1931-12-16 The Plainsman

              Merry
Christmas THE PLAINSMAN
TO FOSTER THE A U B U R N SPIRIT
Happy
New Year
VOLUME LV AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 1931 NUMBER 27
Mid Year Dances
Create Interest
As Plans Mature
Selection Of Cummins Lauded
By the Entire Student Body
Here
JANUARY 21 TO 23
Decorations Under Construc­tion
to Be Most Complete In
History
Interest of no mild nature has pre­vailed
regarding the Junior Prom,
since the announcement of the fact
that Bernie Cummins had been en­gaged
to play for the occasion. This
orchestra's popularity here was man­ifested
by the loud acclaimation ac­corded
the selection.
Cummins is now completing a
lengthy engagement at the Nether­lands
Plaza, Cincinnati's newest and
most exclusive hotel. During his stay
there he has been a regular feature
of radio station WLW, in their night­ly
broadcast of dance music.
The novel decorative scheme to be
employed is now in the elementary
stages, and promises to be the most
unique in all of Auburn's social his­tory.
The contract for these decora­tions
was awarded to Chas. F. Davis,
Mallory Collins, and B. A. England,
Jr. A realistic depiction of Inferno
will be the central theme.
The numerous fans of Bernie Cum­mins
are constantly speaking of his
popular recordings that have been re­leased
in the past few years. Much
mention is made of "Lonely", which
was one of the most popular repro­ductions
of last year. Reports from
Washington and Lee University are
to the effect that the student body is
pleased with Bernie Cummins selec­tion
to play for their annual Fancy
Dress dances. This affair having long
been considered the bright spot of
all collegiate social life.
Bid cards are to be placed in the
various farternity houses and in the
up-town drug stores immediately fol­lowing
the holidays.
Mad-Man Breaks Loose In Office
Of Paper And Decries Xmas Myth
Kiwanis Club Holds
Last Meeting of Year
The Auburn Kiwanis club Monday
held its last meeting for 1931, except
the annual party and outing which
was Tuesday evening.
Preparations were made at the
meeting Monday for the work of club
in 1932. P. 0. Davis, incoming presi­dent,
announced committees as fol­lows:
Agriculture—J. C. Grimes, J. W.
Tidmore, W. McD. Moore, R. Y. Bail­ey,
B. F. Alvord.
Attendance—W. H. Eaton, L. M.
Ware, E. D. Hurt.
Boys and Girls Work—W. B. Lee,
W. D. Salmon, L. M. Ware, M. McD.
Moore.
Business Relations—Wm. Hardie,
Homer Wright, A. Meadows, R. L.
Burkes.
Classification—R. L. Burkes, W. H.
Weidenbach, "Emmett Sizemore.
Entertainment (music)—Dr. H. C.
Hoffsommer, Mrs. Mary Drake As­kew,
W. H. Eaton, J. A. Blackburn,
W. D. Salmon.
Finance—Emil Wright, W. W. Hill,
E. D. Hurt, John B. Pitts, C. G. Gar-man.
Good Will and Grievance—John W.
Roe, W. -B. Lee, J. V. Brown, J. ,W.
Drake.
House and Decorations—W. D. Sal­mon,
Dr. John T. Oliver, W. D. Gib­son,
Mrs. Mary Drake Askew.
Inter-Club Relations — H o m er
Wright, A. Meadows, John E. Pitts,
W. D. Gibson.
Kiwanis Education—A. D. Lips­comb,
J. W. Roe, B. F. Alvord, J. W.
Drake.
Program—Emmett Sizemore, H. C.
Hoffsommer, J. A. Blackburn, Mrs.
Mary Drake Askew, W. H. Weiden­bach.
Public Affairs—Dr. R. S. Sugg,
Prof. L. N. Duncan, Dr. B. F. Thom-
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Why Christmas holidays? Why
spend money that we could make the
mid-term dances on? We might even
register for the second semester on
part of it. Why leave town and go
home to sleep and eat for the rest of
the year? Receive Christmas cards
and send them. Who sent them any­way
and what does it matter? Just
another foolish custom. Why give
presents and why expect them. Just
another way to spend money. Think
of the classes we will miss and term
examinations just a month away. If
we don't stay in town the professors
will all get together and figure out a
way to make things much easier; they
might even decide not to have mid­term
exams. Some brutal psychol­ogy
instructor has alre'ady exploded
the Santa Claus myth, so there is
nothing to look forward to but twelve
hours sleep a day and plenty of good
food. Go to some silly dance every
night and then come in at any time
you please. What is the point in all
this? Really no sound thinking per­son
could take a thing of this sort
seriously. When we can walk every­where
we go right here in Auburn
and build up our health, why go
home and use the car half the day
and all night. What about missing
the food here .at our boarding house,
think how disappointed our land­ladies
will be having no one to pre­pare
for. How we will miss the in­vigorating
tang of a cold room when
we arise to make those delightful
eight o'clock classes. No quizzes, to
worry over, not a single class to go
to sleep in on those comfortable
desks. Truly, the whole scheme is
quite mad and the entire school is
going the way of the unwise by car­rying
out this diseased vaporing of a
materialistic world.
PHI DELTA GAMMA
ELECTS EIGHT MEN
Forensic Organization Recog­nizes
Students In Annual
Election
Eight men were elected to mem­bership
in Phi Delta Gamma, nation
al honorary forensic organization, at
a meeting held at the last meeting
of the society.
Thomas E. Kipp, Leeds; Horace E.
Timmerman, Prattville; Nelson H.
Thomas, Jones; J. D. Brown, Ozark;
J. C. Barrett, Birmingham; K. R.
Clark, Fairfield; Marby Phillips, Car-rollton,
and W. H. Minis, Beatrice
were the men chosen.
Phi Delta Gamma strives to stimu­late
activity in forensics and to give
recognition to those who show in­terest
and ability in this field in any
of its phases. Members are chosen
from engineering societies, dramat­ic
clubs and literary organizations, as
well as from the speech department.
Elections are held twice a year, in
the fall and in the spring.
Co-Captain of Tigers
Was Married To Miss
Mary Hughes Sept. 3
It has been revealed why an Au­burn
co-ed watched the playing of
Co-Captain Marshall Verlon "Chat-tie"
Davidson, Plainsmen quarter­back,
so intensely during the past
gridiron season. The Tiger co-leader
and Miss Mary Hughes, of Tyler,
Texas, were married at Ashville, Ala.
September 3, four days before prac­tice
started for the 1931 football
season, and it is doubtful if even
their intimate friends knew of the
marriage until this week.
The marriage was the culmination
of a campus romance that had its be­ginning
last year.
Both Co-Captain Davidson and
Mrs. Davidson are popular members
of the student body. Mrs. Davidson
entered from Judson College, is a
junior in the school of education and
a pledge to Kappa Delta sorority.
She is the charming daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John V. Hughes, of Tyler.
Davidson, one of the leading ath
letes ever to graduate at Sidney La
nier High School, Montgomery, has
been a leading member of Auburn's
varsity football machine for three
seasons. He is a senior in the school
of education, is a member of Sigma
Phi Epsilon, social fraternity, and is
vice-president of the Auburn "A'
club. He intends to teach and coach
when he graduates irTMay.
MOBILE CLUB WILL
GIVE XMAS DANCE
Annual Affair to Be Staged on
Christmas Eve Night; Stu­dents
Invited
On Christmas Eve night the mem­bers
of the Mobile Club will give
vent to the season's spirit with the
annual Christmas Ball in Mobile. This
affair is one of much popularity in
the port city.
Norton Williams, president, has
chosen Miss Betty Maury to lead the
grand march with him. She is the
charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
James Maury of Mobile, and she is
attending college at Tallahassee, Fla.
