1932-03-16 The Plainsman

              Engineers' Day
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Engineers' Day
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VOLUME LV AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932 NUMBER 45
TIGERS TO MEET MINNEAPOLIS HERE AT "A" DAY CELEBRATION
ENGINEERS HONOR
ST. PAT THURSDAY
AT ENGINEERS DAY
Complete Program Be Staged
Tomorrow a"8 Engineers Laud
First of Profession
DANCE FEATURED
Barbecue, Polo, Technical Pic­ture
to Be Given; Engineers
Excused from Classes
In the observation of Engineers'
Day, Thursday, March 17, the En­gineering
Department of Auburn
will present what is probably the
most complete and extensive program
ever to be given here on that occa­sion.
Observed annually in honor of
St. Patrick, the first engineer, En­gineers'
Day has become a tradition
in most engineering schools in the
United States, and has been observ­ed
in Auburn for a number of years.
With the mailing of additional bids
on Monday the number of bids sent
to girls in Alabama and nearby
states has been raised to approxi-1
mately one hundred seventy-five, and
a great many of those receiving in­vitations
are expected to be present
for the dance on Thursday night
which closes the day's celebration.
Decorations for the dance will be by
the pledges of Tau Beta Pi and Eta
Kappa Nu and are expected to carry
out an engineering theme of some
kind. Music by the increasingly pop­ular
Auburn Knights should combine
to make this one of the most suc­cessful
dances of the year. Although
an Engineers' dance, students from
all departments of the college are in­vited
to attend.
The program for the day begins at
ten o'clock Thursday morning with a
series of technical pictures at the
Tiger Theater for all students in en­gineering.
Instructive and entertain­ing
films have been obtained from the
General Electric Company, Westing-house,
The Eastman Kodak Company,
and The Douglas D. Rothacker Com­pany.
Immediately following the pictures
a barbecue in Ag Bottom for engi­neering
students and guests of the
Engineering Department will take
place at 11:30. A complete barbe­cue
dinner composed of several
meats, Brunswick ,stew, lemonade,
and dessert has been planned, the
price of which will be thirty-five
cents per plate. In case inclement
weather prevents the barbecue being
held outdoors it will take place on
the third floor of the Textile Build-
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Gymkhana Tickets On
Sale Beginning Today
Tickets for the gymkhana, to be
held by the polo squad and the
ladies riding class on March 26, go
on sale today under the supervision
of the two groups. The purpose of
the series of events is to not only in­crease
interest among students in
polo but also to make an attempt to
raise money for the squad so that
they may be able to secure helmets.
If enough money is realized from the
event, there is a possibility that the
polo squad will be able to scrimmage
Fort Benning at a later date.
The gymkhana will consist of sev­eral
features in horsemanship and
-trick riding. There will be several
contests between the different mem­bers
of the two groups and between
the junior and senior members of the
polo squad.
All members of the polo squad
have tickets which they are to sell to
all those who wish to attend the
events. Members of the ladies riding
class will also be supplied with tick­ets
for distribution among the stu­dent
body and the citizens of Au­burn.
A riding crop will be present­ed
to the lady selling the most tickets
as well as a polo whip to the mem­ber
of the polo squad selling the
largest number.
Tau Beta Pi Awards 12 Highest Engineering Honor
'WIND-JAMMING' ORATORS ARE
BECOMING EXTINCT SAYS HESS
Speech Instructor Emphasizes New Era of More Closely Studied
Art of Oratory as Highly Emotional Style of Public Speak­ing
Is Replaced by More Formal Attitudes
"The day of the long-winded,
bombastic, Pourth-of-July oratory is
waning rapidly. No longer can a
golden-voiced speaker, abetted by an
overwhelming personality, sway the
crowd as a sapling sways before a
strong wind," says Prof. E. D. Hess,
instructor in public speaking here.
"In the art of public speaking, as
in nearly every other field of en­deavor,
radical changes are being
brought about by new trends in think­ing
following the recent wtfr and by
the growing influence of the radio.
"The modern school is leaning to­ward
the English style of logical con­versation
of speakers. Besides hav­ing
something to say, a modern rhet­orician
must learn how to convey it
in the most effective and concise
manner," he continued.
High school students throughout
the state of Alabama will be given
a splendid opportunity to develop
and cultivate oratory in the public
contests for high school students con­ducted
by the Alabama Polytechnic.
Institute at Auburn on April 1 and
2 as an added feature of the annual
High School Dramatic Tournament.
These contests will be held in con­nection
with the annual dramatic
tournament and this particular
branch will be held under the direc­tion
of Professor Hess.
The competition will be divided in­to
two parts, the poetry reading con­test
and the prepared speech contest.
In the former, the student may select
any poem of literary merit that will
not require over five minutes for de­livery.
In the latter, the contestant
may select any topic for the speech,
which must not exceed ten minutes
in length.
A gold medal will be presented to
the first prize winner in each divi­sion.
Contestants should send their
names and titles of reading or sub­ject
of speech to Mr. E. D. Hess,
Auburn, Alabama. Only one contest­ant
from each school may be enter­ed
in each contest.
Contests in public speaking and
music are added phases of the High
School Dramatic Tournament.
BAND TO PRESENT
CONCERT ON SUN.
Local Musicians Make Their
First Concert at 3 : 3 d Sunday
Afternoon
The Auburn Band will present its
first concert of the year on Sunday
afternoon, 3:00 o'clock, in front of
Langdon Hall.
The program will open with Tech-aikowsky's
famous "Marche Slave,"
-followed by a group of three, num­bers,
the Sextette from "Lucia" by
Donizetti, "Espanola" by Jungmann,
and Nesvadba's "Die Loreley."
The third part of the program will
be the overture, "La Forza Del Des­tine"
by Verdi. "Dedication and
Benediction" by Mayerbeer and se­lections
from Rossini's "Stabat Ma­ter"
will be presented in the order
named.
The concert will be concluded with
the "Alma Mater" by Woods, class
of 1924, and "The Star Spangled
Banner."
P. R. Bidez, director, said that the
presentation will be the first of five
or six concerts to be given during the
remainder of the school year, and
added that residents of nearby towns
are invited to attend.
International Relations
Club Recently Organized
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Organization of an International
Relations Club was effected Tuesday
night by students interested in pres­ent
day problems of international
scope. Similar organizations exist in
colleges all over the United States
and are sponsored by the Carnegie
Foundation, which provides literature
and other equipment.
Mr. O. T. Ivey, history instructor
and Auburn's leading authority on
international questions, has consent­ed
to act as faculty adviser- to the
club and assist in the programs and
general discussions.
About twenty members were pres­ent
at the organization meeting and
others will be admitted according to
membership regulations agreed upon
by the club. Meetings will be held
every other Tuesday night in the
history office.
The following officers were elected
to serve for the remainder of the
semester: Charles Davis, Mobile,
president; Tad McCallum, Dothan,
vice-president; and Mary George.
Lamar, Auburn, secretary-treasurer.
CIVIL INSPECTION
TRIP IS PLANNED
ENGINEERING FRAT
MAKES SELECTIONS
FROM JUNIOR CLASS
Election Held Last Night for
Spring Group; Elecs Place
Four
PROMINENT MEN
Two Mechanical, One Textile,
Three Chemical, and Two
Civil Students Chosen
Professor Callan Announces
Routine for Annual Visit to
Birmingham District
Plans for the inspection trip for
Civil Engineers were announced yes­terday
by Prof. J. A. C. Callan, head
of the Civil Engineering department,
who will have charge of his group.
The party will leave Auburn, Sun­day,
April 3, in order to arrive in
time to start their actual work Mon­day
morning. A most attractive
schedule has been arranged which
should make the trip very instructive
for the Civil seniors making the trip.
On Monday, the party will visit
the T. C. I. and R. R. company's wa­ter
works supply plant, impounding
reservoir and sewage disposal plants
together with the Bayview dam. This
dam is one of the largest in this sec­tion
of the state being over 150 feet
high and 700 feet long. Tuesday
will be spent in visiting the Birming­ham
Water Works, riding out to the
plant by auto, and' inspecting the
Cahaba filtration and pumping plants.
The Westfield'Structural Shops, Vir­ginia
Bridge and Iron works and the.
Ingolls Iron Works will be visited
Wednesday. Thursday will be taken
up with a side-trip to Gadsden where
the students will inspect the Good­year
and Gulf States steel plants. On
Friday, the party will have the privi-
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Twelve juniors enrolled in engi­neering
courses were named to mem­bership
in Tau Beta Pi, national hon­orary
engineering fraternity, in the
spring elections held last night. Elec­tion
to this organization is consider­ed
the highest undergraduate engi­neering
honor.
The men elected are as follows:
Electrical Engineering
T. E. Curtis, Fairhope.
H. S. Gassman, Birmingham.
L. A. Johnston, Willard, Ohio.
R. P. Lapsley, Selma.
Mechanical Engineering
W. E. Cone, Birmingham
R. G. Pitts, Maridn (Aero.)
Textile Engineering
E. H. Linch, Dothan.
Chemical Engineering
A. C. Black, Mobile.
Otto Morningstar, Mobile.
