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SUPPORT CAGE TEAM THE PLAINSMAN T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT SUPPORT CAGE TEAM VOLUME LIV AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931 NUMBER 33 LOCAL BOY SCOUTS TO OBSERVE TWENTY FIRST ANNIVERSARY General Roundup of Old and New Scouts to Feature Celebration SCOUTING INTRODUCED IN AMERICA IN 1910 All Scouts Both Old and New Requested to Come to Plainsman Office SIGWALD EXECUTIVE Checkup on Scouts Will Determine Scope of Scouting The Boy Scout movement in America is celebrating its .21st anniversary with a Nation Wide daily observance program during the week of February 8 to 14. A general round-up of all men and boys who have at one time or another seen service as a Boy Scout or* Scout leader will feature the celebration. The Plainsman is cooperating with Scout officials in accepting names of all Scouts both active and inactive who are in Auburn during the week. All Scouts eligible are requested to come by the office of the Auburn Printing Co., on East Magnolia Ave., and register, giving name, group served with, and length of service. A check-up on the list of local Scouts and Scout leaders will be published shortly after the Anniversary Week, in order to determine how far reaching the scouting movement has been in Auburn. John J. Sigwald, local Scout Executive, has asked each of the six districts to assist him in this Council wide campaign. Results of this investigation will be forwarded to the national office. Once a Scout, always a Scout, has proven true ever since scouting began in America in 1910. Since the beginning, 4,401,982 scouts have taken the Boy Scout oath: "On my honor I will do my best— To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout law. To help other people at all times. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and m o r a l ly straight." MUNID-LIIP SCOUTING TALKS FEATURE BROADCASTS DURING WEEK Six talks commemorating the 21st anniversary of scouting will be heard over Station WAPI, from Auburn, during the week of Feb. 9-14, as a part of the regular noon program's, 12:00 to 12:30. In addition, Scout Executive John J. Sigwald of the Central Alabama Area Council will present a 15-min-ute broadcast Friday afternoon, Feb. 13, 4:00 to 4:15, in keeping with the national observance of Anniversary Scout Week. The week's program follows: Monday—Boy Scout talk, Pres. I. J. Dorsey, of the Central Alabama Area Council; Insects and Man, Prof J. M. Robinson; Review of recent book by English Department. Tuesday—Scouting, Dr. Bradford Knapp, president of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute; Primer for Town Farmers; Housekeeper's Chat, Mrs. Mary Drake Askew; Mrs. G. Richard Trott, contralto. 9:45 to 10:15 p. m.—Dance music by Auburn Knights over WSFA, Montgomery. Wednesday— Scout discussion by N. D. Denson, of Opelika; Dick and Dan around the Dinner Table; Miss ROTARIANS HEAR FRANK P. GLASS THURSDAY NOON Italian Rotary Clubs Subject of Montgomery Publishers' Address Italian Rotary clubs serve as a constant check on the militeristic ambitions of Dictator Mussolini. In fact, said Frank P. Glass, publisher of the Montgomery Advertiser, in speaking before the Auburn Rotary club Thursday, it would be impossible for Mussolini to wage an unjust war because of the tremendous influence for peace exerted in Italy by the prominent men constituting her 30 Rotary clubs. Mr. Glass spoke from first-hand information gained after visiting a number of clubs in Italy including Rome, Venice, and Florence. These Italian Rotarians, he continued, are constantly doing far more to iron out international difficulties between Italy and France and other countries than are her diplomats whose scope of activity is of necessity quite limited and formalized. These men constitute some of the foremost citizens in the country and they are as much devoted to international peace and understanding as are the Rotarians in America and other countries. Rotary, concluded Mr. Glass, is doing more than any other agency in the world to bring about universal peace, and good will between nations. Sam Cassels, who came to Auburn with Mr. Glass and Carl Cooper, extended an invitation to Auburn Rotarians to attend the intercity meet- (Continued on page 4) Mechanicals Will Be Interviewed Monday Two representatives of the Bab-cock and Wilcox Company, Paul R. Yopp and A. Rose, will be in Auburn Monday, February 2, to interview seniors in mechanical engineering. Mr. Yopp is district sales manager, with headquarters in Atlanta, and has been here several times previously. It is customary for representatives of the company to visit Auburn every year to interview Seniors who expect to enter the field of mechanical engineering. Representatives of various other concerns desiring to employ college graduates will visit Auburn during the spring and will interview seniors in all departments of the School of engineering. Notices will be posted on the bulletin board in Ramsay Hall several days before their arrival. Louise P. Glanton, on home economics; John W. Brigham, tenor, and Earl Hazel, piano. Thursday—Scout message by Roberts Bount, national Scout representative; Earnest and Frank—the boys with the dairy temperament; Housekeeper's Chat by Mrs. Askew. 5:00 to 5:30—Auburn Department of Music program directed by John W. Brigham. Friday—Scout discussion by Executive John J. Sigwald of Opelika; Household arts chat by Miss Lilly Spencer; Farm Science Snapshots. 4:00 to 4:15—Boy Scout feature. Saturday—Scout topic by P. O. Davis, publicity chairman; Farm outlook by Department of Agricultural Economics; Housekeeper's chat by Mrs. Askew; Inspirational message, Rev. William Byrd Lee. Final Entrance Date Set For Girls' Riding Class February 5th will be the final day on which new candidates will be accepted in the Ladies' Riding Class, it was announced today. The setting of a closing date is necessary in order that the progress of the present class will not be retarded by beginners. It has been the practice of the instructors of the class to admit as many new members as cared to enroll, but the system has proven extremely detrimental to the progress of the more advanced riders. The instructors are confident that the new rule to be adopted will be satisfactory to all who are now enrolled in the class and those who wish to learn to ride. TIGERS SCHEDULE 22 GAMES DURING BASEBALL SEASON SCHOLARSHIPS WILL BE GIVEN AUBURN STUDES BY ALUMNUS Twenty Games to be Played With Members of Dixie Baseball League SEASON TO OPEN APRIL 6 Mercer First Opponent; Schedule Contains Ten Games on Campus Auburn's 1931 baseball schedule announced today by Coach Sam McAllister, includes 20 games in the newly organized Dixie Baseball League, of which Auburn, Oglethorpe, Mercer, Florida, Georgia Tech and Georgia are members, and 2 games with Vanderbilt. Several practice affairs will probably be scheduled for the Plainsmen before the season officially opens here against Mercer, April 6 and 7. Battery men will start working out the middle of February, while the other candidates will start training March 1. Sam McAllister will coach the Tigers for the first time and Frock Pate, Birmingham, will captain them from the shortstop berth. The Schedule April 6 and 7—Mercer at Auburn. April 10 and 11—Oglethorpe at Atlanta. April 13 and 14—Oglethorpe at Auburn. April 22 and 23 — Georgia at Athens. —^_ April 24 and 25—Georgia Tech at Atlanta. April 27 and 28—Georgia at Auburn. May 1 and 2—Florida at Gainesville. May 4 and 5—Mercer at Macon.. May 8 and ff—Florida at Panama City. May 11 and 12—Georgia Tech at Auburn. May 15 and 16—Vanderbilt Auburn. at Engineer Staff Meets Monday Afternoon The Auburn Engineer staff will meet in Broun Hall Monday afternoon at 4:30, it was announced today by L. F. Camp, editor-in-chief of the publication. Important business will be discussed, and all members of the staff are urged to attend, Camp stated. TULANE TO BE ENCOUNTERED IN TWO GAMES AT AUBURN DURING THE NEXT WEEK-END Trollope To Attend Meeting Of Poultry Section Of A.S.A.W. Opening Session to be Wednesday Afternoon in Atlanta A scholarship is being offered to Auburn students by H. L. Brunson, who recently opened an indoor rifle range in the location formerly occupied by Burton's bookstore. Mr. Brunson, an old Auburn alumnus, expressed his desire of doing something really helpful for his alma mater, and finally decided on the plan of a scholarship. But his plans for carrying out this idea require the cooperation of Auburn students. Beginning February 2, students may secure shooting gallery trade cards for one dollar apiece which make the purchaser eligible for an expense scholarship of four hundred dollars, the award to be made to the holder of the lucky number of a drawing to be held for every twelve hundred trade cards sold. With the duplicate ticket, the stub of which he is to drop in the contest box inside the gallery. Just as soon as twelve hundred cards are sold there will be a drawing for the winner by a member of the faculty. Drawings will continue to be had throughout the year according to the volume of business and the support of the students. The prizes will be placed in the college treasury to be drawn upon by the winning student during his next year's attendance at college. Prizes won by seniors or students, who will be unable to attend college next year may receive cash prizes for the full amount. Girls as well as boys are cordially invited to test their skill in the gallery, and will be eligible for special prizes for hitting targets. Trfcde cards may be used in shooting for BASKETBALL TEAM AND VANDERBILT TO MEET TONIGHT trade card each person will receive a any of the regular prizes. BAND ENTRAINS FOR MARDI GRAS FEB. 13 Forty-five Auburn Musicians Will Take Part in Mobile Festivities On the last lap of their 1931 basket- ball schedule, the Auburn Tigers will play the Tulane Greenies here in two games, Fridey and Saturday; Fort Benning at Fort Benning, Feb. 9 and here Feb. 16; Vanderbilt here Feb. 14, and Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Feb. 24. The Tigers will also enter the Southern Conference tournament in Atlanta which begins Feb. 27 and terminates March 3. If the Tigers expect to enter the conference tournnament with a record above the average, they will have to win the two games with Tulane whose record this season is not so outstanding. The Greenies, who are fighting hard to get a record that will warrant them receiving an invitation to the conference jamboree in Atlanta, will give the Plainsmen hard battles, and unless the Auburn quintet regains some of its early season form, the Green Wave will probably defeat the Plainsman. Preacher Roberts, unanimous choice for All-Southern football center for the past two years, is Tulane's mainstay on the hardwood. Standing well over the six foot mark, he plays the pivot post and very few centers have succeeded in outjumping him this year. Several other flashy performers are also listed in the Tulane ranks. After making a threat in conference circles during the early weeks of the race, the Tigers have been slipping lately, but hope to gradually recover in time to be in good shape for the tournament which decides the champion. A convention of the Poultrjt Section, Association of Southern Agri-tural Workers will be held in Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 4 to 7. G. A. Trollope, head professor of Poultry Husbandry at Auburn, and secretary of the poultry association has charge of the program which includes talks by the leading poultrymen from over the South. The opening session will be held Wednesday afternoon Feb. 4 and the meetings will continue through Saturday, Feb. 7. The meeting will represent the poultry industry of all the Southern states, and problems common to all will be discussed. The morning sessions will be devoted to general programs of the Association, and the Poultry sessions will be held during the afternoon. Among the speakers included on the program will be representatives from Auburn, Mississippi A. & M., Louisiana State College, University of Tennessee, Louisiana State University, Georgia State College of Agriculture, Clemson College, Oklahoma A. & M. College, and the Texas A. & M. College. Speakers from the government Bureau of Animal Industry will also be heard. New Course .Given In Character Education Dr. Beufah C. Van Wagenen, associate professor of education, will teach a course in character education, beginning today. This course, which has not been offered at Auburn before, is concerned with the principles of character training. Some of the questions and topics for study will be: "What is character?" "Can it be taught?" "Character Development as an Objective of Education", (Continued on page 4) The entire Auburn Band, consisting of forty-five men, will depart for Mobile Friday morning, Feb. 13, where they will participate in the Mardi Gras festivities. The band will arrive in Mobile in time to march in the parade of the Krewe of Columbus Friday morning. Following the parade, band members will be guests at the annual ball given by the Krewe Columbus at the Battle House Hotel. This is the seventh consecutive year since the World War that the Auburn musicians have attended the Carnival celebrations in Mobile. It was thirty years ago that the band, then a small organization of 27 pieces under the direction of Prof. Thomas M. Fullan, first participated in the Mardi Gras parades. Since their first appearance, the Auburn Band has featured prominently in all Carnival celebrations. They will hold positions of honor in all parades held this year, and will present several concerts consisting of classical numbers, in Bienville Square during the five days they are in Mobile. On Monday morning, the band will ride out into the bay with King Felix, ruler of Joy and Emperor of Carnival, on one of the Coast Guard cutters, and will alight with him when the boat docks at the foot of Government street. Immediately upon the arrival of the king, a parade will be formed in which the Auburn band will escort His Majesty through the streets of Mobile. The parade will continue to the heart of the city, and at Bienville Square, King Felix will receive the keys to the city, and his reign of mirth will begin. Following the ball of the Infant Mystics Tuesday night, Feb. 18, the band will depart for Auburn. They will get back here Wednesday morning, and begin classes immediately. TECH WINS OVER AUBURN QUINTET Big Lead Piled By Tigers Overcome By Worderful Work By Tech Men Departure For Nashville Preceded by Two Light Workouts VANDY IS THIRD FOE OF THIS WEEK Stewart's Work in Tech Game Is Sensational in Checking Perkins NINE PLAYERS MAKE TRIP All Defeats During Season Are By Small Margins Completely dominating the game during the second half, Roy Mun-dorff's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets continued their winning ways on the hardwood by downing Sam McAllister's Auburn quintet Wednesday night at the Plains, 37 to 33. Auburn led at halftime, 25 to 16, but the Jackets were "right" in the second period, outscoring the Tigers, 21 to 8, and holding them" to a lone field goal by Capt. Ralph Jordan. Both teams started off at a fast clip, running neck and neck for the first five minutes, and then the Plainsmen began to show their best form of the evening, running up a substantial lead which was held until a few minutes before the game ended. The. final period found the Plainsmen dead on their feet, especially on the offense. Due to some all-around playing by Jack Stewart at center, they were able to show up well on the defense, but were unable to score but once. Tech got started early after intermission, gradually overcoming Auburn's lead and knotting the count, 33 all. A field goal by Phillips gave them the lead for the first time after the initial five minutes of the contest and then Gooding sank another one to give them a four point lead with less than a minute to play. The comeback staged by Tech was sensational. It was the playing of Capt. Ginny Wages and their two (Continued on page 4) Plainsman Staff Meets Tomorrow Members of the Editorial Staff of the Plainsman are requested to attend a meeting to be held at the Sigma Pi House tomorrow evening at seven o'clock. The meeting will be short, and members are requested to be prompt. CERTIFICATE APPOINTING COLONEL LANGD0N TRUSTEE IS PRESENTED TO COLLEGE The Vanderbilt Commodores will be played tonight by Coach Sam McAllister's Auburn quintet, the game to be played in Nashville. Two light workouts were given the Tigers in preparation for their third game of the week. The drill Thursday afternoon was limited to a lengthy talk by the coach on the major faults of the team. In their last four games, the Tigers have won only one, while the other three games have been lost by narrow margins. Auburn lost to Georgia 30 to 27; Clemson defeated the Tigers 37 to 44; the third loss was the defeat handed them by Tech, who overcame a big lead to win in the last few minutes. After the game tonight four conference and two non-conference remain to be played before the Southern Conference tournament in Atlanta. The rest of the schedule is as follows: Feb. 6—Tulane at Auburn. Feb. 7—Tulane at Auburn. Feb. 10—Fort Benning at Fort Benning. Feb, 14—Vanderbilt at Auburn. Feb. 18—Fort Benning at Auburn. Feb. 24—Georgia Tech at Atlanta. Feb. 27 and 28, March 2 and 3— Southern Conference Tournament at Atlanta. CONTRACT GIVEN G.E. COMPANY FOR ELEC EQUIPMENT Apparatus for Textile Building Is Awarded General Electric Company The original certificate appointing Colonel Charles Carter Langdon to the position of director trustee in the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn