1929-12-10 The Plainsman

              Rats Take Part In
O. D. K. Cake Race THE PLAINSMAN
T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT
Rats Take Part In
O. D. K. Cake Race
VOLUME LIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929. NUMBER 26.
RAY MILLER'S ORCHESTRA ENGAGED TO PLAY FOR JUNIOR PROM
Letter Awards
Announced by
Coach J* Floyd
T w e n t y L e t t e r s W i l l B e A w a r d ­e
d At S p e c i a l Honor
C o n v o c a t i on
In a statement to the press today
Coach Johnny Floyd announced the
award of football letters to the fol­lowing:
Captain H. G. Long; G. J.
Long; Dunham Harkins; J. D. Bush;
George Holdcroft; Carl Schlich; Ben
Newton; Erquiet Taylor; Joe An­drews;
John Willson; George Egge;
Herman Jones; Ed McCree, Chattie
Davidson; Jim Crawford; Leo Young;
Lindley Hatfield; Howard Chappelle;
Joe Burt; Earl Smith, manager.
In his official statement Coacji
Floyd said: "In deciding upon the
football men to be awarded letters,
not only the amount of time which
they played in games, but also the
quality of football they displayed in
action, were taken into consideration.
There is a probability that several
more men will be given letters, after
a more thorough consideration of
their cases, either as regular letters
or letters as recognition of four-years'
service on the scrub team."
The football "A's" will be award­ed
at the special Honors' Convoca­tion
to be held on Tuesday, Decem­ber
17.
Coach Floyd also announced that
there will be a meeting of the letter-men
in the "A" Club Room at the
gymnasium on Monday afternoon,
December 16, at 4 o'clock, at which
time will be held the election of the
captain- of the football eleven for
next year.
English Confers With
Ag College Authorities
Confers Regarding Research Work on
Citrus Insects
Dr. L. L. English of Spring Hill,
Alabama, research associate ento­mologist
for the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute, is at Auburn conferring
with officials of the college of agri­culture
regarding research work he
has conducted on citrus insects.
Dr. English is also doing some spe­cial
work in the laboratory here and
studying in the library. It is expect­ed
that a summary of his work to be
published soon will contain valuable
information on control measures
against citrus insects.
He will leave for Birmingham Sat­urday
where he will spend a few days
on leave of absence.
Dr. Thomas Presents
Picture to Institute
Engineering School Receives Gift in
Memory of Former Professor
As a gift from Dr. M. D. Thomas
of Opelika and in memory of Robert
J. Trammel, former professor at Au­burn,
the engineering school has re­ceived
a picture of an island home
and church scene carved in wood. It
came from Sardinia.
The artist is unknown. The carving
is old. It came to Opelika from Flor­ida
where it went through a Florida
hurricane in which a small part of it
was destroyed. It was presented to
the college through Prof. C. R. Hixon.
Engineers' Club Elects L F. Camp for President
WAPI PETITIONS FOR
INCREASE IN POWER
D i r e c t o r A s k s R a d i o Commis­s
i o n For I n s t r u c t i on
P e r m i t
The first step toward making Ra­dio
Station WAPI in Birmingham a
50,000-watt station was taken by the
board of directors at a meeting Satur­day
when application to the Federal
Radio Commission asking for construc­tion
permit for station of this power
was signed. The station now operates
on a power of 5,000 watts.
The application will request imme­diate
action. At present no station
in the South has as much power as
WAPI is requesting, but more than a
dozen in other sections are either op­erating
on this power or have permit
to do so. One or two other Southern
stations are contemplating an in­crease
to this power which is the
maximum of equipment being manu­factured.
Station WAPI is owned by the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, the Uni­versity
of Alabama, and Alabama Col­lege
at Montevallo. It is operated by
the owners in cooperation with the
city of Birmingham. The board is
composed of Dr. Bradford Knapp;
Dr. George H. Denny, University of
Alabama, president and Dr. 0 . C. Car-michael,
Alabama College president.
Each signed the application.
This increase is in line with aims
of the board to make WAPI the out
standing radio broadcasting station in
the South. With power of 50,000
watts WAPI will have adequate
strength to cover all of Alabama and
most of the adjoining states during the
day.
In recommending to the board the
increase in power, P. O. Davis, gen­eral
manager, and Walter N. Camp­bell,
manager, explained that ade­quate
power is absolutely necessary
for satisfactory reception. The to­pography
of Alabama is such, it was
explained, that more power is needed
for state coverage than other states
(Continued on page 4)
Hundreds of Freshmen Will Run in Race Friday;
Winning Frat Team To Be Awarded Loving Cup;
Scores of Cakes Be Given To Hardy Freshmen
Senior Holidays to
Begin December 17 AT 4 P. M. FRIDAY
AT DRAKE FIELD Dr. Knapp Authorizes Seniors
To Leave After Honors
Convocation
Model Steam Engine is
Given By Westinghouse
Turbine of 6000 KW Power Present­ed
to Engineering School
Parts for a model steam turbine
with a power of 6,000 KW has been
presented to the school of engineer­ing
by the Westinghouse Electric and
Manufacturing Company. The parts
will be assembled and the complete
model will be placed on display for
the use of students in engineering.
Presentation was made through
Prof. C. R. Hixon Auburn is one of
several colleges recognized by the
Westinghouse Company this way.
Race Rules Announced
by Omicron Delta Kappa
The race will start at the entrance
to Drake Field at 4 p. m. Friday,
December 13, All Freshmen will be
required to enter and report to Drake
Field not later than 3:30 p. m. for
final instructions. Any kind of uni­form
may be worn that would pass
ordinary censorship. Military uni­forms
or any parts thereof will not
be worn. Upon arrival at the starting
point individual tags will be issued,
upon which each man will place his
name, fraternity or ranch. After fill­ing
in above each man will securely
fasten tag to right side of his shirt
coat or sweater. All freshmen will be
required to start the race and each
man's finishing position will be rec­orded.
The first four finishers of a
fraternity will be scored and the fra­ternity
team with the lowest score
will be declared the winning team
and will be awarded the Inter-Fra­ternity
Council Trophy.
Roll call will be by Lieut. Barth
batteries and companies.
Description of Course
The Cake Race will start at the en­trance
to Drake Field, the entrants
will run along the road toward the
gymnasium to Thatch Avenue and
east on Thatch to College Street,
north on College Street to Glenn
Avenue (Montgomery Highway)
thence east on Glenn to Ross, south
on Ross to Magnolia and west on
Magnolia to Gay (Methodist Church
corner) thence south on Gay to the
end Samford Avenue and west on
Samford to college Street. Executing
a right turn and thence on College
Street to the Ag Bottom road and
west to Drake Field.
President Bradford Knapp has au­thorized
the announcement that the
request of the senior class to be ex­cused
for the Christmas holidays at
4 p. m. on Tuesday, December 17,
has been approved after conference
with the deans and heads of schools.
"It is expected," Dr. Knapp said
"that all seniors will loyally cooper­ate
in carrying forward without in­terruption
the work of the senior
class to the hour approved for leav­ing.
It is important that all seniors
attend the Honors' Convocation call­ed
for 11-12 a. m. Tuesday, Decem­ber
17."
The committee representing the
senior class in presenting the peti­tion
for early dismissal to Dr. Knapp
was comprised of the following stu­dents:
H. H. Milligan, president; J.
S. Wiatt; H. G. Long; A. V. Blanken-ship;
L. W. James.
RACE TO BEGIN
Three Freshmen Finishing
First Will Be Guests At
Spiked Shoe Banquet
Glee Club to Appear
Here Tuesday, Dec. 17
Men's Glee Club, Women's Glee Club,
And Choral Society to Sing in
Christmas Program
A chorus of 120 voices will enter­tain
the faculty, townspeople, and
students of Auburn and nearby towns
with a concert of secular choruses
and Christmas carols in Langdon Hall
Tuesday, December 17, at 8:30 p. m.
The musical presentation will be giv­en
by the Auburn Choral Society,
the Women's Glee Club, and the
Men's Glee Club.
Prof. J. W. Brigham will rfe di­rector,
Prof. Earl C. Hazel, pianist
and accompanist, Prof D. C. Harkin,
violinist, and Walker Kincaid, ac­companist.
The complete program follows:
1. Moonlight—Eaton Fanning, Lis­ten
to the Lambs (Negro Spiritual)
—Nathaniel Dett, Soprano Obligato
by Mrs. H. D. Lee; Landsightlng—
Edvard Greig, Baritone Solo, by H.