L. P. Whorton, Gadsden.
Civil Engineering
C. A. Bowles, Shelby.
J. C. MacGregor, Auburn.
These men are chosen from the
upper one-eight of their respective
classes. There are two elections each
year, the other being held in the
fall. At this time Seniors from the
upper one-fourth of the class are se­lected.
The local chapter was founded in
May, 1920. The purpose is "to mark
in a fitting manner those who have
conferred honor upon their Alma
Mater by a high grade of scholarship
as undergraduates, pr by their attain­ments
as alumni; and to foster a
spirit of liberal culture in the engi­neering
schools of America."
Initiation of these pledges will
take place in the near future.
MORE ENTRIES EXPECTED DAILY
FOR HI SCHOOL DRAMATIC MEET
Numerous Additions Forecast for Annual Contests Before Close
of Registration on March 2 3 ; Three Additional Features
May Bring Increased Attendance on April 1 and 2
Due to the fact that entries in the
high school Dramatic Tournament in
the past have been made during the
last few days of the time specified
by the sponsors, departmental heads
believe that there will be an increas­ed
number of entrants in all branches
of the contests, being conducted by
the English department here on April
1 and 2. At the present, entries have
been received for the play contest
from Alexandria High School, Five
Points, Huntsville, Leeds, McAdory,
Shades Mountain and Woodlawu,
Numerous entries are expected with­in
the next few days from several of
the schools that were represented in
the contest here last year. Registra­tion
for the contests as a part of the
entire tournament, will close on
March 23.
Three added features will be in­augurated
by the sponsors this year
as a part of the tourney. In addi­tion
to the play contest, which has
been an annual part of the schedule
of the English department at Auburn,
there will be contests in public speak­ing
under the direction of Mr. E. D.
Hess; in creative writing under Dr.
C. P. Weaver; in music under Pro­fessor
John W. Brigham. Mr.. Tel­fair
B. Peet, director of dramatics at
Auburn, has been placed in charge of
the Dramatic Tournament.
The play contest will include pres­entations
of one-act plays by each of
the contesting high schools. The
public speaking test includes two
features, a poetry reading division
and a presentation of prepared
speeches. A ready writing contest in
the presence of judges, will include
several subjects for writing, which
have been mailed to the various high
schools invited to attend the tourna­ment.
Auditions in boy's voice,
girl's voice, boys' quartet and a con­test
in piano playing will be conduc­ted
as the musical branch of the
tournament.
A second series of letters have
been-mailed to the schools through­out
the state to remind the school
heads that there is slightly over one
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'A' CLUB TO STAGE
ANNUAL PROGRAM
HERE ON APRIL 2
Boxing Events, Mock Track
Meet to Serve As Side At­tractions
in Big Celebration
STAR PUGILIST HERE
Cup Awarded to Group or Fra­ternity
Winning Track Meet;
Full Details Given Later
DREAM SPECTRE IS
GIVEN THIS WEEK
Presentation of Auburn Play­ers
Given Thursday, Friday
and Saturday
NOMINATIONS DUE
FRIDAY, MARCH 25
Nine More Days Remain Be­fore
Nominations for Class
Officers Must Be Turned In
New Class to Hear
Jennings On Sunday
The success of the first meeting
of the Inter-Denominational Sunday
School Class will be followed next
Sunday with a second service at the
Tiger Theater. At this time Mr.
Coleman Jennings will speak to this
rapidly growing organization. Mr.
Jennings is from Washington, D. C.
and is a speaker of prominence. s
The original idea in the organiza­tion
of this class has met with suc­cess,
and promoters are more than
pleased with the initial results. Stu­dents
are urged to attend the meet­ing
at 9:45 Sunday.
NOTICE!
Seniors in the School of Science
and Literature and others who are
interested in securing positions for
next year are requested to meet in
room 204, Sam ford Hall at 7:00
p. m., Friday evening, March 18.
Auburn Alumni Meet
In B'ham Thursday
Auburn alumni .and friends will
meet' in Birmingham in connection
with the Alabama Education Associ­ation
convention. The occasion will
be the annual Auburn alumni dinner
scheduled for the Tutwiler Hotel,
starting at 5:30 Thursday evening,
March 17.
Dean Zebulon Judd of the School
of Education at Auburn said that the
dinner is being sponsored by the Au­burn
Men's Education Club in coope­ration
with the Auburn Alumni As­sociation,
of which Dr. J. V. Brown
is executive secretary. All Auburn
people—men and women—are ex-pected,\
he said.
Dr. J. B. Hobdy will be toastmast-'
er. Speakers will be Dr. Bradford
Knapp, Hon. T. D. Samford, Dr. A.
F. Harman, Dean Zebulon Judd, Prof.
L. E. Creel, Prof. J. W. Fant, and
Mrs. Nell Coulter.
Professor J. E. Morriss of Ramer
is president of the club, Dr. O. C.
Bottoms of Brent is vice-president,
and Dr. R. L. Johns of Auburn is
secretary-treasurer.
NOTICE!
The dance committee for Engi­neers'
Day have announced that the
Engineers' dance to be held Thurs­day
night, March 17 is open to the
entire student body and that every­one
is welcome. This statement is
made to clear up a slight misunder­standing
on the part of students who
are not in the Engineering Depart­ment,
i
Beginning next Thursday evening
and continuing until Saturday eve­ning,
the Auburn Players will present
the thrilling and ghastly production,
"The Dream Spectre", in the "Y"
Hut at Auburn. This fabulous and
preposterous melodrama of the last
century, written by Thomas Edger-ton
Wilks, is full of blood, thunder
and general fury.
The part of the beautiful but dumb
heroine, Rosie Ruth, is played by
Miss Helen Sellers. George San-ford,
president of the Auburn Play­ers,
hag been cast as the hero, Hand­some
Harry Spritsail, a sailor who
rescues Rosie Ruth from violent
death several times and who snatches
'the "jools" and "them papers" from
the purloining grasp of the villains.
J. L. Condon is in the role of Robert
Grafton, chief of a band of "tough
hombres" who do not hesitate to
perpetrate several murders in order
to gain their fiendish ends. William
Watts, the jovial Brompton grocer,
will be played by Clinton Wallis.
Other members of the cast include
Louisa Irvine, Libby Jeanne Israel,
Cash Stanley, George Morton, Albert
Patterson, Douglass Wahl and H. P.
Beavert. The play is under the di­rection
of Telfair Peet, instructor in
dramatics, assisted by Mrs. Zanona
G. Nelson. Miss Dana Gatchell, of
the home economics department, is
in charge of the costumes.
Mr. Peet announced that a prize of
five dollars in cash will be awarded
to the freshman in English at Auburn
who submits the best review of the
presentation.
Calm prevailed on the political front
last night, as aspirants to office re­mained
under cover. Local Druggists
report no noticable increase in cigar
sales, and prospects for a quiet cam­paign
are ini evidence at this stage
of the game.
Candidates and friends of office
seekers are reminded that only nine
more' days remain to file nominations.
All entries must be turned in to
George E. Tucker not latter than 5
o'clock, March 25.
A special edition of The Plains­man
will announce the winners im­mediately
after the' returns are com­piled
on March 30th.
Dr. Blake to Attend
Pharmaceutical Meet
Dr. Lynn S. Blake, head professor
of pharmacy will speak at the joint
meeting of Members of State Boards
of Pharmacy and delegates of the
faculties of Colleges of Pharmacy to
be held in New Orleans Monday and
Tuesday, March 28 and 29.
The convention will be attended
by delegates from the southern dis­trict
which included Florida, Georgia,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and
Porto Rico. Dr. Blake will be official
representative of the School of
Chemistry and Pharmacy.
Sunday School Class
Hears Wynne Sunday
/
The first meeting of the inter-de­nominational
Sunday School class
was held in the Tiger Theatre last
Sunday morning. Nearly five hund­red
students attended this initial
meeting at which Coach Chet Wynne
spoke. He cautioned young men not
to take the "easy way" in the path
of life. He also stressed the import­ance
of forming the habit of attend­ing
church regularly during the year.
This class is being formed to encour­age
those who do not already belong
to a Sunday School class at Auburn
to meet each Sunday morning. A new
speaker will be brought each week
if possible. Rev. R. B. McGehee
stated, "It is hoped that this organi­zation
will take hold and fill a long
felt want at Auburn. A movement
such as this, which has been a great
success and benefit at other colleges,
can become a mighty unifying influ­ence
on this campus. It will provide
an appropriate/place where problems
vital to the students may be discus­sed,
besides bringing to them spirit­ual
guidance."
Next Sunday it has been arranged
to have Mr. Jennings speak to the
class. Mr. Jennings, who is from
Washington, D. C, has devoted his
whole life and resources to college
students. A graduate of Yale Uni-versity,
he studied theology in Scot­land,
has traveled widely and is an
engineer associated with President
Hoover. He is a layman and is cer­tain
to have an important message.
