1929-03-21 The Plainsman

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TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOLUME LII AUBURN, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929. NUMBER 43
TAU BETA PI AWARDS WHITE
CUP TO BEST JUNIOR ENGINEER
Cup Awarded on Basis of Scho­larship,
General Character
and Personality
TO BE AN ANNUAL EVENT
Recipient Has Maintained an
Average of Above
95
In accordance with plans an­nounced
earlier in the year, the Tau
Beta Pi honorary fraternity, in co­operation
with a committee of the
engineering faculty of Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, has selected J. J.
O'Rourke as the recipient of the Wil­liam
L. White Cup for Excellence in
Engineering. This loving cup will be
an annual award to the most out­standing
student in engineering in
the Junior class, being offered by
Mr. W. L. White, an enthusiastic Bir­mingham
alumnus. The cup will be
awarded at the Commencement exer­cises,
when other prizes and medals
are presented.
In making the selection, consid­eration
was given scholarship, gen­eral
character, personality, partici­pation
in college activities, and other
qualities that the committee desired
to consider.
J. J. O'Rourke, of Selma, Alabama,
is a prominent junior in electrical
engineering. He is a member of
Theta Chi Fraternity, and is a pledge
to Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu,
honorary engineering fraternities.
His average for the two and one-half
years that he has been a student here
is above 95. He is especially active
in forensics, being a member of Phi
Delta Gamma, honorary forensic fra­ternity.
At present he is president of
A. I. E. E., and is active as student
instructor in physics lab.
PHI DELTA GAMMA
HONORS TWO MEN
Encourages All Forms of Forensic
Activity
At a special call meeting in Wirt
Hall the Phi Delta Gamma honorary
fraternity held its second annual
election of new members for this
year last Tuesday night, March 12.
Men are elected to this honorary
fraternity each year for their ability
in forensics and literary society work.
Phi Delta Gamma is an honorary for­ensic
fraternity and its purpose is to
encourage work in debating, declama­tion,
and all other forms of forensic
activity.
Only two new members were elect­ed
at this time. These are S. D. Rains
and G. L. Williamson. Both men have
been active in debating and other
forms of forensic work during their
college careers, and are prominent
on the campus. The initiation for the
new members will be held sometime
in the near future.
B'ham. Alumni Have
Banquet At Tutwiler
At six o'clock this evening the Au­burn
Alumni Chapter of Birmingham
will entertain at a banquet at the
Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham.
Several notables will attend, among
whom the following will speak: Dr.
Bradford Knapp; Dr. C. B. Glenn,
alumnus, superintendent of Birming­ham
city schools; Governor Bibb
Graves.
It has been arranged to have spe­cial
Auburn music furnished at the
banquet. Music and addresses will be
broadcast over radio station WAPI.
Intersociety Debate
Will Be Held May 7
The finals for the intersociety de­bate
will take place on May 7th. The
elimination will be sometime before
this. The subject as chosen this
year is: Resolved: That the system
of granting quality points as in ef­fect
at this institution should be
amended to prohibit their bestowal
for any activity except actual classes
for which college credit is given.
Valuable Fish Carried
Away With Dam Break
Thousands of the valuable fish in
the lake above Wilmore Dam were
lost Friday morning when the dam
broke. The high water carried many
of the smaller fish into the high
grass surrounding the lake, and re­ceded,
leaving them stranded there.
Hundreds of others were hurled
through the dam/into the creeks and
ponds below where they will become
prey to anyone having the inclina­tion
to fish for them.
For the last two or three years the
college has been putting brim into
the lake, and with those that the
State has placed there it is estimated
that twenty-five or thirty thousand
brim alone have been thrown into
the lake, besides the hundreds of
bass, sunfish and perch there.
The fish were of no specific value
to the college, but their loss will be
a hard blow to the fishermen who
have been making big hauls out of
the lake.
GENERAL BULLARD
E N D S ADDRESSES
Tells Interesting Stories of Battles
in the Phillipines
Major-General Robert Lee Bullard
concluded his addresses here, deli­vering
his third speech in Langdon
Hall at eleven o'clock Tuesday morn­ing.
He spoke on personal experi­ences
which occurred in Cuba and
the Phillipines following the Spanish-
American War. The hall was filled
to its capacity, as it has been during
General Bullard's addresses, and
many students were unable to secure
seats.
In introducing General Bullard,
Dr. Bradford Knapp read from an
old book containing military records
a notation that R. L. Bullard had
been promoted from a private to a
corporal in Company B. The record
was dated March 4, 1881. Describing
General Bullard's successful counter­attack
in the face of orders to re­treat—
this happened in 1918, dur­ing
the World War—Dr. Knapp said
that the General evidently took a bit
of the "Auburn Spirit" with him
when he left Auburn.
General Bullard stated in the open­ing
of his address that he felt he
had carried the "Auburn Spirit" with
him, but he said he was only one of
a great many army men who had
done so.
He said that in West Point he
studied only four subjects—namely,
languages, law, tactics, and the life
of a soldier; he little realized how
valuable they would prove to be. He
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P. O. Davis Is Made
Manager Of Contest
National Atwater Kent Contest Prob­ably
Be Broadcast Over WAPI
Mr. P. O. Davis, director of the de­partment
of public information, Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, has rec­ently
accepted an invitation to be
manager of the Alabama eliminations
of the Atwater Kent National Au­dition
Contest, to be held in the near
future. The state audition will be
conducted by radio Station WAPI, in
Birmingham. Walter N. Campbell,
manager of WAPI, has offered the
services of the station for the district
audition, which will embrace several
southern states, and it seems very
likely that the offer will be accepted.
Beginning two years ago, the At­water
Kent Foundation has conducted
annual, nation-wide auditions to se­lect
the ten best young singers in the
country for vocal training at a recog­nized
school of music. Significant in
the 1929 plans, as compared with the
1927 and 1928 programs of the same
kind, is the fact that all of the finalists
will receive at least one year's train­ing
under recognized masters or in
well-known schools, in addition to be­ing
given larger monetary benefits.
4 Fraternities
Admitted To
Frat Council
Bring Total Membership of
Council to Eighteen
The Interfraternity council, which
was formerly composed of fourteen
fraternities on the campus, received
four more outstanding fraternities,
bringing the total number up to
eighteen. The new fraternities en­tered
into the council are Alpha
Lambda Tau, Sigma Pi, Theta Kappa
Nu, and Beta Kappa. The purpose
of this council is to bring into a
closer union the various national fra­ternities
on the campus, to attend to
all important matters regarding the
fraternities, and to sponsor anything
else that might be of value to the
fraternities. The council will have
one more meeting before their an­nual
banquet, which is to be given
at the Clement Hotel in Opelika at
eight o'clock, April fifteenth. At
this banquet the officers for the
school year 1929-30 will be elected.
Dr. Knapp will be the main 'speaker
for the banquet, and also other prom­inent
speakers will be there.
These fraternities are listed below
in the order of their appearance on
the Auburn campus: Beta chapter of
Alpha Lambda Tau, 1922; Alabama
Gamma chapter of Theta Kappa Nu,
1926; Alpha Delta chapter of Sigma
Pi, 1926; Sigma chapter of Beta
Kappa, 1928.
Several Attempts
Are Made To Rob
Business Houses
Gain Entrance By Forcing Various
Door Locks
Sneak thieves early Sunday morn­ing
made several attempts at rob­bery
of local business houses by
fording front entrances to the Stu­dents
Supply Shop and J. W. Wright
Jr. Department Store. One of the
locks on the Students Shop was re­moved
the Thursday night previous.
Several suspects are being watched
pending a report- from finger print
experts. The Jitney Jungle and Tig­er
Theatre ticket booth locks showed
signs of being tampered with it was
said.
The thieves succeeded in breaking
into the Students' Supply Shop by
breaking the lock off the front door
and forcing the door open. The cash
register was torn open, but nothing
was in it. There were no indications
of anything else being bothered. The
shop was broken into sometimes be­tween
two A. M. and daylight Sun­day
morning as someone was at the
shop until two o'clock.
The proprietor of the Jitney Jungle
was called up Sunday morning at
eight o'clock, and told his store has
been broken into. It turned out that
the outside lock ...l the front door
had been torn off, but another lock
built in the door could not be forced
open, and the burglars did not get in.
The J. W. Wright, Jr., Department
Store was broken into by forcing the
lock off the front door. Between
three and five dollars in change was
obtained. Nothing else was missed.
The door to the box office of the
Tiger Theatre showed signs of having
been tampered with. The door was
scarred around the lock, but had not
been opened. Nothing was in the of­fice
of value, even if the thieves had
gotten in.
Mystic Festival Heralds
Announcement of Spring
The Plainsman begs to an­nounce
that Spring is offici­ally
here. Spring has came! And
with it came a resurrection of
old maid's dreams, hopes, and
fears. The co-eds too have un­dergone
some sort of mystic
change. It is rumored that the
co-eds will hold a festival in the
near future and that no males
Will be invited to attend. Dame
Rumor also has it that a similar
festival was held some years ago
and that it was also an exclu­sively
feminine affair. Dame
Rumor, in an even lower whisper
than usual tells us that bits of
partially burned red flannel cloth
were found the next morning at
the scene of the affair. Looks
like a cremation of some sort!
It is hoped that not too many
of the young men's fancies will
lightly turn to thoughts of things
other than their studies.
It seems that the balmy atmos­phere
has had the effect of the
waters of the proverbial Foun­tain
of Youth on some of the
young gentlemen, if we take a
glance at the number of short,
white panties that have recently
appeared.
WAPI GIVES AID
TO FLOOD AREA
Auburn Scout Troop
Will Meet March 22
In the near future a scout troop
will be organized here in college for
the benefit of those who are interest­ed
in advanced scout work, or who
may be scout masters or executives
when they graduate. A chance will
be given members of this troop to
become first class scouts or to pass
any merit badge for which they may
be eligible.
The direction of the troop will be
under Professor A. L. Thomas, and
it will be under the auspices of the
local chapter of Alpha Phi Omega,
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Through radio station WAPI the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute has
rendered a distinguished service in
behalf of flood sufferers in Alabama.
Record of this was made by P. 0.
Davis, manager of the station, in a
letter to Governor Bibb Graves; and
further evidence is the fact that the
station had received $59,000, with
pledges on hand amounting to $15,000,
making a total of $74,000 if all the
pledges are received.
In addition, the station has handled
large quantities of supplies, including
clothes, foods, and other things need­ed
by people made destitute by the
floods.
Immediately after being collected,
money and supplies are being dis­patch
into the regular relief channels
under the direction of Governor
Graves and the Red Cross.
When the first reports on the flood
were received, W. N. Campbell, man­ager,
and Bill Young, assistant man­ager
of the station in Birmingham,
decided to start a drive for relief
funds. Immediately after the first ap­peal
was broadcast, funds and sup­plies
began arriving; and they have
continued to pour into the studio in
Birmingham. A few have been sent
to Auburn to be forwarded immedi­ately
to Birmingham.
Immediately after the water reced
ed Mr. Campbell hopped into an air
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W- B. Leitch
Is Notified of
Advancement
SCABBARD AND BLADE ELECTS
EIGHTEEN ELIGIBLE JUNIORS
Entered the Army as a Private
in 1916
In an official communication from
the War Department at Washington
Lieutenant W. B. Leitch, asssistant
professor of military science and
tactics at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute; is notified of his promotion
to the rank of captain, effective im­mediately.
Captain Leitch entered the army as
a private in 1916. He was advanced
to corporal in the engineering unit
of the Colorado National Guards. On
July 1, 1920, he was made first lieu­tenant.
He spent 13 months over­seas
during the World War, being a
battery officer.
Since the War he has been station­ed
at Fort Bragg, N. C.; Camp Knox,
Ky.; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; and at Au­burn,
where he is now serving his
fourth year. He will be transferred
at the end of the year.
He is well-known and is very popu­lar
among the students and faculty.
He has entered whole-heartedly into
college and civic life since coming
to Auburn, and has made his influ­ence
felt in both spheres. He and
Mrs. Leitch are among the most popu­lar
dance chaperones in Auburn, and
serve at some fraternity house party
at most of the dances.
Captain Leitch is a member of the
Sigma Phi Signia social fraternity,
having been initiated since coming
to Auburn.
Lee High School
Senior Play Draws
Large Audience
Charaters Well Selected For Roles
This Presentation
Cafeteria Installs A
Rustic Water System
The other day when Wilmore
Dam broke, Miss Harris, who
feeds the little boys at the cafe­teria,
having the welfare of her
wards always in mind, procured
two large wooden tanks, filled
them with water, and placed
them in the dining room.
These large tanks were mis­taken
for everything from bee­hives
to dish-washing machines.
Luckily no one took them for
bath-tubs. They really did im­prove
the looks of the dining-room,
in fact, so much that many
people asked that they be left
there permanently.
