1931-09-12 The Plainsman

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Congratulations
War Department THE PLAINSMAN
T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT
Congratulations
Cadet Officers
VOLUME LV AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 12, 1931 NUMBER 2
R. CX T. C UNIT HERE IS EXPANDED
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M* J* Sullivan Is Appointed Cadet Colonel of Unit
NEWLY CREATED OFFICES OF
LIEUTENANT COLONE GIVEN
BUSH, BOYLES AND KENNEDY
M. J. Sullivan has been named ca­det
colonel of the R. O. T. C. Unit
by a special order of the Military
Department issued this morning. The
lieutenant colonels appointed this
year are J. V. Boyles, E. B. Kennedy,
and J. D. Bush. Cadet majors are
John F. Turner, F. N. Williams, S.
B. Fort, G. W. Beard, J. D. Simmons,
O. M. Gordon, L. L. Hatfield, G. N.
Anderson, G. C. Walter, and J. R.
Jordan.
The following are the special or­ders
issued today:
With the approval of the President
the following appointments and as-'
signments of Cadet Officers in the
Reserve Officers' Training Corps at
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute are
announced effective this date.
FIELD ARTILLERY BRIGADE
STAFF
Cadet Colonel: M. J. Sullivan. Ca­det
Major: John F. Turner, Execu­tive.
Cadet Captain: G. V. Nunn,
Adjutant. Cadet Captain, Jack F.
Turner, Plans and Training Officer.
Cadet Captain: C. B. Elledge (Engi­neer),
Intelligence Officer. Cadet
Captain, Ted Tartt, Supply Officer.
FIRST FIELD ARTILLERY
STAFF
Cadet Lieutenant Colonel: J. V.
Boyles. Cadet Major: F. N. Williams
Executive. Cadet Captain: J. R. Wild­er,
Adjutant. Cadet Captain: W.
Herbert Johnson, Per. Adj. Cadet
Captain, T. N. Pyke, Supply Officer.
First Battalion, 1st F.A.
Cadet Major: S. B. Fort. Cadet
Captain, C. L. Dykes, Adjutant. Ca­det
1st Lt.: T. W. Lumpkin, Person­nel
Adjutant.
BATTERY A
Cadet Captain: D. T. Rogers. Ca­det
1st Lieuts.: H. B. Lawson, K. O.
Smith, J. E. Wood. Cadet 2nd
Lieuts.: W. M. Blakey, V. T. Ivey,
J. W. Walton.
BATTERY B
Cadet Captain: G. S. Sanford. Ca­det
1st Lieuts.: P. W. Crump, R. W.
Challen, R. A. Mann. Cadet 2nd
Lieuts.: R. R. McDonald, J. R. Relfe.
BATTERY C
Cadet Captain: L. B. Crouch. Ca-dent
1st Lieuts.: C. R. Jager, J. E.
Jenkins, W. S. Pollard. Cadet 2nd
Lieuts.: L. H. McKinnon, J. P. What-ley.
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Scrimmage Closes
Week's Work For
1931 Grid Squad
Squad Easily Shows Fine Re­sults
Of Last Spring's Long
Training Grind
COMPETITION STIFF
Highly Polished" Aggregation
To Take Field Against Bir­mingham-
Southern
Tryouts For Auburn
Players To Be Held
Next Monday Night
The Auburn Players will hold a
meeting in Langdon 'Hall Monday
night at eight, in an effort to secure
new talent for forthcoming produc­tions.
All students are invited to at­tend,
especially those who have taken
part in plays before, or are interested
in stage construction.
Immediately after the Langdon Hall
gathering, three one-act plays will be
read at the Y Hut and preliminary
selections for casts will probably be­gin.
There is a special inducement
to those who compose the players of
these short plays in that one of the
one-acters will be taken on the road
with the full-length production, which,
this year, is Moliere's The Doctor In
Spite of Himself.
The Auburn Players is a student
organization of long standing on the
campus, founded in a serious attempt
to produce worthwhile plays. It is
entirely managed by the student-members
and has offered many note­worthy
productions in the past.
After five days of intensive drill
in fundamentals the Auburn Tigers
were slated to conclude their first
week's work with a scrimmage on
Drake Field this afternoon.
The results of the long Spring
training grind are easily noticeable
and Coach Wynne and his staff were
able to take up this Fall where they
left off last March. Consequently a
much more highly polished aggrega­tion
will take the field against Bir­mingham-
Southern for the opening
encounter than did a year ago. •
As the time for the opening battle
draws near the fights for varsity
berths' become keener. The pivot po­sition
is wide, open with Buddy Mc-
Collum, Lee Johnson, Ralph Jordan,
and Will Chrietzberg all battling on
even terms for that post. Any one
of this quarter is likely to draw the
starting assignment as all stack up
pretty evenly when all points are con­sidered.
"Sleepy" Molpus and Commodore
Wood are the letter guards in camp
and both are showing up well. Don­ald
Jones has failed to report but
Chambless, Searcy, Woodall and
Crossland, all sophomores, will bolster
the guard, department considerably.
Co-Captain J. D. Bush, Red Prim,
Holdcroft, Arthur, and Miller have all
had a good deal of experience at the
tackle positions but they will receive
plenty of competition from Holmes,
Hughes, Wagnon and Burleson.
One flank is cinched unless Porter
Grant breaks a leg or is otherwise
disabled. Carey Senn, Sam Mason,
George Egge and David Ariail are the
other flankmen most likely to earn
regular positions.
Coach Wynne has been mixing up
his backf ields considerably in the daily
workouts but the quartet of Davidson
at quarter, Hatfield and Hitchcock at
the halfbacks, and Brown at full
seems the most likely to see regular
service. Bubber Phipps, the best pass­er
on the squad and a dangerous open
field runner, will also prove a big
asset to the ball carrying department
this season. Ike Parker, veteran
quarterback, Casey Kimbrell, Allen
Rogers and Ralph Neal, halfbacks,
and Marion Talley, fullback, may
edge into a regular berth before the
season gets underway and all are
bound to see service.
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Rat Rules Are Reinstated This Year;
W Club To Be Vigilance Committee
CHEER LEADERS GET
TRIALS ON SEPT. 19
All Wishing To Try Out Are
Requested T o Turn In Names
To "Bull" Stier
U. D. C. Chapter Will
Meet Next Tuesday
The Admiral Semmes chapter of
the United Daughters of the Confed­eracy
will meet at the home of Mrs.
C. S. Yarbrough Tuesday afternoon,
Sept. 15, at 3:00 P. M. o'clock. Mes-dames
Goode, Caldwell, Cauthen,
Lacy and Moon will be jointhostesses
with Mrs. Yarbrough. The program
will include a discussion of "The
Slave Trade in the Southern States".
All members of the organization
are urged to be present.
