1931-03-18 The Plainsman

              Class Elections
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Class Elections
April 1
VOLUME LIV AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1931 NUMBER 45
ANNUAL ENGINEERS'
DAY PROVES SUCCESS
AS PROGRAM CLOSES
Dr. Knapp, H. H. Houk of Ala.
State Bridge Corp. and Dr.
A l l e n Make Addresses
ENGINEERS DEFEAT AGS
Dance Music by Auburn Or­chestra
Broadcasted Over
WSFA and WAPI
Coming to a close with the dance
last night, the third annual Engi­neers'
Day at Auburn was pronoun­ced
a success by all participating.
After an official holiday had been
declared beginning at 10:00 o'clock,
yesterday morning, events of the day
included a moving picture show, a
baseball game between Ags and En­gineers,
a banquet, and a dance. ^
The Engineers' Banquet held in
Smith Hall at 7:30 p. m.,. was at­tended
by students and faculty mem­bers
in the engineering department
with their guests. John C. McKin-non,
professor of mechanical engi­neering,
served as toastmaster.
The introductory address was giv­en
by Dr. Bradford Knapp, who out­lined
the possibilities and progress
of the engineering profession since
the day of St. Patrick. In his speech,
Dr. Knapp stressed the fact that en­gineering
was becoming a broader
field, and that it had been placed on
a level equal to any of the other pro­fessions.
Following President Knapp, H. H.
Houk, of the Alabama State Bridge
Corporation, gave one of the princi­pal
addresses of the evening. Mr.
Houk discussed "Successful Engi­neering".
"Do not be discouraged
with slow progress; real advance­ment
is made in gradual steps," he
said. "In selecting a job, take the
one which offers opportunities for
advancement. The job with the high­est
starting salary is not always the
best one."
Mr. Houk advised the young engi­neer
to keep up his contacts with
progress being made in his branch
of the profession through engineer­ing
magazines, journals of the engi­neering
societies, and from reports
of the work of fellow engineers.
In the absence of Chas. F. De-
Bardeleben, who was unable to at­tend,
Dr. Roger Allen, of the chemis­try
department, delivered a spech on
"The Work of the Chemist in the
Modern World".
Dr. Allen- summed up his talk by
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26 HIGH SCHOOLS
WILL COMPETE IN
ANNUAL TOURNEY
CLASS ELECTIONS WILL BE HELD WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 • * * • * * * * • • * * * • • * » » * • * * » • • • '»
High School Dramatic Tournament To Start Here On Friday
Members Of Executive
Cabinet To Be Chosen
On Tuesday, April 14
WOMANS COLLEGE GLEE CLUB
PRESENTS POPULAR PROGRAM
Two Hundred High School Stu
dents, Coaches, and Teach­ers
to Be Here With Teams
THREE JUDGES CHOSEN
Schools Competing to Be Divid­e
d Into Four Groups For Pre>
sentation of Plays
KIWANIS THANK GRANT
THROUGH RESOLUTIONS
Civic Club Voices Appreciation
For Work Done In Securing
Post. Office
At their meeting Monday members
of the local Kiwanis Club passed the
following resolution:
That the Kiwanis Club of Auburn,
Alabama, express its very great ap­preciation
to Mr. Hugh Graiit, rep-
Resentative Henry B. Steagall, and
Senator Hugo Black, for their faith­ful,
untiring and persistent efforts in
securing the necessary appropriation
of funds by the Congress of the
United States for a Post Office Build­ing
at Auburn.
Following the adoption of this res­olution
President E. Y. Bailey ex­pressed
to Professor L. N. Duncan,
a member of the Club, appreciation
of the Club for his faithful and out­standing
work in obtaining an ap­propriation
of $90,000 for the erec­tion
of the Federal Postoffice Build­ing
at Auburn.
Two new members were added to
the Club roll on Monday, they being
Prof. L. M. Ware of the department
of horticulture, and Ed Hurt, local
manager for the Alabama Power
Company. A talk on the aims and
purposes of Kiwanis was given by
Prof. J. A. Parrish.
Dr. R. S. Sugg was in charge of
the program for the day. An enter­taining
feature was presented by J.
A. Blackburn.
During the fifth annual high school
darmatic tournament, which will be
held here Friday, March 20 and Sat­urday,
March 21, Auburn *will be
host to over two hundred students,
dramatic coaches, and teachers, rep­resenting
26 Alabama high schools,
it was announced yesterday from the
Department of Speech. Dr. Gosser,
from the English department, who
is working with Professors Judson
and Shaver from the Speech depart­ment,
stated, "It looks as if the
tournament is going to be larger
than it has ever been before."
Judges for the finals have already
been selected. »They are Katherine
Hare Clark, a member of the Au­burn
Players; Don Bloch, instructor
of journalism; and Dryden Baugh-man,
another member of the Au­burn
Players.
"Through the cooperation of the
various fraternities, students, and
the townspeople, arrangements are
being made," stated Professor Jud­son,
"to secure rooms for the many
visitors."
The schools have been divided into
four groups: those which will give
their plays Friday (group 1), those
which will perform Friday afternoon
(group 2), those which will perform
Saturday morning (group 3), and
those whose plays will be given Sat­urday
afternoon (group 4). The
winning school from each group will
compete in the finals, which will be­gin
Saturday evening at 7:00 o'clock.
Admission for each of the prelimi­naries,
it was stated, will be ten
'cents; admission for the finals will
be twenty-five cents.
The table below gives the name
of each competing high school, the
director for each school, and the play
to be presented by each.
Friday A. M.—Group I
7:00—Cliff High School, Opelika;
director, Miss Emmie Durham; play,
Where the Cross is Made.
7:45-r-Lee County High School,
Auburn; director, Miss Marie Sewell;
play, Love in Idleness.
8:30—Sumter County High School,
York; director, Miss Wyoline Hester;
play, The Land of Heart's Desire.
9:15—Macon County High School,
Notasulga; director, Miss Ruby Fos­ter.
10:00—Handley High School, Roa­noke;
director, Miss Austin Aubrey;
play, The China Pig.
10:45—McAdory High School, Mc-
Calla; director, Miss Lyda J. Tumlin;
play, Gaius and Gaius, Jr.
11:30—Union Springs High School,
Union Springs; director, O. R. Cot­tle.
Friday P. M.—Group II
1:00—Sidney Lanier High School,
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Presentation Is One Of Series Of Concerts Given During Week's
Tour Of Georgia and Alabama; To Play At Tuskegee In­stitute
Woman's College Glee Club, pre­senting
thirty voices in chorus, in­strumental
and vocal solos, and an
opera burlesque, in its Langdon Hall
engagement, left Tuesday morning
for Tuskegee, where it will give its
program at the Tuskegee Institute.
The performance was well attend­ed
by students and townspeople. It
combined classical numbers, artfully
rendered by a group of trained
voices. Miss Clyde Reinhardt, vocal
soloist, Miss Elizabeth Call, violin­ist,
and Miss Edith Coale, accom­panist,
were outstanding artists on
the program.
This is the second consecutive year
that Mr. Borehers has brought the
Woman's College Club here, and his
growing popularity is evidenced by
the attendance increase over that of
last year. Included in the itinerary
of the club during its week tour are:
Emory University, LaGrange, Geor­gia,
Auburn, Tuskegee, and Tuske­gee
Institute. After its concert at
The Tuskegee Institute, the club will
return to Woman's College..
The appearance of the Woman's
College Glee Club was given under
the auspices of the Auburn Glee Club.
Ike Roth, business manager of the
Auburn club stated that the Monte-vallo
club would come to Auburn
some time soon, and expressed the
wish that students attend its concert.
PRACTICE STARTS
FOR HORSE SHOW
Seniors and Juniors Will En­gage
In Competitive Events
Practice started last week in prep­aration
for the Horse Show, annual
event sponsored by the military de­partment,
which will take place May
1, at 2 p. m. on Bullard Field, ac­cording
to an announcement made
by Captain W. A. Metts, officer in
charge of this activity.
It was stated that the plans call
for practically the same program as
was given last year, with one or two
exceptions. Seniors and juniors will
engage in competitive events, while
sophomores will ride in an exhibition
drill. The Auburn band will be on
the field and will play while seniors
present the "Musical Chair".
The show will consist of the fol­lowing:
Senior jumping; Junior jump-ing;
Sophomore exhibition drill; po­tato
race; rescue race; musical chair;
and Roman riding by men from the
regular enlisted attachment.