It seems that there is no rea­son
why many such novel ideas
could not be utilized in improv­ing
the looks of the campus in
general. Why not suspend a
large white ivory elephant over
the door to the zoo? A small
bronze ladder would be most ap­propriate
to hang over Dean
Petrie's office door, as he is
quite a famous fireman. The in­scription
"Leave Behind Ye All
Hope, Ye Who Enter Here"
, might well be hung over the door
of the English Office.
The musical comedy "See You
Later" attracted quite a large crowd
to Langdon Hall to witness it Mon­day
night. The play was presented
by the senior class of the Lee Coun­ty
High School, and was under the
personal direction of Miss Grace
Lewis, who is a representative for
the Triangle Producing Company, of
Greensboro, North Carolina.
The high school seniors made a big
success with their musical comedy.
The characters were well suited to
their roles, and the exceptional acting
showed that they had been well train­ed
by Miss Lewis. The chorus girls
contributed much to the success of
the play. The chorus consisted of
eighteen girls, who were not in this
year's senior class. The broom
chorus, consisting of fourteen small
children, added quite a bit of. spice
to the program.
The plot centered around three
men of "The National Contracting
Company." They were ieeklng to en­tangle
Mr. Millrox, a New York mil­lionaire,
in a contract that would
make it possible for them to get his
money. Mr. Millrox had a daughter
that one of them was planning to
marry, in order to help put the con­tract
across. Neither of the three
wanted to marry Millrox's daughter.
They invited Millrox, his daughter,
and niece on a house party to get
better acquainted. Mr. Millrox's
daughter and niece change names
with each other without the know­ledge
of either of the three men of
the "National Contracting Company"
and this is the setting for all the fun
that developed in the latter part of
the play. However, in the end, it re­sulted
in the engagement of three
couples.
Auburn Players' Drama
Is Dated For Saturday
"Icebound", the major production
of the Auburn Players for 1928-29,
is a more ambitious play than any
heretofore offered by this organiza­tion.
The play, a representation of
typical New England life, was written
by Owen Davis, and won the Pulitzer
prize in 1923. In producing this play,
the Auburn Players is following its
new policy of offering to Auburn au­diences
only high class drama, but so
selecting plays that they will afford
enough humor and variety to make
them interesting.
The play has been well cast and
competently directed by Dr. Leo
Gosser, so that the public may expect
a polished performance.
The performance will begin sharp­ly
at 8:00 P. M. Saturday. Admission
charges are 25c for students, 35c for
townspeople, while Little Theater
members will be admitted on their
regular tickets.
Fraternity Has Been Instru­mental
in Securing Distin­guished
College Rating
HAS A LARGE MEMBERSHIP
Ability in Military Affairs is
Necessary To Become
Member
McGHEEIS ELECTED
PRESIDENT 'A' CLUB
"A" Day Celebration To Be Held
April 1
Ping Pong Tournament
Sponsored By Y.M.C.A.
A ping pong tournament is under
way at the "Y" recreational room
now. A. B. Johnson, chairman of the
athletic committee, has announced
that the men desiring to enter must
have their name, address, and phone
number in the "Y" office before
March 23. All college students are
eligible for entrance in the contest
except those men winning prizes in
the last tournament.
By Elmer G. Salter
Addison (Maggie) McGhee, form­er
star in three sports at Lanier High
School, Macon, Ga., and veteran
member of Coach Moulton's Plains­men
pitching staff was elected'presi­dent
of the "A" club by the mem­bers
of the club at their monthly
meeting Wednesday night. McGhee
is a member of the Sigma Alpha Ep-silon
social fraternity .and is enrolled
in the educational course. He will re­ceive
his diploma next year. He has
played four season's in an Orange
and Blue baseball uniform but has
another season on the gridiron and
on the court and will probably answer
Coach Bohler's call for football and
basket ball next season.
Luke Ward, junior, whose home is
in Bessemer, Ala., was elected vice-president.
Ward is a member of the
Lambda Chi Alpha social fraternity
and is also enrolled in the education
course. Ward was awarded his first
"A" on the gridiron but will prob­ably
hold down the keystone sack on
Coach Moulton's baseball nine and
will receive his second letter this
spring. Ward played quarterback on
the football eleven under Coache:
Morey and Pitts, but was shifted to
halfback by Coach Bohler, where he
was classed as one of the leading Ti­ger
ball carriers until an injury neces­sitated
him hanging up his moleskins
for the season.
The third lad enrolled in the secon­dary
education course to have an
honor bestowed upon him by the
"A" club was Louie James, guard on
the basket ball team for two season's,
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NOMINEES NAMED
FOR YMCA CABINET
Election Will Be Held At Special
Convocation
The senior members and officers
of the Y. M. C. A. Cabinet met Mon­day
night to nominate the officers
of the cabinet for the coming year.
The nominees are all members of the
present sophomore and junior classes,
and are all serving as members of
the cabinet this year.
The election will be held at a spe­cial
convocation. The voter will
check four names. The candidate
receiving the highest number of votes
will become president, and the next
three will become vice-president, sec­retary,
and treasurer, according to
the number of votes received by each.
The following are those whom the
"Y" Cabinet has selected as candi­dates:
R. A. Sansing, junior; J. R.
Carreker, junior; G. L. Williamson,
sophomore; V. L. Savage, junior; C.
L. LeCroy, junior; R. O. Scruggs,
junior; A. L. Morrison, junior; H. Y.
Shaefer, junior.
Scabbard and Blade, national hon­orary
military fraternity elected
eighteen prominent juniors from the
Engineer and Artillery units of the
R. O. T. C. today. Only those who
have shown marked ability in military
affairs or who have personality and
leadership are eligible for member­ship
in the fraternity.
Scabbard and Blade has assumed
considerable proportions on the Au­burn
campus, having a large member­ship
which has been active in fur­thering
the interests of the R. O. T.
C. at Auburn. It is said that the rat­ing
by the War Department of "Dis­tinguished
College" given to Auburn
for the past eight years has been
largely due to the military demeanor
encouraged and sponsored by Scab­bard
and Blade.
Those receiving the honor are:
Engineers: J. K. Smith, Eutaw; V.
L. Taylor, Mobile; W. W. Bryant,
Birmingham; Haskin Williams, Bir­mingham;
J. L. Wilson, Sheffield;
J. P. Calhoun, Columbus. Artillery
unit: G. H. Carden, Chattanooga;
Charles F. Davis, Montgomery; W.
H. Clingo,'Atmore; F. E. Copeland,
Auburn; M. A. Franklin, Birming­ham;
W. B. Jones, Opelika; H.
Reeves,, LaGrange; L. L. Sledge,
Greensboro; H. H. Webb, Auburn;
J. S. Wyatt, Auburn; Louie James,'
Auburn; and E. C. Smith, Auburn.
The purpose of the fraternity as
set forth in the preamble to the con­stitution
is:
"Believing that military service is
an obligation of citizenship, and that
the greater opportunities afforded
college men for the study of military
science place upon them certain re­sponsibilities
as citizens, We, Cadet
Officers in various Universities and
Colleges conferring bacalaureate de­grees,
do form this Society and
adopt this Constitution in order to
unite in closer relationship the mili­tary
departments of American Uni­versities
and Colleges; to preserve
and develop the essential qualities of
good and efficient officers; to pre­pare
ourselves as educated men to
take a more active part and to have
a greater influence in the military
affairs of the communities in which
we may reside and above all to spread
intelligent information concerning
the military requirements of our
country."
Company L, Fifth Regiment, of
which Mercer Helms is captain was
established at Auburn in May, 1924.
Auburn Tennis Team
Progresses Rapidly
Team To Attend Southern Confer­ence
Tournament At Tulane
The ability of the Auburn tennis
team has been progressing very rapid­ly
during the past few weeks; the
members are practicing every after­noon
on the "Y" courts, and every
week matches are held between in­dividuals
for the purpose of rating
the members. At the present time
H. F. Halse is rated first, and Don
May, D. M. Jackson, Carl Nickerson,
Hood, and Joe Smith follow in the
order named.
The following schedule*has been
arranged with several Southern col­leges:
April 5, Howard at Birming­ham;
April 6, Birmingham-Southern
at Birmingham; April 13, Birming­ham-
Southern at Auburn; April 20,
Georgia Tech at Atlanta. Also a
game with Sewanee, at Auburn, is
being arranged.
The tennis team will attend the
Southern Conference tournament to
be held on May 5 at Tulane, in New
Orleans; this is a distinction, as the
team is in its first year.
PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, MARC
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Business and editorial offices at Au­burn
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Office hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily.
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James B. McMillan Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Rosser Alston, '29 Associate Editor
A. V. Blankenship, '30 _- Associate Editor
Victor Savage, '30 Associate Editor
J. D. Neeley, '30 Managing Editor
Hugh W. Overton _ Ass't. Managing Editor
Tom Brown, '31 --- News Editor
Alex. Smith, Jr., '31 News Editor
Robert L. Hume, 31 - - Ass't. News Editor
Roy Sellers, '31 Ass't. News Editor
Carol Porter, '29 Sports Editor
Dick Jones, '31 Ass't. Sports Editor
Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor
REPORTERS
T. S. Coleman, '32; Clarence Dykes, '32;
George Harrison, '32; Robert Sansing,
'30; S. H. Morrow, '32; J. E. Jenkins,
'32; H. G. Twomey, '32; Victor White,
'32; D. Reynolds, '32; Virgil Nunn, ' 3 1;
Gabrie Drey, '31; James Davidson, '32.
BUSINESS STAFF
George Carden, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
Grady Moseley, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
W. B. Jones, '30 Advertising Mgr.
White Matthews, '31 _. Ass't. Adv. Mgr.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
Office on ground floor of Alumni Hall.
Circulation Managers: Walter Smith '31,
J. M. Johnson '31, W. A. Files '31, J.
E. Dilworth '31.
Assistants: B. W. Kincaid '32; R. A. Mann
'32; Roy Wilder '32, Cleveland Adams,
'32, J. M. Barton '32.
W h e n Will This Odorous
Condition Be E l i m i n a t e d?
Is Auburn's present system of police
protection satisfactory? We believe not.
For two reasons. First, the students em­ployed
as police officers are not compe­tent,
trained men who understand their
work and can perform the duties. Second,
the student policemen are repellent to the
student body, especially in their methods of
enforcing order during the dances.
Auburn needs a police force, not a Crew
of night-watchmen. The property in the
town is too valuable; the amount of law-breaking
is too prevalent, to ignore the
need of a competent police force.
Students don't like to be chaperoned at
dances by other students wearing badges
and carrying pistols. The rules enacted
by the Social Director and the President of
the college are at present enforced by these
student "cops". Their'methods of sneaking
about in a frenzy of activity during the
dances, while relatively inactive at other
times, are not liked. If the college wants
to enforce dance regulations, why have
the city's little policemen snooping about
with guns, as if hunting bandits? Why
not let the rules be enforced by the college
chaperon.es at the fraternity houses and
on the dance floor? We believe that the
student cops are superfluous scenery on
the Gym floor during dances.
There was much complaint following the
Junior Prom. The student policemen were
very active in spying around the fraternity
houses, shining flashlights in the houses,
even demanding entrance to the houses, to
enforce the late-date rule. That sort of
thing rankles the ordinary student. He
doesn't appreciate the effort to enforce
social rules by an armed force of police­men.
It simply goes against the grain.
We are not complaining about the dance
rules. They are necessary. We don't like
the method of enforcement. • We believe
that the college authorities could handle
the situation with less show of guns and
badges.
We believe that the town of Auburn
needs its police force to insure the citizens
police protection. They deserve better pro­tection
than that now given them. Why
not one or two trained men who are ex­perienced
and who are competent?
Campus Clubs And
S t u d e n t Publicity
The most perplexing problem confront­ing
the Plainsman is that of providing pub­licity
for a myriad of Campus Clubs, each
of which expect that the paper will do its
advertising, boom its attendance and then
report its activities afterwards. The first
consideration of the Plainsman is to develop
a working machine which will produce a
newspaper as nearly on a par with pro­fessional
dailies as possible; only by such
procedure can the publication give the stu­dent
body full value for the money ap­propriated
from the Students' Activities
fee.
The first advance story of any project
undertaken by a group can be classed as
news, if properly written and. devoid of
the usual press agent hooey of "Let's all
get behind this, men." But after the first
story there is a flock of others using the
same news with only the precaution of re­arrangement.
These later articles cannot
by any stretch of imagination be termed
news. The worst possible result of this
system of publicity is that it destroys the
students' respect for and interest in the
college paper.
The fault most frequently found in or­ganization
reports is that their individual
reporters mix the news with expressions
of opinion that properly belong on the edi­torial
page. Reports so written are simply
thrown away. The staff of the Plainsmen
has not time to rewrite thirty such reports
each week. It shall be the policy of the
Plainsman to continue discarding such ma­terial.
O p p o r t u n i t y For Development
Offered At C. M. T. Camp
The best "ad" of any community is the
group of people who compose it. Mixing
with people of other communities they
always, often unconsciously, advertise their
home town.
Our young men are the most important
element of our community. They are our
future representative citizens and, as such,
their development is of particular interest
to us all.
