1931-01-14 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LIV AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1931 NUMBER 31
EIGHTEEN TO
GET DEGREES
AT MID-TERM
Commencement Exercises Will
Be Held In Langdon Hall On
January 22nd
TAKES PLACE AT 7:30
President Knapp Will Present
Successful Candidates With
Coveted Diplomas
Eighteen students are candidates
for graduation at mid-term this year.
The commencement exercises will be
held on January 22, in Langdon Hall.
Dr. Knapp will present diplomas to
the graduates at the special exercises
beginning at 7:30 p. m.
The following gives the names of
the candidates for graduation:
B.S. in Electrical Engineering
George Killough Lewis, Auburn.
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Hampton Lee Green, Pensacola,
Fla.
B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Harold LeNoir Hubbard, Anniston.
B.S. in Chemistry and Metallurgy
Spencer Wadsworth Noble, Rome,
. Ga.
Bachelor of Science
Sollie M. Carter, Opp.
Don Q. Dallas, Jr., Pavo, Ga.
Daniel Newman Garrett, Auburn.
Jesse Sherwood Jones, Jr., Hogans-ville,
Ga.
Edward Guice Potter, Anniston.
Harold Guy Scott, Camp Hill.
Bachelor of Applied Art
Rosser Alston, Fort Wayne, Ind.
B.S. in Education
Helen Collins, Opelika.
James Fred McClendon, Keener.
Harvey Godwin Pate, Auburn.
Allen Mobley Pearson, Leroy.
B.S. in Home Economics
Bernice Mitchell Pruitt, Thomas-ville.
B.S. in Home Economics Education
Mary Bradford Harkins, Abbeville.
Master of Science
Susan Lipscomb, Auburn.
TO PLAY HERE NEXT WEEK BAND IS INVITED,
TO ATTEND MARDI
GRAS IN MOBILE
Carnival Celebration Will Be­gin
This Year on February
13th
BAND USUALLY ATTENDS
Trip Is Enjoyed Annually By
The Members Of The Au­burn
Band
Inaugural Exercises
Will Be Broadcast
Above are shown Jimmie Green and the members of his world-famous
orchestra who will play for the Mid-Term Dances starting Thursday night.
Prior to their recent nation-wide concert tour, they played at the Golden
Pumpkin Cafe in Chicago, and could be heard nightly over station WENR
in Chicago. The orchestra is a presentation of the Music Corporation of
America.
CABINET DUES MUST
BE PAD) BY JAN. 17
Fine of Five Dollars To Be As­sessed
On Late Payments
Dues of organizations on the Au­burn
campus, other than those whose
funds are handled by the college,
will be delinquent after January 17.
Failure of an organization to pay
their annual dues to the Associated
Undergraduate Students of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, as pro­vided
in Section five of the Regula­tions
of Permanent Committees of
the Executive Cabinet, will subject
that organization to a fine of five
dollars.
The inaugural exercises of Gover­nor
B. M. Miller will be broadcast
over stations WAPI, in Birmingham,
and WSFA, in Montgomery, accord­ing
to official announcement made by
P. O. Davis, general manager of
WAPI, after conference with those
who are in charge of the inaugural
plans. It will be the first Alabama
inauguration to be broadcast. The
broadcast will begin at eleven o'clock
on the morning of the 19th of Jan­uary,
and continue through the in­augural
address and the oath of of­fice.
The two stations- will present
the same program, the announcers
using a balcony one story above the
portico on which Governor will stand
to take the oath of office and deliver
his address.
Judge Miller and other candidates
were given the use of WAPI for cam­paign
purposes at no cost to them be­cause
WAPI is a state and city of
Birmingham institution.
After the inauguration, WAPI will
be available to Governor Miller for
promoting the work of his adminis­tration.
It will probabljObe interesting to
note that the Auburn Band will not
attend the inaugural exercises. This
is the first time in several years that
the band has been unable to be pres­ent
at Alabama's gubernatorial inau­guration.
-
Notice
Won't the person who took the
sirene from the old Dodge fire truck
return it? It can never be of any
use to anyone and will more than re­pay
you by helping me that much.
All the equipment was sold to an­other
town and I am personally re­sponsible
for it. I will thank any­one
who will leave it at the fire sta­tion
and nothing will ever be men­tioned
about it. Jno. R. Fuller.
New Paving Project To
Be Completed March 1
Mayor W. D. Copeland announced
today that work on the $31,000 pav­ing
project, authorized by the city
council in 1930, had reached its half­way
mark, and that the last of Feb­ruary
was set as the date when the
job should be completed.
Payne Street was paved during the
holidays, and operations are under
way toward the completion of Sam-ford
Avenue. Excavations are being
made on Toomer Street, and work
will begin soon on Bragg Avenue,
Mayor Copeland stated. After the
completion of the paving process, traf­fic
will be denied the use of these
streets for the period of twenty-one
days in order to give the cement time
to set.
This improvement was made pos­sible
by funds received through the
sale of a certain franchise to the Ala­bama
Power Company.
N.C. STATE TRIMMED
BY AUBURN QUINTET
Fast and Furious Game' Is Wit­nessed
on Monday Night
By Elmer Salter
Auburrf's 1931 basketball team
pulled a brilliant battle out of the
fire from North Carolina State's
Wolfpack here Monday night, the
final score being 30 to 28 after an
extra period of five minutes.
The victory marked the third suc­cessive
conference conquest for the
Bengals.
Opening with a bang the rivals
battled on even terms throughout, the
score at half time being 14-all. At
the end of the regulation game, the
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BIOLOGICAL CLUB
ELECTS OFFICERS
The Biological Club met Thursday
evening, January 8, for the purpose
of electing the officers for the com­ing
semester.
Those elected to the offices were:
W. W. Cotney—President.
J. C. Moore—Vice-President.
H. F. Yates—Secretary-Treasurer.
Harriet A. Giljette—Reporter and
Critic.
Professor J. M. Robinson gave an
interesting talk on "Venomous
Snakes". He gave several "Believe
It or Nots", stating instances of seem­ingly
impossible effects of venomous
snakes on plant life.
A series of very interesting pro­grams
are being planned by the vice-president,
Mr. Moore. The club holds
its meetings on the second and fourth
Thursdays of each month.
RADIO TALKS WILL BE MADE
IN THRIFT WEEK OBSERVANCE
TO BE HELD HERE NEXT WEEK
Thrift Week, January 17 to 23, will
be observed by the Auburn Business
and Professional Women's Club with
a series of four radio talks over sta­tion
WAPI and the sponsoring of a
vesper service at the Methodist church
on Sunday, January 18 at 7:30 p. m.
ft^iss Alma V. Lamar, chairman of
the finance committee, has arranged
the discussions on thrift to be present­ed
over radio. Professor John Winans
Roe will present the first, speaking
on "Thrift" during the noon program
from Auburn on Saturday, Jan. 17.
This will be followed on Monday by
a discussion of "Methods of Invest­ment"
by Professor W. C. Crow of
the department of economics and so­ciology.
On the following Tuesday,
Miss Marguerite E. Odendahl will
talk on "National Own Your Own
Home Day" in connection with her
regular interior decoration feature.
H. S. Gentry of Auburn will con­clude
the series with a discussion of
"National 'Life Insurance Day" on
Wednesday noon.
In a thrift investigation of the 35
members of the local club it was found
that 64 per cent maintained a savings
account, that 94 per cent carried life
insurance, 53 per cent owned securi­ties,
and that 23 per cent are now
in the process of buying a home. Of
the membership, 18 per cent have al­ready
prepared and 35 per cent have
one or more dependents.
The Auburn Band has been invit­ed
to return to Mobile to participate
in the Mardi Gras celebrations Feb,
13-17, for the seventh consecutive
year. A letter from Mr. John D.
