1930-04-19 The Plainsman

              Congratulation
HONOR MEN THE PLAINSMAN
T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT
Congratulation
HONOR MEN
VOLUME LIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1930 NUMBER 54
OMICRON DELTA KAPPA PLEDGES TEN OUTSTANDING JUNIORS * * * * * * * * * * * * *
R. L Lovvorn Is Presented Loving Cup Best All Around Ag Junior
Award Is W^^^MW^SS&
At Ag Banquet
On Friday Night
A n n u a l C e l e b r a t i o n H e l d At
B a p t i s t C h u r c h ; D a n c e At
G y m F o l l o ws
Recognized as the best all-around
junior in agriculture, Roy L. Lov­vorn
was presented the silver cup
awarded annually by. Gamma Sigma
Delta at the Ag Club banquet last
night. The cup is awarded each
year to the junior student in the de­partment,
who has met certain qual­ifications
regarding personality,
scholarship, character, and partici­pation
in school activities.
For the last three years Loworn
has attained highest distinction in
his classes. He is a member of Al­pha
Gamma Rho, social fraternity,
and hails from Wedowee. Lovvorn
is taking agriculture science and
plans to study agronomy for his life
work.
The banquet was held in the social
rooms of the Baptist Church and was
attended by one hundred and sixty
members of the faculty, student body,
and guests interested in agriculture.
The speaker for the evening, Dr.
Carson, Presbyterian pastor from
Montgomery, talked on the value of
industry and diligence in life and
stressed, particularly, the importance
of diligence and application of con­centration
upon problems. He ex­plained
that one could never expect
to attain a high goal in life unless he
took great strides toward it.
Introduced by George L. Fick,
toastmaster, Dr. Bradford Knapp
gave a short speech extending his
congratulations, and praise toi the
faculty and students for their at­titude
toward their work. He then
told of the relation of industry to
agriculture and showed how one de­pended
upon the other.
The welcoming address by the Ag
Club president P. H. Alsobrook,
stunts performed by the faculty and
students, awarding of diplomas by
Dean Funchess, and music played by
the Auburn Collegians were the other
features of the banquet.
Immediately after the banquet the
party retired to the gymnasium to
attend the dance. The hall was dec­orated
in the customary style except
that at the stairways bales of hay
were placed and chains hung up above
the stairs. Around the walls were
placed pictures and charts of the dif­ferent
phases of the agriculture de­partment
course. Chaperones for the
affair were the members of the ag­ricultural
faculty and their wives.
Music was furnished by the Auburn
Collegians.
Military Unit
To Be April 28
Will Try for Distinguished Rat­ing,
Which It Has Held
For Almost Ten Years
Professors Talk At
Business Frat Meet
That the annual War Department
inspection of the Auburn R. 0. T. C.
unit will be held on the 28th and
29th of April, has been announced by
officials of the military department.
Two officers, detailed by Headquar­ters
of the 4th Corps Area to make
this inspection, will visit Auburn at
that time for the purpose of examin­ing
the students of the unit in the dif­ferent
branches of the course. One
officer will inspect the Engineer unit,
while the other will inspect the Artil­lery.
The inspection, the result of which
will establish Auburn's rating with
other war colleges, will cover the fol­lowing:
examination in theoretical
and practical work of the courses and
classes; inspection of the uniforms and
equipment of all R. O. T. C. students;
inspection of attitude, conduct, and
general appearance of the entire unit
at drill and review; inspection of the
facilities for the training of the stu­dents
including offices, class rooms,
store rooms, stables, and drill grounds;
and inspection of military equipment
not in the hands of the students, such
as horses, harnesses, field artillery
material, telephone and fire control
equipment.
In order to make it possible for
every R. O. T. C. student to present
a perfect appearance the following
memorandum has been issued:
"During the period Monday, April
21 to Friday, April 25 inclusive, no
part of the cadet uniform will be
worn to class or drill.
During this period all uniforms'1
(Blouse, trousers and shirts) shall be
cleaned and pressed in preparation
for the annual inspection. Arrange­ments
have been made with the laun­dry
to take care of cleaning and press­ing
every uniform. In order that the
laundry may be able to handle this
volume it is essential that uniforms
be sent in each individual's laundry
on his normal laundry day and not be
sent separately on some other day.
Collar ornaments must be removed
from all garments before being sent
to the laundry.
The uniform for the drill period
Saturday, April 26th, will be gray
shirts and trousers."
(Continued on page 6)
TO BE INSTALLED
ON TUESDAY, MAY 8
I n s t a l l a t i o n . C e r e m o n i e s W i l l
T a k e P l a c e a t H o n o r s Con­v
o c a t i o n O n T h a t D a te
The new Executive Cabinet of the
Undergraduate Student's association
will be installed Tuesday, May 8th,
in a special convocation to be called
by Dr. Knapp for the purpose of
conferring honors on those students
who have won honor, societies, ath­letic
letters, and other similar honors
in the institution. Officers of the
cabinet for the next year and the
officers of the various classes and
publications who have been elected
for the next year will be introduced
on that day.
Fifteen men and one woman stu-
3ent have been elected as represen­tatives
of their respective schools
and will be administered the oath of
office by Dr. Knapp, at the honor
convocation. The representatives of
the nine departments to be installed
May 8th are:
Architecture: Eugene H. Gray,
senior; Howard Upchurch, junior
member. —
Home Economics: Pauline Wat-
(Continued on page 6)
Speakers For
Commencement
Are Announced
Dr. D. H. Ogden of Mobile, and
Dr. Edwin Mims, of Vander-bilt
Uni., Will Deliver Ad­dresses
Frosh To Vie In
Easter Egg Hunt
Sun* Afternoon
Ag Hollow Will Be Scene Of
Annual Affair; More Than
200 Expected to Partici­pate
P. O. Davis to Address
Broadcasters in July
Will Speak On "A Centralized Unit
.In Educational Broadcasting"
Roe and Herren Speak At
Alpha Sigma Luncheon
Beta
"The human side of business," was
the subject of a short talk made by
Professor J. W. Roe, professor of
modern languages, at the regular
monthly meeting of Beta Alpha Sig­ma
Thursday. Professor J. M. Her­ren
made a short talk, extending the
same subject.
The senior members of Beta Alpha
Sigma were called upon, and they ex­pressed
their regret that it was the
last luncheon that they would attend.
They said that they believed that
Beta Alpha Sigma would become Del­ta
Sigma Pi before the end of the
present term.
Beta Alpha Sigma is a local honor­ary
business fraternity, and is peti­tioning
Delta Sigma Pi, a national or­ganization.
P. 0. Davis, director of public in­formation
and general manager of
station WAPI, has been invited to
address the Radio Institute for broad
casters to be held at Ohio State Uni­versity
the first week in July. He
has accepted -the invitation and will
speak on the morning of July 2nd,
on "A Centralized Unit in Educa­tional
Broadcasting."
The annual Easter Egg Hunt,
sponsored by the Interfraternity
Council, will be held in Ag Hollow
at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
All freshmen whose fraternities are
members of the Interfraternity coun­cil
are required to attend the event
which will amount to about 200 of
the newly matriculated students to
engage in the hunt and other con­tests
listed on the day's program.
Each fraternity is requested to fur­nish
two dozen, dyed ten-minute eggs.
These eggs are to be brought to the
A. T. 0. house not later than 4 o'
clock Saturday afternoon. All the
freshmen are asked to meet at the'
A. T. O. house not later than 2 o'clock
Sunday afternoon.
The program will begin with the
hunt and a prize will be given the
freshman finding the most eggs. Fol­lowing
this, there will be a judging
of costumes, with a prize going to
the freshman in the best costume.
The freshmen will then begin a "free-for-
all" egg fight, with every man
•for himself. In conclusion, the frosh,
or rather what is left of them, will
be lined up in a circle, and at a giv­en
signal will scramble for the golden
egg.
Takes Part In Program
At Coker College Soon
To take part in the Founders' Day
program at Coker College, S. W. Gar­rett,
college business manager, will
go to Hartsville, South Carolina, on
the 28th of April, leaving here on
Sunday, the 27th.
Mr. Garrett served as business
manager at Coker for ten years and
came here to Auburn in 1928. Since
that time, he has served in the ca­pacity
of purchasing agent and busi­ness
manager for the institute and
has had charge of placement~and up­keep
of the equipment.
City Gets Better
Air Mail Service
Postmaster L. A. Knapp Announces
Air Mail Schedule For Eastern
Cities
That the Rev. Dunbar Hunt Ogden,
pastor of the Government Street
Presbyterian Church of Mobile, will
deliver the bacculaureate sermon,
and Edwin Mims, professor of Eng­lish
language and literature at Van-derbilt
University, will make the
commencement address at the fifty-eighth
commencement exercises of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
was revealed today with the announ­cement
of the complete program of
the commencement exercises. The
exercises will begin on Sunday, May
18th, with the commencement ser­mon,
and will come to a conclusion
on Tuesday, May 20th, with the com­mencement
address and awarding of
degrees and prizes.
The Rev. Dunbar Hunt Ogden is
widely known throughout the South
as a prominent teacher and lecturer.
Before becoming pastor of the Pres­byterian
Church in Mobile, he ser­ved
many years as pastor of churches
in Columbus, Miss., Knoxville, Tenn.,
Atlanta, Ga., and Louisville, Ky. He
received his Bachelor of Arts degree
at the Southwestern Presbyterian
University, his Bachelor of Divinity
degree at the Presbyterian Division
School, and his Doctor of Divinity
degree at Davidson College. For
several years he was lecturer and
teacher at Louisville Theological
Seminary, Columbia Theological
Seminary, Culver Military Academy,
Fort McPherson, Camp Gordon, and
Camp Taylor. He is at present chair­man
of the Alabama Inter-racial
Commission.
Edwin Mims, the present head of
the English Department of Vander-bilt
University, is best known as the
author of "The Life of Sidney La­nier."
Besides this work he has
edited-numerous other writings. He
received his A.B. and M.A. degrees
at Vanderbilt University, respective­ly
in 1892 and 1893. Later, he was
awarded a Ph.D. degree at Cornell
,University. He became an assistant
professor at Vandy shortly after his
graduation from that institution.
Since that time he has served on
the faculties of Trinity College, Uni­versity
of North Carolina, Peabody
College, John Hopkins University,
University of Virginia, and the Uni­versity
of Southern California. He
became head of the Vanderbilt Eng­lish
department in 1912.
A complete program of the com­mencement
exercises is as follows:
(Continued on page 6)
DR. E. B. CARMICHAEL
CHOSEN ASPRESIDENT
ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
F o r t y - F i v e S c i e n t i s t s f r o m S t a te
C o l l e g e s G a t h e r f o r 7 th
A n n u a l M e e t i ng
Dr. E. B". Carmichael, of the Uni­versity
of Alabama, was elected
president of the Alabama Academy
of Science for the ensuing year at
the business session held Friday af­ternoon,
and at the same time it was
decided to hold the next annual
meeting at the University in Tusca­loosa.
Other officers elected were: Pro­fessor
George Fertig, Birmingham
Southern, 1st vice-president; Prof.
Herbert Martin, Auburn, 2nd vice-president;
Dr. James L. Brakefield,
Howard College, secretary and treas­urer;
Dr. Wright A. Gardner, Au­burn,
Councilor to A.A.A.S.; and Dr.
Jones, head of department of Chem­istry
at Birmingham Southern, editor
of bulletin.
Forty-five scientists from the Uni­versity
of Alabama, Birmingham
Southern, Howard College, Woman's
t
College, and the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute were in attendance at
the seventh annual meeting of the
Alabama Academy of Science held
(Continued on page 6)
To Announce
Cup Winner At
End Of Term
Presentation to Be Made At
Commencement: Winner to
Be Announced In Last
Plainsman Issue
Dance Bid Cards
To Be Distributed
First Next Week
Fully 17S Girls Are Expected
to Attend Finals; Commit­tees
In Charge Are Ap­pointed
Archer Is New Captain
of Scabbard and Blade
Taylor, Hill, and Mosely Are Other
Officers Chosen
Auburn will receive better air mail
service in the future, according to L.
A. Knapp, postmaster, who has an­nounced
a new schedule for such mail.
Letters mailed from Auburn by 1.30
P. M. will reach New York at 8 A.
M., Chicago 7:35 A. M.; Richmond,
Virginia, 1:46 A. M., Washington 2:50
A. M., Jacksonville 10 A. M., and
Miami in twenty-four hours.
Letters mailed by 7:30 P. M. will
reach New York by 9:30 A. M. and
all points at the same rate of speed.
Air mail is five cents per ounce
anywhere in the United States.
At a meeting held Thursday night,
Scabbard and Blade held it's annual
election of officers, which resulted as
follows: Tommy P. Archer, Captain;
Adrian C. Taylor, First Lieutenant;
W. W. Hill, Jr., Second Lieutenant;
and David Moseley, First Sergeant
' A special initiation was also held
for the purpose of taking in one
of the newly elected members.
The retiring officers were: V. L.
Taylor, Captain; J. K. Smith, First
Lieutenant; Lee Sledge, Second Lieu­tenant;
and W. W. Bryant, First
Sergeant.
Scabbard and Blade now has a to­tal
enrollment of fifty-five members,
of which thirty-six are old men and
nineteen newly elected members.
Bid cards for the Senior Dances
to be staged here May 16th and 17th
will be placed in the Student Supply
Shop, Tiger Drug Store, Homer
Wright's, and in the various fratern­ity
houses the latter part of next
week and will be collected May 5th.
Fully 175 girls are expected to at­tend
the ' dances, including young
ladies from many Southern States.
The attendance last year surpassed
that of any previous year, and it is
hoped that the revelry this year will
attract more visitors and be more
enjoyed than that of any of the oth­er
years.
Plans are being made for original
and artistic decorations and to engage
the best music available. Announce­ments
regarding music and decora­tions
will be made in the next issue.
The committees that have been ap­pointed
are: decoration, C. F. Davis,
chairman'; invitation, Rex" Sikes,
chairman; and music, J. S. Ware,
chairman.
Many house parties, banquets, and
other forms of entertainment are
being planned to add to the joviali-
(Continued on page 6)
A.T.O. Wins 1st Flight
In Interfraternity Golf
Sigma Pi and S. P. E. to Play For
Second Flight Winner Today
The award of the beautiful bronze
loving cup offered by the Blue Key
honor society to the student who
has given the most conspicuous ser­vice
during the present year will be
made by Dr. Knapp at the commence­ment
exercises.
