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VOLUME LII AUBURN, ALABAMA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929. NUMBER 45
SENIOR ENGINEERS TO
LEAVE HERE SUNDAY
ON INSPECTION TRIP
Annual Tour Lasts Week;
Covers State's Leading
Industries
BIRMINGHAM IS HUB
Touring Group in Charge of
W. W. Hill, Chairman
a
Approximately one hundred and
twenty-five men are leaving here
Sunday, March 31, for the annual
senior inspection trip, which con-j
tinues for the duration of the week
and embraces an inspection of the
methods and systems used by practic­ally
all of the major industries in
Alabama, and is sponsored by the
college in order to give the graduat­ing
student a more comprehensive
idea as to the line of work to which
he is best suited.
The group meets in Birmingham
Monday morning and will be conduct­ed
through the Ensley Steel Works
in a body. Tuesday the whole group
is to be broken up into smaller units,
according to the business or branch
of engineering being studied, and
various plants and companies are to
be visited for the rest of the week.
A big variety of industries are being
visited this year, and more invitations
have been received than it was pos­sible
to'accept. While making the
rounds the seniors will meet and talk
with the engineers and officials of
the companies and-will be conducted
thru the plans by guides who will
point out things of interest and ex­plain
various details, ^very group
is to be accompanied by a professor
who will point out the practical ap­plications
of the theories studied in
college.
These inspection trips are not com­pulsory
but are a great advantage
and opportunity. After the trip is
over a complete report, which is ac­cepted
as a thesis, is submitted to
the different instructors and thus
some check is given on the amount
of good that the trips are doing.
Visits are being made this year to
the Alabama Power Co., Tennessee
Coal and^Iron Co., Birmingham Elec­tric
Co., Matthews Electric Supply
Co., Moore Handley-Hardware Co.,
American Cast Iron and Pipe Co.,
Bell Telephone Co., Stockham Pipe
Co., Birmingham Cold Storage Co.,
Phoenix Cement Co., and the Ingalls
Iron Co.
The number of seniors in the dif­ferent
departments making this trip
are: 65 electrical engineers, 15 me­chanical
engineers, 20 civil engineers,
10 chemical engineers, and 8 busi­ness
administration. The professors
accompanying the party are: Profes­sor
John Callan, civil; Professor A.
L. Thomas, mechanical; Professor C.
A. Basore, chemical; Dean J. W.
Scott, business administration; and
Professor W. W. Hill, electrical,
chairman of the inspection trip.
Lee Sledge S u s t a i ns
Broken Arm From Fall
Lee Sledge received a broken arm
from a fall from a horse Wednesday
while practicing for the Horse Show.
The accident occurred just before his
horse made a jump over the stone
barrier, when the horse's foot slipped
and threw Sledge off his mount. This
horse has a rather mysterious reputa­tion,
as it threw another boy last
year; it will not be used in practice
for the show any more, as it seems to
injure everyone who tries to jnmi
the barrier.
Roger Knapp Has
Registered Here
Roger Knapp, son of Dr. Bradford
Knapp, registered in the general
course Monday morning for the re­mainder
of the second semester.
Roger has been attending Emory
University, in Atlanta, for the past
two quarters, resigning there at the
end of the first semester to enter
Auburn. He expects to study pre-med
next year.
Children" Fly Kites
On Sunday Afternoon
The members of a prominent
fraternity harked back to child­hood
days a few evenings ago.
Memories of sand-lot base ball
games were recalled and childish
pranks all loomed vividly up be­fore
their memory. They felt
again the sand under their shirts
as they swung happily home from
the old swimming hole. Snitched
cigarettes, and the resulting
slightly scorched pants, paraded
solemnly before the eye of their
imagination.
Spring, that powerful intoxi­cant,
produced some unusual re­sults
at the Phi Kappa Delta
house Sunday afternoon! The
"enfants" that live there flew
kites all afternoon, much to the
amusement of the neighboring
citizens. The little boys who
won the prizes for the most un­usually
designed, most beauti­fully
colored, highest flying, and
other excellent kites, have so far
been so modest that the press has
failed to learn their names.
This idea for an afternoon's
entertainment should prove to
be an inspiration to the mem­bers
of the various other or­ganizations
who are afflicted
with a lack of something to do
on the long Sunday afternoons.
Perhaps shooting marbles will
become the rage. It might per­haps
be "mumblepeg", or "drop
the handkerchief." What it will
be is most uncertain, but it is
evident that something is in for
a season of popularity.
DUNCAN LEAVES
ASSIST FLOOD
RELIEF FORCES
Commission Makes Maximum
Use Extension Service
In Project
To assist in organizing extension
forces to help the flood sufferers in
south Alabama, Professor L. N. Dun­can,
director of extension service of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
left Auburn Tuesday morning for a
visit to each of the counties in the
flooded area. He was accompanied
by Emmett Sizemore, district agent,
and left Auburn with a commission
from President Bradford Knapp to
make maximum use of the extension
service in behalf of flood sufferers.
Before leaving Auburn Prof. Dun­can
announced that Mrs. Clare W..
Livingston, home demonstration
agent for Elmore County, will go to
Geneva County to serve temporarily
as emergency Home demonstration
agent. Miss Sallye Hamilton, home
demonstration agent in Calhoun
County, will go to Coffee to assist
Miss Allye Hughes, home agent of
Coffee County, and one of the flood
sufferers.
Professor Duncan said that this
service in each county is only tem­porary.
He praised the county super­intendents
of education, board of
education, and county boards of rev­enue
in each county for releasing
them for emergency work.
Under the direction of Miss Helen
Jacobs, state chairman on home dem­onstration
work, Miss Helen Ken-
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Captain Leitch Goes
To Fort Sam Houston
News Received Immediately Follow­ing
Notice of Advancement
Shortly after he received his cap­tain's
commission, Captain Leitch
was notified by the war department
that he is to be transferred to Fort
Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas,
on September 1, 1929. At his new
post he will be with the Second Divi­sion,
Field Artillery.
Captain Leitch came to Auburn in
June, 1925, serving here as first
lieutenant until he received an an­nouncement
of his promotion a few
days ago. He is a member of the
Sigma Phi Sigma fraternity and an
honorarj member of Scabbard and
Blade.
CAMP, OF TEXAS
IS APPOINTED
TEXTILE HEAD
Notice Mark Of First Move
In Development of New
Department
GRADUATE GEORGIA TECH
Dr. Knapp and Mr. Camp To
Plan Textile Building
Prof. E. W. Camp, of the Texas
Technological Institute, has been ap­pointed
first head of the school of
textile engineering at the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, beginning with
the 1929-30 session. Announcement of
this was made today by President
Bradford Knapp.
Prof. Camp is not due to report at
Auburn until next summer. He and
Dr. Knapp will begin planning immed­iately
the proposed textile building at
Auburn in which will be installed the
most modern machinery obtainable.
Establishment of the school of tex­tile
engineering was recommended to
the board of trustees by Dr. Knapp
soon after he came to Auburn as pres­ident,
July 1, 1928. His recommenda­tion
was approved. Since then he has
been making investigations, including
the selection of a man to take charge
and develop the work. Prof Camp
will be assisted by two or more assist­ants—
one a trained textile chemist
and the other a man who has special­ized
in textile engineering.
Mr. Camp was born and reared in
Georgia. He was educated at the
Georgia School of Technology and
served his alma mater as instructor
in textile engineering before going to
Texas in 1925. Dr. Knap'p said that
the school of textile engineering es­tablished
by Prof. Camp at the Texas
Technological Institute is one of the
best in the United States.
"It would have been impossible,"
said Dr. Knapp, "to obtain the ser­vices
of Professor Camp to come to
Auburn had it not been for the op­portunity
to start a new textile school
in the midst of a very growing textile
industry. The advancement Alabama
has been making in the textile indus­try
was the chief factor in persuad­ing
him to come to Auburn.
"There are approximately forty
students in college at the present time
who have been taking their first year
in college work and who will probably
transfer to the new textile school.
There are a large number of inquiries.
I expect the school to open with a
splendid attendance."
Lions Club Meets
At Thomas Hotel
Member Discusses Possibility Of
Auburn Country Club
Two important projects were dis­cussed
in the weekly luncheon of
the Lion's Club Tuesday, at the
Thomas Hotel. Lion Nixon appealed
to the members of the club for their
support in the building of a country
club in Auburn. Lion Doolittle, a
visitor from Notasulga, suggested the
cooperation of the Auburn and Nota­sulga
chapters in promoting the com­pletion
of the paved highway be­tween
the two towns.
One of the features of the luncheon
was the award of a button to Lion L.
S. Blake for his past services as presi­dent
of the club.
The guests were Professor Os­borne,
of the School of Architecture;
Professor Allen, of the Economics
Department; Professor Solan Dixon,
of the Engineering Department; and
Lion Doolittle, of Notasulga.
Coach "Slick" Moulton
Has S l i g h t Collision
Coach R. E. "Slick" Moulton and
Mr. J. G. Beasley startled the neigh­borhood
of east Magnolia St. late
Tuesday afternoon when their cars
crashed, just as Mr. Beasley turned
into Mr. Bidez' driveway. As the cars
were not going very fast when they
collided, very little damage was done
to the autos, and neither driver was
hurt. Mr. Moulton drove a Buick se­dan
and Mr. Beasley a Ford roads­ter.
Is Honored
DR. B. R. SHOW ALTER
DR. B. R. SHOWALTER
ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF HYGIENE GROUP
Alabama Association Mental
H y g i e n e Honors Faculty-
Member
At the annual convention of the
Alabama Educational Association in
Birmingham last week, Dr. B. R. Sho-walter
was elected president of the
Alabama Association of Mental Hy­giene.
Dr. Showalter has been af­filiated
with the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute for the past three years,
rising during those sessions from the
position of professor of psychology and
education to that of Director of the
Extension Teaching Division and Pro­fessor
of Elementary Education, a
new department in the school of Edu­cation.
Dr. Showalter received his A. B.
degre from Oberlin College, where
he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa
and a prominent figure in dramatics,
debating, and track. After gradua­tion
from "Oberlin he attended Colum­bia
University, where he received his
M. A. and Ph. D. degrees. While
there he was elected to Phi Delta Kap­pa,
honorary graduate research frat­ernity
in Education.- He engaged in
many campus activities at Columbia,
being at one time Vice-President of
the Executive Council of the Student
Governing Board.
Upon graduation he taught for a
short while in the rural sections of
Connecticut. His unusual ability be­ing
rapidly recognized, he became, in
order: high school principal; city
superintendent of schools; State psy­chologist
of Connecticut; State super­visor
of Elementary education. He
also taught in the summer sessions
of Yale, Milwaukee State Teachers
College, and the University of Cali­fornia.
Homer Wright's Store
Is Robbed Of Camera
Twenty-five Dollar Reward Offered
For Arrest Of Thief
The third petty robbery occuring in
Auburn during the past two weeks
was perpetrated last Saturday, March
23, between the hours of 6 and 7
P. M., when a brown ostrich leather
camera, valued at fifteen dollars, was
stolen from the counter in Homer
Wright's Drug Store.
Homer Wriht has offered a reward
of twenty-five dollars for the return
of the camera and information lead­ing
to the' arrest of the thief.
NOTICE TO SENIORS
Orders for invitations will be so­licited
from March 28th to April 4th.
It is necessary to set the final date as
April 4th in order to meet the prin­ter's
schedule.
Cost of the leather invitations will
be $0.45 each, the cardboard ones
$0.27 each. The form will be the
same as that of last year, except that
a dedication page has been added-
Invitations include summer gradu­ates.
Orders will be received now by
James Shirley, 306 Boy's J>ormitory;
Frank DuBose, power house from 6
to 12 P. M. nightly; Reginald Hatch­er,
Sigma Phi Sigma house. It is
necessary that deposits of $0.20 and
$0.12 be paid respectively on leather
and cardboard invitations when the
order is given.
The Invitation Committee.
EXERCISES OF
ALUMNI TO BE
HELD MAY 20
"Freak" Solves The
Rat Laundry Problem
Committee Makes Plans For
Annual Commencement
Exercises
BARBECUE TO FEATURE
Business Meeting and Election
Of Officers On Schedule
The 1929 alumni exercises during
commencement at the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute will take place
Monday, May 20. Plans for the day
were made at a meeting here Tues­day
of the executive committee of the
Alumni Association of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. J. V. Brown, executive secre­tary,
reported to the'committee that
an unusually large number of alumni
are expected to return to their Alma
Mater that day. Prof. C. L. Hare,
chairman of the committee, Prof. B.
H. Crenshaw, and P. O. Davis were
named as a special committee to se­lect
an alumni orator. A business
meeting, election of officers, and a
barbecue will be other features of
the meeting.
A proposed new constitution and
by-laws will be presented for adop­tion
at that time, Prof. Hare said.
At the insistence of General R. E.
Noble, who is president of the Alum­ni
Association, provisions will be
made for each president to serve only
one year. General Noble insisted that
this is to the best interest of the
Alumni Association. However, it is
known that many alumni have in­sisted
that he serve another year.
