1929-01-31 The Plainsman

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FEBRUARY 8
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOLUME LII AUBURN, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1929. NUMBER 29
PREPARATIONS BEING MADE
FOR ANNUAL PRESS MEETING
Success Of Project Is Much
Desired As Preparation
Begins Early
WILL BE ANNUAL EVENT
Newspaper Editors Will "Go
To School" While Here
Six months in advance of the com­ing
of the editors of Alabama to Au­burn
for their first annual press in­stitute,
preparations for it are being
made. President Bradford Knapp
wants each editor in the state to
come to Auburn at that time, and as­sures
them that a program that will
be interesting and valuable will be
arranged.
The gathering will be known as the
Alabama Press Institue, which is to
become an annual event at Auburn
It is being sponsored jointly by the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute and
the Alabama Press Association of
which E. C. Hall, Alexander City, is
president. Arrangements for the
1929 meeting are being made by a
special committee composed of F.
W. Stanley, of the Greenville Advo­cate,
and P. O. Davis, of the depart­ment
of public information at Au­burn.
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Date for the institute has not been
named but editors have expressed a
desire that it be held late in the sum­mer.
An earlier date is not feasible
in view of the fact that the conven­tion
cruise of the Alabama Press As­sociation
will be conducted from
May 10 to 22, during which editors
will assemble at Columbus, Georgia,
and go to Savannah where they will
sail to New York and then go to Mon­treal,
Canada, to spend three days
before returning home.
During their stay in Auburn edi­tors
will "go to school" in the sense
that they will study practical, import­ant
problems. Leading journalists
will be on hand to conduct classes and
time will be allowed for round-table
discussions. Entertainment features
will be included. In addition to edi­tors,
students of journalism and
others who are interested may attend.
Registration Increases
For Second Semester
Information has been received from
the registrar's office to the effect that
at the end of the official registration
time, over seventeen hundred stu­dents
have registered for the second
semester. Among the new students
registering are about twenty-five who
have attended Auburn in preceding
terms, and are returning here to con­tinue
their educations. Fifty of the
new registrants have never attended
Auburn before, quite a number have
'attended other colleges, however
most of these have just finished high
school and choose Auburn to com­pete
their educations.
Famous Auburn Band to Play at Mobile Mardi Gras
^X&UU-COLLEGE
LIBRARY
RECEIVES BOOKS
The college library has received a
large number of new books for this
year; these books are among the
newest and most valuable books pub­lished
last year. They cover every
subject offered by the college, and
many of the books are written about
topics which are interesting to the
faculty and students. An appropria­tion
from the institute makes possible
the purchase of a large number of
books each year, each department
sending a list of the books that are
needed. A number of books are
bought each year„.by the State and
given to the Education department;
they prove very valuable to this de­partment.
Most of the new books are on fol­lowing
subjects: Highway, Mechanic
cal, Electrical, and Civil Engineering;
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
many of which books are from Ger­many;
Music; books on cotton, live
stock and many other agricultural
books; Home Ec. books; Architect
books.
State P.T.A. Will Aid
Welfare Department
Through a special committee of
which Mrs. Beulah Van Wagenon is
chairman the Parent-Teacher Asso­ciation
of Alabama wil lcooperate
with the State Child Welfare depart­ment,
Montgomery, and also the Na­tional
Child Labor Bureau in juve­nile
work in Alabama. Mrs. Van Wa­genon
made this announcement upon
assuming chairmanship of the juve­nile
committee.
• This committee is part of the com­mittee
on public welfare, of which
Mrs. T. B. McDonald of Auburn is
chairman. It is probable that a gen­eral
survey of working children will
be made, Mrs. Van Wagenon said.
ANDERSON WILL BE
HERE FIFTH YEAR
Popular Officer Remains By Special
Concession War Department
By special concession Captain B.
C. Anderson, army officer stationed
with the R. O. T. C. at Auburn, will
remain another year, making a total
of 5 years. Announcement of this
was made by President Bradford
Knapp after receipt of a communica­tion
from the War Department at
Washington.
Four years is the customary period
for army officers to serve at a col­lege.
During his stay at Auburn,
Captain Anderson has become very
popular with students, faculty, and
tonwspeople with the result that he
will remain another year, which will
extend his service at Auburn until
the summer of 1930.
AUBURN BAND IS SELECTED IN
PROMINENT CARNIVAL GROUP
The fifty-three piece Auburn Band that will leave here next Friday on their annual trip to Mo­bile
for the Mardi Gras festivities. Insert, Professor P. R. Bidez, director of the band.
FOUNDER Y.M.C.A.
SCHOOL IS HERE
Using as his theme, "And Jesus
pased out unnoticed, there being a
great crowd in that place," Dr. W.
D. Weatherford, president and found­er
of the YMCA Graduate School at
Nashville, and former Southern Stu­dent
YMCA Secretary for eighteen
years, spoke to members of the Au­burn
Friendship Council here Tues­day
morning. He very forcibly em­phasized
the fact that training in re­ligious
leadership in American col­leges
is being crowded out, and should
receive vastly more attention .
Dr. Weatherford is a very dis­tinguished
character in YMCA and
religious activities throughout South­ern
colleges, and his visit was a dis­tinct
honor to the "Y" organization
here. Having visited Auburn at least
once each year during his Southern
secretaryship, he is a close friend of
a number of the older faculty mem­bers,
including Deans Petrie, and
Ross, Professors Shi, Rutland, and a
number of others. Dr. Weatherford
is also a close friend of Dr. Knapp.
Dr. Weatherford is now president
of the YMCA graduate school for col­lege
graduates at Nashville—an edu­cational
plant where men and wo­men
are trained for religious leader­ship
in YMCA work; and, incident­ally,
the only one of its kind in the
South.
AGRICULTURAL
CLUB ELECTS
NEW OFFICERS
LECROY IS NEW PRESIDENT
O r g a n i z a t i o n Closes Semester
W o r k Under Duggan
T a y l o r
Ten Students Finish
Work For Degree
Seniors of 1928-29 who are can­didates
for graduation in May, and
who expect to complete the required
work during the first semester are as
follows:
Vera Cosby, Sec. Ed.; Forney Rut-ledge
Daugette, Gen. Bus.; William
Curtis Friday, Ag. Ed.; Mayme How­ell
Miller, Sec. Ed.; Cornelius Marion
Suffich, C. E.; Frances Trammell,
Sec. Ed.
The following students have com­pleted
the requirements for gradua­tion
since the last award of degrees,
and will receive diplomas in May:
Henry Warren Hinton, Gen. Bus.;
Richard C. Shepard, Pre. Med.; Mary
Eunice Stinnett, H. Ec.; Richard
Dexter Yarbrough, Elec. Eng.
In the regular semester election of
Agricultural Club officers which was
held Wednesday night, January 30,
much interest was manifested, which
is only in keeping with the liveliness
of this organization reputed to be the
most wide awake and active one on
the Auburn campus.
T. H. LeCroy, senior Ag. Ed. stu­dent
and quite popular on the cam­pus,
was elected president of the Club
to succeed J. R. Taylor, also a popu­lar
senior in Ag. Ed. and selected as
best all-round Junior in Agriculture
last session. Under the presidency of
Mr. Taylor through the past semester,
the Agricultural Club experienced one
of the most successful periods in its
history. Mr. LeCrocy as new presi­dent
is regarded by the members of
the Club as a dependable man for
furthering this splendid record
through the past semester.
In addition, the following members
were elected to the positions named:
M. V. Hallman, vice-president; H. W.
Bennett, secretary; G. J. Cottier,
treasurer; V. Savage, Jr., reporter;
Forrest Word, cheer leader; Bill An­drews,
assistant cheer leader; A\ F.
Bass, librarian; I. C. Kuykendall, ser-geant-
at-arms.
The retiring officers are: J. R. Tay­lor,
Jr., president; T. R. Home, vice-president;
Malcolm Croft, secretary;
A. L. Smith, treasurer; V. Savage,
Jr., reporter; L. I. Perry, cheer lead­er;
and P. H. Alsobrook, librarian.
Students Ate Trained
From 18 Countries
From 18 foreign countries 72 stu­dents
came to the Ala. Polytechnic In-stitte,
Auburn ,from 1872 to 1928,
according to a study of the records
made by Prof. Charles Edwards, as­sistant
registrar.
Of these 72 students,- Cuba stands
at the top in number, with 23. Mexi­co
was second with 13 and foreign
countries were represented as fol­lows:
Venezuela, two; British Hon­duras,
three; Germany, two; Porto
Rico, one; Turkey, one; Africa, one;
Peru, three; Guatemala, one; Philip­pine
Islands, one; and Japan, one.
Prof. Edwards said alumni rec­ords
show that men trained at Au­burn
are scattered throughout the
world and are leaders in their chosen
fields.
Re-Examinations
Are Announced
For students with grades from 50
to 59, made prior to September, 1928,
or those absent with permission from
the regular examination.
All Students who now have "con­ditions"
should take the reexamina­tions
or repeat in class.
Students must secure card from
Registrar, and notify professor. A
fee of $2.00 for each examination is
charged but the maximum cost is
fixed at $5.00. A student will be ex­cused
from his regular class work
which conflicts with this reexamina­tion
schedule.
All reexamination and special ex­amination
grades, whether passing or
failing, should be reported pi-omptly
to the Registrar., A passing reexami­nation
grade will be recorded as 60.
Monday, Feb. 11
A. M.: Foreign Languages.
P. M.: Zoology & Entomology,
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Eastern Star Holds
Tri-County Meeting
' " The tri-county conference of the
Order of Eastern Star opened at the
Eastern Star hall here this morning
at ten o'clock. There were from sev­enty-
five to- one hundred delegates,
representing about eleven chapters in
Lee, Macon, and Chambers counties.
The different phases of the Eastern
Star work was the main subject dis­cussed.
The conference lasted practically
all day, and throughout the day, pro­grams
consisting of musical and vocal
numbers, as well as interesting read­ings,
were presented. Dinner was
served to the delegates in the Eastern
Star dining hall.
Among the delegates were two pf-ficals,
both of whom live in Auburn;
there were Mrs. Cora McAdory, as­sociate
Grand Matron of the Grand
Chapter* Order of Eastern Star of
Alabama, and Mrs. Bradford Knapp,
past Grand Matron of one of the
chapters in Washington, D. C.
AUBURN STUDIO
BROADCASTING
TO BEGIN SOON
Neighboring Editors
To Meet Here Friday
With a view to forming an organi­zation,
editors of papers published
in Lee, Macon, Coost, Tallapoosa,
Chambers', and Randolph Counties
have been called to meet at Auburn,
Friday night, February 1. The meet­ing
was called by P. O. Davis at the
request of E. C. Hall, president of
the Alabama Press Association, Alex­ander
City.
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Result Of Outstanding Work
Throughout Several
Years
M. T. FULLAN IS FOUNDER
Band Grows From Drum Corps
To SO Piece Organization
John D. Logan, manager of the
Mobile Carnival Association, in a re­cent
announcement, stated that more
and better bands are needed to make
Dr. Bradford Knapp,: Mardi Gras in the Gate City an even
president of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, will address the editors.
Organization of local groups of
editors has been done in other states
and has been started in a small way
in Alabama.
huger success. In his selection of the
best bands available he gave a prom­inent
position to the Auburn band.
For several years the Auburn Band
has been an outstanding feature of
the Mobile Mardi Gras. Members of
the band are received cordially and
R O B E R T L. B U L L , A R D are entertained royally during the
ENGAGED BE HEREjfive dayg o f f r i v o l i t v - During that
i. time they appear in concert several
Honor Be Paid Him As Distinguished times, and furnish music, in conjunc-
Visitor And Alumnus
ONE PROGRAM AT NIGHT
Montgomery Goes On Air Im­mediately
Following Local
Station
YWCA SECRETARY
TO BE HERE SOON
The Y. W. C. A. National Student
Secretary will be in Auburn Febru­ary
16-18 to discuss campus prob­lems
and other interests of the local
Y. W. *C. A. All the cabinet mem­bers
are urged to attend all meet­ings
at this time. Individual confer­ences
will be held with members of
the cabinet at appointed hours.
Enthusiastic plans are being made
for a Valentine prom to be given at
Smith Hall at nine o'clock February
16. All women students are cordially
invited.
