1931-03-07 The Plainsman

              Go-To-Church
Week THE PLAINSMAN
T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT
Go-To-Church
Week
VOLUME LIV AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1931 NUMBER 42
RELIGIOUS
WEEK PLANS
ANNOUNCED
Bishop John M. Moore
of Dallas Will Conduct
Services Coming Week
TWO SERVICES
BE HELD DAILY
Morning Services to Be
In Langdon Hall; Eve-ing
Services At Differ­ent
Churches
The period beginning Monday,
March 9, and ending Sunday, March
15, will be special "religious week"
at the college and in the town of
Auburn. Services, as announced by
President Bradford Knapp, will be
conducted by Bishop John M. Moore
of the Methodist Church, Dallas, Ttx-as.-
Services will be held daily at
11:00 a. m. in Langdon Hall. Even­ing
services at 7:30 p. m. will" be held
in the different churches of the town.
All classes will be dismissed from
11 to 12 on Monday, Tuesday, Wed
nesday, Thursday, and Friday.
The Monday evening service will be
held at the Episcopal Church, Tues
- day at the Presbyterian Church, Wed
nesday at the Methodist Church, and
Thursday and Friday at the Baptist
Church. Union service—both morn
ing and evening—will be held on Sun
day, March 15, in Langdon Hall,
bringing the religious week exercises
to a close. Arrangements are being
made to boradcast the morning ser­vices
over Station WAPI, using the
remote control equipment connecting
Auburn with the station in Birming­ham.
The local churches and the Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute are coop­erating
in making the arrangements
and they will cooperate in conducting
the services. Special music is being
arranged under the direction of Prof.
John Brigham, head of the depart­ment
of music for the college.
The Y. M. C. A. and all other re
ligious organizations in addition to
the churches are cooperating.
By training and experience Bishop
Moore possesses ideal qualifications
for conducting religious services in a
college town, Dr. Knapp said. Born
at Morgantown, Ky., he received his
first college degree at Lebannon Col­lege
in Ohio in 1887. He was a stu
dent at Yale from 1891 to 1894. There
he received his Ph. D. degree in 1895
and his D. D. in 1925. During 1894
and 1895 he was at the Universities
of Leipsig and Heidelberg, Germany.
Ordained as a minister in 1897 he
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LT. FINCH WRITES
AVIATION TEXTBOOK
"Preparing For Aviation" Is
Title Of Rf>ok Just Off The
Press
Lt. Volney C. Finch, professor of
aeronautics, is the author of a text
book on aviation which has recently
come from the press. Its title is "Pre­paring
for Aviation" and it is designed
for college courses.
The historical development of avia­tion
is taken up in the early part of
the book followed by a consideration
of the principles of flight, airplane
design, airplane construction, fuel and
lubrication systems, historical develop­ment
of the airplane engine, seaplanes,
parachutes, gliders, airports, and
many other subjects. One chapter ex­plains
how to become a pilot.
The book is profusely illustrated
with drawings and photographs and
its 458 pages contain much aeronau­tical
information never before pub­lished.
Lieutenant Finch, who holds his
M. S. degree in aeronautics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol­ogy,
came to Auburn this year after
spending 13 years in the Naval Air
Service. He has more than 5,000
hours of flying experience to his cred­it.
PHI KAPPA PHI BIDS ARE EXTENDED TO TWENTY-SEVEN * * * • • •
To Be Here Friday, April 3
Finals of District Basketball Tourney to be Played Here Today
Scholastic Fraternity
Selects Seniors Only
In Annual Election
THREE TEAMS ARE
FAVORITES TO WIN
IN THE ^MI-FINALS
Tallassee, Goodwater, and We-tumpka
Are Favorites; One
Must Lose Out
TEAMS SHOW MUCH PEP
Games Played Show Teams to
Have Fighting Spirits; Win­ners
Show Superiority
The crack quintets of Tallassee,
Goodwater and Wetumpka march in­to
the semi-finals of-the District Bas­ketball
tournament here today with
everything at stake, but one must
lose out in the quest of the champion­ship.
Goodwater, a prize entry in the
tournament here, Lanett, Waverly and
Langdale comprise the first bracket
of semi-finalists, while the bracket in­cluding
Tallassee 'and Wetumpka in­cludes
Fairfax and Hackneyville.
Splendid basketball featured the
play in Friday's games, virtually all
of the second round winners clearly
demonstrating their superiority to
ease on to the semi-finals though two
close games furnished thrills galore
as the rivals waged a defensive war
and battled furiously throughout. In
these games Lanett defeated Davis-ton,
15 to 13 and Lafayette nosed out
Phenix City, 17 to 16. The Lanett
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SIR PHILLIP SEN GREET
Auburn Rifle Team
Wins First Match
The Rifle team, composed of ten
picked marksmen, and coached by
Lieutenant Frank O. Bowman, won
its match last week from Washington
University, of St. Louis, Missouri.
Lieutenant Bowman said the team
has shown steady improvement since
its initial match which took place on
January 10, and to justify this state­ment
pointed out that the score for
the first match was 3371, while that
of the last was 3524. The squad is
composed of 20 men, but the team
Comprises those men whose scores
come within the highest ten scores.
Members of the team in order of their
scores are: S. E. Whittle, J. F. Wul-lenbucker,
M. D. Stone, M. F.Freret,
J. R. Syfrett, F. J. Turner, O. W.
Ivey, Phillip Erwin, J. J. Shearer,
and J. E. Wood.
In a recent meeting, J. F. Wullen-bucker
was elected captain of the
team. Lieutenant Bowman expressed
optimism over prospects of the future,
stating that five freshmen are in the
upper fifteen marksmen.
Plans are going forward to enter
three teams, of five men each, in the
National Hearst Trophy Match which
will take place in" the near future.
GREET PLAYERS TO
APPEAR IN AUBURN
Popular Shakespearean Drama
Will Be Presented on April 3
The Ben Greet Players, a nationally
known troupe of Shakespearen play­ers,
will be in Auburn on Friday,
April 3 when they will present one
of Shakespeare's most popular dram­as.
This company is an English or­ganization,
and its leader, Ben Greet,
has been knighted by the king.
Formerly, plays of this type were
annual events in Auburn, given by
this or some other prominent com­pany,
but for the past several years
nothing of the kind has appeared in
Langdon Hall.
The play is being sponsored by the
college, and according to the authori­ties
this will be an excellent oppor­tunity
for students to see on of
Shakespeare's great works as present­ed
by an accomplished group of
players.
The exact play which will be given
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Speech Contest Will Be
Postponed Til Mar. 23
Due to Religious Week and by re­quest
of some of the professional or­ganizations
the speech contest spon­sored
by A. Phi E. will not be held'
until Monday night, March 23rd in
the auditorium of Broun Hall at sev­en
o'clock. The contest was formerly
announced for March 9.
The subject is "My Course as a
Course and Profession". Each pro­fessional
organization will be allowed
one speaker who is not to speak more
than eight minutes. The winner will
be awarded five dollars in gold.
BUSINESS WOMEN'S WEEK TO BE
OBSERVED BY CLUBS MARCH 8 1 4
ORATION CONTEST
TO BE MARCH 31
Phi Delta Gamma Is Sponsor
Of Annual Oratorical Con­test
The annual oratorical contest, spon­sored
each year by Phi Delta Gam­ma,
national honorary forensic frat­ernity,
will be held March 31, it was
decided at a meeting of Phi Delta
Gamma held Tuesday night. This is
a contest- between the literary socie­ties
on the campus, and is one of the
major events sponsored by Phi Delta
Gamma.
The date for the debating contest
was set for April 28, announced at
the present so that all students in­terested
will have plenty of time to
prepare for this activity. The sub­ject
for this debate will be announced
at an early date, and the President of
Phi Delta Gamma expressed the hope
that the two literary societies on the
campus would start working on this,
contest as soon as the subject has
been decided upon.
At the meeting Tuesday night, new
officers were elected to serve for the
year 1931-32, and are as follows: T.
