1931-05-16 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LTV AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931 NUMBER 57
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES WILL BEGIN WITH SERMON SUNDAY
OVER A HUNDRED
GIRLS ATTENDING
THE FINAL DANCES
Five Fraternities Give House
Parties For Girls Visiting
For Dances
Commencement Speaker and Alumni Head
EMERSON GILL PLAYS
Miss Gwendolyn Bell Leads
Grand March At Senior Ball
Last Night
Over one hundred girls from all
parts of the state are attending the
final dances, which started yesterday
afternoon. They are being enter­tained
by five fraternities who are
giving house parties, these being
Sigma Nu, Kappa Sigma, Kappa Al­pha,
Alpha Tau Omega, and Pi Kap­pa
Phi.
The dances opened with the Tau
Beta Pi tea dance yesterday after­noon
from 4 to 6 p. m. The Alumni
Gymnasium, is attractively decorat­ed
in Venetian style embodying a
-gay color scheme throughout. A large
circle on which is painted a moon
and stars was suspended over the
middle of the ballroom floor, and
from it multicolored streamers were
stretched to the wall. Behind the or­chestra
was a mammoth Venetian
scene. Attractive arches were placed
over the entrances to carry out the
general motif.
Emerson Gill and his orchestra,
famous Cleveland music makers who
have been engaged for the dances,
played excellent music at the three
dances which have been held so far.
Miss Gwendolyn Bell of Selma lead
the grand march at the Senior Ball
last night escorted by Tommy G.
Amason, treasurer of the social com­mittee.
As the orchestra played
softly the strains of one of the pop­ular
songs, the seniors filed slowly
down the center of the floor.
The Blue Keys gave a dance this
morning from eleven to one during
which fourteen juniors were tapped
as new members. As usual, the or­chestra
furnished excellent music and
the floor was crowded with merry
makers.
Music from the dances was bi-oad-cast
over radio stations WAPI and
WSFA yesterday afternoon from
four to six during the tea dance and
also at intervals during the dance
last night.
ALUMNI DAY TO
BE CELEBRATED
HERE ON MONDAY
Presentation of Picture of Late
Dr. Ross to Be Feature • of
Day '
500 MEN ARE EXPECTED
Exercises Will Be Conducted
In Langdon Hall At Ten
O'clock, May 18
Contingent Deposits
Are to be Refunded'
Starting on Monday
Any senior who failed to' get the
refund on his Contingent Fee may
obtain the money at any time until
noon Tuesday but not after that
date, according to a statement from
the Accountant's office today.
Refunding to underclasmsen will
start next Friday morning, May 22.
Before obtaining the money, a stu­dent
must be clear in all of his debts
in anything relating to the college.
He must bring a receipt -from the
laundry stating that he has turned
in his laundry bag, and must give his
uniform to the military department
before the contingent fee will be re­funded.
ABOVE: left—Senator Joe T. Robinson, of Arkansas, who will
address the graduates at the exercises Monday morning. Right, John
Haygood PaterSon, president of the Auburn Alumni Association.
BLUE KEY PLEDGES
FOURTEEN JUNIORS
Honorary Frat Makes Known
Selections at Blue Key Dance
This Morning
Fourteen Juniors were tapped by
the Blue Key at its dance this morn­ing
in which the entire local chapter
participated. These new initiates are
all prominent figures in campus life,
and have done much worthy of rec­ognition
by their fellow students.
They are Garland Beard, J. D. Bush,
Virgil Callahan, John Farris, Sam
Fort, Louis Gholson, John T. Harris,
Lindley Hatfield, Ralph Jordan, Tip
Mathews, Joe Plant, Jack Stewart,
Victor White, and Richard Wible.
Besides these students who were
elected to the Blue Key, Mr. Walter
F. Henley of Birmingham was also
initiated at the same time. Mr.
Henley, an alumnus of Auburn, is
vice-president of the Birmingham
Bank and Trust Company.
The Blue Key is a national honor
society. The aim of the local chap­ter
is to further the best interests of
Auburn, to promote fraternalism
among the students here, and to fos­ter
'intercollegiate relationships. It
also strives to develop a national
spirit by placing the stamp of ap­proval
upon college leaders, which
will make . it possible to recognize
them wherever they will be found.
DIXIE CHAMPS HIT
HARD TO WIN 19-1
Good Pitching by Harkins and
Heavy Hitting Give Auburn
Win Over Vandy Friday
Work On Post Office
To Be Started Soon
Botany Fellowships
Given Two Seniors
Two students'who are seniors in
agriculture at the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute and specializing in bot­any
have received fellowships at oth­er
educational institutions to do
graduate work. They are J. J.
Parkes and J. C. Moore.
Parkes will go to the University
of Maryland and Moore to the Wash­ington
University at St. Louis.
Parkes is from Scottsboro and Moore
is from Steppville, Alabama. Moore
has an assistant-ship. The work of
each will be in plant physiology.
Work will be started on the new
Auburn post office in at least three
months, according to a statement
made by federal representatives at
the regular meeting of the Auburn
Kiwanis Club Monday. The announ­cement
was made that the Town
Cduncil of Auburn had offered the
lot where the grammar school now
stands, to the federal government, as
a possible site for the new post of­fice.
The Kiwanis Club, by a unani­mous
vote, went on record as being
in favor of the action of the Town
Council.
A large number of old Auburn
graduates are expected to be in Au­burn
for the Alumni Day exercises
May 18, according to a statement
made by J. V. Brown, Alumni Secre-
(Continued on page 4)
Auburn's Dixie College League
Champions won another game yes­terday,
heavy hitting and effective
pitching by Dunham Harkins turn­ing
Vanderbilt back 19-1. It was a
close of an athletic career at Auburn
for Harkins.
Harkins, who won his fifth -victory
without a defeat this year, was
touched rather freely but was almost
invincible in the pinches.
Auburn had a big day afield and
at the bat, a triple play in the first
inning being a feature of the game.
Nineteen hits were collected by the
big guns of the Tigers. Harry Lloyd
led the attack with a home run, two
triples and a single. Riley, Harkins,
Burt, and Hitchcock collected three
hits each. _
The score by innings:
Vandy 000 000 010— 1 9 5
Auburn __J 265 301 11*—19 19 3
The two teams will play again to­day.
Auburn, who won the Dixie
League championship by victories
last week, is making a try at the
Southern Conference championship.
"Y" Cabinet Elects
Seven New Members
The Y. M. C. A. Cabinet has elec­ted
seven new men to its membership
to carry on the work for next year.
They are well known in the activities
on the campus, and represent all the
classes of next year except the fresh­man
class. These'men are Troy Fos­ter,
Otis Spears, La Verne Johnson,
Piatt Boyd, Fred Wullenbucher,
Reese White, and Robert McCauley.
The Cabinet, otherwise known as
the Friendship Council, is the direct­ing
body o/ the Y. M. C. A. It se­lects
members who are interested in
that type of work, and these decide
questions arising as to the . duties
and responsibilities of the Y. M. C.
A. It organizes contests among the
students, and keeps the club rooms
supplied with equipment. Another
duty is that of creating interest
among the people of Auburn in
Christian principles and religion.
Between four and five hundred Au­burn
graduates are expected to at­tend
the Alumni Day exercises which
will be held on Monday, May 18th.
in connection with the graduation
exercises. An interesting program
has been prepared for the entertain­ment
of the Alumni.
