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VOLUME LIV AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1931 NUMBER 52
DIRECTORS' PLANS
PROVIDE VENETIAN
BALLROOM FOR PROM
Bright Hues To Be Used To
Make Colorful Gaiety More
Pronounced
APPROPRIATE FOR SPRING
Orchestra Platform To Have
Background Portraying A
S t r e e t Scene in Venice
The gymnasium will be converted
into a colorful Venetian ballroom for
the Senior Prom., it was announced
today by the creators of the decora­tion
scheme, Guy W. Swaim of Little
Rock, Arkansas, and 0. D. Asbell of
Union Springs.
The various wall and ceiling spaces
of the Alumni Gymnasium, where the
dances are to be held, are to be effec­tively
decorated with scenes and set-ings
characteristic of this style. The
dominating colors, soft reds, yellows
and greens will lend an effect of col­orful
gayety to the occasion.
The ceiling will be hung as a cano­py,
in the center of which will be an
illuminated scene, serving as a back­ground
for a multi-colored 'crystal
ball. Immediately beneath the six
colored canopy will be a profusion of
Venetian lanterns, which will add
much to the color and beauty of the
general setting.
The orchestra platform will have a
background portraying a street scene
ip. Venice, and the platform itself will
feature decorative mooring poles, so
typical of Venice, connected by. spans
of small silk-glass lanterns. The en­trance
and paneled spaces will be
treated with painted scenes of Vene­tian
character.
This design, executed in soft pastel
colors, is most appropriate for the
spring season and with the music of
Emerson Gill and his orchestra should
serve as a drawing card for the stu­dents
as well as visiting girls, ac­cording
to the designers of the scheme,
Foreign Students
Well Received At
Rotary Convention
Four foreign students from Auburn
who spoke before the State Rotary
Convention in Gadsden this week were
well received, according to Prof. C.
A. Baughman who gave a report of
the meeting at the regular Thursday
luncheon in $he Thomas Hotel. The
students, who told of conditions in
their own country at the Gadsden conT
vention, were Missak Assadourian of
Armenia, Theodore H. Kummer of
Germany, Francis J. Larrieu, Jr., of
Cuba and Ignacio Villasenor of Mex­ico.
These four students have also ac
cepted an invitation to speak on Wed
nesday of next week to the Rotary
club of Montgomery. It is possible
that they may accept a similar invi
tation from the Troy club.
While in Gadsden, Professor Baugh
man'accompanied these four students
out to Atalla High School where their
talks were enjoyed by the Atalla boys
and girls.
AMERICAN LEGION WILL
GIVE BARBECUE MONDAY
Army Officers Here To Inspect
R.O.T.C. Unit Will Be Honor
Guests of John Wills Post
A barbecu» for the two inspecting
army officers and legion members
will be given at 6 o'clock next Mon
day evening, April 20, at Wright's
Mill by the John Wills Post Ameri­can
Legion.
Major N. P. Morrow and Major" R.
A. Sharrere, who will conduct the
annual inspection of the Auburn R.
O. T. C. unit on April 20-21, will be
honor guests at the barbecue. Major
Morrow is field artillery instructor
in the National Guard at New Or­leans,
and Major Sharrere is district
engineer stationed at Montgomery,
Prof. J. C. McKinnon gavg) a
graphic account of his World War
experiences while serving at Ar­changel,
in Northern Russia, at the
legion meeting here Monday eve
ning.
Schuyler DeShazo
Marries Miss Kyle
A marriage of cordial interest is
that of Miss Tommie Kyle, of Mem­phis,
Tenn., and Mr. Schuyler De­Shazo,
of Birmingham, which took
place at 5:30 in the afternoon on
Sunday at the lovely new home of
Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Wright. Rev.
S. B. Hay officiated.
The living room where the cere­mony
took place was attractively
and artistically decorated with spring
flowers.
Mrs. George Holdcroft was matron
of honor.
The beauty of the bride was ac­centuated
by her wedding gown of
pastel shades of organdie. The bou­quet
was of snapdragons. She is the
daughter of Mrs. Earl Gilmore, and
possesses charm , and loveliness of
manner, which has endeared he* to
a host of friends.
The groom is a student in electri-
(Continued on page 4)
NEAT APPEARANCE
FOR INSPECTION OF
R.O.T.C. UNIT URGED
All R.O.T.C. Classes Will Be
Visited and Inspected Mon­day
and Tuesday
DRILL MONDAY
Auburn Has Made Distinguish­e
d Rating for Colleges Con­tinuously
Since 1920
EXECUTIVE CABINET
MEMBERS SELECTED
Seventeen New Members Are
Now Ready To Assume Du­t
i e s As Cabinet Officers
Many students went to the polls to
select members of the Executive Cab­inet
for next year. As a result, sev­enteen
new members are ready to
take over the duties of the Cabinet
when the present members retire
from office.
Engineering
Senior: L. M. Norris and George
Tucker.
Junior: Howard F. Pringle.
Sophomore: Rudolph Blanton.
Architecture
Senior: James L. Parker.
Junior: Stewart Pugh.
Agriculture v
Senior: Leonard Wagnon.
Junior: M. S. Phillips.
Busineis Administration
Senior: Roy Wilder.
Junior: N. H. Thomas.
Veterinary Medicine
Howard Hayes.
Education
Senior: H. P. Lawson.
Junior: Charlie Briggs.
Chemistry
Senior: Sam Wade.
Junior: R. Eugene Wingard.
Home Economics
Mary Underwood.
Textile Enginering
R. A. McMillan.
R. O. T. C. Cadets are urged by
the Military department to make a
special effort to wear the uniform
properly and neatly during the an­nual
inspection here Monday and
Tuesday, April 20-21. Major N. P.
Morrow, instructor of Field Artillery
in the National Guard at New Or­leans,
and Major Sharrere, district
engineer, at Montgomery, will be
the inspecting officers.
All R. O. T. C. classes will be visit­ed
and inspected by the officers on
Monday and Tuesday. In addition to
the regular drill period on Tuesday,
the College has allotted the hour
four to five Monday afternoon for a
close order drill of the Field Artil­lery
and Engineer Units. During the
Tuesday drill hour there will be a
review for the inspectors, followed by
a detailed inspection of each unit by
ins inspecting officer. . *
All students are urged to wear uni­forms
neatly and properly during the
time the inspectors are here. The
uniform for the reviews Monday af­ternoon
and Tuesday morning will
be white shirts and blouses.
Aubwrn has made the distinguished
rating for colleges continuously since
1920. In 1927 the system of rating
was slightly altered, and distinguish­ed
was changed to excellent. Auburn
continued to make the highest rat­ing,
and it is hoped that the R. O.
T. C. Regiment will hold up the pre­vious
record.
The Auburn Band, under the direc­tion
of Prof. P. R. Bidez, will appear
in an open air concert Tuesday, May
5, playing the first of a series of con­certs
to be presented during May.
This performance is being given for
the music department of the Women's
Club of Auburn.
The program will be largely made
up from the better known works of
Wagner, Liszt, and Beethoven. The
works of several of the more promi­nent
contemporary composers will also
appear on the program. v
Several other concerts will be pre­sented
by the band during the month,
the last being at the Festival of
Lights, an annual part of the com­mencement
program.
SINGERS RETURN
FROM 3 DAY TOUR
Lutheran Services To
Be Conducted Sunday
A Lutheran church service will be
conducted this Sunday at the home
of Prof. W. H. Weidenbach on S. Col­lege
Street (opposite Ag. Building
drive) at 8 p. m.
The Rev. Theo. G. Ahrendt from
Atlanta will preach, chosing as his
topic: "The Rich Young Ruler."
Services are now held regularly on
the first and third Sunday of the
month. A cordial invitation and
hearty welcome is extended to all.
Glee Club Appears At Womans
- College, Montevallo, and
Music Meet in Bessemer
The Auburn Glee Club, appearing
Wednesday night at Woman's Col­lege,
Thursday afternoon before the
Alabama Federated Music clubs, at
its meeting in Bessemer, and in the
college auditorium at Montevallo,
Thursday night, completed its three-day
tour which started Wednesday at
noon.
The engagement in Bessemer was
at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Im­mediately
following this afternoon
concert, the singers drove to Monte­vallo.
It was stated that they did
not even have time to change from
their tuxedoes to make the trip from
Bessemer to Montevallo on schedule
time.
Forty-eight members made the
tour. Mr. . Brigham carried every
man who has been out for the club
during this year. This is the first
year that the Auburn club has en­joyed
the honor of playing before
the Alabama Federated Music clubs,
(Continued on page 4)
DR. GEORGE PETRIE SPEAKS
ON GREATNESS OF JEFFERSON
Thomas Jefferson's claim to great­ness
was pointed to by Dr. George
Petrie Wednesday, as his belief in
a "free people", one of the principal
applications of which was his found­ing
of the state's responsibility in
education and advocacy of personal
freedom devoid of any state or fed­eral
interference. Jefferson wanted
the state to "give the light to all"
and longed for absolute freedom of
the individual and the nation.
There were schools in America be­fore
the time of Jefferson, but edu­cation
had not become an undertak­ing
of the state where all should be
accorded equal opportunity for en­lightenment.
