1929-12-03 The Plainsman

              GOOD GAME,
TIGERS THE PLAINSMAN
T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT
GOOD GAME,
TIGERS
VOLUME LIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929. NUMBER 24.
Yellow Jackets
Conquer Auburn
In Hectic Clash
Score of 19-6 is Closest Score
Registered in Several Years
BLOCK & BRIDLE CLUB
PLACES CHAPTER ON
THE AUBURN CAMPUS
Numeral Award to
Be Made to Frosh
Cake Race Winner
National Stockmen's Society for
Students Approves Petition
At Chicago Meeting
FIRST CHAPTER IN SOUTH
DAVIDSON RUNS 50 YDS.
TO PAVE WAY FOR TALLY
Tigers Show Peak of Form As
Tech Flashes Rejuvenated
Power
By Adrian Taylor
Making the best showing of the
season the Auburn Tigei-s gave Tech
a tough encounter in Atlanta last
Thursday in their final game of the
year. Tech was best on the offense,
but the great defensive play of the
Tigers kept the score comparatively
low, the work of Harkins, Andrews,
and Newton standing out in the line,
while the great Tech backfield ac­counted
for the showing of the
Golden Tornado.
It was not a championship battle,
a game in which contenders often end
a successful season, but the last of a
series of traditional Thanksgiving
games between old rivals, who hon­or
and respect the customs of each
other. Playing before approximately
twenty thousand spectators, as well
coached and alert Auburn team gave
the Golden Tornado a fight that will
long be remembered throughout the
South. Swan Songs were reverber­ating
over the Tech Flats this Turkey
day, for the great Stumpy Thom-ason,
Mizell, H. Long and G. Long
were playing their last gave on Grant
Field. Tech was fortunate in winning
this final Turkey game, and the won­derful
defensive playing of the Au­burn
Tigers is quite apparent as Tech
failed to score on many occasions. In
the first sixteen minutes of the game
Tech had 16 offensive tries at the
Auburn goal, and each time that Au­burn
line arose on its posterior limbs
to thrust back each attempt.
After holding Tech for four downs
on the 11 yard line; Captain Long,
unadjusted to his new position at
fullback, intercepted a Tech pass on
his own five yard line, and realizing
his error threw the ball down, which
was recovered by a Tech player. How­ever,
the Auburn line vindicated her
Captain's mistake by holding the
mighty Thomason on the one yard
line, when a touchdown seemed cer­tain.
Harkins, contender for an all
Southern berth. Newton and Andrews
were messing up the Tech plunges
and nothing could be gained over
these giants.
Closely following these heart break­ing
efforts, Tech received one of her
many breaks, and from then on it
was a Tech victory. Deep in the sec­ond
period, Auburn once again held
Tech for downs, getting the ball on
her own five yard line. A partly
blocked punt of Jones' traveled only
27 yards, and Tech was in possession
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Auburn Club Now Consists of
25 Members Including
Prof. W. E. Sewell
First-year Men Enthusiastic as
Time Set for Race Nears
ALL RATS TO TAKE PART
Special Committee C o n f e rs
With Authorities At
Georgia Tech
The Block and Bridle Club, nation­al
stockmen's organization for col­lege
students, has placed a chapter at
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
Woid of this reached Auburn Tues­day
from members of the local Ani­mal
Husbandry Club who are in Chi­cago
at a meeting of the national
organization to present a petition for
membership. They wired President
Bradford Knapp that they had been
accepted, and thanked him for his
help in recommending them to the
national club.
The chapter at Auburn is the
eleventh in the United States and the
first to be placed in the South. Col­lege
students whose major interest
is animal husbandry, and who meet
other requirements of achievement,
scholarship, character, and leader­ship
are elected members.
The Auburn club now has 25 mem­bers
including Prof. W. E. Sewell of
the animal husbandry department,
who is an honorary member and
faculty advisor. W. B. Story, student
from Opelika, is president, Tom W.
Lumpkin, Millerville, vice-president,
and Howard Gray, New Market, sec­retary.
At present the club meets twice a
month. Programs featuring subjects
of interest to husbandmen are pre­sented.
In the future, President Story
said, prominent livestock men of the
State will be invited to appear be­fore
the club as speakers.
Coach John Floyd announced to-
Iday that a numeral will be awarded
to the freshman winning the cake
race, under the sponsorship of Omi-cron
Delta Kappa, to be staged on
December 13. According to recent re­ports
from athletic authorities and
members of the Omega Circle of
ODK, the frosh race promises to be
an unusual event of interest to those
other than first-year men. A special
committee reported today of a con­ference
with representatives of the
Kesmic honor society and Georgia
Tech athletic officials in Atlanta re­cently
in regard to the race.
A* plan for the cross country run
neared completion today first-year
men were enthusiastic over the pro­ject,
if the number of inquiries which
poured into the athletic office is any
fair indication.
All freshmen will be required to
start in the event which will be run
through the streets of Auburn in case
of inclement weather. A complete
list of rules governing participants
with a map of the course will be pub­lished
the week prior to the event, it
was said today. A large number of
cakes to be presented to successful
runners will be on display in the
windows of the Students' Supply
Shop.
Co-ed Is Judged
Forensic Winner
First In History
Rosa May Pate, Speaking on
"Creative Citizenship," Wins
For Evans Society
Church Student Groups
Meet In Joint Session
Student Leagues Are Guests of Tuxis
Club Sunday Night
Percy Lee Receives Fatal
Injuries in Football Game
Memory of JO-Year-Old Brother of
Coach Lee Revered at Services
Percy Lee, young brother of Coach
Sheriff Lee, died last Friday as a re­sult
of injuries sustained in a foot­ball
game between Mississippi Col­lege
and Southwestern on Thanks­giving
Day. His body was sent to
Clinton, Mississippi, where the entire
student body of Missisippi College
took part in a memorial service for
the promising young athlete. After
the service at Clinton his body was
escorted to his home, Ludlow, Mis­sissippi,
by members of his team,
where funeral services were conduct­ed
Monday.
Death ended the promising career
of Lee, 20-year-old right end for
Mississippi College, after pneumonia
had set in. He received two broken
vertebra in his neck when he tackled
George Hightower, Southwestern
halfback, in the Thanksgiving Day
game between the two schools.
Miss Rosa Pate, of Auburn, a sen­ior
in Education, and representing
| the Evans Literary Society, won the
I decision of the judges in the annual
declamation contest, which was held
last Tuesday night in the Main Build­ing
before a large audience. Miss
Pate is the first girl to ever win the
event since it was started several
years ago by Phi Delta Gamma, hon­orary
forensic fraternity. The win­ning
subject, "Creative Citizenship"
was well received by the audience,
and showed much preparation on her
part.
S. D. Rains was the only other
speaker, and his subject, "The Lost
Word" was also highly satisfactory
to the audience. Rains was the win-
Radio Station W4AQ On
Air After Long Silence
Hundreds of Dollars of New
Equipment is Installed in
Station
A large number of students at­tended
a joint meeting of the stu­dent
groups of the several churches
in Auburn on Sunday night, Decem­ber
1. The B. Y. P. U, Epworth Lea- j
gue, and Christian Endeavor were
the guests of the Tuxis Club of the
Episcopal church at this time.
This was the first meeting of its
kind to be held this year, resolutions
being made at this time to hold them
regularly in the future. The purpose
of these assemblies is to foster a
closer relationship among the various
student religious organizations on
the campus.
A committee was selected from the
four groups represented to make
plans for a treasure hunt, to be held
one night next week, in which all the
leagues will participate. It was an­nounced
that the meeting of this
committee, on December 4, will be
open to all students that wish to aid
in the arrangements for the treasure
hunt.
Presbyterians Will
Hold Special Services
Annual Noah Winston Caton Memo­rial
Services to Be Held Sunday
On Sunday morning at eleven
o'clock special services in honor of
Noah Winston Caton will be held at
the Presbyterian Church.
Caton came to Auburn in 1915 and
during his years here he played on the
varsity football team and enjoyed a
enviable popularity. He was a promi­nent
figure on the campus, belonging
to many honorary fraternities. Not­withstanding
this, he always found
time for his church duties. No matter
how battered up, and sometimes on
crutches, from the game the day be­fore,
Sunday morning always found
him at his post in the Sunday School.
Dr. Knapp will preach a special
sermon on this occasion. All the mem­bers
of both the varsity and freshman
football squads will receive special
invitations and all others are cordially
invited to attend.
After a silence of four months,
W4AQ, amateur short wave station
of the Auburn Radio Club is again
sending dots and dashes to the four
corners of the world. The station was
put on the air Saturday night, fol­lowing
the purchase of two new R.
C. A. 204 A., 250-watt transmitting
tubes, brought with appropriations
from the college at a cost of $105.00
each.
The original plans made by the
Radio Club at the beginning of the
year are somewhat changed. The gen­erators
have been reset on the third
floor of Broun Hall, with the trans­mitter
set up in an adjoining room.
The operating table and receiver are
not located in the same room with
transmitter, as the arrangement has
not proven satisfactory.
At present only the 40-meter unit
is in operation, but the club expects
to be on the air with a 20-meter
transmitter, also, by the first of the
year.
Woodrow Darling, chief engineer
of the Auburn amateur station is re­sponsible
for having the transmitter
operating. He worked through the
Thanksgiving holidays, and reset all
the apparatus.