Awards to winners of different
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LARGEST TIRE TO
COME HERE FRIDAY
Mammoth Tire Is Twelve Feet
In Diameter and Four Feet
Wide
Brewster Will Talk
On Lumber Thursday
D. R. Brewster, of the National
Lumber Manufacturers Association,
Memphis, Tennessee, will give a lec­ture
in Chemistry building audito­rium
on Thursday, March 19, at 7:45
p. m., according to Dan T. Jones,
head of the department of industrial
arts.
The subjects which he will discuss
are: "Termite Damage to Woods;"
"Moisture Content and Seasoning of
Woods;" and "Light Wood Frame
Construction."
Battery *E\ Company
'C, Best At Review
Battery "E", under command of
Captain L. R. Mullins, was decided
by the R. O. T. C. staff the best bat-atery
of Field Artiller^ at the review
held on Saturday, March 14. Com­pany
"C", commanded by Captain J.
O. Moss, was judged the best com­pany
in the Engineer Unit. The 1st
Platoon of Battery "E", under First
Lieut. C. E. Caudell, and the 2nd
Platoon of Company "B" under First
Fieut. G. W. Fahrubell were decided
the best platoons for the day.
Prof. Pope Given
Leave Of Absence
The world's largest tire will be on
exhibition in Auburn on Friday,
March 20, arriving here about six
o'clock from Montgomery. This mam­moth
tire is twelve feet tall and four
feet wide. The inner tube alone
weighs 125 pounds, yet this giant of
tiredom can be inflated in forty-five
minutes. Three months time was
required to construct the tire.
This great wonder was built by the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
of Akron, Ohio, and is on a tour of
several states in this section of the
country. It has been in many parts
of the United States, and has been
exhibited in Canada, arousing much
interest at the Toronto Exposition
last fall. It was made under the
combined supervision of the chemi­cal,
tire design, and research divi­sions
of Goodyear's development de­partment.
An interesting feature of the tire
is that the valve is the only item of
standard size in the completer-as­sembly,
which is a replica of the
Goodyear All-Weather .Tread Super-twist
Cord Tire, the measurements
•being in exact ratio to measurements
of the regular size tire.
Goodyear originally planned to
construct the giant tire even larger
than it is, but the engineers in charge
of the work were restricted in their
program by the fact that some of
the bridges over which it would pass
on its tours of America, Canada,
Mexico, and. Cuba have a clearance
of only twelve feet.
The tire is mounted as a trailer to
a bus of special' design and has a
load carrying capacity of approxi­mately
50,000 pounds. It requires
only three pounds of pressure.
CABINET REQUESTS
ORGANIZATIONS TO
PAY DELINQUENCIES
Five Organizations Are Found
Delinquent In Payment of
Dues to Executive Cabinet
FEES ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
No Notice Given t o Cabinet for
Non-Payment of Annual
Fees By Organizations
Several organizations on the cam­pus
have not paid their fee to the
Executive Cabinet, according to an
announcement made today by the of­ficers
of the cabinet. The fees for
these organizations are one dollar
per year, and according to the an­nouncement
of the cabinet, two no­tices
have been sent to these socie­ties
but with no results.
At the request of the cabinet the
following list of delinquent organiza­tions
is published. American Socie­ty
of Civil Engineers, "A" Club, En­gineers'
Club, Gamma Sigma Delta,
and Gamma Sigma Epsilon.
The cabinet has had no notice .as
to why these organizations have not
paid, and the officers expressed the
hope that these organizations would
do something immediately.
Former Accountant
Perfects Invention
J. D. Pope, head of the department
of agricultural economics, has been
granted leave for one year during
which he will be employed by the
Federal Farm Board and will partici­pate
in making studies of economic
problems. He will have headquart­ers
in Washington.
While he is away the other mem­bers
of the department will continue
with the work, Dean Funchess said.
J. T. Price, former accountant at
Auburn and now in the same posi­tion
at Mercer University, Macon,
Georgia, has been granted a patent
on a letter-folding machine which
he invented.
A recent issue of the Macon Tele­graph
and News carried an illustra­ted
feature story about the inven­tion
and patent. The illustration
showed Mr. Price standing by his
machine. The writer said that the
machine will fold letters and feed
them- into envelopes at the rate of
5,000 per hour, or as fast as ten
men conld do the work by going at
top speed.
Much of this work was done "by Mr.
Price while he was at Auburn. Ex­tra
hours were worked by him and
he frequently extended his efforts
well into the night.
Baseball Team To
Open With Mercer
Coach Sam McAllister's Auburn
baseballers will make their debut in
the newly organized Dixie College
Baseball League against Mercer at
Auburn, April 6 and 7. The Tigers
will play 20 games in the league
against Mercer, Oglethorpe, Florida,
Georgia Tech and Georgia, and two
with the Vanderbilt Commodores.
Several practice tilts will probably
be carded before the season officially
opens with the Macon Bears.
A. P H I L CONTEST
BE HELDJHONDAY
Declamation Contest Be Held
In the Auditorium Of Broun
Hall
Sam Fort to Represent Auburn
At Meeting At University of
Alabama.
ELECTIONS EARLY
Executive Cabinet to Take
Over Publication Of Rat
Bible
A. V. BLANKENSHIP, '30
SPENDS WEEK-END HERE
Airway Engineer Talks
To Aviation Students
Thomas H. Chapman, airways en­gineer,
for the Department of Com­merce
spoke to the students in aero­nautical
engineering, Monday, on the
work of the department in the in­stallation
and upkeep of the Federal
Airways.
Mr. Chapman spent the week-end
in Auburn looking over the proposed
Auburn-Opelika airport.
A. V. Blankenship, Auburn '30,
spent the week-end with friends in
Auburn. He came from Ambridge,
Pa., where he is draftsman for the
American Bridge Company.
Mr. Blankenship was editor of the
1929-30 Plainsman. He took civil en­gineering
and immediately after
graduation began work with the
Pennsylvania Highway Commission.
Later he resigned from the Highway
Commission to go with the American
Bridge Company.
In the rooms and offices where he
works there are 280 people employed,
Mr. Blankenship said. To date he
has met people from 42 states and
also from foreign countries. More
than half o€ the people of Ambridge
were foreign-born, he said.
DeMonia Attends
Y.M.C.A. Meeting
. T. P. DeMonia, senior in agricul­ture,
represented the Auburn Y. M.
C. A. at the District Older Boy's Con­ference
which was held in Jackson­ville,
Alabama, last week-end. Mr.
DeMonia is advisor for the Hi-Y
Clubs around Auburn.
Hi-Y clubs from almost all parts of
the State were represented at the
conference. The discussions were
lead by J. W. Nelson, state Y. M. C.
A. secretary.
The purpose of this meeting was
to get Y. M. C. A. principles better
established. in the high school thru-out
the state. Talks were given of
sex problems, what high school
youths should know, boy and girl re­lationships,
and etc.
The declamation contest, spon­sored
by Alpha Phi Epsilon, will be
held Monday, March 23, at 7:00 p.
m. in the auditorium of Broun Hall.
This contest is open to all the pro­fessional
organizations on the cam­pus,
and according to an announce­ment
made by Thomas Kipp, presi­dent
of Alpha Phi Epsilon, almost
all have entered.
The speeches will be on the sub­ject,
"My Course as a Course and
Profession", and each contestant will
not be allowed to speak over eight
minutes. The award to the winner
of this contest will be a five-dollar
gold piece.
According to the members of
Alpha Phi Epsilon, a large amount
of interest has been shown in this
contest, and the meeting Monday
night should prove very interesting
and beneficial. The members of the
fraternity also expressed the hope
that the Auburn student tody would
cooperate in putting this contest oyer
by being present Monday night.
Auburn P.-T. A. To
Meet Next Friday
The Auburn Parent Teachers As­sociation
will hold a meeting Friday
afternoon, March 20, at the Gram­mar
School building. Special atten­tion
is called to the fact that the
meeting is being held on the third
Friday instead of the fourth as has
been the custom in the past.
Those in charge expressed the hope
that as many Auburn parents as pos­sible
would attend the meeting as
several matters of importance are to
be considered.
Vice-President AIEE
Speaks Here Thursday
Professor W. S. Rodman, of the
University of Virginia and Vice-president
of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers, will be in
Auburn Thursday, March 19, to give
a lecture. Professor Rodman is pres­ident
of the fourth district, of which
the Auburn chapter is a part.
Professor Rodman will lecture in
Birmingham Friday to the Birming­ham
professional men's chapter of A.