A baseball game between the Au­burn
Tigers and -Minneapolis will
feature the annual "A" Day program
here, April 2nd. Tentative . plans
indfeate that the celebration will be
the largest in history. In addition
to the game the "A" Club will spon­sor
a series of boxing events, which
will bring some of the outstanding
pugilist of the south together here;
and plans have already been complet­ed
for a mock track meet among the
various fraternities and groups on
the campus.
In the boxing events a team of Au­burn
students will probably meet the
Birmingham Boys' Club, twice winner
of the Southeastern A. A. U. Au­burn
will be represented in the
heavyweight class by Stover, a 202
pounder who will defend his South­eastern
amateur title in Atlanta this
spring. He is noted in boxing circles
for his left hook. In the Middle
Weight division Buddie Himan will
represent Auburn. He is winner of
the Golden Glove tourney in Mem­phis,
and can boast of five victories
to his credits with one knockout. His
weight is 162. Any other students in­terested
in fighting in other classes
will get in touch with "Bull" Stier.
The Birmingham outfit is considered
one of the strongest amateur organi­zations
in the country.
A cup is to be awarded to the fra­ternity
or group having the highest
number of points in the mock track
meet. This trophy will be on display
soon. Every fraternity is urged to
enter into the burlesque competition
and to force their freshmen to par­ticipate.
Events for the meet will include:
Potato Race, one man; Shoe Race,
two. men; Sack Race, three men
(furnish own sack); Three-Legged
Race, two men; Wheelbarrow Race,
four men; One and Over (Leap Frog)
three men; One Up, two teams; Duck
Wadle, no limit; Egg Race (One
hand tied behind, egg in teaspoon),
two men; and The Greased Pole,
which will count fifteen points with
no limit to the entrants. All other
events will be. conducted on the
usual five-three-one basis.
Those interested in further details
will see "Bull" Stier.
Best Drilled Units
Announced by R0TC
In accordance with the policy of
the Commandant of the R. O. T. C.
Unit of choosing the best platoon
and battery in each Field Artillery
Regiment, and best platoon and com­pany
of Engineers at ceremonies, the
following results are announced from
the parade held Saturday, March 12.
Company' "E", Cadet Captain J.
Nicol, and the 2nd Platoon of Com­pany
"D", Cadet 1st Lt. C. H. West
were judged the best in the Engineer
Regiment. In the 1st Regiment of
Field Artillery, Battery "F", Cadet
Captain W. G. Sullivan, and the 1st
Platoon of Battery "F", Cadet 1st
Lt. J. B. Dunbar had the best lines
when passing the reviewing officers.
Honors for best line in the 2nd Regi­ment
of Field Artillery went to Bat­tery
"A", Cadet Captain R. M. How­ard,
and to the 1st Platoon of Bat­tery
"A", Cadet 1st Lt. H. B. Up-church.
NOTICE!
Mobile Club meets at 6:45 Ram­sey
Hall 109, Sunday night. /
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REPORTERS
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J. C. Ivey, '34; W. G. Hall, '35; B. C. Pope,
Jr., '33; Jack Knowlton, '35; Walter Smith,
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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
After a decade of turmoil, this institu­tion
finds itself upon new ground. The
school of ten years ago could not be even
vaguely associated with the school as it
now stands; There is a general desire for
a continuance of progress toward, a new
era, and with the impetus received in cast­ing
aside outgrown customs it is almost
inevitable that even though there be a com­plete
discontinuance of the courses follow­ed
in the past few years there will be suf­ficient
momemtum to carry on past the
outposts of time-worn tradition.
Tradition, it seems, has not until recently
come to be accepted as something above
primitive custom based upon the narrow­ness
of bias. Tradition in its true sense
should mean that custom which is capable
of withstanding stagnancy and the unques­tioned
parroting of beliefs. Without tra­dition,
of course, there is no way in which
the friction between reality and the exist-ance
of man may be • lessened; there is a
limit however, to the usage' of this shield.
As a creature of habit, man must grasp
every opportunity which presents itself as a
means of effecting a change; buried in dis­use,
he will become incapable of taking hold
to anything higher than, himself.
A revival which overturns false tradition
should be welcomed. It should be realized
that one may have a love for his institution
without resorting to childish destruction,
may easily retain self-respect without fol­lowing
the leader and may achieve an am­bition
without clinging to another for sup­port.
The beginning has been made, no
matter where we go from here we can mark
the revival of freedom and progress.
SOCIAL SITUATION
The future of Auburn's social life hangs
in balance. Lost 'in a maze of red ledger
accounts the Student Social Committee finds
it impossible to carry on in the dance pro­gram
of the year. The question which con­cerns
the reason for that organization's
present status is easily answered. It is due
to general economic conditions combined
with an excessive issuance of free passes.
These passes were issued against the bet­ter
judgment of the body through the in-
/ fluence of outside forces. The question can
be, and has been, argued many ways. How­ever,
figures prove to reasonability that
/ had the passes been restricted during the
last set of dances, that there would have
been no noticable deficit. This is unusual
in view of the fact that the Committee,
which acted on a consensus of student
opinion, did not retrench any during the
mid-year dances.
The "A" Club around whom most of the
present discussion is centered seem willing
to cooperate to a limited degree. They
have appointed a committee to meet with
the Faculty Social Committee in an effort
to settle, the present difficulties. Should
they work out a satisfactory plan there
should be no objections.
However, it seems inevitable that our
dance program must be reduced and estab­lished
on a more modest plane. The Plains­man
does not necessarily advocate such,
but unless the Student Social Committee
can be put on a firm financial basis there
is no other alternative.
ARE SMALL TOWNS COMMITTING
SUICIDE?
This cry of the small town being doomed
is nothing more than a cry—it is up to
the small town to survive. If they just
sit, and do not invite folks to come, to try
to make prices attractive, who of course
the trade will drife to the larger towns
where they are invited in printing ink in
a big way. As a general rule folks don't
like to leave their home town to trade else­where,
but when there comes no inducement
from the home merchant and no indication
that folks are_ really wanted to come to
their town, and merchandise is not made
attractive or priced below war levels, it is
only natural that folks in these strenuous
days drive to other towns that do invite
them. Many small towns do not die of
necessity, they just commit suicide.—New­port
Plaintalk.
Letters to the Editor
Editor The (Plainsman.
Hip, hip, hip, the boys are marching.
They file in one by one, subject to a thor­ough
search b'y trained sleuths and the
most modern of X-ray machined which see
through the most thickly woven fabrics
and skulls. This is not a scene from the
Kimberly diamond mines at five o'clock in
the afternoon, but merely the procedure
gone through by Auburn students when
they enter a classroom for a quiz under the
new regulations governing cribbing at Au­burn.
Are we going to College, High School,
or Sing Sing University. While yve are at
it why not put expert machine gunners at
each corner of the room in which the quiz
is to take place, with instructions to shoot
at the slightest nod from a student. These
gunners could be imported from Al Capone'si
gang, and would naturally be thoroughly
efficient in the manipulation of their weap­ons.
When a student comes to college he
or she is supposed to have given up all
their babyish ideas regarding cribbing, and
to have left all notes, ponies, and other
cribbing devices at home.
At Sing Sing the students eat under
guard, sleep under guard and even talk
under guard. .Why not try this system here
at Auburn. It seems thafour friend Cletus
has indeed started something with all his
foolish talk about cribbing. Cribbing, is an
old art that originated when Eve ate an
apple, and then offered Adam a piece of it.
Thus the first law was broken in that she
wanted Adam to share her newly found
knowledge with her. These new rules
are in my estimation a lot of bunk, but' I
will adrnit that something should be done
about it, and that it should be done darn
quick.
Yours for lessened CRIBBING,
Aller au Diable III.
Book Review
WELLINGTON
BY PHILLIP GUELDALLA
The Literary Guild, 1931.
(Reviewed by Knox M. McMillan, '33.)
In these days of the "new" biography it
is a difficult thing to write a popular lifer
history that in any sense follows the older
tradition; yet in Guedalla we find a happy
mean, the combination wise-cracker and
formal narrator.
Wellington is not concerned so much with
the private life of the great soldier, but
more with the figure he presented to the
%British public of his day. The book is ad­mittedly
written with a commemorative
purpose, and in this sense follows some­what
the biographical dogma of Sidney Lee.
The figure of Wellington has, in our times,
sunk rapidly into a hazy oblivion, while
that of Napoleon becomes larger iand more
significant every day; and Guedalla admits
that he has attempted to restore in some
measure the Duke's fame. In the promulga­tion
of his thesis the author has not in any
way sacrificed historical truth and accur­acy
to cover the figure of Wellington with
a hypocritical varnish of righteousness and
perfection. Guedalla's portrait of the Duke
is not only truthful, but it is picturesque
as well; we follow in a series of pictures
the colorful career of the great soldier, the
Sepoy General, the Irish Secretary, the
hard-boiled campaigner, the conquerer of
Napoleon and all France, the unreasonable
Cabinet Member, and the figure head of
the early nineteenth century.
