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VOLUME LV AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, FEB. 6, 1932 NUMBER 34
GLEE CLUB APPEARS
IN ANNUAL CONCERT
ON FRIDAY^ FEB. 12
To Feature Musical Comedy
"Love Doctor"; Many Novel­ty
Numbers
WRITTEN BY WEAVER
First Appearance Of Year For
Musical Group; Quartet
Numbers
The Glee Club, under the direc­tion
of Prof. John W. Brigham, will
present a recital in Langdon Hall on
Friday evening, February 12th. The
program has been arranged in two
parts with numerous songs and espe­cially
selected numbers filling the
first part, and a musical comedy be­ing
presented in the last.
The entire club will present a
number of novelty selections inter­mingled
with several numbers by the
quartet. Members of this year's
quartet are Messrs. Collins Cameron,
of Auburn, C. L. Stayton, Birming­ham,
John S. Rogers, Gadsden, and
Jesse M. Jones, Roanoke. Mr. Earl
Hazel will play the accompaniment
and will play one number, Rackozy
March, by Liszt.
The Love Doctor, the musical
comedy which will be presented, was
written by Dr. Chas. P. Weaver and
the music composed by Prof. Brig
ham. The stage setting was design­ed
by R. D. Eadie and arranged by
the class in commercial art under the
direction of Prof. F. W. Applebee.
The story is of a young college boy,
who is presented with a beautiful
estate by his old maid aunt, with the
understanding that it be retained as
a bachelor's quarters. The boy, with
a number of his friends, falls madly
in love, and the aunt returns in a
rage. However, her old sweetheart
returns and upon his greeting her
with a kiss, they too, fall in love.
The love doctor, played by S. K.
Bernard, has arranged the entire pro­ceedings
and as the curtain falls,
leads the cast in the strains of the
theme song, "The Mocking Bird."
Dr. Winters To Head
Ala. Veterinarians
Dr. E. B. Winters of Auburn was
elected president of the Alabama
Veterinary Medical Association at
the annual meeting here Friday. The-office
of vice-president went to Dr.
W. H. Ryland, of Camden, and Dr.
C. A. Cary, of Auburn, was re-elected
secretary and treasurer.
Because of the meeting in Atlanta
next August of the American Vete­rinary
Medical Association, it was
decided to omit the regular mid-year
meeting of the Alabama association
which usually takes place in July.
Dr. W. B. Castleberry of Birming­ham,
retiring president, presided at
the meeting.
The veterinary short course held
here for the ninth year is concluded
Saturday with the holding of an ex­amination
prescribed by the Federal
Bureau of Animal Industry for those
wishing to become eligible for test­ing
accredited herds and approved
for testing other animals in the
state.
Demonstrations and lectures were
given throughout the week by the
Auburn veterinary staff and Dr. W.
L. Williams of Cornell and Dr. T. M.
Campbell of Chicago.
Professor Robinson Is
To Head Association
Prof. J. M. Robinson, head of the
department of entomology, was
elected president of the Southern
Beekeepers Association at their an­nual
meeting this week in St. Peters­burg,
Fla. Prof. Robinson was elect­ed
although he was not present. He
was serving the organization as sec­retary
and in his absence W. A. Ruf-fin,
extension entomologist of Au­burn,
served as secretary at the
meeting.
The organization has a large mem­bership
of beekeepers living through­out
the southern states.
Auburn Enters Nation-Wide
Collegiate Oratorical Contest
Congress Sponsors Contest In
Commemorating Birthday of
George Washington
It was recently learned that the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute has
enrolled in the nation-wide ortorical
contest to be held in commemoration
of the two-hundreth birthday of
George Washington.
A preliminary contest will be held
here March 4, the winner to go to
the state contest at the University
of Alabama. The one chosen to rep­resent
the state will enter the reg­ional
contest and the winner of this
group will go to the national and
final contest in Washington, D. C.
The winner of first place in the
state contest will receive the official
George Washington Commemoration
Medal in silver. Second prize will
be the official medal in bronze and
the student placing third will receive
a certificate of award. The winner"
of the national contest will receive
the official gold medal.
Mr. Hess, of the local speech de­partment,
has charge of the contest
here at Auburn. He stated that all
i
who wished to enter the contest to
see him as soon as possible. Also
that material and information furn­ished
by the bicentennial commission
is available at the library.
This oratorical contest is only a
part of the nine-months' bicentennial
celebration which the government of
the United States is sponsoring. This
celebration will begin February 22
and will end on Thanksgiving day,
November 24, 1932.
Congress created the bicentennial
commission -with President Hoover
as chairman, and authorized this com­mittee
to formulate plans for a na­tion-
wide commemoration of Ameri­ca's
foremost citizen. These plans
include an oratorical contest for un­iversities
and colleges, an essay con­test
for high school students, and a
declamation contest for elementary
pupils.
Thtere are ten subjects from which
the orations may be selected. They
are: Washington the Courageous;
Washington and the West; Washing­ton
the Man of Business Vision; De­velopment
of Washington's Military
Ability; George Washington's Un­derstanding
of Men; Washington—
Nation Builder; First in Peace;
Washington—Exemplar of American
Ideals; George Washington, A World
Figure; The Spirit of Washington.
The Alabama committee for this
program is Mrs. B. L. Parkinson,
chairman; Dr. Mary Moore McCoy,
and Dr. Danylu Belser.
Davis and Brown Go
To Publicity Meet
P. O. Davis and Kirtley Brown at­tended
the regional meeting of the
American College Publicity Associ­ation
in Atlanta, February 6. Mr.
Davis was on the program.
They were accompanied to Atlanta
by Mrs. Mary Drake Askew, Mrs. P.
O. Davis, Mrs. Mae Wilmore, and
Mrs. John E. Ivey.
300 Hear Hazels In
Local Piano Recital
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hazel Give
Joint Program At High
School
A delightful program of classics
was heard by the more than 300
musci lovers who attended the two-piano
recital given by Mr. and Mrs.
Earl Hazel at the Auburn high school
Tuesday evening.
Each number was received with
much applause. Especially did the
closing number, Saint Saens' fam­ous
"Danse Macabre," provoke sus­tained
applause by the audience.
The other selections played by
Mr. and Mrs. Hazel were Rubin­stein's
"Concerto Andante", "Con­certo
Allegro" by Godard, the Aren-sky
suite, Weber's "Concerto", and
"Chaminade", by LeSoir.
Evans Literary Group
Holds Delayed Election
After being postponed for several
weeks, the election of officers of the
Evans Literary Society was held on
Tuesday evening at the regular meet­ing.
The new officers are as fol­lows:
president, W. E. Edwards, At-more;
vice-president, H. W. Green,
Lexington; Sec.-Treas., Bama Lynn
Ayers, Fayette; chaplain, E. V. At­kinson,
Sylacauga; reporter, C. M.
Majors, McKenzie; program commit­tee,
N. H. Thomas Jones, and E. M.
Rushing, Prattville.
Following the announcement that
the oratorical contest, sponsored by
Phi Delta Gamma, national (profes­sional
forensic order, would be held
on Tuesday evening, March 1, it was
decided that the elimination contest
to determine the representative of
the society would be held the eve­ning
of February 23. All members
are "urged to be present at the next
weekly meeting as a very interesting
program has been planned for that
time.
Picture of Washington
Presented High School
On Tuesday morning, February 2,
the Light Horse Harry Lee Chapter
D. A. R., of Auburn, held exercises
at the Lee county high school, in
honor of the Washington bicentenn­ial.
The high school student body,
high school faculty and members of
the local D.A.R. chapter were present
The program was as follow :s Flag
salute by the audience with a bugle
accompanient by Master John Ivey;
introduction ' of Mrs. Judd, state
regent of Alabama D. A. R. by Miss
Mary Martin, regent of the Light
Horse Harry Lee chapter; a short
speech by Mrs. Judd on the boyhood
of Washington; presentation of a
framed picture of Washington to the
school from the local chapter of D.
A. R.; the acceptance of the picture
by Mr. Parrish, principal of the Lee
county high school.
AUTHOR OF HISTORY OF WARS
CONFERS CREDIT UPON A . P. L
As the author bf "An Outline His­tory
of Wars of the World" Lieuten­ant
Colonel W. A. Mitchell, of the
U. S. Military Academy, at West
Point, has conferred credit upon the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
where he attended college before en­tering
the army. His book has been
accepted by historians and army of­ficials
as one of the best books pub­lished
on the subject, and as such,
it is being used as a textbook at the
U. S. Military Academy. It covers
briefly important battles, generals,
and wars of the world from the an­cients
through the World War.
Colonel Mitchell was born in Rus­sell
County, Alabama. From about
1885 to 1891 his father (James B.
Mitchell) was a trustee of Auburn.
In September, 1895, the son en­tered
the sophomore class at Auburn.
He remained 2 1-2 years, taking the
course in electrical engineering the
first two years and mechanical engi­neering
the first half of his senior
year. He left college at Christmas,
1897, to make special preparations
for entrance at West Point. At Au­burn
he stood high as a student, be­ing
first in the sophomore class, and
second in the complete- electrical
course in his junior year.
He began his military career at
Auburn where he was third corporal
in the sophomore class, and there­after
retained this relative rank. He
was sergeant his junior year and
captain his senior year.
Colonel Mitchell has a brave and
brilliant war record as well as an
army record, he having distinguish­ed
himself during the World War.
GLEE CLUB CALLS
OFF CONCERT TOUR
Conflicting Dates Halt Plans;
Later Trip Is Being Plan­ned
•
The Auburn Glee Club will not
make an early concert tour, accord­ing
to Jesse M. Jones, business man­ager.
Plans for such a trip were made,
but had to be abandoned because of
financial difficulties and a date con­flict
with the Emory Glee Club which
will appear in one of the cities sch­eduled
to have been visited by the
Auburn Club.
The cities that were to have been
visited are: Montgomery, Columbus,
Union Springs, and Eufaula.