A committee o£ the faculty, of
whom President Knapp has been des­ignated
as chairman, has been se­lected
by the Blue Key to undertake
to make this selection. The winner
will be announced in the last issue of
the Plainsman this year.
The basis of selection will be on
the following points:
1. Moral and spiritual life. He
must be of high moral character and
unimpeachable honor exemplified in
everyday action.
2. Scholarship. He should be
among the upper two-fifths of his
class in grades. *
3. Leadership. The student must
be a recognized leader in student life
and his leadership must have been of
such high character as to exemplify
the qualifications set forth in these
rules. s
4. Democracy. He must be demo­cratic
in spirit—companionable, ap­proachable,
a good mixer in the best
sense of that expression.
5. Loyalty. He must be loyal and
patriotic to the school, the state and
the government.
6. Cooperation. He must be a
good cooperator with the faculty
and student body in all things which
are for the betterment of Auburn
and its student life.
Under no conditions will any stu­dent
be considered for this honor who
has practiced undue influence to ob­tain
nomination or who shall exer­cise
personally or have others to
politic for him in accomplishing these
ends.
The Blue Key organization is es­pecially
anxious to recognize a man
of leadership.
Each organization on the campus
nominated two students—one a mem­ber
of the organization and the other
a non-member, each of whom they
believe comes most nearly up to the
standard set. These nominations are
not regarded as final but as indica­tive
of student opinion.
The awarding of this trophy is to
become an annual event, and it is
hoped that it will give- students a
stronger incentive to render conspic­uous
service to the institution.
Circle Chooses
Campus Leaders
For Neophytes
Initiates Picked From Various
Phases Of Campus
Activity
Garrett To Attend
Buyers' Convention
Meeting to Be Held In Atlanta, April
24th-26th
Omicron Delta Kappa extended bids
to ten prominent juniors following
the spring election of that honorary
group. Included on .the roster of
pledges are the names of young "suc-cessfuls"
in almost every phase of
campus activity. The new men are:
R. L. Loworn, E. A. Bell, C. S. Da­vis,
Hugh Ellis, Rex Sikes, W. S. My-rick,
Eugene Gray, Harold Harmon,
Howard Gray, and R. F. Ham.
Each of the new men falls under
the category of the outstanding and
popular. A scant survey of the at­tainments
of each follows:
R. L. Loworn, Alpha Gamma Rho
fraternity, was adjudged the best all-round
junior in agriculture, and re­ceived
the loving cup awarded last
night for this distinction. .
E. A. Bell, Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity, shares the honors with
his colleague Loworn in that he was
awarded the William L. White cup for
Excellence in Engineering, having
been judged the best all-round junior
in his department, engineering. He
is the present executive of the junior
class and is a member of Tau Beta
Pi and Scabbard and Blade. He is
captain of the 1930 track team.
C. S. Davis, Pi Kappa Alpha frater­nity,
was elected business manager
of the Plainsman for next year in the
recent class elections. He is also a
member of Scabbard and Blade.
Hugh Ellis, Kappa Alpha frater­nity
is the newly elected editor-in-chief
of the Glomerat'a for 1930-31.
He is a promising young architect.
Rex Sikes, Pi Kappa Phi fraterni­ty,
will be business manager of the
Glomerata next year. He is a mem­ber
of Scabbard and Blade.
W. S. Myrick, Pi Kappa Alpha frat­ernity,
is president-elect of the In­terfraternity
Council. He is eminent
in student military circles, recently
having been elected to Scabbard and
Blade. .
Eugene Gray, Sigma Alpha Epsi­lon
fraternity, was chosen by his
classmates to serve as president of
the Y. M. C. A. next year. He is a
member of Botegha and Spiked Shoe.
Harold Harmon, Theta Chi frater­nity,
whom every student knows as
the "st'ruttin' drum major", will be
vice-president of his class next year.
He is also a member of Scabbard and
Blade.
Howard Gray, Alpha Gamma Rho
(Continued on page 6)
The A. T. O. fraternity golf team,
composed of Chalmers Greene and
Samford, won the first flight finals
of the annual Inter-fraternity Golf
Tournament by defeating the Sigma
Nu team, composed of Marion Jones
and John Wood, by the score of two
up. The match was played last Tues­day
afternoon on the municipal links
in Auburn.
The S. P. E. team composed of
"Red" Suggs and either Rin Burt or
William Johnson, will play the Sigma
Pi team, composed of W. C. Barefield
and R. A. Mann, Saturday afternoon
in the finals of the second round. The
winner of the second round will re­ceive
a small silver cup.
S. W. Garrett, business manager of
the college, will be in Atlanta the
24, 25, and 26 of April to attend the
convention of the Southern Educa­tional
Buyers' Association, of which
he is the president.
The association started three years
ago for the purpose of bringing to­gether
all the business managers and
purchasing agents of the southern
colleges so that they might discuss
the various problems that confront
the institutions.
Over 50 southern colleges are now
in the group, and will send repre­sentatives
to Atlanta for the annual
metting. The problems they will talk
over will involve placement of stu­dents,
maintenance of college proper­ties,
buying of equipment for both
college and fraternity houses, costs
of text-books, budget percentages and
systems and general expenses.
Guyton Chosen Leader
Gamma Sigma Delta
Election of Officers Is Held by Hon­orary
Ag Fraternity
F. E. Guyton, associate professor
of Entomology, has been elected pres­ident
of Gamma Sigma Delta, nation­al
honorary agriculture society, for
the coming year. Prof. William E.
Sewell was elected vice-president
and Frank S. Arant, instructor in
the department of zoology and en­tomology,
is the new secretary and
treasurer of the society.
The elections were held at the Wed­nesday
night meeting of Gamma Sig­ma
Delta at which time plans for
the awarding of the silver cup, which
is awarded by the society to the
best all-round junior in agriculture
were discussed.
Results of the past year were talk­ed
about and plans for the develop­ment
of better things in agriculture
were brought forward.
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THE PLAINSMAN
—congratulates the winner of the Ag
loving cup. To be honored in this manner
by worthy representatives of the Agri­cultural
school speaks highly of the suc­cess
of his endeavors there.
—hopes the freshmen will make the East­er
egg hunt tomorrow the greatest ever
seen in Auburn. It is one of the last
chances of the freshmen to make merry.
Oratorical Contest Is »..
Real Competitive MatcWj^fc
During the past week three of Auburn's
most prominent men in forensic circles met
in the annual oratorical contest in as fine
a match as has been here in several years.
There were not more than sixty present
to listen to these orations, but these in­vested
an hour of their time very worthi­ly,
as inspiring and well prepared speech­es
were delivered.
Two interesting features of the ora-tions
were that the speakers have each
won campus-wide recognition, in capturing
one or more events heretofore, while one
is endeavoring to take a stand against
the nation's best within a few days, and
the other feature is that so many Auburn
students have neglected to pay any atten­tion
to their vocal ability. A great many
people cannot speak even after training,
while there are hundreds of students on
the campus who could not stutter out a half
dozen inaudible words were they tp be
suddenly called upon to do so before a
group of hearers.
The audience was agreeably and educa-tively
entertained for an hour, and the
impetitors felt that they had put forth
a worthy effort although only one of them
could be termed a winner.
It is encouraging to note that probably
one-twentieth of the students are willing
to sacrifice a little to develop their ora­torical
self and that this backbone of
forensics in Auburn is able to turn out
men .who can and do give creditable ac­count
of themselves.
Flying Club Can Be Of
Help7 In Gliding Here
A new aviation—that of gliding—Tis as­suming
great prominence in many lead­ing
American colleges. Reports from
everywhere are to the effect that clubs are
being formed to study flying, and espe­cially
gliding, more closely. In comment­ing
on the present trend in this direction
the Reveille, Louisiana State University
paper, says:
"Teaching gliding is assuming a con­siderable
importance in colleges and uni­versities
throughout the ' coflntry. The
glider is opening a new field for aeronau­tical
development both at home and abroad
and is an aid in popularizing flying.
"Although accidents occur due to struc­tural
failure and improper design in these
machines, one should not be led to be­lieve
that gliding is a dangerous occupa­tion,
Colonel Lindbergh says: 'It is prob­ably
easier,' the famous pilot declares,yto
pilot a glider, than to drive a motor car in
city traffic. The glider has less mechan­ism
and fewer controls than an automo­bile
or a motorcycle, and its landing speed
is well within the low gear range on high­way.'
"The glider is important because it
places flying within the reach of the great
majority of people who never expect to
become professional aviators and cannot
afford the time and money required to
learn to ffy and operate a power plane of
the present-day type.
"That interest.in gliding .should be cre­ated
and that the activity is valuable is
obvious when one considers that it affords
a means of training for thousand^ of
pilots from school age up, and in training
them, naturally crepes a much largetr
market for power planes. More pilots
mean more men and women will adopt
flying as a regular part of their daily pro­gram.
More flying activity preceeds great­er
production, together with improved
machines, lower priced and a greater num­ber
of ways in which planes can be used
economically .
"It would seem that within the near
future, there may be realized at Louisiana
State university, the advantages of insti­tuting
a course in this popular phase of
this popular phase of aviation."
Soaring through the air in powered
planes is no longer an experiment or a
probability, but almost a necessity. It
will not be long until it loses that touch
of luxury it has in certain respects, for
ffying te becoming safer; it is becoming
a common everyday experience. Of the
seventy-nine million miles flown last year
by American aviators, only 183 fatal ac­cidents
occurred, making an average of
431,000 miles for each accident. This in
itself is a marvelous record, while with the
safer methods being used, the greater
and better training being given prospective
flyers, and the sturdier and more depend­able
machines being constructed, the mile­age
per accident will undoubtedly mount.
In the air transport operations, which
include regular schedules carrying pas­sengers,
mail, and express, more than a
million miles per accident was recorded,
as out of sixteen million miles flown only
fifteen fatal accidents occurred. In the
miscellaneous flying which includes stu­dent
instruction, experimental, commercial,
and pleasure flying, only 375,000 miles per
accident was had.
The fine record established by the trans­port
flyers shows the need for trained
aviators operating the planes. The larg­est
percentage of the accidents, 55.75
percent was attributed to defects in per­sonnel.
Power plant failures accounted
for about nineteen percent, structural de­fects
for about eleven, and miscellaneous
reasons about nine percent. It can be
seen that unrained and inexperienced fly­ers
were responsible for the largest num­ber
of fatal accidents. (
Gliding can fill an important place in
flying. If it is intelligently studied and
practiced, it can become almost a prerequi­site
to power plane flying. In Germany
it is a prerequisite by law. It can acquaint
the students with many problems confront­ing
the aviator; it can give him experience,
small though it may be; and it will give
him a chance to study conditions sur­rounding
flying and allow him to become
familiar with air . phenomena.
An attempt is being made on .the campus
to organize a gliding club so that it can
find a useful place in the future when the
public will be so educated concerning fly­ing
that it will not longer be considered as
hazardous. We would like to see more
interest shown by those pushing this pro­ject.
It is interesting; it, is educative.
Gliding should find an enthusiastic wel­come
in Auburn.
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
With the details and rules for a Glider
Club already worked out, and with the
interest mounting to the extent that many
letters have been written by students here
in Auburn asking for more details and
quick organization, we recognize a de­cidedly
forward step in the outside inter­ests
of students. Such an organization
is sure to be helpful to those interested,,
although the novelty of it is sure to at­tract
others who possibly have no real
interest in aeronautics. This objection­able
feature can be overcome after com­plete
organization is effected, and the Club
can settle down to a real study of the
rudiments of flying.
We believe a real good can come of
this organization if studied systematically,
and the Flying Club may be a fore-runner
of a Aeronautics Course in Auburn. Cer­tain
aeronautical subjects will be on the
College curriculum next year, and if the
proper, interest is shown the course may
be enlarged upon in the following years,
ultimately leading • to a degree in aero­nautics,
which many leading colleges and
technical schools are already conferring.
The location of these schools are, at pres­ent,
confined mostly to the North, and we
are sure any steps taken to establish a
school of aeronautics here in Auburn will
be looked upon with much favor by many
people. . Such a course would be strictly
technical, and with the advent of time
we know this course would eventually be
established in Auburn. Let us keep the
movement progressing.
A Sophomore.
WE CAN'T EVEN ANSWER IT
A new English test has been devised for
foreign students hoping to enter United
States universities and colleges. The hope
is to make it easier for the foreign stu­dents
to study in this country by having
a better background of spoken and writ­ten
English.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
There are little
bits of philosophy
which ;have b e en
handed down for a
great many years.
Generally there is a
strong measure of
truth in them in spite
of the fact that two
different maxims may
conflict as the news­papers
seem to have~a habit of showing us
these days. One of the old ones which has
been quoted to me ever since I was a boy
is: "All work and no play make Jack a
dull boy." There is another one which
reads like this: "Variety is the spice ef
life." Sometimes I have thought there
ought to be an opposite to the first,one,
that "all play and no work makes Jack
a boy of very little account" because life
is not all play and the man succeeds best
who knows how to mingle the two in the
right proportion. In college life some­times
we try to have too much diversion,
too much recreation, too much play. When
the continuous round of social and fra­ternity
engagements, plus the picture show
and some golf and things of that kind, gets
our minds entirely away from work, we
are apt to come to the time when we do
not really enjoy the play. The only way
to enjoy play is not to be surfeited with
it. To have a first-class good time, there­fore,
work hard enough to want^o have
the diversion. In the spring of the year
with everything going at full tilt, I am
sometimes afraid students won't work
hard enough to enjoy their play. Mix it
up a little bit. It will make both the play
and the work that much the better.
i * * * *
One day while talking to our new Coach,
Chet Wynne, he taught me a new expres­sion.
He said he did not like a "yes-man."
I must confess I had never heard that ex­pression
just that way. I knew instantly
just what he meant. He meant he did not
like a man who is constantly agreeing with
you and who had so little personality, so
little force of character, so little real stuff
in him that he would constantly say "yes"
and agree with everything you say. Now,
an administrator comes ""across about
three kinds of folks: First, the "yes-man"
who supinely agrees with everything you
say and is not helpful in the least. He
is just a weakling almost unworthy of
consideration. Another kind is the con­tentious
man, the bull-headed fellow who
gets his mind set one way and nothing on
earth can move him. He doesn't help a
great deal because his mind is closed. He
is not open to argument. He is too one­sided,
to belong to an organization be­cause
when things do not go his way he is
entirely at outs with the whole situation,
sulks in his corner and generally cannot
do anything until he gets his own way. My
observation is that that way is not always
the right way. In between these is a
great class of fine men who are open-minded
and frank and helpful, who are
willing to take the responsibility of de­cisions,
who are willing to argue the point
with you in a frank, friendly way, who
come helpfully to try to assist in making
decisions which will be for the best inter­est
of all concerned. It is that type of
man for whom I have long since formed
a great admiration. I always like to have
those who are associated with me to be
willing to present strongly and effectively
their point of view, to help in every way
to prevent me from making the wrong de­cision
(if I may put it that way). These
are the men who help us most. Chet
Wynne's effective little description of the
individual .who always agrees with you
raises him in my estimation very greatly.
