1929-10-22 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1929. NUMBER 13
Musical Recital
To Be Given On
Thursday Night
J. W. Brigham and Earl Hazel
Make Debut At
Auburn
"Nomads" to Play
For "A" Club Hop
on Saturday Night
Dance Will Be Closing Feature
Of Mother-Dad Day
LARGE CROWD EXPECTED
Brigham Will Sing One Of
His Own Compositions
John W. Brigham, professor of mu­sic
at Auburn, and Earl Hazel, in­structor
in piano, will give a recital
in Langdon Hall October 23 at 8^0
P. M. The program includes classical
piano solos by Mr. Hazel and a num­ber
of vocal solos by Professor Brig­ham.
The vocal soloist will sing one
of his own compositions, "Ye Storm
Winds of Autumn."
Both musicians are beginning their
first year as members of the Auburn
faculty and a large group of students,
townspeople, and faculty members of
Auburn as well as citizens of Opelika
are expected to attend their first re­cital.
The program is as follows:
(1) Recitative: Deeper and Deep­er
Still, Handel.
Air: Waft Her, Angels, Han­del.
(2) Piano
Allegro Asppessionato, Saint
Saens.
The Crap Shooters (A negro
dance) Eastwood Lane.
(3) a. Apres Un Reve, Faure.
b. Tes Yeux, Rabey.
c. Mondnacht, Schumann.
d. Ungeduld, Shubert.
(4) Piano
Rhapsodie, No. 2, Brahms,...
Rigoletto Paraphrase, Verdi-
Liszt.
(5) a. The Sun at Last, Anne
Stratton
b. Vale, Kennedy Russell
c. Exhortation, Cook
d. Take Joy Home, Bassett
e. Ye Storm Winds of Autumn,
John W. Brigham.
Members Local Chapter
Eastern Star Honored
Mrs. I. S. McAdory Elected Grand
Matron of Order in Alabama
The Auburn chapter of the Order of
the Eastern Star will participate in
the annual installation of officers at
the Scottish Rite Temple in Montgom­ery
tonight. The local chapter is.one
of the highest rating chapters in the
state of Alabama, being honored at
this time by having Mrs. I. S.
McAdory, of Auburn, elected to the
high position of Grand Matron of the
Order in Alabama. Miss Cora Lip­scomb,
also of Auburn, will present
the presents to the incoming Grand
Matron.
A number of drills by the Auburn
chapter will take place as part of the
installation ceremony. Professor Kin-caid,
of the physics department, will
provide the music accompaniment for
the drills. The Auburn delegates will
occupy and influential position in the
installation of the officers, and the en­tire
chapter is expected to attend the
ceremony.
Operating Company
Donates Appliances
Electricial Engineering Department
Receives Large Switchboard
The electrical enginereing depart­ment
announced that one of the large
operating companies of the state has
donated a two panel switchboard for
the senior laboratory. Instruments
and appliances for the operating were
included in the donation.
The switchboard will be ' used to
control a motor-generator set which
wlil be connected and put into work­ing
order by the seniors in electri­cal
engineering under Professor Carlo-witz.
The motor generator set will
consist of a one hundred K. V. A. G.
E. alternator and a 75 V. A. Allis-
Chalmers motor.
1 According to an announcement to­day
by Louie James, president of the
"A" Club, that organization will give
a dance Saturday night in the
gymnasium.
It is planned that the affair will
end a day filled with features. The
dance will be a decided departure from
precident as the Nomads Orchestra, of
Montgomery, a well known dance
organization in this section, has been
engaged to furnish the music.
A large number of out of town
guests are expected to attend, it is
said. The president of the "A" Club,
in charge of arrangements, told a
Plainsman representative today that
preparations were being made for a
record number at the dance.
In engaging the Nomad orchestra
for the special dance Saturday, the
"A" Club offers an exceptional even­ing
of entertainment to the followers
of the terpsicorean. It is said that the
music to be heard Saturday will be
far superior to the usual "A" Club
dances.
Students are requested by the com­mittee
in charge to arrange for
visitors immediately. The dance will
bring to a close the annual Mothers'
and Dads' Day. The program being
planned is expected to give unusual
impetus and interest to the day.
INITIAL SMOKER OF
ENGINEERS' CLUB IS
HELD MONDAY NIGHT
Two Hundred and Fifty Engi­neers
Attend Affair
SIX PROFESSORS SPEAK
Prof. Callan and "Civils" Ren­der-
Vocal Selection
With an attendance of about two
hundrd and fifty students, the first
meeting of the Engineers' Club on
Monday night, was judged by all to
be the beginning of a great year for
the club. The gathering was held in
the Broun Hall Auditorium, as the
Ramsay Hall reading room could not
accommodate the unusually large
crowd.
Cigars and cigarettes were passed
around at the beginning of the meet­ing,
and the auditorium was soon
covered with a thick layer of smoke.
Members of the engineering facul­ty
were called upon by the president
of the club, O. W. Bynum, to say a
few words to the engineers.
Professor John Callan and several
of his senior civils rendered a vocal
selection which met with tremend­ous
applause. Dean Wilmore, Profes­sors
Hill. Hulse, Baughman, Thomas,
and Dixon all voiced their desire to
see the strength and size of the club
increase, urging the students to stand
behind it, and offered their help
whenever it might be needed.
President Bynum turned in his
resignation as executive of the En­gineers'
Club, saying that he had too
many other duties and studies, and
plans were made by which another
leader will soon be chosen. The En­gineers'
Day was discussed, and al­though
no vote was taken, comment
Dr. Fred Allison, head professor of o n t h e Engineers' Dance was favor-physics
at the--Alabama Polytechnic aDi e - —
Institute, was notified Monday of his | T n e d a t e 0f t n e next meeting has
election to membership in the Virginia n o t y e t b e e n announced,
chapter of Sigma Xi, national honor-yar
society for promotion of research.
This honor comes to Prof. Allison as
a result of outstanding work in
physics research, and especially be­cause
he won the President and
Visitor's research prize given each
year at the Virginia University to the Four daughters of Colonel M. V.
student or faculty member who pub- Moore, Confederate veteran, deceased,
DR. ALLISON CHOSEN
MEMBER OF SIGMA XI
Honor Conferred for Outstanding
Work in Physics Research
lishes the best piece of research.
For several years the Auburn physi- turned here Sunday for a reunion and
cist has spent part of the summers visits to old friends. They are Mrs.
teaching and conducting research
work at the Virginia institution, of S. C, Mrs. H. H. Smith of Richmond,
which he is an alumnus.
Many Seniors On
Inspection Trip
Visit Tallassee and Wetumpka
Inspect Convention Work
to
A number of seniors in the engineer­ing
department left Auburn this
morning to make a short inspection
trip of construction work being done
near here.
The students, under the direction
of Professor John Callen, of the civil
engineering department, planned to go
first to Tallassee to inspect construc­tion
work being done by the Alabama
Power Company.
They were also to inspect the form
work on a new bridge being built
over the Coosa River at Wetumpka.
The form work was designed by an
Auburn alumnus.
Seniors in civil engineering and
students taking the hydro-electric en­gineering
course made the trip. They
are expected to return this evening.
Dr. and Mrs. Knapp
Visit State Fair
President Bradford Knapp visited
the State Fair in Montgomery today.
He was accompanied by Mrs. Knapp.
They are spending the day seeing and
studying the exhibits.
Two large exhibits were prepared
by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
and are on display. One is the ex­tension
service exhibit and the other
is the general college exhibit. These
exhibits will be Auburn headquarters
at the fair and representatives of the
college will be on hand to greet those
who stop to see these exhibits, Dr.
Knapp said.