Dr. Petrie spoke at a special con­vocation
for students in Langdon
Hall following an oration by Douglas
Brown, sophomore student from
Ozark, who will represent Auburn at
the Southern Association of Teach­ers
of Speech in Atlanta this week.
President Bradford Knapp presided.
Though Jefferson'was more versa­tile
than Benjamin Franklin, was
governor of Virginia, was twice pres­ident
of the United States after or­ganizing
his own party and' naming
his successor who served for two
presidential terms, and was author
of the Declaration of Independence,
and a capable diplomat, it was not
these attainments on which his claim
to immortal American statesmanship
rests. It was his greatness as a po­litical
philosopher, continued Dr.
(Continued on page 4)
Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas
Will Deliver Commencement Address
BAND TO APPEAR IN
OPEN AIRCONCERTS
Program To Include Better
Known Works of Wagner,
Lizst, and Beethoven
Women fs Club To
Celebrate Music
Week, May 3-9
Committees Appointed For Cel­ebration
In Auburn of Na­tional
Music Week
The music department of the Wo­man's
Club of Auburn is endeavor­ing
to provide adequate programs
for the celebration of National
Music Week, May 3-9, according to
a statement from Dr. Van Wagenen,
chairman of the department of music.
A committee has already been ap­pointed
to make plans for the cele­bration.
Those on the committee are
Prof. Brigham, chairman; Dr. Hoff-sommer,
who is arranging-music for
the civic clubs; Mrs. Ross Doner, who
is arranging the music programs in
the schools; Mrs. E. S. Winters, who
has charge of the music in the
churches; Professor Bidez, who is
in charge of the band; and Dr. Paul
Irvine, who is in charge of publici­ty
for the, department.
Chief among the features of the
programs for the week, will be an
open-air concert given by the band.
"This concert," stated Dr. Van Wag­enen,
"Will be given Tuseday eve­ning,
May 5, -at seven o'clock. The
place has not yet been definitely de­termined,
but it will probably be giv-
,en near the Main Building or Lang­don
Hall.'*
KELLER IS NEW HEAD
OF DELTA SIGMA PI
Business Administration Fra
ternity Elects Officers For
Coming Year
W. M. Keller was chosen to lead
the newly installed Beta Lambda
chapter of Delta Sigma Pi as Head­master
at the meeting last Tuesday
night, April 14. Keller has main­tained
a high scholastic average since
coming to Auburn, besides partici­pating
in the band and glee club. He
is a student in business administra­tion
and a member of the Pi Kappa
Alpha fraternity.
Other officers of the national hon­orary
business fraternity are: Sam
Fort, senior warden; J. P. Curry,
treasurer; G. B. Ward, scribe; Tom
Coleman, chancellor; V. R. White,
corresponedent; J. R. Wilder, histo­rian;
and S. W. Grubbs, junior ward­en.
The local chapter of Delta Sigma
Pi was formerly the Beta Alpha Sig­ma,
but became a member of the
international Delta Sigma Pi on
March 21, when members of the Uni­versity
of Alabama and Georgia Tech
chapters installed it as the Beta
Lambda chapter. _
Delta Sigma Pi was founded on
November 7, 1907, at the New York
(Continued on page 4)
Reverend W. R. Hendrix, of
Birmingham, Will Deliver
the Baccalaureate Sermon on
Sunday, May 17
WILLIAM M. WILLIAMS
TO ADDRESS ALUMNI
Arkansas Senator Was Demo­cratic
Candidate "for Vice-
Presidency in 1928 Elections
Senator Joe T. Robinson of Arkan­sas
will deliver the 59th commence­ment
address here, according to the
announcement of President Bradford
Knapp. The Reverend W. R. Hen­drix,
pastor of the Highland Avenue
Methodist Church, Birmingham, will
deliver the Baccalaureate Sermon on
Sunday morning in Langdon Hall,
May 17, and the Honorable William
M. Williams, distinguished attorney
of Washington, D. C, will make the
alumni oration on Monday morning
following.
Senator Robinson, Democratic can­didate
for vice-president of the United
States in the last election is one of
the outstanding statesmen of the
South.
Born in Lonoke, Arkansas in 1872
and educated in the common schools
and the University of Arkansas, he
was admitted to the bar in 1895. He
was a member of the Arkansas Con­gress
from 1903 to 1913 and resign­ed
this position that year to be in­augurated
as governor January 15,
1913.
On January 28, 1913 he was elect­ed-
representative from Arkansas to
the United States Senate, resigning
as governor on March 10,1913. He
was re-elected to the Senate in 1918
and 1925. His home is in Little
Rock, Arkansas. He became chair*
man of the Minority Conference in
the Sixty-Eighth Congress and was
re-elected to that position at the be­ginning
of the Sixty-Ninth Congress.
The Alumni Oration by the Honor­able
William N. Williams of Wash­ington,
is the principal feature of
Alumni Day May 18, when hundreds
of former graduates will return to
Auburn to participate in thirty class
reunions. No more popular alumni
speaker could have been secured than
Billy Williams, who for a number of
years has been an eminintly success­ful
lawyer in Washington, D. C He
is now a member of the well-known
firm, Williams, Myers, and Quiggle.
Matters of vital importance to Au­burn
men will be discussed by Mr.
Williams.
Having been pastor of the Highland
Avenue Methodist Church, Birming­ham,
for more than ten years, the
Reverand Hendrix is a distinguished
figure in Southern Methodism. Presi­dent
Knapp expressed himself as
greatly pleased at the acceptance of
Rev. Hendrix to deliver the Bacca­laureate
Sermon.
Thirty class reunions will be held
on .that day, according to arran ,e-ments
made by Dr. J. V. Brown, exe­cutive
secretary of the Alumni Asso­ciation.
The classes are: 1880, '81,
'82, '83, '84, '85, '86, '87, '88, '89, '90,
'93, '94, '95, '96, 1900, '01, '06, '07,
(Continued on page 4)
COUNCIL BANQUET
BE HELD MONDAY
Old and Newly Elected Mem­bers
of Interf r a t e r n i t y Coun­cil
to Attend Annual Banquet
That the annual Inter-fraternity
Council Banquet will be held at 7:30
o'clock Monday night in the Hotel
Clement of Opelika, was announced
today by Bill Myrick, president of
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the council.
The old and newly elected repre­sentatives
from each fraternity-mem­ber,
of the council will be present-at
this affair, which will be strictly
formal. -
W. S. Myrick, Jr., president of the
council will act as toastmaster for
the occasion, and a very interesting
program is being planned. The two
men who will be asked to speak to
the council at this time are unde­cided
upon. Old officers of the
council will probably make short
talks expressing their appreciation
for the cooperation that they have
received during the -current year,
and expressing their regret at hav­ing
to leave.
A delightful menu has been pre­pared
which will include fruit cock­tail,
broiled chicken on toast, hot
rolls, tomato and lettuce salad, and
Neapolitan Cream* followed by demi
tasse and after dinner mints.
Executive Cabinet
Asks That Reports
Be In By April 20
Time Limit Extended Because
Some Organizations Have
Failed To Submit Reports
Financial reports- of aH organiza­tions
on the campus under the juris­diction
of the Executive Cabinet must
be turned in not later than April 20,
according to a statement by the pres­ident
of the Cabinet. Wednesday,
April 15, was originally the time when
these reports were due, but because
some organizations had failed to sub­mit
their reports, the time limit was
extended until next Monday.
In making his statement, the presi­dent
said: "As far as I can see there
is nothing unreasonable about this
request of the Cabinet. If the monies
are being spent for a worthy cause
there can be no possible objection by
an organization to having its financial
report published, and if funds are
being spent to no good purpose the
student body has a right to know the
facts in the case."
The president also stated that if all
reports were not in T>y Monday the
Plainsman would carry a list of those
organizations which had failed to send
theirs. He said, "There can be only
one possible attitude for the student
body to take toward these organiza­tions.
We sincerely hope that there
will be no list to print on April 22."
COUNCIL BALL IS
COLORFUL AFFAIR
ON FRIDAY NIGHT
Attractive Decorations in Black
Are Feature of Annual Inter-fraternity
Ball
MANY GIRLS PRESENT
Miss Mary Alice Riddle with
Bill Myrick Are Leaders of
Grand March
One of the season's most colorful
dances was held in „the Alumni Gym­nasium
last night when the Inter-fraternity
Council entretained at
their annual ball. Pretty Miss Mary
Alice Riddle, of Talladega, accom­panied
by Bill Myrick, president of
the council, lead the grand march in
which all the council representatives
with their dates took part. As the
orchestra played softly the old fa­vorite,*
"Sweethearts on Parade", the
couples marched down the center of
the ball room and separated, some
turning to both right and left. This
was continued until the couples were
four abreast, when the dancing was
resumed.
The decorations were in black and
white with a large painting of the
Acropolis in Athens adorning the
rear of the orchestra pit. A huge
•canopy was suspended overhead in
the center of which was a large wheel
containing the names of the fraterni­ties
belonging to the council. Around
the wall were the coat-of-arms of
the fraternities commically decorat­ed.
The music was furnished by the
Auburn Knights, a popular. student
orchestra, which has gained quite a
bit of fame during this year.
Approximately seventy-five out-'
of-town girls attended this function
Which annually attracts so much at­tention.