N. Pyke, president; Cleveland Adams,
vice-president; Joe Plant, secretary
and treasurer; C. F. Simmons, ser-geant-
at-arms; and J. W. Letson, Jr.,
reporter.
AUBURN KNIGHTS
WILL PLAY FOR
ENGINEERS' BALL
Bid Cards To Girls May Be
Placed In* Boxes Any Drug
Store arid Ramsay Hall
TICKETS ON SALE TODAY
Six No-Breaks Will Be Giveft
Members of Engineering So
cieties
Candidates For
Degrees Number
More Than 200
Elecs Have Greatest Number of
Candidates with 39 Seniors
The Auburn Business and Profes­sional
Women's Club will celebrate
National Business Women's Week
March 8 to 14 in conjunction with
other clubs throughout the nation,
this being the fourth annual obser­vance
of the week.
The local club will participate in
several projects in observance of the
week. There will be Business Equip­ment
shows in which merchants will
exhibit all the up-to-date appliances
which are recommended for the mod­ern
business women; educational pro­grams;
radio broadcasts and the fea-project
of the week will be a barbe­cue
on Thursday, March 12, from 5 to
6:30 p. m. on the campus in front of
Comer Hall, at which all civic clubs
of Auburn and the Business and Pro­fessional
Women's Club of Opelika
will be represented. Five minute talks
will be given by representatives of the
several organizations in which they
will tell briefly what their club has
done for Auburn during the present
year.
A radio talk will be broadcast over
WAPI by Dr. Beulah Clark Van Wag-enen
on "What the Business Woman
has contributed to the Business
World," at the noon program on Mon­day,
March 9. She is Associate Pro­fessor
in the Department of Educa­tion,
and is a member of the Auburn
Business & Professional Women's
Club.
The program of the week is in
charge of Miss Alma Newton, Public
Relations Chairman, and Miss Jessie
Aycock, Publicity Chairman.
A proclamation has been issued by
Mayor Copeland, urging Auburn citiz­ens
to cooperate wholeheartedly with
the members of the Auburn Business
and Professional Women's Club, in
their efforts to promote a program
that will result in the realization of
their slogan: "Better Business Women
for a Better World".
Candidates for graduation in May
number two hundred and twenty-nine,
nineteen more than received diplomas
last year. Of these, the greatest
number are registered in Electrical
Engineering, there being thirty-nine
in that course.
Mechanical Engineering' and Agri­cultural
Education come next with
twenty-eight each. Twenty-six are
taking Education, twenty-two Civil
Engineering, and eighteen are candi­dates
for a Bachelor of Science de­gree.
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That the Auburn Knights, student
dance orchestra, will play for the
Engineers' Ball, March 17, was an­nounced
today by members of the
dance committee on Engineers' Day
program. This orchestra is proving
very popular on the campus with its
lively dance tunes.
They recently played for the Mili­tary
Ball, and have also been engaged
to play for other dances. Their popu­larity
i| rapidly spreading over the
state as a result of their weekly radio
appearances over station WSFA in
Montgomery.
Engineers desiring to invite girls to
the dance are being instructed to drop
a slip of. paper with the girl's name,
address, and their own name in boxes
now placed at the Tiger Drug. Store,
and in the reading room of Ramsay
Hall for collecting bids. The boxes
will be taken up Tuesday night, and
invitations mailed out immediately.
No bids will be accepted after Tues­day
night. •
Tickets for the dance and banquet
will go on sale today. Only a limited
number of banquet tickets will be
available, and engineers desiring to
attend this feature of the program
are being urged to secure them early.
The price of both banquet and dance
tickets bought singly will be $1.00
each. One banquet ticket and one
dance ticket will be priced $1.75, or
two banquet tickets will bring this
same price.. Tickets for both of these
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Scarseth Addresses
Local Kiwanis Club
Interesting comments about his ex­periences
in Central America were
told by George Scarseth to the Au­burn
Kiwanis Club at Auburn this
week. His comments were based up­on
his observations and experiences
during the two years he lived and
traveled in Central America. They
were interesting and instructive to
members of the club.
R. Y. Bailey, president of the club,
presided.
The club voted to suspend one lunch­eon
and join with the Business and
Professional Women's Club in a bar- niors
becue. I
WILLIAMSON AND
HARE CHOSEN TO
EXEC. CABINET
Two representatives of the Fresh­man
class were elected to the Execu­tive
Cabinet Thursday. Nicholas
Hare and Lon Williamson were found
to be the victors in a close race for
this coveted position when the polls
were closed at five o'clock, according
to John L. Christian, chairman of the
election committee.
The Executive Cabinet is a repre­sentative
body of the Associated Un­dergraduate
Students in which all the
legislative and executive powers of
the association are placed. In it is
vested the power of creating an enact­ing
such rules as will work for the
good of the institution.
Membership in this body is limited
to two representatives from the Fresh­man
Class, and for the other three
classes, one member from each divis­ion
of the college such as Engineering,
Agriculture, etc., and one additional
member for each two hundred stu­dents
or major fraction thereof en­rolled
in that division.
METER SCHOOL TO
BEGIN ONMONDAY
Much Larger. Attendance Than
Usual Is Expected At School
A much larger attendance than us­ual
is expected at the annual meter
school to be conducted here March 9-12
by the department of electrical engi­neering
in cooperation with the Ala­bama
Power Company.
Professor A. St. Clair Dunstan,
head of the electrical enginering de­partment,
will be in charge of the
school which is one of a series con­ducted
for several years.
A bulletin announcing the school,
and outlining the courses to be offer­ed
has been printed, and distributed
to those who may be interested. Oth­er
copies will be mailed on request, it
was announced. A special invitation
has been extended to operating com­panies,
municipalities, and other in­terested
groups of individuals or cor­porations
to send their metermen to
this four day school in Auburn. Se­ll
electrical engineering will
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Elec Engineers Lead In
Number of Men Selec­ted
With Seven
4 CO-EDS NAMED
Announcing Class
Changes Schedule
The time of meeting of the radio
announcing class has been changed to
Tuesday evening at 8:45, it was an­nounced
from the Department of
Speech yesterday.
At the next meeting, Professor Jud-son
will continue the discussion of the
qualifications of a radio announcer
according to the standards of the N.
B. C.
MANY SECTIONS OF STATE TO
BE REPRESENTED IN TOURNEY
High Average In Schol­arship
Is Main Requi­site
For Election to Phi
Kappa Phi
Twenty-siven members of the Sen­ior
Class were offered membership in
Phi Kappa Phi, national honorary
fraternity fo/promotion of high schol­arship,
at the recent election. Four
of this number are co-eds. -
Those receiving bids are:
George A. Beavers, E. E., Cuba.
E. A. Bell, C. E., Anderson, S. C.
L. G. Camp, Chem., Moreland, Ga.
Jack L. Capell, Montgomery.
J. L. Christian, Chem., Oxford.
K. C. Gilbert, M. E., Fairfield.
E. H. Gray, Arch., Mobile.
W. H. Gray, Ag. Ed., New Market.
R. F. Ham, E. E., Cottonton.
C. H; Horsley, M. E., Birmingham.
R. L. Hume, E. E., Birmingham.
W. F. Jacob, General, Selma.
Margaret Lawrenz, Chem., Elberta.
R. L. Lovvorn, Ag., Lamar.
L. I. Lumpkin, Ag. Ed., Millerville.
Frances Moore, Ed., Auburn.
Mildred Moore, General, Opelika.
L. E. Mullins, E. E., Newton.
J. R. Quinlivan, E. E., Mobile.
J: J. Parks, Eg. Ed., Scottsboro.
A. M. Pearson, Ed., Leroy.
Sam P. Robinson, Chem., Auburn.
J. L. Stone, E. E., Sylacauga.
Izola Williams, Home Ec. Ed., An­dalusia.
Powell Williams, C. E., Mobile.