Daughters Col. Moore
Visit Auburn Sunday
Daughters of Confederate Veteran
Visit Old Friends Here
who lived in Auburn many years, re-
Walter M. Riggs of Clemson College,
Va., Mrs. Edward Sirmyer of Fort
Des Moines, Iowa, and Mrs. J. W. Wil­lis
of Talladega.
Mrs. Riggs is the widow of the late
Dr. Walter M. Riggs, alumnus and
former professor of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute and president of
Clemson College from 1911 until his
death January 22, 1924. Mrs. Willis
is the wife of Rev. J. W. Willis of
Talladega, Baptist minister, who was
minister at the Auburn Baptist church
for several years. Mrs. Smith is the
wife of H. H. Smith of Richmond, Vir­ginia,
son of Dr. 0. D. Smith, for
many years professor of mathematics
at Auburn and also acting president.
Mrs. Sirmyer is the wife of Colonel
Sirmyer who is stationed at Fort Des
Moines.
After receiving many courtesies
from their old friends, including en­tertainments
by Mrs. H. D. Tisdale,
Mrs. B. B. Ross, Mrs. Mary Drake
Askew, Miss Allye Glenn, and Mrs.
W. B. Frazier, they will leave this
morning for Atlanta to attend the
wedding of Lieutenant Edward Sir­myer,
Jr.
Faculty Dance Club
Give First Hop Oct. 25
The faculty dance club will open
its fall season with the first of a
series of dances on Friday night, Oc­tober
25, in the gymnasium. The Au­burn
Colegians will be music pro­viders.
The dance will begin at 9 p.
m., lasting until midnight.
An unusual feature of this initial
hop will be an election of officers of
the faculty club during the intermis­sion.
Mr. Charles Edwards announc­ed
today that all new as well as old
faculty members are cordially invit­ed
to attend.
Leads B.S.U. Music
MR. ERNEST ORLANDO SELLERS
E.O. SELLERS TO TAKE
PART IN B.S.U. MEET
Miss Margaret Hayslette Will
Be Convention Organist
The music at the B. S. U. Conven­tion,
which will be held in Auburn
November, 1-3, will be directed by
Mr. Ernest Orlando Sellers. He will
also entertain with some vocal solos.
Mr. Sellers is the director of music at
the Baptist Bible Institute in New
Orleans. He is also a teacher of per­sonal
evangelism and a director of stu­dent
activities.
Mr. Sellers did evangelistic work in
many parts of the country while as-siting
Dr. Torrey. His evangelistic
experience also includes work with
such evangelists as Gipsy Smith, J.
Wilbur Chapman, and A. C. Dixon.
During the World War Mr. Sellers
was a member of an evangelistic par­ty
directed by Mr. G. Sherwood Eddy
which, did much evangelistic work in
British and French camps. He was
also a member of the Y. M. C. A.
speakers bureau in Europe the year
after the War.
Miss Margaret Hayslette of Tus­caloosa
will be the organist for the
convention.
The B. S. U. orchestra at Auburn
and members of the B. S. U. orchestra
from the University of Alabama will
contribute to the musical program.
AUBURN ANNOUNCED
ON ROUTE ALABAMA
AERONAUTICAL TOUR
At Least Fifteen Planes
Visit Auburn In
November
To
42 CITIES ARE ON ROUTE
Pathfinder Plane Passed Over
Auburn Today
Mothers and Dads' Day-
Will Be Featured by Many
Very Interesting Events
Saturday will mark the inaugration
of Mothers' and Dads' Day at Au­burn.
The day's exercises are under
the direction of the Executive Cabi­net.
Visitors will register Saturday
morning and l'eceive a ribbon for
recognition on the campus; the pro­gramme
will include a tour of the
campus, the Auburn-Howard game,
and the "A" Club Dance.
The following invitation has been
sent to parents of all the students:
"The Student Cabinet representing
the student body of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute in extending to
you a cordial invitation to the Moth­ers'
and Fathers' Day Exercises and
Auburn-Howard Football Game on
Saturday, the twenty-sixth of Octo­ber
One Thousand Nine Hundred
and Twenty-nine at Auburn, Ala­bama."
All students who expect their pa­rents
to be here are asked to fill out
cards which have been placed in town
and in the fraternity houses, so that
arangements may be made for their
entertainment.
Plainsman Welcomes
—all news notes that might possibly
be of interest to the college or town
at large. Ofcten students, faculty
members, or townspeople are in a
position of contact with happenings
of news value, which it is impossible
for the Plainsman staff to obtain ex­cept
through their advice. Anyone
that especially wishes a story of his
knowledge to be published may sub­mit
it for approval to the Plainsman
staff, for which purpose there is a
special basket in the Plainsman of­fice
at the Auburn Printing Com­pany.
Auburn is included on the tentative
route for the Alabama State Air Tour,
in which at least 15 planes will make
•a four-day gdod-will flight over the
state to promote interest in aviation
and encourage airport and landing
field construction, according to an an­nouncement
received here from tour
headquarters in Birmingham.
The tentative route, which covers
more than 1,200 miles, will be travers­ed
this week by a pathfinding plane
piloted by Lieut. John Donaldson, with
Ralph Hurst, of Birmingham as a pas­senger.
They will inspect the landing
fields and check flying time. If they
find fields adequate and can make ar­rangements
for care of the ships and
personnel at places where the tour
will stop, the following route will be
adhered to:
Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, Eutaw,
Livingston, Demopolis, Uniontown,
Selma, Monroeville, Mobile, Bay
Minette, Flomaton, Brewton, Andalu­sia,
Enterprise, Dothan, Ozark, Eu-faula,
Clayton, Troy, Montgomery,
Notasulga, Auburn, Opelika, Lafay­ette,
Roanoke, Sylacauga, Talladega,
Annifiton, Gadsden, Albertville, Gun-tersville,
Huntsville, Athens, Decatur,
Courtland, Florence, Russelville,
Haleyville, Winnfield, Fayette, Jas­per,
Cullman and back to Birming­ham.
A large number of smaller places
will also be in the path of the route
which will bring the fleet across them.
Night stops on the tour will probab­ly
be Mobile, Montgomery and Hunts­ville.
The tour is strictly a civic proposi­tion
sponsored by the National Aero­nautics
Association, the American Le­gion,
the Alabama National Guard,
Army Air Corps, the Birmingham
News and the Department of Com­merce,
and the Birmingham junior
chamber of commerce.
Maj. Luke Christopher, of Washing­ton,
has already accepted an invita­tion
to be flight commander of the
tour and will arrive in Birmingham
Nov. 7, two days before the tour be­gins.
Ships and pilots in the fleet will
include National Guard and Maxwell
Field Army fliers who served in the
flooded area of Alabama last March.
As the tour has no commercial as­pect
and donated funds are limited,
towns receiving the tour stops will be
asked to provide accommodations for
the personnel, and gas and oil for the
ships. Stops will be made at approxi­mately
a score of towns while the oth­ers
will be circled.
Local arrangements are being
handled by the American Legion
Posts in each town as part of their
aviation program.
A huge banquet will end the tour
m Birmingham and invitations have
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Military Review to
Be Held in Honor
Mothers and Dads
Parade Will Begin At Regular
Hour Saturday Morning
Convention Report
Made to Kiwanians
Convention Reported to Be Best in
History
A report on the recent convention
of Alabama Kiwanians in Anniston
was made to the local club at the regu­lar
luncheon Monday. The Auburn
club was represented by President J.
C. Grimes, Captain B. C. Anderson,
P. 0. Davis, W. D. Salmon, Roger Al­len,
and J. C. Cannon. Each one made
an enthusiastic report. They declared
that it was the best meeting in the
history of the Alabama Kiwanis or­ganization.
