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Baseball Today 4:00 O'Clock THE PLAINSMAN T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT Baseball Today 4:00 O'Clock VOLUME LIV AUBURN, ALABAMA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1931 NUMBER 47 MANY FROM AUBURN LEAVE FOR B'HAM FOR A.E.A. MEETING TWELVE JUNIORS PLEDGED BY SCABBARD & BLADE TUESDAY Students In Education Will Also Attend Meeting of Alabama Educators WILL START TOMORROW Five Members Of Faculty Will Attend Meeting As Delegates from Auburn When the Alabama Education Association convenes in Birmingham Thursday, March 26, the Auburn faculty will be exceptionally well represented, according to statements in the current issue of the Alabama School Journal. Among the prominent officers of the association are Dr. Bradford Knapp, member of the Legislative Committee; Dean Zebu- Ion Judd, member of the Executive Committee and of the Committee on Research; Dr. R. L. Johns, member of the Sub-committee on Records and Reports; Professor J. A. Parrish, member of the Committee on Teacher'Tenure; and Dr. Paul Irvine, Vice- President of the "Department of Teacher Training. One feature of the program will be the Alabama Polytechnic Institute dinner. The Journal extends the following invitation: "Friends and Alumni of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute are invited to attend the annual dinner of that institution at the Bankhead Hotel, on Thursday evening, March 26, at 6 o'clock." Auburn students who are registered in the school of education, and who would be interested in attending this annual meeting of the Alabama Education Association can arrange to be excused from classes by seeing Dean Judd. Members of the education department stated that this series of meetings should prove valuable to everyone interested in education. The following members of the Auburn faculty are to attend the association as delegates in the assembly: Dr. Bradford Knapp, Dean Zebulon Judd, Dean J. W. Scott, Dr. B. R. Showalter, and Professor J. R. Rutland. The following are to attend as alternate delegates: Miss Louise P. Glanton, Miss Zoe Dobbs, Professor S. L. Chestnutt and Professor Dan T. Jones. 9 Artillerymen and 3 Engineers Chosen; Tapping Services, Are Planned For the Event, Not Carried Out On Account of Rain • FASHION SHOW IS NOVEL FEATURE ANNUAL "A" DAY To Attend War College Scabbard and Blade pledged twelve members of the junior class Tuesday. Tapping ceremonies had been planned for the drill period at which time the men were to have been called from a special regimental formation. Because of rain the program was not carried out. Nine of these pledged are Artillerymen, and three are Engineers. Only one man is from out of the state. Following are the pledges: J. D. Bush, Mobile. Sam B. Fort, Ensley. Ralph Jordan, Selma. E. B. Kennedy, Auburn. R. A. Mann, New Market. C. E. Mathews, Grove Hill. G. V. Nunn, Auburn. C. E. Sellers, Ramer. M. J. Sullivan, Columbus, Ga. N. Waller, Selma. J. R. Wilder, Dadeville. F. J. Wullenbucher, Birmingham. Scabbard and Blade is a national honorary fraternity, the purpose of which is to honor those students who have distinguished themselves in the military unit. Qualification for membership is not based on military efficiency alone, but qualities of character and leadership are given equal consideration. Company L, Fifth Regiment, of the society was installed at Auburn in 19*24. Each Fraternity Will Enter Men to Be Dressed In Chic Styles of the Season WAPI TO BROADCAST 8 BASEBALL GAMES Final Arrangements May Be Made For Broadcast Of Game With Phillies Monday BEDINGFIELD SPEAKS TO LIONS CLUB TOES. County Agent Lists Remedies For Present Maladjustments In Agriculture Remedies for the present maladjustments in agriculture in Lee County were pointed out by C. H. Beding-field, County Agent, at the Lions Club luncheon yesterday in the Thomas Hotel. Mr. Bedingfield stated that farming conditions are very bad at present in Lee County, listing as some of the causes an attempt to make money instead of a living; the one crop system; a poor distribution of both labor and income; low per-acre yields; high living standards; and the exchange of cheap cotton for high priced foods and feeds. Listing 3%me of the facts to be faced about the present situation as outlined in a bulletin prepared by the County Agricultural Committee, Mr. Bedingfield made the following report: "We produced over 20,000 bales of cotton last year, yet our . farmers, with few exceptions, must have financial assistance to make a crop this year. At least 800 farm families hardly know where the next meal is coming from. Our average per acre yield of lint cotton is 135 pounds; our corn yield is only 11 bushels. Our corn production fell short of actual farmer needs by 208,- 051 bushels while our hay shortage was 19,000 tons. For each 100 farmers, 13 do not own a milk cow, 60 do not have a brood sow, 56 do not own a pig, and 84 do not grow any hay." (Continued on page 4) Eight at-home baseball games played by the Auburn Tigers will be broadcast over Station WAPI, Birmingham, direct from the campus of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. All the games "will begin promptly at 4:00 o'clock except the last one with Vanderbilt which will start at 2:30 p. m. The opening game of the season on Monday, March 30, with the Philadelphia Phillies may be broadcast but final arrangements have not yet been made. This game will start at 2:30. Following is the schedule of games to go on the air: Mercer University, April 6 and 7; Oglethorpe University, April 13; Georgia University, April 27 and 28; Georgia Tech, May 11 and 12; and Vanderbilt University, May 16. The baseball team has been practicing hard during the week in preparation for their games with Fort Benning and the Phillies. K. D. PI BREAKFAST TO BE HELD FRIDAY Annual Event to Be Held In Birmingham At the Bank-head Hotel Friday Morning Rev. McGehee Attends Methodist Meeting Dr. Bruce McGehee, pastor of the Auburn' Methodist Church, was called to Nashville recently by the General Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to participate in a conference at which the relation of the church to colleges and universities was considered. Thirty men prominent in church work in the south attended the conference, Dr. McGehee being one of the number. Upon his return to Auburn he expressed himself as being very favorably impressed with the conference, which was the first of its kind. He said that the proceedings will be studied and analyzed. He expects a forward step in church work in religious education to result from it. ' A breakfast, sponsored this year by the Auburn Alpha Phi chapter, of Kappa Delta Pi, is to be held at the Bankhead Hotel in Birmingham, March 27, at 8:00 a. m. This breakfast will be a part of the program of the Alabama Education Association, and all of the members of this national honorary education fraternity are invited to attend. Kappa Delta Pi has three chapters in Alabama, and members from all over the state are. expected to be present. - The fraternity will have as honor guests at this breakfast in Birmingham, President Bradford Knapp, of Auburn; President George H. Den-ney, of the University of Alabama, and President O. C. Carmichael of Alabama College at Montevallo. Each of the three chapters in Alabama will have a speaker on the program. Dean Judd, Dean of the School of Education, will represent the Auburn chapter; Dr. Paul W. Terry, head of the Department of Psychology, will represent the University of Alabama, and Dr. H. W. James, head of the' Department of Education, will represent Alabama College at Montevallo. A. M. Pearson, president of the (Continued on page 4) PRIZES OFFERED Big Attraction of the Day Will Be A Baseball Game Between the Phillies and Tigers Literary Societies to Hold Tennis Match The Evans and Websterian Literary Societies will engage in a tennis match next Sunday afternoon. Both societies boast of excellent teams, and a real battle is expected. Some of the players entering the match have played in several tennis tournaments. Thcmatch will be held on the Y. M. C. A. courts at three o'clock. Claud Prichett and Frank Turner will play for the Evans, while W. R. Henry and Sam Williams, of the Websterian will oppose them. The Interfraternity Fashion Show will be an added attraction to the program of the annual "A" Day, which is to be held next Monday, March 30. Each_ fraternity may enter as many boys as they wish .but all must be dressed as girls. The winner will receive a five dollar prize and will have the pleasure of leading the grand march all dolled up in his winning costume. A statement has been issued that should the winner refuse to lead the grand march, he will be ineligible for the prize. A very interesting and amusing program is being planned for this annual outing. In the morning, should a whole holiday be given, both wrestling and boxing matches will be held. Prizes will be offered in the greased pig race and the greased pole contest. A tug-o-war will be held between the ags and the Engineers, and numerous other attractions will increase the fun. The feature of the program will be the ball game between Auburn and Philadelphia, which will be played on the local diamond at two-thirty. At this game students will have the op-- portunity of seeing some of the National League's best players in action against Coach McAllister's fighting Tigers. Following the game will be several special track events, and at night the "A' Club will be host at a dance in the Alumni Gymnasium. . • Tickets are on sale at Wright's, Dillon's, and the Tiger Drug Stores, and some have been' placed in the hands of all "A" Club men. An announcement has been made that the Auburn Lions Club has bought all its members tickets to this affair. Students are again reminded that unless one thousand tickets are sold by Saturday, only a half holiday will be given for "A" Day. INTERFRAT COUNCIL WILL HOLD BANQUET MONDAY, APRIL 20 Each Fraternity Will Have Four Bids to Annual Banquet Of Council DISCUSS PLANS FOR BALL Committee Appointed to Make Arrangements For Annual Easter Egg Hunt to be Held MAJOR JOHN T. KENNEDY, Commandant of the R. O. T. C. Unit, who, according to a recent WaV Department announcement, has been named a student at the Army War College, Washington, D. C, for the 1931-32. Major Kennedy will leave for Washington about the middle of August. Spears Wins In A Phi E Contest Seven Participitate in Contest For Encouragement of For-ensics At Auburn PISTOL TEAM DEFEATS IOWA STATE IN MATCH Squad Cut to A l l ow More Practice For Field Artillery R.O.- T.C. Match MURPHY HIGH SCHOOL WINS ANNUAL DRAMATIC TOURNEY Murphy High School, of Mobile, was the winner of the fifth annual dramatic tournament which closed Saturday night. The other schools which played in the finals were Shades-Cahaba, Birmingham; Sump "ter County High, York; and Wood-lawn, Birmingham. "The Bishop's Candlesticks", presented under the direction of Mrs. Louise Hamil, was the winning play. The cup was presented by President Knapp, who stressed the cultural gain to the two hundred high school girls and boys participating in the contest. The tournament was by far the largest ever held at Auburn, according to a statement made by Professor Judson,' head of the Department of Speech. "The number of schools participating", said Professor Judson, '.'was eight more than the number participating in the largest pre-l vious tournament. Then, too," he continued, "the number of last-minute withdrawals was only two." Commenting on the large amount of work necessary to the managing of the contest, Professor Judson stated, "The work of Professor Shaver and of the Auburn Players, together with the splendid assistance of Dr. Gosser and other members of the English department, permitted an exceptionally smooth-running tournament. Those actively in charge of the contest," he added, "were given the finest of cooperation by the merchants and the townspeople in the securing of stage properties." Fraternities, sororities, and individual homes were thrown open for the reception and entertainment of the large number of participants. According to Professor Judson, plans are already being developed for the tournament next year. Auburn's pistol team last week defeated the Iowa" State College team by a score of 1,305 to 1,279 in a match fired between the teams of the two institutions. Auburn's team percentage now stands* at 400 with eight more matches to fire. The squad has recently been cut to ten men to give more time for practice for the National Field Artillery R. O. T. C. match. The ten men composing the present squadare: P. Appleby, T. W. Clarkson, C. E. Howard, O. W. Ivej, F. Means, T. Newman, D. P. Johnson, G. Sanford, F. N. Williams, and J. Wood. O. S. Spears, a freshman in Education and representing the Education Club, received the award of five dlolars in gold for winning the speech contest Monday night sponsored by Alpha Phi Epsilon, National Forensic Fraternity. The purpose of A. Phi- E. is to further and encourage forensic activities on the Auburn campus. There were seven participants in the contest, representing the seven professional clubs on the campus. The subject of the speakers was, "My Course as a Course and Profession." The talks gave evidence that the speakers had gone deep into the benefits of their course as a course and profession. Each speaker gave insights into the possibilities which his course offers and tried to show that his course was the best one offered. The other participants in the contest Monday night were: C. F. Simmons, winner of second place represented the Agriculture Club; H. Hayes, Vetinary Medicine Club; T. N. Pyke, Electrical Engineering Club; W. E. Rogers, Pharmaceutical Club. Literary Societies Will Hold Contest Students To Represent Literary Societies In Contest Chosen at Tuesday Meetings J. S. E. Inez Shepard Leaves To Study Dietetics Miss Inez Shepard has resigned as a student to go to Riverside Hospital in New York City, where she will become a student in dietetics. Completion of the course requires six months, after which she expects to obtain a position as a dietitian. Miss Shepard was a senior in home economics, in which she will receive a degree at the next commencement. She was placed in special training in New York by Miss Louise P. Glanton of the Auburn faculty . As a student Miss Shepard was very popular. She has a splendid record tfn college work. Her home is in Auburn. She had been society editor of The Plainsman. Mathematical Body Plans For Meeting The Southeastern section of the Mathematical Association of America will hold its ninth annual meeting at Auburn Friday and Saturday, April 24 and 25. The program has been announced by.Prof. C. D. Killebrew, of the Auburn faculty, who is vice-president of the Association. ^- University, college, high school, and other professors and teachers of mathematics are expected to attend the meeting, he said. "It will be open to anyone interested in the subject," he added. The Southeastern section represents the States of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee.' Dr. J. F. Messisk, head of the department of mathematics at Emory University, Atlanta, is chairman of the group and will preside. The visitors will be welcomed to Auburn by President Bradford Knapp. Speakers at the meeting will be Prof. Ward H. Taylor, Alabama College; Prof. J. D. Kuderna, Auburn; Prof. E. A. Bailey, LaGrange College; Prof. F. L. Wren, George Peabody College; Dr. W. H. Fagerstrom, Columbia University; Prof. R. D. Car- (Continued on page 4) The Tuesday evening programs of the Evans and Websterian Societies were devoted chiefly to the selection, by eliminations, of students to represent the organizations in the annual oratorical contest to be held next week. This contest is sponsored by Phi Delta Gamma, honorary forensic fraternity, which has as its aim the purpose of encouraging greater interest in literary work on the campus. J. H. Brown has been chosen to repsent the Evans, while the Websterian has not made public its choice. Colonel McGehee spoke at the meeting of the Evans, which was held in room 210, at 7 p. m., last evening on the subject of "Changes," and the need of adapting oneself to them constantly. The speaker continued saying one should not try to fight changes whether they be economic, political or religious because they are very closely related and symbolical of progress. Professor Butler supplemented, briefly, Colonel McGehee's talk. King's Cash Grocery Has Larger Business Since moving out on the Opelika Road, King's Cash Grocery has shown an increase in business of from 30 to 40 percent, stated John King, proprietor. Expenses have also been greatly reduced in the new location. All orders of $1.50 or more received this week will get free, one bottle of Pen Money Pickles, given as an expression of appreciation to the many customers of this store. The store is fully stocked, and in the words of Mr. King, "Carries everything from brass monkeys to bales of hay". The business is established on a firm basis, and is here to stay. The annual Interfraternity Council Banquet will be held on April 20th according to a decision made by the council at the Monday night's meeting. Each fraternity belonging to the council, will receive four bids, supposedly for the old and new representatives. Carl Schlich, who was appointed chairman of the committee in charge of preparations, states that this year's banquet will supercede all others. During the meeting a committee under the chairmanship of John T. Harris, was appointed to* make arrangements for the coming Easter egg hunt, which will be held on Sunday, April 5th. This is also an annual affair held on each Easter Sunday afternoon for the Rats of the council members. Prizes will be awarded to the best dressed Freshman and to the one who finds the most eggs. Plans for the Interfraternity Council Ball were discussed and it was decided that this year each fraternity would get only eight bids instead of the ten formerly given. This was done to cut down on the number of people attending, since last year's ball was too crowded. The council also decided too conduct a tennis tournament between its members again this xear, and a committee was appointed to attend to this matter with Kelly Sullivan as chairman. Heretofore these tournaments have been very successful and the trophy donated to the winner has been keenly sought after. Although there has been no official announcement to the effect, the officers to lead the council during the next year are usually selected the night of the annual banquet. KIWANIS TO HELP IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING Each High School Boy Will Be Under Guidance of Kiwanis Sponsor Pro. Applebee's Health Is Steadily Improving The health of Prof. Frank W. Ap-plebee, head of the applied art department, has continually improved since he left Auburn at the first of March for a month's leave of absence. He went to his home in Boston where he has been under the care of a physician. Dean Biggin states that Professor Applebee will report back to Auburn on the first of April to resume his duties. FRATERNITIES REQUESTED TO SEND GO-TO-CHURCH REPORTS The Y.M.C.A. requests that all the fraternities turn in their final reports on the Go-to-Church Month so that an announcement of the winner can be made by Saturday. This contest ended Sunday, March 22, and according to an announcement made by T. P. DeMonia, chairman of the religious committee, almost all of the fraternities on the campus entered, and most of them made excellent showings. All the reports have not been turned in as yet, but the following six fraternities are in the lead: Alpha Gamma Rho, Theta Upsilon Omega, Alpha Psi, Kappa Sigma, Square & Compass, and Phi Kappa Tau. It is the object of the Y.M.C.A. to announce the winner of this contest in Saturday's, paper, but to be able to do this all the fraternities concerned must cooperate. The Auburn Kiwanis Club is making a serious effort to give the local boys, of high school age, the proper kind of vocational guidance, according to a statement made by Dr. Paul Irvin, in his talk before the Kiwanis Club Monday. This effort is being carried on under the direction of the vocational guidance committee of the Kiwanis Club, which is composed of three members: A. H. Collins, J. A. Parrish and Dr. Paul Irvin. The specific project which the Club has had under way for several months is concerned with helping those boys who have made a somewhat definite decision in regard to their life work. The object of the committee is to get each of these boys to tie up with a member of the club, this member to serve as the boy's sponsor, and to help him in every way possible in continuing his preparation for his life's work. This sponsor is to be choosen because of his ability and knowledge in the field which the boy has selected. In this same connection Mr. J. A. Parrish of the Auburn High School reported that a course was being offered the school in vocational guidance, and was proving of value to the students. This fact is to be taken into consideration in the future work of the vocational guidance committee. This committee also reported that a large field for vocational guidance was present among the college students at Auburn, and at an early date steps will be taken to increase the service of the club in this direction. 