1926-01-09 The Plainsman

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VOL. XXXIX AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1926 NUMBER 16
PLANS FOR JUNIOR
PROM ARE TAKING
ON PROPORTIONS
Oliver Naylor's Orchestra
Signed To Play For
Formats Jan. 22, 23, 24
I
Oliver Naylor's orchestra has been
secured to play for the Junior Prom
to be held January 21, 22 and 23.
In obtaining the services of these
music makers the Social Committee
has spared no expense in bringing to
Auburn one of the best orchestra to
be had and one not unfamiliar to
a number of students as the orches­tra
was recently located in Birming­ham
but for the past six months has
been in Pennsylvania.
The Junior Prom will be formal as
has been the custom in past years.
The dances will be held Thursday
night, Friday and Saturday after­noon,
Friday and Saturday night.
The Social Committee is negotiat­ing
with the Faculty Advisory Com­mittee
in an effort to be permitted
to make the Friday night dance a
Masked Ball, ahd should this request
be granted the Friday night affair
gives promise of being one of the
most brilliant social functions of the
EXTENSION DEPT. HAS
ANEW PUBLICATION
"Farm^Sconomics" is the title of
a little publication started by the
<*ion Service with the
December issue. It was mailed out
early in the month.
The object of this publication is
to keep agricultural workers in Ala­bama
posted on farm prices and agri­cultural
tendencies, and also to give
them information regarding crop
forecasts and reports. F. W. Gist
and J. D. Pope will prepare the ma­terial
for each issue.
The mailing list is to be restrict­ed
to those who are interested in a
publication of this kind. Of course it
• will be sent to all Extension workers,
members of the Agricultural College
and Experiment staff, to crop re­porters,
and probably to bankers and
editors.
There was only one issue for Dec­ember,
but beginning with either this
/month or February the plan is to
FIVE DAY COURSE FOR
METERMEN WILL BE
GIVEN BYELEC. DEPT.
All Applicants Communicate
With Prof. A. St. C.
Dunstan Immediately
January 11 to IS, Inclusive
As a result of a widespread de­mand
for better knowledge of met­ering,
the Alabama Power Company
and Alabama Polytechnic Institute
are cooperating in giving a five day
course for Electric Metermen. The
problem of correct metering is of
vital importance as the life of the
Power Companies depends almost al­together
upon a 'correct metering
system on all power lines and trans­mission
systems. Correct metering
not only is a financial advantage to
the Electrical Power Companies, but
it is of a vital importance to the
consumer as well. This makes it
very essential that the Metermen
know more about the construction,
correction, and proper methods of
connecting meters. S
This instruction is to be given by
the Electrical Engineering Staff of
A. P. I. assisted by several meter
experts from different operating and
manufacturing companies. Students
will see, inspect, and work with the
latest and most improved types of
meters. All operating companies,
and municipalities, and other organi­zations
are urged to send their met­ermen
to this school. Instruction will
be given by lectures, problems, de­monstrations,
and laboratory work,
under the guidance of experts. Vari-
FACULTY MEMBERS EXAM SCHEDULE FOR
ATTEND SCIENTIST | FIRST SEMESTER, 1925-26
MEET IN NEBRASKA
Four Representatives From
V a r i o u s D e p a r t m e n t s a re
A u b u r n ' s Delegates
The American .Association for the
Advancement of Science which was
held in Kansas City December 28,
January 2, was attended by Dr. Fred
Allison, of the Physics department,
Dr. Wright A. Gardner, of the Bo­tany
department and Professor J.
M. Robinson and Professor F. E.
Guyton of the Zoology department.
The Scientists Association is an
annual event and it is attended by the
most eminent authorities from the
leading universities of the country. A
feature of the meeting each year is
the awarding of a prize of one thou­sand
dollars to the scientist having
made the most valuable work of re­search
during the past year. The
award this year was made to a mem­ber
of the biology department of
Coe College.
semester exams, as it has recently
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COEDS WILL STAGE
A MINSTREL SOON
The Coeds are making all pre­parations
to stage their annual
ministrel which promises to be even
bigger and better than any in former
years. It is hoped to stage the min­istrel
immediately following the
January 15 to January 21
A. M. Examinations begin 8:30 A. M.
P. M. Examinations begin 1 P. M.
Instructors will please ha/id in grades for a subject as soon as possi­ble
after the examination in the subject.
SCHEDULE
Professors concerned will Select period for subjects not arranged for
below. This applies particularly to one-hour subjects.
make it semi-monthly. The January
issue included a complete crop re­port
of the state by counties for
1925.
STUDENT SUPPLY SHOP
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
The Students' Supply Shop has
been purchased by W. A. Garrett
and George Holmes, two seniors in
Electrical Engineering. The shop
Was formerly owned by Prof. Thomas
and Sizemore. The transfer was ef­fected
during the holidays.
The new firm will be operated on
the same basis as has previously
been done and all supplies needed by
student body will be handled. In ad­dition
to the regular stock carried
the new firm has added a stock of
radio sets and supplies. It is under­stood
that they will do electrical
contracting.
PHI DETA GAMMA
ELECTSJEMBERS
The following men were elected
to Phi Delta Gamma, Honorary
Forensic Fraternity during the past
week: ,
C. M. Kearns; G. B. Phillips; D.
O. Sikes; O. T. Ivey; B. P. Phipps;
J. W. Stuart; W. D. Baughman; J.
H;, P^ice; S. L. Morrow and W. C.
Hurt. T
going to exhibit the latest inventions
in metering. All electrical equipment
belonging to the college will be
turned over to the instructors during
this school for metermen.
There will be no tuition charged
for this course, and no fees will be
charged. Rooms will cost around
$1.00 per day, and meals will cost
from 30c to 50c each. Any one
wishing to enter this school is wel­come.
If you are going to attend,
it will be appreciated if you will
write A. St. C. Dunstan, Box 25, noti­fying
him of your intention of en­tering
the school.
The personnel for instruction is as
follows:
A. St. C. Dunstan, Head Professor
of E. E. at Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute.
J. A. Douglas, Associate Professor
of E. E. at Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute.
S. A. Fletcher, Superintendent of
Service, Alabama Power Company.
W. A. Gentry, Memphis Power and
Light Company.
W. W. Hill, Professor E. E. Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute.
C. W. Hilley, General Electric
Company.
C. R. Hixon, Professor M. E., A.
P. I.
H. W. King, Meter Engineer, San-gamo
Electric Company.
G. W. Thaxton, Westinghouse Elec­tric
and Mfg. Co.
I. F. McDonnel, Chief Engineer,
Public Service Commission.
The following program will be
followed: (subject to slight changes)
Jan. 11th.
9 A. M. Registration.
11 A. M. Address of welcome by
Dr. Spright Dowell and others.
2 P. M. Lecture—Principles of
Single Phase Circuits, A. P. I. staff.
3 P. M. Laboratory and recitation
work.
7 P. M. "Get Acquainted Smoker".
January 12th
9 A. M. The Alternating Current
Single Phase Meter, H. W. King.
10 A. M. Laboratory and recita­tion
work.
2 P. M. Lecturer—Mr. McDonnel.
3 P.; M. Lecture—Testing Single
Phase Meters, Mr. Gentry.
. 7 P.'M..,A.talk,by Mi\ King. ,
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required to study besides having their
usual quota of dates.
Before the holidays the girl students
set a precedent by having an all col­lege
circus, w^hich judging from the
attendance and the various comments
submitted went over in tip top style.
Men get ready for a night of real
pleasure with a very small admission
charged, as all old students will in­form
you that our Coeds put on only
the best that money affords. Come
and see your best girl in the leading
roll as a black face comedian.
LIONS CLUB HOLDS
CHRISTMAS MEET
Thursday, January 14.
7 P. M. Current Events (all classes and sections)
Friday, January 15 (First hour subject 8-9) •
A. M. FIRST HOUR subjects which meet daily, or on Monday, Wed­nesday,
Friday.
P. M. FIRST HOUR subjects not scheduled Friday morning.
Saturday, January 16 (Second hour subjects 9-10)
A. M. SECOND HOUR subjects which meet daily, or on Monday, Wed­nesday,
Friday.
P. M. SECOND HOUR subjects not scheduled Saturday morning.
Monday, January 18 (Third hour subjects, 10-11)
A. M. THIRD HOUR subjects which meet daily, or on Monday, Wed­nesday,
Friday.
P. M. THIRD HOUR subjects not scheduled Monday morning.
P. M. Sophomore history (all sections)
7 P. M. Freshman & Sophomore Wednesday-Saturday R. O. T. C. sec­tions.
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Tuesday, January 19 (Fourth hour subjects, 11-12)
A. P. FOURTH HOUR subjects which meet daily, or onfMonday, Wed­nesday,
Friday.
P. M. Freshman Chemistry Laboratory 103.
English 401 (begins 2 P. M.
(Certain subjects which conflict may be placed here also.)
Wednesday, January 20 (Fifth hour subjects 1-2)
A. M. FIFTH HOUR subjects which meet daily, or on Monday, Wed­nesday,
Friday.
P. M. FIFTH HOUR subjects not scheduled Wednesday morning. V
P. M. Also freshman shop.
Thursday, January 21 (Sixth hour subjects, 2-3)
A. M. SIXTH HOUR suhJects vhich iv."?t daily, or .m Mciiday, Wed­nesday,
Friday.
P. M. SIXTH HOUR subjects not scheduled Thursday morning.
P. M. Also freshman drawing.
Friday, January 22, and Saturday morning, January 23.
Second semester registration. The late fee of $5.00 will be collected
afternoon January 23, Class work, second semester, begins 8 A. M. January
25, (Monday).
Absence from class on and after the opening day of the second semes­ter,
due to late registration on the part of first semester students, will
count the same as other absences.
B. L. SHI, Registrar.
THIRD ANNUAL COURSE FOR
VETERINARIANS FEB. 1 TO 6
Student Officers
Speak at Convo.
Eminent Vets to Deliver Se­ries
of Lectures; Dr. C ry
in Charge
SECOND TERM REGISTRATION FRIDAY
AND SATURDAY, JANUARY 22-23
During the holidays the famous
Auburn Lions staged a unusually
good program for the benefit of their
better halves and lady friends. This
is an annual affair put on just be­fore
Christmas for the benefit of
the Lions Wives and every ounce of
energy is expended to provide a real
evening of enjoyment for the ladies.
A Christmas tree was provided and
numerous gifts were had for all. The
climax of the evening was provided
by the modest cousin of Prof. Hugh
Grant, who was his visitor for the
evening. The flapper cousin proved
to be none other than our own Prof.
John Roe, of the modern languages
department, who was very cutely
dressed as a lady. The stunt went
over in high style until Senor Roe
made a blunder and asked for a
smoke giving the stunt away. This
stunt was followed by several other
stunts put on by the stunt commit­tee
under the direction of Prof.
