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VOLUME LV AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 1931 NUMBER 20
UPWARD MOVEMENT
BUSINESS CONDITIONS
SEEN BY DEAN SCOTT
Market Advances Of Wheat,
Oil, and Silver Are Encour­aging
BASIC IMPROVEMENTS
Economists Are More Optimis­tic
Over Outlook Than At
Any Time in 18 Months
Distinct evidence indicating that
the business depression, now in its
third year, has passed its low point
and is moving upward, at least tem­porarily,
is seen by Dr. J. W. Scott,
dean of the academic faculty and
head of the department of Economics
of the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute.
• Recent market advances in silver,
wheat, and crude oil are very en­couraging,
Dr. Scott said. To these
he added improvement in the textile
industry, which appears to be gen­eral
in the United States and abroad.
These improvements, Dr. Scott ex­plained,
are fundamental. Coming
at about the same time, they give
promise of indicating a definite trend.
While aware of the fact that im­provements
are normal at this sea­son
of the year, Dr. Scott hopes that
synchronized price advances of sil­ver,
wheat, and crude oil bespeak a
lasting and general improvement
which has been due and expected for
some time. He added, however, that
at least a part of these advances are
due to the fact that we have re­cently
been experiencing extremely
low levels.
Special significance is given to
these products because of their in­ternational
value. Improvement in
silver, for example, means a great
deal to India and China as well as
to the United States and other coun­tries.
India and China have large
quantities of silver and use it ex­tensively.
Hence, a substantial ad­vance
in silver price should stimu­late
world trade.
Turning to the recent remarkable
advance in the ,price of wheat, Dr.
Scott recalled that a bountiful har­vest
in this country connected with
poor crops abroad was an important
factor in breaking the depression of
the early nineties. • Prices advanced
and trade was revived, he explained.
In conjunction with known im­provement
in prices of silver, wheat,
and crude oil Dr. Scott called atten­tion
to the fact that American farms
have produced abundantly this year
and that demand for American farm
products in European countries has
recently been stimulated by adverse
crop conditions there. The situation,
therefore, is similar to 1893.
Dr. Scott and his associates are in
close touch with business develop­ments
at home and abroad. They
weight and analyze each change, not
for itself but in its relationship to
other products and to economic con­ditions
in general. They are now
more optimistic about the business
outlook than they have been at any
time in the past eighteen months."
Members of Auburn Coaching Staff PALMER ELECTED
CHEERLEADER AT
RALLY THURSDAY
LEFT TO RIGHT: "Chet" Wynne, head coach; Sam McAllister, Roger Kiley, Wilbur Hutsell.
LITTLE THEATRE TO
GIVE THREE PLAYS
Meeting Is Held Thursday Eve­ning;
Three Plays Are Dis­cussed
Holding their second meeting of
the year, members of the Little The­ater
made definite plans last night
for the presentation of three plays
sometime before the Christmas holi­days.
Try-outs for parts in these
plays will be conducted next Tues­day
night. The meeting was well
attended.
Three plays were read including
Grandmother." Unusual interest was
displayed by the group, and the
Little Theater, which has been in­active
for over a year, is expected
to assume its former position in the
amusement and social life of Au­burn.
The movement is under the direc­tion
of Professor Talifer Peet, col­lege
dramatic director, who is urging
all townspeople and faculty members
interested in dramatics to attend the
meetings of the organization. ,
The Little Theater has become
very popular in the smaller towns of
America, and the wealth of dramatic
talent here is expected to make the
venture most successful.
ENGINEERING FRAT
INITIATES FIFTEEN
Tau Beta Pi Takes In Members
of Senior Class; Banquet Is
Held
Fifteen neophites were initiated
into Tau Beta Pi, national honorary
engineering fraternity, at their an­nual
fall initiation which took place
Thursday afternoon. Those Seniors
honored were: Ben Mabson, J.# W.
Bartoldu's, W. B. Johnson, H. E.
Breedlove, J. V. Boyles, Ignacio Vil-lasenor,
A. C. Cohen, Jr., F. N. Wil­liams,
Orbie Bostic, E. B. Kennedy,
Overtones" and- yThe Sainted Jo C. Barrett, C. W. Mullins, Geo. N.
Y. M. C. A. Visited By
Group From Clemson
The local Young Men's Christian
• Association is host this week-end to
the staff of the Young Men's Chris­tian
Association, of Clemson College.
Mr. P. B. Holtzendorff, general sec­retary,
and Mr. .J. Roy Cooper, asso­ciate
secretary and their student cab­inet
of approximately 15 young men
will arrive in Auburn Saturday to
visit the Auburn Young Men's Chris­tian
Association staff. These men
from Clemson are making a tour of
the leading student associations in
the South. They are making the trip
for the purpose of strengthening
their local association program by
studying at first hand the activities
of other associations. In exchange
Auburn will receive considerable ben­efit
from their visit, since the Clem­son
system will be explained to the
officers of the local chapter.
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4-H Girls Saved
Food For College
Four former 4-H Club members,
now freshmen at the Auburn, have
set a record in efficient management
which will be difficult to excel. A
cash outlay of $3.85 for the four of
them represents their expenditures
for groceries for the first month of
school.
Elizabeth Lawson and Nellie Fuller
of Macon County, Elise Edwards,
Lee County, and Opal Jones, Butler
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Anderson, H. L. Beck, and T. N.
Pyke.
Following the initiation ceremonies
a banquet was given the initiates at
six o'clock, in the Baptist Church.
Between courses of grapefruit cock­tail,
turkey, congealed salad, cakes,
and coffee, several members of the
organization made short talks.
Cleveland Adams was toastihaster
for the evening and introduced W. E.
Free as first speaker on the program.
Free, president of the Alabama Alpha
chapter here, ' delivered the Presi­dent's
address. Dr. Knapp had been
named one -of the speakers, due to
business, was called out of town. An
explanation and toast to Tau Beta Pi
was delivered by Prof. C. A. Baugh-man,
who was followed by Lt. V. C.
Finch.
The evening's guests and a num­ber
of members were called upon to
make short talks.
Tau Beta Pi is a national honorary
engineering fraternity which elects
in the fall and spring of each year.
In the spring election, juniors are
elected for the ensuing year, while
in the fall seniors are selected. Some
of the prerequisites of membership,
are scholarship, leadership, activities,
personality, and interest in Engi­neering.
Election to this society is
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SPEECH CONTEST TO
BE HELD ON TUESDAY
Much Enthusiasm Is Displayed
By Small Crowd At Mass
Meeting
MANY FROSH TRY OUT
Selection Of Cheerleader Is
Decided by Popular Opinion
of Students
Tigers* Hopes Are High
For Conference Victory;
Leave Today for B'ham.
'A' Club Gives Two
Dances Tomorrow
Phi Delta Gamma Sponsors of
Annual Declamation Contest
Given Here
The annual Phi Delta Gamma dec­lamation
contest that is sponsored
each year by the Auburn chapter of
Phi Delta Gamma, will be held Tues­day
night, in the Main Building. The
Evans and the Websterian Literary
societies held their elimination con­test
last Tuesday and a representative
from each of these societies will com­pete
in the final contest.
A lot of friendly rivalry has been
developed between the literary so­cieties
this year and because of the
fact that the number of such socie­ties
has been reduced to two, more
enthusiasm is expected as a result of
the contest than ever before.
Phi Delta Gamma is a national pro­fessional
forensic fraternity, the
purpose of which is to develop and
maintain a greater interest in for­ensic
activities.
James Parrish was selected to rep­resent
the Websterian Society and
Walter Edwards was selected to rep­resent
the Evans.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all Auburn students to attend the
joint society meeting next Tuesday
at which time the society winner will
be selected.
A gigantic mass meeting in prep­aration
for the game with Sewanee,
in Birmingham was held Thursday
night. Forming in front of Langdon
Hall at 7:00 o'clock, members of the
Auburn student body paraded down
all the main streets of town, being
led by the band. By the time the
throng had returned to Langdon Hall
their ranks had been increased some­what,
by other students joining in
during the course of the parade. As
the crowd entered -the building it
"went crazy" while the band played
"Tiger Rag".
To start the meeting those present
made the walls of Langdon Hall rev­erberate
with shouts of War Eagle.
After such a peppy start members of
the Freshman Class, who were to
try out for cheerleader, came to the
stage and led cheers. "Rat" Parmer,
of Wetumpka, was chosen, although
he was closely pushed for the place
by "Rat" Prewitt, of Mobile. Other
"rats" who tried out were "Rats"
Hatter, Mitchell, Pitts, Kitchens and
Brassell. "Rat" BrassclPs attempt
was one of the highlights of the meet­ing.