A future trip, now being planned,
will take the glee club to north Ala­bama,
where the members will prob­ably
sing in Birmingham, Gadsden,
and Montevallo.
This trip will be made within a
month if the schedule can be worked
out successfully. Meanwhile, the
glee club under the tutorlage of John
W. Brigham, is practicing for their
concert tio be held Friday night,
Feb. 12.
ROOP WILL SPEAK
TO EVANS SOCIETY
Seven Students in Home Ec
Received By Theta Epsilon
Vets Stress Animal
Disease Importance
Cornell Professor Urges Publi­cations
of New Veterinarian
Discoveries
New Instructor Of English and
Journalism To Speak Feb­ruary
9
Mr. Joseph E. Roop, newly elected
instructor in Journalism and English
will speak at the next meeting of
the Evans Literary Society, .to be
held in Room 212; Samford Hall, on
Tuesday " evening, February 9, at
7:00 P. M.
Mr. Roop has had wide experience
as a newspaper and free-lance writ­er,
having had numerous articles as
well as some fiction published by
prominent toiagazines He spent
three years in Haiwaii, where he
taught English Journalism, and So­cial
Science in Hilo High School. He
also wrote for the Hilo Tribune-
Herald and later published The Hilo
Free Press.
Mr. Roop is expected to give a
very interesting lecture and it is
hoped that a large number of stu­dents
as well as townspeople will
avail themselves of this, their first
opportunity to hear Mr. Roop.
Auburn Students Have
Great Age Variations
There is a difference of 37 years
in the ages of the youngest fresh­man
and the oldest senior at Auburn.
Fifteen-year-old George H. Lester,
of Birmingham is the youngest of
the undergraduates, and Percy C.
Ramsay, of Fairfax, 52 years of age,
is the oldest. Ramsay is enrolled in
the education course, Lester the elec­trical
engineering course.
The ages of members of the fresh­man
class run from 15 to 25, Harvey
H. Copeland of Bessemer being the
oldest. Mildred Thomas of Mabon,
16, is the youngest sophontore.
Louise Whatley of Auburn, who is
17, is the youngest junior at Auburn.
The oldest of the Juniors is William
T. Draper of Langdale, 61.
Raul Niete of Celaya, Mexico, will
be the youngest senior to receive a
diploma this year. He will graduate
at the early age of 17.
Knapp Re-elected To
Cotton Advisory Post
Dr. Bradford Knapp was reelected
to membership on the cotton advisory
committee of the Federal Farm
Board by directors of the American
Cotton Co-operative Association at a
recent meeting in New Orleans. He
was made chairman of the committee
last year.
Dr. Knapp has been active in co­operative
marketing of farm prod­ucts
since the work began a decade
ago. He has given special attention
to cotton marketing.
Southern veterinarians were urged
to publish valuable information in
their hands on the unusual behavior
of animal diseases in the South that
are new practically unknown by the
general profession. This was done
by Dr. W. L. Williams of Cornell
University in addressing students
and visiting veterinarians at a ban-quest
Thursday evening, given in
connection with the Ninth Annual
Veterinary Short Course.
Dr. Williams emphasized the need
of adequate circulation of all new
discoveries among the profession,
and said that much information
known now only to Southern prac­titioners
would form a valuable ad­dition
to the entire field of know­ledge.
Tribute to the veterinary profes­sion
was paid by Dr. D. M., Campbell
of Chicago, editor of the Journal of
Veterinary Medicine, who said that
pioneer work in insect-carrying di­seases
was done by veterinarians.
Discovery of cattle fever spread by
ticks preceded by 30 years the know­ledge
of diseases spread by mosqui-tos.
Dr. C. A. Cary, dean of the Au­burn
school of veterinary medicine,
who acted as toastmaster for the
banquet, said that tractors and motor
transportation would never complete­ly
displace the horse and the mule.
"There are certain types of work
such as road construction which can­not
be done as efficiently by motor as
by horses and mules." According to
competent authorities, added Dr.
Cary, the World War would have
ended much sooner had a sufficient
supply of horses and mules been
available for military activities."
Major G. H. Franke, Auburn com­mandant,
said, "We have not found
in the army that the horse and mule
can be done away with in the caval­ry
and field artillery. A lack of
them would be a serious blow to our
efficiency in a national emergency."
The close cooperation of veterina­rians
and other medical men was
commended by Dr. B. F. Thomas^
college surgeon, in protecting the
public against diseasse common to
both animals and man.
Veterinarians and' visitors were
welcomed by K. O. Smith, president
of the students veterinary medical
association. Short talks were made
by Professor Hare, Dr. Blake, Rev­erend
McGehee, Prof. E. V. Smith,
and Professor Medlock.
Honorary Fraternity Initiates
Seven; Banquet Also Held
For Two Members
Seven students in home economics
courses were recently initiated into
Theta Epsilon, honorary fraternity
in home economics. They are Eliza­beth
Camp of Auburn, Evelyn Sum­mers
of Opelika, Mrs. Edna Gibson
of Auburn, Mrs. • Ruby Brooks of
Auburn, Jewell Golden of Opelika,
Kirtis Golden of Greensboro, and
Katherine Shaefer of Opelika.
The new members were guests of
honor at a banquet given Friday eve­ning
for freshman and sophomore
girls in home economics. Seventy-five
guests attended the affair.
Officers of Theta Epsilon are Hel­en
Garrett of Auburn, president;
Louise Lewis of Auburn, vice-presi­dent;
and Jane Yarbrough of Au­burn,
secretary-treasurer. .
NOTICE!
There will be a very important
meeting of the editorial staff of The
Plainsman at the Sigma Nu house,
next Monday night at 8 o'clock. All
reporters and editorial staff members
are especially urged to be present,
so that they may discuss certain
phases of news gathering and editing.
Legion Post To Have
Entertaining Program
The John H. Willis Post, American
Legion meeting will be held Monday
night, February 8, at 7:30 p. m. in
the basement of Samford Hall.
A very interesting program has
been arranged, consisting of music,
songs sung by Sgt. George Moxham
and John Roe, a monologue by J. A.
Blackburne' and a "skit" by Harry
Lowe, of Opelika.
Mr. Lowe is widely known for his
talent and ability at imitation, and
Mr. Blackburne is an entertainer of
high repute. All legionnaires and
ex-service men are invited to come
and enjoy a rare evening.
No speeches for this meeting have
been planned. Plans will be made
for the meeting of February 18, at
which time John H. Willis Post will
consider such legislation as it de­sires
department and national head­quarters
to sponsor.
The part the legion will take in
the two-day celebration of the 200th
anniversary of George Washington's
birth will be explained at this meet-
I
ing.
TIGER CAGESTERS
DROP FIRST GAME
TO TULANE; 26-21
Auburn Tastes Her First Con­ference
Defeat This Season
Last Night
LUMPKIN HIGH SCORER
To Meet Greenies Again To­night;
Game Opened With
Second Stringers
New Series of Stamps
Honor Washington
A lot of the new series of stamps,
prepared especially to commemorate
the bicentennial anniversary of the
birth of George Washington, have
been received by the local postoffice,
according to an announcement given
out by Postmaster L. A. Knapp.
The stamps are issued in twelve
denominations running from %-cent
to 10-cents, inclusive. They are 0.75
inch by 0.87 inch in dimensions and
have as the central design a separate
likeness of Washington modeled from
the works of noted artists. There
will also be issued a special series of
bicentennial stamped envelopes bear­ing
embossed stamps of distinctive
design. These stamps will be kept
on sale, in the postoffices throughout
the country, during the entire year of
1932.
CONCENTRATED FORM OF '85'
MAKES INITIAL APPEARANCE
The newest addition to the list of
the elements) "number 85," has-peeped
out of hiding and made its
first appearance in concentrated
form.
Announcement that element 85
had been concentrated in a chemical
compound called "linthium alaba-mide"
is made by Profs. Fred Alli­son,
Edna P. Bishop, and Anna L.
Sommer, of Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute,
in the February journal of
the American Chemical'Society to be
published Friday. •
New knowledge about element 85,
most elusive of the 92 elements, or
indivisible chemicals out of which all
things are made, is expected to re­sult
from their work. Element 85
was first reported by Dr. Allison and
his co-workers in April, 1931.
Until now, element 85 has hidden
bashfully from scientists, making its
presence known only by its effect on
light rays passing through a chemi­cal
solution. It is one of the rarest
of substances.
Now Dr. Allison and his colleagues
have captured it and "boiled it
down," so that its properties can be
more easily studied. They have
christened it tentatively "alabamine,"
after the State of Alabama.
When Dr. Allison and his co-work­ers
reported discovery of element 85
last Spring, they said they had de­tected
the barest traces of it—one
part in ten billion—with the mag­neto-
optic method developed'by Al­lison.
They have now concentrated
enough of it to make 1-400,000 of a
gram of element 85 in combination
with linthium. It took 100 pounds
(Continued on page 4)
Tasting defeat for the first time,
the Auburn Tigers lost to Tulane
last night, 26 to 21. Tulane's Green
Wave cagesters rose to great heights
and maintained a lead throughout the
game.
When the Greenies hopped off to
an early lead Coach McAllister jerk­ed
his second team, but the regulars
were never able to forge to the front.
Lumpkin again led the Tiger scor*
ers with nine points, while Haynes
tossed ten through the net for Tu­lane
to get their high point honors.
Both teams missed many field
goals when playing excitement was
at a high pitch.
' Line-ups:
Auburn (21) G F TP
Jenkins, f. 0 1 1
Mason, f. 0 0 0
Ariail, c. 10 2
Lawson, g. 10 2
McMahon, g. 10 2
Lumpkin, f. 4 1 9
Jordan, f. 0 0 0
Stewart, c. 0 1 1
Hatfield, g. 113
Kaley, g. 0 1 1
Totals _ 8 5 21
Tulane (26) G F TP
Davies, f. 11 3
Beck, f. 113
Haynes, c. 5 0 10
Cleveland, g. -1 0 0 0
Meyer, g. 2 4 8
Roberts, g. - 1 9 2
Totals 10 6 26*
Sermons To Inaugurate
Boy Scout Celebration
Sermons bearing the theme of the
American Boy delivered by Auburn
ministers Sunday will open the cele­bration
of the 22nd anniversary of
the Boy Scout organization. Feat­ures
for the week's celebration were
announced by J. J. Sigwald, scout
executive.
