1931-11-18 The Plainsman

              Pajama Parade
Thursday Night THE PLAINSMAN
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Pajama Parade
Thursday Night
VOLUME LV
AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18, 1931 NUMBER 21
PAJAMA PARADE TO
FEATURE BIG RALLY
ON THURSDAY NIGHT
Probably Last Mass Meeting of
Year; Pruitt Is Retained As
Cheer Leader
SEWANEE FALLS AS TIGERS
GET CONFERENCE VICTORY
Rogers and Hitchcock Lead Brilliant Offense; Wynne Opened
With Second Stringers; Tigers Perform Well in Only Ap­pearance
at Legion Field
Amid the glare of torchlights and
clad in the pajamas, the freshman
class will parade through the down­town
section of Auburn next Thurs­day
night for the last time as a fea­ture
of the pep meeting preceding
the encounter between Georgia and
Auburn next Saturday afternoon in
Columbus.
Meeting at Langdon Hall at seven
o'clock, the parade will form and
follow the usual course, led by the
Auburn band. The parade will lead
to the Montgomery highway where it
will about face and return to its
starting point. At that time a fare­well
rally will take place under the
entire group of cheerleaders, with
Ed Pruitt being retained to aid Earl
Palmer, who was elected as fresh­man
cheerleader. As an added fea­ture,
"War-Eagle" will be placed on
the platform after being carried at
the head of the parade:
As this rally will be the last be­fore
the end of the current grid cam­paign,
all members of the" freshman
class are instructed to be present
with material for torches and at­tired
in proper costumes. An effort
will be made to have several mem­bers
and captains of the team pres­ent
at some time during the program.
Montevallo Players To
Give Two Drama Prizes
The 'College Theatre of Alabama
College has announced a second play-writing
contest this year. Entrants
are required to be legal residents
of the state, and a drama treating
southern material is preferable. Feb­ruary
15th has been set as the final
date to submit the manuscripts.
Following is the list of prizes and
rules of the contest:
Two Prizes Are to Be Offered:
$10.00 for the best one-act play.
$25.00 for the best long play.
Conditions
1.—Eligibility is limited to legal
residents of Alabama.
« 2.—Subject matter is unrestrict­ed;
except that preference will be
given, other thing being equal, to the
play using Southern material.
3.—The type of play is unrestrict­ed.
4.—A signed statement that the
play has been neither produced nor
published must accompany each pjay
5.—A play that has already won
a College theatre prize is ineligible.
6.—Each manuscript must be type
written.
7.—Each manuscript must be sign
ed by a nom-de-plume, and accom
panied by an envelope signed with
the same nom-de-plume and enclosed
in the writers' name and address.
8.—Final date for submitting man­uscripts—
Feb. 15, 1932.
9.—Manuscripts should be sent to
Dr. Walter H. Trumbauer, director of
the College Theatre, Montevallo, Ala
Proviso*:
1.—No award will be made unless
the quality of the plays warrants.
2.—If any play meets the needs of
the College Theatre, it will be given
an-experimental production.
3.—If authors wish plays returned,
postage should be.sent with the man­uscripts.
Steel Mills Studied
By Architects Here
To make sketches of steel mills in
Birmingham and vicinity, Prof. Roy
H. Staples and T. E. Kipp, of Leeds,
faculty member and student, respec­tively,
in the School of Architecture
and Allied Arts will leave Auburn
Wednesday, Nov. 25.
They will spend five days in Birm­ingham,
sketching at night as well
as during the day.
Prof. Staples is an instructor in
applied art and Kipp is a fourth-year
student in commercial art.
Sewanee's highly touted football
machine went down before a light,
hard charging, eleven from Auburn
at Legion Field in Birmingham Sat­urday.
With his team rated as the
underdog Coach Wynne pulled a neat
bit of stragedy by starting his shock
troops. This squad battled Sewanee
to a standstill during their stay in
the first quarter and left the field in
favor of the regulars with the ball
deep in Sewanee's territory.
Early in the second quarter Coach
Wynne trotted seven of his first
stringers on the field and these grid-ironers
made short work of pushing
the oval over for the first marker.
On the first play, Williams passed
to Hitchcock for fifteen yards, who
lugged it to the three yard line be­fore
being forced out of bounds. It
was Auburn's ball, first down and on­ly
three yards to go for a touch­down,
but here Sewanee's line made
a gallant stand. Dupree tried the
line on two successive plays and only
gained a yard each time. Another
try at the line failed to gain. With
it fouth down and one yard to go
Hitchcock took the ball off right
tackle and missed a touchdown by
inches. Sewanee took the ball and
Phillips made a beautiful kick to his
45 yard line, but Hitchcock returned
it to the 33. Wynne's first stringers
were not to be denied, however, and
after Hitchcock had been thrown for
a four yard loss on the first play, he
threw a beautiful 25-yard pass to
Grant, who ran fne remaining 12
yards to glory, leaving in his trail
two would be Sewanee tacklers.
Hitchcock try for the extra point
was wide by inches. Score: Auburn
6; Sewanee 0.
Allen Rogers, midget halfback,
made the second touchdown on a
five yard run around left end. This
score came after a 85 yard march
(Continued on page 4)
LIONS HEAR KILEY
ON COACHING DUTY
Pays Tribute t o Rockne As De­veloper
of Manhood
The sreious responsibility with
which the best football coaches go
about their j6b of training the young
men in their charge to become expert
athletes and worthwhile men in later
life was explained by Roger Kiley,
assistant coach at Auburn in speak­ing
Tuesday before the regula* meet­ing
of Lions Club at the Thomas Ho­tel.
No good coach, he said, would
hazard the physical well-being of his
players merely for the winning of
an athletic contest.
Pointing to the immortal example
and influence on American youth ex­erted
by his former tutor, the late
Knute Rockne, Coach Kiley recalled
some of the valuable lessons given
his pupils by this great mentor. It
was constantly Coach Rockne's real­ization
that the conduct of his play­ers
both in college and in after life
was the' reflection of his influence.
This he valued most highly and was
equally as anxious that his teaching
of fairplay and sportsmanship should
carry beyond the football field.
Club President, Hugh C. Dillon,
reported that Alabama Lions Clubs
lead the 55* other club districts in
the United States in increased mem­bership
during the last quarter year.
This, he said, is a tribute to the ca­pable
supervision of Prof. F. E. Guy-ton,
of Auburn, governor of the 34th
district. Only 10 districts in the
country showed an increase in mem­bership
and Alabama lead with a
ranking of 86 per cent.
The splendid golf displayed by
Lion J. L. Seal in the recent tourna­ment
was called to the attention of
the club.
PLAYERS WILL HOLD
DRAMATORY-OUTS
Cast for New Play to be Select­ed
At 'Y' Hut Next Monday
Alabama Champions
Go to 4-H Congress
Alabama's champion 4-H Club
members who will represent the state
at the National 4-H Club Congress
to be held in Chicago, November 29-
December 5, have been announced
by Miss Margaret Garrett and T. A.
Sims, specialists in 4-H Club work.
Nell Moore, Bullock County, is
health champion;' Freda Rauschen-burg,
Franklin County, clothing; June
Hamilton, Talladega County, best all
around record; Edwin Owens, Cono-ectih
County; Thomas Lee Burson,
Franklin County; Gladys Woodruff,
Tallapoosa County, winners of cot­ton
championships; Colbert Kilgo,
Cullman County, best all around
record; and Foy Freeman, Winston
County, winner of Illinois Central
Railway trip.
The club members will be accom­panied
to Chicago by Miss Dorothy
Dean, specialist in clothing, and Dr.
R. S. Sugg, livestock specialist.
Tryouts for the pHy, "A Night at
an Inn", will be held Monday night
at the "Y" hut by the Auburn Play­ers,
it was announced yesterday by
Talifer B. Peet, head of the Players.
"This play, which is one of the bet­ter
known of those by Lord Dunsany,
calls for eight male parts, including
three English merchant sailors, a di­lapidated
English gentleman, and
three to take the part of Hindu
priests. It is a horror play in the
accepted style, and has met with
popular reception in its perform­ances
over the radio. It is hoped
that the play may be cast completely
Monday night; and the invitation has
been issued again to those who—wish
to try for the parts. The meeting
will start %,at 8 o'clock.