President Grimes presid­ed
at the meeting. Music included
two solos by Sgt. George Moxham,
member of the club.
To entertain a group of Kiwan­ians
from the Birmingham club the
Auburn club voted to meet on Satur­day
of this week instead of Monday
of next.
Approximately one thousand and
ninety five R. O. T. C. students will
march in a mammoth parade of the
unit Saturday; this parade will be
one of the features of the Mothers'
and Dads' Day program and will show
the visitors the progress made by the
Auburn military department.
Major Kennedy states that all stu­dents
are expected ito wear the follow­ing
prescribed equipment: regulation
trousers, blouses, white shirts, black
belt, black ties, and some type of
plain black shoes. The commandant
added that there is no plausible reason
why all students cannot be in full
uniform as the special order and tailor
made uniforms have been received
from Pettibone Brothers; those who
have not gotten their uniforms can
do so before Saturday.
The parade, as on former occasions
will form in front of the Main build­ing
at eleven o'clock. The same
formation will be used as in preced­ing
parades. The Band will lead the
parade, then will come the Engineer
unit, and after that the Field Artil­lery
unit. Bringing up the rear will
be the "outlaws," or those men who
will not be in uniform. The coopera­tion
of the student body is desired,
in order that the parade will be a
success.
The parade will in no manner in­terfere
with the plans of the students
for the day, as it will disband before
noon, enabling the students to meet
visitors and parents.
TEACHERS TRAINED
HERE TEACH 45,000
Figures Revealed at Alabama State
Fair
Fifteen Seniors
Honored by Bids
From Tau Beta Pi
Every Engineering Department
Is Represented In
Pledges
TWO ELECTIONS YEARLY
Honor Frat. Recognized As
Leading Engineering
Fraternity
More than 45,000 high school stu­dent's
in Alabama are now being
taught by teachers trained at the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Instituet, and more
than 125,000 public and high school
students are under Auburn-trained
principals and supervisors, according
to figures revealed by an exhibit at
the Alabama State Fair which is in
progress in Montgomery.
These figures are presented in one
section of the Auburn exhibit. The
facts and figures presented reveal
that teachers are being trained at Au­burn
for specific duties. Subjects in
which teachers are given special train­ing
at Auburn are vocational agricul­ture,
home economics, physical educa­tion,
social science, English, industrial
arts, applied art, occupations, science,
mathematics, and school administra­tion.
At the 1929 commencement 115
young men and young ladies received
degrees in the various teachers-train­ing
subjects, according to Dr. Paul
Irvine of the School of Education at
Auburn. One hundred of these re­ceived
the degree of bachelor of
science and fifteen received the degree
of master of science. It is estimated
that more than one-fourth of all the
public and high school students of
Alabama are now under Auburn-train­ed
principals and superintendents.
Showalter Begins
Deaf-Blind Class
Meeting Today in Talladega Is First
of Series of Ten
Dr. B. R. Showalter, director of ex­tension
teaching for the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, organized a
class of teachers of the deaf at the
Alabama Institution for the Deaf and
Blind at Talladega, Wednesday.
The meeting Wednesday was one of
ten to be held in which the teachers,
under the leadership of Dr. Showalter,
will make a study of recent develop­ments
in teaching deaf students.
The Auburn extension teacher went
to Talladega upon the special request
of Dr. D. A. McNeill, superintendent
of the institution there. Dr. Sho­walter
has had practical experience in
education of deaf students having
taught two years at the Iowa school
for the deaf.
Fifteen seniors in the School ci En-g'neerirtge.
were notified today of their
election to Tau Beta Pi, national en­gineering
fraternity. The pledges,
their courses, and home towns are as
follows:
Malcolm Franklin, Mechanical En­gineering,
Birmingham; J. F. Mitch­ell,
Chemical Engineering, Jackson­ville;
D. 0. Baird, Electrical Engi­neering,
Phoenix; M.VH. Glover, Ar­chitectural
Engineering, Dothan; Wil­liam
Keister, Electrical Engineering,
Montgomery; O. F. White, Electrical
Engineering, Ashland; A. V. Blan-kenship,
Civil Engineering, Charlotte,
N. C; V. L. Taylor, Civil Engineer­ing,
Mobile; Haskin Williams, Me­chanical
Engineering, Birmingham;
Ed Palm; Arturo Nieto, Electrical
Engineering, Celayo, Mexico; F. E.
Copeland, Electrical Engineering, Au­burn;
A. V. Smith, Civil Engineering,
Birmingham; J. D. Atkins, Chemical
Engineering, Mobile; Sam Robinson,
Chemical Engineering, Birmingham.
Robinson was elected last spring, but
was unable to be initiated to the so­ciety
on account of sickness.
The purpose of the association is
"to mark in a fitting manner those
who have conferred honor upon their
Alma Mater by a high grade of
scholarship and under-graduates, or
by their attainments as alumni; and
to foster a spirit of liberal culture in
the Engineering schools of America."
Tau Beta Pi is recognized as the
leading engineering honor fraternity
in the United. States; there r ? more
than fifty1 chapters in the b( .* en­gineering
schools of the country. Al­pha
Chapter of Alabama was estab­lished
at Auburn in the spring of
1920.
The society holds two elections per
year, the first from the upper eighth
of the junior class during the second
semester, and the other from the up­per
fourth of the senior class during
the first semester.
Dr. Ross Will Attend
Meet in Washington
Convention of Agricultural Chemists
to Begin October 28
Dr. B. B. Ross, dean of the school
of science and professor of chemistry,
will leave here-, Friday for Washing­ton
to attend the annual convention of
the Association of Agricultural Chem­ists.
He will arrive in advance of the
opening of the convention, October
28-29, to attend a committee meeting
on the 26th.
The convention of chemists will be
followed by a convention of the As­sociation
of Feed Control Officials,
which Dr. Ross will attend, and of
which he is a former president.
Auburn Sends Seven
To P. T. A. Convention
Miss Dobbs Speaks Before Education­al
Association
Auburn is sending seven representa­tives
to the state convention of Parent
Teachers Association which will con­vene
in.Selma on October 23. Those
who are atending are Miss Zoe Dobbs,
Mrs. T. B. McDonald, supervisor of
schools in Lee County, Mrs. C. R. Hix-on,
Miss Louise P. Glanton, professor
of home economics at Auburn, Miss
Lula Palmer, in charge of the nursery
school, Mrs. John W. Scott, and Mrs.
John T. Kennedy.
Miss Dobbs will tell the convention
of an educational conference which
she attended in Switzerland last sum­mer.
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1929.
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Strengthened Spirit Needed
To Combat Adversity
Auburn has always been noted for her
spirit, a thing which has been handed down
to us through the ages from the men who
have gone before, and is the one, of many
traditions, which should be most carefully
guarded. This sort of a thing is something
which cannot be built up in a day or a
month or a year, but must bear thru the
ages with equal ease the favorable trade
winds of triumph and the adverse tornados
of defeat. However, it is quite possible to
tear down in a day that which has taken
years to establish.
During the early part of the twentieth
century Auburn was in her glory. She led
the South in football and her spirit was un­questionable.
In the last few years Auburn
has tasted the bitter sting of defeat, not
once, but many times, and her spirit has
held up admirably in spite of these adverse
conditions. Time after time during the past
few years the students have cheered them­selves
hoarse, while their team went down
to defeat. Yet in Birmingham Saturday it
seemed as if this wonderful spirit faltered
a step. The parade was the smallest and
the most uninteresting of the year. At the
game there seemed to be a lack of coordina­tion
between the cheer leaders and the stu­dent's.
