1928-01-20 The Plainsman

              REGISTER
JAN. 27-28 THE PLAINSMAN
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
REGISTER
JAN. 27-28
VOLUME LI AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1928 NUMBER 17
JAZZ WILL SUPPLANT STUDY AS DANCES FOLLOW EXAMINATIONS
GLEE CLUB IS ORGANIZED;
PLANS ARE MADE FOR TOUR
BIDEZ GETTING
CLUB IN SHAPE
FOR CONCERTS
r
T r ip W i l l Be Made During
W e e k of M a r c h 5
C H O R U S OF 3 0 IS P I C K ED
M a n d o l i n Club, A u b u r n Col­l
e g i a n s a n d S o l o i s t s Will
M a k e Trip
By J. W. POWERS
The Glee Club has at last organized,
under the" supervision of Prof. "Bede"
Bidez, and plans are now being made
for a. concert tour.
Plans for the first tour have been
completed and the Club is at work on
the program. On Monday, March 5,
the boys start their first tour, making
Roanoke their first stop; From Roa­noke
they go to Talladega on Tues­day;
for there they go to Anniston,
then back down to Sylacauga. Fri­day
the Club visits the girls at Monte-vallo,
and Saturday they end the tour
at Womans College in Montgomery.
Prof. "Bede" has thinned the boys
out until he has a picked chorus of
30. Work has been begun with real
earnest on the songs and instrument
solos.
Besides the chorus there will be the
Mandolin Club, Max Jones and his
Auburn Collegians, and many soloists.
The members of the Mandolin Club
have not ben picked yet. Max Jones
will have with him, Joe Jones with his
trombone, Jimmie Cone and his saxo­phone,
Leven Foster, trumpet; John
Brown, base; Romano at the piano,
and Jimmie Ware with his drums.
Max will have his big saxophone as
usual. •
The members of the Club making
the trip are: Ben Rives, Pres., J. N
Crum, Vice-Pres., Ludwig Smith,
Business Manager, E. T. Chambliss,
C. R. LeCroy, J. H. Price, C. J. Tid­well,
I. W. Jones, C. R. Moore, V. C.
Helms W. R. McKinnon, H. E. Lewis,
Irwin Roth, G., E. Crawford, W. H.
Jones, Jerry Feagin, W. C. Ellis, H.
D. Mosley, W. W. Bryant, C. L. caus-ler,
J. J. Hendrick, Bob McKinnon,
G. L. Williamson, G. B. Stokes, R. E.
Martin, A. P. Francis, V. L. Vines,
C. E. Howell, A. V. Culpepper and
J. G. Green.
YOUNG PEOPLES'
SOCIETIES MEET
Regular Fifth Sunday Meeting at
Baptist Church
The B. Y. P. U. wil have charge of
the Fifth Sunday meeting of the
young peoples' organizations of the
various churches of Auburn. This
will come on January 29. A meeting
of this type is held on every fifth
Sunday in an effort to promote better
fellowship and understanding between
the students in the different churches.
The Y. M. C. A. religious activities
committee under the direction of
Hugh Kinzer sponsors the meetings.
The program will start at the Bap­tist
church promptly at 6:30 P. M.
Everyone has a cordial invitation to
attend.
NOTICE
Special arrangements have been
made to accommodate the students de­siring
to have tuxedos during the
dances. There will be a representa­tive
here beginning Jan. 24th through
Jan. 28th who will have a supply of
tuxedos, dress shirts, collars, ties and
the complete outfit to rent during the
dances at a small cost. Those stu­dents
wishing to reserve a tuxedo will
please turn their name over to B. E.
Meadows or M. S. Kestler. The rep­resentative
will have his display at the
Orange and Blue beginning Jan. 24th.
Bohler Talks At
Rat Convocation
"Auburn is known all over this
country for her spirit," said Coach
Bohler in his talk at Freshman Con­vocation
last Tuesday morning. There
were a thousand or more students at
Freshman Convocation Tuesday morn­ing
when J. V. Brown, Athletic Di­rector,
introduced Mr. Bohler, head
coach at Mississippi College, who has
recently accepted the position as
head coach here. At this time Mr.
Brown gave an outline of the trip, he
and Coach Bohler were making to get
the new coach acquainted with the
people over Alabama.
Coach Bohler then made his first
talk to the Auburn student body. He
first praised the spirit the students
had and then he discussed sports.
Auburn has won games and Auburn
is going to win games," says Coach
Bohler. "We are going to lose some
games, we are goinging to take our
defeat in a sportsmanlike way but
we are going back with a stronger
team and win. The opposing team is
out for the same thing we are, they
have as much right to win as we,
however, we are going to have a well
trained team and are going to do our
best to win. We are also going to
give every man a chance to take part
in some form of athletics. We are
going to have the necessary equip­ment
for every man and will take up
the shovel to get this equipment, for
we have done it and will do it again
if we find it necessary to do so."
The members of the student body
were very much pleased with the new
coach and are ready to give him one
hundred per cent, cooperation.
ORANGE AND BLUE
CHANGES HANDS
New Business Will be Operated on
Cash Basis
"Friday the thirteenth" was the
day and "Red" Meager was the man
on the business end of the deal when
the Orange and Blue Store changed
hands.
According to the notice upon the
window "Red" will be doing a nice
large business here in the near fu­ture,
because only cash business will
be transacted and five per cent of
the net earnings of each month will
go to "Help that Tiger Growl."
"Red" does not want to disappoint
the fellows by having bills from him
getting mixed with the "Sugar Re­ports"
from Woman's College and
Montevallo about the end of the
month, therefore the CASH business.
Even though "Red" was thirteen
days late in starting, we hope that he
will have a most successful season,
"On the corner."
New Architectural
Officers Elected
Dean Biggin Announces Variation
in Course
The Architectural Association was
called to order by Morland Smith
who is now ex-president. He had the
roll called and the minutes of the
meeting read. Then Dean Biggin
made an announcement to the asso­ciation
as to the variation in the
course of Architecture for the next
semester. He also, thanked the Ar­chitectural
Association for the Christ­mas
present that was given to him by
the association.
Immediately following the Dean's
talk was the election of officers. Mor­gan
Smith was elected president on
the first vote; Streeter Wiatt was
elected vice-president; and "Rat"
Wingo was elected secretary. After
a hotly contested vote J. B. Merrill
was elected trasurer. It was then
moved and seconded that the meet­ing
adjourn.
MERCER SMOKING
RULE ABOLISHED
The Senior Class of Mercer,
voted to revoke the rule forbid­ding
the Freshmen from smok­ing
cigarettes at a recent meet­ing.
John Gilbert, president of the
Senior Class, discussed the rule,
saying that it was not enforced
and that rather than have a rule
that the upperclassmen would
not enforce, it would be better
to abolish such a requirement.
Mr. Gilbert's motion carried by
a two-third's majority.
PLAYERS TAKE
IN FOURTEEN
NEW MEMBERS
I n i t i a t i o n H e l d M o n d a y and
T u e s d a y B y D r a m a t i c Club
P L A Y S S C H E D U L E D HERE
O n e A c t P l a y s Be G i v e n At
M e e t i n g s
Last Monday night fourteen candi­dates
started on their way to mem­bership
in the Auburn Players by tak­ing
the first part of the two day ini­tiation.
Sounds of merriment issued
from the Y. Hut Playhouse until a late
hour. «
Tuesday the campus was greeted
with comic impersonations of various
and sundry characters of local and
national fame. Of the former there
were "Bull Dog" Herron and Dr. Sho-walter.
Representing more widely
known celebrities were such charac­terizations
as: the "IT" girl, Clara
Bow; "Topsy" from Uncle Tom's Ca­bin;
Cupid in person; Aunt Jamina;
"Kid" Mary Pickford; and other just
as widely-known. Tuesday night the
following formally became members
of the Club: Grace Moon, Ruth Mur­ray,
Bernice McMillian, Lois Wells,
Velma Reynolds, Billie Smith, Evelyn
Henry, Tom Brown, W- H. Proctor,
Clyde Kimbrough, Chas. Rush, Foster
Hoskins, Flora Hickman, and Robert
Sansing.
Plans are being made to schedule
the performance of plays given by
the Dramatic organizations of Monte­vallo,
Womans College, Birmingham
Southern and other colleges during
the second semester.
An increasing number of one act
plays will be presented at the regular
Monday night meetings of the Club
at which visitors are always welcome
to participate as well as observe.
Watch for announcements of "The
Whole Town's Talking."
Southern Student
'i Federation Meets
Fifth Annual Convention to Be .At
Alabama
The Southern Federation of College
Students will meet at the University
of Alabama during the week of April
20th. This meeting marks the fifth
annual.convention of this body, which
is a federation of the student govern­ment
bodies of all the leading colleges
of the South.
Delegates coming to the University
will represent the following southern
schools: Auburn, Tennessee, Georgia
Tech, Davidson, Mississippi A. & M.,
Emory University, University of
Florida, Washington and Lee, Univer­sity
of Maryland, University of Ken­tucky
and the University of Alabama.
Convention of the delegates will ex­tend
over a period of three days, dur­ing
which time the student govern­ment
representatives will present and
discuss new problems and matters
concerning students and student life
which have arisen at their respective
schools. Many important figures in
the educational world will appear on
the Convention program, which is now
being formulated by the program
committee.
The Convention last year was held
at the University of Kentucky.
AUBURN CAGERS
T0MEETTULANE
IN NEW0RLEANS
A u b u r n Quintet Looms As
D i x i e C h a m p i o ns
S E V E R A L G A M E S A R E W ON
W i l l Enter T o u r n e y E a r l y In
M a r c h
As the season for basketball enters
the second month, these fighting
Tigers from the Plains seem to gain­ing
recognition steadily and surely.
At present they are rated the best
in Dixie. They are hailed as the loom­ing
Champions. And are classed as
the advance guard of Auburn's fu­ture.
Optimism! Yes! But, optimism
well deserved! Any basketball quin­tet
that can successfully dispose of
the opposition that Papke's cohorts
have encountered in the manner that
they have been disposed, suerly de­serves
such good faith.
Last week, they trounced the
Southern College lads from Lakeland,
Florida by an overwhelming score.
Then they carried the spirit of battle
down to that "Flower" State and
handed the University Gators a double
licking. The tilts with the latter were
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PI K. A'S WILL HOLD
CONVENTION HERE
Annual Alabama District Meeting
Here Jan. 26, 27, 28
The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity will
hold its annual Alabama district con­vention
in Auburn on January, the
twenty^sfxthr twerityigeventlf* arid
twenty-eighth. The Alabama district
includes the chapters at'Alabama U.,
Howard, Birmingham-Southern and
Auburn. Each chapter will be rep­resented
by two delegates and a large
number from the respective chapters
are expected to attend.
Convention sessions will be held in
the mornings and during the even­ings
the visiting members will attend
the dances as guests of the local
chapter. The convention will close
with a banquet at the Clements Hotel
in Opelika. Reservations for a hun­dred
have been made.
PROGRAM OF THE
MID-TERM DANCES
M.
January 26, 27 and 28th
Thursday Night, Jan. 26th, 9 P
to 1 A. M. Opening Dance
Junior Leadout.
First No-break.
Intermission.
Junior Leadout.
Second No-break.
Friday Morning, Jan. 27th, 11 A. M.
to 1 P. M. Thendera Dance
Thendera Leadout.
No-break.
Thendera Initiation and Leadout.
Friday Afternoon, Jan. 27th, 4. P. M.
to 6 P. M. Scabbard and Blade
Dance
Scabbard and Blade Leadout.
No-break. -
Scabbard and Blade Leadout.
Friday Night, Jan. 27th, 10 P. M. to
2 A. M. "Junior Prom."
Junior Leadout.
First No-break.
Grand March.
Intermission.
Second No-break.
Second Junior Leadout.
