1930-12-06 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LIV AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930 NUMBER 25
GAS OFFICES
TO BE OPENED
DECEMBER 10
Showrooms And Offices of Nat­ural
Gas Corporation Will
Be Opened Wednesday
Hitchcock On One of His Jaunts Through Carolina's Line
TO SHOW APPLIANCES
High Officials of Company Will
Be In Auburn For Obser­vances
The formal opening of the offices
and showrooms of the Alabama Nat­ural
Gas Corporation will be held
December 10, 1930. A display of all
types of gas appliances will, be held
at the Y. W. C. A. Hut on this date,
and the local officers of the company
expressed the hope that all Auburn
residents would make it a point to see
this display.
Several representatives of the Ala­bama
Natural Gas Corporation and
representatives of appliance houses
will be present at the display for the
purpose of explaining to residents of
Auburn the operation of various ap­pliances,
and to supply any informa­tion
in regard to the use of modern
gas appliances which users and pros­pective
users may desire.
The officials of the Alabama Natu­ral
Gas Corporation believe that a
distinct service will be rendered to
the residents of Auburn if they they
will come to the opening and allow
widely'in formed factory representa­tives
to explain the modern and effi­cient
uses of gas appliances.
'Alabama' Is To Be -
The Subject Of Mrs.
Bibb Graves' Address
Mrs. Bibb Graves will deliver an
address on "Alabama" over Station
WAPI in Birmingham on Thursday
afternoon, Dec. 18, at 5:20 o'clock,
under the auspices of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, it was
announced by Mrs. Fred Allison of
Auburn, chairman of the state radio
committee. Mrs. Graves' address will
be one of five monthly features
which will round out a series of eight
presentations being broadcast during
1930-31 by the D. A. R.
The features are to be given on
the Third Thursday afternoon in each
month through April 1931.
Mrs. Bibb Graves will speak on
"Alabama" Dec. 18th. On January
15th Mrs. Norgan Smith of Birming­ham,
will talk on "The Kate Duncan
Smith School, followed on February
19th by an address on "Washington"
by Mrs. Zebulon Judd of Auburn,
president of the D. A. R. State Offi­cers'
Club. There will be a program
of American music presented from
Auburn on March 19th, with the
final speaker being Mrs. Belle Allen
Ross, of Montgomery, who will dis­cuss
"Fort Toulouse", April 16th.
SCOUT OFFICIALS
HOPE TO HAVE TWO
TROOPS IN AUBURN
Committees Working To Raise
Quota Of $400 For Conduct
ing Work In Auburn
Plans for boy scout work in Au
burn next year were worked out and
adopted at a meeting of committee
chairmen in the office of Dr. Brad
ford Knapp who is chairman for the
Auburn district. The aim is to have
two troops in Auburn—one for boys
of the town, and another for college
boys.
The first step is to raise Auburn's
accepted quota of $400 for conduct­ing
the work locally and in the Cen­tral
Alabama Area Council next year.
Lt. C. P. Townsley, chairman of the
finance committee, reports that' a con­siderable
portion of this money has
been raised and that he hopes to reach
the desired goal within a few days.
At the meeting Dr. B. F. Thomas
was made chairman of health and
safety, succeeding Dr. Roger Allen.
Chairmen of committees working
under the District Chairman are A.
Meadows, Camping; Prof. M. L. Nich­ols,
Civics; Lt. C. P. Townsley, Fi­nance;
Prof. A. L. Thomas, Leader­ship
Training; Dr. R. S. Sugg,- Lone
Scouts; P. O. Davis, Publicity; Dr.
R. B. McGehee, Reading; Prof. P.
P. Powell, Troop Organization; and
W. T. Ingram, Treasurer.
Proceeds of Dance Tonight
Will Be Used To Buy Cage
For New Mascot, War Eagle'
The "A" Club will be the host at
a dance in the Alumni Gymnasium
tonight for the purpose of providing
for the needs of "War-Eagle", the
new mascot of the Plainsmen.
The entire proceeds will be used
to build the giant eagle, who has yet
to see Auburn lose any kind of ath­letic
contest, a new cage and to es­tablish
a fund which will be used to
tide the mascot over the present busi­ness
depression and to provide for his
future needs.
"War-Eagle's" new cage will be
very large and will be placed some­where
on the campus so that he may
be a constant reminder of Auburn's
famous battle cry.
Myrick Returns From
Interfrat Conference
Dean Petrie's Father
Still Critically 111
Dean George Petrie's father, Dr.
George L. Petrie of Charlottesville,
Va., is still critically ill, due to im­paired
arterial circulation of one leg.
Dean Petrie may be called back
to Virginia at any time should there
be an unfavorable change in his fath­er's
condition.
After being called to his father's
bedside last week, Dean Petrie states
that his father is still cheerful and
in command of his mental faculties.
Dr. George L. Petrie will be 91
years of age next February. He is
the only surviving chaplain of the
confederate army and was present at
the inauguration of Jefferson Davis
in Montgomery. For the past 50
years he has been pastor of the Char­lottesville
Presbyterian Church, and
was once pastor for a short time of
the Auburn Presbyterian Church
when Dean Petrie was a small boy.
Christian Endeavor
Discuss Mission Topic
The Auburn Christian Endeavor of
the Presbyterian Church met Sunday
night, November 30, at six-thirty, to
discuss the topic, "Our Responsibility
to Spread the Gospel", and to hold
a special prayer service for the fam­ily
of Robert Lauder of Foley, Ala.,
a member who died of injuries which
he received in an auto wreck during
the Thanksgiving holidays. The pres­ident
of the society, George McMil-
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W. S. Myrick, Auburn's represent­ative
to the National Interfraternity
Conference which met in New York,
November 27-29, returned to Auburn
with favorable reports concerning
the meeting. About fifty colleges in
the United States were represented
at the conference.
The delegates were given an in­formal
reception Thursday evening.
On Friday, at ten o'clock, the con­ference
began with a convocation at
the Hotel Pennsylvania, after which
the delegates formally organized the
conference, and elected a chairman
pro-tem. The remainder of the day
was spent in various discussions of
mutual advantage to all fraternities.
All delegates were requested to par­ticipate
in these discussions. A dis­cussion
led by Mr. Robert H. Shank-lin,
of Brown University, dealt with
the work of the Interfraternity
Council on the campus. Mr. William
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The mammoth golden eagle, a na­tive
of the western part of the Unit­ed
States, was captured near the
"City of the Plains" when he became
entangled in some vines after swoop­ing
down on some turkeys.
He was purchased by a group of
students and citizens for ten dollars
and was presented to the "A" Club at
the mass meeting before the Thanks­giving
game with Sauth Carolina, in
which Chet Wynne's growling Tigers
chewed up their opponents to the tune
of four touchdowns. Saturday night's
social affair should be attended by
many visitors, since friends of Au­burn
are eager to contribute to the
upkeep of the mascot. Music for the
occasion will be furnished by Jimmie
Robbins and his Auburn Knights, who
are often heard on the air through
station WSFA. It will be the third
dance of the "A" Club this year, and
indications point toward it being the
best.
LIONS CHRISTMAS
CHEER DRIVE TO
BEGIN ON MONDAY
Townspeople Are Urged To
Make Generous Contribution
To Help Unfortunates
Noah Winston Caton
Memorial Services
To Be Held Sunday
NOTICE
The Auburn-Mobile Club will meet
in Ramsay Lounge Sunday evening at
8:45.
NOTICE
The Plainsman staff will meet at
the Delta Sigma Phi house Sunday
evening at 6:30.
Seventy-One Auburn Alumni Are
Life Members of the Association
On the list of alumni of the Ala-i ingham; H. T. DeBardeleben, Birm-bama
Polytechnic Institute who are ingham; Dr. R. T. Dorsey, Atlanta,
life members of the Alumni Associ­ation,
there appears 71 names, re­ported
by Dr. J. V. Brown, executive
secretary. They reside throughout
Alabama, and also in several other
states. The late John Mills of Birm­ingham
was one of the life members.
Names and addresses of life mem­bers
are:
F. C. Atkinson, Indianapolis, Ind.;
H. S. Adams; Lee Ashcraft, Atlanta,
Ga.; C. H. Billingsly, Tallassee; Geor­ge
Perkins Bondurant, Birmingham;
Tom Bragg, Birmingham; W. H.
Bruce, Montgomery; Casper Carl
Certain, Detroit, Mich.; W. O. Chears,
Atlanta, Ga.; Ashbury N. Culver,
Montgomery; Fred Curtis, Montgom­ery;
J. E. Davis, Birmingham; Smith
Coffee Daniell, Port Gibson, Miss.;
Lemual G. Dawson, Montgomery;
Chas. Fairchile DeBardeleben, Birm-
Ga.; Howard Staten Doster, Pratt-ville;
Macon Carmichael Ellis, Orr-ville;
W. W. Fulghuni, Birmingham;
Judge Ethridge Jackson Garrison,
Ashland; Dr. G. J. Groil, Montgom­ery;
L. G. Gresham, Meridian, Miss.;
Mrs. Kate T. Hagler, Tulsa, Okla.;
Clifford LeRoy Hare, Auburn; Fran­cis
Williams Hare, Monroeville; Wal­ter
E. Henley, Birmingham; Harry
Herzfeld, Alexander City; Joe Herz-feld,
West Point, Ga.; William Rob­ert
Holley, Atmore; J. P. Illges, Co­lumbus,
Ga.; C. A. Jones, Jr., Ever­green;
Roger C. Jones, Selma; W. M.
Lacey, Empire; C. B. Lanier, Tallas­see;
James J. Lovelace, Los Angeles,
Calif.; Jonathan B. Lovelace, Detroit,
Mich.; Henry R. Luscher, Mobile; J.
H. McCary, Birmingham; John Mc-
Duffie, Monroeville; Rev. T. F. Man-
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The Miles Caton Sunday School
Class will hold its annual memorial
services for Noah Winston Caton, in
whose honor the class is named, in
the Presbyterian Church, Sunday
morning, Dec. 7, at 9:45. At this
time, L. D. Baver will address the
class on "Are You an All American?"
At the regular church hour, eleven
o'clock, Rev. Hay will deliver a ser­mon
in connection with the general
exercises of Sunday School Class.
The "A" club and the football squad,
as well as the Kappa Sigma fratern­ity,
of which Winston was a member,
have been-.invited as honor guests at
the eleven o'clock service. All the
students and townspeople of Auburn
are cordially invited.
Caton came to Auburn, as a stu­dent,
in 1915. He distinguished him­self
by throwing himself wholeheart­edly
into the daily grind of scholas­tic
activities; as an athlete, he wore
the "A" and bore the admiration and
esteem of his coaches and team­mates;
as a companion,, he enjoyed a
wide popularity; and as a Christian
gentleman, he probably has had none
to surpass him, it is believed. Even
tho he was battered and bruised from
Saturday's game, he never failed to
attend the students Sunday School
Class which now bears his name.
So outstanding was his loyalty to
the class that the students made him
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president of it during his Senior year
in college. While president of the
class, he had an attack of appendicit­is,
from which he did 'not recover.
He faced death so bravely that after­wards,
his coach, who was with him
when he died, said, "I am not afraid
to die now".
This is the type of man that will
be honored Sunday by the Sunday
School Department of the Presby­terian
Church. A memorial service
will be held at the same time for
Robert Lauder, also a member of the
Miles Caton Class who died recently.
The endeavor of the Lions Club to
bring happiness to all of the children
in the vicinity of Auburn who might
be otherwise overlooked by Santa be­cause
of an inadequate supply of toys
and goodies in these hard times will
be begun Monday when the club con­ducts
a drive to collect contributions
of toys, money, and anything else that
might bring a bit of Christmas cheer
to such kiddies.
The Lions Club members will begin
making calls on townspeople Monday
and will continue their activities
through Tuesday. It is hoped that
everyone will contribute to the suc­cess
of the project, whether generous­ly
or meagerly, as there will prob­ably
be many unfortunate children
this year who can only be ntade hap-
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ATHLETIC COUNCIL AWARDS
LETTERS TO TWENH-FOUR
VARSITY FOOTBALL PLAYERS
ALL COLLEGE HIKE
WILL BE HELD ON
SATURDAY, DEC. 13
Annual Hike Will Start From
Langdon Hall At 2 : 3 0 P. M.
Next Saturday Afternoon
Opelika Scouts Enroll
14 in Aviation Classes
Lieutenant Finch Is Instructor
Class Taught At Opelika
Of
The annual All College Hike will
be held next Saturday, December 13,
officials of the Y. M. C. A. announc­ed
today. This is an affair sponsor­ed
annually by the Auburn "Y".
This is one of the most prominent
campus activities, and has been at­tended
by very large crowds in the
past. The hike will start in front of
Langdon Hall at 2:30 p. m. Saturday,
and the crowd will walk out to Dr.
Gardner's pasture for the festivities.
In all, the distance is approximately
one mile, and according to Eugene
Gray, President of the Y, "It is such
a short distance that even the hardy
seniors may attend". Upon arrival
in the pasture the students will be
entertained by playing various games
and engaging in contests that will in
elude a tug-o-war between the Fresh­men
and Sophomores. In this inter
esting contest the losers will be pulled
through a small stream which will be
enlarged for the occasion. A unique
contest in which a representative of
the Engineers engages a member of
the Artillery on a log across the
stream while both are blidfolded is
another feature of the program. A
master of ceremonies, who will con
duct activities at the picnicking
ground will be announced at a later
date. After the desire for play has
been thoroughly satisfied, a light meal
will be served to those present. The
hike will end in time for everyone to
return to town before dark. All
Freshmen are required to attend and
all upperclassmen are urged to be
present.