was sent to President Bradford Knapp by Mrs. Emma Buck Ross, wife of Jack F. Ross, of Park Terrace, Mobile. Auburn's oldest and most historic building, Langdon Hall, was named for Colonel Langdon, who was a member of the Board of Trustees or Directors of this institution from 1872 to 1890. History records him as one of the most ardent, hard-working, and earnest members of the Board at that time. Langdon Hall will hold about 600 students at the present time- where as, the student body is a little more than three times that large. The present permanent plans of the institution provide that whenever a new auditorium is constructed Langdon Hall, on account of its architecture and its historical association, wil be preserved and in some way utilized without change in the work of the institution. Colonel Langdon left no direct heirs and President Knapp expresses his very great appreciation to Mrs. Emma Buck Ross for her gift of this historical document. It will be appropriately preserved. So far as it is known it is the only certificate of appointment of the first Board of Trustees in existence. Mrs. Emma Buck Ross is the daughter of Margaret Langdon Buck, who was the daughter of Colonel Langdon's brother, making her his grand-niece. Professor E. W. Camp, head of the department of Textile Engineering here, announced today that the contract for electric equipment for the new textile plant had been awarded to The General Electric Company. It was stated that this action marked the final step in the completion of the new building. Machines of various types have been installed by workmen, but a great portion of the equipment has been delayed shipment because of indecision as to the sizes and types of electrical equipment to be used, Professor Camp said. Specific announcement as to the date of completion will be with held at the present time. The personnel of the Textile Engineering Department request that students and others visit the newly constructed plant. Those desiring to inspect the building and equipment will be shown through by some member of that department. Next Issue Of Auburn Engineer Out Feb. 10 The February issue of the Auburn Engineer will be published on the 10th of next month. The feature story for this issue is written by Professor C. B. Ordway, associate professor in Textile Engineering. He has a very interesting article on the development of American coal tar dye industry in the United States. This issue will also contain an article on the development of Alabama hydro-electric power. The March issue will be devoted entirely to aviation. The editor plans to make this issue the best of the year. PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931 Stye f ktagmatt Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. *" Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala. Business and editorial offices at Auburn Printing Co. on Magnolia Street. Offices hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily. STAFF Gabie Drey Editor-in-Chief Charles S. Davis Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Thomas P. Brown Associate Editor Robert L. Hume Associate Editor Victor White Managing Editor Claude Currey - -News Editor R. K. Sparrow News Editor J. W. Letson News Editor Alan Troup Composing Editor A. C. Cohen Composing Editor Adrian Taylor Sports Editor Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor K. M. McMillan - Literary Editor REPORTERS H. W. Moss, '33; C. E. Mathews, '32; V. H. Kjellman, '33; Otis Spears, '34; S. A. Lacy, '33; A. D. Mayo, '33; Horace Shep-ard, '34; Frank Keller, '34; William Beck, '34; N. D. Thomas, '33; C. F. Simmons, '32; A. B. Hanson, '33. BUSINESS STAFF Virgil Nunn . Asst. Business Mgr. Ben Mabson Advertising Manager Roy Wilder Circulation Manager James Backes Asso. Advertising Mgr. CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Charles Adams, '34 W. E. Pope, '34 L. E. Sellers, '34 THOUGHTLESSNESS Auburn is besieged with a number of students who delight in getting innumerable souvenirs with which to decorate the walls of the rooms in which they live. To get a souvenir every now and then as a reminder of some trip or happening is sometimes excusable, but the wholesale looting that is sometimes practice by men here is absolutely unnecessary. These men who are not content to leave a thing in its place are not students in the sense of the word—they are fellows who come here to have fun. They are just little boys who don't want to grow up. The taking of the stop signs at the intersection of Gay and Magnolia Streets is an instance of the extreme thoughtlessness of some students here. Without any thought of the consequences, someone took those signs to be used as decorations. This man, or men, did not remember that these signs were placed there for a purpose —that the town of Auburn paid for them so that they might be used as a means of helping to prevent possible accidents. A stop sign is nothing more, or less, than a reminder that the intersection is a dangerous one, and that, by stopping, a driver is lessening the chances for him to meet some unseen car. Road markings and direction signs are highly-prized possessions. The state and county authorities have placed signs at certain places to direct motorists to a desired destination, or to caution them concerning bad places in the roads, but students will not fail to remove signs if they are so moved. We would not attempt to say, "Don't take anything that might be used as a souvenir." That would be asking too much of most students. There is no reason, however, why students should take everything that they happen to come across. Think of what can easily happen. BOY SCOUT WORK Most college men in the rush of collegiate activities have forgotten much of their earlier life. The organizations of grammar and high school days are lost in an adolescence past, and have given way to fraternities and social groups. However, there is one organization that lives in the minds of most of us as the most beneficial agency of the earlier stages of the formative period, the Boy Scout movement. This issue of The Plainsman carries two stories concerning the work, and reports that the publication is to aid in an inventory of the extent of its development in Auburn and vicinity. The paper feels any assistance along this line is a benefit to youth in general, and wishes to give its unqualified endorsement to the furthering of the work. College men who have stopped to think appreciate the good this movement has done, and will do in later life. Many have become leaders and scoutmasters, believing that its principals and creed are indu-cive to the development of young America and the fullest of later lives. ON VERSATILITY In this age of specialization we may well remember that it has been said, by whom we tannot recall offhand, that to be educated one musft know something about everything, and everything about something. We are proud to observe that the courses at The Citadel are designed to give the student the proper foundation for the attainment of such knowledge. Probably few of us wish to become educated in this sense. It is, in slang, "a pretty big order". Certainly a college course does not complete one's education. It hardly more than begins it. Nevertheless, a college graduate should be well informed upon a variety of subjects. It is expected of him, and contributes to his own satisfaction. The greater his adaptability, the greater are his chances of success, for few of us are able to step from the rostrum into positions for which we are best suited, or for which we have best prepared ourselves. The chances are that we do not even know where our greatest opportunities lie. We implore the individual not to scorn that which he knows nothing about, or conceal a healthy curiosity for fear of betraying ignorance. The undergraduate should not neglect the courses that he does not like. The pursuit of a variety of interests is broadening, and is one of the essentials of personality. It is necessary in life to become acquainted with and get along with many people whose interests vary widely. Genius and eccentricity go hand in hand. However, it does not follow that, because a man is unusually talented in one peculiar branch of human endeavor, he should be so narrow as to shut out all other things. Contrary to the opinions of many, it is foolish to assume that a good mathematician cannot learn the English and French that is required of him. We do not mean that, for example, a broker should quote Shakespeare to an investor who happens to be a literary man, or that he requires the vocabulary of a Webster to harangue his subordinates. Nor is it necessary for an oil magnate to be able to apply formulas for bending moment in order to tell his architect what type of paaltial mansion he desires. Few of us will ever be captains of industry, famous scientists, or noted artists, but we would have college graduates with a reasonable store of general information. If our minds muts travel on a single track, we should at least be qualified to intelligently pick the track when the opportunity presents itself. —The Bull Dog. My Opinion By Vasili Leoniduitch THE CONFUSION of adjustment passes and the new semester begins in earnest. The financial depression has taken its toll of the student body, but there are many new faces. Standing at the threshold and looking down the long months ahead most of us have made the proverbial first week resolutions. May part of the good intentions be kept, and our final inventory more complete than ever before. * * * * A Boston audience aided materially in the tobaggon slide of Rudy Vallee from the peak of public favor, with three grape fruit, in a recent performance in that city. How unlike cultured refined Boston to turn hoodlum and throw things at a visiting performer. Yet, how appropriate for the grand old city that made the first American stand against the British, to lead in the effort to rid the country of Rudy Vallee. How fitting that they should have thrown grape fruit. In Peoria or Pittsburg they would have used eggs, of no uncertain age, but Boston . . . never! It would seem that Rudy has filled the stein with a draught of the limelight for the last time. Drinking songs naturally have become very passe since the Wicker-sham report. Girls are warned to heave their last sigh. * * * * It is reported that chain speakeasies are becoming very popular. Why not turn the whole situation over to W. K. Henderson? Let him make a fight for the .local bootlegger, and everyone would become os disgusted that they would not want to drink anyway. I offer this solution while the world still stands with mouth agape over my proposed remedy for the nations economic ills. Having solved these two great problems I suppose it would be proper to retire and rest on my laurels . . . . but then they still have a Department of Speech. It is evident that those professors, who think that their course is the primary reason for the College's existence, are back with us this semester. * * * * The salesman of the Literary Guild seems to have done well in Auburn. I wonder if this is a favorable indication, or a slam on the Library. However, it is a common trait of librarians to consider their judgment of reading- superior to that of leading critics. Prexy's Paragraphs By Bradford Knapp All reports I have had so far indicate a good first week of this semester. Our enrollment for the new s e m e s t e r is slightly better than normal. Apparently all t h o s e students who have had to withdi-aw have done so only for two reasons, first, failure of grades, and second, inability to finance themselves through the second semester. Many students are making a very supreme effort and their parents a wonderful sacrifice that they may remain in college. I am sure that the new semester will be characterized by the same general tone as last semester and that was a seriousness toward the work. I am the last one who would want us to be so depressed and serious minded that we could not enjoy anything, but I do like a philosophy which realizes a change in world affairs and that this change has brought a different situation for us to face as individuals. To that extent serious-mindedness is a virtue and a normal and proper reaction to the general situation, and yet' I would bespeak something of a smiling confidence which can get some joy out of the work itself and some appreciation still of the opportunities which are ours. * * * * There is a peculiar quality of individuals and of groups of individuals which has always interested me greatly. The quickness with which a situation is understood and the prompt and aggressive reaction to the situation as it changes is a quality of the highest character. Sometimes we do not change our mental grasp with suffici-cent rapidity. I did not see the game with Tech the other night but that game worried me. Twice this year they have defeated u's in important games when the first half looked as though we had the game right in our hands. Is it a fact that we do not sufficiently realize that a game isn't won until the last whistle blows? Is it a fact that we are inclined to let up when we are ahead? Does the student body and the team as well reach the conclusion that a good lead at the half means that the game is won and therefore fail to fight with sufficient vigor in the second half? Metal let-up or let-down (whichever word you want to use) is a serious matter. I have seen one game since I have been at Auburn which was entirely satisfactory; that was the game with South Carolina last Thanksgiving. There the team came from behind and carried the "bits in its teeth" to the end of the game. There was no let-up in effort. A perfectly good team and a perfectly loyal student body may fail through a temporary failure to realize just what is taking place. It may take a little bit more ability and a little harder playing to stem the tide of a team that is coming from behind but it is a necessary quality and we need to develop it. I know we can't win all of the time. I am certainly not dissatisfied nor finding fault. I am only hoping that the next time we are ahead at the half we will redouble our efforts during the second half. It must be done. * * * * America is this year in one of the most difficult periods in her history and Alabama is in the same situation. Millions of our people have plunged from prosperity to adversity. I am wondering if the periods of prosperity do not magnify something of the selfishness of mankind and if adversity may not be the great time for us to develop the qualities of unselfishness. As a nation and as individuals I believe America is kindly in its disposition. In the past years of prosperity we have had to make few sacrifices. Now we must make many. Sacrifices develop unselfishness. "Whatsoever you would that men should do unto you do ye also unto them" becomes now a much more vital rule of conduct than it could ever be in times when everyone was on the upward grade. As a nation, as a State, and as individuals we must summon our best thinking, resolve to pay our debts, live within our incomes, and plan to protect and keep those things which are best, throwing away the useless and over-expensive things which are not necessities, and carry on through to better days. If education in America has been worthr while and if the right of self-government can hold fast to the great principle of working out the difficulties in the interest of all the people rather than in the interest of their selfish individual or the selfish few, we may set new standards of advancement in America even in times of distress. If periods of great activity are often followed by periods of contemplation and thought, surely we have reached the time as individuals, as states, and as a Nation when thoughtfulness ought to be the predominating characteristic. Education ought to have taught America to think AUBURN FOOTPRINTS Another R. O. T. C. riding class began this semester. Who said horses liked green stuff. , * * * * * * * * * Since witnessing the Georgia Tech game we wonder that the student body is not interviewed by notables from gangland each year for prospective material. Probably they don't need any recommendations. * * * * * * * * * And there was the rag and bottle man who made a fortune after the dances. * * * * * * * * * Jimmie Hitchcock reports that spring training is a wonderful way of avoiding the future shadow. * * * * * * * * A Boston crowd is reported to have thrown grapefruit at Rudy Vallee. We think better results could have been obtained by making him stand beside a breakfast table. * * * * * * * * * One of the Ag students while pruning a tree recently cut the limbs off from the bottom up. Reaching a dizzy height he became alarmed as to how to get down. But he was a college man and immediately thought "If you tap a tree the sap will run down." * * * * * * * * * OH BLONDIE Oh blondie with your gaudy dress, Oh blondie with your fond caress, Oh blondie with your tenderness, Can men forget? Oh blondie with your wileful way, Oh blondie leading hearts astray, Oh blondie fickle one for aye, Men fear you yet. —HIC-HIC. * * * * * * * * * Bull Steir (to Rat): "Can you tell me what virtue I would be showing if I saw a man beating a donkey and stopped him?" Frosh: "Brotherly love." * * * * * * * * * When airplane pullman becomes a popular mode of travel it will be a difficult matter to have the porter brush you off. * * * * * * * * * Bring back prosperity by using Paris garters and shaving with something or other. * * * * * * * * * Dean Petrie: "Do you know biblical history?" Stude: "Yes Sir." Dean: "Then where was Solomon's Temple." Stude: "On the side of his head." * * * * * * * * * Be it known to upperclassmen