During the time he was at­tempting
to lead yells, the crowd
was constantly roaring. Apparently,
"Rat" Brassell's voice was undergo­ing
a period of change, for he could
not keep it down where it should be.
In addition to this he pulled some
jokes on "Bull" Stier. .Last night's
meeting was one of the liveliest
meetings held in some weeks although
Langdon Hall was not entirely filled.
Just because the team is in
Birmingham this week-end and
the "A" Club is giving a dance
out of town, does not mean that
entertainment of the usual un­excelled
variety will cease on
the Plains.
Deciding to celebrate another
Auburn victory (it has actually
gone so far that we can say an­other)
in two places at the same
time, the "A" Club will give a
dance Saturday night in the
gymnasium. In spite of the fact
that the local harmonizers must
perform in the Magic City at
that time, the sponsors have en­gaged
"Susie" Freeman and his
Knights of Columbus, from the
neighboring Georgia City, to
furnish the music which some
say can almost compare with—
but that's beside the point. The
point is that the festivities will
begin at nine o'clock and the
usual admission fee of one
"skid" will cover everything ex­cept
your shame in case, you do
not attend. Be there and for­get
another week of worries.
Roanoke Defeated
By Auburn Hi, 6-0
Local Gridders Turn Back the
Handley High Team In First
Defeat of Year
Plainsmen Are Hoping to Come
Through with Second Con­ference
Win of Season
TWO REGULARS MISSING
Students and Band Will Ac­company
Team On Lone Ap­pearance
to Birmingham
Education Program
At Churches Sunday
Addresses at two local churches
during the morning hour next Sun­day
will climax the celebration of
American Education week, sponsor­ed
by the Auburn Business and Pro­fessional
Women's Club. Dean Zeb-ulon
Judd will speak at the Baptist
Church and Prof. Martin L. Beck
will address the congregation at the
Episcopal Church.
Publishers of Economic Review Looking
Forward To Even Better Book This Year
With the completion of the first
volume of the Economic Review, its
publishers are looking forward to the
next year for a never more compre­hensive
publication. Issue twelve,
which has just been distributed,
marked the end of the first year for
this review. It has grown approxi­mately
fifty per cent in circulation
since its inauguration last year.
The Economic Review is published
by the Bureau of Economic Research
and Department of Agricultural Eco­nomics.
It has a present circulation
of some twelve hundred copies, be­ing
mailed to bankers, state officials,
industrial heads, and to a host of
others on request. Many farmers
have found the publication very prof­itable,
and there is an increased de­mand
for copies from this class of
citizenship.
The directors of the booklet stated
that the figures quoted in their initial
^issues have had little comparative
values, since there was little to base
the computations. However, they
feel that a good foundation for a
complete set of index numbers has
been laid, and that succeeding issues
will depict business conditions more
clearly. It is the intention of the
promoters for the book to present
an unbiased picture of the economic
situation in Alabama, and is not in­tended
to boost the state unneces­sarily.
During the coming year many
special studies in various commercial
fields are to be conducted. Of un­usual
interest is a analysis of the
Black Warrior river traffic to be re­leased
in the near future. An en­lightening
study on the tax situation
is to be presented and many vital
state financial subjects are to be
treated the same way.
The Review bases its computations
on coal productions, building per­mits,
electric power sales, pig iron
production, cotton sales and produc­tion,
bank debits, and a few other
representative items.
The work of the Review has met
with much success in the state, and
quite a large out-of-state circulation
has been developed by the many re­quests
from other sections of the
country. There has been much con­gratulatory
evidence of the booklet's
popularity among business men of
the state.
Juniors Are Needed
For Mounted Battery
Fifteen juniors in R. 0. T. C. are
needed to complete the number nec­essary
for the newly organized
mounted battery, which will begin
operations December 5U>.
More seniors have signed up for
the eleven seniors places than were
needed, but some provision will be
made to take care of them. Thirty-two
juniors have already registered,
and there are vacancies for at least
fifteen more.
Drill will be held for the mounted
battery every ' Saturday morning
from 10:00 to 12:00, and will replace
regular drill with the R. Q. T. C.
unit. Students participating in the
work of the mounted battery will be
excused from Tuesday's drill on al­ternate
weeks. Absence from mount­ed
battery drill on Saturday morning
will count two cuts since it will be a
two hour class. '
The object in organizing the bat­tery
is to give students who are in­terested
an opportunity to become
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Doped to lose by at least thrae
touchdowns, Auburn High upset the
dope and won from Handley High
of Roanoke 6-0, Thursday after­noon,
at Roanoke. Only eleven men
were used by Auburn. Apparently
overconfident, . Roanoke did not
threaten the Auburn ^ goal at any
stage of the game, barely getting in
the 30 yard stripe on one occasion.
Roanoke had not lost before this sea­son,
and the defeat came as a sur­prise
to both students and towns-
By Tad McCallum
With high hopes of turning in their
second Conference victory of the
season, the Auburn Tigers left early
Friday morning for Birmingham,
where they will meet Sewanee's re-juvinated
team on Legion Field Sat­urday
afternoon.
The Plainsmen have had a hard
time all the season keeping their reg­ular
line-up intact and, as usual, a
couple of stars will be missing. Ralph
Jordan, center and Ike Parker, quar­terback,
are the two veterans w^io
remain on the hospital (list, the
former with an injured shoulder
while Parker has a case of yellow
jaundice and may be out for the rest
of the season. Will Chrietzburg,
sophomore, and Lee Johnson, reserve
center of last season, will probably
divide the pivot duties in Jordan's
absence and Co-Captain Chattie Da­vidson
will fill the role of signal cal­ler.
In the final workout held before
the Tigers departed, Coach Wynne
indicated that he might start a re­serve
line-up Saturday. In past
games this season Sewanee has held
Gee and Castleberry, the two most
dangerous backfield threats of the
Purple Tigers, on the bench until the
opposition showed sign's of weaken­ing.
It would not be surprising to
see Auburn's strongest line-up held
in reserve for this event. If Coach
Wynne does decide to follow this '
course the following outfit will take
the field for Auburn: Senn and
Egge, ends; Prim and McCollum,
tackles; Searcy and Jones, guards;
Chrietzburg, center; Baker, quarter­back;
Hatfield and Kimbrell, half­backs;
and Dupree, fullback.
The Plainsmen have watched the
Freshmen execute Sewanee plays
people of Roanoke. every afternoon this week and scrim-
Auburn upset any championship maged against them Wednesday with
hopes that Roanoke might have held i unsatisfactory results. While the de-
Baptist Study Week
Will Start Monday
The Baptist Study-Course-Week
will be conducted at the Auburn
Baptist Church during the coming
week, beginning Monday and lasting
through Friday. Each day the
courses will run from five o'clock to
seven o'clock. During an intermis­sion
from five-fifty to six-twenty
free lunch will be served by the ladies
of the church.
The directors have been fortunate,
to have Miss Cooper, student secre­tary
at Mercer, to instruct in the
B. Y. P. U. Manual. Dr. J. R. Ed­wards
will teach the "Books of the
Bible" to a class and will put special
emphasis "How We Got Our Bible."
It is hoped that this course will be
appealing to the students of other
churches, and they are urged to
come.
for this year. Despite the fact that
Cofield, stellar guard, for Roanoke
was out of the game, this alone could
not account for the defeat of the
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Judging Contest Is
Held By Auburn Men
Led by Dr. R. S. Sugg and Pro­fessor
W. E. Sewell, faculty mem­bers,
• eight students in animal hus­bandry
at Auburn, gave a demon­stration
in livestock judging for 4-H
club boys of Wilcox County, and
assisted them in selecting beef calves
for this project.
The demonstration was conducted
Thursday and was well attended by
club members and their parents,
along with County Agent W. A.
Cammack and teachers of vocational
agriculture. K. G. Baker, superin­tendent
of the Black Belt Experi­ment
Station, at Marion Junction,
was present. ,
The judging was done on the farm
of Frank Cade, a stockman living
near Catherine. They also visited
the King Pharr farm at Catherine.
While in the county they studied beef
cattle production which has develop­ed
to a large proportion in Wilcox
County.
Eight students were in the party,
they being R. W. Montgomery, T. W.
Lumpkin, Herbert Johnson, W. H.