D. Hoffsommer.
Auburn Choral Society
(Continued on page 4)
Tau Omega Chi Quint
Loses to Langdale
Game is Hard Fought As Indicated
By Score of 30-24
An announcement given out late
today by James E. Ware, president
of the Inter-Fraternity Council added
new impetus to the All-Freshman
Cake Race being sponosored by
Omega Circle of Omicron Delta Kap­pa.
It was stated that the Inter-Fra­ternity
Council will present to the
winning fraternity team a silver lov­ing
cup.
All freshmen will be excused from
classes after three o'clock Friday. Of­ficial
permission has been granted by
President Knapp. First year men will
report to Drake Field at 3:30 p. m.
Friday, December 13. The complete
list of rules governing the race are
published elsewhere in the Plainsman.
Awards Displayed
A special display of the awards
will be shown in the windows of the
Student Supply Shop Thursday and
Friday. A map of the course and oth­er
information will be available for
the convenience of first year men.
Roll call will be under the super­vision
of Lieut. C. B. Barth. All fresh­men
will be required to enter the
race. Uniforms will be as prescribed
in the rules. Under no conditions will
military uniforms or any military
equipment be worn.
The race will start promptly at
four o'clock, it was announced today
by the special committee of Omega
Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa con­sisting
of Carmon Teague, Hayley
Milligan and Rosser Alston.
Spiked Shoe Entertains
The first three harriers to cross the
finish line will be the guests of the
Spiked Shoe Honor Fraternity Fri­day
night at their annual banquet.
The winner of the race will be pre­sented
a mammoth cake made by the
Electrick Maid Bakery of Auburn
and will receive a regulation fresh­man
numeral from Coach Floyd.
Much interest has been manifested
in the race to date athletic officials
stated. Numerous inquiries have
poured into the athletic office since
the first annoucement of the race.
Five hundred frosh are expected to
participate.
Frat Council Votes
To Give Loving Cup
Phi K a p p a D e l t a F r a t e r n i ty
Is A d m i t t e d to Council
M e m b e r s h i p
The Interfratefnity Council in
session Monday night voted to award
to the winning fraternity team in the
ODK Cake Race a beautiful 15-inch
silver loving cup, and at the same
time admitted the Phi Kappa Delta
fraternity into membership in the
council.
The cup will be awarded to the
fraternity team having the lowest
score in the race, the low-point sys­tem
of scoring being used. For a
team to win the cup at least four
runners must cross the finish line.
Phi Kappa Delta, which was ex­tended
membership in the frat body,
is the first local group to be admitted
to the council. It was organized ten
years ago for the purpose of petition­ing
Sigma Chi, national fraternity,
but as yet has made no petition.
Professor Robinson closed the
meeting with a report of his recent
trip to New York as Auburn repre­sentative
to the National Interfra-ternity
Council, and read a portion
of the speech delivered by Secretary
of the Navy Wilbur at the national
convention.
CLUB ELECTION HELD
AT MONDAY MEETING
Rex Sikes Chosen Secretary
And P. C. Avant Made
Treasurer
Delta Sigma Phi Frat
Entertains at Banquet
Observes Thirtieth Anniversary
Fraternity with Dinner and
Dance
of
Coach Louie James' fast Tau
Omega Chi quintette tasted defeat
for the first time this season at the
hands of the "Mill Boys" of Lang-dale,
by a score 30-24. The game was
fast and hard fought, from beginning
to end and the outcome was doubt­ful
up until the time the last basket
was looped. The T. O. X. had a good
passing attack and showed the ef­fects
of good coaching but were un­able
to hit their old stride, that
brought them to the top in the inter-fraternity
classic.
E. Smith, G. C. Smith, Lawson and
Keykendall tied for honors in scor­ing,
each man having six points
chalked up to his credit. Although the
scoring honors were shared among
these four men, the best form was
shown by Lawson, who shot them
from all angles. The T. O. X. lineup
was as follows; Guards, Lawson and
G. C. Smith, Center, E. Smith, For­wards,
Sanford and Keykendall.
Scabbard and Blade
Initiates Members
Ceremonies Last Until Early Morning
Hours, When Formal Initiation
Wat Conducted
On Saturday night Scabbard and
Blade, honorary military fraternity,
held its initiation for the men who
were pledged at its last election in the
early fall.
The initiates assembled at Toom-er's
Corner where they were closely
inspected by the members of the com­pany.
Then with full packs which
were weighted a little extra with a
few brick, the initiates gave a drill
demonstration. They then went to the
Artillery stables where horses had
been saddled for them in their ride
to the Company's usual campsite be­yond
Wright's Mill. The column was
led by Captain Anderson.
The final touch had been placed
on evrything by the members of the
company who expressed their desire
and intention of making this the best
(Continued on page 4)
The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity
held its thirtieth anniversary ban­quet,
at their home, Tuesday evening.
Their new home, on fraternity row,
was decorated in the colors of the
fraternity. The Delta Sigma Phi's
had as their honor guests for the oc­casion
Miss Dobbs, Mrs. Knapp, Pro­fessor
and Mrs. Grimes, Professor
and Mrs. Adams.
The Pledges gave a play entitled
"The Twenty-five Most Foolish Vir­gins"
and in this fashion were able
to have jokes on each member of
the fraternity. The play was given
in a very commendable manner and
much laughter was caused by the
"cracks" on the members. After the
play a black-faced quartette render­ed
several selections that were en­joyed
by all. Mr. Wallace Rostell
briefly explained the significance of
the banquet.
The guests then enjoyed an elabo­rate
banquet, after which they engag­ed
in dancing. Punch was served dur­ing
the dance.
Work on "Cedarcrest"
Rushed to Completion
Development of Subdivision Will Be
Completed Before Auction on
December 17
The officers for the coming year
were elected at a meeting of the En­gineers'
Club held Monday night in
the auditorium of Broun Hall. For
president the club selected Lawrence
F. Camp, a junior enrolled in the
course of chemical engineering; sec­retary,
Rex Sikes, a junior studying
civil engineering; treasurer, P. C.
Avant, a junior in electrical engin­eering.
The vice-presidents of the
club will be elected by the individual
departmental societies of the engin­eering
school at a later date.
The opening number on the pro­gram
at the Monday night meeting
was several guitar selections by S. D.
Rains and W. T. Reeves. The next
number was a moving picture show­ing
the process of oil refining, trac­ing
the oil from the crude material
obtained from wells to the final prod­uct.
In concluding the meeting the re­tiring
president, O. W. Bynum ad­monished
the members of the club to
keep aliveinferest in the organization,
and to do all in their power to assist
the incoming officers to make this
year a successful one.
The Engineers' Club, though hard­ly
one year in age, is rapidly becom­ing
one of the most vitally live and
active organizations on the campus.
Last year the club set aside one day
to be known as Engineers' Day, which
was observed with a banquet and
dance. The William White Cup for
Excellence in Engineering was award­ed
at the banquet to the junior select­ed
to be meritorious of the award.
Throughout the day all engineering
students wore ribbons bearing the
words "Engineers' Day."
Musicians Are
Recorders And
Radio Artists
D a n c e s Will E x t e n d T h r o u g h ­out
T h r e e - D a y P e r i o d , A c ­c
o r d i n g to S t a t e m e nt
Development work is being rushed
on Cedarcrest, Auburn's latest and
best residential addition, and the sub­division
will be completed within the
next few days. •
On Tuesday, December 17, at two
o'clock, Cedarcrest will be auctioned
by J. P. King Auction Company of
Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is fore­casted
that this will be the largest
auction sale to ever take place in Au­burn.
Engineers engaged in preparing the
site are doing everything to make this
(Continued on page 4)
Engineers Take Count
In December Cajoler
Zip! Again it's off because it's out.
At last we have the second issue of
the Cajoler, and as is the custom at
Auburn, the engineers are the goats.
The editorial runs: "My uncle that
was an engineer died early; the poor-house
food didn't agree with him."
Thus the poor engineers receive the
buffets. The completeness with which
the scheme is followed is rather new,
and it is to be expected that the Archi­tects
and General Business men will
have a few hearty guffaws at the ex­pense
of the slide rule slaves.
The staff of the magazine has
promised that the engineers will have
their chance to laugh in the next is­sue.
Let us hope so. Those poor boys
need to laugh. But putting all fool­ishness
aside, the Engineers Number
represents quite a bit of effort by
Cajoler staff, and it is hoped that it
will be received in the spirit in which
it is given, and that the engineers
will not take it seriously. If they do
become dejected and down-hearted
all they have to do is glance around
at a passing Ag man and all their de-jectedness
will be transformed into
radiant hope.
