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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- (Continued on Page 4) 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- (Continued on page 4) 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", (Continued on Page 4) 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. * * * * * * * * * * 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. * * * * * * * * * * English mother: "Has my baby been as good as gold?" Nurse: "He went off the gold standard about an hour ago." * * * * * * * * * * * 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. * * * * * * * * * * The old idea that money is covered with germs has been exploded. Now we can say that it is practically untouched by human hands. * * * * * * * * * * Our ideas of obsecurity is the football player that did not make some newspaper's All-Something-or-other> * * * * * * * * * * One wonders what football games were like before prohibition. * * * * * * * * * * A newspaper headline discloses the fact that Congress is getting down to real work. This should relieve the unemployment situation to some extent. , * * * * * * * * * * 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. * * * * * * * * * * 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." * * * * * * * * * * Some scientist has discovered a pink lemon. And we have been drinking pink lemonade all these years. * * * * • * * * * * * 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. * * * * * * * * * * 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 PAGE TWO Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates $2.50 per year (60 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala. Business and editorial offices at Auburn Printing Co. on Magnolia Street. Office hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily. STAFF Victor R. White, Jr. Editor-in-Chief J. Roy Wilder Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Gabie Drey .....Associate Editor R. A. McMillan Associate Editor J. W. Letson Associate Editor J. R. Chadwick _ ...Managing Editor L. C. McCallum Sports Editor H, W. Moss News Editor Horace Shepard News Editor Charlie Simmons Composing Editor V. H. Kjellman .... Exchange Editor Helen Garrett - Society Editor Frank G. Keller — Contributing Editor W. W. Beck _ Contributing Editor 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 James Backes ....T— Asst. Business Manager Knox M. McMillan Advertising Manager 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: For the regular subscription price 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. I I Always Ready to Serve You BANK OF AUBURN Bank of Personal Service » I STUDENTS ATTENTION! We invite you to open a checking account with us. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Your Interest Computed i i l l ( INSIST ON THE BEST MEATS — C A L L - SANITARY MARKET A. H. CHRIETZBURG, Prop. Plenty of Turkeys for Christmas —PHONE 112— YOUR FRIENDS deserve good treatment! Send— Auburn Seal — Xmas Cards this year! Let 'em know where you go to College. Burton's Bookstore 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 k THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES HAGEDORN'S Headquarter for Holiday Goods. Our entire store has been - transformed into a great big GIFT SHOP. HAGEDORN'S OPELIKA'S BEST STORE Auburn Represented In National Meeting When the 11th Quadrennial Convention of the Student Volunteer Movement convenes in Buffalo, New York, Auburn will be represented. Troy Foster, of Littlefield, Texas, is 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. To lead such a group of students, the outstanding speakers and thinkers from every nation have been secured. To attend a conference at which there is such an array of students and student leaders is considered a priviledge. 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. FOR RENT:—Pleasant room in desirable location. Heat, light and hot water furnished. Call 66-W, 311 N. College Street. COLUMBUS TYPEWRITER COMPANY Sales & Service Office 306 Georgia Home Bldg. Columbus, Ga. DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Duhram, N. C. 