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Varsity Grid Squad
Feted at Banquet in
Home of President
Football Scheme Well Executed
In Decorations of Orange
and Blue
ALL COLLEGE HIKE TO
TAKE PLACE HERE ON
SATURDAY EVENING
PREXY IS TOASTMASTER
Jubilee Banquet at Close of
Grid Season Will Be
Annual Affair
The Auburn Tigers were entertain­ed
in their second annual jubilee by
Dr. and Mrs. Bradford Knapp in their
home Monday evening. The event was
given added enthusiasm Thursday
when the Floydmen not only held the
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to one
of the lowest scores run up against
them this season, but scored six points
on them, climaxing a successful cam­paign
in spite of defeats suffered at
the hands of Florida, Vandy, Ten­nessee,
Georgia, Clemson, Tulane,
and Tech. The two games the Tigers
won this year were from Birming­ham-
Southern and Howard College,
which showed a marked improvement
ner last year, and according to the | over their 1928 grid season.
Professor Shi Leaves
To Attend Convention
Will Meet with Southern Association
of Colleges, in Lexington, Ky.
To attend the convention of the
Association of Colleges and Second­ary
Schools of the Southern States,
Professor B. L. Shi, registrar, left
Auburn Sunday for Lexington^ Ken­tucky,
where the meeting is being
held.
The object of the association is to
"establish helpful relations between
the secondary schools and the insti­tutes
of higher education within the
Southern States, and to consider all
subjects which tend to the promotion
of interests common to colleges and
secondary schools."
The meeting will close on Thurs­day;
Professor Shi is expected to re­turn
the latter part of this week.
judges then, he presented the best
declamation that had ever been
heard in one of the contests.
Both talks showed that the speak­ers
had put their heart into the task
of giving forth a winner; however,
that of Miss Pate's was slightly
smoother than the other, according to
the critics.
In the past the co-eds have re­frained
from entering the contest un­til
this year when Miss Pate decided
to show her ability as a declaimer
with the result that she carried off
first honors.
The winner will have her name,
society, and the year won, engraved
on a beautiful loving cup which is the
property of Phi Delta Gamma, the
event being sponsored by this or­ganization.
There is a cup for each
of three contests and each year the
winner is recognized in this manner
on that respective cup.
In the past all four societies have
been represented, but due to a lack
of interest this year, only two were
able to have representatives on hand.
James Ware Returns
From Interfrat Meet
All that were present at the ban­quet
stated that it was the most
elaborate football feast they had ever
attended. Besides the 24 football men
honored on this occasion by Dr. and
Mrs. Knapp were three coaches,
Coach Floyd, Coach Hutsell, and
Coach McFaden; Mrs. Knapp's aunt,
Mrs. Campton; and Mrs. Knapp's
daughter, Virginia Knapp.
Dr. Knapp acted as toastmaster and
made the first talk. Captain "Shorty"
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Many New Features Planned
To Add to Fun of Annual
Hike
SPONSORED BY Y. M. C. A.
Co-eds Will Stage Football
Game; Rats and Sophs Have
Tug-of-War
Ag Engineers Club Joins
National Organization
Charter Granted by National
Group at Convention in
Chicago
Convention Held in New
Prominent Men Speak
York;
The interfraternity council of Au­burn
was represented by Jimmy Ware
at the National Undergraduate Inter­fraternity
Council Convention which
was held Friday and Saturday in the
Pennsylvania Hotel of New York City.
Eighty colleges were represented at
the convention.
Secretary Wilbur gave an address
on the usefulness of fraternities in
various colleges. A copy of the ad­dress
will appear in the Plainsman at
a later date.
The convention discussions included:
everyday problems concerning frater­nities,
the advantages and disadvan­tages
of deferred and early rushing,
the power of inter-fraternity councils,
the cooperative purchasing of gro­ceries
and supplies for fraternities at
various colleges, and ways in which
the interfraternity councils may save
fraternity money.
The petition of the Agricultural
Engineers Club, which was formed
here two weeks ago, to the American
Society of Agricultural Engineers
was granted Monday in Chicago at
the national annual convention of
that body being held there. The local
organization has for its officers:
Thomas L. Baggett, president; John
R. Carreker, vice-president; Victor
Savage, secretary and treasurer.
The local organization was formed
here about two weeks ago and after
presenting its constitution to the Stu­dent's
Undergraduate Association was
admitted to the campus as the Agri­cultural
Engineer's Club. A new con­stitution
was drawn up to be present­ed
along with a petition to the A. S.
A. E. at its convention this week-end
in Chicago and the club was granted
a full membership as a student
branch of the national organization.
The purpose of the American Society
of Agricultural Engineers is to foster
higher ideals in agricultural engin­eering,
to promote better relationship
among the students in this line of
work, and to provide a means of bet­ter
national cooperation among the
Agricultural Engineers. The local
branch has for its faculty advisers
Professor A. Carnes, Professor J. W.
Randolph, and Professor M. L.
Nichols.
Professor Dunstan Locates Radium
Lost By Hospital In West Virginia
The All College Hike will begin at
Langdon Hall aturday at 1:15. The
hikers will proceed northward on
College Street from Langdon Hall.
"A good time is promised for all.
Fun galore! Eats abundant! A jolly
good time." Such are the opinions
of participants of previous hikes
about the All College Hikes.
Plenty of free eats and entertain­ments
is promised all students. All
of the hot chocolate, cakes, marsh-mallows,
weeniers, rolls, and pickles
that could be wanted will be provided
by the Y. M. C. A. The big tug of
war between the Freshmen and
Sophomores will be one of the big­gest
attractions. All students are
urged to be there to pull for their
class. In addition to the tug-of-war;
the co-ed football game, the pie-eat­ing
contest, the sack race, the bag re­lay,
and the battle between the fresh­man
and sophomore class presidents
will add much to the fun.
The band will be there to help keep
up the pep. The Y. M'. C. A. urges
all the students to be there and to
come prepared for the fun.
The All College Hike is an annual
affair sponsored by the Y. M. C. A.
"Old men" who have been on previ­ous
All College Hikes confirm the
opinion that the hike is one of the
liveliest and most enjoyable occa­sions
of the year. The hike is an event
at which both students and profes­sors
discard their dignity and join
wholeheartedly in the fun.
Though practically all arrange­ments
for the hike have been com­pleted,
the special Y. M. C. A. com­mittee
in charge of the festivities is
still hard at work devising new fea­tures
for the entertainment of the
student body at this, the biggest event
on the "Y" calendar.
Dr. Fred Allison
Makes Brilliant
Discovery Public
Develops Highly Sensitive Pro­cess
for Chemical
Analysis
EXPLAINS PROCESS TO
PHYSICISTS OF NATION
Experiments Leading to Dis­covery
Begun Two Years
Ago
Dr. Petrie Is Present
At Atlanta Meeting
All Southern Institutions Represented
At Convention
- The finding of two radium needles
again brought Professor A. St. C.
Dunstan and his electroscope into
prominence last week; the needles
valued at eighteen hundred dollars,
were lost form the Guthrie Hospital
at Huntingdon, West Virginia, and
were found in an incinerator on the
grounds.
The radium was first detected on
Thanksgiving Day, at about noon, and
a light snow was falling at the time.
After several setups of the electro­scope,
positive indications that the ra­dium
was in the incinerator were
given by the instrument. After much
digging, the needles were brought out
in a shovel-full of ashes; however, it
was not until the ashes containing the
radium had been reduced to a very
small pile were the needles able to be
seen.
The valuable metal was lost from
the operating room of the hospital,
and there was no indication as to
where it had disappeared. After in­vestigation,
Profesor Dunstan decided
that the needles had probably been
thrown with trash into the incinerator
or an ashpile near it. Luckily, the
ashes had not been removed for two
weeks.
The theory was correct, as a deflec­tion
of the electroscope was noticed
shortly after Professor Dunstan had
set the instrument up. The incinera­tor
was forty feet from this position,
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Dr. George Petrie, professor of
history and dean of the graduate
school, attended a meeting of gradu­ate
deans of southern colleges and
universities in Atlanta, Ga., Friday
and Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Colleges and universities from Vir­ginia
to Texas and from Kentucky
to Florida were represented. State
institutions and privately endowed in­stitutions
were included.
This was the fourth annual meet­ing
of this group, of which Dr. Petrie
was one of the original organizers.
In graduate work Auburn is pre­eminent
as a Land-Grant college, sep­arate
from a state university. Al­though
Auburn has never had a large
number of graduate students, quality
has been emphasized and the records
show that the majority of the gradu­ate
students at Auburn have distin­guished
themselves after leaving col­lege.
For 42 years graduate classes
have been conducted at Auburn ac­cording
to Dr. Petrie, who came to
Auburn 42 years ago. They have not
been students taking regular work
and calling it graduate work, but
courses arranged and conducted
especially for students who are
qualified to pursue graduate studies.
Although such work at Auburn
dates back almost half a century the
doctorate degree has never been
awarded. Instead, Auburn has em­phasized
degrees which the institute
is capable of giving properly and ef­fectively.
With a small enrollment,
personal attention is given to each
student. At present about 50 students
are doing graduate work at Auburn.
Last Summer about 170 (including
80 Smith-Hughes teachers) pursued
work leading to advanced degrees.
A new method of chemical analysis
sensitive enough to detect the pres­ence
of one part of a compound in
ten billion parts of water, discovered
by Dr. Fred Allison, head professor
of physics at the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute, was explained by him
Saturday morning to members of the
American Physical Society in session
Friday and Saturday at the Universi­ty
of Chicago.
The new method is the result of
two years of research work on the
problem by Dr. Allison. In the later
stages he was assisted by Professor
Edgar J. Murphey, another member
of the physics department here.
Compounds and not elements are
detected by the method. It is not only
highly sensitive but also very rapid.
By it, Dr. Allison has made in a few
days analysis that would require sev­eral
weeks by methods now employ­ed.
It is expected to be of value as a
practical method of chemical analy­sis,
especially where very minute
traces of compounds are to be de­tected.