Saturday Morning, Jan. 28th, 11 A.
M. to 1 P. M. Keys Dance
Keys Leadout.
No-break.
Keys Leadout.
Saturday Afternoon, Jan. 28th, 4 P.
M. to 6 P. M. "A" Club Tea
Dance
"A" Club Leadout.
No-break.
"A" Club Leadout.
Saturday Night, January 28th, 9 P.
M. to 12 P. M. "Junior Fade-Out"
First No-break.
Intermission.
Second No-break.
Junior Leadout.
FRIDAY, 13TH WILL
OCCUR AGAIN 1928
Timid and superstitious folk
may want to know that there will
be three Fridays falling on the
thirteenth during this recently
ushered-in-year 1928.
The first Friday-13 combina­tion
was last week. The next
will come in April, and the third
along about vacation time in
July.
CLUBSHEARNEW
COACH MONDAY
AT JOINT LUNCH
B o h l e r S p e a k s A t M e e t i n g In
S m i t h H a ll
I N T R O D U C E D BY BROWN
D u n c a n P l e d g e s Support of
E x t e n s i o n D e p a r t m e nt
George Mohn Bohler, Auburn's new
coach, was the main speaker Monday
at a joint luncheon of the Rotary and
Kiwanis civic clubs. This was Mr.
Bohler's first formal appearance in
the city and quite a few notables ga­thered
to do him honor. The meet­ing
was held in the lobby of Smith
Hall.
Among those who gave short talks
preceeding Mr. Bohler's were, Dr.
Thomas, Mayor Yarbrough, Dr. Ross
and Capt. Anderson. These speakers
welcomed the new coach and pledged
their. hearty support. Dr. Thomas
in a few words told of the thorough­ness
with which the athletic commit­tee
tried to get a successor to Dave
Morey. He spoke of its many trials
and difficulties in getting the right
man. He concluded by stating that
he thought they now had the right
man.
The new coach was introduced by
J. V. Brown, chairman of the athletic
committee and master of ceremonies at
the luncheon. Mr. Brown also said a
few words about the deliberations of
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FRATERNITY HEAD
VISITS AUBURN
Studies Registration System While
Here
H. W. Chandler, Domain Chief
of the Phi Kappa Tau and Registrar
of University of Florida spent the
past week end with the local chapter
of Phi Kappa Tau.
The object of his visit to the Plains
was to make a study of the registra­tion
system of Auburn and to assist
the local Chapter of Phi Kappa Tau
in straightening out its books.
This was his second visit to the
Village of the Plans. His first being
at the time of the installation of
Sigma Theat as Alpha Lambda Chap­ter
of Phi Kappa Tau on Dec. 1, 2,
and 3,1927.
He made several highly complimen­tary
remarks concerning the registra­tion
system used at Auburn.
Geo. H. Jester,
Pres. Alpha Lambda Chapter.
Literary Society
Initiates Members
Membership Requirements Are Very
High
At the' annual initiation of Chi
Delta Phi, national honorary liter­ary
sorority, Friday evening, ten out­standing
girls were initiated. They
were: Irene Fletcher, Annie Rose
Fuller, Martha Haupt, Carrie Hes­ter,
Cindy Lester, Margaret McNeal,
Lottie Story, Blanche Tancredi, Lois
Wells and Alice Whitcher.
Membership in the sorority is based
upon literary ability, scholarship and
personality. Chi Delta Phi is a com­paratively
new organization on the
campus, but it is steadily growing
and has at present fourteen members.
The other members are: Dorothy Tay­lor,
President; Lillian Dunn, Mamie
Matthews and Hasel Arant.
JUNIOR PROM WILL ATTRACT
GIRLS FROM ALL OVER SOUTH
Auburn Trustees
Seek tiew Head
An active and intensive campaign
to be started immediately and carried
through without let-up to its ultimate
objective was decided on at a meet­ing
of the special sub-committee of
the Board of Trustees of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, charged with
the duty of selecting and recommend­ing
a successor to Dr. Spright Dowell,
as president of Auburn. Dr. Dowell
has resigned effective July 1.
The purpose of the meeting of the
sub-committee, which was held at the
State Education Department building,
in the office of Dr. R. E. Tidwell,
superintendent of education and chair­man
of the sub-committee, was to per­fect
the organization of the body and
thereafter, to decide what kind of a
man is wanted to head Auburn, who
is available for the place and other
details preparatory to getting down
to the actual business of filling the
prospective vacancy. During the or­ganization
session, Victor H. Hanson,
of Birmingham, was chosen vice-chair­man.
Keeping ever in mind the mandate
of the resolution of the Board of
Trustees which in creating the sub­committee,
provided that their selec­tion
and recommendation of a suc­cessor
to Dr. Dowell must be gov­erned
by the proposition that the man
chosen must be an educator of nation­al
prominence and proven ability; this
committee will take up the matter at
once with various educators of emin­ence
throughout the country, to as­certain
who among them can be made
available. Mr. Hanson as vice-chair­man
was designated to direct the ac­tual
correspondent with all prospects.
Who these prospects are, was not re­vealed.
It was stated, however, that the
committee has definitely decided it
will not recommend anyone who has
not been seen and interviewed by the
committee members. Either they will
go to see him or he will come to see
them.
Another meeting will be held by the
committee in Montgomery on Jan.
25, at which time progress made will
be considered and discussed.
The personnel of the sub-committee
follows: Dr. R. E. Tidwell, chairman;
Victor H. Hanson, Birmingham, vice-chairman;
Dr. W. H. Oates, Mobile;
Charles S. McDowell, Eufaula and
C. W. Ashcraft, Florence.
MEMBERS OF A. P. I.
RECEIVE MEDALS
Officers at Washington Praise Young
Men
On Saturday January 14th before
the parade, five men were called to
front and center, to receive medals
for taking second place in the na­tional
pistol competition for field ar­tillery
R. O. T. C. units.
The five men who received the
medals were: F. J. Bryant, a Sopho­more
of, Gadsden, Ala.; D. P. John­son,
a sophomore of Atlanta, Ga.;
E. F. Pruitt, a Junior of Pine Hill,
Ala.; E. W. Root, a senior of Hunts-ville,
Ala., and S. "S. Tatum, of Long
View, Ala.
As they came to the center the band
played to the reviewing officer. Then
Lieutenant W. B. Higgins read the
general orders. Following the read­ing
of the orders Major Kennedy
made a short talk to the five men con­gratulating
them and telling them
how proud Auburn was of them, and
the honor they had bestowed upon
Auburn. The medals were presented
to each individually, and pinned over
the left breast.
All the men to receive the meadls
were there except E. F. Pruitt who
has been out of school the first sem-
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ALUMNI GYM IS
DECORATED IN
BLACK & WHITE
L a t e s t Song Hits F r o m East
W i l l B e B r o u g h t H e r e by
B r o a d w a y O r c h e s t ra
M A N Y B I D S A R E S E N T O UT
C o m p l e t e P r o g r a m Is An­n
o u n c e d i n P l a i n s m an
BY TOM BROWN
The stroke of eight on the town
clock next Thursday night will her­ald
a time of revelry and frolic un­surpassed
in the history of Auburn,
for at that time, the first of a series
of annual Mid-Term Dances will be­gin.
Already, it seems, the spirit of
carnival that is so characteristic of
the Auburn dances has begun to per­vade
the campus.
Ross Gorman
Arrangements have practically
been completed to make these dances
the best that Auburn has known. The
Social Committee announces that
there will be dances day and night
beginning on the night of January
26 and continuing through the night
of January 28. The services of Ross
Gorman's famous "Virginians" have
been secured for the dances. Gorman
recently furnished the music for a
series of dances at the University of
Alabama, which were under the aus­pices
of the Cotillion Club. The mem­bers
of this orchestra were chosen
from a number of the best orchestras
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THENDARA ELECTS
FIFTEEN JUNIORS
Interfraternity Social Will Initiate At
Friday Morning Dance
Thendara, a junior and senior or­ganization,
recently elected junior
members for this year. The object
of this organization is to promote a
spirit of fraternalism and to foster
social activities.
The men elected were:
Skeegs Crawford and Skeeter Gates,
Phi Delta Theta; Howard Smith and
Ludwig Smith, Pi Kappa Alpha; Gus
Ward and Pretty Boy Hixon, Alpha
Tau Omega; Carol Porter, Lambda
Chi Alpha; Otis De Vaughan, Sigma
Phi Epsilon; Andy Anderson and
Gene Williams, Sigma Alpha Epsilon;
Turfie Slaughter, Kappa Alpha; Bob
Blakey, Kappa Sigma; Tom Walt­hall,
Theta Chi; Jojo Anderson and
Pete Crenshaw, Sigma Nu. These
men will be initiated at^the Friday
morning dance as has been the an­nual
custom. The form of initiation
has not yet been divulged.
The senior members are: Fish Fea­gin,
Phi Delta Theta; Laurence Whit-ten,
Sigma Nu; Ajax Yates, S. A.
E.; H. P. Jones, A. T. O. and Red
Moss, Pi K. A.
This initiation has always been
one of the main features of the
Junior Prom. It is very entertaining
and is looked forward to every year
by a large number of students.
LURIE IS INJURED
IN AUtO ACCIDENT
Auburn Boy Confined at Home By
Injuries
Milton Lurie, a junior here at Au­burn
was confined to his bed at his
home, Dothan, Ala., as the result of
an accident last week. Lurie had
gone to Dothan to vote on the recent
bond issue when the car in which he
was riding overturned and his hip
hip was broken. He is doing as well
as could be expected, but will prob­ably
be in bed for 6 or 8 weeks. He
plans to return to school next semes­ter
as soon if his injury permits.
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BUSINESS STAFF
H. W. Glover, '29 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
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John McClendon, '28 _ Circulation Mgr.
A. C. Taylor, '30 _ Ass't. Circulation Mgr.
G. W. Smith, '30 Ass't. 'Circulation Mgr.
J. M. Johnson, '31 Circulation Dept.
M. Hawkins' '31 J Circulation Dept.
W. H. Smith, '31 Circulation Dept.
Silence is golden, but a great deal of
speech is brazen.
Seniors-college students who know noth­ing
and look their part.
At first the world was thought to be
flat. Then someone discovered that it was
round; now it's crooked.
At this late hour it seems that the new
coach has been duly initiated into our
midst if we may judge from the great re­ception
being given him in the village.
Everyone seems to think that he is some
Bohler and a coach with a high finish. At
the dinner given in his honor Monday he
reared his great frame from the midst of
a maze of smoke from a great cigar. We
trust that his coaching will prove as domin­ant
as he appeared on this occasion. We're
proud of our Pennsylvania Dutchman!
SELLING AUBURN
As the approaching examinations hold
sway and dominate our minds almost to the
exclusion of everything else it is with no
little concern that we launch into a sub­ject
quite apart from examinations and yet
one which vitally concerns every Auburn
man.
Just now we- face one of the greatest
problems that has probably ever confront­ed
any body of students in recent years—
that of selling the alma mater over again
to the world.
We need survey but briefly the count­less
acts and trend of the alumni, faculty
and student body whose actions and works
were constantly and closely scrutinized by
fault-finding publicians. All of these
things were greatly exaggerated by yellow
journalistic agencies who directed public
opinion along wrong trails. The recent ap­propriation
or rather lack of appropriation
of funds for education need not be
commented upon again. Now is the time
for all to surge forward with new hope and
zeal for we have been detouring long
enough!
We need not depart from traditional
methods to accomplish our goal but we must
keep pace with past achievements. The
alumni have reflected credit on the college
as none other in the South can claim, scho­larship
has not waned among the present
student Body to any alarming degree. In
the faculty it has increased greatly. Facili­ties
and equipment have been increased.
