My ears are greeted
With footsteps drawing nearer—
My anger is defeated;
I see my way now, clearer.
My baby is returning!
I knew she knew I loved her,
And how my heart was yearning
When I thought she loved another!
My Baby!
-Ex. 969
Tech may have been fully justified in taking Alabama from her schedule, but
it seems to us she wanted to avoid trouble since the records show that Tech leads
Bama in the "loss" column in the period that the two schools have met with the
pigskin.
* * * * * * . * *
The Seniors on the Inspection Trip concluded after a few hours in Atlanta
that Jakie Dyal was still a child.
* WITH OTHER COLLEGES *
NEED MORE RULES
The following account of a football game
between trains, appeared in the Greens­boro
Daily News: "C. Q. Rhyne, driving a
Ford car, attempted to beat a freight train
across the tracks at Kings Mountain. A
passenger train which he had not noticed
approaching from the opposite direction
reached the crossing at the same time the
Ford arrived. The passenger train knocked
the automobile golf-like, about seventy-five
yards down the track where the freight
train caught it on a bounce and made a
perfect return to the passenger train's
path. The passenger train then booted the
car out of bounds and it landed in a near­by
field." Now suggestions are in order as
to what kind rules the Rules and Regula­tions
Committee may form to determine
which train won the decision.
* * * * *
RATS GALORE
More than 1500 freshmen caps have been
sold so far this year at Ohio State. This is
an increase of fifty per cent over last year.
Authorities attribute the wearing of fresh­man
headgear to class loyalty and strict
enforcemnt of rules by the fraternities.
Various student organizations are cooper­ating
in furthering the tradition.
* * * * *
WHY NOT A PERFECT WOMAN?
North Carolina State in answer to ques­tionnaires
sent out by the Technician, col­lege
newspaper of that institution says,
"We want conservative co-eds." According
to the answers, the students want co-eds
who do not drink, smoke, pet promiscu­ously
(although they must pet some), use
cosmetics in excess, go hoseless in summer
(or winter either, for that matter), or wear
sunback dresses. In short, the co-ed, if she
goes to N. C. State and wishes to be popu­lar,
must be perfect.
Furthermore, the girl who will be most
popular will weigh 121 2-5 pounds, will be
five feet five and one-half inches tall, will
be a brunette, and will do none of the
things forbidden. Sit down!
* * * * *
QUITE COLORFUL
Annual freshman entertainment at the
homecoming day football game between
Virginia and Maryland was colorful, to say
the least. The pajama-clad frosh wore
every conceivable design of sleepers, and
a few more besides; checkerboard, flower­ed,
polka dot, and striped effects were
especially in prominence. Some of the rats
resembled peppermint sticks in their strip­ed
night-wear, while others, wore night­shirts
probably filched from the wardrobe
of a Victorian grandfather. There were pur­ple
pajamas striped with green, blue ones
with green polka dots, and still others
checked with red and pink, all worn with
gold and black caps. It can no longer be
said that the cravat is man's last embell­ishment.
V ^ 91 y •
ANOTHER PROBLEM SOLVED
The Illinois court ruled recently that
fraternities are chartiable institutions and
therefore exempt from taxes. Well, that
solves the problem in our mind about just
what fraternities are.—Oregon Emerald.
* * * * *
WE KNEW IT ALL THE TIME
The New York Sun explains why men
dress as plainly as the"y do. "Throughout
animal life it is agreed—by the males—
that the male is the more beautiful. Hence
the necessity for the higher adornment of
the female." To Arms!
* * * * *
BORING
It seems that the students from out of
the state of Massachusetts are in for a
trip to new fields to conquer. Here's how:
"The mayor of Lynn, Mass., has forbid­den
any girl over twelve years of age to
appear on the streets exposing her knees,
dimpled or otherwise." We suspect he has
seen too many of the "otherwise."
* * * * *
GOSSIP
In Delaware the educational authorities
have decided that the girl students must
wear stockings to school. "It made the
children laugh and play to see the calf at
school."
* * * * *
NIFTY WHAT?
The men students of Rochester, being of
the opinion that the socially-minded stu­dent
wastes much time through "blind
dates," have evolved a scheme for the in­terchange
of knowledge concerning co­eds
and their ways.
The carefully thought out code, for this
interchange of knowledge, consists of the
following one-letter classification. A, aver­age;
B, beautiful; K, kisses; L, liberal; M.
mercenary; P, pippin; R, rough; T, tells;
V, vivacious; X, expensive; while Y signi­fies
the unknown quantity. Why spend a
dull evening?
THOUGHTS IN SILHOUETTE
<>By
c3ierr TDiogenese Roeufelsdrockh
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial opin­ions
of this paper. It is a column of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
QUITE OFTEN I have heard some
old college graduate speak re-
, gretfully of his laxity in taking
advantage of the opportunities offered in
a college education; also, of his failure to
cultivate an appreciation of same while
there. I have quite often thought of this
and wondered why it is almost invariably
so. From the experiences of others we have
pointed out to us the inate tendency we
have to take college too lightly and to un­derestimate
its actual value; also, of our
evident failure in taking advantage of the
many opportunities presented. Why should
a man spend four years in a college and
forestall an appreciation of its opportuni­ties
and advantages until he is out and at­tempting
to apply the things he was sup­posed
to learn while there? >.
One solution readily presents itself. The
man when forced to rub elbows with the
practical application of the principals set
down in text books, and in the commercial
returns realized by the prosecution of same,
then realizes how much better off he would
be if he were more familiar with those
principles. By actually seeing the number
of things the application of the principals
will do an appreciation of same is literally
crammed down his throat. He then begins
to have regrets. If the things taught in
college were not worth while and applicable
to the commercial world they would soon
realize a certain death from lack of justi­fied
existence. Why can't we realize this
while here in school and apply ourselves
accordingly?
If one goes into a store and purchases a
certain commodity then walks out leaving
the commodity on the counter one soon has
intense regrets for so doing. With college
the purchasing time is a little longer. The
commodity is paid for all right but how
many of us really take away our purchase.
Quite often our minds are detracted
from the primary purpose by a desire for
good grades. Executing college duties with
the intent of making high grades usually
does not give one a permanent practical
conception of the courses. The object being
to obtain high grades rather than lay a
foundation for future commercial returns.
Unfortunately grades are not always a
true estimate of the conception one has
gotten from the course, which in the long
run is the thing that vitally matters. If
one tries to get a working conception of
the subject in hand then the grades will be
forthcoming. More important is the fact
that one will carry away from here what
the grades actually represent rather than
a mere indication that one has been ex­posed
to the course. One might profit by a
little consideration to this puny thought of
I HAVE often wondered why Auburn
has no hospital. Of course a lack of
money always comes to my mind. Yet
I look around and see some money spent
for other things. The need of a hospital
here is vital and of paramount importance.
I have seen no direct indication of a hos­pital
in our building program. This may be
due to my lack of information. No doubt a
hospital would be built if the money was
provided. Yet the college is spending at
least ten thousand dollars for the tower
on top of the new chemistry building, which
will serve no purpose other than architect-tural
or esthetic ones. It is true that archi­tecture
should be considered in the con­struction
of modern buildings, but not to
the exclusion of more vital things. A com­parison
between the advantages* to be ob­tained
from a hospital and the above men­tioned
tower would be ludicrous. Yet the
money spent for the tower would construct
a fairly nice student hospital.
* * * * *
I MAY stay in harmony with the evident
preachings of this column by advising
all of you little boys to catch up on all
of your back work now in order that you
might fully enjoy the Christmas holidays.
However, I am forfeited in my purpose of
this well meant advice by the fact that only
a few of you ever read the futile ravings
of one Herr Diogenes. Those few, I am
sure, are not the ones behind in their
grades. Not because of the fact that an in­tellect
is indicated by the fact that they
read this stuff, but because they generally
have more interest in all of the school's
activities and in their work.
FROM BURIAL STONES
Only these stones to tell
The deadly strife,
The all-important schemes,
The greed for life.
For they are gone, who fought;
But still the blue skies
Stretch blue, aloof, unchanged,
From rise to rise.
—By Frank Prewett.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
LANE GRAVES
AUDREY FULLER
Smith Hall S O C I E T Y AND F E A T U R ES
This Department Open
From 11 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Daily
Phone 9115
THE EVENING SKY
Rose-bosom'd and rose-limb'd
With eyes of dazzling bright
Shakes Venus mid the twined boughs
of the night;
Rose-lim'd, soft-stepping
From low bough to bough,
Shaking the wide-hung starry fruit­age—
dimmed
Its bloom of snow
By that sole planetary glow.
Venus, avers the astronomer,
Not thus idly dancing goes
Flushing the ternal burns
Outpacing planetary earth,
And ere two years triumphantly re­turns,
And again wave-like swelling flows,
And again her flashing apparition
comes and goes.
This we have not seen,
No heavenly courses set,
No flight unpausing through a void
serene:
r'But when eve clears,
Arises Venus as she first uprose
Stepping the shaken boughs among,
And in her bosom glows
The warm light hidden in sunny
snows.
She shakes the clustered stars
Lightly, as she goes
Amid the unseen branches of the
night,
Rose-limb'd, rose-bosom'd bright.
She leaps: they shake and pale; she
glows—
And who but knows
How the rejoiced heart aches
When Venus all his starry vision
shakes;
When through his mind
Tossing with random airs of an un­earthly
wind,
Rose-bosom'd, rose-limb'd,
The mistress c«f his starry vision
arises,
And the boughs glittering sway
And the stars pale away,
And the enlarging heaven glows
As Venus lifht-foot mid the twined
branches goes.