The yells were ragged and given in
a half-hearted fashion much as if it made
ho difference to the majority of the crowd
whether Auburn won or lost. Very few
back of the twentieth row even bothered to
holler and the few that did seemed to be
looked upon as fanatics. A football player
of a nearby institution was heard to remark
that if his school only had the spirit of Au­burn
it could lick the world. We sincerely
belive that this remark was made before
the game Saturday.
The present time is the worst possible
time for this spirit to fail. With our foot­ball
team in a slump, it is up to the stu­dent
body to show the world just what the
expression "Auburn Spirit" means. It is up
to us to show every one that the Auburn
spirit is something that endures whether
the winds blow favorable or not, and that
adversity only gives it a chance to show its
real self. Now is the time for optimism;
pessimism has no place.
Auburn Grieved Over
Death of Student
One of the most tragic occurrences that
has ever taken place was the death of an
Auburn boy in an automobile accident just
beyond Opelika last Friday evening. Several
were also injured in this mishap when two
automobiles, one from a side road and one
on the highway, collided.
Very few serious accidents have occurred
in recent years where Auburn was so vitally
interested, and it is hard to realize that
one of the students will not be here or any­where
anymore. His death was so sudden
we cannot conceive of his not being in our
midst.
Auburn loses a good man who had two
years to complete at this school, one who
was denied the chance to prepare himself
for the battle to come afterwards, who was
not permitted to show the world his ability
in solving her problems. His many friends
on this campus are grived over his death.
Motor accidents seem unavoidable these
days, but they can often be prevented. This
is one that could have probably been pre­vented
had the needed precautions been ob­served.
It behooves each of us when driv­ing
an automobile to be most considerate of
pedestrians and other cars, as a collision
with either will usually result in injury or
death.
We hope that the death of this student,
since it had to happen, will drive home some
lesson that in the future will help us gain a
new vision of the need of caution and the
fact that to kill someone with a car is in­deed
a .serious matter. It will doubtless
cause some irresponsible drivers be more
careful in the future.
Freshmen Lack Interest
In Student Activities
The lack of interest on the part of the
freshmen to take part in activities is some­what
distressing. It shows a nonchalance
for the welfare of,the student organiza­tions.
In the past freshmen have been a strong
factor in the life of any organization. This
was partly due to the fact that many at­tended
them to get away from the monotony
which their early college days brought up­on
them, and because they found some­thing
in which they were interested. When
a boy first comes to Auburn, it is rather
hard for him to orient himself, and he
naturally starts attending the clubs and
societies seeking an outlet. Then some men
attend a club stressing a subject that is very
inducing to new men.
This year finds a different situation on
the campus. The freshmen do not care to
do outside work, and many of the clubs
and societies are about to go down. Their
backs are to the wall; they are fighting
hard, but they have not a chance to survive
the 'go-by' given them by the new men.
Something needs to be done when the
situation is thus. It is necessary that most
of the organizations continue,, and their
survival depends to no little extent on the
help and support accorded by the freshmen.
Most will live, but will become inferior to
what they are now.
We feel that the work being done is far
too important to even think of taking a
chance on their being forced out of exist­ence.
If the rats but knew of the good to
be derived from attending and becoming
an active member in some organization,
they would be glad to get into the midst of
the extra curricula activities.
It is the duty of the upperclassmen to in­form
the freshmen of the benefits to be ob­tained,
and then to see that they begin to
do something. If they will do this, a strong­er
movement for worthwhile activities will
be readily noticed. Auburn needs men who
have the ability and willingness to push
things, and this is an opportunity to develop
those qualities among the members of the
freshman class.
Letters to the Editor
Editor, The Plainsman—.
Well, everyone seems to have forgotten
Sunday movies and that game that our
team won (the first one of the season at
that) because of the painting on the side­walks.
What a cowardly thing that was for
one to do. I am as Dr. Knapp said, "I do
not want to know the person who did it."
Some people say that it was men of the
team who did it, others freshman, town
folk, etc. Whoever did it was not wishing
good to the town and Institute. It set a bad
example for freshmen and students who
have never been here before. I wonder if
the one who did it had read the back of his
Y. M. C. A. card and had signed his name
beneath it. If one is not going to try to fol­low
these objectives he disgraces his name
to place it on one of these pledge cards.
There are many who do not realize the
responsibility they take to themselves when
they sign this card.
I have noticed many who thing the Y. M.
C. A. is a fine place because of the ping
pong tables or reading room, tennis court,
etc., and it is. But there is something better
than that to it. It is Brotherhood and
Cristian Fellowship. I have seen so many
who did not know it. The sad part is that
some do not want to know it; there are
many who do not think or who forget. A
few days ago I heard a fellow express the
desire to disfigure the hair of another
member of the "Y," and I have heard
threats from one of the most well known
upperclassman in school, that must have
been said while he was not thinking. It is
the duty of the members who understand
the real purpose of the "Y," to let the
others know that it is a place to make
friends and that to be a member means to
join hands with all the other students and
back our schoefl in the right direction,
morally.
While I was standing in line this fall,
at the opening of school, and waiting to
register, I saw a small fellow running
around the campus with a "Y. M. C. A.
Ask Me" badge on his arm. When I saw
him, joy arose in my heart for I knew
that he was doing the full duty of a faith­ful
member. How I wished that I could
do as much for my friends about me as he
was doing then. If the one who has that
grudge against the coach and team, were to
have that real "Y" spirit stirred up in him,
we could feel safe that he would never do
a disgraceful thing like that again. That
is what he needs. I am trying to push
forward this object of the "Y" for the good
of all who are here.
Yours Truly, J. B. GWIN
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
May I use this oc­casion
to do what is
a belated justice? The
Social Committee, un­der
the new organiza­tion,
worked very dili­gently
on the .opening
dances. We had about
one hundred per cent
cooperation from the
v a r i o u s fraternity
groups and the report which reached me
led me to believe that we had about as fine
and clean and fully enjoyable a season of
dancing as has ever been put on at this in­stitution.
I congratulate and thank the
Social Committee, the College Social Direc­tor
and the Committee from each of the
severail fraternities which cooperated so>
nicely on this occasion.
* * * * *
After our crushing defeat of last Satur­day,
I am frank to say I do not feel in much
of a mood to talk about football. In the
old-fashioned affidavits or depositions in
law there was a custom of closing the af­fidavit
or deposition with these words "and
furthur deponent saith not," meaning
thereby to close the deposition. I feel just
about like that. Luck was against us; -every
break of the game was against us; the
boys were off their feet and did not play up
to what they had played in the last two
games before that. We met a whale of a
good team with the best team work we have
seen this year and there you are. All I can
say is that I am doing a whale of a lot of
thinking these days.
* * * * *
One of the most distressing accidents
which has occurred since I have been in
college was the accident on Friday night
which resulted in the death of W. T. Shep-ard
and the serious injury of W. B.
Spivey. Strange as it may seem, the father
of one of the young women who was rather
seriously injured was also an old Auburn
man. I saw them at the hospital on Sun­day.
There is great danger in driving on a
public highway and particularly in driving
a dusty highway. I have had cars go by me
and make the dust so thick that I had to
stop and wait until the atmosphere could
clear enough so that one might drive on. I
am quite certain that I have driven by other
people and raised that kind of a dust. I can
understand exactly how this accident could
occur but it is a pity that such a thing had
to be. Not only do we feel' very deeply
for the mother of this young man who was
so suddenly taken but I think out of this
accident we ought all of us take the lesson
of greater caution and consideration. Pos­sibly
Shepard's life will not have gone in
vain if this event makes the rest of us
more thoughtful and considerate.
* * * * *
On Saturday we are to have "Mother and
Dads' Day." I see that the rest of the col­lege
is bound and determined to call it
"Mothers' and Fathers' Day." Well, I like
that all right but my boys and girls have al­ways
called me "Dad" and I think with a
very great deal of affection in calling me so.