In order that each member of the
Alumni Association may express his
or her choice as to the next president,
each one is being requested to nomi­nate
one person. The five highest in
the nominations will be the nominees
for election at Auburn on May 20.
The April issue of the Auburn
Alumnus wil make this as an offi­cial
request, and nominations must be
received by Secretary Brown not
later than May 15, the executive com­mittee
ruled.
KIWANIS CLUB TO
GIVE LOVING CUP
Reporter Be Rewarded Annually
With Token
The Kiwanis Club, voted to give a
loving cup, annually, to the best
Plainsman reporter. Members of the
editorial staff will not be eligible to
compete. A committee was appointed
to meet with the Editor of the Plains­man
and draw up the rules and regu:
lations governing the award of the
cup. This committee will decide,
among other details, just what merits
will be considered in determining the
winner of the cup.
The members of the Kiwanis Club
feel that the Plainsman is doing some
fine work on the campus, among the
students, and also about the town
of Auburn. This type of work coin­cides
with the Club's ultimate aim of
a "Better Auburn"; and this award
is one of the many community inter­ests
which the Club is sponsoring.
Visitors Presented
At Kiwanis Luncheon
The Kiwanis Club met at the
Thomas Hotel for their weekly meet­ing
and luncheon at noon, Monday.
Several visitors were presented to
the Club. • They were: James Crossley
and Roy Brown, from the Club at
Opelika; R. C. Brown, freshman
coach; and Howard Duryea, Vice-
President of the Alabama Power Co.
One of the important things
things brought up at the meeting was
the awarding of a loving cup to the
best reporter on the Plainsman Staff.
After much discussion the Club de­cided
to give this cup and also to
make it an annual award.
Other things of importance that
were discussed were the changing of
the location of the Boy Scout Cabin,
and plan for making a layout of the
lots at the cemetery.
A special feature of the luncheon
was the music provided by Professor
"Baldy" Roe on his famous banjo.
Necessity, the mother of in­vention,
gave birth to a freak
Saturday afternoon. Nothing
like it has ever been seen in the
"Village of the Plains" before,
and it might be mentioned in
passing that the village has seen
many a freak in its very inter­esting
and varied existence.
Carol Porter, our prominent
scientist and efficiency expert,
has dubbed it the 8th wonder of
the Auburn world. The phenome­non
has only been brought be­fore
the eyes of the public for a
few minutes Saturday aftei'noon.
It is hoped that the public will
be given liberal opportunity to
feast its eyes upon it before
many moons.
Auburn is certainly under­going
an era of progress! New
discoveries come to light evei'y
day, thanks to the untiring ef­forts
of the Ag department. New
and novel inventions are forever
springing up from what was be­fore
apparently thin air; take the
case of the new phonograph, for
instance.
Coming, down to basic facts,
the Sigma* Alpha Epsilon fresh­men
devised a system of deliver­ing
laundry by the wholesale,
with a minimum of expended ef­fort.
The W. of A. railway
luckily did not miss the baggage
truck while it was in the hands
of the enterprising youngsters.
These freshmen merely backed a
baggage truck up to the laun­dry,
loaded it with bundles, and
nonchalantly rolled the whole
load off in the direction of the
S. A. E. abode.
PLANS ARE FINISHED
ANNUAL "A" DAY BE
HELD HERE MONDAY
Track and Field Events Added
To Sport Attractions
TIGERS VERSUS LIONS
Baskin and " S n i t z " Snider Be
Track Feature
CONVENTION OF
STATE SCIENCE
BODY HERE 1930
Announcement Made By Dr.
Allison, New President
Of Academy
The 1930 convention of the Ala­bama
Academy of Science will be
held in Auburn. Announcement of
this was made by Dr. Fred Allison,
profesor of physics in the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, upon his re­turn
from Birmingham where he was
elected president of the Academy of
Science for the ensuing year.
In the past this organization has
met annually with the Alabama Edu­cational
Associtaion but will meet in­dependently
in the future, Dr. Alli­son
said.. The 1930 convention will
be held some time in the spring, the
date to be determined later.
Dr. E. D. Carmichael, of the Uni­versity
of Alabama, and Dr. T. F.
Eckert, of Birmingham-Southern Col­lege,
were elected vice presidents;
Dr. J. L. Drakefield, of Howard Col­lege,
was re-elected secretary-treas­urer.
Dr. Allison succeeds Dr. Wal­ter
C. Jones of Birmingham-South­ern.
Scientists in educational institu­tions,
in industry, and in the pro­fessions
are members of the organiza­tion.
Woman's Club Sponsors
C l e a n Up Campaign
Clean Up and Paint Up Week,
sponsored by the Auburn Woman's
Club, will be observed this year dur­ing
the first week in April; the pur­pose
of this week is to give the town
a systematic spring cleaning. Other
clubs in the city will assist in the
cleaning of the town.
The organizations engaged in this
work and the districts assigned are
as follows: Rotary Club, alleys from
Toomer's corner to railroad; Kiwanis
Club, alley from Bank of Auburn to
railroad; Lion's Club, fraternity
houses; Woman's Club, grocery
stores and residential section.
Mrs. Homer Wright and Mrs.
John Kennedy will be responsible for
the collecting of garbage and trash.
During Clean Up and Paint Up Week,
if any garbage has been overlooked,
one of the above should be notified.
Final plans were completed yester­day
for the annual "A" Day at Au­burn.
Weems Baskin, former Aubujn
star on the cinderpath and holder of
several world's speed records, will be
mong the headliners on Monday, April
first. Euil "Snitz" Snider, who went
to the 1928 Olympics, will also show
some speed on the track if present
plans materialize.
What was previously planned to be
the main feature of the occasion was
the baseball game between the Au­burn
Tigers and the Montgomery
Lions. With the addition of track
and field events on the program this
year for the first time, the annual
exhibition game will lose some of its
glamor.
Weems Baskin, who has only re­cently
returned to the plains after
competing in the Milrose games in
Madison Square Garden, New York,
under the colors of the New York Ath­letic
Club, will try for a new world's
record in the 80-yd. high hurdles. He
is holder of the world's record in the
shorter hurdles, both in the indoor
and outdoor distances.
Euil "Snitz" Snider will run the
100 yd. dash against the regular
Plainsman sprinters. "Snitz" is in all
probability one of the fastest harriers
in the South.
Among others who wil be featured
in the track events Monday are Per­cy
Beard and Ira Virgin, lanky run­ners
on Coach Hutsell's outfit. Track
and field events will take place Mon­day
are: 100-yd. high hurdles, 100-yd
dash, quarter miles, half mile, two
mile, pole vault and high jump.
SMALL AUDIENCE
SEES "ICEBOUND"
Best Amateur Offering Here In Sev­eral
Years, Opinion Of Many
On Saturday night, in Langdon
Hall, the Auburn Players presented
"Icebound", their major production
of the year, to a small but appre­ciative
audience. In the opinion of
many this play was the best amateur
theatrical performance seen in Au­burn
in recent years. The setting of
the play was the village of Vezey,
Maine, and the characters portrayed
life in a small New England town to
perfection. The plot, which was most
appropriate to the setting, was de­veloped
most realistically to the life
of these small-town people.
"Icebound", one of Owen Davis'
works, was the most outstanding play
appearing in 1923, being awarded the
Pulitzer prize for that year.
The cast of characters, under the
direction of Dr. Leo Goser, were as
follows: Jane Crosby, Martha Haupt;
Ben Jordan, Murff Hawkins; Henry
Jordan, Campbell Nethery; Emma,
Claribel Parsons; Nettie, Evelyn
Bryant; Ella, Margaret Lawrenz;
Sadie, Izola Williams; Orin, Ann
Daughrity; Judge Bradford, Lou^a
Lankford; Doctor Curtis, Charles
Rush; Hannah, Blanche Tancredi;
Jim Jay, S. D. Raines. The complete
cast deserves high praise for excel­lent
interpretation of their parts.
Expect Two Hundred
Attend Greek Egg Hunt
"Beauty" Prize Offered Stimulate
Interest In Pageant
Approximately two hundred fresh­men,
represeting the fraternities con­stituting
the Interfraternity Council,
are expected to participate in the
Council's annual Easter Egg Hunt,
which will take place Sunday. The
rats will meet at the Lambda Chi
Alpha house at 2 P. M. Sunday after­noon,
and then go to Ag Hollow,
where the eggs will be hidden.
Valuable prizes will be awarded to
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THE PLAINSMAN
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929.
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
at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala.
Business and editorial offices at Au­burn
Printing Co. on Magnolia Street.
Office hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily.
STAFF
Ludwig Smith Editor-in-Chief
James B. McMillan Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Rosser Alston, '29 ' Associate Editor
A. V. Blankenship, '30 . - Associate" Editor
Victor-Savage, '30 Associate Editor
J. D. Neeley, '30 Managing Editor
Hugh W. Overton - Ass't. Managing Editor
Tom Brown, '31 News Editor
Alex. Smith, Jr., '31 News Editor
Robert L. Hume, 31 — Ass't. News Editor
Roy Sellers, '31 Ass't. News Editor
Carol Porter, '29 Sports Editor
Dick Jones, '31 Ass't. Sports Editor
Murff Hawkins __- Exchange Editor
REPORTERS
T. S. Coleman, '32; Clarence Dykes, '32;
George Harrison, '32; Robert Sansing,
'30; S. H. Morrow, '32; J. E. Jenkins,
'32; H. G. Twomey, '32; Victor White,
'32; D. Reynolds, '32; Virgil Nunn, ' 3 1 ;
Gabie Drey, '31; James Davidson, '32.
BUSINESS STAFF
George Carden, '30 . 1 _ _ Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
Grady Moseley, '30 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
W. B. Jones, '30 Advertising Mgr.
White Matthews, '31 — Ass't. Adv. Mgr.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
Office on ground floor of Alumni Hall.
Circulation Managers: Walter Smith '31,
J. M. Johnson '31, W. A. Files '31, J.
E. Dilworth '31.
Assistants: B. W. Kincaid '32; R. A. Mann
'32; Roy Wilder '32, Cleveland Adams,
'32, J. M. Barton '32.
Auburn Will Have
A Spring Cleaning
Clean up! Paint up! The war cry will
be "sanitation" during the first week in
April, which has been designated as Clean
Up and Paint Up Week by the Auburn Wo­man's
Club. It is the plan of the club to
sponser a systematic and thorough clean­ing
of the town. The spring cleaning fever
will be carried to the streets and lawns of
Auburn.
Several civic organizations have been
assigned districts of the town for which
they will be particularly responsible. The
Rotary Club will supervise cleaning up the
alleys from Toomer's corner to the rail­road;
the Kiwanians will clean the alleys
from the Bank of Auburn to the railroad;
the Lions Club will have charge of cleaning
up around the fraternity houses; the res­idence
district and the grocery stores will
be managed by the Woman's Club. Mrs.
Homer Wright and Mrs. John Kennedy will
have charge of collection of trash and gar­bage.
The ladies ask that anyone who has
any trash that has been overlooked please
notify Mrs. Wright or Mrs. Kennedy.
It is especially important that the mer­chants
refrain from sweeping trash on the
sidewalks. Students are also asked to dis­pose
of waste papers in containers, and
not throw them on the streets. The side­walks
and gutters in the business section
are eyesores; they could be kept clean with
a little care. Now that spring is here and
the ladies are pushing a clean-up cam­paign,
we should do our part' toward keep­ing
the streets spick and span. Clean Up!
Paint Up!
Wherein Is The Weakness
Of Our Plan
We seem to have roused the ire of the
Chief of the Auburn Fire Department by
our recent editorial. However, we fail to
see that the resulting communication re­futes
our arguments or reveals any weak­ness
in our plan. The Chief suggests that
whenever a fire would break out the chief
would be in a "far-off" part of the city
doing police work. Now we are under the
impression that Auburn does not cover such
an immense area that one man cannot cross
it in a very short time. In addition, fires
and police calls are not happening at every
other moment during the day and night.
We are duly appreciative of the work
done by members of the department and we
regard the department with respect. Never­theless,
we are still subjected to entirely
too many robberies; we must have better
protection; we have suggested a plan; the
only objection has come from the Chief,
who takes up space in accusing the editor
of loafing at drug stores. He fails to show
us why our plan is weak. Proof is lacking.
It may be true that too many people follow
the company to fires; it may be true that
unthinking persons scatter equipment; it
may be true that the firemen work after
everyone else is abed; still we have sug­gested
that the work be done by a high-salaried
man with four assistants who shall
receive room rent as compensation, and
these things fail to refute our suggestion.
Letters to the Editor
Editor of The Plainsman,
Auburn, Ala.
Dear Sir,
It is easy see that you have never
served on a fire department and it might
be added also that you have not spent much
time looking into the business of the fire
fighting or you would never suggested that
the fire and police department be combined
or linked together in any manner. With
all do respect to the man you might hire
for Chief of your combined fire and police
department you would fine that when a fire
broke out he would always be in some far
off part of the city doing police work when
a fire came, thus the volenteers would do
all of the work while the Chief would draw
the pay.