Opportunity was given, last summer, to
a number of fine young men from our area
to attend the C. M. T. Camps, nearly every
locality being represented. Nearly all
made excellent records, not only in the
courses of training, but also carried off
honors in the several athletic events, com­peting
against members of well organized
track and athletic teams from other cities,
schools and colleges.
They returned home after a period of
contact with men from every locality and
walk of life, among whom they were ac­cepted
as men, for what they were, not for
how much they had.
Their advertisement of our community,
among men of other localities met in camp,
depended upon the care with which they
were selected and our own local support.
It was unlimited in its possibilities. In pro­moting
the C. M. T. Camps and sending
our "finest" to them we render lasting
public service in rounding out our young
men by elements of education unattainable
in regular institutions of learning.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
Letters to the Editor
C. P. O. Box No. 1234,
Shanghai, China,
Feb. 15, 1929.
Dear Editor,
We are in the midst of the Chinese Big
feiast—Chinese New Year. Every one's
birthday comes on this day. Should a child
be born in even the last hour of the last
day of the old year it would be two years
old on New Years. New Year came on Sun­day,
Feb. 10th. Every store was closed.
All work stopped. But it was not quiet!
It was like many Fourth of July's in one.
Oh! the fire-crackers!! At midnight I was
wakened by a vast broadside of large and
small fire-crackers and they kept it up
for days. In the morning the ground was
covered as by red snow—the "confetti" of
exploded fire-works. Fire-crackers are but
a part of the feast—the noisy part.
One interesting god connected with the
New Year is the god-of-wealth which is
worshipped especially on the 5th—his birth­day.
The money spent on fire-crackers in
his honor would pay China's national debt.
Few begin work again until he is properly
worshipped. Another is the kitchen-god.
He is a paper god and sits over the stove
in the kitchen where he spies on the doings
of the family for a year. On the 23rd of
the 12th month he is given a big feast.
Sweet syrup is put on his mouth and he is
put in a beautiful paper sedan chair and
burned in glorious style, accompanied by
fire-works—which-is sending him to the
Upper-god to report on their year's doings
—all this fuss and sweetness is to bribe him
to speak well of their family to his majesty.
When he returns on the last night'of the
old year—a new idol is bought and placed
with little ceremony—in the old nich—it
will be a year before he reports again—
why "taffy" him now? '
Next to idol-worship gambling takes a
big place in New Year celebrations—
gambling everywhere! What they eat and
drink, and the firecrackers, and gambling,
all, in some way or other, symbolize or
point to the sound "Kao-sen"—excelsior!
in the sense of rising high in wealth and
station—especially in wealth. It's indeed a
wonderfully interesting time, and is in­dulged
in even by beggars—for they re­ceive
a harvest of alms.
The Nationalist Government ordered that
Chinese New Year should not be observed
this year. It might as well have tried to
turn back the greatest tidal wave of his­tory!
National commands stop the observ­ance
of Chinese New Year's customs?!
Only the conversion of these people to
Christ will stop this idol worship and lead
to the worship of the true God.
Kindest regards and best wishes,
H. G. C. HALLOCK.
In time of great
disaster the temper
of a people is given
its greatest test. Our
minds go to t he
people of the flooded
areas. Those who
have never been in
a great storm or a
great flood have little
conception of t he
terrors of such an event. The sympathies
and helpfulness of a great people are
always poured out on such an occasion. I
really believe that the most redeeming
thing about the human race and its prog­ress
is this great sympathy that is aroused
for people in distress. In such an event
people lose their selfishness. They are in­finitely
more thoughtful of others. The
ties that bind one to those whom he has
never known and never seen becomes
almost at once apparent. If we could only
carry the same solicitous concern for the
welfare of others into our great social and
economic life it would redeem many of
the problems of the human race. In think­ing
about the flooded area you must re­member
that their time of peril may be
passed quickly but their time of long-drawn
difficulty and painful recovery is a thing
of the months and years to come. Will
the sympathy of a great state extend over
so great a period? Can constructive think­ing
develop helpfulness to these people in
the months and years to come?
3ft $ ' # $ *
Springtime is coming and beginning to
come quickly now. As a rule it is the hard­est
season of the year for one to control
the mind and apply it to the tasks of the
student. The index of education is just
that control, that ability to concentrate,
that capacity for mental and intellectual
effort when all the world is calling for
something else, the - natural awakening of
the season, growing of the growing things,
the sap rising in the trees, the smell of
the turned furrow. Do not lose your grasp,
be conscious of a little more sincere effort
to apply yourself to the tasks of college
life.
°£ AUBURN FOOTPRINTS «
" L i t t l e Things"
By Tom Bigbee
The wide variety of weather offers
splendid subjects for conversation nowa­days;
is such chatter out of style, we won­der?
Have you contributed to the relief fund
for the flood stricken area? If you aren't
already stricken about as hard as they, now
is a splendid time to do a good turn. Think
it over, and then drop in a mite, at least.
A good contribution from Auburn would
serve as a splendid advertisement, as well
as do untold good among those who are
now in dire need.
We trust the situation here has left a
very favorable impression on the recent
visit of representatives from Texas A. &
M. college. President Walton and student
L. W. Johnston. Weren't you favorably
impressed with the trim appearance of this,
cadet?
Recently a student remarked that it
seems strange for an abundance of water
to bring on a scarcity of this commodity;
he was thinking of the breaking of Wilmore
Dam, and the possible shortage of water
here as a result.
While Yale will devote $7,500,000 to
"study mankind", some of us have acquired
considerable data at far less cost.
'He's right, but he's not modern," I heard
remarked recently. What is right and
what is modern?
You hear a lot about the permanent
wave, but what a lot of the masculine gen­der
would like to see is a permanent shave.
Yes, trot it out; we military boys could use
such to a great advantage.
There must be a shortage of balls in
baseball practice, else why should they be
swatting the bean of one of the candi­dates?
Isn't it nice to fall back into full swing
again—plenty of quizzes, etc.? Or is it?
Anyway, it does seem more natural.
Many a good thing has been pulled off
on Friday, the 13th—by fellows who for­got
the date.
THE GEDUNK
I am the Gedunk who always likes to
give the impression that he has read every­thing
and is a great lover of literature.
Very often I appear very well read by
reciting little quotations from great
writers. I never am in a discussion, in
which I do not strengthen my statements
with trite quotations, which I have mem­orized.
I have also read all the new books
and I like very much to tell my friends
about them. Although I have read scarcely
anything, I am able to give the impression
of being a scholar by quoting great men.
I never read the new books, but I read
a review of them; thereby getting the gist
of the book and someone else's opinion,
which I use as my own.
HASHED SCRAPS
May I suggest that the greatest disaster resulting from the flood was not the
interruption of Woman's College mail service, nor washing the tobacco stains
from the sidewalks; it was the flooding of the Sigma Nu cellar. The water heater
was put out of commission, thus causing J. B. McMillan and Pete Crenshaw to
be seen up town at noon Friday without a shave. Horror of horrors! Susan
Spangler and Ann Summers pooled their spending money to buy a book advertised
in the newspapers—"What a Young Lady Should Know Before Marriage"—the
book arrived: "100 Cooking Recipes". Two of the English faculty were recently
in a train wreck and one of the two felt himself slipping from this life. "Goodbye,
Kenneth", he groaned to his friend. "I'm done for." "Don't say that, Alex, boy",
gasped Kenneth in horror. "For heaven's sake, don't end a sentence with a prepo­sition."
From observation in the S. S. S. it seems that the dresses Co-eds wear are
certainly great for getting up stares. Note: This bunk is said, written and other­wise
conceived by no one in particular. If you are used maliciously in this column
and your feelings are hurt, derive whatever comfort you canf from the fact that
nobody cares.
* * * * * * * *
THE VALUE OF A SMILE
I sat this morning, gloomy, dull,
In pessimistic mind;
Downcast and blue; disheartened, too;
I sought no joy to find.
What good was Life, and worldly strife;
What joy in living now?
How could I make my life worth while? *
I thought—how could I; how?
A step approached; I raised my head;
Beheld a vision fair:
A dainty maiden with charming smile,
Brown eyes and chestnut hair.
Her smile struck sunshine to my heart,
And filled me with delight—
That smile was answered with my own,
And Dawn replaced the Night.
A lesson here, I hope, is told;
The value of a smile.
. A carefree smile in time of gloom
Makes Life at least worth while.
—Convict number 969.
* * * * * * * *
THIS WEEK'S QUESTION
"Mamma, how much do people pay for a pound of babies?"
"Babies are not sold by the pound, dear."
"Then why do they always weigh them as soon as they are bflrn?"
—Adonis.
* * * * * * * *
FOOTPRINTS
Presents
Gene Walsh, Co-ed Idol of the Auburn Campus, and Secret Sorrow of Innocent
High School Girls
In
"The Big Diamond Pin Mystery"
Adapted from the Story, "I Cannot Tell a Lie", by the eminent P. Beard.
The Glamorous Mr. Walsh will be supported by a cast of Idiotic Company
Stars: Rayford Lloyd will be the stealthy, moustached villain; Miss Grace Moon,
brilliant campus light, will ably portray a South Sea beauty; Mercer Helms will be
seen in a new role as minister of the Presbyterian church and encourager of
Christian Endeavor; Shorty Long will portray the groaning invalid; Tubby Jacobs
and Miss Ruth Murray will play Punch and Judy; Howard "Forsty" Smith will
play the part of the fidgety, very nervous inventor; Miss Harris will preside at the
red-hot position of "the Court Stove-tender"; Roy Sellers, prominent Y. M.-C. A.
worker will operate the Monte Carlo outfit; Miss Katherine Porter and Bill Moon
will be seen as scantily-draped Grecian statues.
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
VERY NICE
"Now we can start being big men and
women on the campus". This is the jubi­lant
cry of freshman students at the Uni­versity
of Michigan with the beginning of
the second semester of the year. Michigan
places a restriction upon freshmen, forbid­ding
them to participate in, or dabble in,
any student activities until the second
semester of year. Proficiency in class­rooms
must be demonstrated first; activi­ties
ride in the rear seat for a semester.
Very nice.
* * * * *
TOO BAD
Students at Park College, Mo., recently
walked out on their classes when they heard
a fire alarm. Evidently such excitement is
rare in Park. It later worked out that
some of the townspeople were trying out a
siren to see if it worked. Can you get a
picture of the dissappointment on the stu­dents
faces when they received this chance
of escape from their classes?
* * * * *
HAS HE AN AEROPLANE
Globe trotters, flag pole sitters, chewing
gum champs, and all here comes a new
one. Howard College has the honor of pos­sessing
a sophomore who travels 128 miles
daily to and from classes. It seems that
the student lives in a little town about 58
miles from Birmingham, and makes the
trip every day. Since he is a soph, and has
been doing this same thing since he enter­ed
school, it's a safe bet to say that he's
traveled quite a bit more than the distance
around the world to school. Just think of
it.
* * * * *
LET'S GO
Emancipation has brought on a great re­construction
era. With their new found
freedom women are adding more and more
privileges. The sacred rights of men are
being snatched from their hands like their
salaries on Saturday night. Not being
satisfied with male privileges, the Amazons
are taking their sins. The woman who is
not equal to a man in every respect is en­tirely
passe.
The latest trangression is in hopping
rides. Not to be outdone by feminine
hitch-hikers of the East, Baylor women are
snagging rides on the corners heretofore
sacred to men. Well I'll be d ; let's
move to Mars fellows.
* * * * *
BOY HOWDY!
Hats off to the latest in university im­provements.
According to the latest re­ports
of the Campus, official newspaper of
the Oklahoma City University, a necking
booth has been built in the administration
building. Plans are being made to send
some worthy student through college by
percentage of funds taken from the profits
of the booth. Just to think, a student is
to be sent through college on somebody's-neck.
It is planned to charge five cents for
five minutes in the booth and five cents
for each additional five minutes. The boy
will pay the first five cents and the girl
will pay the extra minute money. They
are very unfortunate in not having Ag.
Bottom.
* * * * *
MARRIAGE MADE SIMPLE
A practical course in Marriage and Fam­ily
Life, listed as Sociology, 11, will be
given for seniors and graduate students
during the spring quarter at the University
of North Carolina.. This is the wrong
time of one's college career to be giving a
course like this. Look at the men we have
on our campus who have been married
since their first or second year in college.
Anyway, if a man has got enough sense
to stay single until he gets to be a senior
in college—Well.
Co-eds are a liability, according to
Knute Rockne, famous Notre Dame coach,
who attributes his success to the fact that
there are no women at Notre Dame. "She
takes a lot of the athlete's time, either at
the expense of his studies, his playing or his
sleep". This makes one wonder just what
part our co-eds have played.
MEDITATIONS
ON THIS AND THAT
?By ^Benjamin Trovos^
EDITORIAL NOTE: The opinions ex­pressed
in this column are not necessarily
the editorial opinions of this paper. It-.ir
a column of personal comment, and is not
to be read as an expression of our edi­torial
policy.