Logan, secretary and business man­age
rof the Carnival Association to
J. R. Quinlivan, business manager of
the band requesting that the band
return to partake of the festivities
was received recently.
The Mardi Gras celebration will
begin with a parade and ball given by
the Krewe of Columbus Friday eve­ning,
Feb. 1, and will last five days,
being concluded with a ball given by
the Infant Mystics, Cuesday night,
Feb. 17.
On previous occasions the Auburn
Band has featured prominently in all
the parades of the Carnival season,
and has been selected to lead the ma­jority
of them. Daily concerts from
the band stand in Bienville Square
have been a regular feature of the
band's appearance in Mobile.
King Felix, ruler of carnival, has
always selected the Auburn musi­cians
to act as the personal band of
His Majesty, and on former occa­sions
his arrival on the scene of the
festivities has been accompanied by
the Auburn band. The Auburn band
has been selected to furnish music
for the coronation of the Queen of
Carnival which comes on Monday
night of the Carnival" season.
The 1931 Auburn band is com­posed
of forty-five musicians under
the direction of P. R. Bidez, band-matser
since 1919. The band was
founded in 1897 by Professor Thorn
as M. Fullan, now head of the de-patrment
of drawing and machine
design at Auburn: In 1906 Profes­sor
A. L. Thomas, professor of draw­ing,
took charge of the band, and
held this position until 1919 when
the present director took the baton.
Rehearsals are now being held
daily in an effort to present concerts
worthy of the record made by the
band in former appearances at Mardi
Gras celebrations.
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NEW SYSTEM OF ADMISSION WILL BE
INAUGURATED AT MID-TERM DANCES;
NINE HUNDRED BIDS MAILED TO GIRLS
COLLEGE FEES FOR SECOND
SEMESTER ARE ANNOUNCED
Late Registration Fee of $5.00 Will Be Required
i Beginning Monday, January 26th
The following statement concerning college fees for the second se­mester
was announced from the registrar's office yesterday:
Fees Required of All Students
College Fees - $32.50
Student-Activities Fee 7.50
$40.00
Additional Fees and Deposits Required of Certain Students
Laundry (all men) _ $12.00
Extra Laundry and Dry Cleaning (optional) ' 3.00
Non-residents of Alabama , 25.00
Students in Pharmacy (except freshmen in 4-year course) 10.00
Students in Home Economics 7.50
Students in Veterinary Medicine ^ . 5.00
Typewriter fee (for students taking this course) 5.00
Students in Engineering (Auburn Engineer) .50
Students in Agriculture and Agricultural Education (Alabama Farmer) .75
Late Registration (maximum) 10.00
The official registration period for
the second semester closes at noon,
January 24. An extra fee of $5.00
will be charged for registration on
January 26; and an additional fee
of $1.00 per day will be charged for
each day registration is deferred be­yond
this date, the maximum charge
for late registration for the second
semester being fixed at $10.00. No
exceptions will be made to these reg­ulations.
In addition to the fees mentioned
above, new students will be required
to pay a contingent deposit of $5.00,
$16.00 for uniform' (freshmen in R.
O. T. C ) , and a physical examination
fee of $2.00.
FACULTY DANCE TO
BE GIVEN SATURDAY
Auburn Knights to Play For
Mid-Year Dance of Faculty
Club
SENIOR PRESIDENT
TO LEAVE SCHOOL
Howard Gray, a student in agri­culture
and president of the senior
class, will resign from college at the
end of the present seme^ser. He will
return to his home at New Market to
be with his mother who is ill and to
take chai'ge of the family farm and
business.
This became known Tuesday. Mr.
Gray expressed his keen disappoint­ment
on being unable to remain un­til
the end of the second semester
and graduate. He has only 8%
hours of work between him and his
degree. He hopes to return to Au
burn within a year to complete his
student work. Being the only child
in his family his return home at this
time is necessary.
Mr. Gray has spent 3% years as
a student at Auburn. He has been
very active in student activities. He
was president of his class during both
sophomore and junior years. Last
spring he was elected president for
the senior year.
In addition he is president of the
Block and Bridle Club. He is also
business manager of the Alabama
Farmer. He is a member of Spades,
O. -D. K., and other honorary fra­ternities;
also the Alpha Gamma Rho
fraternity.
Students and faculty regret to see
Mr. Gray leave the campus and hope
that he will be able to return at an
early date. ,
The mid-year dances of the Auburn'
faculty members will take place at
the Opelika Country Club Saturday
evening, January 17, according to an
announcement by Charles W. Ed­wards,
chairman of the Faculty Dance
Club.
Because of the popularity of the Au­burn
Knights, this orchestra has again
been secured to furnish music for the
occasion which begins at 9:00 o'clock
and lasts until midnight.
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Water Tank Is Flooded
In Fire Demonstration
Completely flooding the top of the
city water tank from a point along
side of the A. T. O. House was the
feat accomplished by the Auburn Fire
Department Sunday morning before a
large crowd of spectators when it
demonstrated to officials of the City
of Opp, Alabama, the merits of the
new fire fighting equipment.
J. R. Fuller, fire chief, stated that
during the test they found the appa­ratus
capable of pumping eight hund­red
and seventy gallons of water per
minute. This was the first test the
new truck has undergone, there be­ing
no serious fire reported since its
installation.
LIONS LAY ASIDE
BUSINESS TUESDAY
New System Is Explained By
Social Committee Chairman
to Plainsman Representative
TEN DOLLARS IS CHARGE
COMPLETE SET OF DANCES
Dance Regulations Are Being
Printed For Benefit of Stu­dents
DAY DANCES TO BE $1
Decorations Are In Charge Of
C. F. Davis and Geo. Brinson,
Students in Architecture
Original Merriment Program
Featured At Weekly Meet­ing
of Civic Club
With the successful completion of
the many projects sponsored by them
in 1930 and the eelction of new offi­cers
off their hands, the Auburn Lions
met in the Thomas Hotel Tuesday at
noon to enjoy each other's company
for an hour of merriment, during
which all business was suspended, and
wit and humor predominated. Thru-out
the meeting the "Tail Twister",
the "Lion Tamer", and all of the
Lions weer on the alert to take every
advantage of playing jokes upon one
another. Very often elaborate tales
were necessary to explain the pe­culiar
circumstances, or rather pre­dicaments,
in which they weer alleged
to have been seen by certain Lions at
such inopportune times. Mock trials
were common, and the "Dime Chair­man"
was kept very busy extracting
the jingling bits of metal from the
defeated but never disheartened
clients.
Professor E. F. Guyton, new 2nd
vice-president of the club, presided,
according to the usual custom of al­lowing
the new 2nd and 3rd vice-presidents
conduct the two meetings
preceding the installation of the new
president. It was a trying time to
have such an honor bestowed upon
one, for he found himself a favorite
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• A new system of admission will be
inaugurated at the Mid-Term dances
which will start Thursday, according
to a statement by Sabel Shanks,
chairman of the social committee. A
ticket entitling the purchaser to at­tend
all dances will be ten dollars as
usual. A student may attend two'
ijight dances by purchasing a seven
dollar ticket or may pay four dollars
to attend any one night dance. The
day dances may be attended by per­sons
holding either a ten or seven
dollar ticket, while a four dollar
ticket entitles a person to attend only
the dances on the day that he attends
the night dance. Those not attending
any other dances may enter the day
dances upon paying one dollar per
dance. Tickets will be sold at the
Tiger Drug Store between the hours
of 2 p. m. and 4:30 p. m. on Thurs­day
to avoid the customary rush at
the dance entrance.