The members of the Auburn Fire Depart­ment
draw from the City fourty dollars a
month (for four men). Now let us see what
they do this for fourty dollars. They furnish
their own rubber goods, such as coats and
boots, (only a few cities in the country make
their own men furnish these and they pay
around $150.00 per man, per month) they
own a good part of the equipment used by
the department at present, and build most
of the rest, this month they built the city
fire truck that would have cost them much
more than a thousand dollars to have made.
One man remains on duty at the hall every
night after dinner until at least eight the
next morning and every man is always
ready to drop what he is doing no matter
how important a go to a fire. Long after
you and the rest of the big crowd that fol­lows
the fire truck to a fire to see the sights
and get in the way of those who are try­ing
to save some one's life savings, have
gone home and even forgot the fire, the
fireman remains at work, with such duties
as the enjoyable past time of loading hose,
gathering up equipment, that some un­thinking
person has scattered about the
vicinity of the fire, cleaning and repairing
equipment, and charging extinguishers.
After reading this if our editor still does
not think that the fire force earn their four­ty
dollars, and can spare the time from his
daily loafing around the drug stores and
the like, I will be glad to let him work with
the fire department for a while where he
will easily be convinced that it is money
well spent by the city.
Other cities, with far better plans than
the weak one subjected by our editor, have
found that it does not pay to form a strong
police department at the expense of fire
protection.
I think that it would pay the editor to
look around before he writes as he has fail­ed
to do in this case along with others.
S. R. HOOD,
Chief Fire Dept.
Ed Note: The above letter is published
without corrections to either spelling or
grammar.
* * * * *
March 23, 1929.
Editor of The Plainsman:
After reading your editorial on the pres­ent
fire and police department, I thought a
few questions would be in order. Would
you mind answering the following ques­tions?
Do you know that the men acting as
night watchmen are hired by the college
and are not on police duty?
Do you know that the college hires the
men for duty during the dances at frater­nity
houses? ,
Do you know just what the duties of the
police force consist of in this town?
Do you know that the above-mentioned
force is resposible for the reading of the
water, meters, street cleaning, law and or­der,
and assists at fires?
Do you know that the present force av­erages
ten hours a day just keeping up with
the regular work?
Do you know of any one man that could
do any better?
If you please, a few questions concerning
the fire department.
Do you know that there are two men on
duty from eight in the morning until noon?
Do you know that at least two men are
within call from noon until six?
Do you know that one man remains on
duty from six until eleven?
Do you know that four men are on duty
from eleven until eight in the morning?
Do you know that this gives us a man
on active duty throughout the twenty-four
hours of the day?
With your combination fire and police
department would this be possible?
Did you know that Mr. A. L. Meadows
gave the city the present Dodge truck?
Did you know that the present fire de­partment
gave their time to rebuild this
truck and make it fit for service? .
Did you know that the combined depart­ment
of six men only get forty dollars
(40) a month in all for the work done?
Did you know that the four men that
stay in the fire hall pay their own rent?
Did you know that they bought their
own equipment?
Did you know that they furnished their
quarters themselves?
Did you know long after the crowd has
" L i t t l e Things"
By Tom Bigbee
In the present day process of educational
advancement we note that a large number
of the leading institutions are replacing the
semester system With the quarter—a plan
of dividing the scholastic year into three
equal periods, rather than retain the sem­ester
which breaks it at the half-way mark.
Merely the fact that another college is
following some specific procedure is alone
a poor argument for Auburn's adoption of
that system. However, when a practice is
employed successfully by a number of the
colleges of the "land, then it is worth con­sidering.
And if it has been thoroughly
tried and tested, proving successful in a
majority of cases, that is reason enough for
putting it in place of a less efficient plan.
With a number of Auburn students doing
summer work and encountering much con­fusion
in arranging schedules and acquiring
credits, such a plan here would simplify the
perplexities of many anxious students. But
the advantages do not stop there; in fact,
we believe the real benefits would be se­cured
during regular terms. The following
are some of the favorable points of the
quarter system:
(1) Fewer courses at a time; (2) less
time over which to carry details in mind;
(3) less work piled up at the end of the
term; (4) repeated courses meaning only
three months instead of semester; (5)
greater interest in each subject, due to few­er
courses on schedule and less time in which
to carry them.
The above point's are offered as advan­tages
in favor of the student. But there is
the work of the instructor to be considered;
the following are offered in his favor: ,
(1) Fewer monthly quizzes; (2) exams
which test a student before he is rusty on
any part of the subject; (3) less cramming
in evidence before examinations; (4) more
time devoted by students to each subject.
Disadvantages too are encountered, but
we believe them to be of minor importance.
Probably the outstanding one with us here
would be the difficulty in breaking away
from the old semester practice—which
merely shows a weakness on our part if we
fail to successfully overcome it. We believe
the quarter system would very satisfactorily
replace the present semester plan here.
Did it ever occur as something strange
to you that the moon should be so far away,
and yet cast such an overpowering influ­ence
over the young things down here?
Superstitions are vanishing, but the moon
still gets right for certain things! Selah.
Wouldn't you like to see the scholastic
year divided into quarters here? That's the
plan at Montevallo, you know; and the Au­burn
inmates like a lot hating every little
thing there.
The time fast approaches for elections—
are you gracefully casting your line?
Politics have become a necessary part of
college life, seemingly. And an exceedingly
conspicuous part. Well, why not?
Let's step over to Ben's corner and bor­row
a striking quotation from Emerson
last week: "I had better never see a book
than to be warped by its attraction clean
out of my orbit, and made a satellite in­stead
of a system."
THE GEDUNK
I'm the Gedunk who, on the eve of every
examination, must tell everyone that I have
not studied and know nothing about .the
subject. When anyone mentions a quiz, I
am very surprised because I just don't know
a thing. I'm very indifferent too, and al­ways
shrug my shoulders and laugh, be­cause
I do not know anything. Really
though, I am always well prepared for
any quiz, but I dislike to appear studious
and it makes me seem quite smart when I
can make good grades, even though I just
don't know a thing.
yelled for the last time and made their last
wise-crack and returned to their little beds,
the above six men have just started their
work?
Did you know that making ruins, even,
safe to leave entails considerable trouble
and time?
Did you know that even the hose must be
loaded on the truck?
Did you know that after returning to the
station extinguishers must be recharged,
lines cleaned, hose laid out to dry, running
equipment checked and the truck cleaned?
Did you know that at even a small fire,
especially at night, we are there before and
long after everyone else?
Do you really think ten dollars a month
is too much pay?
Don't you think it would pay you to give
the situation a little more study and at the
same time obtain at least a smattering of
knowledge concerning the subjects?
Would you care, or don't you dare, to
publish these few questions regarding the
subject you failed to study? Understand
this, I am not finding fault with you, but
your method is abominable. Oh yes, do
you pay street tax?
L. P. WHITE.
Ed. Note: We are glad to answer all
the above questions in the affirmative. In
return we simply ask are the present police
and fire departments efficient?
IS' AUBURN FOOTPRINTS %
HASHED SCRAPS
The fiddlin' contest at the Ag Club last Tuesday night was a huge success
despite the steady downpour of rain. The auditorium was crowded and everybody
seemed to enjoy the occasion very much, judging from the applause given.
The judge, Professor Kincaid, awarded the following prizes:
Best out-of-county band, Paul Whiteman's Orchestra.
Best county band, Max Jones' Auburn Collegians.
Best fiddler, J. R. Taylor.
Best banjo-picker, Victor Savage.
Best guitar player, Harry Wise.
Best duet, Rix Home and A. L. Morrison.
Best Charleston dancer, Roy Sellers.
* * * * * * * * * *
TO CAPTAIN FRUBELLS
In shameful dread I hang my head,
Before his mighty wrath—
That torrid fire of righteous ire
And poetic aftermath.
His splendid rhyme and perfect time—
They overshadow mine,
Just as a million dollar bill
Conceals a lonely dime.
I've long admired his thoughts, inspired;
So clear, and never drab;
That so ornately ornament
The walls of Langdon Lab.
I'll bet the blondes cast off the bonds
Of conventionality,
And yield their charms to his waiting arms,
In unleashed ecstasy.
But, what is worse, he's shamed my verse,
And though I find it hard,
I offer my hand to this Frubells man—
Captain of the Smokehouse Guard!
—Convict Number 969.
* * * * * * * * * *
THIS WEEK'S FANTASY
"There are four requisites to a good short story" explained the English in­structor
to the class. "Brevity, a reference to religion, some association with the
royalty and an illustration of modesty. Now, with these four things in mind, I will
give you thirty minutes to write a story."
Ten minutes later the hand of Joe Ford went up.
"That is fine, Sandy," he complemented, "and now read your story to the
class."
Joe read: " 'My Gawd,' said the countess, 'take your hand off my knee'."
Adonis.
* * * * * * * * * *
REWARD
A prominent senior in General Business course has asked that we run the
following advertisement.
If the gentleman who took my Psychology notes from the cloakrack will re­turn
them before the mid-semester quiz no questions will go unanswered.
* * * * * * * * * *
ILLUSION OR DISILLUSION
Ecstatically the young man heard the girl beside him whisper the delightful
words. Quick rushes of joy pulsed through his frame. He felt a soft pleasant
wave pass over his cheek.
It was a marcel wave. —Azul.
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
HAVE THEY A DODGE TRUCK?
The Raleigh police force recently advised
State College authorities, that some of the
students turned in false fire alarms, con­viction
for which results in 60 days jail sen­tence
for the defendants.
The danger of wrecks, resulting from fire
trucks rushing to the campus and adjacent
points, especially during student celebra­tions,
when the streets are crowded, was
pointed out. Well, we'll have no more fires
then.
* * * * *
DIFFERENT IS RIGHT
Only five Arkansas university athletes can
boast of having earned more than two let­ters
in the history of the school,.according
to an article printed in the Arkansas Trav­eler,
student newspaper, recently. Quite
different.
* * * * *
NOT SO HOT
Cornell students are in luck, so to speak.
Once a week a local vaudeville theater sets
aside one hour when they are allowed to
razz, groan, boo and hiss at the actors
whenever and however they wish. This is
called "whoopee hour." Auburn students
are not handicappped by any such arrange­ment,
it seems. "Whoopee!" -
* * * * *
FAIR ENOUGH
University of Michigan professors, in
protest against a plan to have students
grade the efficiency of the faculty, will
resign if the proposal is carried out, de­clared
one of the history department. He
said that the plan was ridiculous and that
it would result in freshmen spying on their
professors and instructors. Time about is
fair play, is it not? Why not quizz the
profs?
* * * * *
WILL THEY TAKE IN SEWING
Stillwater, Oklahoma—"Ten male stu­dents
in home cookery and science class
are progressing rapidly according to Miss
Garnet Searle, instructor of the class."
The boys turned out good muffins at
the third session of the group which was
conducted last Friday. Good work boys.
There seems to be a little catch in this;
take the instructor for example she is a
"Miss", and cooking is not a bad art to
know provided you are fortunate enough
not to own a better and faster speaker
than you are, or else on a fishing trip.
The "Miss" Kits.
NINE LIVES
Next for the day is:"Student Dies Twice."
What is believed to be an unprecedented
feat in the medical profession was perform­ed
recently when a former student at Wash­burn
College, underwent an operation for
brain tumor, which took five hours to com­plete,
died twice on the operating table,
and lives to tell about it.
Twice during the operation, Ward's (the
student's name) heart stopped beating, but
skillful work on the part of the surgeon re­turned
life to him. He will recover, it is
believed. Who said we descended from mon­keys
This sounds more like we descended
from cats.
* * * * *
AN IDEAL
These women again. European univer­sities
at the instigation of male students
are considering means of relegating women
to separate classrooms.
The overpowering effect of odors from
perfumes and rouge in classrooms is ob-
-noxious to professors as well as students
the latter declared. At the Sarbonne (what
ever it is) it was said, "They annoy us in
our work. In the law schools, their bobbed
hair, rouged lips and cheeks, and even
blackened eyebrows and lashes strike a note
entirely out of harmony with the traditional
solemnity of the French judicial system."
Ain't it'the truth? Just wait until it gets
a little warmer though boys, then you can
refuse to take the weekly; that will bring
about a change.
* * * * *
A REAL CIRCUS
Clowns, magicians, : side-shows, snake
charmers, pea-and-shell sharpers, freaks—
all these will be featured at the April Fool
carnival which Southwestern students will
stage in the college gymnasium on the night
of March 30.
An intensive three-day program of events
has been drawn up by the Student Council,
and will open on Thursday. All students
at the institution are to turn scrub woman
and clean up the campus. The dormitories
will be scoured first, and then teams of
both town and resident students will patrol
the grounds in search of scrap paper, leaves
and sticks.
They will have a baseball game, stunt
night, a debate, then the circus. Each stu­dent,
I presume, will choose his own refresh­ments
and bring same.
MEDITATIONS
ON THIS AND THAT
^By 6Ben]amin Trovosf~~>
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.
* • * * •
IN a handbook ("rat bible") issued by a
northern university I noticed, the other
day, a list of campus definitions. The
word frat was defined as "the term applied
to a fraternity by illiterate freshmen and
co-eds. Persons using it should have their
mouths washed out." That isn't bad. The
word fraternity, derived from the Latin
word meaning brother, is a beautiful word.