The whole spirit of the institution has been
one forward move. Yet With all this those
who are unfamiliar with conditions look
toward the college with doubt and skepti­cism
because of the recent upheaval.
This is the situation as we are forced to
face it. We can neither turn aside and
avoid it for the inevitable has come.
Although the conditions at present seem de­plorable
the situation may be brought back
to normalcy.
The fog often proclaims a bright day.
This is what those who have something
wrapped up in the institution are looking
toward. The present student body has an
unusual opportunity to promote the strength
and harmony of the alma mater and re­verse
the opinions of many who do not
know Auburn as the leading agricultural
and mechanical college in the south. To­ward
this end we should direct our most
sincere efforts and best thought.
IT IS THE DAY OF YOUTH
Some days ago, The New York World
featured a long interview with the new edi­tor
of McCall's Magazine, which has a
circulation of some 2,225,000. He is Otis
L. Wiese and is only 22 years of age. In
the interview he told the reporter for the
World that, "There is no .rational reason
why age should be the measure of achieve­ment."
And he was right for today is the
day of youth!
Wiese demonstrated his fitness while he
was assistant editor, which position he held
for six months prior to his appointment as
editor-in-chief. He refused an increase in
salary until he could demonstrate his fit­ness
for the editorship. But Wiese is not
the only one who has demonstrated that
youth is capable of doing itself credit.
Many young men have blazed the path­ways
in art, literature, war, statesmanship,
commerce and indsutry long ago. And even
now the progress and destiny of our coun­try
rests in the hands of our younger men.
The shining lights of the world whose rays
have penetrated the earth in noble deeds,
were not born with a silver spoon in their
mouths. Most of them were reared either
in a modest cottage or a hovel.
The world since the earliest stages, owes
much to its young men. Everywhere, the
real doers become potent factors at an
early age.
At the age of 36 William Jennings Bryan
became a "national leader, and won inter­national
fame. At the same age Shake­speare
wrote Hamlet and Lord Byron laid
down the burdens of life. At 31 Daniel
Webster was a match for Calhoun and
Clay. When only 23 years of age Pitt was
Chancellor of the Exchequer while the best
essays of Macaulay were written in his
"twenties."
Only recently have we been continually
thrilled with the succession of remarkable
feats of Lindbergh, who has been the great­est
"diplomat" our country has ever pro­duced.
And he is only in his "twenties."
And yet Student Government has been
abolished by the college with the principal
charge that the students were not capable
of governing the student body. The state­ments
above have only been comments and
no prejudice is held by the writer toward
the college, or to the members of the form­er
Student Council. Yet it surely seems
that there should be at least ten men here
who are capable of Student Government.
We should be proud of the vast army of
young men, so effective in deeds and so
brilliant in promise. And those whose
shadows are falling toward the West should
give every possible encouragement to the
boys and young men who would do and
dare.
With the Greek
LOOK BEFORE LEAPING—BUT LEAP
Proverbs are mostly made by old men;
and age makes men conservative. So pro­verbial
advice is apt to urge prudence.
"Look before you leap" is the wise admoni­tion
of experience to over-confident youth.
It is not the purpose of this preachment to
challenge the wisdom if this time-honored
advice. Yet, look before you leap. Many
heedless plunges into uncertainty have been
taken by men who jumped ahead with clos­ed
eyes.
But do not stand forever trying to decide
whether and whither to leap.
Mere looking will never land you any­where—
there is no value in looking un­less
you leap.
Some men of course plunge into ruin by
not looking before they leap. Just as many
stand looking—and the opportunity to leap
is gone.
The heroic quality of life has ever its
element of hazard.
Prudence and daring are the twin feet
that find the way to Opportunity.
Look"1before you leap—but leap.
—The Theta News of Theta Kappa Nu.
* * *
THE PERFECT CHAPTER
The perfect chapter is one in which per­fect
harmony exists; in which every mem­ber
is in some activity and they bring in
double the chapter'-s share of honors in
every line; all rules of the chapter, frater­nity
and college are observed rigidly and
all duties performed promptly; all secret
work is done in due form without benefit
of book or prompter; a creditable alumni
letter is gotten out each year; no member
is ever lost through poor scholarship and
the chapter leads the campus in grades;
every visitor to the house is cordially re­ceived,
and no member ever so acts as to
injure his chapter's and fraternity's good
name. But we still are waiting to see such
a chapter.
— The Coduceus of Kappa Sigma.
Letters to the Editor
In your issue of January 13 there ap­peared
an article on the spread of Atheism
in the colleges of the United States through
an incorporate society called the four "A's,"
or the American Association for the Ad­vancement
of Atheism.
Every age has its.wave of agnosticism.
Those that have lived longer remember the
Robert Ingersol influence and those papers
"The Free Thinker" and other publications
with the terrible looking pictures on the
front page ridiculing religion and the Bible.
But they lived only for a time and are for­gotten.
Those who hold dear the Bible and its
teachings need have no fear. The only
dynamic "power of the universe is Spirit
and the power of Spirit will ever prevail
over the seeming power of materialism.
"Heaven and earth will pass away but my
word shall not pass away."
That twelve institutions of learning have
incorporated this organization in the past
eighteen months is not in the least discon­certing,
but it may give the impression to
a few that because of its adoption by some
of the "higher intellectuals" it must have
some weight. We must remember, however,
that religion is not a religion of the brain
but of the soul. One must have spiritual
discernment. Spirit and its creation, alone,
are real to those who have gained spiritual
understanding. Cor. 11:14: "The natural
man receiveth not the things of the spirit
of God, for they are foolishness unto him;
neither can he know, them for they are
spiritually discerned."
There never was a time when the world
was more spiritually minded than it is now.
It is at such a time that antagonism is
always more active and aggressive but ab­solutely
powerless against the Divine Spirit.
It is an encouraging sigh of the time. Cor.
2:14: "Ye can discern the face of the sky
and of the earth; but how is it that ye do
not discern this time."
That we are becoming more spiritually
minded was made Christmas in. the numer­ous
deeds of love to those less fortunate; it
was perceived in our President's Christmas
message to the American people; we see it
in the world's greatest minds in seeking a
solution to outlaw and war. We see it in
the use made of good-will envoys and in the
interchange of friendship between the na­tions.
In ambassador Herr^ck's inspiring
tribute to our wonderful Lindburgh, he
said: "One need not be fanatically religious
to see in his success the guiding hand of
Providence."
Lindburgh! What an example to the
manhood of the world; a life that rang so
true. God saw fit to use him as an envoy
of peace and good-will to the nations of
the world. He recalls to mind the passage
Isa. 40:31: "They shall run and not be
weary and shall walk and not faint."
Lindburgh will live long after the four
"A's" will have passed into oblivion. It is
the good and the true that endure and live
on throughout eternity. It is "the sub­stance
of things hoped for, the evidence of
things unseen" that lives.
Dear Editor:
There is a prevailing sentiment among
our women students as well as some of the
men students that the personnel and morale
of our co-ed basket ball team will be ma,-
terially elevated by the Coach observing
what is perhaps an oversight on her part.
Namely, playing the team herself thereby
taking the place of some girl who has not
already played four years on a college bas­ket
ball team. No one doubts her ability
to ring as many goals as any co-ed on the
campus. Then again, such action on her
part might be contrary to the Womans
Athletic Association Regulations.
We hope that our co-eds are not playing
basket ball only for the joy of winning, but
as Coach Bohler expressed it "To play a
clean fair game for the College and make
our opponents enjoy coming on the campus."
Then too, the coach's place is on the
sidelines when the team is in action, watch­ing
the fine points of the game, noting
where improvements can be made, and send­ing
in substitutes to meet such emergencies
as can only be seen from the sidelines.
We feel certain that the girls who play
on the team with their coach as a team­mate
cannot possibly have as much re­gard
for her ideas and orders as they
would if she assumed the position of coach
and director of the game.
Of course we are interested in our co­eds
winning games, and if the coach and the
students who play can agree that its better
for her to play in order to win games pro­vided
at the same time it is not against the
regulations, then let her play in all the
games. But, if it wrecks the morale of
the team, does not give the girls on the
campus who are students, a chance to de­velop
a team, on the sideline is her place,
acting in the capacity of coach.
A professor was absorbed in the explana­tion
of a Physics problem. A young lady
came in late and just as she sat down he
inquired earnestly: "Can anyone give me
an explanation for the appearance of this
peculiar piece of apparatus?"
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
"A lass! A lass!" shrilled the youth who
had been cooped up in "prep" school for
six months.
The reason our society editor left town
was this. She published words of praise
like these, "She always had mangy friends."
Willie: "Say, Pop, did you go to Sun­day
School when you were a boy?"
Father: "Yes son, regularly. Never
missed a Sunday."
Willie: "Well, I'll bet it won't do me any
good either."
A certain farmer had a bull next to a
railroad track on his farm and took great
pride in saying that the bull could outrun
any train that ran on the road, regardless
of how fast it went. One day he told the
banker about it, so the banker went out the
next day, when the daily ran to see the
stunt. The farmer, seeing him coming told
his boy to tell him anything, just to keep
him away from him.
The banker arrived and seeing no one
but the boy, asked him, "Where is your
father?"
"In California," was the reply.
"You don't mean to say that he is in
California; when will he be back?"
"Tomorrow."
"That is impossible, my young man, for
it is fully 4,000 miles to California from
here."
"Not at all," was the reply, "he rode that
bull."
CAFETERIA RULES
1. Always run as fast as you can and
knock some smaller boy down if possible.
This will prove that you can dor as you
please.
2. When you get in line always quarrel
with those ahead of you to hurry up, and
when it comes your turn, take all you want.
It is good advertising for yourself.
3. Bang the trays on the slides so as "to
make plenty of noise. This will also aid
in advertising yourself.
4. Take a handful of straws. They being
a novelty to you, you will want to keep
some for souvenirs.
5. Scoop, or rather shovel, your food in.
This will prove that you had the correct
training at home.
6. When you get out of the cafeteria,
bray, and kick, and make all the noise pos­sible.
This will prove that Darwin was
wrong. You didn't come up from the mon­key—
monkeys came up from you.
The theory that whatever goes up must
come down hasn't applied to women's skirts
yet. Laugh! This is new yet.
Puritan men were not allowed to kiss
their wives on Sunday, for that was not
their day for amusement.
A fool and his money are some party.
He: "You nearly lost your equilibrium
that time."
She: (anxiously): "Oh, I hope it's not
showing."
"How'd you like the girl I dug up for
you last nite?"
"Well, as far as I am concerned you can
bury her again."
"Doctor, can you cure me of snoring?
I snore so loudly that I awaken myself."
"In that case I should advise that you
sleep in another room."
Wife: "Look at that adorable hat in the
window, John. Let's go buy it."
John: "Certainly, dear; right by it."
"You a frosh?"
"No, I've been here five years."
"Taking your masters?"
"No, my time."
A certain class liked to play jokes on its
professor. One day he put a notice on the
black board which said "Prof. Brown will
meet his classes at 2 o'clock Monday." A
mischievious boy passed by and rubbed out
the letter C from classes. The professor
passed by later and rubbed out the L.
He: "You are the light of my life, the
fire of my heart, the warmth of my soul,
the flame of my "
She (interrupting): "Please turn off the
heat."
Squire: "Did you send for me, my lord?"
Launcelot: "Yes, make haste. Bring me
the hammer; I've got a flea in my knight
clothes."
Son (reading): "Pop, what is a pedes­trian?"
Pop: "A pedestrian, my son, is the raw
material for an accident."
An optimist was falling from the top of
the Woolworth building. As he passed the
20th story, a man looked out and asked him
how he was. He replied, "All right so far."
He: "Your neck reminds me of a camel."
She: "How so?"
He: "It goes seven and eight days with­out
water."
Solomon: "I beg your pardon but haven't
we met before?"
No. 639: "Yes, darling, we were married
a little over three months ago."