Mr. Sigwald and several scouts
will give a special radio program
over station WSFA, in Montgomery,
on Monday afternoon, 4:30 to 4:45.
In the evening, 7:00 to 7:30 the Na­tional
Broadcasting Company will
present a nationwide program-
Pamphlets announcing the annual
scoutcraft jamboree at Auburn on
May 6 will be distributed on Wed­nesday.
At the high school auditorium on
Thursday a special scout program
will be presented and scouting will
be the theme of programs at both
the Lions and Rotary clubs.
On Friday a Pet and Hobby Show
will be held in Opelika in which Au­burn
scouts will take part.
On Saturday at 10:00 a. m. the
first patrol leadership training course
will be held at the Opelika armory.
Auburn scouts will be present.
Little Hope Of German
War Debt Says Prof.
Little hope that German repara­tions
and war debts of other nations
will ever be paid in full was expres­sed
by Prof. R. B. Draughon of the
history department in addressing
the members of the Lions club last
Thursday evening.
In discussing the world financial
crisis, Professor Draughon explained
that it was now practically if not
entirely impossible for Germany to ,
meet both her private debts and the
reparations demands. Since Ameri­can
banking firms have loaned vast
sums-of money to Germany since the
war, America has become further in­volved.
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A NEW SPORT
A need of long felt duration, one that
arouses a longing in the heart of every
true sportsman, was practically met this
fall with the laying of the basic necessi­ties
for a polo team. All fall a group of
students, under the guidance of the offi­cers
of the military department have work­ed
with the available material. Much
progress has been made.
In view of the fact that a squad of
twenty-six is now engaged in practice for
the gafne it seems that they should war­rant
some support other than that of the
military department, for their attempt to
develop another outstanding sport in the
college. The military department has not
only furnished the horses and equipment
for all phases of the practice, but was
also given his undivided attention to it.
One or more of the officers have kept in
constant touch with the coaching of the
aspirants and have instructed them in the
fundamental principles and the rules of
the game.
Polo has been conducted at the Uni­versities
of Florida and Georgia for some
time and challanges have been received
from the teams of the two institutions to
engage in competition. It is believed that
should a polo squad be recognized as a
major, or even a minor sport, it would very
soon become almost, if not entirely, self-supporting.
An opportunity to add this
attractive feature to the sports and mili­tary
departments should be seriously con­sidered
before any definite action is taken.
There is no doubt that it would accentuate
the attractiveness of the school and the
athletic program as well.
An excellent opportunity is offered to
widen our field of intercollegiate sports,
giving more students a chance to partici­pate
in a virile sport. It is not just the
sport of the wealthy "playboy", but one
that combines all the elements of sports­manship
and man's innate love for the
horse.
It is worthy of the entire college's aid.
A. & M. RE-BORN
The Reflector, student publication at the
former Mississippi A. & M. College, now
Mississippi State College, contains this
streamer in the issue of February 3, 'Col­lege
Name Changed'. The front page of the
paper also contains a lengthy story on the
history of the stages which led to the con­summation
of this revolutionary step.
Last year the chapter of Blue Key at that
institution began a crusade to adopt a new
name for the college. One of the first bills
to enter the hopper in the House of the
Mississippi State legislature was a bill
which called for the adoption of a new
name. The House of Representatives passed
the measure by a vote of 127 to 1. The Sen­ate
then passed upon the issue 37 to 4. The
school was anxiously awaiting the signing
of the bill by Governor Conner. Never again
will the fair name of State be returned to
the depressing cognomen of a paltry A.&M.
The general conception of the term A. &
M. or Polytechnic usually conveys a dark­ened
conception of the real value of a
school to the youth of today who enters an
institution of post elementary learning so
that he may postpone the task of working
for four years. Though this type may not
be particularly in demand at the American
college, nevertheless they are filled to over­flowing
with this type of person for the
reason there are certain expenses which the
college must meet in order to operate. The
term which smacks of the technical touch
rarely appeals to anyone who is not serious­ly
interested in some particular phase of
agriculture or engineering. The other bran­ches
of the institution do not draw their
quota of students; such a condition will not
aid in rounding out the qualities which
must appeal to the prospective student.
Such statements may seem over-drawn
but the psychological effect of a technical
term on a student who is not planning to
follow a technical education does not carry
the appeal that a name of another type
could offer. The students and the state of
Mississippi are to be congratulated upon
this step in altering the name of their in­stitution
whether it was prompted by cine-mal
influence or by some inate desire of
the students to find a name for their future
alma mater that would give some evidence
that they are not too backward to offer
some plan for change.
LINDBERGH AT THIRTY
Day before yesterday, Lindbergh, the
prince of aviation, and the aviation world
at large, celebrated the thirtieth birthday
of this pioneer of the air. He is, in the
true sense, a pioneer of that science that
is still in the first stages of it's infancy.
Such a large amount of publicity has been
devoted to his flight of four and a half
years ago and to his subsequent actions
which followed it, that meangingless repe­tition
of praises would be useless.
Today, five years after one of the most
famous experiments in the history of avi­ation,
the infant of the latter day sciences
finds itself in a much greater advanced
stage than it has been in since man first
sought to leave the earth by means of a
heavier than air machine. Five years from
today and this same science will still be
within the first stages of it's development.
There is no conceivable limit to the ad­vancement
aviation may reach before the
turn of another century.
A limited course is offered at this insti­tution
on the fundamental principles of
aviation. There is an open field for un­limited
advancement in a school of engi­neering.
The student who is anxious to
enter this field could find no better place in
the state and no better place in the South
to come for an education in aeronautical
engineering, if the heads of the institution
install a more broad expanse of courses
as soon as the college finds itself in a po­sition
to enter a new course into its curric­ulum.-
Such a step would undoubtedly in­sure
a larger enrollment for the institution
and a fresh lease on placing the engineer­ing
school into the highly progressive class
of southern colleges.
FRATERNITY MEN
(U. N. C. "Daily Tar Heel")
Phillip Wylie's recent article in "College
Humor" entitled "Abolish Fraternities?"
seems to have caused considerable com­ment
among ' those fraternity men who
took the time to read it. Especially did
it create a furor at Oregon State and
Purdue, where fraternity men even went
so far as to write editorials trying to de­fend
the fraternities. The editorial writ­er
in the "Purdue Exponent" overlooked
the article and paid no attention to it by
doubting Wylie's knowledge of his sub­ject,
while the Oregon "Barometer" writ­er
declares that "no fraternity man will
be willing to let the matter go unchalleng­ed
. . . ."
Obviously these two writers missed the
purpose Wylie had in view when he wrote
the article. He did not intend actually to
abolish fraternities; instead he only ad­vised
that there take place a house-clean­ing
of all the undesirable elements in fra­ternities.
And in order for his statements
to catch the attention of the average col­lege
fraternity man it was necessary that
he paint them in glaring colors. Every
open-minded fraternity man who reads this
article cannot help but realize immediately
that Wylie has considerably exaggerated
conditions—and intentionally so. Certain­ly
the author did not think anyone would
take him literally when he said, "College
fraternities make fools of tens of thous­ands
of young Americans annually . . ."
Nor did he intend that his other remarks
be accepted word for word. He was mere­ly
making implications in somewhat bold
language.
Knowing that the average fraternity
man often considers himself above criti­cism,
the author was forced to overcome
this attitude by making his criticisms so
emphatic and exaggerated that the fra­ternity
man would consider at least a
small amount of their content.
Surely no fraternity man is so self-satisfied
that he is too narrow-minded to
see his own faults when pointed out to
him. "We die for dear ole Alpha Sigma
Upsilon" is a good spirit, only so long as
it does not close one's eyes to Alpha Sigma
Upsilon's faults. And it is not to be de­nied
that every fraternity has its faults.
Also there is no fraternity anywhere that
is not in a small degree guilty of the ac­cusations
Wylie makes of fraternities.
Every chapter of every fraternity can
profit by Wylie's artiele, if the chapter
members are only willing to accept the
criticisms as the author intended.
IDLE EMS
—Q— •
<* AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
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.
* * * *
It was with something of a feeling of
amusement that this jovial jokester read
in the last issue the editorial entitled
"Shades of Pericles and Bryant". The au­thor
seemed to think that all the debaters
had forsaken the fine art of argument for
the lesser pursuit of literary studies. No
doubt he could not attribute the lack of
interest in forensic activities to anything
else; thus the berating jabs at the English
courses.
Some of the young man's statements de­serve
particular mention. "The English
Department offers courses which can but
temporarily interest the student and des­pite
. . . " To judge the author by his
mastery of English syntax and grammar,
the courses which he must have taken in
English did interest him only temporarily.
And then the artistic soul dogmatically
rules that "The ancient and highly respect­ed
art of debate and oratory offers the stu­dent
. . . the opportunity to completely
master the usage of his native tongue."
He thus admits that forensic activities are
especially maintained to promote the usage
of "his native tongue". The truth of the
statement is apalling; when we lived on the
farm we there observed several negroes
who had completely mastered the use of
their broad tongues in one branch of the
"ancient and highly respected art of debate
Rnd oratory"—hog-calling.
Thus we conclude that the writer of
"Shades of Pericles and Bryant" was some­what
at sea when he took his pen. in hand.
He encourages debating as a means of im­proving
the language, and yet he decries
the systematic and resourceful study of that
language through courses offered by the
English Department. We are not attempt­ing
to cry down the efforts of those stu­dents
interested in debating; we do think
that published articles in support of foren­sic
activities, to be effective, ought to be
written reasonably and artistically.