"PETE" Gentry. Eats were enjoyed
by all and the ladies declared them­selves
deeply indebted to the Lions.
The official registration period for the second semester closes at noon,
January 23. An extra fee of $5.00 will be charged for registration on
January 25 and an additional fee of $1.00 per day will be charged for each
day registration is deferred beyond this date, the maximum charge for
late registration for the second semester being fixed at $10.00. No ex­ception
will be made.
Absences from class on and after the opening day of the second
semester, due to late registration on the part of first semester students,
.vill count the same as other absences.
Amount to Be Paid on Registration
Fees for residents of Alabama $52.00
Students in pharmacy (except freshmen in the four-year course) pay
un additional fee of $10 and students in veterinary medicine pay an addi­tional
fee of $5, each semester. Students in architecture, architectural
engineering and in home economics pay an additional fee of $7.50.
Non-residents of Alabama pay an additional matriculation fee of
$25.00.
If the student wishes the special laundry service which is optional,
..ad.tional payment of $3.00 is necessary.
I ' e Accountant requests that students have the exact change ready
n fees are to be paid.
THEIA ALPHA PHI
ANNOUNCES ELECTION
Theta Alpha Phi, honorary dra­matic
fraternity wishes to announce
their election for £he fall term. They
who have been elected are:
.... Perry. •, Ed yards, . Alma ., Bently,
Graces-Gardner, Phil Tippin, Jr.
HOW FACULTY BACHELORS
SPENT THEIR H0LIDA YS
Auburn was represented in various
sections of the country during the
holidays. A number of the single
professors returned to their old home
and enjoyed the comforts of the
love ones at the family fireside.
Others were more serious and seem­ed
to have been on a mission to see
the only one and, perhaps say, after
all is said and done "It is better to
have loved and lost than not to have
loved at all." However, a few of them
refused' to talk on the' subject of
vacation but it was thought tnat
these wooed some maiden, perhaps,
too much and have about decided to
support two instead of one or else
to take trouble on their hands.
Prof. Sturkie spent Christmas at
Smith Station with homefolks and
friends.
Profs. Hutchins and Hamilton visi­ted
homefolks in Indiana while Prof.
Dockery was in Keokuk, Iowa.
Dr. Taylor spent Christmas with
his father in Arkansas, Prof. Kirkley
loafed in Auburn and it is rumored
he has about decided to buy a Rolls
Royce.
J. D. Pope refused to tell where
he spent the holidays. We presume
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With impressive talks by the vari­ous
elected officers of the campus
organizations, and a most cordial
welcome back to Auburn and best
wishes for the year by Dr. Dowell,
the last Freshman and upper class­men
convocations were most appro­priately
dedicated.
The first on the program was Ter­rell
Phillips who spoke for the student
government. He stressed the ap­proaching
exams, with the dance
closely following and earnestly urged
as little disorder as possible during
this occasion. The student govern­ment
has had a hard time function­ing
and it represents a huge problem
tc be fair to all concerned. It was
created in 1923- and all the student
body was asked to help make it the
best yet, the coming year.
Miss Agnes Bartholomew Ingram
spoke for the womens student gov-
| ernment, stating that organization
was started four years ago by Miss
Zoe Dobbs with a very small mem­bership
but now has grown with
leaps and bounds. She further urged
all to grasp the opportunity that is
knocking at every door, to work hard
and pass all exams. "Be more than
a college graduate and show it to
the world."
Selman Arant acted as spokesman
for the honor board, stressing hon­esty
and fairness in all walks of life.
"We are all supposed to be honor­able
and fair men and women, and it
would be a splendid idea to make
the honor system even greater and
better during the year, thereby as­suring
a better Auburn.
The purpose of the Y. M. C. A.
was outlined by the president Caleb
Burgoyne, he emphasized that each
man needs some kind of spiritual in­fluence
when he is away from home,
stating that the church and the Y.
attempts to supply this needed in­fluence.
The Y fosters self expres­sion
for all being democratic in every
"sense of the w#rd. Also the various
Bible discussion groups are handled election
by the Y. College stunt night is next
on the program. "We are here to
serve you, come and get your Y cards,
and pay us an occasional visit."
Miss Alberta Proctor followed with
a brief history of the Y. W. C. A.
telling of its organization in the 1922
fall term. The girls show unusual
interest having their daily morning
watches, scripture reading, prayer,
and presenting various other pro­grams.
Last Edward D. Ball discussed the
history and purpose of the students
weekly " publication the Plainsman.
The Plainsman is thirty nine years
old and each year is marked by addi­tional
improvements. It is the pur­pose
to set a record by printing thirty
thVee issues this schlostic year and
with the help of all concerned this
can and will be accomplished. "The
five things the Plainsman stands for
are, to foster the Auburn spirit,
launch a better grade campaign,
create a closer relation between the
faculty and students, act as a help­ful
service to the students, and to
sponsor a cleaner and more beautiful
campus.
Dr. Dowell ended the exercises
urging all to cooperate with these
various organizations. "I am sure you
have been impressed by your worthy
officials, and your new years reso­lution
should be to help those entrust­ed
with the numerous campus respon­sibilities."
The Third Annual Short Course
for graduate Veterinarians will be
held here February 1 to 6. The meet
is fostered by the Vet Department
under the directorship of Dr. C. A.
Cary, Dean of the Department.
Among the speakers and Demon­strators
who will be present and de­liver
lectures are: Dr. John W. Adams
Professor of Veterinary Surgery in
the University of Pennsylvania and
President of the American Veterin­ary
Medical Association; Dr. Charles
Murray, of Iowa State College; Dr.
E L. Quitman, Author of Veterinary
Therapeutics, and practicioner in the
City of Chicago; Dr. Peter F. Bahn-sen;
Dr. R. S. Sugg; Dr. F. D. Pat­terson;
Dr. N. G. Covington; Dr. I.
S. McAdory; and Dr. Cary.
Question boxes and general dis­cussions
will be opened at various
times during the course. Friday af­ternoon
or Saturday morning the
Alabama Veterinary Association will
hold its annual business session. Fri­day
night the students Veterinary
Association will give a banquet to
all the students, veterinarians, and
faculty. Saturday, February 6, the
Federal Bureau of Animal Industry,
and the State Veterinarian, will give
an examination to Veterinarians and
senior''veterinary stadetits-winr want
to be approved for testing cattle for
tuberculosis or accredited herds.
The Veterinary College will issue
Attendance Certificates to all gra­duate
veterinarians who. take the
s/.ort course.
A. I. E. E. TO ELECT OFFICERS
On Wednesday night the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers will
hold a meeting in the Engineering
Auditorium. The session will be
turned over entirely to business. Of­ficers
will be elected for the spring
semester. All E. E.'s are urged to
be there in order to participate in the
NOTICE
There will be no meeting of the
A. S. M. E. until the Wednesday fol­lowing
examinations. It has been
thought wise to suspend meetings un­til
that time in order to give full time
to class work and preparation for
examinations.
Unless other wise stated in these
columns, the next meeting will be
held Wednesday, January 27 at 7 P.
M. in Ramsay Engineering Building.
AMERICAN PICTURES FIRST
December 28 will be the thirtieth
anniversary of the first public show­ing
of a moving picture. In a recent
film popularity contest in London
American moving pictures were
awarded the first four places. They
were, respectively, "The Ten Com­mandments,"
"The Hunchback of
Notre Dame," "Abraham Lincoln,"
and "The TK^Tof Bagdad."
If Jesse James had had the ad-
Press reports state that Sa"i
Florida, contains 69 square mj'
claims a population of 10,000, but
only 211 votes were cast there last
year. One can drive eight miles in
any direction from the City Hall and
still be in the city of Sarasota, but
then "city lots" do sell for higher
prices.—The Outlook.
United States Attorney BucknejS
tells a story about a Unitarian minis
ter who, when asked to whom he
vantages of a movie education, what addresses his prayers, replied, "IV
a bandit he would have been!—The Whom It May Concern."—The Out-
Outlook. | look.
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TELEPHONE NUMBER 238—W
SUMMING UP 1925
In summing up the notable happenings
of 1925 we were prompted to use the ma­terial
obtained from Dean Petrie's Cur­rent
Lecture and we quote it below in toto.
The outstanding achievement declared
by many statesmen was the Lacarrto Con­ference,
which was/ the-greatest - step to­ward
world friendliness.
In education the building of the Uni­versity
of Pittsburgh and the donation of
$43,000,000 by James B. Duke to Trinity
College, now Duke University.
The Scopes Trial.
In the world of crime the Trial of Leo­pold
and Loeb, The Dorothy Ellison Mur­der
Case, The Tea -Pot Dome Scandal and
the Bomb Outrage in Sofia, Bulgaria in
which 160 people were killed in a Cathe-dral
by an Anarchist. The capture and
sentencing of Gerald Chapman and the
shooting of his accomplice, were outstand­ing.
The greatest disasters were: The Storms
in the Middle Northwest; The Falling of
the Shennandoah; sinking of the Sub S-51,
Coal Strike by Antracite Workers and the
Floyd Collins-case in Kentucky.
Deaths of prominent men were: Ex-vice
president Thomas E. Marshall; Senator Ca­bot
Lodge; William Jennings Bryan; and
Samuel Gompers.
Athletic achievements: Nurmi, Grange
and University of Alabama.
Govermental Event of importance was
the inauguration of President Coolidge and
Vice president Dawes.
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THE PRESENT "HONOR SYSTEM"
AS IT APPEARS TO "A RAT"
You have'nt any idea what a rat might
think of our Honor System for the simple
reason that a Rat isn't supposed to think.
But this Rat is interested in Auburn; anx­ious
that Auburn should be everything
that a jam up college should be. He was
more than pleased with the results of the
football team, and many were the indivi­duals
who were reluctantly subjected to
his exultant, "Well, what do you think
of our football team now?" Our football
team is jam up, our spirit-has never been
equaled, our prof's are of the "four hun­dred.'^
we love dear old Auburn, so why
is-t#^rat we are unable to have the Honor
System we say we should have?
The Honor System should embrace not
only cribbing on quizzes, but all student
relations. That is reasonable, is it not?
Then if you will agree to that statement,
what about this? That the Honor System
does prevail here in practically every re­lationship,
with the exception of class
work. Taking this to be so, and I thor­oughly
believe it to be so, by the process
of elimination we are striving only, to make
cribbing in class a thing of the past. I
would not seem to be the individual who
can solve this problem; far from that. I
would only like to really get at and de­fine
the exact phase of the Honor System
we are trying to build up.
. When the phrase "Honor System" is
mentioned, we immediately relate cribbing
and this phrase to each other. It would
seem then, that cribbing in class is the
phase of the Honor System that we are
driving at. The Honor Committee has
pleaded and argued with the student body
to take some action, showing that body
that the only manner in which they can
experience the desire results is through in­dividual
cooperation. But the student
body has held back, indicating plainly that
as individuals they would not accept the
responsibility necessary to put a forcible
stop to crib*ng. If then, the student body
will not act as individuals, some manner
of organization must be feasible. This
organization has been started in the form
of the committees elected by the classes.