Players, Head Cheerleader,
And Manager Are Awarded
"A"s At Meeting Of The
Athletic Council
C. C. LETTERS GIVEN
Six Harriers Are Given Letters
For Services On 1930 Cross
Country Team
Forty boy scouts are enrolled in
the model airplane class which is be­ing
taught by Lieut. V. C. Finch,
who is in charge of aeronautics in­struction.
The class meets weekly
and the immediate goal is to qualify
for a boy scout merit badge in avi­ation.
The class will continue until
February 8, which will be anniver­sary
week for boy scout work in
America.
Assisting Lieut. Finch in conduct-'
ing the class are Dr. W. W. Webb
and two boy scouts, Thornton Coop­er
and Julian Phillips.
Members of the class are enthusi­astic
about the work and are eager
to learn as much as they can about
airplanes and also aviation, Mr. Finch
said.
Scott and Shi Attend
Meeting Of Colleges
J. W. Scott, dean of the School of
Science and Literature, and B. L.
Shi, executive secretary and regis­trar,
represented Auburn at a meet­ing
of the Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools of the South­ern
States which was held at the Bilt-more
Hotel in Atlanta, Ga., the first
part of this week.
This association meets annually for
the purpose of maintaining a high
standard of education in all Univer­sities,
Colleges and public schools of
the southern territory.
A large majority of the colleges in
the South were represented at this
meeting, and a great number of sec-j
ondary schools sent delegates.
Mr. Scott and Mr. Shi returned to
Auburn on Wednesday.
Fraternity Scholarship Widely
Discussed at Interfrat Meeting
Fraternity scholarship was a topic
of wide discussion at the Annual In­terfraternity
Conference, according to
Professor J. M. Robinson, head of the
Entomology department, who recently
returned from the twenty-second
meeting of that body held in New
York.
The committee on scholarship re­ported
that when it made its first
survey of fraternity scholarship, five
years ago, accurate figures were un­obtainable
in many institutions, and
were furnished reluctantly by others,
so that a true picture of actual con­ditions
was difficult, if not impos­sible.
But what figures were obtain­ed
revealed a condition which was
most unsatisfactory. Fraternity av­erages
in two thirds of the y colleges
were below the all men's average, and
individual fraternities were far be-low.
This past year found one hundred
and twenty-five- complete scholastic
reports from colleges turned in to
the committee on scholarship and par­tial
reports from nine more, with def­inite
promises from half a dozen ad­ditional
institutions for next year's
survey.
During the academic year 1929-
1930 the combined averages of the
60,000 fraternity men in one hundred
and twenty-five institutions scatter­ed
throughout the country has risen
above the All Men's average of the
140,000 non-fraternity men in these
same schools by .69706 of an interval.
Fraternity men of Auburn have con­tributing
to putting the fraternity av­erage
above the All Men's average.
During the academic year 1929-1930,
the average of the fraternity men
was .1 of an interval above the All
Men's average. Sixteen of the twen­ty-
five fraternities on the campus here
have scholastic committees.
The Auburn athletic council, upon
the recommendation of Coach Chet
Wynne, voted to award varsity foot­ball
letters to 24 players, Manager
George Washington Smith, and Cheer­leader
Harry Davis.
-Capt. Dunham Harkins, center, Bes­semer;
Alt-Capt. Erquiet Taylor,
tackle; Vinson; Joe Burt, Irondale;
and Billie Hill, Auburn, guards, are
the only seniors to receive awards.
This quartet rendered valuable ser­vice
to the team and will be missed
next season. All starred for the
Plainsmen in the final game against
South Carolina, when Auburn won
her first Southern Conference victory
in over four years.
Hill failed to play in as many games
as the others, but was recognized be­cause
of his faithful playing in the
role of a scrub. The scrubs take all
of the knocks and battering given by
the varsity players and are very sel­dom
accorded recognition. They fail
to make the headlines, but aid in de­veloping
a team very much. Chet
iWynne is a coach who awards letters
to players who have tried; ones who
are faithful to the team, regardless
of the position that they occupy.
Like the team in important games,
Hill has fought against over-whelming
odds in trying to win a regular berth.
He performed at center up until the
final weeks of the 1930 season. It
was almost an impossibility to oust
Dunham Harkins, undoubtedly one of
the great centers in Dixie, but Hill
was out every afternoon rendering
faithful service to the team. He was
shifted to guard before the Tulane
game this year, accepted this assign­ment
with new spirit and started
working hard to learn the duties of a
guard, realizing that is was probably
too late to win a regular berth, but
battled to place the Tigers on the
football map. A scrub finally comes
into his own at the Cornerstone when
Chet Wynne and the athletic council
awarded Hill a letter for four years
of loyal service.
In addition to the manager, cheer­leaders
and four senior players, six
juniors and 15 graduates of Coach
Earl McFaden's 1929 frosh team were
awarded varsity football letters. The «
sophomores are Lee Johnson, center,
Langdale; Donald Jones, Chattanoo­ga,
Ernest Molpus, Mobile; Commo­dore
Wood, Wetumpka, guards; Rob­ert
Arthur, Birmingham; Hannis
Prim, Jackson; Merbert Miller, Som-merville,
tackles; Cary Senn, Troy;
Sam Mason, Tallassee; Porter Grant,
Dothan, ends; Ike Parker, Ozark,
quarterback; Jimmie Hitchcock, Union
Springs, halfback, and Tom Brown
and Tom Shackleford, Montgomery,
fullbacks.
The juniors receiving letters are
Ralph Jordan, center, Selma; James
Bush, Mobile, guard; George Egge,
Montgomery, end; Chattie Davidson,
Montgomery, quarterback; Lindley
Hatfield, Montgomery and Frock
Pate, Birmingham, halfbacks.
Manager Smith resides at Birming­ham
and Davis at Gadsden.
Showalter Will Speak
At Supervisor Meeting
Dr. B. R. Showalter, director of
extension teaching at Auburn will
address the Southeastern Conference
of Rural Supervisors at their meet­ing
in Hot Springs, Ark., December
16th. His subject will be "Supervis­ory
Activities of Rural School Princi­ples".
The conference is being sponsored
by the Federal Bureau of Education
at Washington.
THE PLAMINNSSMAAN SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930
* AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
TOBACCO CIGARETTE EXPEDITION
"Sir Walter Raleigh", "Prince Albert", "Lord Chesterfield", and "Lady Fa-time"
set out for the "Rough Cut" "Piedmont" region on "Camels" in search of
"Old Golds". After a "Luck Strike", they split the dust "Half and Half". "Sir
Walter" bought a "Blue Bore" and "Prince Albert" bought a "Bull Durham" while
"Lord Chesterfield" and "Lady Fatima" were contented to buy "Spuds" from
"Farmer Edgeworth".
—The Log.
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It is reported that certain members of the Montgomery Club have requested
the Social Committee not to allow any lights to be dimmed when Jimmie Green
plays "Come A Little Closer."
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There is no place like a fraternity house—Thank God!
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Who was the Freshman who thought that they put shades on the Zoo windows
to keep the street light from shining in the girlies eyes?
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Then here was the bright genius who is trying to invent a radio small enough
enough to put in golf balls so they can radio back when lost.
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TRUTH ABOUT BETTY CO-ED
"Betty, Co-ed's teeth are false for Sophie Newcomb,
Her eyes are crossed for Agnes Scott,
Betty Co-ed's false hair is there for dear old Brenau
She's just a girl that isn't very hot.
Betty Co-ed's a wooden leg for Vassar,
Her Rheumatiz is Wellesey's pride and joy,
That is what a co-ed's really like men,
So put no trust in Mrs. Vallee's little boy."
—Rammer Jammer.
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From the Business Administration Department comes the story of a Soph­omore
who thought that a trial balance was practice for a tight rope walker.—John
Curry?
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PARLOR FOOTBALL
Parlor football now hold sway,
On campus, lawns, in streets, each day.
The name implies the game is mild,
Like parlor jokes, to please a child. f
Deceitful tho, as co-eds' looks,
(The kind you read of in story books)
The team that on the field, last lingers,
Displaying broken noses, fingers,
Bumps on heads, and barking shins,
They are judged the team that wins.
—HIC-HIC.
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It was his first time on the field. He gazed up at the packed stadium. Now
he was going down the field, the chalk lines seemed miles apart. On ten, twenty
. . . . it was his great test . . . . then only ten yards from the' goal line disaster
came. The freshman band member had blown a discord.
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SOCIAL COMMITTEE DOES GOOD
PIECE OF WORK
Believing that good music is essenial to
a successful set of dances, The Plainsman
adopts this method of congratulating the
Social Committee on its selection of Jim­mie
Green and his orchestra to furnish the
music for the Mid-Term Dances.
Green and his musicians are of national
prominence, and the selection of his or­chestra
will be a fitting climax to the Ju­nior
Prom, a set of dances which is herald­ed
as one of the leading events in south­ern
collegiate social circles.
The orchestra, during its stay at the
Golden Pumpkin, where nightly broadcasts
were given over Station WSNR in Chicago,
is a favoriate among Auburn students and
the younger set of America.
The signing of such a well-liked and
widely known orchestra should serve as an
incentive to every Auburn man to attend
the dances, in order that he may enjoy the
highest type of social entertainment, a vi­tal
factor in all undergraduate life.
This step of bringing a noted orchestra
to our campus is in keeping with the prog­ress
strides in an athletic and material
way; those responsible for the action are
to be highly commended.
The reception of the Social Committee's
announcement by the student body is very
favorable, and from all indications, when
these famed artists arrive, Auburn, be­decked
in tuxedos and host to the select of
southern girls, will be ready to enjoy it­self.
CONGRATULATIONS ALABAMA
The Plainsman would like to take this
opportunity to congratulate the University
of Alabama on the splendid record that her
football team has made during the recently
closed season of 1930 and to wish her the
best of luck in the Tournament of Roses
game on the Pacific coast New Year's Day.
When the 1930 football season opened, it
was not thought that Alabama had much
of a chance for a conference championship.
However, as the season wore on, and the
University, playing one of the hardest
schedules of any team in the conference,
annexed victory after victory, it became very
evident that a team of unusual ability had
its home in Tuscaloosa. After the L. S. U.
game in Montgomery, except for one con­tender,
Alabama had an almost clear claim
on the Southern Conference title, and when
the final whistle blew in Legion field in
Birmingham on Thanksgiving Day, all
doubt about the matter was removed. As
a fitting climax to the last and best football
team ever turned out by Wallace Wade at
the University came an invitation to par­ticipate
in the annual Tournament of Roses
game. A loss by Notre Dame in her con­test
with Southern California and a victory
by Alabama will mean a national champion­ship
for the Crimson Tide.
We, of the Plains, earnestly hope that the
course of events will choose to take this
turn and that the students of the University
can return to Tuscaloosa after the Christ­mas
holidays, the proud posessors of a na­tional
championship football team. Best
wishes, Alabama, from Auburn!
THE ALUMNUS
When President Hopkins told the Amer­ican
Alumni Council that the alumni body
- of a college is the college, he put into words
an idea that has been lying unexpressed in
the minds of nearly all Dartmouth men.
. . . It is a rather magificent thought
to one who is a member of a college com­munity
to feel that the college at hand is
but the symbol of the interest and concern
of thousands of alumni scattered over the
earth. It thrills one to think that a piece
of news bringing information of a new
achievement, progress, or deed well done
will quicken the hearts of all graduates,
and it makes one realize as well the pain
and chagrin that comes to these same hearts
when the news of something unfavorable is
reported. The success or non-success of
athletic teams brings only ripples of pleas­ure
or disappointment; serious letters be­gin
to pour in to college officials only when
alumni believe that changes in policy or
administration are concerned. And while
the college is the alma mater to its under­graduates
it stands perhaps in the position
of a favorite child to the alumni, and each
alumnus who concerns himself with an ex­pression
of opinion regards the college as
a thing distinctly his own. The sum total
of this individual feeling of ownership
marks the college as a symbol upon which is
focused the attention and jegard of all the
alumni.
And in saying that the college is the
alumni, one quickly disposes of a number
of trite phrases such as "if it wasn't for
the alumni we could do this or that," or
"the alumni are a great nuisance," or "the
alumni care only for football tickets." One
need only edit an alumni publication and
read the letters which come to the office,
—letters which do not find their way into
the "letter column" because of requests on
the part of the writers. These letters for
the most part show the greatest concern
in the really vital things of college—the
curriculum, the health of the students, the
maintenance of worthy traditions—and the
tone of all letters is the tone of an anxious
father solicitous for the welfare of a child.
—Dartmouth Alumni Magaizne.
Letters to the Editor
Prattville, Alabama.
December 1, 1930.
Editor, The Plainsman,
Dear Sir:
I have thought that my friends of Au­burn,—
from Dean Petrie to my Son,—
would be interested to learn of the new
biography of America's great Scholar,
Scientist, and University President.
Accordingly I have taken pleasure in
writing especially for The Plainsman, a .
brief Review of the Life and Letters of
Charles William Eliot of Harvard by my
Friend Mr. Henry James. This two-volume
work is an enduring service to Science and
Education, the great cause in which Au­burn
men have rendered such distinguished
service.