Approximately nine hundred bids
were mailed out by the social com­mittee
yesterday, and a large attend­ance
of girls is expected. Girls
should report to Miss Dobbs' office
immediately upon arrival to be as­signed
to fraternity houses at which
they will reside during their stay in
Auburn. At this time visitors will
also receive a program, a copy of
the dance regulations, and an en­gagement
book.
The dance regulations as submit­ted
by Miss Dobbs are as follows:
1. All visiting young ladies will-Jje
under the supervision of the Social
Director, and Dean of Women, or
her representative during their pe­riod
of stay in Auburn.
2. All visiting young ladies are ex­pected
to arrive not earlier than the
opening day of the dances and to
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Alston Speaks To
Commerce Students
Alston Talks To Commercial Art
Students
PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
INFORMATION HELP PREVENTION
OF UNEMPLOYMENT SAYS HERTY
In the opinion of Dr. Charles R. I of unusual unemployment will be
Herty, widely-known chemist of New
York and special lecturer in chemis­try
at the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute,
one of the ways to prevent
unemployment is advanced informa­tion
on production and consumption.
Dr. Herty made this declaration
while in Auburn for a special lecture.
He referred to the fact that this theo­ry
was presented 90 years ago at a
meeting of business men in Baltimore
but that it is still lacking in applica-i
tion.
With production and consumption
statistics to date, farmers and manu­facturers
know what to do and how
to base their production plans. If' fcerns during a period of severe depres-these
facts are observed recurrence
avoided, he said.
With this objective in view Dr.
Herty declared that all statistical and
research work of the United States
government should be enlarged. He
declared also that business men and
bankers as well as farmers should co­operate
heartily with the government
in obtaining full information pertain­ing
to production and consumption.
He declared that a business concern
can well tefford to employ one man
to atttend to this phase of the work
for the salary of one man, he added,
would be nil compared to the losses
incurred by thousands of business con-
Rosser Alston, a former student at
Auburn, gave an interesting talk on
Advertising Art to the students of
the Commercial Art department.
Pointing out the difference between
good and bad examples of advertise­ment,
Alston showed the urgency of
effective Direct-Mail advertising
problems.
Commenting on the facilities and
growth of the Applied Arts Depart­ment,
he lauded the curriculum, and
expressed the opinion that the course
lacks few, if any, of the essentials
constituting a first class course.
Alston, now District Advertising
Manager of the Allied Mills, was the
first student to enroll in the Com­mercial
Art course in Auburn. As
this course was then incomplete, he
went to Indiana before receiving his
degree, but he will receive it at the
coming commencement exercises.
While a student in Auburn, Alston
took an active part in the activities
on the campus. He was a member of
the Auburn Band and the editor of
The Plainsman in 1926. Although he
has been with the Allied Mills only
one year, officials of the company
have shown their satisfaction in his
work by promoting him rapidly. He
now supervises the advertising of the
company in thirteen staffes.
PAGE TWO THE PLAINSMAN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1931
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Published semi-weekly by the students of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
Alabama.
Subscription rates $3.50 per year (60
issues). Entered as second class matter
at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala.
Business and editorial offices at Auburn
Printing Co. on Magnolia Street.
Offices hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily.-
STAFF
Gabie Drey
Charles S. Davis
Editor-in-Chief
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 .
Murff Hawkins
K. M. McMillan
Sports Editor
Exchange Editor
...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
DANCE CONDUCT
In a few days Auburn will be in the
midst of the leading social event of the
year, the Junior Prom. As usual the Fac­ulty
and Social Director are certain to be
faced with problems of conduct, and it
is still more certain that the cardinal cause
of most irregularities will arise from those
false conceptions of pleasure, that are in
evidence at most dances.
During the Dances Auburn will be more
or less on dress parade. Every effort is
being made to create, a favorable impres­sion,
both to visitors of the fairer sex and
outsiders attending the festivities, The
Gymnasium is being beautified, an expen­sive
orchestra has been procured, and all
will be in readiness for social activities of
the highest type. What could be more out
of harmony with the whole scheme, than
disorderly conduct by members of the stu­dent
body, hosts of the occasion.
The Plainsman deplores such actions dur­ing
the period, and feels that the majority
of the students attending the dances want
them conducted on the highest of social
planes.
AUBURN SPORTSMANSHIP
It seems to us, after viewing the recent
varsity basketball games, that Auburn,
which has always been noted for her good
sportsmanship, is about to develop some
habits which are clearly in opposition to
all existing rules and conceptions of good
sportsmanship and fair play. These habits
are like the proverbial ill wind in that they
do absolutely no good as far as winning
the game is concerned but rather serve to
create an impression that is detrimental to
the good name of Auburn Spirit.
Many times during the game with North
Carolina Monday night when there were
close decisions given adverse to Auburn
there was a considerable amount of hissing
and booing directed towards the official.
This was done for the most part by those
who could not see the players in question
clearly or who had their view obstructed
in some way. It is quite true that at times
it seems as if the referee makes unfair
decisions, but it must be remembered that
he has a much better view of the game
and that it is his business to see things
which are missed by the majority of the
crowd.
Still another habit which is developing
in spite of the efforts of some to stop it is
that of not keeping quiet when an oppos­ing
player is making a free throw. Every
one manages to keep quiet when'a mem­ber
of the Auburn team is making a free,
throw yet when an opposing player at­tempts
the same thing there is entirely
too much noise. This is very disconcert­ing
to a man about to make a shot and
out of courtesy to the visiting teams it
should be done away with.
The Plainsman feels sure that the stu­dent
body will see the unsportsmanlike
quality of these habits and will try to
break them up.
Marriage is an art, and now the most
neglected of arts. Education should be­gin
not later than at the age of two.—
Judge Ben Lindsey. •
Man has been cleverer with his hands
than with his head.—Leonard Behrens.
My Opinion
By Vasili Leoniduitch
WITH NO little interest have I fol­lowed
the defense of sentimental-ism
by two columnists of the
Birmingham Press. It seems that the
modern tendency is to consider sentiment
rather passe. We are becoming afraid of
our emotions, and to be called sentimental
is an insult. America is the Siberia of
emotionalism.
Yet, all great deeds have first been
achieved in emotional life. History repeat­edly
proves the statement. Asia's great
material resources were .shattered when
thrown against Greek sentiment, and Rome
fell only after she was robbed of Roman
spirit. Can America profit from the course
she is pursueing?
Is it not sentiment that makes college
more attractive? When countless rules
have heen forgotten and technicalities are
lost in the oblivion of fleeting years, memo­ries
of the_more human things will remain.
When sentiment reigns we are lured on
to joys, to perils, to love, and even death is
glorified; but as we emerge to the realm of
the cynical the glow of the heart grows
cold, grows still, and expires.
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The pictures of Alabama's crushing de­feat
of Washington State, when shown at
the Tiger theater this week, were given a
big hand by Auburn students. They ap­preciated
the strength of the Tide, and
took genuine pride in the impressive show­ing
the sister institution made on the Coast.
Many Auburn men are already dreaming
of a new stadium dedicated by Alabama and
Auburn.
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Next Monday Alabama will have a new
Governor. He faces chaos in the State
Treasury, and follows the greatest spend­thrift
in our history to the chair. I trust
he does not have a mania for seeing his
name on buildings.
THE LAMENTED SEA BEAST
Seldom "does mankind become well
enough acquainted with the dwellers of
the ocean to give one of them a name.
In fact, we didn't know it was ever done
save in the fictional pages of Herman
Melville.
But the Associated Press assures us
that the little town of Eden, in New South
Wales, Australia, is mourning the loss of
a big citizen of the vasty deep. This was
"Old Tom," said to have been king of a
pack of killer whales for more than 100
years.
