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T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT
VOLUME LIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1930 NUMBER 29
Clemson Engagement Will Begin
Conference Basketball Schedule
WILL SYNCOPATE FOR JUNIOR PROM
TIGER QUINTET
WILL ENGAGE
ELEVEN TEAMS
Louie James is Only Regular of
1929 Playing With Cagers
This Year
Local Kiwanians Install
Officers for '30 at First
Meeting of Year Monday
Visiting Kiwanians from Points
Throughout State Present
at Ceremonies
TEAM DISPLAYS STRENGTH
Three Southern States are Represented
on Roster of 1930
Squad
(By DICK JONES)
With Christmas and its usual lull
in the way of sports activity, a thing
of the past, and things beginning to
pick up in Auburn with the advent of
the New Year, Coach Hal Lee, of the
Auburn Tiger basketball squad is
bearing down on his boys, looking to
the opening of their season.
Auburn has already engaged in
competition, though not meeting an
opponent to be feared. Hence, their
initial Southern Conference battle
with Clemson Friday night will be
something of a test.
Coach Lee's quintet has been rolling
along with the power of the 1928
Tiger machine, will get into action
Jan. 10. Thereafter it will wade thru
a schedule of 11 conference games
before the tournament in Atlanta,
Feb. 28 and March 1 and 3.
The Tiger mentor in his first year
here is confronted with building a
team largely of substitutes and newcomers,
since there was only one
regular to return, Captain Louie
James. ,
Elmer G. Salter, sports editor of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
and who keeps up with the basketball
team nearly as much as Coach Lee,
writes the following concerning the
hardwood hustlers in the "Plains:"
Captain James Is Lumniary
"Louise Webb James, captain of
Auburn's 1930 basket ball team, and
playing his final year wearing the
Orange and Blue colors, was also
leader of his high school cage quintet
during his senior year. James
attended Lee County High School, at
Auburn, before matriculating at the
'Cornerstone.'
"While attending the local high
school, Louie also played football,
but confined his athletic achievements
to the hardwood after entering
Auburn. He is a brother of the
famous twins—Ebb and Fob—and in
addition to being one of the leading
hoopsters on the team is also quite a
talented musician."
Three States Represented
Three states are represented on
Auburn's 1930 basket ball squad.
Alabama leads with nine candidates,
Georgia with two, and Tennessee
with one. These figures are based
on the 12 players who were ordered
to cut their Yuletide season a few
days short and report for practice
early.
"Birmingham is the only city that
can claim two members of the team
as Fluitt Fulton, former Simpson
luminary, and Roy 'Frock' Pate,
former Woodlawn star, live in the
Magic City. Both are leading contenders
for forward berths on Coach
Hal Lee's initial team at the Plains.
"The members of Che squad and
their home addresses are: Captain
Louie James, Auburn; Louie Lumpkin,
Millerville; Lindley Hatfield,
Montgomery; Jack Stewart, Annis-ton;
Ralph Jordan, Selma; Jo
Anderson, Clarksville, Tenn.; Howard
Lawson, Nelson, Ga.; Odis Aldridge,
Boaz; Vernard Vines, Crossville;
Fluitt Fulton and Roy Pate, Birmingham,
and Forney Yarbrough, Atlanta."
Nicknames Uncommon On Squad
"Pet names or nicknames are
rather obsolete on the Auburn basketball
squad as only four members
possess names that were not given
to them by their parents. Howard
Lawson, guard; Roy Pate, Louie
Officers for 1930 .were installed
by the Auburn Kiwanis club Monday,
the first meeting of the year, in the
presence of visiting Kiwanians representing
the clubs at Birmingham,
Huntsville, Eutaw, Mobile and Clan-ton
and Aimes, Iowa.
The officers are Roger W. Allen,
president, succeeding J. C. Grimes;
A. H. Collins, first vice-president; J.
W. Tidmore, second vice-president; P.
O. Davis, district trustee, and.L. N.
Duncan, W. D. Salmon, J. A. Par-rish,
R. Y. Bailey, Dr. B. F. Thomas
and C. A. Basore, directors.
The Birmingham club was represented
by J. L. Liles, the Huntsville
club by J. B. Mitchell, the Mobile
club by W. C. Vail, the Clanton club
by C. E. Stapp, and the Eutaw club
by H. C. Appleton, each being a
county agent in Auburn for the extension
meeting. The Aimes club
was represented by Dr. L. H. Pammel,
professor of botany at the Iowa State
College, who spoke briefly on conservation.
He declared not only for
conservation but urged a system of
state parks for Alabama for the
growth of timber and wild life and
in order that the people of the state
may commune with nature at her
best.
Dr. Pammel is a past national president
of Phi Kappa Phi. He came
here to meet with the Auburn chapter.
J. H. Jones, Jr. Dies Of
Pneumonia On Dec. 30
Sophomore At Auburn Stricken
Suddenly At Home in Camden,
Alabama
The student body will be grieved
to learn of the untimely death of
James Heustis Jones, Jr., a sophomore
in pre-med during the greater part
of the first semester. Young Jones
died Monday, December 30, at .8:30
p. m. after a three-day illness. His
death came as a result of a severe
case of pneumonia, setting in from
a heavy cold contracted on a hunting
trip the preceding Friday.
At the time of his death Heustis
had just passed his eighteenth birthday.
His home was in Camden,
Alabama. Attending Howard College
last year, he left there this
year to pursue the preliminary course
to the study of medicine at Auburn.
During the few months that he attended
school here he proved himself
to be a promising and hard-working
student. His death came as a sudden
shock to his relatives and friends, the
fatal disease congesting his lungs
after a short two-day's illness.
Heustis was buried in Camden, his
birthplace, on Tuesday, December 31.
He is survived by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Jones and his sister,
Camilla Jones.
Dr. B. R. Showalter, director of
extension teaching for the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, was initiated
into Phi Kappa Phi at a special meeting
Saturday night which was attended
by Dr. L. H. Pammel, head of
the botany department at Iowa State
College and a past national president
of the honorary fraternity.
After the initiation, conducted by
Dr. Bradford Knapp, president of the
society, Dr. Pammel, and Prof. B. L.
Shi, Dr. Pammel addressed the members
on the aims of Phi Kappa Phi
and on the opportunities for young
men in research work.
The meeting was held in the p.resi-
Lumpkin, "and Ralph Jordan, for- dent's office and more than 30 mem-
(Continued on page 4)
Ala* Extension
Service Agents
Convene Here
Convention Begun on January
6 and Will Continue to
January 11
Schowalter Initiated
Into Phi Kappa Phi
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F o r m e r National president Is
Present At Ceremonies
For the annual mid-winter conference
from January 6 to 11, extension
workers of Alabama arrived in Auburn
Monday morning. County farm
and home demonstration agents attending
the conference joined the
supervisors and specialists early Monday
preparatory to the initial session
at 10 o'clock that morning.
Program for the conference was released
by Prof. L. N. Duncan, director.
Dr. Bradford Knapp opened a discussion
of practical and effective extension
work in agriculture and home
economics with which he has been
closely connected for a quarter of a
century.
In their annual winter conference
•at Auburn the extension workers are
given the latest information concerning
research work by Director M. J.
Funchess and members of the Experiment
Station staff. Meantime, they
exchange ideas and listen to addresses
by prominent speakers and workers
brought to Auburn from Washington,
and also from other states.
Following the address by President
Knapp in the morning J. L. Liles,
county agent of Jefferson county, led
a discussion on the cooperation of
county agents with local bodies. In
the afternoon facts about farm economics
were presented by J. D. Pope
and F. W. Gist. At the evening session
Dr. Julian Pennington, of Birmingham,
spoke on the subject, "How
Vocational Guidance is Conducted."
Tuesday, the second day of the .conference,
was devoted largely to marketing,
the discussion being led by J.
D. Moore and J. B. Sylvest, extension
(Continued on page 4)
Auburn Chapter
Of Epsilon Sigma
Phi Is Installed
Dr. I s a a c Hill, Former Alabam-ian
is Organizer of Local
Chapter of Frat
bers were present.