NEW AIRPORT READY
TO RECEIVE PLANES
Two One-Half Mile Runways
Contained in Jointly Control­l
ed Landing Field
THIRTEEN TEAMS IN RUNNING
IN COUNCIL TENNIS TOURNEY
The second round of the Interf ra­ternity
Council tennis tournament is
well under way with thirteen teams
still in the running. In the first
round three matches are as yet un-played,
these being the matches be­tween
the Alpha Gamma Rho's and
Phi Kappa Delta's; the Sigma Phi
Sigma's and the Sigma Pi's; and the
Alpha Lambda Tau's and the Phi Del­ta
Theta's. These fraternities are ur­ged
to play off their matches as Boon
as possible so that the original sched­ule
may be maintained. In the sec­ond
round are the Sigma Alpha Epsi-lon's,
and the Pi Kappa Phi's, whUe
in the third round are the Tau Upsi-lon
Omega's, The Alpha Tau Omega's,
and the Kappa Sigma's.
The T U O's came from behind to
defeat the S P E's after a grueling
three set match. The final score was
3-6, 6-3, 6-0.
The A T O's succeeded in downing
the Pi K A's after the second set was
extended to eighteen games, the score
being 6-4, 10-8.
The Kappa Sigma's won their way
into the third round by defeating the
S P E's after they had lost the second
set by scores of 6-0, 4-6, 7-5. For a
long time the question of the winner
in this match was seriously in doubt.
The A T O's are favored to win in
their bracket, while most sports wri­ters
pick the T U O's to win in the
other bracket, and give the T U O's
a slight preference in the finals. So
far the tennis that has been displayed
has been most excellent.
Petrie. Jefferson believed in unham­pered
personal and national freedom,
The new airport, which is owned
jointly by the cities of Auburn and
Opelika, is now ready for use, ac­cording
to Lieutenant V. C. Finch,
instructor in Aeronautics. Two run­ways
have been completed, and are
ready to receive planes landing on
them. One runs north and south,
and the other runs east and west.
They are both one half mile long and
four hundred feet wide.
The new airport is located midway
between Auburn and Opelika on the
old dirt road joining the two towns
It will not have ships of its own,
but will be used for a landing field
for travelling ships and as an emer­gency
field. It has been listed with
the Airport Commissioner and is ex­pected
to be put into use shortly.
For the past several weeks Lieu­tenant
Finch has been taking his
Aeronautics class to help build the
airport, and, besides making the work
progress that much faster, has given
his students practical experience in
their chosen line of work.
Dr. Allison to Speak
At Chemical Society
Dr. Fred Allison is to speak to the
Chemical Society Monday night. His
subject is "A Review of Some Recent
Researches by Rutherford, Chadwick,
and Other British Physicists Which
Throw New Light Upon the Structure
of the Nuclei of Atoms."
Everyone is cordially invited, es­pecially
students in chemistry and
physics. The talk will be very infor­mal.
The Chemical Society meets Mon­day
night, 7-8, in the Ross Chemical
Laboratory.
LOST!
During Inter-fraternity Dance: on*
cigarette lighter. Finder please re­turn
to Plainsman office.
PAGE TWO
THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1931
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Published semi-weekly by the students of
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Business and editorial offices at Auburn
Printing- Co. on Magnolia Street.
Offices hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily.
STAFF
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Thomas P. Brown Associate Editor
Robert L. Hume Associate Editor
Victor White . - Managing Editor
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Adrian Taylor Sports Editor
Murff Hawkins Exchange Editor
K. M. McMillan Literary Editor
A. C. Cohen Contributing Editor
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C. E. Mathews —*- Contributing Editor
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REPORTERS
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BUSINESS STAFF
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A GREAT EDUCATOR
' The convocation held last Wednesday
intribute to Thomas Jefferson was a
; most appropriate thing for any college
or university to do, inasmuch as Thom­as
Jefferson was one of the greatest
educators and believers in universal
education that this country has ever
known.
Many people think of this man only
as the third president of the United
States, and in so doing, they do him a
great injustice—not that there is any­thing
connected with his political ca­reer
that could possibly be looked upon
with disfavor. Thomas Jefferson had
many more accomplishments other than
that of achieving the highest officethat
the people of this country can confer
upon a man.
One of his last and greatest under­takings
was the University of Vir­ginia.
He laid these buildings out him­self,
drew many of the actual working*
drawings, and supervised the construc­tion.
Many problems that had to be
met in the construction were solved by
Jefferson, and after his death, build­ings
were constructed according to the
details and on the very spots selected
by him. So interested was this man
concerning education that he caused the
following inscription to be carved upon
his tombstone: "You Shall Know the
Truth and the Truth Shall Set You
Free."
R. O. T. C. INSPECTION
Members of the R. O. T. C. unit
will have the opportunity to have Au­burn
receive the distinguished ratings
for colleges with military units for the
eleventh time when inspecting officers
will make the annual inspection of the
unit on Monday and Tuesday.
Continuously since 1920, the local
unit has received the highest rating
awarded R. O. T. C. departments, and
it is hoped that it will continue, to do
so.
Whether or not Auburn will receive
the hoped-for rating depends, of course,
entirely upon the students taking mili­tary
training. Class as well as practi­cal
work will decide the selection.
It is to be hoped that students will
make as good appearances as possible
at al.l times. Knowledge of the theo­retical
work can be gained only through
brain work, but anybody can make a
good appearance in a uniform.
Members of the military unit, when
not in class or at drill, will also have
an effect on the decision of the inspec­tors.
A uniform improperly worn, a
slouchy cap, or anything else might de­tract
from the appearance of the uni­form
*will be noted. There should be
a band in every cap.
So it is up to the students to wear
their uniforms correctly and neatly
and go about their work diligently dur­ing
the two days that the inspecting of­ficers
are to be here. It won't be hard
to do. The Military Department has
' given every man ample time in which
to get his equipment in good shape,
.and there is no plausible excuse for a
man not to have his uniform pressed,
his shoes and belt, shined, and his equip­ment
in order.
CABINET REPORTS
Last Wednesday was the date set by
the Executive Cabinet for the organiza­tions
on the campus under the jurisdic­tion
of the Cabinet to turn in their
financial reports, and up to that time,
there were some of these reports still
to be accounted for.
We can see no possible reason, other
than a mistake through the mails, why
all these reports should not be in. This
movement of publishing a complete fi­nancial
report of these organizations
is a worthy one in that it gives the stu­dent
body a chance to see for them­selves
what is being done with funds
collected on the campus. As far as we
understand, there is nothing unreason­able
about this request of the Cabinet.
If the monies are being spent for
worthy causes there should be no pos­sible
objection by any organization to
having its financial report published,
and, if funds are being spent to no good
purpose, the student body has the right
to know the facts in the case, regardless
of how these funds are collected.
There is no doubt that some organi­zations
will argue that their funds are
not collected from any student activity
fee, and that the student body, in gen­eral,
has no right to know what it is
doing with its money. This is not the
point. Each and every organization
on this campus affects the students
outside of its own membership in some
way or another. Any organization that
is so small and selfish as to argue that
it desires only to affect its member­ship
deserves no good will from-the stu­dent
body.
A*pril 20' has been set as the final
date for turning in these reports, and
The Plainsman of April 22—at the re­quest
of the Executive Cabinet—will
carry a list of those organizations that
have failed Jto turn in reports. There
can be only one possible attitude for the
student body to take toward these or­ganizations.
Book Review
BUDDENBROOKS
By Thomas Mann
Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter
Alfred A. Knopf: New York
Buddenbrooks is probably the most de­servedly
famous of post-war German books.
Unfortunately, it was out of print for a
number of years; it has recently been re­printed.
Buddenbrooks, like Miss Stern's Matri­arch,
is the story of the decline of a family.
The Buddenbrooks were prosperous grain
merchants in Lubeck in the nineteenth cen­tury.
In 1835, when the book commences,
they are sturdy, God-fearing burghers. But
their's has been an exclusively materialis­tic
progress. There has been no spirit of
art in them. The second generation is, if
possible, more grasping, more punctual in
its duty to God, than the first.
All the family gathers at old Johann's in
Meng Street for a housewarming—the old
ones, the children, the grandchildren, and
the relatives, their friends and dependants.
The broad canvas is crowded bewilder-ingly,
for it contains a whole cross-section
of a well-established society with all its
appurtenances of furniture, clothing and
conversation; but each of these many char­acters
is sharply defined and assigned to
his own place in the procession of the
Buddenbrooks on their slow and silent
march to eventual oblivion.
Buddenbrooks are born; they marry and
beget other Buddenbrooks, and die; the
lives of all revolve around the old house
on Meng Street and the inherited grain
business. They represent soilod conversa-tism
in society, religion, business, politics.
However the third generation breaks from
the tradition slightly. Antonie is frivo­lously
willful; she comes to a bad end. Her
brother Christian resents the restrains of
a rigid ideal. Only Thomas remains to
keep up the tradition which is smothering
them because it brooks no comprise vwith
imagination or the free workings of the
will. But Johann, the son of Thomas, has
too sensitive a nature. His is the spirit
of his thwarted mother and all her crush­ed
artistic desires emerge in his overwhelm­ing
passion for music, his dreams and his
inability to grasp the fundamentals of mu­sic.