Besides riding the engineers, the
magazine carries many good ex­change
jokes (too many), and con­tains
several rather lengthy articles
on subjects ranging from Tarzan's
bicycle to Santa at the Sunday School
Party. The worthy Scotchman re­ceives
his usual portion, and Ikey is
not forgotten completely. In other
words, there is a type of humor to
appeal to the most serious minded as
well as to the simple minded. There­fore
the engineers and the faculty
will both get a kick. If you haven't
given it the once over, do so immedi­ately.
The jokes will all be old, or
should we say older? if you don't.
Ray Miller and his orchestra, popu­lar
Brunswick recorders and radio en­tertainers,
have been engaged to
play for the Junior Prom, which will
begin on Thursday, Jaunary 23, ac­cording
to a statement by Henry
Reeves, Jr., chairman of the Social
Committee. Departing from the plan
adopted at the Opening Dances, the
mid-term hops will extend over a
period of three days, as has been the
custom in past years, Dr. Bradford
Knapp announced.
Ray Miller's Orchestra, having a
reputation of being especially adapt­ed
to college dance music, comes
highly recommended by universities
of the East. His engagement at Au­burn
will be one of three appearances
on the Southern tour, as he will furn­ish
the music for the mid-year dances
at the University of Alabama and
Georgia Tech. He is at present en­gaged
in radio entertaining over sta­tion
WLW, from the Hotel Gibson in
Cincinnati, and WGN, from the Col­lege
Club in Chicago. Radio fans in
Auburn doubtless already are fa­miliar
with the splendid musical ag­gregation
of 13 pieces.
The Junior Prom will be formal, it
was announced. Students may ob­tain
tuxedos from a special repre­sentative
of a tailoring concern who
will be in Auburn with a complete
stock several days before the dances.
As yet nothing definite has been
decided upon concerning the decora­tions,
but it is expected that, in keep­ing
with the formality of the occa­sion,
a formal decorative scheme will
be adopted.
Bid cards for invitations will be dis­tributed
about the campus immedi­ately
following the close of the
Christmas holidays, it was announced.
James Ware, president of the fiss
terfraternity Council, stated that
house parties will be given during the
dances by the Lambda Chi Alpha,
Theta Chi, Sigma Phi Sigma, and
Sigma Nu fraternities, though it is
not yet definite whether the last
named will entertain at this time.
More fraternities will keep girls dur­ing
the dances, Ware said, the names
of these to be announced at a later
date.
P. O. Davis Initiated
Omicron Delta Kappa
Elected Last Year in Recognition of
Service to College
Mr. P. O. Davis, Director of the
Department of Public Information
and General Manager of WAPI, was
initiated into Omega Circle of Omi­cron
Delta Kappa Tuesday evening
at 8 o'clock in the Alumni Gymna­sium.
Mr. Davis was elected to the
national leadership honor fraternity
because of his accomplishments and
service to the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute.
The informal initiation took place
in the "A" Club Room at the gymna­sium.
The mysteries of the "fraterni­ty
were revealed by Hayley Milligan
and James E. Ware at the special
meeting of the organization.
The initiation of Mr. Davis com­pletes
the quartet of active faculty
members of Omega Circle. An active
faculty member, because of some out­standing
service to Auburn, is elected
annually to serve for one year. At the
end of this period he becomes an as­sociate
member. The four faculty
members are: President Knapp, Coach
Wilbur Hutsell, Prof. C. A. Baugh-man
and Mr. P. O. Davis.
Election to membership in Omi­cron
Delta Kappa recognizes leader­ship,
scholarship, athletics, forensics
and publications. The high rating of
the fraternity may be measured by
the far-reaching work being carried
on by Omega Circle.
PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929.
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for her that nothing else can. It is neces­sary
that everyone enrolled here put forth
a mighty effort to lead the way in his
work; it helps to build a name and win re­spect
for the institution that nothing else-can.
THE PLAINSMAN
—thinks that Auburn is very fortu­nate
in having one of the leading
physicists of the country as a member
of her faculty. Dr. Fred Allison's re­cent
experiment for determining one
part of compound in ten billions parts
of water simply adds to his already
great record.
"Honors Convocation"
To Be Observed Soon
For the first time in Auburn's history a
special "Honors' Convocation" is to be
held, last Tuesday before the Christmas
holidays being the day set aside. This is
significant in the fact that a new method
of honoring men is to be inaugurated, and
that the freshmen will have a better chance
to become acquainted with the worthy hon­or
fraternities on the campus so that they
can look forward to them and work in the
hope of being able to become affiliated
with some of them in their last years here.
It is all too evident that many fresh­men
who are capable of maintaining a high
standard do not have the incentive to do so
that would naturally be theirs were they
acquainted with the honorary fraternities.
One of the chief purposes of this convoca­tion
is to explain to the freshmen the ob­ject
of honor fraternities, and to encourage
them to study more diligently in their first
years. Many men, not knowing about the
honors that are possible to obtain, throw
away their chance in the freshman year.
It is hoped with the new knowledge
given out at this meeting that they will
have an inclination to do better work.
Block and Bridle Club
And A. S. A. E. Men on Campus
In a recent issue of this paper there were
two announcements which added another
bit to the ever increasing pile of evidence
that Auburn, as the time goes on, is being
accorded more and more national recogni­tion.
These two articles announced the
granting of a petition by the Agricultural
Engineers Club for membership into the
American Society of Agricultural Engin­eers
and the placing of a chapter of the
Block and Bridle Club, national stockmen's
organization for college students, on the
campus.
Those responsible for the organization
of the local bodies and for the granting of
their petitions to the national bodies are
to be corfgratulated upon this successful
completion of their projects. The time will
never come when the Auburn campus will
become too cramped or too small for the
entrance of another national organization
because it is only through these national
bodies that we can keep in touch with the
nation wide happenings in any particular
field, whether it be Agricultural or Elec-tricial
Engineering. New discoveries are
being brought to light at such a rapid pace
at the present time that in order not to lag
behind a school must be in constant touch
with other schools and colleges over the en­tire
country. It is true that the college
faculties keep in touch with each other and
make frequent exchanges of ideas but their
only purpose in doing so is that they may
pass it on to the men they are teaching. If
this be their purpose, then there is surely
a decided advantage in the students keep­ing
in close contact not only with each
other but with the different sources of the
discoveries and advancements being made
in their line of work. In this manner they
are enabled to come by the information
first handed.
This is but one advantage of the na­tional
organization. Another is that they
act as a wonderful stimulant to the stu­dents
interest in his subjects. This invari­ably
bring about a decided improvement in
his knowledge of that subject. It seems to
be a natural failing of the average college
student to take more interest in his extra­curricular
activities than in his regular
class room subjects. Whenever the two are
combined there is a great improvement in
the students' attitude and knowledge of
that field of work. These clubs make it pos­sible
for men of national prominence to be
brought here as speakers. Still other ad­vantages
are the closer binding together of
the men engaged in these fields and the
enabling of students to earn some part of
their college expenses. Often people near­by
will want work to be done which re­quires
technical knowledge of the subject,
and when it is impossible for a professor
to leave, students can be sent out on the
job.
Splendid Record in
Education Class
It is interesting to note the large num­ber
of seniors who have attained an aver­age
of eight-five or over for the past three
years. These are the men and women who
have kept the scholarship records' on a
high level—Some of the marks are higher
than before, while some are slightly below.
But on the whole, the grades made by the
more successful are indicative of the ef­forts
exerted by students and the highly
gratifying results obtained.
The record of these men and women is
proof that they have worked consistently
and conscientiously and not spasmodically
as so many have. Those who hit their
stride at intervals are below the coveted
mark of honor, while those who have
marched in the front rank from the start
are included in the select list.
Certain students may maintain that the
real significance of college attendance has
been missed by these people in their quest
for grades, but that argument is easily
destroyed if the activities listed under
each name is noted. This is undoubtedly
true in many cases, but they are far
from being a majority. The grades show
that a concentrated effort has been made
to glean the most from every phase of col­lege
life; the makers of these grades are
those that can be depended on to lead the
way after the cessation of college life;
they will be sought as leaders.
We cannot pass on without extending a
hand to these so scholarly inclined, hoping
that they may be able to keep up their won­derful
work, and that there may be others
who can find their way to the top before
the fourth year has rung down the curtain
of study at this institution.
It is a mark of distinction for the col­lege
to have such able and distinguished
students passing from her portals. They are
in a position to later cast a favorable re­flection
on the school, creating a respect
Consolidating the Railroads
Only the railroad companies have not
been able to go into the consolidating busi­ness
now become common, but the long-pending
proposition to consolidate all the
roads of the Nation into 20 or more large
systems appears on the way. The Encyclo­pedia
Americana has found two circum­stances
within the past two weeks that in­dicate
administrative purpose to open the
way to the proposed "unification." First
was President Hoover's message in which
he urged that legislation be enacted to ex­pedite
consolidation and inferred that mem­bers
of the Interstate Commerce Commis­sion
should be relieved of "detailed atten­tion
to comparatively inconsequential mat­ters"
to permit more time for the larger
problems. The second was recommendation
by examiners for the Interstate Commerce
Commission that the proposed Missouri
Pacific merger plan be approved.