that freshmen, like a canoe, behave better when paddled from the rear. * * * * * * * * * LOST: On Monday night, up town, a pair of fur-lined men's gloves. Return to Plainsman office. Have the fur-lined men survived the loss of gloves, or have the gloves been found? Anxious. * * * * * * * * * FOR SALE—1 Suit . . . $10.00. See Goof Robinson. * We have an idea that someone wants Goof to buy a new pin so she can wear it . . . . is that right, Goof? * * * * * * * * * Abie England says that his nurse gave him too much to drink at the age of six months and stunted his growth. Now he has to take high heels shoes off the girls so he can feel like a man. <. WITH OTHER COLLEGES -:- THEN WHAT Harvard University, following the lines of European universities in the cases of distinguished students, plans to gather a group of them in Cambridge, house them, feed them and give them every opportunity for three to six years, allow them complete freedom from financial problems, in order that they devote and develop their talents for the general beenfits of the arts and sciences. We wonder what will become of the little fellows when they are through the nursing period, after such tender care has been taken with them. * * * * SIGHS AND HEAVES Dormitory parties where men are invited by the women are held at Carleton College. The men who are invited to the various dormitories are chosen from preference lists handed in by the girls in the dormitories. Senior girls are given first preference, and so on, in the order of clas ranking. Besides dancing and . . . there are cards for those who -are not influenced by music and special entertainment features. Dormitory or no dormitory parties, we again wonder, and this time about whether their parties can equal our own Ag Bottom. * * * * WATCH YOUR STEP» More than two-thirds of the 500 co-eds at' the University of California have indicated in questionnaires submitted to them that they would gladly leave college if they could find the right kind of man to marry them. The right kind of man meaning any man that will ask. No? * * * * WHAT DO YOU SAY The* University of McGill expresses the wish that a true college novel would be written. Now University of Southern California comes along and says that if such a novel was written that it would probably honestly, clearly, and unselfishly. Possibly the general character of our education, our qualities of mind and of purpose in every relationship will be put more to the test in_ these days than ever before. It is a great time for wise leadership and loyal devotion to good purposes. be true and must therefore drown our ambitions to see, or read about, the happenings in our own institutions of learning (higher). We'll have to be content with the slow moving and dull true stories and confessions of the less fortunate people out in the cold bleak world, just trying to get along. * * * * BELIEVE IT OR NOT There are more inmates in the insane institutions of the United States than students in all the colleges and universities. At Temple University the greatest amount of potential pain has been concentrated into the smallest area possible. It boasts one room in the dental school with 75 chairs. Haverford sophomores must pass an examination of 2,725 questions, covering nearly every department of college education. The quizz requires 12 hours. . . . That's nothing. We have to answer that many questions every day, given by our rats. * * * * THIS YOUNGER GENERATION Students of Montana State College went on a strike for five days because of the new regulation requiring girls to be in their dormitories by 11 o'clock instead of 2:30 as formerly. The poor kids must have their beauty sleep, you know. We shudder. * * * * THAT'S DIFFERENT A course called, "The Art of Making Love" has been installed at Rollins College. Credit for five hours of work a week is given. We wonder just how practical this course is. So they get credit for their love making? Well, maybe their co-eds look like ours and credit has to be given before anyone will take the course. Oh! ! ! ! ! * * * * Officials of the United States Military Academy at West Point have accepted the invitation of the Morro Castle cadets to send a football team to Havana next Fall. The Morro Castle cadets, representing the Cuban military school, were defeated in a football game at West Point this year, when they played the Army plebes. ACROSS THE CAMPUS By AXEL EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinion* 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. * * * * * And now we're into the new semester. Many of us are going to study this time and make records of which we will be proud. For a while, we will really be in earnest, studying regularly and often taking notes in classes. But how long will this continue? There will come a time when we will decide that we can't study—that it is much easier to rest than it is to study. Anyway, that's the way I always feel. What's the use? * * * * A sign of the times is the inactivity of student organizations this year. It seems as though activities are becoming dormant, the members content to sit through and let the year pass without any usual or unusual happenings. Why doesn't someone here do something? * * * * In a statement made this week, a temperance body declares that the circulation of anti-prohibition newspapers doubles that of those favoring amendment. Chalk up a big one for the fellows who want to do away with hard corn and home brew. All of which reminds me of some visiting I did while I was at home during the Christmas holidays. Whenever I entered somebody's house, the first thing that my host would do would be to pull out the old bottle and ask me to have a drink. Now, it is hard for me to refuse hospitality of anyone, so I had to oblige him by partaking of his fluids, not knowing whether the stuff was imported, as he claimed, or just some green stuff made last week out on the farm. I would like to know what I'm getting. * * * * The type of professor that I particularly dislike is the man who wants his students to do something that he cannot do. I refer to the man who will write, from the text book, a long, tedious procedure, and then, when he has finished copying from the book, will tell the students that they must be able to do the same procedure, without the book. Such professors do not get, nor do they deserve, the respect students generally have for professors. I haven't run across that type of prof in some time. * * * * Conversation between Business student and Engineer; heard somewhere between Ramsay Hall and the Business Depression: Double Ugly: Well, how's the General Business student today? Taxicab (Pride of the Depression): Pardon me, but there's no such course as General Business. If you can read, you can look in the catalogue and see that the course of which you are speaking is known as Business Administration. If you have any doubts, I will be pleased to refer you to our Dean. D. U.: Aw, all you boys study is the marketing of onions in China and a little arithmetic. What do you guys come to college for anyway? Tt C.: Some day, when you boys are digging post holes, you will realize that it is much better to be a cultured, refined business man, dictating to a stenographer who can do something beside type and write shorthand. D. U.: Big he-men like me aren't interested in stenographers. T. C.: Who finances the big projects of the world? Big business men like me. D. U.: Yeh? But who build them? (Enter Ag Man). A. M.: Why don't you big sissies do something worthwhile? (Faint Rumblings). Exit T. C. and D. U., arm in arm. Quotations What this country needs is more of us with- the courage to say "yes" when fools ask: "What's the matter, are you afraid?" —Collier's editorial. There are lots of people who committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing.— Hei-bert Hoover. There is one thing that I want especially to accomplish, and that is to give the Roumanian people universal education.— King Cai-ol to Dorothy Russell, in Liberty. Friends of peace in the United States must begin by breaking up this civil war of bandits.—Albert H. Hart. America is so beautiful I am amazed that her painters go to Europe seeking subjects or that her tourists go there seeking scenery.—Henry Matisse. SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE • • 4fe1 P^ rn J. • ADRIAN TAYLOR, Editor; Harry Barnes, Assistant Editor; Marshall Caley, L. B. Graves, Tad McCallum, assistants. • RALPH J0RD0N, CAPTAIN OF CAGE TEAM, ONLY A JUNIOR Was Star On Selma High School Teams Before Coining to Auburn Where He Has Starred Since His Freshman Year By Elmer G. Salter Leading a major athletic team your junior year is quite an achievement, but this honor has been accorded Ralph Jordan, captain of Coach Sam McAllister's Auburn basketball team. While starring at Selma High School, the Tigers sharpshooter participated in four sports, being captain of the cage team his junior and senior years and the gridiron eleven his final year. At Selma, Jordan also played with the strong Selma "Y" quintet and averaged over 20 points per game. He was coached by Paul Grist, physical director of the Selma Y. M. C. A., while caging goals from all angles of the court for the "Y" five, and gives the physical director much credit for the wonderful record that he has made in the realm of sports. In addition to being the leading hardwood performer while he was in for the pivot post on the football eleven, it was almost an impossibility for the star cagester to oust him from the regular post, but he rendered invaluable service in the role of understudy to this great snapper-back. In basketball, Jordan, along with three other sophomores, stepped into a regular berth his first season out for the varsity team. He had also averaged over 20 points per game on the freshman team, and continued his superb work as a varsity performer. He finished the season in third place among Southern Conference scorers with 121 markers, and the 1930 Tigers failed to enter the annual conference tournament in Atlanta. His mates also recognized his ability on the court by electing him captain of this season's team; receiving fame that comes to very few juniors. Though failing to break into the regular lineup on Coach Fred Sheri-high school, he won the state cham- dan's 1930 baseball team, his work in pionship for the shot put in the annual state high school track meet. Southpaws are generally a little too wild to heave the iron ball for much distance, but it was different with Jordan. He easily outdistanced his opponents in winning the championship, and without his left "salary wing", he would be lost. Jordan entered Alabama Polytechnic Institute in the Fall of 1928 and has been a leading student and athlete since. He was awarded freshman numerals in football, basketball and baseball; performing at center on the football team; forward on the hardwood five; and outfield and first base on the diamond nine. The cage fans statred calling him a second Jelly Akin his plebe year. With Dunham Harkins returning the practice games aided the holders of the coveted posts in making good showings during the season. He was used as a pitcher; first baseman and outfielder. In every position, he gave the regulars plenty of competition, and competition- is what helps in producing winning teams. The 1930 football season found the former Selma star again battling against overwhelming odds in an effort to win a regular post as Harkins was back to round out his career on the turf in an Orange and Blue uniform. However, Jordan never gave up; trained and worked hard at every practice, so when the Tiger's captain received injuries which hampered him throughout the year, Coach Chet Wynne used him a good deal. Wynne rewarded him for his hard training and playing by naming him for the varsity "A" when the Plainsmen concluded the most successful football season that they have enjoyed since 1926. This season he is holding down a regular forward post on Coach McAllister's hardwood team. In the conference games against South Carolina, Clemson and North Carolina State, which Auburn won, he has scored 27 points, though being close- Tackle Commodores in Nashville Tonight mrijjfc.. •P*5** X K - t "| 1 Kiley Returns for Second Term As Assistant Coach Above are shown lettermen from last year's basketball squad who will be ready when the Tigers play Vandy in Nashville tonight. They are, left to right: Top: Tom Lumpkin, forward; Lindley Hatfield, guard; Jack Stewart, center, and Captain Ralph Jordan, forward. Bottom: Harbin Lawson, guard; and Frock Pate, forward. Roger J. Kiley, assistant coach, who is starting his second term here along with Chet Wynne, head coach, arrived in Auburn yesterday and has already started teaching Auburn's Spring footballers a few of the tricks which brought him All-American recognition while playing at Notre Dame under Knute Rockne. Kiley and McFaden worked wonders with the Tigers forward wall last season and it brought joy from all sides when President Bradford Knapp announced that both of these popular mentors would return for the 1931 campaign, which will see the Plainsmen meeting Birmingham- Southern, Howard, Wisconsin, Georgia Tech, Florida, Spring Hill, Tu-lane, Sewanee, Georgia and South Carolina in the order named. Kiley will work here a month this time before returning to his law practice in Chicago, coming back in September for the Fall football season. Candidates for Auburn's 1931 team now out for Spring football total over 60. All of the veterans have reported except the ones playing basketball; a majority of the 1930 varsity reserves; a large crop of freshman and the usual number of neophytes who are seeking a post on their initial team in the realm of sports. Rough work for the Tigers will start immediately with scrimmages scheduled for next week. The freshman graduates and newcomers will receive most of the strenuous work at the start as the coaches want to get a good line on their ability. The letter wearers will receive plenty of work, however. Read The Plainsman ads. Lawson Proves Great Aid to Strong Cage Team at Auburn This Season A Georgia boy, Harbin Lawson, is i hoops from mid-court is above the playing an important part in making average. He performed as regular STUDENTS ATTENTION! We invite you to open a checking account with us. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Your Interest Computed L GET WHAT YOU WANT And Like What You Get. COLLEGE BARBER SHOP DRAKE-IG0U COAL YARD Successors to J. G. Beasley —Dealers In— BEST GRADES OF COAL Phone 158 * Auburn, Ala. «i' Say It With Flowers'> > And Say It With Ours FOR EVERY SOCIAL OCCASION Rosemont Gardens Florists Montgomery, Alabama Homer Wright, Local Agent for Auburn. Coach Sam McAllister's initial season in Dixie as cage mentor at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute a successful one. Lawson attended high school at Nelson, Ga., and was coached by Willie Glenn Nunn, who graduated at Auburn with the class of 1926. He participated in three sports under Nunn, having the honor of leading the football and baseball teams his senior year. He was chosen on the all-district quintet while playing on a winning basketball five at Nelson his final year. Through his coach he became interested in Auburn and matriculated here in the Fall of 1928. He failed to break into the limelight on the plebe football team, but made his presence noticed when he went out for Coach Geo. Bohler's 1929 first-year cage team. Coach Bohler liked players who were good at hitting the cords from the center of the court, so Lawson was a player who fitted into his system perfectly. His average in dropping the ball into the ly guarded. Every opponent of Auburn in basketball this year has tried to hold Jordan in check, but he continues to find the hoops and annex markers. He is living up to the Jelly Akin title given him his frosh year. He is a member of Theta Chi social fraternity and "A" club, whose membership is composed entirely of students winning major athletic awards. He is enrolled in the school of education and intends to teach and coach when he graduates. guard on the yearling team, winning his first athletic award from Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1929. When the frosh cagesters finished a successful season, Lawson turned his athletic attention to track and hurled the javelin on Coach Wilbur Hutsell's team. Lawson received his first major athletic award last year when he played guard on Hal Lee's hardwood team. He was also a member of the track team his sophomore year, but was unable to hurl the sharp pointed shaft far enough to annex 10 points, the number the tracksters must win before being eligible for the varsity "A". Though the basketball coaches have changed here since last season and Lawson realized his first week under McAllister that he would have to change his style of shooting, he worked harder than usual and is now one of the mainstays "of the team, which is one of the leaders in the Southern Conference. After the close of the cage schedule, Lawson intends to cast his lot with the track team. A greater compliment could not be paid the Tiger's guard than saying that he is one of the most conscientious boys that can be found on any Plainsmen athletic team. Regardless of his feelings, he is a tireless worker. Like the majority of the other members of the McAllister machine, he is taking a course in secondary education, intending to teach and coach when he graduates. He is a member of Theta Upsilon Omega social fraternity and the "A" club. Only One More Tilt On Frosh Schedule A lone game with Frank DuBose's Tallassee high school dribblers, Saturday afternoon, Feb. 7, will bring Auburn's freshman basketball schedule to a close. This game will serve as a preliminary battle to the Au-burn- Tulane varsity struggle that evening in alumni gymnasium. The local frosh will attempt to end a fair season with a victory, in addition to making it two straight over Tallassee, they having previously won from the high school quintet in Tallassee in an extra period encounter, 25 to 24. Since this is the only game carded for the yearlings during the week, Coach Earl McFaden will work his proteges on alternate days in order to allow several of the players to go out for Spring football practice, which they s badly need. NOTICE First class sewing of all kinds. Reasonable prices. Dress making a specialty. See Mrs. Lyons at 253 East Glenn Ave., phone 273-J. WE MAKE r i ^ O NEWSPAPER I . N MAGAZINE x w CATALOG n B MA CUTS 0PELIKA PHARMACY, INC. 