I "may add that this review is written
without the knowledge of the author or
the request of the publishers. . . .
I am now an interested and regular
reader of The Plainsman, through the
kindness of my Son at Auburn,—and I re­joice
to see the fine development of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute under Pres­ident
Knapp, and the splendid Thanksgiving
victory of the Eleven under Coach Wynne.
Sincerely yours,
Hobson Owen Murfee, Sr.
(Retired Teacher: University of Virginia,
University of Chicago, Marion Institute.)
A GOOD MAN
William James of Harvard, the wisest
of American Philosophers, once said, that
a man is perfectly educated who knows a
good man when he sees him.
Henry James, a worthy son of a noble
sire, exemplifies this apt aphorism in his
portrayal of Charles William Eliot of Har­vard
in his two volume Life and Letters re­cently
issued by the press of Houghton
Mifflin Company.
All lovers of truth and beauty, of honor
and righteousness, will rejoice in reading
this admirable biography, the simple story
of the life of a great and good man re­vealed
through his letters and works.
Great in the eyes of the world as a
University President, recipient of medals
of gold for distinguished services to hu­manity,
and honored with the decorations
of kings; greater in his love of truth and
in his labors for peace and righteousness;
this New England Puritan was greatest in
the beauty of his family life, in his love of
home and children and native land, in his
faithfulness to friends and devotion to
duty—"a personality of unusual self-con­sistency—
maintaining its peculiar integri­ty
to the end". In many minds and hearts,
as teachers and friend, he shed the "light
of heaven on earth.
As a young man, he writes to his Moth­er,
informing her of his choice of a life-work:
"I have chosen the profession of a stu­dent
and teacher of science, and it is you
who should first know my choice, and un­derstand
the grounds of my decision. I
shall try to write out here the pith of all
the thought which I have given to the sub­ject
for the last year and a half, and to
show you the steps which led me to this
conclusion.
" 'To do all to the glory of God' should
be the ruling motive of a Christian's life.
"Man glorifies God, first by being useful
and second by being happy. Before choos­ing
the profession of a scientific scholar,
I asked and answered two questions: first,
is that profession a useful one? second,
could I be happy therein?
I will answer the first question under
three heads.
"The scientific man is useful as a teach­er.
I need not describe a teacher's influ­ence
nor analyze the means of his useful­ness;
his calling is especially honored in
this community, and is especially needful,
rather, it is absolutely necessary for this
republican country. The physical re­sources
of this country have been developed
with marvellous rapidity; millions till its
soil, millions are busy with its trade, mil­lions
labor in its workshops, but only a
few thousands keep its schools, only a few
hundreds direct its Colleges. The very
maintenance of our free institutions de­pends
on the education of the people. Sure­ly
he holds an honorable and responsible
post, who labors in the cause of education,
to diffuse that knowledge, and to stimulate
that intellectual progress of the people,
which alone can make safe the possession
of national power and wealth, which alone
can successfully contend against the mon­strous
vices which follow in the train of
liberty and luxury. A distinguished teach­er,
whose precepts impart the truth, which
his example makes attractive, who has
control over the standards of education in
the community, and who moreover sets a
high example of scholastic attainments, is
as man of influence, of reputation, arid of
usefulenss. A successful teacher is a
good and useful citizen."
As a University President, Eliot writes
to Edwin H. Abbot:
"I agree with you that students, as well
as men who are at work in the world, need
to get up early, to have stated engage­ments,
and to work systematically. All
these things seem to me quite as necessary
to success in College as in professional or
business life. Therefore I like as little as
you do the current notion that a young
man has no stated engagements or pre­scribed
duties at Harvard College, but is
free to go, or not to go, to recitations and
lectures, to get up or to lie in bed, to
spend his evenings in mere amusement, and
to absent himself from Cambridge when
he pleased. I do not think it well for a
student to indulge I n that kind of license;
but I think the College should train him to
control himself in this respect, rather than
try to compel him to systematic labor by
the use of artificial penalties which bear
no resemblance to anything he will en­counter
in real life. I think I differ from
you and Stickney in regard to the best
method of training a student's will, in or­der
that he may become a man capable of
strenuous, systematic labor." . . . "The
student should work diligently and steadily
in order to master a subject which inter­ests
him, or to develop his powers, or to
get a degree at the end of four years; just
as an oarsman trains for nine months, and
subjects himself to all sorts of privations
and irksome labor, in order to win a race
in June. The student should see far ahead
of him a worthy object, and should give
himself day by day to' the labors required
for the attainment of that object. To my
thinking, college training effective for the
future ends of business and professional
life is only to be got in this way."
A student in need of aid writes of Presi­dent
Eliot:
"He said, 'What can I do for you' in
that wonderful voice that none of us can
forget. I felt better right away and was
able to tell him, I hope coherently, that I
would like to borrow fifty dollars from
the Loan Fund. He did not ask me about
my family or their circumstances. He did
not ask me if I had borrowed any money
before. He replied without any delay, 'You
may have the money', and he signed and
handed me an order on the Bursar.
"I made my heart-felt thanks and start­ed
to leave, when he said, 'Pray be. seat­ed.'
Then he proceeded, to my amaze­ment,
to say in effect: 'I am told that you
cook and eat in your room. Now I don't
think that that is at all bad for you if you
get the right food and enough of it. When
I was in College I did the same" . . .
This splendid Biography reveals the
way a great man is made; and shows the
way a good man lived and worked for the
honor of Harvard and the happiness of
humanity.
Exhaust gas from automobiles is danger­ous
because of its containing 5 to 10 per­cent
of carbon-monoxide.
The United States Public Health Ser­vice
has lifted the ban on the importation
of parrots into the United States.
Tempel's second comet discovered in
1873 is returning on its eighth visit to the
earth.
Investigations made at Iowa State Col­lege
show that the average college girl
spends $280.00 a year for clothing.
COSMOPOLITAN CUMBERLAND
Cumberland University, with a student
body that includes graduates and former
students of 53 American colleges and uni­versities,
and which is made up of repre­sentatives
from 27 states and three for­eign
countries, claims the distinction of
having the most cosmopolitan student body
for its size of any institution of higher
learning in the United States.
The total enrollment of the university
is just short of 450.
The cause of such an unusual student
body, university authorities point out, is the
uniquie one-year law course which Cumber­land
offers, preparing the student for the
state bar examinations in most states in
n,ine months.
More than two-thirds of the student body
is enrolled in the one-year law school.
Outside of Tennesse, Texas leads in num­ber
of students here, the Lone Star state
having 41 students enrolled.—(IP).
* * * * *
G. W. SUMMER SCHOOL .
Inaugurating it's celebration of the bi-cennial
of the birth of George Washington,
The George Washington University at
Washington, D. C, plans to develop its
summer sessions next summer along great­ly
extended lines, making available a com­prehensive
program of studies in the so­cial
sciences and in government which,
through focusing attention upon American
institutions and ideals, will be of nation­wide
import."
World authorities in the field of political
science and international relations will be
brought to the university as visiting pro­fessors.—
(IP).
* * * * *
WE DIDN'T KNOW EITHER?
Undergraduates at Barnard College in
New York City are seriously contemplat­ing
a program for letting the world know
that the college is one for women students.
The move was instigated by the undergrad­uate
newspaper after the college had re­ceived
a letter from a sports concern, point­ing
out the advantages of using rubber line
markers on the football field, thus saving
the necks of the players.
Barnard girls haven't yet organized a
football team.—(IP).
* * * * *
PAPER CHANGES NAME
In an effort to wipe out all memories of
the old Idaho Technical Institution, which
for four years has been The University of
Idaho, Southern Branch, the Idaho Tech-niad,
six-year-old undergraduate newspap­er
at the university, has changed its name
to The E-da-ho Bengal.
"E-da-ho" was an Indian name from
which Idaho took it's name as a State, and
the university's athletic teams are known
as "The Bengals."—(IP).
* * * * *
THESE WILD WOMEN!
Delaware police were called upon recent­ly
to disperse a class fight between 400
freshman and sophomore women on the
campus of Ohio Wesleyan University.
Freshman girls for several days had re­fused
to appear in their freshman berets.
Then one evening the sophomores organiz­ed
and swooped down on the freshman cot­tages.
The freshman likewise were son organiz­ed
and a hot battle ensued. Hair was pull­ed,
dresses torn and faces scratched in the
melee.
Sophomores succeeded in ducking a few
of the frosh co-eds under the showers.
The first policeman on the scene mis­took
lipstick, smeared on the faces of the
freshman girls, as blood marks, and sent
in a general alarm. The cops soon separat­ed
the combatants, and only one was se­riously
hurt in the conflict.
The unsubdued frosh co-eds later march­ed
through downtown streets in snake dance
formation, shouting to the world that they
would hot wear the prescribed freshman
headgear.—(IP).
NO SATURDAY CLASSES
Believing that the five-day week is just
as important an innnovation in college life
as it is in industry, the Red and Black,
undergraduate newspaper at the Universi­ty
of Georgia,- has started agitation editor­ially
to keep Saturday's free from classes
at the University.
"We admit," the Red and Black says,
"that there are certain visible advantages
to be gained in going to classes six days
a week more work can be accomplish­ed
for one thing. But we question whether
the quality of work is as high as that done
during a five-day week. Most expert's agree
that it is not. Henry Ford has experi­mented
with shorter hours and fewer work
days. His tests show that the average man
does a higher quality of work laboring ov­er
a short period than he does over a long
one. His test's are not irrelevent to be ap­plied
to the University of Georgia."
The newspaper further admits that va­rious
other difficulties would arise, espec­ially
that of completing the week's class
schedule. It suggests, therefore, that stu­dents
attend classes in certain subjects each
day until that course has been completed,
and then take up work in other courses,
studying in that every day until it is com­pleted.—(
IP).
Solitary Speculations
By Haakon Provost
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial
opinions of this paper. It is a column of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
* * * * *
"—Ast Alii anus
Et plures uno accusant ore"
* * * * * ALTHOUGH the columnist has "writ­ten
himself hoarse" over the subject,
he again asks for the introduction
of a course in ancient foreign languages,
The writer examined a catalogue of some
years ago and found that a comparatively
short time has elapsed since Latin and
Greek went out of our curriculum. Was
this withdrawal of two most important aca­demic
courses a progressive step?
The department of Modern Foreign Lan­guages
is an entity of the School of Science
and Literature. This school is supposed to
be the most important academic division of
the institution. It has some excellent aes­thetic
courses in its curricula; our depart­ment
of History and English are most com­plete.
But our department of Modern For­eign
Languages seems to be designed to fit
the needs of engineering and architectural
students. It is true that this department
teaches advance courses in the modern ton­gues,
but engineers never go very far into
the study of a language, and the academic
matriculate ignores these advanced subjects
because of his lack of background. To
really appreciate the stud of a foreign ton­gue
the student must know something of
that language's ancestry. Most of the Ro­mance
and Teutonic languages trace their
origin almost directly back to Latin and
Greek.
The writer does not believe that he is
alone in this; several people have talked to
him aboue it. What is most necessary now
is action.
* * * * *
And then there is much talk over the
question of Prohibition. Believe it or not,
I am not radical enough to want the repeal
of the Volstead Act. But it is not the best
thing for the country. John Barleycorn
will be beaten by temperance, not by coer­cion.
The British have a far better solution
of the problem than the United States will
ever have. But the dispensary just won't
work in this country. We are on wheels.
We are going all the time, and we are
going fast. The British are not. They
have had several centuries longer to settle
down that we have.
One hears a great deal of discussion these
days about poison whiskey. That would be
an ideal solution; put poison in all whiskey,
and a multitude of fools would be dispensed
with. I could never feel any pity for a man
who ruined his body by drinking illicit li­quor
in defiance of law and order. It the
citizen can not respect the statutes he has
made he should go to Africa or some place
where his actions can hurt no one but him­self.
By the time the undertakers have
gotten rich burying several million sots, the
country will probably come to its senses.
Bolshevik, anarchist, crumbier of walls,
schismatic, "adulterated columnist", writer
of nonsense, insulter of women, pornograph-er,
iconoclast though I be, yet I still have
one dram of common decency; I wish to
one J. Culpepper if I have, by any chance,
stepped on his sweetie's toes. Really, Mr.
Culpepper, writing absurd letters to this
paper is, to say the least, a crude and con­spicuous
method of getting a "boot" either
on Dr. Knapp or on the co-eds.
War is like an earthquake or a flood:
after the disaster there is less material
wealth to hand on to succeeding genera­tions.
Whatever is destroyed is gone; that
is the immediate and certain result.—Fos­ter
and Catchings.
The student must, while in school, come
in contact with the opposite sex. This daily
meeting tends to abolish his fear.—Prof.
Vivien Fisher.
It has never been so much a question of
what a man drinks as the atmosphere in
which he drinks it.—Chritsopher Morely.
The all too common depreciation of men
in public service is at once shallow and
cruel.—Felix Franfurter.
Nothing hypnotises a woman more
speedily than noble sentiments from the
mouth of a man.—William Lyon Phelps.
What we suffer from today is the sub­tle
undermining of the ethical sense as
such.—Rabbi Samuel Schulman.
Most of what I learned at school is now
found to be inaccurate or wholly false.—
Joseph Hergescheimer.
To die is only not to be;
And better to be dead than grievously
Living.—Euripides.
