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JUNIOR PROM
JAN. 26-27-28 THE PLAINSMAN
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
JUNIOR PROM
JAN. 26-27-28
•VOLUME LI AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1928 NUMBER 15
STUDENTS LOOKING FORWARD TO ANNUAL JUNIOR PROM
COUNCIL HOLDS
BANQUET HERE
CLOSE SEASON
Friendship Group Meets at
Auburn Inn Dec. 16.
MAGILL MAKES ADDRESS
Members of Council Report on
Work Accomplished
The Friendship Council of the Y.
M. C. A. at Auburn closed one of its
most successful season's work when
the members of the council met at a
banquet at the Auburn Inn on Dec­ember
the 16 at 7 P. M., Mr. O. R.
Magill, Southern Regional Y. M. C.
A. secretary, giving the principal ad­dress.
The banquet was attended by
the largest crowd that has ever rep­resented
the council at an affair of
this nature. The Friendship Council
banquet is a bi-annual event, coming
at the close of the discussion group
contest for each semester.
The banquet was presided over by
the Council Colonel Mr. T. H.
Pearce. The work of the Friendship
Council for the semester was sum­marized
in reports from chairmen of
the following committees: Athletic
Activities, W. T. Edwards; Deputa­tions,
J. R. Taylor; Discussion
Groups, T. R. Home; Personal Ser­vice,
R. J. Pirkle; Poster, H. M. Cot­tier;
Religious Meetings, H. R. Kin-zer;
Reporter, T. H. LeCroy; Social
Activities, C. T. Thompson; and a
report was given by George Stafford
on "the lieutenant's part in the
Friendship Council." -
The address by Mr. Magill was
forceful and meaningful in giving
the meaning of student religious
movements, and in showing why stu­dents
should have a keen insight and
a broad outlook in order to get the
proper meaning from college life.
Mr. Magill stated that of the things
that one obtained while in college, the
chief product should be a prophetic
personality which would enable one
to get the proper insight and outlook
on life's relationships.
IOWA STARTS NEW
SCHOOL RELIGION
Course* Absolutely Non-Secretarian
I* New Plan
A Jew, a Catholic and a Protestant
direct the school of religion at the
University of Iowa, started at this
school term.
With a line of absolute non-esc-tarianism
drawn from its inception,
the school's only object is to teach
the common good of religion. The
undertaking maintained by funds of
the denominations is considered un­usual
in a tax-supported university.
The venture into new territory in
religious instruction was undertaken
with the cognizance of the American
Association of Religion in State Uni­versities
and Colleges and was made
possible by an initial gift of $35,000
from John D. Rockfeller, Jr.
Regular university credit is given
toward a degree in the college of lib'
eral arts of which the school of reli­gion
is a unit.
Nine courses are offered, including
study of Old Testament history, of
the prophets, life and teaching of
Jesus, Hebrew language, Christian
ethics, comparative religion and the
growth of Christian religion.
BIOLOGY HONOR
FRAT ESTABLISHED
Southern Gets Chapter of Beta Beta
Beta
Nu Chapter, of Beta Beta Beta,
honorary national biological frater­nity,
the first to be placed in Ala­bama
was installed Monday night at
Birmingham-Southern College, ac­cording
to an announcement made by
college officials Tuesday.
National officers of the fraternity
announced at the installation cere­monies,
the election of Dr. W. 'A.
Whiting, head of the department of
biology at the college, to vice presi-
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Ross Gorman and His Orchestra of Phonograph Fame
Ross Gorman will-prove to be a big drawing card for the Auburn Mid-Term dances. Mr. Gorman who was for some time soloist in Paul White'
man's Orchestra is master of eighteen instruments. The members of this well known orchestra are entertainers as well as musicians. The or­ganization
will bring forty one instruments and a quantity of paraphernalia. This is truly an organization of melody artists who will be heard in
a modernistic setting on February 26 to 28 inclusive.
Shi is Appointed
N.E.A. Chairman
Steps have been taken to make a
closer connection between Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala­bama
and the National Education As­sociation
in the Appointment of Dr.
B. L. Shi as Committee Chairman on
N. E. A. relations. J. W. Crabtree,
Secretary of the National Associa­tion
who provides this information
for us considers that the institution
is fortunate in having as its Commit­tee
Chairman one who is not only a
constructive thinker and leader, but
one of exceptionally high standing
in the profession. The Chairman will
be informed as to the policies and
activities of the Association who will,
in turn call the attention of the fac­ulty
to important matters.
Every college and university has
been requested to appoint a repres­entative
and more than half of them
have already complied with the re­quest.
Secretary Crabtree expects
great results from this plan. He de­clares
that the college is now the
weakest link in the organized pro­fession.
While college professors
have been devoted and loyal to their
technical groups, they have not, as
a rule, been greatly interested in
problems relating to the larger fra­ternal
welfare. He gives this as one
of the reasons why colleges have been
so slow in readjusting salaries to meet
increased costs and new conditions.
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PROPERTY TAKEN
FROM YMCA ROOM
Magazines, Records and Some Other
Articles Are Missed
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There have been repeated cases
where property in the reading and
recreatin rooms at the Y. M. C. A.
has been taken. Whether this prop­erty
has been taken willfully by col­lege
students or by high school stu­dents,
or whether it was merely bor­rowed,
makes little difference. The
phonograph records, "Saxophone
Waltz" and "Dream Kisses," and the
College Humor and Poular Mechanics
magazines and binders are some of
the articles that were taken the week
before Christmas.
The cooperation of the students is
asked in preventing the further oc­curence
of things of this nature. The
Y. M. C. A. at Auburn cannot serve
those who deprive others of the bene­fits
of the "Y."
Dr* Do well Offered Position
As Head Of Mercer Univ*
Dr. Dowell who has been elected president of Mercer University at
Mercer University at Macon, Ga. notified the members of the governing
board that he will advise them of his decision regarding it within a few
days. However, Dr. Dowell is very well pleased with the offer and in all
probability will accept. His eection as head of the Georgia institution
came without solicitation, within thirty days after his resignation here at
Auburn. The governing board of Mercer University made Dr. Dowell the
offer after a thorough study of his work at Auburn and also prior to coming
to Auburn. His resignation as president of Alabama Polytechnic Institute
is effective next July 1, 1928.
Dr. Dowell is nearing his 50th
birthday. He is a native of North
Carolina and a graduate of Wake
Forest University in that state 1896.
Later, he attended the University of
Tennessee and in 1911 he completed
his work for the degree of master of
arts at Columbia University, New
York City. While he was state su­perintendent
of education the Uni­versity
of Alabama conferred upon
him the degree of doctor of laws.
Dr. Dowell is one of the foremast
educators in Alabama. ' When he
leaves Auburn next July he will have
completed thirty years of education­al
work in Alabama. For seven
years he was a teacher at Columbiana,
eight years in Birmingham, three
years he was in the state department
of education, four years he served
as state superintendent of Education;
and he is now in his eighth year as
president of Auburn.
Under his administration the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute has made
much progress. A decided increase
has been made in the faculty in spite
of the small appropriations that have
been given the school.
In his report presented to the
board of trustees on November 5 at
which time he presented his resigna­tion,
Dr. Dowell reviewed the ac­complishments
of his administration.
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Auburn Students
Return to Duties
Following the Christmas holidays
students of Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
returned to Auburn to resume
their class work at 8 o'clock Tuesday
morning, Jan. 3. As a special privi­lege
the members of the Senior class
were allowed to leave the campus for
the holidays on Dec. 17, thereby ac­cording
them four days longer vaca­tion
than the under-classmen who re­mained
until Dec. 21. •
The remaining three weeks of the
first semester will be devoted to com­pleting
the requirements in the vari­ous
ocurses and preparing for the
examinations on Jan. 20-26. Auburn
students will register on Jan. 27-28
for the second semester courses in
which classes will begin Jan. 30.
NOTICE!
Due to the repair work that is
being done to the interior of the
church, there will be no services at
the Presbyterian church on Sunday,
January 8.
It is hoped that this work will be
finished by the following Sunday and
all students' are cordially invited to
attend services at that time.
January 1, 1928.
TO THE STUDENTS OF AUBURN:—
As we begin a new calendar year let me wish ypu
one and all three hundred sixty-six days filled with
every possible blessing and success. In that spirit I
am venturing to express the hope that the resolution
and effort of every member of the college community
will be consecrated to a creed and a program in
which faithfulness, character, courtesy, cooperation,
sympathy, scholarship and good sportsmanship are
properly related and in the exemplification of which
we shall give to the Auburn Spirit a flavor and a
charm that will bless you and inspirit others.
Faithfully yours,
Spright Dowell,
President.
Anderson to Head
Auburn Lions Club
Capt. B. C. Anderson, has been
elected president of the Auburn Lions
Cfub to serve during the first six
months of 1928. The election was
announced at the annual Christmas
party and ladies' night staged by the
club. Capt. Anderson succeeds Prof.
John E. Ivey.
Other new officers are: G. A. Trol-lope,
first vice-president; G. H
Wright, second vice-president; Rev.
W. B. Lee, third vice-president; W.
H. Weidenbach, secretary; R. Y.
Bailey, tail twister; and Dr. W. S.
Sugg, new director. Weidenbach
succeeds himself. Other officers are
new.
The Christmas party was a combi­nation
of a dinner, a Christmas tree,
a dance, and games. Members of the
club, together with their families and
visitors, were present to enjoy it.
ROSS GORMAN'S ORCHESTRA
ENGAGED TO FURNISH MUSIC
PI KAPPA PHI HAS
MEETING IN B'HAM
Supreme Chapter Elects Officers;
Enjoys Social Events
"It is Birmingham's pleasure to
welcome you young men to our city
at this, your brotherhood convention,
and my pleasure to express it on be­half
of its people."
This was the substance of City
Commission President Jones' address
of welcome at the session of the su­preme
chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi,
at the opening of the four-day bi­ennial
convention at Hotel Tutwiler.
The Rev. Dr. J. E. Dillard, pastor of
the Southside Baptist Church, also
welcomed the fraternity men to the
city. George Driver, supreme archon,
of Omaha, Neb., presided. The meet­ing
was devoted principally to busi­ness.
Dr. A. Pelzer Wagener, head of
the Latin department of the Univer­sity
of Virginia, was elected supreme
archon,. The office is equivalent to
president. J. Chester Reeves, of At­lanta,
was chosen supreme treasurer;
Elmer N. Turnquist, Chicago, su­preme
secretary; Leo H. Pou, Jasper,
supreme historian; Richard L. Young,
Charlotte, N. C, supreme editor.
Cahrleston, S. C. was chosen next
convention place. College of Charles­ton
in 1928, commemorating the
twenty-fifth anniversary of the
founding of the fraternity at that
place.
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Auburn Leaders
Attend Meeting
During the holidays 18 professors
together with President Spright Dow­ell
took advantage of the cessation of
classes to attend the annual meeting
of the American Association for the
advancement of Science held in
Nashville, Dec. 25-30. Several Au­burn
professors read papers before
the various sections of this disting-
. uished gathering of eminent scientists
and professors of every scientific sub­ject
taught in the colleges and uni­versities
throughout America. The
meeting of the association in the
South this year during the holidays
afforded an unusual opportunity that
was welcomed by Auburn professors
in keeping abreast of the very latest
development, in their various fields
of study.
