1930-12-03 The Plainsman

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Saturday Night THE PLAINSMAN
T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT
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Saturday Night
VOLUME LIV AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1930 NUMBER 24
CAKE RACE TO
BE HELD AGAIN
FOR FRESHIES
Omicron Delta Kappa Will
Sponsor Race For Second
Successive Year
DEC. 16 IS DATE SET
First Twenty-Five Freshmen
To Finish Will Be Presented
Cakes
The annual All-Freshman Cake
Race is to be run on Tuesday, Decem­ber
16, starting at four o'clock on
Drake Field, according to an an­nouncement
by Charles !•£ Davis, pres­ident
of the Omega Circle of the
Omega Circle of the Omicron Delta
Kappa who are sponsoring the affair.
Freshmen will probably be excused
from classes after three o'clock to
participate in the race. According to
regulations, all first year men will
report to Drake Field not later than
3:30 p. m. The awards will consist
of twenty-five cakes to the first twen­ty-
five to finish, a silver loving cup
to the fraternity having the first four
men to finish, and probably Freshman
numerals to the winner. Over five
hundred "Rats" will probably take
part in this notable test of fleet-foot-edness
and endurance.
RACE RULES -ANNOUNCED
BY OMICRON DELTA KAPPA
The race will start at the entrance
to Drake Field at 4 p.m. on Tuesday,
December 16th. All Freshmen will
be required to enter and report at
Drake Field not later than 3:30 p.m.
for final instructions. Any kind of
uniform may be worn that would pass
ordinary censorship. Parts of mili­tary
uniforms or whole uniforms are
absolutely taboo. Upon arrival at the
starting point individual tags will be
issued, upon which each man will
write his name and fraternity or
ranch. After filling in above, each
man will securely fasten the tag to
the right side of his shirt, coat, or
sweater. Each man's finishing posi­tion
will be recorded, the first four
finishers of the same fraternity being
declared winners of the Interfrater-nity
Council Trophy.
The course will be from the en­trance
of Drake Field down the road
to Thatch Ave., east on Thatch Ave.
to College St., north on College St. to
Glenn Ave. (Montgomery highway),
thence east on Glenn to Ross, south
on Ross to Magnolie, and west on
Magnolia to Gay, then south on Gay
to the end at Samford Ave. West
to Miller Ave., west on Miller to Col­lege
St., executing a right turn and
then on College St. to the Ag. Bot­tom
Road and west to Drake Field.
Throwing Boineau of South Carolina for a Six Yard Loss SOCIAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS ANNOUNCE
THAT JIMMIE GREEN'S ORCHESTRA WILL
PLAY FOR ANNUAL JUNIOR PROM HERE
HITCHCOCK AND HATFIELD LEAD TIGERS
TO FIRST CONFERENCE WIN SINCE 1926
BALFOUR COMPANY
NAMES THREE TO
SELL 1 9 3 2 RINGS
Gholson, David, and Brothers
Will Sell Class Rings
Auburn Woman's Club
Have Music Program
Mrs. E. R. Rauber Will Be Feature
Of Meeting To Be Held On
Thursday
" The Music Department of the Au­burn
Woman's Club will meet on
Thursday, December 4th, in the
Music Studio at 8 p. m. Mrs. E. R.
Rauber will have charge of the pro­gram
which will consist of the folk
songs of middle Europe with vocal
illustrations in original langauges.
Mrs. Rauber will sing^the following
selections:
Czech and Slovak folk songs:
1. Katolik a Lutheran.
2. Do not Marry.
3. At old Breclave.
4. (a) Bagpipe
(b) Postman's horn.
5. Shepherd's song.
6. Recruit's song.
7. (a) Love Song.
(b) Nitra.
(c) Disappointment.
Russian folk songs:
1. Cradle song.
'2. Nastasia.
German folk songs:
1. Dein Herz und mein Herz.
2. Des Madchens Klgae.
3. Treue Liebe.
4. Liebesqual.
AH members of the Woman's Club
and their husbands are invited.
Louis Gholson, Harry Davis, and
L. R. Brothers, have been appointed
by the L. G. Balfour Jewelry Company
to handle all ring sales for the class
of "32". The Balfour Company was
awarded the ring contract at a meet­ing
of the Executive Cabinet which
was held November 17, 1930, and one
of tbe conditions of the contract was
that the company appoint its repre­sentatives
from members of the Ju­nior
Class.
Louis Gholson is a junior in busi­ness
administration, and may be call­ed
at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house;
Harry Davis is a junior in electrical
engineering, and may be called at the
Sigma Nu house; L. R. Brothers is a
junior in agriculture and may be call­ed
at the Alpha Gamma Rho house.
Anyone desiring information in re­gard
to the ring contract should call
either of these three representatives.
Funeral Rites Held
For Auburn Citizen
Funeral services for Amos Hill
Cox, age 60, were held at his home
here at ten o'clock Tuesday morning,
conducted by Rev. Bruce McGhee,
pastor of the Auburn Methodist
Church, of which the deceased was
a member.
Death came early Monday morning
following a stroke of appoplexy on
November 23. He had been in poor
health six years.
Mr. Cox was an old citizen of Au­burn,
and an extensive owner of
property. One big residence section
of the town has been built largely by
him. He leaves one sister, Miss
Mary Cox, and one brother, J. A.
Cox, both of Auburn.
Pallbearers were Dr. I. S. Mc-
Adory, O. C. Medlock, Clifton A.
Jones, Hugh Tamplin, V. B. Wat-wood.
Honorary pallbearers were G.
H. Wright, S. L. Toomer, W. D. Mar­tin,
and A. L. Thomas.
Auburn Lions Club
Aids Unfortunates
By Appropriation
The Auburn Lions Club appropri­ated
a substantial sum of money to
aid unfortunates in Lee County in
response to a request made by the
Lee County Emergency Committee
for funds to carry on the much need­ed
relief work for unemployed and
other unfortunates in Lee County
when the club met in the Thomas
Hotel Tuesday at noon for its regu­lar
weekly meeting.
Lt. C. P. Townsley pointed that the
committee, composed of representa­tives
from all of the civic clubs in
the county, had reported that condi­tions
are alai-ming in Phoenix City
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Tiger Unleashes Attack Early
In Second Half and Piles Up
Big Lead Which Is Never
Touched; Boineau Stars For
South Carolina
(Opelika Daily News)
By Cecil Stowe
South Carolina Gamecocks proved
a succulent Thanksgiving meal for
the Auburn Tigers in Columbus. And
those Tigers, long the underdogs in
the Southern Conference, really did
feast! They gorged themselves to
the extent of four touchdowns, for a
total of 25 points. South Carolina
was able to score only one touch­down
and kick goal.
The Plainsmen did something
Thursday that Orange and Blue sup­porters
have been waiting four long
years to see. This was their first
conference victory since 1926, when
they licked Sewanee 9 to 0 in Mont­gomery.
Nor was it a fluke victory.
Auburn completely outplayed the
South Carolina lads. The Tigers
made 12 first downs against 7 for
the Gamecocks, and gained 308 yards
while 'their opponents gained only
108.