On Sunday night previous to the
exercises a Dutch dinner will be giv­en
in Smith Hall, at which specially
invited guests will discuss plans for
Monday's meeting.
The program follows:
ALUMNI EXERCISES
and '
PRESENTATION OF PORTRAIT
of
DEAN BENNETT BATTLE ROSS
Langdon Hall 10 A. M.
May the Eighteenth
John Haygood Paterson, presiding
Invocation—Rev. John C. James.
Song — "Alma Mater" — William
Thorington Wood, '24—Auburn Glee
Club and assembly.
Alumni Address—William Martin
Williams, '96.
Song, "The Lee Shore" (Harris)
—Auburn Glee Club, J. W. Brigham,
director.
. Presentation of Portrait of Dean
Bennett Battle Ross to the Alumni
Association—Thomas Bragg,- '01.
Unveiling of the protrait by mem­bers
of the Class of 1881. *
Acceptance for the Alumni Asso­ciation
and presentation to the col­lege—
Frank C. Dillard, '88.
Acceptance for the college—Presi­dent
Bradford Knajjp.
i Business Meeting
Report of the president—John
Haygood Paterson.
Report of the secretary—J. V.
Brown.
General business.
"Auburn Athletics"—Chet Wynne.
Address—"What Auburn Needs"
—President Bradford Knapp.
12:00 m.—Alumni barbecue at the
gymnasium.
2:00 p. m.—Class reunions..
Committees as appointed by Mr.
J. V. Brown, executive secretary, on
arrangements are: Arrangement of
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Fifty-Ninth Annual Commencement
Will Continue Until Awarding Of
Diplomas To Graduates Tuesday
Y. M. C. A. WILL HAVE FULL
TIME SECRETARY NEXT YEAR
Change In Organization Of Auburn Y. M. C. A. Made In Order
t o Increase Its Usefulness On Local Campus; Finance to
Be On Different Basis
Musical Programs to Be Held
Sunday Afternoon and Eve­ning
At Langdon Hall
AWARD DEGREES TUESDAY
Auburn is to have a full time Y.
M. C. A. secretary next year, ac­cording
to an announcement made
today by the .chairman of the special
Y. M. C. A. committee, which is com­posed
of representative faculty mem­bers
and students of the Y. M. C. A.
Cabinet. This change in the orga­nization
of the Y. M. C. A. was made
in an effort to increase its useful­ness
on the Auburn campus, and to
more nearly carry out the purposes
for which it was founded.
The man who is to assume the of­fice
of secretary for next year, has
not as yet been selected, but those
in charge made the statement that
every effort would be made to get a
man of wide experience who is spe­cially
trained for Y. M. C. A. work.
It is the belief of the committee that
the right man could do much in di­recting
the efforts of the Auburn
student body along worth while pro­jects,
and in helping out as a stu­dent
advisor, and. activity director.
The financial program of the Y.
M. C. A. will also be on a different
basis next year. Instead of the pro­gram
of the Y. M. C. A. being sup­ported
by money from the student
activity fees, it will be supported by
voluntary contributions. Member­ship
in the organization will, also
be voluntary. By this change the
cabinet believes. the membership of
the Y. M. C. A. will b% made up of
those students, who are interested in
the organization, and who will help
materially in putting over its pro­grams.
The officers of the Y. M. C. A. are
looking forward to a great year next
year, and sincerely believe the
changes in the organization will
greatly add to the usefulness of its
programs.
COMPETITIVE DRILL
TO BE HELD MONDAY
Uniform For Drills and Review
Will Be Blouses and White
.-^Shirts
SEVEN ATHLETES QUALIFY FOR
FINALS OF CONFERENCE MEET
Auburn, winner of the Southeast­ern
A. A. U. title for the second
successive year, and victor over Geor­gia,
Tulane,. and Georgia Tech in
dual meets, will be represented by
seven athletes who qualified in the
preliminaries of the Southern Con­ference
track and field tournament
being held in Birmingham.
Coach Wilbur Hutsell took four­teen
men to the contests to partici­pate,
and exactly, half this number
qualified for positions in the cham­pionships.
Tulane led the way in the qualify­ing
events with twelve men who will
be sent to the finals. L .S .U. and
the University of Alabama will send
eight men. North Carolina and Vir­ginia
will send seven.
The fourteen men who made the
trip to Birmingham are Felix Creigh-ton,
Ham O'Hara, Earnest Bell, Clay
Jones, Ross McQueen, Zach Huff,
Emmett McQueen, Robert Ellis, Jack
Stewart, Robert Stacey, Sam Robin­son,
W. R. Coleman, and Jeff Beard.
New Buildings Here
Under Construction
Will Cost $200,000
New buildings which will cost
when completed approximately $200,-
000 are either under construction in
Auburn or planned to be erected
during the summer. At the top of
the list is a modern combination
grammar-high-school building includ­ing
separate building for vocational
education. This combination build­ing
will cost $100,000, according to
Mayor W. D. Copeland. It is being
erected by the city of Auburn.
The S. P. E. fraternity has started
work on a $25,000 fraternity home.
It is being erected on a lot owned by
the fraternity and located on Gay
Street. On an adjoining lot the Pi
K A fraternity expects to build a
modern home this summer.
In addition to these, eight resi­dences
are either under construction
or to be started within a few weeks.
This list includes a 6-room bungalow
by Prof. Geo. T. Sargent; a 5-room
bungalow by R. L. Burkes; a duplex
and a 5-room bungalow by Miss Zoe
Dobbs; an 8-room house by Prof. E.
W. Burkhardt; a duplex by Mrs. T.
B. McDonald; and a 7-room house by
Dr. Paul V. Bomar of Tuskegee.
The annual competitive drill to de­termine
the best company of Engi­neers
and battery of Field Artillery,
and the best drilled individual sol­dier
will be held Monday morning,
May 18 at 7:30. The Engineers com­petitive
drill and the individual drill
will take place on Drake1 Field, and
the Field Artillery drill will be on
Bullard Field.
The captains commanding the win­ning
company and battery are each
to be awarded a saber to be theirs
permanently. The winner of the in­dividual
drill will be presented a sil­ver
medal, and a bronze medal will
be given to the man taking second
place. Entries for the individual
drill will be limited to twenty men
from the Engineer Unit and twenty
from the Field Artillery Unit.
The following rules will govern the
individual drill: the judges will be
officers of the Regular Army, selec­ted
by the commandant. Competi­tors
will be formed in groups of
eight men, each group to contain
four Engineers and four Artillery­men.
Each squad is to be judged
separately and none will know in
advance what commands they will re­ceive.
Cards on which a series of
commands are recorded will be given
the officer in charge of each squad,
and he will give commands from it
(Continued on page 4)
WAPI TO BROADCAST
GRADUATION ITEMS
Baccalaureate Address and
Sermon, Band Concert, Glee
Club Program, Go On Air
The baccalaureate address by Sen­ator
Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas,
during the 59th Commencement Ex­ercises
here will be one of the several
features broadcast from Auburn
over WAPI during the week of May
17-23. The address will go on the
air Tuesday morning, May 19, during
the exercises which begin at 10:00
a. m. The awarding of degrees to
approximately 225 graduates by
President Bradford Knapp will also
be heard. _ .
The Baccalaureate Sermon by the
Reverend W. R. Hendrix, pastor of
the Highland Avenue Methodist
Church, Birmingham, will be heard
over the air Sunday morning, May
17, beginning at 10:30 o'clock.