One who leads and has to administer the
affairs of an institution or a department
has to be strong enough to make his own
decisions. It is perfectly wonderful when
one can be approached by those who can
help to make the decisions and it is equally
unfortunate when the helper is either a
"yes-man" or has a closed mind on his
own opinion.
* * * *
The affairs of an institution, of a state,
of a nation, are, after all, a good deal like
our private affairs. The operation of an
institution or a state is a great financial
undertaking. We respond to financial
conditions. One of the most remarkable
changes in the history of this country is
the change in mental attitude of the peo­ple
generally within the last year. There
were those of us who expected a change
but I am sure that many of us were shock­ed
at how far the pendulum, has swung.
Here in Auburn we need to realize how
the people feel. Incomes are lower, earn­ing
capacity has been reduced, the ability
to pay taxes has suffered. I cannot help
but feel that this situation is more or. less
temporary in character but I think stu­dents
here at the college ought to realize
that folks back at home are having a hard
time and those of us who are on a salary
ought surely to remember that we are ex­tremely
lucky. Those who are in business
% AUBURN FOOTPRINTS «
Everyone in town is Wondering why Lillian Meadows always has the shade on
her car drawn. She must be a modest young lady, for she is a little' hesitant when
talking about it.
* * * * * * * *
Now comes Clyde Kimbrough with a woeful tale of how a co-ed sent all his
letters back to him. Great tears of sorrow and sadness well up in the eyes of this
young gallant when he relates the circumstances leading up to this very moment­ous
time. We didn't even know that Clyde had decided to cast his lob with one of
the local girls, and we can't even understand why he should ever be writing letters
since he is here in town with her. Maybe he was think that "absence makes the
heart grow fonder," but regardless of the circumstances surrounding this case, it
is still true that the damsel said, "Take back your letters and your heart, big boy.
I ordered grapefruit."
* * * * * . * * *
Even the ministers are doing it,_ for now we hear that five big members; of
the ministry are going to be given a hearing to determine the role, financially and
morally, they played in the election of two years ago. The Senate committees
must be running out of work.
* * * * * * * *
TRUE?
Drums are beating, cymbals beating,
Violin and small tabor,
Cellos beating, all is beating,
Jazz upon the ball-room floor.
Waiters warming, sweat is forming,
Wilted shirts that collars wore,
Couples pushing, couples backing,
Couples tangled more and more.
Boys are necking, maidens cheeking,
Never ceasing din and roar,
Bodies swaying, mothers praying,
Pleasure meant and nothing more.
By J. H. Rhoades.
* * * * * * * *
These peaceful times don't work any more. Up at Lincoln Memorial Uni­versity
at Harrogate, Tennessee. Nothing exciting was happening so the students
decided to strike. Two professors have been discharged and served with injunc­tions
that forbid their directing the alfairs of the students, and the president of
the student body is also gone from the college. He can't even be a' visitor now.
We favor another war.
* * * * * : * * *
A weird story has been trickling in concerning the activities of the junior and
senior chemical engineering" class on their recent hike. It seems that they didn't
expect to find any water at their destination and, accordingly, carried along plenty
of stuff to make up for any lack of wetness. "Warhorse" Stewart received a les­son,'
in not believing everything he sees when he dived into a two foot stream. It
must be four feet deep at that place right now. - Then such things as making love
to the moon and becoming too familiar with sawdust piles were seen. It must
have been some party for the boys not to even know the way home.
* * * * * - * * *
The seniors are having their banquet sd as to use up the surplus fund they
have. Possibly the Associated Undergraduate organization is doing something af­ter
all. We don't 'see any new autos being bought now, anyway. At that the
money could be more usefully employed.
* * * * * * * *
"Ag" Macon who came down the second semester from Birmingham-Southern,
to study Ag Engineering is the latest to try to buy a convocation book. We have
not learned whether the bookstore ordered one for him or not—possibly so though.
We haven't had convocations down here for two years, and we didn't have to have
books when we did. Our freshmen, have never even; fallen for that old gag, which
proves that some transfers aren't such brilliant fellows after all.
* WITH OTHER COLLEGES ^
MUMPS PREDOMINATE
Mumps have been playing havoc at
State College, from reports issued by the
college infirmary. Three students are vic­tims
of that disease at the present time
and are now in the infirmary.
Several co-eds have been absent from
classes recently because of attacks of
mumps. No doubt the mumps^spread very
fast, since the co-eds had them too. Now
Remember the statement, "It is safer to
kiss a cow, than a co-ed?"
* * * *
UNIVERSAL
ThS election was a wow! Never be­fore
has the college seen such dirty poli­tics.
. Posters, yellow sheets, and hand­bills
floated around like nobody's busi-
YEAH
"We look forward to the time when co­eds
reign and there will be no underhand
methods; when all will be discussed at the
library or at some other prominent place
on the campus. We also expect to die
some time, too; but gosh: how we dread
it!"—Raleigh, N. C.
have not been so fortunate this year. There
were other times when their fortunes were
infinitely greater than ours. Their capac­ity
to make money far exceeds the salaried
man's but in these times of difficulty stu­dents
whose expenses come from home
should look at the check and think about
what father and mother have had to go
through to send it to them and all of us
should take great care to proceed cautious­ly
and adjust ourselves to the difficulties
of the present situation. I have been con­fident
all the time that if the acreage of
cotton is reduced, if we produce less cot­ton
but a good crop on the acreage we
have, if we have plenty of food and feed
at home and if by this result we do what
has been done before now—raise the price
of cotton—better times will come in Ala­bama,
farm people will have better buying
powers, there will be better demands for
the products of industry and gradually we
may thus start back to a reasonable de­gree
of prosperity. The great trouble in
Alabama today is that we produced a cot­ton
crop in 1929 and sold it last fall at
less than cost of production. That must
not be forgotten by student or by teach­ers
or by anyone who thinks about our
present conditions in Alabama.
STRANGE PEOPLE
More than forty-five members of the
faculty of the University of Pittsburg are
now taking lessons in tap-dancing. How
about the "Barn-Yard Shuffle?"
While over at William and Mary, the
Y. 'M. C. A. is collecting pictures of the
faculty when they were babies for a com­ing
contest. The student identifying the
largest number of pictures will be given a
prize. Oh, how thrilling!
* * * -*
SIMPLY AWFUL
Only 44 percent of the male students
in Southern Methodist university, Dallas,
Texas, use tobacco, a survey found. That
is worse than Bob Jone's college, accord­ing
to rumors.
And because quarantine signs were
found in their rooms, two Gettysburg
college freshmen were placed under arrest.
How times have changed!
* * * *
BELIEVE IT OR NOT
Queer things still happen in Mexico.
The other day a Mexican was picked out
of a gutter as dead. As no one claimed
the body it was sent to the medical school
and was prepared for the dissecting class.
The corpse lay all nfght on the dissecting
table and in the morning the students
made ready to carve it up. "Watch close­ly,"
exclaimed the teacher and plunged
a large knife into the corpse's chest.
Imagine the amazement of everyone when
the corpse sat up and cursed. The Mexi­can
found in the gutter, alais the corpse,
was suffering from catalepsy. That's one
started by the Daily News of Jackson,
Mississippi.
* * * *•
OLD KEY UNCOVERED
What is believed to be the oldest fra­ternity
pin in America, was discovered
recently in Pennsylvania, when a Phi Beta
Kappa key carrying the. name of John
Graham and the date 1776 was found by
a plowman. The pin was plowed up at
the spot where Washington out-maneuver­ed
Howe and where Lafayette was wound­ed.
It was presented to Graham by Wil­liam
and Mary's college, in Virginia.
* * * *
EDITOR'S NOTE: The editor of this
column wishes to acknowledge the receipt
of a letter from one of the Plainsman's
admirers over at Woman's College, per­taining
to an article recently appearing in
this column.
THOUGHTS IN SILHOUETTE
^Herr "Diogenese ^eufelsdrockh
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed ia
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.
* * * *
AUBURN PROUDLY boasts of a
paramount democracy on its camp­us.
All Auburn students seem to
be quite proud of the fact that their stu­dent
body smacks of the very essence of
democracy. And yet, after rubbing el­bows
with this seemingly all-desirable de­mocracy,
for four years, I am led to won­der
as to its advantages. There is no
doubt but what Auburn is the very ex­emplification
of a democratic school; that
is in respect to the student body. We have
on this campus a very peculiar situation
in as much as we have a democratic stu­dent
body of the first order ruled and
governed by an autocracy. The student
is encouraged by the prevailing atmos­phere
to submerge himself in the mass and
have a singleness of expression; thus an­nihilating
all self expression and individ­uality,
and making it very easy for him
to be* handled by the autocracy.
Emerson said, "Men descend to meet."
Do they always? May they not also as­cend
and reach new heights of vision, per­spective,
and loyalty? Surely our students
ascend in spirit when they join in the long
procession on Commencement day, or
when they cheer and sing their Alma Ma­ter.
At such times the "psychology of the
crowd" is an inspiring study, since each
man in the crowd is lifted up. out of his
narrow, provincial self into spiritual union
with a host of his fellows.
Yet Emerson was right: the casual meet­ing
acquaintances is often a descent into
the commonplace and a loss of ideals. On
the campus three men may meet any day
—an engineer, an Ag., and a business
student. Since each man lives in a field
practically unknown to the other two, they
all three are silent regarding their dear­est
hopes, and talk about the weather, or
politics. When such men meet they hide
their inmost selves away, and their lives,
instead of interesting, are merely tangent
at the surface.
The college judges men on their merits
to a rare degree: it asks not about a stu­dent's
pedigree or his wealth or his influ­ential
friends; it asks not where he comes
from, but where he is going to. No doubt
Auburn's democracy smooths off the new­comer's
rough edges, reduces his swollen
cranium to normal-size, does away with
his proper place in the new community.
But does this democracy, of which we
are so proud, mean leveling up or level­ing
down?
Many a student, when subjected to the
leveling process of the new community,
shrinks from revealing his best self. He
hides away all that the world's coarse
thumb' and finger failed to plumb and
shows to his friends only the commonplace
qualities that the society around him seems
to demand. He is afraid of being a
"grind" or a "shark" or a prig or an
esthete, afraid of seeming exceptional in
any way, and so protects his real self by
submerging it in the mass. Many students
conceal the fact that they care for a sym­phony
or a sonata, and would not for the
world confess the thrill that comes to them
from a Chopin prelude, because the col­lege
democracy allows nothing but "rag­time"
and "jazz." A student owning a
volume of Shakespeare will read it only
when alone, but when in his friend's room
profess devotion to only thex "best sel­lers"
and the five cent weeklies. The stu­dent
sensitive to beauty is compelled to
adorn his walls with cheap posters, and
the student who wants to .make Sunday a
day of noblest inspiration finds it hard to
rise above the polite loafing of his fra­ternity,
dormitory, or boarding house.
Does our democracy level up or level
down? ,-
It is easy indeed, when strangers are
suddenly thrown together, to meet on the
plane of the physical or the animal. Only
when some great crisis arises on our camp­us,
when a sudden imperative summons
to chivalrous conduct comes—only then
do our students meet on the level of the
finest among them.
I had rather attend a "one horse" col­lege
in the backwoods, where individual­ity,
self initiative, and expression is recog­nized
as a constructive force in society,
than attend the most finely equipped uni­versity
where imagination, individuality,
esth«tic feeling, musical and artistic taste
and, religious conviction are rubbed off and
rubbed out by the daily attrition of a
pseudo-democracy. The tyranny of one
man—czar or prince or boss—can be
thrown off by revolution, but the tyranny
of the crowd is like a clinging fog which
dampens and depresses all clear and high
endeavor.
Auburn's democracy must be made safe
for the students if the students are to
continue to so proudly boast of it.
SATURDAY, APRIL ,19, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
AUDREY FULLER
La VERNE WATTS
Phone 9115
Smith Hall S O C I E T Y AND F E A T U R ES This Department Open
From 11 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Daily
\
VITAMINS
If you want a vitamin,
With the alphabet begin.
First, there's A—dissolved in fat—
Cures, they says, the sickness that
Might perhaps, sometimes attack
Children good or bad or slack,
Cures disease—the catching kind—
In your body or your mind.
Butter, lettuce, eggs, and milk
All will make you feel like silk.
Eat 'em, drink 'em, bite 'em in,
If you want A—vitamin.
Next comes B—in water found—
So you see it's all around.
If you've neuritis had,
You'll be very, very glad
After you have eaten B
For improvements you will see.
Graham flour and husky rice,
Fruit and vegetables nice,
Milk and cheese contain the B
That will make you brave and free,
Eat 'em, drink 'em, bite 'em in,
If you want B—vitamin.
Now we come to vitamin—C, -\
Called the best of all the three,
If you'd "curvy" be
And form scurvy free,
Don't say it's no use.
Drink a quart of orange juice,
Or you may instead
Suck a large tomato red,
Eat 'em, drink 'em, bite 'em -in,
If you want C-vitamin.
Cautious words in books abound
Say that vitamins abound
In the foods we'd scarce suspect.
So in eating don't neglect
Things the vitamins will give,
If you'd literally live.
Some they say will make you glad,
Healthy, lucky, thin or sad
Whatsoever the letter be—
D or E or F or G,
H or K or maybe J,
Possibly it may be K,
L, M, N, 0, P,
Q, R. S. or T.
Still it may be U or V,
Or it may be even Z.
Wise ones say the end's not yet
While we have the alphabet.
Flower Show Be Held
May 2 and 3
The flower show will be held Fri­day
and Saturday, May 2 and 3, at
the Episcopal Parish house. Any-resident
of Auburn may enter flow­ers
for prizes and non-residents are
asked to enter flowers for show.
All exhibits must be in by eleven
o'clock, a. m., Friday, May 2nd. Com-plente
rules and lists of entry classes
may be found in the Plainsman for
April 16 or may be had from Mrs.
B. F. Thomas, chairman of the civics
department of the Woman's Club.
Alpha Lambda Tau To
Be R e p r e s e n t e d At Meeting
Messrs. Max Williams., George
Jenkins, Horatio Glover, and D. 0.