Approximately thirty-four couples
are expected to follow in the wake
of the leaders. To add-color to the
scene, attractive favors will be pre­sented.
Dance music will be furnished
from 9 till 2 by Jimmy Robbins and
his Auburn Knights, thus making up
a truly Auburn affair. As usual, re­serve
dances will be given for Spring
Hill College, and the University of
Alabama, as well as several for the
students and alumni of A. P. I. The
Auburn alumni in Mobile is contri­buting
a great deal, both financially
and otherwise, towards making this
dance-a success; several are serving
on committees.
Committees for the dance are as
follows: finance—Justin Morrill,
chairman; decorations—Howard El­lis,
chairman; invitations—James
Backes, chairman.
Dr. Knapp Extends
Christmas Greetings
To every student, to all par­ents,
to the faculty, employees
and friends of this institution,
Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Yea^r; Happy indeed are
I those who have a home and a
fireside where love„ abounds,
where unselfishness rules and
where may be bovn the hopes
and aspirations for the ne'w year
and all the years to come. If
the Christmas spirit could come
to take more "definite possession
of human hearts and abide with
.us in the new year, what a bles­sing
it would be. If the trials
and tribulations could be forgot­ten
in the spirit of Christ him­self
and something more of his
teachings could become a power
to settle the difficulties of\the
new year, this Christmas might
be a real one and the New Year
hold out" a greater hope to a
troubled world.
May we not, therefore, de­voutly
wish that this spirit shall
prevail and that out of this con­tact
with home and fireside we
may gather both hope and spirit
for the year to come. May every
sorrow pass away in the rekind­ling
of home fires and the renew­ing
of the most sacred ties of
life.
Sincerely yours,
Bradford Knapp.
CONFIRMATION OF
DISCOVERY SENT
TO D ^ ALLISON
Hydrogen Exists In T w o Forms
Is Scientist's Opinion After
Recent Discovery
Glee Club to Sponsor
Initial Dance Jan. 9
The Auburn Glee Club will spon­sor
a dance in the gym on Saturday
night, January 9th, the'first week­end
after the Christmas holidays.
Jimmie Robbins and his ever popu­lar
Auburn Knights will furnish the
music for the occasion, and a large
attendance is expected. Admission
for the dance will be the usual one
dollar.
Discussion Group Cup
Winner Led By Foster
At the meeting of the Y .M. C. A.
Sunday afternoon the winning dis­cussion
group for the spring term
was awarded a beautiful loving cup.
The cup goes to the Kappa Sigma
group led by Troy Foster. There
will be another series of discussions
in the spring. Problems of current
interest to the students and college
are the basis of the discussions.
Evidence previously reported by
Dr. Fred Allison and his associates
that hydrogen has two isotopes or
exists in two different forms received
confirmation today by the announce­ment
of scientists working jointly at
Columbia University and the Bureau
of Standards that they have obtained
spectroscopic evidence of a heavy iso­tope
of hydrogen. Dr. Allison's evi­dence
is based on results obtained by
his magneto-optic method which was
developed by him in the x phyhics
department.
Investigations with the magneto-optic
apparatus have been yielding re­sults
consistently over a period of
the past four years which are indi­cative
-of a heavy hydrogen isotope.
These results reached a stage of such
definiteness last summer that Dr.
Allison in his paper read before the
American Chemical Society at the
Buffalo meeting, reported evidence
for a hydrogen isotope of mass two
and of abundance in the ratio of one
to several- thousand. This evidence
is based upon the experimental fact
that in every acid there are.produced
two minima of light which are char­acteristic
of two isotopes of hydro­gen.
More than 20 such hydrogen com­pounds
have been studied, each giv­ing
without exception the two light
minima. By this method isotopes of
other elements have also been an­nounced.
This method was used in
the discovery of elements 85 and 87.
HOUSTON NAMED PRESIDENT
AS FRESHMEN GO TO POLLS;
MUCH INTEREST DISPLAYED
INSTALLATION OF
CUPOLA FINISHED
Scientific Foundry Instruction
To Be Given Here As New
Course
Wynne Considered
For Iowa U. Post
Although Iowa University athletic
officials refuse to indicate who will
succeed Burt Ingwersen as Hawkeye
head coach, they have hinted that
they will attempt to sign a coach with
an established reputation from an­other
institution.
Among the outstanding coaches in
the country prominently talked of
for the place are "Slip" Madigan, St.
Maryjs; Chet Wynne, Alabama Poly­technic
Institute; Chick Meehan, New
York University, and Jim Crowley,
Michigan State. Each had a winning
team during the 1931, season.
The above coaches went to St.
Mary's Auburn, New York Univer­sity
and Michigan State when foot-
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Trisection Of Angle Considered Lightly
By Math Professors Interview Indicates
Senior Invitations
Contract Is Awarded
Awarding of the contract for
Senior invitations to the Charles H.
Elliott Company was made public to­day
by J. R. Wilder, chairman of
the committee on invitations.
The action was taken by the Exec­utive
Cabinet in their bi-monthly
meeting, Monday night.
The claim of the very Reverend
J. J. Callahan, president of Duques-ne,
of Pittsburgh, that he had at last
trisected the angle by plane geome­try
was universally "pooh-poohed" by
professors of mathematics here. "No
mathematician would make such "a
claim," one professor declared. "Now
if it were a psychologist who made
such a preposterous statement—" he
began significantly, but checked him­self;
and consoled with "At least it's
a university president."
"The very Reverend J. J. Callahan
shows without a doubt that he^has on­ly
a very vague idea of the problem",
it was stated by Professor R. D.
Doner of the mathematics staff. "The
problem is to take a given angle and
divide it into three equal angles. The
method which Callahan uses is ex­actly
the. same as taking three equal
angles, putting them together at a
common vertex, nad saying that the
resulted angle is trisected."
"But what is causing all this com­motion?"
some may ask. Here is
the storm center: Six months ago
Callahan announced to an eager and
waiting world that he had at last
solved the problem that had "per­plexed
mathematicians for 3000
years", that of trisecting the angle.
Clamors, noises, and challenges came
to the claimant to prove it—all very
trying and annoying indeed to a tim­id,-
retiring university president. But
the demands of the public for his
method and proof had to be appeased
and last Saturday Callahan made
public his method of-"trisecting the
angle", if it may so be called. If
you are energetic enough to want to
work it out, here is his method as he
revealed it.
Let ac and df be two parallel lines
at any distance apart.
On one parallel line take a certain
distance df.
With d as a center and df as a
radius, intersect ac at c, making dc
equal to df.
With f as center and a radius equal
to df, intersect ac at a, making, af
equal to df.
Join af and dc. On dc as a base,
construct the angle dee equal to
angle acd. From d draw db parallel
to ec, and de parallel to af.
Now, says Father Callahan, the
lines dc and df trisect the angle bde.
Simple, isn't it? Too simple, say
the Auburn propounders of differ­entiation,
integration, and allied arts.
"In the first place, they say, when
you trisect an angle, you don't have
two parallel lines given. Further­more,
if you had these parallel lines,
you would already have your angle
trisected, for the angle between the
parallel which goes through the ver­tex,
and the nearest leg of the given
angle, is one-third of the angle to
be trisected. But try and get this
line, they challenge.
"Ridiculous" is the brand give the
"solution" by Professor Killebrew,
co- author of several textbooks in
mathematics. "Unless it was satirical,
I don't understand why the Associ­ated
Press would publish anything as
palpably false as that."
"Starting out with % of the angle
to be bisected is rather nice to say
the least, for the person who wants
to trisect the angle," commented A.