It has meaning. The illegitimate word frat
has no meaning; is flat and harsh when
spoken. It is vulgar. It reminds one of
comic strips and gaudy paint. If that school
actually makes users of the word use soap
and water, it is a good thing. When we
have a word that is euphonious and mean­ingful,
why abandon it for a cheap substi­tute?
* * * * *
DEAR Ben Provost:
Your criticism of literary societies
was all right, but too utterly damn­ing.
You leave not a single bit' of good to
the societies. Maybe the programs are un­interesting
and trite, maybe some people do
waste time there, still, if the society teaches
a man to get up on his feet and make a
talk before an audience, hasn't it done some
good? Maybe this is not worth the quality
points; maybe it wouldn't help many peo­ple,
but if it helps some, why condemn it?
I agree with most of what you said.
Yours truly,
A Junior.
* * * * *
SUPERFICIALLY, the point brought
out is a good one. It is true that some
students learn to get up on their feet
and talk before audiences. However, that is
not as far as we may go. Lets look a bit
deeper. Do these students learn the cor­rect
ways of making speeches? Isn't it a
rather hit-or-miss method, with the chances
equal 'that the student will learn something
detrimental? There are offered here, courses
in Public Speaking, taught by competent
instructors, who go into the technicalities
of platform appearance and speech making
and presentation rather fully. There is
much to know about making a speech. There
are many things that can be done incorrect­ly.
Without trained critics, how can the lit­erary
societies teach speech-making? No one
can learn a thing simply by doing it; not
when it is as natural to do it wrong as it
is to do it right.
If one wants to learn to speak, why not
sign up for a course and get a systematic
knowledge of the art? The result will be
as different as that obtained by a man
who merely "plants some cotton seed" from
that obtained by the scientific fa»mer.
* * * * *
IT IS AN interesting fact that seven of
the nine men who control Russia never
went to school. Over here we are told
that a man can't successfully operate a pea­nut
parcher without an education. The fact
that those men are without school train­ing
does not seem to be of much weight in
Russia. Maybe if they had had the ad­vantage
(?) of schooling, they wouldn't
make as good rulers as they do; maybe they
would ruin Russia. Who knows.
TO LOVERS OF EARTH: FAIR
WARNING
Give over to high things the fervent
thought
You waste on Earth; let down the bar
Against a wayward peace too dearly bought
Upon this pale and passion-frozen star.
Sweethearts and friends, are they not
loyal? Far
More fickle, false, perverse, far more un­kind
Is Earth to those who give her heart and
mind.
And you whose lusty youth her snares in­trigue,
Who glory in her seas, swear by her clouds,
With Age, man's foe, Earth is ever in
league;
Time resurrects her even while he crowds
Your bloom to dust, and lengthens out your
shrouds
A day's length or a year's. She will be
young
When your last cracked and quivering note
is sung.
Her beauty will remain, sufficient still
Though you are gone, and with you that
rare loss
That vanishes with your bewildered will.
And there shall flame no red, indignant
cross
For you, no sharp white scar of wrath em­boss
The sky, no blood drip from a wounded
moon,
And not a single star chime out of tune.
—Countee Cullen.
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
SOUTHERN BUSINESS IS GROWING
BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS, COLEMAN
Arthur Coleman, in the April is­sue
of Holland's, the Magazine of the
South, says, "Today there are mil­lions
who, being possessed of all the
means of information at man's com­mand,
do not know the tremendous
steps the New South is making to­ward
her goal of industry supremacy;
do not realize the awe-inspiring power
still unexploit'ed, still untouched. It
seems almost impossible that this
should be so; that people who call
themselves modern, and who live in
a world of modern miracles and mod­ern
means of knowledge, should go
uninformed concerning so great an
economic movement, change, renais­sance,
beneath their heedless noses.
"For the New South is coming into
a power that is startling in scope, in
its vastness. It would be startling in
a purely industrial and commercial
section. Much more amazing is it,
then in a region which the people of
a nation have come to regard as pure­ly
agricultural. One expects other
and more commercialized sections of
the United States to show gains and
growth in industry. And that is why
it is so unexpected to learn that', in
six years, the annual value of manu­factured
products in the South in­creased
$567,000,000; while manufac­tured
products values in the remaind
er of the country, during those same
six years, decreased $279, 509,000.
"The industries of the Nation are
learning that the New South offers
«dvantages in such abandon and of
such quality as can be found in no
other one section of any country. They
are -discovering that many Southern
mills can pay a dividend on the an­nual
cost of heating similar estab­lishments
in some portions of the
country. They are discovering that
wages for competent labor are 25 to
40 per cent cheaper than in more con­gested
sections, and that the labor
itself is of a far higher class. And
the fact that Southern taxes are not
oppressive is very welcome knowledge
to Northern industries who are find­ing
it more and more difficult to com­pete
with contemporary institutions
in their territory."
Georgia Students
Seek For Positions
THE
KL0THES
SH0PPE
UP-STAIRS
BIRMINGHAM
We sell good clothes
for less because it
costs us less to sell
FRED THALEN
Manager
Take the "L"
2071/2 North 19 St.
University of Georgia seniors fac­ing
graduation and the necessity of
work, are turning to Dr. W. D. Hooper
for assistance in placing themselves
in good positions. Dr. Hooper is vice-president
of the College Placement
Bureau, representing the colleges of
Georgia.
The service of the College Place­ment
Bureau grew out of the realiza­tion
of Catbr Woolford, president of
the National Retail Credit Corpora­tion,
that college trained men were
leaving the state because of their in­ability
to find satisfactory employ­ment.
To overcome this situation, Mr.
Woolford set up the offices of the
Placement Bureau, and for several
years directed it at his own expense,
and gave much of his time to it.
Later the several colleges and uni­versities
of the state joined with Mr.
Woolford in his plan and the bureau
was reorganized, sponsored by the col­leges
of the state and the industries
within the state. Offices are main­tained
in Atlanta, with a secretary in
charge.
. Dr. Hboper of the University of
Georgia, is vice-president, represent­ing
the colleges, and Kendal Weisiger,
of the Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph company, Atlanta, is vice-president,
representing the industries.
Boys! If You Eat
M E A T
Buy it from your
Friends
MOORE'S MARKET
—Phone 37—
Newcomb Club To
Make Tropical Tour
Not to be outdone by the Tulane
Glee Club, the Newcomb Mandolin-
Guitar Club will sail from New Or­leans
on a tropical cruise. The itin­erary
of the trip follows:
Sail from New Orleans Saturday
11:00 a. m., June 15.
Arrive Havana Monday, June 17.
Sail from Havana Tuesday, June
18.
Arrive Cristobal, Canal Zone, Fri­day,
June 21.
Sail from Cristobal Saturday, June
22.
Arrive Puerto Cabezas Sunday,
June 23.
Sail from Puerto Cabezas Sunday,
6:00 p. m., June 23. <
Arrive New Orleans Thursday
morning, June 27.
The chaperone for the tour this
year is to be Miss Miriam Bomhard
of the Biology Department of New­comb.
The presidents of Cuba and
Panama will receive the girls in per­son.
In Panama City the M. G. C.
will give a concert, which will be fol­lowed
by a dance given by the naval
officers. The Havana Post, the Amer­ican
newspaper in Havana, will en­tertain
the girls at a tea dance. On
deck, varied forms of amusement will
be provided. One night there will
be a fancy dress ball. A tropical
dinner will be served on another night.
There will also be a bridge tourna­ment,
treasure hunt, and swimming
party. Deck games will be played,
such as shuffle-board and quoits.
The club went to Havana in the
summer of 1927. On that trip, Miss
Caroline Burson was the chaperone.
The Havana Post said of the girls
in the club on that occasion, that they
were "just sophisticated enough to be
charming." The president of Cuba
thanked the hostess, Mrs. Ellen
Gardner, for bringing such "a bas­ketful
of beautiful peaches."
Prices for the trip this year are
$85 plus $5 war tax for Newcomb
students. For anybody else, it is
$97.50, plus $5 war tax.
Garland Tells Of
Asscociations With
Famous Authors
State Students To Pay
In Cash For AH Cuts
i 0PELIKA PHARMACY INC.
Prescription Druggist
YOUR PATRONAGE APPRECIATED
Phone 72 Opelika, Ala.
GENUINE NI ^1 E•"« Hr - 1 I• BEVERAGES
ARE GENUINEONLY IN THE PATENT BOTTLES
The First National Bank of Auburn
ADVICE AND ACCOMMODATION
FOR EVERY COLLEGE MAN
ANY FINANCIAL OR BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
C. Felton Little, '06, President
W. W. Hill, '98, Vice-Preiident G. H. Wright, '17, Cashier
TOOMER'S DRUG STORE
Drug Sundries
Drinks, Smokes
THE STORE OF SERVICE AND QUALITY
ON THE CORNER
Be sure to send your home folks and friends
E A S T E R C A R DS
and all the little folks will want
RABBITS and CHICKS
Burton's Bookstore
Seniors who are ordering engraved cards
now are wise.
That every student who misses a
class without an excuse shall be re­quired
to pay a fine of fifty cents
was a plan adopted by the general
faculty of North Carolina State Col-at
a meeting on March 2#> It is hoped
that the scholarship of the institution
will be raised thereby.
The plan also rules that a student
shall either make up or receive a zero
on all written worked missed for any
reason, the make-up work to be done
under the supervision of an advanced
student qr an instructor approved by
the department that the work is in.
Furthermore, a fee of fifty cents will
be charged for the make-up unless the
absence is excused by the dean of stu­dents,
and this fee will be one dollar
if the student fails to present him­self
for the work, unless the absence
is excused by the instructor in the
course.
There has been much adverse criti­cism
of the plan, the students are
radically opposed to it, and some have
even said that they would, leave the
school if such a plan was put into
effect. Is appears that they will have
to leave, for according to President
Brooks, the pjan will go into effect
at the beginning of the third term,
March 14, 1929.
Amy Lowell must have weighed
three hundred and twenty pounds the
first time I saw her,,' said Hamlin
Garland, author and lecturer, in an
address before the students and facul­ty
of Newcomb college recently. "She
was smoking a black cigar, and re­citing
some of her poem, poems that
a young girl of eighteen or nineteen
might write. These poems spoke of
sylph-like figures, and hers was cer­tainly
far from being that."
Mr. Garland, a native of Wiscon­sin,
and a product of the Middle
West, has been the friend of countless
literary figures. He spoke Monday
on his reminiscences of famous Amer­ican
authors. Among the writers he
mentioned were George W. Cable,
Joel Chandler Harris, James Lane Al­len,
Thomas Nelson Page, John Fox,
Ruth'McEnery Stuart, Mary E. Wil-kins,
and Edith Wharton.
"Mark Twain, whom I came to
know rather well," said Mr. Garland,
"was a very intimate friend of Wil­liam
Dean Howells. The two men
were of totally different temperament. |
However, each one reverenced and ad
mired the other. They are to me two
of the greatest writers America has
produced, because they both embod­ied
two phases of American life that
will live long as there is any interest
in American life and letters.
"Mark was a rough kind of a fel­low,
who came to the table in his car­pet
slippers and sometimes sat
through the whole meal, sometimes
didn't, and sometimes got excited and
imitated a horse fly, if he felt like it.
He just didn't think, about what he
was doing. Howells was just the op­posite.
He was tactful, polite, and ex­quisitely"
mannered. He never swore.
Mark Twain was one of the most mar­vellously
profane men that ever lived.
He had been a river pilot and knew
everything about running a boat, and
just what to say when things went
wrong. Howells said that Twain used
words as though they were minted for
the first, time.
"Edith Wharton looks the great
author. She is handsome, dignified,
and charming, with the manner of a
duchess. She is the intellectual writ­er;
she writes with her brain as well
as with her emotional faculties."
Mr. Garland says that his excuse
for so speaking of these figures was
to pay tribute to the men and women
who are gone and who helped to make
American literature national.
DUKE TO HAVE
13 REUNIONS
Thirteen class reunions will be held
at Duke university this coming June,
according to Alumni Secretary Rich­ard
E. Thigpen, who is working on
the alumni, part in the Commence­ment
program.
Beginning with the classes of 1928,
1926, and 1924, and extending through
the class of 1874, alternating every
five years, the other following classes
will reunite this year: 1919, 1914,
1909, 1904, 1899, 1894, 1889, 1884, and
1879.
The 25th year class, 1904, will fur­nish
the alumni day speaker, who is
to be selected. Bishop Francis J. Mc-
Connell, presiding bishop of the New
York area, will preach the annual
commencement sermon on Tuesday,
June 4, alumni day.
STUDENTS AT LEE COUNTY HIGH
SCHOOL ATTEMPT VERSE WRITING
Tulane To Give
Athletic Diploma
Tulane University will give an ath
letic diploma to those students grad­uating
who have won varsity sport
letters during their college courses
if plans made Wednesday by the Un­dergraduate
"T" Club, composed of
letter men in all sports, materialize.