"What was all that racket in the post-office
this morning?"
"The correspondence school was having
commencement exercises."
Teacher: "Johnny, I'm only punishing
you because I love you."
Johnny: "I wish I was big enough to
return your love."
EVEN AS YOU AND I
A fool there was and he made his prayer
To a high priced car and a maiden fair—
Even as you and I.
He neglected his calling to run his car
A.nd he drove the maiden both near and
far—
Even as you and I.
He'd cross all railroad tracks on high
While hugging the maiden with many a
sigh.
Even as you and I.
He did not heed the whistle and bell
Now he and the maiden are both in
(Well, let us hope, Paradise)
Even as you and I—hope to be.
—Exchange.
Auburn Footprints
"Forky" Smith is taking the place of
"Jazz Baby" Rudder as a chemistry in­structor.
It seems that Smith started to a
show when a mysterious telephone call
caused him to change his mind. The re­port
first went out that it was a co-ed, but
it was even worse than that. Every few
nights "Forky" is seen headed for some
feminine retreat, and we are also convinced
that Mr. Smith is in love with some sort
of creature. If it is a co-ed, "Forky's"
mother has offered a reward of a cake, to
Jhe one who finds out who she is. All right
fellows, if the food is bad, now is the time
for you to do a little good as far as eating
is concerned.
In some way or other Anne Lichty was
the possessor of John Paisley's ring for a
few hours, but owing to something or other,
he was handed the ring at the breakfast
table. It appears that the ring was found
on the upper landing by Anne, who, after
inquiring of everyone as to the owner,
found John's initials on the ring. Mr. Pais­ley
has denied letting 'anyone have his
ring, but does admit the ring to be his.
His alibi has been that he lost it sometime
or other and that it was found by someone
who wanted to play a gigantic hoax on
him. Believe it or not. We said 'h«urs'
above, for as far as we know it is not so
long from midnight to dawn.
" Anne is occuping a conspicuous place
this week, for she is connected with almost
everything that has happened down there
for several days. The friends of Baby
Pup are becoming distressed over his con­dition;
they say that he is actually found
hovering near the zoo several nights a
week.. What's the cause of all this linger­ing?
It's the ladies, of course. Possibly
we should say 'lady.' Besides hanging
around the zoo enough to make it his second
home, Baby Pup is using the telephone in
the dormitory so much lately he will have to
pay for its installation before long. Pos­sibly
he is playing the role of detective as
it has been learned from reliable sources
that Anne has been giving cocoa to a cer­tain
fellow to make candy with. Oh well,
that's his affair.
"Day by day in every way the food is get­ting
worse and worse." If it does become
very much worse than it is, the doctpr will
have to put us on a diet so we can't eat any
of the food served. Dan Sikes says he is
ten pounds lighter and ten years older than
he was last September. .That's going some
for five months.
The bankers of the village seem to be
prospering if we are to judge from the re­cent
statement published and the fact that
Frank Malone gives twenty five cent tips
to picture show ushers.
Strong competition is being given the
Tiger Theatre by one of the local druggists.
It seems that the pill rollers have deserted
their mortars and pestles and started a
free picture show and aquarium.
"Bull Rat" Meyer, the well know campus
sleuth has at last run amuck on a case
which even his expert mental facilities can­not
comprehend. It seems that a letter re­ceived
by O. T. Allen, who is Meyer's most
faithful client, is the cause of all the deep
thought which has been keeping "Fan-shaw"
busy of late. The letter was ad­dressed
to Mr. O. T. Allen, "The answer
to a Co-ed's prayer."
Several have been accused of writing this
vicious epistle. No one knows, but Meyer
is busy gathering data and he expects to
render a verdict within the next week.
With Other Colleges
Ten per cent of the students at M. I. T.
are farmers. Fifty-one nationalities are
represented in the student body there.
* * * * *
The co-educational "Floating University,"
the Aurania, will not sail this year because
of insufficient enrollment.
* * * * *
Over two thousand graduates of Yale
University, are now engaged in education­al
work.
* * * * *
Sixty-eight foreign students are regis­tered
at the University of Ohio, represent­ing
twenty-two nations.
* * * * *
Fraternities at the University of Illinois
must file with the dean of men informa­tion
concerning each student whom they
intend to rush.
* * * * *
Twenty-five special trains were used to
carry 8,000 Minnesota students to Ann
Arbor, Michigan, for the Michigan-Minne-sota
football game.
* * * * *
A new sport will be inaugurated if the
plan of Oxford and Cambridge Universi­ties
for flying contests between the two
schools is carried out.
* * * * *
Caring for babies while the parents are
absent is one of the ways men at the Uni­versity
of California earn money, accord­ing
to the secretary of the employment
bureau.
* * * * *
Kent State College has opened a subway
from Haulton Hall, the girl's dormitory
on the campus, to the training school build­ing
to prevent the girls from getting wet
on rainy days.
Book Review
GOD'S TROMBONES
By James Weldon Johnson
Published by the Viking Press, New York
God's Trombones, contains seven negro
sermons in verse. The author, James Wel­don
Johnson, has contributed very largely
to the renascence of negro literature and
and music in this country through his orig­inal
work and through editing two volumes
of negro spirituals. In a very illuminating
preface to this volume he points out the
importance of the negro preacher in the
life of his people from 1773 to the present..
Earlier preachers were accustomed to
preaching sermons occasionally on tradi­tional
subjects, and these sermons "passed
with only slight modifications from preach­er
and from locality to locality." They be­came
folk sermons, just as the tales of
Uncle Remus are folk tales. Hearing one
of the sermons he had heard as a boy, and
in response to that impulse to preserve
them, he wrote the seven poems here pub­lished.
It should be pointed out immediately that
these are by no means literal renditions-of
these folk sermons. They are to be taken
as poems first of all, but poems that faith­fully
render the spirit of these early ser­mons,
and strongly suggest the form they
were given in the heat of their delivery.
The poems are not written in dialect, as one
might as first expect, for two good reasons.
The first is that when dialect is used only
two qualities, humor and pathos, can be
given to the work, because of the limita­tions
of the language and the conventional
view of the negro as either happy-go-lucky
or forlorn. The second, and stronger rea­son
is that the early negro preachers did
not use the ordinary dialect when they
preached. Into their sermons crept some­thing
of the rugged, sublime phraseology
of the King James Bible, quaintly inter­larded
with distinctly negro rhythms, and
colored by sonorous, rolling phrases and
mouth-filling words. The result i s a highly
rhytmmical, grandiloquent, almost gorgeous
use of language to very emotional ends.
Mr. Johnson has represented that very well
in these poems, perhaps most notably in
the sermons "Go Down Death" and "Let
My People Go." The first is a funeral ser­mon,
embodying the most beautiful imagery
of death I have ever read in a poem; the
second is an account of Moses demands
upon Pharaoh to "let my people go" and
the familiar story of the Red Sea crossing.
The sermon, "The Crucifixion" recalls the
tremendously moving effect' of Roland
Hayes' singing of the spiritual of the same
name.
In these sermons in verse one catches the
unmistakable lilt of the negro idion, feels
a great deal of the religious sense of the
race, and understands something of the old-time
negro preachers who preached these
sermons over and over. Mr. Johnson has
done the cause of negro poetry a great
service in pointing the road away from a
traditional dialect as a form; he has right­ly
suggested that the colored poet needs to
"find a form that will express the racial
spirit by symbols from within" rather than
from without. He has also, it seems to me,
added a bit of very genuine poetry to
American literature.
—Warren E. Bower.
COL. BOYDEN SPEAKS BEFORE
ENGINEERING CLASSES HERE
"At the present time' concrete is
undergoing a period of thorough in­vestigation.
Attempts are being made
throughout the United States to de­termine
the proper proportions of
sand, gravel, cement and water which
will result in securing a structure
with the maximum strength and at
the same time facilitate working the
mixture after it is poured. Numer­ous
experiments have been carried on
in which the ingredients were applied
in different proportions, however, and
applied for tests during the past few
years. This material has been found
to meet the situation very satisfac­torily
and with a high degree of ef­ficiency."
This question of preparing concrete
was presented to the engineering
classes at Auburn Wednesday by Col.
H. C. Boyden, a representative of the
Celite Products Company in Los
Angeles, California. Col. Boyden is
making a tour of the country and pre­senting
to the engineers the advan­tages
of Celite. Before entering the
field of lecturing, Col. Boyden was an
experimenting engineer at the plant
in California. He gave his first lec­ture
Wednesday morning, which was
followed by a slide lecture early in the
evening.
"Celite is virtually a substance
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is very light and-powdered to grains
which.are smaller than the particles
of cement as prepared by the cement
companies today."
"To add a small amount of such a
compound to a mixture of concrete,
three pounds per sack of concrete,
makes the concrete easier to work and
keeps the sand, gravel and cement
equally distributed while they are
being poured and, set. It has been
found from experience that in hauling
a mixture of concrete for a distance
of nine miles no segregation occurs,
a condition entirely impossible when
the concrete contains only the four in­gredients.
The compound prevents
air pockets,, latanse and efflorescence.
It makes it possible for the concrete
to reach all the small crevices and
forms of any type of complicated
mould. It furthermore effects a
white surface on the final product."
Talks on Economics
Broadcast by Radio
A new feature of the Department
of Agriculture's radio farm programs
for the Winter is a series of talks on
farm economics worked out ip coop­eration
with the Bureau of Agricul
tural Economics and listed as a fea­ture
of the United States Radio Farm
School.
These talks are broadcast, one each
week, by 57 large commercial radio
stations in 34 states. In Alabama
they are broadcast from Station
WAPI.
DR. C. L. BOYD, D. D. S.
DENTIST
Tiger Drug Store Building
Upstairs
GENUINE NEHI BEVERAGES
ARE GENUINE ONLY IN THE PATENT BOTTLES
The First National Bank of Auburn
Advice and Accommodation
For Every College Man
Any Financial Assistance Or Business Transaction
C. Felton Little, '04, President
W. W. Hill, '98, Vice-President G. H. Wright, '17, Cashier
PERFECTION AND FLORENCE
OIL STOVES
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PICTURE FRAMING
We Appreciate Your Business.
AUBURN FURNITURE CO.
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Incorporated
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"On Your Birthday Send Flowers to Your Mother"
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"Opposite t h e Tutwiler"
USE KRATZER'S ICE CREAM
Your Local Dealer Has It
For your parties and feeds ask your local
dealer to order from us. Our products are
pasteurized, using best ingredients, there­fore
necessarily PURE.
KRATZER'S
Montgomery, Alabama
Local Dealers
HOMER WRIGHT
S. L T00MER
ORANGE & BLUE SODA CO.
Ways to Prevent
Students Cheating
1. Students wil march to class un­der
guard of police equipped with
sawed-off shotguns.
2. Will be stopped at doorway and
searched for contraband notes, etc.
3. Before entering classroom each
student will be submitted to psycho­logical
examination to determine
whether or not he has any idea of
cheating.
4. Classrooms will be decorated
with such notes as "Honesty.Has Its
Reward" and "Think Before You
Cheat."
5. Each student must wear blinds
and place a handkerchief in his
mouth.
6. Students and professors will en­ter
together and the doors will be
locked and sealed.
7. Students wil sit two seats apart
with professors standing between
each two students. Professors will
be armed with blackjacks to inspire
respect.
8. Additional professors on the out­side
will watch through peepholes in
the wall.
9. Highly tuned dictaphones will
be concealed behind the pictures to
catch the slightest whisper.
10. When the student has finished
his examination a lie detector will be
used to find out whether or not he
has cheated.
Before marking the papers, pro­fessors
will discount ten points from
each paper on the possibility that the
student has cheated.