L. .Thomas, head professor of engi­neering
drawing, the curricula of
which deals in part with geometry.
Professor Arnquist, in the Physics
department, and Ph.D. from Cali­fornia
Institute of Technology, which
is rapidly becoming the mathematical
and physical research center of the
country, was amused. "Another man
wrong" was_ the comment. "Isn't
this the second 'solution' of the prob­lem
this year?" he inquired.
Professor Doner was rather indig­nant.
"The truth is", he asserted,
"the problem has not stumped math­ematicians
for 2000 years. By high­er
mathematics the trisection of the
angle has been proved impossible by
plane geometry, along with the other
two famous problems of antiquity—".
"Infamous problems of antiquity",
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While President Bradford Knapp,
Dean J. J. Wilmore, of the school of
engineering, other members of the
faculty and 40 students looked on,
the first metal from the new scien­tifically
controlled cupola was pour­ed
Friday afternoon, under the di­rection
of Prof. Dan T. Jones, head
of the department of industrial en­gineering
and shops. He was assist­ed
by Prof. C. N. Cobb and also by
Mr. Lee and Mr. Speighcer, foundry-man
of the Alabama Pipe Company,
Anniston.
The pouring marked the beginning
of scientific foundry instruction here
and hereafter it is expected to be an
important course for students in en­gineering.
The- run included the pouring of
metal and also the making of castings
from cast-iron.
Prof. Jones said that the course
will include foundry practices which
include melting and pouring of iron
casts, moulding and sand control. In
addition foundry research work will
be conducted. The course will be
available to all students in engineer­ing,
beginning with the second se^
mester of the current session.
The cupola has a capacity of one
ton per hour. It and practically all
other apparatus in the foundry equip­ment
were donations to the college,
coming from different concerns.
In addition to Dr. Knapp, and Dean
Wilmore the pouring was witnessed
by Prof. C. R. Hixon, Prof. M. T.
Fullan, C. C. Brooks, and S. W. Gar­rett.
Howard Morris Chosen Vice-
President ; Martin, Cooper
and Davis Also Win
BALLOTING SPIRITED
President-Elect Is a Member of
Veterinary Medicine School,
and S. A. E. Pledge
Business Women's Club'
Cooperates With Lions
In Distribution of Toys
Christmas toys received by various
members of the Business and Pro­fessional
Women's Club at their
Yuletide party Monday evening at
the Thomas Hotel have been donated
to the Christmas Cheer Committee
of the Auburn Lions Club for distri­bution
to underprivileged children
in the Auburn district. The toys
were used to carry out the spirit of
the party and will now augment the
several hundred toys which the Lions
are assembling for Christmas distri­bution.
A tap dance by little Miss Eliza­beth
Cash and a reading by Miss
Jewell Davis formed a part of the
entertainment.
Committee in charge of the party
was composed of Mrs. Ella Jo Nickel,
Mrs. Elba Wicker, and Misses Mil-dren
Hanson, Jesse Aycock, and Vir­ginia
Igou.
Two new members were voted into
the club, Miss Marguerite Odendahl
and Miss Margaret Garrett. Mrs.
Asa Clark attended as a guest.
In the annual Freshman election
held on Tuesday, December 15, N.
G. Houston, of Sylvester, Georgia,
student in veterinary medicine, was
elected President of the class of nine­teen
thirty-five. Houston is a pledge
of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Howard J. Morris, from Montgom­ery,-
a student in ele'etrical engineer­ing,
is the new Vice-president. Mor­ris
is a pledge of Kappa Alpha social
fraternity. Austin Martin, a Pi
Kappa Phi pledge from Wetumpka
was chosen Secretary, and James
Cooper, of Echola, Alabama, was
named Treasurer. Cooper is num­bered
among the pledges of Alpha
Gamma Rho. Bill Davis, of Pratt­ville,
a student in architecture was
elected Historian for the frosh.
Much interest was manifested in
the Freshman election, and a fine
spirit was shown by all the contest­ants.
The officers" that were elected are
to be installed shortly fter Christ­mas
and will serve in their respective
positions until the spring election
which takes place in April.
Greenville High Couriers
Defeat Freshman Team
First National Bank
Stockholders to Meet
The annual meeting of the stock­holders
of the First National Bank
of Auburn, will be held at this bank
on January 5, 1932, at two o'clock
in the afternoon. All stockholders
have been invited to attend the meet­ing.
Officers will be elected and oth­er
business transacted, according to
the election committee composed of
W. D. Salmon, W. D. Gibson, and
Miss May I. Cureton.
Officers of this bank are: Felton
Little, president; W. W. Hill, vice-president;
A. L. Thomas, chairman;
G. H. Wright, cashier. Each is an
alumnus of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute.
Winning second, third, fourth,
seventh and tenth places, Coach Pou
DeJarnette's Greenville High School
cross country team defeated the
freshman harriers in a special two-mile
race, 26 to 29, in the first meet
of the season for both teams.
Carl Pihl, Auburn plebe from
Brooklyn, N. Y., who recently set a
new record in winning the annual
cake race over a field of 400, out-sprinted
Luther Pierce, Greenville
luminary and holder of *he state high
school championship for three-miles,
the final 100 yards to win first honors.
Pihl, one of the leading two-milers to
enter Auburn in several years, ran
the course in 10.32.7.
The finish was as follows: Pihl
(Auburn), Luther Pierce (Green­ville),
Orren Pierce (Greenville),
Williams (Greenville), Griffin (Au­burn),
Hardee (Auburn), Odom
(Greenville), Funchess (Auburn),
Gait (Auburn), and L. Rogers
(Greenville).
Prof. Hare Will Not Go
To Conference Meeting
Prof. Cliff Hare, faculty chairman
of athletics at Alabama Polytechnic
Institute and president of the South­ern
Conference, will not attend the
conference meet in New Orleans Fri­day
and Saturday on account of not
having recovered fully from the
"flu". Prof. Hare has been bothered
with Spanish Influenza since Sep­tember
and has been advised by his
physician not to make the trip to
the Crescent City.
Pageant At Baptist
Church Last Sunday
Replacing the regular services at
the Baptist Church last Sunday night
a pageant was presented depicting
the Christmas eve. The cast includ­ed
members of the Baptist Student
Union, and the whole presentation,
including costumes, staging, and per­formance,
was most effective. Be­tween
scenes, several Christmas
hymns were rendered as solos and
choir numbers. A congregation that
packed the church witnessed the af­fair.
A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE
*> AUBURN FOOTPRINTS -:-
We are informed that if all the women were to wear cotton hose that the farm­ers
would have no surplus. . Yet, even the farmers would rather have the surplus.
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Foot Prints will award a handsome prize to any student who returns from the
holidays and does not ask his friends if they had "a fine Christmas."
Ed Note: This also applies to any student who answers the above question
without making some remark about the depression.
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English mother: "Has my baby been as good as gold?"
Nurse: "He went off the gold standard about an hour ago."
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Personal speculations:
Ballyhoo will wish everyone a rotten Christmas. _,
That we will get three identical cards during the season.
Santa Claus won't come this year.
*• People will still be talking about the depression in 1932.
That.the Christmas socks won't fit.
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The old idea that money is covered with germs has been exploded. Now we can
say that it is practically untouched by human hands.
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Our ideas of obsecurity is the football player that did not make some news­paper's
All-Something-or-other>
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One wonders what football games were like before prohibition.
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A newspaper headline discloses the fact that Congress is getting down to real
work. This should relieve the unemployment situation to some extent.
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Letters: to Santa Claus:
Please bring me something new to gripe about.—Cletus.
P. S. However, I won't like it.
Please bring us a new editorial staff.—Business Staff.