"This indicates a more favorable atti­tude
toward railroad unification than has
been evident for several years," says a
statement by Americana, "and it would
not be surprising to see a definite consoli­dation
plan placed before Congress by the
Interstate Commerce Commission within
the next two weeks. Once the railroads feel
that the Commission favors unification
they will undertake active measures to
bring it about as soon as possible. Many
expenditures which have been delayed un­til
the carriers could obtain a more accu­rate
idea of the future will be carried out
and general business receive the conse­quent
benefits."—Charlotte Observer.
" L i t t l e Things"
By Tom Bigbee
There's nothing quite like it—this mat­ter
of retiring in stark cold weather, and
waking up in the rain. Almost as mystic as
as the "sweet young thing" we visited dur­ing
Thanksgiving holidays.
Already the air is permeated with gab
concerning release for Christmas holidays,
when a stretch of them four days long is
barely recovered from. What ungrateful
critters we are, anyway. Now, wouldn't it
be nice if we had three months of class-work
each year, and a nine months' vaca­tion—
with a week's vacation between every
week of classwork? To hear some students
elaborate, that is what they are looking
for; and some don't miss it far!
What a tragedy some of us forget the
object of our presence on the college cam­pus.
Oh, it's all right to become enthused
over holidays; but why let them dominate
our lives? Why not just get out and make
the entire time a holiday, rather than being
harrassed by classes?
Another football season is over. And the
Auburn student body at large was less
prepared for its passing than the team.
Maybe you are ready to scoff at the idea
of a student body keeping in training in
order to help the team win; but that is one
of the most important phases of a football
season.
"Aw, why doncha let football rest a
while?" somebody laments. True, the sea­son
is over; but there's another coming.
And we can't begin preparing for it too
soon. Football is here to stay—and you
don't want to see Auburn trailing each
season. Let's sweep the floor clean before
next September, then boost the boys "full
speed ahead."
Have you noticed the advertisements in
the Montgomery Advertiser each Monday
—a full page devoted to Auburn? Think of
the valuable influence for our institution
this will have over the state. Our hats are
off to the instigator of this movement.
Our business in life is not to get ahead
of other people, but to get ahead of our­selves.
Just about the time you think you can
make ends meet someone moves the ends.
Leaders of the present Senior Class are
being looked to to reinstigate an old and
worthy practice—that of donating the In­stitution
a memorial. It will not speak well
for the present graduating class should
this be permitted to fall through.
Have you thought any about these new
clubs formed over in Ag school? From the
looks of everything over there, it seems
that those on Ag Hill are showing the way
to some others—sometimes critical peo­ple.
It is a very progressive step and also
very heartening to see such interest as
displayed by the workers in these new
clubs. They will probably grow to be
among the strongest on the campus, too,
because of the great enthusiasm.
Auburn is certainly growing more fam­ous
because of the recent work of two of
her faculty. When these two fellows start
out on something, you can just sit back
and wait, for something good is certain to
come. It does us good to see such as this,
too, for we don't want to see the old
school lag behind anymore than you do.
A conductor on A. & W. P. is quoted as
saying that the best means of stopping un­ruly
and uncalled-for conduct on special
trains is to have a dozen or more boys ship­ped.
That would have it's effect; but isn't
there a better means? Are we bricks?
Drifting down grade is an easy act,
especially in a group where encouragement
is constantly being offered. There was
once a time when an Auburn man was con­sidered
honest and honorable. No one dares
regard us as such now—a deplorable con­dition,
sure.
We need a swift punch—one that will
jolt us into a realization of realities. Are
we content to drift on down, and finally
land in a sea of branded thieves and
boobs?
It's pretty hard to manufacture conver­sation
immediately following an introduc­tion
to a person you never heard of and
who never heard of you.
H AUBURN FOOTPRINTS °£
The only people who can raise money
easily are those who don't need it badly.
We find that people with a go-to-hell ex­terior
often have a wistful interior.
The Gecko
I am the Gecko who is always trying to
get a beat. I know that it costs my dad
and mother a lot of money to send me to
this school, but they can't appreciate a
beat the way I can. I know I am not play­ing
fairly with them when I don't take full
advantage of this chance, but it is so sporty
to get a beat. It is more fun too when the
professor is met about two seconds after
it is too late to call the class back.
My parents think I am an ideal son, and
I am going to let them think that—if they
were to learn any better, they would not
do as much for me. I would get just as
much out of college back home working
and paying board as I do hunting for
beats, but I must have my little fling.
At ten minutes after the hour I suggest
leaving, but if I get in the room fifteen
minutes after the hour, I raise sand if I
am not marked present. This isn't giving
the professor a square deal, but I don't
want to do that. I like beats because it
means less work and more time to loaf and
talk about how mad my instructor was
when we left.
From the game last Thursday we can still see that all the "boners" in foot­ball
haven't been used up.
* * * * * * * *
We want to make one right away; everyone is getting ahead.
* * :!: * * * * *
She was no beauty even if her father did have plenty of money.
* * * * * * * *
Betty says, "Back to California for me. I just can't understand these South­ern
people."
* * * * * * * *
Oh, well, we should lament.
* * * * * * * *
He tried to catch her, but she was used to the woods.
* * * * * * * *
The sports scribes throughout the country have put on their armor—it is time
the all-something team was chosen. It's too bad, isn't it?
* * * * * * * *
At last Professor Baughman has met someone who dares to meet him in one
of his ceaseless sessions. That is some consolation even if this contestant is a
donkey, but at the same time it shows lack of sense on his part.
* * * * * * * *
"Jew" Beeman has taken Bishop's place in Prof. Powell's class. Some say that
it was an even swap as they favor a bit.
* * * * * * * *
Another little boy named Lane was caught going back to the country a few
days ago. On investigating we found that besides being elected mayor of Nota-sulga,
he has a weakness there. Seems to cause heart failure at frequent intervals.
* * * * * * * *
Who is going to be the first guy to write a poem on Clubs? There is no end of
material for a snappy production.
* * * * * * * *
He was singing, "Far, Far From Home." That is the reason his people never
heard from him again.
* * * * * * * *
Trains of thought are never on time.
* * * * * * * *
Possibly that's why great thinkers are so eccentric. No, we aren't alluding to
anyone.
* * * * * * * *
Bill Keister was caught out in the back yard of the dormitory a few days ago
trying to find a piece of concrete and an eraser from some old discarded pencil.
When questioned concerning his strange actions, he said that he only wanted to
measure the coefficient of friction, but personally we thing that there is a place
over in Tuscaloosa for people like him.
* * * * * * * *
It is. said that Tubby Milligan had a whale of a time on the Senior Elect In­spection
trip last Saturday.
* * * * * * * *
Ruth Murray is completely Harmonized.
* * * * * * * .*
When "Marianne" was playing in Auburn, the "Lady from Neufchatel" could
not be seen, but since she was so popular with Auburn Students, she kindly con­sented
to appear in person for the benefit of all concerned. She may now be seen
at the zoo; we understand she is a native of Georgia.
* * * * * * * *
Back in the old days when it didn't rain out in the Red River region, the na­tives
started shooting up the works—and inhabitants. They must have liked the
color scheme.
WELL, I'D SAY THIS
<23;y cAaron ^Billolvheel
*> WITH OTHER COLLEGES *
NO COMMENT
A negro sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha,
led the sororities at the University of Kan­sas
in scholarship during the 1928-29
school year.
* * * * *
BEATS GRITS
Oregon State recently bought between
fifteen and twenty tons of Italian prunes
to use in experimental work to determine
new standards for drying. Then, we sup­pose,
they'll feed them to the students.
* * * * *
THANKS
Following is an editorial appearing in
"The Firing Line," colle|*e paper of A. M.
I. It was entitled "Auburn Spirit Com­mendable."
"Auburn may not be able to win as many
football games as most colleges (N. C.
State excepted) but our hats go off to Au­burn
for her spirit and her optimism. In
the face of the overwhelming odds against
her, the pep on Auburn's campus before
every game has been just as earnest and
as spirited as that from any other college
in the country. We have all heard that lit­tle
poem that ends somethings like this,
"But the guy worth while, is the guy who
can smile when everything goes dead
wrong." How very appropriate to Au­burn."