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Yellow Springs, 0. —(IP)— A dark future for the spiritual life of the American worker, for his independence, self-reliance and self-government is forecast by Prof. William Peiserson of Antioch College, nationally known arbiter of labor disputes. Observing retrospectively the labor movement, he attributes the present lack of interest in such groups to "personnel managers, bigger and better men than the labor leader of the present who offer all the advantages of labor organizations." Yet this very method, through creating better material conditions, will tend to undermine the spiritual life of the worker, the professor says. What he terms a serious situation is found in the increase of production to the point of saturation among the newer industries. "Processes of expansion, in the airplane, radio and allied electrical fields, with no provision for the time when this saturation point has been reached is dangerous," Prof. Leiser-son says. "Labor leaders of the past were greater men than the industrialists," he continues, "now that has changed —personnel managers have begun to compete with labor leaders. The laborer has been receiving better conditions without asking for them. He has become dependent upon the manufacturer. He is soon to reach a point where he may not call his soul his own." Mother of P. O. Davis Dies In Athens, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. P. 0. Davis left Auburn this morning to attend the funeral of Mr. Davis' mother, Mrs. Ma-linda Elizabeth Davis, age 74, who died early Saturday at her home near Athens, Ala., where she had lived for more than 50 years. The death of Mrs. Davis was not unexpected as her condition had been critical for several weeks. An unfavorable turn resulted in Mr. Davis being called to her bedside last week. The funeral will probably be held Sunday. DISMISSED MIDSHIPMEN WERE PLAYING "PRANK" Washington —(IP)— Explaining that their action was merely a "prank", two midshipmen dismissed from the naval academy at Annapolis a year ago for taking two girls into the mess hall garbed as naval academy students, have made application for reinstatement. The two, M. S. Burgin, of Jacksonville, Fla., and L. L. Myatt of Wollaston, Mass., have appeared before a Senate sub-committee. Senator Walsh, Massachusetts, has introduced a resolution to provide for their reinstatement with loss of one year's time. Mystery Murders Of Washington If half of what Walter W. Liggett, in March Real Detective Tales, says of corrupt conditions in our nation's capital is true, then Washington needs cleaning up and needs it badly. Mr. Liggett after outlining in detail how the "Ohio Gang," with headquarters in the White House, operated in conjunction with the Homicide Squad, to suppress facts concerning the numerous "mystery murders" and earn the name of "Suicide Squad," says in part: "It was announced by the papers that Mrs. Harding and two nurses were in the room with the President when he was seized by a stroke and died almost instantly. The early extras all stated that Dr. Sawyer was not in the room. "Later, newspaper correspondents took pains to announce that Dr. Sawyer was with the President when he died, and that Mrs. Harding was the only other occupant of the room. According to Means, who quotes Mrs. Harding, the President's wife was alone with Mr. Harding when he died. "Also there has been considerable mystery about the exact nature of the fatal ailment. It will be remembered that five days before the President's death it was announced that he had an attack of ptomaine poisoning. "Next the bulletins said he had thrown off this attack and was on the road to recovery. "Then came the stunning news of his sudden death. "Ordinarily, ptomaine poison does not kill five days after the initial attack, but bichloride of mercury does." "It is", Mr. Liggett says, "a story of how the 'Ohio Gang' punished a squealer—perhaps two squealers— and how a strange chain of suicides' prevented any uncovering of the facts. It is a startling story. A story most Americans will not want to believe. "But it also a story which should be told, for there can be no improvement in either municipal or national affairs until the truth, and the whole truth, is told." And Mr. Liggett tells it in the March issue of Real Detective Tales. ROTARIAN HEARS FRANK P. GLASS THURSDAY NOON (Continued from page 1) ing in Montgomery next Wednesday, 1:00 p. m., at the Whitley. Arrangements are being made for an Auburn delegation to attend. L. L. Johnson was a visitor at the meeting. Bootleggers are the only people in America who have adjusted themselves completely to Prohibition.—Dr. James M. Doran. SANITARY MARKET FRYERS - HENS - TURKEYS Live or Dressed PHONE 112 A. H. CHRIETZBERG, Prop. L Juniors Hold Regular Posts on 1931 Quintet Sophomores occupied the majority of the regular positions on Coach Chet Wynne's Auburn football team last season, but members of the class of 1932 are in the limelight on Sam McAllister's Plainsmen cage team. The junior class claims every regular on this season's fast five, in addition to three other players who are waging strong fights for the coveted posts. The senior class is represented by only two players, while the members of the squad receiving their initial baptism of varsity competition number six. Frock Pate, forward, and Vernard Vines, guard, are the seniors on the team, but both are eligible to wear Orange and Blue colors on the hardwood another season if they decide to return to school for the 1931-32 term. The juniors are: .Capt. Ralph Jordan, Tom Lumpkin and Odis Ald-ridge, forwards; Jack Stewart and David Rogers, centers, and Lindley Hatfield, Chas. Kaley and Harbin Lawson, guards. All except Aldridge, Lawson and Rogers are regulars. Kaley is a junior, but is playing his first season the basketball team. The sophomores are: Sam Mason and George Jenkins, forwards; Robert Arthur and Alan Pilgrim, centers, and Scott Turk and Commodore Wood, guards. TECH WINS OVER AUBURN QUINTET (Continued from page 1) forwards, Phillips and Gooding, that brought the winners victory. While Stewart was holding Pa Perkins, the leading scorer in the Southern Conference, in check, this trio broke loose. The forwards hit the hoops for ten points each and Wages annexed nine points in addition to starring at guard. Tech failed to use a substitute during the game. Capt. Jordan of Auburn ran wild in the first half, annexing five field goals arid two fouls, but was held to a single two-pointer and a foul in the closing half. His fifteen points gave him individual scoring honors. Stewart at center and Lindley Hatfield were the other stars for Auburn. However, all three did their starring in the first half. Georgia Tech (37) Auburn (33) Phillips (10) F Jordan (c) (15) Gooding (10) F. Mason (2) Perkins (5) C. Stewart (8) Wages (c) (9) G. Hatfield (3) Tate (2) G. Kaley (3) Substitutions: Auburn: Lumpkin (2), Lawson, Pate. Jteferee: Roosma (Army.) SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT FOR PARESIS IS FOUND X Evanston, 111. — ( I P )— Announcement has been made by Dr. Clarence A. Neymann, associate professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University, that successful treatment of paresis by means of artificial fever produced with high frequency electrical currents has been accomplished. The professor said that of 32 patients treated thusly at the Cook County Psychopathic Hospital, 25 were able to return to their homes and care for themselves with some supervision. Seven showed no improvement, he said. In some cases the temperature was maintained at 106 degrees for several hours, and no serious harm resulted. New Shipment Parker Pens Sandwiches Valentine Candy Stationery Sale New Bunch of Pipes Homer Wright DRUGGIST Prescription Expert SOCIETY & PERSONALS TOLEDO U. WILL BE HOSTS TO NATIONAL STUDE FEDERATION Woman's Club News The Business and Professional Women's Club of Auburn was represented at the banquet given at Jefferson- Davis Hotel in Montgomery Tuesday night in honor of the National President. The members attending this banquet were Mrs. A. F. Nickel, Misses Alma Lamar, Edith Slights, Mildred Hanson and Jessie Aycock. —0— The department of civics of the Woman's Club met at the home of Mrs. J. W. Scott, on last Thursday afternoon, with the chairman, Mrs. W. A. Ruffin, presiding. Mrs. E. F. Cauthen was leader; the subject being: "Rose Problems." Mrs. Ruffin discussed January plantings. The subject for the February meeting will be "Iris and Lilies" and the leader will be Mrs. Fred Allison. —0— The department of education also met on last Thursday afternoon. The meeting was held at the Thomas Hotel, the chairman, Mrs. W. D. Salmon, presiding. Mrs. J. A. Parrish was the leader, and the speaker, professor M. L. Beck, who spoke on "Education and International Citizenship". The department decided to again sponsor the "Story Hour" for preschool children; the first meeting will be held next Wednesday at the home of Mrs. E. W. Camp, at 3 o'clock. All children under school age are welcome. —0— The department of literature of the Woman's Club met at the home of Mrs. J. T. Williamson on Thursday afternoon, January 22nd; Mrs. S. W. Garrett was joint hostess. The department is devoting the year to the study of American women writ-ters; the writer for discussion Thursday was Julia Peterkin, whose books were discussed in a very interesting manner by Mr. Arthur Medlock. Mrs. B. R. Showalter, leader for the afternoon, introduced the speaker. Mrs. A. D. Burke gave the report on current magazine articles. Mrs. Mary Walker, of Clemson, has been the guest of Mrs. B. D. Lazarus. * * * On Friday, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Toomer entertained at a buffet supper. Those enjoying this occasion were Major and Mrs. John T. Kennedy, Dr. and Mrs. Fred Allison, Dr. and Mrs. Noel Van Wagenen, Mrs. F. Van Wagenen, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Irvine, Miss Allie Glenn, and Mrs. Mary Walker. * * * Dean and Mrs. F. C. Biggin entertained the faculty of the Architectural department at dinner Wednesday evening. * * * Messrs. J. R. Rutland, Herbert Martin, and S. L. Toomer accompanied Mr. Fleming of Opelika to Montgomery, on school business. * * * Mrs. Jim Rutledge of Atlanta is in Auburn on business. * * * Mrs. Ward entertained friends with a breakfast on Tuesday. * * * Mrs. Bradford Knapp and Mrs. S. L. Toomer visited Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Spratling of Gold Hill on Monday. LIBERTY BELL WILL BE RUNG ON FEBRUARY 22 Art Study Club Meets With Mrs. Knapp The Art Study Club met with Mrs. Bradford Knapp on Wednesday and enjoyed a program of unusual merit. Mrs. Charles A. Cary spoke on "Lighting of the Pilgrim Century," and added to the charm of her talk was a series of illustrations made by her to follow the descriptions of the original lighting devices. Mrs. S. L. Toomer followed Mrs. Cary with a talk on a most interesting subject, "French Canada," giving a sketch of the historical background, and closing with readings, in French dialect, from Sir William Drum-mond's "L'Habitant," illustrating home life and philosophy of the French Habitant. Mrs. Knapp served a delicious plate and coffee. Georgia Legislature May Tax Red Neckties Atlanta, Ga. —(IP)—College boys in Georgia would have to go back to the old black ties and drab socks of their fathers, or beg increased allowances from home, if the Georgia legislature were to pass a bill now before it providing an exorbitant tax on red neckties and loud socks. Miss Bessie Kempton, representative from Fulton County and Representative Pat Griffin, of Decatur, sponsors of the bill, said it was "diabolically planned," to wip out a state deficit of some $7,000. The house needed a good laugh the day the bill was presented, the representative said, and they set about trying to find something to tax that hadn't yet been suggested'. The tax would be $1 a day on he wearer of the colorful clothing. NEW COURSE GIVEN IN CHARACTER EDUCATION (Continued from page 1) "Social Control of Ethical Ideals", "The Dynamic Function of the Emotions", and "Methods of Training Attitudes and Feelings". Commenting on the practicability of the course, Dr. Paul Irvine, professor of education and director of training school, said: "This course will be of great value and interest to Sunday school teachers, to parents, and to others who bear the responsibilities of character training." Washington —(IP)— Plans to have the Liberty Bell rung again after 100 years, and in such a manner that the entire country can hear it, are under way here by the George Washington bicentennial commission. The famous old bell will be heard over a nation-wide radio hook-up, and will be tapped thirteen times, once for each of the 13 original states. The event will take place on Washington's birthday, Feb. 22. Research Courses Being Offered At Sweet Briar Sweet Briar, Va. — ( I P )— Something new in "majors" is being tried for the second successive year at Sweet Briar College—a system of research courses in which general fields are laid out including several courses on the curriculum. The first of these problems to be offered last year was "American Problems," and with the cooperation of the social science departments a two-year program was arranged, open to students in their junior year. Required subjects were history, economics, political science and sociology, and contributory courses were chosen with a view to preventing excessive concentration. The student taking this major is required to write a paper at the end of the two years based on creative research. This year a second major is offered having as its general subject the period from 1750 to 1850, in which the individualism of the romantic movement culminated in the French Revolution. This major is entitled "Romanticism and Revolution." Basic courses include history, economics, political science, sociology, English, German, French, philosophy and art, and additional auxiliary courses are art, music, biblical literature, Latin and Greek. The new major courses are being made possible by laying stress on interdepartmental correlation of courses. (NSFA) The University of Toledo will act as host to the 1931 Congress of the National Student Federation, with Irvin Harbright and Howard Dence as Co-Congress chairmen, according to the action taken at the Sixth Annual Congress at Atlanta, Georgia. In the invitation presented to the delegates at Atlanta, Mr. Harbright recalled the constant support which his University has given to the Federation since its founding. Every year at least one delegate has been sent to the Congress, and men from Toledo have twice held offices in the Federation. The University is further qualified to be the scene of the Congress because its central location easily permits the attendance of delegates from all parts of the United States, and because the new buildings recently added to the campus facilitate the arrangements for housing, meals and entertainment. The other invitations presented for the 1931 Congi-ess were from Wichita, Cincinnati and Washington. LARGER SMOKING ROOM TO BE PROVIDED FOR CO-EDS Cleveland, O. —(IP)— To put a stop to co-eds in the College for Women from smoking in near-by tea rooms, authorities of Western Reserve University have made plans to provide the girls with a new and much larger smoking room than heretofore available to them in the college. Tiger Theatre Saturday, Jan. 31 JACK OAKIE —In— "The GANG BUSTER" —With— Jean Arthur - William Boyd Wynne Gibson Sunday • Monday February 1-2 BERT WHEELER— —ROB'T WOOLSEY —In— "HOOK, LINE AND SINKER" —With— DOROTHY LEE JOBYNA HOWLAND Tuesday, Feb. 3 LOIS MORAN— —J. HAROLD MURRAY —In— "UNDER SUSPICION" The brave but silent "Mountie" who was willing to sacrifice love rather than reveal the past. Fox Picture A V E R Y ' S P R E S S I N G CLUB LET US KEEP YOUR SUITS PRESSED Phone 180 COAL Jellico makes it hot for you. CAUTHEN Phone 11 or leave your order at Cauthens and Sparrow's Service Sta. Always Ready to Give You t h e Best of Service j TOOMER'S HARDWARE CLINE TAMPLIN, Manager { Tune in Majik Baker Hour WSFA Fri's 5:30 to 6 BIRMINGHAM STOVE & RANGE CO. BIRMINGHAM — ALABAMA YOUR GAS RANGE should be equipped with^ modern conveniences to save time and effort. -QUAKER is approved by Good Housekeeping Institute. It is equipped with Robertshaw oven heat control, Rutz automatic lighter and roomy utensil drawer. ALABAMA NATURAL GAS CORP. SAVE THE DIFFERENCE Postal Telegraph Rates are 20 per cent cheaper than any other telegraph rates in Alabama. By a special arrangement telegrams can now be charged to your telephone bill Merely Pick up the receiver and say Tostal telegraph. We pay all telephone charges on messages sent us and our service is . • ; . QUICK and EFFICIENT! Postal Telegraph Co* Opelika, Alabama
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Title | 1931-01-31 The Plainsman |