Victory does not count nearly so much
as how you play the game.—Gene Tunney.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 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
SNOW
The moon like a round device
On a shadowy shield of war,
Hangs white in a heaven of ice
With a solitary star.
The wind has sunk to a sigh,
And the waters are stern with frost;
And gray, in the eastern sky,
The last snow-cloud is lost.
White fields, that are winter-starved,
Black woods, that are winter-fraught,
Cold, harsh as a face death-carved
With the iron of some black thought.
—Madison Cawein.
D. A. R. Meets On
Tuesday Afternoon
The D. A. R. met last Tuesday af­ternoon
at the home of Mrs. Fred Al­lison.
Mrs. W. B. Lazarus, and Mrs.
J. J. Wilmore were joint hostesses
with Mrs. Allison. This meeting was
to celebrate Alabama Day and each
member answered roll call with some
event of interest concerning Alabama.
Mrs. Bruce GcGehee was in charge
of the program, the subject for the
afternoon being "A Canadian States­man."
After a most
a delightful social hour was enjoyed
Contest Winners Enjoy
Barbecue Banquet
The annual Poultry Barbecue Ban­quet
was held at the Baptist church
last Saturday night. The banquet was
given by the poultry department in
honor of the "hens" who won prizes
in the egg laying contest, which is
sponsored each year by this depart­ment.
"Lady Peacock" was the main
guest of honor.
Readings and music were enjoyed,
also short talks by Dr. Bradford
Knapp, Mr. L. N. Duncan, and Dr.
H. B. Peacock. Mr. Brigham render­ed
several solos, accompaned by Prof.
Hazel. Mr. L. N. Duncan awarded
five loving cups to the winners in the
contest. The banquet was prepared
by the ladies of the Baptist church,
assisted by several ladies of the ex­tension
department.
PERSONAL
MENTION
J-Mrs.
Shubert Entertains
With Thanksgiving Dinner
Mrs. W. 0. Shubert entertained a
number of friends with a Thanksgiv-s
ing dinner last Sunday evening.
The color scheme of yellow was car­ried
out in the decorations and place
interesting program \ cards. A six-course dinner was serv­ed
after which readings were enjoy­ed.
Those participating in this love­ly
affair were: Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Davis, Mr. Will Davis of Opelika, and
Mr. and Mrs. John King and Mrs.
Wicker and George Moxham.
Mrs. Jones Hostess
At Tea Tuesday
Mrs. Herman Jones entertained a
few friends at tea on Tuesday for her
Aunt and Cousin, Mrs. Haigler and
daughter, of Tulsa, Okla.
N. Y. U. CO-EDS MANIKINS
AT A FASHION SHOW
New York—(IP)—New York Uni­versity
co-eds were the manikins at
a fashion show given at the Universi­ty's
Little Theatre, in cooperation
with a large New York department
store.
The show was the idea of Miss
Elizabeth Burris-Meyer, director of
the University's division of costume
design, who chose this direct method
of teaching her students the facts
concerning a proper and tasteful se­lection
of attire.
FOUR SISTERS IN ONE COLLEGE
Charlotte, Miriam, Rachel and
Louis Slonaker are believed to be
the only four sisters in the United
States all enrolled in the same col­lege.
All four are undergraduates
this year "at Muskingum College at
New Concord, O. They live in Pitts­burgh.
Not the eye but the spirit furn­ishes
the best proof of theories.—Al­bert
Einstein.
Civilization is nothing but a con­quering
of human instincts.—Wil­liam
Lyon Phelps.
And the candle by which she read,
as in a book, the fulfillment of her
life's work, of its deceptions, its
grief, and its torments, flared up
with greater brightness than she had
ever known, revealing to her all that
before was in darkness, then flick­ered,
grew faint, and went out for­ever.—
Tolstoi, Death of Anna Ka-renina.
Mrs. George Breeden and children
of Selma spent the Thanksgiving holi­days
with Mrs. Breeden's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Wilmore.
* * *
Mrs. "Slick" Moulto'n is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Clara Yarbrbugh for a
few days.
* * *
Mrs. Frank Wilmore and son spent
the Thanksgiving holidays in Annis-ton,
the guests of Mrs. Merrill.
* * *
Bishop McDonald was in Auburn
a few days this week, the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Toomer.
* * *
Mrs. S. L. Toomer and children
and Miss Berta Dunn spent last Sat­urday
in Columbus.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Morrow were
the Thanksgiving guests of Dr. and
Mrs. Fred Allison.
* * *
Mr. S. L. Toomer and Mr. James
Rutland spent Wednesday in Mont­gomery.
* * *
Mrs. Haigler and daughter, of Tul­sa,
Oklahoma, are the charming
guests of Mrs. Herman Jones, of this
city. '
* * *
Mrs. S. L. Toomer had some of the
"rug-weavers" t'o tea on last Satur­day
afternoon. Mrs. Curtis Roberts
and Miss Annabelle Taylor of Ope­lika
were guests.
* * *
Miss Verna Patterson, has returned
to resume her school work, after hav­ing
an operation for appendicitis in
Norwood hospital, Birmingham, Ala.
* * *
Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Boyd had as
their guests during the Thanksgiving
holidays, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Wilds
and children, Betty and Bobby, of
South Carolina. Mrs. Wilds is the
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Boyd and
is an Auburn graduate. Mr. Wilds
was at one time a star player on South
Carolina's team. They attend the Au­burn-
South Carolina game in Colum­bus.
BIRMINGHAM WRITER HAILS
AUBURN CO-ED AS GENIUS
Under prohibition the liquor traf­fic
is the open preferred occupation
among us in which there is no unem­ployment.—
Nicholas Murray Butler.
AVERY'S P R E S S I N G CLUB
LET US KEEP YOUR SUITS PRESSED
Phone 180
YOUR SUCCESS
Depends on Neat Appearance
VARSITY BARBER SHOP
I would point out that to cultivate
are, to love it and to foster it, is en­tirely
compatible with those qualities
which make a successful business
man.—Otto H. Kahn.
By P. O. Davi«
"Sometimes genius is found in the
most unexpected places . . . by the
side of the river banks . . . in the
marshes . . . in the woods . . .in the
public marts . . . beyond the dim hori­zon
. . . it is not a question of geog­raphy."
Thus wrote Dolly Dalrymple in the
Birmingham News. She continued:
"The other day we discovered such—
little Lucile Gibson with her starry
Irish, gray-blue eyes and long black
lashes, her peaches and cream com­plexion
and jet black hair. A beauty
if ever we met one, with talent plus."
And Lucile Gibson is now a student
in applied arts at the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute. She was directed to
Auburn by Miss Meta Grace, home
demonstration agent' for Tallapoosa
County; and who, herself, received her
college training at Auburn. She met
Miss Gibson while visiting he rela­tives
in Tallapoosa County. She was
attracted by her, convinced of her
ability to succeed in her chosen work,
and she wanted to help her to get
fundamental training.
At Auburn, Miss Gibson is study­ing
different courses in applied art,
giving special attention to water co­lors,
and free-hand drawing.
She was reared on a farm at Mc-
Kenzie, Alabama. Her mother is Mrs.
Eula Gibson. Her father has been
dead five years. She and her sis­ter,
Vernie (now Mrs. Charley Bryant
of Tallassee, Alabama), began carv­ing
from fuller's earth along banks
of a creek near their home. Dolls
were their first product; and they
were made for Christmas presents.
"Mrs. Gibson, Lucile, and Vernie
have achieved success without instruc­tion
of any kind," continued Dolly
Dalrymple. "They had their own nat­ural
talent; and have attained to suc­cess
to the extent of being importun­ed
by New York artists to studyj;here
and to send their products to the art
galleries of the world for considera­tion."
,
Lucile continues with her story to
Dolly Dalrymple: "I've never had a
teacher, and my sister and I learned
what we know just by watching our
mother work with stone and clay. It
was when we were tiny little tots that
Christmas came and mother wanted to
jajive some Christmas presents. She
had not money to buy them and so
she made little figures out of stone.
WEE WISDOM
By Eddie Coe
MISS LUCILE GIBSON
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If you would make headway, plan
your work, and if your would achieve
results, work your plan.
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You hear them speak of a Self-made
man. Don't believe it. It's a
misnomer. There's no such animal.
No one, regardless of the extent of
his victory over handicaps and ob­stacles
can make that claim with
truth. No man lives unto himself.
He is the product of the long centu­ries
of struggle that have been fought
to provide place and opportunity for
his progress. He is the beneficiary of
advantages and environment to which
his contemporaries have contributed,
many of them in large and indispen­sable
measure. Give credit where
credit is due. Render unto Caesar
the things that are Caesars, but in
the easy enthusiasm of hero worship­ping
don't lose your sense of pro­portion,
your concept of values, rela­tive
and absolute.
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In the kingdom of Wisdom there
are.vast stretches of silence. If you
have something to' say and the t;ime
is appropriate, say it appropriately,
otherwise try silent treatment. A lot
more harm is ^done by talking too
much than by talking too little. In
fact, those who talk too little are few
and far between.
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It was Henry Ward Beecher who
said, "A forgiveness ought to be like
a cancelled note, torn into and burn­ed
up so that it can never be shown."
Most men can stand adversity and
not be the worse for it—perhaps even
better. Its prosperity that makes
boobs and snobs. Prosperity bought
at the price of losing the common
touch, is but
chase.
a poor and futile pur-
Two things there are that are of
importance. The first is to do your
best; and the second is, having done
your best, whether you hit or miss,
not to worry. No man has ever done
better than his best.
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There are many who are broad?
minded until and unless you run
amuck their pet theories.
* * * *
Bruce Barton says that "Most men
go through life half blinded by cu­riosity
and half paralized by fear."
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If you want to obscure the truth,
if you would set up your own inter­pretation,
cultivate a closed mind, a
disposition to ridicule, even to resent,
that which is beyond the restricted
horizon of your limitations. The
closed mind, with its false pride, its
unnecessary prejudice, its unwilling­ness
t'o learn, its obstinacy, its intoler­ance,
is the prime ally of ignorance.
And ignorance, where opportunity for
knowledge is vouchsafed, is crime.
It is given to but few, if any, to
know and comprehend the whole
truth. It's a gem of many facts.
—Truth. You may have the strong­est
convictions on some specific sub­ject,
you may think your version is
the true version, but there are oth­ers
whose convictions are just as
strong, whose version is equally sin­cere.
You may be looking through
one faucet for the truth, they through
another. After all, who among us can
speak with authority as to the final
truth?
Wherefore, let us pray fervently,
but not fanatically, to be delivered
from the curse-of the closed mind.
To color them she used the berries
from the trees and shrubs and this
gave the little figure an artistic
appearance.
"That was the beginning of our
work," she continued, "and ever since
then we have been working in stone
and clay and anything we could find
along the banks of the creeks and
rivers."
Paint from Nature
"We make the figures and then
paint them from the natural scenery
around us, the flowers and birds and
everything that is pretty.
"But after we modeled our subjects
the question of firing them confront­ed
us. As we had no kiln it was dif­ficult
to make them permanent or
durable. But presently, with mother's
assistance, we built our own kiln and
the glazed work we do now is really
quite beautiful. In order to do this
successfully we had to experiment
with the different minerals, combin­ing
them with the soil and finding out
which would last and hold water or
other liquids. When we arrived at
the solution of the matter we had
all of our problems solved and firing
and glazing became quite easy."
Lucile, Gibson did not realize for
a long time the value of her work
until one day, shortly before the death
of her father, he put some of her lit­tle
figures in his pocket as he started
for Montgomery.
Arriving there, he found a friend
of his whom he showed the attractive
little figures. • Standing near them
was an artist from New York who,
overhearing the conversation and no­ticing
the little stone and clay images,
asked to see them. »
The father of the talented girl was
delighted to let the stranger see the
work and immediately he was request­ed
to send some of the sculpture to
'Tis Fine to
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PICKWICK
Prestwood-Ford
Engagement Announced
.Auburn friends of Joseph Ford, Jr.
have received invitations to his wed­ding
at Andalusia on the 10th of De­cember.
The bride-to-be j s Miss Mary
Rosalind Prestwood of Andalusia
where Mr. Ford has worked in a
bank since his graduation at Auburn
with the class of 1929.
During his senior year Joe was bus­iness
manager of the Glomerata. He
was a member of several student or­ganization
and was widely known as
an outstanding leader among stu­dents.
He was very popular as a
student; and since graduation he has
risen rapidly in banking.
Mesdames Wilson and
Nichols Joint Hostesses
Mesdames J. B. Wilson and M. L.
Nichols were charming joint hostesses
last Saturday when they entertained
a number of their friends with bridge
at the lovely home of Mrs. Wilson.
Huge chrysanthemums were used as
the main decorative note. Soft lights
also lent a charm to the spacious
suite of rooms, where none tables of
bridge were placed.
Mrs. R. D. Doner won high-score
and Mrs. Herman Gardner received
low score.
A delicious salad course with hot
chocolate was served at a late hour.
Mrs. Bedingfield Guest
At Bridge Party
Mrs. C. H. Bedingfield, of Opelika,
was complimented last Wednesday by
Mrs. A. Carnes in the form of a bridge
party.
The home of Mrs. Carnes was beau­tifully
decorated, flowers being the
main decoration. Five tables were
placed very artistically about the spa­cious
living room.
Mrs. C. L. Isbell received prize for
high score, while Mrs. A. H. Collins
received low score.