Now the killer whales, it seems, are not_
whales. They are dolphins, and thus more
nearly akin to the humble porpoises. But
at any rate, whales, killer whales and por­poises
are all cetacea, or sea mammals.
"Old Tom" was the antithesis of his
more celebrated cetacean cousin, "Moby
Dick." The land-dwelling mammals who
go down to the sea in ships, it will be re­called,
hated "Moby Dick," because he ob­stinately
refused to allow his body to be
rendered for oil. The fact that the well-being
of the inhabitants of New Bedford
was threatened by a possible underproduc­tion
of whale oil meant nothing in the
old life of that ranger of the Pacific. He
was one of those vicious "beasts that would
defend himself when attacked by the lords
of creation. And he was a master in the
whalely art of self-defense. He could lash
out with his tail and a boat would be over­turned,
one snap of his jaws and the leg
of the chief harpooner was amputated.
Not so, "Old Tom." Somewhere and for
some purposes, in this year of grace, whale
oil is consumed, and the existence of the
village of Eden depends on supplying this
wellnigh forgotten part of the world's
consumption. In the season of whales,
these monsters were driven into Eden's
land-locked bay by the killer whales led
by their monarch, "Old Tom." The har-pooners,
summoned by a lookout, would
go out in their boats and kill the whales
while the dolphins would go backward and
forward across the entrance to the bay
and prevent the larger cetaceans from
eluding their human pursuers.
In return for these services, the har-pooners,
after they had made "their kills,
would throw to their cetacean allies the
great mobile tongue mass which lolls in the
mouth of the whales and which the dol­phins
esteem as the choicest morsel which
the carcass of the whale affords.
The people of Eden are no doubt anx­iously
awaiting to see if the successor of
"Old Tom" has anything like the execu­tive
ability of the old ruler and if the pack
under new leadership will be as successful
in rounding up their larger kinsmen.
—Montgomery Advertiser.
There are no truer pictures of human
beings than those on passports.—Juan J.
Aigura.
It is easy to see that many accepted con­ventions
are disappearing.—Rev. Dr. W. R.
Bowie. _
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
Talk about the real
spirit a n d a r e al
game, t h a t g a me
Monday night was the
limit, and I had to
miss it. It takes a
great deal of courage
and fighting ability
to pull a game out of
the fire which is as
close as that game was. A team that can
keep its head and hold its nerve and play
that kind of a game deserves a lot of
credit. Here's to Sam McAllister and
every fellow on the squad. •
Incidently I am terribly disappointed
that we don't have a place where we could
have a real big audience to see basketball
games. With that kind of a team we could
really draw big crowds if we only had a
place to hold the audience as well as play
the game. I have tried to plan it but the
money just isn't in existence to do what
we want to do and ought to do. I expect
we shall have to content ourselves in pati­ence
until we can work it out.
* * * *
In these difficult times the worth of a
man is much more apparent than in the
days of affluence. Ease, luxury and plenty
of money to spend may gloss over a char­acter
that fails when hardships come. I
think there has been nothing more encour­aging
than the attitude of the faculty and
students of this institution as we have be­gun
facing difficulties of a day when money
is scarce and things are hard to get. I am
thankful for the encouragement and sup­port
of fine men and women in this new
era.
* * - * *
Next week we will have a new chairman
of the. Board of Trustees as well as a new
Governor. I am sure that he is just as
profoundly interested in honest, conscien­tious
work and in the good that this insti­tution
can do in the State as any other
man can be. We shall all hope that when
time will permit him to do so he will come
often to Auburn and become acquainted
with its student body and its faculty and
know and appreciate, as I feel sure he will,
the sincerity of purpose and fine work go­ing
on at this institution.
* * * *
We are facing a time of tests. To be
tested and not found wanting is a real
accomplishment. There is no way to find
out finally whether one knows a subject
or not except by examination. The truth
of the matter is that the whole of life is
a continual examination. We are tested
on every hand. Most of us do not object
to being examined or tested providing it is
a fair, square, honest test. I think the
average teacher at this and other institu­tions,
especially those of some experience,
has developed philosophy enough not to
put too much emphasis upon a person's
ability to answer one single individual
question chosen out of a great field of
knowledge. *And yet a fair examination
ought to give some indication of the thor­oughness
with which one has mastered a
subject during the semester's work. There
are a lot of factors in making up the
standard. The daily tasks in class, labo­ratory,
or shop have a strong bearing. The
willingness to work and the attitude to­ward
the work are to be considered. I
am much inclined to think that the atti­tude
of the teacher is just as important if
not more than that of the student. First
there is the challenge, has the teacher real­ly
taught, and that has its corresponding
challenge, has the student been willing and
anxious to learn? Has the teacher tried
to convey the knowledge; has he inspired
the student to want to know? There are
teachers who can make a student like a
subject and there are teachers as well who
make students dislike subjects. To me,
however, the most important thing is the
fairness of attitude upon the part of the
teacher, the sympathy and understanding
of the teacher toward the student. Cross­ing
t's and dotting i's will neither make
nor break a life. They have relative im­portance
it is true. What a college ought
to be after is the substance'of an educa­tion,
a training, a development, an expand­ing
ability to know, to think, to reason,
and to reach honest conclusions. I am
wishing you well in these tests.
Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood,
For the good or evil side.
But the case presents no problem
To the White House engineer;
He appoints a big commission
To report some time next year.
—Sen. Geo. Norris, of Nebraska.
It is the opportunity for self-govern­ment
itself which gives training for self-government,
not foreign subjection.—Sir
Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet.
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
The City Council has placed a fine on throwing chewing gum on the street—
the Austins must not get stuck.
* * * * * * * * *
Who was the co-ed that had such a fondness for pretty clothes that she was
wrapped up in them?
* * * * * * * * *
"Wont you just once", he entreated? The warm spring weather made his
blood surge with new life. t
"No", was her firm but gentle answer.
"But I must". He was desperate now, an insatiable longing seemed to take
control of his every emotion. x
"No", she repeated.
"Ah mamma, all the other boys are going barefooted. Can't I just once."
* * * * * * * * *
THE QUEEN OF HEARTS
The Queen of Hearts she was a blonde,
Or so the tale is told.
A man unknown throughout the court,
Approached the queen so bold.
Oh Queen, said he. I am so blue,
Won't you my sad tale hear?
I love a blonde here In the court,
But I am not a peer.
A knight you are, the queen replied,
If you doth love blonde maids.
Avaunt, said she, arise at once,
I dub thee Knight of Spades.
So on his steed, the Ace of Spades,
Rode to his blonde so fair.
But what was found at Castle Grande,
Made the poor knight despair.
His lady love had run away,
And wed the gardener's son.
The Ace of Spades, he threw a fit,
And his revenge begun.
He slew the varlet knave at once,
And dyed the maiden's hair.
He said she could not be a blonde,
For blondes he'd always care.
The courtly criers, this sad tale,
Did to their blonde queen bring.
She summoned him at once to come,
And straightway made him king.
—HIC-HIC.
* * * * * * * * *
The financial depression was solved Monday afternoon for the members of
advanced R. O. T. C.
* * * * * * * * *
For the dances: Wine—any fraternity house; song—Jimmie Green; and
women—Sonny Paterson.
* * * * * * * * *
What came very near in being the latest in college suicides was discovered
recently in the nick of time at the Sigma Nu house. John Christian was found
locked in his room alone with a half smoked Picayune.
* * * * * * * * *
We imagine Rudy Vallee would make a good football player he seems to get
across so .well.
* * * * * * * * *
If all the saxophone players i/i the world were laid end to end they would still
play the "St. Louis Blues".
* * * * * * * * *
A hypocrite is anyone who .can make an eight o'clock class and sing "All the
World is Jealous of Me."
* * * * * * * * *
It is reported that pass out checks for the dances are selling at $4.00 per gallon.
