1931-04-15 The Plainsman

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T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT
VOLUME LIV AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1931 NUMBER 51
MARY A . RIDDLE TO LEAD
MARCH AT INTERFRA TBALL;
DECORATIONS ARE GRECIAN
Miss Mary Alice Riddle, Talla­dega,
Chosen t o Lead Grand
March with Bill Myrick
150 BIDS ARE MAILED
GLEE CLUB LEAVES
THIS AFTERNOON
Girls to Attend Inter-Fraterni­t
y Council Ball Will Be
Housed In Town
Miss Mary Alice Riddle of Talla­dega
has been chosen to lead the Inter-fraternity
Council Ball which will.be
held in the Alumni Gymnasium Fri­day
night. She will be accompanied
by W.~ S. Myrick, Jr., president of
the council. Miss Riddle is very pop­ular
in Auburn, having attended num­erous
dances here.
The Auburn Knights, popular stu­dent
orchestra, have been secured to
play for the dance, and their music
should be of the best. This orchestra
has been broadcasting weekly over
station WSFA, in Montgomery, and
has played at a large number of the
dances on this campus during the cur­rent
season.
The orchestra pit will be appropri­ately
decorated with a painting of
the Acropolis in Greece representing
the Greek letter organizations with
the names of the fraternities adorn­ing
the walls. A canopied effect will
be carried out overhead with effec­tive
lighting throughout.
One hundred fifty bids were mailed
out to girls throughout the state and
about one hundred are expected to
attend. They will be housed out in
town since none of the fraternities are
giving house parties.
Each fraternity has been allowed
eight bids to the dance instead of the
ten formerly allowed so that the crowd
may be better suited to the limited
floor space.
The council members will be enter­tained
at a banquet at the Clement
Hotel, in Opelika, on the Monday night
following the dance.
LIONS CLUB DISCUSSES
PUNS FOR CONVENTION
34th District Convention, Lions
International, to Be Held In
Montgomery Apr. 2 2 and 23
Plans for the program of the 34th
District Convention, Lions Internat­ional,
to be held in Montgomery April
22 and 23, were outlined at the meet­ing
of the Auburn Lions Club in the
Thomas Hotel Tuesday a noon* and
a general discussion was held con­cerning
the convention.
In addition to the -usual business of
the convention, intersperced with in-
* spirational Lion talks by Internat­ional
officers of the organization,
many delightful forms of recreation
are promised the delegates. Enter­tainment
is promised in the form of
luncheons, golf, picture shows, a ban­quet,
a dance, a barbecue, aeroplane
rides, a trip through Kilby, baseball,
and other things which all Lions
should enjoy. Entertainment has al-
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T. W. LUMPKIN IS NAMED
BLOCK, BRIDLE CLUB HEAD
Animal Husbandry Students
Elect Officers For Next Year
The Block and Bridle Club of ani­mal
husbandry students and faculty
has elected officers for next year. T.
W. Lumpkin of Millerville, Ala., is
president; W. H. Cowan of Decatur,
vice-president; and J. W. Griffin of
Maplesville is secretary. Two stu­dents
were elected to membership in
the organization, they being J. F.
Turner of Pisgah, Jackson County,
and Earl E. Aldredge of Liberty,
Blount County.
The Block and Bridle Club is an
active student organization. It pro­motes
livestock work, giving especial
attention to the judging of animals
and the annual project is assistance
in training judging teams of 4-H
club boys.
Woman's College, Bessemer
and Montevallo to Be Visit­ed
On Wednesday, April 14, more than
fifty members of the Auburn Men's
Glee Club will leave on their second
trip of the year. As on previous oc­casions,
Professors John Brigham and
Earl Hazel will accompany the group.
The club will leave in cars, going
first to Woman's College, Montgom­ery,
where they will perform Wednes­day
evening.
Thursday the group will make two
appearances: the first will be in
Bessemer, where the Glee Club will be
the guests of the combined civic clubs
at a luncheon. The club will appear
under the auspices of the Alabama
section of the American Federation of
Music of which the Glee Club is a
member. According to Professor Brig-ham,
this will be the most important
engagement of the year for the group,
in as much as the audience will un­doubtedly
be very critical. It is hoped
that the concert proves a success,
since the possibility of many future
engagements will be influenced by this
appearance.
After this the men will journey to
Montevallo, where they will conclude
the trip.
Coleman Jennings To
Make Addresses Here
Coleman Jennings, former Washing­ton
financier, will be in Auburn on
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of this
week, during which time he will de­liver
two addresses to students and
citizens.
He will deliver an address on Fri­day
night at. the Episcopal Parish
House and will present Sunday morn­ing's
sermon at the Episcopal church.
Mr. Jennings has been to Auburn
on several occasions and will be re­membered
for his enjoyable addresses.
He is very interested in young men
and particularly those at Auburn.
Mr. Jennings will be accompanied
by Oscar Randolph, principal of the
Virginia Episcopal School and former­ly
rector of St. Mary's Church in
Birmingham. -Mr. Randolph was vot­ed
all-Southern quarterback while
playing football at the University of
Virginia.
The entire student body is invited
,to hear and meet these two men dur­ing
their visit this week-end.
SMITH'S HURLING
IS BIG FACTOR IN
WIN OVER PETRELS
Hurler Is In Fine Shape A s Tig­ers
Turn Back Oglethorpe to
Tune of 12-0
TIGERS LOSE MONDAY
Hard Hitting By Petrels In
Early Part of Game Monday
Gives t h em 8-3 Victory Over
Auburn
Physical Ed. Class To
Give Dance Festival
Mrs. Martin's kindergarten class
and Mrs. Hoffsommer's physical edu­cation
classes are giving a Dance Fes­tival
at seven o'clock tonight in Lang-don
Hall for the benefit of the P.-T.
A.
Clifford Smith returned to the
mound to defeat Oglethorpe here yes-
•
terday afternoon and pitched the best
game turned in by a Plainsman pitch­er
this season, limiting the Petrels
to five widely scattered hits and no
runs, while the Tigers were sending
out base knocks in every stanza but
one, for a total of 12 runs. He pitched
Saturday's game against Oglethorpe.
Only 33 hitters faced Smith and
only two ever got as far as second
base. Smith had perfect control, a
change of pace, a fast one and a good
curve.
The Plainsmen showed a reversal of
form in the hitting department over
Monday's performance. All except
two Tigers made one or more hits,
Hodges and Grant leading the offen­sive
with three hits each. Kaley,
Burt and Lloyd made two hits each.
Duck Riley and Whitley, Oglethorpe,
were the fielding stars of the game.
The score by innings:
Oglethorpe ~ 000 000 000— 0
Auburn 530 310 OOx—12
Batteries: Oglethorpe: Mitchell,
Sypert and Craven, Whatley; Au­burn:
Smith and Kaley.
Tiger* Lose Monday
Effective pitching on the part of
Walker, coupled with heavy hitting in
the early innings gave Oglethorpe a 8
to 3 victory over Auburn Monday af­ternoon.
It was the first loss for the
Plainsmen in the Dixie College
League.
Auburn made her only runs in the
fourth inning, when Walker weaken­ed,
several hits and an error giving
three runs.
Golden and Walter hit home runs
for Oglethorpe and along with Herrin
and Mitchell led the hitting attack.
Hodges and. Riley were the big hit­ters
for Auburn and Riley's fielding
was the feature.
The score by innings:
Oglethorpe : - 111 400 01—8
Auburn 000 300 00—3
Batteries Oglethorpe: Walker and
Craven; Auburn: Grubbs, West and
A. Lewis and Kaley.
Called at end of eighth inning on
account of darkness.
Prof. D. G. Sturkie
Studying At Michigan
Prof. D. G. Sturkie, of the agrono­my
division of the School of Agri­culture,
has gone to Michigan State
College at East Lansing, to spend
three months, during which he will
complete his resident work for the de­gree
of doctor of philosophy. He was
granted leave for three months to pur­sue
his studies, at the end of which he
will return to Auburn.
ROCK GARDENS AID IN MAKING
UNSIGHTLY YARDS BEAUTIFUL
Unsightly side and backyards in
Alabama may be easily beautified by
the planting of rock gardens in which
natural mountain plants may be
grown between a suitable arrange­ment
of stones, says John W. Hyde,
professor of landscape architecture at
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
"Never place a rock garden in the
front lawn between the house and the
street," cautioned Professor Hyde.
"But if you have a stream or- small
branch near your home, use it and
develop it. The character of all na­tive
rock gardens is wildness, privacy,
and seclusion, so it should be placed
to the side or in the back of your
lawn or garden.
"Natural rock should be used and
not artificial boulders and stones of
cement. Use stones of 8 to 20 inches
in length and of varying thickness.
"The rock wall or garden should
be sloping and not verticle. The stones
should appear to set into the side of
the slope or hill.
"Drainage is most important. Sog­gy
or ill-drained soil will not support
the type of plant growth desired.
However, watering thoroughly for an
hour or more once or twice a week is
important and much more effective
than daily waterings of 15 minutes.
"A few of the many plants suit­able
for Alabama rock gardens are:
Bulbous—Chionodoxa, Crocus, Mus-cari,
Narcissus (small flowering),
Scilla (squill), and iris (bulbous).
Annuals—Ageratum ( b l u e and
white), Sweet allysum, Portulaca,
Globe amaranth. Perennials—Yarrow
or Achillia, Yellow allysum, Anchusa
bugloss, Columbines, Arabis or rock
cress. Shrubs—Yucca, Pfitzer, Cot-oneaster,
English ivy and Jasamines."
