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VOLUME LIV AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, OCT. 11, 1930 NUMBER 10
AUBURN WILL BATTLE U. OF FLORIDA IN JACKSONVILLE TODAY
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Eta Kappa Nu Extends Bids to Seven Seniors in Electrical Engineering
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Sophomore Dances In Full Sway; Many Visitors Here for Opener
FRANK SUVA'S ORCHESTRA
IS RECEIVING HIGH PRAISE
Many Pretty Visitors In Village
For Prom
DECORATIONS EFFECTIVE
Several Selections Broadcasted
Over WAPI
The number of young ladies attending
the Opening Dances this
year is greater that for the same
time last year, according to Zoe
Dobbs, social director. The list of
visiting young ladies as given below
is complete for Friday night only,
but Sabel Shanks, chairman of the
social committee, stated that the
number was expected to be doubled
before the Farewell Ball which will
be given Saturday night.
The music for the Sophomore Hop
is being furnished by Frank Silva
and his orchestra, of New Orleans.
Many students have expressed their
opinion that the music is much better
than has been the custom of having
for the Opening Dances, and the
chairman of the social committee
stated that he was well pleased with
the selection of an orchestra.
The music for the Executive Cabinet
Tea Dance was broacdast over
WAPI from 4:30 to 5:30 Friday afternoon,
and also over WSFA from
5:00 to 5:30. The Sophomore Ball,
which was given Friday night, was
on the air over WAPI from 12:00 to
1:30. The music for the "A" Club
Tea Dance will be broadcast over
both WAPI and WSFA, and the same
was true of the Scabbard and Blade
Dance this morning.
The modernistic ballroom, which
is the decoration scheme used for the
gymnasium, has met with wide spread
approval, according to several members
of the social committee. This
decoration scheme was carried out by
O. D. Asbell, and G. W. Swaim, both
members of the department of architecture.
-—-At 10 o'clock Friday night the register
contained the following names:
Caroline Brown, New Orleans; Ann
Standifer, Eufaula; Louise Hollings-worth,
Mobile; Annie Griggs, Montgomery;
Edith Tennille, Montgomery;
Virginia Flowers, Montgomery;
Elizabeth Morgan, Birmingham; Von-cile
Arnold, Montgomery; May Manning,
Atlanta; Marion Roberts, Atlanta;
Carolyn Jackson, Greensboro;
Sally Haskell, Columbus; Elinor
Young, Columbus; Virginia Spark-man,
Columbus; Evelyn Yarbrough,
Atlanta; Caroline Douberly, Columbus;
Ethel Abbott, Montgomery; Virginia
Usguhart, Montgomery; Virginia
MacGeod, Mobile; Elizabeth
Furniss, Selma; Marjorie Nichalson,
Birmingham; Mary Ella Cutler, Birmingham;
Anita Mitchell, Huntsville;
Margaret Ballard, Montgomery;
Catherine Nelson, Montgomery;
Georgia Armistead, Montgomery;
Daisy Miller Boyd, University of Alabama;
Nelle Crook, Union Springs;
Martha Nettles, Montevallo; Verra
Hart, Montevallo; Marie Glenn, Birmingham;
Elizabeth Sheppard, Birmingham.
NOTICE
The Horticultural Department requests
that students refrain from
picking up pecans that may be found
on the college campus. Splendid cooperation
on the part of the students
has been obtained in the past and the
department asks that they continue
to give their support. Results on the
amount of pecans each tree produces
are taken each year and it is necessary
that the total amount be obtained
in order that the results be
correct.
PREXY MAY SPEAK TO
ATLANTA ALUMNI CLUB
ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17
Dr. Knapp Plans Visits to Several
Alumni Clubs
The Auburn Alumni Association is
planning to have Dr. Knapp visit the
meeting of the Atlanta Alumni Club
in Atlanta on the night before the
Georgia Tech-Auburn football game,
and also to have him attend the meeting
of the Ne wOrleans Alumni Club
on the night before the Tulane-Au-burn
football game in New Orleans.
It is anticipated that there will be a
very enthusiastic meeting on each occasion,
it was stated by J. V. Brown,
Executive Secretary of the Auburn
Alumni Association.
At the meeting of the Mobile Alumni
Club last Friday evening, Dr.
Knapp made favorable reports of the
progressive work now being carried
on at Auburn to about 40 members
of the Club, and he was enthusiastically
accepted, it is stated. The members
of the Mobile Club and the members
of other clubs visited by Mr.
Brown, on his return trip from Mobile,
are reported to be in a finer cooperative
spirit than ever before.
City Council Orders
Extension of Paving
Auburn, already one of the best
paved smaller cities in the State continues
its forward strides in progress
and program of beautifying the College
City by action of City Council
passing an ordinance for paving several
more blocks in southeastern part
of town as set out in the legal ordinance
published in today's Daily
News calling for approximately
$37,200 additional paving program,
streets, sidewalks and storm sewers.
The area embraced in proposed
paving is as follows:
Payne Street from the South
property line of Thach Avenue to
the North property line of Samford
Avenue; Samford Avenue from the
East property line of College Street
to the East property line of Payne
Street; Toomer Street from the South
property line Glenn Avenue to the
North property line of Magnolia Avenue
and Bragg Avenue from the
West property line of College Street
to a point eight (800) feet west of
the West property line of College
Street.
City Council has set October 28th
to hear protests if any to proposed
ordinance.
New Dairy Furnishes
Ice Cream for Auburn
The manufacture of ice cream in
the new Auburn Dairy Plant began
Friday afternoon. While the plant
was not,run at its full capacity, the
quality of that ice cream turned out
at that time was a good indication of
the high grade cream that Auburn
and its vicinity may expect from this
source.
The plant, in connection with the
Dairy Department, is located in the
new Dairy and Animal Husbandry
Building. It is equipped with electrical
machinery of the latest type
and is prepared for the manufactory
and delivery of such dairy products
as ice cream of all flavors, butter,
butter milk, sweet milk, and whipped
cream.
Operation of the dairy has been
hampered somewhat by lack of milk
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Rats Meet Baby 'Gators
On Drake Field At 2:30
The Auburn-Florida rat football
game to be played on Drake
Field today at 2:30 will mark the
first encounter in which the baby
tigers have clashed with a Conference
team.
The baby 'gatots boast of a
strong eleven with which they
hope to be revenged for the Auburn
rat victory of last year.
Admission for the game will be
$1. Students may use ticket
books.
BLOCK, BRIDLE CLUB
GIVE BARBECUE FOR
4-H CLUB MEMBERS
One Hundred Visitors Are Entertained
on A g Hill
Friday afternoon at 12:30, the
Block and Bridle Club entertained the
visiting 4-H Club members at a barbecue.
Approximately 100 members
and visitors were served barbecue,
stew, lemonade and ice cream under
the trees on 'Ag" Hill by Mr. C.
P. 'Granade and five helpers. The
pig was supplied by the Extension
Department and the ice cream by the
dairy department.
After lunch, talks were made to
those present by L. N. Duncan, director
of the Extension Service, M.
J. Funchess, Dean of the School of
Agriculture, "Dad" Sims, State Club
Head, J. C. Grimes, of the Animal
Husbandry Department, and F. W.
Burns, livestock specialist.
The occasion for this celebration
was a livestock judging contest sponsored
by the local chapter of the
Block and Bridle Club. County
agents were invited to bring ten 4-H
Club boys each to determine the winners
in each county to represent
that county at the State Fair in
Montgomery October 20. The judging
was in three classes, dairy cows,
swine, and beef cattle, and was done
entirely by members of the Block and
Bridle Club. This club will also send
representatives to Montgomery to do
the final judging.
This is an annual affair sponsored
by the Block and Bridle Club, the
Extension Service, and the Animal
Husbandry Department. The counties
represented this year were Chilton,
Elmore, Coffee, Dale, Chambers,
Tallapoosa, and Talladega and Butler,
Georgia.
Thanksgiving Game
May Be Changed
An effort to change the date of the
South Carolina-Auburn game in Columbus
will be made, it was decided
yesterday at a meeting of the Georgia-
Auburn committee, sponsor of the contest.
The game now is scheduled for
Thanksgiving day, but members of
the committee believe that a larger
crowd would be present if the contest
is shifted to November 29, the Satur
day after Thanksgiving. Secretary
W. H. Young, Jr., was authorized to
communicate with the athletic officials
of South Carolina and Auburn in an
effort to effect the change. It was
pointed out at Thursday's meeting,
which was held at noon at the chamber
of commerce, that the Tech-Florida
game in Atlanta and the Georgia-Alabama
game in Birmingham on Thanksgiving
day would draw fans from Columbus.
George B. Philips, chairman
of the Georgia-Auburn committee, presided
at Thursday's meeting. It was
announced that plans are progressing
satisfactorily for the Georgia-Auburn
game here October 25.
High Rating Men
Invited To Join
Elec. Fraternity
Honorary Professional Society
Holds Annual Fall Election
Seven seniors in the Electrical Engineering
Course were extended bids
by Eta Kappa Nu, honorary professional
engineering fraternity, it was
announced today by the officials of
the society.
The men selected are: H. L. Beck,
Charleston, S. C; G. M. Drey, Mobile;
W. R. Coleman, Birmingham;
S. E. Garrett, Birmingham; A. W.
Headley, Montgomery; W. W. Hill,
Jr., Auburn, and R. A. Wesson, Waterloo.
The object of Eta Kappa Nu is
"to bring together into closer union
for mutual benefit, those men
who, by their attainments in college
or in ^practice, have manifested a
deep interest and marked ability in
their chosen work."
Officers in Eta Kappa Nu are: G.
A. Beavers, President; J. L. Stone,
Corresponding Secretary; J. R. Quin-livan,
Recording Secretary; L. E.
Mullins, Treasurer; W. L. Cochran,
Auburn Engineer Reporter; and L.
W. Matthews, Bridge Reporter.
The men extended bids were chosen
because of their high scholarship,
their marked interest in electrical
engineering, their unimpeachable
character, and their interest in campus
affairs as shown by their activities.
Election in Eta Kappa Nu
comes once in the fall when selection
is made of the Senior class and
in the spring when Juniors are chos
en.
Football Matinee Will
Be Given Today, 1:15
A football matinee of the Florida-
Auburn varsity game will be
sponsored by the Auburn Band
in Langdon Hall today at 1:15 p.
m.
A leased wire, direct from the
field in Jacksonville, will bring
the plays of the game to Auburn
immediately after they have taken
place.
Admission will be twenty-five
band.
CAMP AND COCHRAN
LEAVE ON SUNDAY
FOR E. C. M. A. MEET
To Attend College Publication
Convention in Boulder, Colo.
Research Lab May Be
Located in Spring Hill
A field research laboratory, at
Spring Hill, Alabama, has been presented
to the Department of Zoology
and Entomology in the Agricultural
Experiment Station here by the Mobile
Chamber of Commerce and the
Mobile County Board of Commissioners,
stated Professor J. M. Robinson,
head of the Department of Zoology
and Entomology.
Professor Robinson further stated
that this laboratory will greatly facilitate
the opportunity for further research
work in the control of citrus
insects. The site of the laboratory,
the building, and other equipment is
valued at approximately $25,000.
. Professor L. L. English, also of the
Department of Zoology and Entomology,
will have charge of the research
work carried on in this laboratory.
Textile Engineers to
Hold Smoker Oct. 27
The Textile Engineering Society
will hold a smoker on the night of
October 27. The purpose of the smoker
is to bring the "Textiles' into closer
union. Members of the faculty
will be present, and entertainment will
be provided.
Two honorary members were elected
to the society at the last regular
meeting Oct. 6, namely, Professors
Tarant and Ordway. Both men have
shown marked interest in the society.
All textiles are heartily urged to be
present at the next meeting, October
13.
NOTICE
There will be a meeting of
the Reporters Staff of the Plainsman
Sunday evening, at six-thirty,
at the Sigma Pi House.
L. F. Camp, editor of the Auburn
Engineer, and W. L. Cochran, business
manager, will leave October the
twelfth for Boulder, Colorado where
they will attend the convention of
the Engineering Colleges Magazines
Associated. Chicago is the central
meeting place of all delegates from
the Southern and Eastern part of
the United States, and from this
point a special train will be run
straight through to Colorado. The
Convention is to be held October the
sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth,
the last day being given over
to sight seeing. If the present plans
of the Auburn delegates are carried
out, they will return by way of Kansas
City and St. Louis, arriving in
Opelika, October the twenty-second.
The Engineering Colleges Magazines
Associated is an organization
composed of twenty-three college
technical magazines throughout the
United States, and the Auburn Engineer
has the special honor of being
the only college magazine in the
Southern states that is a member of
this Association.
The first issue of the Auburn Engineer
will be off the press sometime
today; the staff expressed the hope
that the new modernistic cover design
would meet with the approval of
the student body.