Common sense, sheer industry, and un­erring
loyalty to the Crown were the moti­vating
forces that brought about Welling­ton's
tremendous success. Frivolity was
all right, but it had to occupy second place
when army matters were concerned. The
Duke was a very temperate man, but he
was also a very vain man. He was un­doubtedly
proud of his success,' but his
pride was such a nature that it rarely re­pelled.
Guedalla says very little of any
philosophical opinions that Wellington
might have had; if the Duke every vent­ured
beyond tangible things into metaphy­sical
speculation, he kept it to himself.
In conclusion, we might summarize by
saying that Guedalla has written a very
artistic biography, a true life-history of one
personality with a colorful historical back­ground.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
The most important
step in the student
body for the whole
year is the task of
choosing the officers
and managers of stu­dent
publications for
the next year. Many
of these positions re­quire
ability of an
unusual character. Some of them require
business ability, management and a high
degree of loyalty and faith in the institu­tion.
All of them require men who are
well balanced, who have good common
sense, who are so constituted that they will
cooperate and work with others. It is espe-ciall'y
important that these positions be giv­en
to those not only who merit them by
character, education and leadership but it
is also necessary that there be an unselfish
purpose of service to the institution as a
whole, the classes, the student body and the
very fundamental and tremendously great
interest of Auburn as an institution. The
compensation received by any student for
any one of these tasks is inadequate and,
therefore, there must be some unselfish pur­pose
to serve the great and fine interests
of the whole institution and to promote its
welfare in making any selection. There
are a lot of difficult things to do in these
important student offices. If we have fine
strong men who are willing to work, who
are unselfish and who sincerely want this
to become a 'great institution, then the
year ahead can easily be one of the best
years that Auburn has ever seen . Great
purposes involving a large number of peo­ple
can best be served when we have unity
of thought and purpose and a high and de­voted
leadership. I sincerely hope our best
men may be chosen.
* * * * !•
The Chairman of the Social Committee
resigned and the Executive Cabinet ap­pointed
an able and splendid student to re­place
him. The new Chairman is tackling a
•
most difficult job. A combination of cir­cumstances
created a deficit in the funds
of the Social Committee at the mid-winter
dances and has left the new Chairman with
a load which is hard to bear. I hope we
may have no fault-finding or dissension.
Let us get together and see if we cannot
work it out. It is easy to get discouraged
but some way ought to be found to do the
thing which ought to be done. The Presi­dent
will be very happy indeed to meet
with committees to help make up a budget
and to do everything within his power to
assist the Social Committee in carrying this
burden and at the same time in putting on
a creditable Senior Dance at Commence­ment
time. '
* * * *
It is a source of most profound regret
oris my part that Engineers Day had to be
set at the same time as the meeting of the
Alabama Education Association in Birm­ingham
and hence the President will be"
deprived of the privilege of participating
in that celebration. -I hope the Engineers
have a great occasion. I am. very keenly
anxious that the annual celebration of the
students in Agriculture and the annual cel­ebration
of- the students in Engineering
shall be made real occasions—not merely
for the entertainment and^relaxation which
come from an annual event of this kind, but
also because of the possibility of develop­ing
an increased professional pride in the
profession for which we are endeavoring
to prepare ourselves—a pride in the school
or division of the institution of which we
are a part and, possibly, at the same time
an enlarged conception of the importance
of that general line of work which we have
chosen for our own lives. I have read
many pessimistic articles of late but none
of them has yet altered my faith that the
world will still need men trained in agricul­ture,
in engineering, in the sciences, as
teachers, as servants of the new civiliza­tion
which ought to come out of this period
of distress. There are two types of com­pensation
which every man is going to get
out of his life. I am much disposed to be­lieve
that in the new day a much greater
emphasis will be put on one part of this
compensation than has been put in the past.
The compensation I speak of will come
either in a supremely great satisfaction in
performing a service to our fellow man
adequately and splendidly and in the finan­cial
return that comes from performing that
service. I am not sure but that in the
future much more emphasis may not be
placed upon the character of the service
and the satisfaction which comes from per­forming
it rather than on the opportunity
for gain. On Engineers Day and on Ag
Day let us renew our faith that the world
will need our services and that there will
be a supreme satisfaction in giving them
if we are adequately prepared to render
to our fellowman the kind and quality of
service, backed by character and breadth
of mind, which we ought to be prepared to
give. The financial part of the compensa­tion
will come but I believe in the new day
U AUBURN FOOTPRINTS &
Pity the poor professor who could not give his quiz because no one in the class
was able to answer the questions.
* * * * * * * * * *
Sug Jordan has laid his basketball togs aside for spats and a cane, it is reported.
* £ * * * * * * * *
t
Something new under the sun—getting the long drawers out in March for the
first time.
* * * * • * * * * * *
Those that find fraternity sleeping porches a bit frigid are reminded of what
Gandhi must be experiencing.
* * * * * * * * * *
The difference between Gandhi and most of us is that he has only one sheet in
the wind where we usually have three..
.* * * * * * * * * x *
Fewer college girls marry, which may indicate that education improves the
judgment.—Florence Herald.
* * * * * * * * * *
. . When the wolf came to our door
He was ill-tempered and lean,
From eating collectors by the score
He is corpulent and seren.
—Ex.
* • • * . * * * * * *
Something we have never seen—the license on a Jersey cow.
* * * * * * * * * *
We understand that they counted noses in The House recently on the prohibi­tion
question. Did all those that were red vote wet?
* * * * * * * * * * *
Congress and politicians should leave prohibition alone and let the Literary
Digest settle the matter.
* * * * * * * * * *
Co-eds at Stanford must pass a special physical examination and also be scho-lastically
excellent in order to be allowed to stay out until 12:00 o'clock. The boys
up at The Citadel are of the opinion that no one would want to keep a girl out that
late unless she was physically fit. What about the scholastic ability?
* * * * * * * * * *
Florida freshmen enter their class rooms through the window. What" about
the second story men?
* * * * * * * d * *
A Boston student paper carried a streamer to this effect: "Drinking by College
Men Creates Problem". Don't they have bootleggers in Boston?
* * * * * * * * * * _ *
The editor wishes to contribute the unusual crudity of this column to his associ­ation
with certain sophomores, who think they can make puns.
* . * * . ' * * * ) * * * *
Trained fleas must be raised from pups.
* * • * * * * * * * - *
"And you say your room-mate was drunk last night?"
"I'm not ehtirely sure, but ordinarily he doesn't insist in shaving the fuzz off
his bath towel."
,* * * * * * * * * *
They call it bath tub gin because one drink and you are all washed up. .
A Yale professor has announced that the
United States today is like the Russia of
the Czar. Tsar Hoover probably won't
agree with him even if he is expecting a
Democratic revolution.
* * * *
L. S. U. co-eds are of the opinion that a
man can get away with dressing in Gandhi's
loin cloth if he knows how to hand a girl
a cigarette or assist her into an automobile.
This is a hot tip to cut expenses. Buy a
copy of Emily Post instead of a new spring
suit.
* * * *
The Orange and White is having a hard
time proving where they stand on the R.
0. T. C. question. It seems that whisper­ings
about the U. T. campus are to the ef­fect
that the paper is edited by "reds" who
seek to undermine the young American
mind. The editor is not the first college
journalist to suffer from misunderstand­ings,
and he has the sympathy of every
struggling collegian attempting to provide
student bodies with newspapers.
* * * *
Following the flare between Georgia and
Tech concerning conduct at a basketball
game this year, the Technique and Red and
Black now come over like nice little boys
and are ready to play with each other
again. It is refreshing to see these out­bursts
of traditional animosity handled in
this manner.
Let us profit by their example. The
Plainsman and the Crimson-White ^should
become the Daymen and Pythias of college
journalism. No the mast head don't make
us mad any more.
* * .* *
College editors have declared that pro­hibition
is all hooey according to statistics
compiled by the Daily, Tar Heel. Only
four editors in the nation expressed them­selves
as being opposed to repeal. This
substantiates our ideas that college editors
are all wet anyway.
* * * *
Freshman co-eds at the University of Hi-waii
still wear grass skirts, says a news
item. It fails to mention the grass is prob­ably
green. However, it really isn't a bad
idea for co-eds.
we ought to fix our minds on the more un­selfish
side of this compensation for in our
new day we may see some great things and
there may be an infinite satisfaction in
helping to mold the ways of the world, to
build its temples and its schools and to
serve, feed, clothe and care for the great
human family who will still need the farm­er
and the engineer, the teacher, the sci­entist,
the educator and the statesman.
The writer at one time believed that there
were certain individuals (even excepting
the sophomore class) in this institution who
were capable of winning any medal fpr un­rivaled
asininity in their trite • variations
of current expressions or events but at
last even the greatest of them must rescind
to the acute a higher type as quoted from
an issue of The Bed and Black. To quote:
"Nobody on the University of Geor­gia
found the Lindbergh baby but it's
not the fault of the student body.
What they have lacked in practical
searching they have more than made
up for in rumors and idle conversation.