AG SENIORS WILL
GET DIPLOMAS AT
BANQUET APRIL 24
Silver Loving Cup Will Be
Awarded Most Outstanding
Junior In Agriculture
CUP IS ANNUAL AWARD
Speakers to Include J. L. Lyle,
Co. Agent of Jefferson Co.,
Dr. F. Willis Barnett, of Bir­mingham
News
Twenty-three senior members of
the Ag Club will be awarded diplo­mas
for their outstanding work in
this organization at the annual Ag
Banquet which will be held in the
Baptist Church, on Friday night,
April 24th.
Another feature -of the program
will be the awarding of a silver lov­ing
cup to-the best all-around junior
in Agriculture. This cup is awarded
each year by Gamma Sigma Delta,
an honorary agricultural fraternity,
to the junior selected by the fratern­ity
as the most outstanding man in
his class in scholarship and extra
curricula activities. The president
of Gamma Sigma Delta, Prof. P. E.
Guyton, will award the cup on this
occasion.
The principal speakers for the oc­casion
will be J. L. Lyle, County
Agent, of Jefferson County, and Dr.
Frank Willis Barnett, of the Birm­ingham
News, while Dean M. J. Fun-chess
and Mr. L. N. Duncan are also
expected to make short talks.
Plans are being made to have Mr.
R. E. Cammack, State Supervisor of
Agricultural Education, and Mr. J.
B. Hobdy, head of Vocational Agri­culture
and Education present. Pro­fessor
J. M. Robinson will act as
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PRIZES AWARDED TO
AUBURN ARCHITECTS
FOR MEDAL DESIGNS
Virgil Callaham and Lucile
Gibson Awarded Prizes By
Institute
Prizes for the best models of a pro­posed
medal to be offered by the Ala­bama
Chapter of the American Insti­tute
of Architects for distinguished
architectural service were awarded
two Auburn students at the chapter's
recent meeting in Birmingham. An­nouncement
is made by Dean Fred­eric
Child Biggin, of the school of
architecture and allied arts, president
of the Alabama chapter.
To Virgil O. Callaham, Jr., of Vine-mount,
went the $10 prize for the best
model of the medal. Though Miss
Lucile Gibson' was not entered in the
competition, the chapter awarded her
a special prize of $5 in appreciation
of her skill and ability shown in a
model carved direct from a plaster
slab. Miss Gibson is a special stu­dent
in commercial and graphic arts
from Dadeville.
When the Alabama Chapter voted
last July to offer this medal to out­standing
leaders of industries whose
work shall have advanced the cause
of "Good Architecture" in the state,
it was decided to have the iredal de^
signed by someone in Alabama. The
Auburn school of architecture and al­lied
arts was asked to make it the
subject of a problem in dosign for
the fourth and fifth year -tuderits, a
prize df $10 being offered.
At a meeting in October the stu­dents'
designs for the medalwere sub­mitted
and the prize for the best de­sign
went to Charles F. Da -is, Jr., of
Hartford, a member of this year's
graduating class.
At the same meeting, t t a chapter
instituted another competition for Au­burn
students to secure a plaster
model, and again offered a prize of
$10. Each member of the class in
clay modeling was furnished with a
photostatic copy of the design. From
this each student made a clay model,
and from the clay model a plaster
mold. Using this plaster mold the
Snal plaster -cast was prepared for
the recent competition of the best
model.
Emerson Gil's Orchestra Secured
By Social Committee To Famish
Music At Final Dances, May 15,16
BROWN TO REPRESENT AUBURN
AT ATLANTA SPEECH CONTEST
Popular Broadcasting Orches­tra
Plays Nightly Over Sta­tion
WTAM, Cleveland
Will Meet Representatives of Southern Colleges Affiliated With
Southern Association of Teachers of Speech t o Determine
The South's Champion Inter-Collegiate Speaker
Douglas Brown, Auburn's Varsity
Orator left today for Atlanta, where
he will meet the representatives of
various southern colleges and univer­sities
affiliated with the Southern As­sociation
of Teachers of Speech in an
oratorical Contest which will determ­ine
the South's champion intercollegi­ate,
speaker.
Mr. Brown's oration "America's
Promise to Sam" deals with the
blighting effects of depression and un­employment
on the children of today.
It presents the opinions of various
authorities as to the causes and the
remedies of depression periods. It is
timely. Mr. Brown is a Pre-Law, soph'
omore in the college of science and
literature, and a member-of Kappa
Alpha fraternity. ,.
In addition to entering the oratori­cal
contest, Mr. Brown will be A. P.
I.'s representative in the Extempo­raneous
Speaking Contest for college
participants. On Sunday evening Mr.
Brown delivered his oration before
the Christian Endeavor Society of the
Presbyterian Church, and at the
Methodist church service. Today
(Wednesday) he spoke at the college
convocation service.
On January, 1931 there were thirty-nine
colleges or, universities affiliated
with the S. A. T. S. These include:
Auburn, U. of Florida, U. of Georgia,
Georgetown College, Louisiana State
Univ., U. of Mississippi, North Caro­lina
State College, U. of North Caro­lina,
Oklahoma A. & M., Vanderbilt,
Texas Tech., Randolph-Macon College
and Washington and Lee University.
Professor Judson, who is chairman of
the speech pathology section of the
Southern Association of Teachers of
Speech, accompanied Mr. Brown.
SENATOR BUCK IS
GUEST OF KIWANIS
Speaks On "Life and Accom­plishments
of Thomas Jeffer­son"
Luncheon Monday
Senator Hugo Black, senior sena­tor
of_ Alabama, was the main speak­er
and honor guest of the Auburn Ki-wanis.
Club at its regular meeting
Monday.
Senator Black took as his subject,
the "Life" and Accomplishments of
Thomas Jefferson", commemorating
the birthday of the man who he consid­ered
the greatest Democrat in the his­tory
of the world. Thomas Jeffer­son,
accordinng to Senator Black, was
'ie greatest friend of the people, and
:he greatest believer in the rights of
the individual, that our nation has
produced. No other man in history
did more to establish those worth­while
organizations and those nation­al
institutions that have mean so much
to bur nation than did Thomas Jef­ferson.
Our present system of education,
our Bill of Rights, our present hu­mane
administration of criminal law,
and many other blessings of nation­al
liberty we owe to Thomas Jeffer­son.
Senator Black concluded his address
with the thought that we should hon­or
Thomas Jefferson, not only on-his
birthday but throughout the year, by
carrying on those high ideals and
principles for which he stood.
Hugh Grant, secretary to Senator
Black, and an old Auburn man, was
also a guest of the Kiwanis Club at
its meeting Monday.
The Sigma Phi Epsilon Quartet
gave several musical selections that
were received with much applause by
the club.
PHI DELTA GAMMA
SPONSORS DEBATE
Honor System Is Subject Of
Inter-Society Debate to Be
Held April 2 8 .
Rules for the intersociety debate,
which is being sponsored by Phi Del­ta
Gamma, national forensic honor
fraternity, will be the same as in the
past contests, according to a state­ment
made today by T. N. Pyke, pres­ident.
The length of time that each
society will be given to present its
case has not as yet been decided, but
it will be announced at an early date
Both the negative and affirmative
sides will have a rebuttal, and each
society will be allowed two speakers.
The debate will take place April
28, and at a recent drawing it was de­cided
that the Evans Literary Socie
ty would defend the negative side of
the question, "Resolved: That the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute should re-adopt
the honor system", and the Web-sterian
Society would defend the af­firmative.
Several members of Phi Delta Gam­ma
made the statement that the suc­cess
of this debate-will depend on the
cooperation given by the Auburn stu­dent
body, and it is the object of the
fraternity to have as many present
for the debate as possible.
BIDS TO BE OUT SOON
Swaim and Asbell Are Award­e
d Contract For Decoration
of Gym for Senior Dances
Douglas Copeland And
Family Move to Dothan
Douglas Copeland, son of Mayor
and Mrs. W. D. Copeland, of Auburn,
has moved from Auburn to Dothan,
where he is engaged in sanitary health
work with the State Department of
Health. Mrs. Copeland and "the baby
joined him there recently.
While here, Mr. Copeland was with
his father in the grocery business.
INITIAL ORNAMENTAL FORESTRY
SHORT COURSE BE HELD IN MAY
The initial short course in arboricul­ture
(ornamental forestry) at Au­burn
will be held May 26-29. It will
be the first short course of its kind
in the South, according to Professor
John W. Hyde, associate professor of
landscape gardening, who made the
announcement.
The aim will be to give instruction
in problems pertaining to the plant­ing
and care of trees on streets, high­ways,
boulevards, and privately-own­ed
property. Instruction will be given
by inside lectures, field trips and stu­dies
outside, Mr. Hyde said.
Already the Alabama Power Com­pany
has announced that 20 repre­sentatives
of that company will at­tend
the short course in order to get
practical information. Civic clubs,
luncheon clubs, and chambers of com­merce
are interested and will be rep­resented.
"The need for such a short course
has long been felt,", said Professor
Hyde. "Street, highway, and private­ly-
owned trees in the South have been
mercilessly deformed by those engag­ed
in power line clearance and also
by well-meaning tree enthusiasts.
Trees are improperly placed and er­rors
are observed."
Attention will be given to fertilizers
and soils for trees, different species
and also tree care and pruning.