* * * * *
THERE is a little book of one hun­dred
and sixteen pages, about a
quarter of an inch thick, over in the
Library, entitled "The Evolution of Man
Scientifically Disproved in 50 Arguments".
It was written by Rev. William A. Wil­liams,
D. D., president of Franklin College,
Ohio. In this thin volume he claims to
refute and to put at naught the investiga­tions
and conclusions of Lamarck, Buffoon,
Erasmus Darwin, Goethe, Haeckel, Spen­ser,
Charles Darwin, and a host of others
whose names are not at my finger-tips.
I read most of the volume one afternoon
last week. That evening I went over to
hear Dr. McGuire preach. In his sermon
he stated that, "the Bible is the revelation
of God's will toward man, and man's duty
to God; that in this field it is supreme;
outside this field it is not supreme. It
is not to be used as a textbook on science
or economics or anything else."
That statement helped to reconcile cer­tain
apparently irreconcilable facts that
Mr. Williams points out.
. * * * * *
WE HAD a momentary taste of
what our -ancestors experienced
regularly, last week when rail­road
and highway connections were cut off
by the flood waters. We felt lost after
missing our morning papers two mornings
consecutively, even if it was because we
couldn't keep up with Barney Google or
Jiggs.
* *' * * *
LAST week I had occasion to read sev­eral
of the essays, of Ralph Waldo
Emerson. To-night, several quota­tions
are still sticking in my mind. Such as:
"What I must do is all that concerns me,
not what the people think."
"If the single man plant himself indomit­ably
on his instincts, and there abide, the
huge world will come round to him."
"I had better never see a book than to
be warped by its attraction clean out of
my orbit, and made a satellite instead of
a system."
"In self-trust all the virtues are compre­hended."
"Whoso would be a man must be a non­conformist."
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin
of little minds."
"Let a man then know his worth, and
keep things under his feet. Let him not
peep or steal, or skulk up and down with
the air of a charity boy, a bastard, or an
interloper, in the world which exists for
him."
"When private men shall act with ori­ginal
views, the lustre will be transferred
from the actions of kings to those of gen­tlemen."
"Travelling is a fool's paradise."
"Insist on yourself; never imitate."
"The great man is he who in the midst
of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness
the independence of solitude."
"A man shall not for the sake "of wider
activity sacrifice any opinion to the popu­lar
judgments and modes of action."
The famous transcendental critic pre­faces
his essay on History with these
verses,
I am the owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakspere's
strain.
It does one good to read the old boy oc­casionally,
after hearing incessant talk on
Team-Work and conventionality and sacred
old customs and mass-production and sub­servience
to Public Opinion and other stuff
that he doesn't agree with.
It seems that one is reading the source
of much of the modern revolt against con­vention.
Transcendentalism has not yet
ceased its influence, evidently.
INVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
—William E. Her ley.
is
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Fullan Writes On Auburn's War-Time Student's Army Training Corps
ACTIVITIES OF AUBURN MEN
DURING WAR ARE DESCRIBED
By Prof. M. Thomas Fullan
When the United States entered
the lists in the struggle for Democ­racy,
it became necessary to train an
army of "fighting mechanics" at the
earliest possible moment. Modern
warfare with its machine guns, aero­planes,
motorcycles, motor-trucks,
tanks, radio-signalling devices, and
various kinds of artillery, demands
the services of the trained engineer
and the skilled mechanic. The great
conflict that had been raging in
France had demonstrated in no un­certain
manner the importance of the
technically trained man in~the army.
In the emergency the Government
turned to the technical colleges for
assistance in the training of the vo­cational
men. The colleges with their
trained staffs of technical specialists
and ample laboratory equipments had
anticipated this call and many had
already offered their services to the
War Department.
In the South, the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, at Auburn, was
among the first of the colleges to be
selected by the Committee on Edu­cation
and Special Training to un­dertake
the vocational instruction.
The "Polytechnic" is the first insti­tution
in the South to foster voca­tional
education, and is the pioneer in
engineering and technology. In its
faculty were the trained specialists
ready to meet the emergency and its
shops and laboratories required little, ( ) n J n m , , (, , | H f,; i ] ) |_ . , , , _ , R
change to accomodate the v o c a t i o n a l l y ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ C o m
manding Officer, came to the institu-
President"" Thach, executive head of
the Emergency School.
Auburn was assigned about 200
select men to be given eight weeks
of training in Wireless Telegraphy
and Signalling, Auto-Mechanics, and
Driving, and General Mechanics,
blacksmithing, carpentry, pipe-fitting,
drilling metals, electricity, sheetmet
al work, and general materials.
THE
KLOTHES
SHOPPE
UP-STAIRS
BIRMINGHAM
We sell good clothes
for less because it
costs us less to sell
FRED THALEN
Manager
Take the "L"
2071/2 North 19 St.
classes of soldiers.
President Thach and his faculty
were desirous of having the govern
ment make use of them and the col­lege
equipment as soon as the country
had entered the war. The entire plant
of the college and the teaching forces
had been offered to the War Depart­ment
some months before the organi­zation
of the Committee on Education
and Special Training. A member of
the faculty had been authorized to
inspect the war work handled by a
technical college in this section and a
report made for the purpose of ascer­taining
to what .extent the equipment
of Auburn might be made use of in
the training of men for special ser­vice.
When the communication relating
to the vocational training was re­ceived
from the Committee on Edu­cation
and Special Training, Presi­dent
Thach read the outline of the
proposed courses to the faculty and
inquired how many might be avail­able
during the summer to carry on
the work of the institution. The facul­ty
expressed a unanimous desire to
Assist the country in the emergency.
The President appointed the follow­ing
members of the faculty as heads
of the divisions of vocational instruc­tion
as outlined hy the Committee:
Prof. A. St. C. Dunstan, Radio; Prof.
C. R. Hixon, Auto-Mechanics; and,
Prof. M. Thos. Fullan, General ,Me-chanfcis.
The organization charged
the departmental heads with the re­sponsibility
of giving the instruction
and providing of the necessary equip­ment
to carry on the work; a daily
conference and report to be made to
tion and met with the President and
departmental heads in consultation
on matters concerning the working
of the military and the instruction.
Two additional military officers, Lt.
Chester W. Spaulding, and Lt. Jas.
C. Guerrin, arrived on June 10. The
military force was further increased
by the arrival of the medical officer,
Capt. Jno. M. Acton, on June 12.
Two medical sergeants were added to
Capt. Acton's staff on June 15.
During the first week in June, the
carriage was decidedly better, their
physical condition improved, and
they manifested a marked interest in
their vocational work. From the first
there existed a fine spirit of coopera­tion
between the military officers and
the faculty, and this cooperation con­tinued
throughout the entire time of
the connection of the college with the
vocational work.
An historical pageant was staged
on the college campus on July 4. The
motif was a patriotic one, and the vo­cational
soldiers in charge of Capt.
Barrs took part in the parade.
On August 15, at the expiration
of the eight weeks of work, the first
contingent had completed the work
mapped out for them and were trans­ferred
to* army camps for further ex­perience
before being sent overseas.
Second Contingent, Aug. 18
The second contingent began to ar­rive
on August 15, and continued to
report for duty during the next three
days. These men, numbering 523,
addresses were brief but inspiring and
a wave of patriotic enthusiasm pass­ed
through the young soldiers, reflect­ing
the interests of the two sections
of the S. A. T. C. remarkably fine
spirit of good will and cooperation
existed between the Sections A and B
in Auburn; not one instance of fric­tion
occurred during the whole time.
The ceremony of the induction of Sec­tion
A with the patriotic themes of
the speakers had much to do with the
smooth working of the two sections.
The section detachment was trans-
Intelligent Speech
Are you always careful about your
speech? If you are not you should be,
for most people judge you by what
you say and how you say it. As col­lege
men you should take pride in
spanking correctly the language of
intelligent and cultivated people.
Do you confuse the use of the prepo­sition
like with the adverb as or as if
in such a .sentence as He acts like he
was told and like he enjoys it? If so,
. _ , . , , . /->»J.„I you have only to observe a simple rule:
ferred to the army camps on October \" J *
, I Use as or as if when, followed by a
15, and the third and last detachment I , ,., , ' „ , , ,
| verb; like when followed only by a
arrived to take its place. This de-army
representative, Capt. D. M. came from Kentucky, Louisiana, and
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Moore (later Major) arrived in Au­burn
aird signed the contract on the
part of the Government for the hous­ing,
feeding, and instruction of the
men for the eight weeks o"f their stay
at Auburn. The Alumni Gymnasium
was accepted as quarters, and Smith
Dining Hall for the mess hall. These
buildings were comfortably furnished
and highly acceptable to the military
authorities. Cots and bedding were
now on hand and the quarters and
mess hall were in readiness for the
arrival of the contingent.
The first detachment of 207 men
from Alabama came to Auburn on
schedule time, June 15, some week or
so after the close of the college ses­sion.
These men were presumably se­lected
by their local boards for their
experience and special fitness for the
mechanical trades. As a matter of
fact, on examining them it was found
that just 5% (10) of them possessed
the training expected of them and on­ly
2% (4) were classified as expert
in their special line of work. They
were willing and anxious to learn the
mechanical processes but to turn out
skilled men in mechanical lines of
farmers, clerks, merchants, and travel­ing
salesmen, was quite an impossible
task. Fortunately among those classi­fied
as experienced were a few Au­burn
graduates who were familiar
with both military and technical mat­ters
and they were great help in get­ting
the work started with the new
and inexperienced men.
On the next'day, June 16, selec­tion
of the men for their suitability
for receiving instruction in the groups
was made. To the Radio were as­signed
30, to Auto-Mechanics 47 were
sent, and 140 were to take General
Mechanics. The Radio work consist­ed
in instruction and practice with
electrical signalling for seven hours
per day, one hour of which was de­voted
to instruction in flag signal­ling—
semaphore and wigwagging;
the Auto-Mechanics for seven hours
per day were also given class work
and practical instruction in the re­pairing
and driving the types of light
cars in general use in the army. A
garage location was' taken over by
the college and fitted up with the
latest equipment of tools and devices.
The vocational men were furnished
with practice in the repair of such
cars that came to the garage to be
ut in proper shape. The General
Mechanics groups were sent to the
several shops and laboratories of the
college, and the sections rotated each
week, allowing each man to receive
one week of training in each subject.
The daily program for the voca­tional
men of the first detachment
was as follows:
Revielle, 5:30, A. M.; Breakfast,
6:00; Military Drill, 7:00-8:00.
Radio Course, Prof. A. St. cJCun-stan
in charge; 8:00 to 12:00 A. M.;
2:00 to 5:00 P. M., (Saturday 8:00
to 12:00).
Auto Mechanics Course, Prof. C.
R. Hixon in charge; 8:00 to 12:00
A. M.; 2:00 to 5:00 P. M., (Saturday
8:00 to 12:00).
General Mechanics Course, Prof.
M. Thos. Fullan, in charge; 8:00 to
12:00 A. M.; 2:00 to 5:00 P.» M.,
(Saturday 8:00 to 12:00).
Military Drill, 5:00 to 6:00 P. M.;
Retreat, 6:00 P. M.; Supper 6:30 to
7:00; Athletics, 7:00 to 8:00 P. M.
Under the instruction of the mili­tary
officers for the short period of
two hours per day, these men who
for the most part had no previous
military experience, presented a fine
appearance on the drill field in the
seeond week of their army life; their
District of Columbia. The local boards
of these sections exercised consider­able
care in selecting the men for
vocational training, and it was found
that a large percentage of them were
experts in their- branches. It was an
easy matter to fill out the quota of
soldier instructors allowed by the
War Department from this contin­gent.
The grouping was as follows:
Radio Electricians and Operators, 93;
Auto Mechanic and Drivers, 90; Vul-canizers
and "Repairmen, 20; Gas
Welders, 10; Carpenters, 95; Ma­chinists,
25; Blacksmiths, 15; Plumb­ers
and Pipe-fitters, 40; Sheet Metal
Workers, 60; Telegraph Lineman, 25.
For each 30 soldier students one
civilian instructor was required and
two soldier instructors allowed. This
proportion was maintained through­out
the three detachments.
On August 11, four additional mili­tary
officers were added to the staff
to work with the vocational detach­ment.
These officers were Lt. E. T.
Campbell (now Capt.X, Lt. G. H.
Johnston, Lt. Olin C. Heiniger, and
Lt. Louis Starr. Lt. Starr was the
Quartermaster and had his office in
the Alumni Gymnasium.
The number of instructors had now
increased and it became desirable to
organize a Vocational Emergency
Faculty. President Thach appointed
Prof. Dunstan, Dean of the Emergen­cy
Faculty and Prof. Fullan, Secre­tary.
Meetings were held daily dur­ing
the period that the men were at
drill, and all instructors were pres­ent
to discuss with Dean Dunstan all
matters relating to the instruction of
the yocational men. This daily con­ference
of the departments did much
to strengthen the fine spirit of har­mony
that prevailed in the Vocation­al
School.