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OCR Transcript | SUPPORT CAGE TEAM THE PLAINSMAN T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT SUPPORT CAGE TEAM VOLUME LIV AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931 NUMBER 33 LOCAL BOY SCOUTS TO OBSERVE TWENTY FIRST ANNIVERSARY General Roundup of Old and New Scouts to Feature Celebration SCOUTING INTRODUCED IN AMERICA IN 1910 All Scouts Both Old and New Requested to Come to Plainsman Office SIGWALD EXECUTIVE Checkup on Scouts Will Determine Scope of Scouting The Boy Scout movement in America is celebrating its .21st anniversary with a Nation Wide daily observance program during the week of February 8 to 14. A general round-up of all men and boys who have at one time or another seen service as a Boy Scout or* Scout leader will feature the celebration. The Plainsman is cooperating with Scout officials in accepting names of all Scouts both active and inactive who are in Auburn during the week. All Scouts eligible are requested to come by the office of the Auburn Printing Co., on East Magnolia Ave., and register, giving name, group served with, and length of service. A check-up on the list of local Scouts and Scout leaders will be published shortly after the Anniversary Week, in order to determine how far reaching the scouting movement has been in Auburn. John J. Sigwald, local Scout Executive, has asked each of the six districts to assist him in this Council wide campaign. Results of this investigation will be forwarded to the national office. Once a Scout, always a Scout, has proven true ever since scouting began in America in 1910. Since the beginning, 4,401,982 scouts have taken the Boy Scout oath: "On my honor I will do my best— To do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout law. To help other people at all times. To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and m o r a l ly straight." MUNID-LIIP SCOUTING TALKS FEATURE BROADCASTS DURING WEEK Six talks commemorating the 21st anniversary of scouting will be heard over Station WAPI, from Auburn, during the week of Feb. 9-14, as a part of the regular noon program's, 12:00 to 12:30. In addition, Scout Executive John J. Sigwald of the Central Alabama Area Council will present a 15-min-ute broadcast Friday afternoon, Feb. 13, 4:00 to 4:15, in keeping with the national observance of Anniversary Scout Week. The week's program follows: Monday—Boy Scout talk, Pres. I. J. Dorsey, of the Central Alabama Area Council; Insects and Man, Prof J. M. Robinson; Review of recent book by English Department. Tuesday—Scouting, Dr. Bradford Knapp, president of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute; Primer for Town Farmers; Housekeeper's Chat, Mrs. Mary Drake Askew; Mrs. G. Richard Trott, contralto. 9:45 to 10:15 p. m.—Dance music by Auburn Knights over WSFA, Montgomery. Wednesday— Scout discussion by N. D. Denson, of Opelika; Dick and Dan around the Dinner Table; Miss ROTARIANS HEAR FRANK P. GLASS THURSDAY NOON Italian Rotary Clubs Subject of Montgomery Publishers' Address Italian Rotary clubs serve as a constant check on the militeristic ambitions of Dictator Mussolini. In fact, said Frank P. Glass, publisher of the Montgomery Advertiser, in speaking before the Auburn Rotary club Thursday, it would be impossible for Mussolini to wage an unjust war because of the tremendous influence for peace exerted in Italy by the prominent men constituting her 30 Rotary clubs. Mr. Glass spoke from first-hand information gained after visiting a number of clubs in Italy including Rome, Venice, and Florence. These Italian Rotarians, he continued, are constantly doing far more to iron out international difficulties between Italy and France and other countries than are her diplomats whose scope of activity is of necessity quite limited and formalized. These men constitute some of the foremost citizens in the country and they are as much devoted to international peace and understanding as are the Rotarians in America and other countries. Rotary, concluded Mr. Glass, is doing more than any other agency in the world to bring about universal peace, and good will between nations. Sam Cassels, who came to Auburn with Mr. Glass and Carl Cooper, extended an invitation to Auburn Rotarians to attend the intercity meet- (Continued on page 4) Mechanicals Will Be Interviewed Monday Two representatives of the Bab-cock and Wilcox Company, Paul R. Yopp and A. Rose, will be in Auburn Monday, February 2, to interview seniors in mechanical engineering. Mr. Yopp is district sales manager, with headquarters in Atlanta, and has been here several times previously. It is customary for representatives of the company to visit Auburn every year to interview Seniors who expect to enter the field of mechanical engineering. Representatives of various other concerns desiring to employ college graduates will visit Auburn during the spring and will interview seniors in all departments of the School of engineering. Notices will be posted on the bulletin board in Ramsay Hall several days before their arrival. Louise P. Glanton, on home economics; John W. Brigham, tenor, and Earl Hazel, piano. Thursday—Scout message by Roberts Bount, national Scout representative; Earnest and Frank—the boys with the dairy temperament; Housekeeper's Chat by Mrs. Askew. 5:00 to 5:30—Auburn Department of Music program directed by John W. Brigham. Friday—Scout discussion by Executive John J. Sigwald of Opelika; Household arts chat by Miss Lilly Spencer; Farm Science Snapshots. 4:00 to 4:15—Boy Scout feature. Saturday—Scout topic by P. O. Davis, publicity chairman; Farm outlook by Department of Agricultural Economics; Housekeeper's chat by Mrs. Askew; Inspirational message, Rev. William Byrd Lee. Final Entrance Date Set For Girls' Riding Class February 5th will be the final day on which new candidates will be accepted in the Ladies' Riding Class, it was announced today. The setting of a closing date is necessary in order that the progress of the present class will not be retarded by beginners. It has been the practice of the instructors of the class to admit as many new members as cared to enroll, but the system has proven extremely detrimental to the progress of the more advanced riders. The instructors are confident that the new rule to be adopted will be satisfactory to all who are now enrolled in the class and those who wish to learn to ride. TIGERS SCHEDULE 22 GAMES DURING BASEBALL SEASON SCHOLARSHIPS WILL BE GIVEN AUBURN STUDES BY ALUMNUS Twenty Games to be Played With Members of Dixie Baseball League SEASON TO OPEN APRIL 6 Mercer First Opponent; Schedule Contains Ten Games on Campus Auburn's 1931 baseball schedule announced today by Coach Sam McAllister, includes 20 games in the newly organized Dixie Baseball League, of which Auburn, Oglethorpe, Mercer, Florida, Georgia Tech and Georgia are members, and 2 games with Vanderbilt. Several practice affairs will probably be scheduled for the Plainsmen before the season officially opens here against Mercer, April 6 and 7. Battery men will start working out the middle of February, while the other candidates will start training March 1. Sam McAllister will coach the Tigers for the first time and Frock Pate, Birmingham, will captain them from the shortstop berth. The Schedule April 6 and 7—Mercer at Auburn. April 10 and 11—Oglethorpe at Atlanta. April 13 and 14—Oglethorpe at Auburn. April 22 and 23 — Georgia at Athens. —^_ April 24 and 25—Georgia Tech at Atlanta. April 27 and 28—Georgia at Auburn. May 1 and 2—Florida at Gainesville. May 4 and 5—Mercer at Macon.. May 8 and ff—Florida at Panama City. May 11 and 12—Georgia Tech at Auburn. May 15 and 16—Vanderbilt Auburn. at Engineer Staff Meets Monday Afternoon The Auburn Engineer staff will meet in Broun Hall Monday afternoon at 4:30, it was announced today by L. F. Camp, editor-in-chief of the publication. Important business will be discussed, and all members of the staff are urged to attend, Camp stated. TULANE TO BE ENCOUNTERED IN TWO GAMES AT AUBURN DURING THE NEXT WEEK-END Trollope To Attend Meeting Of Poultry Section Of A.S.A.W. Opening Session to be Wednesday Afternoon in Atlanta A scholarship is being offered to Auburn students by H. L. Brunson, who recently opened an indoor rifle range in the location formerly occupied by Burton's bookstore. Mr. Brunson, an old Auburn alumnus, expressed his desire of doing something really helpful for his alma mater, and finally decided on the plan of a scholarship. But his plans for carrying out this idea require the cooperation of Auburn students. Beginning February 2, students may secure shooting gallery trade cards for one dollar apiece which make the purchaser eligible for an expense scholarship of four hundred dollars, the award to be made to the holder of the lucky number of a drawing to be held for every twelve hundred trade cards sold. With the duplicate ticket, the stub of which he is to drop in the contest box inside the gallery. Just as soon as twelve hundred cards are sold there will be a drawing for the winner by a member of the faculty. Drawings will continue to be had throughout the year according to the volume of business and the support of the students. The prizes will be placed in the college treasury to be drawn upon by the winning student during his next year's attendance at college. Prizes won by seniors or students, who will be unable to attend college next year may receive cash prizes for the full amount. Girls as well as boys are cordially invited to test their skill in the gallery, and will be eligible for special prizes for hitting targets. Trfcde cards may be used in shooting for BASKETBALL TEAM AND VANDERBILT TO MEET TONIGHT trade card each person will receive a any of the regular prizes. BAND ENTRAINS FOR MARDI GRAS FEB. 13 Forty-five Auburn Musicians Will Take Part in Mobile Festivities On the last lap of their 1931 basket- ball schedule, the Auburn Tigers will play the Tulane Greenies here in two games, Fridey and Saturday; Fort Benning at Fort Benning, Feb. 9 and here Feb. 16; Vanderbilt here Feb. 14, and Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Feb. 24. The Tigers will also enter the Southern Conference tournament in Atlanta which begins Feb. 27 and terminates March 3. If the Tigers expect to enter the conference tournnament with a record above the average, they will have to win the two games with Tulane whose record this season is not so outstanding. The Greenies, who are fighting hard to get a record that will warrant them receiving an invitation to the conference jamboree in Atlanta, will give the Plainsmen hard battles, and unless the Auburn quintet regains some of its early season form, the Green Wave will probably defeat the Plainsman. Preacher Roberts, unanimous choice for All-Southern football center for the past two years, is Tulane's mainstay on the hardwood. Standing well over the six foot mark, he plays the pivot post and very few centers have succeeded in outjumping him this year. Several other flashy performers are also listed in the Tulane ranks. After making a threat in conference circles during the early weeks of the race, the Tigers have been slipping lately, but hope to gradually recover in time to be in good shape for the tournament which decides the champion. A convention of the Poultrjt Section, Association of Southern Agri-tural Workers will be held in Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 4 to 7. G. A. Trollope, head professor of Poultry Husbandry at Auburn, and secretary of the poultry association has charge of the program which includes talks by the leading poultrymen from over the South. The opening session will be held Wednesday afternoon Feb. 4 and the meetings will continue through Saturday, Feb. 7. The meeting will represent the poultry industry of all the Southern states, and problems common to all will be discussed. The morning sessions will be devoted to general programs of the Association, and the Poultry sessions will be held during the afternoon. Among the speakers included on the program will be representatives from Auburn, Mississippi A. & M., Louisiana State College, University of Tennessee, Louisiana State University, Georgia State College of Agriculture, Clemson College, Oklahoma A. & M. College, and the Texas A. & M. College. Speakers from the government Bureau of Animal Industry will also be heard. New Course .Given In Character Education Dr. Beufah C. Van Wagenen, associate professor of education, will teach a course in character education, beginning today. This course, which has not been offered at Auburn before, is concerned with the principles of character training. Some of the questions and topics for study will be: "What is character?" "Can it be taught?" "Character Development as an Objective of Education", (Continued on page 4) The entire Auburn Band, consisting of forty-five men, will depart for Mobile Friday morning, Feb. 13, where they will participate in the Mardi Gras festivities. The band will arrive in Mobile in time to march in the parade of the Krewe of Columbus Friday morning. Following the parade, band members will be guests at the annual ball given by the Krewe Columbus at the Battle House Hotel. This is the seventh consecutive year since the World War that the Auburn musicians have attended the Carnival celebrations in Mobile. It was thirty years ago that the band, then a small organization of 27 pieces under the direction of Prof. Thomas M. Fullan, first participated in the Mardi Gras parades. Since their first appearance, the Auburn Band has featured prominently in all Carnival celebrations. They will hold positions of honor in all parades held this year, and will present several concerts consisting of classical numbers, in Bienville Square during the five days they are in Mobile. On Monday morning, the band will ride out into the bay with King Felix, ruler of Joy and Emperor of Carnival, on one of the Coast Guard cutters, and will alight with him when the boat docks at the foot of Government street. Immediately upon the arrival of the king, a parade will be formed in which the Auburn band will escort His Majesty through the streets of Mobile. The parade will continue to the heart of the city, and at Bienville Square, King Felix will receive the keys to the city, and his reign of mirth will begin. Following the ball of the Infant Mystics Tuesday night, Feb. 18, the band will depart for Auburn. They will get back here Wednesday morning, and begin classes immediately. TECH WINS OVER AUBURN QUINTET Big Lead Piled By Tigers Overcome By Worderful Work By Tech Men Departure For Nashville Preceded by Two Light Workouts VANDY IS THIRD FOE OF THIS WEEK Stewart's Work in Tech Game Is Sensational in Checking Perkins NINE PLAYERS MAKE TRIP All Defeats During Season Are By Small Margins Completely dominating the game during the second half, Roy Mun-dorff's Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets continued their winning ways on the hardwood by downing Sam McAllister's Auburn quintet Wednesday night at the Plains, 37 to 33. Auburn led at halftime, 25 to 16, but the Jackets were "right" in the second period, outscoring the Tigers, 21 to 8, and holding them" to a lone field goal by Capt. Ralph Jordan. Both teams started off at a fast clip, running neck and neck for the first five minutes, and then the Plainsmen began to show their best form of the evening, running up a substantial lead which was held until a few minutes before the game ended. The. final period found the Plainsmen dead on their feet, especially on the offense. Due to some all-around playing by Jack Stewart at center, they were able to show up well on the defense, but were unable to score but once. Tech got started early after intermission, gradually overcoming Auburn's lead and knotting the count, 33 all. A field goal by Phillips gave them the lead for the first time after the initial five minutes of the contest and then Gooding sank another one to give them a four point lead with less than a minute to play. The comeback staged by Tech was sensational. It was the playing of Capt. Ginny Wages and their two (Continued on page 4) Plainsman Staff Meets Tomorrow Members of the Editorial Staff of the Plainsman are requested to attend a meeting to be held at the Sigma Pi House tomorrow evening at seven o'clock. The meeting will be short, and members are requested to be prompt. CERTIFICATE APPOINTING COLONEL LANGD0N TRUSTEE IS PRESENTED TO COLLEGE The Vanderbilt Commodores will be played tonight by Coach Sam McAllister's Auburn quintet, the game to be played in Nashville. Two light workouts were given the Tigers in preparation for their third game of the week. The drill Thursday afternoon was limited to a lengthy talk by the coach on the major faults of the team. In their last four games, the Tigers have won only one, while the other three games have been lost by narrow margins. Auburn lost to Georgia 30 to 27; Clemson defeated the Tigers 37 to 44; the third loss was the defeat handed them by Tech, who overcame a big lead to win in the last few minutes. After the game tonight four conference and two non-conference remain to be played before the Southern Conference tournament in Atlanta. The rest of the schedule is as follows: Feb. 6—Tulane at Auburn. Feb. 7—Tulane at Auburn. Feb. 10—Fort Benning at Fort Benning. Feb, 14—Vanderbilt at Auburn. Feb. 18—Fort Benning at Auburn. Feb. 24—Georgia Tech at Atlanta. Feb. 27 and 28, March 2 and 3— Southern Conference Tournament at Atlanta. CONTRACT GIVEN G.E. COMPANY FOR ELEC EQUIPMENT Apparatus for Textile Building Is Awarded General Electric Company The original certificate appointing Colonel Charles Carter Langdon to the position of director trustee in