That Emerson Gill and his famous
orchestra will play for the final dances
on May 15-16, has been announced by
Sabel Shanks, chairman of the social
committee. This orchestra which can
be heard nightly over station WTAM
in Cleveland, has received a great ova­tion
throughout the United States and
Canada, having played at Coney Is­land;
Bolssom Heath, Detroit; and
Mount Royal Hotel, Montreal. They
made an impressive showing at At­lantic
City, where they drew the larg­est
crowd on record, and are now
located at the Show Boat Hollendon
Hotel in Cleveland.
Five dances are on the two day
schedule starting with the Tau Beta
Pi dance on Friday afternoon. The
Senior Ball will take place Friday
night and will probably be the feature
of the week-end. Saturday morning
the Blue Key society will be host at
a dance between the hours of eleven
and one, and the "A" Club will have
a tea dance Saturday afternoon. The
dances will end Saturday night with
the Farewell Ball.
The contract for decorating the
Alumni Gymnasium, where the dances
will be held, has been let to "Stiffy"
Swaim and Oscar Asbell. Plans for
the decorations are as yet indefinite. .
The invitation committee has an­nounced
that bids will probably be
put on April 26th and will be collect­ed
on the 3rd so that plenty of time
will be had to arrange accommoda­tions
for the girls. •
Arrangements are being made by
which some of the dances may be
broadcast over station WAPI, in Bir­mingham.
LOCAL GROCER ATTACKED;
ROBBER GETS OYER $400
C. P; Bowdon Found Uncon­scious
Yesterday Morning by
Roadside
Found unconscious by the roadside,
beaten about the head, and robbed of
between $5 and $6 in "cash and over
$400 in checks, C. P. Bowden, promi­nent
Auburn grocer and merchant,
was taken at 3:30 Tuesday a. m. to
the Opelika hospital. An afternoon
report from 'the hospital said he had
only-partly regained consciousness.
Mr. Bowden was seen Monday eve­ning
leaving his store around six
o'clock for his home. Nothing furth­er
is known of his whereabo'">>- be­tween
that hour and early this morn­ing
when he was discovered by a bus
driver in a ditch on the road halfway
between Auburn and Opelika.
- Bowden was suffering too badly at
the time he was found to make any
statement as to his assailants.
The driver of the bus stated that
the appearance of the body and its
location indicated that he had prob­ably
been beaten into unconsciousness
in an automobile, then hurled to the
ditch while the car sped away.
Violinist to Give
Concert April 30
A distinguished Alabama violinist,
Christine McCann, will appear in
Langdon Hall at 8:00 o'clock on
Thursday evening, April 30. Miss
McCann has been studying in New
York City and in Europe- for the
past five years and her success has
been acclaimed as phenomenal by
musical critics.
Her concert is sponsored by the
music department of the Woman's
Club of Auburn.
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HONORS CONVOCATION
At the Honors Convocation held re­cently
in Langdon Hall, it was shown
that the student body does not approve
of such a method of introducing mem­bers
of honor societies and winners of
athletic emblems. It is evident that
some other means must be devised
whereby the students winning, honors
will be presented to the student body
as a whole.
As he commented, the president was
disappointed at the turnout for the oc­casion
and he was aware of the fact
that the convocation did not appeal to
the majority of Auburn students. It
was very evident that the students dis­approved,
inasmuch as almost every
student who was in attendance at the
convocation was introduced as a mem­ber
of one honor society or another.
There is no need to have an Honors
Convocation if the students who are
NOT members of societies do not show
an interest.
The students who did not attend seem
to have the idea that there is no reason
why they should be forced to sit thru
a program during which only members
of honor societies are • introduced. Is
there any reason why they should?
The members of the societies have
had their names published several times
and they have had one key after an­other
added to their already" heavily-laden
watch chains. They have reason
to be satisfied because, after all, most
students think that membership in an
honor society means another key added
to the list.'
So much for the idea of the thing . . .
If introductions of members of honor
societies are to be held, it is inevitable
that another way must be chosen—the
Honors Convocation idea is not so pop­ular.
Furthermore, if they are to be held,
why shouldn't members of all societies
be introduced ? Members of ten societies
were presented at an Honors Convoca­tion
for the first time, but members of
other organizations were not intro­duced
at a previous convocation. The
failure to acknowledge members of sev­eral
societies who were not announced
drew a number of adverse criticisms
from about the campus. Many students
who showed an interest in the convoca­tion
could see no reason why certain
organizations should be overlooked.
' This is another point to consider in dis­cussing
the popularity of the idea.
It is the idea of The Plainsman that
if the introducing of honor society mem­bers
is to be held successfully in the
future, some other means must be de-a
vised, and, if the introductions are held,
I new members of ALL societies should
be introduced.
WHEN WILL THEY GROW UP?
The letter from one of the officials
of the Atlanta and West Point Rail­road
Company concerning the remov­ing
of articles from a Pullman car on
one of the trains of the company again
brings to our attention the fact that
too many of the students here possess
only childish intellects along certain
lines.
Taking towels and such articles from
railroad trains" is only one small trick
that is practiced too often by men who
are supposed to have averaged and
above-average mentalities. How about
the little fellows who are not content
until they have a room full of pilfered
souvenirs?
It is, a shame that the student body
should possess this group of men who
are always, doing something that gives
the college a black mark. Only recent­ly
a number of signs were placed about
the campus asking students not to
walk on certain places where grass had
been planted. Many students refuse
to comply with the request, and one
student showed" his ability at defiance
by taking one of the signs.
Why they repeatedly do such things
as these is something one cannot un­derstand.
MORE LIGHTS NEEDED
A walk about the campus and town
after dark- convinces anyone that the
system of lighting the streets of Auburn
and the campus is entirely inadequate.
There is no telling where one might
stumble of fall when making a trip
from one place to another, and walking
about the town after dark along cer­tain
streets is .anything but a pleasure.
An abundance of trees about any
certain place will cause the street to
be very dark and a person cannot help
but stumble or fall when getting to a
bad place in the sidewalk.
It is a situation that can easily be
remedied, aijd we urge the city and
college officials to look into the mat­ter
and see if there isn't a way in
which it can be clarified.
THE ONE BIG FACTOR
The only business of the adult portion of
the human race is teaching. " All other
forms of business are subsidiary to this.
All our knowledge, our books, our libraries,
and institutions of learning exist solely for i
the purpose of giving the younger element
a better chance.
A man thinks that his main occupation is
keeping a hardware store, or running a
farm, or managing a bank, or whatever it
is that he does to make a living, and ac­quire
a fortune. He is mistaken. His main
occupation—that is the main thing that
Nature has in mind for him—the reason
why she made him, and his chief excuse for
living, is* first, to beget children, and, second-ly,
»to train them. For Nature is not much
concerned with the individual. After using
him for a few years, she throws him away.
Nature's chief interest is the race.
Therefore, any one who is not engaged in
some way directly or indirectly engaged in
the business of teaching children is super­fluous.
No nation has ever given education
the attention that it needs. Every nation
is too much occupied with adults.
The grown-ups are under the delusion
that they are the only people that matter,
and their concerns are the important ones,
and the children are some how or other to
be coddled along till they get ready to get
into the great game. Just the opposite is
the truth. It is the children that matter,
and the grown-ups are here to -get them
ready. Life itself is a vast getting ready
process.
Nations spend colossal sums upon wars
wholly unnecessary, the result of an un-policed
world. It is said that over ninety
per cent of national revenues goes to wars,
past, present and future. In a properly
policed world less than ten per cent would
be needed to keep mankind in order. In an
intelligent world—and we are far from that
at present—at least eighty per cent of' our
revenues should be devoted to education.
The school teacher should be the leading
citizen. of each community. He should be
the best paid. His position should be so
high that the best minds would aspire to it.
When the world grows wise its supreme
talent and genius will toward teaching, in­stead
of toward hog-sticking, steel-making
or banking.
All of the tremendous problems that
stump us at present whose solution we con­sider
impossible, could be easily solved if
we would run them through the schoolhouse
—that,is, if we would begin by instructing
the next generation. The reason needed
reforms are impractical is because of the
stupidity of unpreparedness of adult minds.
We could easily bring them to pass in about
thirty years if We would begin with the
child mind.
For instance, the League of Nations, the
only rational plan for the removal of the
unspeakable pest of war, found itself op­posed
by the whole mass of long-whiskered
prejudice the world over. The trouble was
it was presented to adults, who were entire­ly
unfit to receive it. If the makers of the
League had been wise, and had outlined a
plan for beginning to teach it in primary
schools, all over the world, with the provi­sion
that it should be adopted at the end
of a generation—that is, in about thirty
years, when the present children had grown
up—it would have gone over swimmingly.
In fact, no reform ever succeeds in the
generation to which It is proposed. That
crop of adults has to die off. It is only the
next crop that is qualified to carry on the
new idea. This accounts for the fact that
all reform goes in waves, in tidal waves
about thirty years apart.
The only real occupation for adults is
teaching.—The Technique.
Book Review
"IMPERIAL PALACE"
s BY ARNOLD BENNETT.
Doubleday Doran, 1931.
Reviewed by Herbert F. Croein, '82
In Arnold Bennett's "Imperial Palace" is
found a plot which is quite usual and con­ventional.
Therein lies the charm of the
book, for Mr. Bennett is clever enough to
hold the reader's interest. He makes an
analysis of seemingly slight details, but
the psychologically-minded reader will rec­ognize
the necessity of such pains to carry
out the principles of cause and effect rela­tive
to characters and situations. That is,
one becomes so well acquainted with the
characters that their motives are accepted
and even expected. • .