It was during the stay of the sec­ond
detachment that the dread Span­ish
influenza that was raging in the
army camps and in the cities found
its way to Auburn. Capt. Acton had
been ordered to Fort Barrancas, at
Pensacola, Florida, and in his place
came Major McBride, Medical Corps,
from Pensacola to assist Major Mc­Bride.
As was usual with the "flu"
a great number of the men were
stricken with it and it was necessary
to discontinue all classes and gather­ings
in order to prevent the spreading
of the complaint. The medical de­partment
was augmented by a num­ber
of contract surgeons and the sick
men received ample medical atten­tion.
Drs. Drake, Thomas, Yar-brough
were in constant attendance
at the post hospital. The usual se­quela
of pneumonia appeared in a
small percentage of the cases stricken,
and an open air ward was construct­ed
by the college at the request of
Major McBride and Dr. Thomas. This
convalescent ward had several unique
features and was constructed by the
vocational carpenters. Oxygen tanks
were secured from the gas welding
outfits and the oxygen administered
to pneumonia patients in a very satis­factory
manner. An additional hos­pital
was added to the post by the
acquiring of Smith Hall the rooms
of which made comfortable ward
rooms.
Induction of S. A. T. C.
On October 1, 1918, the Student
Training Corps, Section A, was in­ducted
voluntarily into the army, with
appropriate ceremony on the college
campus. The entire body of soldiers
assembled in front of the speakers'
stand on the drill ground, and was
addressed by President Thach, Cap­tain
Barrs, Captain Hancock, Judge
Samford, and Mr. T. D. Samford. The
noun.
Do you say He like to have run his
car into the ditch instead of He al­most
ran his car into the ditch? Or
We have a right smart of pecans for
We have a good many pecans?
Do you confuse the noun suspicion
so had its mess. The assignments t o j w i t h t h e v e r b suspecti Or use so
the departments were as follows: Ra-J ( c a l l e d t h e «feminine intensive") in
the sense of very, exceedingly?
tachment consisted of 322 men from
Alabama. They were quartered in the
new barracks building on the campus
that had been built by the previous
detachment, and their mess was in the
new mess hall in which Section A al-
Cumberland Seniors
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dio, 96; Auto Mechanics, 90; Welders,
20; Vulcanizers, 20; Motorcycle Driv­ers,
20; Machinists, 25; Telegraph
Linemen, 25; Surveyors and Map
Makers, 25. The telegraph linemen
of this detachment had the ^exceptional
opportunity of doing a genuine piece
of construction. The college had ne­gotiated
with the Alabama Power Co.
to get power from its lines for lights
and power for the S. A. T. C. camp-at
Auburn, and it was necessary to
build a line of transmission from Au­burn
to a point on the power lines
some four miles north of the town.
The transmission line was designed by
Prof. Hill of the Department of Elec­trical
Engineering, and the material
purchased by the college. The entire
line was built by the vocational men
under the direction of Prof. Hill. The
line fe well built and stands as a mon­ument
to the lab0r, skill, and enthu­siasm
of the vocational men of the
third detachment.
The vocational men made them­selves
at home at Auburn. They en­gaged
in sports—in baseball, volley
ball, football, and. boxing. In box­ing
and baseball more interest was
manifested, particularly the former.
Each Saturday afternoon holiday was
taken up with a game of baseball be­tween
the companies and then a spir­ited
boxing bout usually wound up
the afternoon's recreation. The ath­letic
sports did much to foster a good
Speaking, as well as writing, are
largely matters of habit. If you are
in the habit of making any of these
[errors, drill yourself for a few weeks
in speaking or writing the correct
forms. Watch the speech of others to
see whether anyone else makes the
same errors and form an agreement
with your roommate and a few of your
spirit among the men. A personal
encounter, the passing of blows in
anger, or the use of abusive language
between the men were unheard of
things.
Auburn is glad that it was in a po­sition
to serve the country in the cris­is.
Its faculty that came in contact
with the vocational men know this
group of men better and know the
industrial and vocational needs and al­so
the general educational needs of
the men who seldom have the oppor­tunity
of the college course.
The Senior Class of the College of
Arts at Cumberland University has
taken out five $1,000.00 life insur­ance
policies on the five youngest
members of their class as their gift to
Cumberland, it has been announced
by the class president, Robert Adams.
This is following out a long-establish­ed
custom among out-going classes of
making some tangible recognition of
their love for their Alma Mater.
The individual members of the
class have taken it upon themselves
to pay the premiums on these five
policies for the next twenty years.
Upon their maturity, the principal
will become a part of the permanent
endowment of the university.
Many large colleges and universi­ties
have adopted this insurance plan
as a permanent custom among their
graduating classes, and it is hoped by
the class of 1929 that they have es­tablished
a precedent which will be
followed by other classes after them,
and will become a permanent aid to
the university endowment.
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made by the group.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929.
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CAROL PORTER, Editor DICK JONES, Associate Editor
Elmer Salter, Contributor; Tad McCallum, Palmer P. Daugette, Jack S. Riley, Assistants. IB
Inter-Fraternity Basket
Tourney Ends Monday
By Dick Jones
T h e Interfraternity basketball
tournament, which ends next Mon­day
night, will conclude all games on
the hardwood in the "Plains" this
year and is expected to pull down the
curtain in high style. Only the win­ning
teams are in the run now, which
assures the fans some real basket­ball.
The game between the Kappa .Alpha
Fraternity and the Delta Sigma Phi
Fraternity last Monday was probably
the "hotest" game in the tournament
so far this year. It required three
extra sessions added to the game
before the Delta Sigma Phi quintet
could down the K. A. five. The final
score being 14-12. Winter, forward
for the Delta Sigma Phi five, showed
the best form and led the scorers for
the night with 6 points. Slaughter and
Wible were the K. A. stars. They
scored 4 points each for the losers
and Ellis and Phillips scored the other
4 points.
The Alpha Gamma Rho quintet and
the Sigma Alpha Epsilon five are
"raging" the gym with "fire" in their
eyes in an effort to "cop" all high
honors. These two teams were the
winners for the past two years, and
it looks as though they have a good
chance to keep it between them again
this year.
Scores of the games played up to
Monday night that were not included
in the last issue of the Plainsman:
16th Game
PHI DELTA THETA (13): Driv­er,
and Randall (4), forwards; Har­mon
(5), center; Jones (2), and
Bothwell, guards. Subs.: Hood (2).
PHI DELTA CHI (9): Woodall
(4), and Caldwell, forwards; Rutledge
center; Walters, and Collins (3),
guards. Subs.: Sheer (2), and Put-man.
Referee: Salter; Timer: DuBose.
17th Game
ALPHA GAMMA RHO (38) : Baily
(9), and Reagin (16), forwards;
Vines (6), center; Hester (7), and
Mayton, guards. Subs.: Cotney, El­liott,
and Hawkins.
SIGMA PI (7) : Armstrong, and
Arnold (7), forwards; Pipe,- center;
Payne, and Barefield, guards. Subs.:
Keeling, Cappell and Davidson.
Referee: Dye; Timer: DuBose.
18TH GAME
LAMBDA CHI ALPHA (33):
Hodges (3), and Lutz (16), for­wards;
Chappell, it. (3), center; C.
Chappell (8), and H. Jacobs, guards.
Subs.: Cook, Jackson (3), and L.
Jacobs.
SIGMA PHI SIGMA (13) : Lonner-gan
(3), and Weldon, forwards; Wil­son
(8), center; Granger (2), and
Adams, guards. Subs.: Tigne, and
Green.
Referee: Salter; Timer: DuBose
19th Game
A. T. .0. (8) : Ware (2), and Wil­son
(4), forwards; Beard (2), center;
Helms, and Bush, guards. Subs.: Jen­nings,
and Callan.
PHI DELTA THETA (10): Driver
(2), and Randall (1), forwards; Har­mon
(7), center; Nolan, and Jones,
guards. Subs.: Bothwell.
Referee: Salter; Timer: DuBose.
20th Game
PHI KAPPA TAU (14): Williams
(12), and Miller, forwards; Atkins
(2), center; Mclnnis, and Harris,
guards. Subs.: Willingham, and
Spence.
T. O. X. (30): Kuykendall, I. C.
(13), and Lovelett, forwards; E.
Smith (10), center; G. Smith (1),
and Torney (2), guards. Subs.: Mc­Coy,
Halsm, Flynn, and Kuykendall
(4).
Referee: Salter; Timer: DuBose.
21st Game
THETA KAPPA NU (9): Schlich
(1), and Crum, forwards; Cospon,
center; Morton, and Williams, guards.
Subs.: Rogers (8).
PI KAPPA PHI (14): Rogers and
Rose (2), forwards; Barrow (6), cen­ter;
Crumbie (2), and Herren,
guards. Subs.: Cannon (2), and Up-church
(2).
Referee: Bohler; Timer: DeLoach.
22nd Game
SIGMA NU (17): McCallum (3),
and Spann (6), forwards; Paterson
(5), center; Brown, and Christien
(2), guards. Subs.: Hardy (1).
PHI KAPPA DELTA (13): I. Lewis
(4), and Brittian (2), forwards; J.
Mosley (4); Franklin, and Daugette
(1), guards. Subs.: Lewis (2).
Referee: Bohler. Timer: DeLoach.
23rd Game
DELTA SIGMA PHI (16): Win
ters, and Postell (6), forwards; Moss
(6), center; Thomas, and Harrison
(4), guards. Subs.: Montgomery.
LAMDA CHI ALPHA (9): Hodges
(4), and Lutz (1), forwards; H
Chappell (2), center; C. Chappell
(2), and H. Jacobs, guards. Subs.
Jackson, and Jacobs.
Referee: Dyer.
24th Game
KAPPA ALPHA (24): Ellis (4),
and Slaughter (11), forwards; Wible
(5), center; Robersin, and Phillips
(1), guards. Subs.: Walter, Clingo
(1), Brown (1), and Romeshe (1)
THETA CHI (17): Milligan (3),
and Riley (1), forwards; Harmon
(8), center; Nichol (4), and Leach,
guards. Subs.: Cosin (1), and Mc-
Ree.
Referee: Bohler.
25th Game
BETA KAPPA (4): Sansing, and
Harding (2), forwards; Burt (1),
center; Winters, and York (1),
guards. Subs.: Neville.
S. A. E. (12): Wood (2), and In­gram
(2), forwards; Anderson (4),
center; Frazier (3), and Hoffman,
guards. Subs.: Lively, Gholston, and
Young "(1).
Referee: Bohler.
26th Game
A. L. T. ( 6 ) : Robers (2), and Bee-man
(3), forwards; Jones, center;
Sparks (1), and Boteler, guards.
Subs.: DeLoach, and Baxter.
Referee: Dyer.
27th Game
PHI DELTA THETA (9): Ran­dall
(4), and Driver, forwards; Har­mon
(5), center; Jones, and Bothwell
guards. Subs.: Nolan, and Sibert.
T. O. X. (23): Kuykendall, I. C.
(9), and Kuykendall (5), forwards;
Smith (9), center; Smith, G., and
Torney,'' guards. Subs.: Lovelette,
and McCord.
(Continued on page 6)
Auburn to Meet Fort
Benning on Saturday
By Jack S. Riley
The Auburn baseball team will
make their debut this season when
they face the Fort Benning diamon-deers
in a practice game Saturday af­ternoon
at Benning Camps in Colum­bus,
Ga. '
By this game being a week ahead
of the first conference game, the Tig­ers
will get some actual experience
before meeting Tulane at New Or­leans
on the 29th of this month.
In the regular afternoon practice,
Coach "Slick" Moulton is making hay
while the sun shines. He is making
up for lost time which was caused
by the continuous rains of last week,
by giving long and hard practices in
fielding and batting, along with prac­tice
games between teams chosen
from the members of the squad.
By the time the team gets ready to
depart for their initial game it is ex­pected
that they will have an air­tight
fast-fielding machine along with
a hard hitting lineup.
Prospects Good for
Auburn To Retain
Championship, '29
By Palmer P. Daugette, Jr.
After five weeks practice Auburn's
hopes for another S. C. championship
look very bright.
Although many of last year's stars
have graduated their absence will be
taken care of by material coming up
from last year's frosh squad and by
the reserves of last year. From all
indications it seems that Captain
Howard Smith will "ably take the
place of Fob James at first base. Luke
Ward and Guice Potter are having
a hot race for the keystone sack and
the final result is still in doubt. Roy
"Frock" Pate a newcomer to varsity
ranks, will in all probability take the
place left vacant by Ben Sankey at
shortstop. Alternate Captain Frank
Curry looks good at third base and
more than likely will surpass any of
his previous performances.
In Ben Newton, Jim Crawford and
Joe Burt, Coach Moulton has an out­field
that can put fear into almost
any pitcher. Ben Newton, of last
year's freshman team, makes a prac­tice
of knocking the ball into remote
corners of the field and is expected
to add a great deal to the strength of
the team. Jim Crawford a letter
man of last year, can be counted on
to help the team both in the field and
at bat. Joe Burt, from last year's re­serve
team, will in all probability be
the third member of the outfield as
he has been hitting the ball consis­tently
in pre-season practice.
