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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
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the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931
AMERICAN WORKER HAS DARK
FUTURE SAYS COLLEGE PROF.
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.
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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
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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.
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TOLEDO U. WILL BE HOSTS TO
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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