—John Freeman.
r~
HEY!
We Are Always
Ready to Give
You the Best
Of Meat
MOORE'S MARKET
Phone 37
Woman's Club News
By Mrs. C. P. Townsley
The music department of the Au­burn
Woman's Club met on Wednes­day
for an interesting Exposition of
German, Mexican, and English folk­songs.
Illlustrating a short talk by
Mrs. H. B. Lee, English folk songs
were sung by children of the fourth
and fifth grades, and German ones
by children of the sixth and seventh
grades. A talk by Mr. Atkinson ex­plained
Mexican folklore and was
made especially vivid by the presence
of his daughter Sarah in a costume
that he brought here from Mexico.
Miss Rebecca Shapiro, of Opelika, al­so
in costume, gave a Mexican dance.
Mrs. Toomer is speaking for the
Woman's Club over WAPI Friday
night. Her subject is "The Growth
of Home Extension Work in the
State and General Federation of
Woman's Clubs."
PERSONALS
ATTENDS GAME WITH
CONSENT OF POLICE
Evanston,, HI.—(IP)—J. R. Mc-
Ginnis came up here from Akron, O.,
to see Notre Dame whip Northwes-ern.
He saw the game, but under ar­rest.
Having imbided too freely be­fore
the encounter, McGinnis was in
the cell room at city jail shortly be­fore
game time. He cried loudly for
justice. Police Sergeant Anton
Schultz, even though he was partial
to Northwestern, finally said:
"You may go to the game if you'll
promise to return to jail right after­wards."
Half an hour after the game, Mc­Ginnis
was back.
"I'm sorry I'm late," he said, "the
crowds were awful."
Justice of the Peace John Russ
said: "You're an honest man. Five
dollars and costs."
WEDDING FOLLOWS LEHIGH
VICTORY OVER LAFAYETTE
Bethlehem, Pa. — ( I P )— Lehigh
University's first victory over her tra­ditional
foe, Lafayette, in a decade,
was celebrated by H. C. Hess, Brown
and White backfield coach in a wed­ding
ceremony in which he and
Gladys King, of Massilon, Ohio took
part. Hess was a local star in 1925.
The entire Lehigh squad and all the
coaches were present at the wedding.
BROWN JUG
Ann Arbor, Mich.—(IP)—After an
absence of two years the Brown Jug
is back at the University of Michigan.
The jug goes for a year to the win­ner
of the Michigan-Minnesota foot­ball
game.
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DRUG SUNDRIES
DRINKS, SMOKES
THE STORE OF SERVICE AND QUALITY
ON THE CORNER
OU'D BETTER LOOK INTO THIS
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Just as always, the King of Jazz sets the pace for the
finest in modern dance music.
If you pride yourself on knowing the smartest and latest
dance arrangements, you must hear these two great talkie
hits played by this master bandsman.
And these others are worthwhile, too
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Mrs. C. E. Barney and son, James
E., of Indianapolis, Ind., are spend­ing
the winter in Auburn and are
at the home of Mrs. Terrell.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Edwards
have returned from Birmingham
where they attended the marriage of
the sister of Mrs. Edwards.
* * *
Mrs. Burke of Iowa is spending a
few days with her sister, Mrs. Charles
Baughman.
Mrs. Frank W. Appleby has return­ed
from the Opelika hospital.
* * *
Mrs. J. T. Hudson and Mrs. Wil­bur
Hutsell spent Wednesday and
Thursday in Atlanta doing Christmas
shopping.
* * *
Dr. and Mrs.. Bradford Knapp, Mrs.
Compton, Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Duncan,
and Mrs. S. L. Toomer were lucheon
guests at the Home Demonstration
Club in Tuskegee.
* * *
Mrs. C. R. Hixon, Miss Louise Glan-ton
and Mrs. J. B. McDonald will at­tend
the State Board meeting of the
Parent Teachers Association on Sat­urday
in Montgomery.
+ * *
Mrs. Minnie K. Basore of Birming­ham
who is visiting her son, Prof.
C. A. Basore, of the chemistry depart­ment
of this institution is being
tendered many lovely courtesies dur­ing
her visit here.
* * *
Miss Bertha Horn is the guest of
Mrs. C. A. Cary.
* * *
Mrs. C. A. Basore, Mrs. Minnie Ba­sore,
Mrs. B. F. Thomas and Mrs. S.
L. Toomer were guests of the Round
Table Club in Opelika on Wednesday.
* * *
Mrs. Frederick Child Biggin con­tinues
ill at her home on College
Street.
* * *
Miss Catherine Russell is able to
attend classes again after a brief ill­ness.
* * *
Miss Evelyn Henry of Montgomery
is expected to spend this week-end
here.
* * * *
Mrs. B. B. Ross spent Friday in
La Grange, Georgia, where she gave
a very interesting lecture for the lo­cal
U. D. C. chapter.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Duncan, Mr.
and-Mrs. Albert Thomas, Mr. and Mrs.
William Lee, Dean Biggin, and Miss
Minnie Whitaker were dinner guests
of Mrs. J. J. Wilmore on Thanksgiving
Day.
* * *
The American Association of Uni­versity
Women will be entertained by
Mrs. J. T. High at her home on Mon­day
evening with a Christmas party.
* * *
Mrs. L. A. Palmer is visiting rela­tives
in Birmingham this week.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. George Bohler are
spending a week in Florida.
D.A.R. Meeting Held
Tuesday Afternoon
The D. A. R. meeting was held
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Fred Allison.
After a short business meeting the
new officers for the coming year were
installed who were: Miss Mary Mar­tin,
Regeant; Mrs. J. W. Scott, Sec­retary;
Miss Lucile Burt, Tresurer;
Mrs. S. Anderson, Register; Mrs.
Kate Lipscomb, Chaplain.
A very interesting paper on the
life of Andrew Johnson was given by
Mrs. B. B. Ross. The latter part of
the meeting was given over to a so­cial
half-hour when delightful refresh­ment's
were served to the members.
Mr. and Mrs. Killebrew
Entertain With Dinner Party
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Killebrew very
delightfully entertained with a dinner
party on last week. The guests of
honor were Mr. and_ Mrs. Martin,
mother and father of Miss Mary Mar­tin,
of Easley, South Carolina.
Those attending were: Mr. and Mrs.
Martin, Miss Mary Martin, Miss Lee,
Professor and Mrs. Baughman, Dr.
and Mrs. Charles P. Weaver.
RAT INTOXICATED BY
A HOT LOVE LETTER
A drunk freshman was seen at the
post office last Monday night! But
he had taken no alcohol.
It happened that this freshman had
received a letter from his girl friend
and being unable to wait longer to
find out the late news from her, open­ed
the letter in the post office lobby.
The girl friend was so much in love
with the freshman that she had writ­ten
the whole of a circle, phono­graph
record fashion.
The freshman started reading, fol­lowing
the lines around the circle and
as the words became dearer, the
freshman read around the circle the
more rapidly. Finally, overcome by
the sweet nothings and the task of
reading in a circle, the freshman lost
control of his upper story and started
for the door, careening and wobbling
from bow to stern. Two other frosh
aided him in passing through the door.
It is thought that the freshman
will be allowed to remain in school.
Mrs. John Lewis Reese of Gaines­ville,
Florida, is visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Faulk.
* * »
Mrs. Glenn Stewart, of Atlanta, is
spending the week with her sister,
Mrs. Herbert Martin.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. John Drakeford of
Tuskegee and Mr. and Mrs. S. L.
Toomer of Auburn were dinner guests
of Mrs. Cliff Stewart of Opelika on
last Sunday evening.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Knapp, Jr.,
of Washington, D. C, are expected
to arrive soon to spend the Christmas
holidays with Dr. and Mrs. Knapp.
* * *
Announcement
On Friday, December 17, there will
be a Benefit Bridge Party given at
the Thomas Hotel for the P. T. A. of
Auburn. Those desiring to reserve
tables phone Mrs. Homer Tisdale.
Books of Interest
'A Farewell to Arms" is a Realistic Romance Color­ed
With Vivid Picture of Great World War
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
By ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Scribners
Reviewed by K. M. McMillan, '33
Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell
to Arms" is a realistic romance col­ored
by such a picture of the Great
War as would lead the nations of the
earth to refrain from the horrible
solution of international differences
in the future.
The book is a distinctive piece of
war literature; it gives a vivid de­scription
of life in the Italian army
and of the actual conditions in Italy
during the World War. It is the story
of a man seeking life in the midst of
the death and destruction of a war
that has submerged the beauty of the
Italian conutryside and the men in
the armies.
The hero is a young American ad­venturer
enlisted in the Italian medi­cal
Corps. His friend and fellow-of­ficer
in the Italian Army, Lieutenant
Rinaldi, adds color to the camp life,
and is wonderfully representative of
the Italian character and philosophy.
Lieutenant Henry (the hero) is in­troduced
by Rinaldi to an English V.
A. D. nurse with whom he falls in
love. He is seriously wounded in a
battle near the Austrian frontier, and
is carried to a hospital in Milan,
where he finds his fiancee, the
nurse. They spend a happy summer
together, and he returns to the front.
He decides to desert the army dur­ing
a great retreat, when his three
subordinates leave him by death,
desertion and capture. He narrowly
escapes death at the hands of party
of Italian insurgents, and manages
to get civilian clothes from a friend in
Milan. He finds Catherine Barkley
(the nurse with whom he is in lone)
in Stresa, but is forced to leave for
Switzerland in face of certain ar­rest
and death by the Italian Military
Police. He and Catherine live hap­pily
in Montreux during the winter,
but at this point the story ends
tragically with the death of Cather­ine
and their baby boy.