Lions Club Banquet
To Be Held Tonight
Melvin Jones, Secretary-General, To
Be Principal Seapker
Melvin Jones, secretary-general of
Lions International will be the principal
speaker at the district conference
banquet of the Lions to be held
in the Baptist Church Wednesday
night at 7:30. The subject of his
talk will be "Lionism."
Dr. L. H. Pommel, ex-chairman of
Iowa. State board of conservation will
address the meeting on "A State
Park Project For Alabama." H. T.
Miller, District Governor of the Lions
will act as toastmaster for-the occasion.
Lions from Montgomery, Tallassee,
Wetumpka, Notasulga, and other
clubs are expected to be present at
the banquet.
A chapter of Epsilon Sigma Phi,
national extension fraternity, was organized
in Auburn Monday night, January
6. The organization was effected
at a meeting in Broun Hall, with
Dr. Isaac Hill directing. Dr. Hill,
now national director of 4-H Club
work, is a native Alabamian, having
once been state superintendent of education
in Alabama. It is of peculiar
interest to note that Dr. Hill's father
was the first treasurer of Auburn.
After explaining briefly the procedure
to be followed Dr. Hill called
for election of temporary trfficers.
Eric Alsobrook was selected temporary
president and P. O. Davis, temporary
secretary. The president then
appointed a constitution committee
composed of J. T. Belue, Sam Day,
and Mrs. Mamie C. Thorington.
Following this the creed of the organization
was read and the oath administered
to all at the same time,
this being done by Dr. Hill.
This being the initial meeting, they
decided to adjourn with the understanding
that another meeting would
be held during the week, after Dr.
Knapp's return to Auburn.
Those who became charter members
of the organization are R. G. Arnold,
May I. Cureton, L. N. Duncan, P. O.
Davis, Elizabeth Forney, Sallye Hamilton,
J. T. High, Helen Johnston, Hel-
(Continued on page 4)
Improvements
Cotton Growth
Key Of Speech
Knapp Presents Logical Plan
for I n c r e a s e in Production
of Staple Product
Al Katz And His Kittens Booked
For Prom By Social Committee
Mobile Club of Auburn
Hosts to Xmas Revelers
At Annual Gulf City Ball
Affair is Widely Acclaimed by
Mobile as Most Brilliant of
Yuletide Season
Birthday of League Of
Nations to Be Observed
Plans for improving cotton production
in Alabama and combining
with it dairy cows and poultry on a
more extensive scale were unfolded
by Dr. Bradford Knapp, to the extension
workers of the State at the
initial session of their annual midwinter
meeting here Monday.
Improvement of staple and cultural
methods were named by. President
Knapp as major needs. He
said that the staple of Alabama cotton
has deteriorated until much of
it is now shorter than mill requirements
with a result that a heavy
penalty is being placed upon growers.
Meantime, farmers of far-away
India have improved the quality of
their cotton until one-third of it is
good enough to compete with the
(Continued on page 4)
The second annual Christmas ball
of the Auburn Mobile Club was given
on Friday evening, December 27,
at nine o'clock in the ballroom of the
Battle House Hotel of Mobile.
The ballroom was decorated in the
school colors of orange and blue,
with modernistic designs of Nile
green. Overhead was a canopy of
the same color and a huge Christmas
bell filled with balloons of gay
colors. The lights around the side
of the ballroom shown through
shades embossed with silhouettes of
ladies in evening dresses. On the
stage was a silhouette of the Auburn
administration building with the
soft glow of moonbeams shining
down upon it.
The grand march began at nine
o'clock, following an address of welcome
to the guests by Dr. John O.
Rush, an Auburn alumnus of Mobile
and a dance by Miss Annie Laura
Davis, the sister of Charles S. Davis.
As the Crescent City orchestra began
the grand march, Miss Gertrude
Stewart, entering from the left of
the stage and Tom Gaillard from the
right, met in the center of the stage
and marcTied down the center of the
ballroom, followed by other Auburn
boys and their callouts. Miss Stewart
wore a dress of deep blue with rhine-stone
trimmings and she carried an
arm bouquet of red roses.
As the participants in the grand
march circled about to form the letter
"A," the favors, powder boxes
with "Auburn—1929" engraved upon
them, were presented to the callouts
by Annie Laura Davis.
A reserve dance for the students
and alumni of Auburn followed the
grand march. During the dance the
large Christmas bell opened and the
gayly colored balloons drifted down
into the ballroom.
Reserve dances for the students of
the University of Alabama, Spring
Hill College, and all visiting collegians
were given during the dance.
(Continued on page 4)
Schedule of Examinations for First Semester
January 17 to January 23, 1930
A. M. Examinations begin 8:30 A. M.
P. M. Examinations begin 1:30 P. M.
Special attention is called to the following regulations:
1.— A final semester examination will be given in every subject.
2.— Official examination schedule will be strictly adhered to by all
instructors. In the interest of uniformity changes from the
official schedule will be by consent of the Executive Council only.
Exercises Will Take Place In Langdon
Hall; Dr. Knapp Speaker
The tenth anniversary of the
League of Nations will be observed
at Auburn Thursday, January 9, one
day in advance of the anniversary.
The exercises will take place in
Langdon Hall with President Bradford
Knapp as the speaker. It will
be a joint meeting of the two sections
of the class in current events
taught by Dr. George Petrie. Students
taking current events will
check in as usual.
In addition to students, the public
is invited, Dr. Petrie announced.
Faculty and townspeople of Auburn
and vicinity are especially invited.
Dr. Petrie announced also that
there will be no Tuesday section in
current events this week but that
the Tuesday and Thursday classes
will meet together. Seven to eight
is the hour of the meeting.
Saturday
SCHEDULE
NOTE:—Examinations in subjects which meet only once a week
will be held at the last period scheduled for the section prior to January
17, unless the examination is officially scheduled below.
Friday, January 17, (First hour subjects 8-9)
A. M.—First hour subjects which meet daily or on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
P. M. First hour subjects which are not scheduled Friday
morning.
Saturday, January 18, (Second hour subjects 9-10)
A. M.—Second hour subjects which meet daily, or on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
P. M.—Second hour subjects which are not scheduled
morning.
Monday, January 20, (Third hour subjects 10-11)
A. M.—Third hour subjects which meet daily, or on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
p. M.—Third hour subjects not scheduled Monday morning.
Tuesday, January 21, (Fourth hour subjects 11-12)
A. M.—Fourth hour subjects which meet daily or on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
Tuesday P. M., January 21, (Sixth hour subjects 2-3
P. M.—Sixth hour subjects which meet daily or on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
Wednesday, January 22,»(Fifth hour subjects 1-2)
A. M.—Fifth hour subjects which meet daily, or on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
p. M.—Fifth hour subjects not scheduled Wednesday morning.
Thursday, January 23
A. M.—Graduation exercises in Langdon Hall.
t' ™ ' _ ? I ' " 1 ! 1 ° \ Conflicts and subjects not scheduled above.
P. M.—1:30- 5:00 (
Friday, January 24 and Saturday morning, January 25
Official Second Semester Registration.—The late fee of $5.00 required
Monday, January 27, and $1.00 additional each day for five
days thereafter class work, second semester, begins 8 a. m., January 27.
A Student Is Not Registered Until Cards Are Approved By His
Dean.— Absences from class on and after the opening day of the
second semester due to late registration on the part of first semester
students are counted.
B. L. SHI, Registrar.
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ORCHESTRA TO
COME HERE
FROM CHICAGO
Four Southern Colleges Change
Bookings from Ray Miller
to Al Katz
POPULAR BROADCASTERS
Orchestra is Renowned in Europe
As Well As in The
United States
Because of his particular adaptation
of college dance music, Al Katz,
and his Kittens will play for the Mid-
Term Dances, January 23, 24, 25, instead
of Ray Miller, as originally announced.
Al Katz, pronounced by
musical critics as the "Ziegfield of
the night clubs," comes to Auburn
straight from the Rainbo Gardens,
Chicago.
The fame attained by Katz and his
Kittens takes in such outstanding engagements
such as at the Chicago
Beach Hotel; Rainbo Gardens, Chicago,
where they broadcast over station
WOJ; Atlantic City; Paris,
France; Big Time Vaudeville Tours;
and Victor recording. Original ideas,
combined with excellent comedy and
refreshing novelty, are preserved in
this special orchestral production.