Mothers are so much finer than we fathers
that they deserve the utmost of dignity in
what we call them but, personally, I like
the companship of being called "Dad," and
so when I call it "Mother and Dads' Day"
I merely mean to couple Mother and Dad
together as the family and I am thinking
particularly of my own children and how
they have called me "Dad" all these years
so affecionately. It will be open house in
Auburn that day. There will be lots of
folks here to see us. We must put everything
in fine order, have every street and every
corner and every house cleaned up in fine
shape. We must have the welcome signs out
and make them so happy_over the day's visit
that they will go away thinking well of old
Auburn. The Student Cabinet is going to act
for the student body and we are all going to
help. Let's make it a great day.
"Little Things"
By Tom Bigbee
It is commendable to keep bright and
cheerful when everything around you seems
to be going wrong; yet what a hard feat
that is to accomplish. Still the man who
merits the friendliest pat on the shoulder is
he who can do this very thing—it is by
no means impossible. "Get the sun in your
face and the shadows fall behind you."
They tell us that it is always darkest
just before the dawn. Yet how distant the
dawn seems in certain instances! Can we, as
Auburn Students, help to bring a brighter
day for football "at this institution? We
can; and it is our rightful duty to partici­pate
in the task whole heartedly.
We, as upperclassmen, are being severely
reprimanded for the lack of interest and
support given to mass meetings and cheer­ing
in the stands at games. This criticism
is not out of place; it should stir within
every student above rodent ranks a desire
to pull Auburn back to former heights—in
expression of the famed Auburn Spirit.
% AUBURN FOOTPRINTS ¥
The Commodores must have had training in seamanship—they surely were able
to take advantage of the gridiron waves caused by the erratic playing of the
Auburn team.
• • • • * • • •
We came back wearing glasses; we saw too many good looking girls in the
Magic City.
* * * * * * * *
Vandy beat us in. football arid tried mighty hard to do it in the band parade,
taking nearly all the time between halves, but they will have to wait until they
are lucky to do a thing like that.
* * * * * * * *
Some of the fraternities could put on comedies, but not musical, without
even trying.
* * * * • • • • •
The students didn't cheer any too well Saturday. Maybe they felt that touch­downs
didn't give them a chance.
* * * * * * * *
There was plenty of corn in review but very little on the ear.
. * * * * * * * *
We are beginning to understand why there are such deep gutters in Birming­ham.
Drunks are able to hide from the police and, therefore, sleep peacefully.
* * * * * * * *
Tommy Baggette went around the Race Track so much he found himself leaning
to the right when he stopped.
* * * * * * * *
The variables on the team showed us Saturday that they were still of that
variety. They are still-just variables.
* * » » * • * •
Possibly they should be given a dictionary. They could at least look up the
meaning of the word constant.
* * * * * * * *
TIRED, HUH?
With tired feet many we meet
As we struggle around the Track;
Faces here and faces there
All belong to the Auburn pack.
We see them going along
With nothing at all to do;
We wonder where they go
We wonder why they're blue,
But then we seem-to sense
We haven't won in a year or two.
Feeling ill we linger still
Upon the rushing Track,
Waiting in vain for the train
That's going to carry us back.
We have no life; our hope is gone;
We want to leave it all
So with aching heart we depart,
Lest for illness we should fall,
For the village whence we came
For the College that bears our fame.
* * * * • • • »
It seems that the biggest joke of the season is Peteet and his misery producers.
We haven't heard them much-descretion has the best of valor.
* * * * * * * *
The policemen of Birmingham can rightfully be called "coppers"—they don't
amount to much.
* * * * * * * *
The painting trade has a new champion. Possibly he would be willing to
divulge his name. It would be more fun anyway.
* * • * • * • •
Professor Dunstan has a calculating eye and mind, too, as was demonstrated
when he told his class about how he was tempted to shave a negro going down the
Montgomery road last week. It's a sporting proposition, isn't it, prof? Human
faith' is powerfully strong, isn't it?
* WITH OTHER COLLEGES *
MORE STATISTICS
Quenn Nicotina hath more seducive
charms for the Sophomore class than anj
other class at Furman, according to statis­tics
gathered by the Furman medico.
These statistics show that 33 per cent of
the Freshmen use the yellow weed, while
47 per cent of the Sophomores, 40 per cent
of the Juniors and 35 per cent of the Seniors
either chew, smoke, or roll their own. Only
one per cent admit that they chew, but
they can't account what the other forty-five
or fifty boys use to stain up the radiators,
unless they use licorice.
* * * * *
APES
Scholastic grades, as applied in the educa­tional
system of America today, were de­clared
to be merely a substitute for the
dunce cap and the whip by Dr. Fredrick
Rand Rogers, New York City, in addressing
5,000 Utah educators.
Colleges, he said, "worshipped marks,"
but he added that an A. B. degree merely
indicated that the student had agreed with
his professors during his four years at
school. Grades made a battle ground of the
class room, he said, and are a "disgrace to
scientific education and must be done away
with."
The highest grades as a general rule,
said Dr. Rogers, go to the student who is the
best "ape," to the one who can best imitate
his teacher. Frankly, we have to admit that
Dr. Rogers is quite right, to a large extent.
* * * * *
CRIME
Roanoke College has set to Work to try
to enforce a new set of Freshman rules.
One of these rules applies to hazing. It
seems that hazing is so detrimental to the
poor little freshmen that the authorities
state:
"The striking, laying hands on, treating
with violence, or offering bodily harm to
any student, with the intent to injure or
punish him, or other treatment of tyranni­cal,
abuse, shameful, insulting or intimidat­ing
nature, shall be prohibited." Now, will
someone kindly lead us in a word of prayer;
asking the deliverance of our freshmen from
the bondage of sin and slavery?
* * * * *
CLASS OR NOT?
One of the latest "gasps" in college re­form
is optional class attendance. Over a
dozen universities and colleges have granted
this privilege to their students during the
past winter, but with this new freedom has
come additional worry. The professors in
the various institutions have tightened down
on their requirements and have gone to the
extreme of giving an extra exam to seniors
who have over one cut. And now, the latest
for us, is this announcement: "If you are
absent from class it will be immediately
reported to the Registrar, your Dean, and
your mother." Are we reverting back to
the three-corner panties?
* * * * *
PERMIT TO PADDLE
At the University of Oregon, those
Sophomores, who desire to spoil the lowly
frosh's complexion, with a board, must first
show the prospect a license from the Dean's
office.
* * * * *
MORE EXAMS
At Brenau College recently, the fresh­men
were given an exam on the Brenau
Handbook by the Sophomore Commission.
All questions partained to Student Govern­ment
regulations, with the exception of the
last, which was given to test the loyalty
of the Freshmen to the high and mighty
Sophomores. One hour was allowed to com­plete
and hand in the exam to each frosh.
From reports, very few freshmen failed to
pass the exam and although it hurt the
Sophs to do it, quite a few received credit
for perfect papers. And a vast number of
our rats don't even know Alma Mater.
* * * * *
POETRY
He grabbed the bat,
He swatted the ball,
The fielders gazed in wonder
That's all—Homer.
WELL, I'D SAY THIS
*By <Aaron tBilfoluheel
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions express­ed
in this column are not necessarily the
editorial opinions of this paper. It is a
column of personal comment, and is not to
be read as an expression of our editorial
policy.
* * * * *
ALONG with three other hopefuls we
tumbled out of bed at four o'clock
Saturday morning to catch a promis­ed
ride to Birmingham. The promised trans­portation
did not materialize, so we took
the special train for the city and enjoyed
a nice sociable little Black Jack game right
into 'the L & N station. I might add that
this was the most enjoyable portion of the
trip.