So Thomas, who has become a Sena­tor,
sees the symbol of family greatness,
the old house on Meng" Street, sold without
knowing how to prevent it, and the power
of the Buddenbrooks end with the death
of himself and the pathetic Thomas. •
This great study of the degeneration of
an old bourgeois stock is drawn from the
image of social life in the fifties of the
last century. It is accurate, all-inclusive,
and its historical value is unique. Beyond
this meliculous detail, the recognizable
truthfulness of the setting, is the activity
of a firmly mellow, slightly ironical, reso­lutely
scrupulous literary ability of the
first water. Mann shaves his unusual ca­pacity
for emotional understanding of dis­similar
characters with Dickens, Haupt-mann,
Sternheim, Barres, Baroja, and oth­er
great novelists.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
It was mighty fine
to look into the faces
of so large an audi­ence
at the last convo­cation.
I was delight­ed.
Dr. Petrie gave
us a wonderful pre­sentation
of the life of
Thomas Jefferson and
it was a pleasure to
hear one of our own students getting ready
for an oratorical Contest.
* * * * *
I am not disappointed in the editorial
in the Plainsman regarding the Honors'
Convocation. I have always found that
the best thing to do in this world is to
try a thing and if you find it doesn't work
immediately try something else or at least
don't attempt to repeat a thing which does
not work. So Honors' Convocation is pass­ed
out into peaceful slumber. Nevertheless,
the thing I was trying to do needs to be
done. Did you read the editorial in the
Montgomery Advertiser the other day about
high grades in college and positions held
after leaving college? If you have not
read that editorial you ought to read it.
It voices a sentiment I have been trying to
bring to the attention of this and other
student bodies for many years. The great­est
difficulty is that there are large groups
of students here and elsewhere who will not
see that scholarship does count. They will
not see it until it is entirely too late. You
can't change your scholarship record twen­ty
years from now. The time to make
that record is while you are in college.
Indolence and procrastination, lack of self-control,
and propensity for being lead off
into by-paths cause many a student who is
capable of making a good record to make
a -low record in college. Honors' Convo­cation
was a sort of an idea emphasizing
scholarship and accomplishment. I haven't
ceased my efforts to call the attention of
the student body to .this item of scholar­ship.
I am simply going to try to do it
in some other way.
I recognize the need of more lights on
the campus at Auburn and fully concur
with the editorial in the Plainsman. Not
only do we need more lights but we need
cement walks on the campus. I can count
up' $2,000,000 worth of, needs, every one
of which is a vital and crying need on the
campus and could make a list of them in
fifteen minutes. The only trouble is that
listing them doesn't get the money to do
it. We have had $550,000 in cash for build­ing
purposes on this campus in the last
three, years. Only $250,000 of that came
from the State. We have received $250,-
"000 additional in warrants but we have
had to borrow the money on these war­rants
at the bank. We have built close to
$900,000 worth of buildings including their
equipment. Many a time in the past year
it has taken all the ingenuity and energy
we have to get enough cash money in the
treasury to keep teachers' salaries paid
and sometimes have had to hold off salaries
for some time until we could accumulate
the money. We have the lights and side
walks on the list when we can get the
money. I think we owe it to ourselves to
get a small hospital or infirmary, first.
* * * * * * *•
The hardest thing in the world is for
any rrfan to approach a subject and deal
with it fairly, honestly and unselfishly
where his pocketbook is in question. Selfish
interests are always imposing themselves
between the light and truth and a given
objective. It is often amazing to contem­plate
the bitterness engendered out of this
question of selfishness. This same prin­ciple
is involved in the whole process of
readjusting the present economic situation.
There is always resistance to change but
there is a very much more vigorous resis­tance
to changes which affect our pocket
book adversely. We can see this all around
us, in our very midst as well as in the
great market places of our country.
An agreement has been made to/ resume
dual athlete competition between Harvard
and Princeton in all sports but football.
'Twill be bad luck for you if you stay
away from the senior play on Friday,
March 13!
As for ceremonial odes—I do not think
anyone can really write unless he is deep­ly
stirred.—John Masefield.
It is not permitted to the most equitable
of men to be a judge in his own cause.—
Blaise Pascal.
Despite his objective narrative, his subtle
style and the precise neutrality of his view­point,
the simple humaneness is so near to
his consciousness that he achieves that rare
miracle of malting psychology over into
something living—breathing. That, after
all, is the real virtue of Mann's master­piece,
his extraordinary, singularly beau­tiful
study of emotional dualism.
Often times when you think you see love light burning in the girl's eyes it's
only her stop light.
* * * * * * * *
Latest reports on the business depression indicate that things are rather dead
around the cemetery. /
* * * * * * * *
K-9, popular Auburn fraternity man, will represent Rho Dammit Rho, at the
Inter-Fraternity Council dance Friday night.
* * * * * * * *
They were sitting side by side in the meadow. Her cheek brushed against
his. He looked at her lovingly. His arm slid around her neck. He stroked her
hair. She nestled closer. His hand slipped from her neck along her back. The
shepherd parted the lamb on the head and moved on among his flock of sheep.
* * * * * * * *
ENROLLMENT PASSES ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS! TROWBRIDGE-DAVIS
SCHOOL ACCLAIMED SUCCESS!
Associated Press reports last night hailed the Trowbridge-Davis school as the
most complete triumph of modern education. Throngs of interested students
flocked to Ag Bottom to witness these two prominent educators conduct their
classes during the first part of the week, while hundreds of applications flooded
the Registrar's office.
* * * * * * * *
Put two and two together and the result is always the same—Bridge.
* * , * * * * * *
THE LAST DANCE
My Adoration for you cannot die,
And yet forgive me if I chance to yawn—
I would hate to dance with you from now till dawn.
Though till the end of time my love endures,
At three o'clock, my own beloved, I
Prefer the arms of Morpheus to yours.
* * * * * * * *
Two prominent Auburn butchers, MEATMAN ELLIS and MEATMAN SHEP­ARD,
were seen having a real confidential talk recently. Maybe they are going
to start another meat war.
* * * * * * ' * *
RED BLACKLEDGE, another of the would-be musicians which are so preva­lent
on the campus, has just about changed his mind about trying to master the
French horn. We are told that RED was blaring out in about forty seven differ­ent
tunes the other afternoon when Chief HOBBS called up threatened to put
RED in the hosegow, if he didn't confine his practicing to localities other than
Auburn. RED left yesterday.
TECH HONORED
The 1930 edition of the Blue Print, col­lege
annual at Georgia Tech, was distinct­ly
honored by the National Scholastic Press
Association recently when an enormous cup
was presented to the school for the pro­duction
of the best all-round annual in its
division. The Georgia Tech annual was in
the division of schools and colleges through­out
the nation having a student body of
not less than two thousand and not more
than five thousand.
The cup is four feet tall, trimmed with
jade and is mounted on a handsome pedes­tal.
On which cup is engraved the name
of the association awarding, the name of
the annual, the school, year and names of
the editor and manager. Congratulations
Tech.
* * *. * *
ONE UP
"Hfe who laughs last, laughs best", even
though he is the dumbest was proven quite
clearly at Tulane on April 1st last. Here
is how it all came about, my lads: The stu­dents
met their dear teacher on April 1
for a discussion of chemistry, and the same
dear teacher gave the same students two
questions to answer, according to the us­ual
practice before they went into lab for
the~ afternoon.
Our hero( the same dear teacher) left
the room. No one knew the answer to
either question. With one accord, all in
the same class handed in papers with only
two words on them—"April Fool!" Then
they went into lab.
But that is not the end of the story, my
lads. In a few minutes the same dear
teacher returned to the lab, from which
he had departed, and informed them that
they had all been given zero for the work,
and that, as a result of their prank, 10
marks would be taken off each one's grade.
"Aw, can't you take a joke?" protested the
students. "Sure, can't you?" came the coun­ter
from the same dear teacher.
* * * * *
ISN'T THAT DARLING
A men's dancing chorus of thirty-two
members has been organized at Princeton.
The director says that the public is tired
of women's choruses and thinks there is a
big future in choruses composed of men.
What does the director think causes all the
bald-headed men to secure seats so near
the stage in theatres? To hear the music
better? Naw. They are probably bache­lors.
Would we, the "younger generation,"
rush to the theatres to see crooked, hairy
and knotty legs? Hardly. Would the mar­ried
men get a kick out of such a display?
Nix. Still we have the little damsels, old
maids and possibly the married women
who would flock to the front row sections
to contend with, and it might pay. But
for us, we say burn the director.
* * * * *
TO RUN OR BE RUN
The big current question in many of the
Birmingham-Southern students' minds is:
"Will Birmingham-Southern go under pet­ticoat
government?"
Dr. Snavely, the president, made a state-
V
ment to the effect that the faculty planned
to disqualify women politicians prior \to
their appearance on the ballot for the
Spring election. He says, "I do not be­lieve
the candidacy of women for campus
offices is to the best interests of the school,
but if the students elect them, the adminis­tration
will cooperate with them in every
way."
He continues with, "Birmingham-South­ern
is essentially a boys' college. No dor­mitories
are provided for women, and no
catalogues are mailed to girls graduating
from high schools outside of the county.