31 AUBURN TIGERS LEAVE
FOR FLORIDA THURSDAY
NEWS DEPARTMENT OF
THE PLAINSMAN WILL
MOVE TO NEW OFFICE
Prof. Bloch Instrumental in Obtaining
News Laboratory
Auburn Rotarians Are
Host to Dist. Governor
Joseph A*. Duckworth of Tuscaloosa,
governor of the 26th district of Rotary,
addressed Auburn Rotarians at
their weekly luncheon on Thursday,
delivering a message on the spirit
of Rotary.
The governor sketched the history
of the spread of Rotary from the inception
of the idea 25 years ago to
the present when Rotary has 155,000
members in 3,372 clubs in 64 countries.
The speaker stressed the importance
of Rotary International as a promoter
of international good-will and
world peace, and racial tolerance.
He advised Auburn Rotarians' to
emphasize development of the individual
Rotarian as the theme of their
program for the year.
Following his address the governor
met with the chairmen of the committees
and discussed business details
of the Auburn club.
Visitors were L. J. Lehotay, T. C.
King, Reverand Robert M. Mann of
Opelika, and Harry J. Douce of Birmingham.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
All men who have band instruments
and who desire instruction in
music are requested to report to
Langdon Hall Tuesday afternoon,
Oct. 14, at 4:30 p. m. Please be
prompt.
The news department of The
Plainsman will move jnto its new office
on the second floor of the power
house some time within the next
week. The room is ready for occupancy
with the exception of the eight
typewriters, which will be moved in
over the week end. There will be
a combination lock on the door, and
students in the reporting and editing
sections of journalism, as well as
The Plainsman staff will be furnished
with the combination.
The new office, where the atmosphere
of a technical news laboratory
will be reserved at all times, will be
used jointly by the students in journalism
and news staff of the paper.
Students can get first hand contact
with large metropolitan and all local
newspapers, shelves for thirty of
which have been provided, and two-thirds
of these already filled. During
the past week the dummy of The
Plainsman has been made up in the
new office, and arrangements are
most satisfactory.
In expressing his idea of the future
outlook, Gabie Drey, editor-in-chief,
said, "Until the present time
we have been impeded greatly by
lack of space in which to work as a
whole. In the new. off ice we will be
able to work more as a unit and hope
to put out a better Plainsman."
Professor Bloch will be in and out
of the office at all times during the
day to render whatever aid he may
to members of the staff. In a statement
to the interviewing reporter he
made clear his intentions in. regard
to future plans. "My intention," he
said, "is to cooperate with the staff
in so far as I am able in an advisory
capacity, and to place my students in
practical contact with the activity of
news work. My students will automatically
become Palinsman reporters
upon entering the journalism
course. Eventually, I would like to
see the Plainsman grow into the city
newspaper, instead of just the school
newspaper."
Fifteen Hundred Studes Give
Team Grand Send Off
HARK INS MAY NOT PLAY
Both Foes to Use Notre Dame
System
Champion Log Chopper
To Be Ag. Dept. Guest
Peter McLarin, the world's champion
log chopper, will be at the Agricultural
Engineering Department
Monday evening, October 13, at 4 p.
m., to stage a log chopping contest.
He is advertising axes for the Plumb
Tool Company of Philadelphia, Pa.,
and will give to any contestant $50
who will cut a log in two in one and
one-half the time that it takes him to
perform the operation. All logs will
be equal in size. All wishing to enter
this contest must have their names
turned into the Agricultural Engineering
Department by 8 a. m., October 13.
No admission charges will be made,
and everyone is invited.
With the echoes from the cheers of
1,500 students still ringing in their
ears, the Auburn Tigers entrained for
Jacksonville at 7:58 Thursday night.
The Tigers meet the niversity of Florida
'Gators in Jacksonville, today in
their first conference game for the
current season.
Thirty-one players were taken to
the scene of the battle. With the exception
of an end and a halfback,
three complete teams were carried.
The Auburn traveling party numbered
39.
The probable starters against Florida
have not had much rough work
this week because Coach Wynne could
not take any chances of having any
more of them injured. Some of the
ailing players have a chance to start
against the 'Gators because about the
only work that they have had this
week has been signal practice. Missing
strenuous work will hurt Auburn's
chances of making a creditable showing
against the strong Florida eleven.
At one time, seven regular players
were listed as members of Trainer
Wilbur Hutsell's sick list, bffc this
number has decreased until it now has
the names of only two, Captain Har-kins
and Will Bassett. The Tiger's
brilliant leader, who is one of the
leading centers below the Mason-Dixon
line, might get a chance to start,
but it is very doubtful. His place
will be filled by Lee Johnson, promising
sophomore, if Trainer Hutsell
refuses to release him. Bassett was
injured in scrimmage Tuesday and
is definitely out. He was carried to
Jacksonville.
The workouts in preparation for
Florida .have been long, strenuous and
serious. No loafing has been allowed
as the coaches realize the opposition
that they face today, and have worked
against overwhelming odds in try-
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Auburn Rifle Team To
Begin Practice Monday
The college rifle team will begin
practice Monday, October 13. All
Freshmen desiring to try out for the
team are requested to report to the
Engineer classroom in the North Basement
of Samford Hall on Monday,
October 13, at 4:00 p. m. The first
two weeks, October 13-14, inclusive,
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To Announce Questions
For Collegiate Debate
The question for the men's intercollegiate
debate is to be announced
at a meeting of upperclassmen in
room one in the Power House, October
14th at 5 p. m., according to L. S.
Judson, head of the speech department.
At this same meeting drawing
for sides will be held so as to have
those interested ready for the tryout,
which will be held in the same room
October 28th, at four p. m. It is the
object of the speech department to
make the debate team one of the major
activities on the campus, and with
this in mind, an invitation is extended
to all students interested to be present
at this meeting.
Plans have been made by the speech
department to have a woman's debate
team this year, and instructions regarding
a place will be given at a
meeting of the women students who
are interested in intercollegiate debating
Oct. 15th, at 5 p. m. This
meeting will be held at room one of
the Power House. All women students
are eligible for a place on the
varsity squad, and it is very important
that those interested attend this
meeting.
For any further information concerning
the debate teams or try-outs
for the same, see Professor Judson.
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THE PLAINSMAN
SATURDAY, OCT. 11, 1930
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Published semi-weekly by the students of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn,
Alabama.
Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60
issues). Entered as second class matter
at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala.
Business and editorial offices at Auburn
Printing Co. on Magnolia Street.
Offices hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily.
STAFF
Gabie Drey Editor-in-Chief
Charles S. Davis Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Thomas P. Brown Associate Editor
Robert L. Hume Associate Editor
Victor White Managing Editor
A. C. Cohen News Editor
Claude Currey News Editor
R. K. Sparrow News Editor
Alan Troup Composing Editor
J. R. Chadwick Composing Editor
Adrian Taylor Sports Editor
Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor
K. M. McMillan Literary Editor
REPORTERS
H. W. Moss, '33; J. W. Letson, '33; C. E.
Mathews, '32; Cleveland Adams, '32; V. H.
Kjellman, '33; Otis Spears, 34; S. A. Lacy,,
'33; A. D. Mayo,"'33.
BUSINESS STAFF
Virgil Nunn ..... Asst. Business Mgr.
Ben Mabson Advertising Manager
Roy Wilder Circulation Manager
James Backes . - Asso. Advertising Mgr.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT
R. W. Lauder, '34 L. E. Sellers, '34
C. C. Adams, '34
THE DANCES
The Plainsman joins the rest of the institute
in welcoming to Auburn the girls
" who are here for the opening set of dances.
We hope that they will enjoy the dances,
see all that is good in Auburn, and when it
is all over, they will promise to visit us
again.
It is for the men of Auburn to see whether
or not the girls enjoy the Sophomore Hop
—to see that they will leave here having
seen the Auburn of which we are so proud.
The Social Committee is doing all in its
power to see that everything might run
smoothly. The members have worked for
days preparing for this affair which lasts
only a day and a half. They have done
their part let the students take up where
the committee has left off, and see that
the girls are pleased with Auburn.
"Act Intelligently", as someone has said.
CUTTING CLASSES
This year the faculty seems to be faced
with the same problem that I had faced
for many years, the problem of students
not attending classes without sufficient excuse
for such action, or, as it is termed in
the slang of Auburn, "cutting classes."
It seems as if it is impossible to pound
into the head of the college student of today
that each class he misses actually costs
him money, and the average Auburn man
is certainly no exception to this rule. Many
of the students think that, just because
they are allowed to have a number of excused
absences in any class equal to twenty
per cent of the number of class meetings
during the year, it is up to them to take
this number regardless of the necessity.
To make matters still worse, these allowed
absences are usually all used up during
the first month or two of the semester, with
the result that, if towards the end of the
semester the student falls sick, it results in
his being dropped in a number of his classes.
And, regardless of this, this excessive
cutting makes it impossible for a man to
get everything out of the course that he is
supposed to, as it is impossible to miss
twenty per cent of the lectures on a subject
and still know as much about it as the man
who has made every class.
The Plainsman thinks that this excessive
cutting is due to the lack of foresight on
the part of the students, and that if everyone
would give the matter a little more consideration,
they would see the futility of
such action.
CARE OF UNIFORMS
One of the best looking and smartest
modes of dress on this campus is the gray
uniform issued to the R. 0. T. C. students
by the War Department. When this uniform
is neatly pressed, cleaned, and in good
order, it is unsurpassed by anything on the
campus as far as looks go. However, when
worn in parts, and in a slovenly fashion,
this same uniform can be made a disgrace
and discredit to the college.
One of the main reasons why the former
uniform of olive drab was discarded in favor
of the present gray was because of the
impossibility or improbability of its ever
looking neat. These outfits were merely
handed out to the student without too much
care being taken as to whether a good fit
was secured, and it was left up to the individual
to see to it that the uniform was
altered. The mere fact that it was almost
impossible to make these old uniforms look
decent offered enough discouragement to
the average student to cause him to take
little or no care of it. Last year the military
authorities here decided that if the
men were given a decent-fitting, good looking
uniform, it would encourage them to
keep it nicely cleaned and pressed, and in
good shape at all times. This was done and
for awhile—that is, until the first pressing
and cleaning had worn off, every uniform
was spotless. This year, to further aid the
student in keeping his unifrom neat, the
War Department has made arrangements
with the Ideal Laundry for a pressing
schedule which calls for the delivery of
trousers in one day.
The Plainsman believes that all R. O. T.
C. students should cooperate with the War
Department in its effort to keep the unit
here looking as presentable and smart as
possible.
Letters to the Editor
October 9, 1930
Editor The Plainsman:
I read with a great deal of pleasure in today's
Birmingham News a story to the effect
that the alumni associations of Alabama
and Auburn would seek to promote an
Auburn-Alabama football game next year.
To me, this is good news, because I have
realized for a long time that a resumation
of athletic relationship between the two
schools would be a decided benefit to both.
Just because a bunch of students attending
Auburn and Alabama years ago had a
free-for-all which necessitated severance of
athletic relationship is no reason why we
should be deprived of seeing a football game
every year that would be most colorful. I
within the student bodies of these institu-believe
a consensus of opinion existing
within the student bddies of these institutions
would strongly favor the suggestion
made by the Birmingham alumni associations,
and in order to really put the thing
over, we, as students here at Auburn,
should declare ourselves in the form of a
published petition or by ballot.
I hope that something will be done here to
let the people of the state know that this
student body stands ready to play Alabama
next year. Fans over the state would travel
many miles to see this game, and with
the concurrence of the student bodies and
alumni associations there is no reason why
we should not see a packed stadium next
year at this game.
I hope that you agree with me and that
you, through your editorial policy, will see
fit to champion the cause of a game with
Alabama next year. .
Anonymous.
October 10, 1930
Editor, The Plainsman:
Have you ever tried to cross the campus
during a rain, or when the ground is wet
due to recent showers?
If you have ever attempted to go from
the Administration Building to Ramsay or
Broun Halls, or to the old architecture
building, or any of the buildings in that
vicinity, you will understand me when I
say that the roads and walks are FIERCE.
Auburn is in the midst of the part of
Alabama known for its red clay; the clay
is bad enough in dry weather, but in wet
weather, it is soggy, slippery, and extremely
messy.
The recent rains have again reminded us
that it is high time that something be done
toward repairing the poor connecting links.
Why doesn't the administration get busy
and have these several roads and walks
fixed? The grassy puddles, the miniature
torrents, bumpy and slippery roads, and
the messy red clay are disgraces to the
campus.
Yours truly,
J. D. Hawkshaw.
My Opinion
By Vasili Leonidaitch
October 10, 1930.
Editor, The Plainsman:
There has been much controversy among
several of us as to what is done with the
activity fee paid by every student upon the
act of registering.
The student pays seven dollars and a
half each semester—fifteen dollars for the
year. Will you tell us just what is done
with the money?
We think that athletic books, Glomerata,
The Plainsman, and Y. M .C. A. fees are
taken from this sum, but we want to know
just how the fee is divided.
Very truly yours,
SENIORS.