But do not misunderstand me. These com­mittees
are not to report violations of the
Honor Code, but rather to instill in a
greater number of students the importance
of the Honor System in class work. We
now have for every professor, an average
of twelve students who feel that they have
a connection with the Honor Committee
of the College.
But though these class committees are
a commendable instigation, they do not
in any manner relieve the major cause of
the .violations of the Honor Code. These
elections were carried out in a spirit of
fun, and were not given any serious
thought. As a suggestion, what good can
come from such a group of committees?
A logical answer would be, that no good
can result when so serious a* question is
so lightly treated.
The upper classmen have allowed the
Honor System to go backward instead of
forward, in that they, as a whole have
tolorated violations, and even encouraged
violations by compeling "Rats" to "make
convocation" for them, and-by relating de­tails
of things they have "gotten by with."
.There is nothing seriously wrong with these
things within themselves, but if we are
going to raise the cry of "Honor System,
Honor System," why should we have a
half baked proposition? Other schools
have successfully operated the Honor Sys­tem,
so' why should we, with a wonderful
school and as fine a bunch of men as can
be brought together, tolorate the deprecia­tion
of an organization that would mean
so much to us as individuals, for the mere
lack of cooperation? If we want an Honor
Code lets have one—and live up to it to
the last letter. If we don't want" (Jne- Jet*
get up and say so. An organization of
this kind cannot stand still and be an as­set.
The Honor Committee is constantly
striving to devise a means whereby condi­tions
can be improved. The Honor Com­mittee
isn't asleep, it's the student body
who are holding back the efforts of a
group of men who have courage enough
to say, "if you cheat, out you go, we
don't want you." We aren't giving them
a square deal. We are hampering their
progress, they who are endeavoring to up­hold
the dignity and reputation of our
Alma Mater.
Ask yourself this "question, "WHAT AM
I GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?"
RATS YOU MUST OBEY THE RULES
As we are all back at Auburn to continue
the daily routine of work and the exams
are about to be passed off and cast aside,
we must devote our time to other phases
of campus activity. Of course this article
is meant primarily for the upper classmen
to read and abide by the consequences, but
it also meant for the rats to read and obey
the rules prescribed for them. All the
student body knows the rat rules were not
obeyed the first part of the year and the
question is are we going to let this abuse
continue? When the rats first entered
Auburn they obeyed the rules because they
were scared to do otherwise, but the long­er
they stayed at Auburn the more careless
they became. The upper classmen certainly
could not make a better resolution than
to require the rats to walk a chalk line
the remainder of the year. When the rats
of this year become sophomores they will
insist upon the rules being obeyed and
they will look back and think how much
better it would have been if they had obey­ed
them fully. Why have rat rules if you
do not intend for them to be obeyed? Why
not cast them aside and resort to some
other system that would work. The writer
of this article entered school when the rat
rules had not been introduced but in the
place a more severe form of regulation
prevailed. The following year the rat rules
were introduced and passed upon and it
can be said that they worked good, but
next year the rats became more neglectful
about obeying them and this year it has
reached the stage where the rules might
as well be abandoned for some other use­ful
enterprise. As an upper classmen
looks back upon his college years he de­cides
without any hesitancy that his rat
year was his best year, the year in which he
has the best time and makes the most out
of college life. If it reaches "the point
that the rules will be discarded then the
rat can not say that his freshman year
was his best year. Of course there is a
limit to any thing and Auburn men have
sense enough to be moderate in their re­lations
with rats and not carry on ex­cessive
hazing. To date the vigilance com­mittee
has not functioned this year but
it is earnestly hoped that they will realize
their error and do their duty.
H BULLETIN BOARD «
CONGRATULATIONS 'BAMA!
Auburn students and alumni have been
unanimous in expressing their pleasure and
gratification at the victory of the Crimson
Tide over the University of Washington.
The game is still being discussed at length
at the various bull-sessions throughout the
fairest village and Auburn students feel
almost as proud over the victory as if it
had been won by a Tiger team. The Tide,
in going west to do battle with the Purple
Tornado, represented not only the whole
University, but the whole state, and well
did they fulfill their mission.
All real loyal Auburnites are looking
forward to the day when the Tide and
Tiger can come together, for the Plains­men
are itching for a chance to beat the
team that beat Washington. • Relations be­tween
Auburn ami Alabama have been
growing more cordial each year, as they
snould, and it is believed that the fierce
heat of a hard and clean football game,
would be welded together forever the two
best schools in the best state in the Sunny
South, which is only another way of saying
the best state in the Union.
Peerless Pooley and his mighty war­riors
deserve every good thing that is
being said of them, and no end of good
things are being said of them on the Au­burn
campus. Never have we heard the
students of one school so united in praise
of another school, but then, the University
is a sister institution, and why should not
Auburn be proud of her sister? We doubt
if there is a single student in Auburn who
does not rejoice that Alabama was picked
to defend the laurels of the South as long
as Auburn was not fated to have one of
her championship teams this year.
EVEN HANDED JUSTICE
AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
By A. C. RAY, Davidson College.
(The paper from which the following
extract is taken won second prize of $50
in the 1925 Southwide college contest
conducted by the Commission on Interracial
Cooperation—Editor). '." _' , ..,•,».&&*&+
Justice and equality of opportunity to
every race is the only sure way to solve
our race problem. Human personality
must be regarded as sacred. During the
last forty years we have put to death 4,000
people by lynching and mob violence,
while in countries where the whites are
outnumbered five and "even twenty to one,
not a single case of lynching is known.
No one wants either intermarriage or
sergregation of races. We must realize
that every race has its individual differ­ences,
and that humanity needs the best
contribution that each race can make.
"Equality" does not involve equal at­tainments,
nor even—immediately —equal
political status, any more than the essen­tial
equality of college students means no
senior privileges and no fresh caps.
Brotherhood does not mean intermar­riage
or social equality.
However, equality and brotherhood do
mean equal justice and the opportunity to
develop and" exercise all the faculties which
God has given to each man. They do not
mean that every student gets on the foot­ball
team or makes Phi Beta Kappa, but
that all men have an equal chance and
can exercise every faculty of body, mind,
and spirit.
Sir Phillip Lugard, in applying these
principles to race relations, very fitly ex­presses
"the true way out" when he says,
"Here then is the true conception of the
interrelation of color: Complete uniform­ity
in ideals, absolute equality in the
paths of knowledge and culture, equal op­portunity
for those who strive, equal ad­miration
for those who achieve; in matters
social and racial a separate -path, each
pursuing his own inherited traditions, pre­serving
his own race purity and race pride.
Equality in things spiritual; agreed diver­gence
in things physical and material."
Those of us who are not willing that
the other races should have security from
mob violence and prejudiced legal decisions
and freedom from perpetual social ostrac­ism
and political degradation are no less
oppressors than slave masters in Europe,
and are just as guilty of murder as those
who stood by when that last Negro was
lynched and piled faggots on the fire that
consumed his body.
The plan I advocate is that of apply­ing
the Christian ideal, the teachings of
Christ, to race relations. Will it solve the
problem? If we say, "Ideally yes; practical­ly,
it won't work," then that pagan insti­tution
of WAR will work—and GOD HAVE
MERCY ON CIVILIZATION!
Friday, January 8.
7:00 P. M. College Picture Show.
Saturday, December 9.
7:00 P. M. College Picture Show.
Sunday, January 10
9:30 A. M. Sunday School Services at
the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and
Episcopal "Churches.
11:00 A. M. Church Services at the Bap­tise,
Methodist, Presbyterian and Episco­pal
Churches.
6:30 P. M. Epworth League at the Me­thodist
Church. B. Y. P. U. meets at the
Baptist Church. Christian Endeavor meets
at the Presbyterian Church.
7:30 P. M. Church Services at the above
Churches.
Monday, January 11.
6:30 P. M. Normal Class of the Student
Friendship council meets at the Y. M. C. A.
lecture room.
7:00 P. M. The American Society of
Civil Engineers meets in the Engineering
Building.
7:00 P. M. The Society of American
Military Engineers meets in the Main
building.
7:00 P. M. The Evans Literary Society
meets in the Main building.
Tuesday, January 12.
7:00 P. M. The Wilonian, Writ and the
Websterian Literary Societies will meet
in their respective rooms in the Main
building.
Wednesday, January 13.
7:00 P. M. The American Society of
"Electrical Engineers meet in the Engineer­ing
Building.
7:00 P. M. The Pharmaceutical Society
meets in the Pharmacy Building.
7:00 P. M. The Student Ag Society will
meet in the Ag Building.
Thursday, January 14.
11:00 A. M. Mr. Thos. W. Martin, Presi­dent
of the Alabama Power Company will
speak to the School of Metermen.
7:00 P. M. Dr. Petrie's class in Current
Event will meet in the auditorium of the
Engineering Building.
Friday, January IS.
8:00 A. M. EXAMS BEGIN—nuf sed.
Auburn Foot Prints
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« WITH OTHER COLLEGES %
The students of the College pf the City
of New York voted by an overwhelming
majority for the removal of compulsory
military training. The final vote was
2,092 in favor of the petition and 349
against.
The undergraduates at Yale College, af­ter
a week's open discussion, voted over­whelmingly
in favor of abolishing com­pulsory
attendance to all religious serv­ices,
including chapel. Two days of bal­loting
resulted in a vote of 1,681 for and
241 against. They have petitioned the
faculty to take this matter up and settle
it for all time. Following this the Penn.
College Collegian is also carrying on a
compulsory chapel campaign. It states
that the desire is first to get the opinion
of all the students and then if they want
it abolished a petition will be sent to the
authorities.
Paper making must have flourished
early in Bohemia, for among the effects
of King Vladislay is a 1499 entry prohi­biting
the export of old clothes in order
that the Abbot of Zbaslar might buy them
and convert them into paper. —Exchange.
The University of California finds it
necessary to replenish 75 per cent of its
supply of silverware annually.—Exchange.
We don't see how the profs expect any­one
to do any work for a couple of weeks
yet because it will take that long to get
use to this boarding house feed and these
things that answer the place of beds.
If the 2G on the tank had not been
changed to a '26 there would have been
quite a bit of confusion around here now.
With the new radio towers, that have
just been erected, one would swear that
they were for anchoring either aeroplanes
or submarines.
Andy Stone is beginning to make him­self
a state-wide "rep" as a regular lady
killer. Even in the far distanced Sylacau-ga
we hear of this powerful and mighty
conqueror of the womens hearts.
Of course the ones that read the news­papers,
that is that part besides the comic
section, have been reading nothing bufc-
"Red" Grange and about the fortune that
he is and has been gathering about him
and because of the fact that he is such
a well known personage that all the peo­ple
want to see him. During the holidays
one of the fellows decided that he would
like to commercialize his talents and rake
in a few of those iron-men. George Walker
can not play football so well but he can
at least apply as cheer-leader for one of
these famous players.