G. L. Williamson, M. E., Birming­ham.
J. A. Willman, E. E., Talladega.
According to schools, the number
of students elected are: Electrical En­gineering,
7; Mechanical Engineering,
3; Civil Engineering, 2; Chemical En­gineering,
4; General Course, 3; Ar­chitecture,
1; Agricultural Education;
3; Agriculture, 1; Education, 2; and
Home Economics Education 1
Elections to Phi Kappa Phi are
held only once each year from mem­bers
of the Senior class who have
maintained a high average on all sub­jects
during the first three years of
their college career, and have demon­strated
qualities of leadership and
character. Elections are held by fac­ulty
members.
WOMANS COLLEGE SINGERS
WILL BE HERE MARCH 16
Almost all sections of Alabama
will be well represented at the com­ing
state high school dramatics
tournament, according to an announ­cement
from the Department of
Speech. Among the schools which
have already entered are some of the
largest high schools in the state. "Be­cause
schools have entered from all
parts of the state," remarked Pro­cessor
Shaver, instructor in charge
of dramatics, "many of the Auburn
students, finding their own high
school represented, have shown much
interest in the contest."
The plays which will be presented,
according to Professor Shaver, are
of the highest quality and of the fin­est
dramatic possibilities. "Many
will" he said, "give opportunity for
special lighting effects and scenic ar­rangements."
The list of these plays
includes "The Bishop's Candlesticks",
When the Whirlwind Blows", "What
Men Live By", "Where the Gross is
Made", and others of high merit.
Sixteen high schools, it was stated,
have already definitely entered the
contest, more than have ever before
entered this far in advance of the
tournament. "Many others have
written to us concerning entry," said
Professor Shaver, "and several more
will probably enter." The following
is a list of those schools which have
indicated that they will participate
in the contest:
Murphy High School, Mobile; En-sley
High School, Ensley; Piedmont,
High, Piedmont; Ranburne High,
Bowdon, Georgia; McAdory High,
McCalla; Sumpter County High,
York; Shades-Cahaba High, Birming-has;
Cliff High, Opelika; Lee Coun­ty
High, Auburn; Sidney Lanier
High, Montgomery; Seale High,
Seale; Slocomb High, Slocomb; Ma­con
County High, Notasulga; Wood-lawn
High, Birmingham; Marshall
County High, Guntersville, and Alex­ander
City High, Alexander City.
Glee Club From Montgomery
To Be Brought Here By
Local Songsters
On Monday evening March 16, the
Glee Club of the Woman's College of
Alabama will present in Langdon
Hall, under the auspices of the Au­burn
Glee Club, one of the most inter­esting
concerts of the season.
The Womans College Glee Club,
consisting of thirty voices, has for
the past few years travelled exten­sively,
meeting with much success, due
to their efficient director, Orville J.
Borchers, who had already gained con­siderable
reputation for his choral
work in Chicago before coming to
Montgomery.
This chorus of trained voices has
proven an asset to the musical life
of Montgomery, having appeared at
various civic and music clubs, also, in
broadcasting over station WSFA,
Montgomery, Alabama.
Auburn is indeed fortunate in se­curing
at such reasonable prices, a
program of this type.
PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1931
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REPORTERS
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BUSINESS STAFF
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CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
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BEN GREET PLAYERS
The announcement that Sir Phillip Ben
Greet and his Shakespearean players are
coming to Auburn on the third of April,
under the auspices of the college, is receiv­ed
by this paper with much enthusiasm.
The college officials are to be congratulat­ed
on their success in getting this notable
company to make a presentation here.
Sir Phillip was Knighted by King George
a few years ago for his outstanding services
to Shakespearen drama. It was a worthy
reward for the man who has done more to
keep alive interest in the plays of the great
Bard of Avon than any other man of re­cent
years.
The presentation will undoubtedly be the
high spot of this year's lyceum attractions.
No student should miss it. Those who are
already interested in the works of Shakes­peare
will, of course, attend, and those who
are not particularly interested in the works
should go, too, for the enjoyment and en­tertainment
of the production. It will
arouse new interest and stimulate a desire
to know more of the greatest of English
writers.
The Plainsman is of the opinion that
there should be more lyceum numbers of
this nature. Of course, the cost is rather
high, and often local stage facilities are
not suitable, but presentations of this na­ture
would be well attended and appreciat­ed.
During recent months, many notable lec­turers,
symphony orchestras, and similar
attractions, that- have not been in Auburn
have been in the state and in neighboring
cities. It is quite possible that the college
officials tried to secure them and perhaps
failed, but the fact remains that there have
been no productions presented here.
Only recently Admiral Byrd lectured in
Montgomery on his South Pole expedition.
Why couldn't he have been brought here?
He would have filled Langdon Hall several
times. A lecture by a man of his renown,
ability, and experience would be worth more
to us than a dozen of the lectures that we
• have heard recently.
Two years ago Sir Wilfred Grenfell came
here, and he was highly acclaimed by every­one.
That should have convinced our of­ficials
that such an attraction is appreciat­ed
by Auburn and Auburn students.
Again, The Plainsman congratulates the
parties who are responsible for the coming
of the Ben Greet Players, and hopes that
the college officials will not stop there.
Is there no way in which other attractions
of equal interest and importance be present­ed
this year?
PREJUDICE
Someone said that we are all bundles of
prejudices. Yet, it seems that the mind of
the average Auburn student is unduly pre­judiced
in most cases. Unfounded prejudic­es
have become imbedded in the minds of
the student body in regard to new customs
established in Auburn. Prejudice against
members of opposite groups shows itself
too often, and the whole campus is much
too biased for youth in the plastic state.
One of the cardinal principles of educa­tion
is the placing of the mind in a recep­tive
condition, free from groundless ani­mosities.
How can the student expect to
become educated when his ideas are fixed
against the truth, and he seeks to acquire
only that which he believes is good? Edu­cation,
in its fullest sense, can never be com­plete
until those to be educated have given
up narrow personal conceptions.
There is still a trace of the primitive
prejudice against the well-dressed. Any
students daring to dress neatly and correct­ly
run the risk of wrecking their popularity
with chiding friends on the rocks of this
prejudice. Traces of unaccountable disres­pect
for some of the newer departments of
the college are still in evidence, and many
individuals are defamed without the basis
of sound reasoning.
If Auburn would progress, these prejudic­es
must be pushed aside.
ACROSS THE CAMPUS
By AXEL
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.
Only about two and a half months be­fore
graduation—a space of time that
will be crammed full of work, if the pro­fessors
continue to have their way. This
time is going to pass in a hurry, and some
of the seniors are laying down right now,
waiting for the first two months to pass
so that they may be able to really do some
work during the last ten or twelve days.
That's not such a bad idea, though.
* * * * *
The President of the Senior Class has
appointed a committee to study the sit­uation
and make plans for the use of the
money that is now in the treasury of that
class.
In former years, the graduating class
has held a large banquet near the end
of the year. Why shouldn't this year's
class be different and do something else
with the treasury? A banquet is, in the
estimation of most students, boring instead
of beneficial.
There are many useful purposes to
which the money could be given. Why
shouldn't the class establish a loan schol­arship,
and let the money be used to help
some worthy student or students in their
attempts to become educated? This in-,
stitute needs a stadium; wouldn't the seni­or
treasury help there? One could name
an infinite number of ways in which the
money could be spent or given, and it
should easily be seen that to give a ban­quet
is not one of them. Why have a
useless show-off when money is not abund­ant
here?
* * * * *'
What is the average Auburn banquet,
anyway? To one who has attended quite
a number, a banquet is nothing more or
less than another way to dispose of one's
money, in wljich, for a dollar or a dollar
and a half, a sucker is given some sort of
salad, potatoes, peas, some form of chick­en
(chicken, invariably), a cup of coffee,
and some ice cream and cake. After the
victuals have been consumed, a cigaret is
often thrown in for good measure, and
then the fun begins.
Dry, dull after-dinner talks and stale
jokes are predominant, so much so that the
procedure is very much like an endurance
contest. Boring is a flattering adjective.
Why make the seniors go through all
this? Give them a break.