the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Auburn was sent to President Bradford Knapp by Mrs. Emma Buck Ross, wife of Jack F. Ross, of Park Terrace, Mobile. Auburn's oldest and most historic building, Langdon Hall, was named for Colonel Langdon, who was a member of the Board of Trustees or Directors of this institution from 1872 to 1890. History records him as one of the most ardent, hard-working, and earnest members of the Board at that time. Langdon Hall will hold about 600 students at the present time- where as, the student body is a little more than three times that large. The present permanent plans of the institution provide that whenever a new auditorium is constructed Langdon Hall, on account of its architecture and its historical association, wil be preserved and in some way utilized without change in the work of the institution. Colonel Langdon left no direct heirs and President Knapp expresses his very great appreciation to Mrs. Emma Buck Ross for her gift of this historical document. It will be appropriately preserved. So far as it is known it is the only certificate of appointment of the first Board of Trustees in existence. Mrs. Emma Buck Ross is the daughter of Margaret Langdon Buck, who was the daughter of Colonel Langdon's brother, making her his grand-niece. Professor E. W. Camp, head of the department of Textile Engineering here, announced today that the contract for electric equipment for the new textile plant had been awarded to The General Electric Company. It was stated that this action marked the final step in the completion of the new building. Machines of various types have been installed by workmen, but a great portion of the equipment has been delayed shipment because of indecision as to the sizes and types of electrical equipment to be used, Professor Camp said. Specific announcement as to the date of completion will be with held at the present time. The personnel of the Textile Engineering Department request that students and others visit the newly constructed plant. Those desiring to inspect the building and equipment will be shown through by some member of that department. Next Issue Of Auburn Engineer Out Feb. 10 The February issue of the Auburn Engineer will be published on the 10th of next month. The feature story for this issue is written by Professor C. B. Ordway, associate professor in Textile Engineering. He has a very interesting article on the development of American coal tar dye industry in the United States. This issue will also contain an article on the development of Alabama hydro-electric power. The March issue will be devoted entirely to aviation. The editor plans to make this issue the best of the year. PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931 Stye f ktagmatt Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. *" Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala. Business and editorial offices at Auburn Printing Co. on Magnolia Street. Offices hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily. STAFF Gabie Drey Editor-in-Chief Charles S. Davis Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Thomas P. Brown Associate Editor Robert L. Hume Associate Editor Victor White Managing Editor Claude Currey - -News Editor R. K. Sparrow News Editor J. W. Letson News Editor Alan Troup Composing Editor A. C. Cohen Composing Editor Adrian Taylor Sports Editor Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor K. M. McMillan - Literary Editor REPORTERS H. W. Moss, '33; C. E. Mathews, '32; V. H. Kjellman, '33; Otis Spears, '34; S. A. Lacy, '33; A. D. Mayo, '33; Horace Shep-ard, '34; Frank Keller, '34; William Beck, '34; N. D. Thomas, '33; C. F. Simmons, '32; A. B. Hanson, '33. BUSINESS STAFF Virgil Nunn . Asst. Business Mgr. Ben Mabson Advertising Manager Roy Wilder Circulation Manager James Backes Asso. Advertising Mgr. CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Charles Adams, '34 W. E. Pope, '34 L. E. Sellers, '34 THOUGHTLESSNESS Auburn is besieged with a number of students who delight in getting innumerable souvenirs with which to decorate the walls of the rooms in which they live. To get a souvenir every now and then as a reminder of some trip or happening is sometimes excusable, but the wholesale looting that is sometimes practice by men here is absolutely unnecessary. These men who are not content to leave a thing in its place are not students in the sense of the word—they are fellows who come here to have fun. They are just little boys who don't want to grow up. The taking of the stop signs at the intersection of Gay and Magnolia Streets is an instance of the extreme thoughtlessness of some students here. Without any thought of the consequences, someone took those signs to be used as decorations. This man, or men, did not remember that these signs were placed there for a purpose —that the town of Auburn paid for them so that they might be used as a means of helping to prevent possible accidents. A stop sign is nothing more, or less, than a reminder that the intersection is a dangerous one, and that, by stopping, a driver is lessening the chances for him to meet some unseen car. Road markings and direction signs are highly-prized possessions. The state and county authorities have placed signs at certain places to direct motorists to a desired destination, or to caution them concerning bad places in the roads, but students will not fail to remove signs if they are so moved. We would not attempt to say, "Don't take anything that might be used as a souvenir." That would be asking too much of most students. There is no reason, however, why students should take everything that they happen to come across. Think of what can easily happen. BOY SCOUT WORK Most college men in the rush of collegiate activities have forgotten much of their earlier life. The organizations of grammar and high school days are lost in an adolescence past, and have given way to fraternities and social groups. However, there is one organization that lives in the minds of most of us as the most beneficial agency of the earlier stages of the formative period, the Boy Scout movement. This issue of The Plainsman carries two stories concerning the work, and reports that the publication is to aid in an inventory of the extent of its development in Auburn and vicinity. The paper feels any assistance along this line is a benefit to youth in general, and wishes to give its unqualified endorsement to the furthering of the work. College men who have stopped to think appreciate the good this movement has done, and will do in later life. Many have become leaders and scoutmasters, believing that its principals and creed are indu-cive to the development of young America and the fullest of later lives. ON VERSATILITY In this age of specialization we may well remember that it has been said, by whom we tannot recall offhand, that to be educated one musft know something about everything, and everything about something. We are proud to observe that the courses at The Citadel are designed to give the student the proper foundation for the attainment of such knowledge. Probably few of us wish to become educated in this sense. It is, in slang, "a pretty big order". Certainly a college course does not complete one's education. It hardly more than begins it. Nevertheless, a college graduate should be well informed upon a variety of subjects. It is expected of him, and contributes to his own satisfaction. The greater his adaptability, the greater are his chances of success, for few of us are able to step from the rostrum into positions for which we are best suited, or for which we have best prepared ourselves. The chances are that we do not even know where our greatest opportunities lie. We implore the individual not to scorn that which he knows nothing about, or conceal a healthy curiosity for fear of betraying ignorance. The undergraduate should not neglect the courses that he does not like. The pursuit of a variety of interests is broadening, and is one of the essentials of personality. It is necessary in life to become acquainted with and get along with many people whose interests vary widely. Genius and eccentricity go hand in hand. However, it does not follow that, because a man is unusually talented in one peculiar branch of human endeavor, he should be so narrow as to shut out all other things. Contrary to the opinions of many, it is foolish to assume that a good mathematician cannot learn the English and French that is required of him. We do not mean that, for example, a broker should quote Shakespeare to an investor who happens to be a literary man, or that he requires the vocabulary of a Webster to harangue his subordinates. Nor is it necessary for an oil magnate to be able to apply formulas for bending moment in order to tell his architect what type of paaltial mansion he desires. Few of us will ever be captains of industry, famous scientists, or noted artists, but we would have college graduates with a reasonable store of general information. If our minds muts travel on a single track, we should at least be qualified to intelligently pick the track when the opportunity presents itself. —The Bull Dog. My Opinion By Vasili Leoniduitch THE CONFUSION of adjustment passes and the new semester begins in earnest. The financial depression has taken its toll of the student body, but there are many new faces. Standing at the threshold and looking down the long months ahead most of us have made the proverbial first week resolutions. May part of the good intentions be kept, and our final inventory more complete than ever before. * * * * A Boston audience aided materially in the tobaggon slide of Rudy Vallee from the peak of public favor, with three grape fruit, in a recent performance in that city. How unlike cultured refined Boston to turn hoodlum and throw things at a visiting performer. Yet, how appropriate for the grand old city that made the first American stand against the British, to lead in the effort to rid the country of Rudy Vallee. How fitting that they should have thrown grape fruit. In Peoria or Pittsburg they would have used eggs, of no uncertain age, but Boston . . . never! It would seem that Rudy has filled the stein with a draught of the limelight for the last time. Drinking songs naturally have become very passe since the Wicker-sham report. Girls are warned to heave their last sigh. * * * * It is reported that chain speakeasies are becoming very popular. Why not turn the whole situation over to W. K. Henderson? Let him make a fight for the .local bootlegger, and everyone would become os disgusted that they would not want to drink anyway. I offer this solution while the world still stands with mouth agape over my proposed remedy for the nations economic ills. Having solved these two great problems I suppose it would be proper to retire and rest on my laurels . . . . but then they still have a Department of Speech. It is evident that those professors, who think that their course is the primary reason for the College's existence, are back with us this semester. * * * * The salesman of the Literary Guild seems to have done well in Auburn. I wonder if this is a favorable indication, or a slam on the Library. However, it is a common trait of librarians to consider their judgment of reading- superior to that of leading critics. Prexy's Paragraphs By Bradford Knapp All reports I have had so far indicate a good first week of this semester. Our enrollment for the new s e m e s t e r is slightly better than normal. Apparently all t h o s e students who have had to withdi-aw have done so only for two reasons, first, failure of grades, and second, inability to finance themselves through the second semester. Many students are making a very supreme effort and their parents a wonderful sacrifice that they may remain in college. I am sure that the new semester will be characterized by the same general tone as last semester and that was a seriousness toward the work. I am the last one who would want us to be so depressed and serious minded that we could not enjoy anything, but I do like a philosophy which realizes a change in world affairs and that this change has brought a different situation for us to face as individuals. To that extent serious-mindedness is a virtue and a normal and proper reaction to the general situation, and yet' I would bespeak something of a smiling confidence which can get some joy out of the work itself and some appreciation still of the opportunities which are ours. * * * * There is a peculiar quality of individuals and of groups of individuals which has always interested me greatly. The quickness with which a situation is understood and the prompt and aggressive reaction to the situation as it changes is a quality of the highest character. Sometimes we do not change our mental grasp with suffici-cent rapidity. I did not see the game with Tech the other night but that game worried me. Twice this year they have defeated u's in important games when the first half looked as though we had the game right in our hands. Is it a fact that we do not sufficiently realize that a game isn't won until the last whistle blows? Is it a fact that we are inclined to let up when we are ahead? Does the student body and the team as well reach the conclusion that a good lead at the half means that the game is won and therefore fail to fight with sufficient vigor in the second half? Metal let-up or let-down (whichever word you want to use) is a serious matter. I have seen one game since I have been at Auburn which was entirely satisfactory; that was the game with South Carolina last Thanksgiving. There the team came from behind and carried the "bits in its teeth" to the end of the game. There was no let-up in effort. A perfectly good team and a perfectly loyal student body may fail through a temporary failure to realize just what is taking place. It may take a little bit more ability and a little harder playing to stem the tide of a team that is coming from behind but it is a necessary quality and we need to develop it. I know we can't win all of the time. I am certainly not dissatisfied nor finding fault. I am only hoping that the next time we are ahead at the half we will redouble our efforts during the second half. It must be done. * * * * America is this year in one of the most difficult periods in her history and Alabama is in the same situation. Millions of our people have plunged from prosperity to adversity. I am wondering if the periods of prosperity do not magnify something of the selfishness of mankind and if adversity may not be the great time for us to develop the qualities of unselfishness. As a nation and as individuals I believe America is kindly in its disposition. In the past years of prosperity we have had to make few sacrifices. Now we must make many. Sacrifices develop unselfishness. "Whatsoever you would that men should do unto you do ye also unto them" becomes now a much more vital rule of conduct than it could ever be in times when everyone was on the upward grade. As a nation, as a State, and as individuals we must summon our best thinking, resolve to pay our debts, live within our incomes, and plan to protect and keep those things which are best, throwing away the useless and over-expensive things which are not necessities, and carry on through to better days. If education in America has been worthr while and if the right of self-government can hold fast to the great principle of working out the difficulties in the interest of all the people rather than in the interest of their selfish individual or the selfish few, we may set new standards of advancement in America even in times of distress. If periods of great activity are often followed by periods of contemplation and thought, surely we have reached the time as individuals, as states, and as a Nation when thoughtfulness ought to be the predominating characteristic. Education ought to have taught America to think AUBURN FOOTPRINTS Another R. O. T. C. riding class began this semester. Who said horses liked green stuff. , * * * * * * * * * Since witnessing the Georgia Tech game we wonder that the student body is not interviewed by notables from gangland each year for prospective material. Probably they don't need any recommendations. * * * * * * * * * And there was the rag and bottle man who made a fortune after the dances. * * * * * * * * * Jimmie Hitchcock reports that spring training is a wonderful way of avoiding the future shadow. * * * * * * * * A Boston crowd is reported to have thrown grapefruit at Rudy Vallee. We think better results could have been obtained by making him stand beside a breakfast table. * * * * * * * * * One of the Ag students while pruning a tree recently cut the limbs off from the bottom up. Reaching a dizzy height he became alarmed as to how to get down. But he was a college man and immediately thought "If you tap a tree the sap will run down." * * * * * * * * * OH BLONDIE Oh blondie with your gaudy dress, Oh blondie with your fond caress, Oh blondie with your tenderness, Can men forget? Oh blondie with your wileful way, Oh blondie leading hearts astray, Oh blondie fickle one for aye, Men fear you yet. —HIC-HIC. * * * * * * * * * Bull Steir (to Rat): "Can you tell me what virtue I would be showing if I saw a man beating a donkey and stopped him?" Frosh: "Brotherly love." * * * * * * * * * When airplane pullman becomes a popular mode of travel it will be a difficult matter to have the porter brush you off. * * * * * * * * * Bring back prosperity by using Paris garters and shaving with something or other. * * * * * * * * * Dean Petrie: "Do you know biblical history?" Stude: "Yes Sir." Dean: "Then where was Solomon's Temple." Stude: "On the side of his