Cowan, Frank Turner, W. S. Pol­lard,
W. T. Matthews, and B. W.
Odom. They are members of the
Block and Bridle Club at Auburn, a
live organization of stujdents and
professors and livestock leaders of
Alabama.
fensive efforts of the Tigers were not
up to par, the offense seemed strong­er
than at any time this season and
with Hatfield, Kimbrell and Brown
all in good shape the Bengals should
be hard to stop in Birmingham. Hat­field
was running wild in Wednes­day's
scrimmage and seems to have
regained all of his old elusiveness
hat made him one of the most fear-de
backs in the South last season.
Coach Wynne took the following 32
players to Birmingham: Grant, Egge,
Ariail, Senn, Randolph, and Huggins,
ends; Arthur, Bush, Holdcroft, Prim
and McCollum, tackles; Chambless,
Crossland, Jones, Molpus, Searcy and
Woodall, guards; Jordan, Chrietz­burg
and Johnson, centers; Davidson,
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Minter Is Guest
OfLocalY.M.C.A.
Mr. John P. Minter, traveling sec­retary
of the Student Volunteer
Movement with headquarters in New
York City, was the guest of the Au­burn
Y. M. C. A. Friday. Mr. Minter
is a graduate of the University of
Texas, where he was president of the
Y. M. C. A., during his senior year.
He is making a tour of the leading
institutions in the South in the inter­est
of Foreign Missions. This is the
second trip Mr. Minter has made to
the Auburn campus, having paid Au­burn
a similar visit in 1929. A num­ber
of the students will remember
him as the result of his former visit.
Mr. Minter will leave Auburn for a
visit to the University of Alabama
and later will visit the Universities
and Colleges of Mississippi.
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Office hours: 11-12.A. M. Daily.
STAFF
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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. Lawsort, '35; Walter
Brown, '35; J. C. Ive'y, '34; W. G. Hall, '35;
B. C. Pope, Jr., '33; Jack Knowlton, '35;
Walter Smith, '35; Marion Kelley, '33.
BUSINESS STAFF
James Backes Asst. Business Manager
Knox M. McMillan .... Advertising Manager
Robert Greer '. Circulation Manager
Phillip M. Benton .- Asst. Adver. Mgr.
SEWANEE AND AUBURN
The game with Sewanee Saturday at
Legion field will be one of unusual signifi-cane.
When two institutions, laboring un­der
the same difficulties, backed with sim­ilar
ideals, and surrounded with a wealth
of tradition, meet, there will undoubtedly
be a football classic.
Sewanee, steeped in seclusion on the
Tennessee mountains, possesses a history
that would be creditable to any institution
in America. She has long held her head
high, in every phase of collegiate activity,
in .the real of sport she has stood with the
mighty. We all remember those colorful
battles with Vanderbilt, and of the unbe­lievable
conquests made by this little
school—and, the term "little" is used only
when we speak of her limited student
body. Then came the lean football years,
not only for Sewanee, but for Auburn; the
two schools were kicked about by unfavor­able
publicity. That unconquerable pride
received many hard blows in both in­stances,
but the two spirits have thrived on
adversity. This season both schools have
made long strides in their return to their
former positions. They meet tomorrow in
battle, and whatever the result may be
Auburn students feel that they are meet­ing
one of the greatest little schools in
the country.
Let championships glimmer, let success
and publicity make the mighty drunk with
power; but give us the unconquerable
spirits of Sewanee and Auburn, and we
shall term our football team and our col­lege
a success.
LITTLE THEATRE IN AUBURN
The efforts being put forth in behalf of
the reorganization of the Little Theatre in
Auburn are to be highly eo"mmended, and
thorough cooperation should be given this
group by students and townspeople. The
drama has never,held its proper place here,
and the fact that it is probably the most
inclusive field of literature seems to have
been entirely forgotten. The history of
the theatre shows it to include poetry,
jounalism, prose, oratory, and fiction. Dra­matic
art offers some of the difficult
achievements of the human mind; there are
the great poetic plays of Shakespeare and
Sophocles, the symbolism of Ibsen, the prob­ing
of the human soul by Shaw, the real­ism
of Gorki, and the .enthralling beauty
and romance of Rostand. Where could
aesthetic mind find more solace?
The inaccesability to professional talent
by a majority of the people, and the desire
of self expression in the poetry of action
have given rise to the Little Theatre move­ment
in America. It has done much to
promote the drama and has given many po­tential
actors an opportunity to cultivate
themselves.
The Plainsman, urges the support and in­terest
of all in making this movement a
success.
YOUTH AND JOURNALISM
From the daily papers issued by the
larger universities down to the semi-month­ly
publications edited by members of smal­ler
institutions you may find any and all
types of journalism. Turning from the
personal viewpoint of the situation we feel
that the youth of today has developed a type
of work which is to be highly commended.
Some papers, though they may appear to
be rather amateurish efforts will show,
nevertheless, a great amount of effort and
thought. Taking into consideration the
fact that the staffs of these mirrors of col­lege
activities and opinions operate their
respective papers as a branch of extra­curricular
activities, it is surprising that
so many worthwhile publications can be
found,.
In a group with as close associations as
are found in the average American college,
the paper must play the part of the supreme
diplomat. There must be policies which
will please the entire group and there must
be special policies which will pacify the
groups which support the paper. Personal
prejudice must be cast aside within the
college. No direct accusation can be made
on any group with the exception of a few
half-baked suggestions which will pass by
with little comment and little aftermath.
The average college is a store-house for
tradition and the student shuns any change,
even if it be of a progressive vein. Each
editor has a delicate problem to deal with,
and for this reason we believe that there is
much to be commended for this successful
maneuvering of policies. It is not an easy
task, but in taking, a job of this nature
over, these men realized exactly what they
were getting into and have entered it for
the sake of the results which may be ob­tained
from a clean and honest paper.
We believe that if college journalism con­tinues
to progress in the future as it has to
this time, then our colleges will continue to
produce men and women who will face life
with a clear and unbiased outlook.
THEY MUST PASS
The road to learning is n6 longer diffi­cult
and rough. With heavy blows and
constant application to the grindstone the
student of a generation ago hammered out
his mental faculties and ground them to a
keen edge. But the student of today is made
of more facile stuff. He takes more readily
to "soft couches and protracted slumber,"
and the colleges must scale down their re­quirements
to where he can pass.
Hence, some of our educational funda­mentalists
are viewing with alarm the ap­parent
"deintellectualization" of the colleges
and point with an uplifted eye-brow to some
of the courses which now open the door to
the sheepskin nobility. ,
For instance, Temple university allows
credit on the study of "social etiquette."
Barnard considers "resting on the roof"
of sufficient cultural value to furnish what­ever
bolstering up is necessary for a degree.
New York university, realizing a long felt
want, offered diploma credits to those who
can be induced to study how to improve
their personalities. At Southern California,
students who look up their own family trees
(and keep some of the branches hid_) in a
"genealogy course" may come down to grad­uation
day realizing that it was just that
which broke the back of faculty resistance.
At Ohio State one may wait on table and
earn credits while watching others eat. And
at Duke' a youth may run abroad and apply
the exercise to his dip. If he doesn't feel like
running, he can take "tumbling exercises."
Curricula are expanding. Like summer
bees they roam hither and yon in pursuit
of fragrances that will give vivacity to the
passing hours. But modern youth must be
served and the colleges must make up in
delicacy what they once lacked in verdancy.
—Greenville News.
AND CHASTITY REIGNETH
The mighty men of that peaceful little
village on Lake Michigan have decided that
their hamlet must be kept clean at any cost
as is given in an editorial account from to­day's
Montgomery Advertiser:
"Officialdom has decreed that certain
etchings by Whistler and Anders Zorn are
too naughty for that peaceful, Victorian
village on Lake Michigan known as Chicago.
"According to advices from the national
capital, Anthony Csarnecki, collector of
customs at Chicago, reported to his superi­ors
that he blushed when he opened the
package, containing the offending works of
vart, and was confronted with a half-tone
etching of an undraped lady wading in a
creek. The art dealer, to whom they were
consigned, contends that similar etchings
have been hung in public art galleries all
over the world. Against this Czar Czar-necki
has ruled that it might be all right to
display them in galleries to the populace,
but it was all wrong to offer such shocking
pictures for sale.
"We fail to see the logic of this, and a
later dispatch quotes Mr. Czarnecki as con­tending
that certain details in the etchings
had been over-emphasized. "There is a
difference' between a work of art and an
adulterated work of art," he said. "I don't
care if the plates were Michael Angelo's
someone had entered indecent details."
