1925-10-17 The Plainsman

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CEhr TO FO .unsntdn R THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOL. XXXIX AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1925.
NUMBER
LAST SEMESTER'S HONORS
ANNOUNCED BY REGISTRAR
Eleven Members of Present SECTY. WILBUR TO
Senior Class Made Highest
Distinction; Thirty-Eight
Attained Distinction
TELL HISTORY OF
"OLD IRONSIDES"
BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 17—"Old
Eleven members of this years j Ironsides" will have a full hour on
senior class attained an average of | the air on the night of October 17th
90 per cent or more, of the number j when Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of
of quality points possible, during the j the Navy, broadcasting through
last semester last year according to I WCAP Washington hooked up to
figures released by .the Registrar's; WJR Providence, WEEI Boston,
-office today. Thirty-eight seniors WOO Davenport, WCOO Minneapo-made
distinction. The complete list ijst and WASI Cincinnati, will tell
of highest distinction and distinction
students are listed below:
Students whose quality points
amount to 90 per cent of the maxi­mum
number possible attain highest
distinction.
Those whose quality points amount
to 75 per cent of the maximum num­ber
possible attain distinction.
Junior Class
Highest Distinction
Arant, Frank Selman, Agricultural
Education, McKenzie; Beavers, Mar­tin
Francis, Electrical Engineering,
Cuba; Carter, John Buford, Civil
Engineering, Athens; Elliott, James
Gordon, Architecture, Guthrie, Ky.;
Floyd, Anne Elizabeth, General, Au­burn;
Hardin, Samuel Walton, Civil
Engineering, Luverne; Hooper, Wil­liam
Edward, Electrical Engineering,
Secondary Education, Beatrice;
Kendrick, Aaron T. Jr., Highway En­gineering,
Auburn; Small, Hulan
Alva, Agricultural Education, Nota-sulga;
Spencer, Herbert George,
Civil Engineering, Mobile.
(Continued on page 6)
MRS. L. L. COOPER
PASSES AWAY TUES.
of the deeds and adventures of this
famous historic treasure and formal­ly
open the Benevolent and Protec­tive
Order of Elks' Campaign to raise
$500,000 to restore this old ship.
The programme will open at 8:45
and following the announcement a
naval band will give a concert for
fifteen minutes and then the Secre­tary
of the Navy will come on the
air. The naval band will follow with
another concert and then Robert
Hilliard, the well known actor, will
recite Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem
"Old Ironsides." The Marine Band
will close the programme with a con­cert,
concluding number being the
"Star Spangled. Banner."
In addition to this major pro­gramme,
the Elks in every part of
the country, through the courtsy of
.inc.-Nationil Broadcasters' Associa­tion,
have arranged during "Old
Ironsides -Week," October -19th-24th,
for Elk orators to be on the air every
night to tell the story of this famous
old ship and their efforts to save her
through the children of the Nation.
Hundreds of thousands of schools
will stage patriotic exercises com­memorative
of the deeds and adven­tures,
of this old frigate and the ear­ly
traditions of the American Navy.
The funeral of Mrs. L. L. Cooper,
widow of the late L. L. Cooper who
died in July, was held at the Auburn
Baptist church Wednesday morning
at 10 o'clock with interment at the
Auburn cemetary. Rev. E. W. Holm­es,
pastor of the Auburn Baptist
church conducted the funeral.
Mrs. Cooper has resided in Lee
County continuously since her
birth, December 14, 1865, and is
survived by one daughter, Miss Le-land
Cooper of Auburn, and a son,
Robert James Cooper of Atlanta.
WILSONIANS HOLD
REGULAR MEETING
TUESDAY NIGHT
The Wilsonians held their regular
meeting Tuesday night October 13,
at 7 o'clock. The program was a
very interesting one." Beginning with
the "Honor System" a very great
subject for any one to speak on now,
| Mr. Edwards, the president of the
Mrs. Cooper was very active in ! s o c i e t y discussed this to a great ad-the
Auburn Baptist church for many j v a n t age of the society. He stressed
years, and was greatly beloved by a ' t n a t the society as a whole back the
large number of friends. The pall Honor System and make it a real
bearers were H. M. Martin, J. Hud­son,
W. W. Hill, W. H. Eaton, W. V.
Jones, and W. D. Martin.
AUBURN PLAYERS
GIVE ONE ACT PLAY
The Auburn Players on Monday-night
presented another one act
play. "A Considerable Courtship"
was directed by Rubye Powell and
was quite a success. Will Wills as
Mr. Mangum, an eratic old despep-tic
carried his part to the amusement
of all present. Allye Hughes as the
match making widow did full justice
to the part.
The cast of the play included:
Will Wills as Mr. Mangum.
Perry Edwards as Henry Mangum.
Allye Hughes as Mrs. Littlefare.
Lucile Tottie as Sarah Littlefare.
On Monday October the nineteenth
the Auburn Players will present
"Isn't It Exciting." This play will
be directed by Lucile Totty and Don­ald
McKinzie.
success on our campus. Another very
interesting part was taken by Mr.
Hardin, he gave several "Current
happenings." that were of value to
the members present. F. S. Arant
; showed his reading ability by giving
|the society an unusual treat with
"The Willing Widow."'G. D. Salter
| stood before the society as a proud
orator, showing great preparation on
the subject "Pre-Historic Man."
Edna "Rat Creel discussed "Art
in Ecuador" in her speech she show­ed
much Library preparation. Eloise
Floyd and Elizabeth Madre favored
the members by singing two duets.
The quite destinguished Doc John­son,
brought out some real Educa­tional
facts which many members
did not know about, telling of "Ala­bama's
Greatest Artificial Lake."
The Frances Brothers entertained the
crowd with their good music, the
members of the society showed their
I appreciation of this by the numerous
applause, i
The Wilsonian Literary Society
invites new members and visitors
every Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock
in room 301 Main Building.
T H. MANGUM
T CONVOCATION
UBURN yiSITEf) BY
I» ETTY WEBB|0F
Above is the likeness of the Phil Baxter orchestra, who will play for the opening dances of the year, The Sopho­more
Prom. This noted orchestra hails from Little Rock, Arkansas and holds the reputation of being among
the best in the entire South land.
An Appreciation FRIENDSHIP COUNCIL
The Plainsman takes this oppor­HOLD
MEETING SUN.
tunity to thank those students who
aided in getting out the Football
edition last Saturday. Fifteen minu­tes
after the game was over the first
copies were being distributed on the
streets by Freshmen who volunteer­ed
their services to act as ''newsies."
Especially dio we thank the follow­ing
men who handled the details
from Drake Field "and deprived them­selves
of seeing the game for a quar­ter
period in order to telephone the
results to the printing company: C.
!L. Gree'nlree, Rals Diane./Cosien,
McQuagge, and Dozier.
METHODIST TO HAVE
WEINER ROAST SAT.
The Auburn Y. M. C. A. Friend­ship
Council held its annual retreat
last Sunday at 2:30 o'clock in the
auditorium of the
church.
The Young People's Department
of the Methodist Sunday School will
hold a weiner roast Saturday night
Presbyterian : Oct. 17. All members and friends of
I the department are cordially invited
More than fifty members of the i to be at the Methodist church prom-
Council were present when the pre- j ptly at 7:00 P. M. Transportation
sident, Mr. C. B. Burgoyne, called '• will be provided for all who arrange
| the meeting to order. j to go. The scene of the activities
The work of the Friendship Coun-; will be out in the woods where a j
I cil of last year was reviewed and! huge bonfire will provide light and j
several new items ^yere added to the
PLANS FOR FORUM
MINSTRELS MAKING
GOOD HEADWAY
heat. Stanis will boj provided by
I list of things to be.done this year. I each class, arid there will be music
Mr. J. E. Lewis, the State student J and get-together games. All are
' secretary, was present for the meet- ! urged to attend and get acquainted f"
The preparations for the Forum
Minstrel are progressing nicely. The
Forum has found much talent of
high caliber and it will be put into
action. There will also be several
stunts by members of the faculty.
An orchestra and a chorus will also
be part of the evening's entertain­ment.
The committee hints that
there will be several very pleasant
surprises. This minstrel will be held
in Anderson Auditorium, Wednesday
Oct. 21 at 8:00 P. M. Tickets are
now on sale. They may be had at j ...
the Student's Supply Shop or from
any member of the class. The ad­mission
price" is 25c. From all indi­cations
it will be the biggest two-bit
show in Auburn this year.
ing . and many helpful suggestions ' with the members of
came from him throughout the af-, School.
ternoon. -
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Several splendid short addresses
were made by the fellows who at­tended
the conference at Blue Ridge
in June.
Rev. Miles, who has been actively
associated w#h our Y. M. C. A. work
here led the devotional and later
made a short talk in which he stress­ed
definiteness of purpose.
Prof. Robinson addressed the
meeting on "The Y. at work at Au­burn.'.'
Among those present were Dr.
Spright Dowell, Rev. Holmes, Rev.
Davidson, and a number of interest­ed
students.
The meeting adjourned- at 4:30
everyone feeling that a definite
j step forward had been taken. Mr.
J. E. Lewis dismissed the gathering
with a prayer.
the Sunday
THE EVANS SOCIETY
FEATURES A DEBATE
The Evans Literary Society held
it's regular meeting Monday night,
Oct. 12. The program consisted
chiefly of a debate, Resolved: That
the practice of-a women taking the
man's name at marriage is an ancient
and barbarious custom that should
be abolished. The speakers for the
affirmative were Miss Gibbs and
Witty. The speakers on the nega­tive
were Miss Ingram and Sikes. The
speakers on both sides were on their
toes with a red hot argument that
would convince most any kind of an
audience , while they were speaking.
After much hesitancy the society de­cided
that they would have to come
to some conclusion, so they decided
in favor of the negative. Another
number on the program was, "The
Inception of the Essay," by Mr.
Stephens. Mr. Stephens chose his
material from the works of Montaig­ne.
After the program, Mr. O. F. Wise
explained the Literary society Hon­orary
Fraternity, Alpha Phi Epsilon,
and urged all of the members to
strive to become elegible for it.
During the business meeting the
society decided to make the dues
fifty cents each semester.
Two Changes Made In
County Agency Work
W. 0. Winstoh, district demonstra­tion
agent, announced two changes
in county agency work in the Black
Belt. J. L. Lawson, county agent in
Marengo County, has been transfer­red
to Hale county, taking the place
of J. D. Sanford, who resigned June
30 to engage in business in Florida.
On October 15, E. E. Hale^ who has
been assistant county agent in Pick­ens
and also in other counties, will
succeed Mr. Lawson in Marengo.
Mr. Winston, who is district agent
for the Black Belt district, said that
Mr. Lawson and Mr. Hale were both
trained in agriculture at Auburn,
and that Mr. Lawson has made a
splendid agent in Marengo. Mr.