Cheer leaders will be selected at a
mammoth mass meting next Saturday
night, September 19, when the entire
student body will gather to practice
new yells and recall old ones. All
who wish to try out for the job of
helping "Bull" Stier during the com­ing
season are requested to turn in
their names to him "before Saturday.
Freshmen are required to attend
this mass meeting so that they may
learn the Auburn yells and customs.
On Thursday morning, September
24, one of Auburn's greatest convoca­tions
will be held in Langdon Hall.
The purpose of this meeting is to
give the football team a send-off with
the old Auburn spirit before their
game Friday. The entire team and
all of the coaches will be present, and
the famous Auburn band will be there
to add to the occasion. Everybody
is urged to attend.
Agreement To Enforce Rules
Reached By Meeting of Stu­dents
and Faculty
FRESHMEN ARE WARNED
Discipline of Rats To Be Much
Stricter Than In Former
Years
A satisfatcory agreement has
been reached between the faculty
and members of the student body to
the affect that Rat Rules will be re­instated
this year; the entire "A"
Club being designated to serve as a
vigilance committee for their en­forcement
Although the vigilance
committees of the past have been
very lenient, members of the present
one insist upon strict discipline- The
rules as laid down by the "A" Club
are as follows: >
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Maj. Franke Has
Fine Grid Slate
Maj. Gustav H. Franke, comman­dant
of the R. O. T. C. unit here, will
officiate in eight of the leading foot­ball
games in the South during the
1931 season.
Maj. Franke,"who is starting his
first year as commandant, starred at
end for the Army eleven for four
years, graduating in 1911. After a
term in the regular Army, he re­turned
to West Point as assistant to
Charles Daly, head coach, in 1915 and
1916.
Oct. 3—Wofford-Birmingham-South-ern
at Birmingham.
Oct. IS—Clemson-Citadel at Flor­ence,
South Carolina.
Oct. 17 — Tulane-Vanderbilt at
Nashville, Tenn.
Oct. 31—L. S. U.-Sewanee at Baton
Rouge. .
Nov. 7—Maryland-Vanderbilt at
Nashville.
Nov. 14—Georgia-Tulane at Athens,
Ga.
Nov. 26—Oglethorpe-Mercer at At­lanta.
Nov. 28—Tulane-L. S. U. at New
Orleans.
New Dormitory Opens
With Capacity Crowd
Auburn's new dormitory has start­ed
the semester off with almost ca­pacity
crowd. This brick-veneer struc­ture
on East Thach was built for the
accommodation of non-fraternity men
so that they could have the same ad­vantages
as members of fraternities.
In a few days the men will organize
along the same lines as a social group,
having officers, house rules, findings
committee and others.
The dormitory can hold 192 boys
and a matron. It is a three story
building so aranged that each floor
is a separate unit. All rooms have
steam heat and hot and cold water.
Some of the features of the building
are circulating ice water and electric
clocks. The lobby runs the entire
width and has space for sixty boys
at once. It contains reading tables,
lounges, and a large cabinet radio.
Mr. Whittel, the owner, says that he
is trying to make the boys comfortable
and feel like it is their home while
they stay there.
GLEE CLUB NOTICE
Glee Club tryouts Monday and
Tuesday nights from 7 to 9
o'clock at the Music Studio.
All candidates for . the Glee
Club come between the above
hours, either Monday or Tues­day
night. If impossible to meet
at this time a special appoint­ment
may be made by seeing
Professor John W. Brigham.
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Ladies' Riding Class
To Be Held This Year
To answer many inquiries relative
to the ladies riding class, the Com­mandant
announces that the class will
be held this year. The class will start
earlier than last year, probably
around October first.
If the registration of the class war­rants
the same, consideration will be
given to including ladies classes in the
annual horse show, to gymkana events
during the year and to paper chases
and cross country rides in addition to
the regular class instruction.
The class will as before be open to
members of the faculty, families of
faculty members and to women stu­dents.
The hours for classes and date of
first meeting will be announced later.
1200 ARE EXPECTED
TO ENROLL IN ROTC
905 Entered As Artillerymen
And 272 Listed In Engineer
Regiment _ •
The enrollment in R. O. T. C. this
year is expected to exceed twelve hun­dred
students, with a total of eleven
hundred seventy-seven already regis­tered.
The present figure exceeds that
of last year by eighty-seven and late
arrivals are expected to bring the
final total to a record-height.
Of the eleven hundred seventy-seven
already entered, nine hundred five are
members of the Field-Artillery regi­ments
while the remaining two hun­dred
seventy-two are Engineers. The
figures as released by the Military
Department are, Field Artillery:
Seniors, 105; Juniors, 151; Sopho­mores,
264; and Freshmen, 385. In
the Engineer regiment: Seniors, 36;
Juniors, 40; Sophomores, 87; and
Freshmen, 109.
The increasing size of the R. O.
T. C. department has made it neces­sary
to enlarge the size of the unit to
three regiments instead of the one
which was formerly sufficient. In
face of the increasing size of the unit,
the fact that it still retains the rank
of excellence among the other schools
of the nation is all the more com­mendable.
' All first year men have been meas­ured
for uniforms and as many as
possible equipped. All men who have
not received uniforms have been meas­ured
and their uniforms ordered, how­ever
it will be several weeks before
the entire unit is fully equipped.
The drill this morning will consist
of preliminary adjustments and pri­mary
foot movements only.
BAPTIST CHURCH WEL­COMES
STUDENTS
MILITARY UNIT IS CHANGED
FROM REGIMENT TO BRIGADE
BY WAR DEPARTMENT RULING
Hall Is Awarded
Birmingham News
Scholarship Here
Many Recommendations Show
Enviable Record Of Winner;
Native of Dothan
TO TAKE AGRICULTURE
Cecil Strong of Brewton Is
Awarded The Victor Hanson
Scholarship Of $100
This means Freshmen, Sopho­mores,
Juniors, and Seniors.
ALL BAPTISTS STUDENTS
are cordially invited to attend
all of the church services held at
the Baptist Church each Sunday.
Sunday School at 9:45 a. m.
B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 p. m.
Preaching services at 11:00 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m.
The Baptist Student Union.
NOTICE!
Freshmen who did not receive
"Rat Bibles" when they regis­tered
may obtain them now by y
calling at the Y. M. C. A. office.
NOTICE!
All Freshmen interested in­terested
in working on the staff
of the Auburn Engineer will
meet Monday afternoon, Sept.
14 on the second floor of Broun
Hall.
William G. Hall of Dothan has been
Selected winner of the 1931 Birming­ham
News scholarship,"according to
a recent announcement 'from Dr.
Bradford Knapp. Hall is entering the
school of Agriculture, and according
to the thirty or more recommendations
which accompanied his application,
his record is enviable. He was forced,
at one time, to discontinue his "high
school education for a year, during
which time he produced a crop on 32
acres of rented land. However, he
took a correspondence course and thus
continued, in part, his education. En­tering
school again, Hall worked as a
janitor in a church, by which means
and by means of money earned from
other.odd jobs, he was able to support
his mother and brother.