As per usual after all holidays several
boys report pins missing either by way of
cupid or else the hock shop .route.
A new social club, "The Baronets," has
been founded at the University of Flori­da.
The formation of this club shows that
the University has realized and is meet-
W if npe?a\"WoWet^r«m'th,e t q p d e i w y^
ward fraternity, or group isolation. The
object of the club is to promote cordial
relations between the respective mem­ber
fraternities which belong to the or­ganization,
and through this to foster
Florida spirit and tradition.
Columbia students, according to Pro­fessor
Moore of Dartmouth, who made a
nation-wide survey of student views are
the most radical in the United States.
A new organization has found its way
to the Coe College campus. The "hash­ers"
have formed a society. They have
named it Pi Jamba Pi.—Exchange.
WHAT A FRESHMAN IS
A Freshman is what Mother prays for
and Dad pays for.
A Freshman is a person who gives the
rest of the college its physical training.
A Freshman is a creature so low that
he can walk under a radiator wearing a
plug hat.
A boy is a Freshman when he is old
enough to go without garters.
A Freshman is a college person who is
four years too young.
Freshmen are corns on the feet of Hiss
Alma Mater. -^
A Freshman is a campus chameleon:
starts out green, turns black and blue,
m\ •fiflaJUYu.t.akes on ihfl-gxdors of his coL
lege. — Exchange.
WOULD IT NOT BE WONDERFUL IF—
Frogs had wings? ,
The chapel sparrows were ostriches?—
Reflector.
Iowa University is trying out a system
whereby exceptional students will be gra­duated
in less than four years with-out
carrying extra work. Special classes are
provided for those who show unusual
ability. — Exchange.
Brigham Young University has published
a freshman issue of the Y News, their stu­dent
publication. The paper is printed
in green ink and contains news of inter­est
to the freshman class.—Exchange.
In South American universities, students
must take either a street car or a motor
bus from one class to another, due to long
distances between buildings. The time be­tween
classes is often two or three hours.
—Exchange.
JOKES
"What's that on your nose?"
"Corn."
"Corn? What caused it?"
"Well, I heard you the first time, but
what caused it?"
"Fruit jar."
"Oh-h-h, I see."—Blue Stocking.
We have all given in to the fair sex
at least once in our lives and some more
perhaps, although we hate to have to
admit it, but something happened the oth­er
night out at Womans College that has
them all beat. One of the Auburn Rats
had a farewell date out there, and we all
know how these last dates are, and be­fore
he left he had actually given her
even his all. "Rat" Allen from Dothan
will testify to this as being the truth.
The height of forgetfulness is one that
forgets the combination to his own post
office box.
The same old line: "Now boys you will
be ready to take a quizz on t ^ s e fifty
pages Wednesday because I know you
put jn some good studying^
for the holidays."
A freshie entered a street car, and, see­ing
a woman with a monkey, asked the
conductor, "Are monkeys allowed on the
street car?"
Conductor: Hurry up and sit down, no*
body will notice you.—Barton News.
No, Celia, a girl and a traffic cop are
not alike, for a cop means STOP when he
says it.—The Davidsonian.
Judge: "Now what made you steal that
purse?"
Black Boy: "Now to tell the truth, judge,
I was kinda sick and thought the change
would do me good."—Fla. Flambeau.
Use the word "dishonor" in a sentence.
"Dis-honor committee" am functioning
well."—Bull Dog.
The Charleston dance craze caved in
the floor at the gymnasium of the State
College for Women in Atlanta. Nearly
500 girl students of the college were pranc­ing
furiously in attempts to learn the new
dance when the cloor collapsed with a
loud crash.—Exchange.
Bryn Mawr is the first large women's
college in the world officially to approve
smoking for girl students. Wellesley has
made a contrary decision against smoking,
while the general feeling among Mt. Holy-oke
students is that only general and open
smoking should not be sanctioned by the
college. It is not at all unlikely that other
women's colleges will follow the precedent
set by Bryn Mawr.—-New York University
Daily News.
The teacher, (discussing verb) "what
mood?" (moo-ed)
Pupil, (Not paying any attention) "The
Cow."—Bull Dog.
—Missing—
Has any one seen Pete?
Pete Who?
Petroleum.
Kerosene him yesterday and he hasn't
Benzine since. —Mt. Berry News.
Lord Bobbington was instructing his
new colored servant in his duties, adding:
"Now Zeke, when I ring for you, you
must answer me by saying, 'My Lord, what
wiH you have?'
A few hours afterwards, having occa­sion
to summon the servant, his lordship
was astonished to hear:
"My Gawd, what does you want now?"—
Howard Crimson.
Teacher: "Why is it that the blood rims
to your head when you stand on it, and yet
it doesn't run to your feet, when you stand
on them?"
Pupil: "Cause your feet ain't empty."
—Tatler. O ->^>'\ rto bauati
Some new years resolutions:
To study some this next semester.
To go to bed earlier and get more
sleep.
To fix out a schedule for studying.
To eat enough so the landlady will
lose on you.
To get a few boots on the profs.
To get just exactly fifteen cuts this
new semester.
To utilize the waste time spent in loaf­ing.
,
To bet on athletics heavier this season.
Not to gripe about the assignments in
class.
To learn the Charleston before the
dances.
Out of these ten we will pick five and
see if we can't live up to them. Which five,\\
is the question???? .
Some of the fellows decided to give Doc
Heinz a bath the other day and after a
grand race at last ran him to earth. That
same month their water bill had an excess
attached to it that amounted to about
thirty dollars. Doc still claims that he
does not think it right that he should pay
this excess.
Since this cold wave all the pipes have
burst and the hot-shot plumbing system
has not functioned properly. Now when
one walks out, of the house you do not
know whether he is going to town for mail
or to wash his face and hands.
Who is it from Pensacola that gets
this kind of letters: "Just think, only
one hundred "and forty days until I will
get to see you again."
Even the Mighty Swede Mathison has
been struck by one of Cupids dart.
Prof. Grant in American Govt.—Mr.
Elder does the speaker of the house have
much power?
J. C. Elder—Yessir Prof, when he is
speaking.
Professor: "Who in the class can tell
me what it is that the human beings have,
but none of the animal species have?"
Dumbell: "Halitosis."—Fla Flambeau.
"Is your Packard friend coming to-night?^'
"No, this is Willys-Knight." —David­sonian.
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TWENTY-FIVE MEMBERS OF
PHI KAPPA PHI ELECTED
G-E Motorized Power—
an ideal combination ot
electric motor and con­trol
properly fitted to the
individual task—is at
work the world-over,
relieving workers more
and more for better and
more profitable pursuits.
A new series of G-E ad­vertisements
showing
what electricity is doing
in many fields will be
sent on request.
Ask for Booklet GEK-1.
Where motorized power is virtually unknown, men toil yet accom­plish
little The United States has over one-quarter electrical
horsepower installed per capita. Japan, leading country of the
Orient, has but. 04 horsepower. Electric shovel and storage battery
locomotive are stown at a completely electrified open-pit coal mine,
at Colstrip, Montana.
Work without Toil
Ten or twelve hours a day toils the coolie. If he
carries all he can, h.2 moves one ton one mile in
one day. For that he receives twenty cents.
Cheap labor! Yet compared with our American
worker, receiving a t least twenty-five times as much
for an eight-hour day, the coolie is expensive labor.
In America we move one ton o n e mile for less than
one cent. The coolie, working by hand, accomplishes
little; while the American, with electricity's aid,
accomplishes much.
Plenty of electricity and cheap electricity —these
are two great advantages which America enjoys
over the rest of the world. While our present gener­ating
capacity is 20,600,000 kilowatts, new develop­ments
call for 3,000,000 kilowatts more per year.
To college men and women— potential leaders—will
fall the duty of finding more and still more work
for electricity, with less and still less toil for our
workers. For the task is but begun!
Twenty-five students representing
every department of the college,
we're elected to membership in Phi
Kappa Phi honor society at the an­nual
election of 1926.
Phi Kappa Phi is the only nation­al
honor society (based on scholar^
ship) open to all seniors at Auburn.
Prerequisites to membership are
good moral character and a scholas­tic
average of eighty-five or above
for three years. Prom the group
meeting these prerequisites, students
are elected on the basis of leadership,
individual initiative, and participa­tion
in worthy college activities.
Those elected this year, with their
courses are as follows:
L. L. Aldridge, agricultural educa­tion;
F. S. Arant, agricultural educa­tional;
H. R. Bailey, agriculture; M.
F. Beavers, electrical engineering;
Frances Blackmon, secondary educa­tion;
R. Y. Brown, general; J. B.
Carter, civil engineering; J. W.
Chambers, civil engineering; Dorothy
Duggar, general; Elizabeth Floyd,
secondary education; L. L. Fleet, elec­trical
engineering; Grace Gardner,
home economics; S. R. Gibbons, ag­ricultural
education; W. E. Hooper,
electrical engineering; L. W. Howie,
electrical engineering; C. V. Ingram,
general; O. T. Ivey, secondary edu­cation;
C. M. Kearns, agriculture;
A. T. Kendrick, highway engineering;
G. R. Lawson, mechanical engineer­ing
J. P. McArdle, electrical engineer­ing;
C. W. McMullan, electrical en­gineering;
R. K4 Posey, architectural
engineering; J. L. Walmsley, civil
engineering; R. Wilson, chemical en­gineering.
ALUMNI NOTES
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'SCHOOL LIFE" COMMENTS
m -NEW -RAMSAYJALU HOLD ELECTION MEETING
Students of Auburn were highly
gratified when they reached the
.planes of the college after the holi­days
and saw that the Radio broad­casting
station towers had been erec­ted.
The towers are conspicuous at
a distance from the college as they
aix much higher than any building
or trees near the planes of the village.
According to repoi-t given by Prof.
Dunston the material and installation
of the towers cost approximately
$4400. The height of towers is 200
ft., distance between them 350 ft.,
and the steel used in them weighed
2400 pounds. The foundation is of
the best material. It contains ninety-six
cubic feet of concrete and cost
between fifteen and sixteen hundred
dollars.
When the aerial needs repair, there
is no climbing the towers to reach
the wire as it is cabled in such a way
that it can be lowered and raised by
a person standing on the ground.
The station is spoken of as a
wireless station, although, it contains
thirty-five miles of wire. The 350
feet of aerial is a small amount of
wire when compared with the amount
used in connecting the antenna to
the sending-out station.
With a few modern improvements,
the station is a model of that of the
Atlanta Journal. The authorities
hope to have the station ready for
operation by the first of February,
although there is much work to be
Reports of the dedication of the
new $300,000 Ramsay Engineering
Hall continues to ring from various
sources throughout the United States.
The most recent write up appeared
in "School Life".