"The other night the phone rang dur­ing
chapter^ meeting at a fraternity
house. One of the members answered
and the voice of a diligent co-ed in­quired
if he had found the eaglet. When
he replied in the negative she .suggested
that he take a peek behind a huge pic­ture
which hung directly over the fire
place in the living room. Unfortunate­ly,
he failed to collect the reward. She
refused to give her name, thereby af­fording
further mystery for the al­ready
befuddled male.
"Last week-end's dances gave an
opportunity for a widespread and tire­less
search on the part of male stu­dents,
especially those who were slight­ly
inebriated. Every time they broke
on a young lady they would ask, 'Have
.you got the Lindbergh baby?' Jt\l of
the strong sex tittered and assured
their dancing partners that they had ;
no hand in the foul play. The fruitless
search ended only with the strains of
'Home Sweet Home'."
Such screamingly clever characters must
be the life of every party they attend. We,
of the more sedate and plodding type how­ever,
have managed to nip in the bud all
attempts to. start the unending variations
of cleverness on the current topic of inter­est
in the public eye.
THOUGHTFUL WORDS
These kindly words in thought I mince
While sitting idly .through an hour.
They'< came from, I know not whence, •
Yet God gave man his power
To speak his word and write his thought,
That other men might read.
And glean the good that can't be bought
With worldly praise and deed.
So linger on a line or two
And glean what thought you may.
There's lots of good in what you do
And lots in what you say.
—Robert McDonald
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.
EVEN though it may seem strange for
Cletus to be saying so, Auburn is
an institution that we should all be
proud of. Everyone realizes that the college
must make a lot of changes in order to
keep step with the advancing tide of modern
education. Merely because we do realize
this fact, however, does not necessarily mean
that we are sorry to be known as Auburn
men. Recent action taken by the executive
council in warning students and parents
the danger of giving and receiving unfair
help on examinations is most certainly a
splendid move which will do more to bring
about an honorable code' among Auburn
students than any action taken by this or
any other group this year.
, * * * *
Politics are now in season. Class leaders,
editors and business managers are to be
selected. It is advisable for every man to
pick his candidate and back him to the
fullest extent. The underlying principle of
democracy is construed to mean "Every­one—
a voice in his government". If de­mocracy
is to hold sway, there must be an >
expression from everyone. Too many per­sons
lack interest in their political leaders,
believing that everyone connected with pol­itics
is dishonest. This attitude is largely
responsible for dishonesty among the lead­ers
of our state and nation.
* * * *
The annual senior inspection trip is not
far off and we look forward to a pleasant
and profitable week in Birmingham, the city
of many industries. The spirit of coopera­tion
shown by the leasers of many indus­tries
of Birmingham in helping to make the
inspection trip a success exemplifies the
attitude of citizens of this state toVards
Auburn. Many educators have said that
visual education is far superior to class­room
work and we would advise every
senior to make the inspection trip as such
opportunities only come once in a lifetime.
The expenses of this trip .should be con­siderably
less than heretofore. Several or­ganizations
will entertain the group at
luncheon or banquet and meals are Un­usually
inexpensive in Birmingham at pres­ent.
* * * *
Will' the written word, in time, replace
the spoken word? An Auburn professor
states that "the day of the long-winded,
bombastic, Fourth of July oratory is waning
rapidly." We believe that The Plainsman
is more religiously read by its subscribers
than any paper in Alabama. The consen­sus
of student opinion is not always ex-,
pressed on this'page and yet the opinions
of a few are read by many and from these
are drawn conclusions which bring about
actions such as have been taken by the
executive council in the matter of cribbing.
Perhaps, thirty or forty years ago the opin­ions
of a few would have been expressed
at mass meetings or by stump speakers.
The reading public of today is vastly
larger than a few years ago. It should be
clear from this that it is necessary to ex­press
our ideas in fewer and more concise
phrases. Although phonetic spelling has
not met with the general approval of writ­ers
it might be said that a simpler and
more concise form of English is gradually
being formed possibly as a result of the
accelerated actions of people of today.
* * * *
This week has witnessed the death of
two of the world's wealthiest men by their
own hand. These men have been marked
by the material world as "successful". Their
aim in life seemingly has been to amass
such a fortune that it was beyond their
power to distribute it wisely. Upon real­izing
this aim there suddenly seemed a void,
nothing to look forward to.. Happiness is
the provincial right of everyone and we
learn sometimes by sad experience that
money is not the road to complete happi­ness.
If one ever becomes satisfied with
what he has accomplished on this earth;
he has outlived his usefulness.
* * * *
"Oh Junior! you- had better come on in
the house and not play in the yard today
because "Black Hand" might get you.
It is just too bad about the Montevallo
girl who has been unable to eat for the last
two weeks. She should have picked.a day
when it was raining to make her "trip to
Birmingham because then she could have
looked at all the tall buildings without the
roof of her mouth sun-burning.
A business leader says that work will end
the depression. Well, turn about is fair play
—the depression has almost ended work.—
Thomuston (Ga.) Times.
The League of Nations is no movie. It
is a talkie.—Hamburger Nachrichten.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932 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 T E! PAGE THREE
SIMS MAKES ANNUAL REPORT
OF BOYS' CLUB WORK IN STATE
S t a t e s T h a t t h e 1 9 , 2 4 4 Boys Enrolled in This Work Produced
Products, At Market Prices, More Than $300,000; Main
Object to T e a c h I m p o r t a n t Lessons
In his annual report on the work
Of 4-H club boys of Alabama for
1931 Thomas A. Sims, state club
leader, said that the 19,244 boys who
were enrolled in this work "produced
products worth, at market prices,
more than $300,000.
The report was presented to Di­rector
L. N. Duncan of the extension
service. In it Mr. Sims said that
reports were received from 12,685
boys, the aggregate value of whose
products was $258,292. To this he
added $99,885 as the value of prod­ucts
produced by the 6,559 boys who
failed to make reports at the end
of the year, making a total of $339,-
134.
A greater value was placed by Mr.
Sims upon the lessons which the boys
learned than upon the products
which they produced. These lessons,
he said, will be beneficial to them as'
long as they live whereas the value
of the products was only temporary.
The report revealed that these
boys were "master farmers" on a
small scale. Their production records
are' excellent. In cotton, for example,
the average yield of seed cotton per
acre was 1,169.5 pounds. This was
equivalent to a light bale. It was an
increase of 99.5 pounds per acre over
the 1930 average. It was more than
double the average yield for the
state.
Corn production averaged 35.8
bushels per acre; which was one
bushel less than the 1930' average.
It was, however, more than double
the state average as officially report­ed.
Dairy calf club work has been con­ducted
in the state several years and
in 1931 Mr. Sims found that 1,094
Jersey calves were owned by Ala­bama
4-H Club boys. Beef calf
boys owned 129 calves and pig clubs
owned 3,439 pigs while 41,824
chickens were owned by club mem­bers.
In all this work, Mr^Sims explain­ed?
the main objetcive is to teach
important facts which the boys can
use in farming and also in other lines
of work in which they may engage.
Real and genuine character training
is a thread which runs throughout the
club career, he declared.
As part of the work 39 county ral­lies
were held and attended by 5,658
of these youngsters and their parents.
A total of 152 training schools were
held for training local leaders and
club officers with an attendance of
1,312.
In addition to their own achieve­ments
the work of "these youngsters
was very effective as demonstrations.
Adult farmers and other boys visited
their corn, cotton, pig, and calves to
see what they were doing and study'
their methods. Hence, they were ef­fective
demonstrations, many of them
being more effective than demonstra­tions
conducted with adult farmers.
The 1931 enrollment of 19,244
boys surpassed 1930, which had sur­passed
any other year. Incidentally,
it was almost four times the enroll­ment
of 5,271 in 1925.
Having succeeded so well in 1931
Mr. Sims said that the foundation is
laid for bigger and better work in
1932. The majority of the 1932
clubs have been organized already.
They are off to a good start.
Demonstration Farms
Have Successful Year
Reports that the demonstration
farms in connection with the secon­dary
agricultural schools of Alabama
have had a successful year and that
the demonstrations are being reflect­ed
on the farms in the counties in
which they are located were present­ed
at a conference here attended by
principals of the schools, teachers of
vocational agriculture, and the coun­ty
agents.
The conference was called by Pro­fessor
L. N. Duncan, director of the
extension service, and Dr. J. B. Mob-dy
of the. state department of educa­tion
at Montgomery for the purpose
of checking up on what these farms
are doing and making plans for 1932.
The reports revealed that' the farms
have made excellent progress since
their reorganization four years ago
and that they have amply justified
themselves.
Nine schools were represented as
follows: Athens, J. T. Belue, W. R.
Johnson, and T. C. McCarley;1 Hamil­ton,
T. W. Branyon, and J. L. Rey­nolds;
Blountsville, A. W. Barnett,
J. B. Pennington, and C. O. Davis;
Sylacauga, W. T. Coker, W. F. Nich­ols,
and C. R. Lee; Lineville, F. M.
White, B. H. Ford, and M. B. Saith;
Livingston, J. E. Bonner, L. W.' Cox,
and J. E. Harvey; Jackson, C. L. Hol-lingsworth,
E. J. Pace, and B. H.
Walkley; Wetumpka, H. B. Lewis,
J. J. Williams, and T. W. LeCroy;
and Abbeville, C. S. Keller, H. G.