Lindley Hatfield and Jimmy Hitch­cock
galloped to glory, each scoring
two touehdowns. Hitchcock made a
beautiful 65 yard run for a touch­down
in the third quarter. On this
play Hatfield very nicely took out
the last South Carolina man in Hitch
cock's path. Captain Dunham Har-kins,
played his final game for the
Alma Mater, acquitted himself well.
Bru Boineau at quarter, scintillat­ed
for the Gamecocks. He bore the
brunt of the S. C. ball toting until
he was injured early in the fourth
quarter. Boineau was hard to stop.
He would take the ball, hesitate a
moment to find an opening and then
shoot right thru. Captain Bob Gris-sette,
at right end, aso played a good
game.
T. U. 0. WILL PLAY
LANGDALE A. C. IN
BASKETBALL GAME
Theta Upsilon Omega Team
Will Journey To Langdale
On Saturday
Columbus, Ga., Nov.^.—A Tiger
that had been tame for four years
suddenly turned ferocious at munici­pal
stadium yesterday afternoon and
launched a vicious attack on the
Gamecocks of South Carolina and
Auburn won a. smashing 25-7 vic­tory
for its first Southern confer­ence
triumph since 1926.
Led by the devastating assaults by
Hitchcock and Hatfield, star Auburn
backs, the Bengals ripped the South
Carolina line, skirted the ends and
executed passes in such a brilliant
manner that it became evident early
in the final half that it was only a
question of how much the Alabam­ans
would defeat the Gamecocks.
Boineau Carolina Star
Bru Boineau, flashy Gamecock
quarterback, dashed into the contest
in the first quarter despite his brok­en
collar bone, and reeled off runs of
thirteen and fifteen yards and then
carried the ball four yards for the
lone South Carolina touchdown. A
few minutes later Boineau, who re­minded
one of the great Billy Bank­er,
returned a kickoff 45 yards and
he made several neat gains before he
was removed in the second period.
But blood was in the eyes of the
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Theta Upsilon Omega, interfrater-nity
basketball champions at Auburn
for the past two years, will journey
to Langdale Saturday where they will
meet the strong Langdale Athletic
Club quintet in beautiful Sears Mem­orial
Gymnasium.
This will be the first game of tbe
season for the fraternty champs, but
they have been practicing daily for
several weeks and expect to give the
clubbers a hard game. They will
have practically a veteran team to
represent them as four of the five
members of last year's team are back.
In meeting Langdale in their initial
game, T. U. O. will have plenty of
competition. The Chattahoochee Val­ley
five has already played several
games and made creditable showings.
They also have a veteran team, having
practically the same quintet that de­feated
the Auburn boys last season.
The starting lineup for T. U. O.
probably will be: Howard Lawson and
Gordon Holstun, forwards; Earl
Smith, center; Chas. Kaley and Gillie
Smith, guards. Other members of
this team who have shown up well
in practice, and who might get the
call to start are Buch Lavallet, Wil­liam
Sanford, William Jones, Thomas
Kuykendall and Frank Stewart.
PREXY ENTERTAINS
TEAM WITH ANNUAL
FOOTBALL BANQUET
Governor and Mrs. Graves,
Coaches and Varsity Men
Are Honored Guests A t
Banquet
Engineer Addresses
Civil Department
Mr. James G. Allen, Engineer of
the American Intsitute of Steel Con­struction,
Inc., gave a talk to the
students in civil engineering Tues­day
afternoon in Ramsay Hall. The
subject of his talk was "Steel Con­struction",
illustrated by means of
motion pictures.
Mr. Allen began his talk with an
explanation of the Battledeck method
of steel construction of floors. This
was illustrated in a motion picture
reel which showed the methods of
assembly. Following' this part of his
talk, Mr. Allen showed two reels of
views of the construction of the new
-Bank of Manhattan Building in New
York City. The work of construction
was followed from the time the ore
was brought to the furnaces until
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Bishop McDowell Will
Speak Here Thursday-
Bishop McDowell, who was a dele­gate
to the Lambeth Conference
which met at Lambeth Palace in Lon­don
last July and August, will speak
to the public in the Episcopal church
at seven thirty o'clock Thursday
night. His talk will be chiefly con­cerned
with the- proceedings of the
conference. Everyone is cordially in­vited
to attend this meeting.
With Governor and Mrs. Graves,
members of the Auburn coaching staff
and Auburn football players as hon­ored
guests, President and Mrs. Brad­ford
Knapp gave the first football
dinner of the year Monday evening
in honor of the 1930 Tigers who won
the initial conference game annexed
by the Plainsmen in over four years.
The dinner was served at the presi­dent's
home and was the third ten­dered
the Orange and Blue moleskin
wearers by the hosts. Entertaining
the football team was inaugurated by
Dr. and Mrs. Knapp while at Okla­homa
A. & M.- at Stillwater. They
have made it an annual affair, honor­ing
their schools' football team for
the past eight years, five at the Still­water
institution and three here at
Auburn.
It -was a dinner that was "fit for
a king." Only short speeches were
given which always make a football
banquet enjoyed by every one. The
players who were there for the third
year remarked that it was the best
ever held and the honorees for the
initial time remarked that it was the
best that they have ever had the privi­lege
of attending.
The only members of the coaching
staff who were missing were Roger
Kiley and Jack Cannon. Both are in
South Bend getting in condition to
play in a charity game in New York
December 14. Kiley was missing, but
the players wished for him, and gave
him a hand when a, telegram was re­ceived
from him expressing regrets
in not being able to be present.
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ROGERS AND GREER
CHOSEN AS FROSH
LEADERS FOR YEAR
Committee Arranges To Have
Noted Orchestra Here To
Play For Junior Proni
Wible, Cottle, and Batson Also
Elected As First Year Men
Poll Heavy Ballot
Auburn Stude Dies In
Automobile Accident
Robert William Lauder, student in
Electrical Enginering here, died at
two o'clock Friday afternoon as a re­sult
of injuries received in an au­tomobile
accident Thursday. Lauder
with his sister and another Auburn
student was driving to Evergreen, and
while passing another automobile, his
car got out of control and turned ov­er.
A passing motorist carried him
to a hospital in Evergreen where it
was determined that his skull was
fractured. His condition was thought
to be improved' Friday, and he was
taken to Mobile for X-ray treatments,
but shortly after arriving there he
died. The funeral was held at two
o'clock Sunday afternoon. Neither
of his companions were seriously
hurt. Lauder was a pledge of the
Phi Kappa Delta fraternity, and a
member*of the circulation department
of the Plainsman. He lived in Foley,
Alabama.
Allan Rogers from Greenville was
elected president of the freshman
class Tuesday, November 25, it was
announced by John Christian, chair­man
of the Election Committee. The
other officers elected were Julian
Greer from Sheffield, vice president;
James Wible, Montgomery, secre­tary;
Hugh Cottle, Montgomery,
treasurer; and E. O. Batson, Syla-cauga,
historian.
Commenting on the election,
Christian said, "The vote for each
candidate was close, but the entire
course of the election was marked by
orderly conduct on the part of the
voters." About three hundred and
fifty votes were cast, it was stated.
All ballots were counted in the pres­ence
of -tfie Executive Cabinet.