In spite of this, co-eds compose over fifty-per
cent of our enrollment this year." Why
not try petticoat government? Maybe the
football boys would then wear lace around
their football trousers (or pants), and have
extra pockets placed for rouge, paints, etc.
Wouldn't that be kitty? •
* * * * sf:
JUST HOW IT SHOULD BE DONE
The dream of every college student—to
be able to turn out the college adminis­tration,
and run the campus himself—was
given varied expression at Central Col­lege
recently, in a Sunday evening meet­ing,
when the students discussed thorough­ly
the question: "How a College Student
Would Run a College?"
Faculty members were given a special
invitation to be present, but as yet there
have been no radical changes in the col­lege
policies.—Exchange.
* • * * * *
LET THE WIND BLOW
Now, my dear friends, with (or without)
-your permission, your editor of this, the
Exchange Column, wishes to say a few
words to his public. Where is he? The
three years that this editor has tried to
write this column have been most pleasant.
The letters and oral expressions, both from
the student body, as well as from other
schools have been greatly appreciated. If
it was flattery—you know how that makes
any one feel. If it was criticism, either
severe or otherwise, justified or unjustified
—well, that has been of great help and in­terest
also. It is so easy to get into "hot-water"
and quite interesting if one can
devise a scheme by which he can escape.
Many remarks have been made with that
purpose only in view, and not to hurt any­one's
feelings what-so-ever. It is hard to
tell whether you are pleasing anyone or
not, or even if they are reading what you
are writing, if the readers do not comment
on your efforts.
Since this is more than likely my last
attempt, you are in line for a very interest­ing
column from now on. The best of my
wishes goes to my successor. He i s going
to arouse your interest and make you feel
that you are getting some inkling of what
is going on in other institutions. Won't
you help the new Exchange Editor by let­ting
him know if you like his column, and
if you don't, just what is wrong? If you
will just do this, it will help in making
this, your own paper, a better and more
representative publication.
Thanks a lot for your support. And
tra la.
LeSophistiquer
By Vigneron
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial
opinions of this paper. It is a column of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
At this time of the year Auburn is most
fortunate in possessing a beautiful cam­pus,
a campus with wide stretches of green*
grass and spreading shade trees. Along
College Street the buildings present a scerfe
of unrivalled beauty, a beauty enhanced by
the antique dullness of the older college
edifices. Along Magnolia and Thach Ave­nues
one is impressed by the modern state-liness
of the new buildings. However,
should one venture beyond these structures
into the area between the Ross Laboratory
and the Engineering buildings, he should
behold a very different scene. Here are
no shade trees, no velvet lawns; instead,
one sees a weedy hollow, terminating in
the "L" Building. This spot is one of the
most unsightly places on the entire cam­pus.
The surrounding buildings seem to
present a hypocritically beautiful exterior,
concealing ugly drabness of an unsightly
center.
If"this region could be beautified it would
add much to the appearance of the cam­pus,
making it a thing of beauty, not only
on the outside, but on the inside as well.
We recently noticed two book re­views
in The Plainsman on the same
book. Both reviewers were accurate
in their description of the book, and
both were justified in their criticisms.
The late Arnold Bennett will be re­membered
more for his Old Wives Tale
and Clayhanger than for Imperial Pal-
Upon the publication of Somerset Maug­ham's
Cakes and Ale the Hardyolators rose
in a body and the result has been Gin and
Bitters, by A. Riposte. The real name of
the author has been withheld, but he seems .
to have some first-hand data on Maugham,
and satirizes the author of Of Human
Bondage with convincing effectiveness. .
* * * * *
We do not know whether* we shall
succeed the late Haakon Provost as
columnist or not. At any rate, we do
not propose to be remembered as a
disturber of the peace. It is true that
Haakon was the creator of much edi­torial
excitement, but we do not believe
that his a wise course to follow. But
let us speak respectfully of the de­ceased.
A toast to Haakon!
* * * * * •
WHAT IF—
It isn't often that a college professor calls
down one of his students, but when it does
happen the student grumbles to himself just
as though the professor were at fault.
On the other hand, football coaches spend
much of their time finding fault with their
proteges in a verbal manner all their own.
What if coaches were professors? If they
were, perhaps the classroom dialogue would
sound thus: *
"What's the matter with you bunch of
hoboes? I want you to put some pep into
the recitation this morning. You're not
at any pink tea. All you've done this year.
is stall around, and I'm one guy that won't
stand for it, see? Yeah, I mean you Bill­ings,
and you too, Hart.
"There's one thing that I don't like about
you, Hart, and that is that you are too d—
—cocky. Can you recite the lines of Shake­speare
that I assigned for today? You
can't do it? That's about the class of work
that you've been doing all "year.
"Hey, you dizzy blond in the front row,
can you come out of the coma and give it?
All right, that's not bad. You're showing
better form, blondie.
"Wake up, Smith, and tell me where
Shakespeare was born. What? Why, you
half-wit, you dumb cluck, gowan to the 0
showers. I mean it, don't stand there with
that far-a-way lfJok in your eyes, git.
"I don't know what you'll do when you
meet the semester exams. I can't drill
any knowledge through your phony domes.
I give up. Get out of here now and don't
show up again until you study your les­sons."—
The Daily Iowan.
Qy uotations
Civilization is not injured by democracy
as such, but by lack of education on the
part of holders of power, and by lack of
respect for liberty.—Bertrand Russell.
Whereas the whole reason for motor cars
is to provide rapid transit, the average car
is about as unscientific a wind-cleaving ob­ject
as can be imagined.—Maurice Samp­son.
Last week I saw outside a restaurant in
Rouen the sign, "The Jeanne d'Arc," and
underneath was added suggestively, "Eng­lish
Grill." —Professor A. E. Richardson.
When the candles are out all women are
fair.—Plutarch.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1931- THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
NATIONS BEING PUT TO TEST
DURING PRESENT ECONOMIC
DEPRESSION SAYS PRESIDENT
The present stormy economic
times were characterized as a period
when men and nations were never
before put to so severe a test by
President Bradford Knapp in speak­ing
before the state Rotary conven-i
tfon in Gadsden this week. "We
have seen other times of depression
and other periods of discontent,'''
continued Dr. Knapp, "but none are
quite' so fundamental, quite so chal­lenging
or quite so baffling as this
period in which we are living today."
Both the pessimist, who sees no
good in anything, and the optimist
who refuses to face the facts, were
deplored by Dr. Knapp in his address
explaining the function of Rotary in
the present economic situation. The
proper point of view is somewhere
between these two extremes with a
fairly good measure of both plus a
"lot of straightforward talk and a
tremendous amount of common
sense."
With personal liberty pretty well
assured by the work of our fore­fathers,
we find ourselves now in a
day when the multiplying, complex
difficulties of an increasing popula­tion
brings us to a time when the
great' task is that of so adjusting
our individual lives that we may live
in peace and harmony with our neigh­bors
near us and in the world at
large; get our fair share of wealth,
comfort and ease and accord to oth­ers
their fair share also.
The increasing concentration of
incomes in the hands of a few, as
shown by the increase in federal in­come
tax receipts, was pointed to as
evidence of the maladjustment of
our economic situation. At the same
time millions of Americans must be
fed and clothed by the Red Cross.
"Luxury for the few and want for
the many never built a true democ­racy
or sustained a civilization."
Failure of consumer prices to fluc­tuate
correspondingly with prices
paid farmers and stock raisers was
referred to by Dr. Knapp as anoth­er
evidence of ^our economic ill-ad­justment.
"If Alabama farmers
would produce their own meat,
bread, milk, poultry and eggs and ex­change
the surplus of these for that
part of the family living which can­not
be produced on the farm, we
could save our great cotton crop for
a real cash sale, increase the buying
power of every farmer in the State,
put the State on a cash basis, and
see one of the greatest days of pros­perity
in Alabama yet witnessed."..
"I don't know how it is to be ac­complished
but somehow, and in
some way through the individual Ro-tarian
the ethics of Rotary like the
ethics of the Christian Religion must
move into actual .operation. If we
are to hold luncheons and slap each
other on the back and call each other
by our first names in fine, familiar
comradeship and let it go at that
there will be neither service nor prof­it
in Rotary. If we read and think,
and feel, and act, and dream, that
somehow out of it all may come a
better day, and if above all, we are
willing to give up something of our
own selfishness, surrender something
of this fixed American idea that De­mocracy
gives the right to every
man to do as he darn pleases, and
that nobody ha! any rights except
ourselves, then Rotary can make a
great contribution to the settlement
of the most .vexing social and econ­omic
question ever presented to a
people.
"The clearest thing in the world
to me, is the thought that no man
has a right to charge more than a
thing is honestly worth and no man
has the right to prey upon the neces­sities
of another. Wealth, or in­come,
or purchasing power will not
be more equitably distributed unless
somebody gives up something and
rank selfishness ceases to be the im­pelling
motive in human conduct.
I am urging a more intelligent sel-fishness
founded on a broader know­ledge
and appreciation of social and
economic responsibility.
"You never can bring America to
the right social, economical and po­litical
responsibility nor can you
solve her great problems of today,
by a few master minds trying to
think it out and tell the rest of the
world what to do, but you can do it
only when the great mass of our
people get something of a new con­ception
of mutual obligations and
responsibilities."