Though hundreds of scientists were
present there were no large general
meetings. Each particular section
holding its own session at various
places on the campuses of Nashville's
educational institutions. The aca­demic
atmosphere afforded by Van-derbilt,
Peabody, Scaritt College, and
The Southern Y. M. C. A. college pre­sented
an ideal setting for this mam­moth
conclave of American scientists.
The names of the Auburn profes­sors
who accompanied President
Dowell to Nashville for the meeting
are: B. B. Ross, dean of chemistry
and pharmacy; E. R. Miller, re­search
professor of chemistry; J. F.
Duggar, consulting agronomist; C
A. Baughman, head professor of
highway engineering; F. E. Guyton,
assistant professor of zoology and
entomology; J. N. Robinson, associate
professor of zoology and entomology;
W. A. Ruff in, entomologist; Fred Al­lison,
head professor of physics; C.
D. Killebrew, professor of mathe­matics;
M. J. Funchess, dean of agri­cultural
college and director of ex­periment
station; F. W. Parker, pro­fessor
of agronomy; W. A. Gardner,
head professor of botany; C. L. Isbell,
associate professor of botany; W.
D. Kimbrough, ssistant professor of
horticulture; R. W. Taylor, instruc­tor
in horticulture, and O. C. Medlock,
instructor in horticulture.
FRATERNITIES
PLAN PARTIES
Professors Snook and Wyatt
Design .Decorations
NIGHT DANCES FORMAL
Disciplinary Committee Takes
Place of Abolished Student
Council
An Editorial
On January tenth friends of Au­burn
will have the opportunity of a
life time to give the old college a
boost. The last legislature was more
generous with the higher institutions
as well as with the public schools than
any previous legislature. The college
income for maintenance, while not
what it should be, is better than ever
before. The great need is for build­ings
for classrooms, dormitories and
an auditorium.
The legislature has submitted for
ratification an amendment to the
constitution whereby twenty million
dollars will be available for school
buildings, one-third of which will go
to the higher institutions. Of this
amount Auburn will receive a million
and a quarter. This amount is not
adequate to the need but it will go
a long way toward relieving present
distress. The need for buildings for
the public schools is equally urgent
and each county will receive out of
the bond issue two hundred thousand
dollars.
A matter which seems not clear to
the voters generally is that the pay­ment
of the principal and interest on
twenty millions of proposed bonds
has already been provided for. No
additional taxes will therefore be
levied for the liquidation of these
bonds. The revenue producing taxes
to liquidate these bonds within a
period of twenty years have already
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It won't be long now before Au­burn,
bedecked in holiday attire, will
see the best dances, so rumor has it,
that have ever graced the campus.
The "Junior Prom" will begin on
Thursday night, January 26, and con­tinue
through Saturday night Janu­ary
28. It is felt that the dances may
be enjoyed by everone, because they
start after exams are over.
Ross Gorman's orchestra, from
Broadway, one of Gotham's most
noted orchestras, will furnish the
music. And such music! Everyone
has heard Gorman and his "Vir­ginians"
on the Victor and Columbia
records. Gorman's orchestra was one
of the mainstays of Earl Carrol's
Vanities. Ross is known as one of
the country's most versatile musi­cians,
carrying and playing eighteen
different instruments. Before or­ganizing
his present orchestra, "The
Virginians," he played for five years
in Paul Whiteman's orchestra, whose
merit is known the world over. Gor­man's
Orchestra consists of ten noted
artists. It carries 41 instruments, in­cluding
tympani.
The decorations at the dances are
to be of modern design with black
and white colors. The design will
be entirely new, and it promises to be
the best in some time. Prof. Charlief
Snook, who executed the design at]
the Opening Dances, will cooperate ;
with Professor Wyatt in making jfrie
Mid-Term decorations the besttfever.
The fraternities that :'uPJ to give
house parties during the Prom are
Sigma Nu, Theta Chi, Lambda Chi
Alpha, Sigma Phi Sigma, Kappa
Alpha and Pi Kappa Phi.
The dances-are to be formal. A
notice will be given in a succeeding
issue of "The Plainsman" telling
where one might secure a tuxedo.
The Prom is under the management
of the Student Social Committee, with
the aid of the Faculty Social Com-mitee
and Miss Dobbs, Social Direc­tor
and Dean of Women. Members
of the former are as follows: B. E.
Meadows, Chairman; H. C. Hopson,
M. S. Kestler, Merritt Burns, E. A.
Conwell, Tom Boone, Noble Crump,
and Dick Adams. Members of the
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SIGMA NU PLEDGES
GIVE XMAS PARTY
Christmas Tree is Fully Enjoyed by
Fraternity Freshmen
One of the social events of the
week preceeding the Christmas holi­days
was a Christmas tree party given
by the Sigma Nu pledges. Two
pledges from each of the other fra­ternities
on the campus were invite-to
the Christmas Tree. The living
room of the Sigma Nu house was
decorated tastefully with. holly and
other evergreen branches. A beau­tiful
cedar tree was erected in one
corner of the room, which was deco­rated
with tinsel, from which were
hung all the articles which are sup­posed
to be in Santa Claus' bag. Fred
Ledbetter and Laurence Whitten dis­pensed
the toys to the guests, an ap­propriate
verse going with each pres­ent.
Professor Forney Ingram, a
celebrated guest, was presented with
a dilapidated cigar butt as an Xmas
gift. Smokes were passed around
and an enjoyable "bull session" was
held until a late hour. Pledges from
twenty fraternities enjoyed the hos­pitality
of hte Sigma Nu freshmen.
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H. C. Hopson -
Editor-in-chief
Business Manager.
EDITORIAL STAFF
C. D. Greeatree, '28 Associate Editor
R. C. Cargile, '28 Associate Editor
•C. R. DeArman, '29 _ Associate Editor
J. B. McMillan, '29 Managing Editor
J. D. Neeley, '30 __ Ass't. Managing Editor
Ludwig A. Smith, '29 News Editor
J. W. Powers, '28 Proofreader
J. E. Taylor, '30 Proofreader
Max Kahn, '28 ! Sports Editor
Chas. Ingersoll, '29
Geo. Ashcraft, '29 -
Celeste Nesbitt, '28
J. W. Randle, '28 _
. Ass't. Sports Editor
Ass't. Sports Editor
Co-ed Editor
Exchange Editor
A. V. Blankenship, '30 Humor Editor
REPORTERS
J. W. Powers, '28; Catherine Hare, '28;
Harry Wise, '29; J. W. Mills, '30; H.
H. Milligan, '30; E. T. England, '30; Roy
N. Sellers, '31; Robert L. Hume, '31;
Thomas P. Brown, '31; R. O. Kimbro,
'31; Clyde Seale, '31; Bob McConnell, '31;
White Matthews, '31; George Duncan,
'31; Richard A. Jones, '31; Jessie C.
Adams, '31; L. W. Strauss, '31;.E. M.
Flynn, '31; W. D. Dryer, '31; J. D. Foy,
'31; John Lewis, '31.
BUSINESS STAFF
H. W. Glover, '29 Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
Geo. Williams, '28 Advertising Mgr.
Grady Moseley, '30 _ _ Ass't. Adv. Mgr.
Carlos Moon, '31 Ass't. Adv. Mgr.
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 Circulation Dept.
W. H. Smith, '31 . Circulation Dept.
The only man in town who enjoys such
disagreeable weather is the plumber.
Lost sheep are soon forgotten. Students
z.re too busy with their own affairs to think
about those who did not return.
Holidays come and go. To the student
who must meet the college requirements the
holidays go mostly.
There are no better indicators of char­acter
than the way a man treats his wife
and the jokes at which he laughs.
railroads made enough profit during
t h ^ holidays to amply repay for any damoge
or ( dm of equipment during the past foot­ball
season, at the hands of college stu-
„ ., -^-e J» the place whjerre students go
after thTb$3S*S4? CJ&* UP w i t h their
sleep and work and pay the post office box
rent.
The trouble with most college men is
that they spend too much time in classes
.thinking about that letter that they will not
get when the next train comes.
The resignaion of Mike Donahue as Coach
at L. S. U. marks the passing of a great
figure in southern football. Auburn Tigers
have battled their way to many thrilling
victories "for the love of Mike." He was
probably the best loved coach the Plainsmen
ever had. He remained here nineteen years
producing many successful teams. Our
hopes are with the retiring mentor.
In spite of the unusually inclement
weather and the fact that most of us
have spent our last dollar, the approaching
examinations are of little concern to us
now. We are more interested in catching
up with our sleep, wondering if the present
we gave the girl fulfilled our obligations
and trying to formulate some plan whereby
we can make both ends meet and come
out even for the dances.
RETROSPECTION
The time has come when we should pause
and take stock. Behind are the dead days
of the old year. Perhaps they have been
full of disappointment and mistakes but
nevertheless 1t is well for us to take a
retrospection of the fall term. The first
term examinations are near at hand and
procrastinating students will waijt until
the eleventh hour to cram their idle brains
with a multitude of facts. A careful re­view
of what has gone before should lend
a new urge in our accomplishments before
the final reckoning time; Outside attrac­tions
tend to distract our minds before the
examination period. The individual alone
knows his own weakness and can only de­termine
whether he will have stood the
crucible test successfully. If there is a
time for all things now is the time for a
studious atmosphere to prevail in prepara-ldn"
for the approaching examinations.
COLLEGES ARE BETRAYERS
That the youth of America is lured into
our universities with the bait of real edu­cation
only to be betrayed by fools who give
away degrees, is charged by Burdette Kinne,
instructor in French at Columbia univer­sity,
playwright, and a former member
of the diplomatic service, in Plain Talk
Magazine.
Mr. Kinne tells of his own betrayal at a
large western university. Through his ex­periences
since then with some 2,000 or
more youths and maidens he has become
convinced that every young person going
to college has been betrayed in like fashion.
"I have never known one of them inti­mately,"
declares the writer in Plain Talk
Magazine, "who didn't tell me the same
identical tale; that he had come up to the
university expecting 'it all to be different
from high school, much harder and more
interesting, you know, no more of this baby
stuff; that he had hoped the university
would force him to learn things or kick him
out if he didn't; that.he-had even thought,
with embarassment and in secret (being
American), that perhaps the university
would tell him something about aesthetics
and art and literature and beauty and
* * and * * * 'all those kind of things.'"
The fact that, in nine cases out of ten,
the poor lad would find that his intellectual
equipment would not permit him to hand.!!
"all those kind of things" is not the point.
The point is that the university makes no
attempt to present challenging standards of
intellectual achievement. The university
has so lowered its standards, that "the
manufacture of cotton goods," "indexing
and filing," "the science and uses of ma­nure1'
and "pork packing are now solemnly
offered as subjects for serious study. And
strange as my statement may sound this
is not the sort of thing youth hopes for
from its universities. It hopes, it knows
not how, to be educated, just as I did. It
comes expecting the university to possess
and present an ordered, dignified program
of the knowledge, history and experience
of the human race throughout the ages; and
upon arrival it is nowadays informed that
the university doesn't know any more than
the youth does, doesn't know this from
that, good from bad, worthy from worth­less,
and is told by the university to do
exactly as it pleases. It does. It takes
"pork packing," and pleases papa.