Out to the game in the afternoon, and
such a game. Wow! My seat was on the
fifty-yard line and fifty rows up. A splendid
seat. The stadium in Birmingham is beauti­ful
and well equipped. I enjoyed Birming­ham's
sky-line and brownish mountains for
about two hours.
* * * * *
IT OCCURS to me that there is no person
in the world so capable of making an
utters ass of himself as an alumnus of a
college which is losing its football games.
This was proved to me beyond any sort of
doubt Saturday. I do not know who he was
and have no desire to know, but if anyone
recognizes him by my description, it would
be appreciated it you would please send him
this. If you'll pardon the language, a big
fat slob of an alumnus was sitting just be­hind
and above me. His teeth resembled the
white keys of a piano, keys turned yellow
for lack of care, with a mouth sufficiently
large to accomodate them. His ears were
too far apart, the space in between being
occupied by something resembling a scrap­ed
pig. There must have been more of him
than that, but I looked no farther. He had
vocal cords in porportion to his teeth
and a pair of lungs that would do credit to
all the pipe organs in the world combined.
He is an ex-football player for Auburn, I
will wager my soul against a yo-yo that
the gentlemen's salary is not two hundred
dollars per month. Yet, this proceeded to sit
there in the midst of the Auburn section and
bellow out the most insulting and discredit­ing
remarks that I have ever heard. He
knew exactly what the trouble with Auburn
is. He pointed out all our errors, shortcom­ings
to the world at large from his little
seat just behind me. For an hour I sat there
staring at the scenery and bemoaning the
fact that I was only one small person and
praying for the Lord to suddenly give me
Samson's brawn to throw this long eared
animal far beyond the horizon. By the end
of the first half he was finally hissed off
stage hy other alumni and students, who
had some sense of decency and loyalty to
Auburn.
* * * * *
FOR YEARS the much spoken of Au­burn
Spirit has been rather a myth
to me and something to be smiled at.
For two years after entering Auburn the
professed Spirit was a joke with me. I have
changed. It is one of the very few things in
my life now that I cannot laugh hilariously
about. It is no threadbare legend about
the Auburn Spirit. It is as real as you and
I—an actuality. Every school cannot plunge
into such a prolonged orgy of luckless foot­ball
as has Auburn and still retain such
a staunchly and pitifully loyal student body,
a student body that will go almost in mass
to the games without a surplus of money
and in any fashion possible to get them
there. Every school does not have a student
body that will yell themselves hoarse, with
defeat inevitably clutching its throat.
Not that it is a matter of any special
interest that the band's playing the Alma
Mater should cause a lump to rise in my
throat, but that the spirit of Auburn is no
trifling unreality. It is nothing to be bat­tered
about forever without some recogni­tion.
Something must happen, and soon,
which will reward all this loyalty. And we
believe that it will. It must. This brings me
the most earnest appeal that I have ever
made, almost the first that I have made.
* * * * *
ATHLETICS at Auburn must become
more successful. We all know that,
but it cannot be done by disconcerted
squalling by the alumni or the students. The
thing must be directed by someone at the
head of things and we must simply trust
in that one and give all our sympathy and
efforts to making a success of whatever his
judgement decides. In other words, sit
steady in the boat and wait patiently for
those who can, to do whatever they can.
This is rather a critical time and we must
not become other cooks, but you know how
too many cooks might make rotten broth.
FROM "SULLEN MOODS"
Love, do not count your labour lost
Though I turn sullen, grim, retired
Even at your side; my thought is crossed
With fancies by old longings fired.
—Robert Graves.
/
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
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DICK JONES, Editor A. C. TAYLOR, Associate Editor
Elmer G. Salter, Contributor; Rhodes Wasson, Harry Barnes, Charles Trice, Tad McCallum, Assistants •
TIGERS PREPARE FOR ANNUAL
TIL T WITH HO WARD SA TURD A Y
By Dick Jones
The Auburn Tigers are still going
about their work on Drake Field with
the same enthusiasm that has been
so evident all season. And with the
Vanderbilt game a thing of the past,
the Plainsmen are working hard to
conquer the Howard College Bull­dogs
on the Auburn campus next Sat­urday,
which is Mothers' and Dads'
Day in the "Village of the Plains."
Despite the fact that they have
suffered consecutive defeats at the
hands of Clemson, Florida and Van­derbilt,
the Bohler squad is by no
means discouraged, but mean to face
their remaining battles with renew­ed
vigor to end the season in a blaze
of glory. The Auburn Tigers licked
their first opponent this season, the
Birmingham-Southern Panthers, and
and are now concentrating all their
efforts on winning their second game
of the year. The wearers of the
Orange and Blue are optimistic over
their coming battle with Howard, aft­er
licking them 12 to 6 yast year,
and are going about their work this
week in a workmanlike manner, de­termined
to avenge in some respects
what they have suffered so far this
season. However, the Tigers are con­vinced
that Howard College will be
mighty hard to beat after they were
licked by Auburn last year, which
was the only grid game won by A. P.
I. that season, and are not deceived
over the fact that Auburn has never
gone down to defeat at the hand of
these Magic City Bulldogs.
It would not be at all surprising to
see the line remain intact for the
Howard game as the fore wall men
have worked together in good form
this season. "Big Ben" Newton was
the only regular lineman who failed
to take part in the Vandy game last
Saturday, but will be in good enough
shape to hold down his tackle berth
this Saturday. Newton has been
hampered with a strained collar bone
in his left shoulder and every time
he strains it, in lifting up his left
arm, the injured place is irritated.
John Wilson, who saw service in sev­eral
of the games last year, did a
fine job of handling Newton's posi­tion
in the Vanderbilt tilt, so if New­ton
is not able to play the whole
{lame this comj'ngj Saturday, then
Wilson will be "ready and rearing"
to take his place. Dunnam Harkins,
the Tigers hustling center, who was
forced out of the game last Satur­day
on account of the referee think­ing
he was playing to rough, will be
back at his post and playing harder
than ever. The other linemen that
are likely to open against Howard
will be those who have opened most
of the Tigers games this season.
Capt. Long and McRae at the ends,
Taylor and Newton at th« tackles,
and Bush and G. Long will probably
bear the brunt at guards. The back-field
is likely to see a bit of chang­ing
about, but Crawford at half and
Jones at quarter are likely to be
two of the starters.
Engineers and Second
Battalion Fight to 0-0
Tie in Intramural Game
Engineers and the Second Batta­lion
ended up in a nothing to noth­ing
tie. This game put the Intra
Mural team in a deadlock. The first
and second Battalions had battled to
a 6-6 tie, then the Third Battalion
and the Engineers battled on even
ground to end with the same score.
This week the First and Third Bat­talion
fought a hectic battle to have
it end in nothing but the same fash­ion,
that is 6-6. This game that was
played 0-0 puts the league in a dead­lock
that seems unlikely to be broken.
The game between the Second Bat­talion
and The Engineers was an un­interesting
event. The scoring indi­cated
the equality of the teams. The
entire game was played with the ball
on the middle stripe most of the
time. Both teams threatened once but
the power to push the ball over in
the counting moments was lacking to
both teams.
There were few fumbles on eith­er
side and the only spectacular
playing was done by Gholston for
the Second Battalion and Cook for
the Engineers. Both these men got
away several times but were stopped
before they were able to bring vic-
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JOHN WILSON
John Wilson, who broke into var-ity
football last year, is again dis­playing
his wares on Southern grid­irons
from the tackle position. Sat-lurday,
against Vanderbilt, Wilson
showed Auburn followers that he is
a linesman who is going to be heard
from in the remaining games sched-
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uled. John was in nearly every play
and was the outstanding performer
of the second half. Wilson is a mem­ber
of the Senior class of Education,
and came to Auburn from Tuscaloosa.