Baird will represent the Auburn
chapter of Alpha Lambda Tau Fra­ternity
convention in Birmingham
next week. Mr. W. L. Randolph will
attend as grand council officer, and
Mr. Bob Smith as alumni member.
There will be a formal dance at
the Country Club on Monday night,
a Tea Dance at the Thomas Jeffer­son
on Tuesday afternoon, and a
fraternity banquet and dance at the
hotel on Tuesday evening of the con­vention.
FOR SALE:—Day bed, uphol.tered
rocker, kitchen cabinet, iron beds.
Mrs. G. M. Bohler.
M-E-A-T
The Very Best
And Any
Kind
MOORE'S MARKET
Phone 37
Sunrise Prayer Meeting
On Easter Morning
Last Easter, the Christian Endeav­or
Society of the Presbyterian Church
sponsored a Sunrise Prayer Meeting.
A group of students and towns-people
gathered near Auburn and watched
the sun rise and worshipped God in
song and prayer on Easter Sunday
The interest in the meeting was such
that a similar meeting is being plan­ned
for Easter Sunday, April 20, 1930
A very interesting program is being
planned for the occasion and. every­body
is invited to come and partici­pate
in the meeting. The tome for
general discussion at the meeting 1s
"Why We Believe We Live Forever".
Besides this discussion, special music
and other features are being planned
It is hoped that the meeting will be
the best that has ever been held in
Auburn.
Everybody is cordially invited to at
tend. Those who are going will meet
at the Presbyterian Church at five
o'clock Sunday morning. From the
church, the congregation will walk out
to a hilltop where the sun may be
seen. With the Cooperation of the
students and townspeople the meeting
will be a success. Let's make it the
best ever. Be PROMPT.
Mrs. W. W. Hill Hostess
At Bridge Luncheon
Mrs. W. W. Hill entertained with
a bridge luncheon on last Friday at
her home on Gay Street.
The colors, green and white, were
used in decorations, refreshments,
and tally cards. White lillies were
used in the living and dining rooms.
Mrs. L. A. Ward met the guests
at the door. Miss Minnie Whitaker
won top score.
Delicious refreshments were ser­ved
to twenty-four guests.
Kappa Delta Sorority
Elects 1930-31 Officers
The Kappa Delta Sorority held its
election of new officers for 1930-31
at its regular meeting last Tuesday
night.
The new officers are as follows:
President, Mildred Moore; Vice-Presi­dent,
Ruth Hollingsworth; Secretary,
Miriam Moore; Treasurer, Carolyn
Jenkins; Editor, Roberta Hayden.
Pi Kappa Sigma Sorority
Elects N ew Officers
The Pi Kappa Sigma Sorority has
elected the following officers for the
year of 1930-31: President, Kathleen
Russell; Vice-President, A n n i c e
Weather; Recording Secretary, Abig­ail
Brasseale; Treasurer, Sarah
Wilkes; Press Agent, Hoyt Enloe;
Keeper of Archives and Sergeant at
Arms, Pauline Watkins.
The School of Law
Nashville VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY Tennessee
Member of The Association of American Law Schools
Approved by The American Bar Association
THREE YEAR COURSE - EARL C. ARNOLD, Dean
SUMM£R SESSION BEGINS JUNE 23
REGULAR SESSION BEGINS SEPTEMBER 24
: : For catalogue and information address secretary, School of Lata : :
PERSONAL
MENTION
LAST CALL TO SENIORS
Don't be a social flop.
Let us save you with
your order now for
engraved cards.
Burton's Bookstore
Something New Every Day
Mr. Bob Howard spent last week­end
at Rockford, Alabama, with Mr.
and Mrs. J. N. Howard.
"" A group of the Auburn branch of
University Women " attended ' the
state meeting in Montgomery last
Saturday. Among those attending
were Mesdames Harkin, Killebrew,
Van Wagenen, High, Bohler, Toom-er,
and Misses Dobbs, Dean, and Pal­mer.
* * *
Mrs. Albert Thomas attended the
A. E. A. in Montgomery last week­end.
* * *
Miss Sarah Ingram of Cottonton,
visited friends in Auburn last week­end.
* * *
Mrs. W. B. Jones left Tuesday to
visit Mrs. Spright Dowell, of Macon,
Georgia. *
* * * v.
Miss Ernestine Hill who is attend­ing
the Alabama College for Women
at Montevallo, is at home with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Hill, for
the Easter holidays.
* * *
Mrs. Morgan of Uniontown is visit­ing
her sister, Mrs. P. P. Lane.
* * *
Mrs. L. A. Ward visited in Mont­gomery
last'week-end.
* * *
Mrs. C. L. Hare and daughter, Mrs.
Katherine Allen, left for New York
on Tuesday.
* * *
Mrs. Touman Rodgers is spending
the week in Montgomery.
* * *
Bishop W. G. McDowell spent Sun­day
with Reverend Byrd Lee.
* * *
Messrs. Charles" Davis, George
Sparrow, and Gene Gray motored to
Washington on Tuesday to spend the
Eatser holidays.
* * *
"7. Miss Bessie Raby is spending this
week-end in Americus, Georgia.
* * *
Misses Helen Shacklef ord and Ruth
Murray visited with Mrs. Claudia
Shackleford in Atlanta last week.
* * *
Miss Louise Bedell is leaving
Wednesday for the University of
Virginia at Charlottesville to attend
the annual Easter dances.
* * *
Miss Helen Shackleford is spend­ing
Easter -at Magnolia Gardens,
South Carolina.
-•' * *
Misses Inez and Elizabeth Shep­herd
motored to Montgomery last
week-end to attend the A. E. A.
* » *
The Montevallo Glee Club will per­form
at Langdon Hall on May 2, un­der
the auspices of the Men's Glee
Club.
* * *
The members of all the churches
united on Friday, April 18, at ten
o'clock for services at the Episcopal
Church. The sermon was taken from
the seven words from the Cross, and
each pastor made a brief talk.
* * *
Miss Lane Graves had as her guest
last week-emd, Miss Irby Barretrt,
of Blountsville.
* * *
Misses Carrie and Nellie Hester of
Marion, visited Miss Helen Hester
this last week-end.
* * *
Miss Birda Wood had as her guests
Misses Verna and Gladys Watson.
* * *
Mr. Snitz Snider was in Auburn
last week-end.
* * *
Miss Lucile Burson visited in Au­burn
last week-end.
* * *
Miss Ollie Joe Mallette of Troy,
spent several days with her sister,
Miss Mignon Mallette, last week.
* * *
Miss Audrey Fuller spent last week
end in Bessemer, with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Fuller.
* * *
Misses Helen Glover and Harriett
Gillette spent Saturday in Montgom­ery.
* * *
Miss Libby Jean and Mr. Frank
Israel visited in West Blockton, last
week-end.
Fuller-Rush Wedding
of Cordial Interest
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Fuller, of West
Point, Ga., announce the marriage of
their daughter, Eleanor, to Mr.
Stephens Rush of Auburn, Ala., and
Columbus, Ga., the wedding taking
place at Opelika, Ala., April twelfth.
The above announcement centers
the cordial interest of a wide circle
of friends throughout Georgia, Ala­bama
and the entire south owing to
the prominence and popularity of this
young couple. Miss Fuller is the on­ly
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
W. Fuller of West Point who have
for many years been prominently
identified with the social and civic life
of the town. Descending from a line
of ancestry dating from colonial times,
Miss Fuller has inherited qualities of
mind and charm of personality which
have made her a general favorite in
the social life of the town, and she
has given generously and unselfish­ly
of her time and talents to religious
and civic work. Her only brother is
Dr. W. M. Fuller of Auburn, Ala.
Miss Fuller is a graduate of the
West Point High School, studied at
G. S. C. W. at Millidegeville, later
attening Intermont College, Bristol,
Va.
Mr. Rush is the son of Mrs. Ida
J.- Rush and the late Dr. W. E. Rush,
of Tuskegee, Ala., a family identified
influentially in the growth and de­velopment
of Alabama.
Mr. Rush is a graduate in architec­ture
from Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
of Auburn, Ala., of the class
of 1929, has an R. O. T. C. commis­sion
of Second Lieutenant from the
same institution, was given an honor­ary
certificate in the architect's asso­ciation
and is a member of the Ma­sonic
Lodge.
Mr. and Mrs. Rush will make their
home in Columbus, Ga. where he holds'
a responsible position in the Quarter­master
Construction Department at
Fort Benning, and where he will in­troduce
his bride to a large circle of
friends.
Miss Thelma Chilholm of Seattle,
Washington who is national inspector
of the Kappa Delta Sorority, is spend­ing
a week in Auburn.
* * *
Misses Dorothy Reynolds, Mary
Johnson, and Bernice Pruitt, are at­tending
a B. S. U. convention in
Roanoke, Alabama.
* * *
Miss Helen Glover has as her guest,
Miss Thelma Howtbn, of Bessemer.
* * *
hisses Dorothy Parker, Marguer­ite
Kennedy, and Pauline Watkins
attended the State Christian Endea­vor
Convention in Selma.
* * *
Dr. W. H. Gregory of Florence,
visited Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gregory,
Jr., and Miss Elizabeth Gregory last
week-end.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Lipscomb spent
Sunday in Montgomery.
* * *
Dr. and Mrs. Bower of Greensburg,
Indiana, have returned to their home
after spending the winter with Dr.
and Mrs. Doner.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. O. D.-Langston and
Miss Lucile Burton attended the 250
year anniversary of the Hugenot Set­tlement
in South Carolina. It is in­teresting
to know that Mrs. Langston
has an old Hugenot ring brought over
by her ancestors. While in South
Carolina, Mr. and Mrs. Langston and
Miss Burton visited the beautiful
Magnolia Gardens.
* * *
Miss Mildred Wood is spending the
week-end in Birmingham.
* * *
Mr. Robert Strickland is spending
the week-end in Clio, Alabama.
» * *
Mr. J. D. Neeley is spending the
week-end in Montgomery.
* * *
Ytiss La Verne Watts and her guest,
Miss Ida Mae Brandon, left Saturday
morning for Mobile.
* * *
Mrs. T. W. Palmer with her daugh­ter,
Mrs. Hotz and children from Fay­ette,
Arkansas, are the guests of Miss
Lula Palmer.
* * »
Miss Thelma Chisholm is the guest
of Dean and Mrs. Scott.
Woman's Club News
By Mr*. C. P. Towmley
At a meeting of the education de­partment
of the Woman's Club on
Thursday afternoon, Professor Van
Wagenen spoke on the responsibility
of the school toward the physically
handicapped child. In connection
with this subject the department de­cided
to cooperate with the P. T. A.
in planning for immediate physical
examination of all children who will
enter school next fall so that defects
discovered may be attended to and
the children put in the best physical
condition before entering school.
Mrs. Beck heads this committee.
The library extension committee
of the education department held its
regular story hour for children at
Mrs. Salmon's home on Wednesday.
After the stories the children were
given a surprise Easter egg hunt.
The hour next week will be held at
the home of Mrs. Tisdale.
Play
U. D. C. Has Regular
Meeting Tuesday Afternoon
The U. D. C. met Tuesday for its
regular meeting at the home of Mrs.
G. P. Lane with Mesdames Gertrude
Lane, G. B. Chambers, W. P.«»Cham-pion,
W. V. Jones, and Susie Wright
as co-hostesses.
The program consisted of a paper
written by Mrs. Dan Jones on "What
Causes led to the War Between the
States."
Refreshments were served to the
members later in the afternoon.
Chi Omega Selects
Officers For 1930-31
The Chi Omega Sorority elected
the following members as officers
for 1930-31 as a recent meeting:
President, Inez Shepherd; Vice-Pres­ident,
Catherine Sewell; Secretary,
Louise Bedell; Treasurer, Miriam
Toulmin; Pledge Officer, Bertha
Northrop.
Striking School May-
Dismiss Students Soon
Harrogate, Tenn—Unless the 390
student strikers of Lincoln Memorial
University return to school its offi­cials
may dismiss the entire student
body, it "was announced today^
After a conference in the office of
Acting President J. H. S. Morrison
last night, J. R. Ketron, member of
the executive committee of the board
of directors said the board was de­termined
to end the strike at the
maximum cost of dismissing all the
students.
Such a move, it was pointed out,
would perhaps mean the complete dis­ruption
of academic activities, as ap­proximately
350 students are now at­tending
classes, the remainder having
refused to attend as a protest against
dismisal of members of the faculty
without "sufficient reason."
Meanwhile, the school authorities
made appreciable dents in the ranks
of the strikers eight more alleged
leaders being dismissed last night.
Previously Clay McCarroll, president
of the student body had been dis­missed.
-Dayat Montevallo
Attracts Many
Montevallo, Ala.—According to
pre-registration forecasts, more than
500 high school girls of Alabama will
gather on the campus of Alabama
college Thursday to participate in the
opening of the first state-wide play
day for high schools, and the eighth
annual inter-high school meet to fea­ture
contests in art, music, speech and
home economics.
The program will open at 10 a. m.
when all contestants wilL-gather in
Palmer hall for a brief address of
welcome by Dean T. H. Napier and
Dr. Frank Willis Barnett, followed
by drawing for places and a settling
down to the matter of first elimina­tions.
On the play day program, the first
event will be a complete campus tour,
including an introduction to the fa­mous
Kirkerbender fire escapes on
Thursday morning.
Mass games, including progressive
dodge ball, snatch club and end ball,
will occupy the afternoon, and the
day's program will close with an even­ing
of games and stunts at the Coun­try
club house.
The baseball and batball and volley­ball
tournaments will occupy Friday,
with finals coming in the afternoon,
followed by a recreational swim for
all contestants.
Saturday morning will be given ov­er
to stunt track features and final
awards.
A high spot in the. home economics
contest will be the style show sched­uled
for Saturday morning, when the
awarding of prizes in that field will
occur, and addresses will be made by
Miss Josephine Eddy, of the faculty
of Alabama college, and Miss Ivol
Spafford, director of home economics
work in the state.
In the speech and music contests,
eliminations will go steadily forward
Thursday and Friday evening, as a
special feature in Palmer hall.
Among the social events will be a
tea Friday afternoon for judges of
contests and high school teachers who
attend the tournament and an open,
swim.