The student's ability can be measured
very well, but me have no methods of comparable
validity for guaging interest and
opportunity. These factors, however, cannot
be neglected, for they account for a
large percentage of scholastic failures.—
D. T. Howard.
It is not the science of medicine from
which we suffer, but rather a seriously
faulty organization of medical service.—
Evans Clark.
It costs the City of New Tfork $930,000
a day to operate its public school system,
and the figure is expected to reach a million
dollars in the near future.
THE lace-wearing amoeba is here.
Their soft delicacy and affected
' sweetness is enough to make a stoic
Leonduitich want to turn handsprings and
dance around in his pajamas. What is this
strange power woman has? A very common-
place campus becomes socially animated
overnight just because a few bits of
silk and female what-not have come to
town. Yet they bring sunshine—replace
the morbid grind of classes with carefree
laughter and sparkling gaiety. Riding on
this tide of infatuation, I shout welcome!
* * * * * c
In connection with the dances, I wish
to give my unqualified recommendation to
Dick Donovan's slogan of "Be Intelligent."
Somewhere in the acquisition of our warped
tradition, Auburn men have gotten the
idea that the success of the dances is to be
estimated in gallons.
* * * * *
Wednesday afternoon I had the occasion
to witness the superb triumph of realism
in cinema art. Depicting the horrors of
war at the expense of patriotism, the picture
"All Quiet On The Western Front"
is an irrestable plea for pacificism.
* * * * *
Although not a victim, I have been hearing
almost universal complaints about one
of the public speaking professors. It is
true that allowances must be made for student's
opinion as to a professor's method
of instruction, yet unanimous disapproval
at least warrants an investigation. Possibly
southern students are different—even
in color.
Book Review
THE DEATH OF A HERO
By Aichard Aiding, Covici Friede Inc.
Review by Haakon Provost
" . . . . but in an 1890 marriage there was
such a lot of Luv and God that there was
no room for common sense, . . . . or any of
the knowledge we vile decadents think necessary
in men and women. Sweet Isabel,
dear George Augustus! They were so
young, so innocent, so pure. And what hell
do you think is befitting the narrow-minded,
slush-gutted, bug-whiskered or jet-bonneted
he-and she-hypocrites who sent them to
their doom? O Timon, Timon, had I thy
rhetoric! Who dares, who dares, in purity
of man hood stand upright, and say . . . .
Let me not rave, sweet gods, let me not
rave."
George Winterbourne was an extremely
liberal-minded young man who attempted to
put into practice his ideals of free love and
sex equality. He married, and all went well
until his wife learned of his promiscuity.
Although she had many liaisons herself, she
could not bear the thought of her husband's
infidelity. George goes to war, and returning
is treated coldly by his wife and
paramour who had quarreled over him.
George feels this frigidity keenly and is
sent back to France broken-hearted. Exhausted,
harried by petty orders, and overcome
by neurasthenia, he is killed a few
days before the Armistice.
Addington's book is written in an interesting
style, and his arguments are most
forceful. He seems to feel deeply the utter
senselessness of war; children are
brought into the world, reared, and educated,
only to fall helplessly into a pool of
blood on a Continental battle field.
A potential picture of the end of Victorian
Conventionalism, The Death of A
A Hero, occupys a front rank among the
contemporary war novels.
-:* AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
The Gazook
I'm the gazook who is never on time. I'm
always l^te in getting up in the morning
and I run on the same schedule for the rest
of the day. I never get to classes on time,
but I think my prof should wait for me
because I am a college student and I know
more than the average man.
The only reason I can give for being late
is a woman's reason, and that is "just
because."
I think the world would have been better
off if I only had been late when I was born.
That would have been so late that I would
have never even been born.
I know this is not a good policy, but
people will get used to me in a short time,
or I'll be like the little bug that was left
out in the cold.
There are so many good coaches around
now, so many smart ones, who have studied
and learned from all the leading teachers
of football science, that material (in a
team) usually tells the story. And by material
you must count in not only quality,
but also quantity. —Grantland Rice.
Harmon and Quinlivan, noted musicians and electrical engineers, will forsake
this fair village this week-end. They will take a little trip to the city noted for its
high flying buzzards to see young ladies down there.
* * * * * * * * *
Now that the young ladies are in town, the average Auburnite will toss aside
his week-day attire and wear his "Sunday-go-to-Meeting" suit.
* * * * * * * * *
Professor: Have I ever told this joke before?
Chorus: Yes.
"Then perhaps you will understand it this time."
—Ex.
* * * * * * * * *
THE DAWN OF AUBURN
Victory, victory, the same glad song as sung of old.
We've waited four long years, dreary, dark and cold.
To sing the victor's song. And now perchance, at last
We'll sing that song. Forget the gloomy, sordid past.
The clouds are thinning, ere long the pass of njght.
The dawn is nearing, and anon we'll see the light.
The light appears, and brings our long hoped dreams.
The DAWN of Auburn. The night has passed it seems.
HIC, HIC, '31
* * * * * * * * *
L. S. Camp and Jimmie Cochran, big engineering journal publishers, are pushing
for points north and west. They will stop off in Chicago to learn how to use
a gat in getting subscribers and advertisers. Camp has recently been very upset
due to the fact that he doesn't seem to be able to locate or hear from his girl. We
wonder if he's thinking of goobers? Cochran continues to make it a point to be out
of Auburn every week-end, dividing his time between Columbus and Montgomery.
What Power!
* * * * * * * * *
• AMBITION
Alas for them whose lots bewail,
And let the fates decree
The course of life that they must sail
On time's eventful sea.
Like shifting sand is shifting life,
Unless our time we bide,
And pause to combat storm and strife,
And rise to stem the tide.
When drifting downward with the streams
We eddy toward the shoals,
And never realize our dreams,
Nor cross the once sought goals.
HIC-HIC, '31
* * * * * * * * *
Those five cent milkshakes at the Sandwich Shop will be a big step towards
the revival of "Gedunking," which is nothing more than dipping a slice of cake
in the milkshake by a sudden swoop of the arm. The swoop, when ones desires
to "Gedunk" properly, should start a"bout two and a half feet above the glass.
& WITH OTHER COLLEGES -:-
There is. only one possible permissible intellectual
force and that is persuasion, and
to suppress any man's opinion is tyranny.
—A. Quiller-Couch.
We are probably killing the race off faster
than ever in history.—Clarence Darrow.
HIGHER LEARNING
With the "Tower of Learning", or "Cathedral
of Learning", at the University of
Pittsburgh rapidly nearing completion, and
plans being made for the erection of a 25-
store educational center in New York City,
American education is continually getting
more up in the air.
The New York educational skyscraper
is to cost about four million dollars, and
will house the Board of Education and considerable
museum space.—Technique.
* * * * *
GIRLS ATTEND GAME
Students of Greenville Woman's College
were the guests of Furman University at
the Furman-Newberry football game last
Thursday night on Manly field. The students
were given a special section of seats
adjoining those of the Furman men. Very
convenient. Much interest was shown by
the girls, who aided materially by their
cheering the Furman team.
Officials of both schools stated that they
were pleased with the arrangements that
made it possible for G. W. C. students to
attend the game here. Why can't we ship
Woman's College over here for our next
game?—That's true too.
* * * * *
WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT IT
Our word "school" was derived from a
Greek word which means leisure. And has
not the meaning undergone a fearful
change! We grant that school days are
happy days, but we don't always see that
they are leisurely. For we who are in
school now know that we lead the busiest
life possible. There is something to be
done every minute! If it isn't one thing,
it's another—classes, lessons, gym, meetings,
always something. The sad part is
that duties demand more time than there is.
Just to come near "breaking even" requires
the maddest dashing about. It has recently
been pointed out to some of us that people
who bustle, scurry, and hurry hither
and yon present a ridiculous spectacle. Nobody
enjoys being ridiculous. —Sundial.
True sister.
* * * * *
LET'S CHEWS UP
A resolution recently adopted by the university
students at Bebreczin, Hungary, urging
to provide more severe punishments for
government officials of all categories who
accept bribes or who defraud the government
in any way, was gotten through.
* * * * *
BEER AND MORE BEARDS
Last year the progressive undergraduates
of Dartmouth stoutly advocated a return to
sensible dress for men. So convinced were
they of the need for such a reform that
they emerged publicly adorned in shorts. A
similar return to classic attire is suggested
by the professor who states that beards for
college men are coming back. Without
stopping to neumerate the numerous disadvantages
of a return to hirsute chins, we
might say that we are willing to -go back
to the beards of the '80's, if at the same
time we might have real beer again ill which
to dip them.
The moral is go the limit. Therefore,
beards and beer.
* * * * *
SMART MAN
Jewish students at Harvard were given
the opportunity to dictate their answers to
proctors in divisional examinations held
recently. This arrangement was made when
the Jews protested that it was a violation
of their religious code to write on Yom
Kippur.
At first the Jewish students asked for a
postponement of the examination. Dean
Alfred C. Hanford denied the request and
rules that they must either take the examination
or wait another year for their degrees.
All Harvard seniors must pass the
divisional examinations in order to graduate.—
Columbia Spectator.
* * * * *
ROCHESTER U. MOVES
The College for Men of the University
of Rochester opened this year in its new
$10,000,000 quarters on a former golf
course. The university's old quarters have
been given over to the College for Women.
* * * * *
$12,500,000,000 FOR AUTOS
Figures which have been compiled by the
Research Division of the National Education
Association indicate that Americans
spend more than five times as much for
passenger automobiles each as they do for
the education of their children in the public
schools.
In 1928 the country spent less than $2,-
500,000,000 for public education below the
college grade, while it spent $12,500,000,000
for motor cars. The survey further indicated
that three times as much as was
spent on education was spent on tobaccco,
candy soft drinks and amusements of various
sorts.
* * * * *
LACK OF CONCENTRATION
Lack of concentration is the greatest
handicap which high school students have
when entering college, it was found by
Pennsylvania State College authorities in
a questionnaire sent to students here.
Other difficulties which the freshmen revealed
were lack of knowledge of how to
study, of how to budget working time, of
how to choose among the various subjects
on the curriculum.
* * * * *
Prof.—"It gives me great pleasure to give
you a mark of 91."
Stude—"Make it 100 and have a good
time."
CHAFF
By Dick Donovan
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.
* * * * *
I am one of the best columnists that I
have ever read, although at times I can't
think of anything to write.
* * * * *
Everything in this column is my own
opinion, unless I say something someone
else said.
* * * * *
When I go to Europe, I am going to
Paris the first thing, and have a date with
someone. A girl is preferable.
* * * * *
I can't understand why corn liquor always
hurts my throat.
* * * * *
•I like to have a hilarious, rip-snorting,
bush-whacking good time about once a year.
All other times I am as meek as a lamb.
* * * * *
I think that students should have to pay
at the first of the school year for their pictures
to be put in the Glomerata. Add it
to their fees and I think the majority would
have it taken if for no other reasan than
to get their money's worth.
* * * * *
I have always had a hard time trying to
speak to everyone that I meet when walking
up the street. I have' decided that I will
always speak to those who see me the same
time I see them.
* * * * *
I predict a scandal on the campus before
two months have elapsed.
* * * * *
Wonder if some of the intermission boys
would serve themselves if the hardware
stores were left open at night. They most
likely would. One or two served themselves
golf balls and clubs last year from the head
office of the Tiny Tiger links.
* * * * *
The Interfraternity Council may suggest
that having in fraternity houses be abolished.
They would not have to take the
idea from this column.
* * * * *
Have you ever heard of books not booked?
There are real books stored away in
the third story of the library not yet booked,
telling great things about our country.
* * * * *
The following is taken from a letter that
I received from a friend who left the South
to attend a Northern university.
Dear Dick:
Sloppy and I have an apartment with
a boy named Tom who went to Vandy.
We have a h— of a nice apartment.
We have a living room, a large bedroom
with three beds, study tables, wardrobes,
and a private tile batR" with hot
and cold water at all times. We also
have steam heat and a gas log in the
fire place to use when the weather is
cool. A radio, victrola, shower and
maid service is also furnished us, and
nearly everything one would want.
Bed linen, and cover are also furnished
us. Our laundry is taken out and in
and we never have to fool with that. I
tell you, it beats living in a fraternity
house by a mile; it is just like home,
and you can do exactly as you wish.
Boy, I'm telling you, this law is plen-hard.
We have forty pages of cases
every day, but it is interesting as h—
and I surely do like it. We have justices
of the courts to teach us and if
you think they don't know their business
then you are plenty wrong. I
want over to the Naval Academy Saturday
afternoon to see the Navy play
William and Mary, it was a good game.
They had a swell tea dance after the
game and my two friends at the Academy
really showed me around. We live
for the week-ends up here because we
don't have classes so we do most of our
- playing around then. We really have
to keep our noses to the rock during the
week though. I am going to New York
the first time I get the chance, it only
cost five dollars round trip. I am keeping
up with Auburn this year and no
one hopes more than I do that she will
come out victorious this season.
Your Buddy.
Directors of the West Texas Chamber
of Commerce are reported to be planning
to bring a million dollar suit against publishers
of geographies making "scandalously
and damagingly untrue descriptions of
West Texas territory."