A concert by the Auburn Band,
under the direction of P. R. Bidez,
will be broadcast Sunday afternoon,
4:30 to 5:30. In the evening _ the
last hour of an elaborate choral pro­duction
of the oratorio, King Olaf,
will be picked up beginning at 9:00
o'clock. John W. Brigham is direct­ing
the presentation in which some
70 voices will take part.
The regular "College of the Air"
programs will be broadcast during
the week 12:00 to 12:30 noon dur­ing
which a large variety of farm,
home economics, and features from
various college departments will be
presented.
Gov. Miller Will Present R.O.
T.C. Commissions at Special
Ceremonies Monday A. M.
The 59th annual commencement
exercises will begin with the com­mencement
sermon tomorrow morn­ing
at 11:00 a. m., to be delivered^
by Dr. William R. Hendrix, pastor
of the Highland Avenue Methodist
Church.
Many other programs will be held
in connection with the graduation
exercises.
The commencement will continue
until Tuesday when degrees will be
conferred by Dr. Knapp. The senior
class numbers 230, all of whom are
candidates for degrees.
A musical program will be render­ed
in connection with the commence­ment
sermon. An open-air band con­cert
will be given Sunday at 4:30
with Professor P. R. Bidez in charge.
An oratorio, "King Olaf," will be
presented in Langdon Hall Sunday
evening at eight o'clock, by the chor­al
clubs of Auburn with Professor
John W. Brigham in charge.
Monday will be alumni day, and
30 classes will hold reunions. Many
alumni are expected to return to Au­burn
for the day.
At 7:30 p. m. Monday evening, the
"Festival of Lights," will be staged
on the campus in connection with a
band concert.
Following this the faculty, grad­uating
class, and their friends will
be received by Dr. and Mrs. Knapp.
The baccalaureate will be delivered
at ten o'clock Tuesday morning by
Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas,
leader in the -Senate. At the con­clusion
of the address by Senator
Robinson degrees will be conferred
by President Knapp and special
prizes awarded.
Governor B. H. Miller will receive
the review of the Auburn R. O. T.
C. Units at the annual ceremony for
the presentation of commissions in
the Officers Reserve Corps at nine
o'clock Monday morning. Brigadier
General George H. Estes, command-,
ing the 8th Infantry Brigade at Fort
McPherson, Georgia, will present the
Commissions to the seniors who have
successfully completed the prescrib­ed
course in military training.
• In addition to the presenting of
commissions winners of the competi­tive
drill will be awarded medals. A
review will be held after the award­ing.
MANY EXHIBITS ON DISPLAY
IN ARCHITECTURAL BUILDING
The annual travelling exhibitions
of the collegiate schools of architec­ture
were received by the school of
architecture and allied arts—Thursday
and are now on display in the Archi­tectural
building where they will re­main
until Friday, May 22. The ex­hibitions
consists of about 100 draw­ings
which are representatives of the
architectural schools affiliated with
the American Institute of Architects.
"Auburn and the student body
are fortunate in having these exhi­bitions
here, since they present the
last word in the teaching of archi­tectural
design," was the comment of
E. W. Burkhardt, professor of archi­tectural
design.
Drawings of unusual merit in the
collection include the design which
was the winner of last year's Fon-tainebleau
prize of architecture and
a winner in a preliminary contest for
the choice of the twenty-third Paris
prize in archtiecture.
An invitation to view the display
is extended to anyone interested,
especially to those visitors here for
the commencement exercises. On
Monday afternoon the architectural
department will hold a reception and
tea in the architectural library for
the students and their relatives and
friends who desire to see the works.
The following member schools of
(Continued on page 4)
New Marching Song
Greet Athletic Teams
In Games Next Year
The Auburn Tigers will be in­spired
by the stirring rhythm of a
victory song when they make their
debut before the 1931 football pub­lic
against Birmingham-Southern at
Cramton Bow^ Montgomery, Friday-night,
September 25.
The Auburn "A" club sponsored a
song contest, which closed April 30,
and selected a committee to choose
the best songs from the 50 submitted
from all over they South.
The committee, composed of Presi­dent
Bradford Knapp, members of
the "A" club, Bedie Bidez, director
of the Auburn band; J. W. Brigham,
head of the music department here;
and Earl Hazel, instructor of piano;
selected for firs t prize the song,
"Fight 'Em Tiger," which was com­posed
by William Sykes and Joseph
Marino, of Birmingham. Sykes wrote
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PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931
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Offices hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily.
STAFF.
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Thomas P. Brown Associate Editor
Robert L. Hume Associate Editor
Victor White Managing Editor
Claude Currey - News Editor
J. W. Letson ._ News Editor
Alan Troup Composing Editor
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Adrian Taylor Sports Editor
Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor
K. M. McMillan _ Literary Editor
A. C. Cohen Contributing Editor
V. J. Kjellman Contributing Editor
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REPORTERS
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. BUSINESS STAFF
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CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
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APPRECIATION
In the last issue of The Plainsman of
1930-31, it is only fitting that a tribute
should be paid to the men who through
co-operation with the business-manager
and editor, have made possible the pub­lishing
of this paper this year. With­out
them there would have been no
paper.
The editorial and business staffs have
done work of which they should be
proud, and it is with pride that The
Plainsvian refers to men comprising
these staffs.
The men who have worked on the pa­per
have done so without any visible
reward. The staff editors, business as­sistants
and reporters do not get any
acclaim for the good work they have
done, and this fact makes their work
appreciated all the more by the execu­tives
of the paper.
Each man working on the staff of
any student publication should be re­warded
in. some way, but such a thing
is impossible, and he must glorify in
his ability to do his tasks well. We
think that such men are assests to any
school.
The Plainsman again voices its ap­preciation
to men who have worked on
the staffs and urge them to work even
harder next year in order that a big­ger
and better school paper may be'
published.
MUCH TO BE DONE
Student leaders who have been elec­ted
to offices for next year will be in
position to either render themselves
useful to the institution or just be of­ficers
and nothing else. They are urged
to begin early next year their efforts
in order that they may* work for the - •
advancement and the betterment of
the activities in which they participate
in order that the purposes for which
the organizations stand might be real­ized.
There is need for development in
every activity possessed by Auburn.
Whether or not any progress is made
will depend largely upon the spirit
with which the officers work.
To work for an activity is not as
easy as it sounds. It is hard to get
down to work and the only way in
which anything will be developed will
be through hard work. And it is just
as easy for a student to forget every­thing
except that is he an officer, and
assume that he is the "salt of the
earth," just because he is an officer.
This is a deplorable condition that will
often result when a student lets an of­fice
go to his head.
The Plainsman urges cooperation be­tween
students and student officers—
what good are campus leaders if they
cannot work in unison with students?
It is up to the officers to get down to
work early next, year, get the confidence
of associates, and there is not reason
why any given task should not be ac-.
complished.
Of both faith and science the only altar
is God. Therefore the Vactican Council
has been able to proclaim that there is no
contraditcion between faith and science.
COLLEGIATE PHLEGM
William Harlan Hale, a Yale senior and
one of the editors of The Harkness Hoot
which has been called "the liveliest of col­lege
magazines," has written a melancholy
piece for The New York Republic. He
calls it "a dirge for college liberalism," and
if his facts are straight, he has chosen the
right title. . For when he says t h a t "to be
an Eastern college man is to be a collared
conservative," and declares that the aver­age
student in American colleges "scorns
politics and all public questions," he is de­scribing
"a suspicious symptom in 20-year-olds,"
as well as a collapse of eagerness,
mental and spiritual, which amounts, if not
to illiberalism, certainly to a smug acquies­cence
in the status quo vastly diffierent
from what Wordsworth had in mind when
he wrote of his burgeoning years, "Bliss
was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be
young was heaven!"