Informal Tea Loveliest
Social Event Of Season
Quite the loveliest social event of
the season was the gracious informal
tea given Thursday afternoon at the
beautiful old colonial home of Mrs.
C. A. Cary, with Mrs. B. L. Shi and
Mrs. J. J. Wilmore as co-hostesses.
Christmas decorations created a de­lightful
cheery atmosphere. The table
was very artistically arranged with
the exquisite lace table coyer, center­piece
of poinsettas and beautiful
brass service. Mrs. Bradford Knapp
and Mrs. Luther N. Duncan graceful­ly
presided at the table. The Christ­mas
colors were harmoniously car­ried
out in the cakes with holly
wreaths as icing and in the red and
green mints.
The guests were met at the door
by Mrs. C. R. Hixon and Mrs. W. W.
Hill. The ladies who assisted the
guests upstairs were: Mrs. J. W.
Scott, Mrs. Minnie Whitaker, Mrs. W.
F. Thomas, and Mrs. Clara Yar-brough.
The ladies downstairs were Mrs.
Herbert Martin, Mrs. Frank Wilmore,
Mrs. Paul Wilmore, Mrs. Paul King,
Mrs. S. L. Toomer, Mrs. Lewis Ward,
and Mrs. J. T. Kennedy. About one
hundred-fifty guests enjoyed the de­lightful
affair.
Mrs. Toomer Hostess
At Informal Tea
Mrs. S. L. Toomer gave a lovely in­formal
tea at her home on Saturday
afternoon.
The affair was given in honor of
a number of out-of-town visitors who
were Mrs. Minnie Basore, of Birming­ham;
Miss Bertha Horn, of St. Louis;
Mrs. Burke, of Wheeling, West Vir­ginia;
and Mrs. Compton.
The dining room was beautifully
decorated with Christmas colors and
poinsettas were used as the center­piece
of the table where Mrs. Knapp
very graciously poured coffee.
Those assisting in the dining room
were Mrs. C. A. Basore, Mrs. C. R.
Hixon, and Mrs. Burke.
YOUNGEST PASTOR
Alliance, O.—(IP)—The youngest
pastor in the Northeast Ohio Confer­ence
of the Methodist Church is Rev.
Eugene Thompson, a freshman at
Mount Union College, who has just
celebrated his eighteenth birthday.
He is pastor of Bolton and Lexington
M. E. churches.
YALE SECURES LAND IN
FLORIDA FOR EXPERIMENT
New Haven, Conn.— (IP)—Two
hundred acres of land near Orange
Park, Fla., have been secured by Yale
University for the breeding and
scientific study of anthropoid apes.
The purchase of the site, and the
erection of the laboratory were made
possible by a gift of $500,000 from
the Rockefeller Foundation.
One or more of the species of apes
will be studied. These include the
chimpanzee, the gorilla, the orang-oytan
and the gibbon. Study will be
made of the habits, social relations,
life history and psychological de~
velopment of the animals.
Governor Myers Y Cooper, of Ohio,
is the posessor of an autographed
football, the gift of Wesley Fesler,
who made his 99 yard run with it
against Northwestern.
Y. W. A. Delightfully
Entertained Wednesday
Mrs. S. W. Garrett and daughter
Miss Helen Garrett delightfully en­tertained
for the Y. W. A. at their
home on Wednesday evening from 5
to 6:30 o'clock.
A very interesting program was
rendered, the subject of which was
"Prayer."
After the meeting, supper was serv­ed
to Misses Verna Patterson, Vivian
Hester, Hope Norris, Rosa Pate, Au-dry
Fuller, Ruth Frisbie, Elizabeth
Smith, Louise Whatley, Bernice Pruitt,
Mary Johnson, Berta Dunn, Abbigail
Brasseale, Deliah Swann, Mrs. Fannie
Sue Jones.
SHIPPED FOR DEPICTING
BOARDING SCHOOL LIFE
Because she depicted too well if
not wisely, boarding school life, Car­man
Dee Barnes, 16-year-old author
of "Schoolgirl," has been removed
from the Gardner school in New
York City, where she was in her
freshman year. According to Mrs.
Mrs. Geo. P. Jackson, of Nashville,
Tenn., mother of the girl, Miss Louise
Eltinge, principal of the school, ask­ed
that the young authoress be with­drawn
"for the peace of the school
and for Carman's happiness." The
novel deals frankly with the problems
of the girl leaving home for the first
time and adapting - herself to life in
a boarding school. Carman, who
wrote "Schoolgirl" when she was 15,
was beseiged with autograph requests
from students at the Gardner school.
A single fact will often spoil an
interesting argument.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929.
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DICK JONES, Editor- -A. C. TAYLOR, Associate Editor
Elmer G. Salter, Contributor; Rhodes Wasson, Harry Barnes, Charles Trice, Tad McCallum, Assistants •
ONLY ONE LETTER MAN RETURNS
FOR BASKETBALL THIS SEASON
By Elmer G. Salter
With only one l e t t e r man return­ing,
chances of producing a winning
basket ball team at Auburn this sea­son
are very dim. Captain Louie
James, guard, is the only " A " wear­er
back for the 1929-30 team.
Several players who saw much
service last season are back and will
be hard to beat out of regular places.
Fulton, Chamblee, Chappelle, Ander­son,
Yarbrough and Harmon are six
players that played in several games
last season. With the experience
gained, they will be strong contend­ers
for regular berths this season.
The first workout of t h e season was
held Tuesday night with close to
t h i r ty candidates reporting. The ini­tial
practice sessions will be devoted
to limbering up exercises, mostly cal­isthenics.
The Plainsmen athletic authorities
are still undecided on the coach for
the cagesters. The basket ball mentor
probably will be Coach John Floyd
or Coach Burnham Lee.
Coach Floyd coached the Vandy
loop artists before coming to the
Plains as assistant football and head
baseball mentor. He was very suc­cessful
with his hardwood teams while
at the helm of the Commodore five.
Coach Lee assisted Coach Bohler
with the Orange and Blue basketeers
last season. He was selected on t he
All-S. I. A. A. mythical five in his
final year £ t Mississippi College,
where he starred in football, basket
ball, and baseball. He came to Au­burn
with Coach Bohler, receiving his
diploma from Mississippi College in
1928.
Frank DuBose, All-Southern cen­t
e r ; Howard Mullin, forward, and
Anbry Vines, guard, are t h e three
l e t t e r earners from last year's team
that are not back this season. All r e ­ceived
their sheepskins last May.
To take the place of Auburn's de­parted
All-Southern pivot man, Jack
Stewart, Joe Anderson, and Harold
Harmon probably will be the leading
contenders. Stewart is a promising
(Continued on page 6)
AllAmerican
Football Team
Is Selected
GRIDIRON QUINTESSENCE
= = = = = By PERCY VAL = = = = = = = = = ==
After being predicted by sports writers to win the Thanksgiving tilt
rather handily, the Alabama Crimson Tide was completely routed by a
hard rushing Georgia Team. Although Alabama made 215 yards to the
Bulldogs 212, t h e majority of Bama's yardage was made in mid field, and
the Tide seemed to lose all force and potency when near the Bulldog's
goal line.
S t a r t i n g from their own 46 yard line, early in the game, Georgia
launched a 54 yard drive which quickly terminated in a touchdown. Fred
Sington, unfortunately, was the target of this drive, and many gains
were made over the Bama all Southern guard, who due to injuires was
forced to r e t i r e from the game in the first quarter. Toward the end of
the third period, Suther punted weakly out of bounds on his own 45 yard
line, and Georgia again started operations which resulted in a touch­down.
Austin Downes making the score of a smart quarterback sneak,
going around left end for 17 yards.
For Alabama, Tony Holm played
Auburn Prospects Good
For a Winning Football
Team in Next Campaign
Team of Six-Footers to
Represent Opelika High
On Court This Season
By Elmer G. Salter
A team of six footers will represent
the Opelika High School on the court
this season. Six lads over the six-foot
mark are out for Coach Dizzy
P r u i t t ' s team and a t least four of t he
five a r e expected to be regulars.
Zeke Kimbrought, former T. C. H.
Dear Editor:
There's been a lot of talk around
lately about Ail-American teams and
being as how nobody seems to know
just who is an All-American and
who is just another bum t h a t plays
football, we have decided to officially
let everybody know the answer.
I t seemed like we were the two
who should do the picking being as
we are sport editors of the Birming­ham
Journal and Atlanta News
respectively, and a couple of good
fellows who everybody likes. (Adver­tisement)
.
The accompanying is our offical
selection. We placed Sidewalks of
New York on left end as everybody
has heard of him and he's from a big
school too. Slice of Bacon is our
choice for left tackle and he looks
good on the gridiron. Conservatory
will be singing his swan song at
Music this year and ought to have
a guard, while Years of Trouble at
center would worry any opposing
team.
We'll put our nickles on Bank of
Auburn at right guard. He is the
only Auburn man to make the team
but he has been here so long we
S. s t a r from Dadeville and chosen on thought something ought to be done
the All-Cotton States team at Auburn | a b o u t ifc A l t h o u S h C e n t r a l o f G e o r S i a
last year, is t h e leading hardwood per
former out for t h e team. Kimbrough
will hold down the pivot post. Jud-son
Whelcher, another former Dade­ville
luminary, probably will be found
a t one of the forwards.
The other miniature giants out for
the team beside Kimbrough are
Flake Farley, Blackmon, and Gene
Lowe, guards, and Cooper Gresham,
Roy Gresham and Roy Lowe, for­wards.