The December issue of the
"School Life" contained a picture of
the new engineering building and a
story telling of the dedication exer­cises,
size of the building, number
of class rooms, offices and equipment
which is said to be one of the finest
and best equipped college buildings
in the South.
"School Life" is a magazine pub­lished
monthly by the Department of
Interior and Bureau of Education at
Washington, D. C. This magazine is
devoted to education work and
through its columns quite a number
of outstanding improvements have
been mentioned. James C. Boykin,
an Auburn man, is editor of this
magazine.
AUBURN ?PiL AYERS TO
When the mayor hurried into the
auditorium and exclaimed apologeti­cally,
"I am sorry to have kept you
waiting, but I've been addressing a
board meeting," it was rather im­polite
of a voice from the crowd to
say, "I can well believe that it wa^.'
—The Outlook.
done before the station will be com­plete.
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On Monday night the Auburn
Players will elect officers for the
coming semester. This meeting brings
to a close one of the most successful
periods that the Players have ever
had. They have presented ten one
act plays and one three act play.
The treasurer reports that the or­ganization
is on a sound financial
footing and the prospect's are very
bright for an even more successful
spring period.
Some time during the spring a
road trip will be made with "You're
Next," the play that was recently
presented in Langdon Hall. About
the end of February the Players will
give a Musical Comedy written by
Professor Hamilton of the English
Faculty.
A. J. Roberts, 1924, recently com­pleted
his test course at the Lynn
Works of the General Electric Com­pany
and was placed with the Texas
Power & Light Company, Dallas,
Texas, where, from last accounts, he
is very happy acting as Assistant to
the manager of Construction work.
A. W. Levie, 1924, has been away
from the Lynn plant of the General
Electric Company a great deal, in­vestigating
turbine installations at
customers', plants.
R. M. Powe, 1924, recently finished
his test course at the Lynn Works
of the General Electric Company and
was placed with the Dallas Power &
Light Company, Dallas, Texas on
sale work.
J. B. Clarke, and J. F. Jordon, both
of the class of 1925 recently joined
the test course at the Lynn plant
of the General Electric Company.
Anita Patterson '23 who is now
teaching in Sidney Lanier Hi in
Montgomery was a visitor in Auburn
during the holidays.
Chloe Earnest '24 was a recent
visitor to homefolks in Auburn. She
is now engaged in the real estate
business in Florida.
Margaret Taylor, '24 spent the
holidays with her family in Auburn
Charline Baughman returned from
Florida State College at Tallahassee
to spend the holidays with her mother
and Father. She is an ex '28..
Ruth Kernodle, Home demonstra­tion
Agent at Greenesboro, spent the
holidays with her family in Auburn.
The following alumni visited
friends here during the holidays:
Dorothy Anderson '24; Dewey Ste­wart
'22; L. L. English; Duke Haynie
'22; Leone Tisdale '18"; Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Scott.
The troubles of a Newark, N. J.,
theater owner with his union soot-light
operator are chronicled. He
asked the spot-light man to stay an
extra hour for a rehearsal. The re­gular
rate of payment is $2 per hour.
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The operator replied that he would
have to charge the union rate for
the extra hour—that rate being
$11.66. In the same theater the or­chestra
were asked to wear velvet
coats provided by the management.
They donned the coats, but stated
that it would mean a payment of $5
more per man each week.—Ths Out'
look.
popular story "magazines. Today
there are over three hundred. Un­fortunately,
many of them are of the
confession-tale group and have war­ranted
the label of "Gutter Litera­ture"
which has been given them.
Book publication has also increased
in volume. There are now printed
an average of twenty books per day,
compared to the average of six per
day four years ago.—The Outlook.
The story is told of a man who
bought a Florida lot for $4,000 from
the map in a real estate office. He
carefully paid in cash and demanded
his deed. He then asked that he be
shown his property. At first the
agent was hesitant, but the purchaser
insisted, and they went to the beach,
where the agent pointed out the lot
about four hundred feet from the
shore. "Just what I wanted," said
the buyer.* "Arid now that it be­longs
to me, I want you to see that
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the agent, "we're going to fill
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like the rest." "Not mine," replied
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back the lot for $20,000.—The Out-olok.
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TIGER TRACKSTERS FIRST IN
YEARS SHOWING TWENTY-TWO
LETTER MEN END CAREERS
With the conclusion of the year
1925, 22 'varsity letter men repre­senting
the four major sports of
football, baseball, basketball, - and
track, have faded out of the Auburn
athletic picture. Football heads the
list of those who have served their
allotted time for their alma mater
with eight men having played their
last game on Thanksgiving day.
Track comes next with a loss of
seven men, while basketball and
baseball have lost but three and two
men respectively.
A glance backward into the past
twelve months will disclose a foot­ball
season containing many ups and
downs, losing combinations in the dia­mond
and cage sports, and a track
outfit that ranked as one of the best
in the southland.
The Tigers started operations for
the year with a new basket mentor,
Coach Herbert Bunker, a four letter
man from Missouri, having at his dis­posal
a squad which consisted largely
of green material. The leading per­formers
of the quint were Capt. Wal­lace
McKinney, of Mobile, at guard,
and his brother, Bill, forward.
With an inexperienced crew of ca-gers
the Tigers went through the sea­son,
sometimes looking like world
beaters and again looking just the
opposite. Taken all in all, the squad
—"jj-not; make any rapid strides in
5e cage realm, losing a bare ma­jority
of games played.
Bill McKinney succeeds his brother
Wallace, as new Bengal leader.
Coach Bunker, meanwhile, has gone
to Florida to pilot the destinies of
the 'Gator basketeefs, and is suc­ceeded
by "Mike" Papke, who came
to the Village as assistant to Morey.
Others lost to the present squad are
Lonnie Barks, at guard, and Bill
Ware, forward.
Easily the most successful combi­nation
in the matter of winning was
Coach Wilbur Hutsell's outfit of
field and cinder path artists. During,
the four years that Hutsell has spent
as Plainsman mentor, the Tigers
have never seen fit to bow to an op­ponent
in a dual meet. To maintain
this unblemished record the Ben­gals,
last spring, met and defeated by
decisive margins, some of the best ag­gregations
in the south, including
Georgia Tech, Georgia and Tulane.
Locke Stan.
Chief among the Jungaleer track-sters
was Capt. Bobby Locke, pole
valuter extraordinary, who registered
5 pointers for his alma mater in
practically every meet in which the
tall Tiger engaged. Locke made some
notable' ascensions, chief among
which occurred in a meet with Tu­lane
when he elevated himself over
Track Schedule
Is Announced
The Plainsmen are booked to meet
Tulane, Georgia, and Tech, the lat­ter
two coming to the campus for
the occasion, according to the track
schedule released by athletic authori­ties,
Wednesday afternoon.
Aside from these dual meets the
Tigers will participate in the Tech
and Penn relays, the S. I. C. and A.
A. U. meets.
Of the dozen men who made let­ters
it> the sport last spring but five
will return this year, these men be­ing
Captain-elect "Nurmi" Nelson,
"Weeniie" Baskin, "Pea" Greene,
Cliff Morrow and "Shorty" Morrow.
Aside from these two there are sev­eral
who gained prominence with the
rats including "Speedy" Snyder,
speedster, and Trapp, high jump spe­cialist.
The Tigers last year, under the
leadership of Bobby Locke, increased
the string of years during which they
have not suffered defeat in a dual
meet to four. In maintaining their
record they defeated Tulane, Georgia
Tech and Birmingham-Southern.
While Hutsell's boys were gladden­ing
the hearts of their supporters, the
Plainsmen representatives of the dia­mond
were not proving so great a
success.
During the greater part of the sea­son,
Coach Ned Cole was forced to do
considerable experimenting with his
baseball squad with special emphasis
being laid on the receiving depart­ment,
which proved a thorn in the
side of the Tiger mentor during the
whole campaign. Much valuable
time went by the boards in a vain
attempt to develop a capable receiver
and the weakness in this department
made itself felt throughout the en­tire
squad. Perhaps, as a conse­quence
of this, the hurling corps,
which at the outset appeared to be
possessed of plenty of stuff, went to
pieces soon after the season got un­derway.
Several shifts were made in an ef­fort
to bolster the ssuad and strength­en
a batting weakness which re­mained
throughout the season. The
Tigers exhibited flashes of form de­feating
Vanderbilt, Illinois and Bir­mingham-
Southern. On the whole,
however, the squad never came up
to expectations and dropped a ma­jority
of its games.
The outstanding performers were
Capt. "Red" Griffin; at second base,
"Eoi'gh EJ" Allen, shortstop, and C.
O. Stewart, third baseman, Ed Allen
led the sluggers, maintaining an aver­age
in excess of .350, and was also
the leading base stealer.
Griffin, who had the distinction of
piloting the balltossers for two suc­cessive
seasons, turns over the capa­city
to C. O. Stewart, who will head
the squad from his third base^ berth
during the coming season. Aside from
Griffin, the only player of last year's
squad not elegible for duty this
spring is "Rough Ed" Allen. The
coming squad should, however, pre­sent
quite an improvement over that
of last year as its ranks should con­tain
the names of several who seem­ed
to possess the earmarks of real
stars as members of last year's1 ro­dents.
Morey Come*
The year 1926 looms as especially T'ger mentor of a couple of promis
notable in that it marked a milestone < ' "S pivoters. Robinson, who stepped
Tiger Grid Menu For 1926
September 25, Chattanooga University at Auburn.
October 2, Clemson College at Auburn.
October 9, Howard College at Birmingham.
October 16, Louisiana State at Montgomei-y.
October 23, Tulane at New Orleans.
October 30, Sewanee at Montgomery.
November 6, Georgia at Columbus.
November 13, Marquette University at Birmingham.
November 24, Georgia Tech, at Atlanta.
Auburn to Meet
Marquett Univ.
Bill Austin Signed
by St Louis Browns
Ellis Austin, a member of the Ti­ger
twirling corps of last season, has
signed on the dotted line with the
St. Louis Americans, and will report
for spring at the club's training
camp in Florida next month, accord­ing
to a recent announcement =Hven
out from Selma.
Though Austin did not make an
impressive record as a member of
the Tiger mound artists last spring, a
scout of the Browns, Pete Monabsi;,
was impressed with the Tiger's, sta­ture
and method of delivery. Mona-han
tracked Austin around during
the season and kept one eye foenssed
on him during his summer activities
on the diamond.
Austin will make the second Jon
galeer to go to the Browns in the
last couple of years as the Sislerite*
still have strings attached to George
Grant who was sent to the minors lass
year.
Auburn to Take on Four New Team*
For 1926 Football
Season
in the Tiger sport world, caused by
a reorganization of the coaching sys­tem
with the advent of David B.
Morey, formerly of Middlebury col­lege,
Vermont, as director of Auburn
athletics.