I. E. E. on "Some Aspects of the Sci­entific
Work of Thomas Jefferson."
The exact hour that the lecture
will be given has not been decided,
but it will be posted as soon as pos­sible
Thursday morning. It is re­quested
that the windows in town be
watched closely as the time will be
posted there as soon as it has been
decided.
Classes will be excused for those
students attending the lecture.
The election of class officers, Edi­tor
and Business Manager of the
Glomerata, and Editor and Business
Manager of the Plainsman will be
held April 1, according to an an­nouncement
made today by the
Chairman of the Election Committee
of the Executive Cabinet. Accord­ing
to the Constitution of the Under-
Graduate Students, this election is
supposed to be held the second week
in April, but is being moved up be­cause
of the senior inspection trip.
Nominations for the above offices
must be turned in by 1:00 p. m.,
March 25.
The election of cabinet members
will be held April 15, and all nomi­nations,
must be 'turned in by 1:00
p. m. April 8.
At the Cabinet meeting Monday
night, it was decided that the Execu­tive
Cabinet would take over the
publication of the Rat Bible instead
of the Y. M. C. A. Also it was re­ported
that progress was being made
on the publication of the "Financial
Report Booklet". Form letters have
been compiled and sent to all of the
organizations on the campus.
Sam Fort was elected to go as
Auburn's representative to the South­ern
Federation of College Students,
which is to be held at the University
of Alabama, April 16, 17, and 18.
Sabel Shanks was elected alternate
delegate.
An amendment to the Regulations
of Permanent Committees as announ­ced
by the cabinet is as follows:
Nominees for Editor and Business
Manager of" the four-major publica­tions
on the campus shall have com­pleted
five semesters of college work,
and shall have served at-least one
scholastic year on the staff of thai
publication before he is eligible.
PROF. SCARSETH SPEAKS
AT LIONS CLUB MEETING
'Experiences In Central Amer­ica"
Subject of Soils Profes­sor's
Speech
Eight From Here Go
To Academy Meeting
Auburn was represented at the
meeting of American Academy of
Science in Tuscaloosa the week end­ing
March 14, by Dr. Fned Allison,
Dr. C. A. Basore, Dr. Roger Allen,
and Professors J. F. Duggar, J. M.
Robinson, C. L. Hare, Herman Jones,
Herbert Martin and W. N. Arnquist.
Papers were presented by the Au­burn
representatives. Professor Mar­tin
was elected vice-president.
"Experiences in Central America"
was the topic of an interesting and
entertaining report made by Geo. D.
Scarseth, of the Agronomy Depart­ment,
at the regular weekly meeting
of the Lions Club held in the Thomas
Hotel Tuesday noon. Prof. Scarseth,
who served as soil chemist for the
United Fruit Company in Central
America for two years, impressed
members of the club with sketches
of native life in the regions in which
he traveled, and showed them many
curios and souvenirs that he collect­ed
during his travels.
Scarseth said that he was particu­larly
impressed by the vast natural
resources that remain practically un­touched
in Central America and that
the section offers an abundant re­ward
for the pioneers in its develop­ment.
Chas. W. Edwards announced that
a committee had Been appointed to
work with committees from the other
civic clubs to investigate and draw
up plans as to what might be done
in regard to the improvement of the
sewerage system of Auburn. E. F.
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SPLENDID WORK
As the fear of a terrible epidemic
subsides, Auburn should pause to pay
tribute to the splendid and efficient
work of the State Board of Health in
cooperation with local physicians. This
department has successfully relieved
Auburn of the fear of an epidemic of
meningitis by carefully examining all
possible carriers of the deadly germs,
and have taken every precaution to
guard against future danger.
The students are also indebted to the
college physician who handled the mat­ter
with undisturbing diplomacy and
at the same time exposed the campus
to no undue danger. He was assisted
'by Dr. R. S. Suggs, bacteriologist of
the school of veterinary medicine, who
is to be highly commended.
The Plainsman speaks for the stu­dent
body in expressing its appreci­ation
for the careful direction and at­tention
given the situation, and feels
that only extraordinary work could
have restored order and ease on the
campus in such a short time.
This incident will'no doubt aid great­ly
in convincing students to never be­come
unduly alarmed over campus
rumors, until officially notified. It
should be a clear lesson to turn the
deaf ear to the speculative talk that is
always present in times of excitement.
TOO MANY SOCIETIES
At the present time, Auburn is possessed
of too many societies. On the campus there
are innumerable organizations such as de­partmental
clubs, interfraternity clubs, lit­erary
societies,, and honorary fraternities.
Too many of these are unnecessary, and,
for the most part, they are not even re­motely
approaching the aims for which
they stand.
This institution, like so many other col­leges
and universities, and typical of the
American people, has for a student body a
group that is willing to join anything.
A present-day philosopher has said that
America is a nation of joiners—that the
people of the United States are willing to
organize into any form of club or activity.
Auburn students prove the assertions of
the man who made the above statement.
A body of men may have something in com­mon,
and, with all of intentions of better­ing
themselves, they organize into some sort
of club. For a little while, enthusiasm is
shown, and some of the members do .an
amount of work that gives an outsider, the
impression that something, worthwhile or
not, is being done.
Interest is soon lacking, however; the
members tire of making periodic meetings
—of listening to uninteresting, boring talks
and other features of the average program.
The time finally comes when no one shows
an interest except a handful of students,
who make themselves believe they are get­ting
some good out of it.
Other organizations may live for years
and have only one or two meetings a year.
There are honorary fraternities here that
never get into the public eye more than
once or twice annually. They are the so­cieties
that hold elections, extract money
from a number of students, hold an initi­ation
and a banquet, only to become dorm­ant
until the time comes when someone else
must be elected, if the fraternity is to be
present the next year. These fraternities
are supposed to do/something besides elect­ing
members. But what do they do?
The solution is simple. If the members
of certain societies would truly face the
problem, they could easily decide whether
or not their respective clubs are worthy of
existence; once these studnts had looked
into the matter thoroughly and had made
their decisions, perhaps the campus would
possess fewer organizations.
This has been done before. The expon­ents
of literary society work decided that
there was no need for four such societies;
they met and decided to combine into only
two societies. This was undoubtedly a wise
move. Several groups have disbanded in
the past several years. Other groups should
follow the examples set.
One gets a certain amount of satisfac­tion
and enjoyment out of looking back
over a period of a year or two and see just
what was doing and being done at that
time.
Looking over last year's issues of The
Plainsman that were published about this
time, one sees a streamer all the way across
the front page loudly advertising the fact
that The Glomerata had decided to dedicate
its 1930 edition to President Knapp "in
view of the capabilities of Dr. Knapp as
an administrator, his interest in all forms
of student activities, the devotion of his
personality and energy to the interests of
the college, and the love of the student
body for him as a true friend."
An announcement was made to the ef­fect
that the Summer Session would open
on the second of June. That was good news
to those who were fortunate or unfortu­nate
enough to be considering attendance
at the summer session.
A unique radio program was broadcast
from the studio through WAPI. The pro­gram,
sponsored by Omicron Delta Kappa
was a portrayal of "the impressions of
a freshman at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute." Things went over with a bang,
and the freshman must have received a very
good impression of the institute.
A long story was written about the En­gineers'
Day to be held in about a week.
The ball, of course, was featured as the
main event of the annual affair.
And then there's a story about a new
method of key distribution that the Glee
Club inaugurated. It seems as though only
members who had participated in this ac­tivity
for three years would be allowed the
privilege of wearing keys. It was a good
plan, and served as an incentive to cause
the members to work with more spirit.
The Textile Engineers were clamoring
for representation on the Executive Cabi­net.
The Cabinet passed on the school and
presented the petition for a- vote of the
student body.
And the Tau Omega Chi fraternity was
the newest member of the Interfraternity
Council at that time.
Religious Week services were to start
the beginning of the next week with a spe­cial
convocation in Langdon Hall,
Shorter stories were printed concerning
the following;
Students in journalism were contemplat­ing
a trip -to Montgomery to observe the
process in the publishing of a commercial
newspaper.
An end was put to a great number of
pro and con arguments concerning the ope­ration
of slot machines in Auburn, when'
the City Council decided that there should
be no more "Roscoes" in operation. Much
noise was made by both opponents and de­fenders
of slot machines, but practically
all of the devices were gotten rid of in
short order.
HANGOVERS
By HIC HIC
A SHORT SHORT STORY
They loved—matrimony. They wed
—ceremony. They divorced—alimony.