A dainty salad course and hot choc­olate
were served at the conclusion of
the games.
Mrs. Bedingfield moved to Opelika
recently from Cullman. She is a for­mer
resident of Auburn.
New York for an exhibition. The re­sult
was that a box full of the beau­tiful
figures was sent to the Holt Art
Gallery in New York where every
smgle one of them was sold and the
comment of the artist world was most
flattering.
"So many of the great artists in
New York have insisted upon my go­ing
to New York to study after they
had seen my work," said little Miss
Gibson, "but, of course, I have never
been able to indulge myself in such
things. So I am still modeling at my
home where the beautiful scenery af­fords
me so many opportunities to re­produce
it, but which I'd like to do
more artistically and which I can nev­er
do without the proper instruction."
Some of the outstanding work Lu­cile
Gibson has done includes life-size
busts of Lincoln, Longfellow, Ed­gar
Allen Poe and Mark Twain and
she has also done a beautiful Vnus
de Milo and George Washington.
Besides this: "The Twins" and "The
Golden Cup" are among her most ar­tistic
productions.
Woman's Auxiliary
Meets With Mrs. Carnes
The'Woman's Auxiliary of the Epis­copal
church met with Mrs. Carnes
on Toomer Street. A most entertain­ing
program was enjoyed. An inter­esting
talk, "The Historical Lembert
Palace" was given by Miss Dorothea
Biggin. "Our India Mission in Es­cambia
County" was the topic of dis­cussion,
occasioned by a leter from
the mission describing the work there.
The Auxiliary voted to send a Christ­mas
box and a check for the work
there. Plans were made for the
United Missionary Meeting in De­cember
for which the Episcopal and
Christian churches, are hostesses.
A. A. W.-W. Have
White Elephant Sale
The A. A. W. W. had a "White
Elephant Sale" on Wednesday and
realized quite a good sum for the Fel­lowship
Fund. Mr. J. M. Robinson
was a most interesting and effective
auctioneer, which accounted for' the
success of the sale.
' The fear of age blinds us to its
beauty.—Kathleen Norris.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930
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ADRIAN TAYLOR, Editor; Harry Barnes, Assistant Editor; Marshall Caley, L. B.
Graves, Tad McCallum, assistants. •
Auburn Finishes Season
With Conference Victory
Winning from South Carolina for
their first Southern Conference vic­tory
in over four years, Chet Wynne's
Auburn Tigers closed their season in
a blaze of glory, but from the initial
week of practice in September, it be­gan
to look like it had already been
written in the books by Dame Fate
that the 1930 edition of the- Plains­men
gridiron eleven would have to go
through their ten games without an­nexing
a win in their own ranks.
Misfortunes began to hit the Tigers
lair early as Ben Newton, 200-lb.
veteran, tackle, failed to return to
school and Joe Andrews, another play­er
who tipped the scales over the two
century mark, who had a bright fu­ture
predicted for him after playing
wonderful football against Georgia
Tech in his final game as a sopho­more,
and Louis McRee, regular end
in 1929, were ruled ineligible by the
faculty. McRee was eligible in Oc­tober,
but was unable to see service
on account of sickness. These three
players were letter men from last
season and were being counted upon
heavily this year.
Coaches Roger Kiley and Earl Mc-
Faden filled the vacancies in the for­ward
wall due to the above losses and
Trainer Wilbur Hutsell had cleared
his hospital list for the opening game
with Birmingham-Southern, but the
Tigers were disorganized in their first
conflict and the game was almost com­pletely
dominated by the Panthers.
Not only did the Auburn mentors
have to remedy faults shown by their
proteges in the initial contest, but ad­ditional
troubles started at the same
time. Howard Chappelle, regular full­back
in 1929, was granted permission
to stay overnight in Montgomery and
that was his final connection with the
team. He decided to resign from
school. However, he was just one of
nine players lost during the season.
Spring Hill was next for the
Wynnemen, and they fully realized the
competition that they would encount­er
in the 1929 S. I. A. A. champions.
A rejuvenated Tiger faced the Bad­gers
which upset the dope and won
easily, 13 to 0, both touchdowns com­ing
in the second quarter.
Following Spring Hill, came Flori­da.
The mighty SaurianS had one of
the strongest elevens 'in the Southern
Conference and this tilt was Auburn's
first in their own ranks. The victory
over the Jesuit institution was cost­ly
because eight Plainsmen were un­able
to participate in any rough work
in preparation for the 'Gators because
of injuries received the previous Sat­urday.
The injury received by Capt.
Harkins in the Spring Hill game ham­pered
him throughout the year.
On top of a large ailing list,1 Will
Bassett, a power house in the back-field,
received a broken leg in the final
scrimmage before the Florida engage­ment.
Bassett's loss was a hard blow
because the frosh sensation in 1929
had recently changed his attitude and
was determined to win a regular
berth. He was one of the leading
first-year backs in the South under
Earl McFaden, but not winning a
first-string position in the first two
tilts disheartened him a little. He was
not used to sitting on the bench and
had informed Coach Wynne the day
of his injury that he was going to
use his strength and ability to the ut­most.
It really meant that he was
going to change his attitude and work
hard to become a regular.
Florida faced an inspired group of
Tigers and were lucky to win 7 to 0.
It was the closest battle Auburn had
given in several years.
Chet Wynne had not made any pre­dictions
about winning a conference
game his first year as head mentor
at the Cornerstone, but after the
wonderful showing made by his team
in Jacksonville, a good many ardent
football fans believed that Auburn
would win one. or more conference
games during the season.
Wynne and his capable aides might
have predicted the same thing, but
mumps, appendicitis and other un­necessary
events happened among the
Plainsmen moleskin wearers which
came pretty close to making this fore­cast
almost an impossibility.
Georgia Tech was next after Flori­da.
The score at the half was 12 to
0 with Auburn leading, but an injury
to Hatfield early in the third period
weakened the Bengals, Tech finally
pushing over two touchdowns and
kicking goals to eke out a win, 14 to
12.
With Hatfield definitely out for
two weeks and Georgia to be played
as the third conference opponent, the
air on Drake Field began to be filled
with gloom. Leo Young, Hatfield's
substitute, had to resign from college
and Commodore Wood, who started at
guard against the Yellow Jacket's, had
to have an operation for the removal
of his appendix. These losses slightly
dampened the spirit of the Tigers, but
they battled the conquerers of Yale
and New Yorw University on even
terms for the first half, crumbling in
the third and fourth quarters, Harry
Mehre's combination winning, 39 to
7.
The team started functioning bet-terter
after- the new faces in the start­ing
lineup began to play as veterans
and not as neophytes. Wofford was
crushed, 38 to 6, and then came Tu-lane.
The Tigers faced Tulane in a crip­pled
condition in addition to losing
their best defensive lineman, James D.
Bush, after the Wofford game on ac­count
of mumps. Mississippi A. &
M. was next on the schedule and the
long looked for, but much dreaded off
day arrived. They blew their chances
of copping the verdict when they were
rated favorites for the first time in a
conference conflict.
With only two more games remain­ing
on the 1930 campaign, it began
to look like Wynne would be lucky if
he had eleven players to finish the
season. Hannis Prim, regular tackle,
and Carl Schlich, reserve guard, were
taken with mumps before the Vandy
game, the Commodores winning, 27
to 0.
A lone chance remained for this
year's Plainsmen to up set the dope
and put a game on the win side of
the ledger. South Carolina was to
be their opponent in Columbus and
Billy Laval's club was being picked
to close their season winning by two
or more touchdowns. A few believed
that Auburn might come through with
their colors flying on tops of the flag
pole, but they were pretty well scat­tered.
The few fans who thought Auburn
might .win over the Gamecocks dwind­led
to practically zero when John D.
Simpkins, guard, had to rush home
on account of serious illness in his
family, and Porter Grant, regular end,
had to .leave the team on the eve of
the final game on account of the
death of his father. No one could be
groomed to fill Grant's place, but the
way Cary Senn and George Egge
guarded the flanks, one would have
thought that two professional flank-men
had been imported. They came
through in brilliant style and did not
perform as an inexperienced, but
promising sophomore, and a fighting
junior, but like veterans of several
year seasoning.
Coaches Chet Wynne, Roger Kiley
and Earl McFaden took it on the chin
during the year from all sources, on­ly
injuries to Bassett and Hatfield
occuring on the gridiron, but were
finally rewarded for their untiring
efforts in trying to develop a win­ner
at the Loveliest Village when
Four Athletes Who Finished Careers As Football Players for Auburn Thanksgiving Day
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CARL SCHLICH
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FORMER TIGERS
ARE PRODUCING
WINNING TEAMS
JOE BURT
University of Alabama Finishes Hard
Schedule Undefeated; Are Champions
By Adrian Taylor
When the Alabama Crimson Tide
swept aside the Georgia Bulldogs in
Birmingham, Thanksgiving Day, they
had completed one of the hardest
schedules ever attempted by any
Southern Conference team, and are
undisputed champions, and the en-
Capt. Dunham Harkins and his gal­lant
mates rose to unheard of heights
and trounced South Carolina decisive­ly,
25 to 7. The Tigers had fought
sixty minutes of every game, but vic­tory
would generally always slip from
their fingertips, especially in the final
half. •
What has been written about the
unknown elements causing the 1930
Orange and Blue moleskin wearers so
much trouble would give most every
coach a chance to alibi over his team's
record, but every one is satisfied with
Auburn's season, and Chet Wynne is
not a mentor who discredits another
team by alibing. They are stated
merely to mention a few of the hard­ships
encountered by Wynne and Ki­ley
their first year as mentors in Dix­ie
and Earl McFaden's initial season
as assistant varsity coach.
tire South should pay homage to this
great team.
Alabama has routed eight strong
conference teams, amassing over two
hundred points, and when one pond­ers
the fact that most of these de­feated
teams were successful in their
invasion of the North and East, Ala­bama's
record becomes prominent.
Early in the year, Vanderbilt easily
defeated the strong Minnesota Goph­er
team only to return South and be
washed aside by the strong Crimson
Team. The University of Georgia
has enjoyed a greater success in the
North than has any other Southern
team. The Bullsdogs defeated Yale
and N. Y. U., however, to Alabama,
they were just another football team.
The Florida Gators went North and
trounced the Chicago Maroons, but
were no match for the Tide. So Ala­bama
has obtained national promin­ence
as well as in the South.
The Crimson Tide has been invited
to the Rose Bowl for the third time,
and should easily defeat the Wash­ington
State Cougars in this annual
football classic. The entire South
will be supporting the Tide, and
every Auburn man is forgetting any
The four warriors pictured above
are Seniors, and when the Auburn
Tigers defeated the South Carolina
Gamecocks, these men were playing
their last college game. These play­ers
have been at Auburn during
three trying years of defeat, but
they have stood by their guns and
led Auburn from the valley of de­feat
unto the bright hills of glory
which will be occupied by Auburn
teams of the future.
Joe Burt has been an outstanding
and a consistent guard, and has per­formed
nobly this year. Burt is a
Senior in Mechanica 1 Engineering,
and Alternate-Captain of the base­ball
team. He is a member of the
Beta Kappa fraternity, Blue Key, A
NEW STANDARDIZED TESTS
UNDERTAKEN FOR STUDENTS
Washington —(IP)— The Ameri­can
Council on Education has under­taken
the development of a new sys­tem
of standardized tests for college"
students which it is believed may
revolutionize methods of higher edu­cation.
The plan is to have a student's ad­vancement
depend on actual achieve­ments
in learning rather than in
spending a certain time, such as a se­mester,
in a certain study.
It is proposed to construct a grad­uated
series of standard knowledge
tests for every subject commonly
studied in colleges.
The council is working under a
grant of $500,000 for the Rockefeller
Foundation.
petty grievances, and is backing Ala­bama
with all his fervor.
club and is very popular on the cam­pus.
Carl Schlich is another guard who
has played well, however he has been
unable to play in the latter part of
the season due to an attack of the
mumps. Carl is a member of the
Theta Kappa Nu fraternity, Blue
Key, Scabbard and Blade, A club and
a Senior in the school of electrical
engineering.
John Wilson has played consistent­ly
at the tackle berth, and was one
of the stars in Auburn's victory over
South Carolina. John is a member
of the Sigma Phi Sigma fraternity,
the A clubhand is well liked on the
campus.
Carl Creel has been used as reser­ve
end this year, and has given his
all for Auburn. Choctaw is a mem­ber
of Coach Hutsell's track team,
throwing the javelin.
PRINCETON UNIV. LIBRARY IS
RAPIDLY INCREASING IN SIZE
Princeton, N. J. —(IP)— The
Princeton University Library is in­creasing
so rapidly in size, that books
are now being stored in the cellar of
the building, and in many attics
about the campus. A new building
is being asked of alumni.
Two of the few undefeated and un­tied
high school teams in the state,
who are making strong bids for the
state championship; one of the lead­ing
prep school elevens in Dixie, and
nearly a score of other teams with
impressive records are coached by
former Auburn athletes.
Dale County High, Ozark and Walk­er
County High, Jasper, are the high
schools who have finished their 1930
schedules without a single defeat or
tie to mar their record in eleven
games, while Southern Military Acad­emy,
Greensboro, has played outstand­ing
junior college and freshmen ag­gregations
in Mississippi, Alabama,
Tennessee and Georgia, and annexed
wins in every game except the Thanks­giving
tilt with Bowdon College, which
resulted in a 6-6 deadlock.