Part of Dr. Knapp's letter to the
Birmingham News follows: "This 19-
year-old boy has shown such courage,
such character, and such scholarship
that we have awarded the Birming­ham
News scholarship to him. His
father died after a lingering illness
some two years ago, leaving "Bill"
with his widowed mother and a young­er
brother and literally nothing to
support them. Since the father's death
they have succeeded in living, and, due
to "Bill's" energy and perseverance,
he has completed his high school edu­cation.
He says th. t all they have
asked was to be given a chance to
earn their way in the world."
Cecil Strong of Brewton, who was
second in the race for the scholarship,
is winner of the Victor Hanson schol­arship
of $100 given by the Victor
Hanson Club, according to an an­nouncement
by Cleveland Adams, pres­ident
of the club. The club, which is
composed of scholarship holders and
graduate beneficiaries, is the only
organization of its kind in Alabama.
This was made known in a complimen­tary
statement from the Birmingham
News scholarship editor to Otis
Spears, secretary and treasurer of
the club. Mr. Chappel, the scholar­ship
editor, stated that the News-Age
Herald is looking with interest upon
the activities of the club, which has
already been instrumental in provid­ing
means for the matriculation of
two second-choice boys. These are
Louis Baisden of Andalusia, who was
second in the race last year, and Cecil
Strong.
Y. M. C. A. Will Have
Lost and Found Dept.
A complete change in the organi­zation
of the R. O. T. C. Unit here
hat been made this year, according
to a statement issued today by the
Military Department. The unit has
changed from a regiment of Field
Artillery to a brigade of Field Ar­tillery,
to be composed of two regi­ments
of two battallion* each. There
will be an Engineer regiment com­posed
of two battalions.
• The change was made due to a
large enrollment in the advanced
courses, and officers of the Military
Department stated that the addition­al
units offered additional opportuni­ties
for cadet officers and non-com­missioned
officers to exercise com­mand
and leadership, which is a vital
part of their training.
Major G. H. Franke, commandant,
stated that the entire corps at Au­burn
has grown to such a point, and
the training of such a high type that
the institution is entitled to a pro­motion.
Instead of two, there will now be
four battallions of artillerymen, each
battallion to consist of three batter­ies.
There will be twelve artillery
batteries instead of nine. The two
artillery regiments will be designated
as First Field Artillery Regiment and
Second Field Artillery Regiment.
The batteries in each regiment will
be lettered from A to F, inclusive.
This is in accordance with the regu­lar
army system of organizing light
artillery.
The Engineer Unit will consist of
the First Engineer Regiment, which
will be composed of two battalions.
Each battallion will have two com­panies.
Company designations will
be A, B, D, and E.
The Artillery Brigade will be com­manded
by a cadet colonel. Each ,
Artillery Regiment and the Engi­neer
Regiment will be commanded by
a lieutenant colonel. Each battal­ion
of each unit will be commanded
by a major.
On each staff above the battalion
staff, there will be a cadet major who
will be the executive officer of his
unit.
, The Y. M. C. A. will operate
a Lost and Found Department
this year at the Y. M. C. A. of7
fice. All persons finding arti­cles
on the campus are asked
to leave them at the "Y" office.
Lost articles will be returned to
the owner after proper identifi­cation.
If at the end of the year
lost articles have not been called
for, the finder may receive same
by calling at the "Y" office.
Inter-Frat Council To
Hold First Meeting of
Year on September 14
A special meeting of the Inter-fraternity
Council has been called by
Hugh Ellis, president of the Council,
for Monday night, September 14, at
the Alpha Gamma Rho House at
seven o'clock.
Complete plans for the year have
not yet been finished, but the Coun­cil
expects to sponsor the usual af­fairs.
At the present time it is the
object of the Council to conduct
tournaments in tennis, basketball,
and golf, and it is possible that oth­er
additions will be made to the list
during the year. A large, silver
loving cup will be awarded to the
winner of the basketball tournament.
The golf trophy will be a rotating
cup, awarded permanently to the
fraternity winning for three con­secutive
years. A loving cup will
also be awarded to the fraternity at­taining
the highest scholastic aver­age
for the year.
Jt is also the object of the Coun­cil
to continue its practice of assum­ing
charge of the fraternity houses
during the dances. As stated by the
president, the real object of the
Council is to direct the fraternities-on
the campus, and to guide their
policies in regard to the administra-
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THE PLAINSMAN SATURDAY, SEPT. 12, 1931
* AUBURN FOOTPRINTS *>
George Tucker, assisted by "Doctor" Donald Stephen Trowbridge, announce the~
opening of their newest venture into the field of science, The Tucker and Trowbridge
Anomalous Ambulance Agency, Inc. (Special Rates for Ethiopians).
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Wonder what this years co-eds think of Co-Co Bush's annual marcel?
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While we think of it, George Walters and J. D. Bush went to California this
summer. Jeff Beard was lost somewhere in the Grand Canyon.
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A pessimists promise of undying love and devotion: Yours till the end of the
depression.
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From a current list of statistics we find that there were 873 paying-boarders
and 872 table waiters in the town of Auburn. The eight hundred and seventy-third
boarder died last night from a nervous breakdown.
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The Pa Kappa Alphas still contend that they had nothing to do with the atrocity
created upon the massive walls of their stronghold. The painters evidently mistook
a can of Flit for painters-colic tonic.
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From all indications the Interfraternity Council Handbook did the work—the
majority of the lodges expect to pledge all holdout's by the Christmas vacation.
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Beginning with this issue the prevaricating perpitrators of FOOTPRINTS will
give their readers each week a short resumee of the weekly doings of Joe Purvis. /
No doubt, many are acquainted with Joe and after a few issues we hope he will
come into his own and become a byword among Auburn students. Joe lost the first
bet of. his eventful life the other day. He bet a man that he could jump off the
Eiffel Tower and come up in New York harbor. He came up in Salt Lake City.
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Many Auburn students attended the Invitational dance given by Sam Hill in
Fairfax last night; many of the prominent members of the social committee receiv­ed
invitations.
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And then there was the freshman who thought he had to get his Y. M. C. A.
card before he could buy ice-cream at the Auburn Creamery.
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Registration of all students is expected to "be completed by mid-semester exami­nation
,week.
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The compilers of the Rat Rules seem to have given credit where credit was not
ddue. The newly matriculated students are hardly capable of producing a 'messy'
upper lip with anything but burnt cork.
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Question—How do the new co-eds look? Answer—Right past me.
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The sale on bath-tub enamel has shown a brisk increase following a strenuous
summer-school.
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A plan is underfoot to print cards for distribution among upperclassmen at the
beginning of each fall term with the following printed thereon: 'Ja' have a big
summer Yes or No (as desired).' This should prove a great boon to involuble vocal
chords.