'i V PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1931 gtyg JUmtusttum Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates $3.60 per year (60 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala. Business and editorial offices at Auburn Printing Co. on Magnolia Street. Offices hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily. STAFF Gabie Drey Charles S. Davis Editor-in-Chief Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Thomas P. Brown Associate Robert L.'Hume Associate Victor White _ Managing Claude Currey News J. W. Letson .._ News Alan Troup Composing C. F. Simmons .Composing Adrian Taylor Sports Murff Hawkins Exchange K. M. McMillan Literary A. C. Cohen Contributing V. J. Kjellman Contributing C. E. Mathews ..Contributing H. W. Moss Contributing Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor REPORTERS Horace Shepard, '34 Otis Spears, '34 Frank Keller, '34 R. E; Hodnette, '34 N. D. Thomas, '33 BUSINESS STAFF Virgil Nunn Asst. Business Mgr. Ben Mabson ,-- Advertising Manager Roy Wilder Circulation Manager James Backes Asso. Advertising Mgr. CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Charles Adams, '34 W. S. Pope, L. E. Sellers, '34 '34 SENIOR CLASS' DECISION The recent decision of the senior class that the treasury of that class should be set aside to be added to any funds for the establishment of an infirmary here is without a doubt a wise and an unselfish move. One of the most badly needed commodities on the campus at the present time is a hospital. Only several days ago there were fears that an epidemic of meningitis would envolep the campus in the same manner that the influenza struck Auburn several years ago. What would have happened if the meningitis epidemic had struck Auburn? There surely are not the necessary accommodations for anyone with a disease or other infirmity that commands hospital attention. But the main fact upon which the class is to be congratulated is just the plain fact that they decided not to follow the footsteps of classes that have graduated before. It means that the seniors are willing to donate their treasury to a cause that is needy and necessary instead of just throwing the money on some affair such as the annual banquets. There are students who will attack the move in no unharsh terms. They will accuse their fellow-class members of turning the treasury over to a project that will never be a reality. Some have asked why several scholarships were not established. There will be seniors who want to know why the banquet will not be given with the treasury—these last are the men who are willing to overlook anything for a show, in the form of a banquet, that will last only for a night. The Plainsman congratulates the members and officers of the Class of 1931 on really doing something worthwhile. It is the first time in the past several years that a class has done anything worth commendation. A class is generally referred to as a group of men who have been to college for the same number of years, possessing offices, and doing nothing. Classes at Auburn have always fallen under this definition. But the Class of '31 has at last been different and done something that falls outside of the usual nothingness that typifies the activities of the average class. Although the treasury of the senior class is only a very small portion of the funds that are necessary for the erection of a hospital, the unselfish move of the class should be an indication to the college, townspeople, and others interested in Auburn that the students are willing to do their share toward the project. It should serve as an incentive for those who.are desirous of building a hospital to use just a little more effort. NEW QUALIFICATIONS The recent ruling of the Executive Cabinet whereby only students who have completed five semesters before they shall be eligible for nomination to the positions of editor-in-chief and business manager of the publications should pass before the student body without further notice. The cabinet has verified the interest shown in campus activities and affairs by making such a ruling that will serve as a protection to the respective student publications. The first part of the amendment, which states that a student must have worked a year before he shall be eligible for nomination, is a very good and necessary move. A man can become acquainted with the inner workings of an organization of this type in a years' time. How many times in the past has a student who has worked only a short length of time on a publication been elected to one of either positions? Many good student politicians have been elected to offices for which they were unfitted. And the result has always been the detrimentation of the publication. We can see no reason, however^ why the second clause is included in the amendment. Why should a student who is well-equipped to hold an office be kept from an office? When a man has worked conscientiously on a staff for a year or two there is no reason - why he should be barred from being nominated simply because he has not completed five semesters. This part of the amendment is unfair to a certain degree. But, taken as a whole, The Plainsman sees • and commends the general motive of the action. At the same time, it would be a good idea for the Cabinet members to look further into the matter and see whether or not the second part of the amendment could not be slightly changed. Twelfth Night A Synopsis Act I Sebastian and Viola, twins, are seperated by shipwreck and each other believes the other lost. Viola is cast ashore on the coast of Illyria. She thereupon dons male attire and obtains service as page with the Duke "Orsino, who has been vainly suing for the hand of Olivia, a native lady. The Duke is pleased with the appearance of his new page and sends Viola to pay court for him to Olivia, which she does with so much gracefulness and eloquence that the lady becomes enarmoured of the supposed youth instead of the master. Act II Olivia sends favors and messages to Viola in which, naturally, the latter takes no interest. Viola, in turn, has conceived a passion for the Duke, which she is compelled to hide. Olivia's steward, Malvolio, is so priggish and conceited that others of her household contrive a practical joke against him, sending him an anonymous love-letter which he is given to believe is from Olivia herself. Act III Malvolio follows instructions contained in the letter and behaves so ridiculously that his mistress believes him demented. Meanwhile Olivia's love for Viola becomes so intense that she sues openly to the ficticious page, much to the latter's distress. Sir Andrew Aguecheek, a foolish suitor of Olivia's, is displeased at the favours shown the page, and in a spirit of bravado challenges Viola. Though both are eager to avoid the conflict, it is only averted by the arrival of officers. Aqt IV Sebastian, Viola's brother, who was also cast up by the sea, comes to Illyria. He looks so much like' his sister—especially since she is in men's garments—that Sir Andrew mistakes him for the page and renews the fight. This time he does not encounter a woman's shrinking spirit or weak arm, and he is soundly belaboured. Soon after, Olivia also meets Sebastian, supposes him to be Viola and reiterates her devotion. The delighted Sebastian returns love for love and they are secretly espoused before a priest. Act V Olivia encounters Viola in company with the Duke and greets her by the title of husband. The bewildered page disavows the title, but the priest who performed the ceremony vouches for it. The Duke is much disgruntled that his favourite page should so abuse his confidence. Viola is meeting with general disfavour, when her brother Sebastian arrives on the scene, and the two who had thought each other dead are reunited. Olivia discovers that she has espoused the brother, after having wooed the sister, while the Duke finds that his attachment for his page becomes love when Viola resumes her feminine attire. The secret of Malvolio's dementia is revealed, and he is released from the confinement in which he has been held. From McSpadden's "Shake&perian Synop- The man who loudly proclaims that college students today are not interested in learning anything is generallizing quite inaccurately from a relatively small group of noise-makers-to the whole body of American collegians.—Herbert E. Hawkes, in The Nation. Prexy's Paragraphs By Bradford Knapp I wish the students at this institution would correct one of the many false rumors which have gone out from Auburn. One of the State papers published a statement that this institution endeavored to prevent the news from going out that there was a case of spinal meningitis here at Auburn. The students know that there never was a case of spinal meningitis at Auburn and they also know that the facts regarding the unfortunate death of one of the students after he had been home about eight days were published in the March 11 issue of the Plainsman. I think we are extremely fortunate in every way but I have been very much discouraged because the persistent rumor went out regarding this matter in spite of the fact that we published the exact facts and when anybody phoned us we gave the facts. More than a week before the item appeared in one of the State papers another State paper phoned me and I -told them all the facts. Rest assured that in any emergency of this character the administration of this institution will do everything in its power to protect the student body. * * * * * The installation of Delta Sigma Pi, national professional business fraternity, at this institution was a noteworthy occasion. It is a clear recognition of this institution as taking its place in a long list of worthwhile institutions engaged in training young men for responsible positions in business. We have come to the time when the engineering graduate and the agricultural graduate as well as the graduate in the strictly" business courses must know economics and business administration because the administrative positions in industry and in agriculture are multiplying every day. Auburn's very successful and splendid effort in the publication of the Alabama Economic Review which correlates the business, industrial and agricultural conditions of the Nation and of Alabama is being received by the people of the State in a very fine way and is but another index of the regard for this line of work. I congratulate Delta Sigma Pi and the young men who constitute its membership. * * * » » Honors Convocation which is scheduled to occur on March 31, will not be worthwhile unless the students cooperate. Most of the honor fraternities have elected those students who measure up to the high standards set by these honor fraternities. Of course the names have been published in the papers but you have^had no chance as a student body to recognize exactly who these honor students are. If the honor is worth anything then it is an honor and the honor there is in it is in the recdgni-tion of what has been accomplished. Let me suggest very earnestly that we have a full house and that the brief ceremony of swearing in the Freshman members of the student cabinet and presenting very briefr ly these outstanding students in the various divisions of the institution be accomplished before as many of the student body as can get into Langdon Hall. BARROOM BALLADS By HIC-HIC LOVING YOU You ask me why I love you dear, Just why for you I care. 'Tis 'cause you never show a frown, And how you fix your hair. I love the way you tilt your chin, And too, your pleasing smile. And when compared to other girls, You beat them all a mile. I can't explain this turn of fate, That made you care for me. Just what you see in foolish man, Is more than I can see. You ask me why I love you dear, And why 'tis only you, That keeps me inspired every day. I jes' love you 'cause I do. THE GRADUATE I'm a college man with a nice degree, Well versed in business creed. And the unread folk all envy me; My high-toned college breed. Yet the unread folk all have a niche, Dug out with toil and strife. As yet, I've found no place to pitch, My tent in the field of life. Only a people that are strong and calm pan work usefully for peace.—Andre Tar-dieu. Beautiful brunettes are more rare than beautiful blondes.—Florenz Ziegfield. And a new fad has hit Auburn. It did not surprise us when we saw a student riding around town on a mortorcycle; this is a thing that has been happening quite often around here. But we were amazed when we saw a fellow taking a young lady out riding. , It must be a good plan, however, as JEAN FUNCHESS seemed to enjoy very mUch the ride Monday after on the rear end of BILLY ASKEW'S motorcycle. Maybe BILLY will take some other girls riding sometimes. * * * * * * * * Co-eds will have a chance for a change. Our friend, HAAKON PROVOST, at the present writing, is confined to his bed with co-editis and will not contribute to the editorial page for some time. But we do hope he will be up and about soon. * * * * * * * * JIMMIE ROBBINS and the Auburn Knitwits will next.tear up "When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver," to be dedicated to DEAN PETRIE. * * * * * * * * The above GENIAL GENTLEMEN will also murder "Would You Like to Take a Walk," to be played to a lady who is nursing a broken leg. * * * * * * * * MR. TAXICAB KAPELL and his GENERAL BUSINESS playmates had a big day all to themselves. It seems as though they were jealous of the Engineers' Day, so they had to he satisfied, hence the celebration Saturday. Copy-cats! ! ! * * * * * * * * We can imagine what would have happened if Judge Lindsey had been on Noah's Ark.—Kentucky Kernel. * * * * * * * * "You might as well admit your guilt," said the detective, "The man whose house you broke into positively identifies you as the burglar." "That's funny," said the burglar. "What's funny?" asked the detective. "How he could identify me when he had his head under the cover all the time I was in the room?"—Ex. ' * * * * * * * * * Drill Sergeant (drilling a squad of recruits)—When I was a little boy, I had a set of wooden soldiers.. One day I lost them and cried very hard. Buy my mother said, "Never mind, Johnny, some day you will have your soldiers." And now (he paused and wiped his eyes) that day has come.