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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." BE A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT Any intelligent person may earn money corresponding for newspapers; all or spare time; experience unnecessary; no canvassing; send for particulars. Heacock, 500 Dun Bldg., Buffalo, N. Y. J DUFFEE'S CASH GROCERY | I G A STORES ALL THAT GOES WITH CHRIST-MAS TURKEY! —Fruit Cake —Cranberry Sauce —I.G.A. Coffee —Pickles -I.G.A. Jelly Desert Powders - F r u i t s , Nuts a nd Spices —Fresh Vegetables 1 THE IGA IS NOT A CHAIN! I 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 obvious conclusion is t h a t Father Cal-ion as final on things which are wrong j lahan is nerts—as Ballyhoo would he having put so many wrong things say. * To our patrons, we extend THE SEASON'S GREETINGS AUBURN AMUSEMENT & SOCIAL CLUB UNDER SUPERVISION OF AMERICAN LEGION (Continued from page 1) as, A. Meadows, Homer Wright, A. D. Lipscomb, J. C. Grimes. Publicity—J. A. Blackburn, W. H. Eaton, A. D. Lipscomb. Reception—J. V. Brown, W. McD. Moore, William Hardie. Under-Privileged Children—W. W. Hili; Dr. B. F . Thomas, W. B. Lee. Vocational Guidance—Dr. P a u l Irvine, John E. P i t t s , W. B. Lee, W. W. Hill. 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. Mrs. Meredith and children. FOR SALE:—Canary birds, cages and supplies at special Christmas Prices. Phone 66-W. wildlif hotel "THE bomciike atmosphere 01 * the Molton, so different from the average hotel, hat triven it a soutbwide slogan: "Next Best to Home" Keeping the Old Friends Making Many New Ones In Birmingham ^MOLTON J A.DRIVER, MANAGER-Tiger Theatre THURSDAY, DEC. 17 "The SIN of MADELON CLAUDET" —With— Helen Hayes Lewis Stone Neil Hamilton Also Comedy, "COWSLIPS" FRIDAY, DEC. 18 "WORKING GIRLS" _ W i t h— Paul Lukas Frances Dee Judith Wood Also Comedy, "THE GREAT PIE MYSTERY,, and News. SATURDAY, DEC. 19 "RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE" —With— George O'Brien Marguerite Churchill Noah Berry "TRADER HOUND" and Act, "ROAMING" mm Mow IT IS NOT the cost of the gift, but the thought that lies behind the giving that warms the cockles of the heart on Christmas morning. Then, instead of some short-lived trinket, how much nicer to give something that will bring solace and delight for many days after the Christmas tree is gone; until the New Year is on its way. For the cigarette smoker, man or woman, of course give Camels. A blend of choice Turkish and mild, sun-ripened Domestic tobaccos, they are kept fresh and prime by the Camel Humidor Pack, with their natural moisture unimpaired by parching or toasting. In appropriate holiday wrapping, Camels come both in attractive Christmas cartons containing ten packages of twenty and in cartons containing four boxes of fifty each. For the man who smokes a pipe, we suggest either a pound tin or one of those crystal glass humidors of good old PRINCE ALBERT. Here is a present that goes straight as a Christmas carol to a man's heart; P. A., the best loved pipe tobacco in the world, all dressed for the occasion in bright Christmas costume. What gift can you think of that will be more welcome or give more genuine pleasure and satisfaction? Don't you hope someone will think of such a friendly gift for you? We wish you Merry Christmas! "Are you Listenin' ? " B. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY'S COAST-TO-COAST RADIO PROGRAMS CAMEL QUARTER HOUR, Morton Downey, Tony Wons, and Camel Orchestra, direction Jacques Renard, every night except Sunday, Columbia Broadcasting System PRINCE ALBERT QUARTER HOUR, Alice Joy, "Old Hunch," and Prince Albert Orchestra, direction Paul Van Loan, every night except Sunday, N.B.C. Red Network See radio page of local newspaper for time GIVE CAMELS1 AND PRINCE 'ALBERT II. J . REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Winston-Salem, X. C. ) 1931, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
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Title | 1931-12-16 The Plainsman |
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OCR Transcript | 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- (Continued on Page 4) 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- (Continued on page 4) 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", (Continued on Page 4) 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. * * * * * * * * * * 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. * * * * * * * * * * English mother: "Has my baby been as good as gold?" Nurse: "He went off the gold standard about an hour ago." * * * * * * * * * * * 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. * * * * * * * * * * The old idea that money is covered with germs has been exploded. Now we can say that it is practically untouched by human hands. * * * * * * * * * * Our ideas of obsecurity is the football player that did not make some newspaper's All-Something-or-other> * * * * * * * * * * One wonders what football games were like before prohibition. * * * * * * * * * * A newspaper headline discloses the fact that Congress is getting down to real work. This should relieve the unemployment situation to some extent. , * * * * * * * * * * 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. * * * * * * * * * * 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." * * * * * * * * * * Some scientist has discovered