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The Engineering courses offered to graduate Engineers seems to have been «
outlined with the prime purpose of pleasing two departments.
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It is reported that the "A" club will entertain with a tea in the near future
for members of the freshman class. Certain figures on the water tank indicate
the guests are in town.
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"Goof" is in town, but we have no report as yet.
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A CALL FOR LEADERS
An incident of the past few days
pointed clearly to one of Auburn's
greatest needs, that of a. leader or
group of leaders to guide student ac­tivities
when there is a tendency for
the mob spirit to reign. The occasion
referred to was entirely a student
problem; one that has, after a most
embarrassing situation, found its solu­tion
among the students.
Yet, when the occasion arose, when
the dramatic climax came, there were
none to cope with frenzied students.
It is only plausible that student activi­ties
should be directly controlled by
the student body, through their leaders.
For this reason there has been a strong
tendency on the American college cam­pus
to organize its leaders into honor
societies, to bring together those pos­sessing
qualities of leadership to guide
student sentiment. This is as it should
be. Auburn leaders have, either from
faculty restraint or lack of initiative,
failed to take the proper authority in
such matters.
The Plainsman offers this plea to
students and faculty, and contends that
student leadership and faculty coopera­tion
are possible, when the two are
sincerely working for a common cause.
R. O. T. C. EXPANSION
The expansion announced today by the
military department is one of the most pro­gressive
steps taken in this institution in
many years. R. 0. T. C. at Auburn now
rests on a parity, in regard to organization,
with any school in America.
The Plainsman commends every member
of the War Department's faculty. It is very
'fitting that Major Gustav H. Franke should
begin his duties here with such a progres­sive
-move. Attention is also called to the
untiring efforts of Major Kennedy, retir­ing
Commandant, to build up his depart­ment.
Military training has long been consid­ered
a vital factor in education. The ability
to handle men is admittedly invaluable to
a successful man. This new organization
will give more men opportunity to act in
the capacity of leaders. May the other
units of t h e college follow in these steps of
progress.
NEWS IS A. P.-MEMBER
Congratulations are offered to The Ope-lika
Daily News upon having been award­ed
membership in the Associated Press, the
greatest of all news services. Members of
the staff of The Plainsman realize that The
News has made a wonderful accomplishment
of the task of bringing news to its readers
throughout eastern Alabama, and with As­sociated
Press service, its value to sub-.
scribers will be greatly increased. The of­ficials
of The News are a group of men who
are- always willing to help plodding journal­ists
here, and many times they have assist­ed
the staff of the college paper.
We quote The Mobile Register:
The Opelika Daily News announces
with reasonable pride that it is now a
member of the Associated Press and will
hereafter be able to give its wide circle
of readers a more complete news serv­ice.
The Opelika News, published in a
progressive and thriving community in
Lee County, serves a large area in East
Alabama, covering four counties in that
part of the state. It was established as
a daily in 1904 and has made a good
showing since that time.
With Associated Press service The
News is bound to make a still stronger
appeal to newspaper readers in Lee
Countyand in adjacent counties in that
part of Alabama. The mere fact that
this great news service has been se­cured
by The Opelika News is an indi­cation
that the men in active control of
the paper desire to give their patrons a
complete newspaper, a newspaper that
will every day reflect the major doings
of all parts of the world, and it is safe
to assume that the readers of the paper
will appreciate both the enterprise and
the service of The News.
LOVE IN GEORGIA
In the good old-days, men and women lov­ed
but once. They loved at first sight;
they married; they lived happily ever after­wards,
no matter what assailed their bliss.
Differences in temperament, desires and as­pirations
might be discovered; disagreeable
characteristics might develop; charming
personalities might swing into the family
circle. No matter; the hearts of those days
never wandered.
But times have changed. At least the pub­lic
has been given reason to believe that
such is the case in Georgia. In that once
happy State some of the "peaches" seem
to be no longer able to hold their own; and
some of the busy heads of houses are ap­parently
experiencing difficulty in keeping
their "peaches" contented and happy.
Let nobody suppose, however, that Geor­gia
hearts are to be allowed to wander at
will; that lonely gentlemen aie to be per­mitted
to seek the companionship of other
men's wives; that unhappily married wo­men
may with impunity smile at the inter­esting
husband of another. The strong
arm of the law is to.be brought into play,
if possible, to keep love in Georgia within
the bounds it selected.for itself at the altar.
Indeed, a bill designed to accomplish this
was introduced in the last Legislature, but
like many another measure it was lost in
the shuffle during the closing days of the
session. But the fight to keep the Georgia
heart from loving but once, at least until
"death do us part," has only begun. Advo­cates
of the lost bill have announced that
they will start a campaign to have the
measure passed at the next session.
And j f the proposed law is passed, woe
betide the husband or wife whose affections
wander and the man or woman who causes
the cooling of love in a Georgia home. Those
who disobey the Legislature's "thou shalt
not" will be held equally guilty and will be
liable to criminal prosecution and, upon
conviction, subject to a penitentiary sen­tence
of from one to ten years. And some
of the advocates are even reported to favor
the death penalty for home-wreckers and
husbands and wives whose hearts go a-wandering.
Many strange things have happened in
Georgia, but nothing stranger than this in­dicated
decline in the constancy of the
Georgia heart, one day noted for its endur­ing
affection and its impregnability, once
it had intrenched itself. That is, nothing
stranger has happened unless it be the in­spired
movement to attempt control of the
hearts of men and women by legislative en­actment.—
Chattanooga Times.
Five Years Ago
As Recorded in the Pages of The
Plainsman
• F. A. Rogers, familiarly known to Au­burn
students' as" "Foreman", opened his
new theatre to a large audience Monday
afternoon, September 6. The performance
was thoroughly appreciated, and much ad­miration
was expressed by those who en­joyed
the program.
* * * *
Every year the same topic appears in the
editorial columns of this paper. Namely
the "Auburn Spirit". It seems as though
that is the main thing the freshmen have
to learn. Yet it is a curious thing that
Auburn men never tire of reading about the
"Auburn Spirit."
* * * *
Coach "Dave" Morey began his first year
at the helm of Tiger football affairs when
school opened last year. Coach Morey. came
to the Plains after having spent five years
at Middlebury, where he made an enviable
record as coach. He is also head coach of
baseball.
* * * *
The Honor System is sacred to the ins­titution.
Let no one dare violate it, for
he will soon learn that dishonesty is not
tolerated here, not even in the mildest form.
Quotations
There ought to be more difference be­tween
church members and others.—Wil­liam
Lyon Phelps.
Belied that "practice makes perfect," is
responsible for a flock of dub golfers.—
Prof. J. G. Jenkins.
f
I love tranquil solitude
And such society
As is quiet, wist and good.—Shelley
The wiser thing would be to find out
what the Russians know that we do not.—
Harrington Emerson. \
. Improvement is usually the last resort..