* * * * *
Montevallo, Marion, and Montgom­ery
all begin with an M, and they have
other things in common that are dear
to the hearts of the Auburn Lochin-vars.
* * * * *
"I'm giving you the air" howled
hardboiled Harry to the demure maid­en
as he shoved in the microphone
switch.
* * * * *^.
A TRAGEDY IN THREE ACTS
The villain flees. The villain takes
poison. The villain fails to die.
* * * * *
The business slump has been bad.
Banks have failed, stocks have fallen,
cotton has become worthless, and the
world has grown cold and cynical.
Yet thru it all we have been blessed
by the loyal friendship of Amos 'n
Andy. Blessings on their blackened
faces, and may they retire in all their
glory—soon.
Olla Podrida
By Chariot
EDITOR'S NOTE: Til* opinion! 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.
* * * * *
At last I've discovered a method by which
those interested in such things can deter­mine
whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote
the plays. Send two students in Public
Speaking to London and have one recite
Hamlet's Speech to the Players over Shake­speare's
grave, and the other declaim Mark
Antony's Speech Oyer the Body of Caesar
while standing beside the tomb of Bacon.
Then dig the two casket's up and open them.
The one who turned over in his grave wrote
the plays.
* * * * *
I was interested recently by a group dis­cussion
in which some person brought up
the question of books. His specific query
was this: "If you were to be shipwrecked
on an uninhabited island, say, somewhere
in the South Atlantic, and could only have
three books, which three would you take?"
The obvious reply, in which many joined,
was to place the Bible as the first book on
the list. Frankly, I disbelieve anyone would
do so. The monotonous begats would in­evitably
produce a moribund state of mind
which would induce serious consideration
of felode se.
The natural choice would be to induce
The Encyclopedia Britanriica, The Oxford'
Dictionary and The Dictionary of National
Biography—some one hundred and twenty
volumes. Then, if you were to kill a large
snake on the forested side of the island, you
could turn in the Encyclopedia until you
came to,SNA; identify this particular rep­tile
as a phython; return the volume to the
bookshelf; take out the volume containing,
PYT, and read up of the care, feeding,
nnd habits of the python. Then, you could
take up the Oxford, read the derivations of
the work python and learn the ways it is
spelled in German, French, and Yiddish.
When you come to the list of referred au­thors
at the .end of the article, you may
drag down the Biography and learn inter­esting,
if commonplace, fact about the ex­perts
in python lore. Thus you complete
the 'circle.
A useful book to carry would be Robinson
Crusoe, especially if the edition were illus­trated,
for then you would know the easiest
way to make two rabbit skins into a com­plete
suit which would be difficult to recog­nize
save as a product of Saville Row.
There would be, too, a tendency to carry
the more morbid works of Artzybascheff,
Mr. Cannan, and Mr. D. H. Lawrence, or,
say, something bewildering, as L'Assom-moir,
or Le Paradis des Dames, in an Eng­lish
translation and half-leather binding.
But I picked and chose and finally selec­ted
three most usual books. I decided I
would want Mr. Douglas' South Wind, Mr.
Beerbohms' The Happy Hippocrite (sic),
and Mr. Dicken's Pickwick Papers.
* * * * *
According to Hamper's Bazar, tones this
spring will be more subdued. This dictum,
I sincerely trust, will be rigidly observed
by those who sit behind me at the cinema.
* * * * *
Knut Hamsum is probably the only lit­erary
recluse left in the world. He hides
away in a small Norwegian village for
months at a time, seeing no one but the
peasants, and talking to nobody even re­motely
connected with books. While part
of this is due to the fact that Hamsun is
innately shy, a great deal is due to bitter­ness.
Hamsun had an extremely difficult
time getting started, for no one would print
his books. It was after a long fight in
America, during which time he was a street
car conductor in Chicago, that Hamsun
wrote one of his most famous books,
Hunger. It brought him overnight acclaim.
Then he wrote Growth of the Soil, for
which he received the Nobel Prize. Since
then,' he has devoted his time to writing
and growling at critics.
* * * * *
Very few students who attend lectures
in Langdon Hall realize that "auditorium"
comes from two Latin words, "audio",
meaning to hear, and "taurus", meaning
bull.
* * * * *
Their real names: Lewis Melville is Lew­is
S. Benjamin. William Bolitho, of Camera
Obscura, is William B. Ryall. George Pree-dy,
who wrote General Crack and Rocklitz,
is Mrs. Gabrielle M. Long. Rebecca West,
Ending in Earnest, is Mrs. Henry Maxwell
Andrews. Henrietta Leslie, author of Mrs.
Fischer's War, the new Book League choice
is Har'rie Schutze. Big Rich, of Indiana
and Other Poems, is Emory Aaron Richc-ardson.
John Rhode, who writes so many
Crime Club selections, is Cecil John Charles
Street. )
When a man uses the word "sometime"
he usually means not in his time.—Senator
Blaine of Wisconsin.
The new diplomacy can when it wishes
be as obscure, though more vocally obse-cure,
than the old.—Sir Austin Chamberlin.
* AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
The biggest waste of energy we have heard of is telling a hair raising story
to a bald headed man.
* * * * * * * *
Then there was the absent minded professor who cut his face and shaved his
class.
* * * * * * * *
Headline in New York paper: "Thieves Kill Pig and Flee."-—.
* * * * * * * *
The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working when we get up
in the morning and never stops until we get to school.
* * * * * * * *
We wonder if Claude Curry is passing R. O. T. C. now. He is brave anyway.
• * * * * * * * *
The income of most girls is about three A. M.
* * * * * * * *
Judge: You can take ten dollars or ten days.
Student: I'll take (hie) the ten dollars, your honor. —Ex.
* * * * * * * *
What ever trouble Adam had
No man in days of yore
Could say when Adam told a joke,
"I've heard that one before."
* * * * * * * *
The height of idleness is to watch someone else play solitaire.
* * * * * * * *
Professor: How do you increase body iron?
Student: Eat spinach and move to Chicago.
* * * * * * * *
A peach came walking down the street,
She was more than passing fair;
A nod, a smile, a half closed eye,
And the peach became a pair.
* * * * * * * *
The sentence without a verb—"Thirty days".
* * * * * . . * * '*
Who was it that called his girl Auger because she bored him to death?
* * * * * * * *
THE STORY OF OSWALD
Part I
Mother came into the room and discovered that Oswald had fed the baby rat
poison. She thought it was so cute that Oswald knew where she kept the rat poison.
Part -II
When father returned from work mother told him that while grandpa was
sleeping that little Oswald had hit him over the head with a hatchet and had killed
him. Papa was so glad that his son was getting so strong.
(To be continued)
* * * * * * * *
Who was it that said Chicago police are the finest—the finest that money
can buy.
*• WITH OTHER COLLEGES *
CO-EDS BECOMING EXTINCT
Co-eds at Emory are decreasing in num­ber
steadily each year outside of the Libra­ry
school, records of the Registrar's office
show. They have forty-eight co-eds this
year as compared with sixty last year.
Year before last there were sixty women
students in the university. The decrease in
recent years is attributed to the restrictions
placed upon co-eds here two years ago. Oh,
well, Agnes Scott is just across town.
* * * * *
STAR STUDENTS SHOULD EQUAL
STAR ATHLETES
The University of Washington in a re­cent
discussion on'scholarship, carried the
following artiele: "Put star students on
the same basis as star athletes and let the
A.S.U.W. get them jobs and sinecures
Help good students finance their college
careers by creating a number of scholar­ships
and a loan fund not subject to multi­tudinous
restrictions and intrigue . . . . Cut
out examinations and required class attend­ance
for scholars and install a modified
tutor system . . . .','
This was given in response to a question-aire
sent out byjthe honors committee of
the faculty to Washington's most brilliant
students. The report is to receive some
consideration by the faculty too. Just
imagine such radical changes as do take
plage.
* * * * *
MANLESS DANCE
The third "manless dance" , held at
Waynesburg College by the co-eds as a
punishment to men students for escorting
non-college girls to school functions, lived
up to its promise to be bigger and better
this year according to a United Press Dis­patch.
This seems like pouring gasoline on a
fire to put it out to us. No?
* * ., * * *
FORGET IT
A clipping was clipped, it seems, from
the Mobile Press and printed in the Crim­son
and White, concerning the "Million-
Dollar" band. Here 'tis:
"Palmer Pillans is the past participle of
perfection and punctiliousness but when
somebody sajd the 'Million-Dollar' band of
Alabama State university was 'among the
best in the United States', Mr. Pillans'
poise perished. 'Don't damn with faint
praise. It is the best,' he declared."