Bid cards are out, and are to be
collected Thursday, according to an
announcement by Henry Reeves,
Chairman of Social Committee. Fraternities
giving house parties are
Theta Chi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi
Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, and others
to be announced later. Announcements
as to decorations and to those
leading dances will be made in the
next issue of the Plainsman.
The remarkable hit which Katz and
his orchestra made in Chicago is attested
by the following criticism from
the Chicago Journal: "One feature
pronounced by patrons who viewed the
new production Monday night, is the
presence of a musical organization
that excels almost any other of its
kind so far seen and heard in North
Side amusement places."
The European Musical World has to
say of Katz: "This is one American
organization which has completely
captivated European dancers during
a complete continental tour two years
ago. While Katz and his Kittens were
fulfilling an engagement at the "400"
Club in Paris, France, they were selected
to play at the Exposition de
Beaux Arts, as the greatest representatives
of American Jazz Music."
The orchestra will play also for the
Georgia Tech, Alabama, and Georgia
dances, instead of Ray Miller's orchestra,
as previously announced.
Dr. Ross Reported to
Be Recovering Rapidly
Hopes To Return to Auburn Within
The Next Two Weeks
Dr. B. B. Ross, state chemist and
dean of the chemistry faculty, is
recovering rapidly at Hot Springs,
Ark., where he went for a complete
rest as a cure for a rundown physical
condition which came as a result of
extreme overwork.
Dr. and Mrs. Ross went to Hot
Springs December 19, and Mrs. Ross
writes that the chemist's health is
improving so rapidly that they expect
to return to Auburn within the
next two weeks. They are quartered
at the Majestic Hotel.
Duncan Attends
Extension Meet
Extension Activities For Year 1930,
Discussed By Leaders
Director L. N. Duncan of the Extension
Service of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute returned Saturday
from Washington, where he
was in conference for two days with
other leaders regarding farm extension
service work.
PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1930
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BUSINESS STAFF
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Attitude Of Students
Means Much Right Now
Now that the holidays are over and
school has once more begun with the home
stretch of the present semester being
traveled, it is necessary that the students
settle down for a mighty effort to make a
creditable showing and to gain as much as
possible from their work.
Two weeks vacation finds most of the
students back facing their studies in some
sort of a dazed manner; this is to be expected
as school work has, as a rule, been
far from the student's realm. Now, however,
the main object is to find oneself as
quickly. The holiday period has ended and
no effort should be made to prolong it, but
a great deal must be accomplished in a few
days for the student to be satisfied, and
for those back home to feel justified in
sacrificing luxuries to furnish a supply of
money for one to continue in attendance
here.
The Plainsman welcomes the students
back to Auburn with the hope that utilization
of the time at hand will enable a review
of some probably hazy facts that the
pre-exam cramming which is never bene-fici
will not be necessary to anyone. We
feel that a great year is ahead for the
institution both in scholarship and in
activities; we are watching it with renewed
interest as many things of major importance
are just ahead. It is our earnest desire
to see every Auburn student deeply
concerned with the welfare of this college,
and we are positive that the only way this
can come about is by a minute study of the
conditions surrounding her growth. If this
can be done, Auburn will mean more to
every man on the campus before the next
semester ends.
It is hoped that the new year finds the
students in a willing frame of mind to do
fine work, and with a feeling of loyalty to
and cooperation with the institution exceedingly
prevalent.
ball path and with a coach who can lead
them out of the eight year depression at
the athletic helm. Dr. Knapp is deserving
of praise rather than criticism for the manner
in which he has handled this situation.
State Anxious Over
Coaching Selection
During the holidays it was forcefully
and emphatically brought to the minds of
the students that the alumni and others
throughout the state were keenly interested
in the selection of a coach for Auburn.
They, along with the sporting editors in
the papers all over the Southern Conference,
have selected and discarded at least
half a dozen coaches for the institution.
In every case the appalling ignorance of
the writers has been brought to light as
was proved by the letter Dr. Knapp released
to the State Press. They have proceeded
on guess-work and at the present
time are no further than they were when
the last coach was relieved of his duties;
some have criticised the President for his
delay in selecting a new man for the open
position.
In spite of the adverse criticism that has
been directed toward him, Dr. Knapp remains
firm in his conviction that the logical
way to select a coach that can successfully
cope with the athletic situation here is by
a slow and painstaking process. As it will
take almost a miracle man to do what
Auburn alumni expect of a coach here, the
first man that comes along is not necessarily
the man for the job as has been
proved by bad selections previously.
The leader of the institution has himself
stated that he had never lost football for
three straight years. And if the alumni
and anxious friends of Auburn will bear
this in mind, we believe that their anxiety
will soon be rested and that Auburn will
find the footing much surer along the foot-
"Y" Officials Seek
Student Cooperation
Elsewhere on this page is published a
letter from the management of the local
student Y. M. C. A. organization, which
merits much attention and grave consideration.
If one have not read it already, it
is our wish that it is done before turning
away.
Little things that are distasteful and
dishonest often creep in upon us, and grow
to larger ones that are more serious affairs.
Such is a common failing with human
beings, and we have to fight hard to dislodge
and remove such circumstances.
Not one single student on our campus
wishes to be pronounced a thief. Yet the
responsibility, so long as such practices
continue, must rest somewhere. The one
and only proper thing to do is to abolish
all signs of dishonesty among our ranks.
Should such incidents as related in the
letter below be allowed to continue, it will
become a serious reflection upon the entire
student body, Student cooperation in abolishing
such is urgently requested.
Letters to the Editor
Editor, The Plainsman
Dear Sir:
We hate to admit the presence of thieves
within our own ranks; but this matter has
been pointedly brought home to us, possibly
in more ways than one. It is a
tedious and difficult matter to deal with,
but it can't be entirely ignored.
Recently we have had quite a bit of discussion
concerning thievery among college
students over the State. Of course we are
prone to place this reflection elsewhere
whenever possible; but that won't work in
every instance. This truth we reluctantly
admit, yet it is true.
Each year in registration a special fee
is assessed, part of which goes for the operation
and maintenance of Y. M. C. A. work
on the campus. One of the major functions
of the "Y" is placing suitable reading
material in newspapers and magazines before
the entire student body, which are
paid for by the students at large. And
they have been placed at the disposal of
the students, in the "Y" reading rooms,
making it possible for each student to get
some returns for money paid into this
fund.
All through the past year, and during
previous years, these magazines which are
common property of the students have been
disappearing. Immediately before Christmas
the losses became so heavy that the
"Y" management deemed it wise to make
each reader directly responsible for the
magazine he read; a system of "signing up"
was employed.
Every student can see that this plan is
disadvantageous, both to readers and to
the "Y" officers. It is a reflection on the
honest reader, and rather unsatisfactory
all the way through.
Believing that those who have previously
been so thoughtless as to take the goods
of their brothers, as well as their own, we
have decided to again place the magazines
in the open, trusting that they will be
permitted to remain there. If the plan
fails again, other arrangements will necessarily
be employed.
We hold no grudge against anyone; but
feeling the responsibility of protecting the
common property of our fellow students—
a position given us by popular vote of the
student body—we are only trying to live
up to this trust. We believe that we are
in the right.
We present this appeal in the interest of
every honor-loving student on the Auburn
campus. Our mission is to serve you, and
this we are eager to do. We trust that you
will cooperate with us in this capacity.
Fraternally yours,
The AUBURN Y. M. C. A.,
Victor Savage, General Secretary.
The Gecko
I am the Gecko who thinks it smart to
get drunk. I haven't fully recovered from
the spree I got on at Christmas, and I
really don't like to think of doing it either.
I want everybody to know that I can stand
up with the best when I have a few drinks
under my belt. Some people can't, but I
don't even know I've had any.
I always act drunker than I am; in that
way I am able to fool people and to attract
attention. I tell all the boys I am
drunk (I have to; they are too dumb to
tell any other way), and just to prove it
I blow my breath in their face. I did that
to one fellow and he let me have it on the
jaw, but the big lobo couldn't appreciate
my fun.