A committee composed of Lee O'Pry,
captain of the 1929 baseball team, Ber­nard
McCloskey, editor o( the Jamba-
4aya annual, and Richard "Dick"
Baumbach, flasBy quarterback of the
Tulane football team, were appointed
to confer with the athletic council of
the University to effect such a move.
Head Coach Bernie Bierman of Tu­lane
sports was unanamously elected
an honorary member of the organi­zation
at the meeting last Wednesday.
He is the first one to receive this
honor.
If "opportunity" knocked less often
some of us might keep up with our
work.
Unique Plans Used
For Girls' Party
' "Here's a message to my peanut"
seemed to be the password days ago.
It was as puzzling as Greek to the
unitiated but to the lucky "peanut"
it meant a nice letter, possibly candy
or maybe a poem.
The Y. W. C. A. of the University
gave a party and the old girls as
"shells" took a new girl or "peanut."
Supposedly the "shells" protected the
"peanuts" as shells should.
Some of the poems written to "pea­nuts"
and carried by messengers, be­cause
the "peanut" was not to know
the identity of her "shell" until she
arrived to escort her to the party, were
worthy of the name, but some were
not. There were some lucky "pea­nuts"
who received peanuts, potted
plants, easier eggs, peanut brittle.
Members of the senior class of Lee
County High School have attempted
writing verse in connection with their
study of English. The adventure was
the outgrowth of a phase of the reg­ular
class assignment, one of the units
of a contract undertaken by all of the
students.
The contract is one of the newer
methods of teaching, whereby a plan
of work composed of a number of un­its
is presented to the members of the
class. After looking over the content's
and requirements of the various units,
a student decides how much he will
undertake to do within the time al­lowed
for the contract, which may be
a couple of days, a week or two, a
month, or even longer. Thus each
student has the opportunity to move at
his own rate of progress and to select
material which has a particular in­terest
for him. A certain amount of
work is required for all students be­fore
they shall -be promoted in the
class and as much more may be ac­complished
as they are willing to un-.
dertake and are capable of doing. As
is to be expected, the highest grade
work which requires more creative
ness and originality, is not undertaken
by all students. Only the better stu
dents in the class try this.
It is interesting to learn, however,
that the students have a great desire
to try this superior work which is
distinctly creative in nature. For in­stance,
same of the unit's calling for
creative material were the writing of
a play; giving plan for the dramati­zation
of "Hiawatha"; giving a mock
banquet at which time after-dinner
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The Laxative
You Chew
Like Gum
No Taste
But the Mint
speeches, toasts, occasional talks, and
poems were given; and the writing of
poetry. The idea here is not to pro­duce
perfect drama, dramatization, or
poetry but to give the students the
joy of seeing their ideas worked into
productions of their own, thereby aid­ing
them to find the things that they
can do well.
With this idea in mind the poem
given below is published to show the
first efforts of one of these students.
The poem has not been corrected but
has been used to show the level achiev­ed
in the first writing."
"Mankind" was written after the
student had studied his sociology les­son.
"MANKIND"
"We are brothers on this earth,
Because of common birth,
Day by day, we come and go,
Some fast, others slow.
Some go straight, others turn;
Just why we never learn.
Some would rob a friend,
In order to gain an end.
While some had rather die
Than profit by a lie."
—Robert Greer.
GOLF
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HUDSON and THOMPSON
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"CUSH" WOOD and M. J. SLAUGHTER
Student Representatives
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Pictures Of Expedition
Be Shown At Tulane
The first showing of the motion
pictures taken on the John Geddings
Gray Memorial Expedition, conduct­ed
by the Tulane University Middle
American research department during
1928, will be held March 26.
Frans Bloom, head of the depart­ment
at Tulane, will explain the pic­ture,
which is in six reels, showing
the life of the expedition on the trail,
the great jungles of Central Ameri­ca,
the finding and studying of the
ruined cities and the habits and cus­toms
of the strange Lacandon In­dians.
The pictures were often taken under
0reat difficulties and hardships.
Members of the expedition at one
time had to go days without food,
and often suffered from fever and
the intense heat of those regions."
The expedition traversed Southern
Mexico, Guatemala and Yucatan,
from south to north, following the
progress of the ancient Maya culture,
and many of the picturesque scenes
of these areas are pictured in the
film.
Imagine the governor all setforasolideveningof
comfort in his cozy old library—and finding that
the women folks had "modernized" it with trian­gular
sofas, conical armchairs, and July 4th rugs!
Now, imagine you bought some cigarettes,
and discovered that they were supposed to do
almost everything in the world except what you
bought them for, i.e., satisfy your taste for to­bacco.
Maybe it's the modern idea, but—oh,
well, let's talk about something else!
Chesterfields, now. They satisfy. Their only
"specialty" is high tobacco quality. Friendly as
your most comfortable armchair, as full of flavor
as your favorite book. A splendidly made and
blended cigarette. And—maybe we are old-fash­ioned—
recommended to you for that very reason.
CHESTERFIELD
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929.
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CAROL PORTER, Editor- -DICK JONES, Associate Editor
Elmer Salter, Contributor; Tad McCallum, Palmer P. Daugette, Jack S. Riley, Assistants. •
TIGERS PRY OFF LID IN GAME
WITH GREENIES TOMORROW
By Elmer G. Salter
For the second time within a
week's duration, the 1928 champion­ship
Southern conference baseball
nine had to cancel their opening
games. The first game was sche­duled
with the Fort Benning Dough­boys
last Saturday, and had to be
cancelled when the soldier's playing
field was under water. After the ini­tial
game of the season had been call­ed
off, the Plainsmen thought that
they would pry the lid off of their
1929 schedule against the Selma Clo-verleafs
but this game was also can­celled
when President Maurice Bloch,
of the Cloverleafs, wired Coach Moul
ton that Roswell Field, the playing
field of the professional club, was
still under water and that it would be
imposible to play the game scheduled
for Thursday afternoon.
Since the games with the Uncle
Sam's boys, and the game with the
professional nine are not going to
be played, the Orange and Blue lads
will play their initial game of the
season with the Tulane Greenies in
the Crescent City Friday. The two
teams will alos meet Saturday after­noon.
The Greenies have one of the best
teams that they have ever had, so the
two game series with the Tulane nine,
should test the Tigers to their fullest
strength. A veteran team will rep­resent
the New Orleans school on the
diamond this season while the Moul-ton
nine will be composed of
newcome rsand four veterans.
Capt. Howard Smith, Alternate
Capt. Frank Currie, Addison McGhee,
Pete Lee, Jim Crawford and Pete
Booth are the letter men from last
year's championship nine back. Ben
Newton, Joe Burt, Luke Ward, Roy
Pate, Buck Carter, Henry Roper,
Dunham Harkins, Rupert Ingram, and
Egbert Potter are the lads that are
filling the places of the departed vet­erans
off of the 1928 championship
nine.
After the photographer had taken
the pictures of the players, and "pic­ture
day" was over, Coach Moulton
sent his proteges through a long regu-lar-
yannigan game. The yannigans,
with Norman (Lefty) Anderson on
the mound, held the heavy batters of
the varsity lads in check, the regu­lars
barely winning by a small mar­gin
of one run obtained on an error.
Anderson is only a freshman but is
one of the leading pitchers in the
Tiger lair. He performed for the
Cubs against the varisty last Satur­day,
and the experienced baseballers
only nicked his.delivery for two hits
during his three inning stay in the
box. Rupert Ingram and Luke Ward
were the only Bengals that got safe
hits off his delivery during his stay
on the mound. Anderson was loaned
to the varsity nine because Coach
Moulton's diamondneers play seven
games in eight days beginning Sat­urday,
and the varsity mentor did not
want any of his mound staff to be
overworked when they meet Tulane,
Montgomery Lions, Georgia Tech and
Birmingham-Southern in rapid suc­cession.
Buck Carter will probably start for
the Bengals on the mound in the
opening game against Tulane. Car­ter
was slated to pitch against Selma
with Roper and Lee being Coach
Moulton's selection for the Tulane
series. If Carter twirls the opening
game, then Roper or Lee will be the
"chunker" for the second game.
Bohler Puts Stress
On Fundamentals
In Spring Training
Spring Training Under
Way Again in Village
By Roster Alston
Coach George M. Bohler, who has
been attempting to hold spring foot­ball
practice is getting in a good
week after being detained for nearly
a month because of adverse weather
conditions. The Plainsmen, nearly
fifty strong, are being worked hard
with signal running and scrimmages
five I booked-for the week.
A number of Tiger football pros­pects
for next season are not among
those seen on Drake Field where
Plainsman coaches are putting the
grid candidates through spring prac­tice.
The abscence of some is due to
the fact that they are engaged in
other sports. Track and baseball have
claimed about fifteen of the football
candidates.
Passing and fundamentals filled
the drill periods the first part of the
week. The Tiger coach announced
today that he would stage a scrim­mage
as soon as the men showed a
little better form. The scrimmage will
probably come the latter part of this
week.
The Plainsmen grid mentor is shift­ing
the football men from one posi­tion
to another in an effort to de­termine
just where they are best fit­ted
to perform. Coach Bohler is in
personal charge of the ball carriers
while the forward wall is being built
by Coach Pitts.
Brief offensive scrimmages were
on the program last week. Line plays
Tiger Baseball Schedule for 19
Date Opponent and Their Score
March 28—Selma
29—Tulane
30—Tulane
April 1—Mtgy. Lions (Possibly)
3—Ga. Tech
4—Ga. Tech
5;—B'ham. Southern
6—B'ham. Southern
12—Ga. Tech Rats
13—Ga. Tech Rats
15—Clemson
16—Clemson
19—Ga. Tech
20—Ga. Tech •
19—Howard Rats
20—Howard Rats
25—Florida
26—Florida
27—Florida
26—Marion
27—Marion
May 3—Vanderbilt
4—Vanderbilt
3—Ga. Tech Rats *
4—Ga. Tech Rats
10—Georgia
11—Georgia
20—Howard
21—Howard
Auburn Score and F
at Selma
29
lace Played
at New Orleans, La.
at New Orleans, La.
"A" Day,
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Atlanta
at Atlanta
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Panama
at Panama
at Panama
at Auburn
(Rats)
(Rats)
(Rats)
(Rats)
City, Fla.
City, Fla.
City, Fla.
at Marion (Rats) .
at Marion (Rats)
at Auburn
at Auburn
at Atlanta
at Atlanta
at Auburn
at Auburn
(Rats)
(Rats)
at Auburn Alumni Day
at Auburn
By Palmer Daugette
After two weeks intermittent
practice, due to inclement weather,
Coach George Bohler is now putting
his charges through extensive drills
in the fundamentals of football. To
date he has stressed carrying, punt­ing
and passing the ball.
Coach Bohler has charge of the
backfield and although Coach. J. E.
"Boozer" Pitte has resigned, he has
complete charge of the linemen in
spring training. He will also be a
part time coach next fall.
Between forty and fifty candidates
are reporting to Coach Bohler at
Drake Field every evening. A large
number of these are almost certain
to be the mainstays on the team next
fall. Outstanding in this group is
Capt. elect "Shorty" Long. He is one
of the smallest men ever to be elect­ed
captain of an Auburn football
team. "Flivver" Ford, an old Auburn
star, coached him while he attended
school at Falkville, Alabama. Last
year "Shorty" played both in the line
and in the backfield although he play­ed
in the backfield for only two
games. He played at end' and guard
in the line and in all probability will
occupy a position at guard next fall.
Two hefty linemen out for spring
training are "Big" Jacobs and Lock­er.
Jacobs who returned to school at
the beginning of this semester,
weighs well over two hundred pounds.
Both men are out for a position at
tackle. "Leyt" Primm, Hatfield, and
"Bud" Jacobs are calling signals.
All these men are freshmen and play­ed
on the freshmen team last fall.
"Bud" Jacobs is the brother of "Big"
Jacobs and both are graduates of Bes­semer
High School.
Scrimmages will be in the program
for the rest of this week and next
Tuesday two picked teams will op­pose
each other in a regulation game.
SPORTS STUFF
By "Dusty" Porter
Battalions Form Intra
Mural Track Squads
Intramural track squads were
formed this week as soon as the base­ball
season was over. At present each
Battalion of the R. O. T. C. regi­ment
has -a squad of about 16 to 20
men. Freshmen only are eligible to
compete in the Intramural meets, the
first of which will be run off on
Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons,
(April 2 and 3rd). Entry lists are
now posted and there will be no re­strictions
placed upon entries. Each
man is permitted to enter any event
that he desires. Following are the
events for the first meet: 100 yd.,
220, 440 yr. dashes; half mile and
mile run, 120 low hurdles, 60 yd. high
hurdles, high jump, broad jump, jave­lin
throw, shot put, pole vault.
No schedule can be given as to
when the different events .will be run
off due to the fact that the meet must
be coordinated with Varsity track-work
and spring training. The score
will be on the usual basis of 5 points
for first; 3 for second and 1 for third
place. The scores made by the vari
ous battalion teams will be kept and
added to from time to time as other
Intramural meets are held. The batta­lion
having the high point score at
the end of the season will be award­ed
the Intramural Track champion­ship
guidon.