SAME OLD GAL
The co-ed of 1930 is fundamentally the
same as the co-ed of 1864, in the opinion
of Mrs. Emma J. Sawyer. She made her
deductions from a recent visit to the Uni­versity
of Iowa campus, where she was a
college student in 1864. The college girl
of 1930, Mrs. Sawyer says, "may revel in
new freedom, but after all she expects to
marry, to have a home and children and
rear them to be good boys and girls."
We'd like -to have a slant in one the old
boys of 1864 too, wouldn't we? We know
for a fact they made some whoopee, %and
the some not meaning a small: indefinite
amount. At any rate they envy our youth
to such an extent that they try to be very
hard and strict on us.
* * * *
OH MY, MY
Consider the sad plight of our dumb
freshman who had a date with the fat lady
of the circus and after hours of heavy
necking found that he was only holding
her arm.—Old Gold and Black.
* * * *
DON'T OMIT
From the Blue Stocking TRg find ten of
the most interesting news subjects for
newspaper work in the order named: 1.
sports; 2 domestic and foreign affairs; 3
finance; 4 aviation; 5 disasters; 6 prohi­bition;
1 crime; 8 radio; 9 religion; 10 sci­ence.
Now we wonder how they could
leave out the co-eds.
* * * *
ONE STEP FORWARD
At Chicago University, they are staging
an innovation in educational methods. The
president of the college announces that
the school plans to abandon the tradition­al
system by which a student is required to
spend four years obtaining a fixed num­ber
of credits before he is entitled to a
degree.
In its stead, the university intends to
establish a system whereby a student can
be graduated whenever he can pass a com­prehensive
examination. It might be add­ed
that a number of other schools have
adopted or worked out a similar course of
action. It is easy to see that the present
method of graduating a student is old
fashioned, fundamentally unsound, very
unfair, and in the near future will be com­pletely
buried in the wake of the newer
and more direct methods of getting a
working knowledge. Our colleges claim to
turn out flexible students that can fit in
to most any line of work in their chosen
field, but is that the true condition? No.
The first thing a student does is find a job,
absolutely learn how to operate at capacity
output in that one rut, become mechani­cal.
Become another great statesman, fi­nancier
or engineer? No. The true case
of affairs absolutely proves that our pres­ent
system tends to cause a student to
crib on his subjects, get disgusted with the
thing that before entering college burned
in his very coul to be his life work, and
turns him out, the best four years of his
life gone not mentioning the four to ten
thousand dollars spent, in hardly more
than a daze. Possibly fanatic, maybe good
sense; take your choice.
"Mass production" is the cry word, and
just as true in our colleges as in the busi­ness
world. While statistics prove that the
smaller colleges have by far the largest
percentage of their graduates enrolled in
"Who's Who in America." Two Lafayette
College professors recently announced sta­tistics
in which they tabulated all the col­leges
in the U. S. according to their intel­lectual
standards. Hampden-Sidney, with
a student body of less than 300, has more
living graduates, in proportion, who have
attained sufficient eminence to enable them
to be enrolled in "Who's Who in America"
than any other institution in the country.
There are no large universities, with the
exception of Harvard, Yale, and Prince­ton,
among the schools with the highest
percentage of graduates in "Who's Who."
It seems that the great plants are neg­lecting
something that the men would oth­erwise
get at the small colleges. Until
this something is found and corrected, mass
education in America can hardly be termed
a success, and the small college remains
where it always has been; the foundation
of the country's intellectual fabric.
Solitary Speculations
By. Haakon Provost
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial
opinions of this paper. It is a column of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
"While still, unheard, but in its
wonted way
Piped the drear wind of that De­cember
day."
* * * * * S SUNDAY afternoon thoughts: An ar­ticle
in Harpers by Dr. Harry Emer­son
Fosdick. That song "You're Driv­ing
me Crazy." Would like to have the
record mailed to John Temple Graves II.
Wonder who Hie Hie '31 is. Last issue's
social page filthy with wisdom. Would
that this columnist had the brains of a
philosopher and could spout sapient ad­monitions
by the cubic yard. That iron­ically
graceful crawl of Leoniduitch. He
must give me lessons some time,, Life is in­deed
becoming sordid; haven't been called
a bad word in ages. Nothing much to
laugh about these days. Henry L. Mencken
—"To have a good show you must have a
good fight, and to have a good fight, you
must have lots of blood." Just be sure
that the blood isn't your own. If you've
never read Tchekoff's The Boor you. still
have something to live for. A musical pro­gramme
this morning from the Roxy The­atre.
Madame Schumann-Heink is still a
prominent figure in the musical world. The
embarassment of having to take freshman
chemistry. Wonder if anybody is going to
get drunk during the dances. The latest
American formula for corn whisky includes
Flit and powdered horse hair. The world
is holding its breath while one of Presi­dent
Hoover's investigation committees pre­pares
to render its report. No doubt a
turning point in history. Fine basketball
game Saturday night. The" athletic situ­ation
is improving on all sides. Italy and
France glaring each other in the face, wait­ing
for the spark to set off their powder
magazines. As many armed men in Eu­rope-
today as there were in 1914. The
weather must be off schedule or something.
The rain started nearly two weeks before
the dances. Two more classes in Economics.
Gloria in Excelsis!
* * * *
When Mussolini does a thing he does it
thoroughly and in a big way. Let the
trans-Atlantic flight Of the squadron of
Italian aeroplanes witness. Although five
of his finest airmen were lost and three
seriously injured. II Duce has done some­thing
else to the glory of his country.
Some day he may hope to parallel in
achievement the Republican administration
of the last twelve years.
* * :,': *
Writing a column may well be compared
to conducting a puppet show. If one pulls
the first string the first puppet will move;
if one pulls the second string the second
puppet will move; and if one pulls both
strings at once the puppets will move to­gether.
In the same manner, if the colum­nist
says one thing the first donkey will
bray; if he says another thing the second
donkey will bray; and if he says both
things -at once the donkeys will bray in
unison.
HOW ABOUT THE DIZZY SPECTATORS
Many ingenious plans for adding to the
existing Harvard stadium, or building a
new one, have been drawn on table cloths
and on the backs of envelopes, but none
more so than the design calling for a cir­cular
amphitheater enclosing two football
fields which bisect each other. The play
would be shifted from one field to the other
at the end of each quarter and thus spec­tators
behind the goal posts for one period
would automatically be at the fifty yard
line" the next. However, goal posts at
every quarter of the compass might tend
to confuse a dizzy halfback, not to men­tion
feminine spectators.—Harvard Alumni
Bulletin.
GRACIOUS
We see where the German students at
Birmingham-Southern have recently been
recognized, and their club granted a chart­er
in Delta Phi, national honorary German
society. Nine such chapters are in U. S.
Colleges and Universities. Boys and girls
alike are taken in, but the professional part
automatically eliminated the housing prob­lem
that would otherwise arise.
Thinking is the great enemy of perfec­tion.
The habit of profound reflection, I
am compelled to say, is the most pernicious
of all habits formed by civilized man.—
Joseph Conrad.
We must always beware of simply sub­stituting
a new and possibly worse tyranny
for an old, as has so often happened in
the sad annals.of human progress.—How­ard
Madison Parshley.
You can become as well educated as you
like in America without spending -a cent.
—Mclnnes.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1931 THE PLAINSMAN 'PAGE THREE
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ADRIAN TAYLOR, Editor; Harry Barnes, Assistant Editor; Marshall Caley, L. B.
Graves, Tad McCallum, assistants. •
COACH HUTSELL HAS LOST
SEVERAL IMPORTANT COGS
OF AUBURN'S TRACK TEAM
FORM NUCLEUS OF AUBURN'S CAGE TEAM
By Elmer G. Salter
From last year's Auburn track
team, undefeated in dual competition,
Coach Wilbur Hutsell has lost sev­en
important cogs.