Hale graduated at Auburn at the last
commencement and since graduation
he has been with the Extension Ser­vice
as assistant county agent in
Pickens and Randolph counties, and
also assisting in conducting county
camps for club boys in various parts
of the state.
Mr. Lawson has decided that he
will need assistance in his new work
as he is to be married in the near
future to Miss Yearby of Greensboro.
National Pecan Grower's
Hold Meeting In Selma
The home economics class, under
Miss Gatchell, made the pecan candy,
bread, and cake for the annual ban­quet
of the National Pecan Growers'
Association which was staged at Sel­ma
on last Wednesday evening, Oct.
14. A sufficient amount was made
for 200 people.
Fifty pounds of pecans presented
by Mr. Clifton Kirkpatrick, a big
pecan grower of Selma, were used
to make the cake, candy, and bread
for the banquet. The Department
of Horticulture hulled these pecans.
The menu was prepared by Miss
Gatchell and Miss Annette Tyndall,
county home demonstration agent of
Dallas County. This is a fine- ex­ample
of cooperation which Auburn
is doing by helping these pecan
growers in their annual meeting.
Prof. C. L. Isbell, head of the hor­ticultural
department, is vice-presi­dent
of the association in Alabama
and was one of the many speakers
on the program.
Betty Webb, traveling secretary
for Southern Division of Council and
member of the council spent a day
of last week in Auburn enroute from
Womans College to Atlanta. She
spoke before a hurriedly called meet­ing'
of the girls in the afternoon and
also before the cabinet at night.
The theme of both talks, which
were really chats.covered student re­lationships
in the local, national and
international sense. "Can we as
students think in world terms?" were
two questions asked by her. Again
Miss Webb says," students are de­manding.
1. Facts—ideals must be built on
facts since no man's thinking is bet­ter
than his information.
2. Faith in the vision that things
can be changed—Life is not static,
but moving
3. New philosophy of life.
4. New relationships to God, cam­pus,
church, home community, races
and nations.
The challange thrown down by the
secretary were taken up by the re­presentatives
gathered at camp Win-,
netaska October 2-5, in conference.
It resulted in the formation of a
state objective based on education
to be carried out under the leader­ship
of Mary Walter-Smyer, .'Birm­ingham
Southern. Delegate to this
conference came from Howard col­lege.
Birmingham Southern (Joint
hostesses) Uni/ersity of Alabama,
Auburn, Alabama College, Woman's
College, Athens, Livingston and Gray
Prominent Selma Attorney and
Former Resident of Auburn
Makes Appeal For Univer­sal
Brotherhood
"Through the proper organization
of our lives the destiny of the human
race can be worked out for univer­sal
brotherhood and happiness" Hon­orable
Robert H. Mamgum, attoi'ney
and politician of Selma, declared at
the convocation exercises for upper
classmen last Thursday.
Preceeding Mr. Mangum's address
Dr. Dowell made a brief announce­ment
in regard to the Home Coming
Day exercises. The student body
was requested to live true to Auburn
ideals and traditions by helping put
the day over in high class style.
Mr. Mangum told of his life long
support of Auburn also of his being
a resident of this town eight years.
He is not an alumnus of this insti­tution,
having entered another col­lege
to pursue the law course, but
he said that deep down in his heart
he feels like an alumnus of Auburn.
"Formerly there were a group of
generation the best of all the ages,
but it is different today as you who
are just entering upon the stage of
graduation are living in a more mar­velous
period of worlds history. In
the last fifty years man has reached
out farther and exerted his influence
showing his mastery over the physi­cal
universe. These are but flashes
as the good work continues. This
day issues a challenge to the man who
has charge of affairs, as people have
developed mental faculties of mind,
soul, and body and the challenge is
of an imperative nature. How are
Normals. Auburn representatives y o u going to meet these situations?
were Elizabeth Floyd, Anamerle by studying yourself and learning if
Arant and Elta Majors. Emily Hare you are a man.
also attended. The whole meant new j "Through the proper organization
inspiration and new sources of infor­mation
throughout the state which
must result in stronger associations.
Prof. M. L Nichols
Gets Appointment
Extension Service Holds
Its Monthly Conference
Monthly conference of the Ex­tension
Service workers was held
Saturday, Oct. 10. The main sub­jects
discussed were fairs, program
of annual state meeting of farmers
and Extension workers to be held
the last half of December. Prof. L. I.
Duncan had charge of the meeting.
In addition to the regular staff of
specialists and supervisors,, an ad­visory
council consisting of four
county agents, John Blake, Dallas
County; John Yarbrough,
County; J. H. Wetherington, Hous­ton
County; R. C. Lett, Tuscaloosa
County were present at this meeting.
Others who were present at this
meeting were Edward O'Neal, and
W. D. Barton of the Farm Bureau.
of things the destiny of the human
race can be worked out for univer­sal
happiness, this was proved after
the great world war as the same men
and women were left to make, or mar
human progress. We need thinking
men and women this day and time,
if the problem of your existence is
to be solved. It is alarming to real­i
z e how few men and women really
Prof. M. L. Nichols, head of the i t h i n k ) b y t n i n k i n g i m e a n the assi-agricultural
engineering department, j m i i a t i o n 0f facts until a definate
has been appointed a member of a! c o n c i u s j 0 1 1 has been reached,
national committee to work out a ««The g r e a t e s t glory of the south
program for research work in agri-; s h ] C e t h e c i v i i w a r i s t n e number of
cultural engineering. small colleges that have dotted the
Prof. Nichols received his appoint- | e n t i r e ia n ( j . When you accept an
education at the hands of this insti­tution
the best in you is developed
and you in turn give out the best to
the world. We need men and women
R. U. Blassengame, head of the o f c o u l . a g e not especially physical
agricultural engineering department: c o u r a g e DUt social courage. The
at Penn State was also appointed on . g . o o d o l d c o u r a g e that causes men to
this committee. Mr. Blassengame is; g t a n d a n d f i g h t f o r w h a t is rjght.
ment by a personal letter from Sec­retary
of Agriculture, William Jar-dine
of Washington, D. C. who ap­pointed
the committee. ' .
an old Auburn man and was former­ly
head of the agricultural engineer­ing
department here being succeeded
by Prof. Nichols.
A. E. E. HOLDS REGULAR
MEETING
The A. I. E. E. held its regular I t h i s wori<j.»
meeting on Wednesday night al- j
though there was a hard rain at that
time. President McMullan called the
meeting to order after which some
business matters were taken up. A
very interesting talk was then given
by Mr. Douglass of the telephone
engineering department
he told about his work in
with the American Telephone
Telegraph Co
We also need men and women who
will resolve that the relation between
the sexes shall be perpetuated.. By
doing this one shows they have de­scended
from the knightliest of a
knightly race. Students measure
your lives by the good you do in
EPWORTH LEAGUE RALLY DAY
Everyone is urged ot be on hand
at the Epworth League Sunday night
at 6:30. A special program has
In his talk I b e e n a r r a n 8 ' e d which promises to be
Atlanta PePPv a n d interesting with music
and • being an important feature. AH old
where he had gone to \ Leaguers are especially invited to be
Colbert i get further information in regard to j Present.
telephone work. Let' s a11 b e t h e r e S u n d a y n i S ht
Meetings of the A. I. E. E. are j and get the "Old League Spirit" as
held every Wednesday night at 71 well as the "Auburn Spirit." The
o'clock in the engineering audito­rium.
All electrical students are eli­gible.
League will have charge of the re­gular
evening service as they have
had for the past four Sundays.
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STAFF FOR 1925-26
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EDITORIAL STAFF
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W. D. Baughman Managing Editor
S. H. Lynne - - Assistant Managing Editor
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Red Russell ,-- Humor Editor
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C. D. Greentree Exchange Editor
J. B. Hill Bulletin Board Editor
W. D. Wills Columnist
George Cunningham Feature Writer
aftc on air? Let the old men turn out
as t have in the past and possibly there
will -be less complaint concerning the lack
of spirit in the Freshman ranks.
REPORTERS
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W. R. Hardin W. C. Hurt
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TELEPHONE NUMBER 238—-W
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The Plainsman staff and Friendship
Council express sincere sympathy in the
bereavement of Miss Leland Cooper and
o
family, of the loss of their mother, Mrs.
L. L. Cboper.
Miss Leland Cooper is office secretary
of the Y. M .C. A. and is directly associa­ted
with the welfare of the student body.
JAMES B. DUKE
During the past week one of the great­est
friends of education in America has
passed to the great realm beyond. This
man James B. Duke, devoted considerable
time and gave millions to foster learning
and the advancement of the higher scienc­es.
His work has certainly been of a con-
• structivc nature, which shows that the
I mind of this man was on the greater things
! that make life worth living, for.
James B. Duice was born of very poor
i parents but disregarding this more or less
j unfortunate situation he made a wonder-
| ful response to life. He received practi­cally
no education but probably realized
the necessity of a young man acquiring
| an education as he gave the larger part
I of his fortune to this movement. He be­lieved
in education to the point that he
created the Duke Foundation which con­sisted
of forty million dollars of his ap­propriate
money. Trinity College received
six million dollars of this money with the
the proviso that the name be changed to
Duke University.
All people can live but few can leave
good works to perpetuate their memory
as he did. His name is surrounded by
many great monuments to his labors.
Duke advanced the tobacco industry so
that all parties concerned realized their
profit. He organized the American To­bacco
Company thereby satisfying the con­sumers.
He took some of his millions and made
possible the Southern Power Company of
North Carolina.
He was certainly a pioneer in making
experiments in fertilize formulas, hoping
to aid the farmer by making cheaper pro­ducts
to aid in agricultural growth.
The nation will always reverence the
name of James B. Duke who tried to leave
the world a little better than he found
it.
THE AUBURN SPIRIT
, There appears annually in this column
an editorial concerning the Auburn Spirit.
To attempt to carry this paper through
the scholastic year without at least one
literary outburst about the well known
Spirit would be like attempting to carry
the earth through its yearly edition with­out
the daily advertised showing of the
. sun.
However, a new note must be struck in
the annual Auburn Spirit. In the past it
has been the custom to bewail the loose
observance of the Honor System, to lift
up his hands in horror when considering
the conduct at the picture show, and to
postively froth at the mouth at the slight­est
thought of the confusion that reigns
supreme when the 7.50 rolls into Grand
Central Station. On the other hand, the
ed has often spoken kindly of the Auburn
Spirit, ttfs viewed it with pride and has
carressgd it softly. For Auburn has. the
best spirit in the South and are not afraid
to admit the fact, and admit it they do,
each year, through the editorial columns
and otherwise.
Due to a new system in vogue this year,
the students and others are excluded from
the daily practice of the football team.