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
[ ^ ^ — 8 — 1 GETTING DOWN
nesday. Freshmen be­gan
on Friday. Next Monday ought to see
everybody with his shoulders in the collar
beginning to work regularly and methodi­cally.
Do not delay to get your books and
to regulate your attendance upon classes
and other duties according to your schedule.
This is just as important for sophomores
and upperclassmen as it is for freshmen.
More students fail and have to be sent home
on account of a failure to get down to work
in the fall than for any other reason. Re­member
that your parents at home are
poor. No matter how much money there
may be in the world these days everyone
is poor. In our poverty there is no chance
for shirking or wasting time. I have a
letter from the President's organization on
Unemployment Relief in which colleges are
urged to do all within their power to keep
students in college because all of those who
ate either sent home or who cannot make
arrangements to go to college add to the
number of unemployed and become competi­tors
for the jobs back at home. There is
little* the colleges can do in this direction
unless we can have. the"cooperation of stu­dents.
I cannot emphasize too strongly this
point. Pull yourself together; get off by
yourself sometime during Sunday and sit
down and think it all over. Make a sched­ule
of the time you are going to need for
your work and refuse to be persuaded to
sacrifice any of that time. Make a firm
resolution to start in next Monday morn­ing
to perform earnestly every task for
which you came to Auburn. Nothing is
more important in your college life than
this one thing.
* * * *
ATHLETICS: College athletics, especial-ly
football, is a great, interesting and fas­cinating
phase of educational life in Ameri­ca.
I, for one, believe that there is.- great
value in our athletic program. I think we
never should let athletics overbalance the
real objective of college life which is to get
this all-round training and development
which we are after. The athletic program
can be made a part of this training if we
are willing to take it in the right way.
Come out and encourage the team. Partici­pate
in the work in every way you can be­cause
a part of it is. the very spirit of the
institution itself.
* * * *
WHAT IS COLLEGE SPIRIT? College
spirit is a sort of indefinable thing. I think
it is somewhat akin to patriotism. It has
to grow in one's heart and mind. It cannot
be created suddenly. It is made up of a
thousand and one things—inspiration, train­ing,
personal attachment for men and wo­men
and scenes at the college, joy of friend­ships
and a lot of other things. I have
never thought that you could get real col­lege
spirit through anything else than a
happy experience in gradually coming to
believe in the justice, fairness and ideals
of your college. No one can come to such
a state except by the acceptance of these
ideals and a generous accord with all that
is best and finest in the institution.- Real
college spirit is never the product of in-justice,
unfairness or low ideals.
* * * *
SLOWNESS OF REGISTRATION: The
first issue of the Plainsman had* a splendid
editorial regarding the slowness of regis­tration.
The criticisms in that editorial
are just and fair in every way. Some of
the suggestions made seem impossible at
the present time because the process of
registration is not as simple as it sounds.
Nevertheless the administration of the in­stitution
is anxious to do all it can to pre­vent
what happened this year. I am in­clined
to believe it would not have, happen­ed
if one of the important members of the
staff in the Accountant's Office had not
been ill and also if it had not been that
Labor Day fell on that Monday. These two
things made the progress much slower than
usual. There was a third thing and that
was so very large a number of students
had to make special arrangements regard­ing
finances. If all a student had to do
was come to a window and pay his fees
that transaction could be done in the same
length of time it takes to cash a check at
the bank. But there is always a certain
amount of discussion about the amount
due, irregularity of the student, and things
of that kind. What we hope to do the next
time is to have more than one line and thus
relieve the congestion.
* * * *
No man is perfect. I know I feel strong­ly.
. My love for Auburn is so deep that it
is hard for me to tolerate any, criticism or
any action which will reflect in the least
Book Review
Fishmonger's Fiddle, By A. E. Coppard.
278pp; $2.50; Knopf
When they got to the workhouse, the first
thing they did was to undress Alice and
put her into a hot bath. Then they put her
to bed, and she never got up again. Mollie
was" full of resentment and full of scorn:
"They said she died of a concert in her
throat, but they'd no call to put an old wo­man
into a bath—not all at once. She was
too old for that sort of treachery. Wash
when you can and when it's wanted, that's
what I believe in. I washes up as far as
I can, and the next time I washes down as
far as I can, but'I wouldn't be put in no
bath for fifty shillings. If God in heaven
meant us to be drown'd in water we'd a
bin made like fishes."
A. E. Coppard is a name you should not
soon forget. Always there is humour in his
tragedy and pathos in his farce. The
stories, too, show his vigorous versatility
with an equal distinction in each variety.
Coppard writes simply, with beauty and
often with humorous undertones which re­veals
person afflicted with Chaplinitis. To
the readers of Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
and The Little Black Dog there is no need
of pointing out that Mr. Coppard's stories
are unequalled in their quaint fantasy, poig­nant
irony and poetic narration.
Short stories on a hot summer's day are
always acceptable. When gathered into a
book, they are a convenience. And when
they are by A. E. Coppard, they are in­surance
against restless ennui.
SHAKESPEARE SAYS:
Peace be with him!
That life it better life, past fearing death,
Than that which lives to fear: Make it your
comfort,
So happy is your brother.
—Measure for Measure, v, 1.
upon the good name of this institution. I
love this college so greatly that her fair
name I must guard jealously. I know I
feel too deeply on this subject. I feel also
too deeply for the student who is in trouble
and who makes a clean breast of the dif­ficulty.
After all there j s joy in working
for the eternal good of the things, the ideals,
or the persons we love.
As I Like It
= • =
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.
=ii & * #
A NOTE ON CRITICISM
Journalistic criticism, as practiced in
America at least, obliges a critic to live in
a glass house, and none of his processes of
arriving at an opinion may be kept secret.
A goldfish's lot, to use a simile made pop­ular
by one of our wits, is infinitely happier,
since the goldfish's thoughts are his own.
Not so your critic. His half thoughts and
quarter thoughts are commanded by the
always yawning space to be filled, and in
the glare and exposure of shop-window
thinking the best he can do generally is to
indicate the direction of his thought and not
the full force of it. The research necessary
for the establishment of exact values in a
scattered world being impossible, it follows
that justification for a pronounced feeling,
when it arrives at all, arrives by accident.
* * * *
Lady into Fox, by David Garnett (Knopf)
presents a supernatural event, the sudden
metamorphosis of a lady into a fox, in nine­teenth
century England, under the eyes of
her husband. The illusion of reality is
perfectly maintained, the details of the ef­fect
of the change upon a correct English
country household, the gradual change in
the. lady's character to fit her new form,
are admirably worked out. And quite apart
from the lady's side of it, the sympathetic
handling of the unfortunate husband's di­lemma
is excellent.