David Ingram, John Holston,
Pierce Jackson, Hubert Smith, Rich­ard
Mann, and Kenneth Hulon are
some of the lesser lights out for t he
team that are going to make some of
the ones counted upon to hold down
regular posts hustle for their berths.
The first game for the Opelikians
will be played in Columbus, Ga., on
December 13 against the Columbus
High School cagesters. The schedule
has not been completed but will be
out in a few days.
Because they have been unable to
practice on the two indoor courts in
the city, Coach P r u i t t is working his
boys daily in the Auburn gymnasium.
Practices are held for one hour be­ginning
at noon.
has been ridden by the Auburn stu­dents
on many occasions he is a good
tackle, nevertheless. Bottle of Rum
will be hard to pass up for right end.
At the quarterback position Little
Drops of Water has thrown a damp­er
on the opposition in several games
this year and is our choice whether
you like it or not. Dose of Oil can
always be depended upon to run
through the other team so he gets a
halfback. Plaster of Paris, a foreign­er,
is given a place on t h e t e am on
account of his sticking qualities.
Sack of Flour, a rising young full­back,
is our choice for t h e line plung­ing
position.
Player Position
Sidewalks, of New York LE
Slice, of Bacon LT
Conservatory, of Music LG
Years, of Trouble - C
Central, of Georgia RG
Bank, of Auburn RT
Bottle, of Rum RE
Drops, of Water Q
Dose, of Oil LH
Plaster, of Paris _.RH
Sack, of Flour F
Signed,
Morgan Newman and Zipp Blake.
Ward's Place
Washing <>> Greasing
Motor Fuel
a lone hand, for he was the only
Bama backfield man who gained
ground consistently over the Bulldog
line. Bama had several good oppor­tunities
to score, but could never ma-teralize
one into a touchdown. Geor­gia
seemed content to play defensive
ball after the second touchdown, and
the game ended Georgia 12—Ala­bama
0.
, * * * * *
The Kentucky Wildcats gave the
Tennessee Vols, title hopes, quite a
jolt when the Thanksgiving game
ended in a 6-6 tie. This makes the
third successive time that the Wild­cats
have tied the Vols. The inability
of the highly touted Touchdown
Twins, Hack and Mack, to make any
appreciable gains was t h e outstanding
feature of t h e day. Tennessee was in­deed
fortunate to tie Kentucky, for
they were on t h e defense nearly all of
the game, and only during the last
few minutes of the game were they
able to assemble enough offensive
football to p u t over a touchdown. The
game was played in a minature snow
storm, and it was hard for the
eighteen thousand spectators- to dis­tinguish
the various players.
Kentucky received, to open the
game, and both teams settled down
to a defensive battle, with Dodd and
Covington doing excellent punting
for both sides. The Wildcats were con­stantly
down in the Vol's territory,
and the Vols were forced to punt
quite frequently. The half ended
with the teams battling on fairly even
terms. After receiving a punt on her
own 43 yard line, Kentucky made a
determined drive which culminated
in a touchdown by Spicer, being
made early in the fourth quarter.
Covington failed to kick goal.
Late in the f o u r th period, Tennes­see
worked the ball to Kentucky's 3
yard line, and on the second t r y at
center McEver was successful and
scored the touchdown. Dodd failed
to kick goal. Shortly thereafer, the
game ended, and being victorous
over L. S. XL, Tulane automatically
became champions of the Southern
Conference.
to long passes and a touchdown re­sulted.
* * * * *
The Clemson Tigers had quite a
struggle when they defeated the Fur-man
University 7-6. The game was
saddened by the death of Schilletter,
aged steward for t h e Clemson school,
and beloved by all Clemson students
and alumni. Clemson made her touch­down
when Bob Jones blocked a punt
on Furman's eight yard line, and
Jones scored on the reception of a
pass from McMillian. Furman scored
when Davis, substitute center, inter­cepted
a pass and raced 80 yards for
a touchdown.
* * * * *
Football will officially fade out of
the picture, throughout the South, on
Saturday. Many interesting games
will mark the passing of America's
most popular sport.
In Athens, Georgia, the annual
feud between the Bulldogs and t he
Yellow Jackets will take place, with
Georgia the predicted favorite, for
the first time in many years. The
Bulldog should triumph over her
ancient enemy. Down in Sunny Mi­ami,
Florida, the Florida Gators will
tackle an intersectional enemy; the
University of Oregon. As we have
been backing the Gators all t h e year,
we see no reason why t h ey shouldn't
win.
After meeting with partial success
as to the predictions of football
scores this year, we will for the last
time attempt to look into the future,
and make a few predictions.
Georgia 19, Tech 7. Mississippi A.
and M. -7, N. C. State 12. Tennes­see
25, S. C. 0. Florida 13, Oregon 7.
N. C. 26, Duke 12.
Louie James Is Sole
Survivor Of Famous
1928 Auburn Cagers
In the last Thanksgiving classic
between Auburn and Tech, the Tech
Engineers trounced the Tigers 19-6.
Although most of the play was con­stantly
in Auburn territory, the stub­born
defense of the Tigers kept the
score low. After wearing down the
Auburn defense, Tech managed to
score two touchdowns in the second
period. And again in t h e t h i rd period,
Dunlap recovered a fumble and dash­ed
69 yards for a touchdown. Au­burn's
lone score resulted from a
brilliant 49 yard run by Chattie
Davidson. The Tigers gave the Engin­eers
quite a battle, and i t is to be r e ­gretted
that this was t h e last annual
Thanksgiving game between the two.
Starting his second string men,
Bachman's reserves scored on Wash­ington
and Lee in the first period of
the game, and t h e varsity then Went
in and r an up a decisive score of 25-
7. Two touchdowns were made by
Florida in the first half, and t h e sec­ond
two followed in the t h i rd period.
In the closing minutes of the game,
the Generals in desperation resorted
By Elmer G. Salter
The sole survivor of Auburn's fa­mous
1928 basket ball machine who is
out for this year's team is Captain
Louie James. James subbed for his
two brilliant brothers on t he t e am that
scored 999 potnts against 543 for their
opponents, and only lost two games,
both to the same team by one-point
margins. The final loss came in t he
finals of the S. I. C. tournament.
Fob James, the younger member of
the famous twin combination of Ebb
and Fob, was guard and captain of
the 1928 five; Ebb James and his
younger brother Louie were also
guards; Frank DuBose and A. L.
Smith were centers, and Howard Mul­lin,
Buck Ellis, and Jelly Akin, for­wards.
DuBose, Ebb, and Fob James,
Ellis, and Akin composed the first
five on possibly the best hardwood
quintet ever to play under the same
college colors below the Mason-Dixon
line. DuBose and Akin were selected
on the All-Southern team.
Four of the 1928 regulars graduat­ed
that season, while three of the
others received their diplomas last
May. Louie James was the only
sophomore on the wonder five, and
will graduate with the class of 1930.
Of the eight members., of Coach
Mike Papke's famous 1928 team, six
(Continued on page 6)
With eleven strong linesmen and
seven backs being promoted from the
ranks of Freshmen football coming
on to contend for berths on t h e next
year varsity the prospects for an ex­cellent
team are above average. De­spite
the fact that only three of t he
players from the Tech game will be
lost to Auburn when the squad re­ports
for duty in the spring training
for the next year's varsity the t en
remaining have a hard trip to make
to gain recognition as varsity players.
Men of such caliber as Hitchcock,
Shackelford, Bassett, Morphus and
Parker fighting for positions with
the varsity the men from this years
rank will have to fight hard to gain
the coveted A for the next season.
In the line the Freshmen have men
of power in Money, Johnson, Jones
Miller and Mason. There are several
more that will come up unexpectedly
and will be giving their all to gain a
place on t h e varsity.
The prospects for a powerful line
next year are t h e best in years. Many
of the strong players of this year
will be back fighting for their old
berths left by them this year. Among
the strongest contenders are, New­ton,
Taylor, Schlich, Bush, Egge,
Andrews, Holdcroft and McCree.
With this array of strong players
centered around Red Harkins, Au­burn's
next year coach should have
no trouble in choosing a line that will
contend with the best and not give an
inch.
Alternate Captain Callahan, Cap­t
a in Long and Grady Long will be
the greatest loss Auburn will suffer.
Novertheless, we will have Young,
Davidson, Hatfield and the rest of
the ball toters to t e a r up the op­ponents
behind a line that is as good
as the best. No fear is instilled in
the hearts of the students as to t he
caliber of the t e am next year and it
is with a great deal of anxiety that
they look forward to the year that,
without any mishaps, should prove to
be most successful in years.
TIGER ELEVEN UNCOVERS GOOD
FOOTBALL MEN DURING SEASON
By R. T. Wasson
Lindley Hatfield, former Cloverdale
High School star, led t h e field of Au­burn
scorers by making eighteen
points. Hatfield came up to predic­tions
cast upon him from last year's
Freshman team by scoring two-thirds
of the points Auburn scored this sea­son.
Hatfield showed a brand of
football that will put Auburn in the
best football teams in the country.
He skirted ends, showed excellent form
in broken field running and hit the
line with a great deal of power for a
man of his size. Hatfield was un­doubtedly
the outstanding star for
the Auburn team this year but there
were several other backs that shared
honors with him.
Yarborough's 61 yard run in the
Howard game puts him in the realm
of the holy as this was the decisive
score of the game and was needed to
tally up t h e hard fought victory over
the strong Howard eleven. Yarbrough
came from Boys High at Atlanta and
there he left an enviable record that
his successors will have a hard time
in beating. He showed a great brand
of ball carrying this season and his
leaving the team this season will be
a great' loss.