Again the inevitable triangle. It com­prises
Evelyn Orcham of The Imperial Pal­ace,
(derniere crie in luxury hotels.), Gracie
Savott, daughter of a rich and influential
director of the hotel corporation, and Violet
Powler, head housekeeper of the hotel. Or-cham's
life is the hotel's—they are one and
inseparable. He is, of course, a supreme
man of business, but withal he is pleasant
and witty enough to hold the respect of
his associates and employes. Gracie lives
up to all the traits of the "born with a
silver spoon in her mouth" tradition. Or­cham
is attracted by her fine intelligence,
but since his chief concern is the hotel-she
does not get her wish, Orcham's undivided
devotion; so their little affair quickly dis­solves.
It was inevitable .that Orcham
should fall in love with Violet. She had
become attached to the hotel and inculcated
with its fascinating routine and was drawn
to Orcham by .this powerful and binding
interest.
The plot is intricate and, at times, diffi­cult
to follow because it involves such a
great number of participants. Bennett
characterizes every one connected with the
hotel from Orcham down to the lowliest
bus-boy. These Englishmen love their Eng­land.
The setting is in London with much
emphasis on tea and whiskey and soda—a
rather trite vein.
Bennett is inclined to be* wordy, but the
book is very impressive if one cares to
=;tay with it.
IMPERIAL PALACE
BY ARNOLD BENNETT
Doubleday Doran, 1831
Reviewed by Knox M. McMillan, 'S3
In writing this adverse criticism the re­viewer
has attempted to expose those, faults
which appear most flagrantly in characteri­zation,
plot and style. He does not mean
to say that the book does not have its good
points; he does hold that the story can not
be classed with the best modern English
literature.
Grant Overton has said that Arnold Ben­nett
could comprehend woman as only
Frenchmen have done heretofore. If Mr.
Bennett is endowed with this rare faculty
he failed to manifest it in his Imperial Pal­ace.
The women pictured in this book are
distorted, one-sided figures; their charac­ters
are unbalanced, unsymmetrical. For
example, one sees only a narrow side of
the life of Gracie Savott, the feminine pro­tagonist.
The aspect of her life as pre­sented
by Mr. Bennett" is grotesque and
startling; knowing only this side of her
character, one cannot easily accord her a
place in a most commonplace world. This
woman occupies a super-mundane position;
she is, in a sense, fantastic. On the other
hand, Marian Powler, the perfect house­keeper,
is well-drawn; however, it did not
take the genius of a Maupassant or of a
France to create her.
- The plot is rather loosely connected, and
the author takes a great deal of time to
describe the over-wanton luxury of the per­fect
hotel, The Imperial Palace.
The principal character, Evelyn Orcham,
is the director of the Imperial Palace, the
greatest luxury hotel in the world. Gracie
Savott, the only daughter of a multi-mil­lionaire,
falls in love with Evelyn, but the
affair ends as disastrously as it starts, and
Evelyn marries Marian Powler, the head-housekeeper
of the hotel. The director is
described as an autocrat, the head of a. vast
hotel "staff", the smooth diplomat, and the
super-efficient business man. One grows
tired of constant allusions to the incompar­ably
perfect organization of the hotel, and
the "staff" is too inconceivably impossible.
As viewed in this book, Mr. Bennett's
style is not characteristically English; it
reminds one of the works of the American
novelist, Joseph Hergesheimer. In fact, the
leading character in Imperial Palace, Eve­lyn
Orcham, is strikingly like Mr. Herge-sheimer's
Chalke Ewing, of The Party
Dress. Both men are superhumanly so­phisticated
and imperturable; both have a
great deal of material power; and both
charm their women with timed indifference.
One grows weary of such perfect charac-
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AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
We wonder if the movie fans keep the theater cool in the summer time.
It is reported that all students taking civil engineering were forced too so they
could find their way home.
* * * * * * * *
Alkali Ike: "What's happened to the tenderfoot oiler wot came to work on the
shovel last week?"
Texas Pete: "Poor fellow, the second morning he was here he was brushing
his teeth with some of the foamy and one of the boys thought he had hydrophoby
and shot him. , . .
* * * * * * * *
The preacher had just finished a sermon in which he said: "All liquor should
be thrown in the river." The choir ended the service by singing: "We will gather by
the River."
* * * * * * * * *
There is a great deal of talk concerning the new school to be conducted in Ag
Bottom by DONALD TROWBRIDGE and HARRY DAVIS. A great deal of inter­est
has been created among the ce^eds.
* * * * * * * *
There was once a man who wore spats in memory of his dear wife.
* • * * * . * * *
We often wonder if the men who knock cattle in the head in the Chicago Stock
Yards are5 called animal crackers.
* * * * * * * *
J'Hello, hello, hello. Operator give me the Ozone Cab Co. Hello Ozone? I'll .
calling from Salt Lake City. This is Brigham Young speaking. I'm taking my
wife to the Prom. Will you please send around a fleet of cabs?"
* * * * * * * *
He: Something seems wrong with this engine, it—
She: Don't be silly, wait until we get off the main road.
* * * * * * * *
A college graduate is a. person who had a chance to get an education.—Ex.
* * * * * * * *
You have heard the song about the guy who lost his girl from Memphis—Well,
John S. Shazo, one of the Sphinx boys, thought of one way of insuring himself
against such a calamity. He married his girl from Memphis.
* * * * * * * *
. "Where'd you get that black eye?"
"I kissed the bride."
"But I thought that was the custom?"
"Not two months after the ceremony, it isn't."—Ex.
* * * * * * * *
"The cowboys in Texas don't catch steers on horseback any more."
"And why don't they?"
"Because steers don't ride horseback."—Ex.
•
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
FAIR ENOUGH
Over at Emory we find that eighty-one
students made the honor roll, of which the
freshmen led with twenty-eight. A great
start for the first year men, isn't it?? But
on the other side of the picture we find that
the freshmen also lead the probation list.
Seventy-one students are on probation, with
the freshmen having a total of thirty-four
men on the list. From the above we see
that the percentage is greater for the fail­ures
than for the honor men when the total
number qualifying for each is examined.
* * * * *
WON'T YOU HUSH
Today's lecture is taken from an edi­torial
appearing in the Florida Alligator,
and it certainly is complete. Here 'tis:
"The attempt of a sniall group of dis­appointed
small-time politicians to corrupt
the general student body election last Thurs­day
is one of the rottenest examples of po­litical
chicanery and deceit that we have
ever witnessed.
"We were unable to find just who was
responsible for the trickery, although we
made a desperate effort to get someone to
own up to it, for it is our opinion that if
any individual or group of individuals ever
deserved the unanimous condemnation and
censure of all Florida men, the bunch of
frauds that attempted to pull this deal
should surely get it.
"The five fraternities that allowed them­selves
to be hood-winked and disgraced by
participation in this putrid political mess
certainly should have had more intelli­gence.
"If they had men that were worthy of
running for office they should have brought
them out at the proper time, put their
names before the student body, let them
run on their own merits, and in general
conducted their campaigns in an honest
manner.
"Instead they preferred to rely upon this
bastard son of political rape, this- hatched-out
scheme out of some perverted and crook­ed
mind, to put their men in office.
"This under-handed attempt of a few
debased peanut politicians should certainly
produce indignation in the minds of all
true Florida men." True brother. But it
seems that you have gotten yourself quite
worked up; just cool off a bit. Why, that's
the way the president of our own United
States is sometimes accused of being elected
to office." And isn't that the way even our
own honor fraternity men are chosen?
* * * * *
2,000 MILE TRIP
A 2,000 mile trip by bus and boat through
New York, Vermont, and Canada wiH be
taken by students of geology and geography
at Cornell University as part of their
ters, characters who are preposterously un­real.
This book may well be compared to some
of Mr. Bennett's other works, but it is total­ly
lacking in that richness and color that
is found only in English literature.
studies next summer, according to Profes­sor
O. D. Von Englen, geologist, geogra­pher,
and world traveller. The trip will
begin August 15 and last until August
29. Homebrew kegs should be fitted into
the busses right away.
* * * * *
YE BITTER EXPERIENCE
A recent estimate by /sis, an Okford un­dergraduate
weekly publication, that more
than $1,000,000 was owing to trades people
by university students has caused the par­ents
of a number of undergraduates to
appeal to the Oxford Chamber of Trade
to cut off the credit of their sons. In com­pliance
the Chamber has circulated a list
of the students concerned among members
of the'Chamber.
* * * * *
. QUITE NOVEL
At Wheaton the freshmen used a novel
method of announcing class elections. An
"emergency police" squad rounded up five
"escdped convicts" and led them to "prison"
in Science Hall, where "sentence*" were
pronounced on each new officer. Just to
make it more realistic, the enthusiastic
frosh ended the ceremony with a "prison
riot." Why not boil them in oil??
* * * * *
GEOMETRY PLAN
He is my teacher—I shall not pass. He
maketh me to go to the board—He com-pelleth
me to draw difficult triangles.
He giveth me zero. He maketh me sit
down for my class's sake. Yea, though I
study 'till midnight, I can gain no know­ledge,
for my propositions surely bother me.
He prepareth a test before me in the
presence of my classmates. He giveth me
an "F". Surely flunks shall follow me all
the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the
Geometry class forever and ever.—Martha's
Mirror.
* * * * *
FRATERNITIES MUST GIVE
UP HOUSES
Fraternities of California Tech will be
asked to move into new houses in groups,
but without fraternity organization, to act
as a nucleus about which to build a house
unity and fellowship and to develop to a
higher degree social and cultural life, as a
result of an extensive study of student
housing conditions in America and abroad
by a student committee of California In­stitute
of Technology^ They are not to
rush or pledge and will be non-perpetu­ating.