Seventy per cent of the English speaking
people of the world live on the North American
continent, and 60 per cent of them live
in the United States.
. Professor Rostovsef, of Yale University,
has discovered that beer originated in the
Rhineland town of Treves.
Ten thousand students have enrolled in
Columbia University's 1930-31 correspondence
school.
SATURDAY, OCT. U , 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
INEZ SHEPPARD
Editor
Phone 251-J SOCIETY AND FEATURES This Department Open
From 11 A. M. to 5 P. M.
Daily
HIRSUTE RAVINGS
Of decorations most inane,
'Most likely to be laughed 'n' jeered;
Both idiotic and insane,
Think I the worst of these, a beard.
Who hasn't seen some worthless bum
Who's very soul's by hell been seared,
Deficient mentally, and dumb,
Appearing with a beard.
A beautiful woman like milk-white
dove,
Adoring a man, to him endeared
Would change about, renounce her
love
Should that poor mortal grow a
beard.
—A. & M. Reflector.
L o c a l C h a p t e r of
D. A. R. H a s M e e t i ng
D. A. R. met with Mrs. Hay on
Wednesday afternoon. A most interesting
paper was given by Mrs. Lang-ston
on "McDonald, Prime Minister
of England". Miss Martin Ugent
presided and a most delightful program
was carried out. The hostesses
were Mesdames Hay, Crenshaw, and
Moore.
W. M. S. H o l d s R e g u l ar
B u s i n e s s M e e t i ng
The W. M. S. held its usual month
ly business meeting Monday afternoon
at three o'clock in the Sunday
School rooms of the Baptist church.
Mrs. J. T. Williamson presided and
there was a good attendance.
Three Departmemts of
Woman's Club
Meet
Three departments of the Woman's
Club held their first meeting of the
year, Thursday, October 2. The meetings
were well attended and gave
promise of an interesting andxactive
year.
The Art Department met at the
home of Mrs. C. R. Hixon. The subject
chosen for study during the year
is "Art in America." Mrs. John E.
Ivey was in charge of the program
Thursday. She gave a brief review
of American Sculptors, in which she
was assisted by several members of
the department.
The Department of Home Economics
met at the home of Mrs. H. Carlo-vitz
with Mrs. A. H. Collins serving
as joint hostesses. The subject for
discussion was "Financing the Home"
and was led by Mrs. Martin Beck.
An innovation intended to create a
larger interest on the part of those
interested in music, but unable to attend
afternoon sessions, was an evening
meeting at the home of Mrs. A.
D. Lipscomb, with Mrs. Noel C. Van
Wagenen as joint hostess. The husbands
of club members were present
as guests.
The program was in charge of Mrs.
H. O. Hoffsommer and Mrs. E. S.
Winters, the subject being "Music
and the Dance." Mrs. Hoffsommer
gave a brief description of the music
of characteristic dances of many countries,
which was illustrated by Mrs.
Winters at the piano.
The club luncheon, an annual event
look forward to "by all members, will
be held at the Baptist church on
Thursday, October 9, at 12:45 p. m.,
at which time the work for the year
will be outlined and a welcome extended
to new members by the president,
Mrs. C. A. Basore.
PERSONAL
MENTION
Trade with our advertisers.
Miss Margaret McCounach is ill in
the hospital.
* * *
Mrs. Townsley has called a meeting
of the A. A. U. W. for Thursday
evening.
* * *
Coke Mathews of Birmingham, a
graduate of 1929, was a visitor in the
city the past week.
* * *
S i g m a P h i B e ta
A n n o u n c e s P l e d g es
The Sigma Phi Beta announces as
its pledges the following: Allis Jo
Mallette, Troy, Alabama; Julia Jester,
Camp Hill, Alabama; Ann Epperson,
Havana, Alabama; Ann Mason,
Athens, Alabama; Bama Lyn Ayres,
Fayette, Alabama; Verna Patterson,
Watson, Alabama; Hester Sherfey,
New Orleans, Louisiana; Jessie Mae
Carroll, Clayton, Alabama; and Marguerite
Cromartic, Bay Minette, Alabama.
Luncheon is Feature of
Business Meeting of
Woman's Club
The Auburn Woman's Club held
its, annual business meeting at a
luncheon in the Auburn Baptist
Church, Thursday. Mrs. C. A. Basore,
president, presided. The program
opened with the introduction of
officers who made short talks. They
were Mrs. B. R. Showalter, first
vice-president; Mrs. J. W. Scott, second
vice-president; Mrs. H. W.
Adams, secretary; Mrs. Welborn
Jones, treasurer; Mrs. M. L. Beck,
auditor; and Mrs. L. A. Ward, chairman
of ways and means.
Music by Mrs. Earl Hazel followed
and the chairmen of departments
were introduced as follows: Mrs. p. 0 . Davis and John T. Kennedy.
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Masculine spirit is aroused thru-out
the country and a call is hereby
issued for all good men to rally
round the banner an defend the last
stronghold occupied by the male sex,
which at one time dominated the
world. Beards, according to Professor
P. H. Nystrom of Columbia,
speaking before the American Beauty
Congress, will appear again this year.
For if the prediction of Professor
Nystrom holds true, "when Spring
rolls round again next year" underbrush
Will hide the faces of men.
It is the one possible refuge of
hunted man from the devastating
mimicking of women. Here is one
fad that the male element of the
species may adopt without fear of being
copied by the weaker sex.
There are, of course, arguments on
both sides of the question. During
cold weather it might be particularly
annoying to find one's words lodging
in the spinach and freezing there.
One anti-beardist went so far as-to
cite the example of the reformer who
after issuing a series of epithets while
out of doors, was considerably disgruntled
twenty minutes later. He
hadn't noticed that the ill chosen
words had frozen in his beard, and
consequently when he was about to
begin his speech before a meeting of
the W. C. T. U. the profane words
dislodged by the warmth of the room,
flowed forth.
But there are just as many arguments
on the other side of the question.
Beards are unusually useful
affairs. Instructor Kinne of the
French Department gained considerable
enjoyment out of an anemiac
goatee, until forced to shave it off
because of uncomplimentary comment.
If nervous, the wearer can
pull at it to his heart's content; if
a philosopher, he can look much
wiser and, if a historian, he could
settle once and for all the question
of whether or not one sleeps with the
beard under or over the covers. Imagine
the added prestige Al Capone
would have if he possessed an imposing
underbrush covering.
Finally, a theme song will be used.
It is written along the lines of the
popular "Let's Do It," and starts
something like this, "The Soviets do
it, the Bolsheviks do it, come on let's
do it." v Little more need be said.
—Columbia Spectator.
W. A. Ruffin, civics and health; Mrs.
W. D. Salmon, education; Mrs. Homer
Carlovitz, home economics; Mrs.
Leo Gosser, literature; Mrs. Beulah
Clarke Van Wagenen, music; and
Mrs. R. L. Johns, art.
An interesting report was that of
Miss Zoe Dobbs who reported for the
committee on scholarship. She said
that the club has loaned more than
$1,600 to students during the last
seven years and that $800 of this
has been returned. Miss Polly Wat-kins
now holds the woman's club
scholarship.
Reporting for other committees
were Mrs. J. T. Kennedy, social service;
Mrs. M. J. Funchess, cemetery;
Mrs. C. R. Hixon, year book; Mrs.
Fred Allison, budget; Mrs. J. C.
Grimes, luncheon; and Mrs. B. F.
Thomas, reciprocity.
Mrs. Basore and Mrs. P. O. Davis
were elected delegates to the fifth
district federation meeting at Ramer,
October 29 and 30.
Following the musical selection by
Mrs. Rauber, other prominent club
women were introduced and spoke
briefly. These included , Mrs. Bradford
Knapp, state chairman of the
department of the American home;
Mrs. Havenden of Iowa, Mrs. Knapp's
guest; Mrs. J. M. Burke of Opelika
state president of the United Daughters
or the Confederacy; Mrs. P. O.
Davis, chairman of the Lee County
Federation; Miss Mary Martin, president
of the Alabama Library Association;
and Mrs. T. D. Samford of
Opelika.
Miss Louise P. Glanton made a report
on the International Congress
on family education which met 'in
Belgium last summer, v
Past presidents introduced included
Mrs. Zebulon Judd, Mrs. C. A.
Cary, Mrs. Clara Yarbrough, Mrs. S.
L. Toomer, and Mrs. Fred Allison.
Greetings were extended to Mrs.
Herman Jones who was attending her
first Auburn club meeting in two
years. Mrs. Jones has been living in
Mexico City, Mexico.
Mrs. C. C. Brooks was introduced
as chairman of decorations for the
occasion. She received high praise
because of the beauty of the decorations.
The club was silent for one-half
minute in honor of Mrs. Clifford
Hare and Mrs. John D. Shaver, deceased.
Guests included Mrs. C. W. Stewart
and Mrs. T. H. Floyd of Tallas-see.
Mrs. Toomer and Mrs.
Hill Entertain
Mrs. S. L. Toomer and Mrs. W. W.
Hill entertained Wednesday at a
lovely tea complimenting Mrs. J. H.
Havenden and Mrs. Jasper Groves at
the beautiful home of Mrs. Toomer.
The guests were met at the door
by Mrs. John J. Wilmore and Mrs.
B. L. Shi, and were shown into the
reception hall by Mrs. B. H. Crenshaw
and Mrs. Lazarus. The hostesses
and honorees were in the living
room; Mrs. C. R. Hixon, Mrs. B.
F. Thomas, and Mrs. M. J. Funchess
also assisted in the living room and
I m p o r t a n c e of H e a l th
D i s c u s s e d A t M e e t i ng
The importance of better health
was the theme of the program for
the regular monthly meeting of the
Auburn Business, and Professional
Woman's Club, Tuesday, Oct. 7.
Speakers were Miss Tommie H. Graham,
of Opelika, Lee County Health
nurse, and Mrs. H. C. Hoffsommer,
of Auburn.
Miss Graham discussed the diet,
regularity of habits, and other things
conducive to health which she said
was essential to success in business as
well as to happiness.
Mrs. Hoffsommer emphasized the
Mesdames Herman Jones, Fred Allison,
Wright, Lan Lipscomb, King,
John Scott, C. A. Basore, John Ivey,
sun parlor. In the dining-room were | importance of exercise. She stated
that to be beneficial exercise must
be enjoyable and urged her listeners
to develop a hobby which they would
find not only a source of pleasure but
also a benefit to their health.
Miss Annie Jones, chairman of the
club health committee, was in charge
of the program.
Plans for education week in November
were announced and explained
by Mrs. T. B. McDonald, super-
DEAN OF NEW JERSEY
COLLEGE FOR WOMEN SAYS
STUDENTS NOT RADICAL
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New Brunswick, N. J.— ( I P )—
Writing in "Deans at Work," Miss
Leah Boddie, dean of the New Jersey
College for Women here asserts
that college students are not at all
the wild-eyed radicals they some
times are pictured to be, but expresses
the belief that they desire
change only for the future benefit of
humanity. „
She believes student bodies represent
the same variety of thinkers that
any other groups do. Thus, she believes,
the college campus has its
student minds ranging all the way
from the most radical to the most
conservative.
M u s i c D e p a r t m e nt
t o E n t e r t a in
The Music Department of the Woman's
Club of Auburn will entertain
the Fourth District Music Club of the
State Music Federation on Tuesday,
October 21, meeting at the Baptist
Church at ten a. m.
Luncheon will be served at 12:30,
tickets for which can be purchased
from Mrs. S. L. Toomer, Mrs. Hark-ins,
or Mrs. High.
After the luncheon, a musicale will
be given by Mr. J. W. Brigham and
others. A drive over Auburn at 3
p. m. will conclude the program. The
public is invited to the musicale as
guests.
B r i d g e C l u b Is
E n t e r t a i n e d S a t u r d ay
Mrs. J. L. Seale and Mrs. Grimes
were joint hostesses, on last Saturday
night at the home of Mrs. Sealer
when the bridge club entertained
their husbands.
The house was beautifully decorated
throughout with flowers and ferns.
A two course dinner was served
after which bridge was enjoyed. Mr.
and Mrs. Grimes received the award
for high score.
Giant dahlias in shades of pink
and lavender, and pink and lavender
tapers adorned the dining room. Cosmos
in pale pink and in deeper pink
were in the hall, and bowls of lavender
and purple dahlias in the living
room. Tall gorgeous baskets of yellow
dahlias and ferns were artistically
arranged in the sun parlor.
Refreshments were served from
the table cornered with a beautiful
imported tea cloth centered with silver
baskets of dahlias. Dainty cakes,
French pastry, and sundae were served
with coffee and confections.
D i s t r i c t A s s o c i a t i o n s of
B a p t i s t C h u r c h M e e ts
The District Association of the
Baptist Church held its quarterly
meeting at the Second Avenue Baptist
Church in Opelika on last Wednesday,
October the eighth. In the
absence of the president of the association,
Mrs. N. D. Denson, Mrs.