An interesting light upon the situation
as presented by Mr. Hale is provided by a
group of Smith College professors, who
send to The New Republic a report on a
current events test participated in by un­dergraduates
on their campus. With re­spect
to Mooney and Billings, whose names
figured so large in last year's front pages,
these are some of the identifications: "Sent­enced
to death by California courts due to
'yellow dog' contracts and unfortunate, in­terpretation
of injunction laws; engaged in
a scrap concerning water power;"insurgent
Republican senators; Amos and Andy;
movie (talkie) starring Marie Dressier." It
is not surprising that these teachers be­lieve
that this is "a timely reminder that
the interest of today's undergraduates run
not back to the early stages of the Mooney
and Billings case," and that it is a challenge
to professors of history, government and
economics, as well as to liberal opinion
everywhere.
The New York Times is disposed to think
Mr. Hale is unduly disturbed. It explains
the shift to lethargy and comformity by
referring to "John Smith law, namely, what
goes' up must come down, and if you blow
very hot, you will soon blow very cold—it
was in the law of nature that if college
boys refused to wear garters in their socks
they would end up by wearing two pairs
of garters, figuratively speaking." This is
good fun, but it misses one point which
should not be lost sight of. Shades of the
prison house enclose us all too soon. If
youth incuriously accepts the pattern, if it
fails to kick up its heels, it not only loses
its one opportunity to remold nearer to
the heart's desire this sorry scheme of
things. It deprives the rest of us of the
benefit of this insurgency.—Birmingham
Age-Herald.
A clinic for coeds at Syracuse Univer­sity
has discovered that the flapper is no
more.
The clinic was conducted by the acting
dean of women, who spent nearly a year
studying Freshman girls. Some of the
clinics findings are:
That 33.5 per cent of the girls smok­ed
in high school, while 41 per cent
have acquired the habit in college.
Eighty-five per cent already have de­cided
what their work is to be after
graduation.
Twenty-eight per cent avow that they
had been in love many times; eight
per cent said they had had occasional
crushes on boys; twenty-one per cent
said that they had been in love twice;
ten per cent said that they had been in
love once; thirty-one per cent said that
they had never been in love.
Sixty two per cent said their mothers
agreed with their opinions about neck­ing
and petting.
Only one per cent said they had
changed all their religious beliefs since
coming to college. Sixty-four per cent
had retained all their religious ideas,
while thirty-five per cent had changed
a few.
We wonder if the above figures would
accurately prove to most of our minds that
the flapper has disappeared?
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
Film fan magazines are much cheaper
than they were a few years ago. Wdol-worth's
sells its mag for a dime; a new
concern is marketing theirs for 5c and
a film daily sells in Paris for lc.
A Junior had just finished describ­ing
an "original" plot to his English
professor.
"Well, what do you think of it?"
he inquired.
"If I were you," replied the profes­sor,
"I'd sue that Englishman, Barrie.
He's stolen all your stuff."
Did you ever try making up" sentences
with words used for a group? Here's one
with "malicious": "The malicious part of
the army." You get the idea? Here's
one with "Jamaica": "Did Jamaica pass­ing
grade in history?"
In art any value which can be proved is
vulgar.
A work of art must satisfy all the
Muses—that is what I call proof by/nine.
The last issue of
the Plainsman for
this year must inevit­ably
go to press. The
end of a year's work
and the commence­ment
time for anoth­er
year are important
events in our history.
After all is said and
done it has been a great year. Financial
difficulties and the heavy strain of the de­pression
at home, as well as in the insti­tution,
have made it difficult for the stu­dents
and for the college itself. But there
have been great compensations. Students
have worked harder and, I think, done
more than in the average year. There
has been a spirit of seriousness resting
upon all of us throughout the entire year.
As we come to the end surely we ought to
display the better part of that which all
of us need to absorb as part of our edu­cation,
namely, that confidence born of the
power of education and clearer thinking.
This is not a time for gloomy doubt but it
is a time for determination 'and helpful­ness.
The test of ..men's character is in
periods of difficulty. When everything is
going along smoothly and there are no dif­ficulties
we never know what true worth
may lurk in men's souls. When there are
difficulties to overcome the quality of
strength is displayed.
* * * * *
This is a great senior class with many
splendid fellows in it whom we shall al­ways
remember. They are a challenge to
the next class. Can the new leadership of
the new senior class measure up to the
leadership of this one to which we are
bidding farewell at this commencement?
* * * * *
Not only has the year developed many
new qualities and new opportunities, but
particularly in athletics have we seen a
remarkable progress this past year. If
these freshmen can only qualify and come
back to college this fall old Auburn would
see a great season next year.
* * * * *
The social work of the institution both
at the general dances and at the local
dances held by the "A" club by individual
fraternities and organizations have all been
of very high character. I sincerely trust' we
will close the year with the final dances
with as much enjoyment and as great free­dom
from anything to criticize as has been
the case during the rest of the year.
* * * * *
I want to compliment the Executive Cab­inet
in taking a very important, epoch-making
step in the publication of the finan­cial
reports of the student organizations
at this institution. While the report is
imperfect in many respects due to the
fact -that some of the organizations, suci
as the Glomerata, failed to mention the
outstanding bills which will absorb the bal­ance
for the rest of the fiscal year and,
therefore, may leave a false impression in
the minds of the unthinking student who
is not thoroughly familiar with financial
matters of this kind, nevertheless the whole
statement is exceedingly fine. I want to
go further and thank those who have co­operated
with the Executive Cabinet in
making possible this statement. It is a
wholesome thing to learn to do business
on a business basis and this is an important
step. I believe the Executive Cabinet has
performed a real service for the student
body of this institution in this publication
and I congratulate them upon it.
* * * * *
To the students, everyone who goes
home, please take a message of hopefulness
and earnest good wishes to mother and
father. If you have imbibed any part of
the Auburn Spirit go to them at once and
offer to do anything which you may do to
relieve them of expenses or to help them
during the vacation period. Earnestly and
conscientiously I plead with you to remem­ber
always that you are a "SON of Au­burn"
and as such carry the family repu­tation
with you. Reflect credit upon Au­burn
in the vacation time and bring us
worthy students back with you this fall
that the old school may go on growing in
strength and in usefulness to the people of
this State. I cannot close without this
little' personal word: The finest encourage­ment
and the greatest happiness I enjoy
at Auburn are the little daily exchanges
and contacts I have with the students of
this institution. I have always tried to be
fair and square with the student body and
I have always tried to think of the inter­ests
of the individual student whenever
a decision had to be made. It is a great
responsibility to do the work which must
be done as an administrator of so large a
group with so many interests so inter­woven
with the life of the people of the
entire state, but the biggest compensation
one gets is not the salary but the- appre­ciation
of one's efforts on the part of
those whom one serves. Best wishes to
everyone of you always.
-:* AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
When taking one of two co-eds riding it is best to choose the yesser of two evils.
* * * * * * * *
Even his best friend wouldn't tell him—so he flunked the exam.
* * * * * * * *
"Have I any mail?"
"What's your name?"
"You'll find it on the envelope."
* * * * * * * *
The worst case of halitosis on record: The angel of death destroying the army
of Sennacherib by breathing on them.