head." * * * * * * * * * Be it known to upperclassmen that freshmen, like a canoe, behave better when paddled from the rear. * * * * * * * * * LOST: On Monday night, up town, a pair of fur-lined men's gloves. Return to Plainsman office. Have the fur-lined men survived the loss of gloves, or have the gloves been found? Anxious. * * * * * * * * * FOR SALE—1 Suit . . . $10.00. See Goof Robinson. * We have an idea that someone wants Goof to buy a new pin so she can wear it . . . . is that right, Goof? * * * * * * * * * Abie England says that his nurse gave him too much to drink at the age of six months and stunted his growth. Now he has to take high heels shoes off the girls so he can feel like a man. <. WITH OTHER COLLEGES -:- THEN WHAT Harvard University, following the lines of European universities in the cases of distinguished students, plans to gather a group of them in Cambridge, house them, feed them and give them every opportunity for three to six years, allow them complete freedom from financial problems, in order that they devote and develop their talents for the general beenfits of the arts and sciences. We wonder what will become of the little fellows when they are through the nursing period, after such tender care has been taken with them. * * * * SIGHS AND HEAVES Dormitory parties where men are invited by the women are held at Carleton College. The men who are invited to the various dormitories are chosen from preference lists handed in by the girls in the dormitories. Senior girls are given first preference, and so on, in the order of clas ranking. Besides dancing and . . . there are cards for those who -are not influenced by music and special entertainment features. Dormitory or no dormitory parties, we again wonder, and this time about whether their parties can equal our own Ag Bottom. * * * * WATCH YOUR STEP» More than two-thirds of the 500 co-eds at' the University of California have indicated in questionnaires submitted to them that they would gladly leave college if they could find the right kind of man to marry them. The right kind of man meaning any man that will ask. No? * * * * WHAT DO YOU SAY The* University of McGill expresses the wish that a true college novel would be written. Now University of Southern California comes along and says that if such a novel was written that it would probably honestly, clearly, and unselfishly. Possibly the general character of our education, our qualities of mind and of purpose in every relationship will be put more to the test in_ these days than ever before. It is a great time for wise leadership and loyal devotion to good purposes. be true and must therefore drown our ambitions to see, or read about, the happenings in our own institutions of learning (higher). We'll have to be content with the slow moving and dull true stories and confessions of the less fortunate people out in the cold bleak world, just trying to get along. * * * * BELIEVE IT OR NOT There are more inmates in the insane institutions of the United States than students in all the colleges and universities. At Temple University the greatest amount of potential pain has been concentrated into the smallest area possible. It boasts one room in the dental school with 75 chairs. Haverford sophomores must pass an examination of 2,725 questions, covering nearly every department of college education. The quizz requires 12 hours. . . . That's nothing. We have to answer that many questions every day, given by our rats. * * * * THIS YOUNGER GENERATION Students of Montana State College went on a strike for five days because of the new regulation requiring girls to be in their dormitories by 11 o'clock instead of 2:30 as formerly. The poor kids must have their beauty sleep, you know. We shudder. * * * * THAT'S DIFFERENT A course called, "The Art of Making Love" has been installed at Rollins College. Credit for five hours of work a week is given. We wonder just how practical this course is. So they get credit for their love making? Well, maybe their co-eds look like ours and credit has to be given before anyone will take the course. Oh! ! ! ! ! * * * * Officials of the United States Military Academy at West Point have accepted the invitation of the Morro Castle cadets to send a football team to Havana next Fall. The Morro Castle cadets, representing the Cuban military school, were defeated in a football game at West Point this year, when they played the Army plebes. ACROSS THE CAMPUS By AXEL EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinion* 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. * * * * * And now we're into the new semester. Many of us are going to study this time and make records of which we will be proud. For a while, we will really be in earnest, studying regularly and often taking notes in classes. But how long will this continue? There will come a time when we will decide that we can't study—that it is much easier to rest than it is to study. Anyway, that's the way I always feel. What's the use? * * * * A sign of the times is the inactivity of student organizations this year. It seems as though activities are becoming dormant, the members content to sit through and let the year pass without any usual or unusual happenings. Why doesn't someone here do something? * * * * In a statement made this week, a temperance body declares that the circulation of anti-prohibition newspapers doubles that of those favoring amendment. Chalk up a big one for the fellows who want to do away with hard corn and home brew. All of which reminds me of some visiting I did while I was at home during the Christmas holidays. Whenever I entered somebody's house, the first thing that my host would do would be to pull out the old bottle and ask me to have a drink. Now, it is hard for me to refuse hospitality of anyone, so I had to oblige him by partaking of his fluids, not knowing whether the stuff was imported, as he claimed, or just some green stuff made last week out on the farm. I would like to know what I'm getting. * * * * The type of professor that I particularly dislike is the man who wants his students to do something that he cannot do. I refer to the man who will write, from the text book, a long, tedious procedure, and then, when he has finished copying from the book, will tell the students that they must be able to do the same procedure, without the book. Such professors do not get, nor do they deserve, the respect students generally have for professors. I haven't run across that type of prof in some time. * * * * Conversation between Business student and Engineer; heard somewhere between Ramsay Hall and the Business Depression: Double Ugly: Well, how's the General Business student today? Taxicab (Pride of the Depression): Pardon me, but there's no such course as General Business. If you can read, you can look in the catalogue and see that the course of which you are speaking is known as Business Administration. If you have any doubts, I will be pleased to refer you to our Dean. D. U.: Aw, all you boys study is the marketing of onions in China and a little arithmetic. What do you guys come to college for anyway? Tt C.: Some day, when you boys are digging post holes, you will realize that it is much better to be a cultured, refined business man, dictating to a stenographer who can do something beside type and write shorthand. D. U.: Big he-men like me aren't interested in stenographers. T. C.: Who finances the big projects of the world? Big business men like me. D. U.: Yeh? But who build them? (Enter Ag Man). A. M.: Why don't you big sissies do something worthwhile? (Faint Rumblings). Exit T. C. and D. U., arm in arm. Quotations What this country needs is more of us with- the courage to say "yes" when fools ask: "What's the matter, are you afraid?" —Collier's editorial. There are lots of people who committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing.— Hei-bert Hoover. There is one thing that I want especially to accomplish, and that is to give the Roumanian people universal education.— King Cai-ol to Dorothy Russell, in Liberty. Friends of peace in the United States must begin by breaking up this civil war of bandits.—Albert H. Hart. America is so beautiful I am amazed that her painters go to Europe seeking subjects or that her tourists go there seeking scenery.—Henry Matisse. SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE • • 4fe1 P^ rn J. • ADRIAN TAYLOR, Editor; Harry Barnes, Assistant Editor; Marshall Caley, L. B. Graves, Tad McCallum, assistants. • RALPH J0RD0N, CAPTAIN OF CAGE TEAM, ONLY A JUNIOR Was Star On Selma High School Teams Before Coining to Auburn Where He Has Starred Since His Freshman Year By Elmer G. Salter Leading a major athletic team your junior year is quite an achievement, but this honor has been accorded Ralph Jordan, captain of Coach Sam McAllister's Auburn basketball team. While starring at Selma High School, the Tigers sharpshooter participated in four sports, being captain of the cage team his junior and senior years and the gridiron eleven his final year. At Selma, Jordan also played with the strong Selma "Y" quintet and averaged over 20 points per game. He was coached by Paul Grist, physical director of the Selma Y. M. C. A., while caging goals from all angles of the court for the "Y" five, and gives the physical director much credit for the wonderful record that he has made in the realm of sports. In addition to being the leading hardwood performer while he was in for the pivot post on the football eleven, it was almost an impossibility for the star cagester to oust him from the regular post, but he rendered invaluable service in the role of understudy to this great snapper-back. In basketball, Jordan, along with three other sophomores, stepped into a regular berth his first season out for the varsity team. He had also averaged over 20 points per game on the freshman team, and continued his superb work as a varsity performer. He finished the season in third place among Southern Conference scorers with 121 markers, and the 1930 Tigers failed to enter the annual conference tournament in Atlanta. His mates also recognized his ability on the court by electing him captain of this season's team; receiving fame that comes to very few juniors. Though failing to break into the regular lineup on Coach Fred Sheri-high school, he won the state cham- dan's 1930 baseball team, his work in pionship for the shot put in the annual state high school track meet. Southpaws are generally a little too wild to heave the iron ball for much distance, but it was different with Jordan. He easily outdistanced his opponents in winning the championship, and without his left "salary wing", he would be lost. Jordan entered Alabama Polytechnic Institute in the Fall of 1928 and has been a leading student and athlete since. He was awarded freshman numerals in football, basketball and baseball; performing at center on the football team; forward on the hardwood five; and outfield and first base on the diamond nine. The cage fans statred calling him a second Jelly Akin his plebe year. With Dunham Harkins returning the practice games aided the holders of the coveted posts in making good showings during the season. He was used as a pitcher; first baseman and outfielder. In every position, he gave the regulars plenty of competition, and competition- is what helps in producing winning teams. The 1930 football season found the former Selma star again battling against overwhelming odds in an effort to win a regular post as Harkins was back to round out his career on the turf in an Orange and Blue uniform. However, Jordan never gave up; trained and worked hard at every practice, so when the Tiger's captain received injuries which hampered him throughout the year, Coach Chet Wynne used him a good deal. Wynne rewarded him for his hard training and playing by naming him for the varsity "A" when the Plainsmen concluded the most successful football season that they have enjoyed since 1926. This season he is holding down a regular forward post on Coach McAllister's hardwood team. In the conference games against South Carolina, Clemson and North Carolina State, which Auburn won, he has scored 27 points, though being close- Tackle Commodores in Nashville Tonight mrijjfc.. •P*5** X K - t "| 1 Kiley Returns for Second Term As Assistant Coach Above are shown lettermen from last year's basketball squad who will be ready when the Tigers play Vandy in Nashville tonight. They are, left to right: Top: Tom Lumpkin, forward; Lindley Hatfield, guard; Jack Stewart, center, and Captain Ralph Jordan, forward. Bottom: Harbin Lawson, guard; and Frock Pate, forward. Roger J. Kiley, assistant coach, who is starting his second term here along with Chet Wynne, head coach, arrived in Auburn yesterday and has already started teaching Auburn's Spring footballers a few of the tricks which brought him All-American recognition while playing at Notre Dame under Knute Rockne. Kiley and McFaden worked wonders with the Tigers forward wall last season and it brought joy from all sides when President Bradford Knapp announced that both of these popular mentors would return for the 1931 campaign, which will see the Plainsmen meeting Birmingham- Southern, Howard, Wisconsin, Georgia Tech, Florida, Spring Hill, Tu-lane, Sewanee, Georgia and South Carolina in the order named. Kiley will work here a month this time before returning to his law practice in Chicago, coming back in September for the Fall football season. Candidates for Auburn's 1931 team now out for Spring football total over 60. All of the veterans have reported except the ones playing basketball; a majority of the 1930 varsity reserves; a large crop of freshman and the usual number of neophytes who are seeking a post on their initial team in the realm of sports. Rough work for the Tigers will start immediately with scrimmages scheduled for next week. The freshman graduates and newcomers will receive most of the strenuous work at the start as the coaches want to get a good line on their ability. The letter wearers will receive plenty of work, however. Read The Plainsman ads. Lawson Proves Great Aid to Strong Cage Team at Auburn This Season A Georgia boy, Harbin Lawson, is i hoops from mid-court is above the playing an important part in making average. He performed as regular STUDENTS ATTENTION! We invite you to open a checking account with us. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Your Interest Computed L GET WHAT YOU WANT And Like What You Get. COLLEGE BARBER SHOP DRAKE-IG0U COAL YARD Successors to J. G. Beasley —Dealers In— BEST GRADES OF COAL Phone 158 * Auburn, Ala. «i' Say It With Flowers'> > And Say It With Ours FOR EVERY SOCIAL OCCASION Rosemont Gardens Florists Montgomery, Alabama Homer Wright, Local Agent for Auburn. Coach Sam McAllister's initial season in Dixie as cage mentor at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute a successful one. Lawson attended high school at Nelson, Ga., and was coached by Willie Glenn Nunn, who graduated at Auburn with the class of 1926. He participated in three sports under Nunn, having the honor of leading the football and baseball teams his senior year. He was chosen on the all-district quintet while playing on a winning basketball five at Nelson his final year. Through his coach he became interested in Auburn and matriculated here in the Fall of 1928. He failed to break into the limelight on the plebe football team, but made his presence noticed when he went out for Coach Geo. Bohler's 1929 first-year cage team. Coach Bohler liked players who were good at hitting the cords from the center of the court, so Lawson was a player who fitted into his system perfectly. His average in dropping the ball into the ly guarded. Every opponent of Auburn in basketball this year has tried to hold Jordan in check, but he continues to find the hoops and annex markers. He is living up to the Jelly Akin title given him his frosh year. He is a member of Theta Chi social fraternity and "A" club, whose membership is composed entirely of students winning major athletic awards. He is enrolled in the school of education and intends to teach and coach when he graduates. guard on the yearling team, winning his first athletic award from Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1929. When the frosh cagesters finished a successful season, Lawson turned his athletic attention to track and hurled the javelin on Coach Wilbur Hutsell's team. Lawson received his first major athletic award last year when he played guard on Hal Lee's hardwood team. He was also a member of the track team his sophomore year, but was unable to hurl the sharp pointed shaft far enough to annex 10 points, the number the tracksters must win before being eligible for the varsity "A". Though the basketball coaches have changed here since last season and Lawson realized his first week under McAllister that he would have to change his style of shooting, he worked harder than usual and is now one of the mainstays "of the team, which is one of the leaders in the Southern Conference. After the close of the cage schedule, Lawson intends to cast his lot with the track team. A greater compliment could not be paid the Tiger's guard than saying that he is one of the most conscientious boys that can be found on any Plainsmen athletic team. Regardless of his feelings, he is a tireless worker. Like the majority of the other members of the McAllister machine, he is taking a course in secondary education, intending to teach and coach when he graduates. He is a member of Theta Upsilon Omega social fraternity and the "A" club. Only One More Tilt On Frosh Schedule A lone game with Frank DuBose's Tallassee high school dribblers, Saturday afternoon, Feb. 7, will bring Auburn's freshman basketball schedule to a close. This game will serve as a preliminary battle to the Au-burn- Tulane varsity struggle that evening in alumni gymnasium. The local frosh will attempt to end a fair season with a victory, in addition to making it two straight over Tallassee, they having previously won from the high school quintet in Tallassee in an extra period encounter, 25 to 24. Since this is the only game carded for the yearlings during the week, Coach Earl McFaden will work his proteges on alternate days in order to allow several of the players to go out for Spring football practice, which they s badly need. NOTICE First class sewing of all kinds. Reasonable prices. Dress making a specialty. See Mrs. Lyons at 253 East Glenn Ave., phone 273-J. WE MAKE r i ^ O NEWSPAPER I . N MAGAZINE x w CATALOG n B MA CUTS 0PELIKA PHARMACY, INC. 