Vernon presided. Mrs. Haygood of
Montgomery was the speaker of the
occasion and a delightful program
was carried out. Lunch was served
at twelve-thirty after which there
was a short business meeting before
adjournment.
Professor Raymond Moley, of the
Department of Public Law at Columbia
University has recommended that
a broader education be accorded students
studying to be lawyers.
visor of Lee County Schools.
The meeting was presided over by
Mrs. A. F. Nickel, president, and
visitors were Miss Sarah Hall Crenshaw,
Mrs. S. F. Brewster, Mrs. C. C.
Brooks, and Mrs. T. B. Jackson.
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ago, has raised one million dollars
for new quarters.
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Graves, Tad McCallum, assistants.
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Auburn Varsity Meets Florida As
Tiger Frosh Battle 'Gator Freshies
By Elmer G. Salter
Auburn and Florida will meet
twice on the gridiron Saturday. Jack
Cannon's and Brady CowelFs frosh
teams will meet here on Drake Field
at 2:30 p. m., while the two varsity
teams are battling in Jacksonville.
The Tigers will be opening their conference
slate, while the 'Gators will
be meeting their second S. C. opponent
of the season, easily disposing
of the North Carolina State grid-ders
last week.
Coach Chet Wynne will send his
Plainsmen into the game with Florida
in a crippled condition. Captain
Dunham Harkins leads the injured
list. In addition to the cut received
over his eye which required three
stitches, the Tigers outstanding leader
also received a back injury in the
Spring Hill game which makes it
very probable that he will not be
able to see service in the initial
conference tilt for his mates.
Will Bassett, halfback, received an
injury in the second scrimmage of
the week which definitely stamped
him as a member of the ailing list
for the Jacksonville fracas. The loss
of this sophomore ball carrier is
quite a blow to the team as he was
a sensation his freshman-year and
was just rounding into form after
a mediocre start. He is well remembered
in Gainesville as one of the
members of Coach Earl McFaden's
1929 plebe eleven that helped, wreck
the Baby 'Gators. He has been used
as a substitute this year, but there
really isn't any eleven men on the
team who can call themselves first
stringers. A team using the Notre
Dame system has a varsity squad.
Chas. Kaley, another halfback, is
definitely out of Saturday's clash.
He is confined to his room with the
'flu."
The loss of both Bassett and Kaley
from the halfback list leaves only
four halfbacks who have had experience
and seen some service in
the two games played by the Plainsmen
this season. Lindley Hatfield,
Jimmie Hitchcock, Leo Young and
Football Relations With
U. of Fla. Began 1912
By Elmer G. Salter
Gridiron relations between the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute and the
University of Florida began in 1912
when the Plainsmen won a hard
fought battle, 27 to 13.
The Tigers and 'Gators met for
six time in a row after the initial
game, with the roamers of the forest
victors six times.
The two teams failed to meet each
other after the 1917 tilt until 1927
when moleskin festivities were resumed
in the Loveliest Village. H.
L. Sebring's strong eleven marred
homecoming for the Bengals in 1927
when they returned to Gainesville
on the large end of 33 to 6 score.
This was the last game that Dave
Morey served as head coach at Auburn.
In 1928, the two teams met in
Gainesville and last season they battled
«ach other in Montgomery.
Florida won both affairs, 27 to 0 and
19 to 0.
Auburn has doubled Florida in
scoring, annexing 203 points, while
the Saurians have accumulated 14
touchdowns for a total of 92 markers.
"Results of past meetings:
Year Auburn Florida
1912 . . . . . 27 13 •
1913 55 0
1914 20 "0
1915 . . / . . . 7 0
1916 . . . . . 20 0
1917 68 0
1927 6 33
1928 . . . . . 0 27
1929 0 . 19
1930 ? ?
Kenneth Phipps are the only halfbacks
on the roster who have been
used in games.
Every player in uniform on Drake
Field is being put to work by the
trio of mentors. A scrimmage between
the probable starters against
the Bachman eleven and the frosh
and rough work between two teams
picked from the remaining members
of the varsity squad in progress
at the \ same time. Coach Wynne
was in charge of the varsity-frosh
affair and Coaches Kiley and Mc-
Faden the latter.
Before the skirmishes started,
Hitchcock, Davidson, Tamplin and
Jenkins did some punting; the linemen
were sent through a short drill
lunging under a rope, then the
guards and tackles were paired off
and practiced offensive and defensive
work against each other, while
the ends tried their hand at blocking
Coach Kiley. While the linesmen
were receiving -strenuous work,
Coach Wynne had the backs at the
other end of the field polishing up
on plays they have been taught.
Coach Kiley, who was one of the
best flankmen in the universe during
his playing career at Notre.
Dame, has a rule that if the ends
can block him out of a play, then
they are fairly good. That is correct
because he still possesses some
of the tricks which caused him to be
recognized by Grantland Rice and
the late Walter Camp. Porter Grant
was the most effective in putting his
tutor to the ground.
Realizing that the rodents have
got a lot of work to be done before
they will be able to make a creditable
showing against the Baby Gators,
Coaches Cannon and Baskin
are working their Cubs overtime.
Darkness has found them on the
field every practice this week.
The rats were not impressive in
the 0-0 game with Birmingham-
Southern, which accounts for their
mentors working them every afternoon
until after dark.
What little signs of hope they
flashed against the Baby Panthers
were jotted down by Coach Nash
Higgins, Florida scout, so they will
have to learn new tricks and polish
up on the plays" that they have been
directed - to use, if they make a
creditable showing Saturday.
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Birmingham Alumni To
Discuss Way to Resume
Relations With U. of A.
Plans for bringing about a renewal
of athletic relations between the
University of Alabama and Alabama
Polytechnic Institute will be discussed
at a smoker to be held by the
Birmingham Alumni Association of
the former school at Highland Park
Country Club at 7:30 p. m. Friday.
Committees to proceed with the
movement will be appointed with
many of the alumni holding hopes of
a Thanksgiving Day game between
the two schools next year, although
Alabama is under a five-year contract
with Vanderbilt for Thanksgiving
games.
Resumption of relations was discussed
at the last meeting of the
alumni association, the discussion
being continued until the coming
meeting in order to obtain a larger
attendance, association officers said.
The Birmingham association has
not taken the matter up with the
heads of either school and. some of
the alumni officers expressed doubt
that anything definite could result.
Alabama and Auburn severed athletic
relations after a football game
in 1906 and have not met since.
Holt McDowelll is president of the
Birmingham Alumni Association of
the university, while Walter Henley
heads the Auburn alumni.
—Birmingham News.
Rats Put Through Hard Workouts
In Preparation for Game Saturday
Coach Chet Wynne's Auburn Tigers
will be playing in Jacksonville
Saturday, but Drake Field will not
be lonesome. The Tiger Cubs will
meet the University of Florida frosh
at 2:30. Like the varsity, the Orange
and Blue rodents are opening their
conference schedule against Florida.
Coaches Jack Cannon and Weems
Baskin used practically their whole
squad in the game last Saturday with
the Baby Panthers from Birmingham-
Southern, tprobably because
they wanted to get a slight idea concerning
the showings some of the
players would make under fire.
The cubs failed to make much of
an impression in their season's
debut, so their mentors have scheduled
hard and strenuous work for
every after noon' this week. Darkness
finds the frosh squad working
hard.
The Baby Gators are coached by
Brady Cowell, whose freshman teams
have compiled a record of 31 victories,
nine losses and three ties in the
last eight years that he has coached
plebes at the Gainesville institution.
Cowell is going to try and inspire his
1930 eleven enough to avenge the defeat
handed his proteges last year by
Coach Earl McFaden's strong first-year
team.
The present members of the squad
are: centers: O'Neal, Chrietzberg
and Weaver; guards: Crossland, Jacobs,
Woodall, Searcy, Danlutti and
Chambless; tackles: Burleson, Burge,
Wible, Baxley, Holmes, Ellis and
Nobinger; ends: McCollum, Ariel,
Green, Blunt, Daniels, Randolph and
Huggins; quarterbacks: Williams, Mc-
Carley, Baker and Head; halfbacks:
Rogers, Adams, Kimbrell, Neal,
Phipps, Hicks and Dupree; fullbacks:
Talley, Bumpers and Talley.
Picking the starting lineup against
Florida -is rather difficult, but it
would not be surprising if the players
who started against Southern were
not given the early assignments.
The team that started against
Southern and probable starting lineup
against Florida is: Green and McCollum,
ends; Wible and Burge,
tackles; Crossland and Jacobs,
guards; Weaver, center; Head, quarterback;
Adams and Rogers, halfbacks,
and Bumpers, fullback.
Various authorities have found
that a business depression tends to
increase greatly the number of students
in educational institutions of
every sort. • .
Gold several centuries old is possessed
by a strange band of gypsies
in Rumania.
The three men pictured above are
members of Coach Wynne's varsity
squad. John Wilson, powerful tackle,
earned his letter during the past season.'
Wilson is very aggressive and
fast, and should have a good year
again at tackle.
Ralph Jordan is another hard working
lad, playing center. Jordan is
a versatile athlete, as he is Captain of
the basketball team, and a member
of the baseball squad.
Willie Roe Tamplin, diminutive
quarterback, is another excellent reserve.
Tamplin is especially good at
kicking, and is fast and a good passer.
GRIDIRON QUINTESSENCE
By ADRIAN TAYLOR;
Probably the most pleasant sur
prise of the past Saturday's gridiron
schedule, was Vanderbilt's decisive
victory over the strong Minnesota
team.
Although, the Minnesota team was
handicapped by injuries to Anderson
and Al Krezowski, ends, and the sick'
ness of Riebeth, star bach, the Bad
gers were picked to defeat the South
erners. However, Coach Dan McGu-gin
had thoroughly prepped his team
with Minnesota's style of play, the
McGuginites, with Parker playing a
prominent part, smothered Minneso
ta's famous triple passes. The Vandy
team took advantage of every break
and defeated the Northern team 33-6.
* * * *
The strong Bulldog team of Georgia,
after winning two games, face
their toughest opponent of the year
Saturday, the Yale Bulldogs. Georgia
will attempt to repeat their triumph
of last year, defeating Yale
15-0. Georgia has an experienced
team, and will have a wonderful opportunity
against Yale.
With Roberts at fullback, and
Two Mile Run Takes
Place of Cross Country
Lincoln, Neb.— (IP)—Cross country,
described by the Nebraska Alumnus
as a more or less ancient sport
for college athletes, has been removed
from the Big Six conference sport
calendar this fall in favor of milder,
but still highly strenuous, running
competitions.
No more will the track suited athletes
labor through mud and cold over
hill and dale, only to arrive in
the stadium just as the football squad
returns between halves and steals all
the glory.
Conference coaches have decided in
favor of a two-mile team race all
on the stadium track, instead of the
five-mile grind over the surrounding
countryside.
Six men will be used, as in the
past, with five counting in the totals.
Ten points will be given first
place, nine for- second, and so forth,
with the team scoring the greatest
number of points winning. In cross
country one point is allowed for first,
two for second and so on, with the
low score winning.
Races will be run between halves
of every conference football game
this fall. The new plan will be tried
this year and if found to be satisfactory
will be used in the future.
Buster Mott, heralded as the best
broken field runner in the South Captain
Maffet and Catfish Smith at
ends, Yale has a touch Saturday-before
them.
• ' The entire South will be watching
this classical event, and will be rooting
for Georgia.
* * * *
After defeating Spring Hill, the
Auburn Tigers will launch her ship
in conference circles Saturday. The
Tigers will journey to Jacksonville
where thety meet the University of
Florida's team.
Florida defeated North Carolina
State the past Saturday, and altho
their team failed to display any brilliance,
the Gators have an excellent
backfield and a good line, and should
be in excellent condition for their
hard fighting foes.
Auburn's team is improving each
Saturday, but too much cannot be expected
from a team that has had
such a short training period under a
new system of coaching.
* * * *
Georgia "Tech also invades the
North Saturday, and plays Carnegie
Tech. Carnegie has one of the
strongest teams of the North and
should defeat the Georgia Engineers.
However it will be a good game.
Tech has a strong team, having an
especially heavy line, and they easily
defeated the South Carolina Gamecocks
the past Saturday.
* * * *
Alabama has stampeded her opening,
opponents, and will face conference
opposition Saturday, the Se-wanee
Tigers.
With John Cain, brilliant sophomore,
arid Suther and Campbell in
form, the Crimson Tide should rampage
over the inferior Tennessee
team.
* * * *
Favorites to win Saturday:
Auburn 19; Florida 12.
Alabama 21; Sewanee 6.
Carnegie 19; Ga. Tech 6.
Clemson 13; N. C. State 6.
Duke 13; Davidson 12.
U. of N. C. 18; Maryland 12.
Georgia 13; Yale 0.
L. S. U. 18; Carolina 0.
Kentucky 30; Maryville 0.
W. Va. 12; W. & L. 6.
Miss. A. & M. 12; Millsaps 6.
Tenn. 18; U. of Miss. 0.