* * * *
It is not our purpose to discourage stu­dent
membership in the debating society;
this club is one of the few cultural organi­zations
on the campus, and Auburn stu­dents
can stand a great deal of cultivation.
Yet we do not believe that one good should
be promoted at the expense of another. If
an editorialist wishes to promote an inter­est
in debating he should base his encour­agement
on something other than the detri­ment
of an equally cultural vehicle.
* * * *
To anticipate the withering reply that
the above will bring forth, we wish to add
that we have secured a magnificent "boot"
on the English Department by means of the
foregoing paragraph. You'll have to think
of another one, Demosthenes.
* * . * *
The more idle idle ems: Pericles and
Bryant . . . we suggest Demosthenes and
Bryan . . . . a chaotic newspaper office . . .
the printing force distracted from lack of
copy . . . the editor in tears . . . the little
ones at Montevallo anticipating big things
for College Night . . . our well-dressed
managing editor and his Will Rogers hair
. . . everybody off to Mardi Gras . . . pro­fessors
enraged at editorials on cribbing
. . . it must be news to some of them . . .
what has become of the Red Shirts . . .
the bellicose members of the R. O. T. C.
Unit and their excited discourses on the
Shanghai situation . . . beginning with
metaphysics and ending in sex . . . no new
books in the library . . . three months till
the final dances . . . the seniors have al­ready
begun their last long roundelay . . .
And why not an inter-fraternity bridge
contest? Think of the spare time that
could be filled and the things accomplished.
Let the football squad decide upon the
bidding system and name Cletus as the
referee for all matches. Give the winner
of the tournament a nice set of pink doil-lies
and a bridge table cover. This would
create such a great amount of good feel­ing
among the fraternities at large that
it .would probably become an annual occur-rance.
Have the non-fraternity men to
conduct a contest of their own and then
the winners of the two tournaments meet
in a final match to decide the question.
This might lead to dual meets among the
various fraternities and in this way the
problem of keeping the students in town
over the week-end would be solved. If the
athletic department was consulted they
might declare it a minor sport. Who
wouldn't be proud of a blue and orange
sweater with a large BAT blazoned across
the front?
Overheard between the architectural
building and the main gate: "Oh, we're
just Platonic friends." Alas, the sweet in­nocence
of womankind asserts itself on the
Auburn campus t
She: Where do you stop when in Paris?
He: When I get to Paris I stop at nothing.
Someone has reported that the depression has hit some establishments so hard
that the "yes men" merely nod now.
* * * * * * * * * *
The college journalist sighed because there was no more to master—his efforts
had met with the approval of the English Department.
* * * * * * * * * *
We are informed that horseback riding relieves indigestion. Now all we need
is a remedy for horseback riding.
* * * * * * * * * * .
Jo C. Tartt, campus sunbeam, has been added to erstwhile staff of our pub­lication.
He will conduct a new "colyum" entitled "Happy Happenings". It is
reported that he shall attempt to throw some light on the intangible "Auburn Spirit."
* * * * * * * * * *
MID-SUMMER MADNESS
The sun beamed hot on a summer day,
And added to my woes.
I had toured 4;he drag, and nary a rag,
Was dry—oh woolen clothes.
But ere 'twas long I spied a suit,
All white for twelve-four-nine.
So I shook my bean, likewise my green,
And soonnon-shrink was mine.
A cloud loomed up that summer eve,
And a tropic downpour fell.
This old pre-shrunk, is a lotta bunk;
My non-shrink shrank like hell.
—HIC-HIC.
* * * * * * * * * *
H. L. Mencken is of the opinion that the average, normal American is bound
to remain a jackass, for such is the will of God. Strange how so many people can
earn a perfectly good living calling Americans jackasses.
* • , * * * . * * * * * *
Members of the faculty have entered a plea that we dance consciously. If they
want to get reasonable about the thing, we don't want to dance.
* * * * * * * * * *
Copied from a trade pamphlet: "There are certain things the government can
do.' And we thought that they had collected all such things and isolated them from
fear that they would become lonesome and die of outright melancholia.
* * * * * * * * * *
What this campus needs is a campus.
* * * * * * * * * *
Who was the collegiate soul who could not attend anything which lacked local
color? He carried his bottle with him to the theatre during the showing of the
Tulane-Southern California game.
• • • * • * • • • •
And what China needs is more American news correspondents. At times, in
some of the sectors where fighting is going on, the poor fellows are not able to dig
up a fourth at,bridge. They tried using Chinese soldiers on one or two occasions
but everytime they happened to be -dummy they would go out to take part in the
spasmodic encounters and never return.
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
The Reflector bedecks its front page with
a streamer announcing that the grand old
name of Mississippi A. & M. has faded into
oblivion, and that a new title will be at­tached
to the State's political football—
Mississippi State College. The students
seem to be altogether pleased with this al­teration,
but we are sure that the term
State must be just a little distasteful if it
connotes any particle .of the State as dom­inated
by certain individuals who have not
done the school any too great service.
The surprising thing about it all is that
the movement was started by an honor fra­ternity,
and it is almost beyond belief that
an actual goal was reached.
Auburn has always been on a basis of
the most friendly relationships with A. &
M. The similarity of their purpose and
location has created somewhat of a bond,
and the students of this institution are most
happy to see them facing a new day with
a new name, leaving behind, we trust, the
smirch of rotten politics.
* * * *
The Ring-Turn Phi has discovered the
motive if not the origin of the editorial
"we", and it seems altogether logical.
When the editor calls himself we, says this
publication, those taking exception to the
article will fear' that there are too many
for him to lick.
* * * *
The chief of police of the town in which
the University of Iowa is located, says that
the co-ed with her lighted cigarette, is one
of the city's worst fire hazards, because she
always throws her butt in the waste.basket.
* * * *
IMPRESSIONS OF COLLEGE
NEWSPAPERS:
The Davidsonian from Davidson: A good
sheet with a better editorial page.
Ring-Turn Phi from W and L: They
hardly seem to take their journalism seri­ously
but still live up to the college heri­tage.
The Daily Tar Heel from N. C. U.: The
South's most liberal paper. It's editor
seems to be better than Brisbane in settling
the world's problems.
Crimson-White: It seems that we have
said something of a highly complimentary
nature before:
The Emory Wheel: Published on slick
paper but still a very excellent publication.
The Gold and Black: Good despite the
heads.
The Plainsman: Dame Modesty prevents
us.
Thus editorializes the New Orleans
Tribune:
"The president of Atlantic Universi­ty,
Norfolk, Va., regretfully announces
that his school is so embarrassed fi­nancially
that it probably won't open
again, and it's hundred or so students
will be aided in transferring to other
universities. National educational lead­ers,
championing the small college, have
recently called attention to the part it
has played in the cultural advance of
the United States. The work of the
small college did not end, either, with
the advent of the great universities
on a scale'of investment, equipment and
enrollment comparable to Ford factory
figures. The standardization of teach­ing
and the isolation of the teaching
staff from the individual student inevit­able
to such a mass-production educa­tion
system leave much to be desired.
"Independence of thought among fac­ulty
members and the cultural benefit
to be had from close association of
faculty and student body are obtainable
at their best in the small college. It
would be a serious national loss if j the
good ones were crippled by the depres­sion.
For they supply opportunities
that thousands of young men and wo­men
would lose if they had to go far
from their own homes for higher school­ing."
* * * *
In a recent issue of the often mentioned
paragon of collegiate journalism, the Crim­son-
White, we learn that they have failed
to secure an hour on the Lucky Strike dance
program in which to broadcast music from
their own term dances. Their efforts proved
fruitless, it was stated, but the student body
was to rest assured that they had given
their all in an attempt to secure this added
feature for the dances. They would be sure
to arrange some feature of this nature for
the final dances. It might be appropriate
to add that the Music Corporation of Amer­ica
sent the Chairman of the Social Com­mittee
here at Auburn a letter in which they
stated that they were making efforts to
secure certain hours of music from college
dances as their part in filling the contract
they have with the sponsors of the Lucky
Strike' dance program which broadcasts
over a nation-wide hook-up three times a
week. How strange it seems that the Crim­son-
White should have the same idea at the
same time the Music Corporation of Amer­ica
outlines the same plan to colleges
throughout the country.
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.
MUSIC IN the soul brings out the
finer idealism and nature of the
man. One seldom realizes how
hopelessly entwined one's life is with the
melodies he hears. It has long been the
desire of this columnist to bring to the at­tention
of certain persons the fact they
are destroying a part of one when they pur­posely
or unwittingly interfere with the de­sire
of everyone to hear good music.
Auburn seems to be the location of a
number of one-sided personages who are so
interested in their own experiments that the
rights of others never enter their minds.
Radio reception during the day-time is prac­tically
impossible, one may be listening to
Walter Damrosch during his musical appre­ciation
hour and before, the program has
half started interference completely destroys
it. The interference is from several sources,
all of which could be remedied. There are a
number of "so-called" amateur radio enthu­siasts
who have not passed the stage of
spark transmission, that is by the use of
an induction coil. This was among the
first types of wireless telegraphy and can
not be tuned sharply as it spreads all over
the broadcast bands causing such inter­ference
as to make it impossible to tune in
any other program with a broadcast re­ceiver.
Experimenters in the laboratories
of the college are also using these induc­tion
coils which can. be shielded in such a
way that they will not disturb the ether.
Floor polishers/floor sanding machines, and
other home appliances with large motors
can also cause such disturbance; these may
be eliminated by use of condensers.
It is hoped that such offenders as have
been named will take steps to remedy the
situation which has become quite serious.
The legal steps necessary to be taken be­fore
prosecuting such offenders are rather
complicated although upon recommendation
of the radio inspector the operation of ap­paratus
causing disturbance may be legal­ly
stopped. Cletus does not propose this
plan to a group of college men, but rather
hopes that some solution may be reached.