* * * * *
I heard a co-ed "griping" about The
Plainsman recently. Her argument ran
along the lines that the co-eds were not
treated fairly—that they were not given
much publicity^ and when they did get
publicity, it was the wrong kind. To me,
that was an unfair slap at the staff of
this paper.
The staff of this paper is composed al­most
entirely of men, and what enjoy­ment
would they get out of writing about
co-eds too often. After all, a college pa­per
isn't able to pay its staff; it is only
an activity to be participated in if a stu­dent
likes the type of work. An editor
can't force a reporter to attend a meet­ing
of a co-ed society, and just what en­joyment
would a reporter get out of writ­ing
of such a meeting.
If the co-eds want more attention to
them, why can't they have some of their
own number do journalistic work? The
Plainsman always welcomes workers, male
or female, who are willing or capable of
doing newspaper work.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
Quotations
Only when we paint our pictures with our
blood and feed the fires with our bodies
do we reach success.—Canon J. Forbes
Mitchell.
Never once do I remember hearing over
the wireless anything approximating mu­sic.—
Sir Hamilton Harty.
I consider the modern deification of self
somewhat antisocial in its tendencies and
therefore retrogressive.—Lady Allenby.
Truth cannot be compassed by the use of
our five physical senses.—R. W. Sockman.
S p r i n g football
practice has been a
great success. The
fellows have worked
hard and what we
need now is to keep
up with the scholar­ship
of all these fine
candidates, keep in
good physical train­ing,
and await with patience the develop­ment
of the football season this fall. I
feel, very greatly encouraged.
In ought to say this also. I think the
Basket ball team made a good showing.
Had it not been for the misfortunes of sick­ness
there might have been a different story
to tell. At any rate, the showing was cred­itable
and ought to be encouraging to all
of us.
* * * *
Something should be said in The Plains­man
regarding a little item in the public
press the other day announcing the appoint­ment
of two new Trustees and the re-ap­pointment
of one of the old Trustees for a
new term. Mr. Harry Herzfeld of Alex­ander
City, an alumnus of this institution,
who has served the institution as a member
of the Board of Trustees for some time
past, was reappointed. He has been a faith-member
of the Board of Trustees, always
actively interested in its affairs. In place
of Mr. John Flowers of Dothan, an alumnus
of this institution who was appointed by
Governor Graves after the resignation of
Judge C. S. McDowell, Governor Miller has
appointed Hon. H. H. Connor of Eufaula,
who received the Bachelor of Science degree
at this institution in 1901, is president of
the Eufaula Cotton Oil Company, and has
served as Mayor of Eufaula. He is one of
a family having several graduates of this
institution and we feel is very deeply in­terested
in the progress of the institution.
In place of the Hon. R. R. Hood of Gadsden,
whose term expired, Governor Miller has
appointed the Hon. C. S. Cluver of Gadsden.
Mr. Culver was raised in Auburn, son of
Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Culver. He received
his B. S. degree in 1903 and took a Master's
degree in 1904. He~was principal of the
Technological High School of Atlanta, Geor­gia,
later became superintendent of schools
of Atlanta, and more recently he has been
engaged in business in Gadsden. He was
a member of the House of Representatives
during a previous term and is again a mem­ber
during- the present session. He is an
active, energetic alumnus of this institution,
always interested in its welfare along all
lines. Of the appointed members of the
Board of Trustees at the present time seven
out of eleven are graduates of this institu­tion.
* * * *
There are two great and conflicting lines
of thought in the world. Today they are
creating tremendous controversy. I am sor­ry
to see American authors and writers
dropping so easily into the terminology
forced upon them by foreign and antagonic-tic
thought. I refer to the constant use of
the world "capitalistic", referring to the
United States. Fundamentally the two
great lines of thought which are clashing
are, on one hand, those who believe appa­rently
in a sort of organized dictatorship
in which there are no rights on the part
of the individual but only so-called com­mon
rights where every individual interest
is subordinated to a decision lodged some­where
else. The contrast with that is not
so much capitalism as it is individual "self-determination,"
if I may borrow a phrase
from Woodrow Wilson. Democracy, or the
rights of the individual and individual prop­erty,
is the essence of America's conception
of Government. The communist or the
Facist may produce a great Government.
I am wondering if they will produce great
individuals, great thinkers. In saying this
I am not thinking we have done everything
the way it should be done. I am not saying
that there ought not to be changes in our
system. I do want to say this, since we
are to have Religious Week at Auburn next
week, the thing which our democracy needs
most is to accept the teachings of the Chris­tian
Religion and put them into effect. The
only salvation I can see for democratic gov­ernment
or individual freedom is in the
teachings of the Nazarene. Democracy, ed­ucation
and the Christian Religion must all
be partners, not in the sense of hampering
or dictating to the individual but in develop­ing
the citizens and through the develop­ment
of the citizen the solution of those
problems which largely arise out of action
which' is contrary to the teachings of this
religion.
I should prefer to admit a million hior-ons
than a million geniuses to the United
States, because the morons could be put to
useful work which none of us want to do.
—Prof. J. M. Osman.
Nearly everybody is inaccurate in judg­ing
his own degree of sociability and his
own sense of humor.—Fred C. Kelly.
Chickens don't lay eggs at night because they are all roosters then
Sportsman (to taxidermist): Stuff this bird and send me the bill.
Taxidermist: What will I do with the rest of the carcass?—The Gamecock.
* * * * * * * *
A girl who likes to be seen in something nobody else wears should try a pair
of cotton stockings.
* * * * * * * *
What thi* country needs is more of us with the courage to say "yes" when
fools ask: "What's the matter, are you afraid." —Collier's Editorial.
* * * * • * * * *
Did anyone ever puncture a tire on a fork in the road?
* * * * * * * *
She: Do you feel sick?
He: No, but I would hate to yawn.
* * * * * * * *
Don't be astounded at the money Babe Ruth makes. A good batter always
makes good dough.
* * * * * * * *
"Willie, how you break your promise to me, as you did?"
"I guess it's hereditary, mother; you once promised to obey Dad."
* * * * * * * *
The truly great man is the one that would be willing to turn Eddie Lee Mast7
ers loose on his biography.
* * * * * * * *
We begin to wonder why president Hoover didn't veto the law of gravity.
* * * * * * * *
A Scot, who was a bad'sailor was crossing the channel. He went to the cap­tain
and asked him what he should do to prevent sea sickness.
"Have you got a six pense?" asked the captain.
"Ay", replied Sandy.
"Well, hold it between your teeth during the trip."
* * * * * * * *
PRINCELY PLEASURES
Servant: There are three maids without.
Prince: Without what, vassal?
Servant: Food or raiment.
Prince: Feed the femmes and bring 'em in.—Ex.
* * * * * * * *
Scott Turk seemingly has little sales resistance. While in Atlanta last week
end he purchased four street.car tickets for one ride because they were cheaper.
* * * * * * * * %
"Who does Satan get to audit his books?"
"Probably the introductory accounting class."
* * * * * * * *
"The jig is up", said the doctor as his St. Vitus patient died.—Ex.
GOOD PROFESSOR, GOOD GRADES
The stern professor who ruthlessly,
flunks a large portion of his class and
who is loath to give an "A" is not usually
a good teacher, concludes Dr. Walter Dill
Scott, president of Northwestern Univer'-
ty.
Dr. Scott made public the results of an
investigation he conducted. He grouped
his instructors into divisions, rating as
"best" those recommended by their de­partments
for the greatest salary increase,
and "poorest," those who were not re­appointed.
The "poorest" instructors gave
seven times as many low grades as the
"best".
"The function of a professor is to de­velop
intellectual interests rather than to
provide difficult hurdles," Dr. Scott de­clared.
Well spoken, my lad.
* * * * *
TOM HEFLIN THRIVES ON GRASSES
While Alabama's grid warriors strain
and toil at the cries of their chief tans in
Spring practice, Thomas Heflin, standing
quietly at one side of Denny Field, gazes
placidly at the turmoil. Now and then
Thomas lowers his head and nibbles a bit
of grass, for Thomas is the Alabama
football team's mascot, the little burro
given the team by enthusiastic alumni in
Phoenix, Arizona.