Although this play will at first be
presented at a Players meeting it
will be presented soon after to the
student body. Everyone who wishes
to try out is urged to come, as it
has been difficult in past to cast sev­eral
plays on account of the smallness
of the Players organization.
Books Discussed
At Club Meeting
A discussion of present-day au­thors
and their novels was given by
Miss Jewel Davis before the monthly
evening session of the Business and
Professional Women's Club Monday
evening at the home of Miss Berta
Dunn. Attendance was the largest
on record for the club.
The discussion followed regular
monthly business session of the club.
It was decided to stage an elaborate
Christmas party near the middle of
December.
The program was arranged by the
Education Committee of which Miss
Rennie Burton Jeter is chairman.
Refreshments consisting of ice cream
and cake were served.
Glomerata Pictures
Taken for Last Time
Due to the fact that the Paulger
photographer will be in town this
week to take athletic views, the
Glomerata staff has announced, with
special permission from the photog­rapher,
that individual pictures will
be taken on Thursday, Nov. 19th.
This will be the latest possible date
to have a photograph made.
It was also announced that proofs
for the pictures already taken, which
had not been seen by the student,
may be selected on Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday of this week.
The staff is asking for full coope­ration
in the selection of proofs in
order to speed up the progress of
the book.
PRESIDENT HOOVER
ISSUES INVITATION
TO AUBURN PEOPLE
President Knapp and Others
Are Asked to Attend Con­ference
President and Mrs. Bradford Knapp
and four staff member of Auburn,
have received invitations from Presi­dent
Hoover to attend a meeting of
the President's Conference on Home
Building and Home Ownership in
Washington, December 2 to 5. Staff
members who received invitations in­clude
Dean Frederic Child Biggin, of
the school of architecture and allied
arts; Miss Helen Johnston, state
home demonstration agent; Professor
M. L. Nichols, head of the architectur­al
engineering department, and Miss
Louise P. Glanton, head of the school
of home economics. ' .
The 'conference has been called for
the purpose of discussing and finding
solutions for-problems dealing with
planning, building, _ and financing
homes, particularly those of residents
in small towns and rural districts.
The invitations read as follows:
'•'The President of the United States
invites you to attend the meeting of
the President's Conference on Home
Building and Home Ownership which
is called in the City of Washington,
December second to fifth, nineteen
hundred and thirty-one."
Obesity Rages Among
Girls At Montevallo
Says Unknown Writer
Unlike the average Greek fra­ternity
Jiouse steward, the chefs
of dear old Montevallo believe in
keeping the poundage of their
gentle charges well above the
norm.. Ye frail lassie that leaves
home bragging about her slender
structure returns in a few
months a veritable picture of
rolling flesh; contrast the ca­daverous-
looking Greek of the
Plains with the roly-poly maid
of Alabama College. Monteval­lo
is no longer the abode of the
weaker sex; this institution is
producing a brand of female "
flesh never before seen in the
history of 'mankind. What were
formerly sharp angles and pierc­ing
projections are now sweep­ing
curves and rdunded arcs.
Upon being asked how his
daughter was getting along, one
proud father remarked, "While
the other girls are putting on
airs our Susie is putting in hot
biscuits." And it IS something
to be proud of; to be able put
flesh on the modern woman is
a praiseworthy accomplishment.
We salute the culinary depart­ment
of Alabama College and
wish them continued success,
with a steady increase of tonnage
and an ascending figure of bis­cuit
consumption.
AGRICULTURAL LEADERS TO
CONVENE HERE NEXT WEEK
Agricultural Situation And Outlook to be Explained in Three
Day Session to be Held in Auburn November 23, 24, and
25—^Duncan
With a view of acquainting farmers,
bankers, and merchants of Alabama
with the agricultural situation and
outlook for different crops and live­stock
in 1932 extension service special­ists,
supervisors, experiment station
workers, and leaders in vocational ag­riculture
work of the state will be in
session at Auburn November 23, 24,
and 25, as announced today by Prof­essor
L. N. Duncan, director of the
Extension Service.
At this meeting official data on the
situation and outlook will be presented
by C. F. Sarle and James D. Pope of
the Federal Farm Board at Washing­ton.
Agricultural information which
cost the Federal government about
$3,000,000 to collect and compile will
be presented to the Alabama leaders
at that time.
This meeting of the state leaders
will be followed by a meeting of
county agents and they in turn will
present it at county meetings of farm­ers,
bankers, and merchant's. These
county meetings will be arranged un­der
the direction of county farm and
home demonstration agents and the
data will be presented with the estab­lished
program for better and safer
farming in Alabama.
In an advanced announcement
Director Duncan said that the aim is
to help Alabama farmers to make
more money in 1932. With this in
view Alabama and the national out­look
facts will be prepared for pre­sentation
at the county meetings.
Every crop and every animal will
have specific consideration. Having
the facts, each farmer will apply them
and profit by doing so.
This being done for the state the
information will then be applied to
the different counties, on a basis of
their conditions and . needs. Hence
it will be adjusted to the needs of each
county of the state.
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'A' CLUB WILL GIVE
DANCE IN COLUMBUS
Third Out-of-Town Dance Be
Given After Georgia Game
As a parting gesture to the Au­burn
football team of nineteen
thirty-one, the "A" Club will give a
dance next Saturday in Columbus as
a final event of the day which will
be featured by the Georgia-Auburn
grid clash. The dance will be held
at the Harmony Club, centrally lo­cated
in the city and having a capa­city
for a large group of dancers.
Jimmie Bobbins and the remainder
of the hired-help, the incomparable
Auburn Knights, will also make this
parting bow to the year's football
dances be instilled with music of a
brand attainable only by their charm­ed
instruments. Need it be added
that the large evening will begin at
nine bells and that for one dollar
you will receive the cream of the
day's entertainment?
The plan of giving dances on for­eign
soil was begun this season, and
has met with unusual success in
Montgomery and Birmingham, where
the "A" Club has followed the teams
invasion with their social attack.
Jimmie Robbins has' led the drive
well according to reports from the
above mentioned cities, and . dance
lovers have been completely capti­vated.
COLLINS HEARD AT
KIWANIS LUNCHEON
Phenomenal Growth of Gram­mar
- High Schools Subject
Walter Edwards Wins
Declamation Contest
Auburn JVIen Attend
Land-Grant College
Meeting In Chicago
At the annual meeting of the
association of land gpant colleges
and universities in Chicago this week
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute is
being represented by Professor L. N.
Duncan, director of the extension
service; Dean M. J. Funchess of the
School of Agriculture and director of
the experiment station; Miss Helen
Johnston, state home demonstration
agent; Dr. D. G. Sturkie, and Prof­essor
George Scarseth. ,
While in Chicago these represen­tatives
of Auburn are participating
in the program, which is divided into
sections of special interest to those
engaged in different lines of work in
land grant colleges and universities.
Dean Funchess, Dr. Sturkie, and
Professor Scarseth made the trip by
automobile. Enroute to and from
Chicago they expected to stop at
several points of interest for the pur­pose
of getting information needed
by them in their work.
Walter Edwards of the Evans Lit­erary
Society won the annual Decla­mation
Contest which is sponsored
by the Phi Delta Gamma. The
Websterian representative,. Randall
Parrish, gave a very good declama­tion.
"Opportunity" by J. L. Spald­ing
was the subject chosen by the
Evans representative, while Parrish's
subject was "A Challenge to College
Student*" by Frances Killifer. Pro­fessor
Bloch, Professor Gosses, and
Professor Medlock served as judges
for the contest.
This is the first of a series of for­ensic
activities which are annually
sponsored by the Phi Delta Gamma.
Auburn Student Has
Dual Family Tragedy
Called home by the death of his.
father, D. P. Johnson, Auburn student
was subjected to still further sorrow
due to a fatal accident to other mem­bers
of the family. The second trag­edy
occurring on the day of his fath­er's,
funeral.