DeLoney, and B. F. Harkins.-
Others present were District
Agents J. T. High, N. G. Arnold, and
Emmett Sizemore.
Professor McKinnon
Speaks At A. I. E. E.
Meeting Thursday
At the meeting of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers held
on Thursday, March 10, Prof. J. C.
McKinnon gave an instructive talk
on the "Inductive Interference in
Radio". Prof. McKinnon, who is a
great radio enthusiast pointed out
the outstanding interferences in ra­dio
reception and gave some mighty
fine remedies for these causes. He
also demonstrated to the A. I. E. E.
members the equipment he uses in
detecting interference. This bat­tery-
operated machine will lead the
operator to within a few feet from
the source of interference.
The instrument is-very easily ope­rated,
does not require much experi­ence
on the part of the operator to
pick up the interference on the
head-phones, and to assist the opera­tor
whose sense of hearing is not
very keen, Prof. McKinnon has added
a meter to this instrument which in­dicates
whether interference is being
picked up or not. The chief opera­tion
of the instrument is to tune the
volume of the interference to a mini­mum
and keep it there as one ap­proaches
the source. Prof. McKin­non
told of a case where this instru­ment
Was successfully used by a
former Auburn student. He also
placed the instrument at the disposal
of any member who experiences
trouble in radio reception. - •
Members of the A. I. E. E. and
students expecting to become mem­bers
are requested to see T. N. Pyke
on the morning of Engineers Day and
get their A. I. E. E. ribbon to 'wear
for this occasion. The next meeting
of the organization will be on March
24, at which time Prof. M. T. Fullan
will" speak. Election of Juniors offi­cers
will be held on March 31.
Lineup Shifted For
Greatest Strength
In Diamond Team
Difficult Task Faced In Replac­ing
Losses From Last Sen-son's
Team
Alabama State Bar
Association to Meet
E. H. Glenn.of Opelika, vice-presi­dent
of the Alabama State Bar Asso­ciation,
urges all lawyers in this sec­tion
of the state, to attend the an­nual
meeting of the association to
be held at the Tutwiler Hotel, Birm­ingham,
Ala., qn Friday and Satur­day,
April 15 and 16.
Several nationally distinguished
speakers have accepted invitations to
appear on the program of this con­vention.
Among them are Guy A.
Thompson of St. Louis, president of
the American Bar. Association, and
William Draper Lewis, formerly
Dean of the Yale Law School.
Our Food has made
our Imputation
COFFEE SHOP OPEN
U N T I L M I D N t Q HT
We ASKEW in—
Uncle Billy's
Shoe Shop
We ASKEW in—
Uncle Billy's
Barber Shop
The Barber Shop call* in num­bers:
6826, 6817, 6799, 6966,
6866, and 6878—week ending
March 12, inclusive. Thank you
UNCLE BILLY
Elizondo Speaks At
A. S. M. E. Meeting
i
The American Society of Mechani­cal
Engineers held their regular meet­ing
on Monday, March 14, in 109
Ramsay, where Professor Elizondo
gave a very interesting address on
the construction of earthen dams.
Professor Elizondo told of the va­rious
difficulties encountered vin the
construction and also the manner in
which a dam of that sort was demol
ished during a flood.
During the discussion concerning
the papers to be presented at the reg­ional
meeting of the student A. S.
M. E. in Chattanooga April 3, 4, and
5 and the meeting in Birmingham on
the 6th of the same month, it was
revealed that at each meeting there
would be cash prizes awarded for
the best papers. At the Chattanooga
meeting three prizes are offered for
the best papers and there will be one
at the Birmingham meeting also.
This is an added incentive in the
preparation of -these papers, and pa­per
presented by the Auburn branch
will stand a very good chance to car­ry
off a prize.
Several students from A. P. I. are
planning to attend the regional con­ference,
and since the inspection trips
to the Birmingham district will be
in Birmingham at the same time, a
large attendance of Auburn students
at the Birmingham meeting is expec­ted.
All on the trips are invited to
attend this meeting, and it is hoped
that a large number will -do so.
It- is the era of transformation in
the ranks of the Auburn baseball
team.
Coach Sam McAllister, who faces
the difficult task of replacing an en­tire
outfield and an undefeated pitch­er
this season, has converted three
ex-infielders into fly chasers and a
fprmer outfielder into a third base­man.
The newcomers to the outer gar­dens
are Porter Grant and Juicy
Wood, both of whom played at third
last year, and Sam Mason, erstwhile
first sacker. In, 1931, Wood was a
member of the frosh nine and Grant
and Mason performed as sophomores
under McAllister.
In the outfield, Wood is roaming
in left, Grant in center and Mason
in right. This is the outfield that
cavorted with the tentative first-string
team in the second practice
game of the year, and looks promis­ing.
Wood and Grant have excel­lent
throwing arms and Mason is a
bright performer in grabbing flies,
but each needs to-improve his hitting
before McAllister will be satisfied
with their playing. They should do
this with a little more batting prac­tice,
which will be given in heavy
doses when the weather changes.
Mason had his first experience play­ing
in the outfield last Summer, and
looked good.
Hamp Morris, left fielder on last
year's freshman aggregation, has
been switched to third. He will un­derstudy
the dependable Ike Lewis at
this post.
McAllister's other leading contend­ers
for posts in the gardens are
George Jenkins, Bill O'Bar, Ralph
Jordan, Sterling "Sliver" Dupree and
Hershel West. Jenkins and O'Barr
look the best of the lot, being defen­sive
stars, but both need to improve
their offensive playing. O'Barr, a
first-year varsity performer, can peg
from center to home like a major
leaguer.
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Mother Goose Party
Mother- Goose and all of her nur­sery
stepped out of the story books
and came to life at the "Mother
Goose" party given by the Epworth
League of the Methodist Church last
Friday night in the Sunday School
building.
All those who attended wore cos­tumes
representing those well-known
rhymes of our childhood days. Games
of all sorts were enjoyed, and all of
those who attended declared that
they had a marvelous time, "being a
kid again".
Ag Paragraphs
Professor J. B. Rutland, super­visor
of, vocational education work
in agriculture in Texas, was in Au­burn
Sunday and Monday visiting
his brother,, Professor J. R. Rutland.
The two visited relatives and old
friends in Chambers County, where
they were reared.
Professor Rutland graduated at
Auburn in 1910. For a short time af­ter
graduation he was , engaged in
food inspection work under Dr. B. B.
Ross. Later he taught in Louisiana,
in the University of Florida, in Tex­as,
and in the secondary agricultural
school at Hamilton, Ala., before be­ginning
his present work in Texas,
where he is with the state depart­ment
of education at Austin.
There were five of the Rutland
boys and one sister; and each at­tended
college at Auburn. Mrs. Jud-son
R. Martin—the only sister—was
here two years. Her husband is a
Baptist'minister at Jackson, Ala.
William Rutland, the older broth­er,
is dead. Henry T. was a stu­dent
at Auburn before going to the
University to study law. He is now
with the Postal Telegraph Company
at Decatur, Georgia. Eugene came
to Auburn and later went into the
ministry. He is now pastor of the
Methodist Church at Bowman, Geor­gia.
Professor J. R. Rutland was
trained at Auburn and also other in­stitutions.
SCHOOLS COACHED BY AUBURN
GRADS MAKE GOOD RECORDS
Geraldine and Walker Co. High Schools, Finishing First and
Third In State During 1932 Season Were Coached By Au­burn
Trained Men
The first and third best high school
basketball teams in the state during
the 1932 season, Geraldine and Walk­er
Co., were tutored by Auburn
trained coaches. Guy O'Brien, of
Dadeville, who graduated at Auburn
in 1926, guided Geraldine to a state
championship for the second suc­cessive
season, and Ebb James, who
received a diploma from the Corner­stone
in 1929, steered the Vikings to
third place in the state cage tourna­ment.
Even though O'Brien was not a
regular on the Tigers athletic teams,
he was a member of the football,
basketball and baseball squads for
four years and was a keen student of
Ribbons to Be Worn By
A. L £. E. Members
Date Is Postponed
For Mercer Debate
Mercer University has asked for
the postponement of the Mercer-
Auburn freshmen and varsity debates
on account of campus activities there
on that date. The debates were
scheduled here for March 18. The
change in schedule will probably be
either to March 24 or to April 21.
Ag Personalities
LUTHER NOBLE DUNCAN: Direc­tor,
Agricultural Extension Ser­vice.
Mr. Duncan, one of the wider
known of Southern Agriculturists,
has done much for the extension ser­vice
in Alabama. He first became
associated with the college in 1905,
as an instructor. In 1920 he was ap­pointed
to his present position as di­rector
of the extension work in Agri­culture
and Home Economics. Hold­ing
both a bachelor's and master's
degree, Mr. Duncan is esepcially well
trained for this work. He has se­cured
wonderful results since his ap­pointment
having spread a net of ex­tension
workers throughout the entire
state. .