This exclusion of students has worked the
purpose of keeping the students in their
classes and at. the same time gives the
players a chance to enjoy several after­noons
of uninterrupted work. The prac­tice
is a wise one, if the showing of the
team so far this year is any criterion.
Out of respect for the students' feelwigs,
Coach Morey has set aside one day in the
week as open-practice day, in which the
students' can get rid of a week's supply
of enthusiasm, and also polish up their
vocal organs in preparation for the coming
game. One would think that the field
would be too small to hold the howling
mob, but, as a matter of fact, the crowd
at the last open practice, in numbers and
general enthusiasm, resembled nothing so
much as the cheering section at the na­tional
chess tournament. And let one fact
be recorded. The Freshman attendance
constituted about 90 per cent of the total,
and the noise from the Freshmen consti­tuted
about 99.44 per cent of the total
noise generated. Such old men as hap­pened
to be there resembled remarkably
the festive oyster when cheers were being
led. How about it, you upperclassmen
who have been complaining about the lack
of Freshman spirit this year? Are you
setting the Rats a proper example in the
matter of standing on your hind legs and
letting the old 'Eat 'Em up go forth in the
THE HONOR SYSTEM
Now that we have started the year in
earnest, we should remind ourselves that
one of the most vital issues on the campus
should receive sober consideration by
every member of the student body. The
Honor System was voted into the college
by the student body and it is squarely up
to us to put it across. And to be a suc­c
e s s the Honor System must receive one
: hundred per cent support or it cannot pro­perly
function.
And why can't we give one hundred
! per cent support to the Honor System? Au-
; burn, and Auburn Traditions are known the
world over, and the same ideals that have
upheld these traditions in the past can
; be utilized now and in the future to make
the Honor System an institution that we,
I as Auburn men can be justly proud of.
\ Not only does the Honor System apply
in classrooms but in all our dealings in
college.
When a man has registered at Auburn
I he is supposed to be a man in every sense
| of the word, at least he has shouldered
! the responsibilities of a man. It is during
j the four years of preparation here that
the truth of the above statement is brought
home to us.
A greater number of us will have to
go into the different phases of industry
and into the business world when we have
graduated and battle against odds to win
recognition. No better place can we find
than here to map out our plans, and in
so doing keep in mind that honesty is
chief among those things required of us
in any kind of work we undertake. The
Honor System does not require those
things bordering on the impossible, but
those things that are included in a gentle­man's
code of honor.
NOTE: The Plainsman will welcome
views on the Honor System from the mem-
! bers of the student body. All articles must
be signed, as no unsigned articles will be
published. Names will be withheld.
DESTRUCTIVE WORK
Last Friday the Tau Beta Pi Initiates
constructed a bent in front of Langdon
Hall, as a part of their initiation. Saturday
night someone, having exhausted other
means of amusing themselves, deliberately
wrecked the bent by trampling it and
tearing the canvas work off.
The bent was made at a sacrifice of
time 'and money on the part of the initia-j
tes and represented the fruits of a full
days work done by nine men. And to
have such acts of vandalism occur on our
campus is deplorable. Surely no sane
person would think of doing such a thing.
Let us hope that someone outside the stu-
| dent body, who has not yet reached the
stage of reponsibility committed the act.
Where's Your $41
Those fellows up .at Washington who
I have nothing to da but to figure have es-
! timated that the money circulation on Sep­tember
1 was $41 per head. This proves
that somebody has $40 of our money.—
THE PLAINSMAN
BOLOGNA
Taking the chance of being accused of
egotism, we announce again that we are
at our wit's end for something to write
about. That is, we are at our wit's end
for something we dare write about. We
have many things that we would like to
write about, of course, since we are taking
just as many classes as the next chap, and
are, consequently, under just as many
separate, and individual, even individual­istic,
professors as that same next chap.
Do You Know
Taking it all in all, however, we
see no reason for having so many ag-grievements,
beyond the mere fact
that we must uphold our reputation as
a college student in good standing.
It entails hard work, this uphold of
that sort of reputation. One must
either have a sixth sense, or no sense
at all. Guess which.
Things seem to be going somewhat,
wrong lately, that is, as far as we are
concerned. Wc spoke, nay we argued,
pleaded earnestly today with a prominent
official of the college for a full three-quarters
of an hour, and at the end he
said, "No"! At such times as this, when
we feel particularly down-hearted, we
turn for comfort to the words of the philo­sopher
who so aptly wrote,
"Tell me not in mournful jumbles
Life is but a nempty scream,
And the soul is dead that mumbles,
and things are not as we scheme."
And so on, and so on, ad infinitum,
ad nauseam. Being quite pointless, such
things give us the courage necessary for
us to go on being pointless ourself. But
enough of this.
One of the daily gripe themes is gen­erally
a discussion as to which is the easi­est
course in the college. Somehow it
seems to us that this is a subject that has
many angles. Take for instance the case
of the lazy boy who does not want to
work. He has his idea of what is a crip
course. But then what about the boy
who is very interested in a subject that
is hard for others to master; naturally
it will be easy for him and he will think
that that is a crip. Taking it all in all is
there any crip course in the college? What
do you think? TVis paper would be glad
to receive any original ideas as to what
is the easiest course here, and we venture
to say that some boys on the campus
have some interesting arguments to sup­port
their idea. Let us hear from you.
Rodent Rambles
The Rat Bible.
Nearly every Freshman in Auburn now
has that one volumn of literature which
is of so rare importance to his welfare. It
is entitled the "RAT BIBLE."
Being called "BIBLE," one Rat opened
his volume expecting to find Proverbs,
Genesis, Psalms etc. but was surprised to
find that which he did find. As he opened
the book, he found it was a gift of the
Y. M. C. A- He immediately went down to
thank th> Y personally for its generosity.
Then he very carefully turned each page
and scrutinized it. He gave a glance at
the College Calendar and hurried on eager­ly
thru the pages as if looking for a $5
spot or maybe a $10, hid there by some of
the generous Y. officials.
He reached the Dont's absorbed a few
and hurried on in search of that $5 or $10
spot. He found on page 33 a statement
regarding hazing. He read it—he read
it again carefully—to be sure of himself,
he read it with his room mate's glasses.
Still it read the same. He then asked
his room mate to read it—it was the same;
so he was sure. It said that HAZING
WAS PROHIBITED. He immediately
hunted up some Senior and slimed him;
then told him the Rat Bible said NO hazing.
Well, when the poor Rat came back he
put a pillow on his chair and said weakly,
"That must have been a typographical
error."
He picked up the Bible and read on. He
learned not to deface college property.
Not to take screws out of the seats and
chew them; not to swallow tacks etc. It
is too wasteful. A glance at the train
schedule and he carefully read the every­day
names of the Professors, so he could
greet them cordially and friendly when
he next saw them. "Osmosis" almost
stumped him, but he finally mastered it.
Slang was next and he discovered the most
appropriate word for Classes he had ever
seen printed—BOG. He also learned the
meaning of "Riding Doc."
He reached Fraternities and finding
none with a suitable name, he said he
would refrain from joining them. Honor
Fraternities! He picked up his last Eng­lish
quiz paper—"65." He read each write
up under each Fraternity and then de­cided
to wait and let them ask him to
join, before he would even consider it.
•He passed on—looked over the class
officers and read enough of the Constitu­tion
for one good dose. He practiced a
few yells and almost fractured his lower
jaw besides choking himself. Athletics
came next in order—Football—too rough;
Basket Ball—too tame; Base ball—he just
didn't like it; Track—too strenous.
Ads followed. He read each and every
one and was determined to invest every
one of his dollars with those generous
merchants who offered such bargains. He
reached "Memorandums," seeing nothing
of interest there he closed the book and
heaved a mighty sigh—exclaiming at the
same time, "So that's the RAT BIBLE."
While rummaging through some old
writings the other day we came upon this
little theme on the power of saving. It
strikes us that it somewhat hits the mark.
A Nickel.
Consider the nickel. Think deeply on
its power. Judge its character if you will;
but remember what it will do. Mr. Wrig-lcy
will give you a package of the finest
gum in the world—five cents. One soul
satisfying draught of cooling fluid for
one nickel. The greatest, most magnifi­cent
and most stupendous of modern in­ventions
is at your service for.five cents.
Number Please. One cup of hot stimula­ting
coffee—one nickel. The finest mo­dern
writers and the most exhaustive col­lection
of advertisements known to the
civilized world is at your beck and call.
"Saturday Evening Post—five cents a
copy." Just think, Brothers, of the power
of that brand new 1925 nickel that you
are holding for luck.
Waft a minute. That same nickel is
also very slippery and hard to hold. Just
remember how the greedy soda- jerker
gobbed it up. Ponder on the way of its
going in the restaurant. Think of Mr.
Wrigleys contempt for your lone nickel.
How fast it disappeared in the hands of
the news-boy. How devious its route in
the telephone. How WEAK it was after
it left your hands. It doesn't cost the
soda-jerker a nickel to drink a dope, nor
the news boy a nickel to read the post,
nor the restaurant a nickel to make the
coffee, nor the telephone operator a nick­el
to use the phone, nor a nickel for the
hundred and one other concerns to do
what they charge you a nickel to do. Yet
how powerful is the nickel, how wonder­ful,
how strong,' WHEN I HOLD IT. I
think I'll hold it a while longer.
Can you answer these. : If not try them
on your friends and we will give you the
answers next week.
1. Why is Sunday the strongest day in
the week?
2. What is the first mention of five
sleeping in a bed?
3. What is the difference between a
honey-moon and a honey comb?
4. What does the Leviathan weigh?
5. In choosing a friend why should you
choose one with ill-made legs?
With the Home-Coming day a thing of
the past it certainly behooves us to make
a few comments on 'the day as a whole.
Could you beat it. A huge crowd, a new
Engineering Hall dedicated, a decisive
victory over a formidable opponent, and a
fine day for all this to happen in. Looking
back it appears that everything went off
like clockwork. We do not want to blow
our own horn any but we think that
last Saturday was one of the best days
that Auburn has ever had '
Letters to the Editor
Since reading the article entitled "Au­burn
a seaport town," in the October 2nd
edition of The Plainsman, it has provoked
much thought on my part. Since no one
replied to the article in the last issue of
this paper, I have taken the initiative* in
taking issue with the gentleman, solely
from a sense of duty as a resident of this
town.
I have weighed the facts that the hon­orable
gentleman stated and also every
other fact that I have, after much search­ing,
been able to find. Hence, I have,
after much deliberation, concluded that
this article is the most diabolical composi­tion
of vain babblement that has ever
been composed by anyone, and promulga­ted
through the columns of this or any
other newspaper for the perusal of the
reading public. The gentleman's mind
is perverted by a too vivid imagination so
as to border on the impractical.