TO BE JANUARY 22-24
Jimmie Green Widely Known;
Broadcasted From Station
WENR In Chicago For Long
Period
Annual Declamation
Contest To Be Held
Miss Julia Persons, 77,
Dies Of Heart Attack
Miss Julia Persons, 77, died here
Thursday night from a heart attack.
She was ill only one day.
Funeral services were conducted
Friday afternoon from the home of
Miss Person's niece, Mrs. A. St. Clair
Dustan, with the Rev. Bruce Mc-
Gehee of the Auburn Methodist
church officiating.
Miss Persons lived in Auburn all
her life and was a member of one of
the town's oldest families. He was an
active member of the Methodist
church.
She is survived by Mrs. Dunstan,
and Mrs. Mattie Stratford, Miss Lu-cile
Burton, and Mrs. O. D. Langs-ton
of Auburn, cousins, and a large
number of relatives living at other
places in the United States.
The annual literary society decla­mation
contest, sponsored each year
by Phi Delta Gamma, will be held in
room 301 of the main building De­cember
16, 1930. It is the purpose
of Phi Delta Gamma to make this
the best contest ever held at Au­burn,
and Murff Hawkins, president
of the fraternity, stated that aU indi­cations
pointed to a very successful
year.
Phi Delta Gamma is a national
honorary fraternity, established at
Auburn in 1924 for the purpose of
developing and maintaining a great­er
interest in all kinds of forensic
work. It was through the efforts of
this national fraternity that a great­er
interest in literary society work
at Auburn has been developed, and
it is on this increase of interest that
the success of the coming contest de­pends,
tsated Murff Hawkins, presi­dent
of Phi Delta Gamma.
Due to the fact that the four liter­ary
societies at Auburn have been
combined to form only two, members
of both societies expressed the opin­ion
that keen competition will be the
result in all future contests.
That Jimmie Green and his or­chestra
will play for the Mid-Term
Dances to be held here on Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday, January 22,
23, and 24, was announced today by
Sabel Shanks, chairman of the Social
Committee.
Shanks stated that the committee
was going to a large expense to bring
the noted orchestra to play for the
Junior'Prom, but added that with
such an organization as an attrac­tion,
the dances should prove to be
the best that have been given here
in many years.
Jimmie Green's Orchestra is wide­ly
known throughout the country,
having broadcast from Station
WENR, Chicago, for many months.
He has recently filled engagements
elsewhere, and has not been heard
from this station for over a month.
While in Chicago, his orchestra was
the main attraction at the Golden
Pumpkin, a Chicago restaurant; his
music was broadcast nightly from
WENR.
The social committee chairman
also added that the dance music to
be played here would be broadcast
from Birmingham over Station
WAPI.
Ping-Pong Tournament
Announced By Y M C A
Prizes Offered To Winner and Run-ner-
Up By Local Merchants
The Unemployment
Situation Discussed
By Kiwanis Club
Methods for relieving the unem­ployment
situation in Lee County, and
helping families in distress were dis­cussed
&X, a meeting of the Kiwanis
Club Monday. Professors W. D. Sal­mon
and R. Y. Bailey, members of
a committee for studying the situa­tion,
reported to the club recommend­ing
that they cooperate with the coun­ty
welfare officials in their relief
program.
A survey of the unemployment sit­uation
in the county will be made at
an early date, and plans formulated
for meeting the situation as soon as
possible, stated Professor Salmon.
Present indications, however show
that Lee County is much better off
than other sections. The possibility
of speeding up action on the erection
of a new post office in order to give
work to the jobless was mentioned.
Work on the building will probably
begin as soon as a lot is selected, it
was revealed.
Lonnie Meadows reported that suf­ficient
funds had been raised to be­gin
work on the Auburn-Opelika Air­port,
and that work on this project
would begin very soon.
By vote of the Club, it was decided
to suspend meetings on December 22
and 29, and to apply the money for
these luncheons to the relief funds.
A ping-pong tournament, to be play­ed
off in the Y some time in the near
future, is being sponsored by the local
organization of the Y. M. C. A. All
applications must be turned in at the
Y ofifce or to B. Baldwin Mebson at
the Pi K A house by five o'clock on
December 7. Local merchants will
offer prizes for the winner and run­ner-
up positions. Every undergrad­uate
student is eligible to enter this
tournament, the definite date of which
will be announced later. All appli­cants
are requested to notice the Y
and main bulletin boards for an­nouncements
concerning their oppo­nents
and the time for their respective
matches. Competion should be keen
in this test of supremacy in miniature
tennis, since the Y tables are in con­stant
use.
White Elephant Sale Be
Held Next Wednesday
The rapid-fire speel of the auc-tioner
will be heard at Auburn on
next Wednesday at a White Elephant
Sale staged by the local chapter of
the American Association of Univer­sity
Women. Promptly at 4:30
o'clock in the Y. W. C. A. Hut the
crier's hammer will begin to "knock
down" valuable articles of every de­scription
to the highest bidder.
Whether it be an imported silhou­ette,
which will make an ideal Christ­mas
gift, an article in antique brass,
a bundle of silk hose for the hook-rug
worker, a household article, or
bag of pecans—all will go to the
top bidder. Other valuables to come
under the hammer will include a mis­cellaneous
assortment of articles
ranging from electrical appliances to
second-hand furniture of intrinsic
value.
To the one holding the lucky num­ber
will go a magnificent Detroit
Jewel gas range, now on display at
Toomer's Drug store. Chances for
the range will sell at a nominal fig­ure.
All those in attendance will'witness
an old-fashioned auction sale with all
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PAGE TWO
THE PLAINSMAN WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1930
Sty? fllaittgmati
Published semi-weekly by the students of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
Alabama.
Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60
issues). Entered as second class matter
at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala.
Business and editorial offices at Auburn
Printing Co. on Magnolia Street.
Offices hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily.
STAFF
Gabie Drey Editor-in-Chief
Charles S. Davis Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Thomas P. Brown Associate Editor
Robert L. Hume — Associate Editor
Victor White Managing Editor
Claude Currey ...-News Editor
R. K. Sparrow News Editor
J. W. Letson ----- News Editor
Alan Troup Composing Editor
A. C. Cohen — Composing Editor
Adrian Taylor -- Sports Editor
Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor
K. M. McMillan _ --Literary Editor
REPORTERS
H. W. Moss, '33; C. E. Mathews, '32; V.
H. Kjellman, '33; Otis Spears, '34; S. A.
Lacy, '33; A. D. Mayo, '33; Horace Shep-ard,
'34; Frank Keller, '34; William Beck,
'34; N. D. Thomas, '33; C. F. Simmons, '32;
A. B. Hanson, '33. ^^_
BUSINESS STAFF
Virgil Nunn _ -- Asst. Business Mgr.
' Ben Mabson Advertising Manager
Roy Wilder Circulation Manager
James Backes Asso. Advertising Mgr.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
R. W. Lauder, '34 L. E. Sellers, '34
C. C. Adams, '34
GET DOWN TO WORK
Now that the football season has been
closed as far as Auburn is concerned, the
time has come for the student body to set­tle
down to a period of uninterrupted work
before the mid-term examinations in Jan­uary.
The first semester of the school term is
much longer, due to the many holidays
which occur during this period, and dur­ing
the first part of the first semester
things are purposely made easy on account
of football season and its frequent week­end
trips. However, there now remains on­ly
a little more than four weeks of school
before the mid-term examinations will start,
and it is the duty of every student enrolled
to use this time to the best advantages pos­sible.