Lindy Hood, star basketball star of the
Crimson team and keeper of the little
burro, named him Thomas Heflin. Hood
claims the burro sounds like the noted
senator when he asks for his dinner; hence
the name.
* * * * *
THE EYES HAVE IT
A basketball coach at Illinois was wor­ried
because his forwards were not shoot­ing
baskets as well as they should. So
he called in an eye specialist, who immedi­ately
discovered the right eye of the for­ward
was dominant and the left eye of
the left forward dominant . He recom­mended
that they be switched around.
They were, and their shooting was great­ly
improved.—Ring Turn Phi.
* * * * *
HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE
CHEMICAL MIXTURE
Little girls aren't always made out of
sugar and spice and everything nice. Aw!
"They're just a mess of protoplasm, about
77 per cent of 'em oxygen," according to
Dr. G. A. Dorsey of Chicago Medical
School.
"The remainder is composed of chlorine,
potassium, phosphorus, manganese, iron,
silicon, sulphur and a pinch of iodine."
Now you make up the equation showing
the reaction.
* * * * *
BLUE AGAIN
"The Camels are coming!" So are the
co-eds! At least that was the decision of
the trustees, of Presbyterian College at
Clinton, S. C, at a recent meeting. How­ever,
as it is only a temporary, measure, it
may not be so bad for those that oppose
it and not so good for the men who favor
it. The trustees have reserved the right
to terminate the "experiment," as it was
called, at the end of next year.
When the announcement was made to
the student body that they would soon
have co-eds to experiment on, the an­nouncement
was received with many
cheers and a few groans. The action of
the students was surprising in that they
had bitterly opposed making P. C. co-ed
last year.
As explained, only day students will be
admitted and no facilities will be added
to take care of them, the college being
responsible only for their class work. Di­plomas
will be given, but co-eds cannot
hold class offices or any honors other than
cum laude or magna cum laude in connec­tion
with graduation.
Hard times was the cause of this break­down,
since many girls living in Clinton,
S. C, did not have the funds to go else­where
for their college education. Our
sympathy.
* * * * *
STUDY OF BULL SESSIONS
So troubled were some learned sociolo­gists
at one of the middle-west universi­ties
over what was talked about in bull
sessions, that they conducted a survey of
"bull sessions" there lasting over a year.
The survey was made with the co-operation
of students who made the observations
without the knowledge of the ones in the
bull session. No faculty member was
present and the attempt was made to catch
"natural" bull sessions. So here it is:
Sex was found to 'be the general topic
of greatest interest. Of all the topics
discussed, items dealing with this subject
formed 22 per cent of all topics mentioned,
and 25.55 per cent of all topics discussed
by women. About a fourth or a fifth of
all conversational interests center about
this subject.
Women discussed personalities more
than men also, the survey showed. The
total percentage for women is 19.6, while
for men it is 12.7. The finding is in agree­ment
with the belief that women are more
interested in people while men are more
interested in things.
"Intellectual" things form only 16.1
per cent for men and 15.3 for women. This
is a disappointment to those who believe
in the college as a trainer and developer
of the mind.
Lessons and schobl subjects were rare­ly
mentioned. Social problems of a per­sonal
nature are discussed much more than
impersonal social problems. Men discuss
such problems as drinking, smoking, sex
problems, etc., a total of 11.1 per cent
of other things, while they discuss com­munism,
world peace and other national
and international problems only eleven-tenths
of one per cent. Now we under­stand
each other.
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.
IN the past few weeks there has been
a rather keen controversy between the
Opp Weekly and the Montgomery Adver­tiser
over the use of the expression "you i
all." This idiosyncrasy of speech is of
wide use in the South, and its presence in
the language of this particular section of
the country has been attributed to ignor­ance.
No idea could be more erroneous.
But the Southern brogue has long been the
subject of ridicule in other parts of the
nation. Perhaps the critic should look more
closely into the origin of this expression.
"You all" was used nineteen hundred years
ago by one of the leading men of letters
of that day. In the first chapter of his
epistle to the Phillippians the Apostle Paul
writes:
"Always in every prayer of mine for
YOU ALL making request ivith joy.
"Even as it is meet for me to think this
of YOU ALL . . ."
The Advertiser holds that the expres­sion
has always referred to one individual,
that that is the time-honored use of the
expression. But Paul uses it in address­ing
"all the saints in Christ Jesus which
are at Phillippi with the bishops and dea­cons."
In its correct usage "you all" re­fers
to a group of persons, not to an in­dividual,
if Paul can be considered an au­thentically
correct rhetorician.
* * * * *
A rather bold contrast in civilizations
may be discerned in a photograph in last
week's Time. It is a picture of the ele­gant
British Viceroy of Indian, Lord Ir­win
and the wizened little Indian political
genius, Mahatma Ghandi. The exponent
of British power in the East is standing,
clothed in his magnificent uniform of
state, while the insignificent little Indian
is lying on the floor, clad in a plain white
robe and indifferently reading a news­paper.
And yet Ghandi has only to snap
his fingers and England would have a
double handful of trouble in the East.
* * * * *
A birdseye view of the interior of the
Library any afternoon between four and
five: A silent crowd sitting at the maga­zine
table. Most of the group are mere­ly
looking at pictures, while one or two
are actually reading. A long English pro­fessor
is ponderously perusing one of the
Harvard Classics. Probably Machiavelli
or Fielding. A pre-med student frowns
angrily at a text book in astronomy. A
stenographer rapidly reads a novel, dogged­ly
grinding a stick of gum, her jaws as­cending
and descending with regularity
expressive of a trip-hammer. One student
is asking for a translation of Theocritus.
The Library staff looks mystified. They
scatter in all directions in search of the
book. The shelves are scanned from top
to bottom. They rifle the card indices.
With a triumphant smile on his face, a
lad approaches from the dark shelves with
a book, only to discover that it was Meracli-tus,
not Theocritus. The search is renew­ed.
The clock ticks restlessly. A low
murmur rises from the tables. Someone
turns over a chair. All. look at him fixed­ly.
He feels his disgrace and buries his
face in a magazine. The door opens, and
in walks a freshman. All eye him with
suspicion. He walks with an uneasy gait,
glancing nervously from side to side.
Leaves are turned: Someone sighs. A
fountain pen scratches unceasingly, and
the machinery joi education clanks grimly
BARROOM BALLADS
By HIC-HIC
The afternoon was on the wane,
When I beheld her grace.
I knew that I was soon to fall,
When I beheld her face.
I knew at last I'd found my love,
And that was just my case.
I started in and praved the way,
By good old Auburn "line"
Soon we trod the campus green,
We two, her hand in mine.
And as we parked upon a bench,
I murmered "you're divine".
And then I scored another run,
By wooing well that night.
I plead my love as lovers can,
No bounds knew my delight.
I'm so sad now as you may guess,
She did not do me right.
A pretty name, and pretty face,
By heavens this I'll swear.
I'll pine away and smile no more,
Tho little does she care.
Then came the motto on my wall,
"Love Not A Woman Fair."
No one can be more religious than the
militant atheist.—Arnold Toynbee.
SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1931 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Brooding Furnace Is
Getting Much Fame
Over United States
An inexpensive little brick furnace
which originated in Alabama a few
years ago for brooding chicks has
become known over the United
States. Letters about it have been
received by Professor George A.
Trollope of the poultry department,
from many states. A recent letter
came from College, Alaska. The
little furnace is known as the "Ala­bama
Homemade Brooder."
Several years ago Auburn poultry-men
found it in use in Randolph
County. Later a bulletin was pub­lished
telling how to build and ope-»
rate one of these brooders. Several
were built and are in use at the Au­burn
poultry plant where they are
giving entire satisfaction.
"The Homemade Brooder", said
Professor Trollope, "is cheap, simple
and durable. Construction costs less
than $5. Many of them.burn green
wood, a fuel which farmers have. By
inserting a grate coke may be used.