* * * * * * * *
Gentleman: Waiter, look! There's a piece of tin in my hash.
Waiter: Sure, mechanization of the modern age. The machine is everywhere
replacing the horse.
* * * * * * * *
Does anybody remember when "Neck" was a noun?
* * * * * * * *
Is that Rudy Vallee or do we need a new needle?
* * * * * * * *
He (bragging about ancestry) Yes, my father sprung from a line of peers.
Cored listener: Did he drown?
* * * * * * * *
He sits apart
The dance goes on
He looks with saddened gaze
Upon the merry throng
And why?
Because he's been betrayed
By one he trusted
His suspendor button's busted.
* * * * * * * *
Several students were reported held up last night—all the way home.
* * * * * * * *
"Mother, will any college boys get to heaven?"
"Yes, sonny but they won't like it."
* * * * * * * *
Teacher: The lady fed the milk to the cat. Algernon, what is the indirect
object?
Algie: The Kittens, dear teacher.
& WITH OTHER COLLEGES -:-
A faculty rating scale will be submitted
to the students of Stout Institute, Meno-monie,
Wisconsin, in order to allow the
instructors to find out what the students
think of their work. Students will grade
their professors on a scale ranging from
0 to 100.
Without being too pessimistic, the result
should seem quite obvious!
* * * * *
The University of Florida is the bene­factor
of a huge one half ton bell, a relic
of a dismantled battleship, the U. S. S.
Florida. It has been entrusted to Dr.
Thomas Van Hyning, director of the Flori­da
State Museum.
A hangar resembling that which sur­rounds
the Independence Bell in Philadel­phia,
has been constructed for the recent
acquisition.
* * * * *
"Examination books with brilliantly col­ored
covers greeted the students of Col­gate
University during the second week of
exams which started today."
According to the article, the purpose of
the experiment was to determine the psy­chological
reaction of variously colored
quiz papers on the students. Some of the
books were blue, red and orange.
. It is a temptation' to wonder if the pur­pose
of colored exam papers weren't two­fold?
* * * * *
From the University of Oklahoma conies
news of a more or less peculiar nature.
It seems that the College of Engineering
was having a pageant. After the queen
Had been elected with due ceremony, she
was kidnapped by several law students.
This, of course, was an insult to an engi­neering
student.
The Engineers, however gained posses­sion
of their queen whom they found none
the worse for her experience.
The abductors face disciplinary action.
It will probably soon be evident wheth­er
they had been studying faithfully, or
not.
* * * * *
A recent inspection of fraternity house
cleanliness at the University of Denver
brought about the accusation that men
were "bum housekeepers." This is hardly
a new discovery.
However, there must be a remedy.
Could it be home economics?
* * * * *
An Emory student, member of the "Lit­tle
Symphony orchestra" broke a finger
reaching for an alarm clock. It certain­ly
is a consolation to know it wasn't a
pack of cigarettes or he might have broken
his arm!
* * * * *
A Port Huron grocer received a letter
from Lawrence, Tennessee containing a
dollar. The letter explained that the send­er
received fifty cents too much change
some ten years previous and that fifty
cents had been added as interest on the
sum.
It is an old adage that a guilty consci­ence
needs no accusing but one would
hardly feel it would make a person as
uncomfortable as all that.
OUa Podrida
By Chariot
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.
Outstanding contribution to the scope
of human knowledge, made by the Hon­orable
Charles Curtis, long lost in the
Senate wilds:
Talkies are valuable because they
enable us to see and hear at the same
time. *
• ' f ; • • I
There are about 20,000 communists in
the United States. There are 120,000,000
of the rest of us. We are 6,000 to one.
This microscopic medley of communists
maintaining a revolution in Nicaragua, pul­ling
clown the mighty mayor of New York
and spoiling the sleep of millions of out­most
substantial citizens. They are charg­ed
with the latest oil well explosion. It is
more than likely that they caused last
year's drouth and as to the business de­pression,
what less miraculous power for
woe could have imposed this upon us? The
recent untimely spring frosts were, of
course, the product of their mighty malev­olence.
* * * * :'f'
Strange interlude:
Enter C. L. McDaniel crossing campus
and whistling "I Got Five Dollars."
Freddie Birdsong appears on scene,
stops Mac and asks for the loan of the
last eight bars of the music.
Blackout.
Random ideas:
Emotion resulting from a work of art is
only of value when it is not obtained by
sentimental blackmail.
A masterpiece is a game of chess won
checkmate.
The public asks questions. They ought
to be answered by works, not manifestos.
J The beautiful looks easy. That is what
the public scorns.
The bad music which superior folk de-.
spise is agreeable enough. What is dis­agreeable
is their good music.
A fall makes the public laugh. The me­chanism
of falling plays an important part
in causing the laughter which greets a
new work. The public, not having fol­lowed
the curve which leads up to this
work, stumbles suddenly from where it
was standing down onto the work which
it is seeing or hearing. Consequently a
fall takes palce, and laughter.
The ear repudiates but tolerates certain
kinds of music which, if transferred to
the sphere of the nose, would oblige us to
run away.
Sculpture, so neglected on account of
the current contempt for form and mass
in favor of the shapeless, is undoubtedly
one of the noblest arts. To begin with,
it is the only one which obliges us -to
move around it.
Too many miracles are expected of men;
I consider myself very fortunate if I have
been able to make a blind man hear.
Only a sense of hierarchy permits of a
sound judgment. Among works' of art
which leave us unmoved, there are works
which count; one may smile at Gounod's
Faust—but it is a masterpiece; one may
revolt against Picasso's aesthetic, but rec­ognize
its intrinsic value. It is this sense
of quality which relates artists belonging
to absolutely different schools.
We Delivered Seven New Fords
the First Ten Days of May!
Which proves that the Ford Motor
Company is still building the BEST
car on the market—and I did not say
for the money either. I said the
BEST.
So.when you think of buying a car,
see the New Ford.
Tiger Motor Company
J. A. Blackburn, Mgr.
SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
REPORT SHOWS MAJOR
PROBLEM AT MICHIGAN
NOT TO BE DRINKING
Lansing, Mich.—(IP)—Drinking
by students is not a major problem
at the University of Michigan, ac­cording
to a report submitted to the
House of Representatives last week
by the special committee appointed
to investigate liquor conditions at
the university.
Appointment of the committee fol­lowed
raids by Ann Arbor authori­ties
on five fraternity houses the
night of Feb. 10. The fraternity
houses closed until September, 1932.
Although intoxicating liquors were
found in each of the five fraternity
houses, this fact does not constitute
an indictment of the entire member­ship,
according to the committee. In
each case, the committee reported,
the liquor was in possession of a few
students rather than that of the
fraternity itself.
No considerable amount of liquor
was found at any of the Tiouses, the
report points out.
The comimttee directed attention
to a university rule prohibiting in­toxicating
liquor in fraternity houses
and added that each of the fraterni­ties
had a similar rule of its ownv
The time at which the raids were
conducted was, according to the com­mittee,
"a period of general relax­ation
and celebration," examinations
being almost finished and the junior
hop set for the immediate future.
Pay Tribute to Dr. Ross ALLISON DISCOVERS
THE PRESENCE OF
ELEMENT NUMBER 85
Dr. Bennett Battle Ross, late Dean of the School of Chemistry and
Pharmacy of Auburn, and State Chemist of Alabama, whose portrait
will be presented to the college with appropriate exercises Monday.