It is possible by hard and faithful
work, to pull many grades that are below
passing at mid-semester up to the required
standard. However, we should not set this
as the maximum to be required of ourselves,
but should endeavor to raise the grades as
much as possible during the remaining
time.
One of the best ways possible to make
the folks back home proud is to send back
a report of which they can be proud. Many
sacrifices are being made to keep nearly
all of us here, and there is no excuse for
the student who fails to make the most of
his opportunities during his four year stay
here. Older people do not tell us this just
because they like to hear themselves talk;
it is because they are so much more expe­rienced
with life, and realize so much better
than the average college student that the
man who is not equipped with every weapon
possible when he gets out of college will
find himself hopelessly handicapped and
outclassed in the race to success.
THE CONFERENCE VICTORY
Last Thursday Auburn closed out the
most successful football season in the past
four years by beating South Carolina twen­ty-
five to six. This victory has a most
significant meaning in that it is the first
conference win for the Tigers since the Se-wanee
game in Montgomery in 1926. That
year the Auburn Tigers emerged from
Crampton Bowl victorious by a score of
9 to 0, after the strong University of Ala­bama
team had been held to a small 2-0
victory by Sewanee.
In looking back over the past football
season it is impossible not to realize that
Auburn is at last on the upgrade in a foot­ball
sense. It is quite true that only three
games have been chalked up to our credit,
but in nearly every game played, Auburn
has been ahead at the half, lacking the re­serve
power to hold out for the duration
of the game. However, the fact that three
games have been won is something that has
not happened here in the past four years;
and with a new coaching staff attempting
to install a completely new system of foot­ball
in the short space of time that Chet
Wynne and his assistants had, the record
this year is something of which to be proud.
No attempt has been made to use the old­er
and more experienced men on the team;
quite the contrary has been true. Juniors
and especially sophomores have ben given
every opportunity to gain experience this
year because Wynne has been building for
the future. In addition Auburn has play­ed
one of the hardest schedules in the South­ern
Conference, much harder than one
school that has been claiming a right to the
conference championship.
The Plainsman firmly believes that the
coaching staff of this year has at least set
the Alabama" Polytechnic Institute on the
track that will lead to a truly successful
football season in all shades and meanings
of the. word.
My Opinion
By Vasili Leoniduitch
Is ambition a base passion? To one who
is receiving his education under a thorough­ly
American system, where self-attainment
is the keynote and material advantage our
educators' plea, it is difficult to class am­bition
as other than a noble impulse. It
was therefore with astonishment that I
found reference made to it as a lower pas­sion
by that eminent Swedish thinker and
artist, Strindberg. His philosophy advo­cates
studies for their own sakes as the
noble attitude and perfection for the sheer
joy of perfection as true happiness.
Yet reasoning such as this must have a
cardinal motive, and is it not just as plaus­ible
to assume that such action is prompted
as much by self-interest as is ambition?
If the perfection is solely from a selfish
viewpoint, it is certainly not noble, and if
it seeks to better mankind, then it may be
termed ambition in its broadest sense.
There is no denying that there is joy in
contemplating excelling your fellow-man in
something he considers valuable.
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A capitalistic world watches communis­tic
Russia with a hawk's eye. A capitalis-tically
controlled press trumpets com­munism's
failure. The clarifying of a deep
plot to overthrow the system involves two
of France's most prominent statesmen.
Why? Millions of unemployed point to the
failure of capitalism and these desperate
men are clamoring for a new system. Am­erica
is not excluded!
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Although Tulane's dream of another
Southern Conference championship faded
Thursday, when Alabama defeated Georgia
at Legion Field in Birmingham, they can
still make wise cracks.
Morgan Blake, of the Atlanta Journal,
who has been chiding Tulane for her set­up
schedule receives word from New Or­leans
that the Greenies must drop Georgia
and Tech if they would stiffen their menu.
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One of the sports writers in reviewing
the Alabama-Georgia game quotes John
Cain, sophomore sensation of the Crimson
Tide, as having modestly but firmly assert­ed
that for ,fear of seriously injuring the
diminutive Downs when he was in a clear
field that he slowed down, and in attempt­ing
to dodge the Georgia man was caught
from behind.
It is incredible to think that any foot­ball
player would be fool enough to make
such a statemnet. It seems that it is just
another case where the sports writer, who
in his quest for feature material, sacri­fices
the athlete's reputation with the sport­ing
public.
* * * * *
To those Auburn students whose chief
art is repartee I wish to recommend the
"Doodlesockers" Hour, a radio program es­pecially
arranged for college men and other
exponents of wise cracks. The broadcast
is presented by the "Nution's Stution"
WLW, and features such renouned artists
as the Nasty Nasel trio, an orchestra con­sisting
of seven piccolos, two bagpipes,
and a broken ax handle. Also Fascinating
Filburt and Duck Duckwall detract from
the program at various times.
Letters to the Editor
Editor, The Plainsman,
Auburn, Alabama.
Dear Sir:
For the past two months a certain col­umnist
in your paper has written insult­ing
items about the co-eds who attend
school at Auburn. In some cases there re­marks
have been beyond the point that
even low society considers as clean speech.
I wonder if this aspiring satirist has ever
stopped to think that the school of Auburn
is not for the sole use of boys, but that it
includes in its curriculum courses for girls
also.
Now to add insult to injury, this de­vastating
upstart has begun an attack on
the new columnist, namely, Eddie Coe of
"Wee Wisdom". I admire the retort that
that person replied with, but I think it
would have been better if she had consid­ered
the source of that editorial phegm.
Understand this, I don't know who your
columnist is, as he writes under the name
of Haakon Provost, and I personally don't
give a tinkers I do wonder
though, if he has ever stopped to think that
in the past the walls of our school have
crumbled due to the internal friction that
existed upon our campus. Now as we once
more are straight and progressing in our
ideals, he begins anew to sever the weak
foundation that we are resting upon. Mr.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
Now I know what
the comic strip artist
means when he says,
"Isn't it a grand and
g 1 o r i ous feeling?"
T h a t g a m e on
Thanksgiving was
worth waiting a long
time to see. Possibly
I am overenthusiastic
but it looked mighty
good to me. I am glad for the sake of
Chet Wynne and his splendid co-workers
into whose effort this will put a stronger
heart. I am glad for the sake of the team,
I am glad for the sake of Red Harkins and
of the other seniors who have worked so
hard and never have seen a victory before
over a Conference team. I am glad for
the sake of the freshman squad because it
will make them look to next year with
more confidence. They are a fine bunch
of fellows and when they are added to
the varsity I think, things are going to go
wonderfully. And then I am glad also
just for the sake of our alumni and our
friends in whose hearts this victory has
put a warmer, finer feeling. Now the ice
is broken and we know how to do it. The
experience is going to be repeated on other
occasions.
* * *
A. welcome to Sam McAllister who comes
to cast his lot with us and let's hope that
we like him and he likes us and that all
goes well with basketball and baseball un­der
his guidance. He will help us in foot­ball
also next fall I am sure.
* * *
From now to Christmas let's all work
hard and see how much we can accomplish.