"The subject matter of an unclad female
in a pool and the fuss raised thereon recalls
the old 'September Morn' controversy of
about 18 year's ago. The Czarnecki inci­dent
probably goes to show that we haven't
advanced (or retreated, according to the
viewpoint) since that time. And the name
of the melting-pot must be ftfhc'tioning after
all.« It looks as if a Slav or South European
importation had gone Puritan in one or two
generations."
Decadence in Literature
By repeating over and over again some
set lines from a poet, we find that they
cease to be an illumination and become
simply sheep jumping over a fence. A" great
deal of aesthetic rebellion has been based
on this simple principle. The brain has
been lulled; the lines repeat themselves
mechanically; when lo! some "colossal
genius" comes along to discover what has
been going on, and a new generation sets
in.
Not only the message, but also the method,
can lose its kick in this manner. Subjects
become more recherche with the passing of
time, and the antics of execution more
strained -until finally each artist must dis­cover
some remote virgin territory much as
the engineer discovers another oil pocket.
All sorts of inventions are brought in, the
field is exploited, the vein is exhausted—
art passes elsewhere. Huysmans is an espe­cially
poignant instance of this procedure
which, waiving all connotations aside for
the moment, we recognize as decadence.
Les Soeurs Vatard, A Van I'Eau, A Re-bours,
La-Bas, En Route, La Cathedrale—
each of these books is the discovery and the
sucking dry of a territory. Like modern
business, Huysmans' energy had to find
new channels or perish. This, then, is the
distinguishing mark of' a decadence; that
each man has his own. little corner; each
out his own spiritual markets.
Decadence is that stage in the history of
art wherein nothing can be built upon any­thing
preceding. There is nothing beyond
A Rebours—there can only be something
different. Similarly, Joyce's Ulysses marks
the snapping of a contact. A second Joyce
could merely prospect for the meagre wat­ery
oil which is left.
Decadence, then, leaves us with a choice
between Ersatz and retour. Ersatz demands
ingenuity, and there is much ingenious
work being done. Retour means classicism.
It is not unlikely that the next phase of
European thought will be a classical era, a
turn away from the recent religion of "pure
creation." A classical era, roughly, is one
which strives to organize what resources are
at hand, rather than find new resources.
And returning to the matter of the kick,
perhaps we have been specializing in the
recherche for so long that our kick can
be gotten only by a deeper examination in­to
the facts which are immediately before
our eyes—we having o'erleapt ourselves
and fallen on t'other.
Are we not already beginning to find that
the intelligence required in inventing some­thing
is much lower than the intelligence
required in using the invention properly?
Similarly, a truly classical age, devoted to
dropping everything into its just place,
must begin by attacking the national re­ligion
of creative "energy" and putting in
its place a religion of minimal productive­ness.
In literature this involves the simple
heresy against Bergsonism that it is more
blessed to read a book than to write one.
The peculiarly disheartening paradox,
however, is this: classical eras heretofore
have always glorified the powers that be.
Yet in these gnarled times, the classical
Spirit would be so inimical to the spirit of
modern business that when its ramifica­tions
have been followed through we learn
that classicism is nothing other than howl­ing
rebellion.' A religion of minimal pro­ductiveness
and maximal order would, in
the new state of society, be more radical
than Bolshevism. Whereas I begin to sus­pect
that the world today, in its commer­cial
code, is so thoroughly anti-classical
that a truly classical movement must pro­ceed
from the catacombs.
LITTORAL
The bay-leaf juices give a scent
Of sun and sea to sea and sun.
Beneath slow wings by sea birds bent,
.The shadows of the sea birds run.
The seethe of sweet salt at the weed
Spills upon mollusc and on snail.
Deep down the sharp-toothed tautogs feed
Rocked in a silty-colored gale.
The breast, the breathing of the sea '
Feeds the marked shoreline's belted world,
Sea stars and strange lives fixed and free,
Anemones in bloom and furled.
-The sun is warm upon the rocks.
Death's but a mouthful for a mouth
Here where no word of wisdom mocks
The light of north, west, east, or south.
The mollusc knows,what house to raise
About his life. He builds that shell
Out of the water, not for praise,
For nothing but to serve him well.
And if the seas's breath, last indrawn,
Should cease, the mollusc, so betrayed,
Would wither on his kelpy lawn
Because in. such wise earth was made.
And over all the earth's green chords
Would creen the Dlack dry tints of hell,
Even to the level of men's words.
None would fare better than the shell.
—Raymond Holden.
Selling point: "This is no ordinary apartment the Astors formerly kept their
horses here". .'
* * * * * * * * * *
Students are paid to attend the universities of Russia, but only those who are
in sympathy with the government are granted the privilege. That would also work
in this country without much additional expense to the said government.
* * * * * * * * * *
We are anxious for the freshman class to elect its president, so we can de­termine
who is the star of the football team.
* * * * * * * * * *
We don't know what kind of leather makes the best shoes, but banana skins
make by far the best slippers.
Ed.,Note: Just another attempt to bring back an old joke. If your favorite
yarn is getting a bit stale submit it to us, and even your mother-in-law will laugh
at.it. (That is old too).
* * * * * * * * * *
An educator says that a college degree is about as valuable as a hot dog to the
student. At that rate a Ph. D. should be worth a real good meal.
* * * * * * * * * *
At the request of the "A" Club we have been hunting something defaming on
Conscientious Cletus. We have discovered that he was formerly associated with
station WLW, as a Doodlesocker, and that his vocabulary was acquired from con­stant
association with one Sidney Tenike. He has never liked athletics since the
mighty Casey struck out, too intensive reading of Ballyhoo and Arthur Brisbane
have made him a radical, and since coming to Auburn he has been accused of be­longing
to a literary society.
* * * * * * * * * *
We know a woman that bought two Eugenies—one for each side of her head.
* * * * * * * * * * *
They say you sometimes find a pearl in oyster stew. Personally we would be
more elated to find an oyster.
* * * * * * * * * *
Sign in hotel: The silver is not medicine, and is not to be taken after eating.
* * * » * * * * * * .
Add smile: around the globe with the goldfish.
* * * * * * * * * *
Sentry: Halt, who goes there?
That's alright, I just came, you wouldn't know me.
—Ex.
A Louisianian with an eye for business says that he has no desire to be either
governor or lieutenant-governor of his native heath but that he would like very
much to be the notary public.
* * * * * * * * * *
The morning press reports that a London man left a hundred antique clocks in
his will. What an estate to wind up.
* * * * * * * * * *
According to the latest figures the return of beer would solve the unemployment
problem by giving 45,000 men work and laying off 300,000 bootleggers.
* * * * * * * * * ,*
We heard somewhere that if business could escape all the offered remedies, it
might have a chance to recover.
* * * * * * * * * *
And that fog we had this morning harmonized so symetrically with the-condi­tion
nine-tenths of the student body is in when it makes eight o'clock classes. The
other one-tenth are in the architectural department and don't even know that there
was a fog.
* * * * * * * * * **
Again our modest hero appears on the scene. Poor old Joe tried to set a dawn
to dark record from coast to coast on a push bike. He was thirty-five minutes ahead
of Captain Hawk's time when he hit the Grand Canyon. And when we say hit we
mean hit. Need we say more? After all the man is only a human.
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
Who got the ballot boxes? Up at Tech
they have resorted to the good ole days,
when they didn't make any bones about
politics being crooked, and someone ran
away with the ballot boxes in the class
elections. Auburn politicians seeking to
improve their unscrupulous methods may
bear this in mind.
* * * * ~
The Alabamian, Montevallo, comes forth
boasting loudly that they have a cemetery
on the campus. We had noticed the pall­bearer
attitude of the deans, and the hush
of death that prevails about the campus.
Possibly that's the reason the dear little
girlies so seldom talk.
It seems that a man was killed back in
1848, by his brother, who was shooting at
a dear. Now isn't that a co-instance, that
they should have had deers in Montevallo
in 1848.
* * * *
Over at Judson The Triangle is lamenting
the fact that the Auburn craze is running
wild, and refers anyone of the dubious ones
to Margaret Cardinal, Emma Ray, and
Frances Rarden. We can sympathize with
them since we know Phillip Irwin, Otis
Morman, and our own dear "Goof".
* * * *
Frank Porter Graham is an example of a
boy who made good in, and after leaving
college. He was recently inaugurated as
president of the University of North Caro­lina
(that's where they print the Daily Tar
Heel for the benefit of the editor of this
column), where he attended college many
years ago. While there he had all the
greek affiliations possible, played\ football,
was president of his class, edited all the
publications on the campus at one time or
another, belonged to a literary "society, and
sang in the Glee Club, we guess. So cheer
up you lads of piany keys.