I have to do my drinking on the sly here
and at home, for I like to spend that fifty
per month and I most assuredly am not
ready to go to work for myself yet.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
We are all glad to see the student body
back in Auburn and hope that you have had
a happy vacation and have returned here
ready to take up the work and finish the
tasks of this semester.
* * * * *
One of the bif factors in a successful life
is discipline. The men
or women who have
reasonably disciplined
their own minds and
obtained reasonable
control over themselves
stand the best
chance of success. A
part of your training
in discipline is to
meet your engagements
promptly and energetically. You
will never succeed either in a business or
professional way unless you learn to be
prompt in meeting your engagements
whether those engagements are pleasant or
otherwise. Class cutting is largely the result
of an unfortunately undisciplined
mind;—one who fails to realize the importance
of one's engagements; one who
dodges the real engagements before him
as part of the day's program. We have
from now until examination time just about
two weeks. A lot can be done in two
weeks. For the sake of your future would
it not be a good thing to control yourselves
and try to make a good showing for the
rest of this semester?
* * * * *
I was very happy indeed to have a note
from one of the students expressing an
interest in these paragraphs and asking me
a rather specific question regarding student
activities. "What is the proper ratio between
student activities and regular college
work?"
The difficulty of answering that question
arises out of the fact that no two students
are alike and to my mind no fixed rule
can be set down as a guide which all may
follow. We will always have the extremes,
that is, the student who loses too much of
real education in college because he entirely
neglects student activities and confines
himself strictly to the class room,
laboratory and textbook. At the other
extreme is the student who devotes so
much time to student activities that the
activities become the major part of his
interest and the education the minor part.
Some students have well developed capacity
for self-control, can accomplish much
while they are at their studies and can
devote a considerable amount of time to
student activities as well without serious
injury to their scholarship. There are
other students who the moment they indulge
in student activities neglect their
work and suffer accordingly. The whole
question is tied up in the personal equation
of the individual student. The first and
foremost thing in a college education is
mental, moral- and spiritual discipline. I
think the student will be well-trained if he
has acquired the art of disciplining himself
even if he has to do it to the neglect of
student activities. On the other hand I
think equally as strongly that the student
who keeps his scholarship at a good fair
average and takes time for that training
in management, business ability, etc., which
one can acquire out of student activities,
will come out better prepared for life than
the bookworm.
Estimate your time pretty carefully.
Consider well what time it takes you to
keep up with your work in your courses
of study. If you have time for a reasonable
amount of student activities beyond
that, by all means go in for some good
student activity. Watch your grades. Do
not let them get down to the point where
you will be ashamed of them. These are
the main thoughts I have in mind and I
hope they will be helpful to my young
friend who wrote to me as well as to other
students.
You can't judge a man by his clothes,
but you can by his wife's clothes!
"Little Things"
By Tom Bigbee
Now that you are back after a pleasant
stay with homefolks, et al., no doubt you
are eager and willing to plunge into class-work
again.
The sooner we settle down, the quicker
and easier we can meet the fast approaching
mid-term exams. Too bad this pleasant
taste left in our mouths from "whoopee"
holidays must be tinted so soon with the
dread of coming finals. But it's just that
way.
Of course we are all fully stocked with
ample New Year resolutions—and certainly
one of them—the first one—is: "I will
spend more time studying this year." You
know it won't hurst you to do this, whether
a resolution was made to that effect or not.
Your scribe's one and only resolve was
to swear off swearing off! But then,
deep underneath we have definitely decided
not to argue with the other columnists of
this paper a single time the whole year
through. That may give them an open
chance at hard and heavy cracks; but let
'em come.
« AUBURN FOOTPRINTS %
Then there was the Scotch lad who killed his mother and father so that he
could go to the orphans' picnic.
* * * * * * *
She touches up her hair,
She touches up her face,
She touches up her eyebrows
Her folderols and lace.
She touches up her thumbnails,
Her fingers, one, two, three.
She touches up her dimples,
Then she touches me.
* * * * * * *
There are more hot-tempered people who become black-eyed than there are
black-eyed people who become hot-tempered.
* * * * * * *
ROMANCE
The man who got in with her, got out with her, got on with her, g|ot fed up
with her, and then got away from her. —Exchange.
* * * * * * * *
It seems that Jim Crawford had a rather trying experience up in Georgia a
few weeks ago when he was the recipient of a glass of sweet milk in a restaurant.
He may have not ordered milk, but he certainly received it.
* * * * * * *
Many weird tales have been drifting in concerning certain of the co-eds.
However, as yet none of them have been verified. We are almost afraid to begin
for fear of disclosing some startling facts.
* * * * * * *
She knew her faces—she was an undertaker's daughter. _
* * * * * * *
There were many tired dogs coming from the dance. The hunt had proved
long and tiresome.
* * * * * * *
Many of the students have been hunting the past couple of weeks, and when
they couldn't find any birds to kill, they killed a quart. They weren't able to
kill after that.
* * * * * * *
The beauty of having a corn on the bottom of your foot is that no one but
you can step on it. And discretion is sometimes used at that.
* * * * ' * * *
Doleful faces seem to be the habit right now—just another sign of
approaching exams.
* * * * * * *
There was also the tale of two taxis colliding and thirty-nine Scotchmen being
killed. That reminds us that the proof of one of the sons of Scotland once donating
a quarter for charity has ruined a lot of good Scotch jokes.
* * * * * * *
Maybe they are like a large number of others in the world. They still believe
that charity begins nearer home.
* * * * * * *
Several students have returned with their pockets lined with rabbit feet.
Seems to us that it is going to take more than that to scare the zeros away. (
* * * * * * *
He had planned to quit school after Christmas, but two weeks' work convinced
him that it wasn't the thing to do.
* * * * * * *
The worst thing that can happen to a poor student in to have a deficiency report
go home when he has spoken of his work in glowing terms himself.
* WITH OTHER COLLEGES *
LOVE AND COLLEGE
An Ohio Professor comes to the rescue
and explains why love and why go to
college:
"Love is of the higher regions. It has
little to do with sex," said Dr. William
Shimer of the department of philosophy at
Ohio State recently.
Dr. Shimer, in his lecture entitled "Is
It Adam's Rib?" traced the historical and
biological development of woman. In
earliest times woman was of prime importance
(no longer.) The social group became
larger and conflict was inevitable.
With the development of warfare physical
strength became dominant and woman's
place was eclipsed. Now, however, practically
all things are settled by arbitration.
Physical strength is occupying a lower level,
and woman is gradually coming back into
her own.
In speaking of a college education, Dr.
Shimer stated, "The main objective of a
college education is to teach the student
to be a decent parent. One should learn
to encourage a variety of personalities by
home development. The curricula of a university
are man-made; psychology of advertising
is taught instead of psychology
of matrimony; compatibility among social
groups rather than between husband and
wife." Man-made?
* * * * *
GOING TO REACH 100
A freshman at Ohio State has said that
he is going to live to be at least one
hundred years old and has given reasons
for his belief. He states that his grandfather
on his patermnal side lived to be
one hundred and five years old, and other
members of his family have lived to be
a hundred years old. Probably his parents
didn't go to college though.
• • * • •
DESCENDING
Are we neglecting our freshmen? Read
and contrast with our freshmen the following
tale of woe: A negro mammy had
a family of well-behaved boys, and one day
her mistress asked, "Sally, how did you
raise your boys so well?"
"Ah'll tell you, missus," answered Sally,
"Ah raised dem boys with a barrel stave
and Ah raise' 'em frequent."
* * * * *
NO HANDICAE
We do not wonder that even the students
in Russia revolt, 'cause even Russia's anti-kissing
campaign includes warnings printed
on the postage stamps. The postal authorities
don't want the younger generation
to play postoffice. "When the universe no
longer holds any amusement for a man,
it is time for him to die."—Prof. Albert A.
Michelson.
* * * » •
IN THE OLD DAYS .
Recently Cavalier days of the Old South
were revived at the Colorado Woman's
College when the Southern Club, composed
of girls from the Mason-Dixon line, staged
its annual Colonial banquet and novelty
style show.
Girls attired in the styles of the Gay
nineties paraded side by side with Miss
1929. Starting with bathing girl of 1900
in contrast with the tanned beach girl of
today, the style show depicted the change
in every form of feminine dress up to the
modern bride. The latest is so interesting,
don't you think?