The method is based on apparatus
delicate enough to make time mea­surements
of less than one billionth
of a second. This is done with polar­ized
light 'and electro-magnets. A
discovery by Faraday in 1845 reveal­ed
that light rays are twisted when
passed through liquid surrounded by
a magnetic field. Two years ago Dr.
Allison began inquires to discover
whether the twisting of light is in­stantaneous
with application of the
magnetic field or if there is an in­terval
of time between the mag­netic
application and the beginning
of the twisting phenomenon. He also
wanted to measure this time if it
existed. By delicate experiments it
was found that the twisting is not
instantaneous but that an interval of
time elapses before it develops.
It was further found that twisting
is produced more rapidly in some
compounds than in others. This dis­covery
made possible development of
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Kiwanians Nominate
Candidates Monday
Club Plans to Hold Christmas Party
On Night of December 13
Nominations for the officers of the
Kiwanis Club were announced at the
regular weekly meeting of the club
Monday. The following were nomi­nated
for offices: for president—
Roger Allen, Alonzo Meadows, and
Rev. W. B. Lee; for vice-president—
Albert Collins, Alonzo Meadows; for
second vice-president—J. W. Tid-more,
R. Y. Bailey, and Homer
Wright; for district trustees—P. O.
Davis, Captain B. C. Anderson; for
directors—W. W. Hill, R. S. Sugg,
L. N. Duncan, R. Y. Bailey, and J.
V. Brown. Ballots will be cast at the
next meeting, it was announced.
Following announcement of nomi­nations,
the club voted to hold its
Christmas party at Smith Hall on Fri­day,
December 13, at 8 p. m.
Captain Anderson was appointed
to meet with a committee from the
Lions Club to discuss the improve­ment
of roads about Auburn.
Mrs. Mary Drake Askew farvored
the club with several musical selec­tions.
NOTICE MOBILE CLUB
The Mobile Club will hold a meet­ing
in the lounge of Ramsay Engin­eering
Hall at 9 p. m. Thursday,
December 5. All members are urgent­ly,
requested to attend as important
business will be transacted.
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THE PLAINSMAN
—thinks that the winner of the inter-fraternity
basketball tournament de­serves
some mention, for the victori­ous
team fought a hard, clean battle
from start to finish. This team can
feel that its victory was well-earned.
—congratulates the seniors receiving
bids form Phi Kappa Phi. It is an hon­or
of which they may well be proud.
Auburn-Tech Change
Passing of Classic
When the final whistle blew on Grant
Field, Thanksgiving day, it brought to a
close a Southern football classic between
Auburn and Georgia Tech which has en­dured
for thirty-seven years, back to 1892,
when the two teams first met on Thanks­giving
day. There has always been a sort
of halo about this time-honored game and
the many supporters of the two institutions
are more than sorry to see the end of this
series.
There have been a number of changes in
the schedules of the Southern Conference
teams announced this fall due to various
causes. However, the Auburn-Tech Thanks­giving
day game is not being discontinued
because of any dispute but due to the un­expected
decision at the Flats to eliminate
any December football, necessitating dras­tic
changes in the schedule and this game
will undoubtedly be moved further up the
schedule. It is good indeed that the dis­continuance
of this game did not come
about through any dispute, yet the very fact
that the game is no more, that it is a
thing of the past, is deplorable. It has
heretofore been looked forward to with a
sort of relish by the supporters of both
the schools. Until recently Thanksgiving
day had always seen many thousands of
enthusiastic alumni and students of these
institutions trekking towards Atlanta for
the game. Here was the meeting place for
these men with a common cause which
drew them together for a short time. Now
it has been thrown into the discard along
with many other customs which had to be
changed or thrown out to suit the trend of
the times.
We are not lamenting over the game
being played no more, but there will be
something that thousands of Auburn-Tech
followers cannot understand when Thanks­giving
rolls around again—a vacancy that
cannot be filled. We feel that, though the
change is lamentable, the best thing is
being done by the institutions in deciding
not to play any December football in the
future.
Next Few Weeks to Tell
Fate of Many Students
The annual three weeks' grind taking
place between Thanksgiving and Christmas
has just begun. For the upperclassmen
it is nothing new, while for the freshmen
it will be something new as well as harder
than anything before.
For the past few months work has been
mixed with play in a most noticeable man­ner
due to the football season . Many things
have caused the minds of the students to
become distracted in their work, to cause
them to take excessive cuts, and in many
cases, far too many, to find themselves lag­ging
behind at the end of the first quarter.
We can partly lay the blame for this to the
inconsistent method of studying that is
naturally developed during a season that
is so broken up by football.
In some instances the professors and in­structors
take this into consideration by not
loading the students too heavily with work,
while others feel that the work must be
done regardless of the time in which it can
be accomplished. For that reason the reg­ular
dose is heaped on many weakening
shoulders.
Now that there is nothing on the horizon
that can act as a hindrance to classwork,
we feel that the students must "stretch
out" if they hope to come in on time. Any
back work that may have accumulated must
be completed before Christmas since every­thing
will be at a trot the few weeks before
examinations.
We think that it is absolutely essential
that everyone settle down and put forth a
very great effort the next week or so. It
is not a case of not being able to be up with
the work after the holidays but that it must
be up by Christmas. It is time also that
the reason for being in Auburn is begin­ning
to dawn on even the most stupid. If
one is here for work, now is the time for
it; if one is here for pleasure, he should
leave on the first train as there are so
many places where a much more pleasant
stay can be enjoyed.
We hope the students can get the idea
of work in their systems; they will be able
to learn their own capacity if they do so.
Declamation Contest Is
Won by Girl for First Time
A very remarkable thing that should not
pass unnoticed was the winning of the an­nual
declamation contest last week by a
girl; it was an even greater victory in that
it was the first time a co-ed has ever com­peted
in the final appearance of the con­testants.
Each year in the past four representa­tives,
one from each literary society on the
campus, have met in the three forensic
events, declamation contest, oratorical con­test,
and the annual debate, to determine
who should have his name engraved on
a beautiful loving cup as the leading man
in that particular event for the year. Each
year it has been some young man who carri­ed
off the honors until a young woman
made her first bid for the glory—and won.
We are glad to see this sudden interest
shown by the young women and believe
that it will prove an impetus to others to
pit their ability against the men. Here­tofore
the co-eds have felt that they were
whipped before entering the fray, but now
that this belief has been destroyed there
is every reason to think that the competi­tion
in the future will be much keener due
to the larger number of young women com­peting.
We take this means of congratulating
the winner, at the same time feeling safe
to predict that her efforts will cause other
co-eds to put an aggressive foot forward in
activities coming later on.
Fads Form Peculiar
Part of College Life
A pecularity of college life is the regulari­ty
and speed with which the various fads
that strike full force are pushed into the
background. The annual trend of college
students is from one fad to another. Several
winters ago the biggest craze up to that
time was the sign-painting activities of the
broken-down car owners; then an epidemic
of catching rides and bumming on trains
came along. Later to be a true Auburnite
one had to be about the (slouchest) and
most slovenly looking student in school; and
last came the famous yo-yo craze that swept
the country like wildfire. All these relics
of foolish moments are now past, and we
are wondering what the next move by the
instigators of such things will be.
Fashion will probably lead the way as she
has in the past by telling what is to befall.
But when we see that such light things are
but momentary, we cannot help thinking
that everyone has the more serious things
of life under consideration, and the foolish
fads are but shams—ridiculous at their
best. Fads are but examples of man's light­er
moments and when the real test comes,
they fade away into oblivion.
The Geckette
1 am the Geckette who tries to fool lit­tle
country boys. I think I am pretty so
why shouldn't I get a few free things such
as shows, drinks, and candy? As long as I
can make them think I like them a great
deal, I will be able to get anything I want
from them. Of course, I can't hope to get
expensive things, for none of them has
very much money; but I intend to remain
handy in the running as long as they will
pay out.
I know that I have plenty of sex appeal,
and would you believe it if I told that only
a few days ago, I overheard two girls actu­ally
saying that they thought I was a fool.
Nothing but their unpopularity could cause
them to even hint at such a thing. Everyone
knows that they are wrong. Just because
they aren't pretty and peppy, they thing
I shouldn't be.
I like to go places and that is one reason
why I go to extremes to attract attention
—I must get what I want no matter what
the price happens to be. So far I have been
able to get more boys to do things for me
than places a Hoover vacuum cleaner can
find dirt, but I do have a little trouble in
having a regular friend. But I don't care
as long as they don't get scarce.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
If I were going to
put a title at the head
of this paragraph I
would give it this
heading: "Tribute to
a Game Bunch of
Real Fighters." On
Thanksgiving Day I
saw a real game of
football. I saw an Au­burn
team fight a
great battle against odds in weight and
serious odds in the breaks of the game.
There was only one real break in favor of
Auburn and that was when a punt was
touched by Tech's safety man and covered
for a good long gain by an Auburn player.
In the first few minutes of the game I saw
Tech run her best against an Auburn team
at least 12 successive plays inside of our
ten yeard line and fail to put it over for a
single touchdown. I do not care what the
press may say, that was a moral victory
worth recounting. As a defensive team Au­burn
stood out on Thanksgiving better than
anything I have seen here since I have been
in Alabama.
I r,eed not discuss the rest of the game
because it has been discussed by other peo­ple
and I will not take the space to do so.
I wanted to make sure that one point above
was carried and that was how wonderfully
our team held a heavier team at critical
times in that game. Tech got all the breaks
that anybody could ever ask for.