One of the Unusual features of the recom­mendations
of the report is that provision
is made to serve dinner coffee in the lounges
in order to present an atmosphere more
conducive to discussion. It is hoped that
this feature will teach the Tech men how
to loaf gracefully. What a pity. What do
we care whether we are loafing gracefully
or ungracefully, just as long as we are
loafing? Bah jove we would like to have
our avening tae jolly well in the balmy
avening. Eh wat?
Olla Pddrida
By Chariot
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinion* expressed is
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.
* * * * *
K-9, the mascot of Battery G, is leaving
Auburn.
He got a wire stating he was related to
Tobey Wendel, the pampered pooch of the
late Ella Wendel of Fifth Avenue, and
would probably come into plenty of money.
* * * * *
The Viking Press has recently pub­lished
a thin volume entitled Boners. It
is composed of amusing answers to
questions asked English schoolboys.
Here are a few random samples:
A blizzard is the inside of a fowl.
Lava is what the barber puts on your
face.
The Japanese are too thickly popu­lated
to be comfortable.
Water is composed of two gases,
oxygen and cambrigen.
These freshmen in R. O. T. C. who
boast that they will become second Na­poleons
had better remember that the
second Napoleon was not so hot.
* * * * *
Serialization of the Erich Maria Remar­que
sequel to All Quiet on the Western
Front, recently in Collier's, was an expur­gated
version, the mail regulations being
what they are. In its book form, which
comes out next month, The Road Back will
contain episodes the magazine had to elim­inate.
Remarque is now in ' Switzerland and it
is probable he will remain there, friends
in Germany having warned him that the
pacifistic tone of his new book, which is
even more pronounced than in All Quiet, is
not liked back home.
All Quiet as a book sold a total of three
and one-half million copies the world over,
a record said to have been surpassed only
by The Bible and Uncle Tom's Cabin. But
even if his new book does not do so well,
Remarque should worry. He can afford to
buy the Swiss navy if he's so minded.
Liberty has been sold by the Mc-
Cormick-Patterson interests to Bernarr
Macfadden, the publisher of True Story,
The porno-Graphic, and other maga­zines
and newspapers of the same type.
No telling now whether Liberty will go
sensational or not, although it would
be difficult to dig up stuff that the mag­azine
has not already pawed over.
v The attitude of the treasury department
in regard to allegedly obscene books banned
from importation into this country seems
to be the lifting of the ban as soon as there
are sufficient numbers of volumes here.
All the books recently lifted from the
barred list have been plentiful. All were
sold quite openly and even advertised while
the ban existed.
There are still a number of books on the
Department's list of "no entrance" books,
but, like those released, they are procurable
at almost any bookshop. Only the saps try
to bring them over from abroad.
* * * * *
Montparnasse, Paris, which has been
without its arty magazine since the de­mise
'of Elliot Pau's Transition, has
started a new one, The New Review.
The first number shows decided leanings
toward the ultramodern in radio, cine­ma
and photography. Although the
first issue is dated January eighteenth, .
it has just reached Auburn.
. Ezra Pound takes care of the trend of
modern journalism. Jean Cocteau writes
an incomprehensible poem based on his
film, Life of a Poet, and Maxwell Boden-heim
contributes an equally difficult essay
entitled Esthetics, Criticism and Life. It's
virile enough, but it gives a good idea of
what Bodehheim doesn't know about meta­physics.
* * * *
Demonstrating the direful effect the
movies have on the young, Fred Birdsong
indites this poem to Marlene Dietrich:
Tell us, pretty Marlene,
(Now that you're among the slams),
Ease our souls, Marlene;
Where did you get those gams?
* * * * *
Chariot renders an apologia provita sua,
Miss Ymous.
Qi notations
It's good to have money and the things
it can buy, but it is also good to be able
to look back and discover you haven't lost
something money can't buy.—George
Horace Lorimer.
None but an artist should be allowed
to teach art in its various forms—litera­ture,
music, poetry, painting.—Prof. B.
J. R. Stolper.
The only way to get rid of a temptation
is to yield to it. —Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie
Wilde.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL IS, 1931 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
/~V.
University Of Georgia
Protests 'Y' Elections
Athens, Ga.—(IP)—More than 700
students of the University of Geor­gia
gathered in mass meeting recent­ly
to protest the action of the board
of directors of the Y. M. C. A. in dis­regarding
their election of Ray Wood-all
as president of the organization.
Woodall entered the race as a dark
horse, and his name was written in by
enough students to give him a major­ity
of 100. Officcials ruled his name
should have been announced nine days
before the election.
At the mass meeting the students
voted that unless Woodall was given
the presidency, they would recom­mend
the abolition of the local or­ganization.
It has been charged by the students
that the Y is not using its money
wisely, and they have asked an in­vestigation
of the expenditure of stu­dent-
contributed funds.
It is further charged that the stu­dents
have not been given a proper
voice in the affairs of the organiza­tion.
DR. HUME GOES TO TENNESSEE
Mehphis, Tenn. —(IP)— Dr.
Alfred Hume, head of the department
of mathematics at Southwestern Col­lege
here and former chancellor of
the University of Mississippi, has
been elected president of Branham
and Hughes Military Academy,. at
Springhill, Tenn., and will assume
his new duties next September. Dr.
Hume was one of many faculty mem­bers
in Mississippi state schools let
out for political reasons, it is
charged by the American Association
of University.
COPS LOCK STUDENTS UP
Selinsgrove, Pa.— (IP)—Four Sus­quehanna
university students were
walking down the street the other
night when a couple of cops drew up
and shouted:
"Which one of youse handed us
that wisecrack?"
No one confessed, so the four were
taken to the lockup to spend the
evening, denying any guilt. Business
men in iown obtained their release.
SOME OPINIONS
By Charles W. Lawrence
Writing a novel is much the same
as making love—to be successful you
must at times get a bit "fresh" with
the object of your efforts. You can't
get any farther treating the Muse as
a goddess than you can neglecting
the cave man stuff on your best girl.
In both "affairs" you will be better
treated for a little forbidden kissing
in the dark.
This, at least, is what Floyd Dell,
the novelist, had to say for aspiring
college writers when he was inter­viewed
for the Plainsman. And in
spite of his having been fired by
almost every newspaper editor he
-ever worked for, Dell has been very
much in the public eye ever since h /
won the affections of the Muse in
1920 by writing "Moon Calf."
Some of the familiarities he has
taken with the fair lady since then
have caused not a few Victorians to
erupt. Strangely enough, Floyd
Dell's Mark Hanna side burns make
him appear very much the product
of the literary period he has helped
throw in the discard.
His first rebellion, he told this in­terviewer,
was against making beer
labels, not because he was a prude
but because the dust put on the labels
got in his nose. A little later when
he got his- first two week's notice
from a Davenport editor he sat out
in the park thinking up ugly names
for the man, then went back and
handed in so many good stories dur­ing
those two weeks the editor did
not fire him again for a whole year.
His literary rebellion has been in
favor of a little more leniency to-
CHARGES UNSUBSTANTIATED
Oklahoma City —(IP)— Charges
of gross immorality said to be exist-ant
on the campus of the University
of Oklahoma, which were made by
Gov. W. H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray, migration laws in slipping into this
Small Loan Proves End
Of College Adventurist
Memphis, Tenn.—(IP)—Posing as
the nephew of President Ortiz Rubio,
as a cousin of Ramon Novarro, and
as a young man of general renown
and importance, Jose Luis Samaniego,
a new student at Southwestern Col­lege
here, was well on the way to be­come
one of the school's most color­ful
characters when Dr. M. W. Storn,
who was instrumental in having him
entered in the college, broke up his
little game and turned him over to
police.
It was found he had violated im-were
not substantiated by a report
made to the state legislature here by
state Senate investigators who went
to the campus after the governor's
remarks.
DIET COMPOUND SOUGHT
Champaign, 111.—(IP)—A new ele­ment
in diet is on the verge of dis-covery
at the University of Illinois, it
was announced here recently. It is
something heretofore unrecognized in
proteins—a compound which is an in­dispensable
part of the diet. Scient­ists
here are still working to isolate
the compound.
country.
While his manners were winning
him a place in the heart of the cam­pus
co-eds, Jose was successful in bor­rowing
$10 from Dr. Storn, but his
downfall came when Dr. Storn called
the hotel where he was supposed to
have been registered and found he was
not registered there.
BUILDING PROGRAM STARTED
College Park, Md.—(IP)—A new
horticultural building, and addition
to the engineering building and the
first of five new women's dormito­ries
are to be started soon on the
University of Maryland campus.
UTAH STUDENTS GIVE OPERA
Salt Lake City—(IP)—Students
of the University of Utah recently
put on the opera "Hansel and
Gretel," before huge crowds.
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ward the younger generation. He
thinks modern society doesn't give
the boy and girl in love half a
chance.
"We give youth'scholarships so it
can go to college," he said, "and
we've even become civilized enough
to endow promising young writers
and artists. But we still expect
young lovers. to wajt until they can
afford it to get married."
He believes parents, even the
state, should help financially to sup­port
young married couples during
the first difficult years.
"Otherwise," he said, "they are
forced to spend from five to ten
years single, and this is bound in
many cases to lead to promiscuity
which is not so good for some young­sters
as it is for others.