—Ex. * * * * * * * * Red McRae claims that his U-Drive-It attempted a little driverless stunt Wednesday night. We wonder though how it happened to pick such a concealed parking space just on the edge of Lieutenant Bowman's garden. * * * * * * * * And here's the absent-minded professor who walked into a classroom and begin a rapid fire lecture on an engineering subject. Prompted by a student, he blushed, and said, "I must be in the wrong room," and left. *> WITH OTHER COLLEGES -:- WHO'D A THO'T IT A questionnaire circulated among college leaders showed that college drinking was far from eliminated. The poll by the National Student Federation told that 57 believed the practice to he on the increase while i6 believed it was decreasing. Forty-seven thought the condition was a static one. None thought it completely eliminated, and 68 favored modification. Advocates for repeal numbered 38, but 23 were for strict enforcement. Now we thought college students had quit drinking. Oh, well. * * * * * SHAME A survey of an Eastern university reveals that 60 percent of the students sleep through at least three hours of classes each week. The fight professors to keep the bedtime-story boys awake sometimes makes education entertaining rather than instructional. That 60 percent sleeping through three class hours each week doesn't phase us. We have that large number sleeping through three class hours per day. The reason for sleeping such a small amount is due largely to the extra loud bellowing of some of the profs, bellowing being preferred to braying in this peculiar instance. * * * * * SO DO WE A professor at the University of Denver dreams of a "New University" which will be a reality in the near future. Oh yeah? It will have no fraternities, sororities, or athletics, but an institution in which a ten-year- old child can enter and demand an education. There will be no exams, quizzes, grades, and so forth, and a student may study only when he pleases. There would not be so many pleases then, would there? * * * * * NOT A CHANCE The Southern Methodist University has initiated clasess in football for co-eds. The question has been asked "Will feminine football ever be realistic or will the girls stop between plays to powder shiny noses and rearrange hair?" It may be all right for the co-ed to keep the campus self-styled sheik waiting thirty minutes in order that she might apply the dressing, both fabri-cal and cosmetical, (nice words, aren't they?) but not ten thousand people. WHAT POWER Fred Sington, 225-pound All-American tackle while up at Lexington's 0. D. K. Covention seems to have had quite a time. It seems that Freddie made a high school dance in the little town, and that a young lady, upon being introduced to such a prominent gentleman, promptly curled up and fainted in his arms. That's too bad to, isn't it? Now the curling up was all right, but not the fainting. No? * * * * * SPEAKETH NOTETH It is said that down at California the police make a practice of searching fraternity houses for straying articles every spring. On one such search they found a small tombstone "strayed" some twenty miles from a country-church yard. That's awful, isn't -it? Probably the boys had some "dead soldiers" that they wanted to give an appropriate burial to though, and where else could they get a tombstone—so cheap? * * * * * OH MOVIES! WHY HAST THOU STUNGETH In an editorial appearing in the Cumberland Collegian we find out just what these typical "college movies" are all about. So therefrom cometh this: "The last so-called 'collegiate movie' which we saw served only to confirm our previously-formed opinion that pretty bad is getting worse fast. "College movies Are not divisible into varied types and classes; they are all alike. They need not be analyzed for criticism; they are already reduced to the lowest common denominator. There is no complexity in their plot; it is as simple and incapable of change as the proverbial western show, in which the miserly step-uncle of the pretty heroine holds a mortgage on her Daddy's ranch and the handsome hero thunders upon the scene on his dapple steed at the cli-matical moment and saves the day. "College movies are perhaps the most misleading of the agents that picture college life as it is not and persuade public opinion to the view that college is exclusively a place of hilarious frolic, dances and other activities of wild and gay youth, dominated by romeos, and football heroes and campus queens with 'it.' "Only in one of the college movies that we have seen was there shown a character who exhibited the slightest tendency towards truly collegiate practices, and he was the comedian, described as B—B—, who had a 'false idea that college was a place to study.' The college movie never leads the spectator to the classroom, to the library, to the study halls, or to the laboratories. It never allows its pseudo-collegiate- characters to show the slightest inkling of those habits and ideals the average college man possesses and practices. It never goes to the debating societies, the literary societies, the science clubs. It never shows the constructive values of fraternities and sororities. The hero is never the sober-minded, studious, ambitious individual who shows prospects of developing into the successful graduate. "The college movie not only gives a warped picture of college life to the public. It develops false impressions on the part of prep school students who expect to get a college education. The college movie is truly the worst enemy of the American institutions of higher learning." Quite true my son. But who would go to a "college movie" if it merely portrayed the real side to college life? Yes, you are right; the old maid aunt, sister Jones, and Uncle Ned would be there, but not little "Joe College." OUa Podrida By Chariot EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily the editorial opinions of this paper. It is a column of personal comment, and is not to be read as an expression of our editorial policy. * * * * * The trouble with most of us scientists and embryo engineers is that ordinary people cannot understand us when we use the language in which we love to express our burning thoughts. Of course we think we know what we mean when we say, Eliminate space, which is the ascription of a perfect mathematical reason for a co-exist-ant plurality, and that all thought is resolved into a synthetic unit which will necessarily find for its ultimate habitat the centre of the Great Logos; but what does that truism convey to the mind of the layman? Echo replies, What indeed? * * * * * Imaginary Interview: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, the British critic, settled himself comfortably into three archairs and mopped his dripping brow with a tablecloth, preparatory to draining a five gallon keg of water. "Now, young man," he puffed, giving himself a generous scratch, "what was your question?" "Do you think Auburn will be the next Conference Champion?" I inquired. "Personally," G. K. said, "I have no doubt that the novel of the fuwait, that's another speech—Yes, I think Auburn stands an excellent chance of being Southern Conference Champion next fall. Yet again, she may not be; I really don't wish to be positive." "Oh what do you base your opinion?" I persisted, attempting to blast something concrete from this fountain of knowledge who has been described as having an in-tellegent opinion on every subject under the sun. "Oh, there you have me," he admitted. "My answer was biased by my personal desire to see Auburn regain its place in the football world. I can ascribe no other reason." And another good interview went pfft. * * * * * One of the best cracks at medical students is found in the Bible. You might try reading Second Chronicles, fifteenth chapter, twelfth and thirteenth verses. * * * * * The Saturday Evening Post is feeling the pinch too. The magazine, which formerly ran twelve or more short stories a week, is trying to keep the number down to four. Pretty discouraging for ' neophytes, especially as the Post already has a year's supply of shorts on hand. * * * * * The silliest book I've read so far this year is Java-Java by Byron Steel. Mr. Steel is an extremely poor imitator of Jean Cocteau, the enfant terrible of continental literature, and evidently was consuming something much stronger than Java while writing this, his second book. One of the characters, Eric, reminded me of some one (I forget his name now but I think it was Franz) in Cocteau's Le Grand Ecart. Both are aviators; both use the same manner in their treatment of women. The yarn Stee) spins is, if possible, more fantastic than the stories Colonel Ho.ople tells. Fried Octopus Eggs, indeed! According to Variety, Buddy Rogers will sing in a bass voice in his next picture. TO BUDDY In a cigarette it's taste; In a sky it's blue; In a garbage can it's waste; In a big bass voice—it's you! I wonder if Rudy Valee will be forced to croon through a lead pipe. And will Victor McLaglen hereafter deliver his Bronz cheers through mortised ledy-fin-gers. Quotations The law of true art, even according to the Greek idea, is to seek beauty wherever it is to be found, and separate it from the dross of life as gold from ore.—Lafcadio Hearn. « In some modern books the immorality is so chaotic that it makes one laugh. It reveals mental, not moral, collapse. —G. K. Chesterton. In every battle fought, in the various steps we have taken from barbarism, it is a contest between human beings and dollars, and it's still going on.—Sen. Norris. I have learned to have a little pity for after-dinner speakers in their chosen calling. Not much, but a little.—Robert Benchley, in Liberty. A surprising portion of young men today are actually incapable of growing mustaches. The admission is deplorable and sinister.—Stephen Langton. Men cannot thrive in America without pie.—James J. Davis. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1931 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE BURT'S GRADUATION WILL LEAVE GAP IN 2 ATHLETIC SQUADS By Elmer G. Salter When Joe Burt receives a diploma from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute in May, he will leave a large gap in both the football and baseball teams that will be hard to fill next year. He played guard on the gridiron eleven under Coach Chet Wynne during the 1930 season and is located in right field on Sam McAllister's diamond nine. Before entering Auburn in the Fall of 1927, Burt carved a niche in „the athletic hall of fame at Shades- Cahaba High School, Birmingham. He was a three-sport star there, playing on the football, basketball and baseball teams. He was prominently mentioned for all-state honors in football. He continued his high school athletic successes at Auburn his plebe year as he played guard on the football and cage teams and outfield on the baseball club. • The hardwood failed to lure him after his freshman year, but he was a luminary on the other two teams. As a guard in football,, he was one of the best to wear Plainsmen colors in several years and as an outfielder in baseball, he is one of the best in Dixie college circles. Regardless of the system used on the gridiron, Burt has been a valued .cog on the machine. The Notre Dame style of play was introduced at the Plains last season by Wynne which calls for two fast guards. The players in these position have to pull out of the line and form interference for the ball carriers on several plays. Boys! If you Eat MEAT Buy it from your Friends MOORE'S MARKET' —Phone 37— FORT BENNING WILL PLAY AUBURN THIS AFTERNOON ON DRAKE FIELD By Elmer G. Salter The Auburn-Fort Benning baseball game, which was rained out last Saturday, will be played here on Drake Field, this afternoon, starting at four o'clock. This will be the opening game on the Tigers 1931. schedule. The two teams will meet in a return battle at Fort Benning, April 1. Coach Sam McAllister realizes the strength of the Musketeers and is giving the Plainsman extra work. The postponing of the game meant only additional work for Capt. Frock Pate and the rest of the heavy stick wield-ers. McAllister increased the length of the drills when he glanced at the 1930 record book and found that the Tigers were barely able to win the first engagement with the Musketeers at Auburn, 5 to 4. Joe Burt's long distance clouting gave the Bengals the edge when he hit a homer in the last of the ninth and another one earlier in the afternoon.. Auburn won the final meeting, 9 to 3. Ray Prim and Buck Carter, two of last season's mainstays on the mound, who now belong to the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Burt was one of the mainstays at left guard in 1930, however. While his work as a gridder has stood out, his long distance clouting and allraround fancy fielding on the diamond has won for him many praises from the leading sports writers in the South and has caused several big league scouts to camp on his trail. He literally murdered all kinds of pitching his first year in college. Besides thrilling the fans on more than one occasion with seemingly impossible shoe-string catches, he wound up the season with a remarkable batting average of .412. Making hard catches seem easy continued to be a habit of his his sophomore year. 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Toomer Tiger Drug Store Athletics, and Jack Pilgrim, sopho more, are the main losses from the pitching staff and McAllister is having a hard time developing dependable twirlers to take their places, especially since- Prim and Carter were ranked with the best in the South. Clifford Smith heads the hurling corps, and is the only player on the squad who has had much experience on the hillock. He has been showing up well this Spring. He probably will see plenty of service as a pinch hitter as he is one of 4he best hitters on the team. Dunham Harkins is a veteran of three years service, but has been used largely in a relief role. He has changed his delivery and is working hard to develop a" good curve ball. He will need a varied assortment if he comes through in good style when he receives the nomination to start "chunking" them over in the early frames. Because he will need Jimmie Hitchcock's hitting power, McAllister has shifted him to centerfield and will start him at this berth against Fort Benning. Hitchcock is one of the sweetest looking shortstops in the South, but McAllister has decided to let Capt. Pate cavort around the shortstop territory. It was a case of having to find places on the team for two heavy-hitting shortstops and McAllister decided to keep Pate at his old post because of his experience. Duck Riley, former Ensley performer, has been performing brilliantly at the keystone and is expected to have another good year. He and Capt. Pate are expected to complete many twin-killings. Riley handled over a hundred chances in 1930 without committing an error, and is out to break this record. McAllister is undecided on his starting pitcher against Benning. "I might start Smith or I might decide to open with Sam Grubbs or Clarence West," said the jovial mentor. Grubbs is a promising sophomore and West a junior, who is making a determined bid for recognition after being a reserve team. The infielders and outfielders who will start Wednesday in the curtain raiser will probably be Kaley, catcher; Lloyd, first base; Riley, second base; Pate, shortstop; Lewis, third base; Hodges, left field; Hitchcock, center field, and Burt, right field. Thomas Ustick Walter, 67, grandson of the architect by the same name who. designed and built the dome and right and left wings of the United States Capitol as well as other government buildings, died recently at Newpotr News. Walter was himself an architect, as was his father. wouldn't like to finish a season with an average that high? Because of his sensational playing, his mates elected him alternate-captain of the 1930 team. He rewarded them by ending the year in a tie for the batting championship with Big Ben Newton with an average of .349. They again elected him to the same position on this year's team. Although he posseses a high mark of .381 for three years of college competition, this average will probably be increased this year. This average was compiled against some of the leading amateur and professional teams below the Mason- Dixon line, but his first chance to perform against a major league club will be at Auburn, Monday, March 30, when the Philadelphia Phillies play the Tigers in the feature attraction on Auburn's 1931 "A" Day program. THE HOTEL TUNE IN WAPI FOR HOTEL PROGRAM - TJ7] - ;i THOMAS JEFFERSON THE CONVENTION HOTEL BIRMINGHAMS NEWFST AND FINEST AUBURN HI NOTES The Junior I class had charge of the chapel program Monday. Marguerite Johnson read the Bible, then an interesting play, "Paris", was pre sented by Mrs. Harrison's .General Language class. The theme of the play dealt with classical myths and the members of the class represented mythical characters. _ 0 — Students who had written permission from their parents were permitted to attend the State Dramatic Tournament on Friday. Many interesting plays were given and the students were able to observe other high school students in interesting roles. —0— Several of the Hi-Y members at tended the Older Boy's Conference held at Jacksonville, Alabama. The bo»ys who attended derived great benefit from the meeting, which will be a great advantage for the club for the next year. The boys were accompanied by Demonia, a college student, who-is interested in the Y. M. C. A. The boys attending were: Guy Bailey, Vernon Story, Alton Bain and Robert Schubert. —0— During the past week all the Senior English classes of Auburn Hi have been studying plays. Van Wagenen's senior I class has been . divided into groups and the students in each group are studying the part of plays they like best. Some are dramatiz ing, others are studying staging, and some are reading plays aloud. ( The senior III class has been interested in the types and construe tion of one-act plays as well as the reading of many modern plays. The senior II class, under Mrs. Jones di rection, has been dramatizing parts of Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquers." —0— Auburn high was represented in the State Dramatic Tournament, held here the past week-end. Love-in-idleness, a short one-act play was given. York High was the successful contestant against Auburn High in the Friday Morning series. The cast included the following high school students, Frances Passmore, Bessie Ruth Smyer, Helen Gardiner, and John Cotting. Italian Schoolchildren Get Books; Cheaper Rome, Italy—(IP)—The Italian State Library recently issued a new standard set of books for school children of the country, enabling an economy in cost, at the same time placing the books on better paper with better illustrations because of the increased number published at one time. Episcopal pastors in New York City are engaged in a controversy over the merits of faith healing. CITY OF AUBURN AN ORDINANCE To require license of solicitors. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Auburn, Alabama, as follows: Sec. 1. That no person, firm or corporation shall within the corporate boundaries of the "City of Auburn, or within the police jurisdiction of the City of Auburn, engage in the business of soliciting, at any place except within a regularly established place of business, from consumers, orders for merchandise whether such orders are to be filled by delivery from a point within the City of Au burn or its police jurisdiction, or from a point beyond the police jurisdiction, without first obtaining and paying therefor, a license, in the amount hereinafter prescribed; and any person, firm or corporation who shall violate the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction be punished by fine not exceeding $50.00 and may also be put to hard labor for the City of Auburn for not exceeding sixty days, and each separate act of solicitation shall constitute a different offense. Sec. 2. The amount to be paid for a license to engage in the business mentioned in Section 1 hereof within the corporate limits of the City of Auburn, is hereby fixed at $15.00, and the amount to be paid for a license to engage in the business mentioned in Section 1 hereof outside of the corporate limits of the City of Auburn, but within the police jurisdiction of the City of Auburn is hereby-fixed at $7.50; if the business be engaged in both within the corporate limits and without the corporate limits but within the police jurisdiction, one license will suffice, such one license to be that required for engaging in such business within the corporate limits. Sec. 3. This ordinance shall not be applicable to persons, firms or corporations soliciting orders to be filled by delivery made from a point beyond the State of Alabama. "I, Bert Newton, City Clerk of the City of Auburn, Alabama, hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an Ordinance adopted by the City Council at a meeting held on March 17th, 1931." Bert Newton. City Clerk. Adv. 3-25-31. 