* * * *
Headline in The Blue Stocking, "Deacons
down Presbyterians". Imagine our sur­prise
when we found it was only a football
game.
* * * *
Freshmen at the University of Kansas
suffer dire consequences when they fail to
salute the University colors. So many col­leges
are under a reign of imperialism now
you know.
The Orange and White is going to change
to a semi-weekly. It will probably be dis-appointing
when'they learn that they will
be forced to become third in rank in the
South. The Crimson-White has already
cried "venture" on. the first place, and our
own editor is boasting of being second.
* * *
The Alchemist, Brenau's contribution to
the world of journalism, has devised the
unique scheme of printing their jokes in
French. This should be of great benefit to
the students of the said language and a
source of constant worry to the censurers.
At least we think they are jokes.
* * * *
A letter to the student body of Mercer
begins thus: "Would you die for your alma
mater?" However, the writer hastens to
explain that "Possibly it has been done,
but of course you will not be, asked to do
so." What a relief it must have been to
the student body.
SONNETT, adaptable to a variety of
occasions,
a spot in a secluded cove
There is a little pathway in a grove
a hilltop where the breezes rove
Where on an unforgotten night in June,
April noon,
You and I hWrd the lovelorn crickets croon,
watched the waning summer
moon,
While all insensibly our fancies wove ,
A golden gossamer of treasure-trove,
skylark's
Gemmed with the jewels of the robin's tune;
t, starling's
read,
And, as we talked, the silvery lagoon
strolled, grass-encircled dune
Were shimmering veils of amethyst and
mauve.
Do you remember, dearest? As for me,
No moment of high triumph and acclaim
Can ever be as lovely and as rare
As that immortal instant by the sea,
on the lea,
Lucy,
Which memory, Anna, evermore shall frame
Daphine, etc.,
raven
Within an aureole of your golden hair!
auburn
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.
CONSCIENTIOUS CLETUS wishes
to express his sincere appreciation
for the "Letter to the Editor" that
was published in the last issue of the Plains­man.
Most of the statements made in the
letter regarding the methods used in con­ducting
this column were certainly not com­plimentary
to the author, but the tone of
the letter and the spirit in which it was
written is certainly appreciated. It should
be possible in a civilized nation for friends
to have differences of opinion, without it in
anyway affecting their personal relation­ships.
Times arise, however, when this is
not true, which makes the author's appre­ciation
of the above mentioned letter all the
more sincere.
In an honest effort to answer in the same
spirit that the letter was written, Conci-entious
Cletus wishes to point out several
examples t h a t he thinks will defend his po­sition
regarding the question of "Who has
a right to criticize."
*' * * *
It is certainly a fact that Auburn's lib­rary
is not in keeping with the many pro­gressive
steps that the college has made in
0
the last few years, regarding the develop­ment
of physical equipment. Every Au­burn
student realizes that the library has a
lot of silly regulations that students must
comply with before being able to check out
certain types of books. Regardless of
whether the blame for this is to be placed
on the librarians or the English Depart­ment
the fact remains that there is a lot
of room for improvement. Auburn's lib­rary
equipment makes it almost impossible
for the librarians to encourage students
to go back in the stacks arid get their own
books, but this is one of the most import­ant
characteristics of a successful library
and regardless of who is at fault this con­dition
should be changed. The author was
present in the library one morning when it
became necessary for a professor to rap on
the table in order to get the librarians to
quiet down and stop talking so loud. It
might truthfully be said that this was an
exception, but the fault is still there in
varying degrees and there should be a reme­dy.
Conscientious Cletus is no librarian and
knows very little about the mechanical de­tails
of the librarians job, but the above
criticism is made as an expression of per­sonal
opinion derived from personal ob­servation,
and as such the author believes
that he has a right to express it.
Auburn students are not experts on any
phase of library management, but because,
they are the ones that use, the library most
and the ones that have the best opportunity
to objectively judge the effectiveness of the
library methods, it is their right, privilege,
and duty to express themselves regarding
any helpful change that could be made.
The main reason that the library is no
more efficient than it is is because of a lack
of funds with which to carry on the work.
Also in this same connection is it necessary
to be an expert to raise this question:
Would not Auburn be more able to accom­plish
her educational aims if the large
amount of money used in establishing the
School of Textile Engineering had been
spent in increasing the effectiveness of the
already established departments, especially
the' library?
* * * *
The suggestion was once made that a
person should take all good advice and then
continue to do as he pleased. The same
might be said of all types of criticism be­cause
just what standards are going to be
set up to decide who is expert enough to
criticize? ,
* * * *
It is the general opinion among Auburn
students that our dance regulations are so
old fashioned and out of date that it is ri­diculous
for them to be enforced in an en­lightened
age like the present. Merely be­cause
Auburn students are not experts on
formulating dance regulations is that any
reason why they should not express their
opinion? Is that any reason why students
should not be allowed to criticize existing
conditions?
* * * *
It is quite obvious to all Auburn students
who have to go through the process of
standing in line in order to get registered,
that the system is far from perfect. The
students are the ones that are more able to
see the faults of the administration's sys­tem,
but because they are not experts on
organization does it mean that they are
not competent to point out the faults of the
existing conditions?
* * * *
Conscientious Cletus agrees with the writ­er
of the above mentioned "Letter to the
Editor" that the main purpose of this
column should be to deal with student af­fairs,
but there will always be exceptions.
FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 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
TAD McCALLUM, Editor
CONTRIBUTORS:
HARRY BARNES
MARSHAL KALEY
K. G. TAYLOR
NEIL O. DAVIS
Auburn and Sewanee Will Meet in Birmingham on Saturday
AUBURN FRESHMEN TO BATTLE
TULANE FROSH HERE SATURDAY
Game Promises to Be One of the Best Played Here This Season;
Both Teams Defeated Only Once During This Year; Au­burn
Hopes for Victory
Ariail Playing Before
Homefolks Saturday
By Neil Owen Davis
Coach McFaden's Freshmen foot­ball
team meets the powerful Tulane
Freshmen on Drake Field in their
last game of the season Saturday af­ternoon
at 2 o'clock. This game
promises to be one of the best games
played here this season. Both teams
have lost only one game this season,
Auburn losing to Florida and Tulane
JIMMIE HITCHCOCK
BEING CONSIDERED
AS ALL-SOUTHERN
D4VID AtUAlL. - AUBUG.N
David Ariail will be playing be­fore
home folks, when the Tigers
meet Sewanee, in Birmingham Sat-urday.
Big, fast, and powerful,
Ariail shows promise of develop­ing
into one of the outstanding
ends of the Conference before he (
graduates. r
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D R I NK
NEHI
Fruit Flavors
Made from tree-ripened
fruit I
With Thanksgiving Day only a
couple, of weeks off, the All-Southern
pickers are busily engaged in glanc­ing
over the Conference gathering
material for their selections. As usual
the winning teams draw the atten­tion
and the leading four, Georgia,
Tulane, Vandy, and Tennessee will
undoubtedly furnish most of the
players on these mythical teams.
It is rare indeed that a player
from-a team that has lost two or
three Conference engagements is
given any consideration at this time,
but in Jimmie Hitchcock, Auburn has
a back who is likely to receive more
than mere honorable, mention at the
end of the season. Hitchcock's all-round
play has been so outstanding
for the past two seasons that he is
recognized throughout the Confer­ence
as a truly great back. Against
teams that were superior to Auburn
he has been at his best and in these
games has always held his own with
the more highly publicized backs who
were running behind better lines.
Jimmy is the unassuming type of
player who is popular with both fans
and sports writers and has a host of
friends through the South who will
be pulling for hint when the honors
are handed out. Following the Se­wanee
game he will have two more
battles in which to boost his aver­age;
Georgia in Columbus and South
Carolina in Montgomery. Hitchcock
scored against both of these teams
last season and playing on an im­proved
aggregation this year he will
probably do even better. . He is
seventh among the leading scorers of
the Conference at present and a
couple of touchdowns in tomorrow's
battle would put him near the top.