Chattie Davidson, who got no credit
for scoring this season made one of
the most beautiful runs of the year
and put the ball in position against
Tech for Hatfield to carry the ball
over that broke up a game that Au­burn
seemed to be whitewashed. He
broke the Tech team on Auburn's own
47 yard line and dashed fifty-one
yards to put the ball on Tech's two
yard line where it was b u t a matter
of seconds until the ball was carried
over by Hatfield which gave him his
third touchdown and brought his to­tal
up to eighteen points for the sea­son.
Another back that is to be mention­ed
without partiality is Young. Al­though
he has no points to his credit
he brought the ball into scoring pos­ition
on different occasions and en­abled
Auburn to make many of their
points this season. Young was one of
the most sensational players in the
Auburn lineup and showed some of
the best ball carrying that Auburn
backers have witnessed during the
entire season. He passed, bucked the
line, was excellent in broken field
running and is known to have kicked
on occasions. Young is only a sopho­more
and with several more years
he will undoubtedly have a record to
be envied by the Auburn gridders of
old.
. The other three points tallied up
by Auburn were made in the Bir­mingham
Southern and Vanderbilt
games. One point was awarded them
when the Southern team of offsides
on a t r y for extra point and the
other two were chalked up when a
Vandy booter stepped over the fate­ful
white marker on a t r y for a point.
One man who was not a back and
whose playing did not come into the
public eye as much as those of the
above mentioned was Red Harkins.
He played a game at center that will
rival the best in the South and many
were the people t h a t thought he would
gain a berth on the All-Southern but
this is only his junior year and with
the brand of football he played this
year and another year to look forward
to he will undoubtedly be in the
realms of the best in the South.
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, New
York Liberal minister who believes
in the breaking down of church creed-al
prejudices, is of the opinion that a
united church is hardly probable in
the near future.
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With its delicious taste and cool
after-sense of refreshment, it makes
a little minute long enough for a
big rest.
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Many Students Seek
To Enter Aviation
On Finishing School
How to make the best use of the
intelligent and enthusiastic man pow­er
that is pouring from the colleges
of the country has proved to be one
of the real problems of the aviation
industry. Hundreds of students, look­ing
forward to graduation and their
emergence into the world of com­merce,
have caught the fever of this
fresh and swiftly growing business of
flying, and have made up their minds
to join their fortunes with it. On the
other hand, aviation has a tremend­ous
need for eager, trained, and
youthful minds to take up its multi­tude
of tasks.
Among the aviation executives who
have given most thought to this
problem is Guy W. Vaughn, vice-president
and general manager of the
WrigTrt Aeronautical Corporation. A
very large number of young college
men have come to Vaughn for jobs
or advice, and college presidents have
frequently inquired of him what to
do with their young charges eager to
get into aviation. To these he has
outlined a general primer of the in­dustry
as it applies to the collegiate
in search of a job.
"Suppose we simply list these vari­ous
sub-industires, to make clear
how very different they are: In the
aviation business we (1) design, and
manufacture, and sell engines; (2)
design, and manufacture, and sell
airplanes; (3) operate airplanes at a
fixed base for training or for local
taxi service; (4) operate airplanes
over scheduled routes carrying mail
and passengers; (5) operate com­mercial
airports; (6) fly airplanes as
professional pilots; (7) manufacture
and sell carburetors or pantoon
floats or spruce lumber or linen fab­ric
or any of the hundreds of aero­nautical
accessories; (8) teach stu­dents
to fly, in large scale operation.
WILL SHOOT ROCKET HALF
AROUND THE WORLD
Berlin—(IP)—To be able to shoot
a huge rocket from Germany to the
American middle-west is the hope and
expectation of Professor Hermann
Oberth, German scientists, in prepa­ration
for shooting such a rocket to
the moon.
He expects his rocket to shoot be­tween
40 and 50 miles in the air, and
land in America by means of an auto­matic
parachute.
More Money Greatest
Need of Education
Chicago, Til.—(IP)—The greatest
need of American education, according
to the youthful president of Chicago
University, Robert Maynard Hutchins,
is more money for faculty members to
"make education respectable and to
enable colleges and universities to
compete with business for the nation's
best minds."
"In the past twenty-five years," he
says, "the best minds of America have
been drawn into business. Hence,
American education faces a new prob­lem
in competition—competition with
big business for the best men. If
you spread $100,000,000 over all the
worthy colleges in the land you might
increase each professor's salary as
much as $1.34. You might as well
throw the money in the lake. But
spend it on the key universities and
you will develop pacemakers that will
revitalize American education."
His plan would be to select three
"key universities," one in the East,
one in the mid-West and one on the
Pacific.
ORIGIN OF WORD "AMERICA"
DISPUTE BY DR. SOTO-HALL
Guatemala City—(IP)—That the
word "America" was derived from the
ancient mountain of Amerique and
the city of Americopan rather than
from the explorer and geographer
Amerigo Vespucci,~is the belief of
Dr. Meximo Soto-Hall, Guatemalan
historian.
Dr. Soto-Hall declares that the
name "Americopan" given to a city
near the fabulous El Dorado, meant
in the Mayan language the principal
city in America, the Mayan suffix
"pan" meaning principal city.
MEN WEAR OVERALLS
Alton, 111.—(IP)—When co-eds at
Shurtleff College here openly de­clared
that the men did not dress
neatly nor with good taste, the men
adopted the slogan, "We Pay for
Shows—That's Why We Wear These
Clothes," and proceeded to dress in
overalls.
Football Gains In
Wealth and Favor
INDIANS WANT RAIN
Police of the city of Zonzongotla,
Mexico, recently rescued a seven-year-
old girl as she was about to be
hacked to pieces by Indians as a
sacrifice to the god of water. A re­cent
drought has done great damage
to crops.
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It is not a good time just now, in
the South at least, where native foot­ball
teams are forgoing to the front,
to decry the tendency, nevertheless
when a football discussion is started
by so distinguished a citizen as Chief
Justice William Howard Taft, of the
United States Supreme Court bench,
the country must follow it up. In a
magazine interview the Chief Justice
is expressing concern over the fact
that the college athletics have be­come
more or less of a business prop­osition.
He feels that the Stadium
is overshadowing the class room and
the interest of the student body in
the average college is centered more
on how the team is coming out than
it is on what they are getting out of
their courses. College athletics, Mr.
Taft believes, have a dollar sign be­fore
them. Many colleges have pro­fessional
athletics business managers,
they have a highly developed publicity
service, they have coaches receiving
salaries running into five figures
and there is a suspicion that in some
cases there is a fund available to pay
the way through college of students
of athletic prowess.
And as a pure business proposition
football yields dividends a plenty.
Take for example the past season.
Here are the figures for certain of
our large institutions of learning:
Gross income: Yale, $1,033,211.98;
Harvard, $845,311.31; Princeton,
$413,620.00; Cornell, $214,885.04;
New York University, $216,000.00;
Michigan, $624,407.00; Illinois, $501,-
555.42; Northwestern, $502,760.23;
Ohio State^$618,000.00; Iowa, $240,-
500.00; Indiana, $163,166.93.
And even in the smaller colleges it
is generally understood that football
receipts are expected to pay the de­ficit
in other sports such as baseball,
hockey and track. College football is
a money-maker. Interest in it is by
no means confined to the college. All
of this is proper in itself. The danger
is that students lost their sense of
proportion. After all the real purpose
of going to college should be to ac­quire
knowledge.
—Charlotte Observer.
BIGGER AND BETTER PARTIES
SOUGHT AT NORTHWESTERN
Evanston, 111.—(IP)—Bigger and
better parties is the goal of a move­ment
launched here by the students
of Northwestern University.
The students object to the 2 a.m.
closing rule, and ask instead for 3
a.m. curfew, and-they ask, instead of
a $6 per person expense limit for
formal dances that they be allowed an
increase so that they can "throw a
decent party."
It appears doubtful that the faculty
will consent.
PORTION OF OLD YALE FENCE
MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS
New Haven, Conn.— (IP)—A por­tion
of the old Yale fence, which has
reposed for 48 years in a photograph­er's
studio here, and sitting on which
all Yale football captains have had
their pictures taken during that time,
was mysteriously stolen from the
studio during the Yale-Princeton
game. Suspicion was" directed toward
the members of the Harvard Lampoon
staff.; The studio has received word
that the priceless relic will be re­turned.
VALUABLE MANUSCRIPTS
ARE DESTROYED BY FIRE
Toronto, Ont.—(IP)—What is re­garded
as almost a major American
tragedy occurred when fire destroy­ed
the St. Joseph's Seminary at
Three River, Que., burning up price­less
documents.
50,000 volume library of the insti­tution
contained among other items,
a grammar of the Cree Indian tongue,
written in manuscript by Bishop
Tache during his missionary days, and
valued at approximately $10,000.
FALLING IN LOVE MUCH
WORSE THAN INDIGESTION
Chicago—(IP)—Falling in love is
worse than indigestion for a person
of tubercular tendencies, Dr. W. F.
Peterson, of the University of Illinois
College of Medicine said in a radio
talk recently.
"Worry is one real cause of fa­tigue,"
he said. "Whatever you do,
don't fall in love. That is worse than
indigestion. Emotions upset the
body."
Wesleyan University (Conn.) has
received a copy of Agricola's "De Re
Metallica," autographed by President
and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, who trans­lated
it into English.
Little Theatre Group of
Birmingham Will Give
$100 For Winning Play
The Birmingham Little Theater
announces that its 1929-30 one-act-play
contest has opened, and that
manuscripts submitted will be ac­ceptable
only as late as February 1,
1930. One' hundred dollars in prizes
will be awarded to the winning play­wrights.