He is a member of the Sigma Phi
Sigma fraternity, and is being coun­ted
on to strengthen the Auburn line
in the future.
GtllDIRON QUINTESSENCE
= By PERCY VAL = = = = =
In probability the most important conference game ayed Saturday, the
Tennessee Vols displayed enough form to gain a triumph over the hard fight­ing
Crimson Tide of Alabama. The touchdown twins, Hackman and Mc-
Ever, were again the star actors of the performance, and it was due large­ly
to their efforts that Gene McEvermade the deciding touchdown in the
second quarter. These halfbacks have not been over rated and with the
assistance of Dodd,the most colorful quarterback in the South, are going to
make the conference race hot indeed. McEver has now jumped into second
place in the race for scoring honors in the United States being led now by
Marsters of Dartsmouth. The inability of Bama to score was due largely
to "the fact that her backfield failed to function with the unity and precis­ion
for which the Tide is famous.
Georgia Tech displayed their old
form Saturday in defeating the much
touted Gators from Gainesville. Tech
got off to a flying start by scoring a
touchdown before the game was seven
minutes old, and with the exception of
the third quarter never gave Crabtree
and Company even a chance to get
started. The good arms of Dunlap
and Mizell had much to do with Tech's
19-7 victory as all three of the touch­downs
were the result of passes. The
combination of Mizell and Thomason
functioned as of old, and Tech was
a much improved team over the one
that faced North Carolina. Florida's
offense.gave several promises of func­tioning,
and although Tech's line
weakened toward the latter part of the
game, the Gator's efforts were in vain.
* * * * *
The Georgia Sophomores seem to
improve with age and experience, and
furnished probably the biggest upset
of the.day, when they defeated the
strong North Carolina eleven by the
score of 19-12. Although Georgia
trailed behind North Carolina until
the last quarter, they would not admit
defeat, and with the dash and vigor
that was displayed against Yale, came
from behind to win. The Bulldogs
won by following the ball, by deter­mination
and the ability to complete
passes. Although the Bulldogs made
a bad beginning by losing to Ogle­thorpe,
they are considered along with
Tennessee as the strongest teams in
the conference, and if they success­fully
hurdle their difficult schedule,
their ending will be a happy one in­deed.
* * * * *
The L. S. U. Tigers displayed much
form by defeating Miss A. & M. 31-6,
and are yet undefeated. However,
they have failed to meet stiff opposi­tion,
but are considered to have a
good team. Tulane is another team
that is still running rough shod over
minor teams, getting their first test
Saturday against Georgia Tech. Tu­lane
defeated Southwest Louisiana last
Saturday piling up a score of 60-0,
and is yet a dark horse in the race.
* * * * *
Clemson is another conference dark
horse who has yet to face the leaders,
but they have a well-balanced team,
and with a passing combination con­sisting
of Jones and Woffard receiv­ing,
and McMillan passing they are
going to be hard to stop.
* * * * *
This week it is again hard to pick
the winners as many important con­ference
games are to be played.
Georgia will have her hands full with
Florida, but with her Sophomore back-field
improving, they should defeat
the Gators. In New Orleans, Tech is
going to have a job mastering Tulane
as they have several men on the in­jured
list, notably Maree and Mizell.
However, Tech should win if her line
can withstand the drives of Arm­strong
and Banker. Bama should win
easily from Sewanee in Birmingham,
(Continued on page 4)
First Time Trials for
Cross Country Held
First time trials for Auburns
cross country team were held last
week. Coach Hutsell seemed to be
well pleased with the showing made
by the harriers. Captain Teague who
led the three mile jaunt, McLendon,
Pitts, and Shanks are all members
of last years squiad, while Planty
Roberts, and Huff were members of
last years fresh team. Newcomers
to the team are Gray, Davis, Dollins,
Fox, and O'Bourke.
The men were clocked in the fol­lowing
order:
Teague (Capt.), 16:59; Plant,
17:07; Roberts, 17:14; ^McLendon,
17:17; Pitts, 17:32; Huff, 17:35;
Shanks, 18:11; Gray, 18:16; Davis,
18:48; Dollins, 19:40; Fox, 19:41;
O'Bourke, 21:55.
Tigers Defeated by
Strong Vanderbilt
Gridders Saturday
By Dick Jones
Coach George M. Bohler and his
Auburn Tigers found the Vanderbilt
Commodores the toughest foes to han­dle
that they have run up against
this season, in Birmingham last Sat­urday,
but haven't shown the least
sign of discouragement in going down
to defeat by the largest score they
have been licked by this year.
Even though the Commodores
scored on the Tigers in the first few
minutes of the game, the Plainsmen
failed to show signs of weakening.
"Mouse" Leonard accounted for
Vandy's first score with a 44-yard
run and the Tigers set in to watch
this fellow for the rest of the game.
But, with as many star backs as Mc-
Gugin brought to the Magic City,
the. Plainsmen were unable to hold
them by stopping this one flashy
back.'
The old-time Auburn fighting spirit
was seen in this game to the last
minute. One of the most notable
things showing it was when the Tig­ers
held the Commodores on the one
yard line for downs. Anyone who
has ever seen Auburn hold as strong
a team as Vanderbilt is this year,
on the one yard line, should have a
good imagination of how the Auburn
followers at this game threw up their
hats and cheered. As a matter of
fact, Vanderbilt made all of their
scores by long gains, rather than be­ing
bucked over yard by yard.
The fact that Auburn made 11
first downs proves the powerful
driving power the Tigers put up.
Vanderbilt only made 22 first downs
to score their 42* points.
Vanderbilt (£1) — Schwartz and
J. Scheffer, ends; Lokey and More-head,
tackles; V. Wilson and Brown
(c), guards; Sharp, center; Leonard,
quarterback; McGaughey and Thom­as,
halfbacks; parker, fullback.
Auburn (2 — McRee and H. Long,
(c), ends; Bush and Taylor, tackles;
G. Long and Schlich, guards; Har­kins,
center; Jones, quarterback;
Crawford and Spence, halfbacks;
Chappelle, fullback.
Scoring — Touchdowns, Leonard,
Parker, Schwartz, C. Scheffer, Mc­Gaughey,
Mcllwaine; safety, Schwartz
(against Vanderbilt); points after
touchdown, Leonard (lateral pass);
Parker 2 (placement kicks); Aber-nathy
2 (placement kicks).
Score by periods:
Vanderbilt 6 21 0 14—41
Auburn 0 0 0 2—2
Substitutes—For Vanderbilt: War­wick,
Shanklin, C. Scheffer, Gibson,
Abernathy, McGuging, Thurman,
McNamara, Askew, Rosenblatt, War­ner,
Kirwan, Herbert, Armstrong,
Hughes. For Auburn: Tamplin, Hold-croft,
Yarbrough, Snider, Young,
Wilson, Granger, Davidson, Egge,
Hatfield, Wible, Andrews, Jordan.
Officials—Referee, Flowers (Geor­gia
Tech); umpire, Perry (Sewanee);
field judge, Wells (Michigan); head
linesman, Moriarty (St. Mary's).
STUMPY GRANGER
Here is pictured William Granger,
familiarly known as Stumpy, another
Senior who is playing his last year
on the Auburn team, and is fighting
hard at the fullback position. Grang­er
is known for his defensive ability,
and has proved that he is a hard
tackier in the Vanderbilt game, the
Georgia game of last year and on
many other occasions. Besides being
a luminery on the gridiron, Stumpy
is quite a track artist, participating
in the dashes and is one of Coach
Hutsell's main stays. "Wee Willie"
hails from Bessemer, where he made
quite a record as a high school per­former,
and entered Auburn with
the class of 30. He is registered in
the course of Education, member of
the Sigma Phi Sigma social fraterni­ty
and several honorary fraternities.