Louie Tamplin, who played foot- *
ball here and ran the quarter mile'
on Coach Wilbur Hutsell's track
team, is coaching the Ozark gridders;
Ebb James, the oldest member of the
famed twin-combination of Ebb and
Fob, who played football, basket ball
and baseball, is tutoring Walker
County, and Nurmi Nelson, who was
quarterback on the gridiron eleven
and speed-demon on the thinly-clad
team, is head coach at the Greensboro
institution. Nelson was captain of
Auburn's 1926 track team and James
led the 1928 Tigers to a championship
in baseball.
This is not the first season that the
trio of above mentors have produced
winning machines, but it is the ini­tial
year that they have not met de­feat.
James played guard on the Tiger's
1928 hardwood quintet which won 20
and lost 2 contests, both one-point de­cisions
to the University of Missis­sippi,
and has also proven his mettle
as a cage mentor. He was coach of
the Goodwater five last year which
lost only four tilts in over twenty
encounters.
Jimmie Hitchcock, brilliant half­back
on Chet Wynne's 1930 Plains­men
eleven, attended prep school at
S. M. A., and received expert coach­ing
from Nelson. Other Auburn foot- _
ball players who were coached by Nel­son
are: Kenneth Phipps, varsity half­back,
and the following freshmen
players: Ralph Garris, tackle; Fred
Burge, center; James Kimbrell, half­back,
and James Bumpers, fullback.
The quartet of first-year performers
have a good chance of breaking into
the regular lineup in 1931.
Not only are Auburn trained coach­es
putting teams on the field with un­defeated
and untied records, but in
every section of the state, teams coach­ed
by ex-Bengals have outstanding
records, generally only one or two loss­es
slightly marring the season.
Other former Auburn stars who
have made good as coaches, and who
have had winning teams this year
are: "Dizzy" Pruitt, Opelika; "Bul­let"
Hitchcock, Geneva; Earl Smith,
Langdale; Rupert Ingram, Goodwat­er;
Fob James, Enterprise; Louie
James, Athens; Edward James, Ma­rion;
Grady Long, Wetumpka; How­ell
Long, Hartselle; "Flivver" Ford,
Falkville; Fred Sheridan, Dora;
"Stumpy" Granger, Lee County High;
Rube Alverson, Tuskegee; "Hardboy"
Pruitt, Atmore, and Frank DuBose,
Tallassee.
CIGARETTE RECEIVERS
ABOUT WOMEN'S COLLEGE
New Brunswick, N. J.— (IP)—Ten
cigarette butt receivers have been
placed at strategic points about the
campus of the' New Jersey State Col­lege
for Women here, by the under­graduate
officers. They are made
of concrete.
Undefeated Utah Team
Attempts Extra Game
Salt Lake City—(IP)—The Uni­versity
of Utah football team having
won the Rocky Mountain Conference
championship after one of the most
successful seasons in its history, the
Utah Chronicle, undergraduate news­paper,
is now engaged in a campaign
to have the university schedule a
post-season intersectional game.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE FIVE
Engravings Dating Back 20
Centuries Discovered in Spain
New Haven, Conn. —(IP)— The
story of the trip made to prehistoric
regions in Europe during the past
Summer by Gen. Charles G. Dawes,
ambassador to England, is related in
etail by Professor George G. Mac-
Curdy, of Yale University, in an­nouncing
the discovery of two pre­historic
engravings on bone excavat­ed
in Spain by the ambassador and
others of the expedition.
The engravings date from the Mag-delenian
epoch of at least 20,000
years ago, according to Professor
MacCurdy, who is director of the
American School of Prehistoric Re­search
and also research associate in
prehistoric archeology at Yale Uni­versity.
In describing the trip Professor
MacCurdy says: "General Dawes
asked me, on the occasion of his visit
to America last June if I could not
take him with me on a prehistoric
pilgrimage in France and Spain.
"Together we studied in museums
and in the field, digging also in caves
and rock shelters both in France and
in Spain.
"We had been fortunate, too, for
in caves of El Pendo, in Northern
Spain, where we dug as guests of the
Abbe Carballo, we found two import­ant
engravings on bone."
Fou" of the sections of thick pale­olithic
deposits and their contents,
Professor MacCurdy relates, which
were seen by the expedition, if sup­erimposed
so as to form a chronolog­ical
sequence, would result in a com­posite
section including every epoch
of the stone age and covering a pe­riod
conservatively estimated at a
half million years.
The Dawes-MacCurdy expedition
also studied prehistoric copper and
flint mining evidences in Nibela,
where impressive pies of prehistoric
slag are to be found.
Radio Announcers Will
Be Trained At Auburn
Students interested in studying ra­dio
management from the standpoint
of the announcer and station director
are asked to report at once to Profes­sor
Layman Spicer Judson, head of
the department of speech. Professor
Judson's office is over the Power
House, and appointments may be ar­ranged
at any time.
Professor Judson has had wide ex­perience
as a radio station manager,
and the present plans are to give
practical instruction in announcing,
continuity writing, and studio tech­nique.
It is the purpose of the department
of speech to organize a class in this
type of work if enough students are
interested. Plans are being made
whereby it will be possible for stu­dents
to gain practical experience in
radio announcing over station WAPI,
and the authorities of the station
stated that they were more than will­ing
to cooperate in every way pos­sible.
Jack Murff, Centenary, returned a
punt 96 yards for a touchdown, but
his team lost to the Texas Aggies 7
to 6.
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Correction For
Student Directory
A statement was received from the
Registrar's office stating that the
following correction should be made
in the Directory of Faculty and Stu­dents
of the Alabama Polytechnic Ins­titute.
To the division headed "Hon­or
Societies and Activities" should be
added:
Alpha Phi Epsilon
Pres.—T. E. Kipp
V.-Pres.—T. N. Pyke
Sec.-Treas.—Margaret Lawrenz
The statement also asserted tha.. a
number of student's have not yet se-sured
their Directory, which is put
out by the Y. M. C. A. for the infor­mation
of the students and members
of the faculty. Those who have not
yet secured their Directory are re­quested
to do so at their earliest
convenience by calling at the Y office.
"Will you love me forever?" plead­ed
the young suitor.
"I cannot tell that," coyly replied
the sweet young flapper as she
gazed at the necklace he had given
her, "but I love you for the present."
OPEL1KA PHARMACY, INC.
! Ph.o ne 72
PRESCRIPTION DRUGGISTS
Your Patronage Appreciated
Opelika, Ala.
DRAKE-IG0U COAL YARD
Successors to J. G. Beasley
—Dealers In—
BEST GRADES OF COAL
Phone 158 Auburn, Ala.
r | GEO CLOWER. YETTA G. SAMFORD
Clower & Samford Insurance Co*
(Established in 1872)
OPELIKA AUBURN
Member of
Mortgage Association of America
Kratzer's Ice Cream
Your Local Dealer Has It
Have the satisfaction of knowing that
our products are pasteurized, and of
the finest ingredients, thereby making
it one of the very best.
Eat the Purest and Best Sold Only by
KRATZER'S
Montgomery, Alabama
Local Dealers
Homer Wright S* L. Toomer
Tiger Drug Store
LT. A. C. MASON
DISCUSSES LIGHT
By Lieut A. C. Mason, U. S. A.
A women is as old as she looks,
but a man is old when he stops look­ing.
Sight was not always man's
most important sense, but as man
grew and perfected himself the spe­cialized
nerves which were sensitive
to light became among the. most de­veloped.
Sight requires three things an ob­ject
to be seen, an optical organ, (as
the eye), to see with, and light itself.
Light travels in wave motions at the
terriffic and unsurpassable speed of
186,000 miles per second regardless
of its color. Electricity and radio
waves, in fact all electro-magnetic
phenomena, move at this same speed.
The sun's white light is not a tr-ue
color. It was early discovered that
sunlight, passing through a prism,
separated into a rainbow-colored
band called the spectrum. By plac­ing
a second prism in the path of
each color, it was establashed that
there was no further division into
color. The prism, therefore, did not
produced the color but simply sepa­rated
the various kinds of light al­ready
present. Violet light, being
the shortest waved, was refracted the
greatest amount, while the other col­ors,
blue, green, yellow, orange, and
red, in order, were refracted lesser
amounts as their wave lengths in­crease.
The study of the refraction
and the reflection of light has been
used in making mirrors, microscopes,
telescopes and eyeglasses which re­flect
or increase the apparent size
of the object seen in varying degrees.
Application of the same knowledge
has enabled the development of the
camera and motion picture.
Curiously enough, every element
known to chemistry radiates light of
distinctive color upon being heated
to incandescence. By this means as­tronomers
have been able to ascer­tain
the elements composing our
heavenly stars and have found that
they are made of the same materials
as our own earth. Perhaps the most
interesting of all such discoveries was
the finding of the element helium in
the sun long before it was known on
the earth, the element being named
after the Greek word for sun, In­terested
scientists turned to look on
the earth itself for this unknown sub­stance.
Their search was difficult
because helium is an inert substance
and does not combine with other
things, but eventually it was isolated
from the gases which are found es­caping
from drilled oil wells.
Most objects we know are non-luminous
and cannot be seen in the
dark. We see them by their reflect­ing
the light by which they are illu­minated.
Each object had its indi­vidual
color by absorbing all light
rays which fall upon it with the ex­ception
of the color which it appears
to be, light of this color alone being
reflected back to our eyes. We can
easily prove this for ourselves by
holding a piece of red paper up to
various colored lights. If red rays
are permitted to fall upon it, the
paper will appear red, but if yellow
or blue rays are used, the paper will
appear black since all of these color­ed
rays are absorbed. On. the con
trary, a white paper will reflect what­ever
color falls upon it since it is
capable of reflecting all colors and
so asumes that color to which it is
exposed.
The story of our senses gradual
growth in ability to distinguish color
is an interesting one. We have good
authority to believe that Xenophanes
recognized only three colors in the
rainbow, namely, purple, red and yel­low,
as did Aristotle who spoke of
the rainbow as being tri-colored. At
the time of the primitive Aryans, our
ancestral forerunners, twenty thous­and
years ago, man was conscious of
only one color. He saw no difference
in the various tints of Nature about
him, in the blue sky, the green grass,
the brown earth, or the many colors
of flowers, nor in the wonderful pan­orama
of sunrise and sunset. In
primitive languages there are not
even word-roots to indicate colors.
We know that in dreams, which are
a primitive development of sensa­tions,
there is no color, yet its ab­sence
it not noted and the dream
seems life-like to us. Likewise, col­orless
moving pictures or photographs
seem to us to be the actual scenes
and people represented.
The first colors to be recognized
were red and black and later mas
was able to distinguish yellow,
white and green, in order. Through­out
the poems of Homer and all
through the Bible, the color of the
sky is not mentioned once giving
CONNECTICUT RIVER
HAS MANY COLLEGES
SITUATED ON BANKS
Middletown, Conn. —(IP)—That
the Connecticut River has on its
banks more institutions of higher
learning than any other in the world
including the Thames, in England,
is the claim set forth in an article
from the Boston Transcript, reprint­ed
in the Wesleyan Argus here.
From north to south, on the banks
of the river, these institutions are:
Dartmouth, at Hanover, N. H.;
Norwich University, in Vermont;
Northfield and Mt. Hermon Semin-aries
in Massachusetts; Amherst Col­lege,
Massachusetts Agricultural Col­lege,
at Amherst, Smith College, Mt.
Holyoke, two colleges at Springfield,
Trinity College and Hartford The­ological
Seminary at Hartford, and
Wesleyan at Middletown.
Until recently the Berkeley Divini­ty
School was on the banks of the
river, and for the first fifteen years
of its existence Yale University also
was so situated, at Saybrook.
Football Practice
Restrictions Asked
Chicago—(IP)—Purdue and Iowa
are expected to ask a new limitation
on Big. Ten conference football prac­tice
when the organization holds its
annual meeting here this month.
Classes at the two schools start on
the same day as football practice,
September 15, while other schools do
not start classes until Oct. 1 and have
several weeks of double practice,
with Iowa and Purdue limited to a
one-day session.
Many Foreign Students
Enrolled U. S. Schools
Washington, D. C. —(IP)— The
colleges and universities of the Unit­ed
States play schoolmaster to some
10,000 students from foreign na­tions,
a recent survey revealed.
Most of these, however, no longer
are undergraduates, but are graduate
students. Foreign educators no lon­ger
believe it important to send their
students here for undergraduate
work.
Columbia University has the larg­est
number of foreign students, there
being no fewer than 710 from other
countries enrolled there.
WOOSTER GETS PUBLICITY
FROM CULTURAL INFLUENCE
Wooster, O.—(IP)—The best pub­licity
which can come to the College
of Wooster is from its growing in­fluence
in academic standards, in
culture and in religion, rather than
from football, Dr. Charles F. Wish-art,
president of the college told
Wooster Kiwanians here.
The president said that financial
aid was being given to all students
alike who needed it, athletes and
just plain students.
good presumtion to believe that it
was not recognized. The sky was
mentioned and described in thous­ands
of ancient writings, yet its color
was entirely ignored. Words them­selves
give us an interesting clue to
man's ability to gradually discrimin­ate
different colors. The English
word "blue" and the German "blau"
comes from a word that means black.