From the studio in Comer Hall reg­ular
broadcasting over Station WAPI
in Birmingham will begin Tuesday,
February 5. Daily thereafter pro­grams
will go out from Auburn 12
to 12:30 each day except Sunday; and,
in addition, arrangements are being
made for one night program each
week.
Plans for opening the Auburn stu­dio
were announced Thursday by P.
0.(J)avis who is general manager of
the station. The noon hour program
from Auburn will be largely educa­tional
but music and other forms of
entertainment will be included. The
Auburn program will be followed im­mediately
by a program from the De­partment
of Agriculture and Indus­tries
at Montgomery. It will broad­cast
by remote control over the tele­phone
wires.
Mrs. Mary Drake Askew will be in
charge of music for the station. L.
B. Hallman will be in charge of the
engineering equipment. Mr. Davis
and C. K. Brown will arrange the
programs.
The plan is for the programs from
Auburn to represent all divisions and
departments of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute. This was a policy
of the old station at Auburn, and
Director L. N. Duncan says that it
will be emphasized now that Auburn
has a new station of great power lo­cated
in the population center of the
state.
Gen. Robert Lee Bullard, alumnus
off the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute,
famous World-War hero, and
now the distinguished president of the
National Security League, has been
engaged by President Bradford
Knapp to deliver a series of lectures
at Auburn, beginning February 12.
During his stay here Dr. Knapp
said that every effort will be made to
pay the honor due him as a distin­guished
visitor. He is happy to an­nounce
that General Bullard will come
to Auburn to lecture to the students.
BOY SCOUTS MAKE
PLANS FOR YEAR
Notice Students!
Hereafter students' copies of The
Plainsman will not be delivered in
Auburn. Copies will be- placed at
convenient places in town and in
school buildings only.
Chapin Visitor To
Delta Sigma Phi
Prof. P. W. Chapin of the Univer­sity
of Illinois was in Auburn, Mon­day,
to make an inspection of the
local chapter of Delta Sigma Phi
Fraternity, of which he is national
vice-president, in charge of alumni
and building.
The Auburn chapter of this frater­nity
is now constructing a home in
the fraternity section of the campus,
it being the first fraternity to. build
a home in the new section started re­cently
by President Bradford Knapp.
Prof. Chapin expressed himself as
being delighted with the building and
also with the work of the Auburn
chapter, of which W. M. Thomas is
president.
Delta Sigma Phi, according to Prof.
Chapin, has 47 chapters and 44 of
them own their homes. He is a mem­ber
of the Alpha Alpha chapter at
the University of IHinois.
Plans of work for the year were
adopted at the meeting of the di­rectors
of the East Alabama Coun­cil
of Boy Scouts held Tuesday at
the Chamber of Commerce in Opeli-ka.
A budget of the expenses for the
different features of work was also
approved and with the approach of
spring Boy Scout work will start in
earnest over the district. Scout Exe­cutive
Johnsons' report of the work
being done was favorably received
and all pledged to back him in his ef­forts
to get all departments actively
at work.
Representatives from Auburn,
Prof. A. L. Thomas and W. T. In­gram
invited the council to hold their
annual field day at that place at
some date in the spring and an an­nouncement
of this wil be made later.
An appropriation was made J.o put
Camp Spring Villa in good shape for
use next summer and a large attend­ance
is expected. -Good work is being
done at the training school which is
being conducted at Auburn for lead­ers
in scout work and a session is
held there every Monday night. TKis
course will cover a period of twelve
weeks.
The following were present at the
meeting Tuesday': R. E. Blount,
President of the Council and P. R.
Dubberly from Talrassee; L. B. Coley
and H. W. Thompson, of Alexander
City; C. H. Vann* of Roanoke, A. L.
Thomas and W. T. Ingram of Au­burn
; John- Allen Jones, N. D. Den-son,
M. P. Hollingsworth, and Scout
Executive Johnson from Opelika.
Kiwanis Will Sponsor
Work 4-H Club Boys
Working in cooperation with Coun­ty
Agent L. M. Hollingsworth, the
Auburn Kiwanis Club will sponsor the
feeding of a carload of hogs by the
4-H club boys in this section, accord­ing
to a report made by R. Y. Bailey,
chairman of committee on agriculture.
The work is to be organized so that
each boy will have his hogs ready for
sale at the same time. A cooperative
sale of a carlot of hogs is to climax
the work.
Mr. Bailey's report was followed by
an address by Dr. Isaac W. Hill who
is in charge of 4-H club work in the
U. S. Department of Agriculture, his
district being 12 Southern states. Dr.
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tion with about ten other bands, for
every parade.
Since the organization of the Au­burn
Band in 1892, by Professor M.
T. Fullan, it has been heard and en­joyed
by thousands of audiences, and
today it ranks as one of the most
popular organizations of its kind in
the entire South. Professor A. L.
Thomas, succeeding Professor Ful­lan
as director, held that position for
several years, when Mr. P. R. Bidez,
the present mentor, assumed official
duties as director.
The original band, at the time of
its formation, was merely a drum
corps, used almost entirely in mili­tary
exercises, but it has grown and
expanded until it consists of fifty-three
pieces. During the years of its
development it has attained many
honors. Even outside of college af­fairs
the Auburn Band has made
numerous contributions and has re­ceived
widespread recognition. A not­able
example of this is its World
War record. It was the official band
of the 167th Alabama, Rainbow Di­vision.
Professor Bidez was the band
master and most of the members of
the band were former Auburn stu­dents.
This aggregation was the
first American band to cross the
Rhine River, at which memorable
time it was playing "Touchdown Au­burn!"
The band of A. P. I. has in­spired
the hearts of hundreds of Con­federate
veterans' when playing at re­unions
of the wearers of the gray
in Tulsa, Memphis, and Chattanooga."
The band will leave Auburn on the
morning of Friday, February 8, and
will play for the Mardi Gras in Mo­bile
during the entire time that it is
in that section. The musicians will
return to Auburn on Wednesday, Feb­ruary
13.
GEORGE PETRIE IS
ON WAPI PROGRAM
Dr. George Petrie will face the
microphone of the new station WAPI
in Birmingham between 12:30 and 1
P. M. Saturday, Feb. 2, when he will
lecture on a current topic. He will
be in Birmingham that day and will
lecture by special invitation.
Dr. Petrie delivered a weekly lec­ture
over the old station in Auburn,
and each lecture had a large audience.
As a radio speaker he ranks with the
very best of the nation. Plans are
being made for him to speak as often
as he will, in connection with the
program which will be broadcast from
Auburn by remote control.
SHIREY GOES TO
OKLAHOMA A & M
John "Barley-corn" Shirey, former
Auburn Football star and assistant
coach this past year, has gone to Okla­homa
A & M, where he will resume
his duties in school work. During
his stay at that institution he ex­pects
to receive his M. S. degree in
science, and has no intention of doing
any coaching. At this place John
will be with his wife, which fact ac­counts
probably for his attending
scho} there.
PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1929.
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Published semi-weekly by the students of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
Alabama,
Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60
issues). Entered as second class matter
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STAFF
Ludwig Smith Editor-in-Chief
James B. McMillan ___ Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Rosser Alston, '29 Associate Editor
Raymond DeArman, '29 ..Associate Editor
A. V. Blankenship, '30 _- Associate Editor
Victor Savage, '30 Associate Editor
J. D. Neeley, '30 Managing Editor
K. R. Giddens, '30__Ass't. Managing Editor
Tom Brown, '31 News Editor
Campbell Blake, '30 __—- News Editor
Robert L. Hume, 31 __ Ass't. News Editor
Roy Sellers, '31 Ass't. News Editor
J. E. McLeskey, '3.1 Sports Editor
Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor
Bob Handley, '29 Humor Editor
REPORTERS
Robert Baxter, '32; T. S. Coleman, '32;
. Kenneth Cooper, '32; Clarence Dykes,
'32; Thomas Dylres, '31; Edmund Eng­land,
'32; George Harrison, '32; John
Lewis, '31; S. H. Morrow, '32; Alex
Smith, Jr., '31; K. G. Taylor, '32; J. E.
Jenkins, '32; H. G. Tooney, '32; Victor
White, '32; D. Reynolds, '32; Don May,
'29; Virgil Nunn, '31; Gabie Drey, '31;
Charles Matthews, '32; James David­son,
'32; W. M. Taylor, '32.
BUSINESS STAFF
George Carden, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
Grady Moseley, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
W. B. Jones, '30 Advertising Mgr.
H. H. Milligan, '30 Advertising Mgr.
White Matthews, '31 __ Ass't. Adv. Mgr.
Walter Smith, ;31 Circulation Mgr.
J. M. Johnson, '31 Circulation Mgr.
W. A. Files '31 Asst. Circulation Mgr.
J. E. Dilworth '31 __ Ass't. Circulation Mgr.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
Assistants: B. W. Kincaid '32; R. A. Mann
'32; Roy Wilder '32, Cleveland Adams,
'32, J. M. Barton '32.
Has The Junior
Class A Leader?
What do you think of the present voting
system here at our class elections? We are
prone to regard it as about the shoddiest
method practicable; and we are heartily in
favor of decided reform in this respect. It
is only in keeping with the forward educa­tional
ideas of the day that the most for­ward
and efficient practices along any line
of endeavor be adopted; and unless this is
begun while we are yet in college, what
hope is there of such after we have got­ten
out into the world? Why fritter away
our sound principles of learning here with
loose and inadequate procedures when in
keeping with our standards as intelligent
college students we should adopt more thor­ough
and effective means of putting things
over right?
The Australian ballot system, which gives
every voter the opportunity of casting his
personal vote as he sees fit without inter­ference
or influence exerted by those. who
may be about the voting place, is undoubt­edly
superior to the present system of open
voting in vogue here. Now, when a stu­dent
goes to cast his vote, he is accosted by
numerous influences in the open voting
system which certainly do not allow him an
independent and unbiased decision. What
we would like to see is the institution of
efficient means of secret voting—we can
scarcely hold away from it longer.
With the adoption of some such reform,
it would mean fairer elections and far more
satisfactory results. The secret voting sys­tem
has proved highly efficient in many
other colleges, where it has been in success­ful
practice for some time. It is a lack of
advancement on our part to retain this old,
inefficient, unsatisfactory method of open
voting at elections.
Engineers! Don't
Over-Specialize
During these first days of registration
for the new semester it is often a problem
for many students as to what they will elect
to round out their courses. Several hours
are allowed in each -course which can be
taken at the discretion of the student. It
is the custom of many engineering students
to fill up these elective hours with techni­cal
courses.
The technical student should use a little
forethought in selecting his courses. The
courses which will be of most' benefit to
him in later life should be chosen; not the
courses which will give him credit hours
and a high grade. "Crip" courses are al­ways
popular with some engineers.
We believe that engineers should elect
courses in history, modern languages, lit­erature
and composition. Some cultural
education is absolutely necessary nowadays.
There is no if-and-and about it—the man
who leaves Auburn competent to set up a
sub-station or construct a dam is still not
an educated man if he knows nothing of
what is going on in the world of contempo­rary
thought and art. Big executives are
called upon to write papers and to make
speeches which don't pertain to their own
business often. Matt Sloan and Owen D.
Young are more than technicians—other­wise
they would not have risen to their
present positions.
We believe that a few courses in the
"humanities" are necessary to the engineer
in order to make him a better engineer if
for no other reason.
However, some knowledge of things out­side
the workshop is necessary if a man is
to get much out of life. Appreciation of
good books, good plays, good painting or
good sculpture comes only after some know­ledge
of those fields. The classic must be
studied before the modern can be under­stood.
A background is necessary. We hate
to picture the future of the forty-dollar-a-week-
draftsman who goes home every even­ing,
gobbles a supper and takes his wife to
a picture to avoid having to make conversa­tion.
How much of life he misses when he
reads no new books, or at least reads a few
unintelligently! How much he misses when
a great actor or philosopher comes to the
city, when he has no background with which
to insure enjoyment of the play or lecture!
Our tendency seems to be toward over-specialization.
We are told to know all
about one thing, and not something about
many things. Balance is needed. Why not
know all about one field, yet know some­thing
about things which are not directly
in the pay-roll? We are prone to go to
extremes.
Now is the time to look forward to the
future; now is the time to start building
that background, even if only by taking a
couple of hours a semester. Think care­fully,
engineers, before you over-specialize
by electing technical courses which you
could get later in practical work.