* * * * »
There is noe other thing I want to com­ment
upon and that is a little thing that
occurred right at the end of the game. I
have watched teams play a good many
times and watched what happens immedi­ately
after the final whistel blows. As a
rule they do either one of two things;
namely, the players immediately start run­ning
each toward his own bench or to­gether
as a team give a yell for the other
side. It is seldom, however, that I have seen
two teams get together, slap each other on
the back and shake hands all the way
around as Tech's team and Auburn's team
did at the end of the game on Thanksgiv­ing.
Now Tech wants to play us on a differ­ent
day from Thanksgiving, at least for
next year. Well, that is all right. We have
fine assurances from them of their friend­ly
attitude toward Auburn and their desire
to continue these fine relationships of these
thirty odd years. I think they have a lit­tle
more respect for us after the Thanks­giving
game than they had before. I believe
the best thing to do is to go ahead and play
them some other time next year and in
about two years make them want us for
the Thanksgiving game on the old basis
very badly. We stood by Tech pretty
strongly when they were down. I think it
is about time that they showed they have
the same kind of spirit we had and come
across and make a good agreement for
next year. All we want is to obtain some
date that is mutually agreeable to both.
We are very glad to give up the Thanks­giving
game, if that is their wish, for next
year, but we are going to make them want
it back again some of these years on the
old basis.
* * * * *
We had a letter the other day from a
German farmer in the Black Forest asking
for a specific bulletin on an agricultural
subject. The other day without any publici­ty
whatever the British Director of Educa­tion
in the West African Colony of Sierra
Leone came to Auburn and spent several
hours descussing educational problems and
securing agricultural and educational data
for use in that far-off country.
From now to Christmas is an awfully
good time to give all these fellows in ath­letics
time to catch up in their work. I am
particularly anxious about the freshman
squad. There are a lot of fine fellows on
that freshman squad. If they have learned
to love Auburn as I hope they have, and
feel an interest in what she is doing and a
confidence in the showing Auburn is be­ginning
to make, I am hoping they will
qualify, come back and stay with us
through this year and return again next
fall, showing that they can do two things
and they are two things which are well
worth doing now—take their places as im­portant
parts of a steadily increasing team
which wins games and, therefore, glory for
Old Auburn and at the same time obtain
an education which will fit them for fine
work in life after they are through with
college.
* * * * *
By the way, from now until Christmas
is a pretty good time for all the rest of us
to clean up on our work and put things in
good shape. If we do this we will have a
better Christmas holiday season and come
up to final examinations full of pep, energy
with the confidence that we are doing the
work the way it ought to be done.
When better bucks are made the boys at
college will write home for them.
An English lord greatly annoyed his American host by comparing everything
he was shown with something that was like it in England that was bigger or better.
Finally, the American decided he'd find one thing that couldn't be compared, and
that evening he put a big turtle in the Englishman's bed. His guest had hardly got­ten
into bed before his bedmate had him by the toe.
"What's got me," shouted the befuddled lord, dashing from his room with his
tormenter hanging merrily onto his toe.
"That," replied his smiling host, "is an American bedbug."
* * * * * * * *
We never have heard of a turtle making such a fine substitute, but since we
have been reminded of the fact, he very easily could find the place.
* * * * * * * *
Patrick Henry: "Give me liberty or give me death."
Freshman: "Give me an inch and I'll take a mile."
* * * * * * * *
It is rumored that many requests have been received by the Athletic Depart­ment
to put soft seats and steam heat in the dugouts on the baseball field. The
flare of youth must be served—even in the winter time.
* * * * * * * *
And the ground gets awfully cold.
* * * * * * * *
Wanted: Sex appeal developed, (signed) Hoyt Enloe.
* * * * * * * *
The difference between plumbers in Bavaria and plumbers in this country is
that the domestic pests can make gold more easily by working by the hour than
the foreigners can by using lead pipe for the same purpose. And they still wonder
why Americans gripe at seeing them hanging around.
* * * * * * * *
Now that the football season is over all students in Auburn will be rated alike.
* * * * * * * *
Several of our good friends hunted some during the holidays; we trust that
none was annoyed by the extra weight caused by birds roosting on the barrels of
their guns.
If boys made as much fun of each other's dates as the girls do, the co-eds
would be at the end of the trail. P'ossibly their catty remarks help them much in
their conversation. *..
:;: * * * * :J: * *
She: These garters came from Paris.
He: Very expensive, I suppose.
She: Yes, they can't be touched in this country at any price.
* * * * * * * *
As usual the elements are having their little joke; at the present rate we
won't have any need to go home—it will be washed down here to us.
* * * * * * * *
Stenographers are supposed to work eight hours and sleep eight hours but not
the same eight hours.
* * * * * * * *
The moonlight took away his voice, but it certainly repaid him with speed.
* * * * * * * *
It seems that many Aubur nstudents celebrated Thanksgiving with the pass­ing
of the bottle rather than the giving of thanks.
* * * • * * * •
Kind Old Lady: " I would like to get some information about a sea berth."
Ship's Agent: "You'll have to see the ship's surgeon, second door to your left."
* * * * * * * *
We recommend that the college take some action on the rats at the zoo. An­other
rodent was found in a room with two co-eds—a brave fellow we would say.
> WITH OTHER COLLEGES
DIARY OF PATROLMAN
Thanksgiving gave to the nation, through
the colleges, such as the following to be
thankful of. No?
Tuesday, November 26: Wuz ridin' along
on me motorcycle when suddenly 10,000
collitch bums comes runnin' at me with a
rope. "Ter Hellwit Thoity-two!" dey wuz
yellin. Now, thoity-two's me badge-number
an anyway whalen sez collitch boys is like
high-school kids only dummer so I blows
me whistle.
Some guys is so dum dey make 'em de­tectives.
Other guys is so dum dey make
'em collitch stoodens. Well, anyway, I
blows we whistle again.
Da next thing ya know, seven guys is
hankin' on me neck and three on each foot.
Whalen knows his stuff all right. He "sez
socken first and talk about it later. I tried
it. Only I didn't do much talking later.
My son ain't goin' ter collitch.
* * * * *
COMING OR GOING
This year the players on the University
of Chicago Maroons are wearing the larg­est
numerals ever believed to have been
worn by a Big Ten team. To aid spectators,
the backfield men are wearing numerals on
both chest and back.
NO MORE FUMBLING
Coach Billy Laval is determined to break
his South Carolina Gamecocks from fumbl­ing,
which happens to be a costly habit.
The coach's prescription calls for every
halfback to carry a football with him dur­ing
the day, to meals, to classes, and to
bed at night. Now we need rules concern­ing
fumbling in the classroom.
* * * * *
WEEK-END TRIPS ATTACKED
Yale's most sacred tradition—the cus­tom
of making week-end journeys to vari­ous
New England and New York women's
colleges, is threatened with extinction.
President James Rowland, of the universi­ty,
heartily condemned the practice and
stated that it might become necessary to
require the undergraduates to register
twice each Sunday so as to prevent their
leaving the campus.
Bravo. Another reason for going to col­lege
in the home town.
* * * * *
U. S. STUDENTS HAPPIER THAN
EUROPEAN
"Students in American colleges are much
happier and get much more out of college
life than do students in European colleges,"
said Dr. Andre M. Siegfried in an inter­view
recently after his talk at Emory on
"The United States of Europe and the
League of Nations."
"The campuses of American colleges are
also much prettier than those of Europe,"
he stated, "for in place of the spacious
greens seen here, in Europe they have
streets and buildings in the same manner
that a town has. They have no dormitories,
and naturally the college atmosphere found
in American colleges is lacking there."
"Inter-collegiate athletics in Europe are
handled on the following plan. It is left en­tirely
in the hands of the students as to
whether or not they participate in inter­collegiate
sports. Some years they partici­pate
and some years they do not." We do
have a nifty time on holidays, don't we?
* * :|: * *
BEARD CONTEST
A beard-growing contest was recently
held at the University of Illinois with a
prize of $500 offered by a prominent razor
manufacturer. With such a reward we feel
sure that heavy hung the chins which wore
the whiskers. Smith Brothers now have
keen competition.
* * * * *
VUNCE MORE
Completion of a new field house at
Washburn college will find the halls of
old Thomas Gymnasium resounding to
strange sounds. The gymnasium, formerly
a man's building, is to be taken over by
the co-eds.
* * * * *
THE COLLEGES AND RELIGION
The Villanova College, of Pennsylvania,
has conducted another of those surveys
that bring out circumstances the people al­ready
know. The Villanovians have discov­ered
that American Colleges and Universi­ties
"place less emphasis now than at any
previous time in their history on religion."
The investigation shows that less than
3,000,000 of approximately 1,000,000
American colleges and university students
are required to attend chapel regularly.
The college officials contrast this compar­atively
small chapel attendance with the
original conception of American education.
Harking back to history the Villanova
educators remind that "all education in
early America was religious. Thanksgiving-found
every student in attendance at some
religious service. They maintained all of
the early Colonial academies and schools,
Harvard (1636) and Yale (1700), in their
foundations for higher education, were
supported by religious groups." But then,
we must bear in mind, there was no foot­ball
in those days.'-'
WELL, I'D SAY THIS
'By cAaron ^illoUiheel
EDITOR'S NOTK: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial opin­ions
of this paper. It is a column of persona]
comment, and is not to he read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
* * * * *
A REVIEW OF COLLEGE NEWS­PAPERS
T H E Citadel Bull Dog, a weekly paper
and extremely mediocre; containing
such hooey as "Once a Citadel Man,
always a Citadel man".
The Woman's College Wo-Co-Ala News
is as unimpressive as a wet sock and sees
the light only twice a month. Often enough.
The Emory Wheel of Emory University is
very good, but with a make-up similar to
nothing ever seen in a newspaper office.