It is a good time to review. There will be
no Saturday diversion. It is a chance for
the football team to catch up with their
studies. It is a chance for the man who
found himself below the level at the mid­term
to make a thorough review and pre­pare
himself to bring his grades higher be­fore
final examinations. The days are
shorter and the evenings longer. There is
less temptation to stay out in this sort of
weather. It is the finest chance in the
world to do some real honest to goodness
studying. Take advantage of it.
Meantime times are hard. There is su­premely
"great difficulty for men staying
on here in college. Many of them come to
me about it. There are two sides to- it.
First, when you get a chance to receive
some help or an opportunity to work, do
not treat it as a gift but treat it as an op­portunity.
I gave a boy a job not so very
long ago. He didn't show up at the right
time or at the right place. He didn't
throw himself into that job and the next
thing I knew he was complaining to me
of a lack of work and insisting that he
would have to leave school. There was
all the opportunity anyone could have rea­sonably
asked in the job that was offered
to him. The failure was his. Sometimes
there are misunderstandings. Sometimes
the job and the boy fail to get together
because no one keeps after it and follows
it up. I like to plead with every boy who
holds a job at this institution to deliver
the goods. Work hard, make your impres­sion,
but, above all, render enough service
so that the people will want you.
And then there is the other side of it.
Cut down on your expenses. Live econom­ically.
Save your money. Do not waste
it in small and injudicious expenditui-es.
Hold on to your nickels and dimes. There
are lots of incidental expenses which you
can do without. Spend your money for
board, room, and necessary clothing, and
cut the unnecessary things down to the
last notch. That is what the people are
having to do at home and it is what you
ought to do in order to cooperate with
them fully.
Editor, I know that one of the customs
which this country is proud of is its free­dom
of the press, but I believe that as edi­tor,
you should think more of your power
of censorship than to permit such trash to
be published on the same page with uplift­ing
editorials of 'our President.
Anyone, especially the type of adulterat­ed
columnist that calls himself, Haakon
Provost, should be taught the art of writ­ing
nonsense without tearing down the
very cells that hold his Alma Mater togeth­er.
At least his contemporaries try to have
something beneficial in their space; this
even, cannot be said of Mr. Haakon. With­out
lowering him any more in the eyes of
the student body, denounce Provost and his
anarchistic columns as the lowest form of
floating protaplasm.
"United we stand, divided we fall."
If your associate editors and contribu­tors
must criticise or attack someone, then
let them go away from the Plains to do or
see that the criticism is beneficial to some­one,
and not just wiggle liis staff over space
with the idea of Bolshevism flowing from
the very point of the pen.
Respectfully,
J. Culpepper.
*:- AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
In spite of the overwhelming number of answers to our last contest, we venture
bravely forth into the field heretofore occupied only by Liberty, and announce a
new one. The object is to find the point to the following joke, carefully prevent
it from sticking into anybody by sheathing it with a cork (preferably from the
Haig and Haig bottle), and bring it to the editor of Footprints. Here's the
joke (?) : .
"An explorer was slowly making his way through the dense jungle in the heart
of Africa. Suddenly a certain something within him told him to look up. He did
so, and to his utter horror saw a human skull grinning at him. His head porter,
however, looked nonchalantly at the gruesome spectacle, lit a Murad (pronounced
Murad), and said, "Don't worry, it's only Lon Chaney." And everybody just laf-fed
and laffed.
The prize this week will be a copper-plated herring.
* * * * * * * * *
ODE TO A CO-ED
To ye co-eds of A. P. I.
We croon this charming lullaby.
Thy eyes are pools of early morn,
Thy voice sounds like an auto horn;
Thy lips are like bright rubies red,
Extremely empty is thy head;
Thy ears look like an oyster shell,
Thy turned-up nose is shaped like—well,
Thy form reminds one of a keg,
But far more hideous is thy leg.
Indeed, thou makest us quake in fear,
Thank God, the end at last is here.
* * * * * * * * *
"Polecat" Dick Payne, the tightwad from Phenix City, got extremely wreckless
on Thanksgiving Day and bought a ten-cent package of cigarettes.
* * * * * * * * *
"My tale is told", lisped the freshman as he backed up to the radiator.
* * * * * * * * *
We wonder if Downes appreciates the kind-heartedness shown him by John
Cain in the Thanksgiving game.
* * * * * * * * *
John Curry, erstwhile General Business student and would-be teller at the First
National Bank, is said to be very versatile in his student activities. We knew that
he was a well-known Y. M. C. A. discussion group leader, but we learned only re­cently
that he had been elected to the high position of Grand Billiard Drinker of one
of the local guzzling societies.
* * * * * * * * *
A guide was directing a tourist party through one of our National Parks. He
was becoming tired at the senseless questions that were continually being thrust
upon him. Finally, one of the party pointed at a large pebble and asked, "Where
did that come from?", the guide replied. Then another piped up, "Where's the
glacier?" and the guide wearily responded, "Gone back for another rock."
* WITH OTHER COLLEGES *
JUST IMAGINE
A school without athletics. A new uni­versity,
to be known as "The Institute of
Advanced Study" and to begin its existence
with a mere $5,000,000 endowment from
Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix
Fuid, will be organized as a college vir­tually
without rules, according to Dr. Ab­raham
Flexner, director. Not bad.
Extra-curricular activities, athletics, and
similar elements of college life will be bar­red
from the campus of the new university,
and every effort will be turned toward es­tablishing
a school of the highest rank.
Only professors of quality and reputation
will be employed, but all teachers will re­ceive
remuneration more than commensu­rate
with the importance of their positions.
Faculty members are to co-operate in the
management of the school and occupy po­sitions
on the board of trustees.—N. S. F.
A. News. Now, who can be found to attend
this ideal college?
* * * * *
BRUDDERS
At the University of Georgia, negro but­lers
have organized a fraternity to be known
as Silver 'Kings. Requirements for initia­tion
are: Butlership at a Greek letter frat­ernity,
wearing of clothes acquired only
from college fraternity men, and the at­tending
of every football game. This does
not give the requirements of the various
fraternities of a butler. Probably they'll
wear keys too.
* * * * *
LIE DETECTOR
University of Chicago students are going
to be employed to test a lie detecting ma­chine.
The "lie detector" will reveal cheat­ing
on examinations. Dr. J. A. Larsen, re­search
psychiatrist, announced recently that
he would conduct experiments on students
who cheated. The purpose is to test the ac­curacy
of the machine and to demonstrate
it's value in a court of law.
It is rather difficult to test out a ma­chine
of this kind. There is also the chance
that this machine might be used in other
places than courts; colleges would be im­mune,
probably.
* * * * *
LOOK OUT DAD
Grapevinetelegraph "brings news of the
proposal on the part of one of our large
universities to require students to pay a
fee of twenty-five dollars for every course
in which they flunk. Whether this propo­sal
embodies a good idea or not, it is cer­tain
that it presents a remarkable one.
The motive is obvious. Too many stu­dents
do not take their education serious­ly
because they do not think of it in terms
of dollars and cents. Make them pay for
poor scholastic work and they will have
a tangible reason for not letting their stu­dies
lapse. Undoubtedly the plan would de­crease
the number of students who regu­larly
fail one or more courses . . .