* * * * *
HELL WEEK AND THE PADDLE
Hell week and the paddle are noticeably
on the decline at this institution but the
downward descent can be none too fast in
abolishing an institution that has nothing
constructive about it nor is in the least
uplifting, aside from what may be brought
about through the swing of an oaken board.
Fraternities as a group are seriously
considering the standardization of initiation
as to time and this is only a step
from entirely cutting out the useless
"horseplay" that has been either entirely
abolished at many schools or considerably
toned down.
The argument has been raised that the
paddle whole-heartedly applied does much
to join freshmen in'common bond. This
is true inasmuch as torture uniformly applied
to a group of men cap do nothing else
but raise the spirit of the victims—not for
the fraternity but in revolt to the custom.
Yearlings dare not complain. Their's is
to serve, listen, and do as their masters
dictate. To raise a cry is mutiny.
The first term or two of a freshman's
collegiate career is without a doubt the
most trying one he encounters throughout
his four years, and it is not made any the
less easier by his fraternity, even though
the brothers insist that the shelter of the
chapter house and the aid of the loving
brothers remove all troublesome barriers in
the yearlings search for light.
If fraternities come to adopt a helping
hand for the paddle, quiz sessions instead
of bull sessions, and substitute something
more sane and sensible than hell week for
the neophytes, then perhaps fraternities
will become something in accord with what
the name implies.—Michigan State News.
WELL, FD SAY THIS
<ZBy cAaron IBiUolvheel
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial opinions
of this paper. It is a column of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
* * * * *
HAVE JUST been to see Gold Diggers
of Broadway and thought it excellent.
The "gold and old rose"
part of Nick Lucas' song keeps running
around in my head—in just a minute I am
going to sing it, just you wait. I'd give
part of my birthright if I could do a neat
little tap dance. In fact, I'd give all of
it to be able to do two little tap dances.
After the show, into the cafe for a cup
of something hot and was introduced to
handful of instructors, and the conversation
was not about athletic coaches. It
was about salaries. What is the difference?
Then on home to do this—perhaps it were
better had I not come home.
* * * * *
THINGS that don't interest me:—Gory
tales of Chirstmas adventure . . . .
The disadvantages of raising too
much cotton . . . Picture shows about college
life . . . Whether or not Senator Heflin
is thrown out of the Democratic party . . .
Sweaters . . . Goldfish . . . Double-breasted
vests (and I have one too) . . Scandal . . .
After glancing at a few of the past
editions of the Glomerata I notice the remarkable
progress the year book has made.
And from the chatter heard recently in
the Glomerata office, the book this year
is to surpass any previous edition. We
believe that a college annual goes farther
toward creating a favorable impression of
a school than do most things.
Have just been shoving myself through
another slough of college newspaper exchanges
and feel quite depressed. The
Ring-Turn Phi from Washington and Lee
was the only bright spot in the pile. Wonder
why so many colleges publish papers that
are not readable.
* * * * *
THE JUNIOR PROM is just beyond
examinations. This set of dances
seems to be the high spot in the social
life of Auburn and is looked forward to
from the beginning of school, and talked
of until the end. The music bids fair to
be of the very best. Breakfast dates, dinner
dates and supper dates—whoops
m'dear! ! Dances in the morning, dances
in the afternoon, and still more dances in
the evening—"Hello Baby," as Coon of
Coon Sanders would say. No-breaks, lead-outs,
soft lights, the Grand March—
hooray! ! Dinner jackets, evening dresses
and automobiles. Endless babble, the girl
in the blue dress, the chaperones, headaches,
banquets and the chewing gum that
I always manage to pick up—bring 'em on.
Isin't it great to be able to just hop
over things like examinations and talk
about the dances? And I bump down to
earth again with the thought of three term
papers to prepare, a quiz tomorrow and
the embarrassing task of having to pass
Chemistry Lab my Senior year.
* * * * *
THE PERSON that I envy most is the
one who has taken advantage of his
years in college to prepare himself
for some definite occupation in life. The
student who has set himself to mastering
one certain line of study and follows it
out beyond college is, I believe, certain to
get much more from life. To find oneself
almost out of college and still trying to
decide between being a hobo, a sock salesman,
corporation president or what-not, is
the most disconcerting predicament possible
—I know.
Many school teachers, newspaper reporters,
and bank clerks are those that were
still waving in the breeze when graduation
caught up with them. Often these professions
were to serve as springboards
from which they were to be catapulted
gloriously into the work of their liking.
But the springboard turned into a mattress.
Now someone is going to say that I have
insulted all school teachers, reporters and
clerks. Dear, dear. . . .
HER NEW-YEAR POSY
When I seek the world through
For images of you,
Though apple-blossom is glad
And the lily stately-sad,
Gilliflowers kind of breath,
Rosenmary true till death;
Though the wind can stir the grass
To memories as you pass,
And the soft-singing streams
Are music like your dreams;
Though constant stars embrace
The quiet of your face,
Your smile lights up sunrise,
And evening's in your eyes—
Each so shadows its part,
All cannot show your heart;
And weighing the beauty of earth
I see it so little worth,
When reckoned beside you,
That I hold heaven for true
—But all my heaven is you.
—William Kerr.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Applications Being
Made Now For Coffin
Fellowships For 1930
The Charles A. Coffin Foundation,
established some years ago by the
General Electric Company, has announced
that applications are now
being made for the Charles A. Coffin
Fellowships for 1930-31.
The terms of the Charles A.
Coffin Foundation made provision for
the award of five thousand dollars
annually for fellowships to graduates
of the universities, colleges, and technical
schools throughout the United
States, who have shown, by the
character of their work, that they
could, with advantage, undertake or
continue research work in educational
institutions either in this country
or abroad.
The fields in which these fellowships
are to be awarded are: Electricity,
Physics and Physical Chemistry.
The committee, composed of Mr.
Gano Dunn, representing the National
Academy of Sciences, Mr. R. I.
Rees, representing the Society for
Promotion of Engineering Education,
and Mr. Harold B. Smith, representing
the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers, desires to make
the awards to men who, without financial
assistance, would be unable
to devote themselves to research
work. The fellowships will carry a
minimum allowance of five hundred
dollars. This allowance may be increased
to meet the special needs of
applicants to whom the committee decides
to award the Fellowships.
Candidates for the Charles A.
Coffin Fellowships should file applications
on forms provided for that
purpose, and obtainable from the
Secretary. Applications will be welcomed
from seniors desiring to do
research work as a part of the requirements
for an advanced degree
as well as graduates of universities,
colleges, and technical schools, but
any award to a senior will be conditioned
upon his graduation.
University Of Iowa
Dropped From Big Ten
Chicago 111.—(IP)—Jan. 1, 1930,
found the Big Ten no longer, but the
Big Nine. That date will mark the
beginning of the exile of the University
of Iowa from the Western
Conference for alleged failure to sufficiently
conceal its methods of hiring
athletes.
The decision of the Big Ten officials
come as a surprise since the
Carnegie report recently accused all
but two of the Western Conference
Universities of doing the same thing
they wished to oust Iowa for.
Iowa, however, not to be dropped
so easily, has begun- a series of counter
charges which may or may not
stir up a real sensation in the
American football realm. It is not
likely, however, that Iowa will again
ask reinstatement in the near future.
CRICKETS DECLARED PESTS
BY BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY
Washington—(IP)—T h e much-sung
cricket, classical music maker
of the traditional hearth, has been
pronounced a pest by the United
States Bureau of Entomology. When
hungry the insects eat clothes and
book-bindings and other articles, the
specialists have found. The Bureau
calls their music "noisy chirping."
The committee requests that all
applications first be sent to the dean
of the educational institution at
which the applicant is, or has been,
in attendance within the year. The
committee desires that the dean or
other college executive in turn file
all the applications received by him
at the same time, together with a
statement naming the two men applying
who in his opinion or the
opinion of the faculty are best qualified
to receive the award.