After Georgia, came the cry,
'Beat Tulane,' after Tulane, 'Beat Tech,'
with such a Never-Say-Die spirit, Auburn
cannot help coming back to claim her
place among the great football elevens of
the South, just as she now ocupies a berth
among the greatest school of technical,
scholastic, and cultural training. The Au­burn
Plainsman, published twice a week,
is a credit to any school, and few towns in
the state can boost of a better paper. Dr.
Knapp, the president of the institution,
has been given a regular column, through
which the spirit of friendship and fellow­ship
between students and officials of the
school is promoted. This has the distinc­tion
of being the only college paper, known
to the writer, which features its president
as a member of its staff. It seems to us a
most unusual and highly commendable
plan for promoting an understanding and
feeling of good will throughout the school
and the Alumni."
* * * * *
COLLEGE EDUCATION
Princeton, N. J.—For a young man plan­ning
to enter business as a career, a col­lege
education is a four-year handicap, ac­cording
to Floyd L. Carlisle, prominent
business man and himself a college gradu­ate.
GO CRAZY
There has been so much necking in cor­respondence
schools lately that the au­thorities
are now making the boys and
girls use different mail boxes. We see no
hint or indication of "four years of handi­cap"
in this way of getting the degree, but
then you fail to get the B. S. degree.
HERE'S HOW
We need argue no further when we see
just how a professor in Germany is chosen.
Here is what a graduate of L. S. U., now
touring in Germany has to say: "Most of
the professors lecture without notes of any
kind. The system of professors, instructors,
etc., is here different by far from ours.
First, before a person can give lectures,
he must have a doctor's degree. Then he
must take a persoanl examination before
the faculty to prove his qualifications
further. Then he has the right to give lec­tures,
and does so by announcing, through
the official program of course, that he will
give such-and-such a course. It may be that
some other professor already has classes
on that same thing; but so it goes, and
they get paid a pro-rata fee from the num­ber
of students that take this course. So it
behooves them to be good, as there is no
such thing as a prescribed course of study
for students such as we have; but they are
free to take whatever in the world they
want. There are no examinations during or
at the end of the course, but only when
one has been studying the required num­ber
of semesters and wishes a degree, at
which time he takes an examination on
everything." It is clear, that if the above
statements are strictly true that they have
quite a lead over our system. That is a
minor thing though, over here, where a
college has its hands full getting great
football players and good coaches.
* * * * *
INVESTIGATION OF HAIR CUTTING
The L. S. U. executives, ignoring the
resolution of last year's Student Council
which was to the effect that "the student
body is determined (to resume hair-cutting
as a part of freshman hazing," and that it
"deems it fitting and proper to repeal the
hair-cutting pledge," the executives pro­ceeded
to have each student sign a pledge,
upon entering college, to the effect that
he would not engage hereafter in cutting
or clipping the hair of students or en­couraging
or hinting its practice. Now they
are investigating the recent hair-cutting
episcode that came off just before the Tu-lane-
L. S. U. game and ended with one
hundred bald headed freshmen.
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.
WELL, WELL, here we are again,
ladeez and gentulmen for our
weekly half hour variety pro­gram;
offered by the courtesy of Station
B-L-A-B; coming from the Auburn studio
with the wild-eyed old Dr. at the mike.
First thing on the program this evening
will be a letter receieved from one of our
fans. We give only the high spots of the
message owing to the shortness of our
time. Here goes. Don't go 'way.
"Dear Mr. Billowheel:
"It is with great regret that I saw in
your article that you classed the V. M. I.
paper as a good one. It would only seem
plausible that you should have made your
article a unanimous one for all colleges to
cease publishing papers. It requires a great
deal of resource and wit to write an ar­ticle
on the type yours was written in as
the name you write under is one that re­quires
a large amount of stamina and grit
to uphold.
"I don't suppose that when you wrote
the article in the last issue of the Plains­man
that you had an idea that it would
ever leave the Auburn campus. I would
like to enlighten you on the subject and
tell you that there is an exchange with
some 100 or more papers at the present and
all of those that you gave such undeserved
praise were included in the number.
"I am certainly glad that we have no
exchange with the New York Times or
World as you might have gotten yourself
in debate with someone that might be a
match for your literary ability and in­genuity.
"I do hope and pray that the time will
come when you are Editor of the Christian
Science Monitor and stop the Auburn stu­dents
from smoking. Yours until the New
York Times is honored by your criticism,"
R. T. Wasson.
We dedicate that number to the hoi pol-loi
who, doubtless, will get a cackle from
it, and continue with the program.
People of the radio audience, we have a
stranger in our studio tonight and he has
kindly consented to step up to the little
pancake and philosophize a bit. Meet Mr.
Danby Daniels. Right over here, Dan.
"Yesterday was today this time yester­day
and tomorrow will be today this time
tomorrow, (get hot, Dan).
"There are three classes of people who
will read and reread this column. First,
those who let their curiosity get away with
them. Second, those who go to reading with
a zest and eagerness of a quarterback go­ing
over right tackle, and not finding an
opening in the lines quit. Third, those who
at first a little behind at finding the side­lights
and but continue on and on until the
light dawns upon them. The third class will
without a doubt be successful.
"Who has not lived during the age when
we would hear someone say, 'If you love a
girl you don't want to kiss her?' Ah hah,
my friend, gone are those days forever.
How much pleasure does one gather from
being able to weaken at the right time?
'Tis no question for old Prof. Dan.
"People often do things that they
shouldn't. For instance, people will judge
a whole institution by one individual with
whom they come in contact. If that indi­vidual
makes a good impression they will
believe that the whole organization is
good. Likewise a bad impression."
Thank you, professor. You have just
been hearing Mr. Danby Daniels.
Your regular announcer will continue
with the evening's entertainment with in­teresting
professors he has known.
There was the Engilsh instructor who, at
the mention of the name of James Branch
Cabell, immediately went into a let-us-pray
trance, only to come out of it present­ly
with such animated and gleeful clutter­ing
that I have struggled through "The
Cream of the Jest" and am looking up
words through Jergen.
Then there was the instructor in Eco­nomics
with a head as full of statistics as
a show dog is tricks. He could just as
easily tell you the birth rate of a small
south sea island as he could tell you the
value of the shoe string industry in Osh-kosh.
And still another, the instructor in
Journalism who lived in holy dread of
split infinitives. A dangling participle is
known to have sent him raging to a hos­pital
with fever a hundred and five. In his
dreams he was constantly pursued by long-horned
comas and dog-faced grammatical
errors. God bless him.
Now, people of radio land, we are sign­ing
off until next Tuesday at this time
and don't forget to tune in our little radio
party every Tuesday night and send in
your requests. Good evening.
STUDENTS RIOTING
The Polish Minister of education has
closed the University of Cracow for six
months in order to quell student rioting.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Self Preservation is
Practiced by Students
At Univ. of Florida
Chivalry may have been popular
when King Arthur sat at the round
table and knighthood was in flower,
but it is conspicious by its absence
at the University of Florida. It is
a case of "first come, first served,
and the devil take the hindmost."
It is quite a game to see who can
get seated and grab the meat platter
first. Fond mothers, who have spent
weary years in an attempt to drill
elements of etiquette into their sons,
would faint, if they could see their off­springs
scrambling for food.
When someone hollers, "shoot the
bread," and the bread plate is started
down the table each fellow helps him­self
as the plate goes by, and if there
is none left by the time the plate gets
to the one who called for it, he simply
charges it up to profit and loss and
decides that the bread was soggy any­way.
The saying that "anything is fair
in love* and war," should be changed
to "anything is fair in love, war and
the table." If the first fellow to get
there has a small dessert, he exchang­es
it for the biggest one in reach.
Likewise, the first one to get hold of
the meat, takes the biggest and choic­est
piece. The rule for serving ones
self seems to be: "Take twice as much
as you can eat so you'll be sure to
have all you want."
All freshmen have to table arms
while the announcements are being
made. Meanwhile the upperclassmen
go on eating. Philosophical rats
adopt the attitude that the short wait
during the announcements will enable
some of the food they have gorged to
settle so they will be able to eat
more—if any is left.
At most tables a freshman has
to pour the tea every night. These
freshmen become quite adept at eat­ing
with one hand while pouring tea
with the other.
The vocabulary used at the commons
is reminiscent of a Greek restaurant.
But instead of calling for "Adam and
Eve on a raft" or "two buckets and a
pail," the diners at the commons call
"shoot the bull" or "pass the grease."
"Bull" is meat, and "grease" is butter.
Sugar goes under the name of "sand"
and molasses is known as "zip". Oth­er
foods have unmentionable names.
And if the rats don't call for what they
want by the right name, they don't
get it.
But while there is individual com­petition,
there is also cooperation.