The somebody was more nearly right
than Mr. Pillans. Because that great
"Million-Dollar" band can never be the best
in the United States as long as our little
Fifty-Dollar band makes music.
* * * * *
POLITICAL GUNS BEING RE-OILED
"In the spring a young man's fancies
turns" seriously to thoughts of politics;
that is if he be one of the common herd
known as college students. A great speech
for one of the youthful aspirants could
contain in part some of Sam Scott's speech
when he ran for vice-president of the Stu­dent
Association back in the good old days,
at Mississippi A. & M. according to their
student paper. It seems that Samuel term­inated
his stirring Political Night speech
with the announcement of his platform. It
ran something like unto this:
"I will, if elected, promise to do the fol­lowing
things:
I will invert the flagpole.
I will put a keg of beer on every hall.
I will raze the commandant's office.
I will tear down the demerit boards.
I will abolish compulsory class attend­ance.
I will see that a burlesque show is pre­sented
at least once a day in the chapel.
I will build a gymnasium singlehanded.
In other words, my friends, I promise
good government for all but the graft will
go to my friends."
The keg of beer part should automatically
elect anyone.
* * * * *
NECKING vs. NIGHT COP
According to The Rocky Mountain Col­legian
if one happens to be parking on the
campus late some night or early some
morning and sees a light coming toward
him, not to think that it is Diogenese look­ing
for an honest man, and that he has been
chosen. Instead he had better prepare to
move on, because it is probably the new
campus night watchman. In fact they
think necking is getting tougher every day
(not necessarily the necks).
The authorities claim that it is not the
necking that they object to; but the fires.
It seems that several fires have broken out
recently near cars parked around the farm
buildings. They think also (they are as­sumed
at least to think) that the girls are
getting too careless with their stubs. Since
the girls can't smoke in their sorority
houses, they'll just have to get their boy
friends to drive them out to the three mile
limit.
A solution has been offered that with the
advent of the Austin car, some enterpris­ing
business man should start a miniature
parking course. He could buy a vacant
lot in or near the city limits and charge
for moonlight parking space, free from
cop interference. They could hang up a
dim lantern on moonless nights, and make
everything realistic—everything but the
cops.
"There's nothing new under the sun," so
they say, but there are still some possibili­ties
under the moon.
* * * * *
POOR OLD THING
"Old Mother Earth,, always a buxom fig­ure,
now weighs six sextillion (6.000,000,-
000,000,000,000) tons, according to Sir
James Jeans, noted British astronomer."—
That is 12,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,-
000 pounds! Diet?
Solitary Speculations
By Haakon Provost
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.
* * * * *
"Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it
were
To see thee in our waters yet ap­pear
. . . . "
* * * * *
For the first time in a number of years
the students of Auburn are to be given an
opportunity to see and appreciate dramat­ic
art at its best. On April 3 Ben Greet
and his troupe are to present Twelfth
Night, one of the most rollicking comedies
written by Shakespeare. This particular
play was selected by the players to be pre­sented
here because it has enjoyed greater
popularity among college students else­where
than have the other dramas which
the company presents.
To miss attending the presentation of
this play would be a regrettable error; it is
not every day that one can see a produc­tion
that is expressive of all that is highest
In drama.
* * * * *
Making a dignified professor's lecture a
gambling scheme was recently proved suc­cessful
by three Harvard students. As
professor Irving Babbitt (widely known
for his New Humanism) delivered a lecture
on Comparative Literature, three under­graduates
industrially counted his quota­tions.
Prior to. the lecture they had sold
lottery tickets numbered from one to one
hundred. The person holding the number
that corresponded with the number of quo­tations
the professor used that day would
win the prize. This might prove success­ful
in persuading enterprising followers of
the wheel of chance .to take notes, even
on supposedly unimportant subject like •
Sophomore English.
* * * * *
We who live in this highly specialized
country of scientific advancement are won't
to egotistically praise and, as it were, to
proclaim throughout the world the supre­macy
of our American civilization. Not so
very long ago the columnist heard a rep­resentative
of the rising generation remark
that our civilization was supreme, that all
others, especially the Chinese, were barba­ric
in their totalities.
Emile Hovelaque has said of Chinese civi­lization:
"This universal presence of art
manifested in the smallest utensil, the hum­blest
stalls, the notices on the shops, the
handwriting, the rhythm of movement, al­ways
regular and measure, as though to the
tune of unheard music, announces a civi­lization
which is complete in itself, elabo- -
rated in the smallest detail, penetrated by
one spirit, which no interruption ever
breaks, a harmony which becomes at
length a hallucinatory and overwhelming
obsession."
The Chinese are an artistic people; their
philosophy consisted in balancing their aes­thetic
temperaments. Chinese civilization
has lasted longer than has that of any
other one nation; its contemporaries have
long since decayed and passed away. In no
other code of living does one observe such
regularity, such stoicism, such philosophi­cal
calm, such contemplative sedateness,
and such aesthetic supremacy.
The present troubles in China are due
largely to revolutionary innovations of
Western ideas. The Chinese looks with
contempt on the America that is so benevo­lently
trying to instill "culture" in the great
Eastern nation, the America that sends its
missionaries to his succor, the America
that has found the true meaning of life in
crooked politics, crime, and agnosticism, the
America that can boast of all these fine
assets and that altruistically condescends '
to show the ignorant barbarian how to live
in terms of its fine Western civilization.
A number of students have commented
favorably on the impressions left on them
by the.motion picture "Africa Speaks." It
seems to the columnist that a few more
pictures of this type would prove highly
beneficial and profitable to both the pro­ducer
and the student. This particular
picture is unusual for its bare reality.
A crowd likes horrible scenes, and "Africa
Speaks" presented them unsparingly. One
gets sick of baby-talking, cheek-rubbing
pictures that are hopelessly melodramatic
in their entirety.
A permanent training school for Texas
firemen to be conducted at the A. & M. col-^-^"
lege of Texas is contemplated in a bill just
introduced in the State Legislature by Sen­ator
C. S. Gainer.
I like, as applauders, those audiences in
Southern Europe, where they shout when
they are pleased and when they are not,
hiss and throw potatoes.—Ossip Gabrilo-witsch.
\
The evils of the world are many, and
one of the greatest is immodesty.—Cardi­nal
Hayes.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1931 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Eight Basketeers
Change Uniforms
For Other Sports
Five A r e Now O u t F o r Base­ball;
Other Members of
Q u i n t e t Will Be Members of
T r a c k Squad
The close of the 1931 basketball
season only meant a change in ath­letic
equipment for eight members
of Auburn's varsity squad.
Capt. Ralph Jordan, Chas. Kaley
and Jack Stewart are the regulars
on the cage team who are seeking
additional, honors in other sports.
Jordan is a candidate for first base
and Kaley for catcher on the base­ball
team, while Stewart, who is
Southern Conference high jump
champion, is out to defend his cham­pionship
and win points for Wilbur
HutselFs track team in the hurdle
events. All were mainstays on the
hardwood five.
Other basketeers who have turned
their attention to Spring sports are
Frock Pate, George Jenkins and Sam
Mason, baseball, and Harbin Lawson
and Robert Arthur, track.
Pate is captain of the diamond nine
and cavorts at shortstop, and Jenk­ins
and Mason are leading aspirants
for center-field and first base. Law-son
is receiving expert instruction
from Hutsell in hurling the javelin
and Arthur in throwing the discus.
If these athletes perform in other
sports like they did on the hardwood
team, track and baseball will be
strengthened considerably by their
presence in the lineups.
LOST: One small coin purse con­taining
key and about $3.00. Wa»
, lost night of Woman's College Glee
Club Concert. Please return to L.
W. Thomas, 307 Alumni Hall.
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COACH WILBUR H. HUTSELL HAS
AN ENVIABLE RECORD AT AUBURN
Though not a champion as a mem­ber
of the University of Missouri
track team during his collegiate days,
Wilbur Hutsell is being hailed as a
"wonder" track coach because of his
ability to take youths with no high
school track experience and develop
them into champions before they con­clude
four years of collegiate com­petition.
Hutsell graduated from Missouri
in 1914 after receiving the major
letter there as a quarter-miler. Fol­lowing
graduation,, he returned to
Missouri as assistant track coach for
18 months, then accepted the post
as track coach of the Missouri Ath­letic
Association at St. Louis, resid­ing
there during 1916 and part of
1917.