'A' DAY PROGRAM WILL FEATURE ARRAY OF LEADING PRO HITTERS Several of the leading hitters in professional baseball will appear here with the Philadelphia Phillies when they meet the Auburn Tigers on Drake Field in the feature attraction on Auburn's 1931 "A" Day program, Monday, March 30. Although his hurling staff is weak, Burt Shotton has corralled a team of hitters that can hold their own against the best in the major leagues. Shotton dispensed with Lefty O'Doul and Fresco Thompson during the Winter trading sessions, but acquired the services of Clise Dudley and Jumbo Elliott, two fair pitchers, and Hal Lee, the-leading slugger on the team at present. The acquisition of this trio is expected to strengthen the club. Lee's rise in professional baseball has been phenomenal. He jumped from the campus of Mississippi College to Brooklyn, who farmed him out to Macon and Atlanta for two seasons. He was carried by the Robins as utility outfielder in 1930. Since receiving a chance to play regularly, he has been hitting at a fast clip to discourage the other candidates for left field. He has been the sensation of the Phillies training camp at Winter Haven, Fla. Lee served as assistant coach at Auburn under Coach Geo. Bohler. He was liked by the students and townspeople here who will welcome his return to the Plains when Philadelphia plays the Tigers March 30. Manager Shotton has not signed his leading hitter last year, Chuck Klein, EUROPE and Back... *185 Sell Dad on the idea! United States Lines makes it so inexpensive. "Tourist Third'' fares range from $185 round trip on the palatial REPUBLIC to $231 on the mighty LEVIATHAN, 5 day speed to Europe. Remarkable values also on the flyers AMERICA and GEORGE WASHINGTON. Travel with the college crowd. Last year on one sailing of the LEVIATHAN 60 colleges were represented. This year the Harvard-Yale track teams sail July 1st on the GEORGE WASHINGTON for the Oxford-Cambridge meet Come on along! Enjoy fine food . . . comfortable staterooms . . . nightly dances to "red hot" college orchestras ...movies...sports on big sun decks. Send atonce for the booklet, "TOURIST THIRD CABIN TO EUROPE", and make reservations before the rush starts. Official Fleet of the Intercollegiate Alumni Associations Consult Your Local Steamship Agent or UNITED STATES LINES Travel Bureau Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. Hibernia Bank Bids., New Orleans, La. but the big boy is expected to attach his name to a contract in a few days and perform against the Plainsmen on "A" Day. Klein batted. 386 last year. Virgil "Spud" Davis, Birmingham boy; Pinkey Whitney, Dick Bartell, Don Hurst, Barney Friberg and Buzz Artlett, the big swatter from the Pacific Coast, are a few of the other star hickory welders playing for Shotton. Several of last season's veterans and a promising group of rookies will form the Phillies hurling staff. Stewart Bolen, from Jackson, Ala., who had a good year with Baltimore; Lil Stoner, former Detroit Tiger, who won 14 games with Forth Worth in 1930; Hal Wiltse, credited with 19 victories with Forth Worth, and Ben Shields, once with the New York Yankees, are the newcomers expected to strengthen Shotton's hurling corps. Phil Collins, Ray Benge, Clise Dudley, and Jumbo Elliott are the Phillies hopes for a better year. POLITICAL SCHOOL WILL BE SPONSORED BY CENTRE COLLEGE Why is it that those who like us the best say the meanest things to us? 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In the third place, Columbia students wouldn't know what'to do with a million dollars worth of banana splits, shirts, chocolate layer cake and half hose. A. M. Burns and Martin Wexler, who have been selling clothes to Columbia students for ten years, say not one out of a thousand fails to pay his bill.s Burns and Wexler extend "accommodations" and cash checks without fear or favor for men actually enrolled at the University. Any and all students are able to obtain from $40 to $50 credit for books at the Columbia University Book Shop. Checks cashed for students total $1,000 to $1,500 a day at this shop. Most of these are on out-of-town banks, which would give rubber-check men ample time to leave town before the checks bounced back. "But we never lose," said Michael Ahearn. "Students are appreciative. They haven't much money—most of them—but, for the most part, they have ideals, high hopes for themsel- Freshmen Will Get Better Preparation Salt Lake City, Utah —(IP)— A tentative plan under which freshman and sophomore students at the University of Utah would be organized as a special unit to be termed "The College of the University of Utah" and in which they would receive more specific preparation for upper division work, has been presented to the faculty of the institution by Dr. Frederick J. Pack, head of the department of geology and chairman of the president's committee which drew up the plan. ves, and it never occurs to them to violate our confidence or their own code of youth." "Do you trust students for apples until allowance day?" an apple man at the corner of the campus was asked. •Mistaking the questioner for a student, he extended an idle apple, and made a little notation in his daybook. Fifth Avenue tailors have learned what this apple man learned. So has Gus, the fellow that runs the place close to the University— you know, where the beer is good and the "side-cars" hit you when you least expect them. "These here Columbia collegiates always pay for their drinks—and breakage," said Gus. "They can break stuff up to a hundred dollars here any time, but if they're gonna break anything over a hundred, they got to put down a deposit. "Maybe them Oxford collegiates ain't good pay, I don't know. They never come in here." Sloan and "Amos" Guests At Luncheon Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) and President Matthew Scott Sloan, of New York Edison Co., were guests of Bernard Gimbel, department store man, at a luncheon in Manhattan. Chaffed Tycoon Sloan: "Now tell us, Wha*t made Madam Queen faint in the courtroom?" Retorted Amos: "She saw her electric light bill."— Time. The above, from a recent issue of Time, the national news magazine, is of peculiar interest to the many friends of Mat Sloan, a distinguished Auburn alumnus. Oberlin, O.—(IP)—For the first time in the history of the college, Oberlin College students ( are considering the inauguration of a general undergraduate activities fee, covering all sporting events and subscriptions to college publications. The students will vote on the project in the near future. ! Always Ready to Give You the Best of Service TOOMER'S HARDWARE CLINE TAMPLIN, Manager «.—«.- When you a r e in Montgomery Stop and Eat a t t h e PARAMOUNT CAFE J 120 Montgomery St. Montgomery, A l a . KING'S CASH GROCERY N e w B u i l d i n g _ AUBURN HEIGHTS—OPELIKA-AUBURN HIGHWAY Ai%"TWO PHONES y i |« Vj (Auburn) 1 1 MORNING DELIVERY 8:00 - 10:00 - 11:30 AFTERNOON DELIVERY 2:30 - 4:30 - 5:45 Come to t h e House by t h e Side of t h e Road; We try to be a Friend to Man. "Sho! Sho! This is a Cash Proposition" 2 cans Bartlett PEARS-small can 3 pkgs. 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COLLEGIANA When the new co-op store opens at the University of South Dakota, six co-eds will be behind the fountain dispensing "drinks. Many a boy will bev late to his classes this spring! —0— Eight ex-collegians are on the Yankee roster this spring. They are Gehrig, Columbia; Werber, Duke; Combs, Eastern Kentucky; Padden, Holy Cross; Rhodes, Utah; Sherid, Albright; Weaver, Eastern Kentucky, and Wells, Bethany. —0— The largest chorus of trained voices ever heard on the air will face microphones in the Greek amphitheatre at the University of Virginia on April 16. The occasion will mark part of the program to be presented by the Virginia State Choral Festival Association. - 0 - \ The Student Senate of Ohio State University has endorsed a plan to have seniors grade their instructors at the end of the year. This method should prove highly successful in determining the instructor's status, providing an element of fairness prevails in grading him on his merits and not altgoether on his personality. —0— When the entire male student body of 412 at Washington and Jefferson walked out on a speech by President Baker, in protest of his alleged non-support of athletics, the incident called to mind the nation-wide admiration of those scrappy football teams from W. & J., many times losing, yet fighting to the end. —0— One college and three schools are to be added to Louisiana State University. They are colleges of applied science, and the schools of geology, music and journalism. BEDINGFIELD SPEAKER. TO LIONS CLUB TUES. (Continued from page 1) Mr. Bedingfleld stated that no better remedy for the present economic ills can be found than the prescription given by Henry W. Grady which reads, in part, as follows: "When every farmer in the South shall eat bread from his own fields and meat from his own pastures, and, disturbed by no creditor and enslaved by no debt, shall sit amid his teeming gardens, and orchards, and vineyards, and dairies, and barnyards, pitching his crops in his own -wisdom, and growing it in his own time, and in his chosen market, and not at a master's bidding—getting his pay in cash and not in a receipted mortgage that discharges his debt, but does not restore his freedom—then shall be breaking the fullness of our day." MATHEMATICAL BODY PLANS FOR MEETING (Continued from page 1) michael, University of Illinois; Dr. Fred Allison, Auburn; Prof. T. M. Simpson, University of Florida; Prof. D. F. Barrow, University of Georgia; Prof. W. W. Elliot, Duke University; Dr. Duncan C. Harkin, Auburn; Prof. Z. M. Pirenian, Auburn; and Dr. R. D. Doner, Auburn. , K. D. PI BREAKFAST TO BE HELD FRIDAY (Continued from page 1) Auburn -chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, is in charge of all arrangements, and according to all indications a record attendance is expected. Over one hundred members of Kappa Delta Pi attended this breakfast last year. Abandonment of prohibition in favor of a system holding liquor dealers responsible for damage done by their patrons while under the influence of liquor is advocated by Dr. Robert C. Binkley, professor of history at Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University.. MAN IS THE ONLY PERFECT ANIMAL SAYS SCIENTIST am-phy-he . proof Uni-rush By Charles W. Lawrence Editor, Intercollegiate Press. Cleveland, Ohio —(IP)— Man the only perfect beast. The reason: Man is the only mal whose growth, mentally and sically, is retarded sufficiently by ture to allow him to learn before settles down to live by habit. Thus did Dr. T. Wingate Todd, fessor of anatomy at the School Medicine at Western Reserve versity and director of the Br Foundation, explain to an audience here the tentative conclusions reached so far in the Brush Foundation's inquiry into the natural history of man. Furthermore, Dr. Todd asserted, those conducting the inquiry have found a new word to apply tovthe' forces which control man's destiny from birth to the grave. It is neither heredity nor invironment but both expressed in the word "heritage." Important in Dr. Todd's inquiry is a clever little chimpanzee named Claudius, whose picture was on one of the lantern slides thrown on the screen. With the aid of these slides the director explained to his audience why the anthropoid ape, whose brain at birth suggests greater maturity than that of the child at birth, cannot go on learning unil it becomes, in time, as intelligent as its human relative. In simple language it is because the ape stops growing, or reaches adulthood, at the age of 6 or 7, while man is forced to await the age of 19 or 20 before he becomes full grown. While the ape, therefore, changes from child to adult within about two years, it takes man about 16 years to make the change. Since it is in this period between childhood and adulthood that the animal gains his greatest experience, Dr. Todd indicated man's long retardation in growth is a favorable factor and provides him witjh an overwhelming advantage over the other animals. Dr. Todd did not state as final his, conclusion that an ape, ending the stage of childhood, cannot keep on learning. Claudius, the chipanzee, he said, now has the mind of a child about 1 year old. He'showed a picture of Claudius using a stick to draw an object nearer his cage. That much Claudius has learned, as well as to imitate a windowcleaner. While the window cleaner washes the upper pane, Claudius wasehs the lower pane and would make a good job of it, Dr. Todd said, if he didn't spoil it all by blowing his breath all over the pane when he gets through. "What we want to know," said the director, is whether or not Claudius will keep right on learning as long as he lives. It is possible that he will. We are waiting to find out. But I think it is safe to predict he will not, for he is just about to reach adulthood, and the moment he reaches that stage I am quite certain his period of experience will have become fixed." At 2, Dr. Todd said, the brain of the human child has become more complex than that of the adult chimpanzee. While the ape's brain at birth is larger than the child's, adult man's brain is three times as large as the ape's. Tiger Theatre WEDNESDAY, March 25 RUTH CHATTERTON in "UNFAITHFUL" —with Paul Lucas - Paul Cav-anagh - Stella Moore. —Also— "STRANGE.AS IT SEEMS" and Comedy "THE HEADACHE" THURSDAY, March 26 Warner Brothers present "MAN to MAN" Grant Mitchell - Lucille Powers - Phillips Holmes - George Marion —Also Act— "HAPPINESS REMEDY" and Comedy "DUMBELLS IN DERBIES" FRIDAY, March 27 "FIGHTING CARAVANS" —with Gary Cooper - Lily - Da-mita - Ernest Torrence - Fred Kohler - Tully Marshall. Also Paramount Sound News Civics Department Woman's Club Meets The department of civics of the Woman's Club met on Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. T. High. Mrs. P. O. Davis had charge of the program and secured as speaker, Professor L. M. Ware, whose subject was "Annuals and Perennials." Plans were discussed for the annual flower show, the time and place for which will be announced later. The department of education met the same afternoon at the home of Mrs. M. L. Beck. Mrs. W. D. Salmon was leader, and secured as speaker, Dr. R. L. Johns, who spoke on "The Adjustment of the Problem Child." He emphasized the need for greater facilities in the way of child .guidance or habit clinics in the South to assist such children; the only clinic of this kind in Alabama is located at Montevallo. The "Story Hour", -maintained by the department of education, will be held next Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. E. W. Camp at 3 o'clock. All children of pre-school age are invited. EXPERIMENT COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN U. CRITICIZED Tb,e Brush Foundation's inquiry thus far has produced other interesting results, Dr. Todd said. Of 100 girls studied, he said, 30 were found to be beyond their years in physical and mental growth, while of 100 boys studied only nine were thus beyond their years. In the human being that part of the brain believed to control the learning and use of words develops most rapidly between the ages of 2 and 4. That is the time, Dr. Todd suggested, when children should learn foreign languages. That part of the brain which has to do with directing the human being's attention to new objects develops most rapidly between the ages of 4 and 7. That part of the brain which records experiences sees its greatest development between the ages of 7 and 20. It is during this third period, he said, that man must receive his training, and without that period, which is denied other animals, mankind would never have become man as we know him. It was implied by the director that the parent has a great deal to do with riiaking or breaking the offspring during this period. < Patronize Plainsman Advertisers. Hair Cuts have been reduced from 40c to 30c Special Massage Hair Cut Shampoo Shave $1.00 \ COLLEGE BARBER SHOP Madison, Wis. —(IP)— As plans were being made here to investigate the results thus far of the Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin with a view either to abandonment or extension of the experiment, The Nation, New York weekly, on March 25 published an article of criticism of the college by Eliseo Vivas, of the University of Wisconsin, along with a rejoinder by Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, who began the experiment in the fall of 1927. The import, briefly, of Vivas' article is that the Expeirmental College thus far as proved capable of giving only a more or less superficial education to its students. Dr. Meiklejohn replies that no, when the university is attempting to find out what has been done thus far, is no time for criticism of the college by a professor who is not entirely familiar with its workings or results. Described briefly, the plan of the Experimental College is as follows (keeping in mind that it is experimental and subject to whatever changes the administration believes advisable): It is a two-year course, to which only students of the right type are admitted, taking up the first two years of college. The course of study is based on two great civilizations— that of the Greeks, and that of the modern United States. All other study hinges about this. Vivas contends in his article in The Nation, that it has been demonstrated that the students in the college are inclined to lack experience in that sort of study which demands discipline', that the teachers, because they are rather young, are not specialists in their superficial means of obtaining an education. Dr. Meiklejohn replies, that while he is not entering into a debate as to the merits of the criticism, the student discussions are only a part of the course of study, that frequent reports are required on outside reading. The experiment has aroused widespread interest in world educational cirqles, and on its success is believed to depend largely the future trend in American education. Germans are building a new plane believed capable of rising ten miles in the air. WM HARDIE Insurance and Real Estate Auburn, Alabama April 5th Will Be EASTER SUNDAY Get your cards now. Special ones for Mother, Dad and Sweetheart. Burton's Bookstore Something New Every Day In Montgomery It Is The Jefferson Davis "Montgomery's Finest Hotel" "Dispensers of True Southern Hospitality" Where Auburn People Meet REASONABLE RATES 250 Rooms 250 Baths W. H. Moore, Manager DINKLER HOTELS CO., Inc. Carting L. Dinkier, Pres. & Gen. Mgr. 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Title | 1931-03-25 The Plainsman |