Is cheating at Auburn the fault of the
instructors? The writer is informed that
in many classes the instructor assumes that
his course is the only one of importance
and that half the students time out of
class must be spent in preparing for HIS
classes. This leaves two alternatives for
the student. One is sacrificing his other
work to make a passing grade honestly in
this particular course, the other, obtain­ing
help on quiz or exam. Any clear mind­ed
person can see that the latter would pre­judice
the student against his instructor
and when he finds other instructors mak­ing
such demands he makes all his exams
with the intention of cribbing. This de­moralizing
effect might be attributed en­tirely
to the particular instructor or pro­fessor
who is unaware that his students
are enrolled in other classes.
Another case where cribbing might be at­tributed
to the professors manner of con­ducting
his class is cited. The professor
gives a quiz with no warning prior to the
day of the event and upon giving the ques­tions
to the students, calmly walks out of
the class room, telling the pupils to. place
their papers on the desk when they finish.
This "don't give a damn" attitude causes
students to be lax in preparing for quizzes
in this course and since it is very easy to
obtain information during the quiz the stu­dent
forms the cribbing habit.
The worst offense a professor can com­mit
is giving a pledge exam. He satisfies
his conscience by relying upon the honesty
of the students. These pledges may be
written in a number of ways which may
satisfy the conscience of the student. A
student of a northern school signs his
pledge thusly: That I've given no help
God only knows, I've received no help the
paper shows. This antidiluvian method em­ployed
by some professors on this campus
receives severe criticism from many no­table
authorities.
Some advanced courses taken by both
seniors and graduate students are taught
for the benefit of the more advanced mem­bers
of the class in such a way that a few
unlucky members of the class are left so
far behind in the course from the very
beginning that they can obtain nothing
from the course and are forced to crib' in
order to graduate.
* * * *
The social committee must find some
means of financing the final dances this
year, and will probably resort to hiring an
inexpensive orchestra. This would detract
greatly from the dances because everyone
expects an imported orchestra to be some­thing
unusual. The Auburn Knights would
furnish as good or better music than some
low priced imported orchestra at a. lower
price and would add color to the dances.
SATURDAY, FEB. 6, 1932 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
TAD McCALLUM, Editor
CONTRIBUTORS:
HARRY BARNES
MARSHAL KALEY
K". G. TAYLOR
NEIL 0. DAVIS
Auburn High Girls
Wins As Boys Lose
Friday night at the college gym­nasium
Auburn High School split a
double header with the Tuskegee
High girls and Hurtsboro High boys.
The Auburn High girls won easily
from an inexperienced sextette from
Tuskegee, 27-2 while the boys lost a
closely contested battle with Hurts­boro
23-20.
The girls' game was featured by the
air-tight defense of the Auburn
guards, Lewis and Ward, in addition
to the xcellent shooting of Funchess
and Moses.
The boys' game was close from
start to finish with the lead alternat­ing
from time to time. Hurtsboro led
at the half 13-7 although Auburn
made a sensational rally to take the
lead at the opening of the second half.
With two minutes left to play and
Auburn in the lead 20-19 Duffy,
flashy Hurtsboro youth, dribbled
through to sink two field goals which
won the game. For Auburn, Melton,
Briggins, Cook and Blake were out­standing
while Duffy and Streetman
were the leading players for Hurts­boro.
The girls' game was refereed by
Miss Lewis of Auburn while Frank
Sindler officiated for the boys' game.
Trees Be Dedicated To
Memory of Washington
Miss Mary Martin, regent of the
Light Horse Harry Lee Chapter of
D. A. R. announces that any trees
planted, singly or ki groups,-during
1932, may be dedicated to George
Washington without charge, and the
planter registered as a member of
the American Tree Association by
making an application to the Ameri­can
Tree Association, 121.4 16th
Street N. W., Washington, D. C.
This society will send a blank to be
filled in by the applicant.
Competition For Varsity Keen As Spring Training Progresses
AUBURN FRESHMEN
DEFEAT LANGDALE
THURSDAY NIGHT
'Rats" Impressive In Winning
First Game On Local Court
34 TO 17
Neil O. Davis
Auburn's freshmen defeated the
highly touted Langdale High School
cagers in alumni gymnasium Thurs­day
night 34-17. Langdale had prev­iously
defeated Auburn in Langdale.
The "rats" were impressive in win­ning
their first game played here this
year.
With Ellis leading the scoring, the
freshmen jumped off to an early lead
that was never overcome. Ellis gar­nered
fifteen points but was closely
followed by Quinney, who counted
for twelve points. H. Morris, center
and Baker, guard, counted for four
points each. Auburn displayed a
smooth passing attack but were con­siderably
off form in their "crip"
shots.
The defensive work of Alston and
Baker was a contributing factor in
holding Langdale to a low score.
Anthony, crack forward, was held to
only four points. Most of Langdale's
scoring came in the first half. They
failed to score during the third quar­ter
but sank four field goals during
the latter part of the last quarter.
Boyd, center, led the Langdale at­tack
with nine points. He played a
good floor game and was excellent on
the defense. Brooks followed Boyd
in scoring with four points.
Line-up:
Pos
p.
F.
C.
G.
G.
Seven Prominent Members of Auburn Basketball Squad ADDED WEIGHT IN LINE WILL
STRENGTHEN TIGER DEFENSE
New Men Mastering Fundamentals Being Taught In Spring
Practice and Only Hustling On Part Of Regulars Will
Keep Them In Line-up
With the conclusion of the second
week of Spring training it has be­come
evident that competition for
regular positions on Coach "Chet"
Wynne's 1932 eleven will be keener
than has been the case in a number
j of years at Auburn. The serious
manner in which the freshmen have
gone about the task of mastering the
fundamentals taught in the Spring
grind means that there will be a
great deal of hustling on the part of
the 16 lettermen to keep from being
pushed out of their regular posts.
In -addition to their willingness to
work, the present crop of frosh
^prospects possess worlds of natural
ability and the ever valuable asset
of weight. The "faithful seven" who
composed the varsity line last year
were generally outweighed anywhere
Seven prominent members of Auburn's crack basketball squad, which is at present on the longest road
jaunt of the season. The Tigers meet Tulane again tonight and then proceed to Baton Rouge for a pair
of games with L. S. U. The above players: Top row—Ralph Jordan, Captain Jack Stewart, Tom Lump­kin,
and Charles Kaley. Lower row—Harbin Lawson, Robert Arthur, and Lindley Hatfield.
Auburn
Quinney (11)
Ellis (15)
Cooper
Baker (4)
Alston
Substitutions: Auburn—H. Mor­ris
(4); Brown, Turk, J. Morris.
Langdale—-'Brooks (4), Marshall,
Morris, Hawkins.
Langdale
Hawkins
Anthony (3)
Boyd (9)
Rogers (1)
Reid
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Sport Writers Say
Baseball Still King
Cleveland—(IP)—A survey made
by the Associated Press for its mem­bers
of sports writers throughout
the country on the most popular
sport shows that baseball is still king
of the American sports world, al­though
it is being closely pushed by
football, the collegiate game.
Other popular sports were found
to be favored in the order:
Golf, boxing, basketball, horse
racing, fishing and hunting, track
and field, ice hockey, tennis.
The survey also showed golf to be
the sport requiring the most skill.
It was followed in the order by:
baseball, tennis, billiards and boxing.
Sports requiring most strength or
stamina were in the order: rowing,
wrestling, boxing, football, basket­ball,
distance running.
Sports involving the most luck
were in the order: golf, baseball,
horse racing, basketball, football.
Carton of Cigarettes Will Be Awarded To
Student Picking Fraternity All-Star Team
The Plainsman announces at this time that they are offering a
prize of one carton of cigarettes to the student picking the all-tourna­ment
basketball team that most closely corresponds to the team chosen
by the staff of this paper. Boxes will be placed in the Tiger
Drug Store and Benson Brothers Sandwich Shop to receive all picks.
No selection will be accepted after Thursday, February 11, at noon.
In case of ties, all tying contestants will be awarded equal prizes of
one carton of cigarettes.
All contestants are asked to accept the decision of the Sports
Editor of The Plainsman as final.
For the readers convenience the blank below may be used but
picks will be acceptable on any kind of plain white paper.
Name Fraternity Pos.
_ :...__ ...., F.
F.
G.
C.
HURDLERS BRING NATIONAL
RECOGNITION TO TIGER TRACK
Baskin First to Draw Nation's Attention; Beard Now Taking
The Spotlight; Loyd Richey Attracting Attention Within
Collegiate Circles
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REMAIN ON BASKET
SCHEDULE FOR YEAR
L. S. U., Georgia and Tech To
Be Played Before Tourna­ment
in Atlanta
Boy Scouts Will Stage
Pet And Hobby Show
Auburn Boy Scouts will compete
in a Pet and Hobby Show in Opelika
on Friday, February 12. Ribbons
and special awards will go to the
winners.
The show will include entries of
bird houses,- coin collections, curios,
handicraft, sketching, photography,
and all sorts of pets.
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There is one man in Auburn who,
no doubt, believes that all things come
in threes, as perhaps many other per­sons
believe, whether the things be
good or bad.
This man is Coach Hutsell, Au­burn's
great track mentor. His su­perstitious
threes are in no way bur­dens
or misfortunes. Three of a kind,
they are three men to thrill a track
coach's heart. All three are hurdlers
and all are tall and lithe of body.
The first to come was Weems O.
Baskin, who as a freshman trackster
was nothing startling; his was only
another shaven head in the freshman
class. Watching Baskin take first
places against all opposition that
spring, Hutsell knew he had a cham­pion.
Not confining his talents to
the hurdles, Baskin took places in the
broad jump, high jump, shot put and
discus. He was good for twenty
points in almost any track meet.
In his junior year, he entered the
national track meet in DesMoines.
There, after falling face down on the
cinders, he scrambled up and finished
up and finished sixth. He won every
hurdle race in the South that year.
During his . senior year, he worked
harder to perfect minor faults in his
style of hurdling. He" went back to
the national meet, this time held in
Chicago. He kept his feet this time
and finished in front of all opposition.