When something is lacking, all the
boys at one table get together, elect
a cheer leader and render such yells
as "We want bread" or "more beans."
Table-mates coach each other on the
fine points of fast emptying of the
meat platters, with a view toward
second helpings. #
WILLIAM AND MARY ONLY
SCHOOL WITH COAT-OF-ARMS
William and Mary College, the only
college in the country having an au­thentic
Coat-of-Arms and charter
from the British crown, is changing
its present Seal to conform to this
non classical design. The ancient in­signia
has recently been discovered
by President Chandler.
The Best New Records
Personal Criticism of New Records Made Each
Week by Buddy Glennon
Do you frown when anyone men­tions
X-mas presents? Do you gasp
when you look at the price tags on
rings and compacts? Save your worry,
there's a way out. The girl friend is
"so unusual" if she doesn't thrill
over a good new tune, especially 'if
she has seen the motion picture from
which the song was taken. When you
hit the home town, greet the girl
friend with a line like this: " 'It's
You True Blue Lou,' 'Hang on to Me.'
'I Came to You' 'Little by Little,' but
'I Don't Want Your Kisses If I Can't
Have Your Love.' "
. " 'Wouldn't It Be Wonderful',"
says "True Blue Lou," to be "Sing­ing
In The Bathtub?' Tin In Love
With You' 'My Sweeter Than Sweet'
'Until The End'." "I Wonder What is
Really on His Mind?"
"Jericho" says, '"My Pal' 'Do I
Know What I'm Doing?' 'Turn On
the Heat' and 'Flippity Flop.' 'Why
Can't You?' 'I'll Always Be in Love
with You,' 'Lovable and Sweet.' 'Just
an Hour of Love?' "
" 'He's So Unusual' " ,sighs "True
Blue Lou."
No foolin', there are some snappy
tunes out this week. One of the best
is "Painting the Clouds With Sun­shine"
from "The Gold Diggers of
Broadway" played by The Knicker­bockers.
"Pals Forever" from the mo­tion
picture "New Orleans" played
by Anson Weeks and His Orchestra
is prime.
Sunny Clapp's Orchestra plays
"Down On Biscane Bay" and "We
Lafayette Offers
Courses for Alumni
POPULATION INCREASES
If the present rate of population
growth in the United States is main­tained
the nation will have a popula­tion
of 187,000,000 by the year
2,000, according to a North Dakota
Agricultural College bulletin. This
means that the rate of increase is de­creasing
each year.
In announcing the first session of
the Alumni College at Lafayette in
June, President Lewis said:
"The Alumni College is founded
upon the theory that an institution
of higher learning is rendering its
full service only when it offers con­tinuing
instruction to those who have
passed out of its halls—graduates
who should be given the chance
periodically to refresh themselves at
those sources of learning which make
for the abundant life. It should like­wise
provide facilities for the renewal
of those associations which are among
the finest elements in undergraduate
life.
"Many alumni have expressed the
thought in the field of literature,
government, economics, the natural
sciences, and in various branches of
engineering. In the rush of active
lives they find it impossible to do this
unaided.
"To answer this need, the Alumni
College is organized. . . .
"On Monday morning a series of
lectures, followed by a round-table
discussion, will be begun, and the
laboratories will be opened, for ex­periments
and demonstrations. This
program will be followed each morn­ing
throughout the week. The after­noons
will be devoted to outdoor
recreation. Walking excursions in the
Poconos, golf, tennis, and swimming
are among the attractions which will
make the week an ideal vacation
period. The evenings are to be devot­ed
to step singing and other informal
social affairs."
Students will be asigned to rooms
in dormitories, but will have their
meals with the faculty at the Faculty
Club. The expense for the week, in­cluding
board, lodging, and tuition
will be $25.
Always Ready to Give You the Best of Service
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VARSITY BARBER SHOP
Located Next to Tiger Drug Store
We Appreciate Your Trade
GEO. CLOWER YETTA G. SAMFORD
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(Established 1872)
OPELIKA AUBURN
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i . . 4
Can't Use Each Other Any More."
This is the best dance record out.
Try it.
Johnny Marvin conies to the front
with "Satisfied" and "Melancholy."
Most of you are already familiar with
these tunes, but you will enjoy hear­ing
Johnny sing them.
Our favorite, Guy Lombardo's Or­chestra,
plays "My Fate Is In Your
Hands" and "A little Kiss Each
Morning." The latter is from Rudy
Vallee's new picture "The Vagabond
Lover."
Art Gillham sings "Blue Little
You, and Blue Little Me" and "If
You Know What I Know." Art's
records can't compare with those of
his pupil, Oscar Grogan. Oscar's new
one is "I Sing All My Love Songs to
You" and "I Come to You" from
"Skin Deep."
Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra
play a beautiful waltz—"Love Me"
from "Deja" and "Waiting at the End
of the Road" from "Hallelujah."
Leo Reisman and his Orchestra
have been making lots of good dance
tunes lately. Here's the new one,
"Needin' You Like I Do" and "When
You're Countin' the Stars Alone."
Both good.
Nat Shilkret and his Orchestra
plays "Don't Ever Leave Me" and
'"Twas Not So Long Ago" both from
"Sweet Adeline." Nothing extraordi­nary
about these except the last
chorus of the latter.
Then Seger Ellis, the man who
caused the downfall of Gene Austin,
sings "My Song of the Nile" from
"Drag" and "True Blue Lou" from
"The Dance of Life.'
Lee Morse, the heavy-weight, and
her snappy Orchestra play "Main
Street" and "Susianna." Her Orches­tra
is great.
If you saw "Broadway Scandals"
you will want to hear "What is Life
Without Love" played by the Colum­bia
Photo Players.
Watch for next week's records.
"Sewing Machine with
Keys" Widely Used
Honolulu, T. H.—If the editor of
the Pacific Commercial Advertiser,
Honolulu, of the year 1875 could
now see the thousands of typewriters
in daily use in this city, he might
smile at the story he wrote of the
first machine to arrive here, just 54
years ago.
The editor was amazed, almost in­credulous,
and he wrote:
" 'Wonders will never cease' is the
first thought on seeing in operation
this "machine intended to supersede
the pen for common writing." It looks
very much like a common sewing ma­chine,
but is worked with keys simi­lar
to those of a piano. Touching with
the finger produces the letters on
paper held on a roller at the top of
the machine.
"It is asserted by those who have
used it—and the testimonials are
numerous—that it is so easily learn­ed
that any person with two weeks'
practice can write with it faster than
with the pen. An expert can readily
write 60 words a minute. By using
carbon sheets a number of copies can
be made at the same time. Reporters,
lawyers, clerks, merchants, ministers
and all professional writers who have
tried the typewriter speak enthusi­astically
of it."
HE DID IT INTENTIONALLY
Aghast he stood—straining with all
his powers to disbelieve the work of
his hands. What a beast to have given
vent to his temper! What would the
consequences be? He stared at the
still, while object now limp and dis­torted
beyond recognition and
thought of the happy times they had
had. How necessary they had been
to each other!
And now—without each other—
the thought was too much for him.
Blindly he groped for a reason to
justify his action and found nothing
but remorse in his heart.
Remorsefully he stared at the floor
and once again a wave of the old
anger swirled over him and over­came
him, and suddenly he shouted
defiantly:
"Curses! Not another quarter inch
of tooth-paste in that tube!"—How­ard
Crimson.
Five members of the James Mili-kin
University football team were in­jured
in a train wreck at Roachdale,
Indiana.
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development.
THIS SUBDIVISION is destined to outgrow and outbuild
any other development in the city. Buy a lot in Cedar-crest
at
Your Own Price
Tuesday, December Seventeenth at Two O'clock.
FACTS ABOUT AUBURN
Figures have been complied which show
the rapid strides made here in building and
construction work in the past five years.
Over five miles of streets have been pav­ed
in this time, the approximate cost of
construction amounting to more than one-quarter
of a million dollars. Two new city
schools, a grammar and a high school, are
to be built soon.
Over a million dollars has been spent in
the last five years by individuals building
homes, apartments, churches, and fratern­ity
houses.
The population of the town of Auburn
has more than doubled since 1924. The
number of students attending Auburn has
steadily increased since that time.
The State of Alabama has appropriated
more then $750,000 for college building
purposes since 1924, and an additional
$150,000 will soon be appropriated. A new
administration building and a new audi­torium
are to be built within the next year.
At the present time, buildings valued at
$650,000 are under contracts, with other
contracts to be let soon. The buildings now
under construction are the chemical build­ing,
the animal husbandry building, and
the dairy barn.
Over $75,000 monthly is paid in salaries
to professors and instructors in the college,
Extension Service, Experiment Station
workers and their helpers. Eighteen hun­dred
students spend an average of $135,-
000 per month, making a total payroll of
$210,000 per month for Auburn.