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OCR Transcript | Baseball Today 4:00 O'Clock THE PLAINSMAN T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT Baseball Today 4:00 O'Clock VOLUME LIV AUBURN, ALABAMA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1931 NUMBER 47 MANY FROM AUBURN LEAVE FOR B'HAM FOR A.E.A. MEETING TWELVE JUNIORS PLEDGED BY SCABBARD & BLADE TUESDAY Students In Education Will Also Attend Meeting of Alabama Educators WILL START TOMORROW Five Members Of Faculty Will Attend Meeting As Delegates from Auburn When the Alabama Education Association convenes in Birmingham Thursday, March 26, the Auburn faculty will be exceptionally well represented, according to statements in the current issue of the Alabama School Journal. Among the prominent officers of the association are Dr. Bradford Knapp, member of the Legislative Committee; Dean Zebu- Ion Judd, member of the Executive Committee and of the Committee on Research; Dr. R. L. Johns, member of the Sub-committee on Records and Reports; Professor J. A. Parrish, member of the Committee on Teacher'Tenure; and Dr. Paul Irvine, Vice- President of the "Department of Teacher Training. One feature of the program will be the Alabama Polytechnic Institute dinner. The Journal extends the following invitation: "Friends and Alumni of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute are invited to attend the annual dinner of that institution at the Bankhead Hotel, on Thursday evening, March 26, at 6 o'clock." Auburn students who are registered in the school of education, and who would be interested in attending this annual meeting of the Alabama Education Association can arrange to be excused from classes by seeing Dean Judd. Members of the education department stated that this series of meetings should prove valuable to everyone interested in education. The following members of the Auburn faculty are to attend the association as delegates in the assembly: Dr. Bradford Knapp, Dean Zebulon Judd, Dean J. W. Scott, Dr. B. R. Showalter, and Professor J. R. Rutland. The following are to attend as alternate delegates: Miss Louise P. Glanton, Miss Zoe Dobbs, Professor S. L. Chestnutt and Professor Dan T. Jones. 9 Artillerymen and 3 Engineers Chosen; Tapping Services, Are Planned For the Event, Not Carried Out On Account of Rain • FASHION SHOW IS NOVEL FEATURE ANNUAL "A" DAY To Attend War College Scabbard and Blade pledged twelve members of the junior class Tuesday. Tapping ceremonies had been planned for the drill period at which time the men were to have been called from a special regimental formation. Because of rain the program was not carried out. Nine of these pledged are Artillerymen, and three are Engineers. Only one man is from out of the state. Following are the pledges: J. D. Bush, Mobile. Sam B. Fort, Ensley. Ralph Jordan, Selma. E. B. Kennedy, Auburn. R. A. Mann, New Market. C. E. Mathews, Grove Hill. G. V. Nunn, Auburn. C. E. Sellers, Ramer. M. J. Sullivan, Columbus, Ga. N. Waller, Selma. J. R. Wilder, Dadeville. F. J. Wullenbucher, Birmingham. Scabbard and Blade is a national honorary fraternity, the purpose of which is to honor those students who have distinguished themselves in the military unit. Qualification for membership is not based on military efficiency alone, but qualities of character and leadership are given equal consideration. Company L, Fifth Regiment, of the society was installed at Auburn in 19*24. Each Fraternity Will Enter Men to Be Dressed In Chic Styles of the Season WAPI TO BROADCAST 8 BASEBALL GAMES Final Arrangements May Be Made For Broadcast Of Game With Phillies Monday BEDINGFIELD SPEAKS TO LIONS CLUB TOES. County Agent Lists Remedies For Present Maladjustments In Agriculture Remedies for the present maladjustments in agriculture in Lee County were pointed out by C. H. Beding-field, County Agent, at the Lions Club luncheon yesterday in the Thomas Hotel. Mr. Bedingfield stated that farming conditions are very bad at present in Lee County, listing as some of the causes an attempt to make money instead of a living; the one crop system; a poor distribution of both labor and income; low per-acre yields; high living standards; and the exchange of cheap cotton for high priced foods and feeds. Listing 3%me of the facts to be faced about the present situation as outlined in a bulletin prepared by the County Agricultural Committee, Mr. Bedingfield made the following report: "We produced over 20,000 bales of cotton last year, yet our . farmers, with few exceptions, must have financial assistance to make a crop this year. At least 800 farm families hardly know where the next meal is coming from. Our average per acre yield of lint cotton is 135 pounds; our corn yield is only 11 bushels. Our corn production fell short of actual farmer needs by 208,- 051 bushels while our hay shortage was 19,000 tons. For each 100 farmers, 13 do not own a milk cow, 60 do not have a brood sow, 56 do not own a pig, and 84 do not grow any hay." (Continued on page 4) Eight at-home baseball games played by the Auburn Tigers will be broadcast over Station WAPI, Birmingham, direct from the campus of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. All the games "will begin promptly at 4:00 o'clock except the last one with Vanderbilt which will start at 2:30 p. m. The opening game of the season on Monday, March 30, with the Philadelphia Phillies may be broadcast but final arrangements have not yet been made. This game will start at 2:30. Following is the schedule of games to go on the air: Mercer University, April 6 and 7; Oglethorpe University, April 13; Georgia University, April 27 and 28; Georgia Tech, May 11 and 12; and Vanderbilt University, May 16. The baseball team has been practicing hard during the week in preparation for their games with Fort Benning and the Phillies. K. D. PI BREAKFAST TO BE HELD FRIDAY Annual Event to Be Held In Birmingham At the Bank-head Hotel Friday Morning Rev. McGehee Attends Methodist Meeting Dr. Bruce McGehee, pastor of the Auburn' Methodist Church, was called to Nashville recently by the General Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to participate in a conference at which the relation of the church to colleges and universities was considered. Thirty men prominent in church work in the south attended the conference, Dr. McGehee being one of the number. Upon his return to Auburn he expressed himself as being very favorably impressed with the conference, which was the first of its kind. He said that the proceedings will be studied and analyzed. He expects a forward step in church work in religious education to result from it. ' A breakfast, sponsored this year by the Auburn Alpha Phi chapter, of Kappa Delta Pi, is to be held at the Bankhead Hotel in Birmingham, March 27, at 8:00 a. m. This breakfast will be a part of the program of the Alabama Education Association, and all of the members of this national honorary education fraternity are invited to attend. Kappa Delta Pi has three chapters in Alabama, and members from all over the state are. expected to be present. - The fraternity will have as honor guests at this breakfast in Birmingham, President Bradford Knapp, of Auburn; President George H. Den-ney, of the University of Alabama, and President O. C. Carmichael of Alabama College at Montevallo. Each of the three chapters in Alabama will have a speaker on the program. Dean Judd, Dean of the School of Education, will represent the Auburn chapter; Dr. Paul W. Terry, head of the Department of Psychology, will represent the University of Alabama, and Dr. H. W. James, head of the' Department of Education, will represent Alabama College at Montevallo. A. M. Pearson, president of the (Continued on page 4) PRIZES OFFERED Big Attraction of the Day Will Be A Baseball Game Between the Phillies and Tigers Literary Societies to Hold Tennis Match The Evans and Websterian Literary Societies will engage in a tennis match next Sunday afternoon. Both societies boast of excellent teams, and a real battle is expected. Some of the players entering the match have played in several tennis tournaments. Thcmatch will be held on the Y. M. C. A. courts at three o'clock. Claud Prichett and Frank Turner will play for the Evans, while W. R. Henry and Sam Williams, of the Websterian will oppose them. The Interfraternity Fashion Show will be an added attraction to the program of the annual "A" Day, which is to be held next Monday, March 30. Each_ fraternity may enter as many boys as they wish .but all must be dressed as girls. The winner will receive a five dollar prize and will have the pleasure of leading the grand march all dolled up in his winning costume. A statement has been issued that should the winner refuse to lead the grand march, he will be ineligible for the prize. A very interesting and amusing program is being planned for this annual outing. In the morning, should a whole holiday be given, both wrestling and boxing matches will be held. Prizes will be offered in the greased pig race and the greased pole contest. A tug-o-war will be held between the ags and the Engineers, and numerous other attractions will increase the fun. The feature of the program will be the ball game between Auburn and Philadelphia, which will be played on the local diamond at two-thirty. At this game students will have the op-- portunity of seeing some of the National League's best players in action against Coach McAllister's fighting Tigers. Following the game will be several special track events, and at night the "A' Club will be host at a dance in the Alumni Gymnasium. . • Tickets are on sale at Wright's, Dillon's, and the Tiger Drug Stores, and some have been' placed in the hands of all "A" Club men. An announcement has been made that the Auburn Lions Club has bought all its members tickets to this affair. Students are again reminded that unless one thousand tickets are sold by Saturday, only a half holiday will be given for "A" Day. INTERFRAT COUNCIL WILL HOLD BANQUET MONDAY, APRIL 20 Each Fraternity Will Have Four Bids to Annual Banquet Of Council DISCUSS PLANS FOR BALL Committee Appointed to Make Arrangements For Annual Easter Egg Hunt to be Held MAJOR JOHN T. KENNEDY, Commandant of the R. O. T. C. Unit, who, according to a recent WaV Department announcement, has been named a student at the Army War College, Washington, D. C, for the 1931-32. Major Kennedy will leave for Washington about the middle of August. Spears Wins In A Phi E Contest Seven Participitate in Contest For Encouragement of For-ensics At Auburn PISTOL TEAM DEFEATS IOWA STATE IN MATCH Squad Cut to A l l ow More Practice For Field Artillery R.O.- T.C. Match MURPHY HIGH SCHOOL WINS ANNUAL DRAMATIC TOURNEY Murphy High School, of Mobile, was the winner of the fifth annual dramatic tournament which closed Saturday night. The other schools which played in the finals were Shades-Cahaba, Birmingham; Sump "ter County High, York; and Wood-lawn, Birmingham. "The Bishop's Candlesticks", presented under the direction of Mrs. Louise Hamil, was the winning play. The cup was presented by President Knapp, who stressed the cultural gain to the two hundred high school girls and boys participating in the contest. The tournament was by far the largest ever held at Auburn, according to a statement made by Professor Judson,' head of the Department of Speech. "The number of schools participating", said Professor Judson, '.'was eight more than the number participating in the largest pre-l vious tournament. Then, too," he continued, "the number of last-minute withdrawals was only two." Commenting on the large amount of work necessary to the managing of the contest, Professor Judson stated, "The work of Professor Shaver and of the Auburn Players, together with the splendid assistance of Dr. Gosser and other members of the English department, permitted an exceptionally smooth-running tournament. Those actively in charge of the contest," he added, "were given the finest of cooperation by the merchants and the townspeople in the securing of stage properties." Fraternities, sororities, and individual homes were thrown open for the reception and entertainment of the large number of participants. According to Professor Judson, plans are already being developed for the tournament next year. Auburn's pistol team last week defeated the Iowa" State College team by a score of 1,305 to 1,279 in a match fired between the teams of the two institutions. Auburn's team percentage now stands* at 400 with eight more matches to fire. The squad has recently been cut to ten men to give more time for practice for the National Field Artillery R. O. T. C. match. The ten men composing the present squadare: P. Appleby, T. W. Clarkson, C. E. Howard, O. W. Ivej, F. Means, T. Newman, D. P. Johnson, G. Sanford, F. N. Williams, and J. Wood. O. S. Spears, a freshman in Education and representing the Education Club, received the award of five dlolars in gold for winning the speech contest Monday night sponsored by Alpha Phi Epsilon, National Forensic Fraternity. The purpose of A. Phi- E. is to further and encourage forensic activities on the Auburn campus. There were seven participants in the contest, representing the seven professional clubs on the campus. The subject of the speakers was, "My Course as a Course and Profession." The talks gave evidence that the speakers had gone deep into the benefits of their course as a course and profession. Each speaker gave insights into the possibilities which his course offers and tried to show that his course was the best one offered. The other participants in the contest Monday night were: C. F. Simmons, winner of second place represented the Agriculture Club; H. Hayes, Vetinary Medicine Club; T. N. Pyke, Electrical Engineering Club; W. E. Rogers, Pharmaceutical Club. Literary Societies Will Hold Contest Students To Represent Literary Societies In Contest Chosen at Tuesday Meetings J. S. E. Inez Shepard Leaves To Study Dietetics Miss Inez Shepard has resigned as a student to go to Riverside Hospital in New York City, where she will become a student in dietetics. Completion of the course requires six months, after which she expects to obtain a position as a dietitian. Miss Shepard was a senior in home economics, in which she will receive a degree at the next commencement. She was placed in special training in New York by Miss Louise P. Glanton of the Auburn faculty . As a student Miss Shepard was very popular. She has a splendid record tfn college work. Her home is in Auburn. She had been society editor of The Plainsman. Mathematical Body Plans For Meeting The Southeastern section of the Mathematical Association of America will hold its ninth annual meeting at Auburn Friday and Saturday, April 24 and 25. The program has been announced by.Prof. C. D. Killebrew, of the Auburn faculty, who is vice-president of the Association. ^- University, college, high school, and other professors and teachers of mathematics are expected to attend the meeting, he said. "It will be open to anyone interested in the subject," he added. The Southeastern section represents the States of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee.' Dr. J. F. Messisk, head of the department of mathematics at Emory University, Atlanta, is chairman of the group and will preside. The visitors will be welcomed to Auburn by President Bradford Knapp. Speakers at the meeting will be Prof. Ward H. Taylor, Alabama College; Prof. J. D. Kuderna, Auburn; Prof. E. A. Bailey, LaGrange College; Prof. F. L. Wren, George Peabody College; Dr. W. H. Fagerstrom, Columbia University; Prof. R. D. Car- (Continued on page 4) The Tuesday evening programs of the Evans and Websterian Societies were devoted chiefly to the selection, by eliminations, of students to represent the organizations in the annual oratorical contest to be held next week. This contest is sponsored by Phi Delta Gamma, honorary forensic fraternity, which has as its aim the purpose of encouraging greater interest in literary work on the campus. J. H. Brown has been chosen to repsent the Evans, while the Websterian has not made public its choice. Colonel McGehee spoke at the meeting of the Evans, which was held in room 210, at 7 p. m., last evening on the subject of "Changes," and the need of adapting oneself to them constantly. The speaker continued saying one should not try to fight changes whether they be economic, political or religious because they are very closely related and symbolical of progress. Professor Butler supplemented, briefly, Colonel McGehee's talk. King's Cash Grocery Has Larger Business Since moving out on the Opelika Road, King's Cash Grocery has shown an increase in business of from 30 to 40 percent, stated John King, proprietor. Expenses have also been greatly reduced in the new location. All orders of $1.50 or more received this week will get free, one bottle of Pen Money Pickles, given as an expression of appreciation to the many customers of this store. The store is fully stocked, and in the words of Mr. King, "Carries everything from brass monkeys to bales of hay". The business is established on a firm basis, and is here to stay. The annual Interfraternity Council Banquet will be held on April 20th according to a decision made by the council at the Monday night's meeting. Each fraternity belonging to the council, will receive four bids, supposedly for the old and new representatives. Carl Schlich, who was appointed chairman of the committee in charge of preparations, states that this year's banquet will supercede all others. During the meeting a committee under the chairmanship of John T. Harris, was appointed to* make arrangements for the coming Easter egg hunt, which will be held on Sunday, April 5th. This is also an annual affair held on each Easter Sunday afternoon for the Rats of the council members. Prizes will be awarded to the best dressed Freshman and to the one who finds the most eggs. Plans for the Interfraternity Council Ball were discussed and it was decided that this year each fraternity would get only eight bids instead of the ten formerly given. This was done to cut down on the number of people attending, since last year's ball was too crowded. The council also decided too conduct a tennis tournament between its members again this xear, and a committee was appointed to attend to this matter with Kelly Sullivan as chairman. Heretofore these tournaments have been very successful and the trophy donated to the winner has been keenly sought after. Although there has been no official announcement to the effect, the officers to lead the council during the next year are usually selected the night of the annual banquet. KIWANIS TO HELP IN VOCATIONAL TRAINING Each High School Boy Will Be Under Guidance of Kiwanis Sponsor Pro. Applebee's Health Is Steadily Improving The health of Prof. Frank W. Ap-plebee, head of the applied art department, has continually improved since he left Auburn at the first of March for a month's leave of absence. He went to his home in Boston where he has been under the care of a physician. Dean Biggin states that Professor Applebee will report back to Auburn on the first of April to resume his duties. FRATERNITIES REQUESTED TO SEND GO-TO-CHURCH REPORTS The Y.M.C.A. requests that all the fraternities turn in their final reports on the Go-to-Church Month so that an announcement of the winner can be made by Saturday. This contest ended Sunday, March 22, and according to an announcement made by T. P. DeMonia, chairman of the religious committee, almost all of the fraternities on the campus entered, and most of them made excellent showings. All the reports have not been turned in as yet, but the following six fraternities are in the lead: Alpha Gamma Rho, Theta Upsilon Omega, Alpha Psi, Kappa Sigma, Square & Compass, and Phi Kappa Tau. It is the object of the Y.M.C.A. to announce the winner of this contest in Saturday's, paper, but to be able to do this all the fraternities concerned must cooperate. The Auburn Kiwanis Club is making a serious effort to give the local boys, of high school age, the proper kind of vocational guidance, according to a statement made by Dr. Paul Irvin, in his talk before the Kiwanis Club Monday. This effort is being carried on under the direction of the vocational guidance committee of the Kiwanis Club, which is composed of three members: A. H. Collins, J. A. Parrish and Dr. Paul Irvin. The specific project which the Club has had under way for several months is concerned with helping those boys who have made a somewhat definite decision in regard to their life work. The object of the committee is to get each of these boys to tie up with a member of the club, this member to serve as the boy's sponsor, and to help him in every way possible in continuing his preparation for his life's work. This sponsor is to be choosen because of his ability and knowledge in the field which the boy has selected. In this same connection Mr. J. A. Parrish of the Auburn High School reported that a course was being offered the school in vocational guidance, and was proving of value to the students. This fact is to be taken into consideration in the future work of the vocational guidance committee. This committee also reported that a large field for vocational guidance was present among the college students at Auburn, and at an early date steps will be taken to increase the service of the club in this direction. 