There would be another by-product of
this proposal, if it is carried out . . . . Stu­dents
worried about the necessity of paying
twenty-five rocks for flunking would feel
obliged to perfect new and better means of
cribbing until that venerable art would at­tain
to heights unprecedented in the his­tory
of education.'—Daily Northwestern.
* * * * *
EXCHANGE DICTIONARY
College—Where one spends several thous­and
dollars for an education, and then
prays for a holiday to come on a school day.
Banana Peel-—Standing invitation to sit
down.
Modern Girl.—One who can meet the wolf
at the door and come out with a fur coat.
Love.—Exclusive right! excuse for wo­man's
existence.
Kiss.—Man's first co-operative move­ment.
Soup.-—Loose hash.
—Queens Blues.
* * * * *
I'M THE GINK
How's this, taken from the Orange and
Blue?
"I'm the honeypouring Gink. Honey-pouring
is the action of a person stung by
a Honey Bee of attaining the desirable per­son
in a suitable place for the purpose of
dispensing, with a sweetened breath, the
importance of love in fondly condesended
or obesquious language.
"I have a lot of competition on the Cam­pus,
but I claim the title. I will admit that
it looks silly, sometimes, but if you had it
as bad as I do, you would be goofy, too.
After each meal, I go straight to my Hive
and we woo and coo, hum and buzz from
place to place and finally light on Honey-bench
where we discuss our Honeymoon.
We make our plans for a Honeycomb in
which to house our little honeybees who
will gather Honeydew from the surround­ing
Honeysuckle and Honeylocust. Here
the King and Queen of the Hive will teach
them the art of pouring Honey, which they
acquired in College.
"I realize that I would get along better
if I were more temperate even in the sweet
things of life but in my courting I don't
use much common sense, 'cause I'm the Pro­fessional,
Expert, Honeypouring Gink."
* * * * •
MAN OF IRON
Carl Ganzle, right tackle of Lou Little's
fighting Blue and White eleven, earned the
title "Man of Iron" by virtue of the stamina
which he showed in the last five games on
the Lion's schedule. During the course of
these encounters with some of the tough­est
teams in the East, Ganzle has not been
on the sidelines for a single minute.
Besides his prowess as a hard-hitting,
line-busting linesman, he is captain of the
Varsity Crew this year. He recently sur­prised
his mentor by challenging Jay Ho-dupp,
sophomore halfback and one of the
speediest men on the team, to an informal
50-yard sprint down the practice gridiron,
and successfully defeated the second year
man.
Solitary Speculations
By Haakon Provost
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial
opinions of this paper. It is a column of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
* * * * *
"It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishment the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
1 am the captain of my soul.
* * * * *
Memories of Thanksgiving turkey din­ners
. . . rabbits which I shot at and miss­ed
. . . . muddy roads . . . a negro orchestra
and a dizzy blond . . . undisturbed sleep
with no eight-o'clock classes . . . . cold winds
and warm fires . . . . a desire to continue
this epicurean life . . . . my roommate's
girl . . . . a miserable trip back to school
through the unfavorable elements . . . .
* * * * *
What the poor writer had to face Sunday
night after a glorious week-end: business
cycles and index numbers; the German dem­onstrative
pronoun jener; the kinetic theory
of gases; Tarn O'Shanter and The Cotter's
Saturday Night; Avagado's Hypothesis and
molecular weights; and The Frogs of Aris­tophanes.
But went to bed at nine-thirty
without giving it all a thought!
* * * * *
I see that Leoniduitch has broken out in
print again. This paper has certainly need­ed
him; but for Eddie Coe the last few is­sues
would have been devoid of enlighten­ing
literature.
* * * * *
There is always something else to be
thankful for; the mid-semester reports did
not get home while I was there.
* * * * *
I am bored daily by complaining stu­dents
who think that the college does not
need rules, that the student is competent
to judge for himself in all matters. It
must be remembered that no set of rules
is perfect. There are some that may be a
bit unreasonable, but there are others that
are indispensable. Without regulations
these insurgent iconclasts would have a
good time and never attend classes. I un­derstand
that the regulations are very lax
in a good many Continental universities.
It is quite a singular fact to note, also, that
many students in these schools sleep through
their lectures and never gain anything from
their curricula. They come to school to
have a good time. Some of them graduate,
and are considered cultured because they
managed to get up enough credits to eke
out a diploma. As it is, Auburn has un­usually
lenient rules. I read the other day
that the students of Notre Dame were re­quired
to have written permission from
their guardians before they could leave the
campus for a week-end. Why fuss about
the rules? Thousands of barrels of hot
air will not change one item. If the rules
of the institution are too tight on the poor
oppressed student, why does he not go else­where?
The Gazook
I'm the gazook who does not study. I
know that I could learn, but I haven't the
time to put on my books. I know that I am
here for a definite purpose, but I am so
weak that I cannot resist temptation. I
put off every possible thing that I can.
I know that my parents are interested in
my grades, but I don't care what kind of
grades I make as long as I can stay in
school. If my Dad would do the right
thing he would take me out of school and
put me to plowing.
As soon as Friday comes, one can see
me on a corner trying to catch a ride some­where.
I think that all my profs, should pass
me, as I am good enough to stay here five
days out of the week.
I am here to get something free.
A single cancer strain has been kept
growing for thirty years in a laboratory;
if all branch colonies had been allowed to
grow, the mass of cancerous tissue would
fill the world.
The age of the earth, according to Pro­fessor
Holmes of Durham University, is
between 1,600 and 3,000 million years.
Practically every diamond may be iden­tified
by an expei-t through its individual
imperfections.
Recent statistics of the Irish Free State
show that four-fifths of men between 25
and 30 years old are unmarried..
Over one hundred Indian Sites have been
unearthed in New England cities in re­cent
years.
Betelgeuse is some 50,000,000 times
larger than our sun.
The Spaniards first brought sheep into
America.
A temperature of 134 degrees has been
officially recorded in Death Valley.
*
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
DR. BASORE COMPLETES WORK
IN ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT
In the chemical laboratories here
there has been developed a new pro^
cess for the manufacture of decolor­izing
carbon from the residue of cot­tonseed
hulls after xylose is removed.
The work was done by Dr. C. A.
Basore, professor of chemistry, as an
engineering experiment station pro­ject,
and application for patent has
been made in the name of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute.
The achievement came as a second
result of the xylose research work
started two years ago at Anniston,
Alabama, by chemists of Auburn, the
University of Alabama, and the U.
S. Bureau of Standards in coopera­tion
with the Swann Corporation.
When the xylose research work was
completed Dr. Basore took the resi­due
and developed his process for
converting it into a special carbon
for decolorization purposes.
After completing his manufactur­ing
process, Dr. Basore ran numer­ous
tests in which he compared cot­tonseed
hull carbon manufactured in
the Auburn laboratories with 11 dif­ferent
carbons made in the United
States and abroad. These tests were
conducted for several months, using
iodine which is extensively used for
such tests, and also brown sugar.
There iodine was used the cottonseed
hull carbon was found to be superior
to either of the other carbons, and
where brown sugar was used it com­pared
most favorably.