W. B. Johnson, brother to the de­ceased
man, while on his way to the
funeral with his young son, collided
with another car. The result was
the instant death of the young boy,
and the fatal injury of Mr. Johnson.
Johnson has been unable to return
to school.
Professor Albert H. Collins of the
School of Education, told the Auburn
Kiwanis club, at their meeting Mon­day,
that within ten years the num­ber,
of high schools in Alabama was
increased from 150 in 1920, to 328 in
1930, and that the enrollment during
this period increased from 30,000 to
60,000.
Turning to the high school situation
in the United^ States Professor Collins
said that enrollment has increased
from 500,000 in 1890 to 4,000,000 this
year. He explained that 4,000,000 is
half of the number of boys and girls
of high school age in the United
States. The speaker said that very
few of the boys and girls who enter
high school graduate and still fewer
enter college. "Of an average class
of 40 students entering the seventh
grade", he continued, "only 13 will
graduate, or complete the 12th grade.
Of these 13 only 40 per cent will en­ter
college."
America, he explained, is the only
nation that makes secondary educa­tion
universal. In other nations those
who enter high school are selected and
elected.
The meeting was attended by John
K. Watkins of Opelika, who was re­cently
elected governor of Alabama
Kiwanis district. Mr. Watkins spoke
briefly, thanking the Auburn club for
their support and pledging his untir­ing
efforts in behalf of Kiwanis in
Afabama in 1932.
Dr. J. W. Tidmore gave interest­ing
statistics on the Georgia-Tulane
game in Athens last Saturday, show­ing
the value of the game to the city
of Athens and vicinity.
R. Y. Bailey, president of the club,
presided. Dr. Paul Irvine led the club
in singing.
COLONEL REED LOUD
IN PRAISE OF UNIT
AFTER INSPECTION
Officer Is Impressed With Co­operation
of Administration
and War Department
Complete satisfaction with the""R.
O. T. C. unit was expressed by Col­onel
William L. Reed of the Fourth
Corps Area Headquarters in Atlanta,
who was in Auburn Monday and
Tuesday, for an inspection and gen­eral
observation of the unit.
Speaking with cadet and regular
army officers of the Military Depart­ment,
Colonel Reed said that he was
very well pleased with the review
held Tuesday. He added that the
general rating of the department was
excellent, commending the coopera­tion
between college and military au­thorities.
Support given by students
is excellent, Colonel Reed added.
"I feel that the manner in which
students carried themselves was
equally as well as that observed in
strictly military schools", continued
Colonel Reed. "The clothing and
equipment of the cadets are in very
good condition. The training facili­ties
are in satisfactory shape, also."
He stated that he was pleased to find
the college giving credit in military
training corresponding that that giv­en
for other work in the institution.
Major G. H. Franke, commandant,
and his .staff were complimented on
the administration of the work of
the department.
Colonel Reed'* visit to Auburn, as
the personal representative of Gen­eral
Frank R. McCoy, was'a part of
an annual tour of inspection and
observation of R. O. T. C. units in
institutions in the Fourth Corps Area.
Interesting Contest
In Debating Society
The Auburn Debating Society pro­ceeds
merrily on its way, solving
weighty world problems orally at
every meeting. The question up for
debate last Monday night was: Re­solved,
that only subjects pertaining
to the arts, the sciences, and the
learned professions should be taught
in our universities. The affirmative
was upheld by Mack Dinsmore, Birm­ingham,
and Edgar McCall, Gadsden,
while the negative was represented
by Miriam Toulmin, Mobile, and
Charles Workman, Ashland. After
an hour of very entertaining argu­ment,
the judges, Professors Butler,
Hart and Gosser, voted two to one
in favor of the negative side.
A general discussion on the situ­ation
in Manchuria will take place at
the meeting next Monday night.
Study Courses Are
Given By Baptist
The annual B. Y. P. U. study
course is being presented at the Bap­tist
Church every night this week
under the auspices of the Baptist .
Student Union. Two courses are be­ing
taught: B. Y. P. U. Manual, by
Miss Leland Cooper, Mercer Univer­sity,
and Books of the Bible, by Dr.'
Edwards, pastor, of the local church.
Miss Cooper is still remembere*by
many for her work among Baptist
students during the administration of
Dr. Dowell. She received her train­ing
in B. Y. P. U. work while a stu­dent
here, and still loves Auburn and
Auburn students. She is admirably
qaulified to conduct a course of this
kind, having had much experience in
this work. ,
In the course taught by Dr. Ed­wards,
special attention is given to
the question, "How We Got the
Books of the Bible, and to many
other questions about the Bible
which disturb the minds of young /
people today.
Classes begin at 5 p. m. each day.
At the end of the first 45 minute
period, plate lunches are served by
the B. Y. P. U. social committee'. The
second period ends at 7 p. m. Every­one,
especially Baptist students, is
cordially invited to attend.
: \
Auburn Sportsmen
Return From Hunt
Last week a party of Auburn
sportsmen composed of: Messers.
Moore, Martin, Toomer, Pitts, Hugh
Tamplin, Frank Tamplin and Cap­tain
Metts hunted deer on the Alli­son
Game Preserve, in Sumter Coun­ty.
They were the guests of Mr.'
Moore, who is a close friend of Col.
Allison. Capt. Metts and Mr. Mar­tin
were the lucky members of the
party in that they each bagged a
deer. The party returned Thursday
night. Mr. Moore attends this hunt
every year and for several years has
brought home a deer.
NOTICE!
-All R. O. T. C. Sophomore riding
sections will be given an examination
on "The Soldier Mounted" (Train­ing
Regulation 50-45, paragraphs 1
to 66, inclusive) at the next meet­ing
of the class.
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WICKERSHAM AGAIN
There is one topic that even the widely
heralded depression has. never overshadow­ed.
It is the maker of statesmen, and the
ruination of many men in public life. The
press bellows its every particle, and politi­cal
leaders rise to frenzied heights over
the subtlety of its debatability. .The much
discussed, the defended, the damned, and
still existing, eighteenth amendment, is the
forum choice in the train smoker, the after
dinner round table, and the weekly meeting
of the Ladies Aid society, all over America.
To the college boy, prohibition is a con­stant
source of perplexity. College papers
all over the country have taken stra"w, bal­lots
to determine the position of prohibition
in the undergraduate's mind, and the ever-defiant
collegian, so long as it causes no ne­cessity
of taking a direct stand on anything,
votes against the measure because it is the
' popular thing to do—the term popular being
used to imply that it is part of the conven­tional
picture for the college boy to carry
a hip-flask, and drink his licker straight.
Not that he particularly objects to the pic­ture
nor is unduely fond of it; but the
college youth does love to be collegiate to
those off the campus.
. The majority of us don't know what the
country was like before Andy Volstead
came along with his disturbing little pro­posal.
We have no basis of comparison, no
grounds to stand up and say the nation
would be better off if it were repealed.
However, we do know that when we want
our whiskey, we can get it, with ease, in any
town in the United States. We also know
that the stuff is horrible, distasteful, and
that our fore fathers must have had some­thing
more pleasing to drink.
We feel, although our observations are
limited indeed, that drinking is decreasing
in undergraduate life. It is an interesting
observation to note that the percent of our
Alumni who return for the football games
with the proverbial quart slightly exceeds
the proportion of the undergraduates lug­ging
the bottle to the game.
Yet, the young American is disposed less
to condemn the participators than his elders,
even though he be a total abstainer himself,,
but there are many boys who openly detest
drinking. Many who admonish the greek
brother to abstain, and point to the pit
falls ahead. The basic principles of every
Greek Letter organization are in sympathy
with the rigid enforcement of the eighteenth
amendment, and the local presidents usual­ly
feel the responsibility of their office and
endeavor to reduce drinking among their
men. How few laymen realize the special
effort almost all upperclassmen make to
keep the freshmen, so soon away from his
mother's apron strings, from partaking of
strong drink.