'i V PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1931 gtyg JUmtusttum Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates $3.60 per year (60 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala. Business and editorial offices at Auburn Printing Co. on Magnolia Street. Offices hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily. STAFF Gabie Drey Charles S. Davis Editor-in-Chief Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Thomas P. Brown Associate Robert L.'Hume Associate Victor White _ Managing Claude Currey News J. W. Letson .._ News Alan Troup Composing C. F. Simmons .Composing Adrian Taylor Sports Murff Hawkins Exchange K. M. McMillan Literary A. C. Cohen Contributing V. J. Kjellman Contributing C. E. Mathews ..Contributing H. W. Moss Contributing Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor Editor REPORTERS Horace Shepard, '34 Otis Spears, '34 Frank Keller, '34 R. E; Hodnette, '34 N. D. Thomas, '33 BUSINESS STAFF Virgil Nunn Asst. Business Mgr. Ben Mabson ,-- Advertising Manager Roy Wilder Circulation Manager James Backes Asso. Advertising Mgr. CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Charles Adams, '34 W. S. Pope, L. E. Sellers, '34 '34 SENIOR CLASS' DECISION The recent decision of the senior class that the treasury of that class should be set aside to be added to any funds for the establishment of an infirmary here is without a doubt a wise and an unselfish move. One of the most badly needed commodities on the campus at the present time is a hospital. Only several days ago there were fears that an epidemic of meningitis would envolep the campus in the same manner that the influenza struck Auburn several years ago. What would have happened if the meningitis epidemic had struck Auburn? There surely are not the necessary accommodations for anyone with a disease or other infirmity that commands hospital attention. But the main fact upon which the class is to be congratulated is just the plain fact that they decided not to follow the footsteps of classes that have graduated before. It means that the seniors are willing to donate their treasury to a cause that is needy and necessary instead of just throwing the money on some affair such as the annual banquets. There are students who will attack the move in no unharsh terms. They will accuse their fellow-class members of turning the treasury over to a project that will never be a reality. Some have asked why several scholarships were not established. There will be seniors who want to know why the banquet will not be given with the treasury—these last are the men who are willing to overlook anything for a show, in the form of a banquet, that will last only for a night. The Plainsman congratulates the members and officers of the Class of 1931 on really doing something worthwhile. It is the first time in the past several years that a class has done anything worth commendation. A class is generally referred to as a group of men who have been to college for the same number of years, possessing offices, and doing nothing. Classes at Auburn have always fallen under this definition. But the Class of '31 has at last been different and done something that falls outside of the usual nothingness that typifies the activities of the average class. Although the treasury of the senior class is only a very small portion of the funds that are necessary for the erection of a hospital, the unselfish move of the class should be an indication to the college, townspeople, and others interested in Auburn that the students are willing to do their share toward the project. It should serve as an incentive for those who.are desirous of building a hospital to use just a little more effort. NEW QUALIFICATIONS The recent ruling of the Executive Cabinet whereby only students who have completed five semesters before they shall be eligible for nomination to the positions of editor-in-chief and business manager of the publications should pass before the student body without further notice. The cabinet has verified the interest shown in campus activities and affairs by making such a ruling that will serve as a protection to the respective student publications. The first part of the amendment, which states that a student must have worked a year before he shall be eligible for nomination, is a very good and necessary move. A man can become acquainted with the inner workings of an organization of this type in a years' time. How many times in the past has a student who has worked only a short length of time on a publication been elected to one of either positions? Many good student politicians have been elected to offices for which they were unfitted. And the result has always been the detrimentation of the publication. We can see no reason, however^ why the second clause is included in the amendment. Why should a student who is well-equipped to hold an office be kept from an office? When a man has worked conscientiously on a staff for a year or two there is no reason - why he should be barred from being nominated simply because he has not completed five semesters. This part of the amendment is unfair to a certain degree. But, taken as a whole, The Plainsman sees • and commends the general motive of the action. At the same time, it would be a good idea for the Cabinet members to look further into the matter and see whether or not the second part of the amendment could not be slightly changed. Twelfth Night A Synopsis Act I Sebastian and Viola, twins, are seperated by shipwreck and each other believes the other lost. Viola is cast ashore on the coast of Illyria. She thereupon dons male attire and obtains service as page with the Duke "Orsino, who has been vainly suing for the hand of Olivia, a native lady. The Duke is pleased with the appearance of his new page and sends Viola to pay court for him to Olivia, which she does with so much gracefulness and eloquence that the lady becomes enarmoured of the supposed youth instead of the master. Act II Olivia sends favors and messages to Viola in which, naturally, the latter takes no interest. Viola, in turn, has conceived a passion for the Duke, which she is compelled to hide. Olivia's steward, Malvolio, is so priggish and conceited that others of her household contrive a practical joke against him, sending him an anonymous love-letter which he is given to believe is from Olivia herself. Act III Malvolio follows instructions contained in the letter and behaves so ridiculously that his mistress believes him demented. Meanwhile Olivia's love for Viola becomes so intense that she sues openly to the ficticious page, much to the latter's distress. Sir Andrew Aguecheek, a foolish suitor of Olivia's, is displeased at the favours shown the page, and in a spirit of bravado challenges Viola. Though both are eager to avoid the conflict, it is only averted by the arrival of officers. Aqt IV Sebastian, Viola's brother, who was also cast up by the sea, comes to Illyria. He looks so much like' his sister—especially since she is in men's garments—that Sir Andrew mistakes him for the page and renews the fight. This time he does not encounter a woman's shrinking spirit or weak arm, and he is soundly belaboured. Soon after, Olivia also meets Sebastian, supposes him to be Viola and reiterates her devotion. The delighted Sebastian returns love for love and they are secretly espoused before a priest. Act V Olivia encounters Viola in company with the Duke and greets her by the title of husband. The bewildered page disavows the title, but the priest who performed the ceremony vouches for it. The Duke is much disgruntled that his favourite page should so abuse his confidence. Viola is meeting with general disfavour, when her brother Sebastian arrives on the scene, and the two who had thought each other dead are reunited. Olivia discovers that she has espoused the brother, after having wooed the sister, while the Duke finds that his attachment for his page becomes love when Viola resumes her feminine attire. The secret of Malvolio's dementia is revealed, and he is released from the confinement in which he has been held. From McSpadden's "Shake&perian Synop- The man who loudly proclaims that college students today are not interested in learning anything is generallizing quite inaccurately from a relatively small group of noise-makers-to the whole body of American collegians.—Herbert E. Hawkes, in The Nation. Prexy's Paragraphs By Bradford Knapp I wish the students at this institution would correct one of the many false rumors which have gone out from Auburn. One of the State papers published a statement that this institution endeavored to prevent the news from going out that there was a case of spinal meningitis here at Auburn. The students know that there never was a case of spinal meningitis at Auburn and they also know that the facts regarding the unfortunate death of one of the students after he had been home about eight days were published in the March 11 issue of the Plainsman. I think we are extremely fortunate in every way but I have been very much discouraged because the persistent rumor went out regarding this matter in spite of the fact that we published the exact facts and when anybody phoned us we gave the facts. More than a week before the item appeared in one of the State papers another State paper phoned me and I -told them all the facts. Rest assured that in any emergency of this character the administration of this institution will do everything in its power to protect the student body. * * * * * The installation of Delta Sigma Pi, national professional business fraternity, at this institution was a noteworthy occasion. It is a clear recognition of this institution as taking its place in a long list of worthwhile institutions engaged in training young men for responsible positions in business. We have come to the time when the engineering graduate and the agricultural graduate as well as the graduate in the strictly" business courses must know economics and business administration because the administrative positions in industry and in agriculture are multiplying every day. Auburn's very successful and splendid effort in the publication of the Alabama Economic Review which correlates the business, industrial and agricultural conditions of the Nation and of Alabama is being received by the people of the State in a very fine way and is but another index of the regard for this line of work. I congratulate Delta Sigma Pi and the young men who constitute its membership. * * * » » Honors Convocation which is scheduled to occur on March 31, will not be worthwhile unless the students cooperate. Most of the honor fraternities have elected those students who measure up to the high standards set by these honor fraternities. Of course the names have been published in the papers but you have^had no chance as a student body to recognize exactly who these honor students are. If the honor is worth anything then it is an honor and the honor there is in it is in the recdgni-tion of what has been accomplished. Let me suggest very earnestly that we have a full house and that the brief ceremony of swearing in the Freshman members of the student cabinet and presenting very briefr ly these outstanding students in the various divisions of the institution be accomplished before as many of the student body as can get into Langdon Hall. BARROOM BALLADS By HIC-HIC LOVING YOU You ask me why I love you dear, Just why for you I care. 'Tis 'cause you never show a frown, And how you fix your hair. I love the way you tilt your chin, And too, your pleasing smile. And when compared to other girls, You beat them all a mile. I can't explain this turn of fate, That made you care for me. Just what you see in foolish man, Is more than I can see. You ask me why I love you dear, And why 'tis only you, That keeps me inspired every day. I jes' love you 'cause I do. THE GRADUATE I'm a college man with a nice degree, Well versed in business creed. And the unread folk all envy me; My high-toned college breed. Yet the unread folk all have a niche, Dug out with toil and strife. As yet, I've found no place to pitch, My tent in the field of life. Only a people that are strong and calm pan work usefully for peace.—Andre Tar-dieu. Beautiful brunettes are more rare than beautiful blondes.—Florenz Ziegfield. And a new fad has hit Auburn. It did not surprise us when we saw a student riding around town on a mortorcycle; this is a thing that has been happening quite often around here. But we were amazed when we saw a fellow taking a young lady out riding. , It must be a good plan, however, as JEAN FUNCHESS seemed to enjoy very mUch the ride Monday after on the rear end of BILLY ASKEW'S motorcycle. Maybe BILLY will take some other girls riding sometimes. * * * * * * * * Co-eds will have a chance for a change. Our friend, HAAKON PROVOST, at the present writing, is confined to his bed with co-editis and will not contribute to the editorial page for some time. But we do hope he will be up and about soon. * * * * * * * * JIMMIE ROBBINS and the Auburn Knitwits will next.tear up "When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver," to be dedicated to DEAN PETRIE. * * * * * * * * The above GENIAL GENTLEMEN will also murder "Would You Like to Take a Walk," to be played to a lady who is nursing a broken leg. * * * * * * * * MR. TAXICAB KAPELL and his GENERAL BUSINESS playmates had a big day all to themselves. It seems as though they were jealous of the Engineers' Day, so they had to he satisfied, hence the celebration Saturday. Copy-cats! ! ! * * * * * * * * We can imagine what would have happened if Judge Lindsey had been on Noah's Ark.—Kentucky Kernel. * * * * * * * * "You might as well admit your guilt," said the detective, "The man whose house you broke into positively identifies you as the burglar." "That's funny," said the burglar. "What's funny?" asked the detective. "How he could identify me when he had his head under the cover all the time I was in the room?"—Ex. ' * * * * * * * * * Drill Sergeant (drilling a squad of recruits)—When I was a little boy, I had a set of wooden soldiers.. One day I lost them and cried very hard. Buy my mother said, "Never mind, Johnny, some day you will have your soldiers." And now (he paused and wiped his eyes) that day has come.