The Auburn churches have advanced
with the same rapidity as other enter­prises.
A. new $100,000 Baptist church and
an Episcopal church have been built, and
improvements have been made on the
Methodist church here in the past five
years.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1929.
Lions to Cast Vote On
Constitution Change
Committees Report Improvement in
Plumbing Situation
Proposed ammendments to the
Lions Club constitution will be voted
on at the club meeting next Tuesday,
according to an announcement at the
regular weekly meeting of the Lions
Club in the Thomas Hotel Tuesday by
Lieutenant Townsley, president of the
local Lions Club. Changes in the
method of electing officers of the
club were discussed and several
changes were suggested by Lion Mc­Donald.
The committees made favorable re­ports
concerning their work of pro­moting
uniform plumbing in Auburn
and the encouraging of improvements
of roads in the vicinity of Auburn.
The President of the club announced
that Lion Brooks will give a history
of Lionism at the next meeting of
the club and urges that all new mem­bers
make a special effort to be pres­ent.
Suggestions were made that the
board of directors be requested to
have a directory printed containing
the constitution of the club; the
names, addresses, and nicknames of
the members; and other information
about the Lions Club.
Several musical selections were
rendered by Leo Mc Kinnon and
Allen Palmer during the luncheon.
The "dime" chairman grew very
prosperous during the pauses between
the musical numbers and between the
discussions of the business of the
club.
In addition to the musicians and
the Plainsman representative, the
guests of the club were Professors
Staples and Nickel and Captain
Grower.
FOR SALE!
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condition. For particulars see Bill
Morton, Theta Kappa Nu House.
STUDENTS Earn extra money
in your spare time selling popu­lar
prices patented Athletic
shirts and shorts. No experience
necessary. Rep Menswear Pro­ducts,
150 West 22 St., New
York City.
WAPI PETITIONS FOR
INCREASE IN POWER
(Continued from page 1)
having natural conditions more fa­vorable
to radio broadcasting.
Station WAPI is now nearing the
end of its first year as a Birming­ham
institution. The initial program
was broadcast the last night of 1928.
The original WAPI was installed at
Auburn in 1922. It was a small sta­tion
which was presented to the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute by Victor
H. Hanson during the "Greater Au­burn"
drive. Later Station WSY in
Birmingham was presented to Auburn
by the Alabama Power Company.
This station was dismantled and
moved to Auburq, where it was used
until replaced by the new 1,000-watt
station which was operated at Auburn
until it was decided to move to Bir­mingham
and make it a superpower
station, in cooperation with the city
of Birmingham.
Later the University of Alabama
and Alabama College came into own­ership
and operation of the station,
main studios of which are in the Pro-
:ve Life Building.
The Alabama plan of owning and
operating a superpower radio station
is said by experts to be ideal. If has
attracted national attention and fa­vorable
comment. The plan of coop­eration
makes it feasible to increase
the power to 50,000 watts when per­mit
is granted by the Federal Radio
Commission*. Several months will be
necessary, it was explained.
SCABBARD AND BLADE
INITIATE MEMBERS
(Continued from page 1)
initiation ever held. A big barbecue
was ready for the hungry horsemen
when they arrived in camp. This
coupled together with the many oth­er
eats furnished all the necessary
food for the new and old members.
A huge bonfire flard all night long
due to the diligent work of those be­ing
conducted into the mystic circles
of the fraternity. Some sang and told
stories while others found another
means of enjoying themselves.
The formal ceremony took place at
sunrise, as has been the custom in the
past, after which the company broke
camp and returned to Auburn
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College Humor Selects
Ail-American Teams
Many critics refuse to subject
themselves to the slurs of millions of
football maniacs, not wishing to
worry through the courts with suits
for libel. These sports reporters do
not choose eleven players on one
mythical honor eleven, nor do they
select first, second and third Ail-
American teams. Their out is to pub­lish
a roll of honor, naming a half
dozen or more lads whose endeavors
on the gridiron have earned them
marked recognition in their own par­ticular
localities.
College Humor recognizes the un­fairness
of naming one AU-American
team, does not evade the issue, but
inaugurates this year a feature which
will at least eliminate some of the in­justice.
Next month in this section
a first, second and third AIl-Ameri-can
eleven will appear. But the
backs, ends and linemen proclaimed
as the thirty-three most apt and cap­able
footballers in the game this fall
will not be so proclaimed on the judg­ment
of College Humor alone.
College Humor has solicited the aid
of eight capable football critics, all
of whom are sports writers or repyte,
in eight different sections of the
country. As a foundation for the Ail-
American, eight All Sectional elevens
will be named, both first and second
teams. The eight divisions are the
New England, East Atlantic, South­east,
Southwest, Pacific Coast, Rocky
Mountain, Middlewest and Missouri
Valley sections.
One hundred and seventy-six ath­letes
will be given serious considera­tion
for berths on Colege Humor's
Ail-American. Intimate comments on
their gridiron achievements this past
season will be submitted by the eight
sports experts who have watched all
these lads in action. Our readers
throughout the country may antici­pate
in our February issue an inter­esting
and novel presentation of these
mythical football elevens.
President of Chicago
Univ. Believes Less
Work Aids Students
WORK ON "CEDARCREST"
RUSHED TO COMPLETION
(Continued from page 1)
the most valuable subdivision in this
section. Auburn citizens believe that
Cedarcrest will be the best residen­tial
section in Auburn and will be
filled with beautiful homes.
Statistics have been compiled to
show the rapid strides made here in
building and construction work in the
past five years. Over five miles of
paving, at a cost of more than one
quarter of a million dollars, has been
laid. Two new city schools, a gram­mar
and a high school, are to be
built soon. Over a million dollars
has been spent in five years by indi­viduals
building homes, apartments,
and churches.
The population of the town has
more than doubled since 1924, and the
number of students attending the col­lege
has steadily increased since that
time.
The State of Alabama has appro­priated
more than $750,000* for college
building purposes since 1924, and an
additinal $150,000 will soon be ap­propriated
for more buildings. At the
present time, buildings valued at
$650,000 are under contract, with
other contracts to be let soon.
Over $750,000 monthly is paid in
salaries,to professors and instructors
in the college, extension service, ex­periment
station workers and their
helpers. Eighteen hundred students
spend an average of $135,000 per
month, making a total monthly pay­roll
of $210,000 for Auburn.
The Auburn churches have advanc­ed
with the same rapidity as the oth­er
enterprises. A new $100,000 Bap­tist
church and an Episcopal church
have been built, and improvements
made on the Methodist church in the
past five years.
Property in and near Opelika will
be auctioned by the same company on
Thursday, December 12, at 10:30 a.
m. Eight lots on Fourth and Fifth
Streets will be the first to be auc­tioned.
At 11:30, the home of Claude
L. Story on Torbert Street will be
offered. The 215 acre farm of C. L.
Story will be auctioned next; it is
located iVz miles from Opelika on the
West Point Highway. At 2:30 the
farms of M. M. McCall, containing
370 and 160 acres, SVs miles on the
new Columbus Highway will be of­fered
to bidders. This will conclude
the Opelika sales.
"All of these properties," said Mr.
Leslie C. King, who has charge of
the auctions," will be sold without
reservation of price. These will be
absolute auctions at which the bid­ders
make their own prices."
"President Hutchins of Chicago
University does well to puncture an­other
venerable myth long cherished
in American institutions of learning,
that there is something inherently
splendid in working one's way
through college. The high-pressure
success magazines have done their
level best to validate this romance
and it is generally held among the
plain people. The belief is based
mainly upon the ancient Calvinistic
doctrine that in adversity there is
victory, that the fine edge of char­acter
needs something hard for it to
sharpen against. So it is argued that
the boy who goes to college with his
pockets empty and has to shake fur­nace
grates, wipe dishes, peddle pa­pers,
mow lawns, sell candy and what
not to eke out a meager living, in
some mysterious way emerges an im­provement
over what he was when he
entered. What is more, he has "got
more out of college" than his non-working
classmate because he has
"learned the value of the dollar,"
learned "not to despise hard work,"
and so forth.
"What is consistently overlooked
in these romantic tales is that col­lege
is not a place primarily for
oxygen treatment of anaemic morali­ties,
not a place primarily for learn­ing
the exact distance in petty eco­nomics
that a dollar bill may be
stretched, but is, primarily, for the
acquisition of a liberal education.