During the World War years, he
was camp athletic director at Camp
Beauregard, La., Camp Cody, New
Mexico, and Camp Devins, Mass.
After the war, he accepted a position
as physical director of the Birming­ham
Athletic Club, which he held
for two years. He* came to Alabama
Polytechnic Institute as track mentor
in 1921.
He is the dean of the Auburn
coaching staff in point of service.
None of his leading Auburn track-sters
ever participated in high school
track, but numbered among his out­standing
performers are two world's
record holders, a co-holder of the
National championship, and six South­ern
record) holders. He produces
champions.
Weems Baskin, assistant coach at
Auburn"; Percy Beard, civil engineer­ing
instructor at Auburn, and Euil
Snider, assistant coach at Bessemer,
Ala. High School, are the greatest
track stars coached by Hutsell.
Baskin holds the world's record for
the 60-yard high hurdles at 7.4 sec­onds
made in the N.Y.A.C. games at
Madison Square Garden, Feb. 18,
1929. Harry Flippen, of the Univer­sity
of Virginia, equaled this time in
New York, March 16 of the same
year, but it has never been broken.
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Beard smashed the wordl's record
for the 70-yard high hurdles in the
National A.A.U. meet in New York,
Feb. 25 of this year. His sensation­al
time was 8.5 seconds, eclipsing a
record established in 1925. He equal­ed
the former mark four times be­fore
running it in 8.5 seconds.
Snider was Auburn's contribution
to the 1928 United States Olympic
team along with Wilbur Htusell, who
was assistant Olympic coach. He is
joint*holder of the National cham­pionship
for the 400 meters along
with Ray Barbuti, of Syracuse. Both
have a record of 48 flat. Snider
probably would have been one of the
greatest runners that this country
has ever seen if he had not given
up track after his collegiate days.
In addition to the outstanding
feats of Baskin, Beard and Snider,
Hutsell-coached athletes have annex­ed
a dozen Southern Conference
championships during the past six
years. Southern records were estab
lished by Orange and Blue wearers
in the 120-yard high hurdles, 220-
yard low hurdles, 440-yard dash, 100,
220 and pole vault.
Htusell's proteges have broken
world's records, Southern records
since he has been at the Cornerstone.
Every Auburn record for the 14 lead­ing
track events has been, shattered
since Wilbur Hutsell has been track
mentor.
He has produced champions and
well-balanced track teams at Au­burn.
In dual competition, the
Plainsmen have lost only two meets
in nine years.
Woman's Club Holds
Business Meeting
A business meeting of the Wom­an's
Club was held in Smith Hall on
Thursday afternoon at which the
second-vice president, Mrs. J. W.
Scott, presided. The chief item of
business was the election of dele­gates
to the annual meeting of the
State Federation of Woman's Clubs;
Mrs. W. A. Ruffin, Mrs. Fred Allison
and the incoming president were cho­sen
to represent the Auburn Club.
Mrs. G. H. Carlovitz and Mrs. M. L.
Beck were appointed to assist with
the Spring round-up of pre-school
children for health examinations.
Mrs. Beulah C. Van Wagonen an­nounced
a violin concert to be given
on April 30th, in Langdon Hall, by
Miss Christine McCann; this concert
is being sponsored by the Music £>e-partment
of the Club. Mrs. L. A.
Ward announced that a Fair was 4se=:
ing planned by the Ways and Means
Committee to be held some time lat­er
in the Spring.
The business meeting was followed
by a reception for new members.
JIM THORPE NOW DIGS
IN SOIL FOR A LIVING
Los Angeles—(IP)—Jim Thorpe,
former football star on the All-Amer-ican
team of over a decade ago, once
called "the grea'test athlete of all
time," is now digging foundations
here for $4 a day, it was discovered
recently.
After playing college football,
Thorpe was a-professional baseball
player for several years.
ARIZONA STUDENTS USE
LIBRARY PRIVILEGES
Tuscon, Ariz.—(IP)—The Univer­sity
of Arizona library reported re­cently
that during the first semester
of the present school year only half
of the students on the campus took
one or more books from the library
to read in their rooms. Of the stu­dent
body of 1870, only 907 availed
themselves of the borrowing privi­lege.
RESTRICTIONS PLACED ON
ARIZONA HITCH-HIKERS
Tuscon, Ariz.—(IP)—University
of Arizona students who like to ride
on automobile running boards, or sit
three and four in the driver's seat,
are going to pay. fines to the city if
they don't take to riding like normal
beings, so says the chief of police.
In other words, those who don't
board the chariot first are going to
have to walk to class.
Oberlin, Ohio—(IP)—Richard R.
Koch, '33, was winner of the fifty
dollar prize offered by N.S.F.A. for
the best World Court Essay. Koch
is an Oberlin College student
The play which the Auburn High
School will present in the State Dra­matic
Tournament is "Love-in-Idle­ness",
by Evangeline M. Lent. The
following high school students are
in the cast: Helen Gardiner, Fran­ces
Passmore, Bessie Ruth Smyer and
John Cotting. This entry is spon­sored
by the Dramatic Clubs of Au­burn
High and there was much riv­alry
for places in the final cast. The
play will be presented Friday morn­ing,
March 20, a t 7:45 in Langdon
Hall.
A study of the amount of time
each student is spending on his work
outside of class is being made by the
teachers of Auburn High. Each day
a record is kept by the pupils.
The Sr. I Class elected officers to
serve for the second semester. Bruce
McGehee was elected president,
Frances Shi, vice-president, and Avo-lee
Moses, secretary-treasurer.
Friday night, the girls of Waverly
High defeated Auburn High 25-13.
During the first half the team battled
on^even terms but in the last half.
Waverly overcame the 13-11 half-time
lead of Auburn to score 14
points while holding Auburn score­less.
For Auburn, Avolee Moses led
the scoring with 13 points while An­nie
Bell Davis led the scoring for
Waverly with 17 points. The line­up
: Auburn—Forwards, A v o l ee
Moses, Maude Smith; guards, Doro­thy
Ward, Eleanor Lewis; centers,
Helen Funchess, Ruby Long. Waver­ly—
Forwards, Lois Waller, Annie
Bell Davis; guards, Ethel Jackson,
Sally Lou Mayberry; centers, Minnie
Baxter, Evelyn Heathe.
—0—
In the Rally held at Opelika Fri­day,
the vocation agriculture boys of
Auburn High placed first in three
events. George Moore won the 100-
yard dash; B. H. Smith, the pie-eat­ing
contest and James Moore won
the egg-race. This was an excellent
showing.
—0—
Saturday night, about seven
ONLY NINE LETTERMEN REPORT AS
COACH M'ALUSTER STARTS WORK
Boys! If you Eat
MEAT
Buy it from your
Friends •
MOORE'S MARKET
—Phone 37—
By Tad McCallum
With the arrival of Spring weath­er,
Coach Sam McAllister is working
his squad of 40 baseball aspirants
daily on Drake Field. The battery
candidates reported several weeks
ago but the remainder of the squad
commenced practice last week.
Nine lettermen from the 1930 out­fit
will be available for service this
season. They are Captain "Frock"
Pate, shortstop, Joe Burt, outfielder;
Clifford Smith, pitcher; Duck Riley,
second base; Harry Lloyd, first base;
Ike Lewis, utility infielder; Charles
Kaley, catcher; Phil Hodges, out­fielder;
and Dunham Harkins, pitch­er.
The freshman nine will send up
several capable performers including
Jimmie Hitchcock, hard hitting short­stop;
Sam Mason, first baseman; Ike
Parker, outfielder; Porter Grant,
third baseman; "Red" Jenkins, out­fielder;
and Sam Grubb, pitcher. Au­brey
Lewis, Bill Morton, Ralph Jor­dan,
Lefty Hall, Clarence West, Hog
Manley, Plutie Lester, and Louis
Gholston are the 1930 reserves who
are expected to make strong bids for
regular positions this season.
At the present time it seems that
Coach McAllister's chief task lies in
the development of a pitching staff.
"Tchula" Smith, the ace of the hurl
ing corps last year, is expected to
have another banner season and Dun
ham Harkins, veteran of three sea
sons, will also be one hand but these
are the only pitchers available who
have had varsity experience. Sam
Grubb is the most promising flinger to
come up from the frosh ranks while
"Lefty"*Hall and Clarence West are
two reserve pitchers Who may grad­uate
to varsity ranks.