That spring in dual meets and in the
conference meet he probably made
more points than any other two men.
After graduating he raced under
the colors of the New York Athletic
Club. That year, 1928, was the year
of the Olympic races, in Amsterdam.
By some freak of chance he failed to
make the team, but the N. Y. A. C,
realizing that he was the best hurdler
in the country, sent him to Amster­dam
at its own expense. Though not
allowed to compete in the races, he
later toured Europe with the Ameri­can
team. He and Ed Hamm of Ga.
Tech, you might say, cleaned up Eu­rope.
After four year of competition
he had a trunkful of medals and cups,
and also various Southern and nation­al
records, including a world record
in the seventy-yard high hurdles.
The second to come was Percy
Beard, another champion. He always
reached the tape about two steps be­hind
Baskin. He wasn't a one event
man either; he could broad jump
twenty-three feet. After graduation,
Beard joined the N. Y. A. C. as did
Baskin. He won every race he en­tered
last spring under the N. Y. A.
C. colors; last summer he set a world's
record in the 120 yard high hurdles.
That record had stood, untouched,
since 1920; coaches believed a man
would break nine seconds in the hun­dred
yard dash before that hurdle
mark was equalled. Beard is now
preparing for the Olympic races in
Los Angeles next summer. He was
Coach Hutsell's second blessing.
Now comes the third, another hur­dler,
long and lanky, another man
who can knock dimes from the tops
of the hurdles. In Loyd Richey, Hut­sell
has another champion. He is
already hovering around the confer­ence
record for the 120 yard high
hurdles.
And so instead of three fires, three
murders, or some other hard luck that
Five High Scorers In
Fraternity Tourney
The following five players were
high scorers in the annual inter-fra­ternity
basketball tournament recent­ly
completed. Both the total num­ber
of points scored and the average
per game are listed.
TP APG
Brower, Kappa Sigma 49 9.8
Williams, Kappa Sigma-. 46 9.2
Howard, S. A. E. 34 11.3
Biggerstaff, S. A. E. 29 8.6
McCallum, Sigma Nu 29 7.4
On the final lap of their 1932 bas­ketball
campaign the strong Auburn
five will play only four more sched­uled
games before the annual South­ern
Conference tournament in Atlan­ta.
The four remaining contests on
this year's hardwood calendar will be
with Louisiana State in Baton Rouge,
Monday and Tuesday; Georgia Tech
in Atlanta next Saturday, and Geor­gia
here, Monday, February 15.
L. S. U. and Georgia will be faced
for the initial time this season and
Georgia" Tech for the second time.
The Jackets were nosed out' here 25-
22, in the Tigers opening conference
engagement of the year.
The tilts with the Purple Tigers
will conclude a six-day road trip for
the Plainsmen, who left Auburn last
Thursday evening to meet the Tulane
Greenies Friday and tonight and L.
S. U., and will not return here until
Wednesday night.
The series in Baton Rouge will be
Auburn's first with- L. S. U. since
1930 when the Tigers were downed
twice, 44-27 and 49-45. That year,
Capt. Jack Stewart, Ralph Jordan,
Tom "Little Papa" Lumpkin, Lindley
Hatfield and Harkin Lawson were
sophomores. They will have their
first opportunity to avenge the 1930
setbacks Monday and Tuesday against
one of the most powerful scoring ma­chines
in the conference.
Losing by only three points on a
foreign court, Tech will be the favor­ite
when the return game is played in
Atlanta. In the first fray, each quin­tet
shot 10 field goals, but the ability
of Coach Sam McAllister's sharp­shooters
to sink free shots gave them
a victory. Auburn will have to im­prove
considerably over the first Tech
game if Roy Mundorff's well-balanced
outfit is repulsed twice this season.
The final game with Georgia is ex­pected
to be the classic of the season
here in Alumni Gymnasium. The
Bulldogs, under Rex Enright, rank
with the leaders in the conference
and have not lost to an Auburn bas­ket-
ball team since 1928. The five
senior on the Orange and Blue squad
will attempt to close their careers at
home with a triumph, and also add
the Athenians to their large number
of victims.
To date Auburn's first combination
of Capt. Stewart, center; Jordan and
Lumpkin, forwards; and Kaley and
Hatfield, guards, has a winning rec­ord,
but the expected improvement
over 1931 has not been shown. Dur­ing
every game this year, the starters
have shown brief spurts of brilliance,
but their sensational playing will
have to be lengthened if o creditable
showing is made in the conference
tourney.
High Scorers in S. C.
Cage Circles Listed
The high scorers, in Southern Con­ference
games only, through con­tests
of Monday follow:
Player—School: G.
Samuels, L. S. U. 42
Sale, Kentucky 29
Torrance, L. S. U. 31
Swor, Mississippi 22
Simpson, Mississippi __ 23
Henderson, Vanderbilt_ 20
Vincent, Maryland 23
Tynes, Mississippi 21
Foster, Vanderbilt 20
Aikep, Alabama 22
Lumpkin, Auburn 23
Bardwell, L. S. U. 18
Taylor, Miss. A.&M. __ 21
Berger, Maryland 19
Fg.
7
8
2
12
9
14
7
10
11
7
3
13
6
6
TP.
91
66
64
56
55
54
53
52
51
51
49
49
48
47
The substitutes will receive plenty
of work after the closing tilt with
Georgia. In all probability, the first-stringers
will receive a much needed
rest for a few days, while McAllister
tries to develop more strength in the
reserve ranks.
McAllister's second team of Law-son
and McMahan, guards; Ariail,
center, and Mason and Jenkins, for­wards,
looks good in scrimmaging the
Varsity, but all except Lawson have
failed to pei'form superbly when in­jected
into an important game. This'
is unexplainable.
Mason and Jenkins are the real
mysteries on the scrub team. Both
handle the ball Well, are good drib­blers
and expert marksmen firing at
the baskets at both long and short
ranges in the melees with the regu­lars,
but the former is credited with
only six points in five games and
the latter two. Maybe both will blos­som
out as outstanding performers
as seniors in 1933. Mason was an all-state
player in high school.
attracts that mysterious sequence of
three Coach Hutsell has good luck in
having turned out two world cham­pions
and in having a third in the
making.
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from 10 to 25 pounds per man when
confronted by conference opposition,
and a little beef with which to forti­fy
the Tiger line must be welcomed
fndeed,by the coaches.
Musgrove and Haigler, centers;
Welch, Houston, Moore, Pace, and
Porter, guards; Bedford, Stover,
Turner, Paterson, Morris, and Law-son,
tackles; and Fenton, Whitten
and Kemp, ends, are all big men,
most of them hovering around the
200 pound mark. Harry Whitten,
big fullback, is probably the only
freshman back who will add much
weight to the varsity crew of ball
carriers next season, but a number
of the smaller plebe backs are show­ing
real ability in the Spring drills
and may break into the limelight
next fall.
A large portion of the first two
weeks' work has been devoted to con­ditioning
exercises, and with most of
the players in* good shape the going
will probably be a whole lot tough­er
next week. A regulation game
will more than likely be staged Sat­urday
afternoon between two evenly
matched teams. The squad will be
divided for this purpose and every
candidate will be given a chance to
participate.
The new men have been taught the
varsity plays in daily skull sessions
and have been running them off in
the afternoon workouts.
All of the veterans are showing up
well and there has been no evidence
of loafing on Drake Field. The var­sity
backs have been intermingled
with the "rat" ball carriers in the
signal drills to better^ acquaint the
frosh with the timing of the plays,
the shift, assignments, etc., and the
same procedure has been followed by
the linemen.
A number of new plays have been
given the candidates by Coach Wyn­ne
and from all indications the Tig­ers
will possess a flashy attack next
season. This type of offense should
go well with a nirmber of speedy
backs on hand, including Jimmie
Hitchcock, Allen Rogers, Sterling
Dupree, Ike Parker, Bubber Phipps,
Henderson, Rip Williams, Tom
Brown, and others of the small but,
shifty type.
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T H E P L A I N S M A N -:- 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 SATURDAY, FEB. 0, 1932
Princeton Dean Opposes
Subsidizing Of Athletes
(NSFA).—Denouncing over-ambit­ious
alumni who are supporting stu­dent
athletes and thereby violating
the amateur code, Dean Christian
Gaus, of Princeton University, criti­cizes,
in the December issue of Scrib-ner's,
the subsidiary system of ath­letics.
Every university practices
this method to some degree, he claims,
and the underlying reason is the
alumni who wish to see the best foot­ball
stars come to their alma mater.
Dean Smith, of the University of
Illinois, recently^ made an investiga­tion,
the result of which showed that
on practically every campus the
undergraduates believe that some of
the team luminaries are receivers of
graft. However, Dean Gauss believes
that this condition exists "only in in­stitutions
of which the general
standing is low and which are using
this method to attract attention in
the press. If cases of this sort are
hidden from the faculty committees,
the undergraduates themselves often
sense that something is wrong.
Though the colleges and conferences
may make rules in all good faith, no
method has been found or can reason­ably
be expected to be found "for
curbing this type of alumnus who be­lieves
a good running _ halfback is
worth three Phi Beta Kappa schol­ars."
Instances are cited of a graduate
who increased the salary of one of
his employes whose son played a good
game in the fullback position; another
valuable gridiron star was manager of
the student store and kind alumni
made 10-cent purchases with $10 bills,
asking for no change. In a few cases
the schools themselves are not aware
of the subsidy, while one matriculate
had no knowledge whatever of his
benefactor's secret operation.
CHILDHOOD'S UTOPIA FOUND
IN SOUTHERN PART OF STATE
School of Organic Education at Fairhope, Alabama, Has No
Grades, No Marks and Every Child Is Always Promoted
Of 69 Co-Ed Hobbies
'Dates' Least Popular
Columbia, Mo.— (I.N.S.)—"Dates"
are the least popular of all pastimes
among the Stephens College girls.