Letters to the Editor
AUBURN
Vs.
FLORIDA UNIVERSITY
Come listen you Tiger knockers
You who have thrown the sand
Come and listen just a minute
And I'll tell you where we stand.
It was down in the state of Florida
The awful 'Gators' den,
That the Auburn Tigers showed us
Their determination to win.
'Twas the second game of the season
The first was lost 'tis true,
But the second had a different ending
Auburn 39, to Florida's 32.
The game required three periods
So equally was the battle fought
But the third showed the fighting 'Ga­tors
That the Tigers had them caught.
The referee had blown his whistle
And the teams were on the floor
Waiting for the toss-up
To see who would start the score.
Frankie DuBose led the Tigers
All through the battle scene;
He was faced by the 'Gators center
The mighty man, Perrine.
Frazier and Mullins were scoring
Breaking the 'Gators' soul
While James and Vines were whipping the
ball
Away from the opponents goal.
Now the second half was ending
Yet the game was only begun;
The Tigers had only 30
And the 'Gators' had 31.
But just before the gun was fired
On Perrine was called a foul;
He was the Gators' center
And it brought from them a howl. -
Then DuBose wet his finger
On the tip of his ready tongue,
Then into that waiting circle
That basketball he flung.
Ole Mullins grabbed at DuBose
As he saw him make the tie
And calling the others around them
Says, "We'll win this game or die."
In the center of the court they huddled
Waiting for-the third and final clash;
Each was primed and ready ,
- To make his greatest dash.
It started again with magic
As the ball shot to Campbell
Who flipped another counter ,
And shouted, "Give 'em Hell."
DuBose shot another
Then Mullins took a spat
Gosh! How they were playing,
They had never played ilke that.
/ ,
James was going at one place
And Vines was flying there,
They guarding every 'Gator
And doing it fair and square.
And when the game had ended
The score was read in strains;
39 to 32, in favor of Auburn,
"The Village of the Plains."
—B. L. HODNETT, '32
" L i t t l e T h i n g s"
By Tom Bigbee
Even though we should turn to a pillar
of salt, we'd have to cast a backward glance
at those brilliant dances last week-end—
along with what came and went with them!
Our interest and good wishes follow
"Weemie" to the National indoor games at
Madison Squa're Garden.
We should take care not to smut our
clean sheet too soon this semester; and we
hope for cooperation from the professors in
that they will not bring on the quizzes too
soon or too regular.
Door Lost—did you ever hear the like
before?
It's no wonder the bandsters are willing
to work so diligently now; if you've ever
attended a Mardi Gras in Mobile you un­derstand
the impelling charge. A magnetic
incentive.
We know how to regard the words of the
slanderer who is foolish enough to say
that he doesn't envy the "big boys" the
Junior Prom.
It is commendable to note that The Ca-joler
caught step early, and played a bril­liant
part in the waltzing and fox trots.
"The young never complain more bitter­l
y that the old can't understand them than
when they advance the theory that they
have a right to live their own lives."
It costs $10,000,000 a year to run Har­vard
university, according to the annual re­port
of the treasurer. Guess our plant of
learning would become a "floating univer­sity"
on even the interest of that amount,
heh?
Most people scratch their heads when re­viewing
a fine painting or other work of
art, says an observer at the National gal­lery
in London. Psychological experts have
their explanation for this, but—in our ter­ritory
fine art isn't the only stimulus!
Belskey, 225-pound Chicago policeman, in
suing his 95-pound wife for divorce, charg­es
cruelty. He says his wife took-his re­volver
away from him, slapped his face, sat
on him, punched his jaw and capped the
pugnacious climax by throwing him out of
the house. Well, well—don't you hope the
court awards him Dempsey, Tunney, and
the winner in the Stribling-Sharkey bout
as body guards?
Concluding from the above story: Scien­tists
aren't discovering the only means of
packing dynamic force in miniature ob­jects.
A New York Judge recently refused to
let a keg of whiskey remain in the court­rooms
as evidence in a trial proceedure.
"It might make someone thirsty," he com­mented.
Grammatically theorizing, we
might conclude that "I" is the antecedent
of "someone" in that sentence.
Didn't you like the "News in Brief Con­cerning
Other Colleges" column in last
week's Plainsman? A worthy addition, we
think.
He didn't impart any brilliant idea, but
—it was the way he said it! "Are you care­ful
in making your words pleasing? Kind
words are powerful, you know; and next
semester elections are to be held !
If they're "little things," "Two heads
are better than one," says the barber.
Caesar Eclipsed
According to the Sun, of New York, whjeh
accorded a large part of its front page to a
descriptive articles upon Tex Rickard, "ly­ing
in his magnificent silver bronze cof­fin,
in the very center of the floor at Madi­son
Square Garden," 30,000 persons shuf­fled
through to look upon the dead prize
ring impressario, says the Louisville Times.
"Distinguished public servants and belov­ed
ecclesiastics," says Mr. Hill, of the Sun,
"have had notable funerals in this town,
but few, surely, have been more remarkable
than the last rites paid to a man who won
fame by putting professional boxing into
the category of big business."
And that means what? That America
thinks of Rickard as a first-class celebrity,
if you ask those whose outcries were heard
when, like Rickard, Valentino, dead, eclip­sed
Caesar, as described by Marc Anthony.
A Rickard, or a Valentino, appeals to a
large, and demonstrative class. That is
neither surprising, nor distressing. It is
quite probable that the body of the late Dr.
Eliot lying in state in the middle floor in
Madison Square Garden—if anything so
grotesque can be imagined—wouldn't have
attracted 30,000 shufflers-through.
It is quite as improbable that Dr. Eliot
had that probability been presented to him,
would have been distressed. It is quite un­reasonable
that the probability should dis­tress
anyone.
THE GEDUNK
I am the boy that didn't have a good time
at the dances. Everything was all wrong.
The orchestra was punk, the girls were
terrible and the decorations were not at all
pretty. I go around telling everybody what
an uninteresting time I had and I dismiss
all mention of the girls with a sophisticated
sneer. Of course I have never heard many
other orchestras, nor have I ever seen a
more beautiful group of girls, but no one
knows that I have indigestion, was "stood
up" by a date and that the decorations rub­bed
off on my tux.
% AUBURN FOOTPRINTS %
MAX AND HIS MUSIC
Jimmie Ware will sing, "She was only a landlady's daughter, but the room­ers
about her were false." Max Jones will be at the organ.
LET'S HOPE SO
Wife: The child's the living image of me.
Hubby: Maybe he'll out grow that.
* * * * * * * *
Clerk: Do you want a room for twenty-five cents or one for fifty cents?
Man: What's the difference?
Clerk: We put a rat-trap in the ones for fifty cents.
* * * * * * * *
"The laziest man I know is the man who puts coffee grounds in his mustache
and drinks hot water so he won't have to make coffee."
* \ * * * * * * *
TWENTY-FIFTH VARIATION OF A COLLEGE CRACK
"Where was the wedding tonight?"
"The joke's on you."
"Why?"
"That old man with the shot-gun was going duck hunting."
* * * * * * * * •
"I was nearly killed last night, 1 got out of bed on the wrong side."
"You're not superstitious, are you?"
"No, but this was the lower berth."
* * * * * * * *
DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
"You never can tell," sighed the gunman as he croaked the witness.
* * * * * * * *
The stingiest man lost his job' yesterday. He refused to give satisfaction.
* * * * * * * .*
"SPECIAL DELIVERY" -
He was a traveling man and received this wire: "Twins arrived this morn­ing.
More by mail."
* * * * * * * *
AND THAT'S SOMETHING
"Well," said the heiress as she slipped out of the back door and eloped with
the family driver, "I've got something to chauffeur my money."
* * * * * * * *
ENCOURAGING
Paulk: Pass all your work?
Willie D.: All I've heard from.
Pauk: What have you heard from?
Willie D.: Current Events.
* * * * * * * *
THE LAUNDRY SONG
"Button button, who's got the button?"
* * * * * * * *
W. C. T. U. (to Down and Outer) : Have you ever had any indecent relations?
Down and Outer: Yes, but they all died.
* * * * * * * *
IN A MUSEUM: 1976
Child: What is that bulging black object, Father? It looks like a piece of coal.
Father: No, Egbert, that is a rare form of headgear known as a derby. It was
last seen on a man's head when "Abie's Irish Rose" was in its first quarter-century.
* * * * * * * *
She: Love statue over there. Whose is it?
He: Oh, it belongs to the city.
She: No, no. I mean what's it of?
He: Granite, I guess.
She: But what does it represent?
He: Oh, about fifty thousand dollars.
* * * * * * * *
WHY MISTAKES ARE MADE IN AUBURN
Frosh: Professor, you must have made a mistake in giving me an 'F' on this
MEDITATIONS
O N THIS A N D THAT
IBv 'Benjamin Trovost-^
paper.
Prof: Young man, I very seldom make mistakes. Have you seen my secretary?
Frosh: Oh boy, have I!—I guess you're right.
* * * * * * * *
Love, acorcding to the English prof., is composed of "he," "she," and "it."
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
AS YE READ, SO SHALL YE CLASS
As soon as a student asks for a maga­zine
at Southwestern Pharmacy, Dr. Mc­Laren,
druggist, spots the class he is in at
Southwestern colleg.e
You can tell them by the magazines they
read. Fheshmen have a penchant for read­ing
the thrillers, and especially those with
pictures of movie actresses. No humor
magazine is safe within their reach.
"Upperclass eds go in for deeper reading
than freshmen," he says. Such as World's
Work, Popular Science and National Geo­graphic
are good sellers. A different type
of "reading is favored by the co-eds. Style
books, confession magazines, love stories,
true stories, and other emotional publica- j
tions are by far the most popular with
them.
* * * * *
A University of California professor re­cently
stated that slang enriches a person's
language. What geniuses America ought
to produce.
* * * * *
MY! MY! MY!
The procedure known as "getting too
fresh" was advanced by Herton O. Phil­lips,
a post graduate student at the Uni­versity
of Chicago, as one way of earning
a college degree.
Several young women complained that
Phillips had been bold to the point of im­pudence
and insult. Arrested, he explain­ed
that he was engaged in a special study
leading to the degree of doctor of philoso­phy.
And how many doctors of philosophy
do you know? Look down the faculty list.
Stop?
Authorities at Stephen College, 'Colum­bia,
Missouri, require 600 co-eds to take
an afternoon siesta every day. The nap has
an effect of appreciable scholastic im­provement,
members of the faculty report.
* * * * *
MORE POWER TO DR. SMITH
In a recent issue of the Ring-turn Phi, Dr.
Henry Louis Smith, president of Washing­ton
and Lee, is quoted as saying that he
will oppose any attempt on the part of state
investigation to spy into liquor conditions
at the institution of which he is president.
He says it would be "directly opposed to
the spirit of Washington and Lee." Out­rageous!
Who ever heard of a college stu­dent
drinking? Where have I had a drink
before?
* * * * *
One of the hazing stunts at Lehigh Uni­versity
is the holding of a Bathrobe Par­ade.
All the Freshmen, dressed in bath­robes,
with towels around their heads,
meet on the campus. They are marched
downtown and back to the stadium to cheer
up the football squad.
* * * * *
FOOTBALL IS SUCH AN AMATEUR
SPORT
Because he competed in the annual East
West Charity football game at San Fran­cisco,
Dec. 29, Rube Wagner, captain of
Wisconsin's 1928 football team and a star
weight man on the track squad, has been
banned from further college athletic com­petition.
* * * * *
ZERO AVERAGE
Twenty-two cents is the average amount
that a Boston university student carries
with him. One wealthy student had $1.67,
gracious while several had no money at all.
I'm in debt, and so are my friends, or else
broke. What kind of an average will that
give?
* * * * *
Because men in one of the Southwestern
college's dormitories at Memphis, Tenn.,
were not overly careful about drawing their
shades and keeping the public from a full
view of their manly forms, college authori­ties
have had the dormitory windows paint­ed
white.
* * * * *
SHOULD CARRY IT IN BOTTLES
At a recent meeting held by the French
speaking surgeons of Quebec, the use of
hipflasks by Canadian co-eds, was deplored
as one of the social plagues of life in Cana­da.
EDITORIAL NOTE: The opinions ex­pressed
in this column are not necessarily
the editorial opinions of this paper. It is
a column of personal comment, and is not
to be read as an expression of our edi­torial
policy.