—Ex. * * * * * * * * Red McRae claims that his U-Drive-It attempted a little driverless stunt Wednesday night. We wonder though how it happened to pick such a concealed parking space just on the edge of Lieutenant Bowman's garden. * * * * * * * * And here's the absent-minded professor who walked into a classroom and begin a rapid fire lecture on an engineering subject. Prompted by a student, he blushed, and said, "I must be in the wrong room," and left. *> WITH OTHER COLLEGES -:- WHO'D A THO'T IT A questionnaire circulated among college leaders showed that college drinking was far from eliminated. The poll by the National Student Federation told that 57 believed the practice to he on the increase while i6 believed it was decreasing. Forty-seven thought the condition was a static one. None thought it completely eliminated, and 68 favored modification. Advocates for repeal numbered 38, but 23 were for strict enforcement. Now we thought college students had quit drinking. Oh, well. * * * * * SHAME A survey of an Eastern university reveals that 60 percent of the students sleep through at least three hours of classes each week. The fight professors to keep the bedtime-story boys awake sometimes makes education entertaining rather than instructional. That 60 percent sleeping through three class hours each week doesn't phase us. We have that large number sleeping through three class hours per day. The reason for sleeping such a small amount is due largely to the extra loud bellowing of some of the profs, bellowing being preferred to braying in this peculiar instance. * * * * * SO DO WE A professor at the University of Denver dreams of a "New University" which will be a reality in the near future. Oh yeah? It will have no fraternities, sororities, or athletics, but an institution in which a ten-year- old child can enter and demand an education. There will be no exams, quizzes, grades, and so forth, and a student may study only when he pleases. There would not be so many pleases then, would there? * * * * * NOT A CHANCE The Southern Methodist University has initiated clasess in football for co-eds. The question has been asked "Will feminine football ever be realistic or will the girls stop between plays to powder shiny noses and rearrange hair?" It may be all right for the co-ed to keep the campus self-styled sheik waiting thirty minutes in order that she might apply the dressing, both fabri-cal and cosmetical, (nice words, aren't they?) but not ten thousand people. WHAT POWER Fred Sington, 225-pound All-American tackle while up at Lexington's 0. D. K. Covention seems to have had quite a time. It seems that Freddie made a high school dance in the little town, and that a young lady, upon being introduced to such a prominent gentleman, promptly curled up and fainted in his arms. That's too bad to, isn't it? Now the curling up was all right, but not the fainting. No? * * * * * SPEAKETH NOTETH It is said that down at California the police make a practice of searching fraternity houses for straying articles every spring. On one such search they found a small tombstone "strayed" some twenty miles from a country-church yard. That's awful, isn't -it? Probably the boys had some "dead soldiers" that they wanted to give an appropriate burial to though, and where else could they get a tombstone—so cheap? * * * * * OH MOVIES! WHY HAST THOU STUNGETH In an editorial appearing in the Cumberland Collegian we find out just what these typical "college movies" are all about. So therefrom cometh this: "The last so-called 'collegiate movie' which we saw served only to confirm our previously-formed opinion that pretty bad is getting worse fast. "College movies Are not divisible into varied types and classes; they are all alike. They need not be analyzed for criticism; they are already reduced to the lowest common denominator. There is no complexity in their plot; it is as simple and incapable of change as the proverbial western show, in which the miserly step-uncle of the pretty heroine holds a mortgage on her Daddy's ranch and the handsome hero thunders upon the scene on his dapple steed at the cli-matical moment and saves the day. "College movies are perhaps the most misleading of the agents that picture college life as it is not and persuade public opinion to the view that college is exclusively a place of hilarious frolic, dances and other activities of wild and gay youth, dominated by romeos, and football heroes and campus queens with 'it.' "Only in one of the college movies that we have seen was there shown a character who exhibited the slightest tendency towards truly collegiate practices, and he was the comedian, described as B—B—, who had a 'false idea that college was a place to study.' The college movie never leads the spectator to the classroom, to the library, to the study halls, or to the laboratories. It never allows its pseudo-collegiate- characters to show the slightest inkling of those habits and ideals the average college man possesses and practices. It never goes to the debating societies, the literary societies, the science clubs. It never shows the constructive values of fraternities and sororities. The hero is never the sober-minded, studious, ambitious individual who shows prospects of developing into the successful graduate. "The college movie not only gives a warped picture of college life to the public. It develops false impressions on the part of prep school students who expect to get a college education. The college movie is truly the worst enemy of the American institutions of higher learning." Quite true my son. But who would go to a "college movie" if it merely portrayed the real side to college life? Yes, you are right; the old maid aunt, sister Jones, and Uncle Ned would be there, but not little "Joe College." OUa Podrida By Chariot EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in this column are not necessarily the editorial opinions of this paper. It is a column of personal comment, and is not to be read as an expression of our editorial policy. * * * * * The trouble with most of us scientists and embryo engineers is that ordinary people cannot understand us when we use the language in which we love to express our burning thoughts. Of course we think we know what we mean when we say, Eliminate space, which is the ascription of a perfect mathematical reason for a co-exist-ant plurality, and that all thought is resolved into a synthetic unit which will necessarily find for its ultimate habitat the centre of the Great Logos; but what does that truism convey to the mind of the layman? Echo replies, What indeed? * * * * * Imaginary Interview: Gilbert Keith Chesterton, the British critic, settled himself comfortably into three archairs and mopped his dripping brow with a tablecloth, preparatory to draining a five gallon keg of water. "Now, young man," he puffed, giving himself a generous scratch, "what was your question?" "Do you think Auburn will be the next Conference Champion?" I inquired. "Personally," G. K. said, "I have no doubt that the novel of the fuwait, that's another speech—Yes, I think Auburn stands an excellent chance of being Southern Conference Champion next fall. Yet again, she may not be; I really don't wish to be positive." "Oh what do you base your opinion?" I persisted, attempting to blast something concrete from this fountain of knowledge who has been described as having an in-tellegent opinion on every subject under the sun. "Oh, there you have me," he admitted. "My answer was biased by my personal desire to see Auburn regain its place in the football world. I can ascribe no other reason." And another good interview went pfft. * * * * * One of the best cracks at medical students is found in the Bible. You might try reading Second Chronicles, fifteenth chapter, twelfth and thirteenth verses. * * * * * The Saturday Evening Post is feeling the pinch too. The magazine, which formerly ran twelve or more short stories a week, is trying to keep the number down to four. Pretty discouraging for ' neophytes, especially as the Post already has a year's supply of shorts on hand. * * * * * The silliest book I've read so far this year is Java-Java by Byron Steel. Mr. Steel is an extremely poor imitator of Jean Cocteau, the enfant terrible of continental literature, and evidently was consuming something much stronger than Java while writing this, his second book. One of the characters, Eric, reminded me of some one (I forget his name now but I think it was Franz) in Cocteau's Le Grand Ecart. Both are aviators; both use the same manner in their treatment of women. The yarn Stee) spins is, if possible, more fantastic than the stories Colonel Ho.ople tells. Fried Octopus Eggs, indeed! According to Variety, Buddy Rogers will sing in a bass voice in his next picture. TO BUDDY In a cigarette it's taste; In a sky it's blue; In a garbage can it's waste; In a big bass voice—it's you! I wonder if Rudy Valee will be forced to croon through a lead pipe. And will Victor McLaglen hereafter deliver his Bronz cheers through mortised ledy-fin-gers. Quotations The law of true art, even according to the Greek idea, is to seek beauty wherever it is to be found, and separate it from the dross of life as gold from ore.—Lafcadio Hearn. « In some modern books the immorality is so chaotic that it makes one laugh. It reveals mental, not moral, collapse. —G. K. Chesterton. In every battle fought, in the various steps we have taken from barbarism, it is a contest between human beings and dollars, and it's still going on.—Sen. Norris. I have learned to have a little pity for after-dinner speakers in their chosen calling. Not much, but a little.—Robert Benchley, in Liberty. A surprising portion of young men today are actually incapable of growing mustaches. The admission is deplorable and sinister.—Stephen Langton. Men cannot thrive in America without pie.—James J. Davis. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1931 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE BURT'S GRADUATION WILL LEAVE GAP IN 2 ATHLETIC SQUADS By Elmer G. Salter When Joe Burt receives a diploma from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute in May, he will leave a large gap in both the football and baseball teams that will be hard to fill next year. He played guard on the gridiron eleven under Coach Chet Wynne during the 1930 season and is located in right field on Sam McAllister's diamond nine. Before entering Auburn in the Fall of 1927, Burt carved a niche in „the athletic hall of fame at Shades- Cahaba High School, Birmingham. He was a three-sport star there, playing on the football, basketball and baseball teams. He was prominently mentioned for all-state honors in football. He continued his high school athletic successes at Auburn his plebe year as he played guard on the football and cage teams and outfield on the baseball club. • The hardwood failed to lure him after his freshman year, but he was a luminary on the other two teams. As a guard in football,, he was one of the best to wear Plainsmen colors in several years and as an outfielder in baseball, he is one of the best in Dixie college circles. Regardless of the system used on the gridiron, Burt has been a valued .cog on the machine. The Notre Dame style of play was introduced at the Plains last season by Wynne which calls for two fast guards. The players in these position have to pull out of the line and form interference for the ball carriers on several plays. Boys! If you Eat MEAT Buy it from your Friends MOORE'S MARKET' —Phone 37— FORT BENNING WILL PLAY AUBURN THIS AFTERNOON ON DRAKE FIELD By Elmer G. Salter The Auburn-Fort Benning baseball game, which was rained out last Saturday, will be played here on Drake Field, this afternoon, starting at four o'clock. This will be the opening game on the Tigers 1931. schedule. The two teams will meet in a return battle at Fort Benning, April 1. Coach Sam McAllister realizes the strength of the Musketeers and is giving the Plainsman extra work. The postponing of the game meant only additional work for Capt. Frock Pate and the rest of the heavy stick wield-ers. McAllister increased the length of the drills when he glanced at the 1930 record book and found that the Tigers were barely able to win the first engagement with the Musketeers at Auburn, 5 to 4. Joe Burt's long distance clouting gave the Bengals the edge when he hit a homer in the last of the ninth and another one earlier in the afternoon.. Auburn won the final meeting, 9 to 3. Ray Prim and Buck Carter, two of last season's mainstays on the mound, who now belong to the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Burt was one of the mainstays at left guard in 1930, however. While his work as a gridder has stood out, his long distance clouting and allraround fancy fielding on the diamond has won for him many praises from the leading sports writers in the South and has caused several big league scouts to camp on his trail. He literally murdered all kinds of pitching his first year in college. Besides thrilling the fans on more than one occasion with seemingly impossible shoe-string catches, he wound up the season with a remarkable batting average of .412. Making hard catches seem easy continued to be a habit of his his sophomore year. 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Toomer Tiger Drug Store Athletics, and Jack Pilgrim, sopho more, are the main losses from the pitching staff and McAllister is having a hard time developing dependable twirlers to take their places, especially since- Prim and Carter were ranked with the best in the South. Clifford Smith heads the hurling corps, and is the only player on the squad who has had much experience on the hillock. He has been showing up well this Spring. He probably will see plenty of service as a pinch hitter as he is one of 4he best hitters on the team. Dunham Harkins is a veteran of three years service, but has been used largely in a relief role. He has changed his delivery and is working hard to develop a" good curve ball. He will need a varied assortment if he comes through in good style when he receives the nomination to start "chunking" them over in the early frames. Because he will need Jimmie Hitchcock's hitting power, McAllister has shifted him to centerfield and will start him at this berth against Fort Benning. Hitchcock is one of the sweetest looking shortstops in the South, but McAllister has decided to let Capt. Pate cavort around the shortstop territory. It was a case of having to find places on the team for two heavy-hitting shortstops and McAllister decided to keep Pate at his old post because of his experience. Duck Riley, former Ensley performer, has been performing brilliantly at the keystone and is expected to have another good year. He and Capt. Pate are expected to complete many twin-killings. Riley handled over a hundred chances in 1930 without committing an error, and is out to break this record. McAllister is undecided on his starting pitcher against Benning. "I might start Smith or I might decide to open with Sam Grubbs or Clarence West," said the jovial mentor. Grubbs is a promising sophomore and West a junior, who is making a determined bid for recognition after being a reserve team. The infielders and outfielders who will start Wednesday in the curtain raiser will probably be Kaley, catcher; Lloyd, first base; Riley, second base; Pate, shortstop; Lewis, third base; Hodges, left field; Hitchcock, center field, and Burt, right field. Thomas Ustick Walter, 67, grandson of the architect by the same name who. designed and built the dome and right and left wings of the United States Capitol as well as other government buildings, died recently at Newpotr News. Walter was himself an architect, as was his father. wouldn't like to finish a season with an average that high? Because of his sensational playing, his mates elected him alternate-captain of the 1930 team. He rewarded them by ending the year in a tie for the batting championship with Big Ben Newton with an average of .349. They again elected him to the same position on this year's team. Although he posseses a high mark of .381 for three years of college competition, this average will probably be increased this year. This average was compiled against some of the leading amateur and professional teams below the Mason- Dixon line, but his first chance to perform against a major league club will be at Auburn, Monday, March 30, when the Philadelphia Phillies play the Tigers in the feature attraction on Auburn's 1931 "A" Day program. THE HOTEL TUNE IN WAPI FOR HOTEL PROGRAM - TJ7] - ;i THOMAS JEFFERSON THE CONVENTION HOTEL BIRMINGHAMS NEWFST AND FINEST AUBURN HI NOTES The Junior I class had charge of the chapel program Monday. Marguerite Johnson read the Bible, then an interesting play, "Paris", was pre sented by Mrs. Harrison's .General Language class. The theme of the play dealt with classical myths and the members of the class represented mythical characters. _ 0 — Students who had written permission from their parents were permitted to attend the State Dramatic Tournament on Friday. Many interesting plays were given and the students were able to observe other high school students in interesting roles. —0— Several of the Hi-Y members at tended the Older Boy's Conference held at Jacksonville, Alabama. The bo»ys who attended derived great benefit from the meeting, which will be a great advantage for the club for the next year. The boys were accompanied by Demonia, a college student, who-is interested in the Y. M. C. A. The boys attending were: Guy Bailey, Vernon Story, Alton Bain and Robert Schubert. —0— During the past week all the Senior English classes of Auburn Hi have been studying plays. Van Wagenen's senior I class has been . divided into groups and the students in each group are studying the part of plays they like best. Some are dramatiz ing, others are studying staging, and some are reading plays aloud. ( The senior III class has been interested in the types and construe tion of one-act plays as well as the reading of many modern plays. The senior II class, under Mrs. Jones di rection, has been dramatizing parts of Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquers." —0— Auburn high was represented in the State Dramatic Tournament, held here the past week-end. Love-in-idleness, a short one-act play was given. York High was the successful contestant against Auburn High in the Friday Morning series. The cast included the following high school students, Frances Passmore, Bessie Ruth Smyer, Helen Gardiner, and John Cotting. Italian Schoolchildren Get Books; Cheaper Rome, Italy—(IP)—The Italian State Library recently issued a new standard set of books for school children of the country, enabling an economy in cost, at the same time placing the books on better paper with better illustrations because of the increased number published at one time. Episcopal pastors in New York City are engaged in a controversy over the merits of faith healing. CITY OF AUBURN AN ORDINANCE To require license of solicitors. Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Auburn, Alabama, as follows: Sec. 1. That no person, firm or corporation shall within the corporate boundaries of the "City of Auburn, or within the police jurisdiction of the City of Auburn, engage in the business of soliciting, at any place except within a regularly established place of business, from consumers, orders for merchandise whether such orders are to be filled by delivery from a point within the City of Au burn or its police jurisdiction, or from a point beyond the police jurisdiction, without first obtaining and paying therefor, a license, in the amount hereinafter prescribed; and any person, firm or corporation who shall violate the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction be punished by fine not exceeding $50.00 and may also be put to hard labor for the City of Auburn for not exceeding sixty days, and each separate act of solicitation shall constitute a different offense. Sec. 2. The amount to be paid for a license to engage in the business mentioned in Section 1 hereof within the corporate limits of the City of Auburn, is hereby fixed at $15.00, and the amount to be paid for a license to engage in the business mentioned in Section 1 hereof outside of the corporate limits of the City of Auburn, but within the police jurisdiction of the City of Auburn is hereby-fixed at $7.50; if the business be engaged in both within the corporate limits and without the corporate limits but within the police jurisdiction, one license will suffice, such one license to be that required for engaging in such business within the corporate limits. Sec. 3. This ordinance shall not be applicable to persons, firms or corporations soliciting orders to be filled by delivery made from a point beyond the State of Alabama. "I, Bert Newton, City Clerk of the City of Auburn, Alabama, hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an Ordinance adopted by the City Council at a meeting held on March 17th, 1931." Bert Newton. City Clerk. Adv. 3-25-31. 