It was definitely known last sea­son
that graduation would take four
members of the team, but Mentor Hut-sell
had not taken a course in India
in crystal gazing, he had only been
across the waters as an assistant
coach for the United States Olympic
team, so it was quite a. blow to him
when two of his stars decided to en­ter
the business world and another
decided to pursue a law course and
enrolled at George Washington Uni­versity.
Carman Teague and James Mc-
Clendon, "A" wearers in the half mile
and two mile; Thos. Gaillard, pole
vault, and Dave Bottoms, half mile,
are the tracksters who were not ex­pected
back this year Lawrence
Chamblee, Southeastern A. A. U.
champion in the century; Andrew
Burnett, heavy point scorer in the
broad and high jump, and Joe Hughes,
third in the pole vault in the annual
Southern Conference meet in Bir-minham,
all letter men, are the trio
counted upon heavily this season who
failed to return.
'Tis Fine to
Dine
at the
PICKWICK
However, prospect's for another out­standing
track team at the Alabama
Polytechniclnstitute are not gloomy
as one might expect. With Wilbur
Hutsell, one of the greatest track
coaches in the United States, and
Weems Baskin, one of the leading
hurdlers in the universe, tutoring the
thinly-clad aspirants, and with several
of last season's veterans back, the
1931 Plainsmen track team is again
expected to be one of the leaders in
Dixie.
Alt.-Capt. William "Primo" Cole­man
and Jack tSewart, star center
on the basketball team, are the
champions returning. Coleman was
undefeated in Southern competition
in 1930 in the discus event, while
Stewart annexed first honors in the
high jump at the Southern Confer­ence
meet.
The leading candidates for the 1931
team are: 100-Earnest Bell, Bill
O'hara and Felix Creighton. 220—
O'Hara and Creighton. 440—Clay
Jones, Scott Turk and Bell. 880—
Eugene Gray, Elton Huff, W. Mc­Queen
and Huff. Two-mile—Clarence
Roberts, Joe Plant, Joseph McQueen
and Hopson Murfee. 120-yd high
hurdles—Jeff Beard, Jack Stewart
and Robert Stacey. 220-yd. low hur­dles—
Beard, Stewart and Bell. Pole
vault—George Boswell and Kenneth
Hall. "High jump—Stewart and Sta­cey.
• Broad jump—O'Hara, Howard
Ellis, Thurston Harwell and Luther
Mathews. Shot put—Alt. Capt. Wm.
Coleman and Beard. Discus—Cole­man,
Beard and Robert Arthur. Jav­elin—
Capt. Sam Robinson, Carl Creel,
Harbin Lawson and Paul Phillips.
Five veterans will aid Sam McAllister in developing a winning cage quintet at Auburn this season. Left
to right, they are: Frock Pate and Capt. Ralph Jordan, forwards; Jack Stewart, center; Harbin Lawson,
guard, and Tom Lumpkin, forward.
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Cleveland, Ohio — ( I P )— Two im­portant
resolutions, one designed to
place "above board" the "close con­nection
between public utilities and
the academic profession," and the
other to provide a means for arriv­ing
at a plan to insure freedom of
speech and tenure of office for col
lege professors, were passed by the
American Association of University
Professors, in session here during the
holidays.
The first action provides that any
member of the organization who tes­tifies
or speaks in public on behalf
of an organization or individual pay­ing
him a retainer fee shall make
public the fact that he is being paid
by that organization or individual.
In this action the professors' as­sociation
apparently had in mind the
report of its committee which in­vestigated
the spreading of propa­ganda
by public utilities corporations
through educators, many of whom,
the committee found, were receiving
fees of as much as $10,000 annually
for research work done for the utili­ties.
No voice was raised at the conven­tion
to question the ethics of receiv­ing
such retainer fees so long as the
professor being paid made the fact
public.
The second resolution authorized
the officers of the association to con­fer
with other organizations of col­lege
teachers in an effort to work
out a plan whereby college trustees
may be deterred from dicharging fac­ulty
members without reasons justi­fiable
in the minds of the teachers'
organizations, and repojrt back at
the meeting next December.
The association was taken to task
by Dr. Ernest Hatch Wilkins, presi­dent
of Oberlin College, who addres­sed
the annual banquet at Hotel
Statler, for its failure to make an
interest in an improvement of the
quality of teaching in American uni­versities.
"Many other organizations, such
as the Association of American Col­leges
and the Association of Ameri­can
Universities, are tackling this
problem," the Oberlin president said,
"and, so far as I have been able to
discover, your organization is the on­ly
one which has failed to consider
this problem. I feel strongly that
you should do so and that if you did
it would mean a tremendous influ­ence
in the right direction."
Dr. Wilkins pleaded also for more
individual attention to the student
by the professor, asserting that,
while the English tutorial system
would probably not be acceptable in
this country, a compromise between
that system and the American lec­ture
system should be developed.
Dinosaur Footprints
Discovered in Canada
TIGERS DEFEAT CLEMS0N
AT GYM SATURDAY NIGHT
BY LARGE SCORE, 44 21
Ottawa, Canada —(IP)— Discov­ery
of footprints of dinosaurs along
the Peace River in British Columbia,
among the foothills of the Rockies,
is believed here to throw new light
on the life and habits of these pre­historic
monsters.
The footprints were of five differ­ent
species of the animals, the ani­mals
ranging in size from 12 feet
long to 35 feet long.
At that time, when the animals
lived, the section in which their foot­prints
have been found, was tropical
in climate, and was on the shore of
By Tad McCallum
Fast passing and accurate shooting
gave the Auburn dribblers their sec­ond
Conference victory Saturday
night, Coach Josh Cody's Clemson
quintet going down before the furious
attack of the Bengals to the tune of
44 to 20. -
Captain Ralph Jordan regained his
scoring eye to total 17 points while
the remainder of the team combined
to put one of the smoothest per
formances that has been witnessed in
the Alumni gym since the great quin
tet of 1928 waded through practi
cally all Southern conference oppo
sition.
Outside of Jordan's deadly shoot
ing there was no individual play of
especial prominence on the part of
the Auburn team. Every man blend­ed
into the short passing game and
the team worked as a unit.
Auburn hopped into an early lead
and held it throughout the contest.
It was in the first half that the
Plainsmen flashed an offense that
left both the opposition and the spec-a
great salt water sea which stretch­ed
northward from the present Gulf
of Mexico to the Arctic Circle.
The discovery was made 475 miles
north of the international boundary
line.
tators in a daze and left the floor
at the halfway mark leading 26 to
11.
Coach McAllister's outfit changed
their style of attack in the last half
and played more cautiously but man­aged.,^
keep pace with Clemson in
the scoring. The play was fast and
toward the end of the final period
both Stewart, star Auburn pivot man,
and Davis, high scorer for Clemson,
were removed from the game with
four personal fouls.
The victory moved the Tigers up
into a tie for second place in the
Southern Conference standing with
two wins and no losses on their rec­ord.
Gibson, forward and captain or
the Clemson team, played a neat floor
game for the invaders while Davis
and Smith, forward and guard re­spectively,
tied for scoring honors
with six apiece.
Lineups: Auburn—Jordan (17)
and Lumpkin (9), forwards; Stewart
(9), center; Hatfield (4) and Kaley
(3), guards. Substitutions: Pate,
Jenkins, Arthur (2), and Lowson.
Clemson—Gibson (3) and Davis
(6), forwards; Crain, center; Smith
(6) and Clark (2), guards. Subs:
Barbare, Craig (3), and Calhoun.
Referee: Roosma (Army).