Athletics Under Fire
At Johns Hopkins U.
Baltimore, Md.—flNSFA)^—FoTty
members of the faculty of the John
Hopkins University have gone on
record as favoring the'discontinuance
of intercollegiate football at the uni­versity,
it was learned.
A resolution urging the abolition
of the sporf was adopted unanimous­ly
at the annual dinner of the local
chapter of the American Association
of the University Professors in Lov-ering
Hall recently.
Dr. Arthur 0. Lovejoy, Professor
of Philosophy at John Hopkins and
president of the Baltimore Chapter
of University Professors, presided.
While the meeting discussed the
future of athletics at the university
at some length, the academic policy
and the future educational methods,
such as the abolition of the point-credit
system, also were considered.
Dean Edward Wilber Berry, of the
College of Arts and Sciences, spoke
of the future of the college and in
his discussion mentioned the athletic
policy. It was then that a professor
urged the adoption of a resolution
•seeking discontinuance of all inter­collegiate
athletics and the substitu-
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Harvard University Has Largest Endowment
Alabama, University of $ 2,085,000.00
Boston University 3,934,751.00
Brown University ! 10,129,685.00
California Inst, of Tech ..^..... 10,500,000.00 *
California, University of 14,312,531.00
Carnegie Inst. Tech 16,000,000.00
Catholic U. of America 3,000,000.00
Chicago, University of 59,015,297.00
Cincinnati, University of 6,767,034.00
Colgate University 4,208,500.00
Columbia University 77,513,532.00
Cornell University 24,000,000.00
Creighton University 2,297,000.00
Dartmouth College 9,750,000.00
Duke University 21,017,966.00
Emory University 4,924,164.00
Harvard University 108,087,473.00 •
Tulane University 10,214,025.00
Vanderbilt University , 19,500,000.00
Yale University. 87,918,017.00
Howard College ,.., 1,000,000.00
Union University ,. 1,015,000.00
Birmingham-Southern 650,000.00
Millsaps College 930,000.00
Rowing Flotilla
At Harvard Over
Half Mile Long
Cambridge, Mass.—(IP)—One of
the most impressive sights in years
was enacted on the Charles River
here recently when tne entire Har­vard
rowing flotilla took to the water
in an array that stretched for almost
half a mile. The display was ar­ranged
for the benefit of moving
picture concerns and photographers.
Twenty-eight crews, varsity, fresh­men,
150-pounders, class and house
eights, lined up three abreast, with
the varsity combinations at the rear
of the procession, just below the
Week's Bridge- and facing the Larz
Anderson Memorial Bridge. In ad­dition
to the eight-oared boats, eight
coaching launches and a dozen single
sculls completed the Crimson exhi­bition.
After the Harvard fleet had been
photographed, Coach Charles White­side
put his varsity crews through a
four-mile workout.
GIRL WHO HAS NO
VOCAL CORDS IS
DIPLOMA WINNER
R. R. Tracks Reach
To Moon and Back
There are enough railroads in the
United States to make a single-track
reaching to the moon and more than
half way back again.
These railroads, if placed side by
side, from New York to Chicago—a
distance of one thousand miles— i
would be three hundred and eighty
tracks wide.
About one and one-fourth car loads
of freight are moved in the United
States each year for every man, wo­man
and child in the country.
If all the freight could be loaded
in one freight train and taken past
a given point at the rate of one car
a second, it would require almost
four years to pass. This train would
contain more than one hundred arid
twenty-five million loaded cars, each
carrying sixteen tons or thirty-two
thousand pounds.
Student Federation
To Give Poster Prize
Wooster, O.—(IP)—The College
of Wooster here is expecting in
June" to award the first diploma in
history of the school to go to a senior
having no trace of the vocal cords
with which human beings generally
are "provided.
The senior to be so honored is
Mary Gutelius, of Rochester, N. Y.,
who has notified friends here that
she will arrive in time to receive her
degree .
Not that Mary will be unable to
speak when she returns to Wooster.
Surgeons are now engaged in trying
to equip her with an apparatus, the
latest product of this scientific age,
by which she will be able to speak
as well as with Nature's "standard
equipment."
Miss Gutelius, junior class beauty
last year, had her throat operated on
in February. Her vocal cords were
removed and a tube was provided
to enable her to breathe.
A few days ago word was received
that she was recovering rapidly and
that she would return here to re­sume
her studies after the spring re­cess.
One of the most popular girls on
the campus and a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, Miss Gutelius is in a
hospital in Philadelphia.
Tigers' Remaining
Games Will Start
At Three O'Clock
TIGERS ARE RIDING IN FIRST
PLACE IN NEW DIXIE LEAGUE;
START WORK ON NEXT GAMES
TOOMER'S
THE DRUG STORE
On the Corner
New York — (NSFA)—A National
Poster Contest on the theme "There
shall be ' no more war," will be
launched this week by the Central
office of the National Student Fed­eration.
A prize of $1000 will be
awarded to the winning poster. •
The competition is open to all stu­dents
enrolled in universities and art
schools. The purpose of the contest
is to stimulate student interest in
the forthcoming World Disarmament
Conference, which will be held in
Geneva next February. The winning
poster will be printed for nation­wide
distribution provided it meets
with the approval of the groups who
have expressed a desire for such a
poster.—Ex.
tion of a system of intramural sports.
> It was decided to word the' reso­lution
so that it would include only
football and in this way create an
opening wedge in the athletic policy
that ultimately would result in the
abolition of all intercollegiate activi­ty.
—Ex.
Explosives Make
Possible Highway
Through A Swamp
Carrying out the extensive 1931
highway construction program will
be materially aided in many sections
by the fill settlement method of pro­viding
firm foundations for roads
across swamps and other boggy and
unstable areas, according to explo­sives
engineers of 'E. I. du Pont de
Nemours & Company.
Accelerating the settling of road
fills, it is pointed out, has been de­veloped
to an extent that permits the
building of highways over marshy
land with so solid a foundation that
permanent concrete slabs may be
laid within a year of the start of the
- 4
work. Formerly, without the use of
explosives to facilitate settlement, it
required as many as ten years of
gradual settling and even then the
temperature surface was liable to
become uneven and could be main­tained
only at high cost.
The practice is now being followed
in building new straight roads and
in straightening old highways. Such
work frequently makes it necessary
to cross swamps and soft bottom
lands. Owing to the depth of mud
or muck, it sometimes requires filling
to a depth of 30 to 50 feet to reach
firm earth.
In accelerated fill settlement work,
it is explained, an embankment of
earth to the required height is built
up along the line of the projected
•road and sub-surface blasting is done
to displace the underlying muck,
thereby permitting the fill material
to sink to hard bottom much faster
than it would from its own weight.
The mud under the fill material is
displaced by the explosions forcing
it to either side. This is because of
All of the remaining baseball games
that will be played at home by Coach
Mc-Allister's Auburn Tigers will start
at three o'clock. During the past few
years, the games have started at
four, but several tilts have been call­ed
on account of darkness which
caused the Plainsmen athletic auth­orities
to change the starting hour.
The Tigers, who are leading the,
Dixie College Baseball League, will
play six more games at home. Geor­gia
will be encountered on Drake
Field in a two-game series Monday
and Tuesday, April 27 and 28;-Geor-
—
gia Tech, Monday and Tuesday, May
11 and 12, and Vanderbilt, Friday
and Saturday, May 15 and 16.
The Georgia, Georgia Tech and
Vanderbilt tilts will be broadcast di­rect
from Drake Field over Station
WAPI. Kirtley Brown, manager of
the WAPI studio here, will be at the
"mike," assisted by Tad McCallum
and John D. Simpkins.
Coach Earl McFaden's plebe ag­gregation
have four games carded
for Drake Field, and they also will
start at three p. m. The frosh will
play the Georgia Tech Baby Jackets,
here, Friday and 'Saturday, April 24
and 25, and Southern Military Acad­emy,
Monday and Tuesday, May 18
and 19.
Resting in first place in the Dixie
College Baseball League with five
wins and one defeat, Coach Sam Mc­Allister's
pennant aspirants have
smarted doing extra work for their
next assignment which is by far the
hardest that the Plainsmen will have
during the 1931 season. Six games
with Georgia, and Georgia Tech on
successive playing days face the loop
leaders.
Bill White's Red and Black Bull­dogs
will be encountered in Athens,
next Wednesday and Thursday and
at Auburn, Monday and Tuesday,
April 27 and 28. Kid Clay's Georgia
Tech Yellow Jackets will be faced in
Atlanta, Friday and Saturday, April
24 and 25.
The tilts with Georgia and Georgia
Tech will go a long way in determin­ing
whether Auburn is going to win
the Dixie Pennant. If the Bengals
are successful in their next major
task, then the other teams in the
circuit will have a hard job toppling
them from the top. The McAllister
clan is now being picked to win the
flag and they probably will if they
continue to set the pace that they
had when they decisively trounced
Oglethrope in three out of four
games. -
McAllister has done a lot of shift­ing
in the lineup to find the best
Kansas Fraternities .