Also, it was announced that
the winning plays will be produced
during the current season, if consid­ered
of sufficient merit.
Following is the set of rules gov­erning
the contest:
1. Plays entered must be original,
unpublished, one-act plays.
2. Plays must have only one set­ting
and must not take less than
twenty nor more than forty-five
minutes to produce.
3. Any person may submit any
number of plays.
4. All manuscripts must be sent
to Mrs. M. H. Sterne, Chairman of
Play Contest, 2504 South 15th Ave­nue,
Birmingham, Alabama, on or
before midnight, February 1, 1930.
5. Manuscripts must be typewrit­ten
on one side of paper only. They
must be signed with a nom de plume
and accompanied by a sealed en­velope
bearing on its face the au­thor's
nom de plume and containing
within the author's name and address.
Stamps must be enclosed if the au­thor
wishes the manuscript to be re­turned.
6. The Birmingham Little Thea­tre
assumes no responsibility for loss
of manuscripts in transit, and while
every precaution will be taken to
safeguard them, the Little Theatre
will not be responsible in any way.
7. The author expressly grants
the Birmingham Little Theatre the
right of producing his or her play free
of royalty any time within a period
of two years.
8. Three prizes will be given: the
W. M. Allen prize of $50, for the
play winning first place; $30, for the
play winning second place; $20, for
the play winning third place. The
prize winning plays will be produced
during the current season if consid­ered
of sufficient merit.
Additional information concerning
this contest may be obtained by writ­ing
Mrs. M. H. Sterne, 2504 15th
Avenue, South, Birmingham, Ala.
Clemenceau's Ideas
Of Death Published
Boston —(IP)— Georges Clemen-ceau,
war-time premier of France
who died last week, has commenced
a dreamless sleep if his ideas on the
hereafter have been fulfilled.
In a work entitled, "In the Evening
of My Thought," which he wrote re­cently,
and published by Houghton
Mifflin Company, the Tiger declares,
"A dreamless sleep, that is, a purely
negative state of unconciousness is
all that we can anticipate of death.
That is not very terrifying. An ab­sence
of pleasure; an absnce of pain.
To dread such a state surely indicates
a lack of balanced judgment, since
we enter it, by no means without
satisfactiony, at the end of every day.
When we have completed our daily
task, do we not seek to recuperate
in sleep? Death is no more and no
less than sleep."
GRADING SYSTEM IN FORCE
AT OBERLIN COLLEGE NOW
Oberlin, O.—(IP)—The "grading"
system, condemned by students who
"came to college to get an education
not marks," is back in full froce at
Oberlin college.
The faculty has granted the re­quest
of the undergraduates to do
awaj. with the system, inaugurated
last spring at their asking, hereby
students were simply informed that
they were passing or failing.
• Discontent grew steadily under
the new system. The Oberlin Review
declared that as long as grades were
kept by the faculty, the students had
better know what those grades were.
The best way, the college paper said,
was to have no grades at all. The
college was not willing to go that far,
however.
LINDBERGH-GODDARD
CONFERENCE SECRET
Wocester, Mass. — (IP) — Some
mystery and considerable specula­tion
has resulted from a quiet two-hour
conference which Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh had here recently with
Professor Goddard of Clark College,
in the latter's laboratory.
Professor Goddard, who attained
national prominence through his
"moon rocket" experiments, refused
to comment on the Colonel's pres­ence
in Worcester.
KNIGHT'S CROSS OF LEGION
OF HONOR OF FRANCE GIVEN
University, Va. — (IP) — The
Knight's Cross of the Legion of Hon­or
of France'was presented recently
to the University of Virginia for
services rendered in time of war,
Amid impressive ceremonies, Ambas­sador
Paul Claudel presented the
award to President Edwin A. Alder­man,
of the University, and another
to Paul Goodloe Mclntire for his.
gift of a tuberculosis hospital to the
south of France.
STUDENTS SUSPENDED
Ann Arbor, Mich.—(IP)—Fifteen
students caught violating the auto­mobile
regulations of the University
of Michigan have been suspended.
The total number is almost as large
as the combined numbers of those
suspended last year and the year be­fore
the same violations.
PROF. A. B. FOGT STUDIES
BRAIN OF NIKOLAI LENIN
Moscow—(IP)—Study of the brain
of Nikolai Lenin during the past
five years by Professor A. B. Fogt
has convinced the scientist that the
famous Soviet leader had extraordi­nary
qualities of intellect, breadth
of vision and richness of blood.
Professor Fogt, who is a Berlin
brain expert, and president of the
Moscow Institute for the Study of
Brains, cut the brain of Lenin into
very thin slices in order to study the
organ most minutely. He declared
that he never before had observed
such large pyramid cells as appear in
the deep parts of the covering of the
brain.
STUDY SEASICKNESS
Berlin—(IP)—The effectiveness of
102 different seasickness remedies is
to be tested by a group of German
physicians who have placed them­selves
at the mercy of the rough
Baltic Sea in a small steamer. They
plan to spend three months in small
boats testing the remedies on them­selves
and passengers of steamers.
STUDENTS FLEE FIRE
Cambridge, Mass.— (IP)—Attired
in pajamas and coonskin coats, some
hundred students, and Prof. Charles
Townsend Copeland, were driven from
Hollis Hall, Harvard Yard, early one
morning by a fire in the dormitory.
The blaze is believed to have started
from a cigarette.
Outstanding Games
Of Saturday To Be
Played In South
Richmond, Va.—(IP—Practically
all of the small number of football
games scheduled for Saturday, De­cember
7, are to be played in the
South.
Outstanding is the encounter be­tween
Georgia and Georgia Tech, at
Athens, in which Georgia has a fair
chance of revenging last year's de­feat
at the hands of Tech by a score
of 20 to 6.
Duke likewise will attempt to turn
the tables on North Carolina, after
suffering defeat at the latter's hands
last year 14 to 7. The game will be
played at Durham.
Louisianna' Tech will play South
West Louisianna Institute at Ruston.
The latter won last year 44 to 6.
Loyola and Centenary will play at
New Orleans. Last year Loyola won
23 to 6.
Maryland and Western Maryland
will play at Baltimore, the former
having defeated the latter last year
13 to 6. At Starksville Mississippi
Aggies and North Carolina will mix
up. They did not play last year.
Oklahoma City and Davis-Elkins,
two more teams which did not play
each other last year, will contest at
Oklahoma City. Tennessee, who de­feated
South Carolina last year 27 to
0, will play the latter again at Knox-ville.
And at Richmond, William and
Mary will mix with Hampden-Sydney,
the former winning last year's con­test
24 to 0.
Only two more games of any im­portance
will then remain on the
season's schedule. On Saturday, De-
Recent Survey Shows
Student Drinking Less
In the 1923 survey by the students
of ethics, drinking of intoxicating
liquors was listed as the fifth of the
sixteen prevalent vices. In the 1928
survey, it is listed ninth.
The sixteen most prevalent vices
in their order of ranks given by these
students are: Sex irregularities,
cheating, stealing, lying, vulgar talk,
swearing, gambling, selfishness,
drinking, gossip, sabbath breaking,
extravagance, snobbishness, idleness,
smoking, dancing.
From the looks of things a Emory
this year, the list should be revised.
Prohibition is no longer a problem at
Emory. Most of the students here ob-sere
the Eighteenth Amendment. Per­haps
idleness or smoking would top
the list if a survey were taken here.
—Emory Wheel.
YOUNG KANSAS STUDENT
WINS PRIZE AS FARMER
Kansas City—(IP)—Carldon Pat-ton,
18, a freshman at Arkansas
State Teachers' College at Conway,
Ark., has been crowned here as "star
farmer of America," and given a
prize of $1,000 to go with the honor.
Patton, a modest, drawling youth,
has earned more than $2,500 from
farm operations in the past three
years.
cember 14, Southern California and
Carnegie Tech will play an East-West
classic at Los Angeles, and two
weeks later, the Saturday after
Christmas, Army and Stanford will
play at Palo Alto in another East-
West mix-up. Stanford beat Army
last year 26 to 0.
A Real Xmas Treat
Only a short time before Christmas Vacation—Get into
the Holiday Spirit in a real Collegiate way! Wear your
College Emblem and colors on a Handsome Hook-Fast
Belt and Buckle. Show the folks at home your loyalty
to your school.
Here is something useful and distinctive—something
every young college man will be proud to own.
The Belt is made of Genuine English Cowhide. The
Buckle is finished in Plati-Croyd—it will not tarnish or
rust, and lasts a life time. A special patented Hook-
Fast catch keeps the belt from slipping.
A Wonderful Holiday
Number!
Come and see the Hook-
Fast College Belt and
Buckle on display at—
Student Supply Shop
DAN GARRETT, Rep.
Our authorized campus
representative, or mail
your order directly to—
HOOK-FAST BELT CO.,
Incorporated
20 West 27th Street
New York, N. Y.
Winning the war against weather
In the telephone business, research man,
manufacturing engineer and construction
supervisor are carrying on a successful
war against the unruly elements, enemies
to service.
Cable, for example, housing many cir­cuits
and covered with protective coatings
of proved strength, withstands storms which
might seriously threaten open wire lines.
Thus in the Bell System growth is in­tensive
as well as extensive, improving
present facilities as well as adding new
ones. And there is no end to all this
development.
BELL SYSTEM
*A nation-wide system of inter-connecting telephones
" O U R P I O N E E R I N G W O R K HAS J U S T B E G UN
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PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929.