This is the announcement made by
the research department of the col­lege
after they had compiled the re­sults
of a questionnaire submitted to
the students.
Results of the survey revealed that
the girls were interested in 69 dif­ferent
pastimes. Dancing and reading
were the most popular while news­paper
work, auto mechanics, finished
just above "dates" at the bottom of
the list.
Among the hobbies in which the
girls indicated'interest are: dancing,
swimming, reading, bicycling, all
forms of sport except football, sew­ing,
rug making, art craft, clay mod­eling,
scrap books, writing, fish,
bugs, short sayings and thoughts,
dogs, music, stage craft, painting,
bridge, cactus, shoes, travel, birds,
baking and astronomy.
Any business that has built up
a list of customers to whom it
sells goods or service at satisfactory
profit will succeed as long as it
continues to get the orders of those
customers and holds their good
will.
Tiger Theatre
SATURDAY, FEB. 6
George O'Brien
—In—
"The RAINBOW TRAIL"
—With—
Cecilia Parker, Roscoe Ates,
Minna Gombell, J. M. Kerrigan
Also Laurel and Hardy all-talking
comedy 'HELPMATES'
and cartoon, 'MASK-A-RAID'
SUNDAY - MONDAY
February 7-8
Wallace Beery
Clarke Gable
—In—
"HELL DIVERS"
—With—
Dorothy Jordan
Marjorie Rambeau
Also Paramount News
TUESDAY, FEB. 9
William Powell
—In—
"HIGH PRESSURE"
—With—
Evelyn Brent - George Sidney
Also Paramount Pictorial and
comedy, "UNEMPLOYED
GHOST"
A veritable childhood's Utopia
where there is a school with no
marks, no examinations, and where
promotion is inevitable was described
here by Mrs. Mariette Johnson, found­er
and head of the School of Organic
Education at Fairhope, Ala., which
this year celebrates its 25th anniver­sary.
"The students in my school
cannot fail," she said, "for at Fair-hope
we have no marks, no grades,
and every child is automatically pro­moted
according to age."
"I believe that all external require­ments
are unjust and that the sheer
joy of learning should be the only in­centive.
To hold over the child the
fear of poor grades and failure pro­duces
a double motive for study and.
work which is destructive to intellec­tual
integrity. The reward for learn­ing
is learning itself. The reward
for doing is the joy of doing coupled
with the inner satisfacton of accom­plishing
that which Jfe worthwhile."
Mrs. Johnson's aim is to'prevent the
development of maladjusted adults.
That is the reason for the complete
elimination of marks and promotion.
All grading, marking and promotion,
she feels, tends to develop double mo­tives
which are fatal to unity and
sincerity of being. It is not her belief
that the child should be allowed to
develop simply as he or she pleases.
Her educational program insists on
controlling and directing the child,
but studies to have this direction and
control determined by the need of the
individual child rather than the con­venience
of the adult.
"The mind develops through inter­est,"
Mrs." Johnson pointed out. "The
supreme question for schools to con­sider
is, therefore, 'What are the in­terests
of childhood?' Children are
interested in things of sense and a
desire to create things. They should
be allowed the free use of materials
to create, as an expression of their
thoughts. There should be a respect
for the purposefulness and initiative
of the child, which we try to foster
at Fairhope. All specialization and
acceleration of progress is dangerous
for the nervous system of the unde­veloped
child. Of course, children of
rapid development are given more
work while the child who develops
slowly is not made to feel he is in­ferior
to his classmates.
"For the same reason no lessons
are assigned below the high school,
but studies are pursued because of
their interest, inner satisfactions be­ing
the only rewards. There is no
sense of failure among the children
at Fairhope, since failure is death,
and as education means life the usual
tests and grades may defeat the main
purpose of education."
"Furthermore, the setting up of an
external standard of attainment may
tempt the child to cheat in order to
meet the standard. One of the aims
of real education is to help in the
process of character building, and,
again, the usual educational system
defeats its own ends i f ' i t tends to
foster dishonesty in this way," said
Mrs. Johnson.
In the experimental vein the school
has other things besides the abolition
of the assigned tasks and of a set stan­dard
of achievement—that is, the use
of movable chairs and tables instead
of fixed desks and even the holding
of some classes out of doors. It is
the belief that relaxation is necessary
for growth and that the child's dis­taste
for school is a natural result of
being forced to sit at a narrow desk
in a cramped position. The desire
for activity needs expression both at
work and at play permitting a more
infoftnal relationship between teacher
and pupil.
For the four-year-olds the work is
to some extent similar to that of the
regular kindergarten she said, but
the material is freer. They have at
the beginning what all Fairhope
children have through their entire
life—creative hand work, music, story
telling, singing, folk dancing and na­ture.
At six years of- age they go
into the "first life class" but they
still have no formal work that calls
for close focusing of eye muscles or
for any fine muscular adjustment.
Their work includes crafts, garden­ing,
dramatics, nature, music and
dancing. As they progress further,
according to their chronological age
group, they take up arithmetic, geog­raphy,
etc. Not until they enter the
ninth and tenth years are they given
any formal work, even reading, writ­ing
and spelling. At the age of four­teen
they automatically pass into the
high school. Here they have four
years of»serious work in science, his­tory,
mathematics, literature and lan­guage,
with folk dancing, music, arts,
and wood, metal and clay work still
continuing.
There are examinations in the high
school, but only to help the student
express himself and to indicate to
the teacher the quality of the instruc­tion,
but, in no case, to determine the
student's ability to "pass". Lessons
are assigned and more home work re­quired.
Emphasis is placed on the
conducting of the work in the freest
social atsmosphere. Dramatics, arts,
and sports and academic work when
conducted in open discussion are
stressed as being inherently social.
Thus it is hoped to foster the growth
of the children into sane, social, well
ajusted a'dults, with no danger of
any disorder of the nervous system
developing in later life as a result of
early training.
As a direct result of the emphasis
placed on creative work it naturally
follows that the workshop should be
the largest and most important place
on the campus. It has three large
rooms in which clay,' painting, metal
working, weaving and wood working
are conducted. Miss Johnson believes
that it is by the use of native endow­ments
that the highest satisfaction
is achieved for the individual.
Graduates of the Fairhope school
have entered colleges all over the
country, and, according to those with
whom Mrs. Johnson has been able to
keep in contact, have done very well,
many of them being awarded scholar­ships
and other academic distinction.
She is just as proud, however, of the
students who have not been the col­lege
type, who are more motor minded,
but have gone through^the elementary
school and the high school with dig­nity
and self-respect, have not ac­quired
an inferiority complex and
face society with confidence in them­selves
and in the universe.
While in Auburn Mrs. Johnson dis­cussed
her revolutionary philosophy
of education with members of the
Auburn faculty who were greatly in­terested
in her ideas and the success
of her school at Fairhope. She at­tended
a dinner given in her honor
at the home of Mrs. Albert Thomas.
"Such a system of education," said
President Bradford Knapp of Au­burn,
"would revolutionize our think­ing
and might lead to some intelligent
solution of the many vexing economic,
political and social problems of today.
It is refreshing to think of study
with knowledge as the reward rather
than grades or credits. I sincerely
hope Mrs. Johnson may find the
means to carry her experiment much
further. She has made a most im­portant
contribution to our progress
in education."
Dean Zebulon Judd of the School of
Education, commenting -ah Mrs. John­son
and her school, stated that he had
followed with great interest the de­velopment
of the Organic School at
Fairhope. He said Mrs. Johnson has
unquestionably worked out into a
practical demonstration the best ele­ments
of the educational philosophy
of Pastalozzi, Rousseau, and Dewey.
"The great need of American edu­cation
is a profound understanding of
child nature, a greater respect for,
and a greater faith in, the natural
child. Tfie task of education is not
to remake the child, but, under guid­ance
to stimulate him in the develop­ment
of those traits.S through the
functioning of which, he will become
best adjusted to the conditions of
present day civilization.
"In the process of his biological de­velopment,
man became adujusted to
live under his environment. Studies
of original nature indicate that there
have been no fundamental changes
in man's original nature in more than
two thousand years. On the other
Important Meeting Of
A.S.M.E. To Be Held
The regular meeting of the Ameri­can
Society of Mechanical Engineers
will be held Monday night at 8 o'clock
in 109 Ramsay. As a special feature
of the meeting Victor Randecker, in­structor
in Radio at A. P. I. will pre­sent
to the assembly some of the spe­cial
features of the Naval Air Train­ing
Base at Pensacola. Instructor
Randecker, who is also completing his
course in aviation, is sure to prove a
very popular speaker upon his subject
which is intensely interesting.
The details and discussion of the
proposed paper to be presented in
Birmingham at the meeting of the
A. S. M. E. there in March are to be
given considerable attention. An in­vitation
by the main body of- the A.
S. M. E. to the Auburn branch to pre­sent
a paper at their meeting this
spring, was made some time ago, and
the subject was selected at the last
meeting.
In addition to ihis, discussion of the
advisability of sending representatives
to the meeting of the college branches
qf the A. S. M. E. to be held in Chat­tanooga
some time in the future, will
serve to occupy the business end of
the program. Because of the extreme
importance of this meeting all mem­bers
are requested to be present, and
all visitors are cordially invited to
attend.
Concentrated Form '85'
Makes First Appearance
(Continued from page 1)
of monazite sand to supply this frac­tion
of a gram. •"
"Alabamine" is about 221 times as
heavy as hydrogen, says Dr.xAllison's
article, which means its atomic
weight is approximately 221. This
is very close to the atomic weight
predicted for element 85 before it
was discovered.
hand, radical changes have taken
place in his environment. It follows
that man by original nature is not
well adapted to twentieth century life.
It is the business of education,
through the stimulation of certain
traits and the suppressipn of others,
to adjust the child to present condi­tions.
All that can be done is through
selection and stimulation to modify
the nature that the child brings to
school. Nothing can be achieved
through the designing of artificial
new patterns.- Education is growth
under guidance; it is not reconstruc­tion/
"Many educators and philosophers
subscribe to these fundamental con­cepts.