Mr. Kinne admits that the universities
cannot make silk purses out of sow ears,
"but" he says, "the alma mater everywhere
is devoting her time to making sows' ears
look like silk purses. Alma mater is prac­tically
the only one who is fooled. I ex­pected
her to be a dignified, austere grande
dame, who was wise and who would point a
steady, if somewhat withered finger toward
an inevitable goal which would be educa­tion,
and instead I found a befuddled old
female who keeps a road house, and has
so many children she doesn't know what
to dp."
"The youth of these United States," con­cludes
the writer in Plain Talk, "is being be­trayed
by fools."
•This expression of a disappointed seeker
of education is not unusual for there is a
breath of truth in what he says. It is a
recognized fact that there are many enter­ing
college halls who are not prepared.
That our colleges and universities are be­coming
overcrowded is well known. One
of the most time wasting traps are the nu­merous
courses given that are impractical.
This fact is not to be denied by educational
authorities. There is a great deal of red
tape in all, but college is not to be taken
as a dream. It is not merely a preparation
for life but life itself. Anyone who looks
toward college as a veritable Eutopia of
course will be disappointed.
If college professors are to be styled as
fools then "our whole educational system is
founded on stubble. The faculties of our
higher institutions contain many practical
and experienced men. The intellectual
prowess of the college trained are superior
to any other group.
The views of Mr. Kinne are those of one
who went to college with dreams and as­pirations
without the qualities of realizing
them. He represents a large group who ex­pects
the maximum for the minimum of ef­fort
and has bitten the hand that tried to
offer him something. Evidently he didn't
take it.
THE VALUE OF EDUCATION
We have often heard speakers and ad­visers
say with much gusto and many words
that this is an age in which industry and
business management are highly specialized
and a college education is coming to be
alniost a necessity. There is a great deal
of truth to this but those who labor under
such a system too often travel in a rut
and become narrow. Industrial specializa­tion
makes work uninteresting and trying.
There is a great demand for college
trained men but there is always work for
the unskilled. The reader has heard the
educational system discussed from a number-of
different angles but few have ever
stopped to seriously consider the value of
higher education. Of course it would be im­possible
for anyone to determine the value
of an education in dollars and cents but let
us consider the subject from the difference
in salaries of the high school graduate and
those who have a college degree.
. According to Otto Schnering, president
of the Baby Ruth Candy Company in state­ments
made public recently a college edu­cation
is worth $72,000. The average four
year courses offered by colleges cost about
$6,000. The value derived from the higher
education gives the recipient a profit of
1,200 per cent. Mr. Schnering values each
day of school work at seventy dollars.
The above figures seem at once enormous
and out of reason but let us consider the
high school graduate about whom the candy
manufacturer says, "The annual average in­come
of a high school graduate is $2,200
and that of a college graduate $6,000. Total
earnings of the two classes of men up to the
age of sixty are approximately placed at
$78,000 and $150,000. This gives the college
graduate a lead of $72,000 over the high
school youth."
In spite of the fact that colleges are be­coming
knowledge factories and thousands
enter their halls who are unfit for the in­toxicating
freedom of university life one
may safely say that the system of higher
education with all its loop holes is the best
in the long run. Too often the restless
young man is tempted to quit school to ac­cept
a job at the time may be attractive.
It is well not to lose sight of the fact that
it will be worth more to one later on to
continue the course. Yes, it pays.
A SECOND MILE
Too many of our colleges in America
are pacekd with an overabundance of pro­fessors
and instructors that care little
about their work and place too much em­phasis,
in their own minds, on their sal­aries.
They are not particularly interested
in the successful operation of the university
nor or they willing to put forth any more
effort to go further than what their writ­ten
contract specifies. There are compara­tively
few men who are in responsible posi­tions
in our colleges who have the up­building
of the institution at heart. A sur­prisingly
large number do little or no re­search
work or prepare any papers that
might prove of interest to the profession.
Their present positions are only a means to
an end.
According to a statement made by a mem­ber
of the faculty recently the scholarship
among faculty members has improved fifty
per cent in the last two years. The re­search
work being carried on under the
direction of the physics department and J ) r .
Allison is well known. Miss Dana Gatchell
has recently published two books of con
siderable merit. Professors Crenshaw and
Killebrew's "Analytical Geometry and Cal­culus"
has been adopted by sixteen of the
leading colleges and universities in Ameri­ca.
The members of the English depart­ment
faculty are engaged in original re­search.
There are others whose labors have
given credit to the institution in other
fields too numerous to mention.
Mr. J. W. Crabtree, Secretary of the Na­tional
Educational Association declared
that the college is the weakest link in or­ganized
education. In higher educational
work and graduate studies the stress should
be placed on the professors as much or more
than on.the students. The colleges have
been accused of turning themselves into
factories for dispensing knowledge. In col­lege
the student should have professors
who not only have the power to impart
facts and direct him in his work but to be
of such a nature that his dignity will not
be treaded upon by a closer relation be­tween
faculty and student body. Too often
the man of scholarship is the type who does
not appreciate college life in its entirety
because he never entered into it fully. The
faculty member must be almost superhuman
in his make up for it is a dangerous thing
to lead youth in the wrong direction or to
let them go without a guide.
Blind Tiger
•They call her "angel" because she is no
good on earth.
We have the nicest modest boys at Au­burn.
Every time they meet a girl on the
street they lower their eyes.
Too bad about John and his girl getting
pinched at a birdge party last night wasn't
it?
Hadn't heard about it. What for, gam­bling?
No, a motor cop came prowling around
the bridge.
He: "They say that every time we kiss
a Chinaman dies."
She: "Come on, kid; let's exterminate
the Chinese race."
"Mama, there is something the matter
with this movie.'.'
"It's all right, child, this is a college pic­ture."
Somebody is always getting in the way
of the man who is in the pursuit of happi­ness.
Caller:. "I hear your son's young bride
simply worships him."
His Mother: "Well, I know she places
burnt offerings before him three times a
day."
It won't do a lady a bit of good to "have
faith" when it is a safety pin she needs.
Frosh: "Do you know my big brother?"
Senior: "Yes, we sleep in the same
classes."
He: "We are coming to a tunnel; are you
afraid?"
She: "Not if you take that pipe out of
your mouth."
Report from an engineer on a local train
to his office: "The cow that was killed by
Number 13 is a bull and it isn't dead yet."
"Where are you off to in such a hurry?"
"The hat of the man behind has blown
off."
"What does that matter to you, that you
are running too?"
Laugh and the world laughs with you.
Snore and you sleep alone.
"Do you lead the orchestra, sir?" asked
the tired business man in the cabaret.
"I do," replied Professor Jazzolo proudly.
"Then would you mind leading them out
for a bit of air?"
Bathing girls: "Hello, there, grandpa!
How old are you?"
Gaffer: "Eighty, dammit."
All great men are dying—I don't feel
well myself.
He: "Do you know why twin beds were
invented?"
She: "No, why?"
He: "Onions."
I feel like Minerva today."
"Minerva who£"
"Minervous wreck."
For two cents I'd kiss you."
"Here's a dollar, boy, let's get going."
He said to her in an exasperated voice,
"There seems to be something the matter
with the motor." And she replied in the
usual sweet voice, "Wait till we gel; off the
main road."
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
It seems that our friend Sikes heads the
list for varied experiences and exploitations
during the holidays. Not satisfied with
the chances for amusement that Mobile of­fered,
he decided to do a little traveling on
his own hook so he journeyed up toward
Birmingham to see what could be found to
satisfy his longing. It also seems that a
little brunette was exactly what Dan was
looking for, for he stayed as long as he
could. He hasn't told us a darn thing, but
we have it confidentially that he thinks Bir­mingham
is a pretty swell place when a
certain lady is there.
Karl Nickerson wore out the pavement in
Montgomery the early part of the week
looking for one of the representatives of
Alabama College, but was unsuccessful in
his quest. Who's got her, Nick?
In spite of a New Year's resolution Baby
Pup was overheard to say that he might
be carrying groceries again this year. Last
year he became somewhat of a notorious
character in this respect. And it seems that
his desire for adventure has caused him to
want to see if old memories can be brought
back to life. Here's to your luck, Pup.
One of the greatest disasters that has
hit the world in many years was the in­vention
of the saxophone. The inventor
could not have possibly realized the dis­comfort
and the profanity that aspiring
young musicians unintentionally cause.
Every night the dormitory is left trembling
and quaking from the echoes of the instru­ment.
This is a new tale of revenge. Jimmy
Price tells the story that he tried to kiss
a gir) a few days ago, but she refused to
let him because he had waited four years
to try, and if he waited four years to kiss
her, then she didn't want him to. There is
a moral in the above story, but try to dis­cover
what it is.
Auburn is not dead when there is no one
here. Oh no, if she were in any worse con­dition,
we would have to dispose of her some
way or other. Those that remained here
have not fully recovered their senses; how­ever,
there is hope held out.
It seems that Prof. Roe and Ethyl had
some trouble. Wonder which one it was.
Gee, it must be terrible to have a girl like
that.
If it gets any colder and if we do not get
any more heat, we will soon have to quit
school to protect our health.
Confidence is seldom lost,'but it is often
sadly misplaced.
With Other Colleges
Texas A. & M. has an enrollment of 2444
students..
A new organization has had its birth at
the University of Arkansas under the name
of "The Red Head Club." It is purely
social in its aims, and of course accepts
only titian haired lads and lassies for its
members.
Oklahoma University students struck the
other day for more dates. The concessions
demanded were permission to make dates
every night in the week and to be allowed
to have them all day Sunday. A student
committee has been appointed to confer
with the faculty on this" si1'
In spite of the fact 1
Frenchmen can't be wror
at Furman University lr
prefers American youths
own country. Far be it
with a lady.
lillion
co-ed
it she
f her
argue
The "no smoking" sign : ••- p for |
women on the Uorthwe r r
campus. Mrs. Winifred R. rii-— "J ••.
dean of women, has sent orders oust
mothers and chaperones of the 14 soroi
and five girl's dormitories that all smokii.g
must cease under threat of expulsion.
Dean Richarson's was made with the
consent of the woman's self government as­sociation,
composed of one girl from each
sorority and dormitory. There are 1,500
girls at Northwestern.
The student body of Emory University
has pledged $20,000 for the construction of
a new artificial lake on the campus.
Northeastern University will go on a
five-year plan starting September 1929,
which will affect both the Engineering and
B. A. Schools. The present four-year sche­dule
will be entirely abolished.
Richard Rowden of Columbia'University,
claims to have the most novel way of earn­ing
one's way through college. Rowden is
the official worm supplier of the zoology
department, and sells the students angle
worms at 20 cents a dozen. . . .( That's
one way of wiggling throught college!)
Tryouts are being held at the University
of Minnesota for parts in the first all-Min­nesota
movie which will be featured soon
on the campus.
By a review in the office of Mr. F. W.
Hengeveld, Registrar of Davidson College,
interesting figures concerning the pro­fessions
chosen by the students are found.
It is seen that of the student body of
more than 600, the largest number are to
enter the medical practice as a life work.
One hundred and six have made this
choice. Those choosing business careers
number 99. The ministry has a following
of 81, and law will claim 51. Forty-five
are to be teachers, and 25 aspire to be en­gineers.