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Woman's Club
News
An explanation of the beneficial
results accomplished through the
Pratt ' Memorial Scholarship Fund
sponsored by the Business and Pro­fessional
Women's Clubs was given
at the local meeting of the club
Wednesday noon, May 7, at the
Thomas Hotel by Miss Dalene Jeter.
The fund, founded by an Alabamian
gives assistance to worthy boys and
girls seeking business education. The
local club contributes yearly to the
fund.
Reports of the recent convention
attended in Gadsden were given by
Miss Mary Martin, Miss Edith
Slights, Mrs. Elba Wicker, and Mrs.
A. B. Stearns. The convention meets
next year in Birmingham.
The Art Department of the Wo­man's
Club met at the home of Mrs.
E. F. Cauthen on Thursday after­noon.
Professor Frank Applebee
gave a very interesting talk on "Com­mercial
Art."
The Home Economics Department
of the Club Met on the same after­noon
at Comer Hall. The leader,
Mrs. J. T. Kennedy and others spoke
on "How to Spend our Vacations."
After the meeting the group ad­journed
to the Home Economics De­partment
of the College to see the
exhibit of clothing made by the Stu­dents
of Miss Lillie Spencer. Tea
was served to the guests by the stu-dents.
After a year of continuous and
painstaking scientific effort,-Dr. Fred
Allison, professor of physics here,
announced Saturday the discovery of
evidence indicating that element 85,
the last of the undiscovered elements
has been found in sea water, fhior-ite,
apatite, monazite sand (Brazil­ian),
kainite (Stassfurt), potassium
bremide, hydrofluoric acid and hydro-bromic
acid.
The announcement is not final but
the evidence obtained caused Dr. Al­lison
to refer to it as "a high order
of probability" cf the presence of
this element in the compounds
named.
In making this discovery Dr. Alli­son
was assisted by Edgar J. Murphy,
former assistant in physics, Edna R.
Bishop, and Dr. Anna L. Sommer, re­search
chemists for the Agricultural
Experiment Station.
The magneto-optic method of
analysis which Dr. Allison conceived
and developed was used in making
the discovery. The same method and
equipment was used in finding evi­dence
indicating almost conclusive­ly
the discovery of element 87, which
has been revealed to increase its ac­curacy.
If the element 85 evidence be­comes
conclusive, as is expected, all
of the total 92 elements of the uni­verse
will be known to scientists.
Discoveries of these elements have
been in progress for more1 than a
century. Several of them have been
discovered within the last decade but
no one had' perfected a method cap­able
of detecting 85 and 87 until Dr.
Allison produced his magneto-optic
method, which is capable of detect­ing
one part of a substance in one
hundred billion.
Element 85 appears to exist only
in exceedingly minute traces, or
about one part in one billion being
the greatest concentration found in
any of the substances studied at Au­burn.
This explains why it has es­caped
detection by the methods pre­viously
used in searching for it. They
were not sufficiently sensitive. How­ever,
a considerable amount of con­centration
has been attained already
by the two chemists participating in
this work.
Although the discovery of evidence
concerning the presence of these ele­ments
is a major-scientific achieve­ment,
.the development of a method
by which the discoveries were made
is of greater value because many
practical uses of it are probable.
AUBURN HI NOTES
The Pre-School Mother Study Club
met last Wednesday at the high
school building. Mrs. Beck, presi­dent
"of the club,, presided. A talk
was made by Mr. Noel Van Wagenen
on "Obedience." Mrs. Harkins pre­sented
a program of study for the
next year. The meetings are to be
discontinued until next October.
The three Latin classes of Auburn
Hi went on a picnic Thursday after*,
noon at Wimberley's Lake. Some
members of the party swam and
others waded. After the swim, a
delightful picnic lunch was enjoyed
after which marshmallows were
toasted. It was about seven-thirty
before the party arrived home. The
picnic was chaperoned by Mr. and
Mrs> Parrish and Miss Graves.
The students of Auburn Hi have
been observing National M u s ic
Week. Tuesday, the Glee Club, un­der
Mr. Brigham's direction came
over from the college and presented
several enjoyable numbers. Tues­day
afternoon, the classes of Mrs.
Harrison enjoyed several operatic se­lections
played on a portable Vic-trola.
Wednesday, the fifth and sixth
grades from the Grammar school
sang several songs. They were fol­lowed
by the first grade orchestra
led by little "Boozer" Pitts. Both of
these groups "were trained by Mrs.
Donor. Thursday, the senior class
of the high school with several of
Mrs. Askew's piano students enter­tained
the grammar school. The week
has been as enjoyable and educa­tional
one.
Wednesday afternoon, the juniors
entertained the senior class with a
picnic, as has been the custom for
some years. Although rain threat­ened
for a time to stop the fun the
sun came out and permitted the two
classes to proceed to Vaughn's Mill.
Boating, swimming and dancing pro­vided
most of the fun for the occa­sion.
The party was rather late in
leaving Vaughn's Mill, due to some
unexpected delays. Everyone who
participated agreed that the occa­sion
was most enjoyable. The picnic
was chaperoned by Mr. Cargile, Mr.
Gibson, Miss Graves • and Miss
Stevens.
Honor roll for April includes: Sr.
Ill—Highest distiction, James Par­rish
; distinction—Mildred Cottier
and Martha Barrow. Sr. I—highest
distinction—Elizabeth Allison, Helen
Gardiner; distinction—Thurman Ir­ving,
Mark Nichols. Jr. II—distinc­tion—
Frank McLendon, Macon Ellis,
Frances Smyer. Jr. I—highest dis-
CO-ED WINS PARTIAL
VICTORY IN SUIT TO
REMAIN IN SCHOOL
Hamilton, 0. —(IP)— Miss Jean
West, nineteen-year-old Miami Uni­versity
student, won a partial victory
last week in her attempt to comple
university authorities to allow her
to remain in school.
She had been dropped because of
failure to attain the required scho­lastic
standing.
Judge J. B. Barnes of Sidney, sit­ting
in the case in common pleas
court here, granted Miss West per­mission1'
to attend classes until he
hands down his final decision in the
case, probably the latter part of next
week, but she will not be allowed to
recite.
tinction—Eleanor Scott, Dan Friel;
distinction—Junior Thomas, Hulda
Rutland, Suzelle Hare.
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The Auburn Woman's Club and
their friends were the guests Thurs­day
afternoon, May 7, of the textile
and clothing classes of the school
of home economics at an exhibit in
Comer Hall arranged by Miss Lilly
Spencer, assistant professor of home
economics.
Representative work from the
classes was on exhibit including
house plans and scrap books made
by the house decoration class togeth­er
with made-over clothing for child­ren
constructed by the Sophomore
class. Members of the Junior class
in clothing exhibited and modeled
some of their own creations.
WHITE COLLAR JOBS
CAUSING WEAKLINGS
Cleveland—(IP)—Men with white
collar jobs are becoming a race of
weaklings incapable of doing any­thing
but wearjhe nose down at the
grindstone, according to Dr. Lillian
Gilbreth of Montclair, N. J., chair­man
of the women's division of Pres­ident
Hoover's Emergency Commit­tee
for Unemployment.
She declared in an interview here
that hundreds of men have been
found willing to do any kind of
work to keep from starving, but who
are incapable of doing any work that
requires use of the muscles.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931
A r c h i t e c t s Finish And
D i s p l a y Thesis Designs
The thesis problems of the first
fifth year graduation class in archi­tecture
have been completed and are
now on display in the architectural
library. These problems of individ­ual
thesis are on the following sub­jects
and by the following students;
"A Secondary School" by George C.