At the close of Tuesday, registra­tion
included 39 music, 22 schools ag-testants,
18 art, 72 speech and approx­imately
350 "play day" participants:
Schools included in the registration
Tuesday are: Shelby County High,
Etowah county, Five Points, Deshler
High at Tuscumbia, Colbert county,
Minor High at Ensley, Holtville High
at Deatsville, Fairfield, Seale, Collins-ville,
Gorgas High at Berry, Bessemer
Junior High, Jemison, Tallapoosa
county, Choctaw county, Anniston
High, Thorsby Institute, Cullman,
Morgan county, Handley High at Roa­noke,
Mortimer-Jordan, Linden, Ari-
Some Movie Actresses
Do Not Use Hubbys'
Names After Marriage
One never knows what to call Holly­wood
housewives who star in the
movies during the spare time. Shall
one address Mary Pickard "Mrs.
Fairbanks," or call Mrs. Irving Thal-berg
"Norma Shearer?" There isn't
any rule to go by. You just have to
make a stab and the watch the ex­pression
to see if you hit right.
Theatrical custom entitles an ac­tress
to retain her own name' after
she is married. Some of them like it
and some don't. Ina Claire insists
upon her stage name. Being Mrs. >
John Gilbert is all right, she says,
but being Ina Claire is preferable
•from the point of view of Claire fans.
Many other actresses look upon the
situation as does Mrs. Gilbert. They
have spent years making their stage
names popular. It would be bad bus­iness
to change it. What, for in­stance,
if they were to divorce, some­thing
not entirely unheard of in Hol­lywood.
Then they would have to
start off as Mrs. Somebody just
gives more luster to the names of
their husbands, without adding to
the value of a stage name.
Mrs. James Gleason calls herself
by her married name both profession­ally
and socially. When referred te­as
"Lucile Weebster" she makes no
comment, but her friends will tell
you she. prefers being just Jimmie's
wife.
And Zelma O'Neil, the very modern
young woman, is so much in love with
her husband that she'wishes nothing
moTe than to be called "Mrs. Anthony
Busbell." Joan Crawford, another
modern, is satisfied to be called "Mrs.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.," Mrs. Ken
Maynard never yearned to create a
name of her own. Jeanne Kent gave /
up her theatrical aspirations when •
she married Robert Armstrong.
Whether it is cause or effect, or
neither, many famous actresses of
Hollywood are wives of fHm produc­ers
or directors. Corinne Griffith is
Mrs. Walter Morosco; Norma Shear­er
is Mrs. Irving Thalberg; Laura La-
Plante is Mrs. William Seiter; Louise
Fazenda is Mrs. Hal Wallis; Bessie
Love is Mrs. William Hawks; Norma
Talmadge is Mrs. Joseph Schenck;
the examples could be multiplied.
ton, State Accredited Agricultural at
Cuba, Moulton, Loulie Compton semi­nary,
Russell county, West Blocton,
Blount county, Wadley, Sumter coun­ty,
State Agricultural at Albertville,
Clay county, Cawlowville High at
Minter, Pell City, Tarrant City, Cull­man
Junior High, Marshall county,
Mobile, Phillips High at Birmingham,
Chambers county, Sidney Lanier at
Montgomery, Selma Junior high, Tus­caloosa
and Montevallo.
Sam Miller, 27,-of Central High
School, Akron, Ohio, who just re­ceived
his diploma, has conducted a
shoe shine stand to earn an educa­tion.
He plans to continue at Univer­sity
of Akron, and study medicine.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1930
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ADRIAN TAYLOR, Editor RHODES WASSON, Associate Editor
Elmer Salter, Contributor; Harry Barnes, Freeman Barnes, W. C. Free, Charles Trice, Assistants.
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'Murdoch Features
In Second Georgia
Victory at Auburn
Lefty Murdock pitched and batted
the University of Georgia baseball
team to a second successive victory
over the Auburn Tigers here on
Drake Field Saturday afternoon sev­en
to three. Murdock struck out 11
batters and accounted for two runs
when he hit a home run for the cir-cuit
in the second inning after Dav­enport
had singled ahead of him.
Auburn started off like they were
going to even the series by tallying
twice in the initial stanza on a base
on balls issued to Pate, Capt. Craw­ford's
triple and a single by Lloyd.
After the first canto, Murdock had
the Tigers eating out of his hand as
only four batters faced him in any
one inning after the two run lea* had
been obtained by the Plainsmen, the
only other run obtained by the Or­ange
and Blue nine was a home run
over Catfish Smith's head in center-field
in the seventh inning by Clifford
Smith, who was now pitching for
Auburn again. A rally was started
by Auburn in the ninth but a double
play stopped the fireworks without
any damage being done except for
a triple by Duck Riley, brilliant
Bengal keystoner.
Buck Carter started, on the mound
for Auburn and got along fairly
well until he and his mates blew up
in the sixth, allowing the Bull Dogs
four markers. Murdock's homer in
the .second and a lone run in the fifth
on singles by Gorman and McGaugh-ey
and a passed ball by Ingram. In
the sixth, Carter gave up a trio of
bingles, hit Hilburn and Smith, while
his mates made two costly miscues
which accounted for the final runs
obtained by Bill White's improving
ball club. . /
Clifford Smith relieved Cartel af­ter
two were out in the sixth and
held the heavy hitting Bull Dogs
hitless and scoreless for the remaind­er
of the afternoon. He marred his
almost perfect record for three inn­ings
by also hitting Catfish Smith
and Hilburn in the hips with his side
arm delivery. His long circuit clout
was the longest l}it ball of the after­noon.
•
Again the pitcher carried off ma­jor
honors. It was Spurgeon Chand­ler
Friday afternoon and Lefty Mur­dock
Saturday. Murdock, who also
plays in the outer gardens, gave up
only seven hits and kept his baffling
delivery on the corners o'f the plate
all during the fray. His southpaw
delivery caused 11 Tiger swatters to
whiff, while his mates also gave him
good support, completing one double
killing in the ninth.
Duck Riley continued his sensa­tional
fielding and again carried off
the defensive honors for the after­noon,
as well as being the only Au­burn
player to get more than one hit.
Riley got a single and three bagger
in four tries and handled perfectly
nine chances around the keystone.
Capt. Crawford robbed Catfish
Smith of a sure home run in the fifth
when he reached out with one hand
and grabbed his labeled four-bagger
while on the run. Phil Hodges was
the victim of Murdock's slants three
straight times before Coach Sheridan
sent in Kaley to hit for him. Hedges
became slightly peeved at Umpire
Hovater each time he faced Murdock
and was an easy out after his slight
outburst of temper.
Box score: _
PATE COMES TO RESCUE WITH
DOUBLE TO WIN OVER JACKETS
One of these dime novel heroes
was made in the opening Tiger-Jacket
game at Rose Bowl Wednesday. At
the beginning of the ninth inning the
score was 4-4—there were two outs,
and Frock Pate left his sick bench
to pinch hit for the Tigers.
There were two men on base when
Pate walked to the plate. Pate took
two swings at two of Mitchum's of­ferings,
and they were wild, but on
the third swing it was a swat for two
bases, scoring two men on base, and
Pate made third on Tom Jones' out­field
error—then a wild pitch by
Mitchum allowed Mr. Pate to cross
the home plate for the third run of
the inning.
And now Frock Pate is the hero of
the Plainsmen. He came to Atlanta
suffering with a bad leg and Coach
Sheridan had planned to give him a
rest. Wednesday when Sheridan
needed a first*rate pinch hitter, he
called on his regular short stop, and
he certainly came through with the
goods-
There you have the deciding fac­tor
in Lefty P U B ' S first varsity vic­tory
over the Jackets. In due con
sideration for Mr. Prim, one must
add that he pitched superb ball with
the exception of two innings. Only
three Jackets were able to hit safe
ly off his offerings.
It appeared for a while, however,
as though four hits were going to
be enough to defeat Prim in his first
game against the Jackets. Of course
a home run, a doufile and two singles
that are timely are bound to score
runs, and that was the Jacket meth­od
of hitting Prim. Not one pass
did the Sophomore ace issue during
the afternoon.
The Jacket offense opened in the
third inning. Ray Brosnan singled
after Fred Holt and Tom Jones had
taken three wild swings at Prim's
portside offerings. Pullen was safe
on Lloyd's error, Brosnan advancing
to third. Captain Red Terrell then
faced the Auburn hurler and sent a
double to deep left-center, scoring
Brosnan and Pullen. McKee brought
an end to the inning with his pop
fly to Lloyd.
In the fifth inning, the little Jack­et
hurler, Brosnan, got active again
with a single to right field, his sec­ond
of the day. Scott Pullen, the
Creighton Paper Pays
Compliment to Wynne
As He Leaves Hilltop
Georgia
Day, b -
McGaughey, ss -
Smith, cf _
Rothstein, lb _-
Davenport, 2b _
Murdock, p
Hilburn, If
Gorman, c -----
ab.
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EDITORS NOTE.—The following
clipping was cut from "The Creigh-t'onian",
the student publication at
Creighton, and is presented to the
readers exactly as published so as to
give it a full meanining and effect.
"The Task Will Be -Hard"
"When^he Creighton athletic board
voted 'with deep regret' to release
Chet Wynne from the remaining year
of his contract as head football and
track coach, in order not to prevent
him from bettering his position, it
reflected the sentiment of the entire
student body. No one on the Creigh­ton
campus would v/ish to deprive
Wynne of the opportunity offered him
by Alabama Polytech, but every one
will see him go 'with deep regret'.
"Seldom does an athletic coach fill
a niche in the school he serves as
Wynne has. During nearly eight
years spent on the Hilltop, the form­er
ail-American fullback has been
more than a coach—he has been an in­spiration.
Prowess on track and grid­iron
is not uncommon, but such a rare
combination of superior athletic abili­ty,
personal charm and a thorough
gentlemanly character are seldom
found. And in an athletic world har­ried
on all sides by shouts of corrup­tion,
chicanery and lack of sportsman­ship,
it is refreshing to know that
(Continued on page 6)
hard-hitting Jacket shortstop, came
to the bat and the third ball pitched
was right for Pullen—he swung hard
and the ball landed over the. left field
fence for a home run, scoring Bros^
nan. Red Terrell ended the scoring
with a strike-out.
That ended things for -<he Jackets.
After the fifth, Prim had the Engi­neers
at his mercy-. Not a single
Jacket was able to hit safely off the
Auburn hurler and he wasn't issuing
any free passes. As a matter of fact
he dyjn't issue one all day.
The Auburn scoring machine was
having trouble getting under way.
They could get men on base every
inning, due mainly to walks being
given out by the Jacket hurlers, but
they couldn't score. The sixth inn­ing
was different, three runs being
tallied. With one down, Newton
doubled to deep center. He failed to
advance when Burt grounded out,
Brennan to Holt. Lloyd was given
one of the frequent passes. Kaley
tripled to deep left center, scoring
Newton and Lloyd. Shortly after­wards
Lewis singled, scoring Kaley.
Prim was issued a free pass. Hodges
lined to Pullen to end the stanza.
The Tigers came right back in the
seventh. It was a wild inning. Three
Jacket hurlers faced the Tigers. Four
free passes, a triple and one run was
the record of the Plainsmen. Bros­nan
forced Riley to pop out. Craw­ford
tripled to deep right field. At
this time Kid Clay sent Earl Dunlap
to the mound while Mitchum could
get warm. The Jacket coach only
allowed one batter to face Dunlap,
Newton, and he was given a pass.
Mitchum then took the mound for
the Engineers, and he issued two
passes in rapid order, forcing home
the tieing run. After one man was
forced home, Mitchum cooled down
and retired the side—with the aid of
a couple of breaks caused by poor
base running.
The eighth inning was scoreless
and in the ninth the dime novel hero,
Pate, left his sick bench to win the
game. One hit, one error, and one
close play at second in the ninth
caused the game to be written in the
Tiger records as a 7-4 victory.
Box score:
Auburn ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Hodges, If 4 0. 0 1 0 0
Riley, 2b 3 0 0 2 5 0
Crawford, lb . 5 1 1 0 0 0
Newton, lb 2 2 1 14 D 1
Burt, rf 3 1 0 3 0 0
Lloyd, 3b. 2 1 1 5 0 0
Kaley, c 5 1 1 5 0 0
Lewis, ss ------ 4 0 2 0 1 0
Pate, ss ._ 1 1 1 0 10
Prim, p 4 0 1 0 0 0
Tracksters to Meet
Georgia in Initial
Dual Meet of Year
Totals 33
Tech ab.
Pullen, ss. 4
Terrell, 3b 4
McKee, If. 3
Harper, rf. 4
Jones, cf. 4
7 7.27 10 3
Ritchie, 2b .
Holt, lb .-
Farmer, c _
Brosnan, p.
Dunlap, p.
Mitchum, p.
Roberts 1
h. po.
Totals 32 4 4 27 8 3
Score by innings:
Auburn 000 003 1.03—7
Tech 002 020 000—4
Two-base hits, Terrell, Pate, New­ton;
three-base hits, Kaley, Craw­ford;
home run, Pullen; stolen bases,
Pullen, Brosnan; sacrifices, Riley,
Burt; left on bases, Auburn 11, Tech
1; base on balls, off Brosnan 6, Dun­lap
1, Mitchum 6; struck out, by
Prim 4, Brosnan 3, Mitchum 1; hits,
off Brosnan 5 in 6 1-3 innings with
runs, off Dunlap none in no inn­ings;
wild pitch, Mitchum; passed
ball, Farmer; losing pitcher, Mitchum.
By Harry Barnes
Coach Wilbur Hutsell's varsity
Orange and Blue tracksters will en­ter
their first dual meet of the 1930
season Saturday afternoon, April 19
when they journey to Athens to take
on the Georgia Bulldogs. With the
aid of the excellent spring weather
this week, Coach Huts,ell has been
busy ironing out the little flaws
showin the the Southern Relays last
week in Atlanta.
Captain Bell, is expected to make
things hard for the Bulldogs, as he
has shown up well in the past week's
practice. Beard, who is entered in
four events, the 120 yard high hurd­les,
220 yard low hurdles, discus
and shot put will have some tall
hurling to do as reports from the
Georgia city are that -the Bulldogs
have several mean discus throwers
and shot putters. Pitts and Huff in
the 1 mile run and Teague and Rob­erts
in the two mile run are expect­ed
to show up well in these events
as all four were members of Tiger
cross country the past season. Rob­inson,
who is the only entrant in
the javelin throw and who is also
an entrant in the discus chunking
should have an easy time out throw
ing the Georgia boys if he comes up
to his old form shown in past seas­ons.
In the pole vault Galliard, Bos-well,
and Hughes have shown up well
in practice with the latter having a
slight edge over the others.
A tentative line-up of the men
making the trip is as follows:
100 yard dash—Chamblee, Hanby,
and O'Hara.
220 yard dash—Hanby, O'Hara,
and Bottoms.