The mound staff composed of Lee,
Carter, Vines, Roper, Strong, Har-kins,
Landstreet, and McGhee are
expected to bear the brunt of the
pitching duties.
At the present time "Pete" Booth
looks as if he will tie the first string
catcher with Ingram, Tuxworth, and
Tucker as his competitors.
As a whole it looks as if the Au­burn
Tigers will have one of the best
baseball teams in the Southern Con­ference
and that Coach Moulton will
have another championship baseball
team.
Tigers to Present Strong
Ball Club Coming Season
JACK "RED" McLESKEY
one of the big bets for a backfield
berth next year, who has resigned
from school and gone to California
to accept a position. •
McLeskey was an outstanding
Sophomore on the Bohler squad last
year and was being counted on to
strengthen up the "rear works" of
the Tiger machine next fall. How­ever,
he is expected to return to Au­burn
next year to resume his duties
where he left off.
"Red" was Business manager of the
"Cajoler" when he left and Sports
Editor of this paper during the first
semester of the current year.
SPORTS STUFF
Intra Mural Track
Begins This Week
Monday March 25th has been set
as the opening date for the formation
of Intramural track teams represent­ing
the Freshmen of each battalion of
the R. O. T. C. unit.
Intramural Track is being intro­duced
in the hope of increasing the
number of men out for the Fresh­man
track team and the consequent
strengthening of that team, both by
reason of more raw material and also
by affording track men a chance to
compete in Intramural track meets
weekly. This competition, it is be­lieved
will do much towards training
the candidates for outside competi­tion.
The plan is to divide the present
Rat track squad into four teams ac­cording
to battalions of the military
organization. The training will go on
as usual, under the supervision of
Coach Hutsell, and there will be in-tra-
battalion track meets held from
time to time. It is Coach Hutsell's
desire that more men come out for
this form of track than are now on
the Rat squad. Any man who reports
will be given an opportunity to com­pete
in one of these meets and those
showing .promise will be given addi­tional
coaching with a view to devel­oping
them for the Rat or Varsity
squad.
All men who are interested and
who are not at present out for track
report to Lieut. Barth in front of the
Gymnasium Monday March 25th at
3:30 p. m. for enrollment.
A point score will be kept of each
(Continued on page 6)
By "Dusty" Porter
BIRMINGHAM AND ATLANTA
We are sure now the Atlanta fans believe in the theory of "he who
laughs last laughs longest" and the laugh has come good and strong
with Morgan Blake leading the parade. We all remember last year
when Atlanta had a toe-hold on the Southern League, and was out in
front with a few points to spare; no team was fighting harder to main­tain
that lead than was Atlanta, as the season was nearing the final
weeks of play. Now imagine all of that, leading the league, and fighting
hard every day to stay in that position; then, like a bolt of lightning
from out of a clear sky, came the decision that too many Class A play­ers
were drawing pay from the Atlanta Club, and fourteen won games
were erased from the records. Such action sent the Atlanta organiza­tion
tumbling to the lower bracket, and only a few games remained to
be played. Could any team continue to have claims in the closing days
with not a possible chance of accomplishing anything along the cham­pionship
line? Yes, and Atlanta was the club to do just that. We also
recall that Birmingham was responsible for Atlanta's misfortune, and
of course such a friendly feeling has not existed since then, but now the
tables have reversed, and Birmingham finds herself in a similar posi­tion
to the one Atlanta occupied. Does Atlanta appreciate it? The
Czar of baseball dealt Birmingham a crushing blow when Partridge,
Judd and Glazner were made free agents, stripping Birmingham of
three of the best playei-s in the Southern League. This was sweet re­venge
for Atlanta, and it has given the Atlanta sport writers writing '
material for the year if they so desire to use it.
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AUBURN ATHLETICS
At last the bright light is shining on the athletic situation at Au­burn.
To feel depressed will sure bring about a period of depression,
and we have been in that state of mind for four long years. Our re­wards
have been no higher than our real ambitions, but of course we
have been ambitious, but not whole heartedly, and our heart and soul
was not in there pulling at all .times for the very best for Auburn.
We have been weak and would sway with the crowd we were in at the
time, and one with a gloomy outlook could usually find neutral people
to follow his way of seeing Auburn's future in athletics; occasional
knocks were nothing unusual, and the worse part was that the knocks
were in no way constructive. But now we have gone through the worst
period in the history of Auburn, and why I say we have gone through
that period is because things have changed entirely, and only optimism
prevails. The knockers have at last been converted to the most enthu­siastic
boasters, and they realize they can help only by boasting and
seeing the bright side of the'question. The athletes in Auburn have
changed where there was dissention; there is perfect cooperation now,
and one goal is the goal for all. Auburn is all that can be seen in the
future, and they are all pulling for Auburn to come back; not only stu­dents
and Alumni, but outsiders are pulling just as hard. The optimistic
spirit prevails now, and we are the ones to make it permanent.
* * * * * * * *.
EACH AFTERNOON
Regardless of what branch of sports you may be interested in, you
can go out on Drake Field each afternoon and find something that will
be interesting. On Drake Field, you can see the future Auburn foot­ball
team working as though the season opened Saturday; never.has a
greater spirit prevailed than is noticeable among the gridiron men at
present. With the hot sun beaming down, they are working harder
than ever, and when September rolls around, many new faces will be
seen ready and rearing for action. Now just across the field the track
candidates can be seen going through their daily routine, running, jump­ing,
vaulting, and what not; lower down the field can be seen the base­ball
aggregation, preparing for the strenuous campaign ahead. We
would say they are prepared and ready to ride, but not in a back seat.
Now all we have to do is stay behind these boys and watch 'em go. •
By Dick Jones
A big and powerful team will be
seen under fire when the Auburn
Tiger baseball team, coached by
"Slick" Moulton, takes the field
against the opponents of the wearers
of the Orange and Blue colors this
Spring. Eight of Coach "Slick's" best
tossers are around six feet or over
six feet tall and well built in pi'opor-tion
to their height.
With such an excess of strength
on the squad, the Tigers are likely to
be called the "Slugging nine" before
the season is well under way. Ben
Newton, who was a sensation on the
Freshman team last year, is about
the heaviest hitter on the Club. Ben
stands a few inches over six feet and
weighs over two hundred pounds.
I When he raises a bat to swing at a
ball, the bat looks like a tooth pick,
but when that little tooth pick meets
that apple the infield men are seen
dodging a "white streak". Any man
that happened to be on the infield
would be willing to say that Newton
had "mule-power" in his arms instead
of "man-power". Ben performed at
the initial bag on the Rat nine last
year but has been shifted to the out­field
this year. He has been showing
up excellently in all the practices and
is almost sure to be on the opening
lineup when the Auburn batmen break
into their 21 game schedule March
28. They meet the Selma Cloverleaf
nine at Selma that date. The other
outfielders are likely to be Jim Craw­ford
and Joe Burt. Crawford stands
over six feet while Burt lacks only a
fraction of a foot of being six feet.
Both weigh 175 pounds. As Craw­ford
has been shifted from right field
to left field, Joe Burt will more than
likely be the man that will hold down
right field. Ben Newton will then
hop into Akins vacant place, left
field. With these three men in the
outfield there should be very little
for coach "Slick" Moulton to worry
about. His opponents should not get
many home runs off of his Tigers.
All three of these ball chasers were
members of the Bohler eleven this
past year. Csawford played in the
backfield while Burt and Newton per­formed
in the line, Newton being
the only one failing to make his
letter. That was due probably to
his receiving a sprained ankle that
kept him out of playing condition for
.several weeks during the first part
of the gridiron season.
"Frock" Pate, who probably holds
the home-run record at Woodlawn
High school, is about the shortest
man in the infield. However, he
will not be hampered in the least by
this. "Frock" weighs around 170
pounds and is a "natural born" base­ball
player. He has shown better
form at short-stop than any other
Tiger and is probably, without a
doubt, going to be stationed at this
post when the Umpire shouts "Play
Ball" at the initial game. The three
men who are likely to hold down the
bags are: Captain Howard Smith,
first base; Luke Ward, second base;
and Alt. Capt. Frank Currie, third
base. Ward is the only sack holder
that is not a baseball letterman. He
scrubbed under Captain-elect Smith
last year, who performed at second
base that ye_ar. Smith showed such
an improvement in his baseball play­ing
last year that Moulton shifted
him to first this year to fill the
vacant shoes of Fob James.
The backstop position is likely to
be between Pete Booth and Rupert
Ingram. Ingram made an "A" at the
catching post his Sophomore year.
Booth earned his initial letter last
year. Both these Tiger tossers are
Seniors this year and are expected
to hold down this post in fine style.
Ingram stand's over six feet tall and
weighs over 175 pounds. Booth is
short and about the same weight as
Ingram.
The strongest department on the
Tiger nine will be the pitching staff.
It will be made up of five right hand­ed
pitchers and two left handed
pitchers. The two left handers are
Strong and Landstreet. The three
which will stand six feet are McGhee,
Carter and Harkins. All three of
these hurlers work like a "power-driven"
machine and are expected to
give up few hits in any game they
undertake to pitch. McGhee and Lee
are the only veterans from last year
and both are Seniors this year. Roper
is a Junior while Carter and Harkins
are graduates from the Rat team last
year.
During the past three weeks ath­letics
at the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
have been checked a great
deal by the continued down-pours of
rain. Coach Bohler, along with Coach
Moulton, has been unable to make
any progress with Spring training
on the gridfield. However,- Coach
Moulton started his baseball practice
plenty early this year and has them
about in fireing condition already.
Tiger Baseball Schedule for 1929
April
Date Opponent and Their Score
March 28—Selma
29—Tulane
30—Tulane
1—Mtgy. Lions (Possibly)
3—Ga. Tech
4—Ga. Tech
5—B'ham. Southern
6—B'ham. Southern
12—Ga. Tech Rats
13—Ga. Tech Rats
15—Clemson
16—Clemson
19—Ga. Tech
20—Ga. Tech
19—Howard Rats
20—Howard Rats
25—Florida
26—Florida
27—Florida
26—Marion
27—Marion
3—Vanderbilt
4—Vanderbilt
3—Ga. Tech Rats
4—Ga. Tech Rats
10—Georgia
11—Georgia
20—Howard
21—Howard
May
Auburn Score and Place Played
at Selma
at New Orleans, La.
at New Orleans, La.
"A" Day, at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn (Rats)
at Auburn (Rats)
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Atlanta
at Atlanta
at Auburn (Rats)
at Auburn (Rats)
at Panama City, Fla.
at Panama City, Fla.
at Panama City, Fla.
at Marion (Rats)
at Marion (Rats)
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Atlanta (Rats)
at Atlanta (Rats)
at Auburn
. a t Auburn
at Auburn Alumni Day
at Auburn
THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE
AT LAST! CAUSE
FOR UNIVERSITY
LIFE DISCOVERED
The possibility of obtaining an edu­cation
never occurred to students of
OViio State University when they were
asked their reasons for attending the
institution.
But here is the major lure for at­tendance:
"Because it is said a lot
of pretty girls come to Ohio State
University and Ohio State men are
nice to co-eds."
The startling discoveries were
made by Donald Haynes, sophomore
in the School of Journalism, who
wanted a spicy story for "The Lan­tern,"
university daily, and circulated
the questionnaire.
The answers further revealed that
some students selected Ohio State to
uphold family tradition, as a chance
to win fame as an athlete, to make
social contacts, to satisfy dad, and
similar reasons which ran the gamut
of almost everything but the subject
of an academic education.
SANDBURG TO
VISIT EMORY U.
There are 172 candidates for de­grees
at Ohio State this quarter.
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Carl Sandburg, poet and philoso­pher
of the modern school, newspaper­man,
gentleman, vagabond, and chief
exponent of free verse, will appear in
the Emory University auditorium
April IB in one of bis famous lecture-recitals
with his guitar.
Although in the guise of entertain­ment,
Sandburg has a deep under­lying
message to give. He believes
that "The most important question
before us is to put vitality into the
art life of America and to put art
into everyday life."
He maintains that free verse is not
modern, but the oldest known form of
poetry. He believes that free expres­sion
is a higher form of art than that
employed by the "formist." He sees
little reason for rhyme and expresses
himself in "American" rather than
in English.
"All the old signs and symbols that
were used so effectively by the poets
are passing," says Sandburg. "This
is but a transitory age. The plow was
once an effective poetic symbol, but
it is being replaced by the tractor.
The long-horned cattle, the
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Out West they're gradually abol­ishing
the annual round-ups and sub­stituting
an auto show."
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Collected On Cigarettes
During January the United States
government collected taxes on 10,-
000,000,000 cigarettes which exceed­ed
the figure for January, 1928, by
2,000,000,000. Cigarettes produced
in this country exceeded 10,000,000,-
000 the first time in 1928 and indi­cations
are that another record will
be established in 1929.