Please make my paper the "South's Second Leading Semi-Weekly".—The Editor.
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Im they had played golf—
Perry—"I have just begun to putt."
George Washington—"I can not tell a lie my score was 150."
Alexander the Great—"I weep for there are no more cups to win."
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Some scientist has discovered a pink lemon. And we have been drinking pink
lemonade all these years.
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No, my children, Joe Purvis is not making his usual world tour Christmas eve
with Santa, he broke his leg last week while playing in a charity game. The game
was played in an effort to raise money to get Jimmy Walker out of California and
Will Rogers out of Manchuria by Christmas.
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The patron saints of all college students are planning to make a visitation upon .
the one who figures some plan by which the college time will again be placed on the
correct time standard.
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
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REPORTERS
Otis Spears, '34; M. M. Spruiell, '34; Billy
Hamilton, '34; Hugh T. Lawson, '35; Walter
Brown, '35; J. C. Ivey, '34; W. G. Hall, '35;
B. C. Pope, Jr., '33; Jack Knowlton, '35;
Walter Smith, '35; Marion Kelley, '33.
BUSINESS STAFF
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Robert Greer Circulation Manager
Phillip M. Benton Asst. Adver. Mgr.
SEASON OF SENTIMENT
The Christmas season is here. Ask the
child its significance and he will immedi­ately
enumerate the toys he anticipates
from Santa or mechanically reproduce, in
the language of his Sunday School teacher,
that it marks the celebration of Christ's
birthday. To the college boy it means di­version,
home, and the* joy of relaxation
from whatever pursuit's he may have been
employed. Not only the student finds relief
in the warmth of home, but to those that
have squandered their time it represents a
period of reflection and resolution. The
wealthy will lavish their wealth on them­selves.
The benovelent will carry attrac­tive
baskets of fruit to the unfortunate,
and marvel at the magnitude of their own
hearts. Chorals will be sung. Many will
capitalize the prevailing spirit, and fill sel-
,fish coffers on generous moods.
True, much of this has become habitual.
Few pause to consider more than the cele­bration
itself in this annual memorial of
man's Savior. Yet, from underneath the
sacred foundation rises a spirit that sat­urates
the very air to warm the most iced
heart. Even mercenary America.
Could this spirit reign for the qntire
year the most entrenched of industrialized
forces would become addicted to sentiment­ality.
Why do men leave the bright lights to
seek the humble home of their beginning?
Why do they find in the blaze of old home
fires the thing that they have sought at the
four quarters of the globe?
Let the flames of the yule log leap high.
May we never destroy that spirit that
reunites us in the bonds of beauty, while
personal greed, lust for power, and cyni-calism
take the hindermost.
A WISE SELECTION
The announcement made by the Social
Committee last week to the effect that
Bernie Cummins will supply the music for
the annual Juinor Prom has received uni­versal
acclaim on the campus. The Plains­man
believes that the success of any set of
dances cfepends on the music. We take this
opportunity to congratulate the committee
for engaging an orchestra for the Mid-
Term dances which has few superiors in
the entire country. It is gratifying to
know that Auburn can secure the services
of an internationally prominent orchestra
for a series of dances.
Bernie Cummins has been a favorite of
radio lovers since his lengthy engagement
at the Hotel New Yorker in New York City.
Subsequent to this he played at the Hotel
Baker, in Dallas, where he was a regular
feature over station WEAA. He is play­ing
nightly at the Netherlands Plaza, in
Cincinnati, and may be heard over WLW,
at six-thirty and eleven p. m.
The signing of such a well-known and
well-liked orchestra for these dances should
serve as an incentive to every Auburn man
to attend the dances in order that he_may
enjoy the highest type of social entertain­ment,
a vital factor in undergraduate life.
Indications are that this set will be the
greatest in the history of the school.
LOOKING BACKWARD
With this, the Christmas issue, much
has been said of the beauty of it's cele­bration
and justly so, as it represents the
most beautiful part of our life each year
as we put away childish things and strive
to become men. This also will be the last
T H
issue before the New Year, the parting
bow of our inadequate efforts to exemplify
the thoughts that have risen from our in­stitution
throughout the ageing year.
True, his Christmas season fills us with
a mist of recollections, each year we mel­low
in our sentiments as we see the end of
another chapter come near at hand. This
parting haze serves only as a brief respite
from the awakening and the entrance of a
new year. Our dream must come to an
end and we must again face those things
which await us in the morning. The "green
pastures" that we see before us are ver-ginal,
we mold them into realities as we go
on, it is for us to decide what pattern they
will take, no other can do it for us. Be­fore
all our good intentions are but memo­ries,
before we begin anew, let us strive
to take a deeper Stygian plunge and make
ourselves infallible to the common errors
that can be so easily overcome. Though
mere humans can not cast themselves in a
die of indomitable qualities we can cause
ourselves, to cast off the darker moments of
the past and strive to overcome them in
the future.
WANTED! A LIBRARY SANTA CLAUS
As the theme song of this entire issue
seems to be inevitable drawing nearer and
nearer to that of "Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year" we are hoping against
hope that in the gay confusion of the holi­day
season, that certain departments of
this institution, will not be forgotten by
some kind hearted alumni, who has man­aged
to weather the depression. Since
there are too many needy causes to enum­erate
here, we offer the suggestion, "that
if any such persons exist, that they begin
their philanthropic measures at the college
library." »
A department that has such a wide­spread
bearing over the entire working of
the academic phases of the educational in­stitution
of today, it is highly expedient
that to promote and to successfully carry
out the necessary requisites of these insti­tutions
of higher learning, that a firm basis
of a highly representative library should
be formed in the beginning. Every depart­ment
of the immature collection is in great
need of a general influx of additions, hence
this brazen plea for aid in any form. It
is needless to expect any aid from the col­lege,
at the present, for obviously sensible
reasons. Nevertheless, since the season of
generosity is near at hand, we feel justi­fied
in this harmless, and possibly, profit­able
exploitation of an immence void felt
by many students. Perhaps there is some­where,
someone who will rise to the occa­sion
and fill a decidedly vacant part of our
academic program.
INFALLIBLE INTILLECTS
Of all the vices than a man of learn­ing
can have, pedantry, it seems to me,
is the most obnoxious. Since time im­memorial
pedagogues have beentempted
to make vain show of their learning.
It would be the lowest hypocrisy to say
that Auburn is without its pedants,
and the worst part of it is that they
use their knowledge to malicious ends,
to utterly squelch some student who
chances to question the validity of some
of the omniscient professor's state­ments.
No sooner does an instructor
attempt to hide his ignorance than it
becomes written all over him. The
best professor I ever had, was one who
would admit some things, that he did
not know and who would recognize the
student's right to his own opinion. It
is indeed a good thing to have one's in­tellectual
curiosity aroused, but it is
sickening to see some dogmatic ignora­mus,
who regards himself as a criterion
for all learning, and who has no defi­nite
background with which to fortify
his statements.
—Anon.
AUTUMN, PARAY-LE-MONIAL
By Sister Maris Stella
I can remember how in that old town
the yellow leaves of the plane tree fell
in showers,
great yellow plane leaves drifting, drift­ing
down,
all afternoon, into the dusky hours;
all afternoon, filling the mellow air,
no sound of voice, no hum of bee or
bird;
only the plane leaves rustling, rustling.
There was no other sound but rustling
to be heard.
There was no other sound—the silver
fog in clouds
covered the meadows, crept up all the
trees;
the road was lined with ghosts in silver
shrouds—
no sight or sound, save when a little
breeze
started the yellow plane leaves from
the height,
rustling, rustling through the foggy
night.