One could ramble at even greater lengths
on the college man and his ideas on the
subject without clarifying the situation. It
is indeed a perplexity, but the fact remains
that we still laugh when our elders raise
their deaflng ballyhoo over the harrassed
subject. f *
'
THE ROBOT'S PERFECTION
We, the people of the United States,
standing on a self-raised pedestal, gaze in­to
the past and see ourselves mirrored by
our own supreme egotism, as the greatest
nation on earth. Perhaps we are, at least
the course of events which have moulded
our nations history since its birth give us
reason to believe that such is true. There
is no denying that we have made more
rapid strides than any other nation for the
past century and a half. It is a certainty
that our development materially has been
phenomenal and that we have secured for
ourselves a large 'place in the sun'. Despite
the fact that all this is true we have not
yet paused in our mad rush for supremacy
to really determine whether we have more
than a strong body with great chances for
a startling lack of brains.
John Bull is credited with the develop­ment
of the largest race of men affected
with narcissum that the modern world has
known. Again we admit that this could
easily be true, but in all due respect to our
brothers from the Isles, we are forced to
admit that they are never guilty of pro­claiming
such,beliefs to the world at large
unless directly challenged by an alien. No
excuse is needed for the great one-hundred
percenter, which this country is afflicted
with, to boast of personal and national tri­umphs.
We have succeeded in developing
a type of man that will never leave behind
him a single thing which could be called
progressive. True, he may construct a me­chanical
device, may propound a code of
laws or may find the end of the rain-bow
and his greed selected pot of gold, but by
divine Providence he will carry all this with
him to his narrow minded heaven and erase
all traces of his childish existence as he
departs. In the one hundred and fifty odd
years of our meteoric rise we have de­veloped
a brand of men who may be classed
only as those who are egotists and materi­alists
of the highest order.
Letters to the Editor
Editor of The Plainsman:
Conscientious Cletus, ever alert, always
on the offensive with the spirit of progress,
strides on and on in the face of adversity.
I sincerely admire his spirit.
Power is something to be proud of. Civil­ized
countries are proud. Why? Because
the less powerful in such countries have
just enough intelligence to make room for
the more powerful in such a way that this
power expresses itself with greater effici­ency
than in uncivilized countries. To be
versatile is to be strong. To be strong in
the face of adversity is to be powerful.
This is complimentary in an abstract way
to our critic. Since reading the last article
of our sincere critic in Saturday's Plains­man
I have racked my mental potentiality
in order to form a new set of ideas that are
less obloquizing. If he is a patron of the
above bit of philosophy, of which I am con­fident
that he is, he has a good portion of
my apologetic feelings.
My newly formulated ideas regarding our
critic are:
1.' He is sincere.
2. He is serious in his criticism, but
means for it to be taken as a constructive
element" from the student's viewpoint.
3. He is not a "Tinkerer".
4. He has the welfare of the students,
especially the freshmen, at heart.
These ideas are a result from the last
edition of The Plainsman. Now to say some­thing
in my own defence.
I still maintain that to be a good critic
one must be an expert. I compliment our
critic on his observations. I believe that a
good critic should fall into the higher class
of men. To be a great man one must be a
careful observer. To give decisions to a
great question that arises one must be a
careful observer. Throughout our college
careers, and especially during our senior
years, our professors have endeavored to set
fire to that tiny bit of material in every one
of us that is capable of being transformed
into that highly prized quality called initi­ative.
A person who has iiftative is an ob­server.
When one has become well ac­quainted
with the effective phenomena of
an- organization he is better fit to observe.
I 'think that every student is well acquaint­ed
with this factor in regards to the library.
An analysis of such an organization is not
so complex as that of other organizations on
the campus. I appreciate the fact that we
are capable of offering constructive ideas
regarding the management of such organi­zations.
Now "take a look at this case. A
group of ordinary artists are in the market
for an old art treasure whose originality is
questionable. These artists will not consult
an expert regarding the originality of such
a picture. Instead they will rely upon their
own meager intelligence and "ability. Rea­soning
tells us that they will frequently be
wrong. The most important thing in any
argument is the comprehension of the major
teims on each side. It is said that one
great debater of a decade ago used one
sentence that obliterated all misunderstand­ing
in any of his arguments. That sent­ence
was, "Define your terms". At the
close of this panegyric let me endeavor to
make one of my own terms clear which it
appears that I did not do last time. An ex­pert
in any field is a highly skilled person,
in that field, in the art of coordinating and
< pplying knowledge that is acquired, usual­ly,
through practice, though not always. He
is a specialist. No, not Ex-Lax.
—A Senior.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
The most difficult
thing to understand
after a trip to New
York' City is how this
country can be in fi­nancial
straits with
millions of high pow­ered
a u t o m o b i l e s
crowding the streets
of our great cities. At
noon and between four and six o'clock in
the evening Fifth Avenue and Broadway in
New York were almost blocked with auto­mobiles.
They were not the kind of auto­mobiles
that we use so much out in the
country. There were very sfew Fords and
Chevrolets on the streets in New York. They
looked like expensive cars to me. I believe
Will Rogers made a very wise remark over
the radio the other day when he said some­thing
to this effect: This country, if it goes
broke, is going to break a record in doing
so; we were certainly traveling to the poor-house
in six-cylinder cars.
* * * *
Another thing which bothers me a good
deal is when you have to pay a dollar for a
breakfast consisting of a little fruit, a
couple of eggs, three slices of toast and a
cup of coffee.
* * * *
What do we think of education m times
like these? The world still needs thinkers
and workers. It still needs men and women
who know what has happened in the world
and who can think honestly and clearly and
who are willing to work courageously to
bring to pass those things which ought to
happen in the world in order that we might
restore humanity to a reasonable degree of
happiness, contentment and the enjoyment
of those liberties and privileges which are
the inherent right of every man. A techni­cal
education which fits one for a task in
any of the industries including both engi­neering
and agriculture or to serve in the
great business world in shaping the econom­ic
welfare of the people will be just as use­ful
and just as important in the new day
as it has been in the days that are gone.
But there are many tasks which must rest
upon the shoulders of the next generation
and which, to my mind, will be even more
important than all these. How may we
eliminate at least in part the greed and sel­fishness
of the material age through which
we are passing? How may the laboring
man be assured of a job? How may the
necessities of life, as well as the luxuries
and enjoyments incident to the use of those
things which science has produced in the
last seventy-five years, be better distributed
so that all men may reasonably participate
in them? I know it is the habit of young
men to think that the opportunities to do
great things have all passed on. I some­times
wish I might exchange places with a
freshman in college and get ready for the
great tasks and the great services and the
great opportunities which lie in the next
fifty years of the world's history.
* * * *
We bicker and fight and scheme and quar­rel
over the little affairs which come. up
every day. But the world moves on in
great stretches of time almost neglectful of
the fact that humanity is nothing more than
the sum total of millions of lives lived cour­ageously
and worthily, or selfishly and un­worthily.
There never was a! time when we
all have needed courage and devotion to
till mate results as we need these virtues to-ciay.
* * * *
Auburn is more than just what we are
living here. Going into New York City last
Thursday morning, I picked up a copy of
the New York American and there on the
front page was a splendid article about the
great work of Doctor Fred Allison. I turn­ed
to the Literary Digest and found a hum­orous
reference to the discovery of Element
No. 85 quoting from the editor of some
paper, who said if Element No. 85 was a
missing element he hadn't missed it yet.
While coming home Sunday I bought daily
papers all down the road to read about the
game with Sewanee. On Friday night I
sat with some fifteen older and younger
Auburn men and talked to them about their
Alma Mater. There is a fine loyalty in
these men of Auburn as they are serving
their country in many places. To think that
fifteen men on very short notice would come
together and spend a whole evening talking
about Auburn and its past history and its
future possibilities in one of the greatest,
busiest, and most self-centered cities in all
the world, was a tribute to the spirit which
is engendered here upon this old campus.
It is entirely possible a "racketeer king"
may arise in a few years and control the
business of the country.—Rosalie Loew
Whitney.
A fine woman, like a fortified town. . . .
demands a regular siege; and we must
even allow her the honors of war, to mag­nify
the greatness of our victory.'—Hugh
Kelly.
*> AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
#=
Now that better times are appearing tin-horn politicians and 'cigar store legis­lators
can devote their entire timeto the coming election.