Of the remaining men 9 are to
be medical missionaries; 8 are to be
chemists; 8 accountants; 7 journalists; 4
farmers; 3 architects; 2 in the lumber busi­ness;
and denistry and the navy will each
take one.
One hundred and seventy-seven students
are yet undecided as to what their life work
will be.
Over 900 Freshman at the University of
Pittsburgh have been examined, psycho­analyzed
and placed in sections according
to their ability. It is hoped that the indi­vidual
Freshmen will progress better if
placed in the group to which he is mentally
and temperamentally adjusted.
Six hundred students and the entire foot­ball
team of Emerson High School at Gary,
Indiana walked out in protest of 24 negro
students enrolled in the school. One does
not have to live forever to learn that some
of the 'old Southern Customs' are alive in
the North.
"Fifty cigars in 12 hours" was the goal
set for himself by Vincent Maddi, student
in the School of Medicine at the University
of Maryland, to settle an argument over the
ill effects of tobacco. Friends sat beside
him to record his physical condition. The
first three hours were O. K. He remained
normal. Then his pulse began to climb,
until it reached 108 instead of 80, his res­piration
30 instead of 17, and his blood
pressure from 120 to 132. After eight
hours, while on his thirtieth cigar, Maddi
became ill and quit.
"I might have suffered serious ill effects
had I continued," admitted Maddi later.
The University of Kansas was surprised
on its return from the Thanksgiving holi­days
to find that all four of its football
coaches had resigned. They gave as their
reason their inability to get along with the
director of athletics.
Because the students at Emory are un­able
to get their checks cashed in town, the
JALNA
Reviewed by Harold Hutchins
The fascination of Jalna, the Atlantic
Monthly Prize Novel, lies in the impression
we gain that it represents a picture of
Middle Ages feudalism adapted, slightly, to
modern life. The scene and the author are
Canadian, but the United States and
Canada is represented on maps as being only
one red line, the difference in thought is
one of thousands of miles. Canada has de­veloped
directly from the old world. The
United States has developed-to itself to a
greater degree.
Jalna is an estate of the Whiteoaks, pa­triarchal
in form. There is an old, old
grandmother, who hopes to live another
year to be & hundred; there are her two
sons, livir the industry of Renny, a
grandso- oh taken the responsibility
of .hep /rting the clan. Renny's
hov : oy Meg, his sister, who
t... . . .e uncles, the grandmother,
: . : • ; T of brothers and sisters. Each
individu i s a care, with the possible ex-i
Piers, who inherits some of the
• y of his brother Renny along with
his .nterest in farming. Wakefield, the
ungest, is even more spoiled than the
youngest child of an American family; his
tears rule Renny, and so the whole house­hold.
Eden, second to Renny in age, is a
poet with all the temperament of his pro­fession.
Each member of the household
seems to be entirely self-centered with the
exception of Renny and Meg, who, after all,
are engrossed with that which is their
greatest interest, the family.
The whole household revolves around the
old grandmother, because she is the only
one in the group who has money, and be­cause
she is a character to rule a group
anyway. With her parrot cursing in Hin­dustani
and her stick to use as a crutch or
a club, as the case may be, the whole house­hold
centers around her, and jumps for a
mint to pop into her mouth when she
calls. None of them knows to whom she
will leave her fortune, and as we study her
we feel that she is quite capable of playing
a last joke in leaving it to no one. Church
she attends every Sunday as part of her
duty to the clan, and as an example to her
tenants—but she sleeps through the sermon.
The old lady is one to destroy belief in a
sweet twilight which precedes death. There
is nothing tranquil about her; she even
snorts in her sleep!
Money is not plentiful at Jalna. There
are too many who accept what there is
and contribute nothing. Originally the es­tate
had been large and the family wealthy,
but the funds have been depleted by suc­ceeding
generations of wastrels. , The whole
family grows inward; it is a world to itself.
When Piers and Eden marry it is accepted
that their wives will be brought to Jalna,
since neither of the men is capable of sup­porting
a wife. Renny, the patriarch, takes
the added responsibility without comment.
Piers works on the farm because his in­terests
are agricultural, but Eden will
never even be asked to contribute to the
support of the family. Renny's joy in liv­ing
is in his position as master of the clan.
Although money is scare there is enough
to finance Eden's trip to New York to see
the publishers of poetry. There is enough
to give Finch, otherwise unattractive, good
musical training. There is enough to sup­port
many of the family in idleness while
part of the farm lies idle through lack of
labor.
In the Middle Ages the clan clung to­gether
to resist aggressors, but in Jalna
we see the clan clinging together in its
weakness. None of its members other
than Renny feels any ambition to work for
himself. At Jalna the family is the com­munity.
The interests of one are the in­terests
of the gtoup. Even their sins are
committeed -among themselves, from the
petty thievery of Wakefield to the perfidy
of Eden. Their pleasures are taken with
one another in contrast to our habit of
taking pleasure in going somewhere or in
doing something unusual. The weakness
of Jalna is in the dependence upon Renny
and in the lack of initiative of the family.
Nothing Mazo de la Roche has done pre­viously
compares to Jalna. The plot con­cerns
the life at Jalna and is of secondary
importance. The worth of the novel rests
in the characters as they are shown to us.
No ideal character is shown; one of them
is entirely admirable. Their faults and the
results of them are given to us as they
might be, and not dressed to fit the whim
of the writer. As a novel, it is unusual in
its plot and characters, and makes an in­teresting
study of life as it might be,
whether or not that life seems probable.
undergraduates are planning, under the
guidance of trustees, a college bank.
Only seventeen letters were awarded to
members of the football squad of Roanoke
College this year.
W. J. Bailey, of Clinton, S. C. recently
gave $10,000 to Presbyterian College to be
used in improving the athletic field and
facilities of the college, provided that an
additional fund of $15,000 can be used.
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THE PLAINSMAN Page S.
'PEP'TtLEGKAMS HELP TEAM
MORALE COLLEGE COACHES SAY
The Westinghouse Company may
have produced a talking automaton,
but to the Western Union goes the
honor of achieving the "silent cheer­leader."
For it was the latter com­pany
which developed the socalled
Pep Telegram as a means of ex­horting
football, baseball, basket-ball
and other amateur athletic teams to
victory.
There is nothing new, of course, in
the idea of lending encouragement
through the medium of the written
word. Napoleon's bulletins to the
Grand Army are a striking instance
of the efficacy of the method, though
the Little Corporal was by no means
the originator of the device.
In a sense there it nothing new
about "cheering by wire," for the
custom of sending telegrams of en­couragement
to the home team bat-ling
on a foreign field is almost as
old as modern sport or as the tele­graph
itself. It is only within the
past three years, however, • that the
volume of such messages has reach­ed
a size sufficient to warrant the
telegraph companies in making spe­cial
arrangements for handling them.
Since 1925, the Pep Message traffic
has grown from almost nothing to
many thousands of messages annu­ally.
The new service has met with
hearty response from students and
alumni, both male and female, in all
parts of the country, and almost
without exception it has had the en-
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thusiastic support of faculty mem­bers,
athletic association officials,
coaches, team managers, and play­ers.
Representatives of practically
a.V the big universities and colleges
hav» conceded the high inspirational
valw of the message from home, but
support of the Pep Message is not
confined! to the larger institutions.
The practice of sending messages of
encouragement has taken firm hold
of smaller colleges and many high
schools.
Nor are Pep Messages sent only by
students and alumni. Thousands of
these telegrams are sent by business
men. In one Kansas town of 20,000,
more than 300 Pep Mesages were
sent in connection with a Single foot­ball
game. The press of the country,
too, has shown interest in the idea.
In many cities where interest is high
in the result of a game played awaj
from home, newspapers have repro>
duced Pep Telegrams sent by the
mayor, the governor or other promi­nent
officials and have commented
on the cheer by wire innovation both
in their news columns and editorially.
The Atlanta Georgian, for example,
in November of last year, when the
idea was still comparatively new in
the South, said:
"The whole sport-loving South
should write, wire or phone Coach
Wade that we are for Alabama, heart
and soul. Alabama truly will rep­resent
the South in the game at Pasa­dena
on New Year's Day and a show­er
of telegrams will go a long way
toward keying the team to play its
best.
Dr. Guy E. Snaverly, President Bir­mingham
Southern College, said: "I
am very much in favor of Pep Mes­sages
to players or to the team as a
whole. I believe it 'peys them up'
for the game."
"An inspiring telegraphic message
for a player from home fans just be­fore
he takes the field," said M. J.
Donahue, Athletic Director, Louisiana
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WAPI Program For
Coming Week Has
Many New Features
During the week beginning Monday,
January 9, Station WAPI will fea­ture
orchestra music, string music,
vocal and piano solos, and quartet
selections ip addition to educational
features, the market news, and
weather forecasts.
Monday noon, January 9, the stu­dent
quartet and Miss Evelyn Smith
will furnish vocal selections. Otto
Brown will talk on "Pines" and C.
K. Brown will give Auburn news
notes.
Tuesday noon, January 10, the
studio orchestra. A fifteen-minute
woman's club meeting will be held
featuring music and home economics
facts.
Tuesday night, beginning at 9, the
Collegians, an orchestra composed of
Auburn Students will give a jazz pro-grfiTfn
Prof. W. E. Bower will pre­sent
a bpok review.
Wednesday noon, January 12, vocal
selections by Rev. O. D. Langston
and the Peerless quartet of Alexander
City; the "Auburn Stringers" in nov­elty
selections; building materials will
be discussed by Otto Brown, extension
forester.
Thursday night, beginning at 9, the
studio orchestra in a classical pro­gram.
Dr. George Petrie will discuss
a current topic.
Friday noon, January 13, new Vic­tor
records will be featured during
the Jesse French Victd|r program.
"Aunt Sammy" will have a special
message for homemakers.
Friday night, beginning at 9, the
studio orchestra with R. J. Kirkpa-fcrick
who will present piano and
vibraphone solos.
Saturday noon, January 14, old
popular selections will be sung by the
student quartet. Prof. J. R. Rutland
will give a short discussion of the
Sunday School lesson.
FARMERS OF STATE
HAVE GOOD YEAR
A year which began in gloom has
ended in optimism for the farmers
of Alabama. Statistics collected and
compiled by F. W. Gist, agricultural
statistician, show that farmers of
the state now have much more mon­ey
in their pockets and in banks,
more debts have been paid, and they
als# have a normal amount of food
crops in storage for next year.
A year ago the price of cotton
was low and farmers were discour­aged.
A short crop for the entire
cotton belt in 1927 boosted the price
while Alabama farmers managed to
come through the year with another
good crop. Although they reduced
their acreage along with other
patriotic cotton growers, the weather
as a whole was favorable. This, to­gether
with improved cultural meth-eds,
better varieties, and also better
fertilizers enabled the state to ex­ceed
all but two of the southern
states in the production of cotton
this year.
Not until the end* of the season
and the price is averaged can a final
value be placed upon the crop of
this year. Mr. Gist has estimated it
at approximately $108,000,000 as
compared with $90,000,000 for the
1926 crop.
Along with more money for cot­ton
all important foods and feed
crops came through with as large or
larger crops as in 1926; and this
combination has changed completely
the complexion of the farm situa­tion.