Applications must be filed with the
committee by March 1, 1930, and
should be addressed to Secretary,
Charles A. Coffin Foundation, Schenectady,
N. Y.
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Books of Interest
'Joseph and His Brethern" is Tale of the Simple Life
of a Family of English Farmers
JOSEPH AND HIS BRETHERN
H. W. Freeman
Reviewed by K. M. McMillan, '33
HENRY HOLT & CO., Publishers
H. W. Freeman's "Joseph and His
Brethern" is a tale of the simple life
of a family of English farmers.
The story is unique in its simplicity.
Although there are two sudden
deaths, there is no catastrophe. There
are four love affairs, of which number
only one is successful.
There is a remarkable attachment
by the five sons of Benjamin Geaiter
for Crakenhill, the farm which he
and they have raised from desolate
fields by years of hard labor. Two
of the boys attempt to run away to
Canada, but turn back, not being able
to bear the thought of leaving the
farm; one enlists as a soldier, and
another joins a circus, but both return.
Harry, the youngest by Benja-
Electric Eel Knocks
Man Unconscious
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THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES
Toronto, Ont.—(IP)—Fired with
ambition after electrocuting his mate
in a furious battle in the Walker
House Aquarium tank here, H. V.
(High Voltage) Gymnotus Electricus,
more commonly known as the electric
eel, tried to kill a man, but succeeded
only in knocking him out for half
an hour.
E. S. Smith was helping J. M.
Palmer, who. is in charge of the ac-,
quarium, lift the eel from a traveling
can in which he had been taken
to the Royal Winter Fair for exhibit,
but the eel tuned up his batteries for.
further destruction and turned on
Smith.
Months of cramped captivity far
from his South American muddy
rivers had not improved the temper
of Gymnotus Electricus, and in a
swirling struggle he slew Mrs.
Electricus as scores gazed on in horror
and amazement.
University biologists dissected her
the next day and confirmed previous
reports that four-fifths of
Gymnotus Electricus is nothing less
than four electrical batteries, two,
large and two smaller ones, composed
Tof millions of electrical cells in
series. In each cell is a plate connected
on the brain of the fish by
nerve fibres.
Since it is the brain that controls
this electrical system and all electrical
power vanishes at death, Dr. E. H.
Craigie, of the University of Toronto,
internationally known for his studies
of the brains of— birds, intends to
make a detailed study later on the
brain of the electric eel.
"Although we have so far measured
only fifteen volts from one of these
eels, we are certain they are far
more powerful," said Dr. Harkness.
"We know that they are capable of
knocking over a horse."
min's first wife, falls in love with
the postmaster's daughter, but gives
her up in preference to leaving
Crakenhill.
The life of Benjamin Geaiter and
his sons is one of seclusion and obscurity.
They never attend church,
rarely go to town, and in a sense are
entirely independent of the rest of
the world.
When Benjamin's first wife dies he
employs a middle-aged housekeeper,
who, after several years, follows Mrs.
Geaiter to her reward. Upon her
death, Benjamin employs Nancy, a
young girl, to do his housekeeping.
He eventually marries her, and one
son is born. In his old age
Benjamin despises his sons, and
leaves the farm to Nancy. Nancy
marries a worthless young reprobate
and turns Benjamin's sons off the
farm. When they leave, the farm
deteriorates, and Nancy loses it. She
and her husband sail for Canada, and
by degrees, the Geaiter boys buy the
place from Nancy's creditors. The
story ends with the restoration of
the farm and the marriage of
Joseph, their half brother.
Better Cooks Make
Happier Home Life
"Better Cooks M a k e Happier
Homes," is the new slogan of Eta
Beta Pi, honorary home economics
society at the Colorado Woman's
College.
"I'll wager that too frequent use
of the can opener is the real cause of
half the divorce cases in our courts,"
declared Miss Margaret Crawford,
new president of the club.
A series of cooking exhibitions
have been planned as the first step
to revive the almost lost culinary
art. Following that Eta Beta Pi will
sponsor model dinners and formal
teas so that every girl who desires
may have the chance to act as the
perfect hostess.
"A college diploma does not mean
very much if a girl is not prepared
to preside over her home," was the
comment of Miss Lucille Pratt of
Paoli, Colorado, newly elected vice-president
of the group.
Party Reports Many
Adventures In Africa
Comic Strips Hold
Prestige Over News
TESTS BEING MADE FOR
INFLUENZA PREVENTATIVE
Chicago—(IP)—The other d ay
Miss Ruth A. McKinney, one of the
workers in the University of Chicago
laboratory of Dr. Isadore S. Falk,
complained of feeling ill. She was
taken to the hospital, after a bit of
her blood had been taken in a test
tube.
Later she was found to have influenza.
Germ from the culture
taken from her arm was sprayed into
the throats of monkeys, and they
developed the "flu."
Thus the work of over a year was
climaxed in what is believed to be
the discovery of the deadly influenza
germ.
Falk hopes that his experiments
may result in the origin of a vaccine
which, when sprayed into the throat,
will prevent influenza.
ONLY ONE COLORED CADET
ENROLLED AT WEST POINT
New York—(IP)—That the honor
of being the only colored cadet at
West Point weighs rather heavily on
the shoulders of Alanzo Parham, of
Chicago, is indicated in information
concerning the young Negro's life
at the U. S. Military Academy by an
officer at the academy.
The Negro, although treated politely
and equally by the other cadets,
is left absolutely alone, the officer
said, and often shows signs of breaking
under the loneliness of the ordeal.
Parham was appointed to the
academy by Oscar de Priest, only
Negro representative in Congress.
Portland, Ore.—(IP)—The doings
of comic strip characters apparently
are of more interest to the average
student at Reed College here than the
affairs of the nation state or city,
it was revealed here recently in a
survey made.
Of the 204 students who expressed
their opinions on the matter, 56 preferred
reading comic strips first and
47 others would rather take a glance
at the front page and then turn to
the comic section.
The average number of papers
read by the students daily was two,
although one student read four pages.
The average time spent by the students
reading_ newspapers was estimated
at 35.5 minutes daily.
Washington—(IP)—For t h r ee
years home was a corrugated iron
house on top of a sun-blistered, solitary
mountain in arid country for
W. A. Hoover, Mrs. Hoover, their
four-year-old daughter and Fred A.
Grealy, a fellow scientist, who have
just returned to Washington from
Southwest Africa.
Killing a charging leopard with a
.22-caliber rifle, says Hoover, was
the most exciting adventure of their
lonely post. The Ringhals cobra incident
was a close second. The cobra
spit poison in Hoover's face.
Hoover was field leader of the
National Geographic Society expedition
in co-operation with the Smithsonian
Institution to establish a solar
radiation observatory o n top of
Mount Brukkaros, a dead volcano of
Southwest Africa.
Betty, Mr. and Mrs. Hoover's
daughter, was one and one half years
old when they went out to establish
the observatory. Now she is four.
A flock of chickens and a cow were
her only playmates for three years.
The work of the expedition was to
set up an observatory which would
make reports similar to those made
by Smithsonian Institution solar observatories
in Chile and at Table
Mountain, Calif. The three observatories
on three continents are reporting
daily variations in heat of
the sun that reaches the earth. Every
activity on the face of the earth is
dependent on the sun's radiation, the
vibration of which is the subject of
this study.
Wilkinson Speaks
To Literary Society
On Motion Pictures
FRESHMEN SHOW MORE
INTELLIGENCE EACH YEAR
New York—(IP)—Argument may
continue as to the quality of the finished
product turned out by American
colleges and universities, but Columbia
University says that each year's
crop of freshmen is more intelligent
than the last.
Columbia claims the brightest
freshman class in the country this
year. Results of the Thorndike intelligence
test given the upper
quarter of the 1933 class, rate the
participants at 91.5 as against an
average of 85 in other first class
colleges.
Assistant Dean Eccles said:
"The quality of the average applicant
has increased considerably. We
are drawing a greater number of boys
who distinguish themselves in scholarship
and leadership before coming to
Columbia."
NINE STUDENTS ARE CHARGED
WITH DISORDERLY CONDUCT
COLLEGIATE CARS CAUSE
OF NUMEROUS ACCIDENTS
Washington—(IP)—A s u r v ey
made by the American Motorists'
Association has led to the conclusion
that half of all the accidents which
take place on Saturday afternoons
when big football games are scheduled
are due to the "collegiate flivver."