"The younger generation is not
hard boiled as many think," he said,
"and these affairs before marriage do
a great deal to make it difficult after
marriage for some young people,
especially girls. However, you can't
expect live-blooded human beings to
remain chaste during the best years
of their lives, and if you won't make
it possible for them to get married,
they're going to have their sex ex­perience
without marriage." '
Dell suggested "scholarships for
marriage," much the same as schol­arships
for education. He thinks
Sigma Phi Betas Give
Reception For Visitor
Sigma Phi Beta Sorority entertain­ed
with a reception at the President's
Mansion in honor of Miss Marjorie
Langenbahn of New York City, Na­tional
President of Sigma Phi Beta,
last Tuesday. Mrs. Knapp, Miss
Dobbs, the honor guest, and chapter
officers, received the guests in the
attractively decorated drawing room.
Purple and white, the sorority_j:olors,
were carried out in' the decorations
of white irises and roses and purple
violets, as well as in the refreshments
of ice cream, cake, coffee, and mints.
About fifty guests representing the
parents ought to take out marriage 'various sororities on the campus called
insurance for their children the same
as they do college insurance, so that
when a youth sets out to get married,
he can live as a respectable person.
The only trouble Dell can find in
companionate marriage is that the
couple may accidentally have a child
before they have become fully con­vinced
they want to live on together.
"That," he said, "tends to perpet­uate
what was only an experiment.
However, I think there are a great
many people who are not capable of
choosing right the first time they
venture into matrimony, and for
these I think a little experimentation
is necessary. There is no sane reason
why society should take advantage
of the mistakes of youthful lovers
and force them to continue living to­gether
after they have discovered
their verr'or."
Dell finds it just as necessary for
him to write as to eat or sleep, he
said. Sometimes he takes a week off,
but it's like fasting.
"''I am never satisfied if I can't
spend some time each day writing,"
he said. Last year, however, he
bought his first car, and he spent
several weeks just driving it around.
No writer is successful, be said:
who is not interested in what he is
writing.
"If the writer is interested enough
he can sometime write something bad
enough to get into print and make a
name for himself. Then he doesn't
have to worry about his public. No
writer was ever successful in making
money except by accident," he said.
LA. WORKMEN FIND CASKET
Baton .Rouge, a.—(IP)—Discovery
by workmen of an old iron casket on
the old campus of Louisiana State
«
University here is believed to have
determined that the old campus was
formerly a Spanish graveyard. In the
casket was the well-preserved body
of a young man who appeared to
have been killed in a duel, for their
was a deep gash across one cheek.
His clothes were of the finest mate­rials.
Other caskets also are to be
removed from the plot.
CASE GLEE CLUB SINGS DAILY
Cleveland, O. (IP)—The wings of
the RKO Palace here were clutter
ed with Calculus books last week as
60 members of the Case School of
Applied Science glee club sang four
times daily on the stage. It was the
second successive contract the boys
had with the Keith outfit. Proceeds
were given to the newly organized
Case band for new uniforms.
Thomas L. Masson
Writes Book On 'Our
American Humorists'
New York —(IP)— In his book,
"Our American Humorists," Thomas
L. Masson has selected Freeman F.
Gosden and Charles J. Correll, or
"Amos 'n' Andy" as among those
of note because of their "pure Amer­icans
™." Other nominations for
fame are:
Peter Finley Dunne, George Ade,
Harry Leon Wilson, Will Rogers, Ir-vin
Cobb, Montague Glass, Franklin
P. Adams, Don Marouis, Robert
Benchley, Donald Ogden Stewart,
George Chappell, Corey Ford, Si­meon
Ford, George Kaufman, Chris­topher
Mo*ley, Clarence Day, Jr.,
Ring Lardner and Chic Sale.
during the hour.
Sigma Phi Bete Sorority initiates
in 1931 are as follows: Jo Mallette,
Troy, Ala.; Ann Mason, Athens, Ala..;
Julia Jester, Camp Hill, Ala.; Verna
Patterson, Watson, Ala.; and Jessie
Mae Carroll, Clayton, Ala.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS STUDIED
Syracuse, N. Y.— (IP)—Nine grad­uate
students in the School of Citi­zenship
and Public Affairs of Syra­cuse
University are investigating va­rious
phases of municipal government
in more than fifty cities of this state
with a view to finding means of sav­ing
the taxpayers' money.
Both the university and the State
Conference of Mayors are helping to
finance the investigation.
CONSIDER NEW CONSTITUTION
Tuscon, Ariz.— (IP)—Selection of
the editors of campus publications
will be taken out of politics if the
student body' of the University of
Arizona approves a new constitution
which is now up for consideration.
Under the new constitution, the
heads of the publications would be
appointed directly by the publica­tions
board.
STUDENT LIBERTIES EXTENDED
Oberlin, O.—(IP)—For the first
time in the history of the college,
Oberlin College students have been
granted the privilege of holding in­formal
dances in their dormitories.
Heretofore it has been necessary to
hold house dances at various halls on
the campus.
WOMEN STUDY ECONOMICS
Wellesley, Mas.—(IP)—The men's
sciences are being invaded more and
more by grdauates of Wellesley Col­lege
here, it has been found. The
study of economics is attracting
many of the women students' some
of whom are doing exceptional re­search
work in this field.
HARRIS CHOSEN TO ASSIST JOHN
SIGWALD AT CAMP SPRING VILLA
Staff members to assist Executive
John J. Sigwald of the Central Ala­bama
Area Council at Camp Spring
Villa, June 6-July 4, are announced
by the executive. J. J. Harris, scout­master
at West Palm Beach, Fla.,
will serve as assistant camp director
to Mr. Sigwald.
Mr. Harris served in this capacity
last summer and was extremely pop­ular
with all scouts in camp.
The junior staff consists of Parker
Preston Powell, Auburn; Walter
Westerbeke, Opelika; Clifford Wear,
Opelika; Douglas Harris, Tallassee;
John Coley, Alexander City; and Ma­rion
Lee Melson, Selma.
Plans have been completed for a
new mess hall with a seating capacity
of 80 scouts, and its erection has
been started. It will be of the army
type. Also, work will begin within
a few days on a new bath house for
use in connection with the $5,000
concrete swimming pool.
Last summer the camp was given
recognition by L. L. McDonald, chair­man
of the national camping head­quarters.
This is a distinct honor,
as the standards of scout camps are
very rigid.
Menus for every meal throughout
camp have been carefully .worked out
and approved by Miss Dana Gatchell,
of Auburn, an expert in dietetics.
WOMEN'S COLLEGE GETS HOUSE
New Brunswick, N. J.—(IP)—A
seven-room white frame house on a
three-acre tract of woodland has
been given the student body of the
New Jersey College for Women by
the class of 1931.
ORIENTALS WILL MEET
Princeton, N. J.—(IP)—The Amer­ican
Oriental Society, one of the old­est
learned societies in this country,
will hold its 143rd annual meeting at
Princeton this year.
TELEPHONES MUTILATED
Salt ake City —(IP)— Telephone
authorities here have threatened to
remove pay stations from the Uni­versity
of Utah campus unless stu­dents
desist from tearing the receiv­ers
from the phones and mutilating
the booths.
It is not permitted to the most
equitable of men to be a judge of his
own cauie.—Blaise Pascal.
LOST
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around cafeteria or Samford Hall.
Finder please return to Plainsman
office and receive reward of $5.00.
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| —Phone 37—
AUBURN HI NOTES
As has been the custom for the
past three years, the students of Au­burn
Hi have selected the best all-round
senior, whose name is to be
engraved on the L. G. Balfour Com­pany's
placque. This honor was giv­en
this year to Watson Howard, who
has always been prominent in school
activities. In the primary election
four candidates received about the
same number of votes. These were
Mildred Wadkins, Mary Love Ward,
Watson Howard, and James Parrish.
This was one of the closest elections
ever held.
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The students of the Auburn high
school were well entertained by the
girls of the Senior II class, with an
'Invisible Cfiapel Program." The
whole program was given behind the
curtain of the stage. Eleanor Lewis
read the Bible and two readings were
given. The chorus sang several pop­ular
songs.
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The Iwantabe Actor's Club enjoyed
the program very much last Friday.
The program was in the form of for­tune
felling. Everyone's fortune was
told together by means of writing
words, numbers of phrases, as the
case might be, and, later, finding out
what questions they answered. This
turned out to be rather humorous as
some of the girls' lovers had pink
eyes, blue hair, and several thousand
green teeth.
The classes in agriculture with the
help of other pupils under the direc­tion
of Mr. Gibson, have recently set
in the school garden a large number
of shrubs. The P.-T. A. of the Au­burn
Grammar School is taking the
lead in securing shrubbery for the
new school. It was found that by
purchasing now,- very much more
could be secured for the money to be
spent. The shrubs will be cared for
and transplanted next fall. Water
pipes were placed so that the shrub­bery
can be properly cared for dur­ing
the dry season.
—0—
The students observed the birth­day
of Thomas Jefferson by writing
essays on his life and his service to
mankind. These essays were turned
in Monday and a prize was awarded
for the best essay. The English
teachers acted as a committee to de­cide
the winner.
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The Senior I class had a picinc
last Wednesday at Head's Creek.
About thirty members of the class,
with several teachers, enjoyed the oc­casion.
After games were played a
delightful lunch brought the happy
occasion to a close.
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About thirty members of Auburn
Scout Troop No. 7 have registered for
1931. The scouts are looking for­ward
to a great year this year and
are preparing for the Jamboree to
be held here May 1.
Fisher Rates Kans. U.,
Johns Hopkins High
New York —(IP)— In an article
in the Journal of Higher Education
telling of the results of a survey,
Stephen H. Fisher declares that con­trary
to a "widely accepted belief
about the work of the large private­ly-
endowed universities, the state
universities are the ones that turn
out the greatest scientists.