Although the 1927 cotton crop
brought more money ilj consisted of
fewer bales. On the other hand, the
corn crop of 1927 exceeded that of
1926. There was a substantial in­crease
in the peanut) crop, while
hogs, cows, and chickens have come
through the year with substantial
gains. Syrup, sweet potatoes, and
some of the other minor crops are
about the same. The two hay crops
appear to be tit-for-tat.
Reflecting a more prosperous con­dition
on the farms, business through­out
Alabama has been good this fall.
Retail merchants report one of the
State University, "has a decidedly
stimulating effect upon his fighting
spirit and encourages him by instill­ing
the feling that his individual
work is being watched by persons
who care."
John E. Pitts, head coach, football,
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn:
"A carefully worded telegram
from a loyal alumnus or friend of the
team sometimes has a wonderful ef­fect
on the morale of the team. They
certainly appreciate the thought.
best seasons in many years. The
banks are filled with money; and all
these conditions give a more favor­able
outlook to farming next year.
A survey of the state reveals that
farmers have been uniformily pleas­ed
with the year and that there is
no distressed spot. Due to a severe
storm in September 1926. southeast
Alabama suffered severely because
thousands of bales of cotton were
actually destroyed. A good crop
with better prices has changed a
dark spot into a bright spot although
much of the 1927 crop has gone to
pay debts carried over from 1926
and former years.
Beyond more satisfactory returns
in terms of production and prices
the year has given farmers more
confidence in farming. It has de­monstrated
again the economic im­portance
of agriculture and business
men have seen that their prosperity
depends upon farm prosperity.
Under the Farm Bureau banner
the cooperative movement among
farmers has grown and is now on a
firm foundation. This, plus other de­velopments,
gives farming in 1928 a
promising outlook for Alabama.
It must be pretty hard for the
court to do its duty when the de­fendant
is charged with hitting an
actor with an egg.
It's real progress when everybody
moves forward, not just a few indi­viduals,
or a few cities, but the whole
nation. *•
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Ten; English Schoolboys
To Come To America
Ten English schoolboys are going
to be taken from old world surround­ings
at Radley College—with its park
and its Quden Anne mansion, four
miles from Oxford—and transplant­ed
for five weeks to Kent College,
Conn.
The boys were to reach America
just before Christmas and their trip
unique for an English school, will be
watched with the closest interest. King
George is greatly struck with the
idea and emphatically approves such
visits.
"The trip was first proposed by
Fathre Still, the head of Kent Col­lege,"
says W. H. Ferguson, who pre­sides
over Radley, when he was over
here with the crew sent to compete
at Henley. They failed there, but as
they were anxious to row against one
of the English ' public schools' a
match was arranged with Radley.
The American lads won.
"They stayed at Radley with us for
24 hours and then, a few weeks ago,
we received a pressing invitation to
send over a party of our boys for the!
Christmas vacation. Most of the boys
who rowed against Kent College will
be in the party, but they will not row
during their stay in the United
States.
"It is a wonderful opportunity for
the boys, and naturally they are de­lighted.
Parties of schoolboys have
gone abroad to Canada and South
Africa before, but this is the first
time that one school has definitely
invited another school in this way."
Notes of the Societies
DR. THOS. B. MCDONALD
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A. S. C. E.
A special meeting of the A. S. C.
E. was held Thursday night Dec.
15th to take the place of the usual
Monday night meeting, because of the
expected absences of the Seniors on
the regular meeting night.
The meeting was called to order by
the vice-president, Mr. Bates. Mr.
Pearce of the Senior class gave an
excellent talk on the construction of
heavy pontoon bridges and illustrated
it by photographs. Mr. Pearce was
present at the construction of such a
bridge and was so able to give first
hand information.
He was followed by Mr. Stephens
also of the Senior class who spoke on
highway construction in the low
marshy countys* of eastern Georgia.
He gave interesting details of the tre­mendous
difficulties encountered.
The next spokesman was Mr. Mc-
Millian, a Junior, who told of the
construction of a bridge in Rhode Is­land
over a river whose bottom was
a bed of quick sand. The difficul­ties
attendent on the construction of
this bridge was solved by two of the
leading Consulting Engineers of Bos­ton.
A "Rat" by the name of Walker
gave a melodious serenade on a har­monica.
Among the selections played
were "The Prisoners Song" and "Show
Me The Way To Go Home." The
power of the last was so potent that
one of the faculty members present
was unable to contain himself, rising
from his seat he entertained by per­forming
an excellent "Buck Dance."
Next on the program was a Senior,
Mr. Fox. He spoke on the inclined
railway up Lookout Mountain which
ascends almost vertically at places.
This railway is a great benefit to the
people living on the mountain as it
saves their cars from the wear and
tear of going up and down the moun­tain,
and themselves from dangerous
drives during bad weather.
The meeting adjourned after "Rat"
Walker played "HOME SWEET
HOME" to the departing Seniors.
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THE PLAINSMAN
SPORTS
George Mohn Bohler Selected To
FUl Position As New Tiger Tutor
Popular Miss. College Coach
Signs Contract as Successor
To Dave Morey. Prominent
In All Forms of Athletics.
To Assume Full Charge on
March IS, 1928.
Forty years ago, the population of
this great old world was increased by
the arrival of a new inhabitant. This
newcomer was destined to accomplish
great deeds and through the efficiency
of the Auburn Faculty and Alumni
Athletic Councils, he has been ob­tained
as head football coach and
Professor of physical education.
Bohler has a very adventurous and
historic past, and has had quite a bit
of experience in all phases of life and
work.
Bohler attended college at Washing­ton
State University and was a lead­er
in all four major sports. He play­ed
tackle and half back on the foot­ball
team and was on the first team
to play in the Tournament of Roses.
Later he played a bit of professional
football. He was on the basketball
team and was a star on the track
team. In baseball, he stood out as
one of the best and after leaving col­lege
obtained a position in the Inter­national
League.
On leaving College Bohler accepted
a job as first assistant Coach at the
University of Idaho and later at the
University of Oregon where he re­mained
until 1923. During this period,
Bohler spent a few years overseas
in the interest of the U. S. as a dough­boy.
From 1923 to the present day,
he has had full charge at Mississippi
College of all four forms of sports.
During his five year stay with the
Choctaws, his teams have lost only
two S. I. A. A. games and have been
exceptionally fine squads considering
the limited material. This past year,
his eleven emerged from ten tilts
without a loss or tie. This remark­able
showing speaks for itself.
Through his clean, sportsmanlike
methods, Bohler has earned for him­self
many friends and admirers over
/
GEORGE MOHN BOHLER
Coach Bohler, who has established excellent record at Mississippi
College, to make his appearance on the Auburn campus as head coach
of the Auburn Tigers on March IS, 1928.
the Sunny South. Such prominent
men as Clark Shaughenessy, of Loy­ola,
Coach Drew, of Birmingham
Southern and many other coaches and
football officials, have come forward
with articles praising the selection of
Bohler and offering their opinions of
his ability which were all for the very
best. All in all, he seems to be the
man of the day for the position and
is going to be accepted as such, when
he comes to Auburn.
As a means of introducing Coach
Bohler to the Alumni in the various
districts around Auburn, three
smokers are being planned in Colum­bus,
Montgomery and Birmingham.
The dates for the get-to-gethers, as
they may truly be termed, are Janu­ary
16, 17, and 18, respectively.
March 15, Coach Bohler will make
his appearance on the Campus to
take over ,his newly acquired duties,
to help put Auburn back where she
used to be and to give his very best
to our Alma Mater. Let's all be
ready and willing to give him a lend­ing
hand and back him to the limit.
America Discovered for $7200
Old records show that the cost of Columbus' first
expedition to America amounted, in modern exchange,
to only $7200. To finance Columbus, Isabella,
Queen of Spain, offered to pawn her jewels. Today
word comes from Spain indicating that a twentieth
century importation from the new world is fast effect­ing
a sufficient saving to ransom many royal jewels.
The Spanish Northern Railway reports that the
American equipment with which in 1924 the railroad
electrified a mountainous section of its lines from Ujo
toPajareshas accomplished the following economies:
1. A 55% saving in the cost of power.
2. A reduction of 40% in the number of engine miles for
the same traffic handled.
3. A saving of 73J^% ii^the cost of repairs and upkeep
for locomotives.
4. A saving of 6 3% in crew expenses.
5. A reduction of 31% in the cost of moving a ton-kilometer
of freight.
In every part of the world, electricity has replaced
less efficient methods and is saving sums far
greater than the ransom of a queen's jewels. You
will always find it an important advantage in your
work and in your home.
The substations, overhead
equipment for the complete
installation, and six of the
twelve locomotives for this
particularly difficult and
successful electrification
were furnished by the Gen­eral
Electric Company. Gen­eral
Electric quality has
attained universal recog­nition;
the world over, you
will find the G-E monogram
on apparatus that is giving
outstanding service.
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Auburn Gifb Lose
To Athens College
In Opening Game
The Auburn Co-ed quintet lost
their first game of the season to the
strong Athens College team on Dec­ember
16, 1927, by a score of 27 to
11. This is the first basketball game
that has been played in the "Village
of the Plains" this year, and a large
crowd was present to cheer the mem­bers
of the fair sex on to victory, but
the tables were turned, and Athens
won. This is the first time in sev­eral
years that Athens has won from
Auburn, according to our records, but
this year they came determined to
win, and succeeded, but not without
displaying plenty of fight and good
playing on their part. Auburn put
up a good scrap from start to finish,
but did not possess the shooting abil­ity
that the Athens girls had.
The game started off with Auburn
in the lead, when Miss Tucker shot
a couple of goals. (The crowds went
wild). However, this lead was held
only for a few minutes, for Athens
found the basket and began to make
use of it. At the half the score was
stiil in Athen's favor. Auburn never
did overcome the lead, but the Athens
girls found that there was plenty of
opposition before the game was over.
Athens had a pair of guards that
were on the job every minutes, and
hardly gave our forwards much of a
chance to do any scoring. Time and
again they got the ball when it seem­ed
as if Auburn was just ready to
add another score to her credit. But
this happens in basketball, for a play
er must be able to get the ball at
critical moments.
The game as a whole was very
cleanly played by the players on each
team. There were few fouls made,
but as a rule they were accidently
made.
Mis Tucker was the outstanding
star for the Orange and Blue. She
was much more successful in being
able to find* the basket than any of
her team-mates. She made nine of
the eleven points that was made by
Auburn during the game. She play­ed
an excellent game and took advan­tage
of every opportunity to score.
Misses Cline and Haupt took times
about at the other forward position
and both did some good work. Haupt
made the other "two points for Au­burn.
These three cagesters will be
in trim by the time of the next game,
and will give somebody some trouble.
Athens had a couple of forwards
that were hard to beat. Misses Mor­ris
and Scott were ever on the alert,
and rarely ever mised a goal if they
got a shot at it. Miss Scott showed
exceptional ability at ringing the
hoop from difficult angles, during a
good part of the game. Miss Scott
made twelve points, and Miss Morris
got nine points to her credit. Miss
McGregar, Athen's Center, made six
points. These two forwards were
well covered by Misses Creel and
Price. The latter two young ladies
kept the score down considerably by
constantly guarding and showing the
spectators how the guard position
should be held down. They kept
Athens from making many scores, but
it seemed that it could have hardly
been prevented.