Tulane 13; Texas A. & M. 0.
Vandy 40; V. P. I. 6.
Penn. 18; U. of Va. 0.
V. M. I. 13; Citadel 19.
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Freshmen Defeat First
Battalion Artillery Of
Fort Benning 55 to 0
While the varsity gridders were
practicing on the freshman field in
preparation for their invasion of
Florida for a game with the University
of Florida, whom they meet in
their initial conference test Saturday
at Jacksonville, the frosh moleskin
wearers occupied Drake Field
and engaged the First Battalion of
the 83rd Field Artillery from Fort
Benning, Ga., in a practice game
which they easily won, 55 to 0.
The score reveals the weakness of
the Artillery eleven more than it
does the strength of the Cannon-
Baskin plebes. Auburn gained at
will, and if they had shown their
real potential power, they would not
have stopped a point under the century
mark.
Both teams used numerous substitutions
as most every member of the
Tiger Cubs saw action while' Capt.
Gaston, coach of the losers', used
about thirty players. Coach Cannon
substituted by teams instead of individuals.
Auburn scored* eight touchdowns
and missed the try for the extra
point once, the final time they tried.
End runs, lateral passes, intercepted
passes, off-tackle plays, and a complete
assortment of the remaining
plays were used by the Orange and
Blue frosh in scoring in the practice
affair.
The starting line-up against the
Uncle Sam paid boys' was not very
successful their initial attempt, but
came back later and performed much
better. It took the probable first-stringers
to score first.
After the first team that started
had worn the soldiers' down, the
tentative plebe varsity eleven went
in and scored a touchdown the first
time that they had the ball. Baker,
quarterback and safety received a
punt on his own 35 yard line and
raced behind perfect interference
for a six-pointer. Phipps passed to
Neal for the extra point.
The second touchdown came as the
aftermath of several line bucks and
end runs by Neal, Phipps and Talley.
The touchdown was cored by Talley
who carried three Artillerymen over
the goal line with him. The buck
was good for six yards. Phipps passed
to Neal for the extra point. This
ended the scoring for the first quarter.
The second period was about the
same as the opening quarter except
that only one touchdown was scored.
The first-year ball carriers gained at
will, but Neal's 65-yard run for a
touchdown and a pass from Phipps
to Neal-for the extra-point was the
only scoring.
Three touchdowns were annexed
in the third quarter. Phipps scored
once on a 45 yard run and again
on a 25 yard jaunt. A pass from
Phipps to McCollum over the goal
line netted 35 yards and the final
six points of the period. Daniels
place-kicked after the first touchdown
in this quarter and Phipps after
.the final two.
The team that opened the fracas
Rats Prepared For
Game With Florida
Frosh On Saturday
Coaches Jack. Cannon and Weems
Baskin have given their frosh hopefuls
plenty of work this week in
preparation for the University of
Florida Baby 'Gators, whom they
will encounter here on Drake Field at
2:30 Saturday, while the varsity elevens
from both schools are battling
in Jacksonville.
The mentors were not satisfied with
the showing that they made in the
opening game of the season against
the Baby Panthers from Birmingham
Southern which accounts for darkness
finding the yearling undergoing
strenuous work on Drake Field every
afternoon.
In meeting the Baby 'Gators, the
Auburn youngsters will be engaging
probably one of the strongest frosh
teams in- the Southern Conference.
They are coached by Brady Cowell
whose frosh teams at the Gainesville
institution have a record of 31 wins,
nine losses and three ties in eight
years. One of their losses was received
from Coach Earl McFaden's
1929 rat team, so the Floridans will
invade the Cornerstone with the intentions
of avenging last year's defeat.
The frosh squad has been reduced
by Coach Cannon,- but selecting the
eleven best is still quite a problem.
About 40 are now out for the team.
No starting line-up was given out
by the Auburn tutors. A tentative
line-up is: Green and McCollum, at
ends; Wible and Burge, tackles;
Crossland and Jacobs, tackles. Weaver,
center; Head, quarterback;
Adams and Rogers, halfbacks, and
Bumpers, fullback.
was sent in at the beginning of the
final quarter. They were able to
score this time when Head intercepted
a pass and ran 40 yards over the
final white strip and Watson skirted
end for 20 yards which carried him
over the goal line. Head went
around right end for the one point
after his run and the kick after the
last marker went wild.
The starting line-up for Auburn
was: Blunt and Huggins, ends; Nobinger
and Ellis, tackles; Knight and"-
Ballard, guards; Weaver, center;
Nelson, quarterback; Head and Rogers,
halfbacks, and Nelson, fullback,
but the team that looked the best
and the one that will probably start
against the Baby 'Gators from Florida
here on Drake Field, Saturday
was: McCoHum and Aerial, ends;
Holmes and Nobinger, tackles;
Jacobs and Chambless, guards;
Chritzberg, center; Baker, quarterback;
Phipps and Neal, halves, and
Talley, fullback.
Starting line-up for Fort Benning
was; Jordan and Cole, ends; Elmore
and Belflower, tackles; Odoms and
Williams, guards; Skipper, center;
Derrick, quarterback; Swayze and
Arnold, halfbacks, and Pike, fullback.
Morris, Mallard, Mays, Cutrel,
Greenway, Helms, Smith, Abies, Ki-mell,
Walters and McLeod were used
in the roles of substitutes.
Cutrel gave the fans a thrill with
his large "dogs." One glance at his
feet would make one believe that it
would be impossible to lift them off
the ground, but he managed to be
pretty lively. He wears No. 16 shoes.
Score by quarters:
Auburn 14 7 21 13—55
Fort Benning 0 0 0 0— 0
Officials: Harkins (Auburn), referee;
Kaley (Auburn); Umpire,
Baskin (Auburn), field judge; Riley
(Auburn), head linesman.
Dr. F. W. Reeves, of the University
of Chicago, predicts that half
the independent arts colleges now in
existance will go out of existance in
50 years because of the dwindling interest
in the degree of bachelor of
arts.
SATURDAY, OCT. 11, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE
U. OF MINNESOTA OPENS
NEW "OMNIBUS COLLEGE"
As another step toward developing
the needs of the individual student
of exceptional ability, the administration
of the University of
Minnesota has instituted an experiment
to be known as the "omnibus
college" this year.
Heretofore, students registering at
any college of the university, were
obliged to fulfil the prescribed curriculum
of that college, not being
permitted to select electives in any
other college. Some students found
that their objective demanded that
they take courses in several different
< colleges, and that their college work
was seriously hampered by this ruling.
The "omnibus college" has been
established with the purpose of giving
more freedom to the exceptionally
intelligent student, who knows
what he wants, and has a definite
objective in mind, according to Dr.
John T. Tate, professor of physics,
chairman of the committee of 22
campus educators who are directing
this college.
Peace Workers' School
Attracts U. S. Students
Extension Courses Will Be Given
In Mobile And Phenix City Soon
A. A. Stagg Is Voted
Most Valuable Coach
Chicago—(IP)—Amos A l o n zo
Stagg, recently voted the most valuable
football ctfach by a group of
coaches, has passed his 68th year,
but still is eager to get into his first
game of the season.
The veteran University of Chicago
football mentor first began coaching
in 1892 on the Midway. This year
it is expected that Stagg's son, Paul,
will be the regular quarterback for
the Chicago squad.
The older Stagg today appears no
older than 50, and follows a daily
routine which includes a tennis
match with either Paul or his elder
son, Amos Alonzo, Jr.
GLIDER HAS
MOTOR MOUNT
While European statesmen are
discussing the possibilities of another
war, and American students are returning
from Geneva decked with
emblems of peace, reports come from
college papers of summer peace activities
in the United States.
A "School for Peace Workers"
held from June 9-21 under the. joint
auspices of the American Friends
Service Committee and the Institute
of International Relations afforded an
opportunity to attend courses and
lectures given by such eminent lecturers
as Hornell Hart, Norman
Thomas, Parker T. Moon, James G.
MacDonald and others.
There were a number of Peace
Caravans, provided with cars and expense
money, sent out for a period
of eight weeks by various colleges
including Swarthmore, Grinnell, Ha-verford,
University of Wisconsin and
Mt. Holyoke. These caravans were
organized by student committees
apart from the university administration
or official bodies. The members
of the caravans prefaced their field
work with attendance at the "School
for Peace Workers." Their program
included speaking and spreading
peace literature in small towns visited.
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Twenty-six per cent of the annual
income of residents of the United
States is spent on food.
* Cleveland, O.—Heraclio Alfaro believes
he has solved aviation's demand
for a two-place air flivver.
Alfaro recently completed a small
convertible glider at his experimental
plant here that can be mounted
with an outboard motor. Installation
of the motor requires five minutes,
only four bolts being used, according
to the inventor.
The plane is a high-wing monoplane.
The motor is attached on
the back of the wing, to the rear of
the cockpit. Dual controls are to be
installed and a gasoline tank is to
be placed in the fuselage and fuel
forced up to the motor.
Alfaro hopes to license his convertible,
glider as a two-place plane, but
if he finds it does not conform to
department of commerce regulations
he will build a larger plane on the
same lines, he said.
Student Meeting Will
Be Held At Holyoke
South Hadley, Mass.—(IP)—
Mount Holyoke's enthusiasm for international'
ideals is assigned as the
reason the International Student
Service has decided to hold its next
annual convention here, Sept. 1 to
9, 1931, the first time the organization
has met outside Europe.
About 175 students from all over
the world are expected to attend the
conference as delegates.
MISSOURIAN GETS LEAVE
Warrensburg, Mo.— (IP)—Dr. E.
I. Hendricks, president of the State
Teachers College at Warrensburg,
has been granted a year's leave of
absence, during which he will assist
in special research work in India and
Japan. He will return to the Institution
here next Fall.
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Citizens of Phoenix and Columbus
who aspire to become short story
writers, or wish to study the short
story as a form of literature, will
have an opportunity to expand their
knowledge when Dr. Charles W. Weaver,
professor of English of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, inaugurates
a class on the "Short Story"
in Phoenix, Thursday afternoon, October
9, at 3:30 o'clock in Central
High School Building.
Dr. Weaver, who has made the
short story his hobby, comes by his
interest in that field quite naturally,
for he is a native of Greensboro,
North Carolina, the birthplace of O.
Henry, America's greatest exponent
of the short story.
The course at Phoenix is part of the
extension teaching activities of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, for
which, arrangements are made by Dr.
B. R. Showalter, director of the extension
teaching division.
Dr. Weaver will make an historical
and critical study of th,e short
story, which is the most recently developed
f,orm of literary expression.
Special attention will he given to a
study of the technique of the short
story from the standpoint of the reader
as well as that of the writer. The
outstanding masters from Maupas-sent
to Octabus Roy Cohen will be
studied in detail.
For those interested in writing,
some attention will be given to the
development of plot, character por-trayel,
atmosphere, dialogue, and other
attributes which make for effec-fective
use of this vehicle. An opportunity
will be offered for those
who wish to try their hands at writing
short stories. '
The class will hold 10 meetings and
college credit will be given to those
who successfully complete the assignments.
The course is also open to
those not desiring college credit but
are only interested in literary culture.
Dr. Weaver is not unknown to the
people of Columbus. His, lecture
"Sherwood Anderson—Artist of the
Commonplace,"'was one of the high
lights of the series given before the
Century Club.
Preparations are being made here
to extend a part of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute to Mobile. Prof.
J. R. Rutland, head of the department
of English, is arranging to give a
course in "Modern Drama" in the
Gulf city. It will be one of a large
number of extension courses being
given at many places in Alabama by
Auburn professors under the supervision
of Dr. B. R. Showalter, director
of extension teaching.
Professor Rutland stated that he
expects to discuss the best plays since
Ibsen. "The drama of the last 75
years is one of the richest fields for
the student of modern thought," he
said.
"It might be considered as a record
of a revolution in social ideas. With
Ibsen, Strindberg, Tolstoi, Chekev,
Andreyev, Hauptmann, Sudermann,
Brieux, Rostand, France, and others
to read and study, one could hardly
ask for more vigorous thinking or
more satisfactory entertainment."
The first lecture will be on Ibsen
and his influence in contemporary
drama and thought. Other topics to
be discussed at the first meeting are
how to read a play, the drama and
other forms of literature, and the
drama as a vehicle of propaganda.
The class will meet every three
weeks and there will be 10 meetings.
The place and time of the first meeting
is yet to be arranged.
College credit will be allowed for
the course. Each student who completes
it successfully will be given two
semester hours credit. In the case of
graduate students residence credit
will also be given. Professor Rutland
said special recognition will be
given to students who wish to begin
research in preparation for a thesis.
Fearing Insanity,
Girl Takes Own Life
Cambridge, Mass.— (IP)—Apparently
despondent over his future, although
friends believed he had a
bright one, Perry Chatfield Davidson,
30, scion of Bruce A. Davidson,
wealthy Chicago merchant, took his
own life here just a few days before
he would have received his degree
from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology.
Davidson leaves a wife whom he
married in 1925.