The rank of institutions for num­bers
of good scientists turned out,
Fisher said, is as follows:
Johns Hopkins, the University of
Kansas, University of Chicago, Uni­versity
of Pennsylvania, Harvard,
University of Indiana, University of
California, and University of Mich­igan.
Johns Hopkins, he said, gained first
rank because it attracted so many
graduates of other institutions, while
the University of Kansas based its
record on its own merits.
W. AND J. HOLDS BUSINESS
AND ECONOMICS CONFERENCE
Lexington, Va. —(IP)— Current
business and economics problems will
be the center of discussion here next
week when a conference is held at
Washington and Lee University. The
meeting will be held April 23 and 24.
Several nationally known econo­mists
and financial leaders will come
to Lexington for the conference,
which will be held under the auspices
of the School of Commerce and Ad­ministration.
DRIVING CONTEST TO BE HELD
Lawrence, Kans.—(IP)—An un­usual
feature of the annual Kansas
relays will be «i golf-driving contest on
the last day of the program, April
18. More than a dozen leading pro­fessionals
of the Kansas City district
have signified their intention of com­peting.
Only five will take part in
the finals.
REED STUDENT WINS PRIZE
Portland, Ore. — ( I P )— Bryce
Wood, of Reed College, won the first
prize of $50 offered by the National
Student Federation of America in
the best editorial favoring the en­trance
of the United States into the
World Court.
The Hi-Y Club held its regular
meeting Friday afternoon. Mr. Mc-
Gehee gave a talk which was enjoyed
by all the members.
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then leave them—
if you can
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mellowest Domestic tobaccos
kept in prime fresh condition,
just quit Camels if you can.
Remember, it's dust-dry ciga­rettes
that have been robbed
of their natural moisture by
evaporation or scorching that
sting the tongue and burn the
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them and see for yourself.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1931
S. A. E. FRATERNITY ERECTS
$500,000 HOME IN ILLINOIS
With the recent erection of a mag­nificent
national building costing
$500,000, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Fraternity is the first in the country
to erect its own national headquarters.
This beautiful structure, done in Eng-list-
collegiate-Gothic architecture, and
located in Evanston, Illinois, on the
shores of Lake Michigan, far surpas­ses
that of any other fraternity.
This information was given by
George T. Mascott, S. A. E. repre­sentative,
who was in Auburn Friday
to visit the local Alpha Mu chapter.
The building, known as the Levere
Memorial Temple, was erected in
commemoration of S.A.E.'s who gave
their lives in the World War, and
was dedicated December 28, 1930. Jo
Anderson, student from Clarksville,
Tenn., and president of the local
chapter, attended the exercises.
Billy Levere, for whom the temple
derives its name, was national secre­tary
of the organization and many
times a visitor to the Auburn campus.
Having given 17 years of his life to
the work of the fraternity, he died
soon after the war, during which he
rendered distinguished service as the
director of a Y. M. C. A. Hut a t Neuf-chateau,
in France.
The seal of the Alabama Alpha Mu
chapter is among those of all the chap­ters
appearing, in the stained glass
windows on the main floor of the me­morial
chapel in the headquarters
building. The windows, represent an
outlay of $35,000, were designed by a
famous artist. A,story of American
history from pre-historic times up
through the world war is depicted in
Prohibition For
The College Girl
For those who believe in prohibi­tion,
Helen Jacobs, famous tennis star
and all round athlete, tells why it is
a good thing for the college girl. "It
seems deplorable to me" says Miss
Jacobs, "to see girls who enter college
at fifteen and sixteen smoking as con-sistantly
as those' of nineteen and
twenty. When you know what it does
to them you wonder what makes it
worth while to them. Certainly the
excitement of first smoking couldn't.
I don't know at what age smoking
begins to "do least harm, but I should
imagine it would be around twenty.
That certainly leaves the best part of
a life time to devote to it, if one must.
"I don't suppose that drinking is
much worse for women, physically,
than it is for men. It isn't good for
either, and the very fact that it is
strictly prohibited in training rules is
proof in itself that it is injurious to
the wind and the health in general.
This isn't the only thing against it,"
continues Miss Jacobs. "Excessive
drinking is not a difficult habit for
girls to form when they have once ac­quired
a taste for liquor. In many
homes cocktails are served before din­ner.
On certain occasions wine is ser­ved
with it, and liquors after it. If
I didn't play tennis I think I should
enjoy any of these once in awhile,
but the difficulty lies in the fact that
even those girls who are accustomed
to liquor served moderately in their
homes are apt to begin overdoing it
whenever possible at college."
FOR ADULTS ONLY, by Lillian
Day, is an article the editor feels
should be read solely by those that
come within the classification^
the stained glass windows in the sec­ond
floor or balcony of the chapel.
Seal of the Auburn chapter is also
placed on one of the chapel pews
among those similarly dedicated to
other S. A. E. chapters.
A beautiful set of chimes is located
in the tower of the temple. In addition
to commodious office space for nation­al
executives and staff, the building
contains one of the most complete fra­ternity
libraries. Perhaps the only
fraternity museum is located here, in
which may be seen the first saxaphone
ever owned by the famous exponent of
dance music, Rudy Vallee, an S. A. E.
from the University of Maine. In
addition, there is one of Bobby Jones'
first championship drivers (golf club)
—as Mr. Jones is a member of this
fraternity. ' _
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fratern­ity
was founded in 1856, and this
numeral designates both the street ad­dress
on Sheridan Road in Evanston
and the telephone number.
College Students Are
More Serious Minded
Rochester, N. Y. —(IP)— After in­terviewing
more than 2,000 candidates
for admission to the University of
Rochester, Charles R. Dalton, has
reached the conclusion that the studi­ous
type of student has displaced the
"rah-rah" kind of collegian. Pros­pective
students, he says, now shop
around for the kind of courses they
may obtain, instead of blindingly go­ing
to college for the sake of going
to college. *•
"Boys scarcely in their teens," he
said recently, "now approach men and
inquire about specialized subjects and
what facilities colleges have for meet­ing
their individual requirements. The
seriousness of their inquiries leads me
to believe that future college genera­tions
will be far more intent upon
scholastic work than were their pre­decessors."
Charges Brought
Against Teacher
Adana, Turkey — ( I P ) ^ Turkish
courts now have under consideration
the charges against Miss Grace Town­er,
of Boston, Mass., director of the
American Girls' School here, who is
alleged to have insulted the Turkish
Nationalist Government.
A number of the schools' students
have protested that they were forced
to wear clothes with the colors of
the American Flag in them, and that
they have been subjected to "Christ­ian
propaganda." -
Miss Towner replied that the red
white and blue uniforms were select­ed
after student competition to de­termine
the most popular colors.
The directress was defended by a
prominent Turkish lawyer whose
daughter is a student at the school.
Havana, Cuba — ( I P )— Five uni­versity
students were seriously in­jured
here when a bomb exploded in
a laboratory room where they were
working.
LOST
A black puppy, with a white neck
and white tip on end of its tail. Find­er
please notify W. B. Morland, 128
South Gay Street. Phone 43-M.
TOOMER'S
THE DRUG STORE
On the Corner
We have the best line of Auburn
"Stickers" in town!
See our cut-out Tigers and enve­lope
stickers.
Burton's Bookstore
MEMORY BOOK PHOTO ALBUM
Animated Drawings
To Be Used To Teach
In Medical Schools
Cleveland, O.—(IP)—Krazy Kat,
humble tickler of millions of movie
fans' funnybones, may assume the role
of teacher to learned doctors, accus­tomed
to diagnosing in words of ten
syllables.
Such is the possibility revealed by
the presentation of a new graphic
method of medical instruction at ses­sions
of the American and Canadian
section of the International Associ­ation
of Medical Museums in the In­stitute
of Pathology of Western Re­serve
University here.
Founded on the same principle of
animated drawing so popular in thous­ands
of motion picture theaters, the
new instructive medium will explain
knotty problems of diagnosis and il­lustrate
delicate operations imich more
clearly than actual photographs or
professors' lectures, according to its
proponents. .
Heartbeats, infections, rasping of
the throat, or any number of other
physiological phenomena which help
a prospective physician in his' diag­nosis
can be represented by expanding
concentric circles, lightning bolts or
any of the other comic strip exagge­rations
in order to impress important
factors on the medical students'
minds, they hold.
Dr. Harry C. Schmeisser of Mem­phis,
Tenn., presented the new aid to
teaching on an ordinary motion pic­ture
projector. An animated film
showing methods of pre-natal diag­nosis
on the basis of fetal heart beats,
prepared under Dr. Schmeisser's* di­rection,
was used as an example.
W. C. T. U. Attacks
Brewery Inspection
Toronto, Ont. —(IP)— How far
should the seeker after knowledge go?
Not to the door of the brewery—is
the answer of members of the W. C.
T. U. when it reached their scandal­ized
ears that the boys of a Toronto
high school had been taken on a jaunt
through a Toronto brewery—all in
the name of alcohol as expressed in
terms of chemistry.
The principal of the school, mem­bers
of his staff and the board of
education were approached. Why
was young Canada permitted to see
the manufacture of Canada's most
advertised product—and did the lads
sample? The educationalists were
unabashed.
The students were studying chem­istry
and it was felt that first-hand
information would be useful in their
quest of knowledge. The boys had
not sampled the product. They had
not been near the beer—at least not
near enough for that. The manager
of the brewery made that quite clear.
Many citizens felt a tempest in a
teapot or turmoil in a wine vat was
being stirred up but some parents felt
that there must be other ways of
teaching chemistry. Trips through
dairies, laundries and abbatoirs might
be all right but there was a savory
difference about a brewery. They felt
that educationalists were becoming il­logical.