-Brinson, "A .Building for a Depart­ment
of Fine Arts in Washington, D.
C." by Charles F. Davis, '"An Epis­copal
Church and Bishop's Seat" by
James C. Dix, "An American Center
of Commerce in Paris" by K. R. Gid-dens,
"A School of Decorative Arts"
by H. H. Hillman, "A Catholic
Church and Parochial School" by E.
C. Marty, "A Municipal Airport" "by
Samuel H. Pope, "A Country Club"
by Earl C. Smith, and "A Crema­tory"
by J. S. Wiatt.
In addition to these, other prob­lems
which have been completed by
the graduating classes in the school
of architecture and allied arts and
are on display are the theses of the
fifth year students in architectural
engineering on the subject: "A Five
Story Private Banking House". The
problems, which consist of calcula­tions
of the structural design and
mechanical equipment, are the theses
of the following students: M. H.
Glover, H. E. Lewis, H. D. Riley, E.
M. Williams, and Max Williams. The
calculations were made from---the
buildings designed by the fifth year
students in architecture.
MANY EXHIBITS ON
DISPLAY IN ARCHI­TECTURAL
BUILDING
J-'
(Continued trbm page 1)
the A. I. A. are presented in the col­lection
in addition to Auburn; Ar­mour
School of Technology, Car­negie
Tech, jjolumbia University, Cor­nell,
Georgia Tech, Harvard, Kansas
State University, New York Universi­ty,
Prindjeton, Penn State, Syracuse
University, University of California,
University of Illinois, University of
Michigan, University of Minnesota,
University of Notre Dame, Univer­s
i t y of Oregon, University of Penn­sylvania,
University of Southern Cal­ifornia,
University of Texas and Yale
University.
/ COMPETITIVE DRILL
TO BE HELD MONDAY
Continued from page 1)
at the proper intervals. The judges
will eliminate those who make errors,
and the elimination will continue un­til
only two men remain in each
squad. All the remaining men will
then be placed in one squad and
elimination continued. Competitors
will not be dropped for a mistake at
the time they make it, but at the com­pletion
of a card of commands. The
drill will be in the manual of arms
and in foot movements.
The uniform for the competitive
drills and the ensuing review will be
blouses and white shirts. •
WORK ON POST OFFICE
TO BE STARTED SOON
(Continued from page 1)
tary at the club meeting Monday.
Thirty classes are to Have reunions,
and a interesting and valuable pro­gram
has been planned by those in
charge. Instead of the regular meet­ing
of the Kiwanis Club Monday, May
18, the members will attend the an­nual
alumni barbecue.
NEW MARCHING SONG
GREET ATHLETIC TEAM
IN GAME NEXT YEAR
(Continued from page 1)
the words and Marino the music. The
first prize award is one hundred- dol­lars.
Since the committee believes that
it might use part of the songs com­posed
by William Wood, also of Bir­mingham,
and Frank Taber, direc­tor
of music at Randolph-Macon,
Lynchburg, Va., a second prize of
twenty-five dollars was awarded to
these two contestants.
Wood, who graduated here with
the class of 1924, is the author of
Auburn's Alma Mater song.
Under ttfe direction of DeWitt
Stier, Birmingham, and Ham O'Hara,
Hurtsboro, the new song wiH be
printed and ready for distribution in
the near future.
Dr. Y a r b r o u g h Speaks
t o A u b u r n Lions Club
Chemical Society
E l e c t s Officers
~ The last meeting of the Chemical
Society this semester was held Mon­day
inght in Ross Laboratory. Elec­tion
of officers was held and the fol­lowing
were elected to hold office
next semester:
President—John Blette.
Vice-President—Otto Morningstar.
Secretary—C. D. Brooks.
Treasurer—W. S. Smallwood.
Reporter—R. E. Wingard.
Vice-President to Engineers Club
from Chemical Society—L. B. Haley.
Board of Control to Auburn Engi­neer—
L. B. Haley.
Sgt.-at-Arms—X. F. Moore.
After the elections an interesting
talk on Pierre Curie, some of his life I
and work, was given by Otto Morn­ingstar.
Plans were formulated for
increasing the interest and member­ship
l o f the club and a short expres­sion
of appreciation was given by
the retiring president, Corbett
Bishop.
The need for an adequate hospital
for Lee County was emphasized by
Dr. C. S. Yarbrough in a talk at the
regular weekly meeting of the Au­burn
Lions Club last Tuesday at
noon in the Thomas HoteL He stat­ed
that the hospital now being used
in Opelika is entirely inadequate. It
was formally a residence, and has
been remodeled and enlarged. Dr.
Yarbrougli stressed the need for a
hospital which would be suitable to
accommodate people who are unable
to afford expensive hospital accom­modations
as well as those who de­sire
expert treatment and care.
In outlining conditions in Lee
County, Dr. Yarbrough stated that
within a radius of thirty-five miles
from ten to fifteen per cent of the
people are unable to afford the hos­pital
rates which now exist.
He assured members of the club
that the building of a county hospital
is justified from an economic stand­point
because it would not only keep
over fifty thousand dollars in the
county annually which is spent in
other localities for hospital treat­ment,
but would also bring medical
business to Lee County from nearby
counties.
In closing his talk Dr. Yarbrough
urged members of, the club to co­operate,
with the doctors and citizens
of the county in their movement to
relieve the hazardous hospital condi­tions
in the county by promoting the
building of a county hospital ade­quate
to meet the needs of the peo­ple.
N
Alumni D a y T o Be
F e a t u r e d by R e t u rn
Many Old Grads
Among many letters pouring into
the alumni office at Auburn from old
graduates, stating they will return
for the annual alumni day activities
on Monday, May 18, is a message
from M. K. Clements of Collinsville.
Mr. Clements, a graduate with the
class of 1876, has had a long and
successful career as an educator in
Alabama. He will be in Auburn to
attend all the alumni activities which
include an address by the Hon. Wil­liam
M. Williams of Washington, D.
C, the presentation of the portrait
of the late Dr. B. B. Ross, by Thomas
Bragg of' Birmingham, the annual
business session and the reunion of
30 classes.
God offers to very mind its choice
between peace and repose.
W o m a n ' s College Will
P r e s e n t G r e e k D r a ma
ALUMNI DAY TO
BE CELEBRATED
HERE ON MONDAY
Greek Drama^will be offered to the
lovers of classics and drama during
the commencement program at Wo­man's
College, in Montgomery, next
week. The Classical Club of the col­lege
is presenting Iphigemia of Eu­ripides
under the direction of Miss
Cora Kercher, head of the depart­ment
of ancient languages.
The chorus is made up of members
of the Woman's College Glee Club
and is directed by Mr. Orville J.
Borchers. Miss Hankins of the phy­sical
education department is in
charge of the dancing. Elaborate
costumes will be worn.
The opportunity for witnessing
Greek Drama is rare in the Southern
States, and this production is cre­ating
interest all over the state.
Read The Plainsman ads.
A l w a y s R e a d y t o S e r v e You
BANK OF AUBURN
B a n k of P e r s o n a l S e r v i ce
(Continued from page 1)
tables, Dan T. Jones chairman; Food,
Dr. McAdory, chairman; Decoration,
Prof. J. M. Robinson, chairman; Ser­ving,
Miss E. Floyd, chairman; Trans­portation,
R. S. Sugg, chairman; Re­ception,
Prof. Crenshaw, chairman;
and Information, Chas. Edwards,
chairman.