'A' DAY PROGRAM WILL FEATURE ARRAY OF LEADING PRO HITTERS Several of the leading hitters in professional baseball will appear here with the Philadelphia Phillies when they meet the Auburn Tigers on Drake Field in the feature attraction on Auburn's 1931 "A" Day program, Monday, March 30. Although his hurling staff is weak, Burt Shotton has corralled a team of hitters that can hold their own against the best in the major leagues. Shotton dispensed with Lefty O'Doul and Fresco Thompson during the Winter trading sessions, but acquired the services of Clise Dudley and Jumbo Elliott, two fair pitchers, and Hal Lee, the-leading slugger on the team at present. The acquisition of this trio is expected to strengthen the club. Lee's rise in professional baseball has been phenomenal. He jumped from the campus of Mississippi College to Brooklyn, who farmed him out to Macon and Atlanta for two seasons. He was carried by the Robins as utility outfielder in 1930. Since receiving a chance to play regularly, he has been hitting at a fast clip to discourage the other candidates for left field. He has been the sensation of the Phillies training camp at Winter Haven, Fla. Lee served as assistant coach at Auburn under Coach Geo. Bohler. He was liked by the students and townspeople here who will welcome his return to the Plains when Philadelphia plays the Tigers March 30. Manager Shotton has not signed his leading hitter last year, Chuck Klein, EUROPE and Back... *185 Sell Dad on the idea! United States Lines makes it so inexpensive. "Tourist Third'' fares range from $185 round trip on the palatial REPUBLIC to $231 on the mighty LEVIATHAN, 5 day speed to Europe. Remarkable values also on the flyers AMERICA and GEORGE WASHINGTON. Travel with the college crowd. Last year on one sailing of the LEVIATHAN 60 colleges were represented. This year the Harvard-Yale track teams sail July 1st on the GEORGE WASHINGTON for the Oxford-Cambridge meet Come on along! Enjoy fine food . . . comfortable staterooms . . . nightly dances to "red hot" college orchestras ...movies...sports on big sun decks. Send atonce for the booklet, "TOURIST THIRD CABIN TO EUROPE", and make reservations before the rush starts. Official Fleet of the Intercollegiate Alumni Associations Consult Your Local Steamship Agent or UNITED STATES LINES Travel Bureau Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. Hibernia Bank Bids., New Orleans, La. but the big boy is expected to attach his name to a contract in a few days and perform against the Plainsmen on "A" Day. Klein batted. 386 last year. Virgil "Spud" Davis, Birmingham boy; Pinkey Whitney, Dick Bartell, Don Hurst, Barney Friberg and Buzz Artlett, the big swatter from the Pacific Coast, are a few of the other star hickory welders playing for Shotton. Several of last season's veterans and a promising group of rookies will form the Phillies hurling staff. Stewart Bolen, from Jackson, Ala., who had a good year with Baltimore; Lil Stoner, former Detroit Tiger, who won 14 games with Forth Worth in 1930; Hal Wiltse, credited with 19 victories with Forth Worth, and Ben Shields, once with the New York Yankees, are the newcomers expected to strengthen Shotton's hurling corps. Phil Collins, Ray Benge, Clise Dudley, and Jumbo Elliott are the Phillies hopes for a better year. POLITICAL SCHOOL WILL BE SPONSORED BY CENTRE COLLEGE Why is it that those who like us the best say the meanest things to us? Danville, Ky. —(IP)— Patterned somewhat after the famed Williams-town Institute of Politics, a one-day institute of politics will be held on the campus of Centre College here Wednesday, May 27, for the purpose of discussing whether or not at the coming November election the people cf Kentucky should direct that a convention be held to frame a new constitution for the State. Among the speakers who have already accepted invitations to be present are Judge Richard Priest Dietz-man of the Kentucky Court of Appeals; Judge J. E. Robbins, of May-field, Ky.; Edward Jouett, vice president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and J. L. Stark, chairman of the four transportation brotherhoods with headquarters in Louisville. CLEAN Zi mo"1! COAL ELIMINATE FUEL WASTE Use our high grade coal and reduce your fuel expense. Of selected quality, this coal burns evenly and insures maximum combustion. The result is less ashes to sift and less cinders-to cart away. 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In the third place, Columbia students wouldn't know what'to do with a million dollars worth of banana splits, shirts, chocolate layer cake and half hose. A. M. Burns and Martin Wexler, who have been selling clothes to Columbia students for ten years, say not one out of a thousand fails to pay his bill.s Burns and Wexler extend "accommodations" and cash checks without fear or favor for men actually enrolled at the University. Any and all students are able to obtain from $40 to $50 credit for books at the Columbia University Book Shop. Checks cashed for students total $1,000 to $1,500 a day at this shop. Most of these are on out-of-town banks, which would give rubber-check men ample time to leave town before the checks bounced back. "But we never lose," said Michael Ahearn. "Students are appreciative. They haven't much money—most of them—but, for the most part, they have ideals, high hopes for themsel- Freshmen Will Get Better Preparation Salt Lake City, Utah —(IP)— A tentative plan under which freshman and sophomore students at the University of Utah would be organized as a special unit to be termed "The College of the University of Utah" and in which they would receive more specific preparation for upper division work, has been presented to the faculty of the institution by Dr. Frederick J. Pack, head of the department of geology and chairman of the president's committee which drew up the plan. ves, and it never occurs to them to violate our confidence or their own code of youth." "Do you trust students for apples until allowance day?" an apple man at the corner of the campus was asked. •Mistaking the questioner for a student, he extended an idle apple, and made a little notation in his daybook. Fifth Avenue tailors have learned what this apple man learned. So has Gus, the fellow that runs the place close to the University— you know, where the beer is good and the "side-cars" hit you when you least expect them. "These here Columbia collegiates always pay for their drinks—and breakage," said Gus. "They can break stuff up to a hundred dollars here any time, but if they're gonna break anything over a hundred, they got to put down a deposit. "Maybe them Oxford collegiates ain't good pay, I don't know. They never come in here." Sloan and "Amos" Guests At Luncheon Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) and President Matthew Scott Sloan, of New York Edison Co., were guests of Bernard Gimbel, department store man, at a luncheon in Manhattan. Chaffed Tycoon Sloan: "Now tell us, Wha*t made Madam Queen faint in the courtroom?" Retorted Amos: "She saw her electric light bill."— Time. The above, from a recent issue of Time, the national news magazine, is of peculiar interest to the many friends of Mat Sloan, a distinguished Auburn alumnus. Oberlin, O.—(IP)—For the first time in the history of the college, Oberlin College students ( are considering the inauguration of a general undergraduate activities fee, covering all sporting events and subscriptions to college publications. The students will vote on the project in the near future. ! Always Ready to Give You the Best of Service TOOMER'S HARDWARE CLINE TAMPLIN, Manager «.—«.- When you a r e in Montgomery Stop and Eat a t t h e PARAMOUNT CAFE J 120 Montgomery St. Montgomery, A l a . KING'S CASH GROCERY N e w B u i l d i n g _ AUBURN HEIGHTS—OPELIKA-AUBURN HIGHWAY Ai%"TWO PHONES y i |« Vj (Auburn) 1 1 MORNING DELIVERY 8:00 - 10:00 - 11:30 AFTERNOON DELIVERY 2:30 - 4:30 - 5:45 Come to t h e House by t h e Side of t h e Road; We try to be a Friend to Man. "Sho! Sho! This is a Cash Proposition" 2 cans Bartlett PEARS-small can 3 pkgs. 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COLLEGIANA When the new co-op store opens at the University of South Dakota, six co-eds will be behind the fountain dispensing "drinks. Many a boy will bev late to his classes this spring! —0— Eight ex-collegians are on the Yankee roster this spring. They are Gehrig, Columbia; Werber, Duke; Combs, Eastern Kentucky; Padden, Holy Cross; Rhodes, Utah; Sherid, Albright; Weaver, Eastern Kentucky, and Wells, Bethany. —0— The largest chorus of trained voices ever heard on the air will face microphones in the Greek amphitheatre at the University of Virginia on April 16. The occasion will mark part of the program to be presented by the Virginia State Choral Festival Association. - 0 - \ The Student Senate of Ohio State University has endorsed a plan to have seniors grade their instructors at the end of the year. This method should prove highly successful in determining the instructor's status, providing an element of fairness prevails in grading him on his merits and not altgoether on his personality. —0— When the entire male student body of 412 at Washington and Jefferson walked out on a speech by President Baker, in protest of his alleged non-support of athletics, the incident called to mind the nation-wide admiration of those scrappy football teams from W. & J., many times losing, yet fighting to the end. —0— One college and three schools are to be added to Louisiana State University. They are colleges of applied science, and the schools of geology, music and journalism. BEDINGFIELD SPEAKER. TO LIONS CLUB TUES. (Continued from page 1) Mr. Bedingfleld stated that no better remedy for the present economic ills can be found than the prescription given by Henry W. Grady which reads, in part, as follows: "When every farmer in the South shall eat bread from his own fields and meat from his own pastures, and, disturbed by no creditor and enslaved by no debt, shall sit amid his teeming gardens, and orchards, and vineyards, and dairies, and barnyards, pitching his crops in his own -wisdom, and growing it in his own time, and in his chosen market, and not at a master's bidding—getting his pay in cash and not in a receipted mortgage that discharges his debt, but does not restore his freedom—then shall be breaking the fullness of our day." MATHEMATICAL BODY PLANS FOR MEETING (Continued from page 1) michael, University of Illinois; Dr. Fred Allison, Auburn; Prof. T. M. Simpson, University of Florida; Prof. D. F. Barrow, University of Georgia; Prof. W. W. Elliot, Duke University; Dr. Duncan C. Harkin, Auburn; Prof. Z. M. Pirenian, Auburn; and Dr. R. D. Doner, Auburn. , K. D. PI BREAKFAST TO BE HELD FRIDAY (Continued from page 1) Auburn -chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, is in charge of all arrangements, and according to all indications a record attendance is expected. Over one hundred members of Kappa Delta Pi attended this breakfast last year. Abandonment of prohibition in favor of a system holding liquor dealers responsible for damage done by their patrons while under the influence of liquor is advocated by Dr. Robert C. Binkley, professor of history at Flora Stone Mather College of Western Reserve University.. MAN IS THE ONLY PERFECT ANIMAL SAYS SCIENTIST am-phy-he . proof Uni-rush By Charles W. Lawrence Editor, Intercollegiate Press. Cleveland, Ohio —(IP)— Man the only perfect beast. The reason: Man is the only mal whose growth, mentally and sically, is retarded sufficiently by ture to allow him to learn before settles down to live by habit. Thus did Dr. T. Wingate Todd, fessor of anatomy at the School Medicine at Western Reserve versity and director of the Br Foundation, explain to an audience here the tentative conclusions reached so far in the Brush Foundation's inquiry into the natural history of man. Furthermore, Dr. Todd asserted, those conducting the inquiry have found a new word to apply tovthe' forces which control man's destiny from birth to the grave. It is neither heredity nor invironment but both expressed in the word "heritage." Important in Dr. Todd's inquiry is a clever little chimpanzee named Claudius, whose picture was on one of the lantern slides thrown on the screen. With the aid of these slides the director explained to his audience why the anthropoid ape, whose brain at birth suggests greater maturity than that of the child at birth, cannot go on learning unil it becomes, in time, as intelligent as its human relative. In simple language it is because the ape stops growing, or reaches adulthood, at the age of 6 or 7, while man is forced to await the age of 19 or 20 before he becomes full grown. While the ape, therefore, changes from child to adult within about two years, it takes man about 16 years to make the change. Since it is in this period between childhood and adulthood that the animal gains his greatest experience, Dr. Todd indicated man's long retardation in growth is a favorable factor and provides him witjh an overwhelming advantage over the other animals. Dr. Todd did not state as final his, conclusion that an ape, ending the stage of childhood, cannot keep on learning. Claudius, the chipanzee, he said, now has the mind of a child about 1 year old. He'showed a picture of Claudius using a stick to draw an object nearer his cage. That much Claudius has learned, as well as to imitate a windowcleaner. While the window cleaner washes the upper pane, Claudius wasehs the lower pane and would make a good job of it, Dr. Todd said, if he didn't spoil it all by blowing his breath all over the pane when he gets through. "What we want to know," said the director, is whether or not Claudius will keep right on learning as long as he lives. It is possible that he will. We are waiting to find out. But I think it is safe to predict he will not, for he is just about to reach adulthood, and the moment he reaches that stage I am quite certain his period of experience will have become fixed." At 2, Dr. Todd said, the brain of the human child has become more complex than that of the adult chimpanzee. While the ape's brain at birth is larger than the child's, adult man's brain is three times as large as the ape's. Tiger Theatre WEDNESDAY, March 25 RUTH CHATTERTON in "UNFAITHFUL" —with Paul Lucas - Paul Cav-anagh - Stella Moore. —Also— "STRANGE.AS IT SEEMS" and Comedy "THE HEADACHE" THURSDAY, March 26 Warner Brothers present "MAN to MAN" Grant Mitchell - Lucille Powers - Phillips Holmes - George Marion —Also Act— "HAPPINESS REMEDY" and Comedy "DUMBELLS IN DERBIES" FRIDAY, March 27 "FIGHTING CARAVANS" —with Gary Cooper - Lily - Da-mita - Ernest Torrence - Fred Kohler - Tully Marshall. Also Paramount Sound News Civics Department Woman's Club Meets The department of civics of the Woman's Club met on Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. T. High. Mrs. P. O. Davis had charge of the program and secured as speaker, Professor L. M. Ware, whose subject was "Annuals and Perennials." Plans were discussed for the annual flower show, the time and place for which will be announced later. The department of education met the same afternoon at the home of Mrs. M. L. Beck. Mrs. W. D. Salmon was leader, and secured as speaker, Dr. R. L. Johns, who spoke on "The Adjustment of the Problem Child." He emphasized the need for greater facilities in the way of child .guidance or habit clinics in the South to assist such children; the only clinic of this kind in Alabama is located at Montevallo. The "Story Hour", -maintained by the department of education, will be held next Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. E. W. Camp at 3 o'clock. All children of pre-school age are invited. EXPERIMENT COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN U. CRITICIZED Tb,e Brush Foundation's inquiry thus far has produced other interesting results, Dr. Todd said. Of 100 girls studied, he said, 30 were found to be beyond their years in physical and mental growth, while of 100 boys studied only nine were thus beyond their years. In the human being that part of the brain believed to control the learning and use of words develops most rapidly between the ages of 2 and 4. That is the time, Dr. Todd suggested, when children should learn foreign languages. That part of the brain which has to do with directing the human being's attention to new objects develops most rapidly between the ages of 4 and 7. That part of the brain which records experiences sees its greatest development between the ages of 7 and 20. It is during this third period, he said, that man must receive his training, and without that period, which is denied other animals, mankind would never have become man as we know him. It was implied by the director that the parent has a great deal to do with riiaking or breaking the offspring during this period. < Patronize Plainsman Advertisers. Hair Cuts have been reduced from 40c to 30c Special Massage Hair Cut Shampoo Shave $1.00 \ COLLEGE BARBER SHOP Madison, Wis. —(IP)— As plans were being made here to investigate the results thus far of the Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin with a view either to abandonment or extension of the experiment, The Nation, New York weekly, on March 25 published an article of criticism of the college by Eliseo Vivas, of the University of Wisconsin, along with a rejoinder by Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, who began the experiment in the fall of 1927. The import, briefly, of Vivas' article is that the Expeirmental College thus far as proved capable of giving only a more or less superficial education to its students. Dr. Meiklejohn replies that no, when the university is attempting to find out what has been done thus far, is no time for criticism of the college by a professor who is not entirely familiar with its workings or results. Described briefly, the plan of the Experimental College is as follows (keeping in mind that it is experimental and subject to whatever changes the administration believes advisable): It is a two-year course, to which only students of the right type are admitted, taking up the first two years of college. The course of study is based on two great civilizations— that of the Greeks, and that of the modern United States. All other study hinges about this. Vivas contends in his article in The Nation, that it has been demonstrated that the students in the college are inclined to lack experience in that sort of study which demands discipline', that the teachers, because they are rather young, are not specialists in their superficial means of obtaining an education. Dr. Meiklejohn replies, that while he is not entering into a debate as to the merits of the criticism, the student discussions are only a part of the course of study, that frequent reports are required on outside reading. The experiment has aroused widespread interest in world educational cirqles, and on its success is believed to depend largely the future trend in American education. Germans are building a new plane believed capable of rising ten miles in the air. WM HARDIE Insurance and Real Estate Auburn, Alabama April 5th Will Be EASTER SUNDAY Get your cards now. Special ones for Mother, Dad and Sweetheart. Burton's Bookstore Something New Every Day In Montgomery It Is The Jefferson Davis "Montgomery's Finest Hotel" "Dispensers of True Southern Hospitality" Where Auburn People Meet REASONABLE RATES 250 Rooms 250 Baths W. H. Moore, Manager DINKLER HOTELS CO., Inc. Carting L. Dinkier, Pres. & Gen. Mgr. 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