One of the most recent honors to
come to Mr. Duncan was his appoint­ment
as the southern member of a
committee of the Association of Land
Grant Colleges and Universities
which is to investigate and report on
the economic situation's effect on
agriculture.
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Final arrangements are being made
for the Ag banquet and dance to be
held on'Friday, April 22. It was an­nounced
Wednesday that the ban­quet
would be at the College Cafe­teria.
The dance, for which the Au­burn
Knights will furnish music, will
be held in the gymnasium just after
the banquet. ..
A rivalry that began way back in
the last century will be resumed next
Thursday when the Ags and Engi­neers
meet in the annual baseball
game^ As the Engineer team won
last year, the team from the other
hill is out for revenge—and accord­ing
to reports, they don't mean per­haps.
The two schools on Ag Hill "got
together" last Wednesday evening
when the Home Economics Club pre­sented
a -program for the Ag Club.
This program was exceptionally well-planned
and carried out. Presenting
both the serious and the gay side, it
began with several short talks and
concluded with tap dancing and
music by the "Kitchen Orchestra".
During Engineers Day, which is be­ing
observed tomorrow members of
the American Institute .of Electrical
Engineers are to wear their profes­sional
organization's ribbons, as well
as the regular Engineer's Day rib­bons.
This was decided upon by the
organization during its last meeting.
This ribbon is white with letters, A.
I. E. E. printed on it in blue, which
are the colors of the professional or­ganization.
The ribbon is one foot
in length and is to be worn by mem­bers,
graduate members and pros­pective
members of the A. I. E. E.
throughout Engineer's Day and also
during the ball that night.
These men are requested to" see T.
N. Pyke Thursday morning immedi­ately
after school is dismissed at 10
o'clock in the lobby of Ramsey Hall
and secure their ribbons.
Bridge Party Honors
Opelika B.&P.W. Club
The Auburn Business & Profes­sional
Women's Club entertained at
a bridge party Friday evening, at the
Thomas Hotel, in honor of the Ope­lika
B. & P. W. Club. Thisv party
was given as a form of inter-club
meeting and was in part observance
of National Business Woman's Week.
Miss Dorothy Dean, member of the
local club won high score and was
awarded a deck of bridge cards, Miss
Jennie Igou won next high which
was also a deck of cards, and Miss
Mae Cureton was winner of the cut
prize, two picture show tickets. There
was also a cut prize for the Opelika
members which was an angel food
cake won by Mrs. Roy Wencher.
Members of the Opelika Club at­tending
were: Miss Ruth Stevens,
president, Mary Bailey, Helen Col­lins,
Misses Hall and Mitchell, Mrs.
Geo. Kirby and Mrs. Roy ^Wencher.
After the games a plate consisting
of angel food cake, whipped cream
and coffee was served by the hostess
club.,
each sport. In coaching a pair of
state championship cage quintets at
Geraldine, located 18 miles from a
depot, O'Brien has made a record
that ranks him with the leading men­tors
in the state.
Ebb, half of the outstanding twin-combination
of Ebb and Fob James,
played freshman football, basketball
and baseball at the Cornerstone and
performed as a regular guard and
catcher on the varsity hardwood and
diamond teams for three years. He
was captain of Auburn's 1928 base­ball
nine, Southern Conference cham­pions,
and received the Porter Lov­ing
Cup, emblematic of Auburn's out­standing
athlete, jointly with his
brother Fob.
He was a winning coach at Good-water
for one year before assuming
his present duties at Walker Co. in
1930. His Viking gridiron eleven an­nexed
the state championship his
first season at Jasper and in turning
out the third best cage team in the
state his second year at school where
basketball has not been played but
two years, he did one of the best if
not the est coaching job in/ the
state.
Other Auburn graduates who had
winning cage fives during the past
season are: Fob James, Lanett;
Grady Long, Wetumpka; Joe Market,
Gadsden; Addison McGhee, Mobile;
Sam Burbage, ,G. M. A.; Ed James,
Marion; Louie Tamplin, Ozark; Mc-
Nees, Pike Road; Nurmi Nelson, An­dalusia;
Frank DuBose, Lee County
High, and Dizzy Pruitt, Opelika.
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AUBURN GIRLS ATTEND PLAY
DAY EVENTS AT ALA. COLLEGE
"Play for Plays Sake" was the mo­tive
of the Play Day held at Ala­bama
College last week-end. This
day was celebrated by the athletic
association of Alabama College for
the promotion of the interest in ath­letics
for women in the Colleges of
Alabama and for bringing about a
more cooperative spirit among them.
These colleges sending representa­tives
were: University of Alabama,
Howard, Judson, Troy Woman's Col­lege
and Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute.
The girls representing Auburn
were Mary McGehee, Jo Tippins,
Katherine Jackson Dorothy Breed-love,
Mildred Garlington, Je»vel Gold­en,
Nellie Fuller, Cora Lee Johnson,
Louise Yarbrough and Miss Fannie
Stollenwerck, physical education in­structress.
Miss Zoe Dobbs, Dean of
Women and Social Director also ac­companied
the representatives.
On arrival the girls were divided
into five color teams. The program
opened with a meeting of the repre­sentatives
from all the colleges. Visi­tors
were welcomed by President Car-michael
and members of the athletic
association. Immediately after this
meeting the girls hiked to the college
camp where they had supper and
were entertained during the evening.
ENGINEERS HONOR
ST. PAT THURSDAY
AT ENGINEERS* DAY
On Saturday morning at nine o'clock
all teams assembled on the athletic
field for a day of play. Fjom nine
fifteen until ten forty-five a sports
tournament consisting of several
games was held. Following this, mass
games were played. The last event
of the morning's program was a
stunt track meet.
The first part of the afternoon was
filled: with a business meeting in,
which the colleges agreed to form a
state athletic association to further
the development of Play Day. The
last athletic event of the day was
the tennis tournament.
Judge Jones Speaks
To Business Students
(Continued from page 1)
ing.
In the afternoon a polo game be­tween
two teams composed of mem­bers
of the polo squad, and the an­nual
baseball game between the Ags
and the Engineers will be featured.
The baseball game will begin at 3:30
to be preceded by the polo game, the
exact time.of which has not been de­cided
upon.
Ribbons to distinguish engineering
students will be presented to all engi­neers
Thursday morning, and all clas­ses
for engineers will be excused at
ten o'clock. Tickets for the dance
Thursday night are on sale now by
a number of members of the Engi­neers'
Day committees. The admis­sion
price is one dollar.
One hundred and fifty bids to En­gineers'
Day have been sent to prom­inent
engineers in the larger southern
cities and a number of these men are
expected to be present.
"The Corporation as a Legal En­tity"
was the subject of an address
last night by Judge Walter B. Jones
of Montgomery. Coming here under
the sponsorship of Delta Sigma Pi,
national honorary and professional
fraternity, Judge Jones spoke to the
students of Business Administration
in a most informing manner, and
gave many of the intricacies of cor­poration
law. He was introduced by
Jack Capell, graduate of last year.
Judge Jones is widely known as a
jurist, and is prominent in fraternity
work. He attended Auburn at one
time.
He is one of the series of speakers
being brought to Auburn by Delta
Sigma Pi.
CIVIL INSPECTION
TRIP IS PLANNED
(Continued from Page 1)
lege of visiting the Brilliant Mines of
the DeBardeleben Coal Co., going
down into the mines several" miles.
They will be the guests of Mr. Milton,
vice-president of the mines; and Mr.
J. L. Lacey, divisional engineer oi
the mines. Mr. Lacey finished at
Auburn in 1907. The Pheonix-Port-land
Cement plants and Southern
Sewer Pipe Works will be visited
Saturday.
During its stay in Birmingham, the
party will stay at the Thomas Jeffer­son
Hotel, along with the members
of the other inspection groups.
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Scout Summer Program
Rural Boy Scouts in the Central
Alabama Area District will not need
money to pay their fee to attend the
annual camp at Spring Villa next
summer. Instead of "cold cash" the
scouts may substitute equivalent
value in produce—chickens, eggs, or
vegetables, says Executive J. J. Sig-wald
who believes the measure will
permit many more boys from rural
districts to attend this summer.
"This unique plan should prove
quite popular with a number of the
Lone Scouts of the Council" says Dr.
Bradford Knapp who is the Lone
Scout chairman for Region 5.
The Junior staff of Camp Spring
Villa will be chosen within the next
few days. This Junior group will
supplement the senior staff composed
of John J. Sigwald, camp director;
E. J. Harris, assistant camp director,
and several Auburn professors who
come to camp each day to instruct
in various vocational Merit Badge
subjects.
Scouts Joe Hall Johnson and Sid­ney
Reynolds of Clanton were the
first two Scouts in the Council to
register for Camp Spring Villa.
These two out-door enthusiasts have
registered for the entire three weeks
of' the camp. Other registrations
have been pouring in since that time.
Scouts desiring information about
the camp, June 4, should write J. J.
Sigwald, box 526, Opelika, Ala.