Patronize Plainsman Advertisers.
O ' R o u r k e Is Named
M a n a g e r of T r a ck
At the final meeting of the Auburn
"A" Club, presided over by Jeff
Beard, president, Pat O'Rourke, Sel-ma,
was elected manager of the 1932
track team and Joe Jenkins, LaFay-ette,
was elected manager of next
year's baseball team. O'Rourke and
Jenkins are two outstanding students
at Auburn and will be seniors next
year in business administration and
pre-law.
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others of their own kind and only their
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CITY OF AUBURN
NOTICE OF SALE OF BONDS
Notice is hereby given that at six
o'clock, p. m., on May 18, 1931, in the
City Council Chamber in the City of
Auburn, Alabama, the City Council
of Auburn will sell to the highest
bidder $21,000.00 of its General Obli­gation
Street Improvement Bonds, to
be dated May 15, 1931; there will be
eighteen bonds in the demoniation of
$1000.00 each, and six bonds in the
denomination of $500.00 each, bonds
numbered 1 to 18, inclusive, will be in
the denomination of $1000.00, and
bonds numbered 19 to 24, inclusive,
will be in the denomination of $500.00.
The bonds will bear interest at 8 per
cent per annum, payable annually, and
will mature as follows: Bonds num­bered
1 and 2 mature on May 15,
1932; Bonds numbered 3 and 4 ma­ture
on May 15, 1933; Bonds num­bered
5 and 6 mature on May 15,
1934; Bonds numbered 7 and 8 ma­ture
on May 15, 1935; Bonds num­bered
9, 10 and 19 mature on May 15,
1936; Bonds numbered 11 and 12 ma­ture
on May 15,„ 1937; Bonds num­bered
13 and 14 mature on May 15,
1938; Bonds numbered 15 and 16 ma­ture
on May 15, 1939; Bonds num­bered
17 and 18 mature on May 15,
1940; Bonds numbered 20, 21, 22, 23
and 24 mature on May 15, 1941.
Sealed bids will be received by the
City Clerk at any time up to six
o'clock p. m. on May 18, 1931, and at
that time will be opened by the City
Council.
The City Council reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
This the 4th day of May, 1931.
Bert Newton, City Clerk.
Adv. 5-6, 16-31.
Boys! If you Eat
M E A T
Buy it f r om your
F r i e n ds
MOORE'S MARKET
—Phone 37—
Paid to Winners of
1 s
CAMEL CONTEST!
R. J . R e y n o l d s Tobacco Company t a k e s p l e a s u r e in a n n o u n c i ng
that the decisions of Judges CHARLES DANA GIBSON, ROY W. HOWARD
a n d RAY LONG i n t h e $ 5 0 , 0 0 0 Camel P r i z e Contest have been
reached and. that prizes accordingly have been awarded as -follows:
First Prize, $25,000
JAMES THOMAS SHARfcEY, 101 Train Street, Dorchester, Mass.
Second Prize9 $109000
MRS. WALTER SWEET, Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Third Prize, $59OGO
JULIUS M. NOLTE, Glen Avon, Duluth, Minn.
5 Prizes of $19000 each
A. B. FRANKLIN, III, 52 Kirkland St., Cambridge, May.
JOHN R. McCARTHY, 721 Main St., Willimantic, Conn.
FREDERICK E. ROBINSON, Coronado Beach, Calit
W E A. SCHRADER, Brent Apts., New Albany, Ind.
DR. D. H. SOPER, 523 E. Brown, Iowa City, Iowa.
5 Prizes of $500 each
F. CARTWRIGHT, Transp't'n Bldg., Washington, D. C
EDITH COCHRANE, Glenvale Ave., Darien, Conn. __
BARBARA LAWLESS, Ardmore, Pa.
JANE PARSONS, 325 E. 79th St., New York, N. Y.
RICHARD W. VOGT, Green Bay Road, Waukegan, IU.
25 Prizes of $100 each
MARIE ALBERTS, 6252 So. Spaulding Ave., Chicago
W. B. BARKER, JR., 4 2 0 N. Spruce, Winston-Salem, N .C
EUGENE BARTON, 3625 La Luz S t , El Paso, Texas
MRS. EDW. F. DALY, 1133 Louisville St., St. Louis, Mo.
WM. G. ERBACHER, 308 N. Front St., Conway, Ark.
LEROY FAIRMAN, 6 9 Dartmouth St., Forest Hills, N. Y.
KATHRYN R. FRANCIS, 448 E. 22d St., Baltimore, Md.
MRS. ALEXIS GODILLOT, 191 Waverly PL, New York
C. W. GRANGE, 2316 Central St., Evanston, DL
C. S. GRAYBHX, Paxtonville, Pa. ,
JOHN I. GRIFFIN, 1208 Jackson, Pueblo, Colorado
DAVID C HILL, Peyton and Arlington Rds., York, Pa.
ELIZABETH JARRARD, Porter Apts., Lansing, Mich.
J. W. KEATING, 523 Prospect Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
J. H. KENNEDY, 2627 W. State St., Milwaukee, Wise.
JOHN KILPELAINEN, West Paris, Maine
DR. CLIFTON B. LEECH, 211 Angell St., Providence, R.L
EDWARD MARTIN, 121 Liddell St., Buffalo, N. Y.
MRS. L. C MILLARD, 609 Stockley Gardens, Norfolk, Va.
EUGENE SARTINI, 745 Chapel St., Ottawa, I1L
GREGORY LUCE STONE, 755 Texas St., Mobile, Ala.
DR C. L THOMAS, Mount Airy, N. C
XEE R. WOMXfcK, 448 Tenney Ave., Amherst, Ohio
J. ARTHUR WOOD, 2 1 Burke St., MechanicviUe, N. Y.
EMERY HERBERT YOUNG, Painted Post, N. Y.
W A N T E D : — T o rent t w o or t h r e e r o o m s for
l i g h t h o u s e k e e p i n g . Private f a m i l y if p o s s i b l e.
A. B. DUFFEE
Next to Toomer Hardware Company.
BOOKS-STATIONERY—
SHEET M U S I C -
PICTURES—
THE AUBURN CADET
A. & M. COLLEGE
Dec. 1880
R. W. BURTON
Dealer In
F R A M E S -
PAPER HANGINGS-CROQUET
AND BASE BALL
GOODS-SMALL
GAMES
and everything else usually kept in a well appointed Book Store.
Little Brick 'Store 'Round the Corner.
Auburn, Alabama
W e l c o m e A l u m ni C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s C l a s s of '31
* Burton's Bookstore
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IN congratulating the winners in the
great Camel contest we want at the same
time to thank most cordially the approxi­mately
million men and women who dis­played
their friendly interest by sending
in an entry.
We wish also to thank the millions of smokers
throughout the country for the appreciation
they are showing for our new Humidor Pack
as is evidenced by the notable increase in the
sale of Camel cigarettes.
By means of this dust-proof,_germ-proof,
moisture-proof Cellophane wrapping the
rich aroma and full flavor of choice Turkish
and mellow Domestic tobaccos have been
air-sealed in Camels for your enjoyment.
If you have not tried Camels in the Humidor
Pack all we ask is that you switch over to this
brand for one day.
After you have learned how much milder,
how much cooler, how much more enjoy­able
it is to smoke a perfectly conditioned
fresh cigarette, go back to the harsh hotness
of stale cigarettes if you can.
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