Most Children Familiar
With Date of Discovery
Of America—Showalter
100 Collegians to
Leave Montreal on
June 23 For Tour
A huge house party—a hundred
happy collegians will enjoy June days
and evenings on the North Atlantic
next summer with the College Humor
collegiate tour of Europe. Two days
on the quiet waters of the St. Law­rence
and four days on the open At­lantic,
moonlight dancing on deck,
parties, masquerades and a college
jazz band will keep the campus at­mosphere.
Under the auspices of College Hu­mor,
the Arts Crafts Guild Travel
Bureau has planned a thrilling tour
of England, France, and Belgium,
leaving Montreal June 22. A trip to
Stratford-on-Avon for those who know
their Shakespeare, London's night life
at the cabarets, Limehouse, and the
famous taverns—Cheshire Cheese and
the Red Lion. See bathing at Ostend.
and gaiety galore at Belgium's talk-ed-
of watering center. Brussels, the
gay little Belgium capitol—and then
Paris with its alluring Montmartre,
Follies Bergere, L'Opera Comique.
No worries. No baggage troubles.
All reservations and details handled
expertly by Arts Crafts Guild and
College Humor will make this float­ing
campus tour a round of house
party days.
The date of the discovery of Am­erica
is remembered by more ele­mentary
school children than any
other date in American history is the
conclusion of Dr. B. R. Showalter,
professor of extension teaching and
psychology, at the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute. This opinion was
reached following an investigation of
•more than 1100 school children below
the seventh grade in 40 schools lo­cated
in various sections of the
United States.
The date, 1492, was correctly given
by more students than the date of the
declaration of independence, 1776.
Another conclusion o fthe study was
that teachers of American history be­low
the seventh grade, today are pay­ing
relatively little attention to the
teaching of the precise dates to their
students.
This investigation by Doctor Sho­walter
is a part of his doctor's disser­tation
formerly submitted to Colum­bia
University, which appeared in the
current issue of the Historical Out­look.
Miss Harris Receives
Other Honors in Work
The Agnes Ellen Harris Home
Economics Club of Auburn is affiliat­ed
with the American Home Econo­mics
Association and is a real part of
that organization of more than 8,000
members.
The national association is raising
a fund of $25,000 to be used in giving
financial aid to proming research stu­dents.
This is a memorial fund in
honor of Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, the
founder of home economics.
The Alabama quota for this fund
is $160.00, and the members of the
local club have offered to contribute
$20.00 towards it. They have raised
this amount and have turned it in to
the State President. This has been
done under the able leadership of
Miss Mamie Matthews-, president, and
Mrs. Eva Godsey, treasurer.
The work of the club is being
recognized for it has had special
mention in the last two bulletins is­sued
by the national association.
Plans are now being made to send a
delegate to the State meeting in Bir­mingham,
March 29-30,31, where a
report will be made of the year's ac­tivities.
AUBURN
LIKES GOOD
DANCE MUSIC
And .
HERE'S THE LATEST
BY YOUR FAVORITE
LEAGUES ELECT OFFICERS FOR
NEXT SEMESTER AT MEETING
The Epworth Leaguers have spent
the last two Sunday meetings in the
election of officers. These elections
occur twice yearly to give opportunity
for the training of as many leaders
as possible. The past semester has
shown much progress under the presi­dency
of Warren Moore.
On January 8th, the leaguers as­sembled
together for the election of
the second semester's union officers.
The following were chosen' to fill the
elective positions: F. E. Bertram,
president; Evelyn Henry, vice presi­dent;
Margaret McNeal, secretary;
W. T. Edwards, treasurer; and
Evelyn Bryant, Era Agent. Mr. Ber­tram
will announce his appointments
in a few days.
On January 15th, the McNeal,
Davidson and McLeod Leagues met
separately to elect their respective
set of officers. These officers as the
union officers, will act throughout
the second semester. Hazel Arant
was chosen to guide the destiny of
the Davidson League for the next
four months. Bruce Harkins will
serve as president of the McNeal
League while Harry Cottier fills the
same capacity in the McLeod League.
Each of these leaguers have had
quite a varied experience in league
work and are well qualified for their
positions. Much is expected from the
Leagues during the remainder of this
year.
AG. CLUB HAS VERY
INTERESTING MEET
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LEWIS
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"IS EVERYBODY
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—and—-
Beware of the man whose story
sounds too good.
Some of the wise old business men
can "smell" a crook just as an old-fashioned
doctor could "smell" a case
of typhoid fever.
The more trifling the man the more
patent pencils and fountain pens he
seems to carry around in his vest
pockets.
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What You Want
When You Want It
"It takes the dollar to make the
man go, regardless of whether he is
a veterinarian, minister or follower
of any other profession," declared Dr.
McAdory at the Ag. Club.
"The man should look for more
than just the dollar sign and should
have a love for the work but a love
for work does not stimulate a man to
action," declared the speaker.
The speaker said further that too
many people are not practical enough
for the routine of life. Too many
people have only a theoretical or
bookish idea of the subject matter
which does not work in practical af­fairs
of life.
"Whether your life is practical and
full of 'horse sense' or theoretical,
which will probably determine the
success or failure, depends to a big
extent on the individual," the speak­er
declared.
E. B. Jones said that the curb mar­ket
at Gadsden was a success and the
'success of it as well as that of any
curb market depends on advertising
and selling of good quality products.
The chief products sold on the mar­ket,
according to Mr. Jones, are chick­ens,
eggs, turkeys and butter, with
butter leading, all the other products
in'quantity sold.
Mr. Scruggs won the harp contest
at the club.
"Red" Carter wonders if "College
men will ever become book worms or
if some haven't already reached
there."
Flying Circus Coming
To Opelika Next Week
Doug Davis' flying circus of At­lanta,
is coming back to Opelika for
the week-end, and will be there three
days giving exhibition flights and
taking up passengers. There are to
be three planes in the circus.
Among the famous flyers coming
here will be Doug Davis himself, one
of the country's foremost, Jimmie
Nail, former Auburn football star
and an officer in the aviation corps
of the army during the world war,
and Major Bill Strand, formerly of
the Canadian Air Force. These three
are experienced aviators who know
the game from all angles. It is rem­embered
Davis' circus spent several
days in Opelika last summer, and
carried up scores of east Alabama
people.
Another big feature of the com­ing
week-end will be the spectacular
parachute jumps by Jimmie Bathrick,
one of the stors of the game. Bath­rick
thrilled hundreds last year when
he made double leaps from the air
thousands of feet over Opelika.
In making a success of himself a
man contributes to the success of
everyone else.
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E. C. MILSTEAD, Manager
Dramatic Tournament
To Be Held in B'ham.
For the second year a dramatic
tournament will be sponsored by the
English Association of Alabama to
take place during the meeting of the
Alabama Educational association at
Birmingham, March 29-31, according
to Prof. J. R. Rutland, head profes­sor
of English at Auburn and presi­dent
of the English association. The
first tournament was held during the
A. E. A. meeting last April in Bir­mingham.
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You can't help but crave this
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and that's no bunk
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bottom of the bowl. Welcome as the week-end
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Pag* 4-
THE PLAINSMAN
SPORTS Tigers Still Undefeated in Basketball SPORTS
FIRST TIGER VS. TIGER GAME
GOES TO PLAINSMAN QUINT
Clemton Outclassed in First Game
Of Double Header Played
On Campus
And another Conference victory
was added to the credit side of Coach
Mike Papke's Auburn Tigers as they
disposed of the visiting Clemsonites
to the tune of 56-26. At all times of
the game, the home lads were fight­ing
as if they were far behind, al­though
the fact remains that they
were very far ahead. Such methods
are desired, in order that each player
can stand the pace of hard fight if
a very fast team is encountered that
takes the lead. Without a doubt, the
Tigers have not met a team of their
class so far this season, but there is
hardly a team in the South that is in
their class.
Akin and Ellis did the big end of
the scoring. Jelly ringing 18 points
while his fellow runner dropped in
14 points. Both were in their prime,
fast, sure and taking hard desperate
shots, many of which were successful.
Frank DuBose seems to have been
inspired by the Gods of Victory late­ly.
His spirit is unquenchable and
he has a way of getting into every
play of the game. Down at the Uni­versity
of Florida he was hailed as
the best center in the South and if
he continues as he has so far, he will
be honored as such. Besides his
floor work, Frank has come through
with quite a few scores each game and
against Clemson, totalled 7 points.
The James twins, Ebb and Flow, as
the Atlanta papers term them, played
an air tight game. Very seldom was
there a chance for the visiting Tigers
to get a free shot from the floor and
many times this pair went so far as
to take the ball out of their adver­saries
hands. Both contributed a good
bit towards the total score, Ebb get­ting
9 points while Captain Fob scor­ed
3.
Mullins, Smith, Vines, and L.
James all saw action during the
battle and each seemed to show a re­markable
improvement over their last
appearance. These lads will be the
foundation of next years team and
are getting much needed experience
this year. Papke has a wonderful
system for keeping a good team and
it seems as if A. P. I. will have
another winning team next year de­spite
the loss of four of the last two
years regulars.
Clemson just didn't have a chance.
The players weren't of the class need­ed
to hold in check a team of Papke's
cagers class. . But, they had the fight
and the spirit of their coach, John
Cody, could easily be seen in each
player. They were in the game for
all they had and they gave every bit
of iti Hewitt and Eskew were the
leading scorers along with Majoine
at center. Majoine proved to be quite
a help to his team by getting the tip-off.
He added to this 8 points scored
from the fioor. Eskew is Clemson's
famous star of all-athletics and did
not get many chances to shoot at the
basket as one of the James was con­sistently
on his heels. Hewitt led his
mates with a total of 10 points.
Summary:
Clemson: Eskew (4), Hewitt (10),
Majoine (8), Woodruff (2), Lester,
Jones (2).
Auburn: Akin (18), Ellis (14),
DuBose (7), E. James (9), F. James
(3), L. James (3), Mullins, Smith
(2), Vines.
NOTICE
The Auburn "Rat" basketball team
will play the Georgia Tech "Rats"
Saturday night at 7:45. Admission
25c and 50c.
FRANK DuBOSE
The above countenance is of Frank
DuBose who is one of the greatest
basketball players that Auburn has
ever turned out. He is playing his
second year with the Varsity of the
Plainsmen, and he plays a brand of
ball that is hard to beat. He plays
a clean game, and is dreaded by all
opponents as a man that never misses
a goal, and is hard to get around on
defense.
Dubose had no trouble in making
the Varsity his Sophomore year. He
exhibited such skill on the court that
he waf given a regular position on
the team. It will be remembered by
all who saw the Auburn-Tech game
here on the campus last year, how
well DuBose played. He was playing
center against "Tiny" Hearns of
Tech, who was several inches taller
than Frank. Not only did Frank get
the jump on the tall Tech center the
majority of the times, but he was
able to lead the attack that beat Tech.
Another illustration of what you
might call DuBose's super-human
playing was dqwn in Gainesville last
Saturday night, when the Tige* gave
the 'Gators a good walloping. He
was the star of the game and fought
so hard against Florida that they did
not even try to score any points for
awhile but took to the defensive.
Dubose covers the floor like a car­pet,
and is death on offense. When
he takes a shot, he always follows it
up. This year and last he has shot
goals from almost every angle of the
court.
One reason Frank is able to do so
well in basketball is that he is so well
proportioned. He is tall and hasn't
an over amount of weight. His hands
are so large that he can hold a basket­ball
in each one of them, as if it were
a baseball.
Next year DuBose will be at the
height of his basketball career, and
will be one of the best in the South.
He should have no trouble in making
the All-Southern pick, and will be
our main stay~next year.
Frank is a friend to everyone on
the campus, and is regarded as a man
of highest character. He is liked by
all.
"Give 'Em Hell, Frank."