It is true that wc arc liable to listen to
the song of the Siren until we arc trans-formed
into beasts, but I am sure that
the reading public would have to be trans­formed
into beasts or some other lower
state of evolution before they would place
their name on a ballot in favor of the
gentleman for Congress. I think he had
better change his platform, for I do not
believe that he is producing much change
upon the open minded citizens of this
town with the policy that he now advo­cates.
Such mythical assurances as the
gentleman is vain enough to make would
p'robably have had some weight before
the age of civilization, but I would remind
him that we are now living in 1925 A^ D.,
and that the minds of the people of this
town have been developing all the while.
You can readily recognize them as pro­ducts
of the 20th century.
Why this worthy gentleman did not
advocate the charge of all of the natural
laws of the universe and propose himself
as lord and master of the new order of
things, I am unable to discern. Such a
deep thinker as he, in his own estimation,
would no doubt be quite efficient in such
an exalted position. Now, every man has
a right to his own opinion, and it might
not be best for me to state my opinion of
any one who, by virtue of past attainments
or through hope of present praise, pro­poses
the change of the natural order of
things-God's order—so as to make the
turbulent waters of a restless sea splash
against a dry dock built at Toomer's corn­er
in order that some aspiring poet might
be inspired to write "Roll on thou deep
blue ocean, roll," instead of "To a moun­tain
daisy." The* idea is preposterous.
Auburn, seemingly, is in need of some
poets, however; but I would warn the citi­zens
of this town that the influence of
this honorable gentleman in Congress
would not be sufficient, I fear, to secure
an appropriation for making Auburn a sea­port
town for the inspiration of poets. It
would be more logical to send the aspiring
verse writers to the sea for this inspira­tion
instead of bringing the sea here. It
would be less expensive too.
All that I have said is with due respect
to the gentleman, who wrote the article
to which 1 have reference. I think he is
in the right church, but in the wrong pew.
Suppose he should run for Congress on a
"paved street" platform, for the town of
Auburn, and assure us that we would have
paved streets, through his influence as
Speaker of the House, would we elect him?
Signed
AN AUBURN CITIZEN.
Auburn FootO Prints
Rat Carter: I notice that your appetite
is picking up these last few days. You ate
almost a whole ham for breakfast this
morning. _
Rat Tate: That is nothing. I noticed
that you yourself ate a whole setting of
eggs.
In R. O. T. C. the other morning a fresh­man
was asked the definition for a file.
He promptly answered that it was the dis­tance
between two men when one of them
was absent.
What is all this about Rat Robert Bruce
thinking about starting a monkey farm on
the outskirts of the town? I myself do
not get the drift but it seems that he is
always talking about monkeys.
Just who is Bull Rat Toney? We want
to see him.
The dance Saturday night over Up-church's
was all O. K. with the exception
that one of the girls was at one end of
the hall while the other one was at the
other and too much time was taken fight­ing
your way from one to the other.
The Junior C. E. class wonders why it
was that a certain newly acquired member
was the only one marked present in sev­eral
C. E. classes lately. Maybe he has
figured that each class he misses causes
the deduction of a percentage of his regis­tration
fee. He will have to snap out of
this if he expects to be in the swim.
"Step right up and shake my hand fel­lows
because I want to know you and you
can call me . . ." No, not "Speedy" but
Philip Tippin because it is none other than
he.
We see the reason now why it is that
George Walker is trying to get so much
publicity, free of charge. He has not
thrown his hat in the ring yet but it ex­pected
that he will be a contender for as­sistant
cheer leader.
There was only one thing wrong with
the comic that was pulled between halves
at the foot-ball game last Saturday. "Papa"
Gooch should have labeled himself so that
we could have reeogni'/«d Von -<
teammate, whom he was leading.
Last Saturday, when the band played
the Alma Mater, one of the visitors asked
what it was and upon learning wanted to
know if it was a new fraternity on the
campus.
After watching Rat Hann promenade
half the length of the gridiron we are still
wondering how he got in R. O. T. C. be­cause
a walk, such as his, has not been
seen on the campus in many a moon.
What is all this about Skinny Lemay be­ing
jealous about a certain finger of the
law? I guess I should say finger because
it is relative to the hand of the law.
With the Texas game in the offering i
it might be well to state what Texas
thinks of this game. Here are their
thoughts in part.
"North Texas fans will see two power­ful
teams in action at Dallas. They will
see Stewarts Longhorns, a team .that,
while possibly still showing the customary
ragged edges of October play, has just
about fought through a stiff card to sea­son
form—a small but effective squad of
real material combining power and speed
—more speed than any eleven the man
who produced an unbeaten eleven in his
first year at Texas has ever had at his
command. They will see in Saxon and
Pannkuche two of the greatest defensive
players of the section. In Estes, Stallter,
Rufus King, and Saxon, a versatile run­ning,
plunging, passing and kicking threat
back of a green but powerful, improving
line, is a greater potential offensive power
than Texas flashed in 1923, will be seen.
They will see in Auburn a veteran team
with eleven men in the roster who played
under Mosley last year, a medium heavy
backfield, a powerful field wall. Barring
the uncertainty of a new field general ex­perience
is with this finely trained team.
Light ends, a fairly heavy backfield, a
line where weight and speed seem to be
admirably mixed—that is Auburn."
We thank Texas for this fine opinion of
May Discover Alabama
If Florida can get all those millions for
investment with nothing but climate, sand
and water, it is certainly pardonable to
wonder happen if the multi-rich should
find out what nature has done for Alaba­ma.—
Blocton Enterprise.
IN FACT, HE WAS GOIN' FISHIN'
Two elderly men, both deaf, met on a
country road. One had a fishing pole in
his wagon.
"oin' fishin'?" shouted the first.
"No,' the other yelled back, "I'm goin'
fishin'."
"Oh, I thought mebbe you was goin'
fishin'." the first called back.—Capper's
Weekly.
She—"Am I the first girl you ever
kissed."
He—"Sure, and am I the first boy who
ever taught you to swim.7—Eufaula
Citizen.
our team and only hope that the game
next Saturday will vindicate their opinion.
May the best man win, with the reserva­tion
that you and I know that we will
win. We wish to say though that none
of the men were under Morey last year as
this is his first year here. From present
indications however, one year is going to
be enough for such a coach as we have
to mold all our available football material
into one whole component that will sweep
all before it.
A certain Sophomore, Snow by name,
seems to forget that he is still in the Sop­homore
class and one year -behind that
of the Junior. He will have to wait an­other
year before he can help the profes­sor
out of a snag in a class, at the same
time getting away with it.
T. S. Lynch is thinking of going in the
Circus in a very short while. The act that
he will specialize in will be that of bare­back
ridding, because in a few more years
he will be very proficient in the art. We
draw our estimations from watching his
first attempts at horse back riding.
To be added to the list of "Co-ed Wat­sons
domitory shieks," is that name, Rat
Moseley, from Pensacola.
We do not know, it may be necessary,
but looks like am advertising scheme for
surgical necessities when Rat Mertins
walks down the street with all his display
in evidence.
If there should ever be a vacancy in the
R. O. T. C. instructorship it could easily
be filled by obtaining the services of Kest-ler
because if he keeps it up like he has
started this year he will be able soon to
command any army, if only from the "in­fo"
he receives in class.
Feeling that some are being slighted and
not wishing this to be the case I suggest
that if any one has a good friend who is
not getting the right publicity kindly drop
his name, along with the "Make", into
P. O. Box 637 and I will see if he can not
be put before the public by means of this
column.
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The article printed below ap­peared
in the Columbus Enquirer-
Sun Monday morning Oct. 12. W.
C. Woodall, the author is one of
the leading journalist of the
Sjouth, being editor of the Indus­trial
Index published in Columbus,
also special writer for the Colum­bus
Enquirer-Sun, Atlanta Con­stitution
and other Georgia pa­pers.
Mr. Woodall was one of
Auburn's distinguished guests at
the Ramsay hall dedication ex­ercises
last Saturday. He is an
.alumnus of the University of Ga.
EDITOR'S NOTE.
marked the dedication of the new
Erskine Ramsay engineering hall,
built "at a cost of $300,000, and the
completion of a group of buildings
made possible by the Greater Au­burn
drive—a unit representing an
investment of more than one-half
million dollars, and increasing sub­stantially
the facilities at this famed
technical school.
An Auburn Alumnus is happy to
go "home" any time. He is parti­cularly
glad and proud to be on the
old campus on home coming day.
And when home coming day also
chances to be the day for the dedi­cation
of the finest building ever
built at Auburn, and recognized as
gas i°f .thft aateteadiae " f i " " p ' < ' hn^-
A GREAT AND HAPPY DAY AT
AUBURN
Auburn's Home Coming this year
was particularly happy. It was, in­deed,
more than a home coming—it
was history. Many referred to it as
the biggest day in the career of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Cer­tain
it is that it was an outstanding
occasion, not only in the history of
Auburn, but of Alabama itself. It
ings of the entire South, and when
on that same occasion there is one
of the major football events of the
year for the South, and the orange-and-
blue is triumphant, why to a
graduate of the A. P. I. it's even big­ger
and more satisfying than a com­bination
of Christmas, Thanksgiving,
the Fourth of July, a wedding in the
family and a world's series.
It was, as we say, all of that. Even
those not united by the Auburn
bond, Jhe hallowed association of
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Alma Mater, felt the thrill and
caught the spirit, and so just every­body
celebrated and was glad! It
was in the air. The very atmosphere
of Langdon hall, where the dedica­tion
exercises were held, was vibrant
with it. Seated on that stage was
one of the most notable gatherings
ever assembled at Auburn—railroad
presidents, college presidents, state
officials, industrial captains, men of
affairs. And the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute enjoying the friendliest
goodwill of every man present—and
in many cases the absolute love and
devotion of those big men. No won­der
that the occasion was so inspir­ing
to every alumnus and every
friend of Auburn as this, its day bf
enlarged opportunity, dawned so
bright and fair.
1 ly numerically, but in prominence in
the picture, owing to their close pro­ximity
to the firing line, and by the
time set for the game in the after­noon,
the Columbus personnel was
still more greatly, arid enthusiasti­cally,
in evidence.
The story of this occasion, so in­teresting
to friends of technical edu­cation,
tov alumni of Auburn, to the
state of Alabama, and to Columbus,
such a staunch and loyal friend, of
this great Alabama school, has al­ready
been told in the news columns,
and what is here written is simply
giving in a rather informal way some
of the impressions of this wonderful
day.
It was not surprising that Colum­bus
was well represented on this oc­casion.
Auburn is only 38 miles by
speedometer, and probably less than
30 as the Benning airships fly. It
happens to be in another state, but
it happens, also, to be the college
nearest Columbus. And it so hap­pens—
once more—that Alabama citi­zenship
enters to a large extent in
the citizenship of Columbus, for our
community, has drawn freely from
all points of the compass in building
the splendid city of today.