* * * * * * * * * *
Pencil and paper coaches have received a severe jolt this year. They have not
been able to figure by comparative scores that Arkansas State Teachers Normal for
Men and Women is not three points better than Notre Dame.
* * * * * * * * * *
Too bad that conference championships are not awarded for highest scores.
* * * * * * * * * *
| The Georgia varsity was stricken with a sudden attack of color blindness last
Saturday. They saw red when the predominant color was really green.
* * * * * * * * * *
"Baby-Grand" Scafide of Tulane is-one instrument that always stays in tune
but cannot be played upon.
* * * * * * * * • * *
Just thirty more shopping days to worry over Christmas gift selections.
• * * * * * * * * * *
We suggest that a large dinner-bell be placed over the main gate and rung at
noon to call the laborers from their various fields of endeavor. It would at least be
a bit more delicate as it is hard enough to be called to dinner at the majority of the
boarding houses without having the faint remainder of an appetite being turned over
several times by a mechanical high "C".
* * * * * * * * * *
SLEEPER
What is a sleeper? One who sleeps, of course! Yes, and a lot more than that.
A sleeper is a railroad car in which a sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is a block that
holds the rails on which the sleeper runs while the sleeper sleeps. Therefore, while
the sleeper sleeps in the sleeper the sleeper carries the sleeper over the sleeper until
the sleeper which carries the sleeper jumps the sleeper and awakens the sleeper in
the sleeper by striking the sleeper under the sleeper s6 that there is no more sleep
for the sleeper who was sleeping in the sleeper.
* * * * * * * * * *
Then there was the man that had his marriage annulled on the grounds that
his father-in-law didn't have a license to carry a gun.
* * * * * * * * * *
We understand that dramatic critics formerly sat on the stage at the produc­tion.
Now they sit on the author, the scenery, and the cast.
* * * * * * * * * *
We cannot but pity the poor Chinese. He doesn't know which of his numerous
governments to blame for everything.
* * * * * * * * * *
Pity the poor crook that held up a college boy, and told him to hand over his
money or he would blow his brains out.
* * * * * * * * * *
Joe was on the coast last Saturday scouting the University of Southern Cali­fornia
for the Auburn-U. S. C. game in the Rose Bowl next season.
* * * * * * * * * * ,
We understand that a certain Mobile woman has designs on one of our News
Editors. A repetition of this will warrant a Wickersham investigation.
* * * * * * * * * *
Tsk! Tsk! We learn that a census taker is a man that goes from house to
house, increasing the population.
* * * * * * * - * * *
Dedicated to the memory of those who have not heard "Good-night Sweetheart."
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
Those exponents of the Auburn spirit
may find something to reflect over in the
following editorial comment from the Tit-lane
Hullabaloo:
"For real, old-fashioned college spirit we
take our hats off to the students and alumni
from Alabama Polytechnic Institute, bet­ter
known as Auburn. It looks as if those
boys from the Alabama plains just like to
"whoop it up" for no other reason than
then personal pleasure they derive from
'raisin' 'ell.' That, at least, was our im­pression
gained at the Tulane-Auburn foot­ball
game in Montgomery Saturday.
"These Auburnites didn't greatly exert
themselves during the game itself, regard­less
of the fact that there were about four
cheerleaders going through semaphore sig­nals
in front of them. At times the little
bands of scattered rooters from New Or­leans
gave much more evidence of their
presence than the Tiger supporters. But
the night before the game and the eve­ning
after the contest were completely
given • oyer to Auburn whoopee. In the
lobbies of the main hotels of Montgomery
Friday night savage war cries of 'Eat 'em
up, Tiger!' could be heard throughout the
night and far into the wee hours of the
morn. The spirits of Alabama prevailed.
"Of more significance was the spirit (or
spirits,—or both) shown after Tulane had
overwhelmed the fighting little Auburn ag­gregation.
On the streets, in the hotel
lobbies, and even in the best restaurants
the Indian-like whoops of 'War Eagle!' and
'Eat 'em up, Tiger!' rattled our sensitive
eardrums. Those guys (including many a
stray, prodigal alumnus with young ideas)
just didn't know they were beaten. And
the Auburn football team made such a gal­lant
stand during the first half that when­ever
we met an Auburn supporter after the
game, we felt like apologizing for Tulane's
having such a good team. Spirit? Auburn
has more of it than any college in the
Southern Conference".
* * * *
Page Cletus. Prepare the "A" Club. Don't
let the freshmen find out about it. Up at
the University of Illinois they have re­moved
all rules applying only to freshmen.
They are not required to entertain the up­perclassmen,
and are not forced to rim
errands for anyone. We assume that this
progressive tide must have followed the
abolition of wholesale beating by many
years. The freshmen had not uprooted any
of the buildings according to the last re­port.
* * * * *
The editor of The Red and Black, the pa­per
from the school that bowed so nobly
to Tulane last Saturday, ends a lengthly
editorial with these words: "Pull that bell!
Wear those caps! And, sit together at
these games, freshmen! He also ventures
that if these things are not done that the
offending freshmen can go back to the
farm, where they came froml>r to the corn­er
drug store . We are personally glad to
learn what causes all the freshmen faults.
It would be a bitter picture indeed to see
the young collegian returning from college
to hang his head in shame saying: "I failed
to make good as a rah! rah! boy."
* * * *
Cumberland University has a Greek
graveyard in which are buried the memo­ries
of fifteen chapters of greek letter fra­ternities
which have passed on since 1854.
So many of our schools are reluctant to
admit the state of their fraternities".
* * * * . *
The Yale Daily News has raised a protest
against the scheduling of a bootball game
with a small school in preparation for the
Harvard game.
"Where", said the News, "is the good
old 'devil-may-care' spirit which does not
stoop to petty things, which plays football
for the fun of playing the game, and not
for the hope that she (Yale) may prove
herself a superior institution by defeating
adversary in athletics?"
We should like, to refer the boys up at
Eli to the University of Georgia.
* * * *
Let masculine pride assume its just pro­portions.
Co-eds do dress up just for our
benefit. We have discovered this fact from
Miss Lee, an authority on college women.
It would be a woman.
"Cocktails, clothes, and competition are
the major interest of Americajs college
women in the opinion of Frances Lee, 'pro­fessional
collegiate.' Pretty Miss'L'ee, her­self
out of college only a couple of years,
has unearthed some unusual facts in her
visits to one hundred American colleges to
study the college girl.
"One of the most interesting facts in
connection with the controversy between co­education
and segregated womenV colleges
is that clothes play a much larger part in
the life of the co-ed than the girl in a wo­man's
college, according to Miss Lee.
' 'At co-educational colleges girls dress
for men all the time, and they use a great
deal of make-up. They go with more or
less the same group of people, and are
seen in more or less the same setting. So
their idea is to get as many changes of
costume as possible with the money they
have."
INSIGHTS
By Conscientious Cletus
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.
* 4 * *
" 'If. colleges are to continue to cater to
the general public and to alumni in con­ducting
football programs, let the situation
at least be clarified. Let the alumni pay a
good living wage to every football man,
openly and not underhandedly. Let all
scholastic requirements be waived , for
football players. Let honest professional­ism
replace furtive hypocrisy'. Thus the
Columbia Spectator, overstates a good case
but voices modern youth's demand for open
alliances openly arrived at. It is refresh­ing
to know that student opinion is begin­ning
to express itself in terms that college
authorities will have to recognize in the
end.
"Pop Warner, one of the conspicuous
coaches of the country, had a defense of
football in Collier's Weekly recently. What
he said in effect was that conditions are
much improved over the status of 25 years
ago, and that few people realize how much
returns from football sustain other athletic
activities. But neither claim meets the is­sue
presented by those who object to over­emphasis
on football or to the indirection
which the game as conducted at present has
introduced into the scheme of higher edu­cation.
,
"The Spectator offers this picture of the
situation as it is: 'This game which is one
of the world's greatest sports, has been
gradually grinding itself out of the student
consciousness until probably 80 percent of
the men who play college football in. the
bigger institutions' are semi-professional
athletes hired' by assistant coaches who
make annual pilgrimages to prep schools.'