The boy who is working inevitably
finds that his work becomes his chief
interest because that is what is more
urgent, more elemental and direct in
its rewards. As the time goes on he
finds himself not a student, doing a
little work on the side, but a wage
earner doing a litle studying on the
side. He reduces the time he spends
with his books to an absolute mimi-mum,
because it is more comfortable
to exchange an A in Latin for a D
than it would be to risk starvation by
losing his boarding-house job.
"Work deprives him utterly of
leisure and leisure is the single in­gredient
of education which cannot
be dispensed with. Any normal youth
can go through the bare routine of
collegiate assignments in a very few
hours a week, but the very soul of
education is the independent explo­ration
the student does upon his own
initiative. There is no education in
reading a required passage in Green's
History of England; the value of the
assignment is only in its enticement
to further independent study. The
working student, however, has no
time for this further independent
study; his education becomes a mat­ter
of patchwork, hasty memoriza­tion,
machine-made mental patterns.
True education is an absorption from
within, slow and fragrant mellowing.
But this mellowing takes leisure; and
the working students from one end
of the semester to the next never
learns what leisure is."—The New
Haven Journal-Courier.
Fewer Students Enter
Colleges in America
The rapid increase in attendance
upon institutions of higher learning
which has characterized and featured
educational progress in the United
States since the World War, appar­ently
has abated.
Commissioner Cooper, of the Of­fice
of Education, in his annual re­port
to the Secretary of the Interior
has, estimated that the increase for
the past year amounted to only two
per cent in institutions on the ap­proved
list of the Association of
American Universities. This is the
smallest increase since the end of the
World War and was viewed by Coop­er
as signalizing the arrival of a per­iod
of stabilization for the colleges of
the country.
Accompanying the slowing down of
college attendance was a slackening
of enrollment in the high schools of
the country and a falling birth rate.
These conditions Cooper said
coupled with a continued increase in
financial support for institutions of
higher learning, are causing more
stress to be laid upon the quality of
work being done by colleges and uni­versities.
"Refinement of instructional pro­cedures
and more effective utilization
pf improved material facilities sug­gest
that higher education is about
to enter a new phase of develop­ment,"
Cooper reported.
Throughout the school systems of
the country, Commissioner Cooper
found that visual instruction, al­though
not a new method, is receiv­ing
much more attention from teach­ers
and school administrators. The
present wide interest in this form of
instruction has been, brought about,
in the opinion of the education office,
by popularity and the educational
possibilities of the motion picture.
The time is coming, the report stat­ed,
when a school will not be proper­ly
equipped unless it has a modern
picture machine.
Instruction by radio also is being
given much attention, many city
schools having been equipped with re­ceiving
sets. The Ohio State Legis­lature
has appropriated funds to be
used for the extension of elementary
education through use of radio
broadcasting.
Dr. Paul Bartsch Makes
Novel Divorce Answer
Washington-(IP)--A legal answer,
unique in annals of Washington di­vorce
cases, has been prepared by
Dr. Paul Bartsch, famous biologist,
whose wife is suing him for divorce.
Biology, it is alleged, caused the
rift in the marriage. Mrs. Bartsch
complaining on grounds of cruelty,
aleged she was used by her distingu­ished
husband as a "biological speci­men."
Dr. Bartsch, whose career is hon­ored
with almost a page in "Who's
Who", did not deny his wife's accusa­tions,
but insisted they were not on
a basis of "cruelty."
He is curator at the National
Mueseum.
"What are we all but biological
specimens? And man is the richest
development in the biological field,"
explained Dr. Bartsch.
"I saw nothing out of the way in
the discussions with Mrs. Bartsch on
biological subjects. Mrs. Bartsch is
not a biologist, but she now claims
our biological conversations were of­fensive
to her. Her statement might
lead the reader to believe something
highly improper occurred at thes dis­cussions.
Nothing can be farther from
the truth."
Dr. Bartsch said he was heart­broken
over the failure of his mar­riage.
A workshop for arts and crafts is
the newest adidtion to the equipment
of the Smith College Day school.
STUDENT BARBERS
"Shave 'em, Raw, Raw, Raw"—the
old barber yell—has been thrown in­to
discard by the Washington State
College barber shop owned and oper­ated
by four students. The three chair
barber shop is housed in a small stuc­co
building which the men themselves
constructed, and in a way the three
chairs support six people, for two of
the barbers are married. In the month
that the shop has been opened more
than 1500 town and college custo­mers
have been served.
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Tiger Theater
W e d n e s d a y , Dec. 1 1—
—ALL TALKING—
George Bancroft in
"The Mighty"
A Paramount Picture
Thursday, Dec. 1 2—
"The Doctor's Secret"
with
Ruth Chatterton, H. B. Warner
Robert Edeson, John Loder
A Paramount ALL-TALKING
Picture
F r i d a y , Dec. 1 3—
HEAR THEIR VOICES
R K O PRODUCTIONS, Inc.,
presents
A Drama of Joy-Bewildered
Youth—trying to behave in
one-piece suits
"Tanned Legs"
With Arthur Lake, June Clyde
Dorothy Revier, Sally Blane
S a t u r d a y , Dec. 1 4—
SEE AND HEAR
" T h e Mysterious Island"
The underseas romance that will
make the whole world marvel!
With Lionel Barrymore, Lloyd
Hughes, Jane Daly
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Picture
GLEE CLUB TO APPEAR
HERE TUESDAY, DEC. 17
(Continued from page 1)
2. The Sweetest Flower that
Blows—C. B. Hawley, Lindy—Chas.
G. Spross, Sweet and Low—Barnby,
When a Maid Comes Knocking—Ru-dolp
Friml.
The Women's Glee Club
3. Wedding-Day at Troldhaugen,
Op. 65, No. 6—Greig by Earl C.
Hazel.
4. Red man's Death Chant—Paul
Bliss, Finnish Lullaby—Palmgren,
Tell Me Not of a Lovely Lass—Cecil
Forsyth, The Blizzard—Charles
Wakefield Cadman.
The Men's Glee Club
5. Sanata No. 2, in G — (First
Movement)—Grieg by Duncan C.
Harkin.
6. Shepherds! Shake off Your
Drowsy Sleep, Away In a Manger,
Silent Night, O Come, All Ye Faith­ful—
Christmas Carols.
Combined Choruses
7. A. P. I. Alma Mater—William
Thorington Wood, '24.
Combined Chorus and Audience
Kiwanis Club Plans .
Christmas Banquet
President* of Other Civic Club* In­vited
to Attend
NOTICE
Some Seniors have not filled out
information blanks for the Glome-rata.
If you have not done so please
come by the office at once. All blanks
must be in by Tuesday night.
Senior Favorites may be turned in
up until Wednesday night. Do not
forget to bring yours in by that time.
Several organizations have not
turned in their rosters, it is absolutely
necessary that they are in by Wed­nesday
night also.
The Staff.
In Rome, Italy, a school has been
ounded to teach boys how to be shefs.
The Kiwanas Club held its weekly
luncheon Monday at noon in the din­ing
room of the Thomas Hotel.
At this meeting it was announced
that a banquet Friday night would
be sponsored by this club and that
the presidents of the other civic clubs
in and around Auburn had received
invitations to attend:
Professor Orr, a member of the
Lions Club, was a guest at this ban­quet.
He made a plea for the cooper­ation
of the civic clubs of Auburn in
bringing before the city council a pe­tition
for the establishment of a
plumbing corps which would have to
issue a permit to the contracting
plumber before he could put in a new
job and this work should be inspect­ed
by this corps when completed.
A committee was appointed to
•work with the Auburn-Opelika Air­port
Committee in its effort to estab­lish
an airport between here and
Opelika.
After the business had been at­tended
to the meeting was closed by
singing of some Kiwanis songs by the
members.
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Suggestions
For Mother
English Placques
Bayberry Candles
Desk Calendars
Clocks
Auburn Souvenir Vases
Butterfly Serving Tray
For Sister
Album
Compact
Manicure Set
Bracelet
Diary
Felt Goods
Desk Set
Stationery
Book
Necklace
For Grandmother
Wall Vase
Brass Book Ends
Table Runner
Mesh Bag
Bon Bon Basket
for Christmas
For Dad
Shaeffer Desk Set
Kipling's Complete Verse
Desk Lighter
Bill Folder
Cigarette Holder
Loose Leaf Note Book
For Brother
Album
Scrap Book
Key Tainer
Conklin Pen Set
Jiffy Kit Traveling Set
Diary
Slide Rule Handbook
Farewell to Arms
The Merrivales
Red Silence
For Grandfather
Trader Horn
Drums
The Uncertain Trumpet
July 14th
All Quiet on the Western Front
For the Girl Friend
College Album
Memory Book
Pearls
Perfume Set
For the Boy Friend
College Album
Military Brushes
Pocket Lighter
Shaeffer Pen Set
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