Experts are" people who know more and
more about less and less.—Senator King of
Utah.
E P L A I N S M A N •:- A L A B AM
i Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ i A fascinating study
" occasion to comment
on a number of the features in the report
from time to time. I was attracted by one
feature indicating that the vocabulary of
the ordinary college student does not appear
from this injury to be enlarged materially
during the four years of his college course.
Considerable comment is made in the re­port
on the familiar poverty of campus
language. This language is from the re­port
itself and is not my own. Such a re­sult
can come only from lack of breath
of reading of good literature, or the ab­sence
or neglect of conversation on worth­while
subjects. I do not think it means that
the college student may not increase and
grow in breadth of his reading and in his
capacity to express himself as the years go
by. But it may mean that this matter of
"acquiring credits" and "passing courses"
is not all education. As I said the other
day, these are only an attempt to measure
progress rather than an indication of the
substance of the progress itself. How much
might be done if our attitude toward seri­ous
discussion around the fireside at fra­ternity
houses and in so-called "bull ses­sions"
could be changed! If vocabulary be
a test then surely those who write for the
Plainsman, the Glomerata, the Alabama
Farmer, and the Auburn Engineer are to be
congratulated upon their opportunity for
development. Is this not also a reason for
emphasizing Public Speaking and Debate?
I am wondering if the test when applied
to Auburn students would show the same
results as when applied to students in Penn­sylvania?
* * * *
I ran across an old Hindu proverb the
other day which says: "One-fourth of all
our education comes from our occupation;
one-fourth from our associates; one-fourth
from nature, and one-fourth from books." In
thinking of, it I am reminded of how im­portant
are these two things: our associ­ates
and nature. What we get from our
occupation and from books will come fair­ly
readily because these will be chosen with
a good deal of care and in the choosing we
shall receive a good deal of advice, counsel
and direction. I am sure we think much
less than we should about that part of
our education which comes from our asso­ciates
and that part of it which we get
from nature. The man who is fortunate in
his choice of high-minded associates and
who early develops a love of nature has a
brilliant opportunity for a liberal educa­tion
according to the standards of this old
Hindu, proverb.
* * * *
A significant statement was made by Dr.
Henry Suzzallo, President of the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teach­ing
in an address at the National Inter-
Fraternity Conference in New York City on
November 27. He said that there would be
more changes in American colleges in the
next fifteen years than there has been in
the last one hundred and fifty years. He
made the statement in that address that
fraternities cannot continue to exist on the
University level "unless they have a very
much higher selection on the basis of in­tellectual
capacity and intellectual inter­est."
This is an important consideration
for every fraternity man. In this connec­tion,
every Auburn fraternity ought to
examine the last issue'of the Alumnus and
study the tabulated statement prepared by
Mr. Edwards, associate registrar of this
institution, showing the scholarship record
of the various fraternities at Auburn dur­ing
the past seven years. Look up your
record and see where you stand.
OLD HOUSES
Anderson Scruggs
There is a mystery old houses know
The years will ever keep inviolate;
An essence of the past, the long ago
That hovers round the eaves, the muted
gate,
The shaded gravel walk that idly winds
Between the ranks of tulips time has
sundered;
There is a secret guarded by shut blinds,
The bold and prying world has never
- plundered.
If you have loved old houses, nevre
yearn
To break their seals of silence and of
death;
It is enough forgotten, dreams return
Within the lilac's faint and fitful breath.
s
Pause at the gate, and feel your heart
expand,
But never hope to know, or understand.
The Reveille, student paper at Louisiana
State University, is very enthusiastic about
the new "canals" which it charges the uni­versity
authorities have just finished ex­cavating
on the, campus. They may be
very poetic, says the paper, but of what
use are they? Construction on these so-called
canals was begun at the request of
students who grew tired of walking through
mud and slush on rainy days on their way
to classes. The college authorities decided
that they could afford to put in concrete
sidewalks for the complainers* benefit, and
presto,! the work was under way, and in
a short time, finished. "Ah ha!" exclaim­ed
the University students. "Now we may
well lay claim to the title of most en­lightened
university in the South. We have
concrete walks and Auburn hasn'tc Who
else would dare dispute our claims?"
But have they concrete walks? They were
supposed to be walks; that was what the
contract had called for; and that was what
they looked like—until the first rain. Then
as if by magic, the walks turned into ca­nals,
with all the proverbial wetness which
a canal is said to possess! Someone had
blundered! The sidewalks had been con­structed
from one to two inches too low,
and were filled with said amount of water
"after any kind of rain". And the paper
editorializes:
"There it is, our new canal. Too
long to jump, too soggy to go around,
and too shallow for a gondola. Since
there is to us no apparent way to lift
the thing up from the bottom, we sug­gest
that something be put on top of it.
"Eads, the man who built the jetties,
had the right idea."
* * * *
From the New York Times:
"With about 60 per cent of the pres- .
ent student body at Columbia college
engaged in some form of outside work,
the secretary of appointments at Co­lumbia
University, predicted Saturday
that by 1941, all undergraduates would
be self-supporting "
But the secretary doesn't take into con­sideration
the curious aversion most under­graduates
have to work. Perhaps how­ever,
he was thinking that if 60 per cent of
them could get jobs in this Republican pros­perity,
it would be logical to expect that
these prodigies would be 100 per cent em­ployed
in the coming Democratic regimes.
* * * *
For those individuals who, like myself,
are always proved to be hopeless morons
on intelligent tests (Crimson-White please
notice), there is some consolation in a re­cent
announcement from North Carolina
University. A mathematics professor there
has prepared a set of correlation tables
comparing grades made on general intel­ligence
tests and grades in mathematics
courses taken by these students at the Uni­versity.
The correlation number is such
as to show that there is. no possible con­nection
between these two grades. Now
try to convince some of your professors to
pass you in a course because you flunked
the placement tests.
* * * *
A Georgia man gets hot under the collar
and pens this to the editor of the Red and
Black, University paper. Incidentally, the
editorial asked for has not appeared yet.
"Last week I was in Atlanta and
saw a copy of The Technique and there
were three columns in it that consisted
of details about the Georgia-Tech game
which Georgia won, 35-6.
"They do not seem to realize at Tech
that the Georgia students now consider
the Tech game just one of the many
games that we play each season, and
that it is not one of our BIG games.
They could not say anything good
about their footbalL team so they ex­postulated
on the magnificant showing
of their band, which was only average
as compared with'the other bands that
have appeared on Sanford field this
year.
"The spirit shown by the Tech" stu­dents
when they dabbed with yellow
paint the arch, chapel bell, and Com­merce-
Journalism building was that of
a bunch of high school students. This
incident was mentioned in the paper
and termed as 'never-say-die' spirit.
"There was also a praise given by
the columnist for the spirit shown by
the Yellow jackets when they gave Jack
(The Ripper) Roberts a hand as he was
carried from the field on a stretcher.
This was nothing more than they should
have done. -f"
"I am of the opinion that an editorial
should appear in The Red and Black an­swering
some of the adverse comment
handed to the Georgia spirit and band.
They seemed 'to think that it was
wrong for the Georgia band to appear
on the field and stand at attention
while the Tech band was completing
their 'so-called' magnificent showing.
"I am enclosing a copy of the sheet
for you in case you have not been so
unfortunate as to receive one. Please
print this in your columns this week
and follow it by an editorial expressing
your true feelings."
Bill Ray.
* * * *
This weeks remarkable remark from a
college paper:
"The reason young people do mad
and terrible things is because they are
bored."
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 1931
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.