From Howard College we have the How­ard
Crimson and, except for its editorial
page, it is the best so far.
The King College News of King College,
Briston, Tenn. Terrible front page. Could
get no farther.
The Reflector of Mississippi A & M. Still
worse, if you can imagine anything so ter­rible;
all advertisements and athletics.
The blue ribbon goes to Columbia Uni­versity
Spectator, which is, of course, not
at all surprising. It is a daily.
The Sewanee Purple. Exasperatingly poor
for a college.
The Virginia Military Institute publishes
a weekly and calls it The Cadet. It is good.
* * * * *
WE HAVE JUST finished reading
the biography of William Jenn­ings
Bryan, by Werner. The
writer is also the biographer of Barnum,
of Barnum and Bailey and of Brigham
Young. In his life of Bryan, Werner makes
no pretense at preventing his own opinions
and ideas regarding his subject from
coloring the story. Yet one does not need
attend the sneering injections of Mr. Werner
to form practically the same conclusions
of Bryan.
William Jennings Bryan was a great
man, but was the victim of a diseased ideal­ism.
Some of the "greatest acts passed by
Congress are greatly responsible to Bryan's
powers as an orator. On the other hand
many of the measures which he just as
sincerely advocated have been proved un­sound,
even foolish. Bryan was sincere, but
was cursed with the ability to close his
mind against anything which he did not.
want to believe. His influence as a moralist
is counterbalanced by his adeptness at jug­gling
slightly off-color schemes or projects
until they coincided with his own very deli­cate
sense of propriety. Bryan was a man
of the masses. He liked nothing better
than to be called The Commoner.
* * * * *
IF I ever get the rest of this column
written, I swear by a dozen doodads
that I'll never wait until the last min­ute
again.
* * * * *
THOSE who missed the Thanksgiving
game with Georgia Tech failed to see
the best game Auburn has played in
the last two years.
* * * * *
THE Chemistry building is very im­pressive
. . . . wonder if the old drill
field before the Chemistry building
will be cleared and dressed up before the
Junior Prom arrives we hope so
(our girl's coming down) . . . . the entire
stage setting of a Broadway dramatic suc­cess
this season represents the interior of
a subway train my feet are always
cold . . . . another realistic success in drama
on Broadway is "The Criminal Code", which
is laid in a prison setting . . . . the original
maimer in which many Auburn boys dress
. . . . ROTC cap, sweater, civilian pants,
leather putts, low-quartered shoes, no neck­tie
. . . . discouraging mid-semester grades . ^ •
. . . . Chattie Davidson's beautiful run in £|
the Tech game . . . .
* * * *. *
ANOTHER astounding discovery made
by the Carnegie Foundation is that
college professors live longer than
the average man. Isn't that wonderful?
Rather unfortunate too. Wonder if the
Carnegie boys ever go in for checkers? It
might not be a bad idea.
* * * * *
THE Glomerata Staff places restric­tions
on pictures to be submitted for
the beauty section with "we will not
accept any one's baby picture, his grand­mother's
or his mother's picture for this
section". I don't blame them. Judging
from some of the past beauty sections it
occurs to me that it would be a good idea
for the Staff to restrict any pictures of
horses, cows etc.
FROM "THE QUAILS"
The harmless died
Within me, and my heart
Was caught and fluttered like the palpitant
heart
Of a brown quail, flying
To the call of her blind sister,
And death, in the spring night.
—Francis Brett Young.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929. THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
TO BEAUTY
Beauty your fingers are graceful and
long
Their tips are like velvet
Their nails are like thorn
With their softness you soothe us—
caress us to sleep
An enwrap us with langor
With joy pure and deep.
But alas Beauty—spare us those nails
long and sharp
That would rend us with anguish
Would tear out our heart
—Miriam Toulmin, '34.
Pi Kappa Sigma Tea is
Enjoyed
Members of Alpha Alpha Chapter
of Pi Kappa Sigma Sorority were
hostesses at a delightful tea on Mon­day
afternoon, November twenty-fifth,
from four-thirty to six o'clock.
The tea was given in honor of Mrs.
Ruth S. Neidig of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, National President of the
sorority.
The sorority room was decorated
with {ems, roses and snapdragons in
pastel colors, and lighted taperS of
turquoise blue.
Miss Mary Louise Collins greeted
the guests at the door. In the receiv­ing
line were Mrs. Alice Sandlin,
Prsident of the Chapter, Mrs. Ruth
S. Neidig, National President, Mrs.
Beulah Clark Van Wagenen, Facul­ty
Advisor, Miss Anice Weatherwax,
Vice-president, and Mrs. B. R. Show-alter
and Mrs. Albert Thomas, Pa­tronesses.
Miss Kathleen Russell
poured tea, and sandwiches, wafers,
and salted nuts were served by other
members and pledges.
During the afternoon seventy-five
guests called.
Mr. Willard Arnold Host
To Delta Sigma Phi's
Mr. Willard Arnold delightfully en­tertained
at his home in Ensley for
the homecoming Delta Sigma Phi's.
Dancing, bridge and lovely refresh­ments
were enjoyed.
Those attending from Auburn were
Messrs Bob Akins, Schyle Deshazo,
L. S. Fennell, Edgar Palm, William
Thomas, George Holdcroft and L. H.
Morris.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Tisdale had
as their-guest last week Dr. G. W.
Painter of Pulaski, Virginia who has
been a missionary in China for the
last forty years.
Miss Minnie Motley and
Mr. Benjamin Sankey
Are Married
Of interest to their wide circle of
friends throughout the State was the
marriage of Miss Minnie Tippins Mot­ley,
of Brewton, to Benjamin Turner
Sankey of Nauvoo, Ala., which was
quitely solemnized at the bride's
home in Brewton on Saturday aftr-noon,
the Rev. W. F. Calhoun pro­nouncing
the ceremony.
On account of a recent bereavement
in the bride's family, only immediate
members of the families were pres­ent,
the out-of-town guests being:
Dr. and Mrs. Howard Sankey \ and
Misses Frances and Mary Elizabeth
Sankey, of Nauvoo, parents and sis­ters
of the groom, and Mr. and Mrs.
R. D. Yarbrough, of Mobile, and Mr.
and Mrs. R. A. Tozier, of Laurel Hill,
Fla.
The bride is the daughter of the
late Rev. Charles Hearn Motley and
Mrs. Motley. She received her high
school education at the Preparatory
Department of Woman's College in
Montgomery and later attended col­lege
at Auburn, where she resided
with her mother. She was a member
of the Sigma Lambda Chapter of the
Kappa Delta Sorority.
Mr. Sankey is a graduate of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Au­burn
where he was a member of the
Upsilon Chapter of the Pi K. A. Fra­ternity.
He was prominent in all col­lege
activities.
Immediately following the cere­mony
Mr. and Mrs. Sankey left for
Washington, Philadelphia, and New
York for a wedding trip.
Lovely Bride of Last Saturday
When In
Montgomery Eat At
PARAMOUNT
CAFE
31 Commerce St.
Where Every Meal Is A
Pleasant Memory
Woman's Club News
By Mrs. C. P. Townsley
The drive for the Lee County Wel­fare
Work fund brought in over
$150.00 this year. The good work
that was possible by Auburn's con­tributions
of $114.00 last year can
now be continued and extended.
The department of literature met
on Wednesday with Mesdames J. T.
Williamson and Garrett as hostesses.
Miss Mast gave an excellent review
,of current magazine articles. The
rest of the program was devoted to
English folk lore. Country dances
given by girls from Miss Palmer's
class, a paper by Miss Farley Lee,
and early English folk tales and bal-lards
read by Mrs. Reeve, threw
varied and interesting lights on the
subject.
Mrs. Allison spoke over WAPI on
Friday night on "The Newer Bi­ography."
PROF. ROE TALKS
OF FRENCH TOUR
Mrs. Benjamin Turner Sankey, who before her marriage was Miss Minnie
Motley of Brewton, Alabama, and former student of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute.
L P E R S Q N A L MENTION ^]
Howard Halse visited his parents
last Thursday in Montgomery.
Miss Vivian Hester spent the holi­days
in Russelville with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hester.
Miss Ii*ene Jeffers who has been a
Mr. Hooper Nolan spent the week- missionary in China for the last six
end with his parents, Mr. and
D. D. Nolan in Alexander City.
Mrs.
Constantinople—(IP)—The local
School of Pharmacy has appealed to
the government for help in getting
up interest among young Turks in
Drug Stores. Not a single student
enrolled this year in the school.
Get What You Want
And Like What You Get.
COLLEGE BARBER SHOP
KLEIN & SON
Jewelers
GRUEN WATCHES
Montgomery, Ala.
John McAdams visited his parents
Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. McAdams in Ash­land,
Alabama.
* :!: :|:
Earl Atkinson spent the holidays
with his parents Mr. and Mrs. G. J.
Atkinson in Sylacauga.
:!: * *
W. D. Reeves and Claude Curry
attended the game in Atlanta on last
Thursday.
* * *
Thorne Winter attended the A.I.
E.E. convention in Charlottsville, Vir­ginia
on last Thursday and Friday.
* •<•• 4
Vernard Vines visited relatives in
Geraldine, Alabama during the holi­days.
C. E. and S. H. Sellers visited rela­tives
in Ramer, Alabama on last week­end.
* * *
C. E. Teague is attending the Alpha
Gamma Rho convention in Chicago.
* * *
Mr. R. A. Stephens visited in Gads­den
this last weekend.
* * *
Becker Drane spent the holidays in
Birmingham, Alabama.
Miss Ruth Murray visited Miss
Annie Ross Fuller in Sylacauga dur­ing
last weekend.