George Westinghouse
Memorial Is Dedicated
Associates and Many Employees
Erect Memorial In Evidence
of Their Esteem
There has been erected in Schen-ley
Park, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, by
those who were associated with him
and by the 60 thousand employes of
the world-wide industries he founded,
as an evidence of their esteem and
a memorial to George Westinghouse
affection.
George Westinghouse was one of
those great figures who at rare intervals
cross the pages of history.
It is impossible to measure him in
terms that apply to ordinary men.
He patented over 400 inventions,
including one of the most important
of all inventions—the air-brake—but
he was not primarily an inventor.
He found scores of successful companies,
but he was in no sense a
promoter.
He made millions for himself and
others, but he cared nothing for money
for its own sake.
He directed many vast engineering
undertakings, but he cannot be considered
merely an engineer.
He was a great creative force—a
constructive geniu&—and he applied
his gifts of vision, courage, and ability
always for the benefit of humanity.
The purposes of this memorial are:
To pay tribute to the inventive genius
of him who contributed so greatly
to the material development of his
country, and the world at large, in
adding to the happiness, comfort and
security of its people.
To interpret to those who view it
in later years the personality, the
incourage and achievements of this
great industrial leader and to give
form, recognition and force to the
fact that George Westinghouse, as
a great American of his generation,
and because of the universality of
Many Students of Aviation Are Men
Who Have Had Education in College
College education is becoming an
increasingly important asset in commercial
aviation, and the man who
has preceded his aeronautical training
with a year or more of college now
stands a greater chance of success in
the field. That is the belief of T.
Lee, Manager of the Boeing School
of Aeronautics, Oakland, Calif., one
of the nation's largest accredited flying
schools.
W. E. Boeing, founder and Chairman
of the Board of the various Boeing
aeronautical enterprises, last year
offered scholarships having a cash
value of $7,100 at the Boeing School
of Aeronautics. Scholarships were offered
to undergraduates of approved
American colleges and universities.
Winners of the 1930 scholarships
were: Ralph J. Moore, Stanford
University; Lloyd H. Speelman, Mt.
Union College; Charles W. Sharp,
University of Nebraska; R. M. Harris,
University of Washington.
"Aviation is an industry, not a
stunt or a game", Lee stated recently,
in addressing an assembly of college
instructors at San Francisco.
There is no short cut to sucess in the
industry; training is essential.
"The progressive aviation executive,
pilot or mechanic must look on his
technical training in terms of time
and expense, in the same manner
that he would consider training for
any other profession.
Of the graduates and students of
the Master Pilot and Mechanic courses
at the Boeing School of Aeronautics,
70 per cent are men with one or
more years of college education.
Lee said that aeronautical training
was becoming systematized to a degree
comparable with that for engineering,
law or other professions. Among
the ground schol courses offered with
the flight training at the Boeing
Idaho University
Will Play Hawaii
Moscow, Idaho—(IP)—A f t e r
playing their tough 1930 schedule of
10 games, the University of Idaho
Vandals will journey halfway across
the Pacific to the Hawaiian Islands
to meet the University of Hawaii
gridders and the Honolulu All-Stars.
The Idaho team will sail on the
Madson liner Madsonia from San
Francisco on December 17, and
will return on the same ship Jan 7.
They will arrive in Honolulu harbor
Dec. 24, and play their first game
on Christmas day.
The trip will be the longest one
ever taken by an Idaho team.
The latest busts to be placed in the
Hall of Fame include those of James
Fenimore Cooper, \ Elias Howe,
George Bancroft, Horace Mann, Joseph
Story, Patrick Henry, John
Lothrop Motley, James Russell Lowell,
and John Quincy Adams.
his work and genius, belong not only
to America, but to the world.
School' are airplane fabrication, engines,
radio telephony, air law, navigation,
meteorology, mathematics,
aerodynamics, drafting and design and
business methods.
The Boeing School of Aeronautics
is operated under the sponsorship of
Boeing System, flying air mail, passengers
and express over the Chicago-
Oakland-San Francisco and the
San Diego-Seattle airways.
DEAN C. A. CARY INSPECTS
WORLD'S LARGEST CIRCUS
The Ringling Brothers Circus will
move into Mobile and Montgomery
this week with their animals; cages
and cars reeking with the odor of
disinfectant as the result of a visit
paid the circus Saturday and Sunday
by Dr. C. A. Cary, state veterinarian
and dean of the school of veterinary
medicine here.
Dr. Cary visited the circus in New
Orleans to ascertain whether the animals
offered any threat for the re-infestation
by the cattle tick in Ala- -
bama, as the show had toured tick
infested areas in Texas and Louisiana,
it was reported.
Following an inspection of the animals
and a conference with officials
of the circus, more than 500 horses
were sprayed, all cages were disinfected
and all of the cars were cleaned
and disinfected under supervision
of Dr. Cary and federal inspectors.
"I am entirely satisfied," Dr. Cary
said last night upon his return from
New Orleans, "and the circus will
show on schedule."
Hungarians Adopt
New Resolutions
Bebreczin, Hungary—(IP)—A
resolution recently adopted by the
local university students urging to
provide more severe punishments for
government officials of all categories
who accept bribes or who defraud
the government in any way.
"'<S ay It With Rowersj'y
And Say It With Ours
FOR EVERY SOCIAL OCCASION
Rosemont Gardens
Florists
Montgomery, Alabama
Homer Wright, Local Agent for Auburn.
LHIRTY thousand
welcoming shouts as he steps to bat
. . . the idol of them all. Ball one!
Ball two!... and cr-r-ack! he's done
it again. Popularity to be lasting must
be deserved.
ONE
willalways
stand out!
HOME RUNS are made at the
plate — not on the bench!
Likewise what counts in a cigarette
is what a smoker gets from
it — not what is said about it.
Chesterfield has a policy—give
smokers what they want:
MILDNESS— the wholly natural
mildness of tobaccos that are
without harshness or bitterness.
BETTER TASTE—such as only
a cigarette of wholesome purity
and better tobaccos can have.
PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, OCT. 11, 1930
FATHER AND DAUGHTER BOTH
ENROLLED IN SAME CLASSES
The Rev. JolTn H. Davis, Presbyterian
minister of Montreat, N. C,
believes a man is as old as he feels.
Sixty years young, Rev. Davis, one
time dean of Stillman Institute for
negroes at Tuscaloosa, has just enrolled
in the graduate school of the
university of Alabama, where he plans
to work towards his Master's degree.
"Why, young man, you are endeavoring
to make an old man of me!"
he told the inquisitive reporter. "Really,
going back to school after all these
years makes me feel as if I were
twenty-one instead of sixty."
The registration of Rev. Davis at
the University offers the rather
strange incident of a father and'
daughter enrolling in the same school,
taking courses in the same classes,
and working towards the same degree.
His daughter, Miss Margaret Davis,
instructor in Spanish at the University,
is also enrolled ^n the graduate
school. While Rev. Davis is taking
graduate work in philosophy and education
Miss Davis is writing her thesis
in elementary education.
Rev. Davis is a graduate of Union
Theological Seminary in Virginia. He
received his bachelor of arts degree
from Hampton-Sidney, and slso took
work in Uew College of Sidney College,
Edinburgh, Scotland. At present
he is taking an extended vacation
from the pulpit.
Miss Davis received her bachelor
of sciences degree from the University
last August. For the past twelve years
she has been principal of the mission
school at Cardenas, Cuba. She has
also been instructed in high schools
of Alabama. Now on leave of absence
from Cuba, she is pursuing
graduate courses at the University
and is instructing in Spanish.
VATICAN CITY TO HAVE
FOOTBALL TEAM THIS FALL
Vatican City, Italy—(IP)—Plans
are -being made by "the Vatican City
to place a football team in the European
competition this Fall.
Because the rules of the International
Football Federation prohibit
any state playing non-citizens on its
teams, members of the husky Swiss
Guard cannot play on the Vatican
City team.
The players, therefore, are to be
drawn from the fire department and
the post office force.
STATE OF N. Y. LEADS
IN NO. OF STUDENTS
Charlottesville, Va.— (IP)—The
State of New York leads all others
outside of Virginia in the number
of students sent to the University
of Virginia here. Students from 41
states and thirteen foreign countries
are among the record number of
.2,600 enrolled this year.
Alabama Hens Winners
In Egg Laying Contest
Winners in the sixth Alabama national
egg-laying contest at the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute have been
announced. Six loving cups have been
awarded to as many breeders whose
birds made the best records in the
contest, following tabulation of rec
ords by Prof. G. A. Trollope, super
visor, and C. T. Bailey, manager.
The 1,000 birds were divided into
pens of 170 birds and the award for
high pen went to Fox and Son Poul
try Farm of Little Falls, N. J. This
pen of White Leghorns laid 2,505 eggs
and scored 2,577.35 points during the
11 months the contest was in progress.
The winning was based on
points, eggs weighing 24 ounces per
dozen scoring one point per egg, and
eggs weighing more or less according
iy.
The high hen for the contest was
an Alabama bird, a Rhode Island Red
owned by Dr. H. B. Peacock and Dr.
Roy M. McLure of Opelika. She laid
288 eggs and scored 296.7 points.
Dr. Peacock was owner of the high
pen for heavy breeds, his pen of
iRhode Island Reds scoring 2,447.9
points with 2,554 eggs.
The award for high pen in light
breeds went to Egg-a-Day Farm of
Spartanburg, S. C, whose White Leghorns
scored 293.45 points with a lay
Df 282 eggs.
Marshall Farm of Mobile won the
award for high Alabama pen, the entry
scoring 2,449.9 points with 2,508
eggs, and award for second high Alabama
hen went to J. B. Downs, of
Clanton whose Rhode Island Red hen
scored 266.85 points with 260 eggs.
This award would have gone to Peacock
and McLure, whose entry was
high hen for the entire contest, but
rules allow one breeder to. receive only
one cup.
Twenty seven individuals in the contest
are being kept untH October 30,
since they have a chance to lay 300
or more eggs in a 365-day period.
Some of them have already exceeded
the 300-egg mark.
The sixth contest established a new
record for contests at Auburn. The
1,000 birds laid a total of 191, 849
eggs, an average per bird of 191.8
eggs for the 11 months. This compares
with 187 eggs per bird for 11
months of the 1928-29 contest, which
was a new record at that time.
The sixth contest closed September
30, and the seventh contest opened
October 1, and will continue 12 months
until September 30, 1931.
Twenty states are represented by
entries in the new contest, though
42 of the 100 entries are Alabama
birds.
ft Our Changing Worlnd
To Be Subject Of 12
Adresses Over Radio
The ninth annual coaching school
at the U. of North Carolina had a
record enrollement last summer.
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AUBURN RIFLE TEAM TO
BEGIN PRACTICE MONDAY
(Continued from page 1)
will be devoted to instruction and
elimination in the Freshman squad.
The upperclassmen turning out will
report on Monday, October 27 at 4:00
p. m. at the same place.
The tentative program for this year
is as follows: October 13-31, preliminary
work; Nov. 1-30, practice firing
and eliminations. By the end of November
the squads will be reduced to
twenty upperclassmen s and fifteen
Freshmen. The period of Dec 1 until
the Christmas Holidays will be devoted
to matches between the upperclassmen
and the Freshman squads.
'Matches with other colleges will begin
shortly after the Christmas Holidays
and will continue until about the
middle of April.
Challenges have been received from
the following institutions: Mississippi
Agricultural College, Jan. 10; University
of California R. O. T. C, Feb.
20; University of California varsity,
Feb. 20; University of Cincinnati,
March 28.
Challenges are being sent to the
following institutions: Presbyterian
College, Rutgers University, University
of Wyoming, North Dakota Agri-
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Professor Stephen P. Duggan, Director
of International Education, will
deliver twelve addresses on the general
topic, "Our Changing World,"
over a nation-wide network of the
Columbia Broadcasting System, beginning
Oct. 9, 1930. These addresses
will be given on successive Thursdays
at 5 P.M. Central Standard Time.
The topics in order are as follows:
Oct. 9, England, The Passing of the
Aristocratic Tradition; Oct. 16,
France, The Maintenance of the Bour-geoise
State; Oct. 23, Germany, The
Conflict of Political and Social Ideals;
Oct. 30, Italy, The Facist Conception
of Society; Nov. 6, Russia, The Reversal
of Social Values; Nov. 13, China,
The Disintegration of a Civilization,;
Nov. 20, Japan, Mediating Between
East and West; Nov. 27, Turkey,
The Extinction of Moslem Culture;
Dec. 4, India, Is a Solution Possible?;
Dec. 11, The United States: A
Civilization in Rapid Evolution; Dec.
18, The Civilization of Tomorrow;
Dec. 25, The Future of Primitive Peoples.
It is obvious that a fifteen-minute
statement on any one of the above
topics must necessarily give but the
barest essentials and yield to the dangerous
practice of generalization. The
indulgence of listeners is asked for the
omission of improtant aspects of each
subject and of explanatory remarks
that may appear necessary.