440 yard dash—Capt. Bell, Jones
and Bottoms.
880 yard dash—Gray,_McLendon,
and Dollins.»
1 mile—Pitts and Huff.
2 mile—Teague and Roberts.
120 yard high hurdles—Stewart,
Beard and Stacey.
220 yard low hurdles—Sjtewart,
Beard and Bell.
High jump—Burnette, Stewart,
and Stacey.
Broad jump—Burnette, O'Hara
and Hanby.
Pole vault—Hughes, Gaillard and
Boswell.
Discus—Coleman, Beard and Rob­inson.
Shot put—Coleman and Beard.
Javelin—Robinson.
CHET WYNNE TO REPORT MAY 1; Lindale Wins Over
WILL GIVE GRIDDERS FEW PLAYS Auburn Tigers In
Their First Tilt 8-5
Freshmen to Play Tech
Yearlings in First Game
Unless games are scheduled for this
week-end, Coach Earl McFaden's frosh
baseball nine will not play any tilts
until April 25 & 26, when they jour­ney
to Atlanta and meet Roy Mun-droff's
Baby Yellow Jackets from
Georgia Tech in a two-game series.
A return series will be played with
the Baby Jackets in Auburn, May 2
& 3.
While the yearlings haven't any
regular games carded, they will faCe
the varsity in practice games, Mon­day
and Tuesday, and will meet the
varsity yannigans while the Sheridan
nine is playing Georgia Tech in At­lanta,
Wednesday and Thursday, Ap­ril
16 & 17.
The rodents have only played one
regular game this season, a tilt with
the Fort Benning Musketeers which
they lost, 2 to 0, when base-knocks
could not be produced with runners
on the paths.. In the initial fray for
the Cubs, several players showed
promise and_are expected to be strong
contenders for varsity berths next
season if they continue to improve as
they have since they first reported to
Coach McFaden.
When Chester "Chet" A. Wynne
comes to the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
as head football coach and ath­letic
director, May 1, the sound of the
pigskin will again echo from Drake
Field. Coach Wynne has written
Coach Earl McFaden telling him. that
he wants to conduct a few days of
light football training when arrives,
but nothing physically will be given
as the weather is too hot and the
candidates for Auburn's 1930 gridiron
eleven have already had a strenuous
Spring training under Coach McFad­en
who taught them mostly blocking
and tackling.
Wynne stated to Coach McFaden
that he wanted to teach the candidates
his system of signals and five or six
fundamental plays during the ten
days that the squad will train in May.
The squad will workout in track suits
and football shoes.
The opening game on the 1930
schedule with Birmingham-Southern
is 163 days distant, nevertheless, some
of the gridiron warriors have already
started preparing for what is hoped
to be the most successful season en­joyed
by an Auburn football team
since 1926 when Sewanee was defeat­ed,
9 to 0, in the Tigers last confer­ence
win.
Coach Earl McFaden, who probab­ly
will assist Wynne next season, is
going to call out the footballers in
preparation for the arrival of the for­mer
ail-American fullback from
No.t're Dame. Several candidates, in
eluding one "A" wearer, will not be
allowed to report to Coach Wynne
because they did not participate in
Spring training this year or were
only out long enough to stop when
the work became a little rougher.
Tech Evens Two-Game
Series With Tigers, 6-2
Combining four hits, a base on
balls and four errors into five runs
in the first stanza, Kid Clay's Geor
gia Tech Yellow Jackets evened the
two-game series with the Auburn
Tigers Thursday afternoon, 6 to 2.
After the, Plainsmen / had settled
down, the Jackets were only able to
gather three more hits off Carter and
only one run, but the damage had
been done in the opening frame. The
Tigers played fair ball after their
siege of miscues when they allowed'
the Jackets to score their five tallies.
Carter started for the Tigers but
was relieved in the eighth when
Coach Sheridan sent in Frock Pate,
hero of yesterday's game to hit for
him. Pate failed to come through
this time as he hit into a double kill­ing,
Terril to Richie to Holt.
Auburn meets Lindale Friday af­ternoon
at the Cornerstone at 3:30
and in Lindale Saturday. Perkins
will pitch for the Plainsmen against
Slick Moulton's array of professional
hickory wielders.
Auburn ah
Hodges, If 2
Riley, 2 b. 4
Crawford, cf 4
Burt, rf 4
Lloyd, 3b : 3
Kaley, c 3
Lewis, ss 3
Carter, p 1
Smith, p -_ 0
xPate . 1
Totals 29 5 24 13
Ga. Tech ah. h. po. a.
Hullen, ss 4 1 3 1
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A list of football candidates who
Coach Earl McFaden wants to report
to Coach Chet Wynne for a few days
of practice when he arrives around
May 1 will be posted up town in a
few days. Coach McFaden said that
no one who failed to have a good rea­son
for not reporting to Spring train­ing
when it was in session will be al­lowed
to come out when Coach Wynne
arrives.
In a letter to Coach McFaden, Coach
Wynne stated that he would arrive
here about May 1 and wanted to have
a few days of light football. He
'said that nothing violently physical
would be on the menu, but wanted to
teach the 1930 hopefuls the system of
signals and five or six fundamental
plays. He- hopes to provide the can­didates
with track suits and football
shoes for about ten days of systematic
work.
The football fever has already
struck some of the candidates since
President Knapp announced the sign­ing
of Coach Wynne to a three-year
contract. Chat'tie Davidson, regular
quarterback last season, George Egge,
end, and other have started working
out again in preparation for next sea­son.
Coach Wynne also wrote Coach Mc­Faden
that he would be mighty glad
to take up the work here and was
anxiously awaiting for the time of his
departure for the Cornerstone.
By Adrian Taylor
Undernearth grey . and somber
skies, the Lindale Pepperells defeat­ed
the Auburn Tigers, 8-5, in the
first game of their scheduled two
game series. Costly errors on the
part of the Tigers, combined with
excellent pitching by Lefty Ander­son,
former Tiger luminary, provid­ed
the margin for the Pepperells.
Lindale opened the game 'with
Hambright, lead off man, striking
out, closely followed by Patton and
West's popping out.
The Tigers began the second half
of the first inning with a bang as
they scored two runs. Hodges walk­ed,
Riley and Crawford were out,
Hodges going to second on Riley's
sacrifice, and then scored on New­ton's
single. Newton went to second
on Burt's long single, and scored
Charlie Farmer Flashes
SpeedlnSouthern Relays
Julian Bassett, Porter Grant, Jim-mie
Hitchcock, Sam Mason, George
Jenkins, Ike Parker, Herbert Miller,
Sam Grubbs, Stewart Pugh and W. D.
Curlee are the players who have shown
potential ability on the diamond as
members of the Orange and Blue first-year
team.
The young sophomore speed mer­chant,
Charlie Farmer of North Caro­lina,
raced away from the classiest
field of college sprinters in the South
Saturday afternoon to set a new mark
of 9.8 seconds for the 100-yard dash
in the eighth annual Southern relays.
The former record of 10 seconds was
held jointly by four men. Five oth­er
meet records were broken.
The Carolina relay teams broke
three meet records and Ed "Hopping"
Hamm, Georgia Tech, leaped to a new
broad jump mark. Sandy Sanford
of Georgia Tech, leaped to a new
high jump record.
Farmer stepped off his trial heat
in record breaking time and repeated
the performance in the finals of the
century sprint. Percy Brown, Louisi­ana
State, Southern Conference cham­pion
and Ed Hamm, veteran Georgia
Tech ace, failed to place in the final
event.
The Tar Heel team has to thank
Farmer for its record-breaking ba­ton-
carrier was in second position as
the men reached the last lap, but
Farmer rapidly closed the gap and
jumped into the lead. " The quartet
negotiated the distance in 1.29.6, best­ing
the old mark of 1.31.1, held by
Florida.
The Chapel Hill entry also posted
new marks in the mile relay for con­ference
teams and the two mile relay
for freshmen. The quartet rounded
off the mile in 3.24.7 as compared to
the old Mississippi A. and M. mark
of 3.25.2. The first year runners com­pleted
the two-mile event in 8:22,
clipping 18.4 seconds from Auburn's
old mark of 8:40.4.
Auburn's lone victor was Coleman,
who spun the discus 129 feet 11 inches.
Outdistancing his nearest rival by
more than two feet, Hamm broad
jumped 24 feet, 9 1-2 inches to bet­ter
his previous relay meet mark of
24 feet 2 1-4 inches.
Sandy Sanford, of Georgia, cleared
the bar in the high jump at 6 feet 1-2
inch mark set last year by Eubanks
of Oglethorpe.
No team scores were compiled and
there is no official team winner. The
relays are for individual records on­ly.
In all events, North Carolina led
when Ingram's gi'ounder was erred
by Hambright. Lewis ended the inn­ing
by flying out to McSwain.
The Pepperells scored three runs
in the second inning, putting them
one ahead of the Tigers. McSwain
was safe on Lloyd's error, Pugh
walked, and both runners scored on
Slick Moulton's double. Moulton,
former Tiger baseball coach and now
manager of the Pepperells' reached
second on White's sacrifice. He ad­vanced
to third when Fanning was
out on a fielder's choice, and scored
on Stoutenborough's hit.
Lindale again accounted for an-j
other run in the third inning, when
Patton hit a home run. Joe Burt,
the Auburn Ruth, responded also
with another homer in Auburn's half
of the same inning.
The Pepperells failed to score in
the fourth inning, but made another
run in the fifth inning when Patton
singled and went to third on Burt's
error. He scored on West's single.
The Auburn Tigers tied the count
in their half of the fifth inning, mak­ing
the count five to five. Crawford
hit a double after Riley had struck
out, and scored on Burt's second
home run of the game.
However, Lindale quickly unknot­ted
the score, as they scored two
runs in the sixth. White flied out,
but Fanning was safe on Harkin's er­r
o r * Croaker, hitting for Stouten-borough
former Tiger twirler, re­ceived
a pass to first. Hambright
advanced both runners with a single,
and they quickly scored on singles
contributed by Patton and McSwain.
Lefty Anderson, who relieved
Stoutenborough, in the sixth had the
Tigers literally eating out of his
hands, as they failed to get a Kit in
the remaining three innings, and six
of them went out by the strike out
route.
Lindale made their final talley in
the eighth inning on Hodges' error,
Patton's walk and West's single. The
two teams will play the final game
in Lindale this afternoon.
(Continued on page 6)
with five first places, while Florida
was second with four, Georgia Tech,
Mississippi A. and M. and Tulane had
two each.
Broad jump: won by Hamm, Geor­gia
Tech, 24 feet, 9 1-2 inches; sec­ond,
McCall, Davidson, 22 feet 11
inches; third, Bethea, Florida, 22 feet,
8 7-8 inches, (new record).
Two mile relay for freshmen: won
by North Carolina (Watkins, Mitch­um,
Jones, Jensen); second, Georgia
Tech; third Florida. Time 8.22 (new
record).
Javelin throw: won by Anderson,
Georgia, 191 feet, 4 inches; second,
Graydon, Georgia Tech, 184 feet, 11
inches; third Robinson, Auburn, 180
feet, 9 inches.
220 yard low hurdles: won by De-coligny,
Tulane; second, Whittle, Da­vidson
; third, Slusser, North Carolina.
(Continued on page 6)
SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE
CENTER JUMP IS NOT
TO BE ELIMINATED
BY RULES COMMITTEE
International Basketball Rules
Committee Makes Several
Changes In Rules
Following a recommendation of the
National Coaches' association and the
majority of those who answered ques­tionnaires
sent out last summer, the
international joint basketball rules
committee, meeting in New York
City April 13, made several changes
in the rules but elected to retain the
center-jump.
In answering the questionnaires,
330 voted to retain the toss-up at cen­ter,
while 128 vote to abolish it. Two
hundred fifteen men had experiment
ed with the proposed change, and by
way of concession promised to continue
their experiments.
One change provides that a player
fouled in the act of shooting now
gets credit for the goal if he makes
it, but gets only one free throw. If
the goal is missed, the ball is in play
instead of being returned to center
Another alteration stipulates that the
ball may be tapped no more than twice
by a player jumping in or out of the
circle. And, if one center jumps out
of the circle, the offense is penalized
by a technical foul, instead of the loss
of the ball to the opposing team on
the side line.
, On a free throw the timer's watch
shall not be started until the ball
leaves the thrower's hands. A play­er
removed for a substitute may not
return until play has been resumed.
Not more than three overtime peri­ods
shall be played in high school
games, and a rest period of five min­utes
shall be allowed after the initial
overtime.
The circumference of the ball shall
not be more than 31 inches and not
less than 30 inches. The weight maxi­mum
shall be not more than 23 ounces
and the minimum shall be not less
than 20 ounces.
The committee also expressed its
approval of the three official idea,
but did not set an absolute require­ment
for three officials.
Knight Templars To
Attend Easter Service
The Opelika and Auburn Knight
Templars will attend a special Easter
Service at the Auburn Episcopal
Church Sunday, April 20. Rev. W.
B. Lee will preach the sermon. At the
suggestion of President Knapp of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute Em-minent
Commander V. Meadows of
Opelika has requested all Sir Knights
to ass%ible at Langdon Hall at 10:30
and march in a body to the church.
WINS BEER CONTEST
A reprint from a German paper
printed at Heidelberg, Jan. 18, 1873,
runs as follows:
"America has won a splendid vic­tory
over Germany in dueling and beer
drinking. The best duelist in our uni­versity
is an American from Kansas,
and the best beer drinker is a Ken-tuckian."
Penn Expedition
Discovers Mummy
Says Mummy, That Of A
Woman, Lay Undisturbed
For 4,000 years
Philadelphia—The University of
Pennsylvania Museum expedition at
Meydum, Egypt, has uncovered a
mummy, which with its decorations
and amulets and jewelry lay undistur­bed
for 4,000 years, it has been an­nounced
by museum officials here.
Alan Rowe, field director, in formed
the officials, they said, that the mum­my
was that of a woman named Sat-
Her-emHat, who lived about 2,000 B.
C.
"Around the neck of this woman"
the report stated, "was hung a semi­circular
pendant formed by several
concentric rows of faience cylinder
beads, alternately green and black.
In addition to this a string of large
graded beads of polished amethyst
was found as well as a string of exqui­site
miniature amulets cut in carnel-ian,
jasper and lapis lazuli.
"The semi-circular end pieces of the
pendant _are of bluish-green faience,
shaped and painted on the inner cor­ner
to represent hawk's heads. A
sarab found in the coffin bore the
proper name 'Her-em-Hat, the elder,'
evidently a relative of the deceased.