The loss of Jim Crawford leave's a
gap in the outfield that will be hard
to fill. Phil Hodges, Pete Harirs and
Joe Burt are the onjy experienced
outfielders on hand and there is a
probability that some of the infield-ers
will be shifted to the outer gar­dens.
Ike Parker, Red Jenkins, and
Herbert Miller took care of the out-fielding
duties on Coach McFaden's
freshman team last year and all three
have reported for varsity practice.
Harry Lloyd, regular third base­man
last season, has been shifted to
first and is the outstanding candidate
for that position at present, although
Sam Mason and "Lefty" Jordan are
two capable performers who are giv­ing
him plenty of competition. Duck
Riley is slated to hold down the key­stone
position while "Frock" Pate
and Jimmie Hitchcock are waging a
merry scrap for the regular shortstop
berth. Ike Lewis, letter infielder,
Hog Manley, and Porter Grant are
the most likely candidates at the hot
corner.
Charles Kaley bore the burden be­hind
the plate last season and is ex-
Fourteen S. I. C.
Games Are To Be
Playei By Tigers
Fou r Games to Be Played
Against Tech, Georgia, and
F l o r i d a ; Two W i t h Vandy
Fourteen Southern Conference
baseball games will be played by the
Auburn Tigers during the 1931 sea­son.
Four games each with Geor­gia,
Georgia Tech and Florida, mem­bers
of the Dixie College League, and
two with Yanderbilt, are the confer­ence
tilts carded for the Plainsmen.
Mercer and Oglethorpe, also mem­bers
of the league, will be encounter­ed
in two engagements at Macon
and Atlanta and two each here.
The present 22-game schedule will
probably be augmented with practice
games with Fort Benning and sev­eral
professional clubs.
pected to handle the backstopping
duties again this Spring. An under­study
must be developed, however, to
assist him with a difficult 20 game
schedule to be waded through. Au­brey
Lewis is the most likely candi­date
for this job and he will probab­ly
do quite a bit of the receiving.
The Tiger tossers will open their
1930 schedule with Mercer furnish­ing
the opposition.
o'clock, Sarah Cowart, one of the
high students, was married to Gor­don
Thomas of Opelika. The couple
wjll make their home in Opelika
where Mr. Thomas holds a position.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1931
HAZING MAY BECOME LEGALIZED
BY NEW BLUE REFORM MEASURE
If the repeal of nearly a hundred
laws in the New York Criminal Code,
advocated by the City Club of New
York, should be passed by the Legis­lature,
the collegiate practice of
Freshman hazing will become legal­ized.
Just at present a blue law of
the Empire State makes it a crime to
compel a college undergraduate to
undergo punishment in the form of
hazing.
Then too, to wear the insignia of a
social or military organization is also
a crime in the eyes of the State. Such
laws, claims the City Club statement,
are "obsolete, foolish and unenforce­able
statutes." Fully ten per cent
of-the laws of the criminal code of
New York State are included under
this category.
Some laws upon the statute books
are the root of evils rather than their
remedy. Among these are those pro­hibiting
adultery and seduction thru
promise of marriage, which are be­lieved
by the committee to be vicious,
since not infrequently they are em­ployed
as the basis for blackmail.
Personal betting and individual wag­ers
are also scored by the City Club.
"We have left in the code all sections
covering commercial gambling, and
gambling as an industry," said Mr.
Ernst, chairman of the committee.
"We propose to eliminate only
those sections prohibiting gambling
between individuals—the friendly
stake in a game of bridge or a wager
between chums on a football game,"
he continued. "These and other types
of individual betting are now illegal."
—The Spectator.
TOO MUCH NAME
When Vazil Ferencsik, of Detroit,
sought U. S. Citizenship, he was ask­ed
to give his full name. It was a
mouthfull. "My real name," he said,
"is Vazil Rasko Ferarravoceincmoo-ceuigearmocicooui.
I'll spell it for
you."
Firemen Injured In
Free-For-All Ijight
Charleston, S. C. —(IP)— In a
free-for-all fight which followed a
basketball game here between the
Citadel and the. College of Charleston
on the Citadel campus, two city fire
men received injuries which sent
them to the hospital and a number of
students, firemen and policemen sus­tained
bruises and cuts.
The fight started between the stu­dents
of the two rival institutions.
When rocks and sticks began to fly,
police and firemen were summoned.
Then the battle turned to a fight be­tween
the students of both institu­tions
on one side, and the officers on
he other.
Things ended when the firemen
turned a hose on the students.
PROF. SCARSETH SPEAKS
AT LIONS CLUB MEETING
(Continued from page 1)
Guyton was named chairman of the
committee, with Ed. L. Cotting and
W. T. Ingram as the other members.
J. H. White, president of the
Southern Natural Gas Corporation;
W. R. Collier, vice-president and gen­eral
manager of the Alabama Natu­ral
Gas Corporation, and Clyde Innis,
publicity director of the Southern
Natural Gas Corporation, were the
other guests of the club, besides Prof.
Scarseth.
FOUR VOWELS ARE HARDEST
SAYS COLUMBIA U. "PROF.'
New York—(IP)—-Dr. James E.
Menderhall, of Teachers College of
Columbia University, has found that
practically all difficulties in spelling
are caused by four capricious vowels,
a, e, i and u.
"O" is the only vowel, he said, that
doesn't mix up would-be spellers.
College Men Clean,
Manly Says Thomas
American college men were given
large bouquets recently when Dr.
John M. Thomas, president of Rut­gers
University, spoke over a nation­wide
radio station hook-up.
"By and large," he said, "Ameri­can
college men are clean, manly,
and honorable. They will tell the
truth, almost all of them, even in a
tight place. They are neither yellow,
red, nor even pink. TheyTiave much
to learn, but they are learning it
faster, than any generation of any
people on record. They prefer hard
games to easy ones, difficult jobs to
soft snaps. They will attend to the
work that needs doing and the prob­lems
that need solving equally as
well—and I honestly beileve a little
better—than we of the older gener­ation
have attended to ours."
The Rutgers president said he be­lieved
the college student of today
"has a pretty hard time of it," for he
is asked to continue the preparatory
stage of life at an age when his pa­rents
were out in the world and had
families.
"It is hard to be always getting
ready to do something by and by. It
takes a good deal of patience and
grit to stick at it through the long
years of preparation necessary for
superior service in this complex
world." In youth it is the itch to get
away and get at something practical
and real. Parents may well be pati­ent,
sympathetic, and encouraging.
Don't blame the boy for being rest­less
and perhaps unappreciative of
his. opportunities. College is probab­ly
the first thing he has undertaken;
challenge him to make a success of
it."
—Alchemist.
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L.S.U. Students To
Use New Alma Mater
Baton Rouge, La.—(IP)—"Where
stately oaks and broad magnolia
shade inspiring halls . . . . "
Thus begins the new alma mater
which students of Louisiana State
University have substituted for their
old college song, following a contest
put on by The Reveille, undegraduate
newspaper.
Words for the new anthem were
written by T. H. Downey, '30, and
the music was composed by L. V.
Funchess, '30. That the students may
learn the new tune, the alma mater
will be played each noon on the
Campanile chimes.
Montana Students
Cut 1500 Trees For
Their Annual Dance
ANNUAL ENGINEERS'
DAY PROVES SUCCESS
AS PROGRAM CLOSES
(Continued from page 1)
saying that the chemist and the en^
gineer-were both trying to under­stand
the things of nature more
thoroughly so that man could enjoy
life more fully.
The Engineers' Ball held in the
gymnasium following the banquet
was largely attended. A number of
out-of-town girls were present in ad­dition
to many local girls. Music
furnished by the Auburn Knights re­ceived
much applause and favorable
comment. Radio station WSFA, in
Montgomery, broadcasted the dance
program from 9:30 until 10:30, and
WAPI, in Birmingham, broadcasted
the Auburn Knight's music from
11:00 until 12:00. Decorations were
carried out in a motif of green and
The Engineer's baseball team^fesre-ly
defeated the Ag^eaurtiy a 4 to 8
seore-jat^tltC varsity baseball diam­ond
yesterday afternoon. At one
time daring the game, the Ags held
a- 3 to 0 lead, but a rally later in
the game gave the Engineers the vic­tory
by a one point lead.
A technical picture shown free of
charge at the Tiger Theatre yester­day
morning, at 10:3O, attracted a
large crowd. The picture portrayed
the steps in building, testing, and in­stalling
the large Westinghouse gen­erators.
A comedy reel was also
shown.
The success of Engineers' Day-was
made possible through the coopera­tion
of the Engineers' Club with Tau
Beta Pi and students in the schools
of engineering.