In Misses Henders and Murphy,
Athens had two guards that knew
their jobs and went about it in a busi­ness
like way. They were fast and
aggressive during the whole period
of play. They held the Auburn for­wards
down which kept the score from
piling up like it would have otherwise.
Auburn made many substitutions
through the game. Everyone was
given a chance to show their ability on
the court. Athens only made one sub­stitution
throughout the game. The
game was played by girls rules. Up
until this year, they have been using
boy's rules.
This is the first game that the Co­eds
have played this year, and they
have not gotten into the rhythm of
the game as yet. However.Siow that
they have been in action, the Coach,
Miss Brown, can see the weaknesses
of the team and can train them so as
to get rid of these faults. So the
next team that the Co-eds run upon
will be doomed to go down in defeat.
Lineup:
Athens (27) Auburn (11)
Guard
Henders Pn«s
MONTGOMERY Y FALLS BEFOREJFreshmen Resume
ATTACK OF AUBURN QUINTETBasketballPractice
After the Holidays Exhibiting a brand of basketball
that cannot be denied, the charges of
Mike Papke overwhelmed the cage
team of the Montgomery Y. M. C. A.
to the tune of 37 to 10 in their first
game of the season.
Auburn started things off with a
rush, Dubose caging a try shortly
after the opening tip off. From then
on Auburn continually held the lead,
the score at the end of the first half
being 15 to 6 in favor of Auburn.
Auburn held the edge on her oppon­ents
throughout the game, keeping
the ball in her possession most of the
time. When the Montgomery boys
did get the ball they could not get
close enough to l&e basket to do any
harm. The Auburn players were lit­erally
all over them.
Jelly Akin continued his reputation
of last year and led all others in
scoring with a total of 9 points. He
was closely followed however by Du­bose
with a total of 8 points. The
{James twSns made 6 points each,
while Buck Ellis only got 2 points to
his credit. Mullins ran up a total of
4 points while he was in the game,
and Louie James found the basket
for 2 points right after he went in
the game for E. James.
Pugh was high point man for the
visitors with 7 of their 10 points. His
two field goals were the only ones
the visitors scored. Goldwaite scored
the other 3 points.
Of the four goals credited to Du­bose,
three of them were battered in
during scrimmage under the goal.
Two ex-members of last year's
freshman team made the trip with
the Montgomery Y, these were Collins
and Adams.
Papke's cohorts showed the same
brand of basketball that carried them
to such an enviable record last year,
and there is every reason to believe
that Auburn will again have one of
the most feared teams in the South­ern
Conference this year.
Auburn (37) Montgomery Y (10)
Forward
Ellis (2) Kaminsky
Forward
Akin (9) ..
Dubose (8)
Center
Goldwaite (3)
. Randolph
Guard
James, E., (6)
Guard
-. Pugh (7)
James, F. (6) Goree
Substitutions: Auburn, Mullins (4)
for Ellis, Louie James (2) for Ebb
James, Paterson for Fob James, Smith
for Dubose, Chambless for Mullins.
Montgomery Y: Johnson for Ran
dolph, Collins for Kaminsky, Kamin
sky for Collins.
BUNK • ¥• BUNK
AROUND THE CAMPUS
BUNK • V- BUNK
A. P. I. TIGERS SCORE VICTORY
IN CHARITY GAME
In the annual charity football game
held in New Orleans, present and for­mer
Auburn grid artist came to the
front in a very decisive manner. A
short history of the affair reads some­thing
like this.
Moon Ducote, one of the best men
to ever play on a Southern field, was
Captain of the Y. M. G. C. outfit.
Moon hails from Auburn and was as­sisted
by such stars as Frank Reese
of Notre Dame, Gremillion of Loyola,
Grant Gillis of Alabama and Kim-brough
of L. S. U.
Lester Lautenslager, Captain of
Tulan's famous eleven of 1925 led the
Y. M. B. C. congregation. Among
the lineup of this squad may be found
Peggy Flournoy and Irish Levy of
Tulane, Flash Covington of Centre,
and McFadden, Andress, Shotts and
Buck Spinks, of Auburn.
The game was marked by several
flashy runs and quite a few breaks, all
of which resulted in the scoring of
the two touchdowns. Early in the
first half, Spinks came through by
intercepting a forward pass and gal­loping
through a bewildered crew
for a marker. Covington booted the
ball over the center of the post. Du­cote
made the score for the Gymnas­tic
Club by sheer hard hitting. His
thrust at the heavy end of the line
always put a crimp in his opponents.
But the kick for point after he scored
the touchdown went wild and inci­dentally,
lost the game to his side.
The stars of the game were: Flour­noy,
who kept his mates out of dan­ger
many times by his excellent
punting; Levy and McFadden, who
played a splendid game on the line;
Spinks, who seemed to be in every
play and several times covered the
oval after a fumble; Shotts, who made
consistent gains over the line.
The final score of the tilt was 7-6
in favor of the Business Mens Club.
A crowd of around 20,000 witnessed
the game in the Loyola Stadium, the
entire proceeds of which were turned
over to the Doll and Toy fund.
DONAHUE. RESIGNS POST AT
L. S. U.
Coach Mike Donahue, former be-
Guard
Murphy
Center
McGregar (6)
Center
Wilcox
Forward
Morris (9)
Forward
Scott (12)
Substitutes: Athens,
Murphy.
Thom
Reynolds
Creel
Cline
Tucker (9)
Clements for
Auburn: Haupt (2) for Cline, John­son
for Reynolds, Williams for Thorn,
Cline for Price, and
Johnson.
Reynolds for
loved football coach of Auburn, re
signed his post as Athletic Director
and Head Football Coach at L. S. U.
recently for reasons not officially an>-
nounced. *
Mike as he is known at the "Fair­est
Village of the Plains" came to A.
P. I, immediately following his gradu­ation
from Yale, to take charge of
the Tiger football squad. During his
stay, Auburn soared to the very top,
won the Southern Conference several
times and had successful claims to the
National title twice.
* Among the outstanding events of
his stay at Auburn which lasted nine­teen
years, was the defeat of the Has­kell
Indians and tieing of Ohio State
both of which elevens were claimants
to the Championship of the U. S. In
1913 and 1914, Auburn remained un­defeated
and in 1919, Mike won his
last S. I. C. title.
Famous stars developed under his
tutorage include such familiar names
as Ducote, Lamb, Bidez, Sizemore,
Shirey, Shirling and Ollinger.
ANDY COHEN SUCCEEDS
DONAHUE AT L. S.< U.
Following closely at the heels of
the resignation' of Mike Donahue's
at L. S. U. comes the announcement
of Andy Cohen as his successor. Co­hen
starred under McGugin at Van-derbilt
and for the past several years
has been a prominent foundation in
the Coaching Staff at the University
of Alabama. He has helped Wallace
Wade win three Dixie titles and will
be sorely missed by his leader. Inci­dentally,
his new talented aspirants
The Freshman Basketball squad is
back at work now, and are having
some good practices every afternoon.
A few of the players did not show up
for the practice the first day this
week, but by the end of the week, all
will be back on the court, and then
the team will rapidly become shaped
into good form. There is much splen­did
basketball material in the Fresh­man
class this year, and prospects
for a winning team look very bright.
There is much competition for po­sitions
on the team, due to the fact
that there are so many tall, rangy
fellows on the squad, like Newton,
Chappell and Harkins. Another man
that is showing up well is Baker, who
hails from the Carolinas. H. Harmon,
Lee, Harmon, and Martin are others
that have been looking good in the
practices.
Coach "Red" Brown states that the
schedule has not been arranged yet,
but that it will include games with
Georgia Tech, Mercer, Birminghanf-
Southern, and Howard. Probably one
game will be played in Auburn with
each of the above teams ,and then
one game will be played with them on
their own grounds. In addition to
the above schedule several practice
games will be played with the mill
teams in this vicinity.
John Mosley is manager of the team
and has handled this job in first class
order.
A complete schedule with dates,
etc. will be given out at a later time.
Auburn Cagers Prep
For Tilt With Tech
The Auburn Tiger cage squad are
busily engaged in finishing their prep­arations
for their game with the Ga-
Tech Yellow Jackets here Saturday
night of this week. To climax their
preparation for this tilt that will
open their conference schedule the
Papke lads take on the fast floor
team from White's Business College
of Birmingham, on the local court
Thursday night befort their stand
against the Jackets.
The starting lineup consisting of
Akin and Ellis, forwards; DuBose,
center; E. and F. James, guards,
along with a small contingent of the
second stringers has been working
out for several days since the holi­days,
making ready for the clash
with the Atlantians. /
of the gridiron will be pitched against
Wallace Wade's eleven in 1928.
SOUTHERN SENIORS SHOW UP
WESTERNERS
For the third time in as many
years, a Southern team has journeyed
to the Pacific Coast and returned un­defeated.
The feat was accomplished
this last time by the 8-0 victory the
Dixie lads handed the Western
Seniors Christmas. Spears and
Creason were individual stars while
the team as a whole played remark­ably
well together. Seems as the old
U. S. would take a large size hint
by now and realize just how these
husky Southern lads can play foot­ball.
1928 Football Schedule
Pept. 28—Birmingham Southern
Oct. 6—Clemson (Home coming)
Oct. 13—Florida
Oct. 20—U. of Mississippi
Oct. 27—Howard
Nov. 3—U. of Georgia
Nov. 10—Tulane
Nov. 17—Mississippi A. & M.
Nov. 29—Georgia Tech.
—Montgomery (Night game)
—Auburn
—Jacksonville
—Birmingham
—Auburn
—Columbus
—New Orleans
—Birmingham
—Atlanta
1928 Auburn Basketball Schedule
Dec. 17—Montgomery Y. M. C. A. (12)
5—White Business College (13)
Jan. 7—Ga. Tech
9—Southern College
13—U. of Florida
14—U. of Florida
18—Clemson
20—U. of Tennessee
27—Tulane
28—Tulane
Feb. 1—Vanderbilt
3r—U. of Georgia
9—Georgetown U.
10—Ole Miss
11—Ole Miss
18—Ga. Tech
22—U. of Florida
23—U. of Florida
Feb. 27—S. I. C. TOURNEY
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THE PLAINSMAN Pat• •
MRS. CHAPMAN SPEAKS TO
AUDIENCES IN THIS CITY
Modern housekeeping conveniences
such as vacuum cleaners, electric
stoves and dishwashers so reduce the
drudgery of conducting a home that
any woman need not abandon her lit­erary
aspirations is the opinion of
Mrs. Katherine Hopkins Chapman of
Alabama's foremost authors and lit­erary
women of Selma expressed dur­ing
her visit to the campus of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute Wednes­day
and Thursday. Repeating her
visit of last year was the request of
President Spright Dowell and others
of Auburn interested in things liter­ary,
Mrs. Chapman appeared before
English classes, convocation assem­blies,
the Women's Club of Auburn
and finally spoke over radio at Sta­tion
WAPI. in the evening—deliver­ing
at all these engagements delight­ful
discourses on various literary sub­jects.
Mrs. Chapman believes that the col-
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should place more emphasis on teach­ing
students the technique of author­ship.