Rowe said the expedition was con­tinuing
its search for a burial cham­ber
in the mastabah lying near the
great pyramid of Seneferu, who lived
about 2,900 B. C.
SHADE TREES PLANTED
ON ALABAMA HIGHWAYS
BULLETS EVENTUALLY
WILL IDENTIFY THUGS
Mathematics, 'and Science Of
Ballistics Will Be Means
The criminal weapon is designed to
be as accurately identified through
the science of 'ballistics, operating with
mathematics as an aid, as the crimin­al
himself now may be identified by
means of finger prints, Professor
Charles O. Gunther, of Stevens Insti­tute
of Technology, declared in a re­cent
report.
With the aid of a fund provided by
the Engineering Foundation, Profes
sor Gunther is conducting "an inves
tigation along scientific lines of the
principles underlying the identifica­tion
of firearms and bullets, particu­larly
in homicide cases."
With the variance' of machinery
used in the manufacture of weapons,
and ammunition, is never is possible
for two discharged bullets to be exact­ly
alike, according to Professor Gunth­er.
Identification may be difficult at
times, but it is always possible.
Says July Fourth
Really Is Sept. 3
Points To Fact That Sept. 3,
1783, Treaty With Great
Britain Signed
New Reason Advanced
For America Entering
The Great World War
Thirty-eight miles of shade trees
have been planted on Alabama's state
highways thus far during the cur­rent
planting season, says the State
Commission of Forestry.
The planting projects were initi­ated
by the Federation of Woman's
Clubs and the work has been car­ried
out in co-operation with the
Highway Department, the Board of
Administration and the Commission
of Forestry.
The plantings are widely scattered
over the state and cover practically
all the principal highways. A va­riety
of trees were used but the lead­ing
species are Water Oak and Wil­low
Oak. On some of the projects
Crepe Myrtle was planted between
the larger trees.
A total of 5,937 trees varied in
height from one to seven feet, de­pending
on the species used. On
each project, however trees of uni­form
height were planted. The trees
were planted on an average of 66
feet apart, but on different projects
the space varied from 50 to 100 feet.
The location for the trees was
staked out by the Highway Depart­ment,
technical and field supervisors
Was furnished by the Commission
of Forestry, and labor was supplied
by the Board of Administration,
County authorities, city laborers,
Boy Scouts, high school boys, Ameri­can
Legion members, laborers paid
by the club women and in some in­stances
the women themselves parti­cipated
in the actual physical labor.
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Cleveland, Ohio—(IP)—America
went to war with Germany in 1917,
not because the Lusitania was sunk or
because commerce had been interfer­ed"
with by the Germans, but because
the Allied propagandists were more
efficient than those of the Central
Powers.
This opinion was expressed here by
Rev. Dilworth Lupton, pastor of the
First Unitarian Church, speaking at
the weekly forum of the City Club.
"To overcome the danger of mali­cious
propaganda, I would suggest the
minimizing of secrecy and the maxim­izing
of publicity," Lupton said. "If
Shearer had been obliged to register
at the Geneva Naval Conference and
to state by whom he was being paid,
do you suppose his lobbying would
have carried much weight with the
delegates.
"Secondly, I would suggest the min­imizing
of suppression and the maxi­mizing
of freedom. Recently I went
to a book store to buy a copy of Da-kin's
biography by Mrs. Eddy. I
could not find it on the shelves and
had to ask for it. The clerk rather
shame-facedly produced a copy from
under the counter.
"I asked why the book was hidden.
She said that the Christian Scientists
had asked that it be kept out of sight.
I have since then taken issue with
several Christian Scientists on this
point. I asked them what they would
think of the medical doctors united to
suppress all books- on Christian
Science.
"Thirdly to protect ourselves from
the evil effects of propaganda, I
would recommend a radical change in
our educational system, which it it­self
a system of political, religious
and economical propaganda at pres­ent.,,,
"It should be the aim of educators
to teach students to think for them­selves
and to differentiate- between
those ideas and ideals which are liable
to prove helpful and those which are
not.
"Primarily, however, in protecting
ourselves from propaganda no matter
what methods we employ, we must aim
to protect ourselves individually." '
Chicago—The idea of a new In­dependence
Day to supplant July 4,
is contained in a suggestion made here
by J. Henry Smythe, Jr., of New York,
in connection with Chicago's Century
of Progress celebration to be held
here in 1933.
In an interviaw at the Hamilton
Club in this city, Smythe, who es­tablished
Franklin Day in honor of
Benjamin Franklin, suggested that the
forthcoming celebration serve also to
mark the 150th anniversary of the in­dependence
of the United States.
For, Smythe points out, although
the Declaration of Independence was
signed on July 4, 1776, it was not
until September 3, 1783, that the
treaty of peace with Great Britain,
in which that country recognized the
United States as an independent na­tion,
was signed.
"That date," he said, referring to
September 3, 1783, "might be as im­portant
today in our history as July
4, or perhaps more so, if it had re­ceived
the proper backing at the start.
It just happened that July 4, the day
of signing the. Declaration of Inde­pendence
was selected as the day for
celebrating our independence instead
of September 3, which is just as logi­cal
a day from the standpoint of hisj:
torical significance.
"Chicago could enhance its own cele­bration
and introduce a novel idea by
associating it with this important but
apparently little known historical
event."
Smythe has coined more than 1,-
000 successful patriotic .and political
slogans, and was a leader in the fight
in the Methodist Church to lift the
church's ban on amusements.
UNDY, WIFE TO MAKE
CONTINENTAL FLIGHT
Interest of Air Industry Reason
For Flight of Flying
Colonel
Cottier Is Elected
President Evening
Forum at Meeting
John Cottier, of the Presbyterian
Church of Auburn, was recently elect­ed
president of the Evening Forum
of the Presbyterian Student Associa­tion
at the University of Missouri.
Mr. Cottier is a graduate student
at the University of Missouri, in the
department of Agriculture. He grad­uated
from Auburn last year. Dur­ing
the past year, Mr. Cottier has been
very active in the Student Work, at
the University, which was sponsored
by the Synods of Missouri. He has
served as Chairman of the Booster
Department. He has also played sev­eral
leading roles in the dramatic
productions sponsored by the students.
Mr. Cottier is the son of Mrs. H. M.
Cottier of Auburn, Ala.
The Presbyterian Association of
which Mr. Cottier has been elected
President of the Evening Forum, is
a student association of some 800
Presbyterian Students attending the
University of Missouri, Stephens and
Christian Colleges.
Patronize our Advertisers.
Basketball Rules May
Undergo More Changes
Chicago, 111.— ( I P )— Because he is
concerned over the effect on the game
of basketball of the practice of stall­ing,
Craig Ruby, University of Illinois
basketball coach and president of the
National Association of Basketball
Coaches", is conducting a survey of
over 800 coache^ seeking their opin­ions
on the subject.
His questionaire, sent to the coaches
recently asks for information on to­tal
scoring, stalling and other points.
It is expected that the subject will
be a main part of,the discussion at
the annual meeting of the basketball
rules committee.
Burbank, Calif.—Col. Charles A.
Lmdberg will hop off late this week
on a transcontinental flight in which
he will make speed and altitute tests,
he announced here today.
The noted flier spent several hours
checking over his specially equipped
Lockheed plane at the factory field
here in preparation for the trip to
New York.
His wife, Anne Morrow Lindburg,
whom he taught to fly will relieve
the colonel at the controls during the
trip, he said. ••.
The exact time of departure has
not been decided, but Colonel Lind-berg
said the trip probably will be
made over the week-end. ~
Only one stop is scheduled. The
ship will be refueled at Wichita,
Kans.
While speed is one of the objects
of the flight, Colonel Lindberg said
no attempt would be made to estab­lish
a new speed record.
The real purpose of the trip is to
gather data on air lanes in the high­er
altitudes. This information, ob­tained
under flying conditions, will
form part of the foundation for more
rapid and efficient trans-continental
air service, he said.
The presence of National Aeronau-'
tic association officials at the take
off, a^ Wichita, and at the finish will
make the flight official.
Colonel Lindberg believes existing
time schedules on cross-country air
lines will be cut in the near future
through application of knowledge of
air current's in the higher altitudes
and advantageous use of winds.
"Because of lowered air resistance
in the higher altitudes," he' said,
"greater speed can be reached pro­vided
motor power can be maintain­ed."
Ordinarily, he pointed out, motor
power falls off proportionately in
the thin air above a 10,000 foot alti­tude.
To insure sea-level power from
the motor at high altitudes, a super­charger
has been installed on the
Lindberg plane. The ship is a two-seated,
dual-controlled Lockheed.
An auxiliary generator will furnish
power for the electricity heated suits
the couple will wear.
Miss Duke Speaks
to Business Women
Discusses History of Business
Women From Biblical To
Present Time
Miss Inez Duke, attorney of Ope­lika,
was the principal speaker at
the regular meeting of the Auburn
business and professional women's
club at the Thomas Hotel Wednes­day.
Miss Duke sketched briefly the
history of women in business from
the time of Lydia, biblical character
and seller of purple silks, to the pres­ent.
Lydia, Miss Duke explained, was
the first business woman on record
and was also a good home-maker.
Continuing she showed that women
have made fine progress in business
and that today in" the United States
they are participating in all profes­sions
and business open to both men
and women.
The musical program featured Miss
Georgia Stevens of West Point, Ga.,
and George Moxham of Auburn, who
sang solos.
MODERN INVENTIONS
SOON TO NECESSITATE
A WORLD LANGUAGE
Airplane, Radio, Talking Pic-tures
To Necessitate An
International Language
Cleveland, O.—Within two genera­tions
the airplane, plus the radio~and
the talking picture, will make a world
language an absolute necessity, Wil­liam
B. Stout, head of the Stout Air­plane
Division of the Ford Motor Co.
said here in an address before 300
purchasing agents and business exe­cutives.
"The airplane is shrinking distance
even more than did the automobile,"
Stout said, "Mexico City, for ex-ample,
is 43 hours from Tampico, on
the Atlantic Coast, by the fastest
means of ground transport, but regu­larly
operating air lines will carry
you between the two cities in four
hours.' Air lines are doing and will
continue to do wonders in the develop­ment
of the backward countries of
The meeting was presided over by I Central and South America and of
Miss Berta Dunn, president of the | the rest of the world and will do
club, and Miss Nettie Dennis was i n | l n u c h to bring about the world broth-charge
of the program.
DEAF MUTES FIGURE
IN ALIENATION SUIT
Washington—(IP)—The first town
in the.country to complete its census
count this year, was Centre Town,
Cole County, Miss.
Chicago.—Affection expressed by
hand signals while shuffling and deal­ing
cards was the basis of an alien­ation
siut here in which all the par­ties
concerned are deaf mutes.
Mrs. Lena Mickenham obtained a
judgment of $3,000 against Mrs.
Louise Rutherford Mickenham, of
Kitchjta, Kans., by default. •
The complainant obtained a di­vorce
in September, 1928, and her
husband married Miss Rutherford.
The first Mrs. Mickenham charged
that the romance between her form­er
husband and her successor as his
wife began during card games in her
home. * / •
Somebody said that the statement
made in the Bat last week were false.
Ah, some more., future sleuths.
erhood we all desire.
"Within three years air transport
will overcome its worst handicap—
that of being unable to land on fog
bound airports. But the problem of
private ownership will not be solved
until planes are developed that are
easy to learn to fly.
WOMAN GRANTED DIVORCE
ON EVIDENCE FROM FILM
Berlin—(IP)—A woman ha« been
granted a divorce here on evidence
entirely gleaned from a agyyng pic­ture
film.
While her husband was away on
business in England, the woman hap­pened
to see a news reel of a football
game played in that country.
One of the spectators at the game
who came in view of the* camera was
the absent husband, much more in­terested
in a woman at his side than
the game.
A little tell-tale celluloid was
brought into court.
HILL & CATON
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Next to Burton's Bookstore
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cried ihe willowy Winona
"And why not, my gal?" demanded Wellington Threeves, thrusting
his classic chin against her heavingr bosom.
"Because," replied Winona, "you will not be annoyed at bridge by
his huskiness any longer. He has promised that, if spared, he will,
change to OLD GOLDS, made from queen-leaf tobacco. Not a throat
scratch in a trillion."
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PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1930
ANNUAL SCOUT JAMBOREE
PLANS BEING COMPLETED
IPRISONERS ESCAPE
TO BE PREVENTED
BY ELECTRICAL EYE
On May 2nd the Annual Scout-
' craft Jamboree will be given at Au­burn.
Every troop of Boy Scouts in
the Central Alabama Area Council
have been invited to attend and com­pete
in the eight events. The events
start with an inspection, drill and
parade at 1:30 in the morning under
direction of Lieut. Barth and other
military officers of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute. An archery
contest will complete the morning's
activities.
At noon a barbecue will be served
to the Scouts and Scouters present
by a committee of the A.P.I. This
will be even better than last year the
chairman of the committee said. At
t|his time too the officials of the
Council including chairmen of Sel-ma,
Opelika, Alexander City, Tal-lassee
will meet with the Auburn
"leaders for the Second Quarterly
meeting at which time ^reports on
progress will be made to President
Blount.
At 1:30 the events in Scoutcraft
will be resumed. First the Knot'
Tying or Rescue Race will be held
with team of eight scouts. Then both
Semaphore and Morse signaling
messages of a hundred letters each
will be sent and received by teams.
The String Burning will be the nov­elty
event of the afternoon. Each
scout troop will have their applicant
try to burn through a string placed
two feet above the ground with only
a limited amount of wood and two
matches.
First aid as usual will be one of
the best and most instructive events.
Every team will be given the same set
of injuries. Scouts are being warn­ed
that Neatness, efficiency and cor­rectness
of treatment is of far more
importance than speed in this event.
After the fire by friction event
the last or Tower Building event
will take place. Here should be a
fitting climax to the scoutcraft
events of the day.
- Following the events the troops
will be the guests of the Georgia
Tech Freshmen vs. Auburn Fresh­men
in a baseball game arranged es­pecially
for the Scoutcraft Jamboree
Day. It is expected that Chet Wynne
will be on hand to meet the boys
as he is reporting to the college
on May 1. This fact alone has at­tracted
many scouts to put out their
best effort.
The awards will be made follow­ing
the game, it is expected. How­ever
the major awards will be pre­sented
the three winning troops be­fore
the microphone of WAPI by
President Knapp when the local
council will be 'on the air' for a
half hour.
The last feature of the day will be
the oratorical event at the little the­atre
that evening. President Blount
will present the winner a scout stat­uette.