The new Tiger mentor, with asso­ciates
"Mike" Papke and "Boozer"
Pitts, made his debut on the .Plains
in September. Coming to assume
charge of a football squad of which
great things were not expected, Mor-the
horizontal at the dizzy height of ey spent the early season in familiari-
12 feet and 7 1-2 inches. ' zing himself with dozens of new faces
Others who took a prominent part'while testing to the capabilities of
Tiger track victories were "Pea" j the various members of an unusually
Greene,- century and broad jump art­ist,
"Nurmi" Nelson, century speed­ster,
and "Duke" Marquis, who spe­cialized
in the hurdles, the pole
vault and high jump. In a meet held several radical changes in the lineups.
large and anxious list of candidates.
Throughout the season Coach
Morey spent much valuable time in
experimental work which involved
last summer among R. O. T. C. col­leges
at Camp McCIellan, Marquis
tailed all of Auburn's points, gather­ing
enough single handed to place his
alma mater third in the list.
Seven men who will be,lost to the
track team of the coming year are
Cayt. Bobby Locke "Noisy" Grisham,
"Duke" Marquis, Jerry Reeves, "Hot­shot"
White, "Specks, White, and
"Blossom" Martin. "Nurmi" Nelson
succeeds Locke as captain.
This was to a large extent caused by
a series of injuries which held the
team in their grip until the last
games of the season.
An injured Knee handicapped "Sea
Cow" Turner during the greater part
of the season and the big fellow even
when playing was not able to give
his best.
The biggest problem to confront
Morey during the year was perhaps
the center jinx, which robbell the
into the shoes of "Fats" Lawrence
appeared to be delivering the goods
when a broken elbow, sustained in
the V-. P. I. game, put the Columbus
lad on the shelf for the remainder
of the season. To fill the breach
"Pop" Patterson was called up and
the big Tiger lasted until the affair
with Georgia, when he was given a
broken wrist. "Fats" McNeill, a vet­eran
of three years of scrubbing, then
stepped into his first varsity berth
and finished the season in greac
style.
The pigskin season was replete with
ups and downs. The Moreymen be­gan
operations with a decesive win
over Birmingham-Southern. A week
following the Panther victory a win
was registered over Clemson, though,
in this contest, the Tigers did not
measure up to expectations, and
Morey expressed himself disappointed
with the closeness of the result.
The highlight of the early season
came with a brilliant 19 to 0 victory
over Virginia Poly before a large
gathering on homecoming day. In this
game the Tigers seemed to possess
the prime requisites of a real foot­ball
combine. After this game, how­ever,
the squad began to hit the to­boggan
and was only able to recover
A quartet of strange faces appear
on the Tiger schedule for 1926,
principle among which is Marquette
University, which is billed for Birm­ingham
towards the latter part of
the season. Others are Chattanooga
University, Sewanee, and Louisiana
State.
Opposition for Homecoming Day
will be furnished by Clemson instead
of Virginia Poly our visitors of last
year. The Gobblers do not appear
on the schedule for this season, their
two year contract with the Tigers
having expired last season.
Among the new faces appearing on
the bill is Sewanee. The Tigers have
not met the Mountain Tigers in quite
a number of years now and the re­opening
of relations on the part of
these two ancient rivals is of interest
to supporters of both institutions.
Time was when the Tiger-Tiger get
together was the principle scrap of
the Plainsmen docket. The two will
meet in Montgomery.
Another team to be met in the
Capitol City is the L. U. S. Tigers.
The Louisianians are not exactly new
to the Bengals as they appeared on
the menu a couple of years ago and
were defeated at Rickwood when
Clabber William's toe propelled one
over the uprights for the lone markers
of the game. ->
Tulane will do battle with the Ti­gers
in New Orleans after having
come to Montgomery for the occa­sion
for the past four years. The
Moreymen will help in the dedication
work of the new stadium now under
construction and which the Greenies
hope to have completed in time for
the new season's activities. The
Tigers and Rats
Meet Tech Sat.
With the ushering in of the post-holiday
season the Tigers are begin­ning
to settle down to some real work
in preparation for their first confer­ence
game of the season which is
booked with Georgia Tech for the
gymnasium Saturday night. .
Though the Plainsmen have played
two games already, defeating both
Howard and Birmingham-Southern by
comfortable margins, it remains to
be seen just how the five will stack
up against the Tech outfit which will
come to the Plains well seasoned af­ter
games played recently in Cuba
and also affairs with Tulane and
Georgia, which are on the weeks pro­gram
of the Jackets.
In the two pre-holiday games the
Tigers showed plenty of ability to
chunck them through the hoops, but
the squad as a whole did not seem
to be possessed of a certain smooth­ness
and polish which comes with
time. The main cog in the Jungaleer
wheel is Captain Bill McKinney, the
Mobile lad having tossed about half
of the points registered by the Ti­gers
in the two games. McKinney in­variably
takes it upon himself to
I form the bulk of the Tiger offensive
and usually is the high point man
of the five.
Another forward who has been dis­porting
himself to good advantage is
"Buck" Ellis. The former Simpson
star is a nice shot and covers them
well off the boards. Ellis ranked
second to McKinney in chalking them
up for the Jungaleers. "Jelly" Akin,
a former member of last year's rats
seems to be setting a nifty pace on
the courts, the Notasulga product
being a running guard who covers
the floor well and flings passes
around in excellent style.
Bill Gray a veteran guard of the
'past two years has been of little
service to the Plainsmen, aside from
being manager of the squad, due to a
CASUAL COMMENT I
The great victory of New Year's and his troupe the Chicago Bears,
day over the best team on the paci­fic
slope wrote finis after the long
string of successes that have been
the lot of the Crimson Tide of the
University of Alabama. After brush­ing
aside by decisive scores such in­stitutions
as Louisiana State, Geor­gia,
Georgia Tech, Sewanee, Kentu­cky
and Mississippi A. and M., it was
but a logical thing that this wonder­ful
scoring machine that had led the
Southern Conference in the matter
of ringing up large scores, should be
pitted against the Coast's great, un
beaten eleven.
play at the Fair Grounds in Birm­ingham.
It ought to be a great~g«ime~~
with Baron, Shirey, Wesley, Grange
and many others oft repeated names
in the line-up.
The gridders of our sister institu­tion
made the 2800 mile trek into
a strange land and carried off the
bacon after the opposition had ap­parently
sewed things ' Hp in the
opening half, Alabama 20, Washing­ton
19.
It was a great victory for our sis­ter
institution and. for the entire
South and Auburn joins hands with
all of the other admirers of the
Crimson Tide.
We note with interest the signing
of one of the twirlers of Coach Cole's
baseball squad of last spring, in the
person of Ellis Austin. Austin has
been ordered to report to the St.
Louis Browns at their spring train­ing
camp in Florida next month. He
is the first Tiger to get a tryout since
Gibson and Shhiing went up.
rhcidently, the warm weather of
the past few days has served to re­mind
us of the spring and early base­ball
season. Judging from the ma­terial
sent up from Kirk Newell's
Rat team of last year and the num­ber
of men left over from last sea­son,
the Tigers should cut a nifty
figure in diamond circles provided
the twirling staff holds up. It is
rumored that the schedule will be
spliced with a couple of major league
clubs appearing on the program.
John Shirey, former Auburn star
of three years ago, who was a mem­ber
of the Auburn team that triumph­ed
over the Centre Colonels of that
time, and who was a member of the'
mythical all-Southern team along with
Red Barron and others, has recently
turned pro. John Barleycorn has
been performing along with his for­mer
opponent, Red Barron of Geor­gia
Tech, and Ernie Nevers an ail-
American of this year who worked
with Stanford University during the
past season.
According to John, they just put
too many figures on that paper. It
is expected that the former Auburn
satalite will perform against the
most famous of all-American stars,
Red Grange, next Saturday when he
A double header program is sche­duled
for Saturday night at the gym­nasium.
The rats start off with the
Tech rats as a sort of a preliminary
affair after which the varsity will
scrap it out with the big Yellow
Jackets. To cap the climax the girls
also have a game sphpHnW^rjhn on.
ed affair, however is slated to be
played in the Capitol City with the
basket team of Women's College.
This will be the first game played
by the co-eds except for the warm
up encounter before the holidays with
the rodentettes. The Tigresses al­ways
have' been well represented on
the court and we are expecting them
to inaugurate the season in great
style by taking the measure of the
Montgomeryians.
Rat Squad Gets
Down to Work
Crescent Citians have administered
defeat unto our Tigers for the past knee injury which was picked up
couple of years and the New Orleans
game will be one of the principle
cnes on the Tiger program.
The usual lid pryers, Birmingham-
Southern, do not appear on the sche­dule,
being replaced by Chattanooga
University which opens the season
on the Auburn campus. The first
two games of the season are the
only affairs billed for the edification
of the campus boys.
Howard College will not appear on
the campus this time as the Plains­men
go to Birmingham to meet the
Bull Dogs.
towards the tail end of the campaign.
This slump of the Tigers included
a decisive drubbing administered by
the Texas Longhorns, at Dallas, Tex­as,
a single point margin of victory
over Howard College, a loss to Tu­lane,
and finally a complete rout at
the hands of Georgia.
Make Comeback
After the Georgia affair, in which
the Bengal suffered its worst 'defeat
in the 30-year period of competition
with the Athenian Bulldog, the Ti-
(Continued on page 5)
early in the practice. The Jasper
lad has announced that the under-pining
had taken a turn for the bet­ter
during the recent holidays and
he would be in shape for the game
with Tech and Howard which preceds
the examination period. •
It is not known wnether the rather
stiff schedule that Tech has taken
upon itself during the days preceding
the Auburn tilt will serve to give
the Atlantas an extra amount of
seasoning or whether it will serve
to wear them out. All things con­sidered
the Tigers should present con­siderable
of an improvement over
their early season form and the
Techsters should be in for quite a
scrap.
The rats open their season's sche­dule
Saturday being, booked with the
Yellew Jacket Juniors on that day.
Therefore it is probable that the
supremacy of the rodents will be
fought out as a preliminary event
before the main show starts between
the two larger specimens, making a
regular Auburn-Tech day of it. These
will be the first home games of the
season.
Coach Brown's Outfit Now Consists
Of 26 Aipirants
With the conclusion of the holiday
season, Coach Brown's array of ro­dent
cage aspirants got down to the
real business of playing basketball
Monday afternoon. The squad which
recently was chopped by the sorrel
topped mentor of the baby Tigers,
now consists of 26 men who hail
fiom all sections of Alabama and
Georgia.
The group which is waging a mer­ry
battle to land the choice positions
is still somewhat unwieldy for a cage
outfit, and Coach Brown is having
a rather uneasy time of it in judging
just who will be the next to get the
axe. A large percentage of the pre-sent
performers are those who were
in the Village when the Cotton States
Tournament was staged, and many
were stars on the respective aggre­gations.