Second Battalion
Defeats Third to
Break Deadlock
By R. T. Wasson
In a game that was exactly as its
predecessors had been, the Second
Battalion defeated the Third by a 7-0
score. The only difference between
this game and the rest was that
there was a team that came out
victorious, but oh what a difference.
The game was an evenly contested
affair and there was no especially,
spectacular playing. It seems, despite
the score, that the Third Battalion,
slightly outplayed the Second. Both
teams had an abundance of latent
strength and they summoned it to
the surface when necessary. It
seemed that they were attempting
to keep all of the teams in a clinch.
(Continued on page 4)
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By Adrian Taylor
Friday afternoon the soldiers of
Benning wil play two games with the
reserve football teams from Auburn,
both games being played on the Ft.
Benning field. At 1:30 p. m., the re­serve
team from the Freshman squad
will play, and are expected to give
the soldiers unit a battle. Besides
the game the Rats will also meet the
strong Lanier High school team in
Montgomery, this game being play­ed
on November 33.
After the Freshman game, the
Blue Shirts from the Varsity squad
will engage the soldiers, being led
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ENGINEERS AND SECOND
BATTALION FIGHT TO 0-0
TIE IN INTRAMURAL GAME
(Continued from page 3)
tory to their team.
Johnson, in the line, played a good
game for the Engineers in the line
and broke through on several occa­sions
to throw the Second for a loss.
Miller and Simms also played good
gamel for the Engineers and made
several good tackles in open field
where they counted. Patterson, in the
back, for the second, gained a good
deal of ground but, like Gholston and
Cook was unable to come through in
the critical time.
It is hoped that, sooner or later
some team in the League will win
a game so the League will come out
of the deadlock that has had grip on
the League since the first game. In
the last half of this game both teams
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Angell Condemns
Week-End Trips
By Yale Students
New Haven, Conn.—(IP)—One of
the most sacred of Yale traditions—
the custom of making week-end jour-nies
from this campus to those of
the various New England and New
York women's colleges, is threatened
with extinction.
In his opening address to the stu­dents
of the University, President
James Rowland Angell heartily con­demned
the practice," and informed
his surprised audience that the Uni­versity
authorities might be forced to
curb such activities by requiring one
or two registrations every Sunday by
Yale undergraduates.
"The generation to which you
young men belong is notoriously rest­less,"
said the Yale president, "and
does not feel that it is really enjoy­ing
itself unless it is going some­where
at top speed, the destination
often a matter of relatively small con­sequence.
It will be only two or three
years before the airplane will be tak­ing
our week-enders to points at
present impossibly remote. Palm
Beach is quite likely to'be a rival
with New York for undergraduate pa­tronage.
"The men who systematically
withdraw from New Haven each week
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made desperate attempts to score by
the aerial method and several passes
were completed but as on former oc­casions
they lacked the drive or the
breaks that mean victory.
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The Vanderbilt backers showed ex­cellent
spirit during the entire game
and the few supporters that they had
present were certainly loya#l to their
team to the last man. A spiri^ of
good will existed between the Vander­bilt
backers and those from Auburn
during the entire period of conflict.
The band from Vanderbilt made an
excellent showing during the half and
formed with a great deal of dubious­ness
from the spectators, a great A.
and V. There was a female noted in
the bunch. It seems that some of the
other Auburn opponents might try
this as it drew the undivided atten­tion
of all the Auburn students.
It is rather doubtful if the crowd
at this game was as large as that
at the night games in Montgomery.
This might have been thought because
Of the size of the stadium at Birming­ham.
Despite this fact there was not
as good crowd as should be expected
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The fans were kept interested dur­ing
the spells of quietude during the
game by the announcing of football
results from other scenes of conflict.
The games that seemed to draw more
interest than the rest were: Alabama
and Tennessee, Georgia and North
Carolina, and Georgia Tech and Flori-
,da. There were several upsets in the
outcomes of these games and the
Southern Conference is still in a state
of chaos as to who is going to come
out undefeated.
(Continued from page 1)
been extended to Senator Hiram Bing­ham,
president of the National Aero­nautic
Association; Maj. Clarence
Young, assistant secretary of com­merce
in charge of aeronatutics; Gov.
Graves and members of Alabama's
congressional delegation. Headquar­ters
of the tour are established in
the Chamber of Commerce, Birming­ham.
SECOND BATTALION
DEFEATS THIRD TO
BREAK DEADLOCK
Young and Hatfield, as usual, were
the outstanding stars for Auburn.
Both got away for several pretty
runs and showed up on defense as
well" as on offense in a creditable
manner.
There was a little deviation irom
the form of' the Vanderbilt second
team than that of the first. The first
team was put in just in time to keep
Auburn from scoring despite this
factr The second team showed great
form on carrying the ball but they
could not hold Auburn in check.
Auburn should have had two
touchdowns but luck was against
them in the critical moments and by
some means lost the ball when they
threatened the most. Auburn out­played
the Vanderbilt aggregation at
times and showed the same fight that
they displayed in the latter moments
of the Clemsoh game.
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The Auburn band had to hasten
their maneuvers during the half as
the Vanderbilt band consumed most
of the time. Despite this fact there
was little doubt but that Auburn has
the better band of the two. They
were better drilled and the music was
exceptionally good.
The parade held by the Vander­bilt
supporters was rather weak but
showed that there were a great
many students that were behind their
team to the last. There was practi­cally
nothing to the parade but the
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although Sewanee has a good team and
always puts up quite a fight against
Alabama. South Carolina may upset
Clemson, but we believe the Tigers
will defeat the Gamecocks.
* * * * *
We predict the following scores:
Auburn 19—Howard 6.
Alabama 13—Sewanee 0.
Clemson 26—S. Carolina 12
Georgia 13—Florida 7.
Ga. Tech 18—Tulane 13.
Tennesse 28—W. & L. 6.
North Carolina 13—V. P. I. 0.
V. M. I. 7—Maryland 0.
L. S. V. 45—La. Poly 0.
Vanderbilt 48—Maryville 0.
end are not only depriving them­selves
of the opportunity to make
valuable friendships on the campus,
but they are subjecting themselves to
fatigue and excitement which bring
them back jaded and unfit to do their
college work on Monday."
President Henry N. MacCracken,
of Vassar College, whither many a
Yale man goes week-endly, listened
to President Angell's statement, and
quothe:
"I cannot conceive of such trips
being as harmful as they are depicted
by Dr. Angell."
Vassar allows its women one week­end
off each month.
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After playing a close game for the
period of three quarters, the Third
Battalion made a slip that cost them
the game. In the last few minutes of
the last quarter, a bad pass from
center, on punting formation was
missed by Steinberg and the Second
Battalion recovered the ball, with
but twenty yards to go for a touch­down.
A first down was made on a
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the ball over. The try for the extra
point was successful and this left the
game 7-0 for the Second Battalion.
The Second made the game slow aft­er
this as they did not desire a repi-tition
of the preceding games and
the game ended with them still on
the winning end of the score.
Jones, who had formerly been
playing tackle for the Third, was
shifted to end and there he played
as good a game as he had been play­ing
at the tackle position. He stop­ped
plays around his end and repeat­edly
broke through to throw the
Second Battalion backs for losses.
Moore also showed up well for the
Third Battalion. The star for the
Second was Gholson.
During the entire game both teams
fumbled repeatedly and were unable
to .come through when it counted.
This , game was better than those
preceding it, as several times passes
were intercepted or men broke
through the line for considerable
gains. This game was especially im­portant
because of the fact that it
broke up the deadlock that has held
the Intra Mural games in a spell.
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