So it was that we, for one, felt
very much at home in the second or
Junior division of folks on the stage
at Langdon hall—the purpose of this
particular line-up being to provide
a setting, and adequate contrast, for
the notable men who were gathered
in a rather sizeable group at the
front of the stage. It is a satisfac­tion
to serve usefully and acceptably
even when used for contrast purpos­es,
to help give an appropriate set­ting,
and the writer expresses., mo­destly
but firmly the opinion that as
a cpntrasterKe pewlfftfed nobody else
on the back part of the stage to ex-cell
him.
We felt, as we say, perfectly at
home, even though not an alumnus of
Auburn and not even a college man.
In the next chair sat a gentleman
who looked strangely familiar and
who turned out to be Mr. W. B.
Bowling—formerly principal of the
Tenth street school in Columbus,
now a successful attorney at La-
Fayette, Ala. He left Columbus 26
years ago, and at the same time ab­andoned
the profession of teaching
to become a lawyer. Three feet
away there was Gentleman Fred,
whom you of course recognize as
Mr. Storey, who was there to report
the occasion for his paper. And,
about in the audience, various Col­umbus
folk were present at Auburn
Saturday in terms of geometrical
progression. By the hour of the
barbecue, they had increased not on-
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Victor H. Hanson, publisher of
The Birmingham News, chairman of
the board of trustees of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, presided over
the program, and that, too, made it
more home-like for, you see, Mr.
Hanson was formerly of Columbus
—yes, and with The Enquirer-Sun,
too. As » newspaper publisher he
"arrived" so long ago that it is an­cient
history, and so this fact, in
connection with his duties and pres­tige
on this occasion (one of the
speakers referred to him as the first
citizen of Alabama, in private life)
made all the more terrific the im­pact
of a shock that came to us on
this occasion; the explosive force
being that old, but always astound­ing
principle, the surprising passage
of time. Thus, it seems only yester­day
(it must have been around 1890)
when Victor Hanson's father was
publishing The Enquirer-Sun, and
Victor, a schoolboy, but already satu-ated
with the newspaper spirit, edi­ted
The Junior Enquirer-Sun (if that
was not the title, it is close enough
to it), a small paper for the little
folk, issued as a sort of supplement
to the Sunday paper. As a boy,
we used to read it with avid interest
—and today we see what we see, and
hear what we hear. Mr. Hanson, we
were pained to observe, is already
on the border-land of the senior di­vision—
saints preserve us!
There was nothing lacking now
to make us thoroughly en rapport
with this historic occasion, but just
to cause an already-full measure to
run over, Mr. Ramsay, who was mak­ing
this princely gift, Erskine Ram­say
Engineering Hall, to Auburn,
supplied this one thing, although it
was not really needed, when he said
in his talk that he earned his first
money as janitor of a school. His
pay was two dollars a month. Our
heart warmed to him strangely, for
we got our start as a janitor f only,
we janitored a small church, not a
school, and our pay was one dollar
a month, instead of two. We won­dered
if we had bsen sadly under­paid,
and after the exercises were
over we asked Mr. Ramsay about
it. He was very polite, and was na­turally
reserved in his comment, but
one could easily see that his private
opinion was that both of us had been
overpaid!
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governor awhile, as we say, when
he's all connected up, and going—
you-can understand how Phenix
City and'Girard folk voted right
away to cha^jjge their name to Bran­don,
and diJifim**1***™*****'^-
ity came in later and headed off this
highly patriotic action, so that Phe­nix,
Phoenix-like, had to rise once
rrtore from what the reporters call
the ashes.
tried to reconcile this with Mr. Mark-ham's
rather meteoric career, but
somehow it gave us the headache.
Mr. C. H. Markham, president of
the Illinois Central Railroad, one of
the principal speakers at the Auburn
exercises Saturday, was given an in­troduction
that was by no means un­complimentary.
Referring to these
gracious words, Mri Markham modes­tly
said that one thing about flattery
is, those who deserve it least appre­ciate
it most.
Dr. R. C. Elliot, president of Pur­due
University, another speaker on
that occasion, was also given an in­troduction
not calculated to ruffle
his feelings. Acknowledging it, he
said, simply: "I, too, life apple
sauce."
The introduction that Governor
Brandon liked best of all was. the
speech employed by Lieutenant Gov­ernor
McDowell in presenting him.
Mr. McDowell was not lacking in
words or in warmth as he proceeded
to line out an introduction that real­ly
introduced. "A most pleasing pic­ture,"
said the governor. "I have
had various photographs made, but
I believe this picture, just drawn,
pleases me best. I am so enamored
of it that I am going to take it home
and show it to Mrs. Brandon, al­though
I sadly fear that she will not
be able to recognize her Bill."
Dr. Ross, of the Auburn faculty,
introduced»,President Elliot, of Per­due
University, and rather stepped
out of the beaten paths, to the de­light
of everybody, including the sub­ject
of his remarks. Perdue Univer­sity,
he kindly explained, is in In­diana.
It is on a line of railroad on
which there are five universities; and
at each end of the railroad is a peni­tentiary.
"Despite this intensive com­petition,"
said Dr. Ross, in his matter
of fact way, "the universities do
well."
Numbers of people said that Dr.
Elliott bears a remarkably close re­semblance
to the late President
Woodrow Wilson, and his voice is
also very much like Mr. Wilson's.
Victor Hanson, presiding officer on
this occasion, spoke of this double
resemblance. Dr. Elliot, it may be
said in passing, made a very fine ad­dress.
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and those bright eyes of his turned
full on the audience—you can un­derstand
how our two neighboring
towns, just across the Alabama state
line, after they had heard him make
a great address on a certain noted
occasion—this was the time the gov­ernor
took off his coat and got right
down to it—after being around the
President Markham, of the Illinois
Central began his railroad career as
a section hand, it was brought out
in the remarks introducing him. A
rather full sketch of his career as a
railroad man was given. He seemed
to be always in line for promotion,
and did not stay put very long any­where.
Once he got out of the rail­road
business altogether, to direct
large gas and oil production opera­tions,
but presently he was back in
the railroad game, and soon was
president of one of the leading trans­portation
systems of the country. We
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swing and his body, arms, etc. are
SEEN BY AUBURN STUDENT exercised * * Swi n g . Now * .
| hazee gets his exercise bending over
"a daily dozen" and in stopping the
hazers swing. The part of his ana­tomy
that gets the last is the same
part that gets sore from horse-back
The splendid feature story print­ed
below is the work of J. E. Eng­land
of the class of '25. This story-was
prepared as part of the work re­quired
in the course in Journalism
offered by Professor Hugh G. Grant.
STUDENT ATHLETICS
Six hundred and fifty students
participate in intercollegiate athle
tics at Auburn.
the old folks to say in regard to
that? Of course they are wrong,
this is not the age of dissipated, lazy
youth and the young people are not
going to the dogs if we believe the
above figures.
This six hundred and fifty does
not take into account unorganized
athletics such as golf, tennis, horse
•Mrtwe-yjiteftHni?, awwniuing, pool, stesF
ing and hazing. We won't mention
parlor athletics for we don't get very
much practice around here due to a
great many -different reasons best
left to the imagination. Well, what
if hazing is banned by the legisla-riding.
That reminds me, I forgot
to tell you about horseback riding at
Auburn. Uncle Sam has some ani­mals
he calls horses stationed here
for the use of the R. O. T. C. Field
Now what have ' ArtiHery unit and the Artillerymen
enjoy riding privileges. Horseback
riding is good exercise but when you
add trapeze and circus turns to it
you get some mighty strenuous ex­ercise.
That is what our dashing
Cavalier* do and we often see a boy
with acres of skin off of him which
he .explains by saying his horse threw
him, but we know he just liatuyjiHy
-ML^^Jus^a^ffiitrt^alied h o r s e t n ru
courtesy.
Sure, sleep is exercise. If you
don't believe it try sleeping with our
room-mate and also you can try it
out with our brother if you have
plenty of strength. We have to
Basketball is fast coming into its
own in the eyes of the public, especi­ally
in the East. They say ^11 fads
are initiated in the East and the rest
of the country plays "follow the
leader" with the effect East being
the leader. That being the case we
can look for basket ball to soon be­come
a potential rival of football in
the eyes of the public. This fairly
modern game of cage ball is rather
limited in its scope here at Auburn
due to the lack of available space
for basketball courts but if the in­terest
keeps up you can look for­ward
to bigger, better and more nu­merous
courts being built. There
will be such a rush of candidates for
Court honors that people will think
there has been a gold discovery
somewhere in. the neighborhood.
This game will draw a better crowd
of candidates because the small man
and the less hardy man will feel
he has a chance that he would not
have in football and every man who
goes to college dreams of making a
letter in some kind of sport. Maybe
there would be more wearers of the
"A" around Auburn if there was
more space for a greater number to"
take part in the letter sports. Coach
| Wilbur Hutsell, Director of Athle­tics
at Auburn ,says that there are
men who never enter any intercol­legiate
sports on the campus who
are just as good as those that do
i take part in them. Of course some
of these men lack confidence in
themselves but others never get a
chance because of the limited size
and number of the practice fields.
Next to football, baseball is pro­bably
the most popular of the college
athletics in the South. Baseball is
the great American past time and
generally college baseball is half
over before the leagues are in action.
Now on the first warm day of spring
get a Twentieth Amendment to the
Constitution making tennis and golf
honorary members of the Bootleg
Club. There are sixty "would be,"
"has been," and "is" golfers regis­tered
on the rolls of the Auburn
Country Club. We do not mean the
Ag-Department. The dues of the
members go to the up keep of the
greens and the down keep of the
rocks and bushes. Some day if
enough of us join the golf club we
might be able to drive one hundred
and fifty yards without any danger
of it bouncing back two hundred and
fifty yards from the kick the ball
gets out of kissing a rock, Isn't it
wonderful what a kiss will do.
Er, oh! yes, we mentioned tennis,
didn't we? Well, there is about
twenty players of note around here
who take part in tournaments but
there is no estimating the number
of "sand lot" players in this league
for there are courts stuck around all
over town. Nearly every boy and
girl, too, for that matter play at some
time or other in his or her college
career, so you.see how hard it would
be to say just how many play the
old game of racquet ball, anyway
tennis is well patronized in our dear
Alma Mater.
However, Johnny Weisermuller's
stepping stone to fame is rather short
of patrons from among,the ranks of
our hunters and dodgers of know­ledge.
The big reason for this is
the Sahara like conditions around
this neck of the woods. How do you
! expect a man to swim when he has
hardly enough water to quench his
| thirst? Sjiraly you don't expect him
to take a plunge in the dipper? Any­way,
it is tad etiquette to do that.