Saturday football traffic, the
survey revealedj as a rule runs speedily
and orderly, but what delays are
caused usually are the result of antiquated
machines with neglected
motors, defective brakes or broken
steering apparatus. The college boy
with his over-loaded, dilapidated
wreck of a car is the principal offender,
the report concluded.
DECISION AGAINST WOMEN
STUDENTS IS CONTESTED
Gettysburg, Pa.— (IP)—A recent
ruling of the board of trustees of
Gettysburg College barring the entrance
of new girl students, has
aroused the Gettysburg chapter of
the Women's League of Gettysburg
college to take the lead in a contest
of the decision.
It was intimated the chapter might
aid in financing a new dormitory for
women if co-eds were permitted to
enter the institution in* the future.
Ann Arbor, Mich.—(IP)—Charges
of disorderly conduct placed against
nine students of the University of
Michigan who were arrested in a raid
on an alleged liquor vendor's here,
have been withdrawn, and the undergraduates
are expected to be called
as state's witnesses against William
Morgan, operator of the place.
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Lupton A. Wilkinson, secretary to
Will Hays, president of the Motion
Pictures Producers and Distributors
of America, defending the collegiate
movie before the Leazar Literary Society
of North Carolina State College,
pointed out that motion pictures
cater to the public and necessarily
have to be exaggerated. Leazar Society
recently tabulated and sent Mr.
Hays, as well as newspapers throughout
the country, a list of eight alleged
defects in motion pictures dealing
with college life.
"College pictures are made by college
folks and most college pictures
are made on the campus and acted
by students of Southern California,
Mr. Wilkinson said in answer to the
claim of the society that college pictures
should be made by college men.
Mr. Wilkinson read the titles of many
of the last "movies" dealing with college
life, and in nearly every case
he cited that the directors, writers,
and actors were college men and women,
most of them graduates.
Tracing the changes in the types
of plots used by the movies in the
past 33 years, the age of the motion
picture industry, Mr. Wilkinson predicted
that inside a year the college
picture likely would be a thing of
the past, The public is fickle in its
demands, and it is the public that
governs the plots, lje continued.
In answer to specfic criticism of
"The Wild Party," by Edwin H.
Paget, associate professor at North
Carolina State College, Mr. Wilkinson
showed that the picture was directed
and adopted by college graduates.
Dorothy Arzner, director of the
picture, was a former student of the
University of Southern California,
while the dialogue and adaptions were
the work of Lloyd Shelden, with A.
M. and A. B. degrees from Harvard.
"Give us specific criticism of specific
pictures and all will be attended
to," Mr. Wilkinson said, when he
found the members of the society
unable to give definite faults at the
meeting. He also told the students
that constructive criticism would do
much more to effect a change in the
movies than would destructive.
"When you see a good picture, one
that you like, praise it," admonished
the movie man, and that will do much
to get public interest in that type of
picture.
The student critics were advised to
get in connection with the college
men in Hollywood and plead their
case direct to them. More can be accomplished
by this method than in
any other way, he continued.
When asked whether it was unethical
for a person to give a letter
to the press before giving the addressee
time to receive it, Mr. Wilkinson
refused to make a direct statement,
but said that the practice was
fast becoming obsolete. "President
Hoover," he continued, "will not
answer a letter that appears in the
press before he receives it, and this
is the policy of all other big men,
which includes Mr. Hays."
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1930
MOBILE CLUB OF AUBURN
HOSTS TO XMAS REVELERS
ANNUAL GULF CITY BALL
(Continued from page 1)
The chaperones for the occasion
were: Dr. and Mrs. John 0. Rush,
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Turner, and
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Adams.
The Auburn Mobile Club is an active
organization on the campus,
holding meetings and giving entertainments
throughout the year. It
was organized for the purpose of
promoting a friendly feeling among
the Auburn students from Mobile
and to boost Auburn in Mobile.
The officers of the club are:
Kenneth Giddens, president; Eugene
Lavallet, vice president; and Thomas
P. Brown, secretary-treasurer.
The committee in charge of the
decorations for the dance were:
Eugene Gray, chairman; Kenneth
Giddens and Elliot Williams.
The Auburn students and their
call-outs were: Tom Galllard and
Miss Gertrude Stewart; C. S. Davis
and Miss Virginia McLeod; Claude
Currey and Miss Velma Lassiter; J.
D. Atkins and Miss Lillian Leigh;
Kenneth Giddens and Miss Louise
Holliflgsworth; Albert Dodge and
Miss Eva Thurber; Frank England
and Miss Lida Goodloe; Eugene Gray
and Miss Adeline Rush; Howard
Pringle and Miss Elizabeth Lutz;
Virginius Taylor and Miss Laura
Jackson; Freeman Barnes and Miss
Eugenia Wilson; Norman Mclnnis
and Miss Doris Pierre; Tom Brown
and Miss Elaine Brown; James Glen-non
and Miss Mary Little; Shannon
Hunter and Miss Marion Ross; Robert
Miller and Miss Helen McCary;
Birkley Bush and Miss Betty Maury;
Jim Feore and Miss Edith Johnston;
Gerald Laubenthal and Miss Bebe
Barnes; Powell Williams and Miss
Amalie Koehler; Eugene Lavallet
and Miss Allie Heiter; Elliot Williams
and" Miss Ruthie Wolfe; Neil Suffich
ALLEY CAT IS DECLARED
SMARTEST OF ALL CATS
New York—(IP)—Professor C. J.
Warden, of Columbia University, has
declared that the alley cat is the
smartest of all cats, just because he
or she develops a high degree of intelligence
in the battle for existence.
Professor Warden has announced
plans for a new laboratory at the
university which will be devoted to
the study of cat, dog, rat, bird,
monkey and raccoon psychology.
Tests which already have been
made, the professor said, have shown
the prowling, homeless feline is considerably
more intelligent than the
household pet.
MATHEMATICAL WIZARDS
Strange activities in the Florida
State College for Women:
Five students in the department of
of physics can quote their horse power
to their decimal degree, as the result
of measurements, which proves each
one to be equal to about half a horse.
This experiment was performed on
the stairway in the Administration
building. One girl raced from the
first to the third floor, another stood
on the first landing and held a stop
watch to time her, while a third dangled
a tape measure from the landing
on the top floor, to gauge the vertical
height.
ALA. EXTENSION SERVICE
AGENTS CONVENE HERE
and Miss Dot Pettus; Alex Burton
and Miss Essamina Weinacker; James
Bacchus and Miss Marietta Starke;
J. R. Quinlivan and Miss. Marie De-lahanty;
Thorne Winter and Miss
Mary Terrill; John Wilson and Miss
Annie McMillan; Kenneth Engwall
and Miss Mary Boiling Mickle; Howard
Ellis and Miss Annie Katherine
Provost; Allen Troup and Miss
Lucile McCoy; Elmer Green and
Miss Cherry McBroom, and Ernest
Molpus and Miss Douglas Elizabeth
Morris; Red Harvey and Miss Sumner
Adams.
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Many Items At Cost Price
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(Continued from page 1)
marketing specialists. Mrs. Diana B.
Williams of Etowah County, and Mrs.
Mamie C. Thorington of Montgomery
County, discussed curb marketing;
Mrs. J. E. S. Rudd of Clay County,
the development of handicraft products
as an income for farm women;
G. W. Ray of Dale County, cooperative
marketing of hogs; and C. L. Hol-lingsworth
of Clarke County, poultry
marketing. Turning from marketing,
the extension workers entered into a
forestry program led by Otto Brown,
extension forester, and Colonel Page
S. Bunker, state forester, of Montgomery.
In the afternoon Dean M.
J. Funchess and J. C. Lowery discussed
crops and fertilizers.
The session Wednesday will open
with a discussion of farm organization
led by Director Duncan. County
Agent G. B. Phillips, of Lauderdale,
and others will participate. The subject
of agricultural engineering will
be covered by Prof. M. L. Nichols,
head of the department of agricultural
engineering, and J. B. Wilson and W.
H. Gregory, extension agricultural engineers,
followed by County Agent
Henry Witherington, of Houston
County, who will discuss cultivator
schools.