Kiwanis Club Hears
Mrs. Zebulon Judd
Fame Came Because
He Hated to Work
Cleveland—(IP)—Fame and for­tune
came to him in spite of an ab­horrence
of work, through forces all
beyond his own control in every­thing
from eugenics to Politics, Clar­ence
Darrow said here on the eve of
the publication of his biography.
"I never was ambitious to work,
except to play baseball early in life
and poker later," he said. "Work
never appealed to me, but some time
I had to work. Whatever work I
did I just couldn't help."
"If my brother hadn't had a shop
next to the village tinner's and the
tinner hadn't happened to be a jus­tice
of the peace, I probably would
not be a lawyer now," said Darrow,
harking back to the days at his birth­place
in Kinsman, O., when his par­ents
took him out of school, which
he liked because "everything came
so easy" and sent him to work on a
farm.
"In those days lawyers were good
fellows—they'd help you get in. It
wasn't like today, when everybody* is
trying to keep the other fellow out
—lawyers, doctors and even plum­bers—
because there1 isn't enough
work to go around."
Woman's Club Changes
March Meeting Here
A change has been made in the
March meeting of the Department of
Education, of the Woman's Club of
Auburn. The meeting will be held
on the seventeenth, at the home of
Mrs. John E. Ivy. Dr. J. R. Edwards
will speak on "The Mental Hygiene
Aspects of Social Work". Mrs. P.
O. Davis will review a few current
articles.
Using "The Lawn" as a topic, Mr.
Horn of Opelika, will speak at the
March meeting of the Department of
Civics, of the Woman's Club of Au­burn.
The meeting will be held at
the home of Mrs. Sam Brewster on
Thursday, the seventeenth.
Church Notes
Presbyterians to hear noted speak­er
Sunday.
Dr. William C. Robinson, St. D.,
who is now acting president of Co­lumbia
Theological Seminary will
preach at both morning and evening
services in the Presbyterian Church
Sunday.
Dr. Robinson is a graduate of Roa­noke
College, took his master's work
at the University of South Carolina,
received a degree of bachelor of di­vinity
at Columbia Seminary, one of
master of theology at Princeton and
received his doctorate at Yale. He
is a leading minister of the young
people of the Presbyterian Church.
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. Announcement
. There will be no Christian Endea­vor
meeting Sunday night.
Mrs. Zebulon Judd spoke to the
Auburn Kiwanis Club at their meet­ing
Monday on the work of the D. A.
R. of which she w%s re-elected state
regent at the recent meeting in
Gadsden.
The speaker told the Kiwanians
that more than 2,000 Alabama wo­men
are D. A. R. members, and that
the Alabama division is growing fas­ter
than any other state division.
She dwelt upon the Kate Duncan
Smith school located on the mountain
in Marshall County, Ala., which is
sponsored by the Alabama division of
the Daughters of the American Revo­lution.
She said that it will become
an accredited school when the voca­tional
building now authorized is
completed and in use.
Mrs. Judd will attend the national
meeting in Washington in April at
the head of the Alabama delegation.
At the Gadsden meeting she was
nominated for national vice-presi­dent.
Prof. L. M. Ware, chairman of the
club's committee on attendance pro­posed
an attendance contest. The
club was divided into two divisions,
with a captain for each division. The
captains are Dr. B. F. Thomas, and
Dr. John T. Oliver.
Military Engineers
Plan Series of Talks
The regular bi-monthly meeting of
the student branch of the Society of
American Military Engineers, held
in the engineer room in the basement
of Samford Hall, was featured by a
talk by Professor John W. Roe.
Captain Row W. Grower, comman­dant
of the local engineer unit, also
made an interesting talk, dealing
with various incidents of military
history. He made the suggestion
that the local branch should adopt as
a definite aim in its programs a series
of talks on military history by quali­fied
speakers. After a discussion of
this suggestion by various members,
a vote was taken and it was unani­mously
resolved that such an ar­rangement
should be made. A sched­ule
of speakers and topics will be
published as soon as it is formulated
LINDBERGH KIDNAPING IS BEST
NEWSPAPER 'BREAK' IN HISTORY
From the point of view of reader
interest, the story of the kidnaping
of the son of Col. and Mrs. Charles
A. Lindbergh is considered by news­paper
men to be one of the biggest
stories that has ever "broken."
There are, of course, stories which
have been of far more importance to
every ^newspaper reader—such as the
outbreak of the World War, the as-sasination
of presidents, and the de­pression.
But probably .never has
there been aroused such universal
interest in an event.
There are many reasons for this,
outstanding being the fact that here
is a story the full import of which
every newspaper reader of any in­telligence
whatever was able to grasp
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Tab Collar Shirt To
Be Vogue This Season
The tab collar shirt is an essential
part of the university man's ward­robe
this spring. This statement can­not
be made without adding that fine
stripes in shirts are also necessary,
because they are so closely related
to the tab collar. When undergrad­uates
at Princeton and Yale brought
this Prince of Wales style to the
campus, they started a fashion for
college men that is becoming nation­wide.
At present the tab-collar is so
popular in Eastern centers that many
of the merchants are showing a' wid­er
range of patterned shirts-with tab
collars than they ever had before.
Fine stripes in one or two colors
or shades combined with white pre­vail
in the styles worn by the better
dressed men. These young men wear
shirts in colors that harmonize with
that of their suit or tie. Some of
the color combinations include blue,
gray and white, two shades of blue
and white, two shades of tan and
white, two shades of gray and white,
gray, faint red and white, and many
more.
Coleman Jennings to
Give Addresses Here
Mr. Coleman Jennings of Washing­ton,
D. C, is coming here this week­end.
He graduated from Harvard
and since retiring from business has
been engaged as church worker
among those of the college age.
He will speak at the Episcopal
Church Friday at 7:30 p. m.; The
recently organized College Bible
Class Sunday at 9:45 a. m.; The
Episcopal Church Sunday at 11:00
a. m.
He will also speak, in the Episco­pal
Church, to the young people's
group at 6:30 p. m. to which the
young people of the other churches
are invited.
The public is cordially invited to
attend all these meetings. The usual
Friday afternoon Lenten service will
be replaced this week by the service
at 7:30 p. m.
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Lambda Chi Alpha Will
Establish Tenn. Chapter
The degree team of the Lambda
Chi Alpha fraternity left Wednes­day
for the installation of a chapter
of Lambda Chi Alpha at the Uni­versity
of Tennessee at Knoxville.
With the installation of this chap­ter
at Knoxville, this gives the fra­ternity
a total of eighty-four chap­ters
with none inactive. '
To be selected from among all the
chapters of the fraternity to put • on
the installation is a distinct honor
for the_ Auburn Zeta.
The members of the team makirig
the trip are: George Sewell, Donald
Jones, John Fonville, Linton Smith,
Terry Millsap, Bill Gaines, Red Gar-many,
and Hal Metcalfe.
Delta Alpha Delta
Plans Dance Friday
\
Delta Alpha Delta will give an in­formal
dance in honor of its pledges
next Friday night at 8:30 p. m. The
music for this occasion will be furn­ished
by an increasingly popular local
orchestra. Invitations for this af­fair
will be sent out personally.
ADDED ENTRIES EXPECT­ED
DAILY FOR HIGH
SCHOOL DRAMATIC MEET
(Continued from page 1)
week remaining in which to register
for any branch of the competition.
To promote a new impetus in liter­ary
and musical work throughout the
state, is stated as the purpose of the
annual tournament. Professor J. R.
Rutland, head of the English depart­ment
at Auburn, declares that a gen­eral
increase of entries during the
last week expected to bring the en­try
lists up to the number of schools
that have entered in past years.
on the first day it "broke," and on
every other day that it continued to
be news. Everyone who reads the
story, especially all women, is able
to place himself in the position of
the Lindberghs and understand their
emotions.
Furthermore, Col. Lindbergh is
undoubtedly unique as an interna­tionally
known, admired and respect­ed
individual. It is doubtful if any
other individual in history has ever
been so thoroughly "written up" in
the newspapers, or so well known, in
his own life time.
Again, it is a baby known to al­most
everyone who is most vitally
involved.
There are, therefore, the elements
of fame, human interest, indignation,
love of children, glamor of young
parenthood and respect of mother­hood,
all wrapped up in one news
story. It is difficult to conceive of
another story that could rank with it.
It is interesting to note, also, that
for the first time the radio has taken
on the aspect of a newspaper in mak­ing
regular and timely reports on the
progress of the case. Far from de­tracting
from the newspaper sales,
this has engendered them, and after
every radio report on the case news­papers
throughout the nation have
been swamped with calls from the
radio audience seeking further infor­mation.
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WEDNESDAY, March 16
Pola Negri in
"A Woman
Commands"
with
Basil Ratbone, Roland Young
/ and H. B. Warner
Novelty "Red Headed Baby"
and Comedy,
"Full Coverage"
THURSDAY, March 17
Lew Ayres in
"Impatient
: Maiden"
with
Mae Clarke - Una Merkel
Also Paramount Pictorial and
Comedy, "Models and Wives"
FRIDAY, March 18
"WayWard"
with >
Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen
and Pauline Frederick
Paramount News and Comedy,
"When Summons Comes"
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