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STEPPING NTO MODERN WORLD
More dope about Solomon and his
times is expected to be uncovered
when scientists begin more extensive
investigations into the buried relics
on the site of the battlefield of Ar-mageddon,
which recently has been
purchased by a group of Americans.
Clarence Darrow, noted criminal
lawyer and one of the country's out­standing
agnostics, has expressed the
desire that on his death his body be
cremated. Darrow does not believe
in after life.
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Now they manufacture weather
for telephone testing
A test illustrating work in the Bell Tele­phone
Laboratories is made with the
weatherometer. This device produces
rain and sunshine to order, and deter­mines
the weather-resisting properties
of telephone equipment.
This test indicates an interesting habit
of the men engaged in telephone re­search.
It is to get sure knowledge
bearing on efficiency, economy, life and
reliability of apparatus.
Information is sought continuously
during the development of a design,
in advance of manufacture and of
course long before the equipment gets
into use.
Men who delight in thoroughness of
method find that the opportunity is there.
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1931
QUINTET TO BE GIVEN LIGHT
WORKOUTS DURING THE WEEK
With a record of three victories in
as many starts against Southern Con-
• ference teams, Auburn's hardwood
artists will be given only short work­outs
the remainder of the week as
Coach Sam McAllister intends for his
proteges to burn some midnight oil
and annex a win from their hardest
opponent of the season—mid-term
exams.
Examinations for the first semes­ter
start this week and continue
through next Wednesday. No games
are scheduled for the Plainsmen un­til
January 23rd, when they meet
the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens, in
the first of a three game road trip
which also carries them to Clemson
and Columbia for return tilts with
Josh Cody's quintet and the Univer­sity
of South Carolina, so much time
can be spent by Capt. Ralph Jordan
& Co. solving their classroom prob­lems.
In the showings against South Ca­rolina,
Clemson and North Carolina
State, the McAllister machine has re­sembled
Auburn's brilliant 1928 team
very much. The 1928 five lost only
2 games in 22 starts, both losses to
the University of Mississippi by a
lone point.
It is true that McAllister has no
James twins, Buck Ellis, Frank Du-
Bose or Jelly Akin on his club, but
he has a Jack Stewart, Ralph Jordan,
Tom Lumpkin, Lindley Hatfield and
Chas. Kaley, all fine~basketball play­ers.
Against Clemson, the Bengals per­formed
so well that an authority here
on the cage game said that the 1928
team never looked any better than
this season's team did against Josh
Cody's Purple Tigers. They showed
coordination in practically every "de­partment
of the game. They hit on
five cylinders and added several more
for good measure.
Ray Sermon's North Carolina
State Wolfpack extended the Orange
and Blue wearers to the limit before
being forced to go down, 30 to 28,
in a five minute extra period contest.
Auburn failed to play against the
Wolfpack like she did against Clem­son
as the IState players were allow­ed
too. many open shots.
McAllister will devote most of the
remaining workouts before Georgia
is encountered to the defensive de­partment.
He realizes i:hat Monday
night's score might have been rever­sed
if the Raleigh five had had an­other
sharpshooter, so additional
work in guarding will be issued.
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Co-Eds Stage Revolt
Against Frosh Rules
Delaware police were called upon
recently to disperse a class fright be­tween
400 freshmen and sophomore
women on the campus of Ohio Wes-leyan
University.
Freshman girls for several days had
refused to appear in their freshmen
berets. Then one evening the sopho­mores
organized, swooped down on the
freshman cottages and a hot battle
ensued. Hair was pulled, dresses torn
and faces scratched in the melee.
The first policeman on the scene
mistook lipstick smeared on the faces
of the freshman girls, as blood marks,
and sent in a general alarm. The cops
soon separated the combatants, and
no one was seriously hurt in the con­flict.—
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helium supplies, sufficient to of­fer
some competition to American
sources of the gas which is used for
the inflation of dirigibles, has been
found in the Belgian Congo.
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Coaching Big Factor In
Coast Game, McGehee
Rev. Bruce McGehee, pastor of the
Auburn Methodist church, thinks that
coaching was the biggest factor in
the Alabama victory over the Wash­ington
State team in California on
Jan. 1. He made this, statement to
the Auburn Kiwanis club at their
meeting Monday.
Mr. McGehee related many inter­esting
incidents which occurred to
him while in California. He said that
in his opinion the score would have
been reversed if the Washington
team had been coached by Coach
Wade a year or more. He told how
Coach Wade outgeneraled the Wash­ington
State Coach.
En route to Pasadena, Mr. Mc­Gehee
and his,party visited movie
headquarters and saw much of the
equipment used in making movies.
He said that two minutes with tfie
camera in one of the pictures was
preceded by an expenditure of half
a million dollars in preparing the
scenery.
R. L. Bailey, president of the club,
presided at the meeting. The pro­gram
was presented under the direc­tion
of the program committee of
which Dr. R. S. Sugg is chairman.
Albert Collins and George Scarseth
assisted;
Rosser Alston, former Auburn
student, and now with the Allied
Mills at Fort Wayne, Indiana, was
a visitor.
Eagle Brings Gridiron Victory
The first Southern Conference football victory for the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute in four years came immediately after this golden eagle
was adopted as mascot—the University of South Carolina going down ir
defeat, 25 to 7. The bird of good omen, a native of the Southwest, was
captured near the Auburn campus when a farmer found him entangled u
a heavy forage crop, where he had swooped down to prey upon a flock of
turkeys. Since the Auburn battle cry for over a score of years has bee.
"War Eagle." the lucky bird has now become sacred on the campus Cheer
leaders, pictured with the eagle, are Dewitt "Buir'Stier fteft) - -nmg-7
ham. and Harry "Happy" Davis, Gadsden
Germans Protest On
American War Films
The Germans do not like the pic­ture
"All Quiet On The Western
Front". When it was shown in Ber­lin
a week ago, there was a near riot
in the theatre which required a large
number of policemen to quell. The
ne'xt day the newspapers denounced
Remarque's characters as soulles
images, looking out for their own ends
and cowardly in all their actions.
Those of us who have seen the film
were able to notice few cowardly or
selfish characteristics in the-actors;
of course Remarque could have por­trayed
more courageous men, but then
they would not have been true to the
idea of the picture, nor would they
have appeared nearly so human. We
found the actions of Katchinsky,
which were declared by German news­papers
to be a blot on the honor of
the German soldier, to be those of ty­pical
veterans.
The German government has be­come
unduly worked up by this and
other pictures and now threatens to
pass a bill forbidding the showing of
all foreign films unless they are
shown in the original, and such orig­inals
must contain no scenes which
may be interpreted to be anti-Ger­man.
The German newspapers com­plain
bitterly of the fact that of fif­ty
anti-German films shown recent­ly
twenty-one have been produced in
America.
The picture, "All Quiet On The
Western Front" was certainly not in­terpreted
by Americans to be a film
intended to show the German soldiers
as cowards. Indeed the picture caus­ed
most audiences to wonder at- the
.courage shown by German soldiers.
—The Bulldog.
Automatic Track Timer
Invented By A Student
New York —(IP)— A new auto­matic
electrical track timer has been
invented by E. A. Speakman, senior
at Haverford College.
During a meet the instrument
functioned with a great degree of
accuracy and several improvements
have been added which make it ac­curate
to l-120th of a second.
The apparatus is prepared for a
race by throwing a switch. The
sound of the starter's gun is picked
up at the starting line by a micro­phone
and the impulse from this
starts an accurate clock. As the
runner breaks the tape a light "stream
is interrupted which stops the clock.