Though many of them, says
Mrs. Chapman, will give up their am­bitions
to become writers soon after
they dabble in it just enough to find
that writing is truely hard work; but
those who do continue to slave in
learning the art of writing will prob­ably
succeed and their college courses
will have been responsible for their
discovery. In addition the requiring
of a mastery of the fundamentals of
writing will equip many students so
that they may devote themselves to
writing during their leisure hours
after they are established in business
or after the women are conducting a
household. Mrs. Chapman holds that
the first duty of women is to her
home; but she believes that both may
be accomplished.
Before the upperclassman convoca­tion
hour in Langdon hall, Mrs. Chap
man befittingly spoke on "Living Ala­bama
Authors" as the feature of the
Alabama Day program arranged by
the Auburn Women's Club of which
Mrs. Fred Allison, president, in An-
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C A R S FOR H I RE
Recent investigations of the extent
to which technically trained gradu­ates
of Alabama Polytechnic Institute
are finding employment with many
of the large corporations in the
United States revealed the fact that
in one great organization alone 78
Auburn men were filling important
positions in its service. Information
to this effect was received Wednes­day
by Prof. B. L. Shi, registrar, who
is collecting data concerning the em­ployment
of. Auburn men.
The list received by Prof. Shi from
the Bell Telephone System included
graduates from 1892 to 1927. Many
of the most responsible positions in
the system were held by Auburn men.
Though a few of last year's graduates
are classed as "students in training,"
the positions held by Auburn men are
correspondingly higher with the
length of time they have been in the
service of the compaify.
Among the earlier graduates hold­ing
positions in the various branches
of the Bell System are: J.-C. Thomp­son,
'96, Atlanta, superintendent of
construction for the state of Georgia;
C. E. Harrison, '00, Atlanta, district
plant superintendent; P. McL. Mar­shall,
'03, New York, assistant gen­eral
purchasing agent; M. W. Fran­cis,
'05, Birmingham, supervisor toll
plant for the state of Alabama; W. T.
Ewing, '10, Jacksonville, Fla., super­visor
of plant for the state of Flor­ida;
H. S. Dumas, '11, Birmingham,
superintendent of traffic for the
state of Alabama; C. N. Thibaut, '12,
Atlanta, supervisor of instruction and
employment for the Southern Divi­sion;
J. A. Duncan, '15, Atlanta,
Southern Division service superinten­dent;
J. E. Taylor, '16, division super­visor
toll traffic state of Tennessee,
and W. C. Payne, '16, New York,
planning engineer.
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I've had my share of treasure,
I've taken my life as it came,
Tasted the cup of pleasure
And had my part of the blame.
I've traveled more miles than one
Seen queer sights you know;
Done things that shouldn't be done
And gone where evil men go
I thought life but a troubled sea
I've ridden its waves my boys,
In a ship laden with iniquity
And manned by a crew of joys.
But now that voyage is ended
The ship's in port made fast,
AH her sails are bended
Her crew's ashore at last.
I've found a new harbor
'Tis in a golden bay,
'Neath Gods great blue arbor
And there I pass my time away.
And I owe it all to one
Handed down from above,
She taught me life's just begun
She lifted me with her love.
And if her love does last
Till life on earth be done,
111 kee'p my bark made fast
And be worthy of the place I've
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ticipation of Alabama Day, Wednes­day,
December 15. Miss Zoe Dobbs,
social director and dean of women,
was presented by Mrs. Allison who in
turn introduced Mrs. Chapman to
the student body. Mrs. Chapman's
address was preceded by a vocal
selection, "The Bird with a Broken
Wing" composed by an Alabama au­thor,
Miss Florence Golson of We-tumpka,
which was sung by Mrs. A.
D. Lipscomb of Auburn.
Before the English classes of Prof.
J. R. Rutland, head of the English de­partment
Mrs. Chapman spoke of,
"The Trend of American Prose" cle­verly
outlining the ideals and gov­erning
tendencies evidenced by many
of the present day American prose
writers. "The Vogue of the Informal
Essay" was the subject of Mrs. Chap­man's
address before the Women's
Club Wednesday afternoon when she
concluded her remarks by reading an
article of her own composition that
appeared in the July issue of the
Brooklyn, "Premiere—Ibson's First
View of 'A Doll's' House.'" This
article was written as a result of a
chance interview by Mrs. Chapman
with an individual who was seated by
Ibson when he viewed the first pre­sentation
of his famous play. Be­cause
of Mrs. Chapman's acquaint­ance
with many prominent Alabama
writers she was able to present intim­ate
traits of their personality which
was interspersed with brief reviews
and criticisms of their work. Many
entertaining anecdotes and human in­terest
items found place in Mrs. Chap­man's
remarks as she presented Ala­bama's
literary fold to the Auburn
students.
Mrs. Chapman spoke over radio at
Auburn's broadcasting station WAPI
Thursday evening giving a humorous
short story from her own pen,
"Emergency Lays Eggs."
In addition to being the author of
two novels, "The Fusing Force", A.
C. McClung and Co., and "Prisoners
in Paradise"-, to appear next April by
an Alabama publisher, Mrs. Chap­man
has written numbers of articles
and stories that have appeared in the
best magazines. She recently wrote
a chapter in the "Free-Lance Writers'
Tear Book" entitled "Carving Heads
on Cherrystones" that deals with the
technique of writing the shortstory.
This book containing other chapters
by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Hamilton
Gibbs and Katherine Fullerton Ger-ould
was recently adopted by Har­vard
university for use in one of the
advanced English classes in compos-tion.
Throughout her stay in Auburn she
was unable to accept all the invita­tions
to appear before various classes
and organizations on the campus as
in the town of Auburn. Mrs. Chap­man
was the houseguest of President
and Mrs. Dowell.
But should she ever fail me
My life ashore I'll end,
I'll but put me back to sea
To the port of missing men.
—D. McK.
4th Corps Area First
In United States in
R. O. T. C. Training
stood first with an enrollment of 5,-
952 while Tennessee was second with
3,503 and Alabama third with 3,068.
Not only does this section of the
country stand first in the manner
stated but the figures reveal, as in
past years, that it also leads all other
Corps Areas in the total number of
educational institutions that maintain
Reserve Officers Training Corps
units. The total number of such insti­tutions
in the United States and
Hawaii is 323 and 52 of these are to
be found in Alabama, Florida, Geor­gia,,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Ten­nessee,
the states of the Fourth. Corps
Area.
Major General Richmond P. Davis,
Fourth Corps Area Commander, in
commenting upon this excellent show­ing
said "This reveals a gratifying
record for the entire country and par­ticularly
for the states of the South­east.
It indicates the great popu­larity
of R. O. T. C. training among
the youth of this section of the coun­try.
It shows appreciation of the
worth of such training by heads of in­stitutions
and their faculties, to whom
great credit is due for such an envi­able
record. This part of the United
States has always been in the fore­front
when the question is one of
public servlice and here again we
have another illustration to further es­tablish
that as a fact."
General Davis declared "This indi­cates
a definite sign of discredit to the
efforts of various insidious organiza­tions
which have in some institutions
attempted to poison the minds of our
youth towards this valuable demo­cratic
training."
In conclusion, he said; "The Or­ganized
Reserve, which will constitute
the bulk of our Army in another Na­tional
emergency are dependent upon
the R. 0. T. C. first, and the C. M. T.
C. second, for keeping up their com­missioned
strength. As the years go
on and age and other causes take form
the rolls of the Organized Reserve
those officers who saw service in the
World War, the bulk of our Army
must be officered from the product of
these two valuable reservoirs, the R.
O. T. C. and the C. M. T. C."
Figures just made available by the
War Department show that the eight
states of the Southeast comprising the
Fourth Corps Area lead all others in
the United States in per cent of R. O.
T. C. Students to the total number
of students enrolled in the institutions
maintaining military training.
The data furnished is based upon
enrollments for the first semester of
the present school year. Of the total
124,833 ^Reserve Officers Training
Corps students in the entire United
States and Hawaii, 19,256 were en­rolled
in the Fourth Corps Area. In
this Corps Area the state of- Georgia
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MID-TERM DANCES
V (Continued from Page 1.)
latter are as follows: Mr. J. V.
Brown, Chairman; Miss Dobbs, Prof.
M. T. Fullan, Prof. C. L. Hare, Prof.
C. W. Edwards, Major J. T. Ken­nedy,
Captain B. C. Anderson, Dr. B.
R. Showalter, Captain J. M. Garrett,
Coach W. H. Hutsell, Coach John E.
Pitts, Coach R. C. Brown, Lieut. W.
B. Higgins, Prof. N. L. Nichols, Miss
Dana Gatchell, Miss Lula Palmer,
and Miss Louise Glanto.
A newly formed Disciplinary Com­mittee
will act in place of the Stu­dent'Council
to enforce discipline.
Members of this group are as follows:
Major J. T. Kennedy, Chairman,
Prof. C. R. Hixon, Prof. J. M. Rob­inson,
Dr. R. S. Suggs, and Prof. C.
W. Edwards.
Official chaperones will be: Dr.
and Mrs. Spright Dowell; Major and
Mrs. J. T. Kennedy; Dr. and Mrs. B.
R. Showalter; C»P*- and Mrs. B. C.
Anderson; Captain and Mrs. J. N.
Garrett; Lieut, and Mrs. W. B.
Leitch; Lieut, and Mrs. W. B. Hig­gins;
Prof, and Mrs. M. T. Fullan;
Prof. N. L. Nichols; and Miss Dana
Gatchell.
BIOLOGY HONOR
FRAT INSTALLED
(Continued from Page 1.)
dency of the national fraternity with
jurisdiction over the Southeastern
province. Nu Chapter absorbed the
old Biological Club, organized in 1922
and initiated several new members
as well. The membership of the new
organization includes Dr. W. C.
Jones, Dr. W. A. Whiting, Dr. Seal
Harris, Prof. J. 0. Pinkston, Prof.
R. A. Fennell, of the faculty; Claud
Chamblee, G. B. Timberlake, Percy
Nolan, Woodson Birchfield, Claude
Johnson, Gerald Williams, Hunt
Cleveland, Mary Carmichael, Eliza­beth
Murray, R. L. Lucas and J. O.
Branch of the student body. Dr.
Birmingham Southern
To Replace Building
Losses In Fire Are Estimated At
$75,000.
Reconstruction of the Student Ac­tivities
Building, fire-swept, Monday,
will begin as soon as possible, depend­ent
on insurance companies which
covered the liability, Dr. Guy E.
Snaverly, president of Birmingham
Southern College, said Tuesday.
Dr. Snavery confers Tuesday with
representatives of insurance compa­nies
to determine what course of re­pair
should be followed. Loss was
estimated at $75,000. Dr. Snaverly
was hopeful work would begin soon
and said estimated uncovered dam­age
of not more than $10,000 was
an accurate figure. Furniture in the
auditorium and student office equip­ment
were uninsured, he said.
A check on the wiring of the build­ing
revealed the fire was in all prob-bility
due to an accidental or wilful
act of some person, Dr. Snaverly de­clared,
indicating it might confirm a
theory that a person who early Mon­day
entered the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
fraternity house might have entered
the burned building. Some goods had
been stolen from the fraternity house
it was reported.