Following the patent extensive use
of cottonseed hulls for the manufac­ture
of carbon is probable. If the
business develops as expected a large
new demand for cottonseed hulls will
have been created, thereby opening
up a new outlet for a portion of the
south's most important crop—Cotton.
121
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grieving over the death of his co-ed
daughter several years ago, was ar­rested
here for threatening the life
of a Northwestern University profes­sor
because he taught the girl some
evolutionary theories.
Professor Ernest Laurer asked the
arrest of A. J. Robinson, of Borok-field,
111., charging that the latter
threatened to shoot him. In court
here Robinson admitted that he had
planned to kill the professor.
"My daughter, Roslyn, attended
Professor Laurer's class in history
five years ago," he said. "He taught
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changed* her ideas on the whole mat­ter
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New York —(IP)— A university
without rules for its students, lack­ing
impressive looking buildings, and
with its entire work centered about
a small but distinguished faculty, is
to be established there.
It is the Institute of Advanced
Study, made possible by a gift of
$5,000,000 endowment made last
June by Louis Bamberger and his
sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld.
The aims of the new university,
which will bear many of the aspects
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on which it will be established.
"The first of these," he said, "is
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those collegiate ideas and practices
that are necessary in a college but
hampering in a university. I mean
by that that we shall have no room
or time for athletics or extra-curricu­lar
activities, and no attempt will be
made at paternalitsic control of the
student body.
"Secondly, we will make no at­tempt
at great size. Quality will be
the first concern. For example, if
we can find no first-rate teacher of
mathematics we will have no course
in mathematics.
"The faculty will cooperate in the
management of the institute and have
places on the board of trustees.
"We hope that the remuneration
of our faculty members will be more
fully commensurate with the import­ance
of the positions.
"Although these principles, in
many ways, are the expresison of
a break from tradition, we intend to
imply no criticism of other universi­ties.
"We can hope to do what I have
described only because we are start­ing
new and are not bound by tradi­tion.
Most of the post graduate
schools in this country were built on
colleges. We have the advantage in
that we are starting fresh and free.
This freedom may result in many
mistakes which the older universities
have escaped. But that is part off
freedom.
"So far as other universities are
concerned this is
friendly effort."
LARGE TORTOISE EXHIBITED
New York — ( I P )— An enormous
land tortoise, a fossil of the pleisto­cene
age, has been placed on exhibi­tion
at the American Museum of Na­tural
History.
With a shell of 7 feet and four
inches long and five feet wide, the
gigantic animal once roamed the Si-walik
hills in Northern India. In
life, it is estimated, the tortoise
weighed more than a ton.
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of Birth Control, at the League of
Women Voters meeting here recent­ly.
In Germany, she pointed out, there
are 22 regular birth control clinics,
while in Japan and England the prob­lem
is considered important.
In this country, she said, it is il­legal
to send birth control informa­tion
through the mails, and in four
states it is even illegal for physicians
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Dr. Knapp served in the capacity of
toastmaster and called upon Governor
and Mrs. Graves, Mrs. Knapp,
Coaches Chet Wynne, Wilbur Outsell
and Earl McFaden, and the senior
members of the team for brief talks.
Auburn's chances of advancing in the
football world. The Bengals this year
were respected; the 1931 team will be
feared and it is believed that the 1932
eleven will be in the first division.
The students consider it quite an
honor to serve at the football dinners
given by Mother Knapp, and there is
always a good deal of competition to
see who will achieve the honors. Mrs.
Knapp always has her two standbys
to serve, her sons, DeWitt and Roger,
and they were aided this year by
Richard Wible, Charles Trice, and
William Jackson.
The ones enjoying the hospitality
of Dr. and Mrs. Knapp were Governor
and Mrs. Bibb Graves, Coaches Chet
Wynne, Earl McFaden, Wilbur Hut-sell,
Weems Baskin, Elmer G. Salter,
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captain Erquiet Taylor, George
Egge, Robert Arthur, Hannis Prim,
Joe Burt, Donald Jones, Ernest Caleb
Molpus, James Bush, Lee Johnson,
Chattie Davidson, Ike Parker, Lindley
Hatfield, Jimmie Hitchcock, Frock
Pate, Tom Shackleford, Kenneth
Phipps, Felix Creightbn, Billie Hill,
John Wilson and Carl Creel.
Porter Grant, Sam Mason, Tom
Brown, Herbert Miller, Cary Senn,
Commodore Wood and Ralph Jordan
were the other players who were in­vited
and unable to attend.
Governor Bibb Graves did a little
prognosticating on two remaining
games on the 1930 football* calendar.
The state's chief executive predicted
that Notre Dame would lose Saturday
when they meet Southern California
in Los Angeles and that Wallace
Wade's University of Alabama eleven
would defeat Washington State in
Rose Bowl, New Year's Day.
Governor Graves admires the Irish­men
and knows that Knute Rockne
has a great team, but hopes that his
forecast for Saturday's tilt in Los
Angeles will be 100 per cent perfect.
Southern California was defeated by
Washington State, Alabama's oppo­nent
in Rose Bowl, and he wants the
State of Alabama to rule the gridiron
world.
He also congratulated Coach Chet
Wynne on scheduling Wisconsin for
a game in 1931. He believes that it
will be an advancement for Auburn
football by playing an intersectional
battle. The Tigers meet Wisconsin
in Madison, October 10, 1931.
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Tigers and Boineau was a marked
man. The brilliant little quarter
was stopped cold in the third quarter,
and with Auburn leading by a 13-7
score, Boineau was taken from the
game with a badly injured leg. The
removal of the gamest of the Game­cocks
seemed to demoralize the South
Carolina team. Its defense crumbled
and its offense was halted. Auburn's
march continued and the game al­most
became a Tiger rout.
'First Win Since 1926
The Thanksgiving day classic, the
longest run of which was a 66-yard
dash for a touchdown by Jimmy
Hitchcock, marked Auburn's first
conference victory since the Tigers
of the Plains defeated the Tigers of
Sewanee by 9 to 0 score in Montgom­ery
in 1926. Paul Turner was cap­tain
of the Plainsmen that year. The
Auburhites have won a few minor
games since then but not until yes­terday
were they able to conquer a
Southern conference team. And now
the Auburn student body and Au­burn
men all over the country are
happy. The victory came to a team
coached in the Rockne style of play
by Chet Wynne and his assistant,
Roger Kiley, former stars of Notre
Dame.
Carolina Outplayed
That Auburn outplayed South
Carolina is shown by the fact that
statistics reveal a total of 310 yards
gained by the Tigers as compared
with 108 by the Birds. Auburn made
12 first downs to seven for South
Carolina. Auburn completed five
passes for a total of 100 yards. One
Auburn pass was intercepted. Hitch­cock,
for Auburn, punted seven times
for an average of 36 6-7 yards. One
punt by George Jenkins, Columbus
boy, was for 25 yards. For South
Carolina Laval averaged 32 2-5 yards
on his five kicks. Boineau punted
three times for an average of 31 2-3
yards and Fleming's four boots aver­aged
34 1-2 yards.
The contest was a thriller. It was
witnessed by about 3,000 persons
who shivered through a game filled
with action. The Tigers played like
champions and defeated a fine foot­ball
team. Coach Billy Laval's
Gamecocks were game to the last and
in the final few minutes they made
a desperate attempt to score by heav­ing
passes, but they were unsuccess­ful.