* * * * *
AMAN walked into my room the oth­er
night—a man who has had two
years of college environment— and
happened to notice a set of the works of
Wilde on a shelf. Something like this en­sued.
"If I may ask you a personal question,
did you buy those books?"
"Yes."
"Nobody gave them to you?"
"No."
"Then you are the biggest fool that 1
know."
I supposed at first that he was joking,
but as he talked on it became evident that
he seriously thought that money invested
in books was thrown away. That was a
revelation to me. I didn't know that such
people still existed. My amazement grew
as I began to realize that he was not only
uninterested in buying books, but that he
was uninterested in reading them. He has
spent his boyhood without ever reading
Tom Sawyer or Huek Finn. He is unac­quainted
with Scott's novels and Dumas'
novels; how did he spend his afternoons
after school hours when it was raining?
^ T- A* -r V
FURTHERMORE, this man is studying
architecture, yet he has never read
The Lust Days of Pompeii, nor had he
even heard of Ruskin's Seven Lumps of Ar­chitecture.
Irving's delightful description
of Westminister Abbey means nothing to
him.
No matter what a man may do in later
life, he will never regret the reading which
he does in his college days. Even soda-jerkers
sometimes rise to be confectionery
owners, are then elected to Kiwanis clubs
and Boards of Educations, and are called
upon to make speeches. How can a man make
a speech without having read all his life?
How can he know how to shape his sen­tences,
to illustrate his points, without a
mine of literary incidents in his brain?
* * * * *
HOW CAN a man enjoy life without
knowing something of the great
writers? I shudder to think that
some accident might have prevented my ac­quaintance
with the works of Goethe, Dos­toievsky,
Balzac, Cervantes, Dante, Shakes­peare,
Tolstoi, Milton. Not that I have
read and understood all of them, but I at
least have tasted them and have discovered
what delights await the reader of even med­iocre
intelligence.
To my mind the sole difference between
man and animal is that one has an intellect;
the other does not. If a biped of the genus
homo sapiens manages to exist through a
normal life-period without experiencing an
intellectual enjoyment, getting his sole
pleasure from eating and physical compla­cency,
what is he'but an animal? Why say
that he has a soul and that the dog or horse
has not?
* * * * *
BOOKS ARE but the recorded thoughts
of the world's best minds. The per­son
who enjoys a silly conglomeration
of words making up a short story of the
Truth magazine type, yet, cannot get inter­ested
in an Ibsen drama is in a sorry plight.
His brain operates on a wave-length that
can't tune in with great minds.
* * * * *
I KNOW NOW why artists are tempera­mental"
and are likely to commit mur­ders.
I stopped by Springer Hall the
other night, where a large group of men
were working on design problems. Some
of them were doing delicate work with
water-color brushes, others were inking in
fine complex ornaments.
A man with a most unpleasantly rasp­ing
voice was carrying on a conversation
with another man, across the long room.
He was saying absolutely nothing, merely
making bright cracks. He got on my nerves
immediately. If I had been trying to con­centrate
on exact work as some of the ar­chitects
were doing I would have committed
assault and battery, and would have been
offended if someone had resented it. In
my Utopia I have a special corner set aside
for loud talkers with bad voices; it's going
to echo so that they will have to listen to
themselves through eternity.
SURCEASE
Each morning God creates anew
The fragrance of the rose
And writes earth's tears in crystal dew
For daybreak to disclose.
Then shall He not more readily
Our shattered dreams renew
And turn your tears to joy in me
And mine to peace in you?
—Helen Frazee Bower.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
PROSPECTS APPEAR BRIGHT
FOR AVIATION IN ALABAMA
Recent developments in aviation re­veal
that the future in aviation trans­portation,
mail service, and perhaps in
the manufacture of aircraft has much
in store for Alabama. Remarkable
advances in aviation are expected;
and Alabama is so located and has the
resources which should cause the en­tire
state to benefit from these ad­vances.
The inauguration of air-mail ser­vices
between the United States, Cu­ba,
and other countries in Central
and South America should prove to
be beneficial to Alabama. Although
these air-mail lines to other coun-trties
do not cross Alabama they
come in close proximity and Alabama
business men can easily take advan­tage
of them. One of the immediate
results of this air-mail service should
be expansion of trade between the
United States and the countries of
Central and South America. Since
Alabama is one of the group of states
nearest to these countries Alabama
industries have an advantage in their
favor.
MAY & GREEN
Men's Clothing
Sporting Goods
Montgomery, Alabama
Already one established afr-mail
route crosses Alabama each day; and
it is expected that this service will
be expanded.
Meantime, Montgomery has been se­lected
as the site for the only tacti­cal
aviation school in the world. Max­well
field at Montgomery is the fourth
division observation point and one of
the biggest and best municipal air­ports
in the country is now being es­tablished
at Montgomery.
Furthermore, the Montgomery dis­trict
has distinct advantages for the
manufacture of aircraft. Splendid la­bor
is available, the topography of
the land is ideal, and the Birming­ham
district is. nearby with the raw
material for aircraft production. Be­cause
of these advantages Montgom­ery
should become an aircraft manu­facturing
center. Officials of the
chamber of commerce and business
men of the city are alert as to these
opportunities; and, they are being
backed by Birmingham for Birming­ham
business men realize that Mont­gomery
is entitled to the manufacture
of airplanes.
Already airplane manufacturing es­tablishments
have sprung up in the
west because of the advantages there
and they should develop at Montgom­ery
and other places in Alabama.
With the inauguration of transcon­tinental
passenger service by airplane
in day time and train at night unus­ual
aircraft developments are expect­ed
in the near future. Such a sys­tem
is being inaugurated from New
Schnering Placed
In Hall Of Fame
Otto Schnering, a graduate of the
University of Chicago and president
of the Curtis Baby Ruth Candy Com­pany,
has been chosen for the colle­giate
hall of fame in the current issue
of College Humor magazine.
Mr. Schnering, who is a member
of Phi Upsilon fraternity, completed
his course at the university in less
than three years, receiving a Ph. D.
degree. He started in business as a
manufacturing confectioner in a
"hole in the wall" shop in 1917, and
is now the world's largest manufac­turer
of chocolate-covered bars. His
company employs more than 5,000
workers, operates four immense fac­tories,
and produces a billion "Baby
Ruth" and other candy bars yearly.
Mr. Schnering also manufactures
"Baby Ruth" peppermint gum. He is
only thirty-six years-old.
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Notes From Colleges
! At Princeton, where hundreds of
students ride bicycles, there is a stu­dent
co-op storie which works a sys­tem,
according to the March College
Humor. Bills go home to Dad; ten
per cent divident is given to the stu­dent
. . . . Henry Ford is playing right
into the hands of the college boys
when he advises youth to spend; col­legians
spend millions of dollars an­nually
on wearing apparel, smokes,
sports and athletic equipment, school
supplies, typewriters, jewelry, sweets,
automobiles, travel and other commod­ities
. . . . Pat Page at Indiana Uni­versity
gave twenty-nine I sweaters
to his football squad. There ought to
be food for thought in this statement
for Brown University authorities who
decided to give but eleven B sweaters
to the team which played excellent
football for its Alma Mater.
RAINBOW THEATRE
OPELIKA, ALABAMA
MONDAY & TUESDAY
February 4th & 5th
WILLIAM FOX presents
Mother Machree
Smiling Irish Eyes and Aching Irish Hearts
With
Belle Bennett—Neil Hamilton
Victor McLaglen
Ted McNamara—Ethel Clayton—Constance Howard
Story by Rida Johnson Young—Scenario by Gertrude Orr
JOHN FORD PRODUCTION
Smiling Irish eyes that mask aching Irish hearts.
The roads to success are paved with the hearts of Mothers Machree.
As beautiful as Irish lace—as full of throbs as an Irish heart—
sparkling with Irish wit.
A screen story as poignant as the song.
See "Mother Machree" her face made beautiful by the cleansing
flames of sacrifice.
The story of a mother—an Irish mother—everybody's mother.
A song that stirred the hearts of a race—a picture to stir the hearts
of the world.
York to California through Chicago;
and those who are studying the facts
carefully insist that Birmingham,
Montgomery, Mobile, and other points
in Alabama should be served by a
transportation line to be established
later.
Transportation of this kind between
the north and south is expected. No
doubt it will extend not only to the
south but to the countrties south of
the United States. When such ser­vice
becomes a reality Alabama is
certain to be one of the states to profit
therefrom.
As a section the South should be
next to the West to benefit from
aviation. With more open country
and greater distance the West should
profit more than any other section
from airp'lane transportation and de­velopments.
The South should be next
and these developments are scheduled
for the immediate future.
While attending the aircraft show
in Chicago early in December a rep­resentative
of a small manufacturer
in Oklahoma told the writer that his
concern booked orders during the week
for more than half a million dollars
worth of planes. At that time the
company was producing only two
planes per week but the owner of the
plant had announced his intention to
increase his production to four a day.
This report is indicative of aviation
developments already in progress.
They are indicative also of the fu­ture.
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TO MARRY OR
NOT TO MARRY
"Marriage is a book of which the
first chapter is written in poetry and
the remaining chapters in prose," says
Beverly Nichols, young English writ­er,
in the March College Humor.
"Modern marriage is a book of which
the first chapter is usually written
in free verse and the remaining chap­ters
in journalese. Always my ques­tion
is 'What will happen when the
poetry gives way. to prose?' Frankly,
I don't know. Nor do you.
"What, I ask myself, could a wife
do for me? She could not write any
of my books, though she might stop
me from writing some of them. She
might do my typing, but that is an
•indignity to which I would not subject
her. I prefer to pay my typist's bills.
What else could a wife do for me?
She could run my house. Yes. Of
all the foolish legends with which this
world is befogged the legend that
women know anything about house­keeping
is the most foolish. To see
them as they attempt to tackle a su­premely
simple operation such as
spring cleaning is as embarrassing as
to watch an incompetent subaltern
getting tied up with his platoon dur­ing
army maneuvers.
"Nor have women, with the excep­tion
of rare geniuses, any conception
of decoration. If women really had
their way they would turn every room
into a fumble sale. If they are giv­en
a picture, up it must go, whether
it is appropriate or not. If they have
a cushion, it must be pushed in some­how
or other. What else could a wife
do for me? She could be a companion.
Ah! You are evoking the phantom
which is the haunting fear of all
bachelors—loneliness. But may there
not be a welcome in the very loneli­ness
after the fretting contacts of the
day? And are there not more books
in the world to read than 1 shall ever
know, and am I not far more capable
than anybody else of pouring out my
own whiskey and soda?
"Suppose I have been to an amus­ing
party. I may want the party to
go on. I may want to bring dozens
of people home with me—Jane who
sings, and John who plays the. piano,
and Oliver who mimics people so
brilliantly. If I am married, how am
I going to do that, unless I marry an
angel of tact and forbearance?
"I rejoice in my freedom. If I
choose, I can get on board a steamer
tomorrow and sail to Hawaii and start
a trade in illicit drugs. I can grow
a beard and screen anarchy in Hyde
Park. I can stay in bed and eat maca­roons.
I can fill the houes kith mon­keys.
I can keep goldfish in the bath.
In other words, I can 'be myself,' as
the Americans say.
"You are going to tell me that 'if
everybody thought as I did the world
would cease altogether, and human­ity
would perish from the face of the
earth.' To which I can only reply,
'Why not?' "
NIGHT FOOTBALL
PROVES POPULAR
Night football will come into na­tional
prominence in 1929, according
to an article in the March College
Humor. Several schools have played
football at night in the past as an
experiment, and so satisfactory were
the results that it is believed that
night football has come to stay.
At least it will be brought into the
national spotlight next November
when Coach Knute K. Rockne's Notre
Dame eleven meets Coach 0. M. So-lem's
Drake University, Missouri Val­ley
eleven at Soldier's Field, Chica­go,
which all of us remember as be­ing
the scene of the Dempsey-Tun-ney
fight.
It will be Chicago's first night
game of football. There will be bril­liant
pyrotechnics. There will be
spectacular devices never before
thought of in connection with a grid­iron
contest. Just imagine the team
on defense trying to solve the mys­teries
of the hidden ball at night. It
is hard enough to follow the ball in
bright daylight, so Chicago is expect­ed
to turn out to the tune of one hun­dred
thousand spectators.