* * * *
Sampire, by John Gowper Powys (Boni)
is a book of twenty poems in a jargon
worthy of Ossian or Monk Lewis, with
mysterious castles, haunted woods, trolls,
and a personal Devil. A bit of cosmos is
thrown in for good measure, while the
metre limps and staggers as if drunken
with Immensities. . . .Sampire is also an
aromatic cliff plant used in making pickles.
The purpose of the writer is not to at­tempt
a hasty sprint through the "latest"
books glissando but rather to give an idea
of the publications of the last decade, com­mencing
with Firbank and the Fitzgerald-ians
and continuing to the present time.
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 erfumn of personal comment,
and is not to be read as an expression of our
editorial policy.
BECAUSE the college administration
saw fit to completely change the per­sonal
of the Auburn Speech Depart­ment
the Plainsman columnists are left
without a subject on which to write, but to
show our appreciation of the change we can
well do without a subject. The adminis­tration
is certainly to be congratulated on
carrying through this much needed change,
and with a man who is able to win the co­operation
of the student body, forensic acti­vities
at Auburn should again assume their
proper place in student affairs.
Auburn is the only college, of its size, in
the South that does not have a dramatic
club and debating team, which is just as
bad if not worse than having no foot-ball
team. The administration did sense the
general opinion of the student body, and
change the men at the head of the Speech
Department, but if their cooperation ends
there the whole program is again doomed to
failure.
Why the college will tolerate some of the
questionable practices carried on at this in­stitution
is more than a majority of the
student body can understand. In this par­ticular
case I am speaking of that whole­sale
deception that was used to force the
members of the Freshman class to buy a
copy of the new victory song. It is well and
good that they all have a copy, and in the
registration line is an excellent place to
sell them, but it is certainly not sportsman
like nor even honest for certain individuals
or organizations (which ever the case may
be) to take advantage of the new man mere­ly
because they have not been in Auburn
long enough to know how to look out for
such things.
It is understood that every freshman is
required to buy a rat cap at a price set by
the Executive Cabinet, which this year was
$1.00, but when a copy of the song is in­cluded,
and the new man is required to pay
$1.35, usually thinking that he is paying
that amount for the rat cap only, it is noth­ing
short of malicious graft and dishonesty.
Why was this plan not tried on* some oth­er
class as well as the freshman? From
all indications it is just as important, if
not more important for the upperclassmen
to have a copy of the new song as it is
for the freshmen, but those who had charge
of putting this deal across knew that only
the new men could be fooled so easily. Also
why should an Auburn student be required
to buy a copy of the song with music when
it is a hundred to one bet that he will never
have any use for anything except the words.
Looking at it from every direction it still
remains a graft, and even if the money
goes to support the athletic program the
Auburn student body does not approve of
using any such methods.
At last the Y. M. C. A. has made an im­provement,
and is planning to put on a
program that is worthy of the whole-heart­ed
support of the Auburn student body. In
Faybert Martin, the organization has an ex­cellent
man, and under his guiding influ­ence
the Y. M. C. A. should help every stu- .
dent to solve his problems, and become a
better Auburn man.
One of the most important changes
brought about in the organization this year
was allowing each individual student to de­cide
for himself regarding membership.
In the past, membership in the Y. M. C. A.
meant very little, but with the change in
the organization and the improvement in
the Association's quarters, Auburn should
look forward to having some of the most
up-to-date Y. M. • C. A. programs in the
South.
SANDALPHON
I looked upon him and I said,
"He is come late from Paradise.
I see strange light upon his head,
And dark, sad laughter in his eyes.
"His mouth is made of pain and mirth,
And tears and singing shake his breath.
His feet have found upon the earth
The ways of life and love and death.
"Out of the spittle and the clay
His hands have shapen shining things;
And feathtrs fallen by the way
He fashions into restless wings.
"He weaves into a song again
The broken notes of lonely birds;
And from the lips of silent men
He plucks the music of bright words."
I look upon him and I see.
Laughter and sorrow in his eyes,
And all such wisdoms as must be
In one come late from Paradise.
—BARBARA YOUNG in the New York
Times.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 12, 1931 THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Judge Florence Allen
Challenges Methods
Present Day Teaching
Cleveland, 0.—(IP)—Judge Flo­rence
E. Allen of the Ohio Supreme
Court held up the "Stop, Look and
Listen" sign to the 3,000 teachers of
nursery schools, kindergartens and
primary grades, gathered from all
parts of the country for the 38th an-nau
meeting of the Association for
Childhood Education here.
Brushing aside, as of minor signi­ficance,
the much-debated techniques
of education, Judge Allen threw down
a challenge to these trainers of the
youngest Americans, and said in ef­fect:
With all your progressive educa­tion,
your new psychologies, your
splendid equipment, your increased
cultural facilities, education in Amer­ica
has missed the vital meaning of
spiritual and cultural life. .
Even in college educated circles,
people don't really read.
Concerts never advertise what is
to be played but always the soloist.
In the past twenty years there has
been a definite retrogression in self-control
and self-mastery in the indi­vidual
and the group.
We have the racket, which is no
longer an isolated phenomenon, be­cause
we have not-taught self-control
in the home and the school.
"This machine age has had us by
the throat," she said. "America has
FOOTBALL SCHEDULE ARRANGED
FOR LEE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
With a schedule comprised of dif­ficult
but not impossible games,
Coach Frank Dubose, mentor of the
Auburn High School football team,
hopes to continue his former success­ful
record. About thirty men are
expected to report for practice the
first part of next week, with J.
Moore, captain, and Cooke, alternate
captain, the leaders of a generally
light team.
The addition of several new men
to the team is expected to give it
added strength during the coming
season. The son of Major Franke,
new commandant at Auburn will be
a recruit from Atlanta and, with Sam
Herndon and Melton, also newcom­ers
will be looked to for backfield
strength. Isley, new to Auburn, is
an unknown quantity as yet, but'
will be tested next week, when prac­tice
is slated to begin. From the
new colony of Mexicans and Cubans,
Coach Dubose expects to recruit at
least two men who have played be­fore:
Coach Dubose has been the coach
for the past two years at Tallassee,
where he lost but two games during
that period. This year he is point­ing
to the Opelika game on the
twentieth of November. Besides this
important game, there is the tradi­tional
game with Columbus High at
Columbus, Ga., and the game with
Lovett on the sixth of November and
the thirtieth of October respectively. |*.
The complete schedule is as fol
lows:
Tuskegee—Oct. 2, here.
Notasulga—Oct. 9, here.
Langdale—Oct. 16, here.
Union Springs—Oct. 23, there.
Lovett—Oct. 30, here.
Columbus High—Nov. 6, there.
Central High—Nov. 13, there.
Opelika—Nov. 20, here.
Coach Sam McAllister
Aids Roger Kiley In
Handling Auburn Line
Chivalrous Sons of Auburn Display
Hearts of Gold By Race to Hospital
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Who says Auburn students are
without chivalry? Who doubts
that underneath the rugged sur­face
there is a tender heart? A
recent incident on the Opelika
highway sustains the belief that
college boys are human.