Alemiting — Washing — , Polishing
WOCO-PEP SERVICE STATION
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Come Inland Relax
AUBURN AMUSEMENT &
SOCIAL CLUB
UNDER SUPERVISION OF AMERICAN LEGION
TOOMER'S
WILL GIVE YOU SERVICE
DRUG SUNDRIES
DRINKS, SMOKES
DON'T FORGET OUR SANDWICHES
ON THE CORNER
to Alabama. They are determined to
make a good record by winning this
game Saturday. Tulane was in a
crippled condition when they played
Alabama; all of the players are in
fine physical condition now, and Au­burn
will meet the strongest team
they have failed in Tulane.
This game will find Auburn in a
crippled eonditiAn, as neither Patter
sno nor Wright have sufficiently re
covered from injuries to play against
the Baby Green Wave. Coach Mc
Fadden has capable men to put in
their place through, so Auburn should
place a strong team on the field.
The "rats" looked impressive dur
ing their short stay in Fort Benning
game Wednesday. Considerable im
provement has been shown by the
team as a whole since the Florida
game. The offense is functioning
smoothly and the tackling is much
better. Harry Whitten, hard-driving
fullback, has been going good in the
scrimmages lately, and if he comes
up to expectations, should do some
good work Saturday. Fenton is now
playing on the first team and is per­forming
notably at right end. Kemp,
who is back in uniform after a forced
lay-off because of illness, should be
ready for the Tulane tussle.
A good crowd should witness the
game, s i n c | i t is the last game to be
played here this year. All of the
fans should come" away from this
game satisfied, as they will see two of
the best Freshmen football teams in
the South, and Auburn "rats" are
not planning on letting the last game
on Drake Field being lost.
Rogers Holding Down
Position As Half-back
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Georgia And Tulane
Prepared for Battle
Of Champs Saturday
Georgia's football varsity today
went through its final scrimmage in
preparation for the Tulane game and
Coach Harry Mehre reported the
squad in top shape.
Mehre was pleased with the way his
varsity looked both on offense and
defense today. "It could be much
better," he said, "but it is an im­provement
on their play in yester­day's
scrimmage."
Yesterday, the reserves, running
Tulane formations, shot through the
varsity for several touchdowns.
The Georgia players were in fine
spirits this afternoon, shooting their
plays with zest.
McWhorter, center, who suffered
an injured foot in the N. Y. U. con­test
last week was about well today
and his recovery left the squad in as
good condition as it has been this
year.
Tomorrow Mehre plans a short sig­nal
drill and then will take his team
to a quiet retreat some miles from
town where it will remain, away
from the noise and tumult of the
thousands of fans and supporters of
both teams crowding into the college
city tonight until near game time Sat­urday.
Coach Bierman is taking 36 play­ers
to Athens. The official football
party which leaves New Orleans
Thursday night numbers 42, includ­ing
three coaches, the trainer and
managers.
Several sections of a special train
will follow Friday night, reaching
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Athens shortly before noon Saturday.
Coach Bierman has in no way key­ed
his team for this game, merely
working the squad slightly longer
than usual and maintaining a strict
policy of secrecy.
He has never made a before-kick
off oration in his coaching career. He
has never relied upon any touch of
emotional stuff to get to a team he
has coached.
He merely talks for 10 or 15 min­utes
before a game telling his squad
what he wants them to do, and at
the, half, points out what he doesn't
like about the play.
Aside from that he depends on the
information imparted in practice and
rests his battle upon that.
The Greenies have won 30 straight
games in the South without a set­back.
This year. the team has won
seven games in a row and been scored
upon but once.
Sewanee Holds
3-Game Margin
Over Plainsmen
ALLEN ROQ-ERS - * V31/S.H
Since the Florida game, in which .
he was one of the leading ground
"gainers, Allen Rogers , has held
down a regular halfback position*
on the Tiger varsity. The speedy
sophomore is a first class defen­sive
back and one of the best pass
receivers on the Auburn squad.
Troy State Teachers
College Victors Over
Freshmen Reserves
By Neil Owen Davis
Troy State Teachers College de­feated
the Auburn Freshmen reserves
in a hard-fought game in Troy on
Wednesday afternoon, 12-6. Troy
made a strong fight in the last quart­er
and overcame the six point lead
the "rats" held. The freshmen were
clearly outclassed, but their strong
defense and hard-fighting were im­portant
factors in their keeping the
score so low.
Auburn made the first touchdown
of the game in the third quarter.
Reynolds, diminutive halfback, ran
off-tackle on a beautiful 65 yard run
to score. This well executed play
caught the Teachers flat-footed and
Reynolds crossed the goal line un­molested.
Troy's touchdowns came
as a result of two determined offen­sive
drives for over half the distance
of the field. Daniels, flashy quarter­back
made'both of these six pointers.
At the beginning of the fourth
quarter, Troy began an uninterrupt­ed
and determine march down the
field, with Daniels and Olsopp car­rying
the ball. The freshmen held
Troy on the ten yard stripe for 3
downs, but the* Teachers efforts were
not to go for naught, and on the
next play Daniels scored. Troy's sec­ond
touchdown came late in the last
quarter. A pass advanced the ball
from about the 35 yard line to the
7 yard line and a few seconds later
Daniels spurted around left end for
the last touchdown of the game.
Ed Whitten, Reynolds, Farris, Har­din
and Clark played best for Au­burn,
while Daniels and Olsopp stood
out for Troy. The Freshmen pre­sented
a very strong defense, but
their offense was very weak. The
team did not work together while
they were in possession of the ball
and this probably lost them the
game.
A football rivalry that started in
1893 will be renewed in Birmingham
Saturday when Coach Chet Wynne's
Auburn Tigers meet the Sewanee
Tigers at Legion Field. The initial
game between the two schools ended
in a draw, 14-14.
Since the first no-decision bout,
the Plainsmen have met the Tennes-seans
on the gridiron 10 times with
Sewanee winning six tilts, Auburn
three and another ending in a tie.
Sewanee also holds an edge in scor­ing
as she has annexed 118 markers
to Auburn's 101.
With the exception of the 1896
fray which Auburn won, 38 to 6,
and, the 1903 encounter in which
Sewanee triumphed, 47 to 0, no large
scores have ever been run-up. Four­teen
counters is the next highest to­tal
made by either team.
No games have been played since
1926 when the Plainsmen emerged
victorious in Montgomery, 9 to 0.
Saturday's clash in the Magic City
looks like another close battle with
a lone touchdown probably deciding
the winner.
Past Auburn-Sewanee scores: —'
Year Auburn Sewanee
LEGION FIELD SCENE OF STRUGGLE
BETWEEN ANCIENT TIGER RIVALS
Sewanee to Present Strongest Team In Years; Defensive Work
Has Brought Three Wins Against One Loss In Conference
Circles
1893
1896 :
1897
1899 .
1902
1903 n_
190.6
1907
1908 ...
1909
Totals
14
38
0
10
0
0
5
8
6
9
101
14
6
0
11
6
47
10
12
0
0
118
By K. G. Taylor
With a record of three Southern
Conference victories against one de­feat
Coach Clark brings his strong
Sewanee team to Birmingham Satur­day
for the second time this season,
when they meet the Plainsmen from
Auburn. Sewanee will be out for
blood Saturday as they will not only
be trying to stop the comeback march
of Coach Wynne's team but will also
be trying to avenge the defeat hand­ed
them by Alabama the last time
they played on Legion Field.
Both teams are coached by young,
ambitious men, who have worked
wonders with the material they have
had. However, the types of the teams
are entirely different, as Sewanee
has a heavy, defensive team, while
Auburn has a light, fast, offensive
team. Sewanee boasts one of the
largest lines in the conference. In
Guy Glass, they have one of the
Auburn Meets Georgia
In Columbus Next Week
The semi-final game on Auburn's
1931 schedule will be played in Co­lumbus,
Ga., next Saturday, when
Coach Chet Wynne's Tigers meet the
Georgia Bulldogs at Memorial Sta­dium.
Ths classic is one of the old­est
in the South, the two leading
state schools first meeting on the
gridiron, February 22, 1892. The
initial tilt with the Athenians was the
first ever played by an Auburn team.
We bear the misfortunes of other
people with an heroic constancy.
Service Of Roberts
Lost to Track Team
Clarence Roberts, one of the main­stays
of the Auburn cross-country
team and star track man, was forced
to leave school yesterday and was
taken to Birmingham, where it may
be necessary for him to undergo an
operation. He is suffering with kid­ney
trouble.
Roberts, a senior, has been one
of the most consistent point winners
on Coach HutselFs track team for
the past two seasons in the distance
runs. His specialty is the two mile
event and in case'his illness forces
him to give up track for the remain­der
of the year he will be sorely mis­sed
by the Auburn harriers. His
home is in Wylam, Alabama.