Win Tax Freedom
Topeka, Kan.. —(NSFA)— The
Hicks bill, to tax the property of
Greek-letter organizations, was de­feated
in the state senate recently,
with 29 Senators voting against the
proposal and 11 supporting it. The
defeat of this bill marks a definite
victory for the fraternities in their
fight against the efforts of county
and state officials to have fraterni­ties
on the tax rolls.
The fight, which began as a court
affair, turned into a battle before the
legislature when that body convened.
The court battle is still pending and
will come up before the supreme
court April 9.
The Hicks bill, which was proposed
to repeal the law which exempts fra­ternities
and sororities from tax­ation
as literary and educational
halls, was introduced January 15 in
the house of representatives by Rep­resentative
Hicks, of Mitchell.
—Ex.
batting order and it looks like it will
be: Capt. Frock Pate, ss; Jimmie
Hitchcock, cf; Charles Kaley, c; Joe
Burt, rf; Harry LIbyd, lb; Phil
Hodges, If; Duck Riley, 2b; Porter
Grant, 3b; Clifford Smith, Dunham
Harkins or Clarence West, pitchers.
If the Oglethorpe games can serve
as a criteria, every member of the
above lineup packs plenty of power
in their bats, and the pitchers can
more than hold their own with the
best in the South. Forty-three runs
and 55 hits were made by Auburn in
four games with Frank Anderson's
Petrels, and Smith won two of the
games; Harkins one and West looked
good in a relief role in the third game,
the only one Auburn has lost this
season.
In Hodges, Hitchcock and Burt,
Auburn has a trio of the leading
fly chasers of any college nine in
the United States. All are hitting
well over the ".300 mark and have
shown steady improvement since the
season started. Hitchcock is a short­stop,
and it is believed that he will
graduate to the major leagues from
this position after his senior year at
the "Lovliest Village," but has fitted
in well at centerfield between two of
last year's veterans. He is doing
better in judging fly balls and his
hitting has featured several games.
Duck Riley, keystoner, Is not a
heavy hitter, but is one of the brain­iest
players on the team. He will
probably squeeze into the "select
circle" when the final batting aver­ages
are compiled, but in running
the bases and fielding, he has starred
in every game. Several major league
scouts have spoken highly of his de­fensive
work. He is fast as a pivot
man on double plays, and in fielding
hard-hit grounders, he has scooped
them up in sensational style. He has
handled 55 chances this season with­out
a sign of an error.
Smith's mound work in winninng
two games from the heavy-hitting
Oglethorpe nine in three days was
the best turned in by a Tiger in sev­eral
seasons. Last Saturday, he de-feater
the Petrels in Atlanta, 14 to
5, giving up only nine scattered hits,
and Tuesday, he blanked them for
the nine innings and limited them
to five widely scattered singles. This
elongated junior is leading the pitch­ers
in the Dixie League with three
wins and no defeats.
the much lower lateral resistance of­fered
by the soft, semi-liquid mate­rial
of a marsh, compared with the
vertical pressure caused by the great
.weight of the earth embankment.
Due to this condition, there is fre­quently
noted a considerable tempo­rary
rise in the level of the marsh
on both sides of the planned highway
immediately after the deep blasting.
—Oredigger.
Helen Crain, former co-ed at Bir­mingham-
Southern University, was
arrested in New Orleans recently,
charged with a series of thrill rob­beries.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1931
MANY COUNTRIES HAVE STUDENT
RIOTS; PRINCETON SUSPENDS 42
New York—(NSFA)—With un­employment
and the economic de-pression
as a world-wide source of
revolution and instability, the reports
of the part taken by students in vari­ous
countries in stimulating and lead­ing
the spirit of unrest by rioting
and protest have received wide dis­cussion
in the college press.
Within the last few days, Egyptian
students set fire to one of the Cairo
school buildings and later a large
number of student strikers attacked
those who refused to join them, with
the result that several were injured
when the police joined the fray. The
cause of the trouble seems to be agi­tation
against the existing govern­ment,
the new Constitution and elec­toral
laws.
Student rioting in Spain has con­tinued
for some time. Law students
in Barcelona showed an anti-monar-chistic
spirit and those in Seville com­bined
rebellion against the govern­ment
with discontent against the uni­versity
administration.
A third example is found in South
America where Peruvian students
overthrew Leguia and the Argenti-
New Definitions For
Engineers To Learn
The definitions have been submit­ted
by R. W. Emery of Cleveland.
They form a valuable addition to any
dictionary of engineering terms.
Draftsman—A man who puts down
ideas on paper for the boss to change.
Checker—A man with a blue pen­cil
but without a conscience.
Tracer—A slave who, knowing
nothing himself, never understands
what the draftsman thinks he knows.
Blue Print Boy—A skunk with a
dirty neck who smokes cigarettes,
watches the clock, and sometimes
makes a print.
Tool Designer—A collection of er­roneous
ideas surrounded by a boss.
Drafting Room—A place where the
time between arguments is spent in
making drawings to be changed.
Data Book—A collection of infor-tion
that nobody needs.
Tracing—A piece of linen used for
taking high spots off erasers.
Engineer—A mechanical genius
who spends his time thinking up ideas
which he refuses to recognize when
drawn.
niahs aided in the displacement of
Irigoyen.
In contrast to this, there is the re­cent
riot at Princeton resulting in
destruction of private property, rock­ing
of interstate buses and the sus­pension
of 42 men. Along the same
lines is the traditional Yale fresh­man
riot, the Gowns against Towns.
Sedate Harvard has representatives
who have known the inside of a jail
due to "boyish pranks." With a few
exceptions, as the New York stu­dents
who were jailed last winter be­cause
of too active sympathy with
the garment workers' strike, most of
the student riots in this country have
been caused by mass meetings
smacking strongly of football, tradi­tion
or "good-spirits."
An editorial in the Pennsylvanian
does not advocate mob action as a
principle, but points out the desira­bility
of rioting over political, religi­ous,
social and economic issues rath­er
than puerile rebellions against the
local police. The latest European
riots at least indicate an awareness
of existing problems not found to
any great extent among young Amer­ican
students. Another opinion exT
pressed in this week's college press
on rioting in the American univer-vities
is that such purposeless de­struction
is stupid and ought to be
discouraged much more emphatical­ly
than has been done heretofore.
—Ex.
SENATOR JOE ROBINSON,
ARKANSAS, WILL DELIVER
COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
(Continued from page 1)
'08, '12, '13, '14, '18, '19, '20, '24' ,25,
and '26.
Alumni reunions are being propos­ed
on a larger scale than ever before,
he added. It is expected that dur­ing
the day separate meetings will
be held of the different reunion class­es
present.
SINGERS RETURN
FROM 3-DAY TOUR
(Continued from page 1)
and Mr. Brigham and members of the
club were the recipients of many con­gratulations
made by members of
this well-known musical organization.
The club was well-received at both
Montevallo and Woman's College.
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season, especially, you should
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crystal. 'Phone and our driver
will call.
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WEEK OF APRIL 18,
—at—
COLLEGE BARBER SHOP
Our Representative, Olin L. Hill
Omnibus College Has
An Enrollment of 820
Wichita, Kans.—(NSFA)—Eight
hundred and twenty college students
and teachers throughout the country
have enrolled in the 1931 Omnibus
College, sponsored by the Universi­ty
of Wichita and the University of
Nebraska, under the direction of Dr.
William M. Goldsmith.
America's "College on Wheels" of­fers
six thousand miles of travel,
combined with study for which
three hours of university credit
will be given, through twenty-five
states and two Canadian provinces.
Students travel in buses, and camp
in tents with comfortable sleeping
accommodations. An expert dietician,
Mrs. Amy H. Goldsmith, A. B., head
of home economics department of
Southwestern College at Winfield,
Kansas, is j n charge, of all meals,
which are served from cafeteria
cars. Mrs. Goldsmith also acts as
w
dean of women.
The first unit of the Omnibus Col­lege
tours from Monday, June 1, to
Wednesday, July 15. The second
tour begins Friday, July 17, and
ends Tuesday, September 1. Courses
for which credit may be earned are'
biology, American history, and field
geography.
The "objective method" of instruc­tion
is followed in the Omnibus Col­lege,
and students pursue their study
in the forenoons either at camp-site
or on some historic or scenic spot.
Recreational advantages, as well as
cultural, are stressed.—Ex.
Auburn Boy Wins
Place On Plebe
Baseball Squad
Travis Brown Is Member Of
West Point Freshman Squad
Which Opens Season Today
West Point, New York.—Travis T.
Brown, 326 N. College, Auburn, Ala.
who entered the U. S. Military Acad­emy
in 1930, is a member of the
Army plebe baseball squad, which
starts its spring schedule on April
18th. Brown was appointed to West
Point by Senator J. T. Heflin.
He won his class numerals in foot­ball
last Fall.
All athletic contests for plebes or
freshmen are held on the reserva­tion
here. The only trips away from
West Point which Brown had last
year were when the Corps of Cadets
attended the Harvard, Yale and Uni­versity
of Illinois football games. •
FOREIGN SERVICE
SORORITY FOUNDED
Texas Senator Seeks
To Restrict Athletics
Austin, Texas—(NSFA)—Senator
Grady Woodruff announced recently
that he will shortly introduce a reso­lution
in the Texas legislature which
will suggest that inter-collegiate ath­letics
be restricted at state support­ed
schools. Senator Woodruff be­lieves
that the schools throughout the
State are giving too much time to
college athletics. Woodruff also
points out that it is costing the state
money each time an athletic game
is played.