Two other Missouri Valley confer­ence
schools are considering nocturnal
equipment for the 1929 season, and it
won't be long before night football
will become popular.
UNIQUE RECORD
Three hundred and sixty-six min­utes,
or exactly six hours of football
in six conference games is the rec­ord
this year of Charles Carroll, Uni­versity
of Washington halfback. He
did not miss a minute of play.
A Pagan Practice At
Univ. Of Pennsylvania
"That Pennsylvania has found it
necessary to accomplish a complete
metamorphosis from aristocracy to
democracy in the last quarter cen­tury,"
says W. Thornton Martin in
the March College Humor, "is the
whole explanation of her present sta­tus
with the high-hat sisterhood, who
formerly admitted her to second cou-sinship
but now gaze frigidly over
lorgnettes at her declasse appearance.
There is something grand in the
large-hearted way she dispenses
learning to Black Bay and black al­ley
alike, and if you are not awfully
careful she will make a man of you
in spite of juvenile coddling or any
false ideas of caste and snobbishness.
Whether we like it or not this sort
of school is closer to being a real ap
proximation of life post collegium
than the so-called 'rich map's college'
wholly proficient in teacup balanc
ing.
Pennsylvania was once rich in tra­ditional
institutions. Perhaps the
most highly cherished affair of the
kind was the "rowbotham.' The story
goes that somewhere adown the misty
corridors of the past a bibulous chap
(whom we shall call Joe Nightowl)
lived in an eyrie high above the Big
Quad with a roommate by the name
of Rowbotham. Nightowl fell into
the regrettable habit of returning in
the wee sma' hours from the Norman-die
Bar, his tummy distended with
copious portions of the demon rum.
On one such night with a fine disre­gard
for the comfort of Rowbotham
sleeping above he lifted up his voice
in stentorian supplication requesting
his roommate to 'throw down the
key.' Rowbotham wearied of the din
and leaping to his feet hurled every
movable object within reach out of
the window in the general direction
of the pest below. From such a tiny
acorn grew the noble custom of 'row-bothaming.'
For after years at the
sound of the rallying cry, 'Yo Row­botham,'
every inhabitant of the dor­mitories
rushed madly to window and
cast forth electric light bulbs, chairs,
towels, paper weights, inkwells and
pillows.
"There was something pagan and
reckless about the thing that appeal­ed
to the childish student mind, and
only by dint of suspending whole dor-
-mitories at a time was the practice
broken up."
AVIATION IS TAKING PROMINENT
POSITION IN AMERICAN COLLEGES
"The spirit of aviation has entered
the university/' says Lieutenant Fred­erick
M. Hopkins, Jr., in the March
issue of College Humor. "It has been
customary to visualize the walls of
fraternity and dormitory rooms of our
students covered with pennants and
banners of Yale, Princeton and Har­vard.
Not so at New York Univer­sity
Discarded ribs, doped linen from
scrapped wing surfaces, aerial pho­tographs,
and propellers which have
seen better days now decorate these
four walls. Delta Chi on the cam­pus
at University Heights has a pro­peller
light hanging in its dining hall.
"More engineering students enroll­ed
for aeronautical engineering last
fall than in the remaining combined
engineering courses of the college.
Now York University was one of the
first to acknowledge the growing im­portance
of aviation. In 1921 Pro­fessor
Alexander Klemin was permit­ted
to present a series of aeronau­tical
lectures to seniors in the en­gineering
course. The success was
immediate and the council of the uni­versity
authorized a senior year op­tion
in aeronautical engineering for
the years 1922-24.
In 1925 came the Daniel Guggen­heim
School of Aeronautics. In 1926
the war department approved the re­quest
of the university for an Air
Corps Unit of the Reserve Officers'
Training Corps. In 1927 the New
York University Flying Club was or­ganized.
The school, the Air Corps
Unit and the Flying Club have been
able to satisfy the most inquisitive.
The technical and the practical are
working hand in hand.
"The course itself is straight me­chanical
engineering for the first
three years with the exception of the
inclusion in the junior year of a ba­sic
course in aerodynamics and air­plane
design. It is fundamental and
merely introductive. In the senior
year the following courses are given:
advanced- theory and practice of air­plane
design, aerodynamics, airplane
engines and installation, trade and
transportation, internal combustion
engines, advanced applied mechanics,
air transportation, propeller design,
thermodynamics of the high-speed in­ternal
combustion engine, etc.
"Whereas the courses in the college
are highly technical, the Air Corps
Unit of the Reserve Officers' Train­ing
Corps affords the student instruc­tion
under an army pilot in practi­cal
aeronautics. There are three such
units in our American colleges, at
Massachusetts Institute of Technolo­gy,
at the University of California,
and at New York University.
"The Flying Club of N. Y. U. has
njinoty-seven members. It has ac­complished
much that neither the
school of aeronautics nor the Air
Corps Unit can attempt. It conducts
its own ground course with student
lectures at its weekly meetings."
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The G-E monogram is
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1929.
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JACK McLESKEY, CAEOL PORTER, Associate Editors
Dick Jones, Tad McCallum, Assistants
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L S. U. DOWNS TIGER QUINTET
IN FAST GAME MONDAY NIGHT
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By Dick Jones
Monday night the Lousiana State
University dribblers downed the Ala­bama
Polytechnic, quintet 45-28 in
the Auburn gym in a "red hot" con­test
that kept the winners hustling
through the last half in order to keep
on top.
When the first half ended L. S. U.
was leading Auburn 25-7. But the
Bohler men came to life in the last
half and scored 21. points while the
Rabenhorst five scored 20. Three
minutes before the game ended the
Tigers were only 10 points behind.
But they failed to register another
goal in these last three minutes of
play while L. S. U. kept up their
steady drive and scored 7 more points
to give them a margin of 17 points
over the Plainsmen when the game
ended.
Garrison led the attack against Au­burn
and scored 22 points to be high
scorer for the night. He scored 15 of
L. S. U.'s 25 points in the first half
and scored 7 in the last half. Garri­son
was probably the best all-around
forward to appear against the Tigers
in the "Plains" this year.
DuBose and Mullins scored 8 each
to tie for high scorer for Auburn.
They scored most of their points from
a distance from the basket, as they
had two hard guards to contend with.
Yarbrough, Vines, and James per­formed
nicely at guards for the Tig­ers
and pulled the ball from off the
backboard many times.
Lineup and summary:
Auburn (28): Chamblee "(2), and
Mullin (8), forwards; DuBose (8),
center; James (4), and Vines (1),
guards. Subs: Kennedy, Anderson
(4), Yarbrough (1), and Frazire.
L. S. U. (45): Garrison (22), and
Harris (9), forwards; Gaharan (8),
center; Wilson, and Lukei" (4),
guards. Subs: McGhee, and Larkin
(2).
Referee: Roosma (West Point);
timer: Hutsell (Missouri) ; scorer
Salter, (Auburn).
Auburn Dribblers
Divide Two-Game
Series With Florida
Southern Conference Track Meet
Be Held Birmingham May 17-18
"MOON" MULLIN
One of the main cogs in the Tiger
basketball machine this year is none
other than "Moon" Mullin. "Moon"
is performing his second year with
the Auburn cagesters and is hustling
about his duties of dropping the ball
through the hoop in fine style.
Familiar Faces Missing
From Baseball Practice
Southern conference cinderpath
stars will vie for Dixie honors on May
17 and 18 at Birmingham's monster
Legion Field stadium, it was an­nounced
Tuesday.
This year's site is the same, as the
one where Eddie Hamm, the jumping
jack from Georgia Tech, won three
first places only to see his team beat­en
out for the title by Louisiana State
University. Hamm, in winning the
three events, broke two conference
records and tied a third. He estab­lished
a new mark at 21.2 seconds in
the 220 yard dash, and leaped 25
feet, 6 3-4 inches to capture the
broad jump record. He also equaled
the mark of 9.8 seconds in the 100-
yard dash. This gave him a total of
15 points to become high individual
scorer of the tournament.
The latest thing in track and field
greatness is seen in the new Legion
Field scene. This track is said to
be one of the finest in the country.
It has the only 220-yard straightway
in the South and probably is as fast
as any below the Mason-Dixon line.
Only two events stood up under
the heavy onslaught of a year ago.
Records set last year are:
220-yard dash—Ed Hamm, Geor­gia
Tech, 21.2 seconds.
880-yard run—Bill Gess, Kentucky
1:55.8.
Two-mile run—Hoyt Pritchett,
North Carolina, 9:47.6.
220-yard hurdles, PERCY BEARD,
AUBURN, 24.4 seconds.
Pole vault—Roy O'Dell, Clemson,
13 feet, 3 inches.
Shot put—Zulick, Maryland, 45
feet, 9 1-4 inches.
High jump: Jack McDowell, North
Carolina State, 6 feet, 1 3-4 inches.
Discus throw—Lund, V. P. I., 135
feet, 6 1-4 inches.
Broad jump—Ed Hamm, Georgia
Tech, 25 feet, 6 3-4 inches.
Javelin throw—Anderson, Geor­gia,
193 feet, 8 1-4 inches.
Only two records remained un­blemished
without defeat or tie.
Knotz, of Georgia Tech, won the 400-
yard run, but failed to establish a
The exams are over and we have
a great task before us for the coming
year in putting out a baseball team
that will face such teams as Georgia
•Tech, Georgia, Florida, and many
other teams equally as strong as the
teams just mentioned.
First of all we must remember that
some of the best players that we had
last year will not return for the com­ing
year. Stoutenboro a Junior, will
not be with the team on account of
his withdrawal from the institution
the latter part of the fall. Coach
Moulton had depended a great deal on
one of the freshmen pitchers of the
championship team of last year, but
"Breezy" Winn has signed up to play
with Detroit for the coming year and
The Auburn Tigers dropped their
Friday night game to the University
of Florida but licked the Gators in
their second game, Saturday night.
The score of the first game was:
Florida 44 and Auburn 34. The
score of the second game was: Flor­ida
32 and Auburn 39. This second
game required an extra five minute
session on account of the teams being
in a deadlock when the required time
for the game was up. Auburn made
a much better showing in this second
game than they did in the first one.
Captain DuBose tied the score Sat­urday
night that enabled the Tigers
to lick the Gators when he rung a
foul shot that was given him just as
the final whistle for the game to end
was blown. The Plainsmen came back
stronger than ever then. They scored
7 points in this extra session while
the 'Gators scored only one point.
L S. U. MAKES IT TWO IN ROW
BY SECOND WIN OVER TIGERS 8.
GORDON HOWELL
The Auburn Tigers lost a faithful
member of their squad this past week
when the new term started. This was
Gordon Howell who has been out
hustling for a place on Auburn's bas­ketball
team his second year but fail­ed
to open up a place wide enough
for him to jump in and be on the .first
string five. Howell has taken part
in a number of the games played by
the Plainsmen since he has been out
and has always proven to be a real
scrapper.
new mark, while Vanderbilt's relay will not be with the boys.
team also failed to live up to the
other events. This team was com­posed
of Marks, Bailey, Hooff, and
Chesney. Auburn placed first, second
and third in the 200-yard hurdles,
living up to past Auburn perform­ances
in this event. Weems Baskin
and Snitz Snider first placed Auburn
on the map as famous in this line.
Baskin has announced that he will
compete in the Millrose games at New
York next March.
Here's how they finished last year
with total points: L. S. U. 43 1-2;
Georgia Tech 34 1-4; Auburn 33 3-4;
North Carolina 30 3-4; Georgia 10;
Mississippi A. &.M. 10; V. P. I. 9;
Maryland 8; Clemson 8; Kentucky
7; Vanderbilt and N. C. State 5; Ten­nessee
5; Sewanee 2 3-4 and Alabama
2.
Joe Bedenk, baseball coach at the
University of Florida, does not favor
his players engaging in golf during
the regular season.
Date
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
Feb.
1929 Basketball Schedule
Opponent and Their Score
2—Ft. Benning (38)
5—Birmingham A. C.
9—Ft. Benning (43)
11—La Grage YMCA
12—Birmingham A. C.
18—Southern (28)
25—U. of Florida (44)
26—U. of Florida (32)
28—L. S. U. (45)
29—L. S. U. (65)
1—Clemson
2—Georgia
6—Georgia Tech
8—Tulane
9—Tulane
11—Mercer
12—Mercer
16—Georgia Tech
18—U. of Florida
19—U. of Florida
(34)
(32)
(38)
Auburn Score
(40)
(37)
(37)
(29)
(20)
(32)
(34)
(39)
(28)
(28)
21, 22, 23—Cotton States Tournament.