Isaac Walton is also short of disci­ples
for the same reason.
That brings us to the intercollegi­ate
bones of contention, doesn't it?
Foot ball is probably the best known ! a fellow wants to get out and either
of collegiate sports due to the fact; "chunk" a baseball or dodge the risk
that our wind bags become sporting 0f a sore arm and see a game. There-editors
and foot ball is the best liked i f0re since college baseball is under
sport of all by the wind bags because ! w a y he will turn out for these games.
it gives them an opportunity to blow
off without any danger of the guard-
Another reason for the popularity
of college baseball is that colleges
ians of the law getting them for j a r e becoming more and mo-re' the
dusturbing the peace or being "Bats j training school of Iji?" league ball
in the belfiy." Football also has a players. Every"year a number of
popular appoal that professional base j cvUegt:' stars sign up with some big
ball doesn't have because ^o£-^tfie| league team and usually make good
taint that all professional sports car-1 rjght off. Auburn, several years ago
ry with them no maaitttuwi how clean a u s e c ) to have a Southern Champion- frfrort it isv Wha t ,- i4g n o r e thrilling I ship ball club-and on .top of that
than to see twenty-two fine speci-1 mighty near the whole team was on
ture. That is no reason for putting i fight like the dickens to stay in the
it on the shelf altho' a good many j bed or under the cover especially
freshmen we know would like to see j on freezing cold nights. Pool is al-it
left out • of this discussion andI so exercise and can be considered
fheir college career just the same as j strenuous if you play for a dime a
Varlor athletics are dispensed with i ball. Many is the time when we have
here. ! felt as though we had been playing
You wonder why hazing is called• all day after an afternoon of pool at
an athletic sport here, don't you? If ] a dime a ball.
• you had ever been to college that; Tennis and golf are not organized
question would answer itself but' around Auburn and there is only
since you haven't or may be have for-1 about twenty men here who are real
men of American manhood batter
their hearts out aginst one another
just for the glory of the thing? See­ing
a fast, brilliant runner start out
down the field with the ball under
his arm and out run the whole op­position
is :i thing that makes even
a stone man jump up Snd turn into
a wild dancing dervish. We get just
as much kick out of that as anybody,
but "Us & Co." likes best of all to
see a big, powerful speedy fullback
crash thru the line for about ten
yards with about six other blood
the all-Southern pick of the coaches
and sport writers. Here in the last
couple of years, tho the Auburn
baseball team has been something to
mention with an averted head. For
some reason or other the team just
couldn't win for losing. Maybe a
jinx is riding over the campus, may­be
the coaching has fallen off, or
maybe a winning combination can't
be found. This past time shows the
most need of more practice fields
than any other sport. Every year
men who are past masters at the
gotten your Freshman days, we will golfers or tennis players. The rest
just tell you why it is considered as ; of us just fool around and kid our-athletics.
First take question from I selves into believing we are Tildens
the "hazers" standpoint. He gets ! or Walter Hagens. If Big Bill and
plenty of exercise swinging the club, j Walter were to see us playing their
paddle, fire shovel, or skillet that he ' grand old games they would go crazy
uses. This loosens his body muscles \ or burn their implements of war.
from the hips to the eye. His eye,' Maybe they would get Congress to
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thirsty husl ies hanging on to him j age 0f stopping grass scrostching
in every c< nceivable position. Also j grounders are cut off the squad be-don't
forget the long suffering, hero- j cause of the lack of space for them
ic linesmen who pave the way for the ! to show what they can do. If a few
starring of the mighty backs. These , m o r e diamonds were to be spread
unsung heroes are down in the thick j around the landscape maybe Auburn
of their fight giving all they have ! —
got, knowing that their names wont j » - - - - . - - - . - . - - - - - - - - - - - - - • r
be in the hoad lines but fight right
Football is typical of that fight­ing,
indominable spirit of the
American people. A football player
has the same spirit that drove our
forefathers out into the wilderness
to fight wild animals and warlike
Indians and to carve a great Demo­cracy
out of this same wilderness
against teriific odds. That is an­other
reason for the popularity of
football with the public. It is a good
thing for the American College and
especially Auburn that football is
such a popular sport, for football is
the only sport that is fostered by
colleges that shows a dividend. Mr.
Roy Dimmit, director of Student Ac­tivities
at Auburn, says that enough
is made off of four big football
games to pay the salaries of four
athletic coaches, buy all the neces­sary
equipment and to pay the ex­penses
of all the other athletic sports;
also the upkeep of the gymnasium
comes out of this money. Football
has an awful big load to carry,
doesn't it? It reminds you of the
father of ten flapper daughters, the
way it has to suffer for the other
branches of athletic endeavor.
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Here comes the sport that is the
least known, the least thankful, and
most gruelling of all collegiate
sports. We mean track, and we know
whereof we speak for we have been
there and suffered in vain for four
long years. However, since the Fly­ing
Finn came to this country, track
has received a tremendous boost in­to
the eyes of the public and in a
few years will rank as one of the
major college sports. Track has al­ways
had a fairly good audience in
the North, but up until a few years
ago was hardly considered in the
South. In the last three years track
and its companion field events have
made history here in Auburn. Since
Coach Wilbur Hutsell took over the
Auburn has not lost a single dual
meet altho they haven't made any
extremely brilliant records in the
Conference meets. Who expects
them to when a bunch who have run
fox and rabbits all their lives, is
around.
Track is one sport here at Auburn
that is not very hard pushed by the
lack of practice fields. Any number
of men can get on the cinder paths
without crowding anybody out. How­ever,
track does not appeal to the
ordinary run of folks because of the
hardships one has to undergo to
make the team. Training must be
kept up practically the whole year
round if one wants to make a go of
tracking. This is doubtly hard to
because of the many little tempta­tions
and the thought that after all
you might not be a winner. In track
you are either a winner or you are a
complete "bust." There is no happy
medium in the grind and then men
in other sports kick about the way
track men make their letters. If
those kickers would try track just
one one time they would not be sn
sure that it is easy to make a letter
in track.
Now we are.rea'dy to talk about
the physic*".! training administered
to tb'J Freshmen whether they want
it or not. In other words the col­lege
requires all freshmen to take
I physical training. There are five
; hundred and fifty taking this "phy-
' sical torture" as some of our dearly
beloved rats call it, and if you would
set some of them you would know
why the-college requires this phy­sical
I training as-part of the requir­ed
college work. Thru calisthenics,
acrobatic exercises, and mass games
these men are taught co-ordination
of mind and muscle, also a good
many of their physical defects are
corrected through this system of ex­ercises.
We liked to have left out the
girls' side of this talk on our stu­dent
athletics, and since this is a
co-educational school that would
never do. The co-eds have a basket--
ball team and that is about their
only contribution to student activi­ties
in the athletic line. They play
according to boys' rules and under
those conditions have had pretty suc­cessful
teams.
Now would you like some figures
on the money affairs of our athle­tics?
It is shown that football supports
all the rest of the student athletics.
Basket ball shows a loss of from $50
to $196 a game but two games show­ed
a profit this year for a change.
Baseball turns in a loss of from $30
to $330 a game. The freshman base
ball team comes forward with a loss
of $65 to $175 a game. Football
must make enough money to take
care of the losses of all these other
sports.
ALUMNI NOTES
B. L. Shi, College Registar, receiv­ed
a letter from Fred H. Cutts, an
old Auburn man, of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, inquiring information
concerning the publication of the
"Auburn Alumnus". Mr. Cutts is
connected with The Adair Realty and
Trust Company, of Atlanta, Georgia.
He is manager of the Philadelphia
Branch Office. Mr. Cutts stated that
he had seen Cook McKay, '18 in
Philadelphia quite often. - He fur­ther
reported that John Strozier, '18,
N. Y. City extended him and Mrs.
Cutts a visit, October C.
Mr. Cutts mentioned that during
his vacation trip in Miami, Florida,
he saw John DeRamus, Hub Hahn,
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Chloe Ernest, J24 is in the Real
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C. A. LaCroix, 23 visited Auburn,
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WITH TEXAS LONGHORNS
Abe Robinson Likely out for Remainder
Season on Account of Injuries Sustained
in Saturday's Game
of
The Auburn Tiger have completed
their final practice session of the
week and hit the rails Thursday for
other parts. The Moreyites intend to
advance on the Lone Star State by
way of Memphis arriving in Dallas
in time to get warmed up for the
fray. The affair with the Texans is
going to be a humdinger as far as
the Texans are concerned at least,
for special trains are being run from
all points in America's largest state
to the scene . of the argument. This
game is the only big Southern inter-sectional
tilt on the cards for the
week-end and one of the largest that
has gathered on the field at Dallas
is expected to be on hand for the
occasion, when the Tiger meets the
Long'horns for the first time since
what seems to the respective student
bodies as the dark ages. The last
time that these two worthies lined
up to meet £,ach other was in 1911
when the Orange clad men adminis­tered
the Tigers a setback to the
tune of 18 to 5. Those were the
days when a touchdown registeded
only five points.
The Moreymen pulled out of the
village one hundred percent strong
except for the absence of Abe Robin­son,
}iii> was injured in the first
"quarter oTThe" VTimrgsme "RIWIs-out
for the remainder of the season,
with a fractured elbow. Just when
Coach Morey thought that he was
fortunate enough to have a man ava­ilable
to fill the shoes of the depart­ed
"Fatty" Lawrence, along came
the jinx and left him in the lurch
with his calculations upset. Abe has
been taken to a hospital in Mont­gomery
for treatment of the injured
limb. «
As a result of this injury several
important chances have been made
in the line-up. In the first place
"Fats" McNeill has received an offi­cial
elevation to the varsity squad.
The Birmingham product is quite
capable of filling the bill when it
comes down to brass tacks as he is
serving his third year with the scrubs
having been center on the rat squad­ron
four seasons ago. Patterson has
been removed from guard and given
a trial at center where he played
last fall with the freshman crew.
"Shorty" Johnson is also on hand
and out of this bunch Coach Morey
should find the desired material. It
remains to be seen as to just who
will start the fracas from the pivot
position Saturday.
The injury to Turner necessitated
the services of a capable performer
to render necessary assistance to Sal­ter
and the dimunitive Granger
and Shots was extricated from
one of the flanks and slung into the
breech. The big fellow seems to
ha.ve been filling the bill acceptably
for the latest move of Morey has been
to shift "Square Jaw" Salter to the
line where he has not seen service
since his prep school days. Turner,
who missed out in the last two con­tests
will get into the necessary rega­lia
for the battle Saturday.