"The emphasis on college athletics
is costing the state money. When­ever
an athletic contest is played out
of town, students usually take off
Friday and Saturday to see the game.
At school, however, the teachers
have to teach just the same, although
there may not be more than one stu­dent
present."
Every day a student misses school
it costs the state more than $4, ac­cording
to Senator Woodruff's opin­ion.
Senator Woodruff explains that the
resolution which he will introduce
will be a warning to the schools to
restrict inter-collegiate athletics. If
the schools fail to observe the warn­ing,
bills will probably be introduced
in the legislature later.
Plan Is Devised To
* Cut Cost Of Teaching
Harrisburg, Pa.—(IP)—A plan
whereby small colleges situated near
large universities can cut down their
teaching costs by drawing from the
University's graduate body for mem­bers
of its faculty, was proposed here
recently by Dr. Robert T. Hance, of
the University of Pittsburgh, who
spoke before the Pennsylvania Acade­my
of Science.
Dr. Hance told of the. plan adopted
at Pittsburgh whereby one graduate
teaches for a semester in a near-by
college for $800, returning to the uni­versity
at the end of the semester to
continue his graduate studies.
DR. GEORGE PETRIE SPEAKS
ON GREATNESS OF JEFFERSON
(Continued from page 1)
unrestricted by state and interna­tional
interference.
Jefferson's ideal-was that we should
have "just as little government as
we could get along with". He clear­ly
foresaw the delegation of personal
rights into the hands of the govern­ment.
This he deplored.
It was this belief that prompted
the Louisiana Purchase in order that
such annexation of territory would
prevent the hazard of encroachment
*by other nations.
"Freedom was the cornerstone of
his political dream," said Dean
Petrie. Jefferson believed that the
United States should be entirely free
from other countries where this ideal
was not upheld. His support of
Monroe in the projecting the Monroe
Doctrine was evidence of this vig­orous
belief.
Washington, D. C—(IP)—The
first foreign service sorority for
women in the United States has been
organized at George Washington Un­iversity
under the leadership of Mild­red
Burnham. Membership is made
up of women enrolled in the Com­merce
and Foreign Service branches
of_ the university curriculum who
have completed 60 hours or more of
work.
The purposes of the organization
include aiding_co-eds studying or en­gaged
in foreign service to help in
the development and maintenance of
the international commerce of the
United States, to encourage and fos­ter
friendliness between the United
States and other nations, and to en­courage
and stimulate the interest
of all" women in the pursuit of study
in the foreign service field.
STUDENTS HOLD MODEL
DISARMAMENT MEETING
New Brunswick, N. J.—(IP)—In
anticipation of the Disarmament
Conference to be held in 1932 at
Geneva, a model convention of simi­lar
nature was held recently at the
New Jersey College for Women. Ten
countries were represented: France,
Germany, Great Britain, United
States, Italy, Russia, Japan Poland,
South America and China. Agree­ments
were reached in the light of
present-day conditions.
WILL ROGERS, JR.
IS NOW REPORTER
Los Angeles—(IP)—Will Rogers,
Jr., nineteen-year-old son of the great
humorist, has gone to Fort Worth,
Texas, to take a job as a cub re­porter
on the Star Telegram.
Interviewed at his home here before
he left, Bill was asked what he ex­pected
to do on the paper.
- Will, Sr., answered for him:
"They'll probably put him on the
street selling papers."
STUDENTS WILL INSPECT
LARGE CHEMICAL PLANTS
Houghton, Mich. — (IP) — Annual
excursions to chemical plants in south­ern
Michigan and Ontario will be in­augurated
during the spring vaca­tion
by the Michigan College of Min­ing
and Technology chemistry depart­ment.
Tiger Theatre
SATURDAY, April 18
"The Conquering
Horde"
—With—
RICHARD ARLEN
FAY WRAY
CLAUDE GILLINGWATER
SUNDAY - MONDAY
April 19, 20
BERT WHEELER
ROBT. WOOLSEY
—in—
"Cracked Nuts"
Also News and
"ALL FOR THE BAND"
TUESDAY, April 21
Warner Bros, present
"A Soldier's
Plaything
—with—
Lotti Loder, Harry Langdon,
Ben Lyon, Jean Hersholt, Noah
Beery, Fred Kohler, Otto Ma-tieson,
Lee Moran, Marie As-taire,
Frank Campeau.
Also Paramount Pictorial and
"GENTS OF LEISURE"
Telegrams Are Hoaxes
Says Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem, N. C.—The ap­pearance
of a number of fake tele­grams
falsely notifying individuals
in various sections .of the country
that they have been awarded one of
the prizes offered by R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco Company in the Camel cig­arette
contest, led officers of the com­pany
to issue this statement this
week.
"We have learned through numer­ous
letters, telegrams and newspaper
articles that practical jokers in some
sections of the country are sending
telegrams purporting to come from
us notifying individuals that they
have won a prize in our $50,000
Camel Cigarette contest, the state­ment
said.
"We regret the appearance of
these hoaxes and wish to assure con­testants
and the public generally that
no prize selections have yet been
made. In fact, it will be several
weeks before the Judges and their
staff can possibly make selections.
"Approximately a million answers
were received in the contest. Obvi­ously
a fair reading of so many let­ters
requires a considerable period of
time. Eyery letter is being given a
careful reading. Those with special
merit must be studied.
"We want to thank all who enter­ed
the contest and to ask them to
be patient. Several more weeks must
elapse before the judges can render a
decision. The names of all winners
will be included in our formal an­nouncement
just as quickly as the
letters can be examined and selec­tions
determined."
FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE
WINS THE CARL SCHURZ AWARD
Brenau Biology Dept.
Gets Strange Animal
A "water dog," or more properly
"hell-bender," -was presented to the
Brenau Biological Laboratory last
week. This rare animal, resembling
a cross between a snake and a lizard,
is named Cryptobranchus allegheni-ensis
(Menopoma), according to the
head of Brenau Department of Bi­ology.—
Alchemist.
KELLER IS NEW HEAD
OF DELTA SIGMA PI
(Continued from page 1)
University schools of Commerce, Ac­counts
and Finance to encourage,
scholarship and the association of
business- students to promote closer
affiliation between the commercial
world and students of commerce; and
to further a higher stadnard of com­mercial
ethics and culture.
'Tis Fine to
Dine
at the
PICKWICK
According to plans explained re­cently
by Dr. Henry H. Apple, Frank­lin
and Marshall College is to become
a center of culture relations between
the United States and Germany.
At the last meeting of the Board
of Trustees it was announced that
Franklin and Marshall College, be­cause
of its traditional background,
has been awarded the Carl Schurz
Memorial foundation of $75,000.
The money will be given to estab­lish
a German professorship with the
understanding that a similar amount
be raised by the" college. College
authorities have announced that con­ditions
indicate that friends of the
school wilL subscribe the required
amount.
It is hoped that work may start
as early as this fall if possible. But
plans so fa"r are only tentative.
Plans call for an exchange of
German students and German pro­fessors
between Franklin and Jlar-
Writers Advised
To Study Business
New York —(IP)— John Gals­worthy's
advice to American • authors
is that they should learn more about
business methods, so that they will
know what they are getting into when
they sign contracts with both publish­ers
and moving picture, producers. On
his way back to England after spend­ing
three months in Arizona, the nov­elist
told reporters here what weapons
he employs to protect his works when
they are transformed for stage and
screen. Ironclad contracts are the
safety devices, he said.
SCHULYER DE SHAYZO
MARRIES MISS KYLE
(Continued from page 1)
cal engineering, a member of the
Delta Sigma Phi social fraternity,
and is prominent in student activi­ties.
Mr. and Mrs. DeShazo are at home
in the Blake apartment.
shall college and the universities of
Germany. Considerable research
work will be done in the school.
There will be an exchange of publi­cations
and many of the most im­portant
will be translated into Eng­lish
at the school.
When the foundation plans were
announced colleges and universities'
of the nation made strong bids for
the $75,000 fund. Among those
who made bids were Harvard, Yale,
Columbia, University of Ohio" and
Penn. Franklin and Marshall was
chosen, according to Dr. Apple, be­cause
of its traditional background.
Franklin college was founded by the
Pennsylvania Germans and the first
president of Marshall college was
the late Frederick A. Ruach who was
brought to this country from Germ­any
to establish the institution. All
through the history of the two
schools and later the combined insti­tution
German cultural influence has
been felt.
The growth of the Franklin and
Marshall college during the last de­cade
also won favor with the founda­tion
committee. It was pointed out
that a college the size of Franklin
and Marshall with its rich historic
background is a more fertile field
in which to begin the work than the
larger universities of the country.
—Ex.
Children Present
Dance Festival
Forty children of early- and pre­school
age presented an artistic dance
festival in Langdon Hall before a
large audience Wednesday evening.
The youngsters were members of
Mrs. Herbert Martin's kindergarten
class and Mrs. Harold Ho<Jsommer's
physical education class for child­ren.
The event was sponsored by the
Auburn Parent-Teacher's Associa­tion.
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