Speeding madly to Opelika in his
somewhat abbreviated "T" model
Ford, George E. Tucker, Junior,
accompanied by loyal friends in
Donald S. Trowbridge and on<
James Key, interrupted in their
quest for pleasure by a serious
accident.
The laddies were light of heart.
It was Amateur night at the Ope-like
Theatre. Who isn't light-hearted
on Amateur Night in'Ope-lika.
They sang college songs.
Reporters have as yet been unable
to find out what songs.
Suddenly (things always happen
suddenly with Tucker's Ford) a
crowd loomed up before the speed­ing
machine . . . throngs of ex­cited
people . . . . a fist fight . . .
blood! blood . . . wrecked automo­biles,
and our heroes arrived. A
battered negro school teacher, then
on her way to a faculty meeting,
screamed in the center of the
crowd as blood rushed from her
maimed arm.
"Who will take this woman to a
doctor?", cried the crowd.
"We will", bravely spoke the
college boys in unison.
The crowd separated as the Ford
roared away with the wounded vic­tim.
Noble lads.
CUBS TO INVADE DRAKE FIELD
FOR SCRIMMAGE SATURDAY
Inventors Offering
World Stream Of
New Achievements
not mastered itself, ft may be partly
the fault of the teachers."
Always Ready to Serve You
BANK OF AUBURN
| Bank of Personal Service
First Time
at School Opening
The New Burgundy Red
and Black rarker "Quo/old
They're ready—Parker's latest creations
—first time shown at a school opening—
the new Burgundy Red and Black Matched
Pen and Pencil sets. Rare beauties, as radi­antly
colorful as wine-colored crystal. See
them now at your nearest Parker dealers.
Take a pair to class and you'll have the
newest in the Guaranteed for Life Duofold
Pen. Not $10 as you would expect—but
only $5 or $7—due to largest sale in the
world. The set—Junior size Pen and Pen­cil,
$8.75; Lady Duofold Set, $8.25.
TOOMER'S
Will Give You Service
DRUG SUNDRIES
DRINKS SMOKES
Don't Forget Our Sandwiches
ON THE CORNER
Hard times or no, hopeful invent­ors
are offering the world a constant
stream of ponderous achievements
and frivolous gadgets.
Recent inventions registered at the
United States patent office range
from a snowplow to a new kind of
hen's nest, replacing the convention­al
straw variety so long in use, and
to an improved type of sea wall.
An inventor in the sheep walks of
Australia has received a patent for
a "deburring machine" designed to
remove foreign matter from wool.
The description accompanying the
patent tells in some detail how the
sheepskin is put through a mechani­cal
combing process to remove burrs,
emerging, the inventor no doubt
hopes, as clean as when it first cloth­ed
a new-born lamb.
Edward Arthur Forbes of West
Palm Beach, Fla., obtained the pat­ent
for a sea wall. Wherein this
particular sea wall is an improve­ment
upon other sea walls is not im­mediately
apparent from the descrip­tion
in the Patent Office Gazette, but
it might be considered significant that
a Floridian should invent a sea wall.
Minor and freak inventions domi­nate
the patent office lists. Only
rarely does one appear so revolution­ary,
as to cause a sensation, except,
perhaps, among technicians especial­ly
interested. " Most of the names ap­pearing
as inventors are either large
corporations or their employeesr
In the latter class is Olaf Bjork of
Taft, B. C. The world may live to
see delegations of motorists making
pilgrimages to Bjork, for he has in­vented
a backstop for automobiles.
It is a simple device of rubber and
coil springs, taking the place of the
familiar rear bumper, and is design­ed
to cause a recoil when one automo­bile
sneaks up and bumps another in
the rear.
Another recent invention is a com­bination
fountain pen and inkstand,
in which a device in the inkstand
operates the filling device in the pen,
thus saving labor for the pen's owner.
Prune Pitter Designed
From California came a design for
a prune pitter. This machine has a
gadget for gripping the prune firmly,
a rubber tube to be applied to the
end of the prune, and a device for
extracting the pit. The pit then is
sucked through the tube and de­posited
wherever they deposit prune
pits in California.
A few other recent patents, as
listed in the Gazette, are: Handbag
and concealed muff (this combines
the old-fashioned hand warmer with
the modern oversize purse), cigar­ette
cork tipper, hatband fastener,
game board, hair-cutting machine,
identifier for toothbrushes and the
like (being an initialled necklace for
your toothbrush), machines for wrap­ping
cigars and other elongated
bodies, finger ring (this has a series
of hearts, alternately right side up
and upside, down).
The ^latest addition to the Auburn
coaching staff, Coach Sam McAllister,
is teaming up with Coach Roger
Kiley in handling the Tiger line this
season.
The former three sport star at St.
Viator has already won considerable
recognition in the South by turning
out a championship baseball team
and a crack basketball quintet in his
first year at Auburn.
He is expected to be equally suc­cessful
in turning out vicious tackles
as he was in developing .300 hitters
last baseball season. The new men­tor
is quiet and reserved buf? has
made a host of friends on the Auburn
campus.
By K. G. Taylor
Coach Earl McFaden's baby Tigers
will make their debut on Drake field
Saturday afternoon in the first real
scrimmage for both the Freshmen
and the Varsity. The frosh will use
only straight line plays and plays
from punt formation as their prac­ticing
has been interrupted tot) much
for them to have made much prog­ress
in the Notre Dame System.
The freshman squad is at present
composed of seventy healthy youths,
ranging from five feet four inches in
Gigantic Agricultural
Enterprises Planned
By the Chain Stores
Farming on a gigantic scale is now
being planned by the big chain stores
as a means to delivering cheaper and
better food to their customers, accord­ing
to Prof. Walter B. Pitkin of Co­lumbia
University, who has been con­sulted
as to the economic soundness
of the scheme. He asserts that one
chain store is now sending one of the
shrewdest farm managers all around
the country, with funds to buy or
lease thousands of ricTi acres.
"The idea," says Prof. Pitkin in an
article published by Country Home, a
national farm magazine, "is to supply
chain stores with food from chain
farms. The experiment will' first be
tested on a small scale. If it works,
there will be available millions of dol­lars
for the acquisition of a veritable
empire.
"Will it succeed? Who knows? But
we must admit that the present state
of -business, finance and agriculture
favors it as never before. We enter an
era of falling prices and declining re­turns
on catital. That means failure
for him who cannot slash production
costs. It spells the doom of all those
who having paid $300 an acre for
grain land compete'against. others
who hold equally good soil at $50 an
acre. A decade of golden opportunities
will fall into the laps of only two kinds
of citizens; those blessed with superior
technical skill in management and
those who have much capital with
which to acquire farms at the bargain
prices of tomorrow."