TWO YEARS' WORK LOST
AS STUDENT TAKES FILES
Salt Lake City—(IP)—Two year's
work on the part of the department
of Petrology at the University of
Utah came to naught recently when
some student carried off a small fil­ing
box, which contained an index to
all the mineral slides in the posses­sion
of the department.
Several hundred hours of work
will be required to re-index the fine­ly
ground slides, heads of the depart­ment
said.
HYDE INVITED TO SPEAK
College Park, Md.—(IP)—Secre­tary
of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde,
was invited as the speaker on the oc­casion
of the celebration of the 75th
anniversary of the founding of the
Maryland Agricultural College.
New Brunswick, N. J.—(IP)—An
English May Day Festival will be the
feature of the Mother's Day celebra­tion
at New Jersey College for Wom-
University of Montana.—Nearly
1500 trees were cut by 25 School of
Forestry students recently to deco­rate
for the annual Foresters' Ball
of the University of Montana.4
Combining study and social activ­ities,
foresters removed trees ranging
from six to thirty feet from an area
of five acres laid out by a member of
the faculty. Not only did the tree-cutting
spree provide decorations for
the college hop, but it was also a
practical experiment in methods of
furthering tree growth of the more
desirable species which were left.
—Alchemist.
HIGH SCHOOL DRAMATIC
TOURNAMENT STARTS FRIDAY
(Continued from page 1)
Montgomery; director, Mrs. Mildred
Ford Moffitt; pla"y, Submerged.
1:45—Wadley High School, Wad-ley;
director, Miss Maude Douglas;
play, Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light).
2:30—Shades-Cahaba High School,
Birmingham; director, Miss Mildred
A. Martin; play, The Head of the
House of Marne.
3:15—Pike County High School,
Brundidge; director, Miss- Mary C.
Stewart; play, The Star-Spangled
Banner.
4 ;00—Barbour County High
School, Clio; director, Miss Shirley
Moore; play, Ashes of Roses.
4:45—Seale High School Seale;
director, Miss Jimmielue Gibson;
play, The Valiant.
Saturday A. M.—Group III
7:00—Belgreen High School, Bel-green;
director, Miss Dimples Kirk-land;
pl4y, The Wedding Present.
7:45—Piedmont High School, Pied­mont;
director, Miss Imogene Beard;
play, The Elorist Shop. ••.....
8:30?—Murphy High School, Mo-while,
the colors of SI. Patrick's ^ v j ^ ^ - ^ ^ - ^ ^
•fey, The Bishop's Candlesticks.
• 9 : 1 5—W. S. Neal High School, E.
Brewton; director, Miss Jean Cad-man;
play, Two Crooks and a Lady.
10:00—Ensley High School, En-sley
(Birmingham); director, Miss
Elizabeth Scott; play, When the
Wind Blows.
10:45—Opp High School, Opp.
11:30—Marshall County High
School, Gun'ville; director, Mrs. H.
A. Bradford.
Saturday P. M.—Group IV
1:00—Ranburne High School,
Bowdon, Ga.; director, Mrs. Annie
B. Pirkle; play, What Men Live By.
1:45—Anniston High School, An-niston;
director, George A. Neely;
play, Modesty.
2:30—Picken's County High
School, Reform; director, Miss Susie
Mae Lamb; play, Jerry.
Tiger Theatre
WEDNESDAY, March 18
CLAUDETTE COLBERT
FREDERIC MARCH
"HONOR AMONG LOVERS"
"I Didn't Expect That!"
Also Cartoon "HOT TOMALE"
and Comedy "THE BIG
SPLASH"
THURSDAY, March 19
He fell in love with his
brother's wife!
LAWRENCE TIBBETT in
"The SOUTHERNER"
—with Esther Ralston - Roland
Young - Cliff Edwards.
Also Comedy "THE ITCHING
HOUR"
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FRIDAY, MARCH 20
Warner Brothers present
"3 FACES EAST"
—with Constance Bennett -
Eric Von Stroheim.
Also Paramount Sound News
and Comedy "GYPED IN
EGYPT".
Famous Statue Is
Found On Acropolis
Princeton, N. J.—(IP)—Professor
Edward Capps, chairman of the man­aging
committee of the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens,
and a member of the Princeton de­partment
of classics, has received
from Professor Rhyd Carpenter, di­rector
of the Athenian school, a let­ter
telling of the discovery that a
mutilated status on the Acropolis at
Athens was a member of the famous
western pediment group of the Par-thenoh,
from which it has been miss­ing
since approximately 1749.
For fifty years the statue has been
in full view of hundreds of students
who have walked by it and failed to
recognize it.
ONE MILLION AMERICANS ENTER
CAMEL CIGARETTE COMPETITION
College Newspaper
Editor Is Suspended
(By Intercollegiate News Service)
Shortly after the suspension of an
editor of one of the Pacific coast col­lege
papers, comes the similar news
of the suspension of Ronald Gran­tham,
editor of "The Ubyssey," un-der-
gradaute paper at the Universi­ty
of British Columbia. While in the
first cast, the suspension was caused
by a difference of political beliefs,
the Canadian editor was suspended
for allowing to be printed statements
of various people which were opposed
in thought to those of the college au­thorities.
President Klinck of the University
of British Columbia, in his letter to
Editor Grantham, said in part, "I
forbade -you to publish any criti­cism,
editorially or otherwise, of the
university, the faculty, or the govern­ment—
I therefore suspend you. . . ."
The publication board immediately
suspended publication of the Ubyssey
"until Grantham's re-instatement as
a sign that we are in support of our
editor-in-chief."
Just what constitutes the duties of
a college editor in regard to publish­ing
letters or comment bearing on
vital campus problems? Should he
keep everything hidden that might
offend the authorities? Or should he
present the facts as they come to
him, whether or not they are in har­mony
with those of the administra­tors,
keeping in mind the necessity
of presenting both sides equally? .
Heflin Praises Co-Eds
Who Wear Cotton Hose
Washington.—The "boys and girls
of the University of Missouri" were
praised in the senate today by Sen.
J. Thomas Heflin, democrat, Alabama
who read a news dispatch that the
co-eds had resolved to confine their
spring wardrobes, including stock­ings,
to cotton.
Heflin said they had "come to the
rescue of the cotton farmers." He
proposed the slogan: "Let everybody
in the south wear cotton clothes from
April to October."
He said such a plan would "put
millions of dollars into the pockets
of cotton producers."
—Opelika Daily News.
DAVIDSON RECOGNIZES
ATHLETES IN EVENT
Davidson, N. C.—(IP)—One of the
outstanding dates on the calendar
of Davidson College is Athletic
Night, during the ceremonies of
which all students who have partici­pated
in athletic events with credit
are publicly recognized for their ef­forts.
The event is now three years
old. It will be held this year on
March 17th.
PRACTICE STARTS
FOR HORSE SHOW
(Continued from page 1)
events will be silver cups, while
those who win second places will re­ceive
ribbons. Regular army officers
of the military staff, assisted by mem­bers
of the faculty, will act as
judges.
Winston-Salem, N. C.—More than
one million letters were received in
answer to the recent one week's na­tional
newspaper advertising cam­paign
announcing prizes in connec­tion
with the new cellophane wrap­ping
for Camel cigarettes, according
to announcement today by R. J. Rey­nolds
Tobacco Company.
So great was the response that of­ficials
estimated that it would take
the judges and their staff several
weeks to read all of the entries and
select winners of the thirty-eight
prizes offered.
Officials of the Reynolds company,
in thanking the more than one mil­lion
persons who wrote letters in the
contest, also paid high compliment
to the efficiency of the newspaper ad­vertising.
They pointed out that
newspapers were used exclusively in
advertising the contest, with the ex­ception
of radio announcements, and
that never before had such over­whelming
returns been received in a
short-time national contest.
The announcement stated that
entries were received by every con­ceivable
means of transmission, in
almost every language, in tiny pack­ages
and in large express packages,
and on thousands of different kinds
of paper. It was estimated that more
than 4,000,000 persons, including en­trants
and their families, or more
than three percent of the nation's
population, will be interested in the
announcement of final awards.
Montreal—(IP)—Co-eds at McGill
University here are called "Fresh-ettes."
CLEAN
Sixteen members of the student
body of the evening sessions of Hun­ter
College are between 60 and 70
years old, 89 are beyond 50, and 434
have passed 40. More than 1,400 are
in their thirties, white store than 1.
200 are still in their teens...
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