Another scrub to receive his diplo­ma
of advance to the ranks of the
big boys is Baskin, who is now dis­playing
his wares at one of the
halves. The Carrolton lad is quite
a nifty ground coverer and gets off
some mighty distant and lofty boots [
into the ozone. The addition of Bas- j
kin will give Morey a well rounded
set of halves. Besides the two main
springs Green and Williams, the Ti­ger
mentor will have at his command
Crane, Honeycutt, and Baskin.
The forward wall is in the prover­bial
pink and ready to go, with no
injuries of really serious nature in
its makeup, except, of course, the loss
of Robinson, who is on the shelf for
the remainder of the season. Market
and Ollinger or Spinks will probably
get the call at the ends, with "Shor-j
ty" Long and "Bull" McFaden lining
up at the guards. Captain Harkins
will be seen in his familiar territory
at right tackle, while Pruitt will pro­bably
line up on the other side of the
pivot.
To call signals Morey will have
both Hodges and Tuxworth with
Frankie Bogue always ready to re­place
either of these. Tuxworth
turned in a good account of himself
last week and may get the assignment
against the Orange clad outfit.
The rodents and the big Tigers
both have games this week end and
| have been giving ont another plenty
of opposition in the scrimmages in
which these two outfits have mutually
I indulged in during the past few. .days.
I The rats have their first regular as-singment
of the current season when
they travel to Birmingham with the
hope of making the Howard rats their
first victims. The big Tiger squad
will go forth.in an attempt to chalk
up a mark in the win column and
incidentally break the Texas jinx that
has been hovering around the Plains.
LESLIE "BUCK" SPINKS
Another Tiger who is making quite
a name for himself this fall is Les­lie
Spinks, Tiger right flankman.
"Buck," as he is more familiarly
known has a unique ability to snag
the most difficult passes and is one
of the most certain tacklers on the
Morey squads When he does fail to
grab an opposing player coming
around his territory, Spinks invari­ably
spills the whole interference.
The Tiger end is rounding out his
three years of service this season and
at the clip that he is now travelling,
the present fall ought to prove the
best of the three. He is from Thom-asville
and adds to the list of foot­ballers
who are enrolled in Civil En­gineering.
EIGHT CONFERENCE
BATTLES FOR WEEK
Fourteen Undefeated Teams Still in
Conference; Opposition
Stronger
SOME IMPORTANT GAMES
ON THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE
Vv P. I. vs. Maryland at Washing­ton.
Washington and Lee vs. Kentucky
at Lexington. (
Virginia vs. V. M. I. at Charlottes­ville.
Alabama vs. Sewanee at Birming-ham.
North Carolina State vs. North
Carolina (Oct. 15).
South Carolina vs. Wofford at
Columbia.
Mississippi vs. Union at Oxford.
Let's Make'Em All Wins
Auburn 25 Birmingham-Southern 6 September 26
j Auburn 13 Clemson 6 '. October 3
Auburn 19 Virginia Poly October 10
Auburn ?? ...Texas University ?? October 17
Auburn ?? Howard College ?? October 24
Auburn ?? Georgia ?? October 31
Auburn ?? Tulane ?? November 7
Auburn ?? Vanderbilt ?? , November 14
Auburn ?? Georgia Tech 0 .'. November 26
Standing of Southern Conference Teams, 'Big 22*
'Team Won Lost Tied Total Oppo. Pet.
Points Points
i Auburn * 2 0 0 32 6 1.000
Ga. Tech 1 0 0 33 0 1.000
Alabama 1 0 0 42 0 1.000
; Kentucky 1 0 0 19 6. 1.000
Virginia 1 0 0 7 6 1.000
Tulane 1 0 0 26 7 1.000
I North Carolina 1 0 0 6 0 1.000
jSouth Carolina 1 1 0 7 12 500
'Florida 0 0 0 0 0 000
! Tennessee 0 0 0 0 0 000
Vanderbilt 0 0 0 0 0 000
Sawanee 0 0 0 *0 0 000
Miss. A. M 0 0 0 0 0 000
Wash. Lee 0 0 0 0 0 000
Maryland 0 0 0 0 0 000
Mississippi 0 1 0 7..T 26 000
L. S. U 0 1 0 0 42 000
Georgia ....' 0 1 0 6 7 000
V. P. 1 0 1 ...0 0 19.... 000
V. M. 1 0 1 0 0 33 000
N. C. State 0 1 0 6 7 000
Clemson 0 2 0 12 32 000*
All preparations and preliminary
setups are now things of the past and
the Southern Conference has now got
under way full steam ahead. Six­teen
teams kick off against each
other. With the advent of mid Octo­ber
the teams are meeting opposition
that is a little stronger and we can
look for better and more evenly
matched contests.
The number of undefeated teams
has dwindled to fourteen of which
seven have not yet engaged in a con­ference
game. However all seven of
these aggregations are scheduled to
line up against fellow members of
the "Big 22" this week end and sev­eral
of th§m will be eliminated if ttie
law of averages continues to hold
sway.
As things stand at present the
Auburn Tigers are leading the loop
in number of games won, the Morey­men
having captivated a duo of vic­tories
against zero defeats. At the
other end of the list stands the Clem­son
Tiger with no wins and two losses.
The Alabama Crimsons are leading
in points scored as the Capstone crew
waded through the Donahue clan
amassing a total of 42 points. Geor­gia
Tech comes in next with 33 points
accumulated in the V.M.I, game.
One of the most talked of tilts on
the coming schedules is the affair
between Alabama and Sewanee at
Birmingham Saturdaly. These two
teams have always played each other
to close scores despite the dope. The
Mountain Tiger looms as especially
strong this year and will give the
Crimsons a close battle. Sewanee
just battled the Texas Aggies to a
tie and is all keyed up and ready for
the fray.
Another important game on the
schedule for the week end is the con­test
between the FlorWa Alligators
and the Tech Tornado. The Tech-sters
have just returned fresh from
their recent defeat of the Nittany
Lions and are determined to make
amends for the tie game of last year,
and incidentally to cop their second
battle within the conference: The
Alexander eleven seems to be ex­ceptionally
strong this year and ought
to have little trouble in spilling the
hopes of the Setring crew.
Mississippi A. anil M. will tackle
Tulane for the Aggies first game.
It will be remembered that the Miss-issippians
were the ones to adminis­ter
the knockout blow to the Greenies
chances to set forth a claim on the
circuit honors last fall. The Shaugh-nessy
crew gave the dope a slight
twist and won impressive victories
over some of their supposedly strong­er
rivals. The Tulane squad won a
moral victory over the Missourians
a couple of weeks ago by holding
them "to a tie, and as a result their
stock has been given a big boost in
the dope column.
The V. P. I. Gobblers are destined
to take on a strong foe in the person
of the Marylanders who are swollen
up over a victory over Rutgers.
North Carolina and North Carolina
State hook up in what looms to be
a tough tussle as these two are old
rivals on the field. The Virginia
Cavaliers take on V. M. I. at Char-lottsville
and should have little trou­ble
in annexing their second confer­ence
battle.
The only intersectional game of
the week is that between Auburn and
the Texas longhorns with the Tigers
doing the road work.
FRESHMAN SQUAD
READY FOR THEIR
OPENING BATTLE
"SLICK" MOULTON
TURNS OUT GOOD
HIGH SCHOOL TEAM
Howard Rats Furnish First Opposi­tion.
The rat squad after much juggling
about and sifting down for the past
several weeks is at last all lined up
and ready for opening whistle. No
rat squad has ever accomplished more
nor done more work in such a short
space of time as these rats have
done. Constant, heavy scrimmages
have been the regular thing with
these fellows and most of the time
they have been up against the scrubs
or the big guns of the varsity.
These rats are in almost perfect
trim and are biding their time to
open up some of their batteries on
the frosh of Howard College of whom
they are to be the guests Friday af­ternoon.
There are twenty one ro­dents
making the trip and Coach
Brown will no doubt make use of the
whole crowd, as most of these fel­lows
are about of par with each other
and are equally capable of giving a
good account of themselves on Berry
Field.
On the last appearance of the
freshies on the twin fields the acre­age
was dotted with red splotches as
the junior Tigers strutted around in
their bright new orange jersies,
which they have but recently acquir­ed.
Last year the Howard rats invaded
the Village and almost strolled home
with the bacon due in no small mea­sure
(to the • efforts of their spark
plug, 'Billy Brancroft. This year the
Bengal rodents have a much more
powerful aggregation than that of
last year and even though the Bull-pups
do appear stronger they haven't
got Bancroft and the Kittens are out
to scratch them up a bit. The var­sity
will have to contend with the
small gentleman this time.
Coach Brown is .not taking all of
the choice morsels of the lot along
with him. There is quite a bunch of
capable performers out on the field
every afternoon and it would entail
considerable expense to load every
one of these huskies on the rattlers.
So the auburn thached tutor is tak­ing
turn about in the selection of
material for the various trips. The
schedule makers will permit the ro­dents
only five games and the ma­jority
of the baby Tigers will get to
see service in at least one of these
tilts.
Out of the crowd there are two
shining ends in I the persons of the
lanky Dubose and Wattwood and
these two performers will probably
open up in the majority of contest.
There are four tacklers ready to ap­ply
the brakes on the East Lake
crew, these being Howard, Turner,
Carter, and Scarborough. These ro­dents
compose several hundred
pounds of excellent materialVand all
will be initiated into the fray before
the thing is settled. Howard and
Carter will start the ball rolling.
Webster, Cunningham, and Dens-more
are members of the guard. Any
two of these three may start the fray.
At the pivot Coach Brown will have
the tall form of Lynch to do the bulk
of the work. Lynch has come around
in great shape during the past two
weeks and appears to be one of the
best prospects seen on the campus in
a good while. As alternate center j
McGhee will be on hand and the j
Georgian has been displaying some
good football.
The corps in rear will be composed
of Fisher, Fobb James, and Ingram.
Fisher is a regular speed merchant
and is going to give the Bullpups a
Casual Comment
The Auburn Tiger has already
chewed and swallowed two of his
conference foes and has four more
on which to test his prowess. If we
do not win another game we already
have surpassed our conference re­cord
of last year. Incidently it
might be worth while to mention
that Auburn leads the Southern Con­ference
in the number of games won.
The Lee County High School, bet­ter
known as the Auburn High School
is setting a fast pace in annexing
football victories this year. To date
the team has won the first three
games of its schedule, and prospects
are in store for several more victories
to be rung up before the season
closes. The team has won games
from LaFayette, Langdale, and Dade-ville
High Schools.
The team is under the* expert
coaching of E. R. Moulton, assisted
by E. J. Tillman. "Slick" as Coach
Moulton is familiarly known by the
student body, is an old Auburn star The M o r e y m e n compi i ed a total
backfield man, being the man who y a r d a g e g a i n of 2 7 7 w h i l e t h e Vi r -
inade the lone touchdown against g a j n g w e f e a M e tQ a m a g g b u t 1 33
Centre in 1922. E. J. Tillman, an j T h e p l a i n s m e n d e c i d e d t o t r y t he
alumnus of Troy Normal School and j a e r . a l r o u t e 22 timeg_ E l e y e n of
star backfield man for this school; t h e g e w e r e % g u c c e s g a n d n e t t e d a
gain of 125 yards.