Outstanding Stars
The outstanding offensive stars of
the game were Jimmy Hitchcock and
Lindley Hatfield, Tiger halfbacks^
who twisted and squirmed and spun
through the South Carolina team al­most
at will. Each scored two touch­downs.
Captain Red Harkins, in his
last game of college football, played
a fine defensive game. He broke
through the South Carolina line time
and again to smear the Gamecock
plays. On two occasions he batted
down attempted passes before the
ball reached the line of scrimmage.
Egge and Senn, Auburn ends, gave
good accounts of themselves. Ar­thur,
a tackle, and Jones and Burt,
guard, smashed through repeatedly.
Gilmore, the Carolina center, was
the defensive star of the Gamecocks.
Captain Bob Gressette, right end,
played a great game, as did Buddy
Laval, left end, who is son of the
head coach.
Birds Score First
The Gamecocks were the first to
score. They had the ball on the Au­burn
37-yard line in the first quar­ter
when Coach Laval sent Bru Boin-+
eau into the fray. On the first play
Taylor and Senn threw him for
a yard loss, but the game quarter­back,
whose collar-bone was broken
recently, took the ball on the next
play and romped 13 yards. He added
15 yards. Other Carolina backs made
three tries but were unable to gain
first down with the ball on the four
yard line, however, Mr. Boineau ran
again and reached the goal line. He
kicked goal from placement.
The Bengals were unable to score
in the initial period, but in the second
quarter they crossed the goal line.
Failing in the attempt for extra
point, the half ended with the score
7 to 6 in favor of the Carolinia"ns.
As the second- quarter opened, Hat­field
replaced Pate and after making
a couple of gains for 7 yards each,
he spun through right tackle for 35
yards and a touchdown. Davidson
failed to kick goal.
Longest Run of Game
Early in the third quarter, Boineau
fumbled, and was thrown for a ten
yard loss, the ball going over. It was
then that Hitchcock reeled off the
longest run of the game. He twisted
through left tackle, eluded tacklers,
including the safety man, and step­ped
66 yards for a counter. David­son
kicked goal and'the score was
13 to 7 in favor of Auburn. That
was the score at the end of the quar­ter,
but it was not long after the
fourth period opened before the Ben­gals
had scored again. Boineau gain­ed
nine yards as the stanza started,
but his leg was so badly injured that
it was necessary to remove him. A
few plays later Carolina punted and
the ball was on the Auburn 43-yard
line. Hitchcock took a yard but the
play was called back and Carolina
was penalized for offside. Hatfield
gained eight and th^n eight more.
He fumbled the ball on the latter
play but Hitchcock recovered. Hitch­cock
dashed through left tackle for a
38-yard run and a touchdown. The
score was 19 to 7 when Davidson's
kick was blocked.
The final counter followed a 28-
yard gain on a pass from Hatfield to
Hitchcock. With the ball on the Car­olina
eight-yard line, Hatfield went
around right end for a touchdown.
He failed to kick goal. The Carolin­ians
opened up a passing attack in
the last few minutes but they could
not get by the Tigers.
The line-ups and summary:
Auburn S. Carolina
Egge LE Laval
Wilson LT DeVaughan
Burt LG Hughey
Harkins c C Gilmore
Jones RG Freeman
Taylor _^ RT Shand
Senn RE Gressette
Davidson QB Fleming
Pate LH Culp
Hitchcock RH Blount
Brown FB Wylie
By periods:
South Carolina 70 0 0— 7
Auburn- 0 6 7 12—25
Scoring r~South Carolina, Boineau
(sub for Fleming) touchdown and
place kick; Auburn, Hatfield (sub
for Pate) two touchdowns, Hitch­cock,
two touchdowns, and Davidson
one place kick.
Officials: Flowers (Georgia Tech),
referee; Severance (Oberlin), um­pire;
Bagley (Washington and Lee)
field judge; Black (Davidson) head
linesman.
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and other stricken areas. He said a
survey of the county will be made
within the next week to determine
the approximate amount that will be
needed to carry on the work and to
determine the localities in which aid
is most needed. A drive to raise ad­ditional
funds will be conducted thru
out the county by the committee
soon, he stated. He concluded his
report to the club by saying that pro­ceeds
derived from the drive will.be
distributed in the various localities
in proportion to the number of needy
families reported in those sections.
The Lions are also sponsoring a
Christmas cheer project in an effort
to bring cheer to needy families
around Auburn at Christmas by giv­ing
to the children presents of toys,
sweets, and other things that accom­pany
a joyful Christmas to ev^ry boy
and girl. The project is independent
of the relief work being done at
present, and will be undertaken some
time in the near future.
The club decided to postpone the
next meeting from Tuesday at noon
Mrs. Duncan C. Harkin who will have
them delivered at the Y. W. C. A.
Hut.
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until Wednesday at the same time,
when it will meet at the reception
given in honor of the formal opening
of the Alabama Natural Gas Company
office in Auburn. Many distinguish­ed
out-of-town guests will be present,
including several Auburn alumni and
out-of-town Lions. A committee was
appointed at the meeting to arrange
for the occasion.
The president of the club announ­ced
that the nominating committee
will present candidates for officers
at the next regular meeting and that
others could be nominated from the
floor at that time. The election will
be held in the near future, he stated.
Lt. Townsley was appointed chairman
of the nominating committee.
The scoutmaster of the Auburn
troup of the Boy Scouts spoke to the
club in behalf of the Scout drive to
maintain the $400 quota in Auburn.
He listed some of the things that
would be provided for by the pro­ceeds
from the drive, and pointed
out the value of scouting to the
ENGINEER ADDRESSES
CIVIL DEPARTMENT
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the spire was lifted into place on
top of the building, which is 927 feet
in height. Complete construction of
this building was accomplished in
ninety-one and one-half working
days.
This is the second visit Mr. Allen
has paid to Auburn this year. Each
time he has given instructive talks
to the Civils. Mr. Allen is the head
of the Southeastern division of the
American Institute of Steel Construc­tion,
comprising nine states. He is
en route to Florida to give lectures,
similar to the one he gave here, to
groups of engineers throughout that
state and to students at the Univer­sity
of Florida.
younger boys.
Bobby Chestnut and Mark Nichols,
Eagle Scouts of the Auburn troup,
gave brief exhibitions of scoutcraft
required in merit badge work.
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its colorful trappings and enjoy an
hour of hilarious fun. Refreshments
in the form of peanuts, soda pop, and
Miss Dana Gatchell's famous home­made
candies will be sold.
Proceeds of the sale, according to
Mrs. Varian C. Burkhardt, will go to
the fellowship -fund of the Auburn
chapter of the A. A. U. W.
Those wishing to donate any arti­cles
for the sale are asked to phone
Tiger Theatre
Wednesday, December 3
—All-Talking—
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—with—
Miriam Hopkins - Carole Lor
bard - Frank Morgan
Thursday, December 4
—All-Talking—
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—with—
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White - Neil Hamilton
Frank McHugh
Friday, December 5
MAURICE CHEVALIER
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—with—
Frances Dee - O. P. Heggie -
Stuart Erwin - Eugene Pallette
Saturday, December 6
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