a pink lemon. And we have been drinking pink lemonade all these years. * * * * • * * * * * * 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. * * * * * * * * * * 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 PAGE TWO Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates $2.50 per year (60 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala. Business and editorial offices at Auburn Printing Co. on Magnolia Street. Office hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily. STAFF Victor R. White, Jr. Editor-in-Chief J. Roy Wilder Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Gabie Drey .....Associate Editor R. A. McMillan Associate Editor J. W. Letson Associate Editor J. R. Chadwick _ ...Managing Editor L. C. McCallum Sports Editor H, W. Moss News Editor Horace Shepard News Editor Charlie Simmons Composing Editor V. H. Kjellman .... Exchange Editor Helen Garrett - Society Editor Frank G. Keller — Contributing Editor W. W. Beck _ Contributing Editor 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 James Backes ....T— Asst. Business Manager Knox M. McMillan Advertising Manager 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: For the regular subscription price 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. I I Always Ready to Serve You BANK OF AUBURN Bank of Personal Service » I STUDENTS ATTENTION! We invite you to open a checking account with us. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Your Interest Computed i i l l ( INSIST ON THE BEST MEATS — C A L L - SANITARY MARKET A. H. CHRIETZBURG, Prop. Plenty of Turkeys for Christmas —PHONE 112— YOUR FRIENDS deserve good treatment! Send— Auburn Seal — Xmas Cards this year! Let 'em know where you go to College. Burton's Bookstore 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 k THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES HAGEDORN'S Headquarter for Holiday Goods. Our entire store has been - transformed into a great big GIFT SHOP. HAGEDORN'S OPELIKA'S BEST STORE Auburn Represented In National Meeting When the 11th Quadrennial Convention of the Student Volunteer Movement convenes in Buffalo, New York, Auburn will be represented. Troy Foster, of Littlefield, Texas, is 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. To lead such a group of students, the outstanding speakers and thinkers from every nation have been secured. To attend a conference at which there is such an array of students and student leaders is considered a priviledge. 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. FOR RENT:—Pleasant room in desirable location. Heat, light and hot water furnished. Call 66-W, 311 N. College Street. COLUMBUS TYPEWRITER COMPANY Sales & Service Office 306 Georgia Home Bldg. Columbus, Ga. DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Duhram, N. C. 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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." BE A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT Any intelligent person may earn money corresponding for newspapers; all or spare time; experience unnecessary; no canvassing; send for particulars. Heacock, 500 Dun Bldg., Buffalo, N. Y. J DUFFEE'S CASH GROCERY | I G A STORES ALL THAT GOES WITH CHRIST-MAS TURKEY! —Fruit Cake —Cranberry Sauce —I.G.A. Coffee —Pickles -I.G.A. Jelly Desert Powders - F r u i t s , Nuts a nd Spices —Fresh Vegetables 1 THE IGA IS NOT A CHAIN! I 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 obvious conclusion is t h a t Father Cal-ion as final on things which are wrong j lahan is nerts—as Ballyhoo would he having put so many wrong things say. * To our patrons, we extend THE SEASON'S GREETINGS AUBURN AMUSEMENT & SOCIAL CLUB UNDER SUPERVISION OF AMERICAN LEGION (Continued from page 1) as, A. Meadows, Homer Wright, A. D. Lipscomb, J. C. Grimes. Publicity—J. A. Blackburn, W. H. Eaton, A. D. Lipscomb. Reception—J. V. Brown, W. McD. Moore, William Hardie. Under-Privileged Children—W. W. Hili; Dr. B. F . Thomas, W. B. Lee. Vocational Guidance—Dr. P a u l Irvine, John E. P i t t s , W. B. Lee, W. W. Hill. 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. Mrs. Meredith and children. FOR SALE:—Canary birds, cages and supplies at special Christmas Prices. Phone 66-W. wildlif hotel "THE bomciike atmosphere 01 * the Molton, so different from the average hotel, hat triven it a soutbwide slogan: "Next Best to Home" Keeping the Old Friends Making Many New Ones In Birmingham ^MOLTON J A.DRIVER, MANAGER-Tiger Theatre THURSDAY, DEC. 17 "The SIN of MADELON CLAUDET" —With— Helen Hayes Lewis Stone Neil Hamilton Also Comedy, "COWSLIPS" FRIDAY, DEC. 18 "WORKING GIRLS" _ W i t h— Paul Lukas Frances Dee Judith Wood Also Comedy, "THE GREAT PIE MYSTERY,, and News. 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