* * * *
ALL THE different branches of mod­ern
science are cooperating to make
the world a better place to live. The
world recognizes the wonderful contribu­tion
that science is making, but for me I
think that I could get along very well
without some of it. I do not like spinach
and regardless of what science advises I
am not going to eat it. Neither am I go­ing
to give up roast-beef just because it
is bad for my health.
These few cases that I , have suggested
are only slight obstructions to human com­fort
when compared with this new num­ber
on the program. It is no wonder that
revolutions, in one form of another, are
common throughout the world because
when science starts - suggesting that we
should not lie awake in bed, it is time for
even me to rebel. What can be the pos­sible
advantage of living ten years longer
if your whole existance is made miserable
by efforts to be healthy.
I am not a philosopher, even though it
is impossible to tell what I am talking
about at times, but I am a fanatic, and
especially a fanatic on the subject of ly­ing
in bed. Only misers get up early in
the morning and enjoy it. (I am leaving
out burglars because I am told that they
get up the night before.) I enjoy lying
in bed and especially do I like day dream­ing
while half asleep.
When lying in bed and watching the
plaster cracks that seem to continually
jump about and form themselves into pre­historic
animals, even the fates of nations
can be decided with a general feeling of
pleasure and well being.
My meditation this morning did not de­cide
the fate of any nations unless it was
connected in some way with Cleopatra's
methods. It was a very pleasant experi­ence
just the same: For some reason or
other I got started on the subject of love
and its expressions. Thus the subject ran:
Love is the strongest of human emotions,
and the kiss, even though it has many de-_
grees of intensity, is still the symbol of
real love. The paternal kiss on the fore­head
is certainly a symbol of love, but only
with the meeting lips of man and woman
equally smitten with the languorous disease
of love can the real emotion be experienced..
A kiss is an outword act expressing a spirit­ual
reality. The very soul rises to the lips
and makes a kiss a perfect symbol of unity.
The mouth becomes an exit portal of
thought, and all words melt into the mute
substance of a kiss.
It is too bad that I do not have a Mother-in-
law.
* * * *
Cletus, although he is not taking "E.E.",
sympathizes to the fullest extent with the
budding poet, who contributed the follow­ing:
A SAD SAD STORY
There breathes a Prof with a soul so dead,
Who yearly grunts and shakes his head.
And says "Elec-Mag bunch you're punk,
I have a hunch you're going to flunk.
I'll have my henchman take his pen,
And knock each hundred to a ten.
So if some men still want to pass,
I'll pick one-tenth from out of the class,
And they should think I'm O so great,
To let them pass with a sixty-eight.
I'll stretch a point and let them by;
The nine-tenths left will kinda sigh.
Each man should take my course twice,
One time for brilliants will suffice.
Despite your aims I'll plod my route
And from an all and flunk you out.
*LE EN VOI
Oh gents you hear my woeful wail,
It gripes like sin to up and fail.
Don't laugh at me as some may do,
I'm flunking out and so are you.
El Cada de Toro, Jr.
Quotations
Christians have burnt each other, quite
persuaded .
That all the Apostles would have done as
they did.—Lord Byron.
The supreme cause of our confusion is
our contemptuous dismissal of ethics.—
Professor Charles A. Beard.
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not
physically impossible.—Richard B. Sheri­dan.
I have never employed a literary black­smith.—
Andrew Mellon.
A poet without love were a physical and
metaphysical impossibility.—Thos. Carlyle.
People don't get indignant anymore. They
fear anything unpleasant. Their ideal is
a dinner of twelve courses of charlotte rus-se.—
Thyra Samter Winslow.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 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
SECOND ROUND UNDER WAY IN
FRAT BASKETBALL TOURNEY
U. O. Wins from K. A.; Pi Kappa Phi Downs S. P. E. to Com­plete
First Round; Fast Play Marks Opening Games
The inter-fraternity basketball
tournament went into the second
round Monday night as the strong
Kappa Alpha and S. P. E. teams fell
by the wayside. Both of these teams
won their opening games handily but
the Kappa Alpha's were no match for
the scrapping T. U. 0. passers in
the first game Monday night and were
eliminated by a 24 to 12 score. The
Pi Kappa Phi's came from behind to
win from the S. P. E. team, 14 to 12.
In the closing games of the first
round played Friday night the Kappa
Sigs swamped the Phi Kappa Delta's
under with a -barrage of field goals
in the first' half and coasted to an
easy 36 to 7 victory. Brower and
Rip Williams led the winners in scor­ing
with 9 points credited to each.
Suarez Lewis, former Chapman Mili­tary
Academy star, was the shining
"Tight for the Phi Kappa Delta's. The
Pi K. A. quintet earned its way into
the second round with a 19 to 10
victory over the Alpha Tau Omega's.
The game was featured by* close
guarding on the part of both teams.
Hines, Pi K. A. forward, was high
scorer with 10 points.
As second round play began Mon­day
night the work of several teams
indicated that the championship race
would be closer than ever before. In'
former years only two or three teams
have shown championship form in the
opening games, but at the present
time about six quintets appear to be
of nearly equal ability. The all
round play of the T. U. O. team in
downing the Kappa Alpha's was prob­ably
the best exhibition thus .far
shown in the tournament.
T. U. O. 24 vs. K. A. 12
Baker and Lawson, guard and for­ward
respectively, were the chief
factors in the T. U. O.'s smashing 24
to 12 victory over the Kappa Alpha's.
They were responsible for 18 of their
team's points and both played the
floor well. The K. A. team started
off strong, but wilted in the closing
minutes, while their opponents play­ed
steadily throughout. Wible and
Frank Ellis were the outstanding
players for the losers.
Line-ups: T. U. O.'s—Lawson (8)
and Hughes (6), forwards; Gilbreath
center; Simms and Baker (10),
guards. Subs: Harrison and Bennett.
Kappa Alpha—Doc Ellis (1) and
Frank Ellis (1), forwards; Wible
(8), center; Phillips (1) and Snow,
guards. Subs: Slack and Bob Ellis.
Pi Kappa Phi 14 vs. S. P. E. 12
The Pi Kappa Phi tossers won a
hard earned 14 to 12 verdict over
the Sigma Phi Epsilon team in an
exciting game Monday night. The
outcome was in doubt until the final
whistle and both outfits were scrap­ping
hard. The sensational shooting
of Hunt, S. P. E. forward, featured
the game. He accounted for 10 of
his team's 12 points. Jack Cumbee
was the outstanding performer for
c&he^ Tlainsman-,
^Auburn, Alabama
December 16, 1931
Students:
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of $2.50 we will keep and have bound a
complete file of the Plainsman for the
year. This will be a prized record of -
your school career.
A few files, in book form, are
available'from last year. A file will
be kept for you and bound at your
request.
Yours very truly,
THE PLAINSMAN.
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Approximately 900
Students Expelled
Laramie, Wyo. —(IP)— Approxi­mately
900 men and women students
of the University of Wyoming who
went on strike after President A. G.
Crane refused to apologize for re­marks
made about social conduct of
the students at a recent dance, were
expelled by the president last week.
Student leaders said Br. Crane,
during an intermission of the college
dance, visited several parked auto­mobiles
in which co-eds and their es­corts
were sitting, opened the car
doors and reprimanded the occupants
for their conduct.
Dr. Crane issued this statement:
"On the occasion of the annual ball
of the engineering students, Decem­ber
4, a group of about 50 students,
men and women in evening dress,
left the hall without wraps in near
zero weather and crowded into un-lighted
cars in front of the hall.
"I visited several of these auto
parties and reprimanded them em­phatically
for such conduct.
"This custom has grown up on this
campus and although a large ma­jority
of the young people partici­pating
do so for entirely innocent
and proper purposes, yet they are
placing themselves in a position
where they are open to grave suspi­cion."