25—B'ham.-Southern
26—B'ham.-Southern
March 1, 2, 4, & 5th—Conference
At
At
At
and Place Played
Auburn
Auburn.
Columbus
•At Auburn
At Birmingham
At Auburn
At Gainesville
At Gainesville
At Auburn
At Auburn
At
At
At
At
At
At
At
At
At
At
At
At
Clemson
Athens
Atlanta
Auburn
Auburn
Macon
Macon
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Tournament At Atlanta
Carter, Harkins, Kennedy, Lee, and
McGee are the hurlers that we will
face the conference with arid Carter
seems to be the only on of the crew
that has had enough experience.
However, we have the good fortune
of knowing that if there is any chance
for old Auburn to have a team, Coach
"Slick" will have one. Aubui'n will
be strong in the outfield and about
the same as last year in the infield.
Coach Moulton will have all candi­dates
reporting to him the latter part
of February for another champion­ship
team. All of you that feel as if
you might have a little base ball in
your system that you would like to
get out, then be ready to answer the
first call.
Schedule Has Been
Arranged In Intra
Mural Baseball29
"NO. 7" OF L. S. U.
Here's to the man
From Ole Louisann'
Number "7" from L. S. U.
He holds the court
With the ball, as a fort,
With shots that are ever true.
He plays with care
He's everywhere
He beat the Orange and Blue
His team mates played,
But the points they made
Didn't win for L. S. U.
They did their best
Number "7" did the rest
He was the knife of the Southern
Crew;
They all did well
But the one that was Hell
Was the "Streak from L. S. U."
May the aim for success \
Ever be for the best
And be-as great as the shots were
true.
As a wish this will be
From those who did see,
To Number "7" of L. S. U.
—Hodnett, B. L. '32.
Men worry a lot about their hair
-when it's half gone.
Games will be played as scheduled,
weather permitting. Postponed games
will be played off after March 11th.
Due to the possibility of cold
weather and the lack of conditidn of
the players the first few games will
be 5 inning games. Later the games
will be lengthened to 7 innings and
finally when the weather turns warm,
full 9 inning games will be played.
Players are reminded that no one
will be allowed to play who is wear­ing
any part of an R. O. T. C. uni­form.
Games will be called as soon after
3:00 P. M. as possible.
Schedule
1st F. A. Bn. vs. 2nd F.-A. Bn.—
Tuesday, Feb. -5th. •
3rd F. A. Bn. vs. Engr. Bn.—Wed­nesday,
Feb. 6th.
• 1st F. A. Bn. vs. 3rd F. A. Bn.—
Thursday, Feb. 7th.
2nd F. A. Bn. vs. Engr. Bn.—Fri­day,
February 8th.
1st F. A. Bn. vs. Engr. Bn.—Mon­day,
Feb. 11th.
2nd F. A. Bn. vs. 3rd F. A. Bn.—
Tuesday, Feb. 12th.
1st Bn. F. A. vs. 2nd Bn. F. A.—
Wednesday, Feb. 13th.
3rd Bn. F. A. vs. Engr. Bn.—
Thursday, Feb. 14th.
1st Bn. F. A, vs. 3rd Bn. F. A.—
Friday, Feb. 15th.
2nd Bn. F. A. vs. Engr. Bn.—Mon­day,
Feb. 18th.
1st Bn. F. A. vs. Engr. Bn.—Tues­day,
Feb. 19th.
2nd Bn. F. A. vs. 3rd Bn. F. A.—
Wednesday, Feb. 20th.
1st Bn. F. A. vs. 2nd Bn. F. A.—
Thursday, Feb. 21st.
3rd Bn. F. A. vs. 2nd Bn. F. A.—
Thursday, Feb. 21st.
3rd Bn. F. A. vs. Engr. Bn.—Mon­day,
Feb. 25th.
1st Bn. F. A. vs. 3rd Bn. F. A.—
Tuesday, Feb. 26th.
2nd Bn. F. A. vs. Engr. Bn.—Wed­nesday,
Feb. 27th.
1st Bn. F. A. vs. Engr. Bn.—
Thursday, Feb. 28th.
2nd Bn. F. A. vs. 3rd Bn. F. A.—
Friday, March 1st.
1st Bn. F. A. vs. 2nd Bn. F. A.—
Monday, March 4th.
3rd Bn. F. A. vs. Engr. Bn.—Tues­day,
March 5th.
1st Bn. F. A. vs. 3rd Bn. F. A;—
Wednesday, March 6th.
2nd Bn. F. A. vs. Engr. Bn.—
Thursday, March 7th.
1st Bn. F. A. vs. Engr. Bn.—Fri­day,
March 8th.
2nd Bn. F. A. vs. 3rd Bn. F. A.—
Monday, March 11th.
Tech's All-American
Center Gets Trophies
Peter Pund, Tech's All-American
center has achieved more fame and
received more recognition than any
other Southern football player of all
time. He is indeed something for all
Tech men to be proud of. Not only
does he excell in footbal but he is
one of the best students in school.
Due to his athletic prowess he has
received a great number of rewai'ds.
Among the presents he has received
are the following:
One gold watch from the Tech Ath­letic
Association with the inscription
"National Champions."
A gold watch from the N, Y. Sun
for making its All American selec­tion.
By Elmer G. Salter
L. S. U. continued their onslaught
on the Auburn Tiger dribblers Tues­day
evening and the Plainsmen went
down for the second consecutive night
by the overwhelming score of 65 to
28.
The Rabenhort lads, due to the close
guarding on the part of Capt. Wil­son
and Laker held the Tigers score­less
for eleven minutes. Vines sunk
a free throw and then Capt. Du­Bose
caged one of his two field goals.
At intermission, the Purple Tigers
led 33 to 11 and completely outplay­ed
the Bohlermen throughout the
game. «,
Garrison continued giving the fans
a few pointers in the art of scoring,
looping the hoops for a total of 20
points to lead both teams in scoring
the second time during the series. He
was closely pushed for scoring honors
by Gaharan, center, who' caged 18
points, and Harrie, forward, who scor­ed
15 counters.
Garrison, Gaharan and Harris led
the offensive attack for the visitors
with Capt. Wilson and Luker ably
taking care of the guard positions.
Lawrence Chamblee was high point
man for the Bohlermen with 12 points.
Capt. DuBose, tho' in the game for
only a part of the first period, and
Chamblee were the stars for the los-
The game was handled in grand
style by Lt. Johnnie Roosma, former
Passaic, N. J. and West Point star.
The game was exceedingly fast but
Roosma had the game under con­trol
at all times. His officiating has
always been above reproach and he
is being ranked as one of the lead­ing
officials in Dixie.
The Villagers will leave Auburn
Friday morning for the lair of the
Clemson Tiger where they will meet
the Clemsonites i na one game setto
Friday evening. To climax their four
games with conference opponents dur­ing
the week, the Tigers will play
the strong Georgia five Saturday
night in Athens.
Lineup and Summary:
Auburn (28) : Mullin, Kennedy,
Forwards; DuBose (C) (4), Center;
James, Vines (1), Guards.
L. S. U., (28) : Garrison (20), Har­ris
(15), Forwards; Gaharan (18),
Center; Wilson (C), Luker (8),
Guards.
Summary and Substitutions:
Auburn: Yarbrough for Vines;
Chappelle (4) for James; Anderson
(2) for DuBose; Frazier (1) for
Mullin; Chamblee (12) for Kennedy;
Marmon (4) for Anderson.
L. S. U.: Larker (2) for Gaharan;
Burnett for Garrison; Tunnehill (2)
for Harris; McGhee for Wilson.
Referee: Roosma (Army).
Rat Cagers Win From Ridge Grove
Quintet in Second Game of Season
The Auburn Rat quintet defeated
the fast Ridge Grove aggregation 44
to 33 in a hard fought contest played
in the Alumni Gym Tuesday after­noon.
This was the second victory
out of two starts for the Frosh bas-
A gold watch from the tournament I keteers, having previously defeated
of Roses with the inscription "Na-j the strong Tallapoosa County High
tional Champions."
A gold football from the Atlanta
Journal for making the six sport
editors composite All-Southern team.
A diploma from the intersectional
coaches committee which selected the
most authentic All-American team.
This committee is composed of
Coaches Pop Warner, Knute Rockne
and Tad Jones.
A gold watch charm presented an­nually
by Mr. Joe Rhodes to the mem­bers
of the Tech team if they defeat
Georgia.
(Continued on page 6)
outfit of Dadeville.
The Ridge Grove outfit threw- a
scare into the Auburnites by flashing
a brilliant offensive attack in the
first half that swept the Tiger Cubs
off their feet, combining a smooth
passing attack with a remarkable ex­hibition
of shooting. The play of the
Frosh quintet was ragged throughout
the first half and they left the floor
at the intermission trailing the high
school team by a large margin. The
deadly shooting of McEachern, Ridge
Grove forward, featured the first half
of the encounter.
The Cubs looked like a different
outfit in the second half and the two
teams fought on even terms until the
closing minutes of play when Jordan
ran wild and looped five consecutive
field goals to give his team a ten
point margin of victory. Kaley also
featured in the rally of the Auburn­ites
and sank several field goals when
they were most needed. The Ridge
Grove team resorted to' wild shooting
near the end of the game and this
aided the Freshman outfit considerab­ly
in running up the score.
Coach Bohler used several different
combinations during the encounter, the
final one proving the most effective.
This outfit consisted of Stewart, cen­ter,
Lumpkin and Jordan, forwards,
and Hatfield and Lassiter, guards.
Jordan and Kaley were the outstand-in
luminaries of the Frosh quintet
while McEachern and Woody starred
for the visiting aggregation.
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BASKET-BALL TEAM ENTERTAINED
HIGHLY AT SILVER SPRINGS. FLA.
The Auburn Basketeers left Gaines­ville
early Saturday morning Janu­ary
20, 1929, touring over to Silver
Springs, P'la. by bus. Silver Springs
is located 5.5 miles from Ocala, Fla.,
which is 38 miles from Gainesville.
Silver Springs is the living pano­rama
of a world unknown to those
who have not seen beneath its sur­face.
It reveals the mysteries and
beauties of the underwater life; show­ing
exactly how the fish, turtle, and
other underwater species of life act
in their native haunts. In other
words nature has drawn aside the cur­tain
to sub-aqueous life and made
visible the amazing revelations of the
marvelous foliage, shells, and rock-formations
of the underwater world.
The world's greatest writers and most
eloquent speakers have endeavored to
describe its wondrous beauties, but
they can not equal the unlimitable
amazement that one experiences at
the sight of these underwater mar­vels.
Silver Springs is composed of 18
large and more than a thousand small
springs, the total flow from Silver
Springs into the Silver River being
22,134,780 gallons of water per hour.
The flow from one spring alone,
known as Grand Cavern, which is 05
feet long and 12 feet high, is over
550 million gallons of water per day;
this being enough water to give every
person in the United States five gal­lons
per day. A view from the
shores give no conception of what is
beneath the water, for nowhere in
the world has nature assembled such
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a display of sub-aquatic wonders as
are visible at Silver Springs through
the medium of glass bottom boats.
There are two trips that one can
make while at Silver Springs. The
half trip extends over nine large
and many hundred small springs;
while the long trip includes all 18
lrage springs and many thousand
small ones. The longer trip taking
one-half a day while the half trip
requires ontly forty minutes. The
Tiger basket-ball team. had only a
short time to spend and thus were'
forced to see the springs that were
included on the half trip. It might
be interesting to read about 'a few
of the different springs.
The Bridal Chamber is 81 feet
deep. One can see the shells and
crystals brought up by the water
form a realtistic bzidal veil that is
studded with pearls and gems.
The Reception hall, which is 32
feet deep, is the gathering place of
innumerable kinds of fish.
Devil's Kitchen is very interesting
with its imageries of pop-corn roast­ing
and boiling pots .
Jacob's well, a beauty spot formed
by a large natural artesian well, that
is 155 feet deep, and one can see the
bottom as clear as looking through a
window glass.
Legendary remains of pre-historic
animal. The legend couples this mas­sive
formation with a pre-historic ani­mal
measuring from head to tail over
32 feet which has been petrified hun­dreds
of years.