The auditorium, cafeteria, balcony,
bookstore, main floor, Y. M. C. A. of­fices
and dramatic offices were de­stroyed,
with three pianos and band
instruments. All material for La
Revue, college year book, was lost.
Principal damage to bookstore, post-office
and soda fountain were by
water. The college will replace band
instruments where students have no
instruments, Dr. Snaverly said. Food
will be served in the bookstore.
Few students were present when
the building burned, as school was
dismissed for the holidays and did not
reopen until Jan. 2.
Frank G. Brooks head of the depart­ment
of biology- at Oklahoma Uni­versity,
presided over the installation
ceremony.
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DR. SCOn SPEAKS TO AUBURN
R0TARIANS AT CLUB MEETING
With one-half the world's gold
resting in the United States treasury,
our position in the financial world
today is unusually powerful, stated
Dr. John W. Scott, dean of the gen­eral
course and professor of econo­mics
at the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute,
speaking before the weekly
meeting of the Auburn Rotary club
in Smith Hall, Thursday. Our sup­ply
of $4,800,000,000 in gold almost
equals the entire amount of money
circulated throughout the United
States either in currency or in coin.
Doctor Scott continued: Our sup­ply
of gold in the United States treas­ury
has increased every year since
1915 except during 1925; the amount
now being double that in 1915. Such
a condition serves to render our
monetary system comfortably secure
though there is always ths possibility
of an over issue of paper money
when such an abundant supply of
gold is available.
If the government should see fit
our present supply of gold would war­rant
the issuing of paper money to
eight times the amount of that which
is now circulated. For, in the Fed­eral
Reserve there is now $1,690,-
000,000 in gold that is not needed
for reserve money to secure the pres­ent
money in circulation The gold
monetary standard is the only safe
one as evidenced by its adoption by
the leading countries of the world.
Germany is now back on this basis
though to do so it was necessary to re­deem
its marks at a ratio of one to
one trillion. Italy has recently join­ed
England and Japan in getting back
to the gold standard and the indica­tions
now are that France will soon
return to such a basis. "*
In speaking of Germany's debt,
Doctor Scott predicted the breakdown
of the Dawes plan, he stated,' Ger­many
now is forced to borrow money
to meet the reparation payments and
she is. just about to the limit of her
credit. Until Germany regains a pro­fitable
economic condition she will
not be able to meet these payments.
And this will never come so long as
the market of most German products
are exxcluded from the United States
by a high protective tariff.
It seems to me, continued Doctor
Scott, that the United States really
does not want the payment of these
war debts, for, so far we have been
unwilling to do the one thing which
will make it possible, namely; to low­er
our protective tariff in order to
assist the European countries in re­organizing
a profitable economic
status. Obviously, the reason this is
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not done is that it will affect the pros,
perity of certain manufacturies in
this country. The European coun­tries
now possess barely enough gold
in their treasuries to secure the is­suance
of paper money, having none
with which to discharge their obliga­tions
to the United States. There
fore, since the gold is not available
by these countries and since they can
not pay us with their exports, then it
is impossible for the United States
to receive payment under the present
plan.
Mother of Mrs. Dowell
Dies at Aulander, N. C.
Mrs. Spright Dowell was called to
Aulander, N. C. Monday upon receiv­ing
the message that her mother, Mrs.
A. W. Early, 83, had been seriously
burned. While-en route President
Dowell received the message here that
the* accident had proved fatal, Mrs.
Early dying Tuesday as a result of
the burns. Probably due to the in­tense
cold weather, Mrs. Early stood
too near the grate and her clothing
caught fire with the result that se­vere
burns were received before as­sistance
reached her.
Mrs. Early was the widow of A.
W. Early a prominent Baptist lay­man,
deacon and landowner of North
Carolina who died seven years ago. As
a member of various boards of trus­tees
of educational institutions in
North Carolina, Mr. Early was a well
known and influential citizen over
the state.
William Dowell, the son of Presi­dent
and Mrs. Dowell who is new in
business in Raleigh, N. C, accom­panied
his mother to Aulander for
the funeral Wednesday morning.
New Auburn Pastor
Likes College Men
"I like college men and I believe
I understand them," is the feeling of
Dr. E. D. Burnworth formerly, of
Marion, Ala^-Who has recently taken
over the pastorate of the" Auburn
Methodist Church following the meet­ing
of the annual Conference this
fall.
Dr. Burnworth states that he is
especially interested in college stu­dents
and is therefore delighted to
take up his new work at Auburn.
Just prior to coming to Auburn he
held the Methodist pastorate at Mar­ion
for four years, also a college
town.
On Thanksgiving Dr. Burnworth
accompanied the Auburn student
body to Atlanta to witness the an­nual
Auburn-Tech game, which he
delivered a sermon at the Methodist
church on, "The Religious implica
tions of Athletics." This service was
attended by a capacity audience of
students and town's people—both
the Varsity and Freshman football
teams being present en masse'.
Dr. Burnworth is comparatively a
new pastor in this conference as he
was transferred from an Eastern
conference before taking up his work
at Marion.
AN EDITORIAL
(Continued from page one)
been levied' and are now being col­lected.
% Not one penny of the new
taxes levied is a general property or
advalorem tax.
The real issue is simply and solely
whether the people of Alabama will
do exactly what is done by great
business enterprises, namely, borrow
money to meet present urgent needs
or on the contrary use the educa­tional
resources to develop a pay-as-you-
go plan. This plan will eventu­ally
build the needed school houses,
but in the mean time many of Ala­bama's
ablest boys and girls will have
passed "school age" and lost irrevoc
ably to Alabama's service.
Alabama is rich in resources but
poor actually. She will never be
really rich until her own people are
trained to convert her potential
wealth into real wealth. Auburn is
the institution that devotes herself
most truly to the specific problem of
converting Alabama's natural re­sources
into dynamic wealth.
The Plainsman takes this oppor­tunity
of calling all Alumni and
friends of the institution to the
Colors. The College looks to you
with confidence for an expression of
your faith. If there be those who
have doubts she begs you to resolve
them in favor of the young manhood
of our State.
DR. DOWELL OFFERED
POSITION AS HEAD OF
MERCER UNIVERSITY
(Continued from Page 1;)
Among them he mentioned-^in ad­dition
to an increase of 60 per cent
in the student body and enlargement
of the faculty—a substantial in­crease
in buildings and equipment.
Over 700 acres of land have been
purchased for expanding the cam­pus,
for experimental work, and for
a water supply. A new engineering
building has been erected at a cost
of $250,000. This and smaller
buildings more than double the fa­cilities
of the college of engineering.
Comer agricultural hall which was
burned was replaced with a fire proof
structure, more commodious, better
arranged, and better equipped.
The old two-story frame structure
in which the veterinary college was
housed has been replaced by three
modern brick buildings. An ade­quate
water system for the college
and town of Auburn has been pro­vided
at a cost of $75,000.
In addition a modern poultry plant
has been built. The alumni dormi­tory
which cost $130,000 was con­structed,
and many other improve-metns
were made. They were made
possible by the "Greater Auburn"
drive.
Among other accomplishments not­ed
was the removal of an indebted­ness
of $80,000, the installation of
a modern radio broadcasting station,
and an increase in the efficiency of
of all departments of the college.
Scholastic as well as physical im­provements
were made. Conditional
admission of students was removed,
fixing the entrance requirements at
fifteen units, or high school gradua­tion.
Another major achievement
was the admission of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute into the South­ern
Association of Colleges. Auburn
was the first college of its kind to
attain this goal. Now all except one
have attained it.
During his administration Dr. Dow­ell
has stood for the best in education
and the best in student life. Follow­ing
his resignation his work was com­mended
in strong terms by many of
the newspapers and also the religious
papers of the state.
In addition to being an educator he
is an outstanding layman in religious
work .being a member of the Bap­tist
Church.
Let's have honesty, if nothing else.
MISS HARRIS IS
HONORED AGAIN
Former Auburn Dean Is Chairman
Better Homes Committee
PI KAPPA PHI HAS
MEETING IN B'HAM.
Miss Agnes Ellen Harris, formerly
of Auburn, of the University of Ala­bama,
has been appointed by Sec­retary
Hoover to serve as Chairman
of the Alabama Better Homes in
America Committee. This committee
will serve as a coordinating agency
and through it the national Better
Homes program will • be adapted to
the needs of the State as they relate
to housing and home and community
life.
Miss Harris, who is Dean of W>
men and Head of the Home Econo­mics
Department of the University,
has long been identified with the civic
affairs of the State, having formerly
been in charge of home demonstra­tion
work throughout the State. She
is chairman of Home Economics of
the Alabama Federation of Women's
Clubs and manager of the Rural Life
Bureau of the State Parent-Teacher
Association.
Better Homes in America was es­tablished
to provide local commun­ities
with information as to the ways
of improving housing conditions and
home life, the work being carried on
through volunteer committees of
local citizens. The campaign is
sponsored locally by such organiza­tions
as Parent-Teacher Associations,
Women's Clubs, Civic Associations
and others having an interest in home
improvement. Mr. Hoover is presi­dent
of Better Homes in America, the
organization which each year spon­sors
a nation-wide campaign for Bet­ter
Homes. The organization main­tains
headquarters at Washington, D.
C, with James Ford in charge as Exe­cutive
Director.
(Continued from Page 1.)
Nearly 300 delegates attended the
banquet Friday night at Hotel Tut-wiler,
which was one of the gala
events. Tom Buntin, of Dothan,
alumnus of- the University of Ala­bama,
was toastmaster. Speakers
were John D. Carroll, Lexington, S.
C; George D. Driver, Omaha, Neb.,
out-going president; Harry Mixon,
Charleston, S. C, a founder of the
fraternity; Leo H. Pou; Dr. J. Fried
Day, professor of economics at the
University of Edmonton, Canada, and
George M. Grant, of Troy, Ala.
The convention opened Tuesday
and was enlivened by parties, teas,
luncheons and other social affairs.
SHI APPOINTED
N.E.A. CHAIRMAN
DR. C. L. BOYD, D. D. S.
DENTIST
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College instructors receive the low­est
pay in the profession in propor­tion
to the type of service to be ren­dered.
The Association urges better
salaries for instructors and professors
and better instruction in the Fresh­man
and Sophomore years. The Sec­retary
predicts that within a few
years, college faculties will be among
the leaders at work on the problems
of the profession, and that the college
will be a more vital force in shaping
the policies of the Association. He
thinks the local institution will lead
the way.
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the pioneers who opened up the
far west But that impelling urge of the
true pioneer — to explore and know the
country beyond — spurred them to sur­mount
these barriers.
In office and laboratory, mountainous
problems in management, in methods and
in scientific research confront the men of
the Bell Telephone System. Yet that same
A mountain of tele­phone
subscribers is
not the goal — but
horn} to give better
service.
pioneering instinct—the urge to better the
known and attain the unknown — will
carry them through.
Just as it has brought them through the
difficulties in achieving nation-wide uni­form
service, efficiently engineered and
wisely administered. To the modern
frontiersmen who carry on this work to
still greater developments will be given the
thrill of adventure that lies in discovery.
BELL SYSTEM
%Anation-wide system of 18,000,000 inter-tonnecting telephones
" O U R P I O N E E R I N G W O R K HAS J U S T B E G U N"