Program
13:0 Inspection and drill, followed
by parade and archery event.
12 Barbecue for Scouts and Scout­ers
followed by second quarterly
meeting of council officers.
1:30 Scoutcraft events at Drake
Field. __
3:30 Presentation of awards by
Dr. Knapp.
4 Guests of Auburn-Montgomery
baseball game.
7:30 Oratorical contest in The
Little Theatre.
Auburn college as host will furn­ish
prizes, judges and dinner for
Scouts and Scouters.
1st prize—Large American flag
with pole and emblem; 2nd prize—
Official Boy Scout troop first aid
cabinet; 3rd prize—Twenty-five mer­it
badge pamphlets for troop library.
10:30 A. M.
1. Inspection.and Drill (including
parade)
Judges: Lieut. Barth, Lieut. Town-sley,
Howard Sparks.
Points given for: (A) Troop cor­rectly
uniformed, 50 percent; (B)
Troops participating, 50 percent; (C)
Ability to keep attention and step
in rank, 10 percent; (D) Line pass­ing
in review, 15 percent.
Award: Troop winning, to be
guest at Tiger Theatre.
Archery Event: Judges, Professors
Hixon, Brown and Dixon. One en­trant
from each troop. Must furnish
- all material excepting target. Each
contestant 10 shots at 25 yards. 9-7-
5-3-1 score. Three highest scores
gives troop 25, 20 and 15 points re­spectively.
2. Rescue Race:
Judges: Coach Hutsell, P. O. Davis
and Percy Beard. The team of eight
boys line up one behind the other
with left hand at side, right hand
above head holding 2 yard length
sash cord in the middle; at signal
scouts form life line using square or
reef knot, each scout given opportun­ity
to throw line to "patient" lying
on ground 30 ft. in front. First
Scout over starting line wins. No
"creeping" allowed. Awjard: offi-ciaLScout
lariet.
3. Semaphore Signaling:
Judges; Lieut. Townsley, Paul
Brake and C. F. Striplin. Team of
four Scouts, reader, sender, receiver
and writer from each troop entered.
Same message 100 letters given each
team in sealed envelope. 30 yards
betweens sender and receiver. Accur­acy
60 percent; speed 40 percent.
Must use official flags. Time limit
15 minutes. Ten mistakes eliminate
team. Award: Autographed patrol
leaders handbook each.
4. String Burning:
Judges: Howard Sparks and mem­bers
Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity.
One Scout each troop—furnished
wood, 2 matches and strong string
two feet above ground. Scouts must
have own knife, axe. At signal scout
splits wood—builds fire on ground
under string. First string to burn
through wins.
5. First'Aid:
Judges: Lieut. Barth, Dr. Thomas
and Rev. Hay. Team five scouts—
one to be patient. Troop furnishes
own equipment, etc. At signal team
rushes to patient—opens envelope,
giving three injuries (all teams have
similar injuries.) Patient nor audi­ence
allowed to give suggestions. Or­der
of treatment; neatness, accuracy
s
60 percent, (each injury 20 percent),
transportation 25 percent; speed 15
percent; time limit 20 minutes.
Award: Individual official belt first
aid kits of Bauer and Black.
6. Morse Signaling:
Judges: A. L. Thomas, Roger
Knapp and C. F. Striplin. Team of
four scouts, reader, sender, receiver
and writer from each troop entered.
Same message 100 letters given each
team; 30 yards between sender and
receiver. Accuracy 60 percent;
speed 40 percent. Make use official
scout flag. Time limit 30 minutes.
Ten mistakes eliminates team.
Award: signal flag kit each.
7. Fire by Friction:
Judges: Rev. McGehee, S. L. Toom-er
and Roger Allen. One entrant
from each troop. Blaze required.
Speed event. No warming up allowed.
Award: Flint and steel set.
8. Tower Building:
Judges: Capt. Anderson, Professor
Nichols and W. T. Ingram. Team of
eight boys from each troop. Team
runs 10 yards, all but ground boys
remove shoes, form tower 3 high,
one boy boost and handle equipment,
top boy- remains up long enough to
send word giving just before event
with Semaphore flags. After break­ing
tower all tops boys put on shoes,
lace, tie bow and team return to
starting point. Word sent must be
read by judges. Award: Autograph­ed
patrol leaders handbook for each.
Awards made following this event
by Dr. Bradford Knapp, president
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
Alabama.
Scouts and scouters adjourn to
Tech-Auburn Rats baseball game.
7:30—ORATORICAL CONTEST
Little Theatre—Admission Free
Rules:
(a) Subject must pertain to Scout­ing.
Suggested topics: Why I'm a
Boy Scout; How Scouting came to
America; Scouting in America "Be­comes
of Age next February"; The
Scout Oath; A Scout is (trustworthy,
or any law).
•(b) One registered Scout from
each troop of Central Alabama area
council may qualify.
(c) Anyone may assist Scout in
securing material.
(d) Oration must be made with­out
papers (however a few notes will
be allowed). All papers to be turned
over to chairman at opening of con­test.
(e) Scouts must write, memorize
and deliver own oration.
(f) Scouts urged to submit ora­tion
papers to English teacher for
suggestion and criticism.
Basis of Award: (a) subject mat­ter;
(b) composition; (c) memoriza­tion;
(d) delivery.
Award: Official Boy Scout stat-
Scientific Device May Stop
P r i s o n B r e a ks
A model of a prisoner crept up a
a model prison fall recently* and as
it came within the range of vision of
an "electric eye" a revolver trained
on the prisoner was fired and a bell
on the prison wall sounded a general
alarm. It might have turned on a
system of flood lights and set off a
battery of machine guns or even as­phyxiated
the victim or victims with
a barrage of tear gas. The protective
field available is unlimited, it now on­ly
becomes necessary to select the
severity of the method to be used.
This was the first demontsration
of how science may thus stop the over-frequent
prison breaks and was given
by Edwin H. Vedder of the Westing-house
Electric and Manufacturing
Company before the Illuminating En­gineering
Society of Boston. The
mechanism involved for the prison
demonstration is relatively simple.
At one end parallel to the prison wall
and near the top a small and scarce­ly
noticeable beam of light shone
steadily into the "electric eye" which
was mounted at the other end. Any
interruption of this beam though ever
so slight causes the above sequence
of events to occur with lightning like
rapidity. At the moment of inter­ruption,
the flow of current through
the "electric eye" ceases and the im­pulse
thus cheated is amplified in a
grid glow tube, which operates the
relays. These in turn pull the trig­ger
of the revolver and set off the
electric bell or whatever other de­vices
have been installed.
The influence of such a mechanism,
in the opinion of Mr. Vedder, should
prove a powerful deterrent to pris­oners
attempting to escape.
The "electric eye" is a photo-elec­tric
cell, and purely a light sensitive
device. If voltage is applied and light
made to fall upon it a current passes
by means of electronic emission from
the cathode to the anode. This cur­rent
is very small but may be am­plified
by a grid glow tube to enable
it to operate commercial relays as
was previously shown.
Up to this time the "electric eye"
has made possible numerous opera­tions
previously thought to be im­practical.
The field for its appli­cation
seems almost unlimited. It has
aided in the perfection of talking mo­tion
pictures, television, -automatic
smoke detection, and many other ac­complishments.
The photo-electric cell may be ap­plied
to initiate innumerable opera­tions
by means of variations in the
intensity of light on the cell. This
light may be either direct or reflect­ed.
For example, a puff of cigarette
smoke between a light source and the
photo-electric cell or even_the reflec­tion
of light by different shades of
color are sufficient to be indicated by
the cell. To clarify the possibilities
of this device and perhaps suggest
other applications a few of its uses
are given below.
Sorting material according to color,
size, shape, etc.—counting items where
mass production requires speed, where
products such as hot ingots, would
wear out a mechanical counter.
Initiating operations such as ringing
an alarm on a printing machine when
breaks occur in the paper. Starting
and- reversing automatically sheet or
bar mills from the position of the
bar. Lighting control for turning on
and off artificial lights at the ap­proach
of darkness. Smoke detect­ing
for fire protection. Position in-
1 v»
(Continued from page 4)
here at Creighton we have had a coach
who has constantly been immune from
such attacks.
"True, every coach, Wynne included,
has been the target of disgrundled
students and alumni, who raise their
voices to high heaven whenever their
football team is defeated. But such
displays have always been discounted
as a necessary evil, and have, at
Creighton, been more than made up
for by the continued loyalty of the
Blue jay array.
"To the athletes in particular,
Wynne's going will be a sad occasion.
For seven years Creighton warriors
have followed his courageous leader­ship,
under fair and gloomy condi­tions.
Under him they have won a
majority of hard football games; they
have seen the prestige of their school
and its athletic teams raised to a great
extent, until it compares favorably
with any in the Middle West.
"They have met some of the strong­est
gridiron opponents in this section,
and on more than half of the occa­sions
they have emerged victorious.
But more than all, throughout those
seven campaigns they have had the
benefit of expert athletic teaching, and
they have enjoyed contact with one
of the finest gentlemen in the coach­ing
field.
"The task of Wynne's success will
be a hard one. That is apparent
pimply by looking over the schedule
for next fall. But it will be made
harder by the fact that whoever he
is, he will be expected to measure up
to the personal as well as the athletic
qualifications of Chet Wynne."
uette, copper finish. .This will be
a w a r d e d by President Roberts
Blount.
Judges: Prof. Rutland, Thomas, P.
Brown and Gabie Drey.
General Information
Every troop to furnish own equip­ment
except when specified.
All troops should enter every
event.
Only registered Scouts in good
standing may enter.
Scoutmaster should mail in type­written
list of entrants in events to
council headquarters by April 11.
All troops should be present 100
percent.
Report by April 15th number
scouts and scouters expecting to take
lunch as guest of college.
Given every scout in troop oppor­tunity
to enter at least one event.
Each scout should wear uniform
if he owns one.
Urge mothers, dads, sisters, broth­ers
and friends to attend.
CREIGHTON PAPER PAYS
COMPLIMENT TO WYNNE
AS HE LEAVES HILLTOP
CABINET OFFICERS
TO BE INSTALLED
ON TUESDAY, MAY 8
(Continued from page 1)
kins, junior member.
Engineering: Robert L. Hume, and
A. N. Davis, senior members; G: E.
Tucker, junior; C. W. Stickle, soph­omore.
Textile Engineering: R. A. McMil­lan,
senior member.
Education: C. D. Harkins, senior;
F. L. Matthews, junior.
Veterinary: V. D. McCreary, sen­ior.
Academic: A. M. Pearson, senior;
Sam Fort, junior. «
Agriculture: T. G. Amason, sen­ior;
C. E. Sellers, junior.
Chemistry: John L. Christian,
senior member.
The president vice-president, and
secretary and treasurer of the cabi­net,
chairman of the Social commit­tee,
and treasurer of that committee
are' to be elected from the senior rep­resentatives
of the cabinet next
week, and the results will be announ­ced
in the Plainsman next Saturday.
Other committee chairmen will be
elected later.
The new cabinet and the new offi­cers
will begin functioning the day
after commencement.
TECH EVENS TWO-GAME
SERIES WITH TIGERS, 6-2
(Continued from page 4)
Terrell, 3b 4 2 2 2
McKee, If --_ — 3 1 2 0
Harper, rf 3 0 0 0
Waldrp, cf 4 ^1 5 1
Ritchie, 2 b 3 2 3 2
Holt, lb 3 0 10 1
Farmer, c s 3 0 1 1
Powell, p 3 0 1 2
Totals 30 7 27 10
xHit for Carter in eighth..
The score by innings:
Auburn 001 000 001—2
Georgia Tech —— 500 001 OOx—6
Summary—Runs, Newton, Kaley,
Hullen, Terrell, McKee, Harper,
Waldrop 2. Errors, Riley, Lloyd,
Kaley 2, Carter, Hullen. Two base
hits, Newton. Three base hits, Wal­drop.
Double plays, Waldrop to Hul­len,
Terrell to Ritchie to Holt. Base
on balls, off Carter 2; Powell. Struck
out by Carter 2; Powell; Smith. Hits
off Carter 7 in 7 innings with 6
runs. Losing pitcher, Carter.-
dicator, safety device, indicating the
position of doors, such as elevators.
Position of moving cars through dang­erous
places. Light intensity meter
for measuring intensity of light for
photography, moving and still. Scan­ning
material to detect flaws or de­fects.
Ultra-violet ray meter for rec­ording
the quantity of ultra-violet
light. Used with a captive balloon in
determing fog height necessary for
safe airplane travel. Or it can guard
buildings and safes against burglars;
record temperatures of steel in blast
furnaces and shear metals, etc.
MURDOCK FEATURES
IN SECOND GEORGIA
VICTORY AT AUBURN
(Continued from page 4)
Tate, rf 4 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 7 9 27 7 3
Auburn ba. r. h. po. a. e.
Hodges, If 3 0- 0 0_1 0
xKaley, c 10 0 1 0 0
Pate, ss _-- 2 1 0 3 4 1
Crawford, cf —- 4 1 . 1 1 0 0
Lloyd, 3b 4 0 1 2 10
Burt, rf 3 0 1 1 0 0
Newton, lb 4 0 1 10 0 1
Ingram, c 3 0 0 4 1 0
Harris, If - - - - - - 0 0 0 1 0 0
Riley, 2b 4 0 2 4 5 0
Carter, p 10 1 0 10
Smith, p 2 1 0 0 0 0
xxLewis 10 0 0 0 0
Totals - - - - - 32 3 7 27 13 2
xBatted for Hodges in seventh;
xx batted for Harris in ninth.
Score by innings:
Georgia 020 014 000—7
Auburn 20X) 000 100—3
Two base hit, Davenport; three
base hits, Crawford, Riley. Home
runs, Clifford Smith, Murdock. Sac­rifice
fly, Burt. Stolen bases, Mc-
Gaughey, Catfish Smith, Gorman 2.
Double plays, Riley to Pate; Mc-
Gaughey to Rothstein. Struck out,
by Murdock 11, by Carter 3, by
Smith 2. Base on balls, off Carter
1, Murdock 3. Left on-bases, Geor­gia
5, Catfish Smith, (Carter) Hil-burn
(Smith) Catfish Smith (Smith).
Innings pitched by Carter 5 2-3 with
seven runs and nine hits. Losing
pitcher, Carter. Umpires, Hovater
and James. Time of game: 2:10.
SPEAKERS FOR COMMENCE­MENT
ARE ANNOUNCED
OMICRON DELTA KAPPA
PLEDGES TEN JUNIORS
(Conti