Auburn Makes It
Six In a Row As
Gators Fall Again
Furious Battle Ends With Tigers in
Front After Effective Spirit
Auburn pulled out in front in the
final seven minutes of the final game
with the University of Florida in
Gainesville Saturday and won her
sixth consecutive contest of 1928. The
score was 43 to 33 and for more than
three-quarters of the game the exhi­bition
was a most gruelling, bitterly-waged
court contest.
At the end of the first half the
fighting Gators were leading 16 to
14, the first time this season Auburn
has trailed at the intermission. All
during the first half the lead see­sawed
back and forth. The Plains­man
came back the second half de­termined
to snatch the victory, and
they did. Mullen took four or five
tipoffs right in succession and passed
the ball down the court to enable some
other member of the team to cage a
goal. With a great spurt the fight­ing
Tigers from the Plains of Au­burn
mounted the score to 35 to 25.
The final gong found both quintets
battling furiously, after the closing
few minutes had been about evenly
fought.
Akin and DuBose carried Auburn's
offensive in glorious fashion, both
icoming through excellently in the
vital heat of the final attack. Jelly
Akin was high point man in both
games, getting 14 points the first
game, and 15 the second. He has led
his team in scoring in every game
this season except the encounter with
Southern College, in which game Ellis
tied him, each looping 12 points. Akin
has scored 96 points in six games, and
bids fair to lead the Southern Con-
"IT WAS GREAT," SAYS LADY
AFTER SEEING HER FIRST GAME
Basket ball, if you take it from
Miss Adelaide Yon, secretary of the
athletic department of the University
of Florida, is almost as thrilling a
sport as football; it is much easier to
understand and follow and offers an
evening of choice entertainment.
"It was great," Miss Yon ejacu­lated,
after witnessing the Florida-
Auburn court thriller here last week.
"I never saw a college game before
and didn't know how thrilling it was.
It is much faster than football and I
do not plan to miss another game."
1928 Auburn Basketball Schedule
Dec. 17—Montgomery Y. M. C. A. (12)
5—White Business College (13)
Jan. 7—Ga. Tech (29)
Southern College (18)
13_U. of Florida (23)
14—U. of Florida (33)
18—Clemson (26)
19—Clemson (23)
20—U. of Tennessee
27—Tulane
28—Tulane
Feb. l—Vanderbilt
3—U. of Georgia
9—Georgetown U.
10—Ole Miss
11—Ole Miss
18—Ga. Tech
22—U. of Florida
23—U. of Florida
(38) Auburn
(92) Auburn
(56) Auburn
(51) Auburn
(39) At Gainesville
(43) At Gainesville
(56) Auburn
(30) Auburn
Auburn
New Orleans
New Orleans
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Atlanta
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn Captures
First of Florida
Series, 39 to 23
Flashing neat floor work and vari­ed
passing formations combined with
unerring shots the Auburn Plains­men
added the scalp of the Florida
Gators to their belt last Friday night
39 to 23 in their fifth consecutive win
of the season and secured revenge
for the gridiron defeat handed them
by the Floridians last fall.
Throughout the first half the Au-burnites
kept the Florida boys at sea
as to what it was all about, the score
at the intermission being 25 to 8.
However, in the early minutes of the
second half the Gators unleashed
their only effective offense of the
evening when they rolled up eight
points before the Plainsmen again
tallied.
At the start of the game the Gators
went into a short-lived lead when
Vansickle shot a foul goal for first
blood, but the Tigers l»me back and
nicked the basket for eight points be­fore
the Gators got in range again.
The short rally fti the last half
ibrought the Gators to within ten
points of the leaders, which was the
closest they advanced in the final
period.
Vegue and Crabtree were the
steadiest Florida performers, whil"
Aiken and the James twins were the
outstanding players in the Auburn
ranks. Akin was the high point man
of the game scoring 14 points. Buck
Ellis was a close second with 11 tal­lies.
Crabtree for Florida also found
the basket for 11 points. I
Before the game, Captain Walker
of the Gator team presented Captain
Fob James of the Tigers with a live
Gator, which Fob brought back to the
Fairest Village of the Plains with
him.
Lineup and summary:
Auburn (39) Pos Florida (23)
Forward
Ellis (11) Walker (2)
Forward
Akin (14) Crabtree (11)
Center
DuBose (6) Woods
Guard
F. James (5) Vansickle (3)
Guard
E .James (2) __. _. Carithers (2)
Substitutes: Auburn, Mullin (1)
for Ellis; Florida, Vegue (5) for
Walker.
Referee: Higgins.
S:«m,::«aliSlllllBB!
FRANK "TUXIE" TUXWORTH
Frank Tuxworth, past master at
the art of directing the destiny of Au­burn
on the gridiron, has again made
his appearance on the Campus and
has happily announced that he in­tends
to sign up with the registrar
for another year of College. This is
a bright event for Auburn, for Frank
is a true athlete of no mean repute.
For three years, Tuxie has played
quarter-back on Auburn's football
teams. His first year here, he called
the plays for the Frosh outfit and
during his Sophomore year gained
recognition as one of the best quarters
in Dixie. Also in his Junior year, he
stood out as Auburn's leading gen­eral.
Among his accomplishments
may be mentioned his ability to heave
the oval. Through his great pass
work, Auburn beat Vanderbilt in
"25" and latter tied Tech. Next year
should see Tuxy at his best. He
should be in fine shape, and surely
has the experience, which along with
the players confidence in his ability,
should go a long ways toward a scor­ing
aggregation.
Besides, football, Tuxworth will be
an added attraction on the track
team. He will very likely be the
leading broad jumper and high jump­er.
During his stay at Camp Ben-ning,
he entered the track meet and
captured high place in the 100 yard
dash, high jump and the broad jump,
incidentally being high point man for
the day. He should have an ex­cellent
chance to better the record in
the two jumps and is out to accom­plish
that very thing.
We are all glad to welcome Frank
back to A. P. I. and hope that he will
be here to stay for the better of all.
ference in the art of scoring.
The guarding of the James twins
was above par in both encounters
with the Gators. They were both
highly praised by the Florida news­papers.
The Florida Times-Union
said, "They are two of the best
guards that ever performed in a
Florida gymnasium and they are
practically sure of making All-South­ern
this year if they continue their
good work." The twins have also
managed to score about thirty-five or
forty points apiece in spite of the
fact that they are playing in the
guard positions, and in addition to
that they have held their opponents
practically scoreless when it comes to
scoring the two-pointers. Over half
the points scored by the Florida five
in the two games came via the foul
route.
For Florida, Smith, their elongated
center, though never once getting the
tipoff from DuBose, covered the big
Auburn pivot man marvelously and
frequently kept the Plainsmen from
scoring. Crabtree and Vegue, Flor­ida
forwards, played the floor in
great fashion. Crabtree bagged six
goals from field and one foul, to lead
the Gator scorers.
Lineup and summary:
Auburn (43) Pos. Florida (33)
Forward
Ellis (4) Crabtree (13)
Forward
Akin (15) Vegue (10)
Center
DuBose (12) Smith
Guard
E. James (5) Felson
Guard _N-F.
James (5) VanSickle (6)
Substitution: Auburn: Mullin (2)
for Ellis. Florida: Walker for Crab­tree,
Wood for Smith, Carruthers for
VanSickle, Grandoff for Felson, Mc-
Lucas for Vegue.
Referee, Higgins (Wabash); um­pire,
Talbert (Florida).
Co-eds Defeated
by Howard Five
In Furious Game
Howard Lasses Emerge Victors After
Hard Fought Game
The Auburn Co-eds were beaten by
the fast Howard College Co-eds last
Saturday night in a heart breaking
basketball game on the local court.
The score was 26 to 23, and had the
game lasted a few minutes longer,
Auburn would have probably come
off-the floor with the larger end of
the score. Towards the end of the
game, the Auburn girls got their
wind, and staged a rally which came
close to overcoming the lead which the
Howard team held.
Howard took the lead in the first
of the fracas, and held it throughout
the entire game. However, Auburn
was not far behind, but stayed around
three or four points behind almost
all the time. The score at the half
was fifteen to thirteen.
Miss Darden was the outstanding
star of the evening. She played one
of the forward positions for Howard
and held it down most efficiently.
She rarely ever threw at the basket
that the ball did not roll in. She made
18 of the 26 points that were made
by Howard. She is one of the best
basketball players who has appeared
on a girls team here this year.
Miss Harris, Howard center, also
played an excellent game. She got
six points chalked up in her favor.
In Misses Moose and Blackborne,
Howard had two tall guards that
rarely ever gave the Auburn for­wards
a chance to shoot at the goal.
They both played well.
Misses Tucker and Haupt were the
stars for the Villagers. They were
playing in the capacity of forwards,
and the former made eight points,
whiles the latter made ten. Miss
Haupt had hard luck in finding the
basket several times during the game.
She threw the ball' several times, when
it seemed that it was in the basket,
but it bounced out.
Miss Creel did fine work in guard­ing
for the Orange and Blue. She
stayed with the Howard forwards, and
kept them from making the score a
INVITATIONS ARE MAILED FOR
COTTON STATES TOURNAMENT
It is with much interest that we no­tice
the invitations of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute to the various
prep schools over the South to com­pete
in the Seventh Invitation Cotton
S t a t e s Interscholastic Basketball
Tournament have been mailed. Each
year Auburn sponsors a tournament
whereby the best cage teams over the
South meet to determine who has the
best basketball quintet in the South.
The date of the tournament this
year has been announced as Febru­ary
16, 17, and 18, 1928. These
games are played in the local gym­nasium
and always draw large
crowds to view the excellent playing.
Last year the cagesters from Vienna
High School won the cup emblematic
of the Cotton States Interscholastic
Basketball Championship. .
Due to the great interest shown in
great deal larger than it was. Even
though Miss Brown was only in the
game a few minutes, she accounted
for three of the points, and covered
the floor well.
The game was very cleanly played
by both teams. This is one of the
best games that has been played here
lately. The Auburn team showed a
great deal of improvement over the
way they played in the last game.
E. Snider referred the game, and L.
Tamplin was umpire.
Line-up:
Auburn (23) Howard (26)
Guard
Price Moose
Guard
Blackborne,
Guard
Kendricks (Capt.)
Creel
Lewis ....
Center
Reynolds Haris (6)
Forward
Tucker (Capt.) (8) . - Darden (18)
Forward
Haupt (10) Dyar (2)
Every husband wonders what his
wife does with all the money he
brings home, and every wife wonders
why her husband isn't able to bring
home more money.
this Tournament during the first
years of its existence it was neces­sary
to limit the number of teams to
sixteen. The average number of
schools desiring to enter each year
is about forty-five, which would not
only make uneven competition, but
would necessitate extending it over a
five day period. Therefore the same
plan as heretofore used will be em­ployed
again this year. All teams
with outstanding records are invited
to submit these records at any time
that suits their convenience. During
the week preceding the Tournament,
special invitations will be extended to
the sixteen teams whose records seem
outstanding by comparison. These
selected teams will be the guests of
the college for the duration of the
Tournament. All local entertain­ment,
including meals and lodging,
will be provided.
The Tournament will be governed
by the rules of the National High
School Athletic Federation.
The regulations for those entering
the Tournament are:
Entries—The number of teams
competing is limited to sixteen. These
teams will be selected and invited the
week preceding the Tournament.
Conditions—Eight players shall
constitute a team. Players must be
eligible according to the Interscholas­tic
regulations of the State Associa­tion
from which they come. An entry
fee of $6.00 will be charged each team.
No entry will be aecepted unless ac­companied
by fee.
Trophies—The President's Cup, em­blematic
of the Cotton States Inter­scholastic
Basketball Championship,
will be awared the team finishing
second. Special Trophies will be
awarded the semi-final teams.
Medals—Gold and silver medals
will be awarded each member of the
teams finishing first and second.
Members of the semi-final teams will
be awarded bronze medals.
The right to reject any entry is re­served.