FIRST GRID GAME
IN DIXIE PLAYED
FIFTY YEARS AGO
The first grid contest south of the
Mason and Dixon line was played be­tween
two of the South's oldest and
moat aristocratic Schools, Transyl­vania,
located at Lexington, Ky.,
founded in 1780, and Centre, located
ipt Danville, Ky, founded in 1819.
This first tilt was commemorated re­cently
when for the fiftieth time the
two teams clashed at Stoll Field, Lex­ington,
Ky. The score was 0-0. The
article is taken from The Kentucky
Kernel, published at the Univerisity
of Kentucky.
"Many moons before the advent of
collegiate flivvers, galoshes, and yo­yos,
a handfull of gallant and be-whiskered
gentlemen representing
Centre and Transylvania Colleges
matched brain and brawn on what is
now the happy hunting ground of the
Kentucky Wildcats. Nearly 50 years
ago, April 9, 1880, to be exact, Cap­tain
Ernest of the Centre Colonels,
generated a brilliant attack upon the
valiant cohorts of J. L. Patterson,
captain of the'Transylvania Pioneers,
but the Lexingtonians were victori­ous.
" A week after the first game was
played on Stoll field, the Transylva­nia
team went to Danville to play a
return game with Centre. Again the
Pioneers won, the score being five and
one-half to one-half. The University,
then known as the A. & M. College,
used the field for football for the
first time in the fall of 1880.
The Lexington Transcript of April
10, 1880, in commenting on the first
game says: "A large crowd of ladies
and gentlemen, estimated at 500,
witnessed the game, i t was pronounc­ed
that football had the decided ad­vantage
of baseball as a means of
amusement for spectators."
That football was not loked upon
with much favor during its period of
adolscence is manifested by a story
appearing in the Lexington Press of
December 5, 1880, which says:
"On Tuesday evening, as some of
the students of the A. & M. College
were playing football, a man, who
afterwards gave his name as White,
came riding by, and not liking the
noise the students were making, com­menced
firing a pistol at themT They
all ran and were followed by this fel­low
who repeatedly loaded and fired
whenever anyone appeared in sight.
This continued for about an hour
when two or three of the more cour­ageous
approached near enough to
knock the pistol from his hand, when
A Freshman Comes
Into His Own (?)
With the passing of the Dinosaur
and the Anthropoid, the only curios­ity
left with us is the College Fresh­man—
Long may he wail!
Now that education has put on
long pants (to say nothing of your
frosh) the campus has acquired a
new dignity.
Consider him, this whimsical naiv-ette,
he comes to college with his pas­sionate
'rah, rah,' his littered—par­don—
lettered sweater, his Chu Sum
Gum, local High School pin and his
startled faun expression. Truly, he
is the picture no artist can paint ex­cept
John Held, Jr.
Take your freshman in the un­spoilt
dewiness of his innocence and
you will find him profound—pro­foundly
dumb. He has a lingo pecu­liar
(very peculiar) to his sect. The
contemporary language of the frosh
flows something like: "Oh Yeah?"
"Sure 'nuff?" "You wouldn't kid
me, would you?" "That's just too
bad, just too bad," "And how!" such
brilliancies as these leave the classic­al
expressionists paled in nothingness.
Book laden, ink spotted, loud cra-vated,
and garterless, he looks for all
the world like a shining exponent of
the 'Intelligentsia* of a Greenwich
Village.
Take from him his campus socie­ties
and what have you? The Wall
Street financier without his stock ex­change;
the General without his
army; the pilot without his plane;
the millionaire without his town
house; the sportsman without his
Country Club; the knight without his
armour; the Czar without his Russia
-so is the 'pledged frosh without his
fraternity.
The latters A. B. C. D. E. and F.
means more to him than just particles
of the alphabet or things with which
to mispel words. They are the very
heart and soul of his academic life—
they can either make or mar him, for
upon these simple inoffensive hiero­glyphs
hang, like Babylon upon Ne­buchadnezzar,
like Troy upon Helen,
his history.
And for the final ring down, the
old unforgivable faux pas that has
taken centuries, nay, semesters, to
eradicate has at last become extinct
—One never, never says 'College
boys' anymore—one breathes rever­ently—
University men!
they all pitched in and gave him a
severe drubbing. They then took his
cartridges from him and started him
home."
HILL & CATON
BARBER SHOP
Next to Burton's Bookstore
ONLY ONE LETTER MAN
RETURNS FOR BASKET
BALL THIS SEASON
(Continued from page 4)
sophomore, while the other two are
juniors.
Ralph Jordan, Lawrence Chamblee,
Roy Pate, Odis Aldridge, Fluitt Ful­ton
and Louie Lumpkin will be the
leading candidates for the forward
posts. Chamblee and Fulton are sen­iors
and started several games last
season. Pate is a sophomore, while the
others are from Coach Bohler's
championship frosh team. If Jordan
can continue the pace he set last sea­son
in freshmen circles, he will be
located at one forward. He averaged
close to 20 points per game and was
one of the most finished hardwood
prospects ever to enroll at the cor­nerstone
of learning in the State of
Alabama. The other forward will be
a tossup.
Capt. Louie James heads the can­didates
for guard. He will be station­ed
at one guard, with Howard Chap-pelle,
Lindley Hatfield, Howard Law-son,
and Forney Yarbrough waging
a merry fight for the position oppo­site
the last of the famous James to
make athletic history at Auburn.
Capt. James and Yarbrough are sen­iors;
Chappelle, a junior, and Hat­field
and Lawson, sophomores.
The schedule has not been released
but probably will include games with
Tulane, South Carolina, Georgia,
Georgia Tech, Florida, L. S. U., Clem-son
and Vanderbilt. Several games
might be played during the holidays,
probably against some Athletic Club
or Y. M. C. A. team.
Group "A," of the Auburn Busi­ness
and Professional Women's Club,
lead by Miss Nettie Dennis won the
attendance and program contests in
which three groups of the club have
been engaged six months. Second
place for programs went to Group
B, led by Mrs. A. F. Nickel, and sec­ond
place for attendance was won by
Group C, led by Miss Edith Slights.
Announcement of the winners was
made at a regular meeting of the
club at the Thomas Hotel Tuesday
night.
At the meeting the women voted
to cooperate with the Lions Club and
other civic clubs of Auburn in an
effort to improve the dirt roads lead­ing
into Auburn. Representatives will
be sent to the town council from the
business and professional women's
club and other clubs and recommen­dations
will be made.
The women also voted to support
the movement to get a State Library
Commission for Alabama. They ex­pect
this to help in establishing more
traveling libraries in the state and in
other ways. It is thought that this
matter will engage the attention of
the next Legislature.
AS an entertainment and educa­tional
feature of the meeting Mrs.
Ledra Cotter reviewed "The Good
Companion," a current book by J. B.
Priestly, British author.
REGISTRAR ANNOUNCES
HIGH SCHOLARSHIP ROLL
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29; James Kimbrough Smith, 88.65,
D-27, 28, 29; Thornton Sherwood
Winter, Jr., 90.52, D-27, 28, 29; Oliver
Fleming White, 89.07, D-27, 28.
Mechanical Engineering: Malcolm
Argyle Franklin, 86.37/D-27, 29; Le­vin
Lee Sledge, 88.60, D-27, 29; Has-kins
Williams, 85.61.
Architecture: Charles Francis Da­vis,
92.05, HD-27, 28, D-29; Earl
Crawford Smith, 85.15, D-27.
Architectural Engineering: Mar­tin
Horatio Glover, 86.96, D-29.
Chemistry: James David Atkins,
88.21, D-27, 29; Otis Washington Al­len,
86.32; D-27, 28; Harold Larion
Hubbard, 85.79, D-27; John Floyd
Mitchell, 90.00, HD-27, 28, D-29.
Education: Lottie Lane Graves,
89.83; Jesse Devon Jackson, 85.50;
Naomi Ruth Jackson, 86.76; William
Claude Kelley, 88.46, D-28; George
A. Mathison, 90.44; Blanche Tancre-di,
87.75, HD-28, D-29.
Home Economics: Alice Whitcher
Sandlin, 88.72, D-27, 28, 29.
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Another Big Shipment
Christmas Neckwear, Scarfs, Etc.
Also College Souvenirs
A Big Line Of Novelties
SHOP EARLY
GI B S O N ' C
M E N ' S WEAR O
EXCUSE FROM P. T.
AWARDED RATS
WINNING IN RACE
(Continued from page 1)
The Auburn chapter of Spiked Shoe,
national trackman's honor fraternity
will be the hosts to a dinner the even­ing
of the event. The first three
candidate to cross the finish line will
be the honor guests on that occasion,
J. F. McClendon, president of Spiked
Shoe told Plainsman reporters today.
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith
favors an amendment to the consti­tution,
making a defeated presiden­tial
candidate a senator-at-large.
Such a Senator, naturally, would be­come
minority leader of the Senate.
A SURPRISE FOR YOU!
YOU'RE INVITED to the opening of the New Electrik Maid Bake Shop. Open­ing
day Saturday, December 7th. We know everyone in the neighborhood
wants fresh, delicious bakery goods, baked in a clean and sanitary man­ner.
So to serve you, we have opened an " E l e c t r i k Maid" Bake Shop for your con­venience.
Here you will find high grade bakery goods of all kinds baked in a careful
and sanitary manner that will delight you. You are invited to see the wonderful
"Electrik Maid" oven in operation. Electrik Maid Bakers goods are the finest you
ever ate—crispy, crusty white bread, health bread, butter rolls, Danish and French
p a s t r y , delicious fruit and nut filled coffee cakes, p i e s of all kinds and many other
toothsome articles too numerous to mention. The Auburn Bake Shop is owned by a
former student of Auburn. It is truly a home industry with the added advantage of
cooperative buying. Electrik Maid Bake Shops everywhere join in their purchases.