The strike followed an attempt of
the president to address an under­graduate
gathering. He was jeered
by the students, who failed to listen
to him.
Navy Mascot Father
After Long Celibacy
Annapolis, Md. —(IP)— Father­hood
has descended upon old Bill, the
Naval Academy goat mascot. Two
kids, Josette and Nanette, were born
to his mate last week.
For years Old Bill was a bachelor,
but recently took himself a wife. He
is always on the sidelines when the
Navy plays its football games. Re­cently
at Columbus, O., Ohio State
fans painted the old fellow red. Af­ter
a trip to the cleaners Old Bill was
present at the Notre Dame game,
where he somehow got painted green.
A second trip to the cleaners was
necessary.
Now, however, he hopes football
fans will leave him be dignified as
he should be, at least in the presence
of his offspring.
K. D.'s Hold Annual
Banquet and Dance
Repeating the success of last year,
Kappa Delta Sorority entertained Sat­urday,
December 12th, with a formal
dinner and a dance following the
•banquet.
The dinner was served at the Cle­ment
Hotel, in Opelika, where the
guests and their hostesses enjoyed a
delicious turkey coursft Members of
the dinner party gathered in the
green room which was decorated to
carry out the colors of the sorority.
Soft candle light brought out the
beauty of silver baskets of white
roses and carnations placed here and
there upon the long u-shaped table.
Immediately following the dinner
the members and pledges of Kappa
Delta, and their guests drove to Au­burn,
where there was dancing from
8:30 to il:30, at the Alumni Gym­nasium.
The Auburn Knights furn­ished
the music, putting on a per­formance
that wa» enviable. This
entertainment was the most enjoy­able
that Kappa Delta has- so far
given, and the dances given by this
sorority are being considered among
the major social events of the school
year.
ANNUAL WAR ON FOOTBALL IS
BEGUN AS SEASON COMES TO END
Forty Deaths and Serious Injuries Bring Storms of Protest from
Enemies; Sports Lovers Rise In Defense
Professor For More
Civil Disobedience
PENNANTS GIFT GOODS
NOW IS THE TIME TO
PROTECT YOUR CAR
ANTI-FREEZE - - - - - - $1.50 gal.
ALCOHOL . - - - - . - - - $1.00 gal.
A* Meadows Garage
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THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES
HAGEDORN'S
Headquarter for Holiday Goods.
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When the 11th Quadrennial Con­vention
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planning to go with the delegation
from Howard College. Foster is one
of the outstanding men in the Y. M.
C. A. this year.
At the conference will be repre­sentative
students from all over the
world—students who are studying the
problems of youth in a sense of
christian fellowship and brotherhood.
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from every nation have been secured.
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there is such an array of students
and student leaders is considered a
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Oberlin, O. — ( I P )— Attired in a
white cotton cap, spun by Mahatma
Gandhi, and garbed in a black acad­emic
gown, Dr. Herbert A. Miller,
noted sociologist dropped from Ohio
State University last June because of
a speech he made while on a visit to
India, told listeners at Oberlin Col­lege
last week for the first time since
his return of the speech which got
him in trouble at home.
Dr. Miller predicted that Gandhi
would return to India from the un­successful
round table conference to
conduct the greatest revolution in
history.
Asserting that the world needs
more civil disobedience, Dr. Miller
said he had no doubt that India would
gain her complete independence in
a "revolution which will make her
past uprisings comparatively simple
affairs."
'Oh Yeah' Arrives 1500
Years Late Says Prof
Milwaukee —(IP)— Speaking be­fore
the National Council of Teach­ers
of English, assembled here, Max
J. Herzberg, superintendent of Eng­lish
in the Newark Public Schools,
asserted that the modern youth who
uses the term, "Oh, Yeah?" is only
about 1,500 years behind the times.
Beowulf, about 500 or 600 years
after Christ, would have used "yean"
he said, and he added that he believed
the term "yea" of the Bible is the
same word.
Cleveland—(IP)—The annual war
against football took on fresh vigor
last week as several incidents fanned
the flames.
First came the announcement that
during the 1931 season 40 youths
had died of football injuries, eight of
them on the college gridiron.
Followed the sudden serious ill­ness
of Jerry Dalrymple, all-Ameri-can
end on Tulane's national champ­ionship
team, as the result of an in­jury
to his kidney received in the
kick-off against Washington State.
Came, then, the assertion of Dr.
Henry O. Reik, executive secretary
of The Journal of the Medical So­ciety
of New Jersey, to the effect that
football coaches send players into the
game to "get" stars on the other
team, and that football players risk
their lives for the amusement of spec­tators.
He asked the abolition of
football.
So also did The Spectator, student
paper at Columbia University, which
declared that the game should go,
along with the parasites "who prey
upon the students."
Then Albie Booth, star at Yale,
was sent to a sanitorium for "a rest".
Chick Mehan, coach at New York
University, called for abolition of the
kick-off as a dangerous play.
Fordham University put off its
opening basketball game in honor of
Cornelius Murphy, latest student to
die from football.
Then came the revelation that foot­ball
attendance in the nation this
year had dropped 10 per cent from
last year, and that perhaps nobody
cared if the game was dropped after
all.
But football's defenders were not
allowing themselves to be thus tramp­led
on, and it seemed that the other
side might be heard from vigorously
as soon as they had been able to re­coup
from the suddenness of the at­tack,
gather their forces together, and
assail those who have assailed foot­ball.
Another month or so probably will
pass, .therefore, before football is
dropped as conversation until late
next summer.
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BROADWAY IS 'WINCHELLIZING'
ENGLISH COLLEGE EDITORS THINK
Seventeen Editors of American College and Alumni Papers
Think Our Language is Being Hustled Toward Rapid-
Transit Diction Like That of N e w York City's Broadway
Seventeen editors of American col­lege
and alumni papers, feeling the
pulse of "English as she is spoke'-'
in our academic halls, think our
language is being hustled toward a
rapid-transit diction like that of New
York City's Broadway, disseminated
in newspapers and over the radio by
Walter Winchell.
Forty college editors who partici­pated
in a survey on the "pepping-up"
of English, agreed almost unan­imously
that the Winchell style has
found its way into the speech and
writing of a large part of t h e popula­tion
of t h e country.
Not all of them thought the effect
of "Winchellizing" would- be perm­anent,
and some lamented that it
might be, but most of them admitted
ted enjoying "America's greatest gos­sip"
in his writings and his broad­casts
three times a week during the
Lucky Strike Dance Hour. They
characterized as "clever", "scintil­lating"
and " e n t e r t a i n i n g " WinchelFs
vest-pocket words, expressing in a
few syllables what might ordinarily
take a sentence or a paragraph.
"Chinema", for "talking motion
p i c t u r e " ; "Reno-vate", for "going to
Reno to get a divorce", and "Re-notoriety",
describing the publicity
ensuing from such a course, "blessed-eventing",
"whoopee" and "make
whoopee" may eventually invade the
standard dictionary, some of-the stu­dent
journalists believed.
WinchelFs is the language of New
York b u t ' n o t of the r e s t of the coun­try,
said some; everybody is "Win­chellizing",
others asserted.
Winchellizing Out of Place On
Prairies
Winchell "is influencing our lan­guage",
according to Tom S. Gray,
J r . , editor of the Georgia Alumni
Record of the University of Georgia,
" t h a t is, if New York language can
be called our language. . . . He prob­ably
won't influence the Cracker
twang hereabouts; but I fear his in­fluence
might some day make New
Yorker talk unintelligible to persons
who really live in the United States.
"After all, his efforts are a part
of the parlance of the Manhattanite,
and sound too out of place when
transplanted to the pi'airies," accord­ing
to Henry Avery> editor of the
University of Illinois "Siren."