The Chinese word for the blue of
the sky formerly meant black. The
Persian and Arabic word "nil" for
blue comes from the same origin for
which the Nile, the "black river" was
named, and is in turn related to the
Latin "niger" meaning black. We
can therefore see that it is only dur­ing
the last thousand years or more
that man has been able to perceive
colors in the way-that we know them
today. The richness of this talent is
expressed by the amount of our poe-ty
given to descriptions of colors,
hues and tints and to the remark­able
discrimination we show in choos­ing
the correct shades we prefer in
our clothes. Since man's eye even
now is not sensitive to all light wav­es
the curious thought comes to us as
to what other colors man may, in the
future, become sensitive to and able
to recognize. Could his eye ever be­come
sensitive enough to ultra-vio­let
rays to be able to see through
thin opaque objects or could he be­come
sensitive to infra-red rays and
be able to discern objects many miles
away, yet concealed to his eye today
because of intervening mists and
fogs?
Athletic Clubs Are
Reunited By Election
Washington, D. C—(IP)—By
electing Avery Brundage, head of the
A. A. U. to the presidency of the
American Olympic Association, by a
unanimous vote, the Amateur Athle­tic
Union and the National College
Athletic Association, in joint session
here, buried the hatchet and healed
the split which occurred four years
ago.
* Among the developments of the
session were the rejection of the ap-livation
for membership from the
Rocy Mountain Conference on the
ground that its colleges permit their
athletes to play semi-professional
baseball; the admission of the Mis­souri
Valley Inter-collegiate Associa­tion,
known as "The Big Six", and
the rejection of an application from
the Ohio High School Athletic As­sociation
because it was felt there is
no place in the American Olympic
Association for a scholastic organi­zation.
Greenland Weather
Station Is Isolated
Ann Arbor, Mich.— (IP)— Until
next Spring, when new supplies can
be shipped to it, the University of
Michigan weather station on Mount
Evans, Greenland, will be cut off
from communication with the rest of
the world, according to Professor
William H. Hobbs, head of the ge­ology
department at the University
here.
Dr. Hobbs revealed that the sta­tion
can send out messages, but can­not
receive any because of an acci­dent
in which receiving equipment
was destroyed.
Reed College Professor Claims
Political Course Badly Needed
Dr. Knapp was Staunch
Supporter of the Tigers
Dr. Knapp, is one of Auburn's
staunchest supporters in athletics and
has the title of being the Tigers lead­ing
follower, but this crown came
pretty close to being worn by other
members of his family during the
past gridiron season.
Auburn's chief executive viewed
Chet Wynne's Plainsmen in action
in nine of their ten games, while
Mrs. Knapp and their young daugh­ter,
Tiny, saw the Bengals play all
except three of their tilts.
Tiny knew the wearers of the
Orange and Blue so well that Mrs.
Knapp never had to refer to a pro­gram
to see who was playing for
Auburn.
Dr. Knapp missed only the Florida
game, while his wife and daughter
saw the encounters with Birming­ham-
Southern, Spring Hill, Georgia
Tech, Georgia, Wofford, Vanderbilt
and South Carolina.
Carleton College Gets
One Million and a Half
Two Intersectional
Games Set For 1931
Chicago —(IP)— Two intersec­tional
football teams of note have
been "arranged for 1931.
Yale has dropped its old rival
Brown from its schedule for the one
season in order to play Chicago next
year in honor of Alonzo A. Stagg, 40
years a football coach.
Princeton and Michigan will play
together for the first time in 50
years.
Alas, a woman's bosom bears
But woman's courage, a thing born
for tears.—Euripides.
Northfield, Minn.— (IP)— A mil­lion
and a half dollars, the largest
sum ever given in one lump to a
college of liberal arts, has been do­nated
to Carleton College here by
the General Education Board, of
New York, on the condition $3,000,-
000 more is raised by the college it­self.
Former Secretary of State Frank
B. Kellogg, recently given the Nobel
Prize for peace efforts, has been
named head of the committee which
will head up the drive for the re­maining
three million.
Of the total of $4,500,000 which
the college thus hopes to receive,
$1,500,000 will be used for increas­ing
the endowment of the institution,
bringing the total endowment to $4,-
000,000. Another $2,500,000 will be
used for new buildings, and the re­maining
$500,000 will be used to pay
off all college debts.
Portland, Ore. — ( I P )— American
education is inefficient in preparing
the student for participation in po­litical
life, according to Dr. Edward
O. Sisson, head of the department of
education and philosophy at Reed
College, who is now engaged in a
lecture tour throughout the East.
In his address, "A Blind Spot in
American Education," Dr. Sisson de­clares
that the trend of education is
away from politics. More students
are studying ancient history than
American history, he holds, and more
are entered in Latin classes than in
civics classes.
Even the civics which is being
taught in the high schools, he de­clares,
and the corresponding politi­cal
science courses in the colleges,
are of such a technical and academic
nature as to prepare the student
poorly for a political career.
The really dangerous citizen, ac­cording
to Dr. Sisson, is not the thug,
the criminal, nor the corrupter of pol­iticians,
but the apathetic, indiffer­ent
citizen who, by his indifference
to politics, throws the control of
American political life to the crimi­nal
element.
Less than half the qualified voters
of the country, he says, turn out for
elections, and the whole nation's po­litical
policy is controlled by a vici­ous
minority.
"Chicago," Dr. Sisson states, "is
an example of the failure of educa­tion
to prepare the average student
to take part in his own government."
How is it the homely girls always
marries the best providers?
L
Boys! If you Eat
MEAT
Buy it from your
Friends
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STEPPING INTO A MODERN WORLD
6-ton reels of cable distributed
with the speed of perishable food
A carload of telephone poles laid down a thou­sand
miles away within 36 hours after getting
the order! Rush calls of this sort must fre­quently
be handled by Western Electric, dis­tributors
for the Bell System.
But even more remarkable is the regular day
by day flow of telephone supplies. The Chicago
warehouse—one of 32 in the national system—
handles 1,400 orders a day. In 1929 more than
$400,000,000 worth of equipment and materials
was delivered to the telephone companies.
Distribution on so vast a scale presents many
interesting problems to Bell System men. The
solutions they work out mean much in keep­ing
this industry in step with the times.
The opportunity is there!
BELL SYSTEM
A NATION-WIDE SYSTEM OF I N T E R - C O N N E CT I N G TELEPHONES
PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1930
GR0UCH0 MARX RELATES HIS
TROUBLES WHILE A FATHER
"Only too well do I know how a
screaming baby can disturb a man's
bed-life," writes Groucho Marx in
the January.College Humor. "I can
remember, as though it were last
Michaelmas, those days when I had
to get up in the middle of the morn­ing
because my son took a notion to
yell until he was picked up. But I
cured him of that habit. It all came
about like this. I was curled up in
my little bed one September noon,
dreaming that St. John Ervine was
chasing me out of a theater with a
portable typewriter, while Alex
Woollcott, Heywood Broun and Per­cy
Hammond sat in an upper box
singing 'I'm Just a Vagabond Lover.'
Suddenly I heard my son screaming
and the sound saddened me. 'Should
J', was the question I put to myself,
'should I pick the brat up again and
pace the floor?' I was about to an­swer
the customary 'Yes!' when my
manhood asserted itself. 'No,' I fin­ally
replied. 'NO!' I'll scream for
awhile and let the brat carry me and
see how he likes it.'
"So I began to yell. Surely
enough, the brat came and picked
me up and carried me around the
room * until I ceased making noise.
(Maybe I'm just a foolishly proud
father,, but it seemed rather wonder­ful
when you realize that the lad
was scarcely ten months old and I
was feeling close to a hundred.' I
repeated this performance for eight
successive mornings, until the neigh­bors
complained. You see, being a
pretty strong fellow who eats his
roughage every evening and drinks
plenty of milk, I was able to cry
about twice as loud as the baby.
Day after day I'd scream—the brat
would crawl out of his crib, pick me
up and pace the floor.
"Eventually, of course, he got
pretty tired of the whole business.
And although he wasn't talking to
me at the time, there was a silent
understanding between us. If he
wouldn't scream, neither would I.
And I can only say that no Marx
ever breaks his word—except maybe
to an employer, the landlord or a
dame."
Iowa Students Resent
Non-Support Charges
Ames, Iowa —(IP)— When the
Iowa State College newspaper pub­lished
a letter from an Ames mer­chant,
charging that the students
were not giving their football team
proper support, the students broke
up classes, and more than half of
the undergraduate body went in a
group to the business section where
bonfires were lit in the streets, and
then went back to the campus to
hold an impromptu pep meeting in
preparation for the next day's game.
Little damage was done by the
students, although the fire depart­ment
was kept busy putting out the
many bonfires.
Tide Coach Doesn't
See Team Play Often
University, Alabama —(IP)— A
coach who has never seen his team
play is Tiny Hewitt, one of the back-field
mentors of the University of
Alabama.
After drilling with the- 'Bama
backs all week, Hewitt packs his
grip and goes about scouting Ala­bama
opponents.
There comes a time—it is the be­ginning
of manhood or womanhood
—when one realizes that adventure is
as humdrum as routine unless one
assimilates it, unless one relates it
to a central core which grows within
'and gives it contour and significance.
Raw experience is empty, counting
house.—Lewis Mumford.
Trade with the Advertisers.
SEVENTY-ONE AUBURN
ALUMNI ARE MEMBERS
OF THE ASSOCIATION
(Continued from page 1)
gum, Lexington, N. C.; William Chris­topher
Martin, Birmingham; T. W.
Morgan, Birmingham; F. G. Morris,
Sayreton; L. P. Munger, Birming­ham;
Dr. H. C. Nixon, New Orleans,
La.; Judge J. P. Oliver, Dadeville;
W. O. Parmer, Nashville, Tenn.; D.
W. Peabody, Atlanta, Ga.; W. I. Pitt-man,
Birmingham; G. H. Price, Nash­ville,
Tenn.; Wallace Powell Pruitt,
Rockford; Miss Mary Robinson, Bir­mingham;
S. A. Redding, San Fran­cisco,
Calif.; Dr. W. S. Rutledge,
Ruston, La.; Harvey Owen Sargent,
Washington, D. C; B. L. Shi, Au­burn
; Henry A. Skeggs, Chicago, 111.;
C. M. Smith, Jr., Montgomery; L. W.
Spratling, Waverly; Jabez Curry
Street, Brooklyn, N . Y . ; Chas. Km.
Streit, Birmingham; W. K. Terry,
Birmingham; Charles Coleman
Thach, Jr., New York; Walker Rey­nolds
Tichenor, Athens, Ga.; S. L.
Toomer, Auburn; R. D. Webb, At­lanta,
Ga.; Edward Houston Wills,
Montevallo; William Martin Williams,
Washington, D. C; Forney Renfro
Yarbrough, Atlanta, Ga.; and O. E.
Young, West Palm Beach, Fla.
Science Has Given
New Idea Of God
Cleveland, O.—(IP)—Science has
given religion a new conception of
God, a new conception of living rela­tions
and a new conception of the
meaning of personality, Dean Shailer
Mathers, of the Chicago University
Divinity School told the audience at
the fourth Community Religious Hour
here.
"Science has given the world the
new theory that we are living in a
universe of activity," Dean Mathews
said. "In the olden days there was
no difference between science and re­ligion.
Men thought of scientific
forces of nature as personal gods and
tried to placate them as such. Our
celebration of Thanksgiving Day is
the result of that ancient belief.
"Religion now attempts to deal per­sonally
with the forces of nature
while science must treat these forces
impersonally."
World Celebrating
Birth Of Virgil
New York—(IP)—The world-wide
interest which is now being evoked
by the twentieth centenary of Vir­gil's
birth, according to President
George Norlin, of the University of
Colorado, "is in itself a testimony
that no poet has had so firm a hold
for so long a time upon the minds
and hearts of cultivated men."
Dr. Norlin makes this statement in
an article, "Twenty Centuries of
Virgil," in the October issue of The
Bookman.
President Norlin agrees with Vol­taire
that if Homer was the creator
of Virgil, as many educators com­ment,
then, surely, Virgil was Hom­er's
greatest masterpiece.
ROCKNE BELIEVES GIPP WAS
GREATEST OF FOOTBALL MEN
Springfield, O.— (IP)—That Geor­ge
Gipp, Notre Dame half-back in
1919, was the greatest football play­er
ever produced at Notre Dame, and
the best the country ever has seen
with the possible exception of Jim
Thorpe, is the statement made by
Knute Rockne, Notre Dame coach,
in an article, "Gipp the Great" in
the Nov. 22nd issue of Collier's.
Gipp, who died in 1920, just be­fore
he was made an AU-American
halfback, was discovered by Rockne
on the freshman team. He was not
interested in football when he came
to college.
TAILORING DISPLAY SALE
M. Moses' Expert Fitter will be here with
his tapeline Monday, Tuesday, and
Wednesday, Dec. 8, 9, and 10.
Have That Suit Made Now and Be Dressed Up
For Christmas!
G IBSON
MEN'S WEAR *S
Scout Executive Talks
To Rotarians Thursday
The important part played by the
Scouting movement in the develop­ment
of American boys was ably set
forth by Scouth Executive John J.
Sigwald in speaking to the Rotary
Club, Thursday noon. Mr. Sigwald
asked for the cooperation of Au­burn
people in raising the quota of
$400 toward the Central Alabama
Area Council budget for the ensuing
*
year.