Fisherman's Paradise. Great cav­erns
and cliffs inhabited by more than
30 varieties of fish. It is real amusing
to see how the fish will come up to
the sides of the boat and eat bread
out of the passengers hands.
The bottom of the springs has a
natural growth the entire year. The
vegetation grows in the bed of the
springs and river as freely as it does
on land. The unusual purity and
transparency of the water allows the
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'!Oh, he's right; but he's not mod­ern."
This is a chance expression caught
from a student in conversation with
two fellows on the street last week.
What the subject of the discussion
was, or how the rest of it ran, we
can't vouch for; that is aside from
the point. The one sentence above is
a remarkable text within itself.
Being modern involves a number of
present day factors that are quite
widely discussed. Being right possibly
involves even more elements—and the
right is evidently more elusive than
the modern. Just what the true status
of these attainments are is a problem
that bears no easy drawing of a dis­tinct
line. One can argue quite broad­ly
either way, and still not be dead
wrong.
A person whose views and tastes
are modern, or one who belongs to a
modern school of thought is generally
accepted as typically modern. Being
right depends largely upon personal
opinion, and level-headedness; no
sharp line can be drawn.
Can one be right and stay modern?
It seems plausible that these uni­versal
and all-important factors are
justly teammates. To separate them
would be to strongly invite effective­ness
only to the extent of one-half.
Why be right if you aren't modern,
when being modern means that that
right is to be accepted? And who
cares for modernism that isnt' right.
It's a poor game that hasn't a safe
footing.
The ideal situation is, be right and
stay modern.
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Texas, already the largest state in
the Union, is to be 25,000 acres larg­er
when the United States Supreme
Court issues its final decree in the
Texas-Oklahoma boundary dispute.
About that amount of land, valued
at from $25 to $75 an acre; will be
added to Texas because the court has
found that the true 100th meridian,
the legal border of western Oklahoma,
and the eastern border of the Texas
panhandle, really takes in part of
what is now Oklahoma.
The court ordered a commission to
establish the true line, which will
swing east of the present one. It will
cut off a large, wedge-shaped sec­tion
of Oklahoma, the big end being
at the Red River, south boundary of
Oklahoma.
Oklahoma's jurisdiction will be ex­tended
to the south low banks of the
A series of six College Tours to
Europe, announced today by Dr.
James E. Lough, at 285 Madison Ave­nue,
New York City, opens his float­ing
university" idea this summer to
students and teachers, many of wjiom
are unable to join the annual College
World Cruise in the winter. Delphi,
Athens, Rome and Venice now serve
as classrooms for students of Ancient
History, for on each tour, college pro­fessional
courses in Art, Literature,
Economics, Geography and History
are given by well-known professors
and carry full academic credit.
"The plan provides a Summer
School in Europe similar in every es­sential
to those in American universi­ties,"
said Dr. Lough, president of
the world's first Floating University
in 1926-27 and Director of College
Tours, "with the addition that the stu­dents
do field work under faculty
supervision during the College Tour
as apart of each course.
"The itineraries have been arrang­ed
as backgrounds for the subjects
taught. Students of French, for ex­ample,
cross on French ships and re­side
at Grenoble University, while
Art students visit the important mu­seums
of England, France, Italy, Hol­land,
Austria and Germany under
faculty leadership.
"Previous University tours and
cruises have demonstrated that ex­tensive
travel and systematic study
may be combined to the great advan­tage
of each," continued Dr. Lough,
who organized the College World
Tour now in Japan in connection with
the 1929 World Cruise of the "Bel-genland."
"The students see more
than when traveling independently or
on mere sightseeing tours, and at the
same time the study of such subjects
as Economics, History or French is
vitalized by direct contact with the
problems."
The cost of these travel study tours
is no higher than other moderate pric­ed
tours without this educational fea­ture.
Thus the price of the French
Residence Tour with 52 days of in­tensive
study in French Literature
and Conversation is only $485.00.
Students and teachers who desire to
register for this summer school abroad
and to receive college or professional
credit for their courses should com­municate
with Dr. Lough.
Eppley Plans To
Enter Track Meets
Coach Swede Eppley of the Univ­ersity
of Maryland track team in
striving to develop a mile relay four
to take part in the Millrose A. A.
games in New York on February 9
and possibly in the Meadbrook meet
in Philadelphia three nights later.
With Bob Remburg as the only
man left of last years' speedy team,
from which Henry Matthews, Charlie
Pugh and Lewis Thomas were lost,
Eppley faces a task. Besides Rens-burg
he is testing out Bill Kinnamon,
Urban Linzey, Dick White and Jim
Benner of last year's Varsity squad,
and Bob Havell and Doug Wasche, the
last named of last season's Freshman
outfit. Havell did not enter school
until the second semester last year
and will not be eligible until Febru­ary
1.
Bob Quinn, sprinter, who won the
50-yard invitation in the Meadow-brook
games last winter; Al Myers,
distance runner, and John McDonald,
weight hurler, also may be entered
in the two northern meets.
Eppley plans to get his full squad
outdoors on February 11 and will use
the space between the concrete stands
to work his sprinters for a while and
for the rets of the men when the
weather is bad.
Despite the loss of Thomas, Pugh
and Matthews; Earl Zulick, holder of
the Southern Conference shot put rec­ord;
Dan Fahley, hurdler and high
jumper, and Clarence Blancz, half-miler,
Eppley expects to have a well
balanced and strong team for the
outdoor campaign.
Among those mentioned above,
Kinnamon is a hurdler of ability; Lin­zey
is a good half-miler, Rensburg
can step the mile in good fashion,
while White ha sdone better than 22
feet in the broad jump.
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Jack Stone Gets
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.Jack Stone, former resident of
New Orleans and one-time student
at Tulane, now acting under the
First National banner in Hoolywood,
has been chosen for the Collegiate
Hall of Fame in the current issue of
College.Humor. Albert E. Holleman,
Tulane student activities director,
was recently, included in the same
section.
Stone was born in London in 1906.
He cam,e to this country in 1908, and
in 1923 entered Tulane University,
where he became a member of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon. He has also
been a student at Oxford, at the Uni­versity
of Southern California and
at the Colorado School of Mines. He
entered the moving picture indust-try
in 1927. The most notable part
he has played is that of The Kid in
"Lilac Time" with Colleen Moore.
n their way
to here
sunshine to reach the plants on the
botom a sthough no water intervened,
thus creating the wonderful growth
of vegetable matter. It may be of
interest to know that the temperature
of the water is 72 degres the entire
year, thus encouraging bathers at all
seasons. '
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preferences of a majority of the expedition's members.
When it is recalled that these are—in superlative sense
— picked men . . . selected not only for bravery, ability
and experience, but also by searching tests of physical
fitness... we may be forgiven for our considerable pride
in their vote. And something of this pride, we believe,
will be shared by all Chesterfield smokers.
It is another of the many proofs piling up that the
surest way to earn popularity is to deserve it!
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PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1929.
NEW DISCOVERY
TO AID BUILDING
OF SKYSCRAPERS
Skyscrapers that pierce the heav­ens
125 stories high may result from
a new building material just develop­ed,
according to officers of the Amer­ican
Ceramic Society.
The new material, which to date
has been shrouded in secrecy and mys­tery,
will be shown to the public for
the first time at the American Cera­mic
Exposition the only show of its
kind in America in Chicago. February
4.
The mystery skyscraper material
was developed by a young Chicago
scientist. It is made of several slays,
chemically and mechanically process­ed.
According to officers of the Ameri­can
Ceramic Exposition the material
is lighter than water and will not
absorb moisture. A piece of it has
been heated to 3,250 degrees more
than 20 times and plunged into ice
water after each heating- and yet
showed no ill effect. It is also claim­ed
that the new building medium is
entirely fireproof, everlasting and pos­sessed'great
heat-insulating proper­ties.
The material also is capable of tak­ing
enamels and may be produced in
any color.
Owing to its light weight, thus re­lieving
much stress, it is claimed the
new product will cut building costs in
large steel structures enormously,.
More than 2500 deiegates^Trom'all
parts of the world _will attend the
ceramic exposition.
Exhibite will total $25Oj,T)0O in value
and repi§teent theftcduntry's finest
chinaware, glass,-' pottery, stoneware
and art jiraducts as well as various
building jaiaterials.
Ivey Receives Letter
From Former Student
In a letter to Prof. John E. Ivey,
head of the poultry department of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
J. A. Medlock relates some interest­ing
experiences of his since leaving
Auburn and going to North Carolina
State College at Raleigh, where he is
specializing in poultry husbandry.
Medlock did his freshman and sopho­more*
work at Auburn.
At North Carolina State college he
made the poultry judging team which
went to the Madison Square Garden
poultry exhibition in New York. There
he saw and judged poultry as near
the standard of perfection as it is
possible to produce them.
Although the North Carolina team,
of which he is a member, did not win
first place it did come away from
New York with three gold medals.
Cornell University won first. The
North Carolina team was highest in
examination and standard judging
but fell down on utility judging.
In his letter Medlock said that it
was an international team, he being
from Alabama, another member being
from North Carolina, one from Rhode
Island, and the fourth from South
Africa.
Websterian Society
Installs Officers
The installation of officers to
serve the Websterian Literary So­ciety
during the coming semester
brought to the realization of the club
members the fact that they are ex­tremely
fortunate in having such
capable leaders. Murff Hawkins, as
president, is undoubtedly a remark­ably
competent official. The other
officers are Sam Williams, vice-presi­dent;
Blanche Tancredi, secretary;
A. V. Blankenship, treasurer; C. M.
Rush, Plainsman reporter, and R. G.
Upchurch, sgt. at arms.
As the meeting progressed, Mr.
Blankenship expounded a few spark­ling
gems on the art of motivating an
entertaining talk. His opinions, with
a few embellishments from Mr. Haw-iins,
touched off Mr. Upchurch into
an explosively spontaneous chal­lenge
to Mr. Blankenship to debate
either side of any question the latter
might choose. The affront met with
prompt acceptance.
When the date for settling this "af­fair
of honor" is set, we hope there
will be enough spectators and visi­tors
to prevent any fatalities.
American Student
- May Enter Race
For the first time since the war
there is a possibility that an Ameri­can
may sit in the Cambridge univer­sity
crew when it races against Ox­ford.
R. E. Swartout, who as coxswain
steered the First Trinity eight to the
head of the river in the Lent and May
races last year, is the man.
Swartout, who prepared at Mid­dlesex
School, Concord, Mass.,' has
distinguished himself elsewhere.. He
is well known as an editor of the
Granta, undergraduate humorous
weekly, as a poet, and as an amateur
dramatic critic.
REAGAN TO OPEN
STORE IN ATALLA
Atalla, Alabama is to have a hard­ware
store named for a star football
player and captain of the great 1924
Auburn team, which downed the noted
Centre outfit. It will be known
as the Rip Reagan Hardware Com­pany.
F. A.,(Rip) Reagan is presi­dent,
and Mrs. Nell Jo Reagan, his
wife, is secretary and treasurer.
The company has a paid-in capital
of $5,000. It will do a general hard­ware
business.
Professor Requires
A Neat Appearance
That good looking clothes do create
an impression, was recently demon­strated
in one of Georgia Tech's class­rooms,
when the professor asserted
that he always gave better marks to
those dressed in white shirts and
good-looking ties.
The same instructor recently sent
a student to his room to change his
sweater for a coat. The student re­turned
dressed in full tuxedo attire.
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DR. I. W. HILL IN A
CONFERENCE HERE
Dr. Issac W. Hill, former state su­perintendent
of education in Alabama
but for more than a decade with the
U. S. Department of Agriculture at
Washington, was in Auburn, Monday
and Tuesday, in conference with Pres­ident
. Bradford Knapp, Prof. L. N.
Duncan, and T. A. Sims, extension
club leader for Alabama.
Dr. Hill came to Auburn direct from
Washington and went from Auburn
to Texas. While in that state he will
participate in the celebration of the
25th anniversary of extension work
in agriculture and home economics
at Houston,'February 5, 6, and 7.
The work was started by the late Dr.
Seaman A. Knapp, father of Dr.
Bradford Knapp.
In addition to being a former state
superintendent of education in Ala­bama,
Dr. Hill was for several years
superintendent of schools of Opelika,
and also of the city schools of Gads­den,
where he still retains his citizen­ship.