The next two games will be against
non-conference teams, however, and
before we get back to the conference
part of the schedule some of our
opponents may catch up with us.
is a member of the High School fac
ulty.
The remainder of the schedule will I The punting was cut down con­siderably
by a strong wind from the
North. When the wind was favora-^
ble several long kicks were sent up
by the two Greenes, who did the toe
work for their respective teams.
offer keen opposition for the local
High School, with Tuskegee, Colum­bus,
Opelika, Cloverdale and Nota-sulga
Hig*h on the menu.
At the beginning of the season,
! prospects looked mighty gloomy for
j the team, with several of last years
I players lost and a team this year
• that was considerably short of avoir-
I dupois. Disregarding this, Coach
J Moulton has whipped this squad of
: little players into a team that makes
j up in speed for its shortage in weight.
Several more games are yet to be
I played on lpcal grounds, and it is
"Pea" Greene got away for two
long runs, traveling '23 yards in the
first quarter and again stepping off
18 stripes in the final chapter. The
tall Tiger distinguished himself
through the game with his ground
gaining.
x
Morey has lost Abe RobinVn per-hoped
the college men will s u p p o r t T ^ * " * * t K e remainder , 7 the^ea-the
team in greater numbers in the son: The Tiger center summed a^
future than in the past. The games ! fractured elbow and had to be re-are
plaved on Friday, enabling one moved from the game soon after the
to see the college performances on ! opening of the first quarter. This
Saturday. To date the admission has j means that "Pop" Patterson who has
been occupying himself at the guard
been only twenty-five cents.
If you want to see a team of little
men, but fast as lightning, come over
to see the next game. The football
field is located in the rear of the
High School, and is named in the
honor of Dean B. B. Ross of the
Chemistry Department. Ask any
fellow who has seen the High school
play, and he will inform you that it
is a fast, well coached little team
with the motto "the heavier they come
the harder they fall."
position will be shifted to his first
love, in the middle of the line. To
aid the big fellow, the Tiger mentor
will have "Shorty" Johnson and
"Fats" McNeill.
The defeat of Texas by Vanderbilt
Saturday served to give the Tigers
an idea of the strength of their fu­ture
enemy. The Longhorns jour­neyed
to Tennessee for the battle
and will now have the priviledge of
seeing some one travel in their direc­tion.
It would not be amiss for the
Tigers to do a little traveling in
riTTITD<• CACC DI A V i t h e i r d i r e c t i o n a f t e r t h e sa m e - S e ts
FUTURE FOES FLAY underway.
HERE'S HOW
vs. Texas University at Tech gained undying fame by her
. victory over the Nittany Lions. How­ever
the Pennsylvanians are not ex-
Auburn
Dallas.
Ga. Tech vs. Florida at Atlanta.
Mississippi A. and M. vs. Tulane at • ceptionally strong this year as was
New Orleans. [proved by the fact that they were
Vanderbflt vs. Tennessee at Nash- j lucky to eke out victories over teams
ville. that were formerly considered as
Georgia vs. Furman at Augusta. , setups.
demonstration of just how he does
it, or we miss our guess. Edd James
is out with a wrenched shoulder but
his brother Fobb is on hand to help
carry on the family laurels. Ingram
is a tall fellow who has been doing
considerable punting for the squad.
To shout the signals for the bunch
and return the Bullpup punts the
Cubs will have Hartselle and Porter.
There are three fullbacks on hand in
the personage of McLain, Mosely, and
Sellers.
The lineup for the game will pro­bably
be as follows: Left end, Du­bose;
left tackle, Turner; left guard,
Densmore; center, Lynch; right
guard, Webster, right tackle, Ho­ward,
right end, Wattwood, quarter­back,
Hartselle, left half, Fisher,
right half, James, fullback, Mosely.
Our sister instituting of learning
gave some of the skeptics a jolt when
she ran rough shod over the Louisi­ana
Staters, 42-0. Wallace Wade
used practically his entire squad of
footballers in accomplishing the feat.
The 'Bama-Tech game ought to prove
a humdinger.
Before the squad embarked on its
longest trip of the season Coach
Morey made some last minute chang­es.
It was decided that Turner's
twisted knee would do better with a
little additional rest and the Tiger
plunging fullback was left behind.
Salter after taking a temporary flings
at a line job has been reinstated in
his old haunt at full where he will
start the fracas against the Long­horns.
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WHY THE R. O. T. C. AT AUBURN
Almost as far back as history dates
there have been wars and rumors
of wars, and from all indications
they will continue until the end of
time. All these wars call for well
trained soldiers and men of military
ability.
Such men as Caeser, Napoleon,
Washington, Lee and Foch were
trained military men, as well as
masters of men. They had to be
trained but their training was a long
period of years and experience. All
these years there have been military
schools, either private or public,
where many great men and soldiers
have been trained. These schools
were excellent as far as they went,
but it is impossible for schools of
this type to reach a great number
of men.
Up until a few years ago it was
compulsory for all State Colleges to
have military training as a part of
their curriculum. Now this law has
been changed and the Government
has substituted the R. O. T. C. The
old military colleges were much more
rigid in every respect than the R. O.
T. C, especially in the appearance
of the uniforms and equipment. The
R. O. T. C. being much more lenient
is accepted more readily and with
more enthusiasm than the old policy.
The boys go into it with higher spirit
and a will to get something out of it.
As Auburn is a state endowed col­lege,
and has had military training
for a long time naturally the R. O.
T. C. was-taken up with the passing
of the new law.
There are many values of the R.
O. T. C. Besides helping the man
taking it, it enables the United States
to maintain her present military po­licy
of sustaining the army, as well
as adding feature to the college
which supports the training. The
training a man gains from the R. O.
T. C. is unequaled by none. While
in college it helps to maintain the
discipline of a body of men. They
get a good taste of what real army
life is and thereby learn what it
means to have a superior who must
be looked upon to and obeyed. In
the first two years most of the train­ing
is subordinate training. This
comes at the very time in a man's
life when he is fresh from home and
high school and thinks that he owns
the world, so to speak. These two
years of training teach him a great
many things, such as, learing to obey
orders and commands, to think, and
new systems and styles of living. Be­sides
these things he learns how to
use new instruments as field glasses
telescopes panoramic sights and
range finders. The uses of pistols,
rifles, machine guns, and field pieces
are also taught him.
By taking R. O. T. C. student's
get full college credit for the time
spent with this work, which amounts
to quite a bit in four years time.
The uniforms are furnished to each
student by the Government for the
duration of the time spent in R. 0.
T. C. work. The most benefit from
a course in R. O. T. C. is derived in
the last two years in college. The
juniors and seniors are .put in com­mand
of squads platoons and com­panies.
This gives a man a chance
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to prove his ability as a leader and
commander of men. There is a
great bit of rivalry between the boys
as to who will "rate" the highest
command. Here a man will either
make or ruin his reputation very
easily, and this gives him an incen­tive
to do his very best to uphold a
good reputation which will follow
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During the summer between the
junior and senior years all taking
advanced R. O. T. C. are -required
to go to summer camp. In prepara­tion
for these camps all have to take
a rigid physical examination under
special army regulations. This alone
enables a man to know where he
stands and how he compares with the
normal man that is required in the
army and in daily life.
While at camp the men are in
active army life and the endurance
tests of the army are given them. In
the six weeks of summer camp the
men get a good trip, meet with many
people and conditions, and learn
much about how to endure hardships
that they might encounter in later
civilian or army life. While at these
camps they are under the best of
medical- care, as well as having
wholesome government inspected
food. This is alone the best of phy­sical
training, muscle and brain
building time that one could spend
his vacation for.
As seen at the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute the primary advantages
of military training to any student
who is being educated to fight his
way through the world, are as fol­lows.
Handiness—The average man
does one thing well. He is more or
less apt to be clumsy about doing
other things. The soldier is con­stantly
called upon to do all sorts
of things and he has to do all of
them well. His hands thus become
trained and useful to him, and his
mind gets into the habit of making
his hands do what is required of
them—that is to say, the soldier be­comes
handy. Handy arms are a
valuable asset.
Self-control—In the work of a
soldier, control does not stop with
the hands. The mind reaches out,
control of the body becomes a habit.
The feet, legs, arms, and the body
gradually come under the sway of
the mind. In the position of a soldi­er,
for instance, the mind holds the
body motionless. In marching, the
mind drives the legs to a machine like
regularity. In shooting, the mind
assumes command of the arms, hands
fingers and eyes, linking them up
and making them work in harmony.
Control of the body together with
the habit of discipline that the soldi­er
requires, leads to control of the
mind—that is, to self-control. Self-control
is an important factor in
success in any walk of life.
Another great feature of the R.
O. T. C. training is loyalty. Loyalty
to his country, to his comrades, and
to his organization becomes a reli­gion
with the soldier. They are part
of his life. When you say a man
is loyal the world considers that you
have paid him a high {ribute. Along
with the loyalty learned is self-con­fidence
and self-respect. Self-con­fidence
is founded on ones ability
to do things. The soldier is taught
to defend himself with his rifle, and
to take care of and do things in al­most
any sort of a situation, all, of
which give him confidence in him­self.
Self-confidence and self-re-respect
are a credit to any man. All
of these things linked up with the
team work of military training en­ables
a man to be a great asset to
himself and his country.
When a man has completed his
four year course in college, he gets
his diploma and degree from the in­stitution.
If he takes the R. O. T.
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second lieutenant in the reserve
corp. This is the easiest way by
which a man may gain such a com­mission.
He looses no time from his
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he gets out of military training on
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are also numerous national inter­collegiate
rifle and pistol matches
throughout the year. These teams
give a man a chance to show his abil­ity
and gain distinction for himself
whereas he could not in athletics or
other college activities.
There are more than 85,000 stu-
In the present military policy of j dents in the R. O. T. C. in the Uni-preparediiess
and maintaining an : ted States. The expenses of the
army it is quite essential that there training of these men is appropriated
are a number of reserved officers,
who can go into the service in an
emergency without much addition­al
training.
Each year quite a bit of rivalry
is gained among the students of the
various units, in the way of competi­tive
drills rifle and pistol matches.
Also each year there is an inspection
for distinguished military colleges
held through out the country. Out of
the two hundred and eighty (280)
colleges having the R. 0. T. C. about
thirty are given the distinguished
college rating. Auburn has had the
privilege of being one of these col­lege
for the past six years. It sounds
very good to say that your own insti­tution
is among those so highly hon- j
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