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Yellow Springs, 0. —(IP)— A dark future for the spiritual life of the American worker, for his independence, self-reliance and self-government is forecast by Prof. William Peiserson of Antioch College, nationally known arbiter of labor disputes. Observing retrospectively the labor movement, he attributes the present lack of interest in such groups to "personnel managers, bigger and better men than the labor leader of the present who offer all the advantages of labor organizations." Yet this very method, through creating better material conditions, will tend to undermine the spiritual life of the worker, the professor says. What he terms a serious situation is found in the increase of production to the point of saturation among the newer industries. "Processes of expansion, in the airplane, radio and allied electrical fields, with no provision for the time when this saturation point has been reached is dangerous," Prof. Leiser-son says. "Labor leaders of the past were greater men than the industrialists," he continues, "now that has changed —personnel managers have begun to compete with labor leaders. The laborer has been receiving better conditions without asking for them. He has become dependent upon the manufacturer. He is soon to reach a point where he may not call his soul his own." Mother of P. O. Davis Dies In Athens, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. P. 0. Davis left Auburn this morning to attend the funeral of Mr. Davis' mother, Mrs. Ma-linda Elizabeth Davis, age 74, who died early Saturday at her home near Athens, Ala., where she had lived for more than 50 years. The death of Mrs. Davis was not unexpected as her condition had been critical for several weeks. An unfavorable turn resulted in Mr. Davis being called to her bedside last week. The funeral will probably be held Sunday. DISMISSED MIDSHIPMEN WERE PLAYING "PRANK" Washington —(IP)— Explaining that their action was merely a "prank", two midshipmen dismissed from the naval academy at Annapolis a year ago for taking two girls into the mess hall garbed as naval academy students, have made application for reinstatement. The two, M. S. Burgin, of Jacksonville, Fla., and L. L. Myatt of Wollaston, Mass., have appeared before a Senate sub-committee. Senator Walsh, Massachusetts, has introduced a resolution to provide for their reinstatement with loss of one year's time. Mystery Murders Of Washington If half of what Walter W. Liggett, in March Real Detective Tales, says of corrupt conditions in our nation's capital is true, then Washington needs cleaning up and needs it badly. Mr. Liggett after outlining in detail how the "Ohio Gang," with headquarters in the White House, operated in conjunction with the Homicide Squad, to suppress facts concerning the numerous "mystery murders" and earn the name of "Suicide Squad," says in part: "It was announced by the papers that Mrs. Harding and two nurses were in the room with the President when he was seized by a stroke and died almost instantly. The early extras all stated that Dr. Sawyer was not in the room. "Later, newspaper correspondents took pains to announce that Dr. Sawyer was with the President when he died, and that Mrs. Harding was the only other occupant of the room. According to Means, who quotes Mrs. Harding, the President's wife was alone with Mr. Harding when he died. "Also there has been considerable mystery about the exact nature of the fatal ailment. It will be remembered that five days before the President's death it was announced that he had an attack of ptomaine poisoning. "Next the bulletins said he had thrown off this attack and was on the road to recovery. "Then came the stunning news of his sudden death. "Ordinarily, ptomaine poison does not kill five days after the initial attack, but bichloride of mercury does." "It is", Mr. Liggett says, "a story of how the 'Ohio Gang' punished a squealer—perhaps two squealers— and how a strange chain of suicides' prevented any uncovering of the facts. It is a startling story. A story most Americans will not want to believe. "But it also a story which should be told, for there can be no improvement in either municipal or national affairs until the truth, and the whole truth, is told." And Mr. Liggett tells it in the March issue of Real Detective Tales. ROTARIAN HEARS FRANK P. GLASS THURSDAY NOON (Continued from page 1) ing in Montgomery next Wednesday, 1:00 p. m., at the Whitley. Arrangements are being made for an Auburn delegation to attend. L. L. Johnson was a visitor at the meeting. Bootleggers are the only people in America who have adjusted themselves completely to Prohibition.—Dr. James M. Doran. SANITARY MARKET FRYERS - HENS - TURKEYS Live or Dressed PHONE 112 A. H. CHRIETZBERG, Prop. L Juniors Hold Regular Posts on 1931 Quintet Sophomores occupied the majority of the regular positions on Coach Chet Wynne's Auburn football team last season, but members of the class of 1932 are in the limelight on Sam McAllister's Plainsmen cage team. The junior class claims every regular on this season's fast five, in addition to three other players who are waging strong fights for the coveted posts. The senior class is represented by only two players, while the members of the squad receiving their initial baptism of varsity competition number six. Frock Pate, forward, and Vernard Vines, guard, are the seniors on the team, but both are eligible to wear Orange and Blue colors on the hardwood another season if they decide to return to school for the 1931-32 term. The juniors are: .Capt. Ralph Jordan, Tom Lumpkin and Odis Ald-ridge, forwards; Jack Stewart and David Rogers, centers, and Lindley Hatfield, Chas. Kaley and Harbin Lawson, guards. All except Aldridge, Lawson and Rogers are regulars. Kaley is a junior, but is playing his first season the basketball team. The sophomores are: Sam Mason and George Jenkins, forwards; Robert Arthur and Alan Pilgrim, centers, and Scott Turk and Commodore Wood, guards. TECH WINS OVER AUBURN QUINTET (Continued from page 1) forwards, Phillips and Gooding, that brought the winners victory. While Stewart was holding Pa Perkins, the leading scorer in the Southern Conference, in check, this trio broke loose. The forwards hit the hoops for ten points each and Wages annexed nine points in addition to starring at guard. Tech failed to use a substitute during the game. Capt. Jordan of Auburn ran wild in the first half, annexing five field goals arid two fouls, but was held to a single two-pointer and a foul in the closing half. His fifteen points gave him individual scoring honors. Stewart at center and Lindley Hatfield were the other stars for Auburn. However, all three did their starring in the first half. Georgia Tech (37) Auburn (33) Phillips (10) F Jordan (c) (15) Gooding (10) F. Mason (2) Perkins (5) C. Stewart (8) Wages (c) (9) G. Hatfield (3) Tate (2) G. Kaley (3) Substitutions: Auburn: Lumpkin (2), Lawson, Pate. Jteferee: Roosma (Army.) SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT FOR PARESIS IS FOUND X Evanston, 111. — ( I P )— Announcement has been made by Dr. Clarence A. Neymann, associate professor of psychiatry at Northwestern University, that successful treatment of paresis by means of artificial fever produced with high frequency electrical currents has been accomplished. The professor said that of 32 patients treated thusly at the Cook County Psychopathic Hospital, 25 were able to return to their homes and care for themselves with some supervision. Seven showed no improvement, he said. In some cases the temperature was maintained at 106 degrees for several hours, and no serious harm resulted. New Shipment Parker Pens Sandwiches Valentine Candy Stationery Sale New Bunch of Pipes Homer Wright DRUGGIST Prescription Expert SOCIETY & PERSONALS TOLEDO U. WILL BE HOSTS TO NATIONAL STUDE FEDERATION Woman's Club News The Business and Professional Women's Club of Auburn was represented at the banquet given at Jefferson- Davis Hotel in Montgomery Tuesday night in honor of the National President. The members attending this banquet were Mrs. A. F. Nickel, Misses Alma Lamar, Edith Slights, Mildred Hanson and Jessie Aycock. —0— The department of civics of the Woman's Club met at the home of Mrs. J. W. Scott, on last Thursday afternoon, with the chairman, Mrs. W. A. Ruffin, presiding. Mrs. E. F. Cauthen was leader; the subject being: "Rose Problems." Mrs. Ruffin discussed January plantings. The subject for the February meeting will be "Iris and Lilies" and the leader will be Mrs. Fred Allison. —0— The department of education also met on last Thursday afternoon. The meeting was held at the Thomas Hotel, the chairman, Mrs. W. D. Salmon, presiding. Mrs. J. A. Parrish was the leader, and the speaker, professor M. L. Beck, who spoke on "Education and International Citizenship". The department decided to again sponsor the "Story Hour" for preschool children; the first meeting will be held next Wednesday at the home of Mrs. E. W. Camp, at 3 o'clock. All children under school age are welcome. —0— The department of literature of the Woman's Club met at the home of Mrs. J. T. Williamson on Thursday afternoon, January 22nd; Mrs. S. W. Garrett was joint hostess. The department is devoting the year to the study of American women writ-ters; the writer for discussion Thursday was Julia Peterkin, whose books were discussed in a very interesting manner by Mr. Arthur Medlock. Mrs. B. R. Showalter, leader for the afternoon, introduced the speaker. Mrs. A. D. Burke gave the report on current magazine articles. Mrs. Mary Walker, of Clemson, has been the guest of Mrs. B. D. Lazarus. * * * On Friday, Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Toomer entertained at a buffet supper. Those enjoying this occasion were Major and Mrs. John T. Kennedy, Dr. and Mrs. Fred Allison, Dr. and Mrs. Noel Van Wagenen, Mrs. F. Van Wagenen, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Irvine, Miss Allie Glenn, and Mrs. Mary Walker. * * * Dean and Mrs. F. C. Biggin entertained the faculty of the Architectural department at dinner Wednesday evening. * * * Messrs. J. R. Rutland, Herbert Martin, and S. L. Toomer accompanied Mr. Fleming of Opelika to Montgomery, on school business. * * * Mrs. Jim Rutledge of Atlanta is in Auburn on business. * * * Mrs. Ward entertained friends with a breakfast on Tuesday. * * * Mrs. Bradford Knapp and Mrs. S. L. Toomer visited Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Spratling of Gold Hill on Monday. LIBERTY BELL WILL BE RUNG ON FEBRUARY 22 Art Study Club Meets With Mrs. Knapp The Art Study Club met with Mrs. Bradford Knapp on Wednesday and enjoyed a program of unusual merit. Mrs. Charles A. Cary spoke on "Lighting of the Pilgrim Century," and added to the charm of her talk was a series of illustrations made by her to follow the descriptions of the original lighting devices. Mrs. S. L. Toomer followed Mrs. Cary with a talk on a most interesting subject, "French Canada," giving a sketch of the historical background, and closing with readings, in French dialect, from Sir William Drum-mond's "L'Habitant," illustrating home life and philosophy of the French Habitant. Mrs. Knapp served a delicious plate and coffee. Georgia Legislature May Tax Red Neckties Atlanta, Ga. —(IP)—College boys in Georgia would have to go back to the old black ties and drab socks of their fathers, or beg increased allowances from home, if the Georgia legislature were to pass a bill now before it providing an exorbitant tax on red neckties and loud socks. Miss Bessie Kempton, representative from Fulton County and Representative Pat Griffin, of Decatur, sponsors of the bill, said it was "diabolically planned," to wip out a state deficit of some $7,000. The house needed a good laugh the day the bill was presented, the representative said, and they set about trying to find something to tax that hadn't yet been suggested'. The tax would be $1 a day on he wearer of the colorful clothing. NEW COURSE GIVEN IN CHARACTER EDUCATION (Continued from page 1) "Social Control of Ethical Ideals", "The Dynamic Function of the Emotions", and "Methods of Training Attitudes and Feelings". Commenting on the practicability of the course, Dr. Paul Irvine, professor of education and director of training school, said: "This course will be of great value and interest to Sunday school teachers, to parents, and to others who bear the responsibilities of character training." Washington —(IP)— Plans to have the Liberty Bell rung again after 100 years, and in such a manner that the entire country can hear it, are under way here by the George Washington bicentennial commission. The famous old bell will be heard over a nation-wide radio hook-up, and will be tapped thirteen times, once for each of the 13 original states. The event will take place on Washington's birthday, Feb. 22. Research Courses Being Offered At Sweet Briar Sweet Briar, Va. — ( I P )— Something new in "majors" is being tried for the second successive year at Sweet Briar College—a system of research courses in which general fields are laid out including several courses on the curriculum. The first of these problems to be offered last year was "American Problems," and with the cooperation of the social science departments a two-year program was arranged, open to students in their junior year. Required subjects were history, economics, political science and sociology, and contributory courses were chosen with a view to preventing excessive concentration. The student taking this major is required to write a paper at the end of the two years based on creative research. This year a second major is offered having as its general subject the period from 1750 to 1850, in which the individualism of the romantic movement culminated in the French Revolution. This major is entitled "Romanticism and Revolution." Basic courses include history, economics, political science, sociology, English, German, French, philosophy and art, and additional auxiliary courses are art, music, biblical literature, Latin and Greek. The new major courses are being made possible by laying stress on interdepartmental correlation of courses. (NSFA) The University of Toledo will act as host to the 1931 Congress of the National Student Federation, with Irvin Harbright and Howard Dence as Co-Congress chairmen, according to the action taken at the Sixth Annual Congress at Atlanta, Georgia. In the invitation presented to the delegates at Atlanta, Mr. Harbright recalled the constant support which his University has given to the Federation since its founding. Every year at least one delegate has been sent to the Congress, and men from Toledo have twice held offices in the Federation. The University is further qualified to be the scene of the Congress because its central location easily permits the attendance of delegates from all parts of the United States, and because the new buildings recently added to the campus facilitate the arrangements for housing, meals and entertainment. The other invitations presented for the 1931 Congi-ess were from Wichita, Cincinnati and Washington. LARGER SMOKING ROOM TO BE PROVIDED FOR CO-EDS Cleveland, O. —(IP)— To put a stop to co-eds in the College for Women from smoking in near-by tea rooms, authorities of Western Reserve University have made plans to provide the girls with a new and much larger smoking room than heretofore available to them in the college. Tiger Theatre Saturday, Jan. 31 JACK OAKIE —In— "The GANG BUSTER" —With— Jean Arthur - William Boyd Wynne Gibson Sunday • Monday February 1-2 BERT WHEELER— —ROB'T WOOLSEY —In— "HOOK, LINE AND SINKER" —With— DOROTHY LEE JOBYNA HOWLAND Tuesday, Feb. 3 LOIS MORAN— —J. HAROLD MURRAY —In— "UNDER SUSPICION" The brave but silent "Mountie" who was willing to sacrifice love rather than reveal the past. Fox Picture A V E R Y ' S P R E S S I N G CLUB LET US KEEP YOUR SUITS PRESSED Phone 180 COAL Jellico makes it hot for you. CAUTHEN Phone 11 or leave your order at Cauthens and Sparrow's Service Sta. Always Ready to Give You t h e Best of Service j TOOMER'S HARDWARE CLINE TAMPLIN, Manager { Tune in Majik Baker Hour WSFA Fri's 5:30 to 6 BIRMINGHAM STOVE & RANGE CO. BIRMINGHAM — ALABAMA YOUR GAS RANGE should be equipped with^ modern conveniences to save time and effort. -QUAKER is approved by Good Housekeeping Institute. It is equipped with Robertshaw oven heat control, Rutz automatic lighter and roomy utensil drawer. ALABAMA NATURAL GAS CORP. SAVE THE DIFFERENCE Postal Telegraph Rates are 20 per cent cheaper than any other telegraph rates in Alabama. By a special arrangement telegrams can now be charged to your telephone bill Merely Pick up the receiver and say Tostal telegraph. We pay all telephone charges on messages sent us and our service is . • ; . QUICK and EFFICIENT! Postal Telegraph Co* Opelika, Alabama |
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