If that be true of the bigger institutions we
may well wonder how much they have been
emulated by the lesser fry.
"Alumni influence has contributed mate­rially
to the ballyhooing of football. That
together with false competition among col­leges
and among coaches has driven col­lege
authorities into submission. And the
conscientiously maintained have been placed
at a serious disadvantage. What are they
to do about it? Grin and bear it or quit
the game? The latter alternative is by no
means as impossible as some of*us may
think, and that's a pity. For if they hold
out a little longer, they may find themselves
in a position to enjoy the reward of pre­ferring
the credit to the immediate cash."
* * * *
The above is an editorial taken directly
from the Birmingham Age-Herald of No­vember
3rd, and it is given here in its
complete form because it expresses very
concisely the author's opinion regaining the
athletic situation, not only at Auburn, but
throughout the country.
It is indeed surprising to see this editori­al
appear in the Birmingham Age-Herald
but the fact that .it was published in that
paper points out all the more clearly tnat
people all over the country are thinking
about the condition of modern day football.
* * * *
The reaction at Columbia, to the very
frank editorial of the Spectator concerning
the condition of modern football seems to
prove very clearly the point that all great
minds run in the same channel. ' The fol­lowing
paragraphs were taken from Ar­thur
Brisbane's column:
"Reed Harris, editor of the Columbia
Spectator, says editorially that football is
largely professional and those that manage
athletic funds are not willing to show their
accounts. .
To that there young Columbia College
football players reply convincingly. They
tell the editor, 'If you say anything like
that again, three of us will beat you up."
Three good football players, in training,
could probably keep the promise."
Sports for the sake of the sport is the
ideal of college athletics, and until this
point is reached college students will find
it almost impossible to attain any idea of
relative values.
QQy uotations
Gossip must often, have been likened to
the winged insects bearing pollen to the
flowers; it fertilizes many a vacuous rev­erie.—
George Meredith.
Whatever the politics of a country may
be, the machine is a communist.—Louis
Mumford. I
Can there be a more horrible object in
existence than an eloquent man not speak­ing
the truth?—Carlyle.
Most people, try everything when they
are young except moderation.—B. D. Mon­tague.
Religion without the supernatural ceases
to be religion.—Bishop Manning.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18, 1931 T H E P L A I N S M AN A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE PAGE THREE
STRONG GEORGIA TEAM TO BE
ENCOUNTERED ON SATURDAY
Auburn to Meet Oldest Rival in Memorial Stadium in Colum­bus;
First Game Between the Two Schools Played at Old
Piedmont Park, Atlanta, February 22, 1892
Auburn's oldest football feud will
be renewed in Columbus, Ga., Satur­day,
when the Tigers meet the Geor­gia
Bulldogs at Memorial Stadium.
The first meeting on the gridiron be­tween
Auburn and Georgia was at
old Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Ga.,
February 22, 1892. The Plainsmen
won the initial fray, 10 to 0.
This year's clash stands out as the
best the two schools have had to of­fer
the fans since 1922. Georgia is
one of the outstanding teams in the
country, with only a loss to Tulane to
mar their record, and Coach. "Chet"
Wynne's Plainsmen have made such
rapid strides forward since the open­ing
game with Birmingham-Southern
that Coach Bernie Bierman, of Tu­lane,
thinks that Wynne has one of
the best first elevens in the South­ern
Conference.
The Electric City has been the
scene of the Auburn-Georgia conflict
since 1916, with the exception of the
break during the World War and in
1928, when the game was taken to
Athens to aid in the dedication of
the Bulldogs new stadium. This
game has one of the most colorful
histories of any game in the South
and wijl be the only college tilt
played in Columbus this year.
Both Auburn and Georgia are ex­ponents
of the Notre Dame style of
football as taught by the late Knute
Rockne. There will be much shift­ing
at Memorial Stadium Saturday
with Capt. Downes, Mott, Dickens,
Whire, Key, Chandler and Roberts
expected to be in the limelight in
Georgia's backfteld and Williams,
Hitchcock, Rogers, Brown, Hatfield,
Phipps and Dupree in Auburn's.
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A comparison of scores makes Har­ry
Mehre's eleven the favorite, but
the Plainsmen are determined to
give the Red and Black team a fight
that will rival the ones put up by
Auburn during the days when the
Southern championship was awarded
to the Plains.
Since casting aside an inferiority
complex that hurt them considerably
when facing the top-notch teams in
the nation, the Tigers have feared
every opponent this year, but have
not conceded any team a victory un­til
the sounding of taps after 60
minutes of fierce battling. This was
proved in the Tulane melee when
the great Green Wave was held
scoreless until the final few seconds
of the first half. »
Auburn has been outweighed in
every game this year, but superior
coaching and a courageous band of
players has given Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute an impressive record of
four wins, one tie and two losses.
The Tigers record for the season
follows:
Auburn 24, Birmingham-Southern
6.
Auburn 7, Wisconsin 7.
Auburn 13, Georgia Tech 0.
Auburn 12, Florida 13.
Auburn 27, Spring Hill 7.
Auburn 0, Tulane 27.
Auburn 12, Sewanee 0.
Against Sewanee, Wynne's ma­chine
looked the best that it has
looked since trouncing Georgia Tech.
The line charged, blocked and tackled
in superb style, and the backs ran
in a manner that pleased their teach­ers.
The return to form of Ernest Mol-pus
and the playing of two sopho­mores,
Will Chrietzburg and "Rip­per"
Williams, brightened Auburn's
chances of making a much better
showing against the Athenians than
was at first expected. Molpus was
breaking through from left guard
and throwing Purple and White ball
Meal of Wheat Served
120 At Oberlin College
Oberlin, O.—(IP)—One hundred
and twenty guests of Dr. Robert E.
Brown, professor of theology and hu­man
relations at the Graduate School
of Theology of Oberlin College here
went home with satisifed appetites
the other night after dining on a
meal of wheat, served at an average
cost of 3 cents a person.
The guests partook of an eight
course dinner of which the basis was
whole wheat. It was the invention
of Dr. Brawn and was heralded as a
partial solution for the relief work
which is now confronting practically
every community in the nation.
Its success was acclaimed by those
present as well as relief workers from
sections of the county where the meal
has been tried.
The meal was given here as a prac­tical
demonstration of what can be
done with wheat. A cereal soup,
made by boiling and straining wheat,
seasoned with salt and pepper, was
served first. Then followed a wheat
"meat loaf" composed of two-thirds
wheat and a small amount of meat.
Whole-wheat muffins were served as
well as cold slaw and a baked apple
to balance the meal. "Coffee/' made
of roasted wheat kernels, was served
at the end of the meal.
MISS GLANT0N MADE
CHAIRMAN "BETTER
HOMES" COMMITTEE
Eleventh Nation-Wide Cam­paign
for Better Homes In
America
Ban On Radios Being
Probed At Carleton
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Minn.—(IP)—A com
mittee of four men students is mak
ing an investigation to determine if
the ban on radios in dormitories at
Carleton College here shall or shall
not be lifted.
The ban was placed last year by
President Cowling, who explained
that he felt the instruments were not
conductive to study- in the dormitor­ies,
since they were so noisy.
"I shall not stand in the way of
their return, however, if the com­mittee
investigating the students'
wishes on the matter finds the radios
are really wanted," the president
said.
A petition of 200 men students
opened the question this year.
Woman's Club To
Hold Nov. Meetings
Two department's of the Woman's
Club of Auburn, will hold their No­vember
meetings on Thursday, the
nineteenth. A talk on "Personality"
by Dean Zebulon Judd, will be heard
by the members of the department of
education. Current articles will be
reviewed, by Mrs. W. D. Salmon. Mrs.
Ercel Friel will be the hostess.
The department of civics will meet
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J. W. Scott will speak on "Ornamental
Shrubs and Trees." A list of No­vember
Plantings will also be given.
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at an early date. Friedman is from
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carriers for losses; Chrietzburg was
accurate in passing from center and
shone on the defense, and Williams
made very few mistakes in directing
the team and probably won for him­self
a regular berth. Williams, a
sophomore from Tuscumbia, was
cool under fire and impressed Wynne
very much with his work. He eats
and sleeps football and has the mak­ings
of a brilliant quarterback.