We will essay the difficult role of
being tolerant with the intollerant.
—Roy W. Howard.
DUKE UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Duhram, N. C.
Applications for admission to
the first and third year medical
classes entering October 1,
1932 should be sent as soon as
possible, and will be considered
in the order of receipt. The
entrance qualifications are in­telligence,
character, two years
of college work and the require­ments
for grade A medical
schools. Catalogues and appli­cation
forms may be obtained
from the Dean.
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Plans For Memorial At
Notre Dame Opposed
Memphis, Tenn. — ( I P )— The ac­tion
of officials a^ Notre Dame Uni­versity
in planning a Rockne Day at
all college and university football
gajnes in the country for the purpose
of collecting funds for a memorial
field house at Notre Dame, met with
disapproval in at least one college.
The Sou'wester, of Southwestern
College, asserted: "Notre Dame has
no rigjht to exploit Rockne's name,
and this is what they are doing when
they ask other communities to help
(build a field house). Let the Notre
Dame alumni build the field house.
The nation can well worship Rockne
Without worshipping Notre Dame".
Men may rule the world, but in the
end the world is what women make
it.—Rev. Father C. J. Finegan.
largest players m the south. This
behemoth holds- down one tackle and
the rest of the line compares favor­ably
with him. In every game ex­cept
the Alabama game Sewanee's
line has smeared every type of of­fense
that their opponents have tried.
So far their offense has not attracted
much attention, but has been show­ing
a steady improvement in every
game they played. As Coach* Clarke
and his staff have been stressing this
phase of the game for the past week,
it will not be surprising to see the
Sewanee backs giving Auburn plen­ty
of trouble.
Although Auburn took a mighty
beating from Tulane last Saturday,
they were very impressive especially
during the first half. In this half
'Coach Wynne's plucky tigers took
everything Tulane had to offer, and
on several occasions had Capt. Dal-rymple
calling time out, to halt the
marches of the "Plainsmen".
Auburn nas one of the lightest
teams it has had in years, but boost
a strong offensive and a well bal­anced
defense. In Hitchcock, Auburn
has one of the best backs in the con­ference,
no team that Auburn has
played has been able to stop this
flashy back.
Both teams will be in good physi­cal
condition, with Sewanee probably
having the edge as Ike Parker, Au­burn
quarterback, is definitely out.
Sewanee may be the favorite when
the teams take the field Saturday, but
this game promises to be one of the
hardest fought games of the season.
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PAGE FOUR 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 FRIDAY, NOV. 13, 1931
APTITUDE TEST FOR PRE-MEDS
WILL BE GIVEN DECEMBER 11TH
On December 11th throughout the
United States the Medical Aptitude
Test of the Association of American
Medical Colleges will be given in
more than six hundred colleges, to
all premedical students, who expect
to apply for admission to a medical
school next fall. Since the test is a
normal requirement for admission to
practically all the medical schools,
and since it will be given only once
a year, all students who expect to
apply for entrance by next fall should
take, the test at this time. Failure
to take it will handicap chances for
admission to practically all the medi­cal
schools and will prevent your ad­mission
to a number of the schools.
The tests will be given at Auburn,
at 3 p. m., on Friday, December 11th
in Samford 204, under the supervi­sion
of Dean J. W. Scott. The test
will require slightly less than two
hours. Each student should bring
with him two well-sharpened pencils
and the fee of one dollar to 'defray
the necessary expenses of the as­sociation
in the preparation, admini­stration
and interpreting of the tests.
Students are requested to be in their
seats promptly so that fees may be
collected, papers distributed, and all
may begin the test simultaneously
without confusion and under the
most favorable conditions for all.
The Aptitude Tests were adopted
by the association of American Medi­cal
Colleges in October, 1930, and
were administered throughout the
United States for the first time last
year. Last yfear's test contained the
following six parts: Scientific Vo­cabulary
; Premedical Information;
Comprehension and Retention; Visual
Memory; Memory for Content; and
Understanding of Printed Material.
This year's test will be very similar
in nature and will involve the general
principles underlying last year's test.
The actual question content, of
course, will be different.
The task of giving the Aptitude
Tests to thousands of students in
hundreds of colleges, and subsequent­ly
of grading the tests, presents for­midable
difficulties involving well-or­ganized
supervision, expert service of
those familiar with aptitude tests and
considerable expense. The problem
is being solved by the sympathetic
cooperation of educators in both col­leges
and medical schools. The cost
is covered by a nominal charge of
$1.00 from each student for the test.
All papers are graded by the commit­tee
of the Association of American
Medical Colleges and the results com­piled
in book form and reported in
confidence to the deans of all Class
A medical schools in America.
The tests are used by the admis­sions
officers of the medical schools
as one of the criteria in admitting
students. Study of the test results
has shown that the Aptitude Test
can be relied upon to prognosticate
the future success of students in the
medical school more accurately than
any other method used heretofore in
the selection of students. The tests,
however, are only one criterion for
admission to the various medical
schools. The student's scholastic
record in his premedical training, his
i character, the consensus of opinion
of those teachers who know him, and
the impression he makes upon the
members of the committee on ad­missions—
all will continue to be
carefully considered in deciding
whether he will be admitted.
TIGERS' HOPES ARE HIGH
FOR CONFERENCE VICTORY;
LEAVE TODAY FOR B-HAM
(Continued from page 1)
Williams and Baker, quarterback^;
Hatfield, Hitchcock, Rogers, Phipps
and Kimbrell, halfbacks; Brown, Dur
pree, Talley and Shackleford, full­backs.
The entire 72-piece Auburn band
and several hundred students will fol­low
the Tigers to the Magic City to
lend moral support. The game has
been designated as excused by the
college authorities and classes will
not be held Saturday.
ROANOKE DEFEATED
BY AUBURN HI, 6-0
Voters Of Alabama
Want County Agents
Determination on the part of peo­ple
of Alabama to retain the ser­vices
of county agents and home
demonstration agents is regarded by
Prof. L. N. Duncan, director of the
Extension Service of Auburn, as a
bright spot in the rural situation of
the state. Evidence of their high
esteem of the work was the recent
election in Chilton County, where
the electorate voted almost four to
one in favor of retaining their coun-ty
agent. The vote was 1480 for
and 417 against.
Retaining the service of a county
agent and home demonstration agent
in each county is one of the wisest
and most productive expenditures
that a county can make, Mr. Duncan
continued.
"To discontinue the work", he add­ed,
"would be like withdrawing sol­diers
from the line of battle in time
of war. I realize that many of the
counties of the state are forced to
reduce their expenditures but very
little reduction is made by reducing
or even discontinuing these agents.
"On the other hand, much is lost,
because \he services of a i county
agent and a home demonstration
agent are invaluable at all times and
especially under present conditions
because agriculture is in a trying
condition. It is changing and the
very ablest leaders are needed by
farmers to assist them in changing
to the best advantages.
"Discontinuing county agency
work would be as bad as killing the
'goose that lays the golden egg.' The
only point for it is a small reduc­tion
in public expenditures, and this
reduction is not large enough to be
an important item. On the other
hand, much is lost if it is done."
Professor Urges
The Dutch Treat
" S a y It W i t h F l o w e r s"
And Say It With Ours
FOR EVERY SOCIAL
OCCASION
Rosemont Gardens
FLORISTS
Montgomery, Alabama
Homer Wright, Local Agent
for Auburn.
Tiger Theatre
FRIDAY, Nov. 13
Adolphe Menjou, Lily Damita,
Laurence Oliver, Erich Von
Stroheim
—In—
"FRIENDS and LOVERS"
Also Paramount News and
Comedy, "TROUBLE"
SATURDAY, Nov. 14
" T h e RULING VOICE"
—With—
Walter Huston, Loretta Young
and Dudley Digges
Also Comedy—"THE TWO
BARKS BROTHERS"
SUNDAY - MONDAY
Nov. 15-16
EDDIE CANTOR
—In—
"PALMY DAYS"
, —With—
Charlotte Greenwood
-Also news and novelty—
"CANADIAN CAPERS"
TUESDAY, Nov. 17
CHARLES FARRELL
' MADGE EVANS
—In—
^'HEARTBREAK"
(Continued from page 1)
Roanoke team.
In the third quarter Auburn scored
their touchdown. A long pass, from
Melton to Cook, placed the ball on
the one yard stripe, where Cook buck­ed
it over. In addition to playing a
good offensive game, Cook did some
of the best punting ever done by a
high school back. On two other oc­casions
Auburn was within Roanoke's
fifteen yard stripe but Roanoke held
at these two crucial moments. Capt.