Poultrymen regard it as a great dis­covery."
LIBRARY NOTES
It's dangerous to lose the habit of
making friends.
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Montgomery, Ala.
The February number of "Ala­bama
Libraries" reprints a booklist
sent out from the Oregon State Lib­rary
under the heading, "Stretching
the Library Dollar". Not all these
books are in our library, and many
of them are just now on special ref­erence
shelves; but we have some
just as good available for general
reading, and we too need to stretch
our dollars by making the most of
what we have. It is a pity that we
have no space for a browsing room,
not even for some attractive display
shelves. The books listed below will
be placed in the alcove behind the
Freshman English. Other lists will
follow.
Many Men of Many Minds
Clemens—Mark Twain's Letters.
Gorky—My Childhood.
Graves—Good-bye to All That.
Grenfell—Labrador Doctor.
Page—Life and Letters.
Pruette—G. Stanley Hall.
Tate—Stonewall Jackson.
James—Small Boy and others.
Dole—Joseph Jefferson At Home.
Gorman—A Victorian American—
Longfellow. •
London—The Road.
Hughes—George Washington. ..
Odum—American Master of Social
Science.
White—Masks in a pageant.
Biographies of Women
Oxford—Margot Asquith.
Stirling—William DeMorgan and
His Wife.
Andrews—Memoirs of a Poor Rela­tion.
Oliphant—Madame de Sevigne.
Shaw—Story of a Pioneer.
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Wiggin—My Garden of Memory.
Zahm—Women in Science.
Clemens—Personal Recollections of
Joan of Arc.
There was an article in the Jan­uary
15th number of the Library
Journal called "Book Consciousness
in a College", telling the story of a
Professor of Books, Edwin Osgood
Grover, of Rollins College, Florida.
This chair, the first of its kind in
America, was established in 1924,
following a suggestion made by
Ralph Waldo Emerson a quarter of
a century ago. Mr. Grover relates
his experiences with books, from the
positive dislike created by required
reading in high school days to hap­pier
college years at Dartmouth,
where he met a man who opened his
eyes to what books could mean to
him. "I gradually came to see that,
although I could not meet in the
flesh the great men and women who
have done the great things in the
world, I could at least meet them in
the books they had written, or in the
books that had been written about
them. . . . This was my first great
discovery. . . . I at once began to use
the college library . . . it was in this
way that I began my real education".
Another book quoted in this same
number of the Library Journal is
Rogers. "The Fine Art of Reading".
"Reading a book is like dropping
chemicals in a test-tube. There
should be some kind of reaction,
some kind of explosion. No explo­sion,
no brain. The book may be at
fault, but ten to one it is the brain
which is inert. Every book contains
at least one point where an idea
touches your personality and your
life, is of immediate interest to you.
It may be an idea, it may be an ex­perience.
Here is the springboard
for your dive into your own spirit.
No book but contains a text which
you can illustrate from your own in­terest
and memories. A good book
will contain dozens. You must jot
them down as you come to them.
Then, while the book is still fresh
in your memory, play solitaire with
your jottings. Out of them will
emerge a main theme, a critical con­ception.
The others will hang on to
that main theme like cooking pots
on a crane. And presently you will
be sure in your own mind what you
think about the book and why you
think it. It is not a process of ap­plying
rules, or copying out other
men's notions. The ideas of the most
famous critic are less useful to you
than something you have sweated
out in this fashion."
Fight On R.O.T.C.
Taken ToCapital
T e n Thousand Students t o
Fight Compulsory Training
In Colleges
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The music department of the Wo­man's
Club will meet at the music
studio on Thursday evening at 8
o'clock. A change in program has
been made due to the inability of
Mr. Bidez to serve as leader as plan­ned.
The topic for Thursday night
will be "Music in Nature" and Mrs.
E. S. Winters will serve as leader.
All members of the Woman's Club,
their husbands and members of the
faculty are welcome. The program
follows:
Music in Nature
Katy-did, Katy-didn't Galajikion
Scampering Mice Schleider
Papillon Creig
Miss Dabney Hare
The Answer Terry
Joy Gaul
Pussy-willow had a Secret Woodman
Mrs. G. R. Trott
Sonata No. 5, opus 24, Rondo
Beethoven
Am Mer (By the Sea) - - - Schubert
Hark, Hark, the Lark Schubert
Dr. D. C. Harkin
Pres de la Mer (By the Seashore)
Arensky
The Nightingale AlaHieff-Sizot
Mrs. E. S. Winters
Numbers to be selected
Mr. and Mrs. Hoffsommer
GA. MISSIONARY RECEIVES
JAPANESE L. N. SECRETARY
Fort Valley, Ga.— (IP)—Ken Ho-rado,
Japanese secretary of the
League of Nations, arrived here to
visit the Georgia woman who was
his instructor while she was a mis­sionary
in Japan years ago. The
woman is Miss Annie Lyon Howe,
who was a missionary in Japan for 40
years.
Carrying a petition of 10,000 col­lege
students from all sections of
the country, a delegation of 45 stu­dent
leaders arrived in Washington
Saturday (Feb. 28) and presented to
President Hoover and members of
the Senate and the House of Rep-|
resentatives a request for abolishing
the compulsory feature of military
ti'aining from American colleges.
The delegation came from Swarth-more,
Byrn Mawr, Harvard, Yale,
Johns Hopkins, George Washington
and the University -of Wisconsin. It
was led by Nathanial Weyl, Colum­bia,
Chairman of the Delegation.
U. S. Senator David I. Walsh of
Massachusetts made arrangements
for the delegation to meet Presi­dent
Hoover's secretary who will in
turn present the petition and the
views of the delegation to the Presi­dent.
The delegation's appointments
for the morning included the inter­view
at the White House, and inter­views
with Senators Walsh, Brook-hart,
Frazier, et al., and some twen­ty
Representatives interested in leg­islation
against drill. In the even­ing
a mass meeting in support of the r n DRINK
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movement was held at George Wash­ington
University.
Among the members of the delega­tion-
were Miss Charlotte Tuttle of
Vassar, daughter of former U. S.
District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle;
Howard Melish of Harvard, son of
the Rev. J. Howard Melish of the
Church of the Holy Trinity in Brook­lyn;
Kenneth Meiklejohn of Yale, son
of Profesor Alexander Meiklejohn of
the University of Wisconsin. Mr.
Weyl said that four students repre­sented
Johns Hopkins and thirty
Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr, under
the chairmanship of John Powell.
The petition, which contains the
names of 10,000 students in 55 uni­versities
and colleges, makes three
specific counts against compulsory
military training for students. These
objections are:
1. That military training teaches
doctrines contrary to the best prin­ciples
of the principles of the Ameri­can
people;
2. That military training idealizes
war and is thus inconsistent with the
Kellog pact outlawing war; and
3. That the majority of student
opinion is opposed to military train­ing.
Read The Plainsman ads.
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BLAME SAYS U. S. SENATOR
Washington—(IP)—Senator Hen-rik
Shipstead, of Minnesota, has in­troduced
a resolution into Congress
to make it clear that the United
States does not join with other na­tions
which signed the Versailles
treaty in making Germany bear the
entire blame for the war. The re­solution,
which was not referred to
committee, may be brought up at any
time.
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Tiger Motor Co*
Phone 300
?
Which is larger—the white
ball or the black? Don't
answer too quickly.
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YOUR EYES MAY FOOL YOU
BUT
YOUR TASTE tells the Truth!
M I L D E R , . . A N D
BETTER TASTE
© 1931, LIGGETT & MYERS TOBACCO CO. J
PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1931
Frosh In England
Has A Hard Time
First October Term Is Terri­fying,
Overwhelming, a n d
Most Delightful
An undergraduate's first October
term is the most terrifying, the
most overwhelming, and the most
delightful thing that can happen to
him.
The first outstanding characteris­tic
of a Fresher (at Oxford or Cam­bridge)
is his freshness, the second
his noble effort to conceal his fresh­ness,
and the third his miserable
failure to do so.