* * *
Miss Miriam Toulmin visited Mrs.
A. J. Mabry in Columbus, Ga. during,
Thanksgiving.
years will lecture to the Woman's
Missionary Society in Auburn.
* * *
Miss Mary Louise Collins spent
Thanksgiving with relatives in Macon,
Georgia.
* * *
Miss Louise returned Monday after
having an enjoyable holiday with
relatives and friends in Lakeland,
Florida. •
* * *
Miss Luverne Watts visited friends
ni Macon, Georgia during last week­end.
* * *
Miss Mary Stodghill enjoyed the
holidays with her parents Mr. and
Mrs. Stodghill.
* * *
Miss Margaret Lane, who is teach­ing
in Birmingham, visited with her
mother Mrs. G. P. Lane during the
holidays.
* * *
The Thanksgiving holidays were
spent by Miss Mary Claude Fletcher
with her'mother and sister in Opelika.
* * *
ft "Say It With Flowers'
And Say It With Ours
FOR EVERY SOCIAL OCCASION
Rosemont Gardens
Florists
Montgomery, Alabama
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Miss Phoebe Hurford of Alabama
University visited Miss Mary Louise
Hakanson during the holidays.
* * *
Mrs. L. A. Palmer and daughter
Miss Lulu Palmer spent Thanksgiving
in Montevallo.
* # *
Mr. Paul Goldsmith visited rela­tives
and friends in Montgomery dur­ing
the holidays.
* * *
Mr. Wallace Postelle spent the
Thanksgiving holidays in Helena, Ala.
* * *.
Mr. A. M. Sewell visited with his
parents Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Sewell
in Birmingham during the holidays.
* * *
During her brief stay, Mrs. Ruth
S. Neidig, National President of Pi
Kappa Sigma Sorority, was tendered
many pleasant social courtesies by
members of the Faculty and the dif­ferent
sorority groups on the campus.
Mr. George Averill spent the holi­days
in Macon, Georgia.
* * *
Miss Zoe Dobbs «pent the holidays
in Birmingham with her father Dr.
S. L. Dobbs.
Miss Ruth Jackson of Opelika had
Miss Ruby Home as her guest during
Thanksgiving.
* * *
Miss Mildred Wood had a most en­joyable
time during the holidays in
Birmingham, Ala. with relatives and
friends.
* * *
Mr. L. H. Norris spent the holidays
with relatives in Ensley.
* * *
Mr. Edgar Palm visited in Fair­field,
Ala. with his parents Mr. and
Mr. R. E. Palm.
Mr. William Thomas visited with
relatives in West End during Thanks
giving.
* * *
T. O. Galliard spent Thanksgiving
in Atlanta attending the game.
* * »
Mr. Powell Williams left Wednes­day
to spend the holidays in Mobile
with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Powell
Williams, Sr.
* * *
Dean and Mrs. M. J. Funchess and
family spent the holidays in Mont­gomery
with Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Boyd and Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Pearson.
"The umbrella, the bicycle, the
famous five-foot loaf of bread, and
wine are four adjuncts that go hand
in hand with our friend the French­man,"
said John Winan Roe, profes­sor
of modern languages, in one of
a series of talks over radio station
WAPI on "The Daily Life of the
French People."
"Damon and Pythias stick-no clos­er
together than the Gallic and his
umbrella," Professor Roe said. "The
umbrella business must be mighty
lucrative in La Belle, France. And
no chances are taken—at the slight­est
drizzle they blossom out like
hugh mushrooms.
"The bicycle business must be
strong and husky also with our Gallic
brethren," hecontinued. "Young and
old buy them, rent them, or steal
them. They seem to get an inordinate
delight from ringing their bells, and
it gives a man a jolt to see a sedate
old fellow come rolling down the
street at dusk, ringing his bell and
carrying a Japanese lantern on the
handle baio. '
"Bread is the staff of life—in
France it's a five-foot staff," the
talker said. "The battle with the
French bread begins at dewy morn
and ends at mildewy eve, and—it's
tough. \ o u have to pull long and
hard and then you get a lot of holes.
I believe I would rather have a loaf
of it in the dark against an assailant
than any good hickory club. It is
made in huge ovens, apparently with­out
shortening, and retailed about
like fire wood.
"French wines and beers are rath­er
harmless," he testified. "Futher-more
the French are abstenious as a
race. To an American, however, it
does seem as though they spend too
much time in open air cafes. How­ever,
it must be remembered that |
much of their business is carried on
over a cup of coffee or glass of
wine.
The French waiter has a technique
of his own. He gets your order,
then saunters about the place, bring­ing
one man a newspaper, another a
Vichy, directs another to a telephone,
and finally as an afterthought brings
your drink in a resigned matter of
fact way," he said in characterization.
Among the bourgeoisie and lower
middle classes the family life of the
French people is quite charming, he
maintained, pointing out that they are
thrifty, take their pleasures together,
that the children are not spoiled, and
that the father of the family is lord
of the manor in deed as well as word.
"That does not mean the French wo­man
in servile," he explained. On the
other hand the woman—especially in
the small stores—always handles the
cash register."
The professor said that the French
girl is always chaperoned. "They
don't trust their young gentlemen too
far," he said. "That is a viewpoint
which has developed over many centu­ries,
and, while we may not agree
with it, still it is sincere, and perhaps
less hypocritical than our attitude."
More courtesy is shown among men
in France than in America, the pro­fessor
said, pointing out that Monsieur
Marchard from the French Sudan,
who visited Auburn recently, was
amazed at the lack of respect shown
professors in this country. Hat tip­ping
is common among men in France, |
he said.
Close Touch with Youth
Keeps Teachers Young
The teacher is in possession of the
mythical Fountain of Life. As evi­dence
of this assertion, Dr. R. L.
Johns, while speaking to the Educa­tion
Club Monday evening, reminded
the audience of the youthful mental
vigor of the physically well-aged edu­cators.
"This is due, no doubt," stat­ed
Dr. Johns, "to the fact that teach­ers
are constantly in direct contact
with youth and the problems that con­front
the young people."
Besides having this advantage to
off^r young men and women who are
DINOSAUR TRACK
TO BE PRESERVED
Washington—(IP)—According to
Associated Press the last remaining
footprint in a trail giant dinosaurs
left in the sands of Arizona thou­sands
of years ago as they lumbered
toward a pumpkin patch now petri­fied,
is to be preserved there for all
time through the action of Secretary
Wilbur, preventing its removal by a
party of scientists.
In response to a protest against the
expedition by Governor Phillips of
Arizona, Wilbur telegraphed the su­perintendent
of the Navajo Indian
preparing for their life work, the edu- reservation to stop the party, which
cational world has opened many l he said had no permit to go ahead.
fiends of endeavor. Among these ap­pealing
fields, Dr. Johns named the
classroom instruction field, the super­vision
field, and the field of educa­tional
research. Special erhphasis was
laid upon this last field since it is a
comparatively new work as a voca­tional
pursuit.
Another interesting and encourag­ing
statement made by Dr. Johns was
that relative to the per cent of Au­burn's
last year graduates who have
secured positions. He said that eighty-five
per cent of the students who
graduated from the Education De­partment
of Auburn last year were
holding jobs and were earning an
average salary of $1600. This is a
higher average than the graduates of
any other department are receiving.
Music by Catherine Porter and her
"uke" charmed the club for a little
while. Following her selection, Eu-banks
revealed his reasons for choos­ing
Agricultural Education as his
course in college.
During the business session, the
proposed constitution was discussed.
Also, a defininte time for meeting
was decided upon. This time is Tues­day
nights from 8 to nine.
Officials said this action was in line
with a new and aggressive policy to
guard relics of prehistoric men and
beasts against curiosity seekers.
Governor Phillips telegraphed the
Secretary after sending officers to
stay the party near Dinosaur Canyon
on the reservation. The party includ­ed
Dr. J. Elden Mason, director and
curator of the American Section of
the Museum of the University of
Pennsylvania, Dr. Barnum Bro'wn,
director and curator of the paleon­tology
department of the New York
Museum of Natural History.
The trail the party were headed for
once stretched clear and long across
the plain, with many perfect dino­saur
tracks. It led toward a petrified
pumpkin patch, and the natives said
that it indicated the dinosaurs liked
the vegetable.
TO CONTEST ELECTION AS
FOOTBALL COACH WINS
Athens, O.— (IP)—Charging that
34 college students at Ohio Universi­ty
were inelligible to vote at the
Municipal election here, when Robert
S. Wood, former university football
captain and coach, was elected mayor
by six votes, ^former Mayor E. C.
Woodworth declares he will ask that
their votes be thrown out.
DAUGHTER OF ATTORNEY
BECOMES SOCIALIST
New York—(IP)—When he learn­ed
that students advertising the meet­ing
at which his daughter was to
speak on Socialism had been arrested
as radicals, United States Attorney
Charles A. Tuttle attended the meet­ing
and heard his daughter, Char­lotte,
president of the Socialist Club
at Vassar College, tell how she work­ed
for $12 a week in a Chicago fac­tory
last summer.
The girl was converted to social­ism,
she said, by the conditions she
saw about her.
"I dcided to be on hand," Tuttle
explained, "in case anyone attempt­ed
to interfere with the right of free
speech."
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THREE TYPES OF COLLEGES
FORESEEN BY EDUCATOR
New York—(IP)—Professor David
Snedden of Teachers College, Colum­bia
University, believes that in the
near future colleges will have to di­vide
themselves into three types, one
for the "bread and butter" students
who come to college to get a founda­tion
for later business, one for the
coon-skin coated youth who prefers
a football game to the classroom, and
one for the quiet seeker after learn­ing.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1929.