But: "The inhabitants of our glo­rious
mortgage belt out here," said
Fred E. Wakeman, editor of t h e Park
College, Missouri,, "Stylus", "have
joined, to a man, the 'Winchellicit'
School of Expression. It cannot be
denied that Mrs. WinchelFs boy Wal­ter
has already, made a decided im­pression
on the language. But, of
course, whether that impression will
persist in years to come remains to
be seen."
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From a New York student editor
came this: "Only 'hicks' could una­shamedly
use and be impressed by
words which give so warped an im­pression
of the atmosphere of the
Real Broadway." This was t h e opin­ion
of Stan Lloyd Kaufman, editor
of the "Mercury", the noted humor­ous
magazine of the College of t he
City of New York.
Entertaining In Print, But
Not Used
"Few of Mr. Winchell's coinings
will have a l a s t i n g effect upon the
language of our country," accord­ing
to Louis N. Ridenour, Jr., edi­tor-
in-chief of the University of Chi­cago
"Daily Maroon". "Entertain­ing
when seen on t h e printed page,
they are—at least on the campus of
the University of Chicago—never
used in speech."
Reed Harris, editor of the Colum­bia
University "Spectator", nationally
famous for his editorials against
jazzed-up football, thinks some of
Winchell's jazzed-up English "will
become an integral part of the Am­erican
Language—not the English
Language."
Miss Elizabeth Paige May, editor
of the Wellesley Alumnae Magazine
of Wellesley College, Massachusetts,
thinks "Winchellizing" is affecting
our language and t h a t the effect is
good. James H. Ottaway, editor-in-chief
of the "Sandspur" of Rollins
College, Florida, thinks it is having
an effect, but t h a t it is not good.
"Such a writer as Walter Winchell
will and is making a decided impress­ion
on our vocabulary by coining
words," Mr. Ottaway wrote. "If such
expressions are incorporated in whole­sale
quantities into our speech, there
is bound to be a lowering of its stan­dards."
"The great moral crusade against
'new' words is still on," according to
Glen 0. Stewart, alumni secretary of
Michigan State College. "Neverthe­less,
each new generation with its col­loquialisms
will produce new words
and expressions that will affect the
language of t h e day."
"A few years ago," said E. M.
Kirkstad, editor of the "Concordian"
of Concordia College, Minn., "we did
not know of Reno as we do today.
Why not make use of the words that
Winchell is coining? The words will
have to be included in t h e vocabulary
of the American people at some time,
so why not make it the present?"
"I think it is safe to say," wrote
"Respectfull yours" David Cohen,
managing editor of the New York
University "Daily News", "that long
after people have stopped being
'reno-vated,' they will continue to he
divorced."
On the other hand, Lester P.
Schoene, editor-in-chief of the Har­vard
Law Review, thinks most "Win-chellizings"
will go out of fashion
eventually, but gives some chance of
survival to "Renotoriety".
, "Words like 'Reno-vate' and "Reno­toriety'
a r e certainly cleverly conceiv­ed
and a r e a concise and effective way
of expressing an idea a t the present
time," commented W. Whidden John­son,
editor-in-chief of the University
of Maine "Campus". When Reno
ceases to be a divorce center, the
words may pass out of style, he said,
but added "Of course, Reno may hold
its leadership for so long that 'Going
to Reno' may become a universally
accepted synonym for 'Getting a di­vorce'.
In that case Mr. Winchell's
words might very possibly endure."
"Outstanding Male Gossip"
Jerome F. Murphy, Jr., editor of
the Holy Cross "Purple", calls Win­chell
"the outstanding male gossip of
our generation, a modern Pepys," but
adds, "Winchell is adding no new
words to our language."
" I t seems to us he is already mak­ing
an impression on our vocabulary,"
wrote James Routh, editor of the
Westminster Magazine of Oglethorpe
University, Georgia. "Besides the
few words that he puts across perm­anently,
there are many others that
are being coined in t h e Winchell man­ner.
"This enriches the language with
a large number of new words, and as
long as t h e language is strong enough
to throw off the vulgar or weak coin­ages,
as it is, the effect is fine, it
seems to u s ."
" I t is my candid opinion that Mr.
Winchell's delightful grouping and
WYNNE CONSIDERED
FOR IOWA U. POST
(Continued from page 1)
ball was a t a low ebb a t each school
and produced teams that ranked with
the best in their sections during the
1931 season.
Wynne has a large faction of Iowa
alumni favoring him for the post, all
of whom are familiar with his work
since he did a remarkable job of
coaching at Creighton University for
seven years before he went to Au­burn.
While at Creighton he was of­fered
the place as head coach at the
University of Nebraska but was un­der
contract at the Omaha institu­tion
and could not secure his release.
The Auburn Tigers won their first
Southern Conference victory in four
years their initial season under
Wynne. Wynne is also being men­tioned
to go to Wisconsin as head
coach in 1932.
association of words and ideas to form
self-explanatory expressions is en­riching
the American language,"
wrote Leonard P. Golos, editor-in-chief
of "The Pioneer" of Cooper
Union, in Winchell's own New York
lower East side. "Mr. WinchelFs
word-combinations and phraseology
a r e already making an impression on
our everyday vocabulary, and in all
probability will continue to do so. . .
Walter Winchell's expressions are
short and to the point, which is t he
major factor in their nation-wide
usage, and also insures their contin­uance."
TRISECTION OF ANGLE CONSID­ERED
LIGHTLY BY MATH PRO­FESSORS
INTERVIEW INDICATES
^Continued from page 1)
corrected Professor Robinson, also in
the mathematics department.
" infamous problems of antiq­uity,
the duplication of the cube and
the determination of the relationship
between the radius and the circum­ference
of a circle. Trisection can
be done, though, by analytic geome­try—
but never \jjiih only a compass
and a straight-edge."
Sick with disillusionment at not
finding any defenders of Callahan's
marvelous 2method—although I had
not seen anywhere near the entire
mathematics faculty—your reporter
was driven-in a last effort to a boy
who had flunked plane and solid ge­ometry
in high school, and freshman
algebra here, for a confirmation of
Callahan's theory of disfiguring the
angle. He looked it over, said "Tch-tch"
(arousing my envy, for I've
never been able to do i t ) , and an­nounced
that the Father "must be a
crazy mug." So, accepting his opin-
Court Of Appeals
Uphold Ruling
Hamilton, O. — ( I P ) — The Circuit
Court of Appeals has ruled in favor
of Miami University in the ouster
suit of Miss Jean West, 21, who was
dismissed from the University last
year for poor grades.
Miss West had won a decision in
common pleas court to the effect that
a state supported institution could
not expell a student for poor grades
if she chose to keep on studying. This
ruling was reversed by t h e appelate
judges.
The appelate court held that it was
unfair to allow a student who fell
low in his studies retard others.
KIWANIS CLUB HOLDS
LAST MEETING OF YEAR
Dr. Evelyn Newman, brilliant writ­er,
dramatist, war worker, educator
and dean of women at Colorado
State Teachers College, has joined
the English department faculty at
Rollins College.
down on his exams, a natural and
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To our patrons, we extend
THE SEASON'S GREETINGS
AUBURN AMUSEMENT &
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UNDER SUPERVISION OF AMERICAN LEGION
(Continued from page 1)
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The next meeting of the club will
be held on Monday, January 4, at
which the committee chairmen will
present their programs of work for
the year.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our heartfelt
gratitude for the many deeds of kind­ness
and sympathy in our bereave­ment,
the death of our husband and
father. We shall always remember
the kindnesses of our friends and
neighbors.
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