James Moore, of Auburn, played in
Roanoke's backfield most of the time,
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Salt Lake City — ( I P )— President
George Thomas of the University "of
Utah has told co-eds that they should
share in the cost of dates.
Speaking to the student body as a
whole he also urged that all unneces­sary
expenses in connection with uni­versity
social functions be cut to the
bone this year. He mentioned the
junior prom and the annual military
ball as "entirely too expensive for
many students to attend."
Favors, flowers and other trim­mings,
he said, must be done away
with in the interest of economy.
JUNIORS ARE NEEDED
FOR MOUNTED BATTERY
(Continued from Page 1)
acquainted with the fundamental
principles of mounted battery work,
and to give demonstrations from
time to time. A great deal of inter
est has been shown in the mounted
battery so far and the juniors need­ed
to complete the battery are ex­pected
to sign up in the immediate
future.
ENGINEERING FRAT
INITIATES FIFTEEN
(Continued from page 1)
considered one of the major honors
on the Auburn campus.
Among the members of the faculty
who are affiliated with this organiza­tion
are Prof. C. A. Baughman, Prof
M. T. Fullan, Prof. C. R. Hixon, and
Prof. J. C McKinnon.
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Auburn, Alabama
November 15th, 1931-
Rev. Wm. Byrd Lee, Jr., Rector
24th Sunday after Trinity.
Church School and Bible Class—
9:45 a. m.
Morning Prayer and Sermon—11
a. m.
Meeting of the Y. P. S. L.—6:30
p. m.
Everyone is cordially invited to at­tend.
and was responsible for checking the
touchdown hopes of Roanoke. How
ever, the entire line played a supreme
game and to give credit to everyone
who played excellently would name
the whole line from end to end.
Next week Auburn meets Opelika
on the local field in one of the foot
ball classics of this section. Opelika
has one of the strongest teams in
this part of' the state, but neverthe­less
the Auburn team is intending
to give them scrap of the season.
Opelika won last year 19-7.
PERSONAL
MENTION
The November business meeting
of the Woman's Club was held at
Smith Hall, with a preliminary Ex­ecutive
Board meeting on Wednes­day.
The Discussion Group met Thurs­day
morning with Mrs. B. B. Ross,
who led an interesting discussion on
Dickens as an educator.
Miss Helen Garrett is improving
at East Alabama Hospital after a
long illness.
Mrs. Philip Hardie and young
child are visiting the family of Pro­fessor
C. L. Hare.
Professor W. T. Schreiber and
Mrs. Schreiber are 6n a trip north
visiting their people in Rochester,
N. Y., and in Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Few, of Stark-ville,
Miss., spent the week-end with
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Brown.
Miss Mary Stodghill who is teach­ing
in Birmingham, spent Sunday
here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
L. D. Stodghill.
Mr. and Mrs. Vandiver, of Birm­ingham,
spent Sunday with their
daughter, Margaret, a student in
college.
Mr. and Mrs. George Bowling,
Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. George Jen­kins,
of LaFayette, attended the Au­burn
Armistice Day exercises.
Mrs. Lee Miles and children of
Starkville, Miss., spent the week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Stodghill.
Saturday afternoon Mrs. Stodghill
invited a few of Mrs. Miles' friends
in for afternoon tea.
Dean Judd spoke at the Lee Coun­ty
High school on Tuesday and Dr.
Paul Irvine on Wednesday, as a part
of the program of Education Week,
sponsored by the, Business and
Professional Women's Club of Au­burn.
Mrs. John Ivey spent Tuesday afr
ternoon in Montgomery.
Enrollment Increase
Caused by Depression
Toronto, Ont. —(IP)— The eco­nomic
depression which has had its
effect in almost every faculty of the
University of Toronto has had the
opposite effect in the Ontario College
of Education, the dean of that in­stitution
has announced.
He stated the belief that the jump
in attendance had been due to two
causes: First, many of the students
who graduated from the faculty of
arts in May had been faced with un­employment
and had turned to the
teaching profession as a last resort;
second, many men and women who
had been working in various' profes­sions
for many years, had been
thrown out of work and were determ­ined
to engage in teaching.
The reserve staff of the Toronto
Board of Education has more than
80 teachers on'the list, but it is be­lieved
that the majority of these
will find employment before Christ­mas.
LIGHTING PLAN FOR MONUMENT
IS PERFECTED BY COL GRANT
4-H GIRLS SAVED
FOOD FOR COLLEGE
Lieutenant Colonel U. S. Grant,
3rd, director of Public Buildings and
Public Parks, announces that after
months of studies, tests and demon­strations,
a satisfactory lighting plan
for the Washington Monument has
been worked out and a contract for
the lighting equipment awarded to
the* Westinghouse Electric and Man­ufacturing
Company.
According to Colonel Grant, the
monument is not to be lighted as a
beacon but rather to be illuminated
Y. M. C. A. VISITED BY
GROUP FROM CLEMSON
(Continued from page 1)
County, are the girls who have set
the record. Each of them came from
a farm where food was plentiful and
cotton cheap. •
In order to attend college it was
necessary to manage well. With the
encouragement and help of their
home demonstration agents, the girls
made plans for keeping house to­gether.
They spent last summer
canning food to be used throughout
the winter.
Their pantry is well stpcked with
every available product of the farm
and each product-has been prepared
in a multitude of forms. Canned
fruits, vegetables, meats, jellies,
pickles, jams, marmalades, and all
the other goodies are ready for
preparation of well-balanced meals.
They also have cured hams, bacon,
(Continued from page 1)
This is one of the initial steps tak­en
by college students to better ac­quaint
themselves with a larger as­pect
of college life in the South. The
visit' is on an entirely non-competi­tive
basis, but rather on the basis of
preparation.
Among those in the party from
Clemson are: W. W. Fridy, student
president of the Y. M. C. A.; O. R.
Smith, recording secretary; R. H. Mc-
Gee, president senior "Y" Council;
H. C. Montgomery, president junior
"Y" Council; and N. B. Glenn, presi­dent
sophomore "Y" Council, mem­bers
of the student cabinet. P. B.
Holtzendorff, Jr., general secretary;
and J. Roy Cooper, associate secre­tary-
These men will be the guests
of the Auburn Young Men's Christian
Association. The officers of the local
association are Joe Plant, president;
Welborn Hardie, vice-president; and
Faybert Martin, general secretary.
dried fruits and vegetables and po­tatoes.
They keep accurate account of all
supplies provided by each gfrl in or­der
to keep the amount balanced.
Two of the girls prepare meals for
a week while the other two clean
their apartment.
so' as to increase its visibility and
eliminate the hazard it offers to avi­ators.
Difficulties of the plan arose
from the determination that it should
remain subordinate to the Capitol
and that it should not compete with
the Lincoln Memorail, which is mys­teriously
illuminated at night only
by the road lights around it.
Also it must not have the appear­ance
of a round shaft. This require­ment
has been met in the arrange­ment
of lights and by throwing more
light on the north and south sides of
the monument than on the east and
west sides. This will also make the
outlines of the slender memorial vis­ible
from a greater distance than if
all sides had equal illumination, ac­cording
to Westinghouse engineers.
The Washington National Monu­ment
Society was formed in 1833,
construction on the monument was
started in 1848, but was abandoned
from 1855 to 1877. It was finally
completed in 1884 at a cost of $1,-
300,000. Congress has appropriated
$15,000 to cover the lighting con­tract.
Illuminating each side will be three
floodlights, employing 1,500-watt
lamps and set 40 feet from the mon­ument,
also two floodlights with
1,000-watt lamps, similarly placed.
Two searchlights fitted with 2,000-
watt projection lamps will illuminate
the tip of the monument. One of
these will be placed on the . Navy
Building, the other on the Auditor's
Building.
Floodlights will be housed in metal
cases congenial with the design of
the obelisk. Only two of the 1,500-
watt lamps will be used in clear
weather, others being held in reserve
for foggy or rainy conditions.
Strength of the lighting on the dif­ferent
sides will be controlled by reg­ulating
the voltage of the several
lamps.
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right from the start
NO, I don't know a blessed thing
about how cigarettes are made. But,
of course, I would want the tobacco to
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blending is very important. I'd want that
to be done just right.
"Then the paper. I don't like paper
that you can taste—or smell when it's
burning. I'd want that pure too.
"Another thing. I want to smoke when­ever
I feel like it—without worrying about
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"But the main thing, of course, is
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