This first meet is of particular in-
UP AND ABOUT WITH A SONG IN THEIR HEART
With the past all forgotten1 and Auburn so far having gone through
a very unimpressive period of athletics this year, it seems as though
the turning point will come next Thursday when the baseballers from
the "Plains" will get away to a flying start, we hope in their initial
game of the year with the Tulane "Greenies". All thatwere present in
the "Marshy City" last fall for our annual football game with Tulane
will readily admit that we deserve more than an even break in the base­ball
series to "kinda" even up things with the boys in New Orleans for
the unlucky breaks that came our way on the gridiron, and I'm sure
everyone can pretty well predict the outcome of our trip south, if they
have been out and watched the' "Tigers" in practice each day. The
New York Yankees have their murder crew in the professional game,
• and Auburn will add the same thing to the amateur line, and I'm sure
before the year is over that just lots of good pitchers will carry a
broken heart, and a shattered earned run average should they be so-unlucky
as to be assigned the job of serving them up to the "Tiger"
crew. You name me one regular on the baseball squad that will be
easy picking for the opposing pitchers and I will show you a man that
has gone into a bad slump. With the exception of McGhee and Lee,
the pitching staff will be doing their first sei'vice in a varsity uniform,
but the new comers have shown to have the stuff that opposing batters
dislike very much, so collegiately speaking I would say, "There is
nothing short about that team". Why some of them even sing, and
chew tobacco. Currie, .holding down third base can do both to per­fection,
and at the same time. Man "Goofey" Ingram thinks he can
sing. Can you imagine that? But with such confidence how can we go
wrong?
* * * * * * * *
"A" DAY
Monday, April the first, will mark the initial appearance of the
1929 base ball aggregation before the Auburn student body. "A" day,
the Athletical event of the year so far as the village is concerned
brings together the fast flying "Tigers" from Auburn and the "Lions"
aggregation from the Capital City, Montgomery, in our first game at
home. With many new faces appearing in the line up and many
changes among old heads, and with Captain "Jack Frost" Smith leading
our hopes of 1929 on the field we should all be on hand and start the
year with a bang, and assure the team and Alumni that we are still
in there with the spirit that dominates the South.
* * * * * * * *
GOLF IN AUBURN
One of the most recent Athletical undertakings in Auburn is to
creat a greater interest in Golf. No doubt Auburn is far behind the
principal colleges in the south in this respect. Alabama, University of
Georgia, Tulane, Ga. Tech, and many others have been producing ex­cellent
golf teams for a number of years, and most eastern schools for
many years gack have had golf teams to represent their Alma Mater.
With this taking place all around us why should Auburn be the last
school to become interested? Why not add golf to our progressive plan
at Auburn?
A golf club has been organized among the fraternities and a
tournament will be held some time in April, the trophies wiil be
awarded to the winners. This is one step forward in putting golf
where it belongs and greater things are expected along this line. All
fraternities were not able to be represented at a meeting held this week
where the proposed tournament was discussed and plans definitely
settled as to date, loving cups to be given, rules, etc. Any fraternity
is eligible and for further particulars see Marion Jones at the Sigma
Nu house before Monday, April first.
AUBURN PLAYS MONTGOMERY
LIONS TODAY IN PRACTICE TILT
By Rosser Alston
Announcement was made today
that the Tigers will play the Mont­gomery
Lions in a practice game to­day
provided favorable weather con­ditions
permit. Arrangements are
being completed by Coach Russell
"Slick" Moulton to carry the base
bailers to the capitol city for the
practice game. The game previously
scheduled with the Selma diamond
club was cancelled when the Ala­bama
river submerged the ball field.
It was said late today that the
Selma diamond would not be avail­able
this week so arrangements were
made with the Lions for a practice
match in Cramton Bowl, Montgom­ery.
During the previous week the
practice game with Fort Benning was
Fraternity Representatives Organize
an Auburn Golf Club Here Tuesday
were used by the team in action and
seamed to work like a clock with sev-eral.
Kaley, stellar frosh halfback
is looking good as a carrier of the
pigskin.
"Boozer" Pitts, former line coach
who resigned his post recently will be
retained as part time coach during the
grid season. He is now assisting
Coach Bohler with the Auburn line.
By Tad McCallum
Representatives of twelve fraterni­ties
met in the Phi Delta Theta room
Tuesday night for the purpose of or­ganizing
an Auburn Golf Club. H.
W. Nixon of the Auburn Country
Club presided over the meeting and
explained the purpose of the organi­zation
to the fraternity representa­tives.
Mr. Nixon stated that the ul
timate aim of the Club would be a
college golf team that could compete
in Southern Conference competition.
It was decided that the best means
of arousing interest in golf would be
to hold an annual fraternity tourna­ment,
beginning this spring. The
tournament will be divided into two
flights, the winner of the first flight
to receive a large Loving Cup, em­blematic
of the championship, while
the winner of the second flight will
receive a smaller cup. All teams will
start the tournament on an equal
basis and the first round winners will
compose the upper flight. These
awards will be made possible by do­nations
from the competing frater­nities,
the Auburn Country Club, and
Mr. Homer Wright. The fraternity
that first wins the championship cup
three times will reecive the cup as a
permanent trophy.
• After considerable debate it was
decided by the Club that only stu­dents
would be allowed to participate
in the tournament as the fundamental
aim of the organization is to foster an
Auburn golf team in the future.
The club next elected officers to
serve for the remainder of the year,
the following being named: Marion
Jones, Sigma Nu, President; Skeeter
Wiatt, Kappa Alpha, Vice-President;
Bill Myrack, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sec­retary-
Treasurer.
It was decided that this year's
tournament would begin on April 19,
and continue through the following
week-end. The following fraterni­ties
were represented at the meeting:
Pi Kappa Alpha, Phi Delta Theta,
Sigma Nu, Pi Kappa Phi, Lambda Chi
Alpha, Sigma Pi, Kappa Alpha, Phi
Kappa Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon,
Phi Delta Chi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and
Alpha Tau Omega.
Hutsell Sends 70 Men
Through First Workout
By Tad McCallum
After several weeks of continuous
bad weather, Coach Hutsell was fin­ally
able to send his 70 track candi­dates
through a competitive workout
Saturday as a mid-summer sun beat
down on Drake Field.
Coach Hutsell is spending consid­erable
time with the Frosh harriers
as they have a meet scheduled for
April 6, with the Fort Benning track-sters.
Weems Baskin is assisting
Coach Hutsell in grooming the Tiger
cinder artists and his wide experi­ence,
especially in topping the tim
bers, makes -him a valuable man to
have around.
Captain Percy Beard should be in
a class by himself this year in the
hurdles as far as Southern Confer­ence
competition is concerned. Ira
Virgin will be Beard's running mate
in the hurdles and these two men will
also take care of the broad jump and
high jump respectively.
- Bell, Hanby, and Chamblee seem
to be the best sprint prospects at
present with Hanby having a slight
edge over the other candidates. In
the other running events. Shanks and
Teague in the two mile run, Pitts in
the mile, McClendon in the half mile,
and Bottoms in the quarter are out­standing
prospects,
Joe Hughes, a Dothan High prod­uct,
stands head and shoulders above
the other candidates in the pole vault
cancelled because of high water from
the recent rains.
The.Moiilton lads left the plains
today for Montgomery, stopping in
the capitol city en route to New Or­leans
where they will play the Tu­lane
Greenies in the first collegiate
game on the Tiger program for 1929.
The Auburn-Tulane game will be
played Friday. The second of the
series will be played Saturday.
Coach Moulton will return to Au­burn
late • Sunday in order to be
ready for the game with the Mont­gomery
Lions Monday which will be
a feature of the annual "A" Day
program.
The Bengals have had little time
to prepare for the coming season
Friday with little real diamond com­petition
in the way of real games.
Coach Moulton said that he hoped
favorable weather would permit a
practice game with the Montgomery
ballmen.
Practice Speeded Up
As First Game Nears
By Jack S. Riley
The Auburn diamondneers have
speeded up considerably in their
practicing this week, in preparation
for their first conference game with
Tulane at New Orleans, La.
The Moulton nine will leave the
"Village of the Plains" Thursday
night and arrive in New Orleans Fri­day
morning. These two teams will
not meet again this season as there
are only two games on the Tiger
schedule with Tulane.
The Plainsmen are working fast
and hard together in the afternoon
practices, especially the infield. Every
afternoon in the practices Coach
Moulton has been tightening down-on
the infield and by the time the team
leaves.for the battle with Tulane he
will be able to say that he has an air
tight infield. The out field also looks
good from their display of fielding
in the practices.
To back up this good fielding ma­chine
is a good hitting nine. Any
pitcher in the conference would
shiver to think of facing them.
Along with the fundamentals of
base ball Coach "Slick" Moulton has
been stressing the importance of
being in good condition physically.
and should prove a reliable point-get-1 He winds up the daily practices with
ter in' this event. Nick Carter will
take care of the discus and shot again
this year while Jones looked the best
of the javelin tossers in Saturday's j
workout.
A difficult menu has been pre­pared
for the Orange and Blue track-sters
including several dual meets
with Conference teams'.
Third Battalion Wins
Intra Mural Baseball
terest to the coaches as it comes less
than a week before the Freshman
meet with the 15th Tank Bn. from
Fort Benning and should give a
pretty good line of the entries for
this meet.
FRATERNITY GOLF TOURNEY
All fraternities wishing to enter
the Golf Tournament that is to be
held in the near future must see
Marion Jones at Sigma Nu House
before April 1. This is necessary so
that detaily may be completed soon.
several laps around the field. This
builds up the whole body and keeps
the players in good condition.
By the time they meet their first
opponents they will be in such good
shape, that they will give the Tulane
lads plenty to do in trying to handle
them.
This week marked the close of the
Intramural Baseball league with the
3rd Bn. Field Artillery team walking
away with the pennant with seven
games won and only one lost. This
team played a very steady brand of
ball throughout the season and well
deserved the flag. The champion­ship
guidon will be presented to
Harry Lloyd the team captain, at a
review on Saturday March 30th. The
winning team will be formed in
front of the regiment and marched
forward to receive its flag. After
the presentation the team will return
to its place in front of the regiment
and will pass in review at the head
of the 3rd Battalion. The members
of the 3rd Bn. etam are: Lloyd, H.
(Capt.) Lewis, S. (alt. Capt.) Cham­pion,
J. D., Hargett, Jackson, W. D.,
Johnson, W. H. Kennamer, Lewis, A.,
McClurce, C, Vance, Ingram, T. B.
and Tew.
Fraternities Wishing
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Must See
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Before April 1st.
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE
HICKS STUDIES QUESTIONS OF
CAMPUS OPINION AT N. C. STATE
W. N. Hicks, associate secretary of
the Y. M. C. A. and instructor in re­ligion
at N. C. State, is now working
upon a survey of student opinion. The
aim of Professor Hicks is to find out
what student opinions and conditions
are on all phases at the institution.
The only other institution that has
attempted such a sui'vey is Syracuse
University, and the results were very
gratifying. A few of the questions
that are being asked in the bulletin
prepared by Professor Hicks are:
Why do students come to college?
Why do they stay here? What phase
of college life do they consider most
important? Ho do students spend
their time? How much helpful ad­vice
have they received since they
have been at the institution?
They are also asked their opinion
as to the military training they are
able to receive .there; opinion on the
athletic question; attitude toward
fraternities; assemblies; religion; val-
N E W B O O KS
As Reviewed by Members of the English Department
Lewis Mumford's "Herman Mel-1 from the situation that should, in all
.ville" is an entirely different kind of reason, obtain. Melville says: "Until
ue of religion; and their opinion re­garding
work on tests and examina- '
tions.
This is being done with no idea bi°gr aPhy> more closely kin to Van I was twenty-five, I had no develop-of
checking up on the rndividual s t u - ! W y c k B r o o k s ' s "0 r d e a l of Mark | ment at all. From my twenty-fifth
dent, but only to get the opinions of Twain" than any I have read recently. | year I date my life. Three weeks
This book is the selection of the Lit-1 h a v e scarcely passed, at any time be-erary
Guild for March, a fact which I tween then and now, that I have not
assures its being read by some 70,000 | unfolded within myself." Melville
"THAT LITTLE GAME" If Wifey Only K M WH
the whole student body. So far there
have been only about one-thousand of
the questionairre blanks filled out, but
it is hoped that four-hundred more j People who are interested in keeping j was then approaching forty, and his
will be filled out. Tabulation of the! >n touch with the life of the intellect I growth continued to the end of his
and the human spirit as it is record-' life>
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ed in the selected result's coming from
the presses of the country. This biog­raphy
deserves, and will doubtless get,
a much larger body of readers. If
you have read the fiction of Herman
blanks is an enormous job, and will
require about four-hundred hours of
work.
The plans for the survey were work­ed
out by Professor Hicks, the college
allowing him one hour of the student
body's time to get the necessary
blanks filled by them. These blanks
can only be filled by the undergrad­uates,
of which there are about 1,-
557 there now. Special students and
graduates are not included in the sur­vey.