Other wearers of the Orange and
Blue who showed up well in Birm­ingham,
were Porter Grant and
David Airail, ends; Co-Captain James
Bush and Buddy McCollum, tackles;
"Boots" Chambless, guards; Jimmie
Hitchcock, Allen Rogers and Lindley
Hatfield, halfbacks, and Tom Brown
and Sterling Dupree, fullbaks.
Hitchcock led the Plainsmen
ground gainers with 136 yards, fol­lowed
closely by Sophomore Rogers,
who reeled off 106 yards.
Grant and Ariail gave Magic City
fans the prettiest exhibition of end
playing staged by a pair of Auburn
flankmen in several years. No one
worries over how Auburn's terminals
are protected with Grant and Ariail
in perfect condition.
Miss Louise P. Glanton has been
appointed again as chairman of the
Better Homes committee for Auburn.
This is the eleventh nation-wide
campaign of Better Homes in Ameri­ca,
an educational organization es­tablished
for public service in the
interest of home improvement. Presi­dent
Hoover is honorary chairman of
the organization and Secretary Wil­bur
is president. The headquarters
office is in Washington, D. C, with
Dr. James Ford in charge as Execu­tive
Director.
The Better Homes campaign is de­signed
to stimulate the improvement
of housing conditions and bring about
a more wholesome type of home and
family life. The programs carried
out by local committees are determ­ined
by the needs and conditions in
the community. Features include
lectures and discussions, exhibits,
contests, and where possible the dem­onstration
of one or more new or
remodeled houses to show how the
better types of homes can be pro­vided
for families of modern incomes
at a cost within their reach. Care
afi'd repair programs as a means of
relieving unemployment during the
winter are being emphasized again
this year. These programs culminate
in Better Homes Week which in 1932
will be from April 24 to May 1.
The findings of the President's
Conference on Home Building and
Home Ownership, which will take
place in the first week of December,
will give added stimulus to the Bet­ter
Homes campaign this year. The
studies of the various Conference
committees include such subjects as
the design of homes, home construc­tion,
financing of homes, household
management, homemaking, landscape
planning and planting for homes, the
elimination of slums and blighted
Disarmament Party
Formed At Manitoba
Winnipeg, Man.—(IP)—An Inter­national
Disarmament Party, which
was begun as the refeult of a student
conference in Canada early in the
fall, is sweeping the dominion's uni­versities,
according to the Manitoban,
undergraduate publication of the
University of Manitoba, and is also
gaining strength in other quarters.
One of the first definite aims of
the new party is the presenting of a
petition to the Prime Minister asking
that Canada be represented at the
Geneva Disarmament Conference in
February by public men who show
by their action, as Canada achieves
nationhood, the world's interests, are
her interests.
Efforts are being made to have the
students of the Canadian Universities
vote solidly with the new party at
Canadian elections.
It had gained a firm stronghold in
eastern universities and is rapidly be­coming
popular in those of the mid­dle
and far west .of the Dominion.
AUBURN RATS DOWN TULANE
FR0SH 20-19 HERE SATURDAY
Trailing 13-0 at the Half Auburn Rats Stage Spectacular Come­back
t o Down Baby Green Wave of Tulane; Henderson Runs
Entire Length of the Field for Touchdown
VISITS ALMA MATER
W. A. Burns, '16, visited his alma
mater recently. Mr. Burns has been
in business in Texas and is now in
Montgomery. A bank failure in
Te^as made a change in business
necessary for him.
areas, farm and village housing, home
information centers, home furnish­ing
and decoration, and standards
and objectives.
More than eight thousand commun­ities
took part in the 1931 campaign
and Better Homes in America is look­ing
forward to even greater coopera­tion
in the coming year.
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After trailing at half by thirteen to
nothing the Auburn rats, coached by
"Bull" McFaden, staged a spectacu­lar
comeback in the third and fourth
stanzas and defeated Ted Banks'
baby green wave, of Tulane, by twen­ty
to nineteen here Saturday. The
ijame ended the season for baby
Tigers with four wins and one defeat.
Tulane scored late in first quarter
after a lateral pass from Simon to
Loftin, had gained thirty yards, and
I laced the ball on Auburn's fifteen
yard line. Loftin went over for touch­down
on next play. They failed to
kick goal. Tulane's second touchdown
came in second quarter as result of
line bucks and pass, from Simon to
Phillips. Phillips kicked goal, mak­ing
score thirteen to nothing at half.
Second half opened with each team
fighing hard and playing spectacular
football. Tulane worked the ball to
Auburn's ten yard line and fumbled.
Standing behind his goal line, Hen­derson
received the ball for a fake
kick, but dashed around right end on
a sweeping run for a touchdown. It
was a beautiful play. Tuner kicked
goal.
Later in same period Morris flipped
a beautiful pass to Kemp who dashed
over for Auburn's . second counter
which tied the score. Tuner failed at
goal and the score was thirteen all.
i Tulane seored next after intercepting
pass on 44-yard line. Auburn was
penalized fifteen yards and line bucks
placed ball near Auburn's goal. Lof­tin
then went over for touchdown but
failed at goal. Score nineteen to thir­teen
for Auburn.
But the Auburn rats would not be
downed. They fought with grim de­termination
to win, and win they did.
With the ball in their possession and
only thirty yards from their goal
Snider threw a pass to Henderson,
who received it on Tulane's 25-yard
line and dashed over for the final
'touchdown of the game; Moore kicked
goal, placing Auburn one point ahead
and there the score stood 20 to 19 at
end of game.
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by Auburn in which Rogers showed
his ability as a ball carrier. Hitch
cock intercepted a Sewanee pass on
his 15 yard line and Returned it to
the 28. Rogers then made a beauti
ful run of 27 yards and placed the
ball on Sewanee's 45-yard marker,
Hitchcock passed to Rogers for seven
yards and on the next play Rogers
made it first down on the 30 as the
quarter ended. When the fourth
quarter opened Rogers -was away
again and could not be stopped until
he had reached the 13-yard line.
Brown and Hitchcock picked up 9
yards thrpugh the line on two plays,
placing the ball on Sewanee's 5-yard
line. From here Rogers raced around
end for the last score of the game.
Hitchcock tried a pass to Grant for
the extra point, but it was incom­plete.
Score: Auburn 12; Sewanee 0.
Auburn had very little trouble
gaining while the first team was on
the field, and made several bids for
touchdowns, which failed because of
fumbles or Sewanee's great defen­sive
stands in the shadow of their
goal. Sewanee's line played a great
defensive game but were worn down
in the last few minutes and the light
Auburn backs had very little trouble
in breaking away for extra yards
after they had been held up momen-tarilly.
Auburn's passing attack clicked to
perfection throughout the game with
Hitchcock, Williams and Phip'ps al­ternating
in throwing them. Williams
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called the magic pass signal ten
times during the game and six of
these found their mark for a total
gain of 117 yards.
Hitchcock had the best average in
yards gained by rushing the ball with
a total of 137 yards gained in fifteen
tries. He was pushed hard, however,
by Rogers who gained 106 yards in
eleven tries. Auburn out-gained Se­wanee
some 350 yards to 100 and
made twenty first downs to the
purple and^ white team's six. The
greater portion of Sewanee's gains
were made over the shock troops and
two of their first downs came as re­sults
of penalities. Sewanee went
the entire game without receiving a
penality while Auburn was penalized
three times for a total of thirty-five
yards.
Rogers and Hitchcock were the
highlights in the Auburn offensive,
while the entire line played a won­derful
game on both the defense and
offense. For Sewanee, Morton and
Patton played a beautiful game on
the line, while Wellford and Gee car­ried
off the honors on the offense.
Auburn used only straight football
probably saving their trick plays to
use against Georgia next week. If
Wynne's passing attack continues im­proving
as it has in the past, it is
likely to give Georgia even more
trouble than it has Tulane and Se­wanee.
EARLY CHURCH RUINS FOUND
Ann Arbor, Mich. —(IP)— The
University of Michigan has announ­ced
that an expedition directed by
Professor Leroy Waterman has dis­covered
in Galilee the remains of
what appeared to be an early Chris­tian
Church.