The fruit and garden program will
be presented by Dr. C. L- Isbell and
Julian Brown of the department of
horticulture, followed by S. F. Brewster,
who will lead a discussion on landscape
gardening. At the evening session
on Wednesday President Knapp
will discuss the organization of an extension
fraternity. President Knapp
will also start the session Thursday
with a discussion o f extension
methods. Following him Director
Funchess will tell the extension workers
of Alabama's program for research
in agriculture and home economics.
Cooperation with the newspapers
will be presented by P. O.
Davis and. Walter L. Randolph.
The program for 4-H club work will
be presented by T. A. Sims, state club
leader, and L. L. Self of Etowah
County, following which Prof. J. M.
Robinson and W. A. Ruffin will discuss
insect control.
Professors J. C. Grimes and A. D.
Burke, F. W. Burns, and Dr. R. S.
Sugg will present the livestock program
Thursday afternoon. A discussion
of dairying in Marion County will
be presented by W. R. Turnipseed,
county agent. The poultry program
will be presented by Prof. G. A. Tro-
CLEMSON ENGAGEMENT
WILL BEGIN CONFERENCE
BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
(Continued from page 1)
wards, are the quartet that are called
by their pet titles on some occasions.
"Because he is a capable southpaw,
Jordan is also called 'Lefty' in addition
to 'Suge.' Lawson's newest title
is 'Red' because he possesses flaming
red locks, and Pate is called 'Frock'
by his many friends. Lumpkin gets
his newest title of 'Little Papa' from
Father Lumpkin, former Georgia
Tech star."
INJURED HIGH SCHOOL
STAR RECEIVES ATTENTION
Bridgeport, Conn.— (IP)—T h e
football world has been showering its
kindness on Robert (Bussy) Stevens,
Stratford high school football player,
who lost a leg as a result of,in-juries
received in practice early in
the season. Bussy has received a
new football from Knute Rockne,
coach of the Notre Dame champions,
and thirty-six members of the squad.
While at the hospital, Stevens has
received numerous letters from
prominent football players, including
one Froc Cagle, of West Point. He
was recently visited by Albie Booth,
of Yale.
AUBURN CHAPTER EPSILON
SIGMA PHI IS INSTALLED
BUREAU ASKED TO MAKE
CENSUS OF ILLITERATES
Washington—(IP)—T h e Census
Bureau has been asked by the advisory
committee on national illiteracy
to make a complete record of
illiterates in the United States in the
1930 census.
It was also asked by the committee
to secure the names and addresses
of everyone in the United States who
cannot read or write.
(Continued from page 1)
en Kennedy, Nell Pickens, and T. A.
Sims, Auburn; E. L. Deal, Montgomery;
H. H. Best, Deer Park; W. C.
Vail, Spring Hill; J. W. Sartain, Jasper;
W. T. Coker, Sylacauga; Mrs.
Zelma G. Jackson, LaFayette; Mrs.
J. E. S. Rudd, Ashland; John F. Yar-brough,
Tuscumbia; W. T. Cheney,
Andalusia; P. R. Pettis, Evergreen; S.
M. Day, Alexander City; A. G. Har-rell,
Butler; Mrs. Lida Jones, Tus-kegee;
Cohen E. Stapp, Clantbn; W.
D. Barton, 5 Frederick St., Montgomery;
L. A. Edmonson, Montgomery;
Mrs. Mary W. Segers, Brewton; Ola
Overby, Carrollton; Mrs. Mamie C.
Thorington, Montgomery; F. M.
White, Ashland; J. D. Wood, Russell-ville;
Mrs. Annette Smyth Breeden,
Selma; H. C. Heath, LaFayette; W.
R. Turnipseed, Hamilton; J. A. McLeod,
Union Springs; Harriet E.
Plowden, Talladega; Mrs. Mabel L.
Feagin, Union Springs; Mrs. Victoria
C. Lingo, Clayton; Eric Alsobrook,
Guntersville; Mrs. Diana B. Williams,
Gadsden; J. E. Bonner, Livingston;
F. A. Rew, Carrollton; R. C. Lett, Tuscaloosa;
J. C. Ford, Fayette; M. H.
Pearson, Montgomery; J. B. Mitchell,
Huntsville; J. T. Belue, Athens.
IMPROVEMENT OF COTTON
GROWTH KEY OF SPEECH
DEAF HALFBACK PLAYS
ON HIGH SCHOOL TEAM
lope, H. R. Bailey, and E. E. Hale,
county agent of Marengo County.
Leaders in fields of work closely
related to extension work will be heard
Friday. The list includes Dr. J. B.
Hobdy, director of vocational education;
S. P. Storrs, commissioner of
agriculture; Dr. Stuart Graves, head
of the State Department of Health;
Mrs. A. M. Tunstall, who is in charge
of child welfare work; and I. T. Quinn,
commissioner of conservation.
Saturday, the last day of the meeting,
will be given to unfinished business
and general discussion on the program
of work led by Dr. Knapp.
Shelby, O.—(IP)—A young football
giant, who never hears a spoken
word, plays halfback on the Shelby
high school team.
Edwin Boutwell, who measures six
feet four inches and weighs 200
pounds, apparently listens as intently
as any of the other players when
'rials are called'. In reality he
oesn't hear a word, but he understands
everything by reading the
quarterback's lips.
Boutwell is a junior in high school,
attending regular classes. He can
speak and carry on a conversation so
so well that people are surprised when
learning of his handicap.
POLISH TRACK STAR TO
* APPEAR IN BROOKLYN MEET
Brooklyn, N. Y— (IP)— Stanislaw
Pietkiewicz, Polish conqueror of
Paavo Nurmi, and Eino Purje, of
Finland, will compete in the 16th
annual track and field meet of
Brooklyn College, Jan. 18. Other
star athletes have been invited to
participate in the events.
(Continued from page 1)
American crop, he said. To improve
the situation the speaker said that
the Experiment Station will work
with farmers and spinners to the
end that the quality of Alabama cotton
may be raised to meet mill requirements.
In this connection the new textile
school at Auburn will play an important
part, he declared. With adequate
equipment the textile school
will test staples and also cotton textile
materials. Information gained
in this way will be valuable to farmers
as well as to spinners.
As evidence of Auburn's interest
in dairying, poultry, and other livestock,
he referred to the animal husbandry
and dairy building now under
construction on the agricultural
division of the campus. He declared
that Alabama as a state needs to increase
her livestock, especially dairying
and poultry which make an excellent
combination with cotton.
Following Dr. Knapp, Dr. Isaac W.
Hill, leader in 4-H club work in the
United States Department of Agriculture
at Washington, spoke on
"Program Making." He insisted
that 4-H club work among boys and
girls be a major part of the work
of county farm and home demonstration
agents. This work has been
done in Alabama since 1909 but enlargement
of the work was urged by
Dr. Hill, an Alabamian and former
State superintendent of education in
his native state.
Director L. N. Duncan presided
during the sessions Monday and will
be in charge throughout the week.
Most sessions will be in the nature of
round-table discussions with one of
the workers serving as a leader.
FEWER STUDENTS ENTERING
COLLEGES IS BEING DENIED
Philadelphia—(IP)—C o n tradict-ing,
apparently, the statements of
Columbia professors that fewer students
are matriculating at American
colleges, Dean Raymond Walters, of
Swarthmore College, writing in the
current issue of School and Society,
states that more colleges and universities
have had gains in attendance
and fewer have had losses this
year than last year.
The Swarthmore Dean draws his
conclusions from the returns of 226
institutions which are on the approved
list of the Association of American
Universities.
The total of full-time enrollments
in the 226 approved institutions, he
said, is 442,493, or an increase of.
1V2 per cent over last year. The
grand total enrollment in these institutions,
he said, including summer
scrfool and part time students, is
697,584, or an increase of 2 per cent.
CO-EDS AT OHIO WESLEYAN
ORDERED TO STOP SMOKING
Delaware, O.— (IP)—Co-eds at
Ohio Wesleyan University have been
ordered by the dean of women to quit
smoking cigarettes in public eating
houses and other places where the
public may gaze on them.
During the opening session J. L. Liles,
county agent of Jefferson County,
Birmingham, led a discussion on cooperation
between extension workers
and boards of revenue, boards of
education, and other cooperative
bodies.
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