A Large Turbine
Spindle Is Shipped
From Philadelphia
Preston Whatley
Is Now Improving
The students of Auburn are very
glad to hear that the condition of
Preston Whatley is now improving at
the Opelika Infirmary.
Whatley and Leroy Robinson were
returning from Waverly when the car
in which they were riding overturned.
Whatley received concussion of the
brain and several cuts and bruises
about the body. Robinson was not
severely hurt and was dismissed from
the hospital within a very short time.
Both boys are members of the Pi Kap­pa
Alpha Fraternity and are mem­bers
of the Sophomore class.
RE-EXAMINATIONS
ARE ANNOUNCED
(Continued from page 1")
Drawing and Machine Design.
Tuesday, Feb. 12
A. M.: Physics, Chemical Labora­tory.
P. M.: Botany, Heat Engines, His­tory,
Mech. Engineering.
Wednesday, Feb. 13
A. M.: Home Economics, Agrono­my,
Civil Engineering, Physical
Training, Surveying.
P. M.: Architecture, Agh. Engi­neering,
Elec. Engineering, Religious
Education.
Thursday, Feb. 14
A. M.: English, Animal Husbandry,
Highway Engineering.
• P. M.: Chemistry.
Friday, Feb. 15
A. M.: Economics, Horticulture,
Pharmacy.
P. M.: Farm Management, Educa­tion,
Mathematics.
Saturday, Feb. 16
A. M.: R. O. T. C, Veterinary Med­icine,
Bacteriology.
KIWANIS WILL SPONSOR
WORK 4-H CLUB BOYS
(Continued from page 1)
Hill declared that the main object
of the work is to train farm boys for
leadership on farms and in other oc­cupations
which they may choose.
Prof. L. N. Duncan, a member of
the club, reported that Auburn is in
a favorable position to get a federal
postoffice building. He said that the
date when this will be accomplished
cannot be determined aTTthis time but
that Auburn's case is convincing and
that it has been presented forcefully
to those in Washington who are in
charge of such matters.
Prof. Duncan's report followed a
trip to Washington by him and Dr.
B. B. Ross to present Auburn's claims.
The amount of business done by the
postoffice here—and the fact that
Auburn is a town of state-wide inter­est
are important factors in Auburn's
favor.
Prof. J. C. Grimes, president of the
club, presided. Four visiting Kiwan-ians
from Opelika were present.
Recently the largest turbine spin­dle,
so far as maximum diameter is
concerned, ever built by the Westing-house
Electric & Manufacturing Co.,
was shipped from the South Philadel­phia
Works. It. was built for the
Milwaukee Electrtic Railway and light
Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
At the time is was designed it ap­peared
the only way it could be ship­ped
completely bladed, was to dis­mantle
it and ship it in two sections
on account of the extreme dimensions
being 12 ft. 2 in. in diameter at the
coupling end. Even to ship it in this
manner would appear to be a rather
precarious load for clearance and
equal distribution of weight on -a
freight car. Another problem to be
overcome in the eVent it should be
shipped dismantled was to provide the
proper press and machinery to reas­semble
it at the customer's plant.
However, plans were laid which pro­vided
for the loading of the spindle,
when completely bladed and assembl­ed,
in a diagonal position on the car
on which a specially constructed skid
would be built. The coupling end
measured 12 feet 2 inches in diameter
across the blades from tip to tip while
the thrust end measured only 5 feet
11 inches for the shaft from end to
end. Therefore, by loading it in a
diagonal position the actual width of
the load would be reduced to 11 feet
9 inches.
It was doubtful if the railroad com­pany
would accept the responsibility
of moving such a wide load, especial­ly
through such congested and busy
cities and rail lines from Philadelphia
to Milwaukee. A contract was made
with the Pennsylvania Railroad Com­pany
that they would transport the
load provided it did not exceed 11 feet
9 inches in width.
Another great problem to be solved
then was the arrangement of the load
so that the weight would be equaliz­ed;
since by loading the spindle in
a diagonal position there would be ex­cess
weight on one side of the car.
It was estimated about 50,000 pounds
would be required to balance the
weight and render the load safe for
transportation.
RED OWEN STOPS
OVER FOR VISIT
Mr. W. L. (Red) Owen, an Auburn
graduate who is now entomologist on
the Experiment Station Staff of the
Texas A & M College, passed through
Auburn with Mrs. Owen on January
24.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Owen arc natives
of this state and are in Alabama on
their vacation. ,
Mr. Owen is working on the bio­logy
of the pink cotton boll worm.
This work is located on the Rio Grande
Valley below El Paso, 67 miles from
the railroad.
Dates Arranged For
Civil Service Exams
FACULTY DANCE
GAINS IN FAVOR
TECH'S ALL-AMERICAN
CENTER GETS TROPHIES
(Continued from page 4)
The most coveted of these gifts was
a gold C presented by Mr. Henry the
president of the Rose Bowl Commit­tee.
This C was presented to Mr.
Henry when he was an athlete at the
University of California. A gold C
at California is considered quite an
honor as only two students are given
a C each year. In return Pund gave
Mr. Henry a gold T.
Several others of the team also re­ceived
presents. In fact almost all the
football men are well supplied in jew­elry
for the year.—Technique.
Each year the students on the Au­burn
campus await with eager anti­cipation
the Sophomore, Junior, and
Senior Proms. The "A Club" dances
are greeted with much excitement
and the students have a big time
among themselves. Still there are
some dances that the students are not
allowed to make but which are of
general interest and of special at­traction
to the faculty. These are
the Faculty Dances.
Climaxing a series of five brilli­ant
faculty dances for the first se­mester
the Faculty Mid-Term Dance
will be held next Friday night at 9
o'clock . This will be the "high spot"
for the faculty.at the middle of the
year. These faculty dances serve as
"general-get-togethers" for the mem­bers
of the faculty and seem to be
much enjoyed by them. Max Jones
with his Collegians will furnish the
music for the dance Friday night.
Other faculty dances scheduled in
the near future are: St. Valentine
Dance, Friday, February 15; March
Dance, Saturday March 9; Easter
Dance, Saturday, March 30.
The United States Civil t Service
Commission announces the following
open competitive examination:
Junior Patent Examiner
Applications for junior patent ex­aminer
must be on file with the Civil
Service Commission at Washington,
D. C, not later than Marsh 5.
The examination is to fill vacancies
in the Patent Office, Washington,
D. C.
The entrance salary is $2,000 a
year. Higher-salaried positions are
filled through promotion.
The duties are to perform elemen­tary
scientific or technical, work in
the examination of applications for
patents; to see what the alleged in­ventor
thinks he has produced that
is new; and to see that the disclo­sure
is complete; and to investigate
the prior art as represented by pat­ents
already granted in the United
States and various foreign countries
and by the descriptions in technical
literature.
Competitors will be rated on phy­sics,
technics, mechanical drawings,
and other optional subject or subjects
chosen. The optionals are (1) me­chanical
engineering, (2) physical
and organic chemistry, (3) chemical
engineering, (4) civil engineering,
(5) electrical engineering. French or
German, or both, may also be included
if desired. Qualifying in the language
test increases the probability of ap­pointment.
Full information may be obtained
from the United States Civil Service
Commission, Washington, D. C, or
from the secretary of the United
States Civil Service Board of Exam­iners
at the post office or custom­house
in any city.
WAPI Receives
Numerous Letters
Many letters from distant states
are being received at Auburn daily
bringing news of favorable reception
of Station WAPI by large number of
radio fans in the United States. De­spite
the fact that the majority of
the fan mail is received at Birming­ham
where the station is now located,
every mail brings many letters from
widespread points to Auburn.
In the first mail Thursday morning
letters were received from the fol­lowing
points: New York City; New
London, Conn.; Morristown, N. J.;
Washington, D. C.; Harvey, 111.;
Hazleton, Pa.; Gloucester, Mass.;
Chapel Hill, N. C ; Chillicothe, Ohio;
Wheeling, W. Va.; Boston, Mass.,
and Chicago.
In a letter from Chicago, coming
by air-mail, the name of a freshman
in college was mentioned, as follows:
We happen to have a. nephew at Au­burn
college who is an organist, and
in case he ever has the privilege of
playing before the radio audience,
we would appreciate knowing so
we could listen in. His name is Her­bert
Morton, of Montgomery. My
husband is a Cullman boy, and we
surely love the Sunny-South program.
Hoping to hear you often over the
air, We are, (Signed) Mr. and Mrs.
Carrol S. Felter.
Dr. Seal Is Added
To Auburn Faculty
The latest addition to the agricul­tural
faculty at Auburn is Doctor
James L. Seal, of the Botany Depart­ment.
Dr. Seal comes to Auburn with very
high recommendations from the Ever­glades
Experiment Station, Florida,
where he has been since July 1927.
Before going there he was with the
Florida Plant Board January 1925 to
July 1927.
Three degrees from as many insti­tutions
is the record made by Dr.
Seal. He received his B. S. at Clem-son
College, S. C, in 1913. In 1914
he went to Iowa State to do graduate
work and instruct in Botany receiv­ing
his M. S. there in 1926.
From July, 1816 to July 1920 Dr.
Seal was extension Pathologist for the
South Carolina Extension Service.
Then he went to the University of
Minnesota to instruct in plant patho­logy
and do graduate work. He com­pleted
the required resident work on
Search For Ugliest
Woman In World
Is Being Conducted
Research has long been one of the
purposes of American college and uni­versity
professors but Englishmen are
astonished at the latest bit of research
work entered into by a group of Am­erican
pedagogues.
Their mission is to find the ugliest
white woman in the world.
While there has always been a dis­pute
as to who was the most beautiful
woman in history, so far as is known
there has never been any doubt as
to the one who possessed the most re­volting
features.
This Sybil of the sex was the Duch­ess
Margaret of Carinthia and Tyrol,
who lived in the middle ages and was
the subject of a portrait by the Flem­ish
master Quentin Mastys.
"The recent sale of Mastys' picture
picture has inspired us to undertake
this quest," a member of the party
said.
"It is remarkable that at present
there are known to be only two can­didates
for the individuals distinction
of being the worst looking woman in
the world—a French actress and an
English woman.
"The French woman has a mouth
extending nearly from ear to ear,
while her eyes are narrow slits. A
washpish waist of only fourteen in­ches
heightens her ugliness.
"The English woman, who has an
enormous face like that of some bov­ine
animal and a huge nose out of
all proportions even to her large head
presents an equally grotesque visage.
"It is a remarkable fact that—most
women—with the possible exception of
the ugly duchess—who are really ugly
are sweet-natured and easily attract
husbands."
a doctor's degree before leaving there
in January, 1925. After completing
a thesis while working with the plant
board in Florida, he received a Ph.
D. degree in 1927.
Feenamint
The Laxative
You Chew
Like Gum
No Taste
But the Mint
Architects Library
To Be Open Each Day
The Architectural library has in­augurated
a project by which the stu­dents
in architecture may receive more
benefit from the library than they
have in the past. The library is to
be open every day from eight to four,
except on Saturday and Sunday, when
it is to be open from eight to five and
from one to five, respectively. The
plan of keeping the library open on
Saturday and Sunday afternoon is an
experiment that means an extra bur­den
on the budget, and whether this
plan is continued will depend on the
volume of student attendance.
The architectural library is a part
of the general college library, and
subject to the same rules, except that
its size renders necessary a require­ment
that books taken out may be held
only one week. Any student who
habitually keeps books out more than
one week, and so prevents their use
by his fellow students, or neglects to
pay the fine promptly, must be de­prived
of the privilege of borrowing
books.
Great states from wheat seeds
IT was unprofitable wilderness, most
men thought. But James J. Hill had
faith that it could grow wheat- and so he
built his railroad. Settlers turned the
waste-land into wheat-land, the wheat
into wealth, the wealth into great west­ern
states.
Faith in the economic future still points
the way. Right now men in the Bell
System are planting the seeds of vast pos­sibilities
for even better communication.
Out of the belief that the public needs
a broader use of the telephone is grow­ing
a constandy improved long distance
telephone service. Like the railroads of
an earlier day, this service is now tapping
and helping to develop rich new terri­tories
of commerce.
BELL SYSTEM
%A nation-wide system of inter-connecting telephones
" O U R P I O N E E R I N G WORK HAS J U S T B E G U N"