A surprizingly large num­ber
of the candidates who are taking
a leading part in the preliminary
work, and who appear to be the best
bets, hail from Georgia or have seen
service with aggregations of that
state during their prep careers.
Those who have been disporting
themselves to the best advantage so
far at forwards are G. Howell, Monta-zuma,
Ga., F. R. Yarborough, Atlanta,
Ga., W. M. Woods, Selma; W. R.
Arnold, Senoia, Ga., H. L. Williams,
Auburn; A. L. Smith, Dawson. Ho-
TIGER TRACK SCHEDULE
April 3, Tulant at New Orleans,
(Pending)
April 10, Tech Relays, at At­lanta.
April 17, Georgia Tech, at Au­burn.
April 24, Peen Relays, at Phila­delphia,
Penn.
May 1, Georgia, at Auburn.
May 8, Open.
May 15, S. I. C. at Chapel Hill,
N. C.
May 22, A. A. U., at Birming­ham.
well, formerly of Montazuma, was
the big star of the Cotton States
meet. Yarborough is the son of For- "
ney Yarborough, who was a star at
half back on Tiger teams of the past.
The principle contenders for the
pivot are Frank DuBose, of Macon,
Ga., and R. Ingram of Wetumpka.
Both of these lads are tall and rangy
and indications are that this berth
will be well fortified.
For his guards, Brown will chose
frtfm C. H. Booth, Columbus Ga.;
J. A. Vines, Crossville,; J. T. Ogle-tree,
Georgia Military Academy; A.
McGhee, Macon, Ga.; C. A. De-
Vaughn, Montezuma, Ga, All of
these men appear to be delivering at
present and it will be a hard matter
to drop any of the above named. De-
Vaughn, who cavorted with tht?
Montazuma, Ga., champion sof the
tourney last spring seems to be a
real find. The Georgia lad was
chosen on the all-Cotton States out­fit.
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YEAR TRUE TO FORM
Displaying all usual zest and vi­gor
the Wilsonian Literary Society
held its first meeting of the year
1926 in the regular meeting place,
r*oom 301 of the Main building. With
all officers and members back from
a most joyous time spent during the
holidays, the meeting was well at­tended
despite the inclement weather,
furthering the plan to make the so­ciety
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the roll jcall and the reading of the
minutes by the Secretary Miss Eloise
Floyd, the regular program of the
society commenced.
~ The' first matter on the program
was a definite settlement of the ques­tion
of the society pin. The old pin
of the society was adopted and a
committee of two was appointed by
the President to draw up resolutions
which will be added to the constitu­tion
making this pin a standard.
The regular program started with
Miss Mildred Locke rendering her
declamation speech for the inter so­ciety
contest. She choose as her
subject a passage from Henry VIII,
and judging from the very able man­ner
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work at home writing much poetry,
prose, and drama. In drama he tried
tr, make of himself another Shake­speare,
but" his works failed on the
stage • but- were very- acceptable for
library reading. His greatest success
was with his poetry which he so
splendidly modelled to represent
every day life. He also wrote nu­merous
sea ballads, these poems
showing his great love for the sea.
With the conclusion of this talk
President Phillips called on various
members of the society for impromp­tu
speeches and from the hearty res­ponse
it showed that a Wilsonian is
at home addressing a crowd whether
he is prepared or not. Miss Susan
Lipscomb who has just recently re­turned
from the Methodist Confer­ence
of young people held at Mem­phis,
Tenn., spoke on "Crime", a sub­ject
that was given considerable at­tention
at the conference. She
brought out that America is the most
Christian nation in the world, having
•1C million people professing some
religion, but still we ranks first in
the amount of crime committed
through out the world. The other
nations wonder why the United States
has so much crime and they regard
America with alarm. She read the
statistics on the crime wave, show­ing
that it is hard to conceive of the
figures running high into the millions
of dollars. In the centers of popu­lation
no man walks with safety.
E. T. Bright enumerated the vari­ous
happenings during the year 1925.
The most famous among them in­cluded,
the plan of France to pay her
reparations debt during a period of
ninety years, Greeces invasion of
Bulgaria, the sixth annual assembly
of the league of nations at Geneva,
Hindenburgs election as president of
Germany, Amundsens trip to the
north pole, the riots of the students
in Shanghai, shipping controversy in
South Africa, Coolidges and Dawes
election, Mrs. Fergusons election as
the first woman governor of Texas,
the saving of Nome Alaska from a
diptheria epidemic, increase in postal
employees salary, the Shenandoah dis­aster,
the ramming of two submarin­es,
Harold Granges success in foot-ball,
Nurmis wonderful track achieve­ments,
and finally the success of the
great Alabama football team New
Years day in trimming the mighty
huskies from the University of
Washington.
F. S. Arant spoke of the big thing
before congress, "The crop reporting
L T.WELLS TO GO
WITH SOUTHERN DAIRIES
L. T. Wells has resigned to accept
a new position with Southern Dair­ies,
Incorporated, with headquarters
in Montgomery. He is to have gen­eral
supervision of the field work of
this company in Alabama and will
be in charge of the Montgomery plant
which is now being constructed
Mr. Wells is well known and .'=
popular in agricultural development
work in Alabama. He was born and
reared on a farm in Pickens County,
and graduated at Auburn in 1916.
Since graduation he has been active­ly
in charge of farm work, having
spent more than a year on the st iff
of The Progressive Farmer, and was
very successful as a county spent
in Lee county prior to his work as
dairy specialist. During 1918 and
1919 when the hog business in
southeast Alabama was thriving he
engaged in marketing work, taking
an active part, in cooperation with
the county agents, in putting over co­operative
hog marketing in that sec­tion.
Southern Dairies came to Alabama
recently. They now have a plant in
Birmingham, one in Selma, and art-constructing
one in Montgomery,
which will be opened early in etl.e
spring. " They have already establish
ed milk-cooling stations at Galion and
Hayneville and are considering lo­cating
stations at several points in
the Black Belt adjacent to Mont­gomery
and Selma. The company is
specializing on whole milk which is
being shipped to Florida.
We regret losing Mi*. Wells from
the Extension Service but wish him
great success in his new work which
he began December fifteenth.
system." He showed that this sys­tem
has always keeps the people
posted and doesn't allow men to
gamble and speculate.
Jack Nelms spoke on an article
he had recently read on Theodore
Roosevelt which told of his college
days. His three greatest traits
were curiosity, individuality, and
energy. Other short impromptu
speeches were given by Miss Sarah
Holliday, J. F. Hixon, Miss Fannie
Ig-ou, S. L. Morrow, H. A. Bess, and
Owen Wise, space not permitting the
telling of their witty and humorous
remarks. J. M. Edwards critic was
more than pleased with the program
presente.d.
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EPWORTH LEAGUE TO
ELECT OFFICERS SUN.
Next Sunday night the union of­ficers
of the Epworth league will be
elected for the coming semester and
everyone is-urged to be present. A
nominating committee will present a
suggested list of nominations but
anyone can make any- other nomina­tions
that they desire. All members
should be thinking about who will
make the best leaders of the League
for next semester and be on hand to
see that they are elected.
Many radical changes have taken
place in the League this semester
but things seem to be about adjusted
and practically all members seem to
be* enthusiastic and interested in the
work of the League. At the begin­ning
of the semester an experiment
was tried out of combining the Lea­gue
devotional program and the night
church service for a period of four
Sundays but this proved to be un­satisfactory.
However, it soon be­came
evident that the League could
not beocme very strong by meeting
together as one body and carrying
out a definite program every Sun­day.
With this in mind, and after
much thought and careful considera­tion,
it was decided to divide the
League has grown rapidly and pro­mises
to accomplish a great work
during the next semester.
VALUE OF FOOTBALL MAN
IS OVERESTIMATED SAYS
WRITER IN THE OUTLOOK
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An anonymous writer in The Out­look
of January 6th states that the
matter with college football is the
"yelping alumni." An editorial com­ment
states that the writer of this
article is closely identified with col­lege
athletics and a keen student of
football.
"The biggest menace to college
football today," he says, "is the yelp­ing
alumni. A team must win. A
coach must turn out a winning team
or the Roman mob turns thumbs
down and off comes his head."
"Halfback Grange is a quite na­tural
evolution pf the college football
system. He is simply the forerunner
of other star players who will join
professional teams. A star football
player is glorified, deified, and his
true importance on the campus mag­nified
until all sense of values is lost."
The writer then takes the case of
a youngster entering a big college.
He is filled with ambition to play
football. But he comes from a high
school whose team had little reputa­tion,
and he is §ide-tracked by the
coaches, who prefer those players
who come with ready-made reputa­tion.
Therefore, the writer con­cludes,
"The boys who actually need
the coaching and the physical and
mental development don't get it! The
stalwarts who need it least get all of
it! That's why I say that football
in colleges has been perverted."
The author suggests as a remedy
that the college coaching staff organ­ize
at the beginning of the season a
great many campus teams to play
against one another, and thereby give
the benefits of the game to all in­terested.
He closes with a plea to
"put football back into its original
place in the scheme of college things".
He is opposed to the "nonsense of
choosing 'All-American' teams or any
other kind of 'All' teams." He states
now that Walter Camp is dead that
such compilations are worthless and
that even in the last ten years of
Walter Camp's life his selections
were a superhuman task and did not
meet favor everywhere. "So let's be
reasonable," says the author, "and
stop this peculiarly American brand
of nonsense. Let's get back to nor­malcy!"
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THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
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Morning Service
Sunday School 9:30 A. M.
Christian Endeavor 6:30 P. M.
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TIGER TRACKSTERS FIRST IN
YEARS SHOWING TWENTY-TWO
LETTER MEN END CAREERS
(Continued from Page Five.)
gers managed to pull themselves to­gether
and, with not even the most
friendly critics conceding them an
outside change to grab the verdict,
they won a brilliant victory over
Vanderbilt.
The result of the Vandy game seem­ed
to have the effect oi a tonic on
a team which time and again had
felt the string of defeat. All things
considered the Tigers wound up the
season in a blaze of glory by tieing
the most soughtafter team, Georgia
Tech. This they managed to do by
exhibiting the unquenchable fighting
spirit that enabled them to down
Vanderbilt. •
With three conference wins, two
losses and one tie game, the Tigers
football season cannot exactly be
termed unsuccessful.
The principle performers were
"Buck" Spinks, at the hight flank,
and "Bull' McFaden, at left guard.
"Clabber" Williams was the high
point man in the scoring department
and also continued his good work at
place kicking, his toe being instru­mental
in registering a trio of vic­tories.
Eight Tigers who donned the mole­skins
for the last time with the con­clusion
of the year's activity are:
"Buck" Spinks and Batch Ollinger,
ends, Capt. "Red" Harkins and
"Bozo" Self, tackles; "Bull" Mc­Faden,
guard; Feny Crane, "Clab­ber"
Williams and "Pea" Greene,
halfbacks.