31 AUBURN TIGERS LEAVE
FOR FLORIDA THURSDAY
(Continued from page 1)
ing to polish up on both the offense
and defense. Every drill on Drake
Field saw the Plainsmen engaging in
a short scrimmage.
Coach Wynne used the players who
did not start against Spring Hill in
most of the mock battles. One of
the greatest problems for the mentors
is developing capable reserves as it is
very doubtful if the players who were
injured in the tilt with the Badgers
will be able to stand sixty minutes of
battle like the Machman eleven will
offer.
It will be the Notre Dame system
versus the Notre Dame system when
Auburn and Florida meet. Coach
Bachman received his training at the
South Bend institution, completing hi&
career just before Chet Wynne entered
there. It will also be an experienced
team using this style of play
against an inexperienced one. This
is Bachman's third year at Florida
and Wynne's first at Auburn. Wynne
was not even able to conduct a Spring
training among the Plainsmen grid-ders.
The players who climbed into the
Pullmans Thursday night and waked
up in Jacksonville this morning were:
centers: Capt. Dunham Harkins,
Ralph Jordan and Lee Johnson;
Guards: Joe Burt, Donald Jones, Commodore
Wood, Carl Schlich, James
Bush and John D. Simpkins; tackles:
Alt-Capt. Erquiet Taylor, Herbert
Miller, Hannis Prim, Robert Arthur,
George Holdcroft and Ernest Molphus.
Ends: Porter Grant, Sam Mason,
George Egge, Cary Senn and Carl
Creel. Quarterbacks: Ike Parker,
Chattie Davidson and Willie Tamp-lin.
Halfbacks: Jimmie Hitchcock,
Lindley Hatfield, Leo Young, Kenneth
Phipps and Eugene Cook, and fullbacks:
Tom Brown, Frock Pate and
Tom Shackleford.
Coach Wynne' failed to divulge his
starting lineup against Florida, but
it will probably be: Mason, left end;
Miller, left tackle; Burt, left guard;
Harkins or Johnson, center; Jones,
right guard; Prim, right tackle;
Grant, right end; Parker, quarterback;
Hatfield, left halfback; Hitchcock,
right halfback, and Brown, fullback.
CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES DELIVERIES
ADDRESS BROWN
CHAPTER PHI BETA KAPPA
Providence, R. I.—(IP)—Chief
Justice Charles Evans Hughes, an
alumnus of Brown University here,
delivered the address on the occasion
of the hundredth anniversary of the
Brown chapter Phi Beta Kappa society's
founding here.
cultural College, Rose Polytechnic Institute,
Davidson College, University
of Vermont, University of Alabama,
University of Dayton, Washington
University, LaFayette College, and
New Mexico Agricultural College.
More challenges will probably be sent
at a later date.
FRESHMAN HAZING IS
RAPIDLY BECOMING A
MEMORY OF THE PAST
U n i v e r s i t y of West Virginia
Takes Lead In Abolition
Of The Traditional
Rat Hazing
(N. S. F. A.)
All over the world during the past
few hectic weeks, the class of 1934
has found itself alternately paddled
and patted on the back. It has been
deluged with advice from deans and
from seasoned upperclassmen about
where to eat and what courses not
to take.
A few important facts stand out
from the whirl, the first is that there
are more freshmen than ever this
year. Colleges in the middle west
and on the Pacific Coast note that
the business depression did not have
its expected effect on the enrollment
as the class of 1934 will probably be
larger than any previous one.
The attitude toward freshman hazing
seems to be changing gradually.
At the University of West Virginia,
the Student Council has officially
abolished hazing, and has provided
instead for a Freshman Court to
work with the Traditions Committee
in enforcing freshman customs.
Which means that freshman rules
are under the charge of a definite
group, and not any upperclassman
(sophomores being traditionally the
most ardent) cares to take a hand.
Bucknell has gone still farther, and
is attacking not only hazing, but the
freshman traditions themselves. In a
letter to the editor of the Bucknellian
of September 18, a freshman declares:
"I have not come here to revert
to the antics of my pre-school
days—My purpose is and has got to
be serious." And this attitude is
supported in an editorial in the same
issue which»denounces the time-honored
green caps and compulsory acrobatics
as "silly and childish."
But hazing is still far from a lost
art. At Park College, "originality
and humiliation" are still the purpose
of the freshman rules. The
Trojan (University of Southern California)
describes "some new and particularly
effective ways of making the
frosh respect their university," ranging
from freshman tree-sitting contests
to removing painted remarks
from the sidewalks with only "bricks
and elbow-grease." At Creighton,
the freshman wears a green cap with
a bright red bill; at the University
of Wichita, garters with socks that
do not match. The student in Holland
who is a candidate for' one of
the University corps must shave his
head and enter his clubroom by the
window. The new Corps member,
needless to say, is easily recognizable
for several months.
An interesting device for helping
the bewildered newcomer is the Harvard
Crimson's Confidential Guide to
Courses, which is a really frank appraisal
from the student's viewpoint,
of the value and interest of various
fields of study. As a Crimson edito
rial puts it, "The faculty is amply
represented in the catalogue and the
various conferences with instructors.
This is a defined undergraduate opinion.
It offers a means of ascertaining
just how well the various instructors
accomplish their aims as teachers."
One has a mental picture of
the Harvard faculty peering in trepidation
at the Crimson's very outspoken
comments on certain courses:
but in spite of its inevitable shortcomings,
the Confidential must certainly
be helpful to the harassed
freshman facing, as he is so often
told, "the whole field of knowledge".
Grim Side of War to Be
Featured in Program of
"Chevrolet Chronicles'9
RELATION OF DOUGHNUT HOLE
TO ZERO CAUSES BIG DEBATE
(N.S.F.A.)—The grim side of war
rather than its glory will be stressed
in the third of the "Chevrolet Chronicles"
to be heard locally this week,
over station WCOA, on Friday, October
24, at 9:30 p.m.
Captain H. H. Weimer, now National
Commander of the Disabled Veterans
of the World War, who returned
from France wearing not only the
Distinguished Service Cross and the
Croix de Guerre with palm, but a
wound stripe on his sleeve, is scheduled
to relate those experiences which
brought him his distinguished honors
as well as the wound stripe.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker will
continue in his role as host during the
"Chronicles", and musical arrangements
under the direction of Frank
Black and Gustave Haenschen featuring
the "Chevrolet Ensemble", the
"Chevrolet Saxophone Six", and the
"Chevrolet Six Singing Violins" will
make up the remainder of this interesting
half-hour program, which is
being broadcast nationally through 120
radio stations.
As might be expected of Captain
Weimer, his story leans rather toward
the sacrifices of those soldiers
best known to him, than to his own
sensations when a machine gun bullet
tore through his helmet. His regiment
was a part of the 33rd division
and was sent up with the British to
the Somme near Chinnily Ridge.
The official citation says that Captain
Weimer near Bois-de-chaume,
France, on October 9, 1918, "had been
wounded in the shoulder and a machine
gun bullet had penetrated his
helmet but he nevertheless continued
to lead .his company creating confidence
in his men at a critical moment."
Similar acts of valor over and above
the call of duty mark every one of the
"Chronicles" which are being presented
over this station every week at the
same time by local Chevrolet dealers
in the interest of a fuller National
appreciation for patriotism, heroism
and self-sacrifice.
PRE-HISTORIC MEDICAL KIT
FOUND NEAR UTAH-ARIZ. LINE
NEW DAIRY FURNISHES
ICE CREAM FOR AUBURN
(Continued from page 1)
and cream. First cream was purchased
by the dairy October 9 and
now whipped cream is offered to local
buyers.
As soon as the milk supply warrants
it, the dairy will manufacture
ice cream daily and will furnish this
product to the college cafeteria and
drug stores and also the local reta,il
trade.
The dairy is under the direction of
Professor A. D. Burke. Assisting him
is Floyd Smith, who is in charge of
the work in the plant. Student assistants
are Elmo Thombs of Decatur,
and R. L. Griffin, of Maples-ville.
.
Booth Tarkington, well-known
American novelist, is believed to have
been cured of his partial blindness.
Salt Lake City—(IP)—What ar-cheologists
describe as pre-historic
surgical kit has been discovered beneath
a cliff dwelling near the Utah-
Arizona border by members of the
Charles L. Bernheimer expedition >of
the American Museum of Natural
History.
The kit, which contains a variety
of wooden intsruments, all well-preserved,
was hidden in a hollow tube,
covered by the skin of an animal.
Archeologists believe that the surgical
instruments were used by a race
known as basket weavers, many years
before the arrival of the cliff dwellers.
Considerable curriosity, comment,
contemplation, congruence and controversy
have been the result of a
question suggested by a prominent
member of our college faculty recently.
This problem has to do with one
of the greatest inventions of the age
—the Arabic number system.
One, two, three, four, etc., are
easily understood, but difficulties begin
to appear where question of the
origin of the zero presents itself.
We wonder where it could have possibly
originated and whether the complete
absence of all quantity in the
doughnut hole could have influenced
the inventor of the cipher, or did
the empty feeling that the zero a
freshman, who became a baker, received
on his math course influence
him to build a doughnut around it?
Various and sundry arguments,
have been considered, weighed carefully,
and cast aside. Very commendable
viewpoints have been unearthed.
TEMPEL'S SECOND COMET
SEEN IN NEIGHBORHOOD
OF YERKES OBSERVATORY
Williams Bay, Wis.—(IP)—Tern-pel's
second comet, last seen on its
visit in the summer of 1925, has returned
to the neighborhood of the
earth, according to Professor George
Van Biesbroeck, of the Yerkes Observatory
here.
The comet was within approximately
the diameter of the full moon of
the place predicted for it by Dr. A.
C. D. Crommelin, noted English authority
on cometary orbits.
When Dr. Van Brisbeorck picked
it up, the comet was close to the
boundary between the constellations
of Scorpio and Ophiuchus. Scorpio,
conspicuous in the summer southern
evening sky because of the red star,
Anatares, and the curved row of stars
forming the tail of the scorpion, is
now low in the southwestern sky just
after sunset.
The majority contended that the
zero was the doughnut hole's ancestor,
while the minority backed the
doughnut hole with admirable courage.
At first there was a tremendous
battle of opinions, but after a day
or two when a sense of broad-mindedness
prevailed, someone decided that
by some process of inductive or deductive
reasoning, he could prove
that the doughnut hole was only an
illusion. After considering and respecting
Bacon's analysis of deductive
reason in the following manner:
"No doughnut has two holes, one
doughnut has one more hole than no
doughnut. Therefore one doughnut
has three holes."
You can readily see that he was a
freshman, and he was wondering
whether three doughnut holes equals
one zero, or one zero equals three
doughnut holes, or if doughnut holes
and zeros come in trios at all.
Someone suggested eating a doughnut
and observing the result. The
doughnut was duly eaten, and lo!—
the hole had disappeared. Then, how
could the baker have been inspired to
build the doughnut around the hole
when there was no hole?
The panorama of discussions led to
the organization of a society for the
prevention of cruelty to doughnut
holes, a society for the prevention of
cruelty to nothing; and a society of
equality and justice to doughnut
holes and zeros, the last of which offered
as proof of the theory that the
doughnut hole and zero were contemporaries,
their motto: "No hole,
no doughnut, no doughnut, no hole."
—Gold and Black.
NIBS PRICE, U. OF C. COACH,
SINCE 1926, HAS WON 23
GAMES, LOST 12, TIED 3
FATHER AND SON SENIORS
AT HOBART COLLEGE
Geneva, N. Y.—(IP)—Charles B.
Persell, Sr., 58, and his son, Charles
B. Persell, Jr., are both seniors at
Hobart College here this year. Both
are majoring in history, although the
father is a teacher and the son is
studying for the ministry.
Miss Carman Barnes, 16, who
wrote "School Girl" was dismissed
from the Gardner School in New
York after the book was published.
RAINBOW
THEATRE
SATURDAY, Oct. 11
"Romance Of
The Rio Grande >»
—With—
WARNER BAXTER
MARY DUNCAN
ANTONIO MORENO
T MONDAY and TUESDAY
Oct. 13th and 14th
"The Sea Wolfe"
—With—
MILTON SILLS
JANE KEITH
RAYMOND HACKETT
——*
Berkeley, Cal.—(IP)—Since 1926,
when he took over the coaching of
the squad, University of California
football elevens under the guidance
of-D. M. (Nibs) Price, have won 23
games, lost 12 and tied three. Six
of the defeats were in Price's first
year at the University.
London—(IP)—Workmen laying
new pipes two feet below the floor
of Westminister Abbey here have unearthed
what appears to be the foundations
of an old Norman Church.
The discovery will prove an important
archeologfcal find if it proves
to be as old as it appears to be.
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Tiger Theatre
SATURDAY, Oct. 11
"Numbered Men"
—With—
CONRAD NAGEL
BERNICE CLAIRE
RAYMOND HACKETT
SUNDAY and MONDAY
Oct. 12th and 13th
"Monte Carlo"
—With—
JANETTE McDONALD
JACK BUCHANON
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