The really overwhelming desire
of the average Fresher is to possess
himself of a gown sufficiently tat­tered
to disguise him as a third-year
man. He succeeds usually in look­ing
like a Fresher disguished as him­self.
Among the mysteries into which
the Fresher is initiated sooner or
later is the place in the scheme of
things which is occupied by the col­lege
servant—in Oxford "scout," in
Cambridge "gyp."
Undergraduates in colleges live
on "staircases." Each staircase has
a guardian angel in the person of a
"scout" or "gyp." „The happiness
of the Fresher while he remains in
college lies in the hands of the
scout in charge of his particular
staircase.
The first duty of a Fresher, there­fore,
before he makes the acquaint­ance
of his tutor or his college head,
is to crave audience of his scout and
insinuate himself into the scout's
good graces.
A good scout can turn college
rooms into a paradise. A bad scout,
a disgruntled scout, an untipped
scout, can transform a whole stair­case
into a purgatory.
The Fresher learns these and
other things. He finds that he must
address his tutor as "Sir"; he must
not begin a conversation with a
third-year man; he must wear his
gown at an after "hall" dinner; he
must not be seen to enter or leave a
public house; he must not drive a
motor car until he has ceased to be
a Fresher; he must be in college by
midnight, and must pay a fine if he
is out later than 10 p. m.; he must
not work in the afternoon; he must
learn how to wear grey flannel trou­sers
gracefully; he must not decor­ate
his rooms with articles bearing
his college crest; and he must never
forget that although tradesmen call
him "Sir" and his tutor calls him
"Mr." he is still legally a boy and
still in the eyes of the University
"In Statu Pupillari."—The London
Evening Standard.
Coleman to Represent
Auburn In Track Meet
FINALS OF DISTRICT
BASKETBALL TOURNEY
TO BE PLAYED TODAY
(Continued from page 1)
verdict was chalked up only after an
extra period of play, the regulation
game ending with the score at 13-all.
Results of Friday's play:
SECOND AND THIRD ROUNDS
New Site 21, Tuskegee 13; Lafay­ette
17, Phenix City 18; Lanett 15,
Daviston 13 (extra period); Goodwa-ter
44; Notasulga 21; Fairfax 24,
New Site 22; Lanett 23, Carrolton 18;
Hackneyville 36, Lafayette 14.
QUARTERFINALS
Wetumpka 23, S. I. I. 21; Langdale
29, Camp Hill 15; Waverly 27, Shaw-mut
15; Tallassee 31, Seale 15.
Semi-final matches scheduled Sat­urday
as follows: Bracket No. 1,
Goodwater vs. Lanett; Waverly vs.
Langdale. Bracket No. 2, Fairfax vs.
Hackneyville and Tallassee vs. We­tumpka.
Games Thursday afternoon resulted
as follows:
Camp Hill 36, Union Springs 11.
Langdale 23, Ridge Grove 11.
Seale 33, Auburn 9.
Waverly 29, Hurtsboro 9.
Wetumpka 42, Union 14.
Games Thursday evening were:
Reeltown 35, Inverness 12.
Opelika 31, S. I. I. 20.
Lanett 15, Daviston 13.
Friday morning's games:
Newsite 21, Tuskegee 13.
Lafayette 17, Phenix City 16.
RESEARCH SHOWS SHOPPERS
HAVE BUYrNG "COMPLEX"
New York—(IP)—First reports on
research work being done by the
New York University School of Re­tailing
show that shoppers prefer to
buy different articles on different
days of the week. .'..'.
Auburn will be represented in the
annual Southern Conference indoor
track meet at Chapel Hill, N. C , this
week end by William "Phimo" Cole­man,
Southern 'Conference discus
champion and one of the leading shot
putters in the South. Coleman will
enter the shot put event at Chapel
Hill.
Coleman, who is alternate-captain
of Coach Wilbur, Hutsell's 1931 track
team, led the Plainsmen in scoring
last year with 51 points. His strong­est
competition in his first indoor
meet will be from Celkers, of Tulane,
who can throw the iron ball over 50
feet, and two stars from V. P. I..
He left for Chapel Hill Friday.
RELIGIOUS WEEK
PLANS ANNOUNCED
(Continued from page 1)
served in different capacities in
churches at St. Louis, Mo., San An­tonio
and Dallas, Texas, and in Nash­ville,
Tenn. While in Nashville from
1910 to 1918 he worked in connection
with Vanderbilt University where he
had a close contact with the students.
He was elected bishop in 1918. In
1922 he was placed in charge of work
in Brazil a/id also Oklahoma and the
east half of Texas. Since 1926 he
has been in charge of the west half
of Texas arid New Mexico.
Bishop Moore is also editor and au­thor,
having edited the Daily Christ­ian
Advocate and served as a member
of the Joint Hymnal Committee to
prepare the Methodist Hymnal. He
is also editor of The South Today.
His work has gained for him many
foreign connections and experiences.
With reference to the services, Pres­ident
Knapp said, "I am appealing to
all students, all members of the fac­ulty
and staff of t h e institution and
citizens of Auburn to participate in
this Religious Week and to attend the
services to which the institution has
invited in cooperation with the Pas­tors
of this city a distinguished re­ligious
speaker in the person of Bish­op
John M. Moore.
The program for the week, as an­nounced
by Dr. Knapp follows:
Monday, March 9: 11:00'a. m. Con­vocation—
Langdon Hall; 7:30 p. m.,
Union Services—Episcopal Church*.
Tuesday, March 10: 11:00 a. m.,
Convocation—Langdon Hall; 7:30 p.
m., Union Services—Presbyterian
Columbus Typewriter Co.
Typewriter Service
Office 306—Ga. Home Bldg.
Columbus, Ga.
Boys! If you Eat
MEAT ,
Buy it from your j
Friends
MOORE'S MARKET
—Phone 37—
GREET PLAYERS TO
APPEAR IN AUBURN
'Tis Fine to
Di me
at the
PICKWICK
Tiger Theatre
SATURDAY, March 7
JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT
—In—
"The NIGHT RIDE"
Also LAUREL-HARDY
In "CHISLERS"
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
MARCH 8 and 9
"THE MAN WHO
CAME BACK"
ALL-TALKING
With JANET GAYNOR and
CHARLES FARRELL
The Screen's Greatest Stars in
a Dramatic Romance
Also Paramount Sound News
and Comedy "Tougue Tied"
TUESDAY, MARCH 10
JOHN GILBERT
in
"GENTLEMAN'S FATE"
Also Comedy "Wonder Who's
Rising Her Now"
(Continued from page 1)
has not been decided upon as yet, but
it will be one of the following: "Ham­let,"
"Macbeth," "As You Like It," or
"Twelfth Night." The title will be
announced later. The performance
will begin at eight o'clock p. m. in
Langdon Hall, and the admission
price will be $1.50 for the front half
of the hall and $1.00 for the rear.
ONTARIO RECOMMENDS PASS
TO CANADIAN RUGBY UNION
Toronto, Ont. — ( I P )— The On­tario
Rugby Football Union has gone
on record as favoring the adoption
of the forward pass, as used in foot­ball
in the United States, without
any alterations. The resolution has
been stent to the Canadian Rugby
Union.
Second Semester
Registrants May
Get Directories
church.
Wednesday, March 11: 11:00 a. m.,
Convocation—Langdon Hall; 7:30 p.
m., Union Services—Methodist church.
Thursday, March 12: 11:00 a. m.,
Convocation—Langdon Hall; 7:30 p.
in., Union Services—Baptist church.
Friday, March 13: 11:00 a. m., Con­vocation—
Langdon Hall; 7:30 p. m.,
Union Services—Baptist church.
Sunday, March 15: 11:00 a. m., Un­ion
Services—Langdon Hall; 7:30 p.
m., Union Services—Langdon Hall.