Lions Send Delegates
To Club Installation
Representatives Will Be Present
At Installation Ceremonies
In Eclectic
VARSITY GRID SQUAD
FETED AT BANQUET IN
HOME OF PRESIDENT
Five members will represent the
Auburn Lions Club at the installa­tion
of a club in Eclectic on Thursday
night, it was decided at the weekly
meeting of the club on Tuesday at the
Thomas Hotel. Lieutenant Townsley,
president of the Auburn club, and
four others will attend the ceremon­ies,
which will begin at seven-thirty.
Many matters of importance to the
Lions were presented and discussed
at the meeting. A committee to ar­range
for a special meeting in the
early part of January was appointed;
Melvin Jones, secretary-general of
Lions International, will be the hon­or
guest at this meeting. Mr. Jones
is known as the "Father of Lionism."
Lieutenant Townsley announced that
a meeting of the Auburn civic clubs
was to be held on Tuesday night, at
which the roads in and leading to Au­burn
were to be discussd. It is hoped i
that with all civic clubs cooperating,
something will be accomplished in
the way of improvement of the roads
here.
Amendments to the present consti
tution were offered by the committee
on the Constitution and By-Laws, of
which Lion Blake is chairman. The
present system of nominating and
electing of officers and the dues of
the club will be affected by the pro­posed
amendments. A favorable vote
was given the addition, and they will
be presented and voted on for adop­tion
in two weeks. The nominating
committee was instructed to present
nominees to be voted on at the same
meeting, if the amendments are ac­cepted.
The club decided not to hold meet­ings
on December 24 and 31, due to
the fact that many of the Lions will
be out of town on those days.
PROFESSOR DUNSTAN LOCATES
RADIUM LOST BY HOSPITAL
IN HUNTINGDON, W. VIRGINIA
(Continued from page 1)
and the radiation from the needles had
to traverse two feet of ashes, in which
the radium was burried, the incinera­tor
walls, one half inch thick, and
forty feet of air. At such a distance,
only a very sensitive instrument could
detect radiations, Professor Dunstan
said. The needles greatly resembled
phonograph records.
The time taken for the actual hunt
was about a day and a half.
The electroscope was designed and
made by Professor Dunstan, and it
has been used many times to locate
lost radium. Only on very few oc­casions
has the professor failed to
find radium which he has attempted
to locate.
Professor Dunstan, who is head
professor of electrical engineering,
said that this latest finding was one
of the easiest he has ever made. He
left Tuesday and returned on Satur­day.
(Continued from page 1)
Long gave a few parting words to
his team mates, and expressed his ap­preciation
of the fine banquet Mrs.
Knapp had prepared for them.
The six seniors who made short
talks were Captain H. G. Long, Grady
Long, Forny Yarbrough, Herman
Jones, Jim Crawford, and Student
Manager "Preacher" Smith.
Gov. and Mrs. Bibb Graves were
present at the Tigers' first banquet
that Dr. and Mrs. Knapp gave them
last year, but on account of weather
conditions blocking traffic on the
Montgomery highway they were un­able
to be present this year. Goy..
Graves made a short talk to the team
last year, wishing them all the pos­sible
success in the future in sports
and after their school days.
Dr. Knapp stated last year that the
banquet had turned out so successful
he was probably going to make it an
annual affair from then on. This
year it was more successful than ever
and will probably be given annually
hereafter. This was the seventh foot­ball
banquet that Dr. and Mrs. Knapp
had prepared. The five years Dr.
Knapp was president of Oklahoma A.
and M. College they honored the
varsity football team with a ban­quet
there each year and the two
years he has been president of Au­burn
they have given the Tiger grid-ders
a banquet.
The 24 Plainsmen gridmen present
last Monday night were, Captain H.
"Shorty" Long, Grady Long, Howard
Chappelle, Carl Schlich, Dunnam
Harkins, Erk Taylor, Jim Crawford,
John Wilson, Chattie Davidson,
George Holdcroft, Leo Young, J. D.
Bush, Linley Hatfield, Joe Burt,
George Egge, Ralph Jordan, Louis
McRae, Carl "Choctaw" Creel, "Big
Ben" Newton, "Big Joe" Andrews,
Herman Jones, Forny Yarbrough,
and Student Manager "Preacher"
Smith.
In the center of the table Mrs.
Knapp placed a small size football
field made of sand. At each end of
the miniature field were goal posts
and the field was laid off in small
10-yard strips. At one end of this
field, were eleven celluloid men dress­ed
in grid togs in the Howard Col­lege
colors and at the other end of
the field were eleven more of these
dolls dressed in football clothes of
Auburn's colors. At each plate was
placed a small football with an "A"
on it. The meal was a five course
dinner. Ice cream was served in
shapes of footballs and the place
cards also were in the form of the
footballs. The football scheme as a
whole was well carried out. When
Coach Johnny "Red" Floyd was mak­ing
his speech he said, "I have at­tended
17 football banquets in the
past 18 years but this one is by-far
superior to them all."
Meet Ruth Etting
Buddy Glennon Discusses Life of Columbia
Recording Artist
In last week's record column was
mentioned Ruth Etting's latest record.
Those who have heard this record or
any other of her previous ones will
readily admit that she has the most
appealing voice of all the recording
artistsr Miss Etting, who is now an
exclusive Columbia Recording Artist,
was the star of "Whoopee". She was
born in David City, Nebraska, and is
the descendant of pioneer settlers.
While at the Academy of Fine Arts,
Chicago, studying costume designing,
she took part in the chorus of a mu­sical
review, for which girls were
requested from the academy. Her
sympathetic voice and personal charm
won her an immediate stage offer,
and after short study she was starred.
Her sensational rise to stardom cul­minated
in the Ziegfield engagement,
the last word in success for an Ameri­can
popular singer.
Miss Etting is slight, graceful,
blonde and blue-eyed. Not long ago
she was judged by a Chicago jury of
DR. FRED ALLISON MAKES
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course for aviation teachers.
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the method of chemical analysis by
Dr. Allison.
Numerous tests made by him re­vealed
that the small interval of time
required for producing the twisted
rays in a given chemical compound is
always the same. This opened the
door to a means of detecting ex­tremely
minute traces of compounds
in solution.
To measure this length of time he
used the fastest clock known to man.
Ordinary watches are based on the
movement of the earth. The "time
measurer" used by the physicist is
based on the speed of light, which
travels at the rate of 186,000 miles
per second. At this speed light travels
around the earth more than seven
time in one second.
The apparatus devised by the
physicist for his earlier work, and
subsequently developed to greater
precision, consists of two glass cylin­ders
placed on line with a plane of
polarized light so they can be moved
backward and forward. Electric cur­rents
are passed through two coils of
wire surrounding the cylinders. The
currents travel in one direction
around one cylinder, and in the op­posite
direction around the other
cylinder. They produce an electric-magnet
which causes the light rays
to twist. The twisting occurs in the
same direction the currents move.
Therefore, since the currents move in
opposite directions, the rays are like­wise
twisted in opposite directions.
In the first cylinder is placed a
chemical which twists the rays a
known degree. The unknown is plac­ed
in the second cylinder. If the polar­ized
light from an electric spark in
front of the first cylinder is twisted
to the same degree by the compounds
in both the cylinders, the two twists
in opposite direction will neutralize
each other. When they do this a mini­mum
of light will appear at a point
on a scale beyond the second cylinder.
By moving this cylinder, which con­tains
the unknown compound, the
twisting phenomenon in the second
cylinder may be made to reach the
same degree as that in the first. The
observer can tell when this happens
by determining when the minimum of
light is produced. Then, by measuring
the distance the cylinder is moved, it
is possible to compute the time the
twisting lags behind the establishment
of the magnetic field, and thereby
to detect the presence of the com­pound
in question.
At first Dr. Allison thought the
method could be used only with
transparent and heavily saturated
solutions. He has found, however, that
opaque substances can be detected,
even in concentrations as low as one
part of the compound to ten billion
parts of water. ,
So far the investigations have been
confined to a number of organic
liquids and an extensive series of
nitrates, chlorides, sulphates, and
hydroxides in solution. The research
will be continued.
Of the thirty-nine physicists to pi-e-sent
papers, Dr. Allison was the only
representative of the southern insti­tutions
of learning.
artists to be the happiest combination
of beauty and brains they had seen.
So she was asked to sit for a portrait
of "Beauty and Brains," but refused.
The jury said: "Her action confirms
our judgment."
Miss Etting's voice, as any one may
judge from her records, is marked by
a girlish youthful charm, artistic res­traint,
and a certain demure intelli­gence
which is the constant delight of
critics.
The New Yorker, sophisticated Man­hattan
weekly, whenever it reviews
phonograph records, invariably gives
Miss Etting head place among popular
vocal artists. It is interesting to hear
the opinions of the general public con­cerning
Miss Etting. In the New
York Herald-Tribune of November 27,
1927, was a list of comments over­heard
by a reporter, such as:
"Anyone with a voice like that could
sing paralytics into life."
"There's ultra-violet rays, in them
golden notes."
"She makes most blues singers
sound like a train dispatcher."
In speaking of her work Miss Etting
says: "Every song must be separately
studied, as each picture must be clear
to the audience for both eyes and
ears . . . . I worked for weeks on one
song before I got the desired effects."
YELLOW JACKETS CONQUER
AUBURN IN HECTIC CLASH
1
Radio Notice!
There will be a meeting of the Ra­dio
Club in the operating room of
W4AQ on the third floor of Broun
Hall Wednesday at 6:30 p. m.
(Continued from page 1)
of the ball on Auburn's 35 yard line.