The club voted to assess its mem­bers
$5.55 each, in order to raise
$200 for an unemployment relief
fund, the need of which was present­ed
by Rev. Samuel B Hay. Senti­ment
was expressed that the money
should go toward the creation of
work for the county's unemployed
rather than for gifts to the needy.
Dr. Bradford Knapp, club presi­dent,
said that the prospects were fa­vorable
for Auburn to secure a $100,-
000 post office building from funds
soon to be voted by the present con­gress.
Instead of the regular luncheon
next Thursday, it was agreed by the
club to substitute a joint meeting
with the Lions Club on Wednesday
at the Baptist Church, at which time
President White of the Natural Gas
Company, an Auburn alumnus, will
be the main speaker. The occasion
will be the formal opening of the
natural gas lines in Auburn.
Bishop McDowell, Tom Beasley,-of
Chicago, and W. McD. Moore were
club visitors.
N. Y. U. Institutes
New Aviation Course
New York — ( I P )— A new course
in airplane design is now being of-'
fered by New York University, the
first to be given by any college or
university in the United States.
The course, introduced into the
curriculum of the Daniel Guggen­heim
School of Aeronautics at the
university, is attracting universal at­tention.
Fundamentals of airship design
and operation, including the theory
of lighter-than-air aero structures, is
being covered in another new course
in the school.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR
DISCUSS MISSION TOPIC
(Continued from page 1)
Ian, was the leader for the evening.
In discussing the topic, the follow­ing
questions presented themselves.
How can we spread the gospel in our
home town? Why should we give
to missions? What would happen if
the church withdrew from all mis­sionary
work? These and other
phases of the topic were discussed in
art impromptu manner by every one
present. N
After this consideration of these
questions, the thoughts^'of the socie­ty
turned to more concrete ways of
spreading the gospel. Plans for tak­ing
a collection for the orphanage
at Talladega in the very near future
were formulated. Besides this, ways
and means of helping needy people
at Christmas time were discussed.
This item is to receive more attention
at a later meeting. These things the
Christian Endeavor decided to do in
keeping with the means of spreading
the gospel to mankind.*
The topic for the Consecration
meeting, December 7, is "Adventures
in a Faithful Life." This will be a
continuation of the semester theme.
Liberty Would
Abolish Campus
Week-End Rules
MYRICK RETURNS FROM
INTERFRAT CONFERENCE
(Continued from page 1)
H. Doughty, President of the Wil­liams
College Interfraternity Council
of 1928-1929, gave a very interest­ing
talk on "The Rushing Agreeirtent
in Practice." The conference ad­journed
for the day, after a speech
on "Substitutes for Hell Week", de­livered
by Mr. Albert S. Tousley, of
St. Paul, Minnesota. On Saturday,
Mr. Joseph M. Rogers, of the Univer­sity
of Illinois, led a discussion on
"The Attitude Towards Scholarship".
The conference ended its very suc­cessful
meeting at 11:30 Saturday
morning with a discussion of "At
What Point Do Fraternity Obliga­tions
Yield to University Obliga­tions?"
by Mr. James S. Shropshire,
Alumni Secretary of the University
of Kentucky.
Minutes of the conference were
printed and distributed to all dele­gates.
The Interfraternity Council
of Auburn will review these minutes
carefully, and discuss them in de­tail.
New York —(IP)— Freeing of
students of campus rules on week­ends
is favored in an editorial ap­pearing
in Liberty Magazine for Nov.
15.
"We get more out of life," ttie
editorial says in part, "during any
period of it, when we live in accord­ance
with our own will. It is fair
to assume that a young man at col­lege
wants the education the college
offers, and this will be chiefly book
education. But, having obtained that
for which he went to college, won't
the enlargement of his horizon be
greater if he decides for himself
what he shall do with his week-ends
than if he is forced to sit on a fence
or look (not play) at a football
game?
" . . . . we think it woufd be bet­ter
for college boys generally to be
away from the campus more than
they usually are—always assuming
that they keep up in their studies,
and that those who don't will be drop­ped
from classes."
Yale Prof Warns
Students Not To
Misuse Alcohol
New Haven, Cf>nn. —(IP) — A
warning has been issued by Profes­sor
Arthur J. Hill, head of the chem­istry
department of Yale University,
to graduate students and research
fellows that they must not make bev­erages
out of grain alcohol kept in
the university store house for experi­mental
and laboratory work.
The warning embodied the asser­tion
that evidence had been submit­ted
by federal officers to the chemi­cal
department that alcohol had been
diverted from rightful uses, and de­clared
this was "not only unlawful
but a distinct breach of faith with
'the university."
STUDES QUIZ PROFESSORS
AS NEW SYSTEM OF
EDUCATION IS BACKED
Cleveland — ( I P )— Speaking here
in the interest of a $2,500,000 endow­ment
fund, Hamilton Holt, former
editor of the Independent and now
president of Rollins College, Winter
Park, Fla., described the Rollins con­ference
plan of education as a revolt
against the usual lecture and recital
system.
He declared that the traditional
"cut-and-dried lecture and quiz sys
tem" turned students into sponges,
and that "no one ever got an educa­tion
by being a sponge."
"The conference plan is an advent­ure
in old-fangled education," he
said. "It works on the theory that
the student's mind is immature, that
frequently he does not know how to
study, that he most needs the pro­fessor
when he is preparing his les­son
and not after he has learned or
failed to learn it. Instead of pro­fessors
quizzing students, President
Holt said, the students quizz the pro­fessors.
Purdue Professor
Injured By Bomb
Lafayette, Ind. — ( I P )— A bomb
wired to the automobile of Professor
W. F. Heidergott, of Purdue Univer­sity,
exploded when he stepped on
the starter, seriously injuring him.
Professor Heidergott, who teaches
in the practical mechanics depart­ment,
told police he had no enemies.
One side of his face was torn away
by the blast.
Physicians doubted that he would
survive the yijury.
His automobile was so damaged
police were unable to determine how
the bomb had been placed in the ma­chine
or how it had been set off.
The force of the blast was so great
it tore the roof and sides from the
garage.
Heidergott is 54 years old, and has
been an instructor at the University
for twelve years. At the university
he was in charge of instruction in
forging, heat training and welding in
the department of practical mechan-
Dr. Edmonds Is Named
State Foundation Head
Speaking before the Causey Con­ference
at Oberlin College recently,
Sidney Hillman, president of the
Amalgamated Garment Makers of
America, declared:
"One trouble with this country to­day
is that our leaders are more in­terested
in what we are drinking than
in what we are eating or whether we
are eating at all."
Tiger Theatre
SUNDAY — MONDAY,
December 7th to 8th
"MOROCCO"
—With—
GARY COOPER
MARLENE DIETRICH
ADOLPHE MENJOU
A man with a past to forget—
and a woman out of nowhere!
On the brink of Hell, in vivid,
colorful, thrill sated Morocco.
They meet! This dare-devil Le­gionnaire,
the ravishing beauty
who scorns men. Pent-up love
flames! A drama beyond all
reason.
TUESDAY, December 9
Ronald Colman
-In-
< « RAFFLES » >
—With—
Kay Francis - David Torrence -
Frances Dade - Bramwell Flet­cher
- John Rogers
Announcement is made by Dr. J.
Calvitt Clarke, National Secretary of
the Golden Rule Foundation of tlie
nomination and acceptance by Rev.
Henry M. Edmonds D.D., Pastor of
Independent Presbyterian Church,
Birmingham, of the state chairman­ship
for the organization in Alabama.
. In commenting upon his appoint­ment
Dr. Clarke stated, "Dr. Ed­monds
was chosen because of his deep
interest in social welfare especially
that pertaining to needy children and
because he is so generally known and
loved throughout the state by people
of all creeds and beliefs." The Gold­en
Rule Foundation feels greatly
honored at his acceptance.
The Foundation is an international
community chest operating where lo­cal
chests do not function. During
the past twelve months it has made
grants in aid to fifty-three different
child welfare and relief agencies
scattered in twenty different coun­tries
including United States.
The Foundation sponsors the ob­servance
of International Golden
Rule Sunday and Week, December
7th to 14th.
According to Dr. Edmonds the ur­gency
of supporting this excellent
philanthropy is greater this year than
ever.
Great appalling needs exist. At
home unemployment, in China 5,000
children dying daily of hunger, in
Porto Rico according to Governor
Roosevelt's statement "More child­ren
in peril of death from malnutri­tion
and tuberculosis than any where
else under the American Flag." Half
of all babies born in the rural dis­tricts
of Mexico die at birth. Four
hundred and eighty neglected child­ren
died of exposure in the migrant
labor camps in one small area in Col­orado
and Wyoming last fall.
The national offices of the Foun­dation
are, Lincoln Building, New
York. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman is the
national president."
FORMER L. S. U. STUDENT GETS
ONE YEAR ON LIBEL CHARGE
LIONS CHRISTMAS
CHEER DRIVE TO
BEGIN ON MONDAY
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py through these means.
All kinds of toys will be collected
—new, old, big, little, and even brok­en
toys. The club members are go­ing
to meet in a body Thursday to
repair and refinish broken toys. The
task will not be new to them as they
carried on similar work last year, re­ceiving
many commendations for the
excellent results obtained.
Surveys of the vicinity are now be­ing
made to determine the places
where cheer work is most needed. A
surprisingly large number of needy
families have already been reported
by the committee, and it' is expected
that many others will be reported
within the next few days.
Townspeople are urged to begin col­lecting
toys and other things that
might aid in carrying out the worthy
project. Those having contributions
to make are requested to notify Lt. C
P. Townsley, chairman of the commit­tee,
or any member of the Lions Club
Baton Rouge, La.— (IP)—Kemble
W. Kennedy, former president of the
student body at Louisiana State Uni­versity
here, has been sentenced to
a year in Parish Prison on charges
of criminal libel and circulation of
obscene literature in an undergrad­uate
comic sheet, of which he was
editor.
Kennedy, an honor law student, is
a close personal friend of Gov. Huey
P. Long. He was indicted last Spring,
four days before he was graduated
from the university law school.
The sheet, "The Whang Doodle",
according to witnesses at the trial,
was issued by members of the Theta
Nu Epsilon, national interfraternity
political organization, whose mem­bership
at Louisiana was secret.
Cold Study Class
Discards Flannels
Yale, Princeton Bands
March, Play Together
Princeton, N. J. —(IP)— The col­lege
bands of Yale and Princeton ap­peared
together and played together
for the first time in football history
here at the Yale-Princeton game this
year.
Not since Yale and Princeton be­gan
playing football in 1873 has
such an event taken place before.
The two bands lined up, Yale's
forming a " P " and Princeton's form
ing a "Y", and joined in playing
Yale and Princeton songs.
Develops Films Found
In Andre Expedition
Stockholm—(IP)—Dr. Herzberg,
Swedish photographic expert, has re­ported
here that he has been able to
develop half the twenty photographic
films which were found among the re­mains
of the ill-fated Andre expedi­tion
to the North Pole.
' Dr. Herzberg declared that the neg­atives
will enable a number of re­markable
pictures to be made, the best
of them showing the Andre balloon
after it made a forced landing on the
ice.
KIPLING FIGHTS MOVE
OF ENGLISH GOVERNMENT
London, Eng.— (IP)—The uproar
with which England received the
Labor government's move to discon­tinue
wreathing the tomb of the Un­known
Soldier as an aid to "eradica­tion
of war memories" was brought
to a climax when *Rudyard Kipling
published a poem bitterly criticizing
the move, and charging the govern­ment
with treason.
The American has an intimate love
of conversion.—Benj. De Casseres.
Ithaca, N. Y.— (IP)— Red flannels
are about the only cold preventatives
which are not being used by a special
class in common cold study at Cornell
University here.
The class is testing as preventa­tives
a half dozen of the latest scien­tific
treatments combined with old-fashioned
principles. Included are ul­tra-
violet light, alkalinization of the
body by food that reduces hyper-acid­ity,
diet, ventilation, special nose and
throat studies and catarrhal vaccina­tion.
"As far as is known," says the an­nouncement
of the course, "this is
the first time that any university has
organized as comprehensive a plan for
controlling colds among the student
body."
Convinced that cold control among
the susceptibles will "go a long way
toward preventing cold epedemics
the whole student body," Dr. F. Smil­ey
asks that "cold prevention classes"
be joined by those having four or
more colds yearly."
College To Try To
Get Literary Genius
Aurora, N. Y— (IP)— For the pur­pose
of bring literary artists, editors
and critics of national and interna­tional
reputation to Wells College
here, the English department of the
college has organized a literary club.
Several free lectures already have
been arranged. The first will be
given on Nov. 17 by Mary Ellen
Chase, essayist and short-story writ­er,
who won the Pictorial Review
prize last Spring. Her subject will
be "Thomas Hardy."
Others who will speak for the club
are Henry Goddard Leach, editor of
the Forum, and Thornton Wilder, au­thor
of "The Bridge of San Luis
Rey."
Dr. Paul Douglas, of the economics
department of the University of Chi­cago,
believes that the only answer to
the unemployment situation in the
United States is the dole system of
Great Britain.
DID YOU KNOW?
That Postal Telegraph
Rates are 20 per cent lower than
those charged by any other tele­graph
company in Alabama*
TELEGRAMS can now be charged direct to
your telephone bill.
Merely pick up the receiver and say
POSTAL TELEGRAPH
We pay for all telephone charges on messages sent
to us.