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STEPHEN VINCENT BENET'S
JOHN BROWN'S BODY
John Brown's Body by Stephen Vin­cent
Benet is an American Illiad. Al­though
based on the period of the
Civil War, it has an epic sweep about
it that reminds one of Homer's ac­count
of the struggle of the Greeks to
capture Troy. Like Homer, Mr. Ben-ponies
ej . j l a g g j v e n u s accounts of battles and
descriptions of the leaders of both
sides in such a balanced and unbias­ed
fashion that his work bids fair
in the future to become an American
classic.
Following an invocation to the
American Muse and a prelude con
cerned with life aboard a New Eng­land
slave ship, Mr. Benet opens his
poem with an account of the dramatic
raid of John Brown on Harper's Fer­ry,
his capture, trial, and execution.
Throughout the rest of the poem, Mr.
Benet makes use of John Brown as a
unifying as well as motivating fac­tor
around which the actions of his
characters and the unfolding of the
bloody drama of civil war revolves.
The leit motif of his poem is in es­sence
the refrain of the old song,
"John Brown's body lies a-mouldering
in the grave, but his soul is march­ing
on."
Although he treats the various bat­tles,
skirmishes, and campaigns of
the Civil War rather sketchily, Mr.
Benet does center his attention on a
few of the most important—the First
Battle of Bull Run, the action at Pitts­burg
Landing in Tennessee, the Bat­tle
of Gettysburg, and Grant's Cam­paign
in the Wilderness. He does not
describe them objectively but rather
as they they effect his various charac­ters.
Mr. Benet's chief concern, how­ever,
is not with battles so much as
with backgrounds. He carries us in­to
prison camps—the Federal camp
at Fortress Monroe as well as the
Confederate prison at Andersonville
—and into the lives of the people be­hind
the fighting lines. We are strug­gling
with those who struggle, we are
sympathetic with those who suffer,
and we feel a common bond of blood
brotherhood rather than any sectional
antagonism toward those who fought
each other so heroically in the '60's.
Mr. Benet's characters are repre­sentative.
The two chief protagon­ists—
Jiick Ellyat of Connecticut, and
Clay Wingate of Georgia—represent
the two sections in conflict. The min­or
characters. are also typical.- There
is Jack Diefer, a Pennsylvania Dutch­man;
Luke Brekenridge, a Tennessee
mountaineer; Curly Hatton, a fat
youth in the Southern army; Spade, a
runaway "nigger"; Shippy, a North­ern
spy; Sally Dupre, Wingate's
sweetheart; Melora Vilas, Ellyat's
sweetheart; and others. Against the
background of the book are seen the
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figures of Lincoln and Davis and the
leaders of the Confederate and Union
armies—Lee, Jackson, Longstree, Joe I
Johnston, Stuart, Beauregard, McClel-1
Ian, Burnside, Pope, Meade, Grant,
Sherman, and other figures whose
fame time has dimmed.
Mr. Benet is to be commended for
his fine comparisons, comparisons so
balanced as to Relieve him from any
imputation of sectionalism. With
equal impartiality, he contrasts Wash­ington
and Richmond, Lincoln and
Davis, the Confederate and Union ar­mies,
the ideals of South and North,
and manages to give us a unified im­pression
of the epoch-making struggle
between two conflicting social and
economic philosophies of life. His
work throbs with the pulse-beat of a
nation—the North struggling to pre­serve
the Union and free the slaves;
the South struggling for the preser­vation
of its integrity and states'
rights.
To read this book and enjoy it is a
testimony to the fact that sectionalism
in this country is dying. We no long­er
feel that are North and South. We
are Americans, and as such we are
appealed to in the pages of Mr. Benet's
book.
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Speak At Cumberland
Caude G. Bowers, editorial writer
of the New York World and Demo­cratic
keynoter at the Houston con­vention
last June, will deliver the ad­dress
to the graduates of the law and
literary departments of Cumberland
at the comnrencement exercises to be
held Wednesday morning, June 5,
it was announced by President Stock­ton.
An invitation was extended to
Mr. Bowers last year to make the
commencement address, but he was
forced to decline on account of
another engagement.
Capt. Nils Granfelt
Takes Up Life As
Physical Director
Founder of one of Sweden's lead­ing
athletic associations, holder of
the Olympic prize for gymnastics, lin-quist,
author of a well known book on
swimming and life saving, Capt. Nils
Granfelt, Swedish gymnist and for­mer
member of the Royal Red guard,
now serves as first year as physical
director at the Virginia Military In­stitute.
Despite the honor of having been
a royal guard, Captain Granfelt
points with greater pride to his rec­ord
as a gymnist. After being grad­uated
from the Royal Gymnastic Cen­tral
Institute, Stockholm, he founded
and for ten years headed the well
known "Gymnos" Athletic Association
of the Swedish capital. As such he re­ceived
the first honor certificate of
the society.
A devotee of virtually all kinds of
athletics, the captain holds royal med­als
presented by the king and crown
prince of Sweden and the late Czar
Nicholas of Russia. In 1912 he won
first prize for gymnastics at the O-lympic
games, Stockholm, and certifi­cates
and letters of recognition ga­lore
recall memories of achievement.
A great admirer of football, he
says, "It is a great game, giving the
player determination to stand up
against a wall and fight for
side."
injuries were, con-his
Madrid University
Students Revolt
Several, shots were fired and a
number of students were slightly in­jured
recently in a continuation of
demonstrations against the dictator­ship
of General Primo de Rivera by
students of Madrid University, prin­cipally
those in the schools of law,
medicine and science. No serious
consequences followed the shooting
and the student
fined to bruises.
The doors of the university were
closed. When several small groups of
students forced their way in they
met a strong force of police. Pub­lication
of sentence of expulsion of
a student at the industrial engineer­ing
school who was forbidden to en­ter
any other in Spain or to occupy
any public office had angered the
other students. Most of them re­fused
to attend lectures and walked
the streets singing popular songs
against the dictator.
The police surrounded the univer­sity
buildings and patrols in the cen­tral
streets of the capital dispersed
any group which attempted to form.
Two detectives who entered the medi­cal
school in disguise were roughly
handled. The police arrested the lead­ing
agitators in their homes with the
intention of sending them to small
towns in the provinces. Many parents
of students are sending their sons
away from Madrid.
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Tulane has been given a set of
the forty-seven reels of motion pic­tures,
called the "Chronicles of Amer­ica,"
produced by the Yale Univer­sity
press, and supervised and con­trolled
by a committee of the Yale
University, it was announced by Tu­lane
authorities.
The pictures, designed for educa­tional
purposes only, were filmed to
make the history and traditions of
the United States more real and vivid
to all Americans, said Professor Al­len
Johnson of Yale, editor of the
series.
The pictures depict striking inci­dents
in the history of America from
its discovery by Columbus to Appo-matox.
In addition to their historical
value, the pictures possess distinct
dramatic quality, as the producers
have enlisted the aid of experts in the
production of motion pictures as well
as co-operation of able men through­out
the country, said Tulane authori­ties.
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the women folks had "modernized" it with trian­gular
sofas, conical armchairs, and July 4 th rugs!
Now, imagine you bought some cigarettes,
and discovered that they were supposed to do
almost everything in the world except what you
bought them for, i.e., satisfy your taste for to­bacco.
Maybe it's the modern idea, but—oh,
well, let's talk about something else!
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PAGE SIX
THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1929.
ADMIRING FATHER DROPS
A LINE TO HIS DEAR SON
My Dear Son:
Your scholastic standings for the
initial semester of your first year at
college aire at hand. Despite five
years of like records during your high
school period they afford me no small
thrill. I take this opportunity to
extend congratulations, for your abil­ity
to remain in college is nothing
short of an art. In some ways, my
boy, you are a genius. The masterly
manner in which you expend but the
minimum of physical and mental en­ergy
in any field you undertake marks
you efficient to a decided degree. And
should you ever—from indications
this might come to pass—come bound­ing
home quite unexpectedly, I as­sure
you that you will find ample
-chance to express your efficient ten­dencies
in and about the barns of
the farm that I own some miles west
of this city.
You, no doubt, felt it unnecessary
to write home and explain how you
attained the marks you did, and in
this you are quite correct. They de­mand
no explanation, speaking quite
plainly for themselves. Of course I
realize that standings are merely the
alphabetical playthings of biased pro­fessors
and are in no way indicators
of real knowledge gained. I also re­member,
from long.talks you gave on
the subject while attending high
school, that knowledge and learning
comes from lectures, and through
textbooks. The "C plus" you earned
in physical education was remarkable,
and deserves praise. Having once at­tended
college myself know that you
must have" spent many diligent hours
with your books in that course.
Your letters have been very irreg­ular
and for that reason your mother
and I have not heard from you since
you were home mornings during the
Christmas recess. Your mother fears
that you may be in a state of ill
health from too conscientious study.
I have assured her, however, that you
are in fine mettle. Your checks, which
are in no way irregular, come in
daily signed in a firm, healthy hand
and it is thru them that I am always
in contact with your physical welfare
and numerous outside activities. Off­hand,
I would venture that you hold
some sort of amateur record for check
writing for a space of the last four
and a half months, an achievement
of which I am constantly reminded by
calls from the cashier of the First
National Bank. This is an age when
everyone must have some record or
another, out of times I half wish that
you had chosen to distinguish your­self
in another way.
Oh, yes, I almost forgot to men­tion
a-letter from the dean of your
college that came along the same day
as your marks. Because of the wide
scope of your extra-curricular activ­ities
and also because of the quality
of your academic work you have caus­ed
that gentleman to sit up and take
notice. He has acquired such an in­terest
in you that he had to write. He
told me a great deal about you in very
definite language, strangely, he dif­fered
with you as to the real value of
grades.* Deans, however, are apt to
differ, otherwise they would not be
deans. So many of their beliefs are
hypothetical, although in all fairness
I must admit that your dean's theo­ries
on the success of your future in
college could hardly be classed as
such.
Should the faculty of your insti­tution
fail to uphold my faith in you
and act unfavorably toward your
petition on arriving home you will
find a pair of overalls in your room
and a Ford out in front waiting to
take you at once out to the farm. I
might add that work along agricul­tural
lines is a bit difficult at pres­ent,
due to a dearth of hired hands
and a hard winter. I would suggest
that college life is at all times a little
more pleasant than rural existence,
and that you" should always keep this
in mind if your impending reunion
with the home folks falls through.
By the way, you no longer have an
account at the First National, the
same having died the proverbial nine
deaths of an alley cat, and I thought
it best to let it remain dead and thus
put a stop to the massacre. Hereaf­ter
on Monday of each week a check
will show up large enough to keep
you in books, society fees, food, cloth­ing,
and an occasional evening with
one of the host of your feminine ad­mirers.
It would hardly be sufficient,
however, to let you continue with
your policy of buying your college
in small installments.
Should you take time from your
studies to write, our address is still
the same.
—YOUR ADMIRING FATHER.
From the Maintor Messenger.
(Continued from page 1)
contrasted this with the college stu­dents
who take subjects that they
never expect to use; everything
studied wil some day become valu­able
is General Bullard's opinion.
General Bullard told of a battle
during the Phillipine insurrection
that was being won by the insurgents;
he used a certain manuever which
caused the battle to belong to him.
He said he thought himself a genius
at originating movements, when he
suddenly remembered that he had
been taught this movement at West
Point in the subject of tactics.
He also related how his knowledge
of the Spanish language led to the
capturing of a large amount of the
rebels' money; the Americans had re­leased
a number of Spaniards who
had been kept prisoners by the Philli-pinos,
and one Spanish sergeant told
the American officers that' he had
seen the insurgents hide a score of
chests filled with money. Genera'
Bullard was the only officer to un­derstand
Spanish; he discovered the
money, the finding of which led to
the breaking of the morale of the
islanders and finally, the ending of
the rebellion.
As Civil Governor of the Philli-pines,
General Bullard's studies in
law were of immense value to him;
this knowledge also beenfitted him
in every phase of his work in the
civil government of Cuba. Columbia
University recognized his abilities;
in law, and conferred an L. L. D. de­gree
upon him.
When America entered the World
War, the American forces in France
were placed under more-experienced
French commanders; General Bul­lard's
knowledge of the French lan­guage
was very valuable to him there,
and he had more responsibilities than
other American officers.
General Bullard was the guest of
the Auburn chapter of the U. D. C.
at their meeting on Tuesday after­noon.
WAPI GIVES AID
TO FLOOD AREA
(Continued from page 1)
plane and took a trip over the flooded
area to see for himself in order to get
first hand information, which he has
passed on to the huge audience of
WAPI. The airplane was employed
by the operators of the station, which
are the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute,
the University of Alabama and
the Alabama College. The Protec­tive
Life Insurance Company, which
is supplying office space and studios,
has cooperated in the work.
Mr. Davis' letter to Governor
Graves follows in full:
"Radio station WAPI has rendered
a great service to the people of the
State during the floods, now subsid­ing.