According to the opening paragraph
of the blank: "It is hoped that the
results of this study will bring about
a better adjustment of many prob­lems
that are now pertinent with
our institution. The recent months
of active consideration of government
., j. literary product of the Nineteenth
and student honor on the campus af-
Century in America. It reflects life
greatly and unflinchingly, in such a
way that life on a whaling boat be­comes
a symbol of life anywhere;
In summarizing, then, you may ex­pect
to find in Mr. Mumford's book
these things: a thrilling account of
the wayfarings of a great spirit, a
careful critical analysis and estimate
Melville you will profit, in proportion o f literary greatness, and a stimu
to the extent of that reading, in
understanding the method and the
achievement of Mr. Mumford. But if
in biography you are simply interested
in the wayfaring of the human spirit,
you will find here a record of a spirit
that is one of the greatest the past
century produced in America. I have
no doubt, however, that you will want
to read "Typee," "Omoo," "White
Jacket," and most of all "Moby Dick"
itself, a book which is rapidly coming
to be recognized as the outstanding
fords splendid preparation for a study
of this sort. The success of this
enterprise depends upon the whole­hearted
co-operation of faculty and
students and sincere and frank state­ments
of opinion in answer to all
questions.
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Melville's life becomes Everyman's
life. He says, "A whale ship was my
Yale College and my Harvard." "Mo­by
Dick" "mounts to that lonely wind­swept
plateau in whose rarefied air
only the finest imaginations can
breathe."
This biography is not meant for
those who apply to the book the same
medicine that worked so well in the
life of Melville's contemporaries. Most
of the sweetness and decorum of the
American Victorian Age, and of Vic­torians
in all ages and climes, rests
in the agreement to forget. "The
sewer and the garbage pile and the
slaughterhouse, the prison, the hos­pital,
the slum, the asylum, the bat­tlefield,
live and flourish behind that
agreement." Bridge clubs seem to be
the most effective anodyne in our
smaller towns and villages. But I
have met now and then at bridge par­ties
men and women who seem to have
the courage to face life and who seem
to be rather out of place in such com­pany.
Those people are the ones who
will revel in this penetrating study
of the spiritual life of a man who
saw that horsehair stuffing does not
make the universe kinder, and that
the oblivion of drink, (and of bridge
clubs), does not make the thing that
is forgotten more palatable or less
disgraceful, does not alter the cor­rectness,
the pettiness, the shallowness
of a venial society whose pretensions
to culture and civilization are, on the
whole, pretty thin.
Mr. Mumford's work has, in the
main, a twofold purpose: it intends
to give a full account of the spirit­ual
development of the most power­ful
figure in nineteenth-century Amer­ican
letters and to give a critical esti­mate
of his works. The author has
graciously acknowledged his indebt­edness
to earlier biographers and
scholars, especially to Raymond Weav­er's
"Herman Melville: Mariner and
Mystic"; but he has used these works
only as springboards, and has gone so
far beyond them in scope and inten­tion
that we must receive this as an
original and definitive analysis of the
life and works of Melville.
I also find in this biography a
healthy view of individual growth. Too
many people think of their early
years, their school years, as the hal­cyon
period in which they learned all
they know. Nothing could be further
lating parable of life-long growth—
all woven together in as fine a syn­thesis
as I have discovered in the
past decade of American literature.
HERMAN MELVILLE. BY LEW­IS
MUMFORD. NEW YORK. THE
LITERARY GUILD OF AMERICA
and HARCOURT BRACE AND
COMPANY. MARCH, 1929.
Hard Work Makes
Successful Actors
With every click of the camera
in Hollywood there comes a growing
realization that college men are num­bered
among the most successful ac­tors
in the business. A review of the
Paramount studio alone discloses the
fact that twelve of the leading men—
a prevailing majority, are college or
university men.
From where do the prominent act­ors
come?
Adolph Menjou is a graduate' of
Cornell; Richard Arlen hails from the
University of Pennsylvania, while
Charles "Buddy" Rogers gives the
University of Kansas as his Alma
Mater.
Jack Luden is from Johns Hopkins
and .Tomes; Gary Cooper was grad­uated
from Grinnell. Lane Chandler
is from Montana" Wesleyan, William
Austin and Clive Brook are gradu­ates
of Dulwick College in England.
Chandler played opposite Clara Bow
as her leading'man in "Red Hair."
the University of Minnesota. He says
that his college experiences have been
of great assistance in playing the roles
he has in "Man Power," "The Quar­terback"
"The Gay Defender," "Sport­ing
Goods," "Warming Up," and
"Easy Come, Easy Go."
How do men get into motion pic­tures?
It is an interesting question, but the
answer is far more interesting. Most
of them get in by hard work. Menjou
did extra work for a number of
months. Luden and Rogers got their
break through the Paramount Pic­tures
School.
Dick Arlen tried for five long years
to fight his way to fame by the ex­tra
route. He had no one to inspire
him and even stuck with his odd parts
when friends and relatives advised
against it.
William Austin was a well-known
actor on the stage, as was George
Bancroft before he came under the
Paramount banner. Lane Chandler
drove a bus in- Yellowstone and was
discovered when a motion picture
company was making a picture there.
Fred Thomson, the riding actdr
who played the part of "Jesse James,"
worked his way into motion pictures
through his all-round athletic ability,
Majority Students
Pass Work At FSCW
Only slightly more than one per cent
of students failed to pass half of
the^r work at Florida State College
for Women for the second semester
according to the college registrar. The
total number failing in half of their
courses was twenty.
Of this number fourteen were fresh­men,
five were spphomores, an one
was a junior. The total number of
students failing in one or more courses
was 270, or less than 20 per cent.
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Austin is that pleasing English com
edian who appears in so many pic- and especially his riding. In 1916 and
tures.
Fred Thomson is a graduate of Oc
cidental College and Princeton Uni­versity.
Even the Naval Academy has
a representative in none other tha
George Bancroft of "Rough Riders,"
"Underworld," and "The Docks of
New York" fame.
Richard Dix, a favorite with the
J.
'17 he was awarded the A. A. U.
title of the best all-round athlete in
the country.
The case of Buddy Rogers and his
a splendid example of men who can
become motion picture actors with­out
the oft assesrted "pull." We like
to write about Buddy since he is one
younger set of movie goers, attended of the most charming chaps we have
There will be no Missouri Valley
baseball tournament. That was the
decision reached by the Oklahoma A.
and M. college athletic council when
three .of the five conference members
declined to enter teams in the meet,
formerly scheduled for May 10 and
11.
Various reasons were given by the
three negligent members, Drake re­porting
no equipment and more im
portant still, no finance, Grinnell, re­porting
no suits, and Creighton re
porting no team whatever.
ever met. He is regarded as one of
the most promising young actors to­day
and his work in "Wings," "Get
Your Man," and Anne Nichols' "Abie's
Irish Rose" have stamped him as one
of the few really great young actors.
His work opposite Mary Pickford in
"My Best Girl" has won him the
praise of critics because he can act
and has a personality that is pleasing
both on and off stage.
A. S. C. E. Is Oldest
Engineering Society
The American Society of Civil En­gineers
is the oldest National En­gineering
society in the United States.
It was founded in 1852 and since that
time has been of great service to the
engineers of the-entire world. During
this period the nation has experienced
an industrial revolution, and the world
has been transformed into an engi­neer's
world, with the public depend­ent
upon the genius of the engineer
for its comforts, conveniences and nec­essities.
The members of the society
have been of great service in this
transformation.
There are 87 student chapters af­filiated
with the society with a total
membership of 4,807. These chapters
are located at important universities
and colleges in all parts of the coun­try.
They are a great help to the stu­dent
member in that they give him
an opportunity to broaden his educa­tion
and prepare himself to a much
greater extent for the engineering
profession by actual contact with
members of the society and with the
problems they work out. The stu­dent
member also has the opportuni­ty
to hear members of the parent so­ciety,
and other engineers, talk on
practical engineering problems and
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to the box office . . . for a package of Old Golds?"
"Of course, I have never said just those
words from the stage—but in all kindness
I have often wanted to offer this friendly
help to some poor fellow whose cough was
interrupting the show and spoiling the en­joyment
of those around him.
"A year or so ago, the makers of OLD GOLD
ran' some ads on the disturbing effect of
coughing in theatres. As an actor, I was
grateful for those ads. I am more grateful
now that OLD GOLD has invited stage folk to
help them bring 'first aid' information to
our unhappy friends the 'theatre-coughers.'
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aid. The kind of prevention that smoking
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PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929.
MAJOR C. T. TOMES DISCUSSES
ORIGIN OF MILITARY TERMS
Major C. T. Tomes in the British
Army Quarterly discusses the origin
of certain military expressions and
customs which are of interest to the
American army.
"Soldier," he says, "is derived from
Italian soldato (a paid man), which
in it's turn is derived from soldum.
the Latin for pay, thereby indicating
a man who was paid to fight, in con­tradiction
to one who fought for noth­ing.
'Infantry' as a term for foot sol­diers
came into use in the seventeenth
century, and is also derived through
the French infanterie from the Ital­ian—
infante, meaning boys, a term no
doubt employed on account of the
youth of those in arms. The word
'sergeant' comes to us from feudal
times; a knight when he went to war
often found it necessary to arm and
equip either his own son or one of his
leading men as an assistant to him­self.
These individuals were known
in Norman times as servientes, ser­vants,
which subsequently became ser­geants.
'Corporal' has nothing to do
with corps, as might be supposed; it is
probably derived through the French
word caporal from the Spanish word
capo—meaning head, and is really the
same word as captain. The word
'lance' in lance-corporal, actually
means lance in its literal sense. When
a mounted man-at-arms was unhorsed
in battle, he had no alternative but to
fight with the foot soldiers; but the
lance which he still carried, no doubt
broken off short, still indicated his
former rank and gave him certain
prestige.
In the old days when soldiers were
organized in no larger formations
than companies — before regiments
came into existence—every company
carried a flag, the forerunner of our
colors. These flags bore on them the
crests of the officers commanding in
the various companies. They were not
called 'Colours' until about 1587, in
Elizabeth's reign; and it is said that
the name then given to them was due
to the number of low-born captains
who, as they had no arms to bear on
their ensigns, were obliged to trust
to the distinction of colours only.
The military day starts with 'Rev­eille,'
the origin of which is obvious,
and ends with 'Tattoo,' which is a
corruption of an old Dutch word tap-toe,
meaning literally 'to put the tap
to'—the signal for closing the taps
or taverns. When there were no bar­racks
and troops were always billet-ted,
the drummers marched from post
to post in the town so that the 'Tap-to'
should be heard by all. 'Retreat'
is the military sunset, and used to be
the signal for troops to 'retreat' or re­turn
to their quarters.
The cavalry trumpet call known by
the picturesque name %of 'Boot and
Saddle' does not mean 'pull on your
boots and saddle your horses!' It
comes from the French boute-selle,
which literally translated means 'put
saddle,'' in other words 'saddle up.'
Bugle is an old French word meaning
'wild ox,' and the real expression was
'bugle horn,' i. e. 'wild ox horn.' The
word 'Alarm' is purely military, and
is from the Italian all 'arme,' meaning
'to arms.' 'Furlough' used to be pro­nounced
to rhyme with cough, and
is from the Dutch verlof, meaning
'for leave.' 'Cashier' is also Dutch,
casseeren, the same as French casser,
to break, although in the original
sense it did not necessarily imply any
disgrace. It has the same root as 'to
cast' of a horse. Cheveaux de frise is
from a contrivance invented by the
Frieslanders to assist them in repell­ing
cavalry.
The word 'picket' is a reminder of
the days of spikes; as these came to
be superceded by fire-arms a few
were still kept in the centre of a bat­talion,
and this handful of men was
known as the 'picquette' or 'little
body of pikemen' and the word after­wards
was taken to refer to any small
military force. The military term 'ros­ter'
is really roaster, the Dutch for
gridiron; roster means a list of in­dividuals
or units in rotation, and no
doubt was drawn up on paper lined
like a gridiron.
What is the origin of uniform at
all? A search through Fortescue's
'History of the British Army' gives
an answer. The first attempt at uni­form
is found in the Crusades, where
men of each nationality wore a cross
of the same colour so that the var­ious
armies might be recognized the
one from the other. It can be readily
understood that with English, French,
Sicilian and other soldiers all engaged
some kind of distinguishing badge
was necessary.' The English wore a
white cross, and possibly this may be
the reason why full dress facings of
the British regiments were white. The
first historical mention of real uni­form
as opposed to a mere distin­guishing
mark, is in 1337. Bodies of
Welsh spearmen were raised for ser­vice
abroad, but the men were so rag­ged
that they shocked even the not
too critical eye of Edward III; he pro­vided
them each with a .tunic and
mantle and took steps to see that they
were all of the same colour and ma­terial.
It is interesting to speculate
as to why red was selected as the nor­mal
colour of a British soldier's uni­form;
the writer has no idea of the
reason, but it is certainly curious, he
says, that so far back as the days of
the" Israelites the prophet Nahum
speaks of 'Heroes in Scarlet' (Nahum
ii. 3), and in Ezekiel the Babylonians
are said to be 'clothed in vermilion'
(Ezekiel xxiii. 14).