.
Last year a government liquor store
was stopped from opening on St. Clair
Avenue because of its proximity to
Oakwood Collegiate. The principal
felt that it would not be good for
boys and girls to witness the daily
spectacle of men and women rushing
in to buy government goods and rush­ing
out and home again without reg­istering
any shame. The board of ed­ucation
saw the point and pressure
was brought to bear.
Kappa Delta Sorority
Holds Open House
Kappa Delta Sorority held open
house at the chapter rooms Sunday
afternoon, April 12, from 3 to 5
o'clock for the mothers and fathers
of the active members and pledges.
Baskets of spirea, tulips and poppies
were attractively arranged about the
rooms. An ice course carrying out
the green and white colors ^of the
sorority was served. About forty
guests called during the afternoon.
Students Petition For
Change In Grading
New York —(IP)— Students' of
Barnard College have presented col­lege
authorities with a petition -ask­ing
for a change in the grading sys­tem
at the college, and the substitu­tion
of pass-fail marks only. The ac­tion
of the students followed a cam­paign
carried on by the Bulletin un­dergraduate
newspaper.
Annapolis Officials
Are Reprimanded By
Prospective Student
Annapolis, Md. — ( I P )— Officials
of the Naval Academy here have
been rebuked by a candidate for ad­mission
whose grades were not good
enough to qualify him as a midship­man,
for paying too much atttention
to studies and not enough to ath­letics.
In his letter the disappointed stu­dent
wrote that he had been an ac­tive
athlete in high school and col­lege
and that he had fully expected
to play on the Navy football team
next fall.
"You can't expect a 217-pound all-round
athlete to have very much time
for studies," he said.
Baton Rouge, a.—(IP)—An old
Civil War shell, dug up here, has
been given to the Louisiana State
University library museum.
AG SENIORS WILL
GET DIPLOMAS AT
BANQUET APRIL 24
(Continued from page 1)
toastmaster for the occasion.
Dean M. J. Funchess will award
the Ag diplomas to the following
seniors for their work in the' Ag
Club: J. P. Bedingfield, T. A. Carnes,
W. W. Cotney, T. P. Demonia, W.
W. Eubanks, A. R. Fouts, C. P. Gra-nade,
D. R. Harbor, L. I. Lumpkin, R.
L. Loworn, F. H. McCrosky, C. L.
Mclntyre, M. Thornton, L. E. Parker,
J. J. Parks, B. T. Richey, E. L. Ste­wart,
W. F. Barrett, R. S. Parker,
H . ' F . Yates, L. W. White, P. I. Wash­ington
and J. C. Moore.
The dance will start at nine o'clock
in the gym, and may be attended by
all students. Music for the occasion
will be furnished by the Auburn
Knights, popular student orchestra,
and several lead-outs will be reser­ved
for Gamma Sigma Delta. Ad­mission
for the dance will be one
dollar.
WOMEN ARE DESERTING KITCHEN
FOR BUSINESS SAYS I.F.U.W.
New York — ( I P )— American wo­men
are not alone in deserting the
kitchen for the fields once held
sacred to their husbands it appeared
during the visit here of some 40
members of the International Fede­ration
of University Women from a
dozen nations.
Here is what some of the visitors
had to say:
Mme. Juliet Veillier-Duray, Paris
lawyer: "The men behave very well
toward us in Paris, but in the pro­vinces
they are just as bad as ever.
Our marriage laws are very, very old.
Divorce is very difficult. Women law­yers
have had very little effect on
the laws concerning domestic rela­tions."
Senora Luisa Gonzelez, from Mad­rid:
"We are no longer the Spanish
women you read about, who sit in­dolently
on balconies and look pretty
while caballeros strum guitars in the
garden below. We have come out
of our houses and we have much work
to do."
Helga Krabbe, secretary to the
Chorines' Opinion
Of College Boys
WHAT CHORINES THINK OF
COLLEGE BOYS—"Give me a me­chanic,"
says one.
Maybe you think they don't think.
They say they do and send us their
pictures to prove it. The pictures tell
the story in the May issue of College
Humor. Well, whether they think or
not, they say some nasty and some
nice things about the chorine-chasing
collegiate.
"They are light minded, silly, ego­tistical
young says," says Joanna
Allen of "Flying High." "Give me a
hard working mechanic any day, rath­er
than the kind of young idiot in an
enormous fur coat who goes to Yale
or Princeton by day and comes down
to New York to be at the stage door
of some theatre at eleven each night.
"Judging from the course at Co­lumbia,"
continues Miss Allen, "the
boys are neither intelligent nor ambit­ious.
I find that when a girl is good
looking, college boys will go out of
their way to talk to her, but when
they do, they have nothing to say."
My! My! Miss Allen, how college
boys MUST have changed.
In Sweden it's different. Over there
Necken is an old god instead of being
just a social obligation.
Danish legation in Reykjavik, Ice­land:
"We women in Iceland have al­ways
been feminists, but we have
never had to fight for equality. Men
in Iceland have always considered
women their equals."
And Dr. Lora Antoine-Trappan,
Vienna dermatologist: "Women in
Vienna stay young longer than wo­men
in America. Also they are fat­ter.
But they are more beautiful.
They do not go in for face-lifting as
much as New York women. Maybe
the fas|t life makes the races of
women age rapidly. Maybe it is be*
cause they are so thin."
OUTDOOR LIVING ROOMS ARE
BECOMING POPULAR IN SOUTH
LIONS CLUB DISCUSSES
PLANS FOR CONVENTION
(Continued from page 1)
so been planned for the ladies who at
tend the convention.
The Auburn Lions Club won the
attendance prize last year and it is
expected that it will make a strong
bid for a duplication of the honor
this year. Most of the Lions are plan­ning
t o attend the convention.
Progress of the golf team was re­ported
on at the meeting, and mem­bers
of the team encouraged more to
come out.
W. T. Ingram read a poem to the
Lions titled "How to Boost Business".
The poem pointed out that the only
business that could be improved by
knocking is the undertaker's business.
It was decided by the club that a ten­nis
team should be formed, and A. D.
Burke was named manager.
With increasing use of gardens as
outdoor living rooms in summer gar­den
furniture is becoming more and
more popular in the South. People
are learning to plan and decorate
this lawn area as though they would
an inside living room.
This is the statement of John
Hyde, professor of landscape archi-tectuer
at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, who gives some terse di­rections
to Alabamians contemplat­ing
furnishing of an ormental gar­den.
Bird baths, fountains, benches
and seats, pergolas and arbors, lat­tice
work, gates, and lily pools are
some of the garden furnishings rec­ommended
by Professor Hyde.
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New Flash Lamps
To Aid Photography
Fire hazards, danger of explosion,
and their attending damage or hu­man
injury, sometimes caused in con­nection
with flashlight photography,
are passing into oblivion with the use
of the new Westinghouse Photoflash
lamp—a discovery by which an ordi­nary
incandescent lamp bulb confines
and tames a four million candlepower
flash of lightning.
Like the powerful genie, imprisoned
in a glass bottle that the fabled fish­erman
found in the sea, this new
lamp confines potential light so great
that when released, it produces a
quantity and quality of illumination
which makes flashlight photography
easy, simple, and clear.
The danger from the use of flash­light
powder induces photographers
—particularly in the amateur field—
to use the photoflash lamp. Home
furnishings or other inflammable sur­roundings
cannot be ignited or dam­aged
from this lamp. It produces no
flame and, of course, no smoke; the
glass confines the chemical reactions
and all residue. A flash of brilliant
white light, ten thousand times brigh­ter
than the ordinary home lighting
Mazda lamp produces, occurs so quick­ly
that one may easily photograph
people in action and rapidly moving
objects.
In general, garden furniture
should be useful as well as beautiful.
However, a judicious use of certain
pieces of statuary, either in carved
stone or cast metal, need not serve
any utilitarian purpose.
Nicely designed stone or cement
bird baths on standards are the con­ventional
form and should be prop­erly
scaled to the length of axis and
size of the garden.
Rustic benches should be construc­ted
solidly and in accordance with
a preconceived plan. Benches and
seats of cedar- or rough oak should
be in as natural surroundings as pos­sible,
preferably toward the back
part of the garden or lawn in an
environment of seclusion and pri­vacy.
They should not be in conflict
with the more formal aspects of the
garden or residence.
Small arbors and seats may be
placed on the main axis of the gar­den
opposite a door or window term­inating
a path or walk. Pergolas
may effectively serve as a cover for
a walk or as a shade in summer*
Excellent vines for wooden gar­den
furniture are Carolina-jessimine,
any climbing varieties of roses, wild
honeysuckle, rumpet vine, Clematis,
Wisteria, Wintercreeper, Bitter
Sweet, Kidzu, and Confederate-jas­mine.
Garden furniture should be paint­ed
at least yearly. The rotting of
chair and seat legs may be prevented
by setting them on concealed flag­stones
and heavily painting the ends
of the legs.
The garden should be planned both
with respect to its planting and to
its wooden and masonery furnishings.
We take this opportunity to try
to express our appreciation to our
friends, neighbors, classmen, and pro­fessors
for their kindness during our
recent sickness. We especially thank
Drs. Thomas and Blackshear, the oth­er
doctors and nurses for their untir­ing
efforts in our behalf. May God
richly bless each of you is our prayer.
Mr. and Mrs. P. I. Washington.
When you a r e in Montgomery Stop and Eat at the
PARAMOUNT CAFE
120 Montgomery St. Montgomery, Ala.
Always Ready to Serve You
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