Here Tech completed one of her few
successful passes, Mizell receiving the
ball for a gain of 20 yards. On the
next play, Mizell skirted right end
for eight yards, and Thomason took
the ball off right tackle for the re­maining
distance and a touchdown.
Here Tech stepped into the lead,
and the count was 6-0.
On the kick off, Thomason made
an on side kick, the ball traveling to
Auburn's 31 yard line where Tom
Jones fell on it. The ball being near
the side line, Thomason naturally
carried it out of bounds, and on the
next play, Earl Dunlap went through
right tackle for 31 yards and a touch­down,
Thomason's attempted place
kick was blocked and the half soon
ended. Tech 12—Auburn 0.
The second half started with the
same line up that had . started the
game; and the play was surprisingly
even, considering the far superior
offense as shown by Tech. One of the
most sensational plays of the game,
resulted when Chattie Davidson punt­ed
a 62 yard punt which Thomason
touched just before the ball rolled
over the goal line. Four Auburn men
were charging down upon the stock
safety man, who was making every
effort to retrieve the ball and return
it to the field of play. Although he
was hit by a would be tackier, he
managed to return the ball to his 1
yard line before being pinned down.
Closely following this was a spec­tacular
and augmentative play made
by Dunlay. Auburn had the ball on
Tech's 31 yard line, when Long drove
into tackle and as he was hit, the ball
flew out of his hands, Dunlap dashed
in and grabbed the ball before it hit
the ground, and raced 69 yards for
a touchdown accounting for Tech's
final score.
However, the Auburn Tigers would
not admit defeat, and unleashed an
offensive attack late in the third
period, that netted them a touchdown.
Auburn obtained the ball after a punt
on her own 38 yard line. Sloan broke
through and spilled Davidson for a
1 yard loss at left tackle, after which
Davidson got through the other side
for 9 yards. Long then made it first
down by a drive at center, and
Davidson carried the ball again. He
managed to get loose in a scattered
line for a dash of 49 yards, being
pulled down from behind by Fink on
Tech's 1 yard line. Here a tochdown
quickly followed, being made by Hat­field.
Shortly afterwards, the final
Thanksgiving classic between the two
institutions ended, Tech winning 19-6.
Medical Students
Try To Take Cold
Cambridge, Mass.—(IP)—A hand
full of men went into a room at
tropic temperature recently at the
Harvard Medical School, worked
feverishly to develop a sweat and
then walked out into the cold street
trying to catch colds, and "unfortun­ately"
they were not successful.
So they're going into the same
room, this time with a temperature
far below freezing as it is possible to
make it.
They will work some more and
then go into the streets and try to
catch colds again. And they're hop­ing
they get sick.
What's the matter with them?
Nothing. All doctors, they are trying
to discover the effect of environ­ment
on your tendency to catch that
common pest, a cold.
They are working with Dr. W. G.
Smillie, head of public health ad­ministration
at Harvard, who has
been interested in the sneezings of
the human race for a long time, and
who expects to devote the rest of his
life finding out just what these colds
are all about.
Civil Service Announces
Schedule of Exams For
Junior Positions Open
Sloan In Conference
Called By Hoover
A schedule of examinations for
Federal positions of interest to senior
students at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute has been issued by the Unit­ed
States Civil Service Commission. Sloan, well known Auburn alumnus.
Recently President Hoover called
into conference 22 captains of busi­ness,
controlling billions of dollars,
to talk with them about the business
situation. One of the 22 was Matt
LIQUOR CAUSES EXPULSION
OF 21 LAW STUDENTS
Urbana, 111.—(IP)—Twenty-one
University of Illinois undergraduates
have been expelled, and Gamma Eta
Gamma, legal fraternity, is threaten­ed
with being disbanded as a result of
the finding of a large quantity of
liquor in the rooms of law students
here recently.
Eight members of the fraternity
were among those who have left the
university.
One of those expelled was Wilton
J. Sherman, of Crown Point Indiana,
a senior in the law school, who was
fined $500 and costs for liquor pos­session.
FEW CHANGES WILL BE
MADE IN FOOTBALL RULES
New York—(IP)—That the new
football rules, new fumble rule and
all, is generally satisfactory, and
that there will be very little tamper­ing
with the rules for next year, is
the opinion of Edward K. Hall,
chairman of the National Football
Rules Committee. He is certain that
the rule against running with a fum­bled
ball will still be on the books
next year.
Junior technical, professional, and
scientific positions are included.
The examinations will be held un­der
a definite schedule of annual ex­aminations
as follows: Junior chemist
and junior engineer on different
dates in February; junior scientist,
Department of Agriculture, February;
junior patent examiner, March; ju­nior
forester and junior range ex­aminer,
March; junior physicist and
junior technologist, April; junior
marketing specialist, April; and ju­nior
entomologist, April.
A very important part of the plan
is the provision for examination and
appointment of senior students. Ap­plications
will be accepted from se­nior
students in accredited institutions
subject to the furnishing, during the
existence of the eligible register re­sulting
from the examination, proof
of actual graduation. This means
that under favorable conditions a se­nior
student may be examined and
placed upon the employment list, cer­tified,
and appointed before he has
completed his college year, and may
report for duty immediately following
his graduation if he so desires; the
only condition in such case being that
the appointee furnish the U. S. Civil
Service Commission proof of gradua­tion
before reporting for duty.
The present salary for the junior
grade of technical, professional, and
scientific positions is $2,000 per year.
Promotion may be made to $2,500 a
year without change in assignment.
More information may be had from
heads of appropriate departments at
Auburn.
The complete list follows: Henry Ford,
Owen D. Young, chairman of the
board of the General Electric Co.;
Julius Rosenwald, Chicago; Clarence
M. Wooley, American Radiator Co.;
Walter C. Teagle, president Standard
Oil Co. of New Jersey; Alfred P,
Sloan, Jr., president of General Mo­tors;
Pierre S. du Pont, chairman du
Pont Co.; Matthew Sloan, president
New York Edison Co.; E. G. Grace,
president Bethlehem Steel Corp.; Wal­ter
S. Gifford, president American
Telephone & Telegraph Co.
RADIO STATION W4QA ON
AIR AFTER LONG SILENCE
(Continued from page 1)
One of the purposes of the radio
station is the transmission, free of
charge, of any messages received. G.
W. Fahrubel, president of the Radio
Club, states that it is the desire of
the club to serve the student body in
every way, and a box will be placed
on the inside of the door to the oper­ating
room at the head of the stairs
on the East end of the third floor of
Broun Hall to receive any messages
that students may desire to be sent.
While delivery is not guaranteed,
every effort possible will be made to
insure prompt service, stated Fahru­bel.
FORMER FOOTBALL STAR
BECOMES HERO OF FIRE
San Francisco—(IP)—Dr. Harold
P. (Brick) Muller, star end on the
late Coach Andy Smith's "Wonder
Team" at the University of California
and named by Walter Camp as the
greatest football end of all time, led
interns and nurses of the University
of California Hospital here in their
successful efforts to save every pa­tient
in the building when a fire
broke out in the X-ray room.
WOMEN LAUGH
New York—(IP)—Almost two
hundred women in the audience at the
first session of the Birth Control Con­ference
here laughed out loud when
Cannon William Sheafe Chase,
Brooklyn reformer said on the stage
that "Childbirth offers women a
chance for rest and recuperation."
INTERCOLLEGIATE DRAMATIC
ASSOCIATION TO HOLD MEET
New Brunswick, N. J.—(IP)—The
annual conference of the Intercol­legiate
Dramatic Association will be
held at the New Jersey State College
for Women and Rutgers University
here December 6 and 7.
The Little Theatre Workshop
Group of the colleges will present
Eugene O'Neill's "Beyond the Hori­zon."
Speakers will include Mrs.
Bernstein, of the Theatre Guild,
Kenneth McGowan, critic and pro­ducer,
and Barrett Clark, author and
editor.
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STUDENTS GET TOO HAPPY
Lansing, Mich.—(IP)—Charges of
driving while intoxicated were placed
here against ten youths, said by police
to be Detroit University students, be­cause
they appeared entirely too hap­py
following the defeat of Michigan
State College by Detroit here re­cently.
LOST!
One jeweled fraternity pin, bearing
the letters of Phi Kappa Delta.
Finder please return to C. F. Brit-tain,
Phi Kappa Delta house; tele­phone,
198.
CURSE OF PHAROAHS
FALLS ON EXCAVATOR
The sudden death of Hon. Richard
Bethell, son and heir of Lord West-bury,
has renewed discussion of the
curse which is supposed to fall on all
who disturb the tombs of the ancient
Pharohs. Bethel was secretary to
Howard Carter when Carter was ex­cavating
the tomb of Tut-ankh-amen.
Nine others who have worked at the
tomb have died more or less suddenly.
Tiger Theater
Wednesday, Dec. 4
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
AH Talking Picture
See Ruth Chatterton, Lewis
Stone, Raymond Hackett in
"Madame X"
Thursday, Dec. 5
Jack Mulhall and Patsy Ruth
Miller
"Twin Beds"
Male or female, married or
single, sixteen or sixty, there's
a message in "Twin Beds" that
will hit your heart. . . . But
don't be disappointed if it col­lides
with your funnybone on
the way down.
Friday, Dec. 6
The Review of Reviews
A Thirlling Drama of Back
Stage Life
"Broadway Scandals"
The Revue that is Different
All Talking, Singing, Dancing
Saturday, Dec. 7
The Greatest Murder Trial Ever
Made!
"The Drake Case"
A Sensational Murder Trial
that unmasks the secrets of two
women's lives, in the strangest
love tangle ever revealed.
The New Victor Radio With Electrola
Music That Thrills—
1. From the air
2. From the latest Records
(In one small compact Cabinet)
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