WE MAKE
H T T / p n NEWSPAPER
L J I I vN MAGAZINE
^ A W CATALOG
S e r v i c e E n g r a v i n g Co -
Montgomery, Alabama
Students who entered .Auburn at
the second semester may obtain col­lege
directories at the Registrar's of­fice.
These directories contain the
names, residences, and telephone num­bers
of faculty members and students
who registered the first semester.
They also list the fraternities to which
the students belong, their church pref­erence,
and home town. In the back
is a list of the fraternities and sor­orities
on the campus with the names
of their members and pledges.
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
NUMBER MORE THAN 200
(Continued from page 1)
Agriculture claims fourteen, Chemi­cal
Engineering thirteen, Bachelor of
Architecture eleven, Home Economics
nine, Home Economics Education
eight, Architectural Engineering five,
METER SCHOOL TO
BEGIN ON MONDAY
(Continued from page 1)
also be enrolled in the advance courses
offered.
Manufacturing companies will, as
in the past, supply necessary equip­ment
which will include the very lat­est
types of meters and meter equip­ment
to be used in the school. Rep­resentatives
of several of the large
companies manufacturing m e t er
equipment will assist Professor Dun-stan
in offering the cources. '
Instruction will be given by lec­tures,
demonstrations, laboratory
work, and by solving practical prob­lems,
Professor Dunstan stated. .
AUBURN KNIGHTS WILL PLAY
FOR ENGINEERS' BALL
(Continued from page 1)
functions may be secured from any
member of Tau Beta Pi or from the
following members of the Engineers'
Day dance committee: J. R. Quinlivan,
chairman; R. A. Mann, J. D. Bush,
Sam Wade, K. C. Gilbert, and Cleve­land
Adams.
The program for the dance will in­clude
one Tau Beta Pi leadout and
no-breaks for the A. I. E. E., A. S. M.
E., Chemical Society and the Textile
Society.
Patronize Plainsman Advertisers.
WM HARDIE
Insurance and Real Estate
Auburn, Alabama
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while Highway Engineering, Textile
Enginering, Pharmacy, and Veterin­ary
Medicine have two each.
A complete list of these candidates
has been posted on the bulletin board
in Samford Hall, and all seniors are
requested to look at this list and re­port
any errors to the registrar.
STUDENTS ATTENTION!
We invite you to open a checking account with us.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Your Interest Computed
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And Like What You Get.
COLLEGE BARBER SHOP
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Your Patronage Appreciated
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Phone 118 — Prompt Delivery
Why we spend $2,000,000
to put lyAMEL cigarettes
in the new HuMIDOR P A CK
WE'E have be en in the t oba c c o bus ine s s a l ong
t i me down here a t Winston-Salem and we take
a l o t of pride in t h e quality of t h e cigarettes we
make.
While we have spent a, good many million
dollars advertising Camels, we've always held
t o the o ld fashioned idea that the t h i n g that
really counts is w h a t we p u t i n t o our cigarette
and n o t what we say about it.
If we k n ow anything about tobacco, and we
t h i n k we d o , Camels contain t h e choicest Turk­i
sh and t h e mellowest, ripest domestic leaves
that money can buy.
I n fact we have every reason t o be proud of
the quality of Camels as t h e y come from the
factory, b u t t h e remark of a n old friend o f ours
from Denver some t i m e ago emphasized a point
that has been the problem of t h e cigarette
industry for years.
As he inhaled t h e smoke from a Camel we
gave h im i n our offices one morning, h e sighed
with very evident enjoyment and t h e n asked
jokingly, "What is this, a special blend re­served
for Camel executives?"
"Certainly n o t , " we t o ld h i m . "This package
of Camels was bought a t t h e corner store this
morning."
"Well," h e said, "I've been a dyed i n t h e wool
Camel smoker for a good many years, b u t upon
my soul I never got a cigarette as good as t h i s in
Denver. If y ou would give t h e rest o f t h e world
the kind of Camels you s e l l here i n Winston-
Salem, you ought t o have all t h e cigarette busi­ness
there i s ."
J.HAT statement simply e m ­phasized
again t h e cigarette
i n d u s t r y ' s m o s t i m p o r t a nt
p r o b l e m . T h e m o r e we
thought about i t , t h e surer
we were that he was dead
r i g h t , a n d t h a t somehow,
something m u s t be done.
Denver wasn't getting a fair
break. Neither in fact was
any other town. T h e only peo­ple
who really knew h ow good
Camels c o u ld be, were t h e folks
right here in Winston-Salem.
That was due t o a factor n o
cigarette manufacturer had
ever been able t o control.
Naturally there i s n o differ­ence
whatever i n t h e quality
of the tobacco in Camels, whether you buy
t h em in Winston-Salem, Denver or Timbuc-too.
But u p to n ow there has been a very real
difference in t h e condition of t h e cigarettes by
the time they reached the smoker.
The. flavor and mildness of fine tobacco
depend upon the r e t e n t i on of i t s natural, not
added, moisture content which is p r i m e at
about t en per cent. .
I n spite of our great pains always to make
sure Camels left the factory w i t h j u s t t h e right
amount of natural moisture, n o cigarette pack­age
had ever yet been designed that could pre­vent
that precious moisture from drying out.
J.HERE are three things about a cigarette that
can sting the tongue and unkindly burn t he
throat.
(1) Cheap tobaccos.
(2) Particles of peppery dust left in the
tobacco because of inefficient clean­ing
methods.
(3) 'A parched dry condition of the to­bacco
due to loss of natural moisture
by overheating or evaporation.
Always certain of t h e q u a l i t y of our tobaccos
we had already made Camel a "dustless" cig­arette
by t h e u s e of a specially designed vacuum
cleaning apparatus exclusive w i t h our factory.
Now, if we could perfect a package t h a t would
actually act as a humidor and retain the natu­ral
moisture content, then Yuma, Arizona,
could enjoy Camels as m u c h as we d o here at
Winston- Salem.
We knew what we wanted.
We tried many things. We
asked t h e Pittsburgh Testing
Laboratory t o h e lp us.
After m a n y experiments and
humidity tests covering all
methods of packing cigarettes
came the detailed report of
which this i s t h e n e t:
(A) No existing cigarette pack­age,
including those wrapped
in glassine paper or ordinary
cellophane,gives anything like
adequate protection against
evaporation.
(B) All cigarettes so packed
tend to dry out rapidly from
the day they are released from
the factory.
(C) Only a waterproof mate­rial
with a specially devised
air-tight seal could give t h e desired protection.
(D) This measure, while costly, could be relied
on t o keep Camels in prime condition for at
least three months in any climate.
If you have a technical bent, the graph below
made by the, Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory
will show you t h e exact results of their ex­haustive
study.
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Pittsburgh Testing'Laboratory Report N°150473-JanJ2.1931
Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory cliart above graphically
shows you that only the Camel Humidor Pack delivers
cigarettes to you in prime condition
XOU may be sure we gave this report a l o t of
careful study. We checked i t a n d re-checked it
and t h e n we went ahead. We tried this device
and that. At l a s t we m e t success. The air-tight
wrapping involved the designing of special
processes, special machines.
That costs a l o t of money, more t h a n $2,000,-
000 the first year, but after you have tried
Camels packed this modern new way w e are
sure you will agree i t i s a fine investment.
For some time now every Camel that has left
our factory has gone out i n t h i s n ew Humidor
Pack.
We have said nothing about i t u n t i l now, to
make sure your dealer would be able t o supply
you when t h e good news came out.
Camel smokers of course have already dis­covered
that their favorite cigarette is better
and milder now t h a n ever before.
If you aren't a Camel smoker, try t h em j u st
to see what a difference there really i s between
harsh, dried o u t tobacco and a properly con­ditioned
cigarette.
You can feel the difference, you c a n hear the
difference and y o u c e r t a i n l y can taste the dif*
ference.
Of course we're prejudiced.
We always have believed that Camel is t h e
world's best cigarette.
AToji7 we know it.
. Just treat yourself, t o Camels in t h e new
Humidor Pack and see i f y ou don't agree.
R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY
1 , Winston-Salem, N. C.