Entries close with W. H. Hutsell,
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
Alabama, February 10, 1928.
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blazed the trail
^ As explorer and discoverer in the great
southwest, Coronado pioneered a trail which
telephone lines now traverse.
To project and construct these lines across
plain and desert and over mountain range
was also the work of pioneers, men not
afraid to grapple with the frontiers either
Today the telephone
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the near luest.
of geography or of scientific knowledge.
Men of the Bell system have penetrated
through trackless problems of research, of
manufacture, of telephone operation and of
management. They purpose'to continue
their advance, all. in the interest of better
service to America.
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THE PLAINSMAN P««« 8
Notes of the Societies
WIRT
In spite of the approaching exami­nations
the Wirt Literary Society
had a good attendance to hear the
short impromptu program and elect
new officers for the coming semester.
The program was divided into two
parts, the Rats giving their opinion
of Coach Bohler, some of which were
very good, rat Oakley being the star
speaker on this subject. The upper-classmen
discussing the qualifications
of the best speakers among the Deans
of the College and the professors.
Mr. Alford the first speaker showed
in a very effective manner how Dean
Petrie attracted his audiences and
held their attention. Miss Henry tak­ing
a number of speakers for her sub­ject.
Nothing particular was said
about their presentation but she ad­vised
all the instructors with whom
she had work could give plenty to
keep one busy throughout the semes­ter.
After a short program the election
of officers followed. Mr. J. W.
Randle being elected by a large ma­jority
as "Head Knocker." After
the meeting adjourned it was said
that he went in on the co-ed vote.
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Clyde Thompson was elected and ac­cepted
reluctantly the position of
vice-president. Patty Askew being
the smallest in statute in the society
was given* the enormous position of
secretary. Mr. Paul Alford was in­trusted
with the money of the society.
M. T. Gowder being elected reported
and W. W .Johnson Sergeant-at-arms.
after a great deal of eloquent discus­sion.
The committee on stunts re­ported
that some very original stunts
was up the sleeve of some of the
members. The society then adjourned
to meet one week following examina­tions.
EVANS
Politics and politicians came into
their own while the literary arts took
a back seat for the election of officers
at the Evans Literary Society Tues­day
night. Considerable enthusiasm
was in evidence as "I do not choose
to run" speeches replaced, in many
instances, the usual soap-box address.
B. H. Walkley succeeded H. G. Mc-
Coll as president of the society. After
taking the president's chair, he con­ducted
the election of the following
officers: Moffet Dubose, vice-presi­dent;
Miss Lottie Story, secretary
and treasurer; H. M. Cottier and W.
B. Story, members of the program
committee; W. C. Kelley, Plainsman
reporter; B. L. Martin, sergeant-at-arms;
H. G. McColl, chairman of the
social committee; J. R. Fombey, chair­man
of the quality points committee.
The feature event of the election
was the selecting of the critic. Prof.
Butler, of the English department,
who has been the faculty visitor to
and advisor for the Evans during the
first semester was made an honorary
member of the society. His election
as critic followed immediately.
Each new officer pledged his whole­hearted
efforts to make the Evans
Literary Society the best society on
the campus; and after making it the
best, to keep it on the literary map.
If these pledges are kept, along with
the necessary support of the members,
the Evans will be a society that you
will be glad to be a member of; it
will be one that the public will like
to visit.
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ON WAPIPROGAM FOR NEXT WEEK
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SOCIAL SCIENCE CLUB
A very important meeting of the
Social Science Club was held Mon­day
night at seven o'clock, with an
excellent attendance. President De-
Vaughn opened the meeting with the
essential business procedure.
No program was rendered, but the
election of officers for the second
semester took place. Coke Matthews
was chosen as president; Rtuledge
Daugette, vice-president;»J. W. Ran­dle,
secretary; J. G. -Greene, treas­urer
; and Charles Moore, reporter.
Professor Herrin and the new
president, Coke Matthews, outlined
some of the steps and procedures to
be taken for the betterment of the
club for the second semester.
The club holds its regular meetings
on Monday night at seven o'clock, in
Room 100, "Main Building." It wel­comes
all new members and extends
an invitation to join to all of those
who are interested in the field of So­cial
Science.
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S. A. M. E.
The local chapter of the Society of
American Military Engineers held its
weekly meeting Tuesday night for the
last time this semester. The meeting
was presided over by vice-president
Mr. Wright and minutes of previous
meeting read by Secretary Simms.
A very timely and mindful talk on
"Future Wars" by Mr. Neeley, ini­tiated
the program. In this he com­pared
previous wars and how"* they
will assist U. S. forces in wars to
come.
Next, in order on the program was
Mr. Maddison who sticks to his ori­ginal
resolution of choosing interest­ing
subjects and who has a unique
method of making them easily under­stood.
In his talk on "Life Saving
Devices used by National Coast
Guard he described a means of bring­ing
occupants of a sinking ship safely
through the water to shore.
Mr. Nickerson, the last speaker on
the program, spoke on the Chesapeake
and Delaware Canal. This canal was
started about 1775 and not finished
until 1829. With his well drawn dia­gram,
Mr. Nickerson vividly "described
the excavation and the many diffi­culties
encountered.
There being no business the society
adjourned to meet again Jan. 31, and
with the hope that every student in
the engineering unit would join, and
attend these interesting meetings of
this society, next semester.
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HOME EC CLUB
The Home Economics Club held
its last meeting of the year Wednes­day
afternoon. As has been the cus­tom
election of officers for the com­ing
year took place. Those to be
chosen were: Mrs. Godsey, President;
Carrie Hester, Vice-President; Hazel
, Arant, Secretary; Mrs. Atkinson,
Treasurer.
As Mamie Matthews had held the
chair the past semester, and was
graduating in January she gave a
short speech of congratulation to the
new officers, and bid the club fare­well.
We all regret that Miss Mat­thews
has to leave us, but wa hope
she will have every success in her
new position as Home Demonstration
Agent in Henry County.
Young People's Dept.
Has Semester Election
The Young People's Department of
the Methodist Sunday School held its
regular semester election Sunday.
This department has just closed a
very successful semester of work
under the leadership of F. S. Arant
as president. The president has been
faithfully assisted by the following,
Bruce Harkins, vice president; J. W.
Williams, secretary; and W. T. Ed­wards,
treasurer.
The new officers, who are to be in­stalled
in the very near future, are,
Sam Mosley, president; J. W. Stan­ton,
vice president; Allan Francis,
secretary; and J. D. Neeley, treas­urer.
These new officers will take up
their new duties on the first Sunday
of the second semester. Dean Zebu-
Ion Judd is the superintendent of this
department.
Ross Gorman's orchestra of New
York will be featured in six pro-programs
at Station WAPI during
the week beginning Monday, January
23. Regular features will be broad­cast
as usual.
Monday noon, January 23, the
studio trio with Miss Evelyn Smith,
soloist; and Otto Brown, extension
forester, on artificial reforestation
and Prof. C. K. Brown on Auburn
news notes.
Tuesday noon, January 24, the stu­dent
quartet, R. Y. Bailey, agrono­mist,
will give information on the
best fertilizers for cotton in Alabama.
Tuesday night, beginning at 9, a
jazz program by the Collegians. A
book review will be given.
Wednesday noon, January 25, clas­sical
program by the studio orches­tra.
Students in the domestic engi­neering
course at Auburn will hold a
discussion on electrical equipment for
the home.
Thursday noon, January 26, solos
by Rev. O. D. Langston and solos,
duets, string music, and novelty
selections by Bob McKinnon and Al­len
Francis. R. Y. Bailey, agrono­mist,
will give results of cotton yields
where Auburn recommendations were
compared with ready-mixed fertiliz­ers.
Rev. Milligan Earnest on a .reli­gious
topic.
Thursday night, beginning at 9, the
studio orchestra. Dr. George Petrie
will discuss a current topic. Begin­ning
at 10 and lasting to 1 o'clock, a
dance program by Ross Gorman's or­chestra.
. Friday noon, January 27, new Vic­tor
records will be played during the
Jesse French Victor program. "Aunt
Sammy" will give home economics
hints.
Friday afternoon, beginning at 5,
twilight program by Ross Gorman's
orchestra.
Friday night, beginning at 9, the
studio orchestra in classical selec­tions.
Beginning at 10 and lasting
until about 2 o'clock a dance pro­gram
b yRoss Gorman's orchestra.
Saturday noon, January 28, the
student quartet. Prof. J. R. Rutland
in a discussion of the Sunday School
lesson. Selections by Ross Gorman's
orchestra.
Saturday afternoon, from 5 to 6,
Ross Gorman's orchestra.
Saturday night, from 9:30 to 12,
Ross Gorman's orchestra.
KAPPA DELTA PI ELECTS
Kappa Delta Pi. honorary educa­tional
fraternity at the University
of Alabama, announces the election
of nine students to its membership.
Newly elected members are Dr. Paul
W. Terry, of the faculty; Prof. W.
A. Cowart, Gladys Baxter of Mo­bile,
Ruth Elliott of Birmingham,
Eva Mae Gilbert of Tuscaloosa,
Sarah Houghton of Morning View,
Nettie Paschal of Enterprise, Marie
Wright of Troy and Mrs. Miriam
Locke of Mobile.
Glee Club Practices
For Southern Tour
Rehearsals on an entire new pro­gram,
to be used by the Carolina Glee
Club in their winter tour, -are well
under way.
The new program contains num­bers
with all the advantages of the
old program and also offering new
material for (he talent of the club.
Among the new numbers there are
several religious numbers and folk
lullabies which promise rare treats
for music lovers in the cities included
in the winter tour. New voices are
being added from time to time and
every effort is being made to perfect
the club in all its work.
The trip which begins on the twen­ty-
seventh will cover three states and
last for more than a week. A con­cert
is booked for Atlanta during
this tour which takes the club far­ther
south than it has ever been be­fore.
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New Book* Will Aid High School
Principals
A pamphlet that will aid school
superintendents in knowing whether
or not he is having his buildings serve
the needs of the maximum number of
students or whether the buildings are
overcrowded, written by Dr. Edgar
L. Morphet, professor of extension
teaching at Auburn, has just come
from the press. The pamphlet is
known as, "The Strayer, Engelhardt,
Morphet School Building Forms."
Drs. George D. Stayer and N. L.
Engelhardt of Columbia University
collaborated with Doctor Morphet
participated in the recent school
building survey in Montgomery coun­ty.
To know whether or not school
buildings are put to maximum use has
long been a problem confronting
school executives. This pamphlet of
forms gives minute and simple direc­tions
as well as a standard of com­parison
that may be used by any
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WELL-BALANCED MEAL REQUIRES
THOUGHT SAYS MISS KENNEDY
Planning a well-balanced meal to­day
requires much more thought and
constructive study of food values than
in grandmother's day, declared Miss
Helen Kennedy, state nutrition ex­pert,
of Auburn, in a demonstration
lecture before members of the Jeffer­son
County Home Demonstration
clubs.
"In the olden days all food for the
table came direct from the fields and
had lost none of its food value," Miss
Kennedy said. "Today with the ad­vent
of modern manufacturing plants
a food by process of elimination of
certin material, loses much of its
original value. This makes it neces­sary
for the housewife to know the
different kinds of food and to know
how to add to certain foods to obtain
a balanced meal.
Miss Kennedy in her address, gave
a general review of the five kinds of
foods, listing the various food values
of fat, protein, starch, sugar and
minerals, and giving specific foods
under each class.
The necessity of the proper amount
of vitamins was also discussed by
Miss Kennedy. They are essential
to growth and health, she declared,
and each woman present, was urged
to study them more closely.
The major project for Home Dem­onstration
Schools in Jefferson Coun­ty
for 1928 is menu making and table
service and the demonstration of meal
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planning by Miss Kennedy was an in­troduction
to the work to be followed
in the clubs during the year, she
stated. This enlarges the program
followed last year when a detailed
study of the kinds and values of foods
was studied.