FACULTY DANCE TO
BE GIVEN SATURDAY
(Continued from page 1)
In .addition to filling numerous en­gagements
on the Auburn campus and
in surrounding .towns, the Auburn
Knights broadcast a thirty-minute pe­riod
of dance music over station
WSFA in Montgomery, on Tuesday
evenings, from 9:45 p. m. to 10:15
p. m.
Faculty members not having trans­portation
are asked to get in touch
with Mr. Edwards in order that prop­er
conveyance may be arranged.
Forestry Development
Adds to State's Wealth
Determinable values approximating
$45,343,163, of which $31,885,263 ac­crued
during the past quadrennium,
have been added to the wealth of the
state through the cooperative fores­try
work between the State and the
Federal Government. These are the
figures derived from the compilations
in the Second Quadrennial Report fil­ed
with the Legislature by the State
Commission of Forestry in coopera­tion
with the United States Forest
Service. The added wealth is due to
more rapid timber growth on the many
millions of acres of land unsuitable
for agriculture but quite adaptable to
forestry.
A camparatively small acceleration
of growth occuring over very large
acres of land can amount to a large
total increase. There are 23,000,000
acres of land in Alabama chiefly val­uable
for the purposes of forestry. A
certain amount of timber growth, of
course, will ensue upon rough lands
whether the latter are given any par­ticular
care or not. It is the excess
above this amount that is .accounted
for by forestral practices and which
comprises, in the main, the totals stat­ed.
A part of the entire amount, how­ever,
is due to savings to landowners
and operators through the elimination
of waste in utilization, based upon in­vestigations
and recommendations of
the department.
The State's outlay in achieving
these results in forestry has averag­ed
but one-fifth of a cent per acre
per annum. Even this small amount
does not come from the general tax­payer,
but is derived from the license
fees paid by sawmills, turpentine
stills, lumber yards and other forest
industries. The United States Gov­ernment
also contributes an approxi-f
mately equal sum.
N. C. STATE TRIMMED
BY AUBURN QUINTET
(Continued from page 1)
teams were deadlocked at 26-all.
The Tar Heels forged into the lead
shortly after the extra period statred
when "Morgan, fleet center for the
visitors dropped a free toss through
the net. The lead was short-lived
however, as Lumpkin and Kaley hit
the cords for the winning margin.
"Father" Lumpkin led the Tiger
attack with 11 points. Every man
in the Auburn lineup scored, includ­ing
Lawson and Pate, substitutes,
who had a field goal to their credit.
Lineup and summary:
NEW ADMISSION SYSTEM TO BE
INAUGURATED AT JUNIOR PROM
N. S. State
Atkinson (C) 4
Johnson 11
Morgan 7
Rose 4
Clark 2
Substitutions:
F.
F.
C.
G.
G.
Auburn
Jordan (C) 4
Lumpkin 11
Steward 5
Hatfield 2
Kaley 4
Auburn, Pate 2,
Lawson 2. N. C. State: Gurneau and
Nelms. Referee Roosma.
LOST:—Wallet containing $15.00
other articles. Reward $5.00 for
return to Fred Storey, Kappa Sig­ma
House.
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BAND IS INVITED
TO ATTEND.MARDI
GRAS IN MOBILE
(Continued from page 1)
In inviting the Auburn band to
Mobile for the carnival ceelbration,
Mr. Logan is extending the invita­tion
to all band members to be the
guests of the city of Mobile and the
Carnival Asosciation during the pe­riod
of festivities. This carries with
it the invitation to be guests at all
balls given during Mardi Gras. Re­ports
from older members who have
made the trip before indicate that on
no other occasion are they more high­ly
entertained, and no where do they
enjoy themselves better.,
DRINK
NEHI
Duke University
School of Medicine
DURHAM, N. C.
On October 1, 1931, care­fully
selected first and third
year students will be admitted.
Applications may be sent at
any time and will be considered
in the order of receipt. Cata­logues
and application forms
may be obtained from the
Dean.
LIONS LAY ASIDE
BUSINESS TUESDAY
(Continued from page 1)
for the attacks of the jovial but not
always considerate Lions.
A few interruptions in the frivolity
were necessary, however, as a new
Lion,' H. C. Teer, was taken into the
club, and several announcements
were made. A meeting of the board
of directors was called for Tuesday
night. In a few words, Lt. C. P.
Townsley urged that the members of
the club attend the Lions Conven­tions
to be held in Montgomery and
in Toronto, Canada.
The trouble with most critics is
that they are as narrow-minded and
mean as the people they criticize.
Tiger Theatre
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 14
WILL ROGERS
' —In—
"LIGHTNIN' "
—With—
Louise Dresser - Sharon Lynn
Joel McCrea
ALSO TALKING COMEDY
THURSDAY, Jan. 15
MARIE DRESSLER
WALLACE BERRY
—In—
•*MIN AND BILL"
Also Selected Short Subjects
FRIDAY, Jan. 16
CHARLES ROGERS
—In—
"ALONG CAME YOUTH"
—With—
Frences Dee -. Stuart Erwin -
William Austin
Also selected Short Subjects
SATURDAY, Jan. 17
"PART TIME WIFE"
—With—
EDMUND LOWE—
—LEILA HYAMS
(Continued from page 1)
leave on Sunday following the close
of the dances.
3. All visiting ladies shall be
housed in the designed chapter
houses, as directed by the Dean of
Women. > *•
4. All visiting ladies will check in-at
their respective houses with the
Social Director, or her representative
within thirty minutes after the close
of the dance each night.
5. All visiting ladies will be re­quired
to be back on the dance floor
not later than thirty minutes from
the time intermission begins, except
on Saturday night when the time
limit will be only fifteen minutes.
6. All visiting ladies will be re­quired
to check in at the dance floor
by the following schedule:
Thursday night—10:00 to 1:00.
Friday night— 10:00 to 1.30
Saturday night— 9:00 to 12:00
7. The full cooperation of the
above regulations will be respectfully
solicited of the visiting young ladies.
ZOE DOBBS,
Social Director and Dean of Women
It might be added that although
visiting girls are required to attend
all night dances, they are not com­pelled
to attend the day dances.
Only juniors will be allowed to
participate in the Grand March which
will follow the first lead-out during
the Junior Ball on Friday Night.
During the dances, juniors will have
five leadouts, two Thursday night,
two Friday night and one Saturday
night. There will also be two no-breaks
during each dance.
The schedule for the dances will
be as follows:
Thursday, Jan. 22, 9:30 p. m. to
1. a. m., Opening Ball; Friday, Jan.
23, 11 a. m. to 1 p. m., Interfra-ternity
Dance; Friday, Jan. 23, 4
p. m. to 6 p. m., Executive Cabinet
Tea Dance; Friday, Jan. 23, 9:30
p. m. to 1:30 a. m., Junior Prom;
Saturday, Jan. 24 11 &. m. to 1 p.
m., "A" Club Dance; Saturday,
Jan. 24 8:30 to 12 p. m., Farewell
Ball.
Jimmie Green and his orchestra
from Chicago, will furnish music for
all the dances. This orchestra form­erly
played at The Golden Pumpkin
in Chicago and broadcasted over sta­tion
WENR. They have just com­pleted
a concert tour throughout the
United States. Parts of all of the
Mid-Term dances will be broadcast
over both station WAPI in Birming­ham
and station WSFA in Montgom­ery.
Decorations for the dances will be
in charge of Charles F. Davis and
George Brinson, both students in
architecture here. The color scheme
will be in black and white with the
orchestra ,pit decorated in modernis­tic
designs, the whole being very ef­fectively
lighted.
The seven fraternity houses which
will be used to house the visitors are:
Lambda Chi Alpha, Theta Chi, Sigma
Nu , Delta Sigma Phi, Sigma Phi,
Sigma Phi Sigma, Theta Kappa Nu,
and Phi Delta Theta.
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