This gives you the benefit of their combined buying power and makes it possible for
us to use the highest quality of ingredients and still sell to you at moderate prices. We
a r e just as anxious to please you as you a r e to be p l e a s e d . Come in and see us.
Electrik Maid Bake Shop
Announcement Made of
Contest Winning Group
Group "A" Led by Miss Nettie Den­nis
Wins Attendance and
Program Contests
TWO AUBURN DELEGATES
ATTEND INTERFRAT MEET
(Continued from page 1)
phases of fraternity life were dis­cussed
in an effort to find the best
methods for assuring a close sympa­thetic
understanding between the
local fraternity chapters and their
college officials. \
The function of the Interfrater-nity
council is purely advisory, and
all it can do is to make suggestions,
and attempt to solve problems in the
hope that they will be followed.
Friday night four college presi­dents
addressed the convention,
speaking on "High standards of
scholarship and leadership," "Leav­ing
the college authorities the task
of interpreting the meaning of col­lege
life to the freshman," "College
control over the fraternities in mat­ters
of health and protection," and
"Bringing about machinery to trans­fer
the advice and policies of the
national officials of the fraternities
to the local chapters."
Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary
of Interior, and president of Leland
Stanford Junior University, was the
central speaker at the convention.
He addressed both groups. Below are
given quotations taken from his
speech:
The fraternities of the future, he
said, must acquire "at little more ap­preciation
of the value of human
diginity" and must maintain the con­ditions
"that make you want to go
to a place" if they are to attract the
increasing numbers of young men
who will be coming from junior col­leges
to enter the universities in the
junior year and go on to the profes­sional
and business schools. He re­ferred
partly to such things as the
"slapstick methods of initiation"
which he said some fraternities used.
Predicts Passing of A. B.
The A. B. degree, with its four-year
course and sharp class distinc­tions,
is going, he said. Some insti­tutions,
adding professional schools
and schools of business, are becoming
universities, others will become jun­ior
colleges, while a certain number,
doing good work in special fields,
will continue with their four-year
courses for some time to come, he
added.
Explaining in an interview later
why he believed this development
was coming, he said that "the four-year
course is too much for the man
who wants just an elementary course
and not enough for the one who
wants advanced work." .
"The men who are going to be the
leaders of America," Secretary Wil­bur
told his audience, "are not going
to be satisfied with the old course
but will go further in the fields of
medicine, law, the other professions
and business. The college fraternity
has got to be made attractive to
them. Something has got to happen
to it to make it more real if it is to
attract the young men from 20 to 24
years of age."
He termed the Interfraternity Con­ference,
composed of graduate offi-
LOUIE JAMES IS SOLE
SURVIVOR OF FAMOUS
1928 AUBURN CAGERS
EDUCATION CULB HAS
NOVELTY ON PROGARM
(Continued from page 4)
either entered the teaching and coach­ing
profession and are following that
profession now or will next year. Ebb
James is coaching at Goodwater; Fob
James at Enterprise; Frank DuBose
is at Tallassee, and A. L. Smith is
teaching vocational agriculture at Fe­lix,
Ala.
Buck Ellis coached at Bay Minette,
Ala., while Louie James intends to
enter the coaching field next season.
Jelly Akin plays professional baseball
during the Summer and intends to
perform with a professional basket
ball team this winter. Howard Mul-lins
was the only member of the team
that took an engineering course. The
former shifty forward received his B.
S. degree in civil engineering and is at
present working for the government
in Jackson, Miss.
All of the former members of Mike
Papke's team who have entered the
coaching vocation have been very suc­cessful.
All probably will return to
the same schools next season unless I
they receive better offers.
(Continued from page 1)
Education, on "What a Community
Expects of a Teacher." In his dis­course,
he stated from actual expe­rience
the varying conditions of teach­er's
activities of the community.
Professor Beck was given an ovation
for his contribution to these students
who expect to enter the pedagogical
field later.
Vice-President Story, who is act­ing
chairman of the program commit­tee
for the club, states that more
general discussion topics of this na­ture
will be included in future pro­grams.
The topic for discussion at
the meeting, as announced by him, is:
"Are We Spending Too Much On Edu­cation?"
This will feature the pro­gram
at the next regular meeting,
which will convene next • Tuesday
night, beginning promptly at eight.
Other short addresses will add spice"
and variety to the session. All stu­dents
registered in Education courses
are urged to attend.
cers of the national fraternities,
"most wholesome" in its effect and
said that they were working in the
right direction, with their emphasis
on scholarship in the fraternities.
But, while keeping the values that
attract the interest and loyalty of
the adolescent, fraternities must go
to a higher level, he urged, emphasiz­ing
that the movement could not
come from the alumni, but from the
self-governing fraternities them­selves.
"Fraternities can well face adver­sity,"
he added. "They have often
grown like mushrooms, with not
enough adversity to force them to
face realities. You have got some
real problems to meet with these
changes that are coming."
There is nothing better than a good
fraternity and nothing worse than a
bad one in the development of youth,
Dr. Wilbur said.
He declared that the growth of
fraternities had not been coordinat­ed,
that much in their organization
was amateurish and that their
financing was "for the most part al­most
childish."
"But they are established," he went
on, "and to disestablish them would
be likely to bring about something
almost approaching a revolution in
American colleges."
MARRIES SIXTY-ONE TIMES
Sixty-one brides in two years was
the achievement of Morris Raskin, a
naturalized American of Wawer,
near Warsaw. Police arrested him as
he was about to go through with his
62nd wedding.
He was charged with bigamy, but
this was withdrawn when it was found
that in Raskin's previous marriages
he acted as proxy for sweethearts of
Polish girls now in America. With
their marriage certificates they were
able to pass immigration restrictions.
GLYCERINE MIX REMOVES
CAUSE OF STOMACH GAS
Simple glycerin, buckthorn bark,
saline, etc., as mixed in Adlerika,
acts on BOTH upper and lower
bowel, removing poisons you never
thought were there and which caused
gas and other stomach trouble. Just
ONE spoonful relieves GAS, sour
stomach, sick headache and constipa­tion.
Don't take medicine which
cleans only PART of bowels, but let
Adlerika give you a REAL cleaning
and see how good you feel! It will
surprise you! Homer Wright, druggist.
PHI BETA KAPPA
CLUB MEETS FOR
THE FIRST TIME
Valuable Property In
Opelika To Be Sold
At Auction Thursday
The J. P. King Auction Company
of Chattanooga announces the ap­proaching
auction of the valuable real
estate located in and near Opelika,
Alabama.
The first property to be sold is
eight lots on Fourth and Fifth Streets,
belonging to John Allen Jones. These
lots will be sold on easy terms at 10:30
a. m., December 12.
At 11:30 the home of Claude L.
Story on Torbert Street will be auc­tioned.
This two-story home has nine
rooms with two baths. The lot is 158
feet frontage running back 253 feet.
Next on the program will be the
215-acre farm of Claude L. Story, 3%
miles from Opelika on the West Point
Highway.
At 2:30 the farms of M. M. McCall,
containing 370 and 160 acres, 3%
miles out on the new Columbus High­way
will conclude the sales.
All of these properties will be sold
without reservation of price. This
will be an absolute auction at which
the bidder makes his own price.
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ter A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland,
Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft,
Woodrow Wilson, and Calvin Coolidge.
Phi Beta Kappa lists among its mem­bers
Chief Justices John Marshall and
Bushnod Washington of the Supreme
Court; statesmen such as Daniel Web­ster,
John Hay, Joseph Story, and
Rufus Choate; in literature, Longfel­low,
Emerson, Whittier, Holmes, Low­ell,
Bryant, Hawthorne, Washington
Irving, and Mark Twain; historians,
Bancroft, Motley, Prescott, and Park-man
; scientists, John Henry, Eli Whit­ney,
Samuel F. B. Morse, Louis Agas-siz,
and Asa Gray. At least twenty-six
members of the Supreme Court,
of whom five were Chief Justices,
and fifteen Secretaries of State have
been Phi Beta Kappa men.
PROTECTING PEDESTRAINS
"Hundreds of people in Europe (as
elsewhere) are trying to protect the
pedestrians from motorists; only one,
that I know of, ever though of the
radical measure which alone would
compel the motorist to slacken his
speed: take away his Klaxon from
him."—Ernest Dimnet, in "The Art
of Thinking."
ORCHESTRA LEADERS
Who's your orchestra leader at
your fall informal? Is he the type you
could trust if you left your girl alone
in the orchestra corner? Would he
be the type to "spike" the punch
when the patron wasn't looking?
Fraternities and sororities at the
University of Nebraska are required
under a new ruling to register with
the dean of women the orchestra for
their dances. Hereafter, musicians
must be approved along with the
qhaperons. The reason for the ruling
is that drunkeness on the part of the
orchestra members is believed to give
a bad name to fraternity parties.
The Methodist Church is planning
to appeal to men to put a stop to
women smoking
FOR SALE!
1926 Ford Roadster. Excellent
condition. For particulars see Bill
Morton, Theta Kappa Nu House.
TIGER
DRUG
STORE
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TIGER SANDWICH SHOP
Next Door to Theatre
Sunday Chicken Dinner
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Get your Christmas supplies Early—
Christmas Bells—
Wrappings—
Tinsel garlands—
Empty boxes all sizes and shapes
And for gifts see our:
Leather goods—
Fountain pens—
Candy and the latest thing in
Cigarette lighters
Homer Wright
DRUGS
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