Four scholarships to women in
home demonstrations will be given
to members entering a competitive
contest and the women winning will
be given a trip to the Farmers Week
meeting at Auburn in August, Miss
Kennedy said. Details for the scho­larships
are now being worked out.
Miss Kennedy also stressed the
necessity of leadership in the clubs
and urged .that representatives from
the district clubs in the county con­tinue
their cooperative program of
club leadership.
JAZZ WILL SUPPLANT STUDY
AS DANCES FOLLOW EXAMS
(Continued from Page 1.)
in the North and East, and they seem
well prepared to make Auburn's com­ing
dances the best in many years.
Miss Helen Noble, of Atlanta, with
Mr. Carol Porter, '29, will lead the
Grand March. Miss Noble is a popu­lar
member of the younger set in
Atlanta. Last Sunday her picture
appeared in the Rotogravure section
of the Birmingham News.
According to all indications this
year's Prom should be a record one
in more ways than one; more invi­tations
than ever before have_ been
sent out, and a record crowd is ex­pected.
It is certain that at least
150 beautiful young girls will be
visitors of the "Village of the Plains"
during the dances.
House parties have been planned
by.the following fraternities: Sigma
Nu, Theta Chi, Lambda Chi, Sigma
Phi Sigma, Kappa Alpha and Pi
Kappa Phi.
The official chaperojies will be:
Dr. and Mrs. Spright^owell, Major
and Mrs. J. T. Kennedy, Dr. and Mrs.
B. R. Showalter, Captain and Mrs.
B. C. Anderson, Captain and Mrs. J.
N. Garrett, Lt. and Mrs. W. B. Leitch,
Lt. and Mrs. W. B. Higgins, Prof, and
Mrs. W. L. Nichols, Prof, and Mrs.
Christopher.
CLUBS HEAR NEW COACH
MONDAY AT JOINT LUNCH
(Continued from Page 1.)
the athletic committee before a final
decision was made.
Coach Bohler made a very, inter­esting
and encouraging speech. He
outlined his policies and plans of pro­cedure.
Among the highlights of his
speech were: He wants football train­ing
to be required of every Freshman
in the place of the regular calisthenics
now required; There should be at
least seven or eight hundred boys out
for football every fall; The highest
score is not to be placed over the best
sportsmanship; The good will of our
opponents is invaluable. His well
chosen words were greeted with
rounds of applause.
Prof. L. N. Duncan, head of the ex­tension
department, pledged the en­tire
support of his department to the
policies as outlined by coach Bohler.
The meeting was closed by all singing,
"Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here!"
PROGRAM
TIGER THEATRE
MONDAY, JAN. 23rd
William Boyd and Bessie Love
—In—
"THE DRESS PARADE"
Paramount News and Comedy
TUESDAY, JAN. 24th
Dorothy Gish and Antonio
Moreno
—In— ,
"MADAM POMPADOUR"
Two Reel Comedy
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
JAN. 25th and 26th
Jesse L. Lasky and Adolphe
Zuker Presents
"BEAU SABREUR"
with Gary Cooper, Evelyn
Brent, William Powell, Noah
Beery, Mitchell Lewis, Arnold
Kent, Joan Standing and Raoul
Poila.
The answer to "Beau Geste"
News and Comedy
FRIDAY, JAN. 27th
Dorothy MacKaill and Jack
Mulhall
—In—
"SMILE BROTHER, SMILE"
SATURDAY, JAN. 28th
"SPOILERS OF THE WEST"
with Tim McCoy, Majorie Daw
and William Fairbanks
Ping Pong Tournament
Prizes Are Announced
Everyone is Urged to Enter This
Tournament
The prizes have been announced for
the PING PONG tournament to be
staged by the Y. M. C. A. athletic
committee under the direction of W.
T. Edwards, and the contests will
start immediately with the new se­mester
and will last for three weeks.
Enthusiasm is growing strong, and
the prizes, which will soon be on dis­play,
will be given to the winners by
the following Auburn business men:
1. High winner—One pair Seltz Six
shoes by J. W. Wright Dry Goods
Company.
2. Runner up—$3.00 box of candy
by Homer Wright Drug Co.
3. First Semi-finalist—$1.60 worth
of trade at "The Barber."
4. Second Semi-finalist—$1.50 worth
of trade at the Varsity Shoe Shop.
It costs nothing to join the contest.
Merely write your name on a slip
of paper stating that you wish to join
and drop it through the slot in the
door of the Y. M. C. A. office. All
who can possibly do so are urged to
enter. Auburn is behind other col­leges
in the Southern Conference in
ping pong, there being recently an
intercollegiate clash across the ping
pong tables between Tulane and L.
S. U. *
This contest is the first of its kind
to be sponsored by the Y. M. C. A.
Due to the lack of a gymnasium, the
local Y. M. C. A. is handicapped in
helping the students physically, but
ping pong requires all the skill and
dexterity of a tennis match, and this
helps the Y. M. C. A. reach the stu­dents'
physical nature.
The results of each match will be
posted immediately on the bulletin
board, and rules and particulars of
the game may also be found on the
bulletin board ine th Y. M. C. A.
AUBURN CAGERS TO MEET
TULANE IN NEW ORLEANS
(Continued from page one)
impressive due to their heated com­petition.
Each game was hard fought
and well played; the last even being
led by the Floridians up to the half.
But the might of the Auburnites was
not to be doubted for they came
through with neat victories in both
encounters.
Now, we find the battle on the home
court for this week. Clemson, com­ing
down from the hills of Carolina,
met with a team much more experi­enced
and agile than she was able to
cope with. Another set of confer­ence
victories to be added to the Con­ference
side of the ledger. And Ten­nessee
will be the opponent for this
Friday night. The Volunteers should
present the strongest line-up that the
.Varsity Five has met, but even then,
it is not expected that they will be in
the lead very long. The Vols have al­ready
met defeat this year and it is
a cinch that what others can do Au­burn
can.
During, the dances, Coach Mike will
pack his squad down to the Crescent
City for a double header with the Tu­lane
Greenies. Last year Auburn
handed this clan four straight de­feats
and Tulane has about the same
team; likewise Auburn has. So Tu­lane
will be primed for revenge. They
are always hard fighters and play till
the last whistle disregarding the
score. That will be the last road trip
until the journey up to the S. I. C.
tourney which is due to start around
the first of March. And it is ex­pected
that the team will not make
that trip alone. Quite a number of
A. P. I. supporters have made plans
for that trip. To help Auburn come
through on top. Let's all go that can
and no one will regret it. Join hands
and back the best team in Dixie, Au­burn.
College Students
Seek Education
Notwithstanding tha college attend­ance
of the present day is made more
attractive by greater liberality of in­stitutions
toward athletic activities
and coeducational society, the modern
student body, as a whole, is seriously
bent upon education, in the opinion
of Dean W. Vernon Skiles, of the
Georgia School of Technology.
"The student who enters college
merely for the purpose of having a
good time, or for the prestige of a
university degree, seldom finishes his
sophomore year," Dean Skiles declar­ed
in an interview Saturday.
"While it is more or less true that
nowadays the higher education insti-tions
of learning in America have
a greater student enrollment than in
BIRMINGHAM AUBURN ALUMNI
CHARGES DISCRIMINATION
Auburn alumni, at a meeting in
Birmingham, Wednesday evening,
adopted resolutions charging dis­crimination
to the State Board of
Education in the matter of appor­tionment
of the teacher-training
equalization fund.
"The apportionment is inconsistent
with the purposes of the appropria­tion"
the resolution stated in effect.
"The board of trustees of Auburn
was not given an opportunity to con­sider
the new plan of teacher-training
and to represent Auburn's interests."
Fears are felt that not only will
this result in injury to Auburn, but
to the unified educational program
of the state," the resolution continu­ed.
The alumni also asked that the
members of the Auburn board of
trustees exert themselves to accom­plish
a reconsideration of the state
board's action, to give Auburn and
other institutions an apportunity to
be heard.
More than 450 alumni were pres­ent.
Coach Bohler promised many
surprises during the football season
next Fall. He described the methods
he intends to use to bring out a
championship team.
past times by virtue of increased
school activities, it also is true that
the student of today, as a whole, is
just as earnest in his efforts to secure
an education as the student of the
past."
In regard to the problem of school
activities, both athletic and social, in
relation to academic work of the stu­dent,
Dr. Skiles explained that school
restrictions are imposed to regulate
the amount of such activities and that
these rules serve to keep the socially
inclined or athletic student within the
class room as required, at the same
time permitting of sufficient recrea­tion
and amusement.
As an opposite to the youth who
matriculates merely to have a good
times, Dr. Skiles pointed out the stu­dent
who devotes all his time at col­lege
to study, to the exclusion of all
forms of school activities. "I do not
think it is good for either the student
or the school," he said, "for a student
to go through college without taking
part in the general school spirit.
We always like those people who
are kind to dogs and horses.
"Athletics ought to make gentlemen
of men," Coach Bohler said. Teach­ing
players to think and giving them
initiatives are two qualities develop­ed
by athletics, he added.
"The athletic success of a college
depends upon the foundation that is
laid, and this foundation is the fresh­men.
I want every man in college to
have the opportunity to wear a foot­ball
uniform."
Coach Bohler asked the alumni to
lend their support and emphasized
the importance of student body, fac­ulty
and alumni cooperation. He was
given an enthusiastic reception .
What is being done by the board
of trustees to select a new president
for Alabama Polytechnic Institute
was told by Victor H. Hanson, pub­lisher
of The Birmingham News and
Age-Herald and a member of the
trustees' board.
"A man of national reputation and
outstanding ability will be selected,"
Mr. Hanson said.
Besides Mr. Hanson, talks were
made by Dr. B. B. Ross, state chem­ist,
located at Auburn; Dr. C. B.
Glenn, superintendent of education,
Birmingham; John Denson, former
president of the Auburn Alumni As­sociation,
and J. V. Brown. P. M.
Smith was toastmaster.
Cheer leading by Neil Johnson, for­mer
all-American cher leader, and
musical entertainment were other fea­tures
of the meeting.
MEMBERS OF A. P. I.
RECEIVE MEDALS
(Continued from Page 1.)
ester. He will be back though the
second semester.
Auburn has all of her veteran pis­tol
shots back and also some new
material and all Auburn is counting
on first place next year.
For the past six years Auburn has
won first place three times and second
place twice.
A copy of the orders that Lt. Hig­gins
read are:
General Orders Number One. The
students listed below are designated
members of the 1927 pistol team
which won second place in the na­tional
pistol competition for field ar­tillery
R. 0. T. C. unts.
Bryant, F. J., Johnson, D. P.,
Pruitt, E. F., Root, E. W., Tatum,
S. S.
The following extract from a letter
to the Professor of Military science
and tactics, from the chief of Field
artillery, Washington, D. C. is pub­lished
for the information of all cen-cerned.
"In awarding these meads, the chief
of Field artillery desires you extend
to the young men concerned his
heartiest congratulations and good
wishes. He desires also that I ex­press
to you and your officers and to
the other students who helped make
your team, his appreciation of your
combined interest and efforts in this
ecent. Alabama Polytechnic in the
aggregate, has made the best record
in this series of competitions.
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1878 1928
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ten until six o'clock
Announcement
I wish to announce that I have
purchased the
Orange & Blue
Soda Co*
We will carry a complete line
of confectionaries, sodas, drinks,
candies, cigars, etc*, as well as a
full line of druggist's sundries,
stationeries, pipes, toilet articles,
almost anything you need*
Melv Stock Coming in "Daily
$
We are going to give five per cent of
our profits to the football team to help
that Tiger growl.
"Red" Meagher
WE 1NV.ITE AND WILL APPRECIATE YOUR PATRONAGE