The find was made at Sepphoris,
only an hour's walk from the home of
Jesus.
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New York—(IP)—A "beating up"
has been promised Reed Harris, ed­itor
of the Columbia Spectator, by
members of the Columbia University
football "team, if he persists in writing
editorials to the effect that the alumni
of the university are secretly passing
out sums of money to members of the
grid squad.
Whoever is assigned to do the
"beating up" will have a tough time
of it, however, for Harris weighs no
less than 215 pounds and once played
football himself. And that the scrap
is likely to occur is evidenced by the
fact that Harris has announced, to
the faces of the protesting gridders,
that he'll say whatever he pleases
about the football team in the Spec­tator.
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Borrowing Weekly
Paper Has Dangers
The practice of borrowing has its
advantages but it also has many dis­advantages,
thinks P. O. Davis. It
works on some things but not on oth­ers.
"When it comes to borrowing the
weekly newspaper I am of the opinion
that subscribing is much better than
borrowing," said Mr. Davis.
. "Borrowing is not as good for the
reader and it is bad for the editor who
realizes that borrowing is a tribute
to his paper but he is unable to show
names of borrowers on his audited
subscription list; and here is where
he suffers in addition to losing the
subscription money which he needs to
pay his bills and give his readers a
good paper."
So far Mr. Davis has not been able
to offer a solution; but he,calls atten­tion
to a paragraph which has been
going the rounds of the press for
many years, and* will still bear re­printing.
"A farmer, rather than subscribe
to the paper, sent his boy to borrow a
neighbor's. The lad knocked over a
stand of bees. His father, hurrying
to help him, ran into a barbed-wire
fence, gashing his leg and ruining a
new pair of overalls. Hearing the
noise, his wife ran out, upsetting a
four-gallon churn of cream into a
basket of kittens, drowing the litter.
At the same time she dropped and
broke a new set of store teeth. During
the excitement the daughter eloped
with the hired man, the dog broke
up eleven sitting hens, and the calves
got out and chewed up a line of wash­ing
hung out to dry. All to save
one or two Hollars, the price of a
subscription."
Light Replaces Copper
Wire In Telephone
Moscow, Idaho—(IP)—A •tele­phone
that uses a beam of light in­stead
of a copper wire for trans­mitting
sound has been developed at
the University of Idaho by Dr. Gus-taf
W. Ham'mar, head of the physics
department and Lawrence W. Fos-kett,
one of his graduate students. ,
Originating as a scientific experi­ment,
the discovery opens up an en­tirely
new field of sound communi­cation
which may be used by such
agencies as the United States forestry
service and the army and nevy signal
corps. Dr. Hammar and Fosket mod­estly
explain that they simply made
use of scientific principles which have
been known before.
A sensitive photo-etectric cell
snakes the new light telephone pos­sible.
Much like a radio tube in ap­pearance,
the cell detectives minute
changes in the intensity of light to
which it is exposed.
S. I. A. ASKED TO AMEND RULES
Lexington, Ky.—(IP)—The South­ern
Intercollegiate Association will be
asked by Transylvania College to
amend its rules so freshmen may play
on varsity football teams. Authori­ties
here believe that the change
would allow the smaller colleges
which are members of the association
to compete with southern colleges of
greater size in public interest.
HAS GREEK GRAVEYARD
Lebanon, Tenn. — (IP) — Cumber­land
University has a Greek grave­yard
in which are buried the mem­ories
of fifteen chapters of Greek-letter
fraternities which have passed
on here since 1854. Four of the chap­ters
died during the Civil War, and
the other eleven just died natural
deaths in years since then.
Scientists Says Light
Signal to Mars Possible
Berkeley, Cal.— (IP)—That an in­habitant
of Mars some day looking
through a telescope may see a signal
of light from the earth, is the belief
of Dr. B. B. Brode, associate profes­sor,
of physics at the University of
California, who asserted recently
that if it were possible to broadcast
red light on an extremely short wave
length, a Martian looking at the right
time could detect the gleam 35,000,-
000 miles away.
The professor's statement followed
an announcement from London by
Professor E. V. Appleton had located
what was believed to be the atmos­phere
layer above the earth which
ordinary radio waves cannot pene­trate.
This layer, Dr. Appleton said,
is 130 miles above^h«-earth.
Dr. Brode, therefore, suggests that
visible light rays, little different (than
radio waves, must be the means of
communicating with another planet.
Texas U. Alma Mater
Song Passes 28th Year
Austin, Tex.—(IP)—It was just
28 years ago that J. R. Canon, Ama-rillo
business man, first sang "The
Eyes of Texas," the alma mater song
of the University of Texas.
Today the song has achieved nation­wide
renoun and is accepted by many
as the official song of the state of
Texas.
Dr. Lambdin Prather, university
president in 1903, had a habit of using
the phrase, "the eyes of Texas are
ypon you," when he addressed the
student body.
Canon and three other students who
prided themselves on their close har­mony
devised the words and set them
to the tune of "I've Been Working on
the ^Railroad."
AUBURN HIGH PREPARES FOR
GAME WITH 0PELIKA FRIDAY
AGRICULTURAL LEADERS TO
CONVENE HERE NEXT WEEK
Simple Method Found
Building Generators
Princento, N. J. —(IP)— The Pal­mer
Physics Laboratory of Princeton
University, it was announced by Dr.
Robert J. Van de Graff, has perfect­ed
a simple and inexpensive method
of building generators capable of de­veloping
15,000,000 to 20,000,000
volts, which experts believe finally
opens the way to the realization of the
age-old dream of the transmutation
of elements.
The new generator, when built, is
expected to furnish science with a new
tool with which to carry on its at­tempt1
to smash the atom.
Chemistry Researches^
Are Destroyed by Fire
London —(IP)— A fire which de­stroyed
the physics laboratory of St.
Andrews University blotted out the
results of the chemistry reseai-ches of
Sir James Irvine since 1906. Sir
James is the principal and vice chan­cellor
of the university.
The laboratory, which opened in
1926, contained valuable chemicals
and sugars which Sir James had dis­covered,
as well as reports on re­searches
concerning them. '
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The ultimate goal, continued Pro­fessor
Duncan, is to promote a farm­ing
program for the farmers of the
state, considering present conditions
of farmers and also the outlook. More
profitable farming is the goal. ^
Work of this kind has been done
in Alabama several years; and the
abundant production of food products
this year is one of the good results of
it. Work in 1932 will be conducted
on an established program but modi­fied
to suit 1932 needs and conditions.
Preparatory to the conference here
next week District Agents J. T. High,
R. G. Arnold, and Emmett Sizemore
attended the southern agricultural
outlook conference in Memphis last
week.
In what promises to be one of the
most interesting and hard-fought
games seen in Auburn for a long
time, Auburn High meets Clift High
School of Opelika, Friday afternoon.
Despite the fact that Opelika won
last year by the score of 19-7, the
local gridders are planning to give
Opelika their best game of the sea­son.
While Opelika has a more en­viable
record todate, Auburn is plan­ning
to upset the dope bucket and
add another victory to their growing
string. Auburn's stock rose several
points when it conquered the strong
Roanoke High team last week. «
On the basis of comparative scores
Opelika is several touchdowns to the
good, but this will be partially offset
by the fact that Auburn is playing on
their home field. Opelika will be
handicapped by the loss of Thomp­son,
stellar halfback. Auburn will
HEART 3 TIMES NORMAL SIZE
Berlin —(IP)— An X-ray taken by
Dr. Victor Gottheiner, sports physi­cian
reveal that the heart of Paavo
Nurmi, the Finnish record sprinter,
is three times normal size.
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outweigh Opelika about five pounds
to the man in both the backfield and
line.
The game will start promptly at
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Howard R.G. Towery
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Moses R.E. Huling
Melton Q.B. Dozier
Cook H.B. Stanfield
Whatley H.B. Smith
Isley F.B. Weaver
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plate was served by the hos­tesses,
Mary McGehee, Jane Yar­brough,
Martha Moore Milligan and
Nora Towles.
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