In fact, I believe that this sta­tion
has rendered a service exceeding
in value the total cost of installing,
and, in addition, more than it will
cost us to operate it for years. •
"It was a service which could be
rendered in no other way, as was re­vealed
to us here at Auburn. For two
days we were without train service.
Hence we received little or no mail.
Only a few newspapers could get in­to
Auburn. Consequently we had to
depend upon the radio for most of our
news about the floods. While it was
news to us it enabled us to make our
contributions for relief of those in the
flooded areas; and to' them this was
great relief.
"Our radio staff in Birmingham is
to be highly commended for the great
service they have rendered. They
worked day and night. It was a stren­uous
job. They performed it nobly,
displaying a great spirit and untir­ing
devotion to duty.
"I wish to mention also the fine
work done by Mr. Smith and Mr.
Binkley of the Montgomery studio.
I listened attentively to their prog­rams
and was very much impressed
with their sincerety and the thorough­ness
with which they performed.
Their «ervice was of inestimable val­ue.
"I think that each one who has had
a part in giving to Alabama Station
WAPI should be congratulated on the
service rendered during this great
emergency. You are entitled to the
highest praise for the contribution
which you have made.
"Later we shall send you a fuller
report on the flood relief work of
Station WAPI.
INTRAMURAL TRACK
BEGINS THIS WEEK
(Continued from page 4)
track meet and the high battalion at
the end of the season will be awarded
the Intramural Championship guidon
for track.
This week marks the close of the
Intramural baseball league. Many
difficulties have been experienced
in the running of the league bad
weather being the chief offender,
but on the whole the project seems to
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McGHEE IS ELECTED
PRESIDENT "A" CLUB
(Continued from page 1)
and brother of the famous James
.twins, Ebb and Fob James, like Mc-
Ghee, is also a member of the S. A.
E. fraternity. James will round out
his career in an Auburn uniform next
season.
The "A" club is composed entirely
of varsity athletes and is one of the
most outstanding clubs on the Auburn
campus. Wm. (Pop) Paterson, Mont­gomery;
Frank Tuxworth, Logans-port,
La.; and Murray Hoffman,
Waverly, Ala. are the retiring offi­cers.
A committee was appointed by the
new president to draw up a new con­stitution,
and another one was ap­pointed
to make final plans for "A"
day which will be fittingly observed
April 1. A baseball game between
the Plainsman diamondeers and the
Montgomery Lions will feature the
program. Other entertaining features
will be arranged for the several hun­dred
visitors who flock to the "Vil­lage
of the Plains" on "A" day.
"A" day will be climaxed with an
"A" club dance that evening. The
music for the occasion will be fur­nished
by Max Jones' well known
Auburn collegians.
have accomplished its purpose—that
of unearthing the greatest amount
of material possible for the rat team
and also of affording an opportunity
for more men to engage in the Na­tional
Pastime than could have done
so on the regular Varsity teams.
The interest shown by the hoys
has been remarkable. The chief dif­ficulty
experienced by those in charge
being lack of facilities to allow all to
play who came out. It was necessary
to cut down the squads and thus
many good players who could not
come out regularly or get out early
enough did not have a chance to play.
In the absence of regular coaches
each team was turned over to a play­er
acting as team captain. Much of
the credit for the success of the sea­son
is due to the interest shown by
these men—Hewitt, Gholston, Lloyd
and Riley.
With the season practically over
it loks as though the pennant will
go to the 3rd Bn Field Artillery team.
This club looks better as play goes on.
Harry Lloyd, its captain, looks like
a future Varsity 1st baseman and
he has a real bunch of ball players
behind him in Kennamer, the Lewis
brothers, Johnson, and Champion. All
of these men have earned a berth on
the Rat squad.
Traffic Is Resumed
Over State Highways
After a siege of the heaviest and
most devastating rainfall ever re­corded
in the vicinity of Auburn the
sun is out again and things are re­turning
to a more normal condition.
During a period of three days here a
total rainfall of ten inches was re­corded
at the weather station which
far surpasses any other mark.
Highways and railroads were made
impassable, farm lands badly wash­ed
and due to the most unusual pre­cipitation
washouts occurring on Wil-more
dam allowed the top eight feet
of the thirty acre lake to get away.
However after a few days of sun­shine
and hard work the railroads
and highways are being or Tiave been
put into passable condition again.
Train service was resumed here Sun­day,
trains running west that day as
far as Shorters before returning to
Atlanta. Regular schedule was start­ed
again yesterday. Service was halt­ed
temporarily over the Central of
Georgia due to the weakened condi­tion
of a fill but was resumed again
Friday night. Bus service between
Montgomery and Columbus thru Au-burn
began again Sunday, the bus
detouring thru Union Springs.
FROSH INVENTS A STRANGE
DEVICE TO OPEN WINDOW
Human needs make necessary the
furtherance of human-made con­traptions
and inventions that are
highly compatable in reaching the
desired effects in the estimations of
several freshmen rooming in Can­dler
Hall on the University of Geor­gia
campus.
To keep fresh air in the dormitory
rooms throughout the sleeping hours
the windows must be kept open, but
who cares to get up on a cold morn­ing
and close the windows; and wait
for the room to warm before dressing
for an 8:40?
Such a problem confronted M. E.
Groover, Jr., LaGrange, and R. A.
Montgomery, Cave Springs, occupants
of room 33, Candler hall, and has
been ingeniously solved by means of
an alarm clock which not only wakes
the freshmen, but serves to close the
windows, too.
The windows were opened and the
clock set to alarm at the desired
time. When the bell began to ring,
the windows slowly clijsed—and it
worked perfectly! Westinghouse, Edi­son,
Ford, and other master inventors
were not present to witness the ex­hibition,
but its success warrants a
further inspection by the alarm clock
companies in the hope that additional
purposes might be discovered for the
product.
The alarm clock is banded to a
table which stands between the two
windows. Attached to the clock is
a wooden cog which in turn is con­nected
to a trigger with a cotton
string. The trigger lies midway be­tween
the window sashes, tacked to
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TOURNEY ENDS MONDAY
(Continued from page 4)
Referee: Salter.
28th Game
DELTA SIGMA PHI (14): Win­ter
(6), and PosteTl, forwards; Moss
(4), center; Thomas, and Harrison
(4), guards.
Kappa Alpha (12): Ellis (2), and
Slaughter (4), forwards; Wible (4),
center; Phillips (2), and Robinson,
guards.
29th Game
PI KAPPA PHI (.4): Rogers, and
Rose, forwards; Bowers (2), center;
Crumbie, and Home (2), guards.
ALPHA GAMMA RHO (13):
Bailey (2), and Reagin (7), for­wards;
Vines, center; Mayton, and
Hester (4), guards. Subs.: Cotney.
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Gamma Sigma Epsilon
H a s Spring Election
Three men were elected to mem­bership
in Gamma Sigma Epsilon,
honorary chemical fraternity, at the
annual spring election of that or­ganization.
The purpose of Gamma
Sigma Epsilon is to promote high
scholarship and fellowship among the
students of chemistry.
Detla Alpha Chapter was establish­ed
at Auburn in 1923. Elections are
held twice a year; the spring election,
when selections are made from the
junior class, and also one sophomore,
and the fall election, when the seniors
are chosen.
The following is a list of the se­lected
men: J. D. Smith, Jr., sopho­more,
Birmingham, Ala.; H. L. Hub­bard,
Anniston, Ala., and 0. W. Al­len,
Camp Hill, Ala., both juniors.
the window facing. The upper win­dow
sashes are connected to a pulley
at the end of which is a large stone
rock.
When the clock alarms, the wooden
cog revolves, winding the string up­on
it, which releases the trigger—
and the window closes.
Other contrivances are to be
found in the rooms of the freshmen
which tend to eliminate the expendi­ture
of human labor and which make
for a more modern world.
Thomas W.Pike Wins
Oratorical Contest
The annual oratorical contest spon­sored
by the Phi Delta Gamma hon­orary
fraternity was held in Broun
Hall on Tuesday night, March 19,
1929, before a large and appreciative
audience. The contest was held at
the regular literary society hour and
all the societies were well represent­ed.
There were three speakers for the
occasion, representing the different
societies. The first speaker, Thom­as
W. Pyke, represented the Wilson-ian
society. His subject was "The
Present Significance of the Consti-tion."
The second speaker, S. D.
Rains, represented the Websterian
society. His subject was "The Con­stitution
of the United States".
Clyde Kimbrough represented the
Wirt society as the last speaker on
the program. "When .We Put Out
to Sea" was his subject.
Although all the speakers gave in­teresting
orations which were well
presented, Thomas W. Pyke was giv­en
the decision. His speech was very
interesting from start to finish, and
held the attention of the audience
throughout the time allotted to him.
He explained very thoroughly the
present significance of the constitu­tion
to the people of the^ .United
States as a whole. He was presented
the cup on which his name and the
name of the society which he rep­resented
will be engraved.
THIRD BATTALION CINCHES
TITLE IN INTRAMURAL RACE
By Tad McCallum
Twin bills are being dished out
daily to the Intra-Mural diamond per­formers
in order to play off all post­poned
games before Friday when the
league will disband and Coach Brown
will take charge of the Frosh tossers.
The 2nd Battalion won from the
Engineers, 9 to 6, in the first en­counter
Monday afternoon while
the 3rd Bat. whitewashed the 1st Bat.
nine in the nightcap by a 5 to 0
score. This game cinched the flag
for the 3rd Battalion as they can lose
all the remaining games and still
have a higher percentage than any
other team in the league.
The 3rd Battallion was again vic­torious
in Tuesday's opener when
Champion singled to left in the final
inning to score Lloyd and give his
team a 2 to 3 victory over the 2nd Bat.
The game was well played and tight­ly
contested throughout, going an ex­tra
inning before the winner was de­cided.
Smith, 2nd Battalion hurler,
whiffed ten opposing batsmen but
gave up two hits in the last inning
that put across the winning run. Tew
also hurled a nice game and held the
2nd Battallion sluggers to four hits.
The 1st Battallion aggregation hit
hard and often to win from the 2nd
Bat. by a 7 to 3 score in the second
game Tuesday afternoon. The 1st Bat
scored 5 runs in the 4th inning by
consistent slugging while Smith held
the 2nd Battallion to four Kits. Every
man on the 1st Battalion team was
credited with at least one hit.
Following are box scores for Tues­day's
games:
FIRST GAME
3rd Battalion AB R H E
Kennamer, If 3 0 0 0
Lewis, A., c 3 0 0 0
Lloyd,, lb 3 1 1 0
Lewis, S., ss 2 0 0 0
Johnson, 2b 2 1 1 0
Champion, cf 3 1 3 0
Hargitt, 3b 2 0 0 1
Ingram, rf 2 0 0 0
Tew, p 2 0 0 0
Coach Lee Farmed To
Macon Baseball Club
News has been received in Auburn
that Burnham (Sheriff) Lee, member
of the Macon baseball club in the
Sally league, and owned by the
Brooklyn Dodgers has been farmed
out again to the Macon club for fur­ther
seasoning. Lee, who is a form­er
Mississippi college three letter man
assisted Coach Bohler with the Plains­men
footballers and basketeers last
season and will again return to the
"Loveliest Village" next season.
Lee made quite a record his first
year in professional baseball and
many were counting on him sticking
in the "big show". The Dodgers are
well supplied with outfield material
which probably accounts for him
being farmed out to Macon for the
second consecutive summer.
Totals
2nd Battalion
Wilson, ss
Wible, 2b
Gholston, lb
Davidson, 3b
Duke, c
Lowe, cf
Chappelle, If
Sullivan, rf
Smith, p
Totals
22
AB
2
3
3
2
2
3
3
3
2
23
3
R
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
6
H
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
3
1
E
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
2
AUBURN SCOUT TROOP
WILL MEET MARCH 22
(Continued from page 1)
international honorary scout frater­nity.
All students who are interested in
becoming a member of this advanced
troop will meet in the reading room
of Ramsay Hall, at 8 P. M., Friday,
March 22.
Score by Innings:
3rd Bn 020 001 -3
2nd Bn 002 000 -2
SECOND GAME
2nd Battalion AB R H E
Wilson, ss 3 0 1 0
Wible, 2b 3 0 1 1
Gholston, lb 2 1 0 0
Davidson, 3b 2 1 0 0
Duke, If 2 1 2 0
Arnold, rf 2 0 0 0
Chappelle, cf 2 0 0 0
Turman, c 2 0 0 0
Foutz, p 10 10
Ellison, p, 10 0 0
Totals
1st Battalion
Edmondson, cf
Hewett,. rf
Harding, 3b
Tucker, c
Ward, If
Biggerstaff, 2b
Burgess, 3b
Smith, p
Harrison, ss
20
LB
2
2
3
3
2
2
2
1
2
3
R
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
5
H
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
E
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
Totals
Score by innings:
19 7 9 2
2nd Bn 020 10 -3
1st Bn 200 5x -7
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