The nomenclature of military ranks
has always been puzzling. Why, for
instance, should a Lieut.-General be
senior to a Major-General; whereas a
Lieutenant is far junior to a Major?
The puzzle is solved if we look back to
the sixteenth century. In 1557 a Brit­ish
Army was on service at St. Quen-tin,
and the records show that the
officers by rank were:
Captain-General, who was the Com­mander-
in-Chief.
Lieut.-General, the assistant of the
Commander-in-Chief, presumably a
second in command (Lieutenant means
assistant).
High Marischall, a sort of Quarter­master-
General.
Sergt.-Major-General, the counter­part
of a Chief Staff Officer.
Colonel, commanding the regiment.
Lieut.-Colonel, assistant to the Col­onel.
Sergeant-Major, a sort of adjutant.
Captain, commanding the company.
Lieutenant, assistant to the Cap­tain.
Ensign, who carried the Standard.
Leave out the 'Captain' form 'Cap­tain-
General' and the 'Sergeant' from
'Sergeant-Major-General' and from
'Sergeant-Major' and we have our
modern ranks almost exactly. It is
curious to note that the Sergeant-
Ma j or was originally a commissioned
officer; the word "Sergeant" drop­ped
out and he was called 'Major.'
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Support Athletics
The nucleus of a movement for
more loyal support of athletics in
Cumberland was recently begun when
a group of students determined to re­vive
the deceased athletic association.
Such an organization once existed in
Cumberland, but as the years passed
by it somehow dwindled away and
finally died entirely.
The students consulted President
Stockton on the advisability of form­ing
an athletic association to create
a greater school spirit and put ath­letics
on an organized basis backed
by the student body. With the con­sent
of the President, a voluntary
council was formed.
The council, with the cooperation of
the student body, hopes to make the
remainder of the spring term and the
'29-'30 seasons the most glorious of
C. U.'s history. It hopes to lead in
equipping Kirk Field with adequate
grandstands and thereby attract large
crowds to root for the Bulldogs. It
plans to improve the seating arrange­ment
of the gymnasium. It wishes to
give all athletic events more pub­licity,
and encourage greater loyalty,
both among students and the citizens
of Lebanon and the entire community.
Quit College If
You Want Money
Says H. F. Clark
Don't go to college if you want to
get rich!
That is the moral of a report made
by Dr. Harold F. Clark of the Teach­ers'
College of New York after a
year's study.
"College education' dulls a man's
business acumen. The common belief
that every year of a college student's
is worth many dollars is erroneous."
This is the testimony of Dr. Clark.
If you want to get rich, the first
step in that direction is to quit school,
it would seem from Dr. Clark's testi­mony.
The reaction among students
has not been found out.
"College training takes away from
the individual the daring that is nec­essary
for a successful business ca­reer.
The training for the professions
only tends to crowd them and lower
the average earning power of the in­dividual,"
states this educator.
Dr. R. P. Brooks, dean of the
School of Commerce of the University,
disagrees with Dr. Clark. "When the
writer of that article speaks of men
of equal rank, he qualifies his orig­inal
statement," said Dr. Brooks.
"It is true that a great number of
college students derive no benefit from
their education. This is due to the
student's incapacity for a college edu­cation.
No person with a sound mind
can harm himself by training his
mind," Dr. Brooks continued. "It is
true that a great many students re­ceive
'polite' educations that only make
them feel above manual labor, while
they are incapable of training them­selves
for anything better. The bene­fit
of college training cannot be con­demned
on account of this group, how­ever,"
Dr. Brooks stated further.
Professor H. M. Heckman, of the
School of Commerce, pointed out a
fallacy in Dr. Clark's argument. "Dr.
Clark fails to take into consideration
the fact that potential employment for
college graduates is increasing, as
well as, college graduates. The time
has now arrived when college men
manage every branch of a chain-store
corporation, where formerly a college
trained man was only at the head of
the corporation," states Mr. Heckman.
Later when it was desired to distin­guish
the senior sergeant, 'Major' was
added and he became 'Sergeant-Ma­jor.'
The origin of the military band is
of interest. In the old feudal days
when the Barons went to war they
did so in considerable comfort. No
one would dream of taking the field
without his full retinue of retainers,
and especially his minstrels, other­wise
how could he possibly be expect­ed
to pass his time when not engaged
in combat? During the Crusades he
soon learned from the Saracens an­other
use for his musicians; he
grouped them around the standard and
ordered them to play their loudest
while the fight was on. The standard
was, of course, the rallying point, but
might be obscured in the dust of bat­tle;
if the soldiers could still hear
sweet music above the clash of arms,
they knew that all was well; but, if
the strains died away, it was a signal
that the ensign was in danger or that
the day was lost. In a long fight one
cannot help being sorry for the bands­men,
they must have been a trifle out
of breath." —Ft. Sill Guidon.
SPECIAL DIESEL
ENGINE BOUGHT
Is Standard Design But Built Especi­ally
For Use Here
The Mechanical Engineering Labora­tory,
located on the first floor of Ram­say
Hall, is soon to be equipped with
a 40 H. P. Diesel oil engine of espec­ial
build, which will be used in lab­oratory
instruction and research work.
The engine is being built for the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute by the
Fairbanks Morse Company of Beloit,
Wisconsin. Although of standard de­sign,
the engine is being built espec­ially
for the college, and care is be­ing
taken by the manufacturers to
obtain a very high degree of accuracy
in the fitting of the parts.
A special water cooled brake wheel
will be furnished with the machine
and will be used to absorb surplus-power
generated during tests made
with the engine. To aid in securing
the operating characteristics of the
engine while it is under a test a spec­ial
indicator reducing gear will be
furnished as a part of the regular
equipment.
Excavation is now. underway for
the heavy concrete foundation nec­essary
to support the engine, although
the engine itself has not yet been
shipped from the factory. The en­gine
and auxiliary apparatus will
not be installed in time for use dur­ing
the remainder of this semester,
but will be ready for use at the be­ginning
of the next semester.
The engine will be used in the regu­lar
Mechanical Engineering labora­tory
course as a source of additional
experiments. Tests will be made with
the engine to determine which of the
several oil fuels possible to be used is
best for the most efficient and most
economical operation of the engine.
Definite decision as to the exact re­lation
of these experiments to the
regular laboratory course has not been
made, but it is the opinion of Dean
J. J. Wilmore, head of the Depart­ment
of Mechanical Engineering, that
they will take the place in the course
of the experiments at present con­ducted
with the use of the semi-Diesel
engine with which he laboratory is at
present equipped.
Network of N. B. C.
Nationwide In Scope
Victorious Team
Is Entertained
Tau Omega Chi Team Enjoys Delight­ful
Buffet Supper
Monday night, immediately after
the final game of the Inter-fraterni­ty
Basketball Tournament, the Sig­ma
Phi Epsilon Fraternity, at it's
chapter house on West Magnolia Ave­nue,
entertained the victorious Tau
Omega Chi team and the officials of
the game at a buffet supper.
In addition to the members of the
Tau Omega Chi team there were pres­ent
Louie James, "Little Square"
Salter, Captain B. Conn Anderson,
and Mr. "Hub" Vaughn, of Opelika,
visiting Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Methodists Have
Special Program
Last Sunday evening at the Metho­dist
church a special program was
given by the choir. The choir gave
some very impressive selections, being
accompanied by several musical in­struments.
Dr. D. C. Harkins gave a
violin solo which was very enjoyable.
Other assisting musicians w e re
Messrs. Van Wagenon, Gwin, Hol-man,
Staples, Max Jones, R. Jones,
Thomas, and Kincaid. The program
was under the direction of Dr. Irvine,
of the Education department of the
college, and the splendid program
was largely due to his services. The
Methodists hope to make this special
feature a regular service once a
month.
New Sport Started
At Univ. of Georgia
Night prowlers on the University
of Georgia campus may in the near
future be surprised by the sight of
undergraduates scampering madly
over'the roofs of the various univer­sity
buildings, pi-ovided that the Uni­versity
follows the precedent of the
universities of Cambridge and Ox­ford,
in England.
This is a form of collegiate athlet­ics
heretofore unheard of in this coun­try.
According to dispatches from
across the water, however, roof-climb­ing
is an established, if somewhat fur­tive
sport indulged in by the student
bodies of these ancient and sequest-.
ered institutions.
Trade with the advertisers.
. With the addition of Radio Sta­tion
WAPI the network of the Na­tional
Broadcasting Company is now
nation-wide in scope, according to
information received from headquar­ters
of the National Broadcasting
Company in New York. Three other
stations in the South will be added
at the same time, it was stated.
M. N. Aylesworth, president of the
company, in a statement to the pub­lic,
said that WAPI was "a pioneer
radio station to be operated by an
educational institution."
Announcement was made by W. A.
Young, assistant manager of WAPI,
that the first network program for
Station WAPI will be the national
grand opera, presented in the studio
of WEAF, New York City, beginning
at 10:00 central standard time next
Monday night.
From 9:30 to 10:00 central stand­ard
time Tuesday night the station
will broadcast the "contraltones". It,
too, will come direct from New
York.
NEW GERMAN WARSHIPS WITH
12-INCH GUNS MAY BE VOGUE
EXPECT TWO HUNDRED
ATTEND GREEK EGG HUNT
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the freshman best impersonating a
girl, the most originally costumed
rat, and the freshman finding the
most eggs; the awards will be a card
table, a smoking stand, and a pair of
book ends.
Preceding the hunt, the best look­ing
"girl" and the "best dressed"
freshman will be picked; the rats will
then line up, and the searching will
start when the signal is given. After
the hunt, the participants will scuffle
for the possession of the "golden
egg", and the freshman emerging
victorious will be given the "egg."
As is the usual custom, a battle will
be staged after the formalities; eggs
will serve as ammunition.
The Interfraternity Council urges
all fraternities to have the eggs at
the Lambda Chi house at 8 P. M.
Saturday evening, and have all their
rats in the Hunt.
It is possible that a newsreel cam­eraman
will fil|i the celebration, but
it is not finally known whether or not
anyone will "shoot" the freshmen.
The new high efficiency German
warships of the "Erasatz-Preussen"
class, whose appearance has caused a
good deal of buzz in European naval
circles, may force some radical
changes in battleship and cruiser
fashions. Medium-sized, fast ship
ajrmed with 12-inch guns, favorite
caliber of pre-war days, may replace
some of the huge floating fortresses
like the "Nelson" and the "Maryland,"
with their 16-inch armaments.
The possibility is discussed by the
editor of the Engineer, a leading Brit­ish
technical publication. The Ger­man
ships, with their 26-knot speed,
can easily run away from any exist­ing
ships big enough to sink them,
except for four big battle cruisers
in the- British navy and four in the
Japanese. Other navies have plenty
of cruisers fast enough to overtake
the German ships, but the 12-inch
guns carried by the latter would make
such a proceeding suicidal. Therefore
the Continental admiralties, especial­ly
the Fi-ench, are considering wheth­er
it would not be wise to meet this
new type of construction with a "me­dium-
sized battle-cruiser" of about
17,500 tons, armed with guns of 12-
inch caliber. There were battle-cruisers
of this general description
in the British navy before and during
the war, but they were scrapped in
accordance with the Washington
treaty.
DUNCAN LEAVES ASSIST
FLOOD RELIEF FORCES
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nedy, nutrition specialist, and Mrs.
Mamie C." Thorington, home demon­stration
agent for Montogmery Coun­ty,
have been working on nutrition
problems of flood sufferers at Elba.
They and other extension workers are
ready for additional flood relief work
when called.
While in the flooded area this
week Professor Duncan expects to ar­range
for other lines of work neces­sary
during his inspection.
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The editor of The Engineer is even
inclined to back the smaller caliber
gun against the 15 and 16 inch mon­sters
as practical weapons under ordi­nary
conditions of sea fighting.
"We are often invited to consider
the tremenduous effect of a well-aim­ed
salvo from the 16 inch guns of the
'Nelson,' each of the projectiles weigh­ing
roughly a ton," he comments.
"Without doubt," a direct hit by even
one of these levin-bolts would prove
very destructive, but would it do more
damage than the impact of two 13.5
inch or three 12 inch shells? War
experience suggests a negative ans­wer.
If that be so, a strong case
could be presented for the smaller
gun, which could probably fire twice
as rapidly as the 16 inch. In other
words, a vessel training ten 12 inch
guns on the broadside would be able,
within a given period, to deliver a
volume of fire but little inferior in
weight to that of a vessel with nine
16 inch guns, and, other things being
equal, the more numerous guns would
register more hits."
It is not expected that naval con­struction
in the United States will be
seriously affected by the new pro­posals
in Europe. American design­ers
have always tended to mount the
lai-gest number of heavy-caliber guns
compatible with efficiency in other di­rections.
But the editor argues against
following the American example in
this. —
"There is good evidence that the
American replacement ships planned
for 1931 will be designed up to the
Treaty maximum of 35,000 tons and
mount ten 16-inch guns.
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