A new excuse for the busy office
man has been invented. Instead of
replying, "He's in a conference," a
young lady secretary in Wall Street
coined a new "turn-away" phase,
"He's in a temper."—The Outlook.
"Why didn't you send your man
to mend my electric b«llt"
"I did, madam; but, as he rang
three times and got no answer.my
man decided there was nobody home."
—The Outlook.
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Meals will be served at 7:15 a. m. 12:15 p. m.
and 6:00 p. m.
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THE PLAINSMAN
Tie a tin
to
trouble
A TIDY red tin of Prince Albert, to be exact.
There's the greatest little trouble-chaser in the
known world. Smoke P. A. and pipe-grouches
choose the nearest exit.
Yes, Sir, P. A. is right there with the Polly-anna
stuff. Sunshine, gladness, the light heart,
the bright smile. Because Prince Albert is the
cheeriest, chummiest tobacco that ever tumbled
into a briar or corncob.
Smoke P. A.—and smile. Cool, comfortable
P. A. Fragrant, friendly P. A. Not a tongue-bite
or throat-parch in a ton of it. The Prince
Albert process hung the "No Admittance" sign
on Bite and Parch the day the factory opened.
Get a tidy red tin of P. A. today and give
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P. A. is sold everywhere m
tidy red tins, pound and hatf-i
pound tin humidors, and
pound crystal-glass humidors
with sponge-moistener top.
And always with every bit
of bite and parch removed by
the Prince Albert process.
FIVE.DAY COURSE FOR
METERMEN WILL BE GIVEN
Continued from page one)
January 13th. *
9 A. M. Lecture, "Theory of Poly­phase
Circuits", A. P. I. staff.
10 A. M. Laboratory bad recita­tion
work.
2 P. M. Lecture, "Construction and
Testing of Polyphase Meters," Mr.
Fletcher.
3 P. M. Laboratory and recitation
work.
7 P. M. Talk by Mr. Thaxton.
January 14th
9 A. M. Lecture—"Theory of In­strument
Transformers", A. P. I.
staff.
10 A. M. Laboratory and recita-tion
work.
11 A. M. Attend Convocation, ad­dress
by Mr. Martin, President of
Alabama Power Company.
2 P. M. Lecture—Connecting me­ters
to the line using Transformers,
Mr. S. A. Fletcher.
3' P. M. Laboratory and Problem
work.
7 P. M. Talk by Mr. Bailey, Gener­al
Electric Company.
January 15th.
9 A. M. Lecture—"Demand Me­ters,"
Mr. Gentry.
10 A. M. Laboratory and Problem
work.
2 P. M. Lecture—"Standardization
and Choice of Equipment," by Mr.
Fletcher.
3 P. M. Laboratory and problem
work.
7 P. M. Lecture—By Mr. Bivins;
of Duncan Electric and Manufactur­ing
Company.
HOW FACULTY BACHELORS
SPENT THEIR HOLIDAYS
BAPTIST CHURCH
* 11:00 A. M.
A Call to Prayer
7:30 P. M.
Indifference Towards Religion and
Cordial Welcome to Every Student
The Big Store With The Little Prices
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Trinters & Stationers
(Continued from Page 1)
that he must have had a secret date
to fill.
"UNK" Sizemore went to so many
places visiting his friends and rela­tives
and to see his best girl that he
forgot to carry his notebook and
therefore could not give an account
of all the girls that he saw.
"Parson" Le Bron ciculated around
Troy and Wetumpka.
No one has been able to find out
what Prof. Farris and Dr. Kimbrough
pulled off during the holidays except
to look for peaches.
Prof. Good aired out Auburn dur­ing
the holidays by visiting the sub­urbs
of the city for a change.
Prof. "Emma" Goldman visited re­latives
and friends in Mobile during
the vacation. •
Prof. Roe tried flying on the moun­tain
tops in North Carolina with a
Ford car. He has been inquiring
and trying to catch a flying Ford
top that was lost on the trip. Any
information as to its whereabouts will
be greatly appreciated by him.
A quiet sober Christmas was spent
by J. L. High at Abbeville.
"Silent" Gardener went to see his
best girl Xmas.
Several of the Professors refused
to talk about their vacation trips. It
was rumored that those who refused
to make a statement might, perhaps,
have a secret and do not want the
secret revealed that they are guilty
of any misdemeanor. Some of the
Profs were too modest and were re­luctant
in telling of their stamping
grounds, while others openly admitted
that they did not desire the name
batchelor heading their name. Can
it be possible Mr. Gaston? Whey most
assuredly Mr. Shean.
A JAZZ CONCERTO
Walter Damrosch has always been
to the fore in the matter of present­ing
interesting musical programs. It
iK not surprising, therefore, that he
should be the first symphonic conduc­tor
to experiment in earnest with an
attempt to wed jazz to serious music.
Under his direction, the New York-
Symphony Orchestra introduced to
delighted audiences on December 3
and 4 a jazz concerto—George Gersh­win's
Concerto in F for piano and
orchestra.
Its long-awaited performance at
Carnegie Hall was received enthusias­tically—
and with very good cause, for
in spite of obvious shortcomings, the
concerto displayed freshness, vitality,
and audacious originality. It brimmed
to overflowing with ideas, some good
and some poor, and with a feverish
delight rhythm.
Perhaps the outstanding feature of
the performance of the Concerto in
F was that a young American com­poser,
unlike the vast majority, ap­peared
to have something important
to say. Or perhaps it was the even
more outstanding fact that :><itive
American music was accepted by
serious musicians to' a further extent-than
has ever been done before.—
The Outlook.
CAN^WE ELIMINATE
RADIO "DISTORTION?"
The comparative elimination of un­natural
vocal reproduction, known
among radio engineers as "distor­tion
has been largely accomplished,
it, is claimed, by the well-known in­ventor,
Dr. Lee De Forest, of New
York. By discarding the familiar
circular diaphragm of the telephone
receiver and radio loudspeaker and
by substituting for it a new prin­ciple
in which a large curved mem­brane
of tough paper is actuated
from its edge, instead of its center,
he has produced purer and more na­tural
sound waves.
If one were to take a sheet -of
selected tough parchment, curve or
bend it so that its opposite edges
a!most touched one another, thus al­most
forming a cylinder, slide it
loseljK.into a retaining framework
and attach- to one of its edges a short
steel lever which was actuated by
an electromagnetic' device not unlike
those at present employe~d-for actua­ting
the sound-producing diaphragms
Homer G. Bartee ,
Receives Promotion
Homer G. Bartee, electrical engi­neering
graduate of the class of 1921
has just been promoted to the posi­tion
of Exchange Engineer for the
Southern Bell Telephone and Tele­graph
Company for the entire State
of Georgia and will take up his
headquarters in Atlanta in the near
future.
Up until recently Mr. Bartee has
had active charge of the preparation
of plans for new telephone plants,
and additions to existing plants in
South Georgia with headquarters at
Macon. He will be succeeded* by R.
E. Shaw, a graduate in engineering
of the University of Georgia in 1924.
Homer Bartee left Auburn in
June, 1921, and entered the general
training course of the Telephone
Company in Atlanta, in company with
five other Auburn men, and he has
made steady and rapid progress in
his chosen profession ever since his
graduation. The officers of. the
Telephone Company hold him in high
esteem and predict a bright future
for him in the telephone business.
cf loudspeakers, one would have pro­vided
the essential elements of Dr.
De Forest's new invention.—The Out­look.
We wonder how much "Red" Wal-lingford
Grange (non-grad) will con­tribute
to the next University of Illi­nois
drive for funds. His college
fame now brings him money even for
things he does not do. A cigarette
firm has paid him $1,000 for his
recommendation, and "Red" does not
smoke.
DR. THOS. B. MCDONALD
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Phone 49
Auburn, Alabama
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THE DEAR THING
Girl (confidently to housemother) :
"I'll never marry until I find a man
who is my direct opposite."
"Well, there are plenty of quite
intelligent men on the campus, dear."
—Cougar's Paw
"Sixteen men on a dead man's jest,
Yo, ho, ho, they were plagiarists."
—Princeton Tiger.
"I would have had some eggnog
Christmas if I could have found some
eggs."
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We are showing Tuxedos and a
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"There's Mr. and Mrs. White. She's
20 and he's 40."
"Gracious! Twice her age. Just
think, when she's 50 he'll be 100."
—Pitt Panther
RAZOR RIGHT
Gillette her do that?
No!
Well, you Auto-Strop her.
..Carnegie Tech Puppet
"Waiter, this banana is very small."
"Yes, sir."
"And, waiter, it is also very rotten.'
"Perhaps it's just as well that it's
small then."
—Hamilton Royal Gaboon
OH!-OH!
The inebriated passenger in the
elevator lost all his self-control when
the operator stopped the car with a
jolt at the third floor.
"Lemme out!" he demanded, "J'm
through with this d n machine!"
"Oh! Come now,", replied the boy,
"We're almost down. Surely you can
stand just three more stories?"
The polluted one paused. Then he
I subsided, suddenly giggling:
"All right, as long as they're good
snappy ones!"
—Cornell Widow.
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"I wish I was a Scotchman."
"Why?"
"They have such close friends."
—Wisconsin Octopus
Wellington: "Can I borrow a cig­arette?"
Cromwell: "Well, you ought to be
able to—you've had enough practice."
Princeton Tiger.
BITTER FRUIT
Eve: Adam, you are the apple of
my eye.
Adam (severely): Woman, don't
mention apple to me.
"I hear you engaged that fresh­man
in a game of chance."
"No sir, he didn't have a chance."
—Illinois Siren.
1st. College Student: "Who was
the big fight between last night?"
2nd Sap: "Oh! It was between a
doctor and an apple grower."—Okla­homa
Whirlwind.
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Service Satisfaction
"Which would you rather be,
Shakespeare or Edison?"
"Edison!"
"Why?"
"Cause he ain't dead."—North­western
Purple Parrot.
GOOD AIM!
"I hear Mrs. Dean's husband is
dead. Did she miss him?"
"Nope! That's why he's dead!"
"You ought to be proud to be the
father of such a splendid family,"
said principal of the boarding school
to her visitor. —
"What on earth—large family?"
gasped the father.
"Yes, indeed. Your daughter has
had eleven of her brothers here this
term to take her out."
AFTER CLASS
Bim: What day is today?
Bo: Monday, Wednesday, and Fri­day:
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Widow's weed are the easiest to
kill. All you have to do is say "Wilt
thou?" and they wilt.
—Wisconsin Octopus.
Mt.: What's worse than a man
who steals a baby's bank?
Head: A man who takes pennies
out of a blind man's box when he's
not looking.
—Johns Hopkins Black and Blue Jay.
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Doc. Shirk: "Give me a short def­inition
of a polygon."
Pupil: "A polygon is a dead par­rot."
—Buffalo Bison'
"That girl's a diz."
"She's my sister!"
"I repeat, she's a whiz."
—Notre Dame Juggler.
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