Mrs. Johnson has incorporat­ed
them into an actual and tested
school program."
Miss Zoe Dobbs, Auburn dean of
women, believes that "Mrs. Johnson
makes enemies of no true laws of
teaching, but takes them for granted.
They are absorbed in her finer belief
that teaching is ministering to life,
not preparing for a profession. She
is not hampered with technique, but
gifted with the power and intelligence
to introduce the child to his own per­sonality.
She represents Greek ideal­ism
saturated with Christianity."
"Mrs. Johnson's doctrine is a new
one to me,," -said Dr. Fred Allison,
head professor of physics, "and I be­lieve
it is sound."
Prof. Albert Thomas of the. school
of engineering said, "The Fairhope
school is a most valuable servant of
the public schools. It provides a
center for unhampered experimenta­tion
which may lead to important dis­coveries
in our modern system of edu­cation."
"Such an educational system would
so free our thought that our present
social and economic system, which is
unsatisfactory in many respects,
would be impossible," said Mrs. D.
R. Showalter, wife of an Auburn pro­fessor.
"We must hear more of this organic
idea of Mrs. Johnson's. Her very per­sonality
and enthusiasm is an inspi­ration,"
was the reaction of Mrs. J.
W. Scott, wife of Dean Scott.
Prof. J. A. Parrish, of the Auburn
Public School expresses the wish that
every one of his teachers had been
able to hear Mrs. Johnson's discus-
CHILD TRAINING POINTED OUT
BY NURSERY SCHOOL DIRECTOR
Miss Grace Doughty Explains Unadvisability of Having Nurse­maids
in Early Stages of Child's Life
Patronize Advertisers.
A child's earliest education should
not be left to a nursemaid; It is
impossible for an untutored nurse,
either white or negro, to understand
the complex situations which con­stantly
arise in the life of a pre­school
child.
This is the warning issued by Miss
Grace Doughty, Auburn Nursery
School director, who further ex­plained
that children subjected large*
ly to the care of nurses showed a
marked lack of self-reliance and
ability for individual play. "Nurses
do protect the children, but they
usually know little about directing
the child's activities in order to de­velop
its personality."
"The influence of some nurses is
distinctly harmful for they frequent­ly
develop false fears and attitudes
in the children. In most cases they
are over-solicitous and do too much
for their charges. In others, they
are indifferent and allow detrimental
habits to be built up."
Miss Doughty points out that the
first four years are fundamentally
important in the child's training for
it is at this time that many attitudes
are permanently formed. "The be­ginnings
of self-reliance are estab­lished
in so' simple a situation as that
of allowing a year-old child to re­trieve
for himself the toy he has
thrown down."
Parents, she says, often make a
serious mistake in developing in the
child an artificial sense of importance
by subjecting it to foolish "baby
talk" and paying more than normal
attention to its actions and remarks.
"A child should not be coddled and
encouraged to , say .'smart' things to
grown-ups or even to other child­ren."
There should be a natural­ness
to the environment of the child
and it should not be made the center
of attraction, for to do so develops
false attitudes and objectionable
traits.
"In the Nursery School," she con­tinued,
"we never use force. It is
possible to teach any child to eat
what it should, even though it be
spinach, go to sleep when the time
comes, and to associate agreeably
with its play-mates without any sort
of physical punishment.
"For instance, if little Fred has
learned to dominate his parents
through his tantrums into which he
goes to obtain what he wants, we
merely let him 'stage his first show'
but carry him into another room
where he lacks the audience of the
teacher and other children. This
seldom happens more than once for
when the child learns that his tan­trums
do not causae any excitement
or worry on our part, he abandons
the procedure.
'One day Fred refused to take his
nap before lunch. Instead of lying
down on his pallet, he would imme­diately
get up and annoy the other
children, apparently getting great de­light
out of it. The teacher gently
but firmly placed him back on his
pallet, and finally when he started
screaming, he was taken into an ad­joining
room and left unattended. So
on the lack of spectators caused the
activity to lose its enjoyment and
Fred was ready for his nap. This
never happened again.
' "Little Mary had the habit of de­laying
in getting herself ready for
lunch. She would continually spend
unnecessary lengths of time in wash­ing
her hands for she enjoyed letting
the water run through her fingers
and swinging the lavatory stopper by
the chain. AJso she would repeatedly
reminders, she spent most of the
lunch time in this sort of amuse­ment.
When she finally came to join
the other children at lunch she was
casually informed that lunch was
over for they were then ready for
their dessert. The parents co-ope­rated
by withholding food except for
an extra glass of milk at the regular
after-nap lunch.
"The next day she was one of the
first to prepare herself for lunch
and learned the necessity of doing
this promptly without any scolding
or moralizing. The inevitable con­sequences
of the delay of the day
before taught her the lesson.
Good habits are formed and bad
ones are broken at a well-managed
nursery school. The best physical
environment, for the child is pro­vided
through the serving of whole­some
meals and the teaching of the
child to eat what is good for him.
"I firmly believe that any child can
be taught to eat any sort of food if
parents go about it in a common-sense
manner," she said. "Parents
usually invite the dislike of a child
for a particular dish by overempha­sizing
its importance or by showing
displeasure when the child fails to
eat it. If the remainder of a meal
is withheld when the child shows a
needless refusal of a particular dish,
he very soon learns to like it. The
main thing is to show the child that
it is the thing to do to eat without
commen all the food served. Very
small servings of new or undesired
foods to sbe eaten before anything
else are helpful in securing the
child's cooperation. \
At the nursery school the child
learns to depend on himself and not
on a nurse whose sole duty is to
"keep it out of mischief." By di­recting
the child in new play activi­ties
he soon learns to assert himself.
At the nursery school this is aided by
the provision of a few well-selected
toys and picture books for indoor
play while tricycles, balls, slides, a
climber, and a sand pile offer incen­tives
for adequate outside play.
The nursery school cooperates with
the home by intelligently supplement­ing
the child's physical, mental and
emotional needs. On bringing the
child to school in the morning at
9:00 o'clock, information is supplied
by the parent as to its physical well-being
during the hours previous to
his arrival. This aids the teacher in
understanding the needs of the child
during the day.
There is no artificial feeding of
strain or rush at the nursery school.
A sense of quiet and leisure is evi­dent
as the children go about their
play. The routine is .exible and ade­quate
time is taken for the child to
enjoy the few, simple activities. If
the slightest 'evidence of strain ap­pears
the child is encouraged to take
a nap. The quieting and enjoyable
effects of music suited to the ages
of the children forms a desirable
source of relaxation and pleasure.
Earthly Life Will Not
Exist In Trillion Years
Colonel George Cross, noted French
astronomer, concludes that the earth
wiil be covered by a glacier a tril­lion
years from now, and that life
will no longer exist. This is, of course,
based on the assumption that the sun
is speedily shrinking and moving
away from the earth at the rate of
three feet each century. Cold sum­mers
and glacial winters are to be a
result, with a temperature of about
twenty to twenty-four degrees Fah­renheit
for the summers and a temp­erature
of twenty to forty degrees
below zero for the winters.
0. E. S. State Officers
Feted by Local Group
Saturday evening June 30th Au­burn
Chapter No. 57 celebrated its
24th anniversary, and entertained
the grand officers of the 0. E. S. of
the state. The entertainment was
very unique in its character. Dr.
Whodathunkit and his assistant fro^n
Amsterdam, Dr. Doolittle, were pres­ent
and demonstrated their ability
to recreate, or make over, those who
sought their service. In some in­stances
the creation was most grati­fying,
others disappointing. The
grand matron, Mary E. Causey, into
a beautiful' child; grand treasurer
and grand secretary, Florence G.
Newsom and Mary Young, by some
hitch or break in the transformer, in­to
gold dust twins; grand warder,
Lola Hodson, to a queen; past grand
matron, Ethel Ramsey, modern flap­per;
past grand marton, Pearl May-nard,
ahting beauty of 1825; mem­ber
of "grand chapter committee,
Janette Kerlin, to a lovely and gra­cious
senorita, who delightfully sang
to us, in her native tongue, at­tired
in her native costume. (This
part was taken by Mrs. Y. A. Eli-zondo,
who needs no introduction to
music lovers of Auburn.) In an ef­fort
to transform past grand marton,
Cora McAdory, the machine was tax­ed
beyond its capacity and all efforts
toward this recreation proved un­successful,
thus disappointing others
who had come long distances to be
transformed by these famous sur­geons,
who are seeking to locate near
Auburn.
The following additional program
was enjoyed: Mrs. Welborne Jones,
charter member of the chapter, spoke
of its organization and its growth
up to the present time; Mrs. Ramsey
and her orchestra, from Notasulga,
gave several selections; sermon, in
negro dialect, by J. A. Blackburn;
vocal solo by Mrs. Freddie Lipscomb;
duet, Mrs. Allen Kling and Miss
Louise Schubert; vocal solo by Col­lins
Cameron; reading, Mrs. Bruce
McGehee; duet, Mi's. Allen Kling
and Miss Graves; vocal solo by Hugh
Francis; quartet.
The last number on the program
the unveiling of the picture of past
grand matron, Cora McAdory, and
her official family, by past grand
marton, Ethel Ramsey, after which
a social hour and delightful refresh­ments
was enjoyed.
D. A. R. Will Sponsor
Window Decorations
During the month of February the
Auburn chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution is decorat­ing
a window of Burton's Book Store
celebrating the bicentennial of
George Washington's birth. This ex­hibit,
consisting of pictures and in­teresting
historical data related to
the life of Washington, will be
changed each week during the month.
The local D. A. R. will also spon­sor
a series of special programs in
which talent from both the town and
college will participate. The first
of these will be a service at the Epis­copal
Church on Sunday, at eleven
o'clock. Several programs on the
following day will conclude the cele­bration.
Can You Beat This?
DID YOU KNOW THAT WE SERVE A
SPECIAL DINNER CONSISTING OF:
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