Richard Whitney, president of the
New York Stock Exchange, predicts
that within a few years multimillion-dollar
farming corporations will be
coming to Wall Street for large-scale
financing.
One grocery chain could easily man­age
a round million acres. Ten chains
could swing ten times that area, And,
because the cost of producing and dis­tributing
products of these fields
would range far below that reached by
any small farmer or cooperative, the
chain stores would set market prices
for all growers. It is always the lowest
offer that determines the day's level.
The typical farmer spends between
$1.10 and $1.25, net, to raise a bushel
of wheat. A chain store farm manager
could readily grow the same for 45
cents, says Prof. Pitkin, who adds that
Collins in Iowa, Bird in Kansas, Wil­son
in Montana and Price in Texas
are doing that very thing now, with
acreage and capital far smaller than
the chain store's.
Suggestions For
School Lunches
Given By Expert
With the approach of another
school year, Miss Helen Kennedy,
extension nutritionist at Alabama
Polytechni»Institute, has offered sug­gestions
for school lunches which she
hopes will help mothers solve a vex­ing
problem.
"No growing boy or girl can thrive
physically or mentally without prop­er
nourishment," said Miss Kennedy.
"A cafe guide to use in preparing
lunches for school children is the
daily 4-H ration. Each child should
have each day a quart of milk, five
servings of vegetables, two servings
of whole grain bread or cereal, two
servings of eggs, cheese, meats or
dried legumes, and six to eight glass
es of liquid. By making a distribu­tion
for three meals daily the re­quirements
for lunch can be readily
recognized."
The lunch should be carefully pre­pared,
using a clean, well ventilated
lunch ^box, Miss Kennedy explained.
The contents may be sandwiches, in­cluding
a vegetable sandwich, fruit,
a sweet, and a drink. An investment
in a thermos bottle for providing hot
soup or cocoa on cold days may bring
returns jn the form of better nour­ished
children, she said.
height to six feet five, and weighing
from one hundred and twenty-five
pounds to two hundred and eighty.
Bedford, former Boys High luminary,
of Atlanta, is easily the largest man
on the squad. Standing six feet five
inches this behemoth tackle tips the
scale at two hundred and eighty
pounds. The ax will probably fall
early next week when the squad will
be cut to about thirty-five outstand­ing
men.
Coach McFaden is well pleased
with the attitude of his boys and their
efforts to learn the complicated Notre
Dame system.
Although the freshman schedule is
not complete, if- is hoped that the
Georgia Tech freshmen will be play-
Petrie and Wynne
In College Humor
The October issue of College Humor
gave recognition to athletics at the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, carry­ing
a picture of Dr. George Petrie
and Coach Chet Wynne.
Dr. Petrie introduced football at
Auburn and was the first coach; and
Chet Wynne is the present coach.
The picture was sent to College
Humor by Elmer G. Salter, sports
editor in the Department of Public
Information. Mr. Salter was also re-sponsible
for splendid recognition
given by this publication to the Au­burn
baseball team of last spring.
ed here October 10th, the day the
varsity play in Madison, Wisconsin.
If this cannot be arranged they will
play either the Oglethorpe or the
Mercer "Rats" here on that date.
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Radio Will Render
Service in Marketing
Radio will render an invaluable
service to Alabama farmers in mark­eting
their 1931 cotton. By means
of radio farmers will receive cotton
market news twice or three times
daily from both stations WAPI in
Birmingham and WSPA in Montgom­ery.
Station WODX in Mobile also
broadcasts cotton and other market
news.
Much of this market news will be
arranged and presented either by or
from the State Department of Agri­culture
and Industries at Montgomery
with L. O. Brackeen in charge. The
different stations will arrange their
cotton and other markets broadcasts
and announcements will be made
from time to time in order that list­eners
may know when to expect mar­ket
news. This system of markets
broadcasting was inaugurated in Ala­bama
in 1929. It has been conduct­ed
continuously, and is a popular
radio feature. The U. S. govern­ment
and cotton brokers cooperate in
supplying the information.
Farmers who have receiving sets
can keep in close touch with market
developments by listening to these
broadcasts. In addition to quoting
prices, mention is made of changes
—either up or down. Market trends
are also broadcast in order that the
listeners may know what the market
has done a week, or a month, or a
year.
.With radio receiving sets now sell­ing
at a very low price it is possible
for one to pay for itself in one sea­son
or even in a day or a week by
supplying market news, which is only
one of many radio features broadcast
daily in Alabama. New battery sets
are better, and a much better type
of battery is being used.
M. J. SULLIVAN APPOINTED
CADET COLONEL OF UNIT
Schedule Of Games
Be Played By Tigers
Schedule for the Auburn Tigers
for the 1931 season follows:
Sept. 25, Birmingham-Southern in
Montgomery (Friday night game);
Oct. 10, U. of Wisconsin at MadisOn;
Oct. 17, Georgia Tech in Atlanta,
Ga.; Oct. 24. U. of Florida in Jack­sonville;
Oct. 31, Spring Hill College
in Auburn; Nov. 7, Tulane U. in
Montgomery; Nov. 14, Sewanee U.
in Birmingham; Nov. 21, U. of Geor­gia
in Columbus, Ga., and November
26, U. of South Carolina in Mont­gomery.
(Continued from page 1)
Second Battalion, 1st F.A.
Cadet Major: G. W. Beard. Ca­det
Captain: Jack Stewart, Adjutant.
Cadet 1st Lt.: W. G. Little, Person­nel
Adjutant.
BATTERY D
Cadet Captain: C. E. Sellers. Ca­det
First Lieuts.: R. C. Brown, S. M.
Cutler, J. N. Davidson, Jr. Cadet
2nd Lieuts.: A. B. Allen, B. L. Hod-nett,
G. L. Hicks.
BATTERY E
Cadet Captain: S. D. Wade. Cadet
1st Lieuts.: W. J. Minter, D. S. Trow­bridge,
G. W. Biggerstaff. Cadet
2nd Lieuts.: 0. G. Aldridge, C. Creel,
C. E. Matthews.
BATTERY F
Cadet Captain: W. G. Sullivan. Ca­det
1st Lieuts.: J. B. Dunbar, V. R.
White, C. E. McCord. Cadet 2nd
Lieuts.: M. L. Curvin, H. Harris, J.
T. Phillips.
SECOND FIELD ARTILLERY
STAFF
Cadet Lieut. Col.: E. B. Kennedy.
Cadet Maj.: J. D. Simmons, Execu­tive.
Cadet Captain: A. J. Ivey, Ad­jutant.
Cadet Captain: P. Appleby,
Personnel Adjutant. Cadet Captain:
W. D. Parker, Supply Officer.
First Battalion, 2nd F.A.
Cadet Major: 0. M. Gordon. Ca­det
Captain: J. C. Tartt, Adjutant.
Cadet 1st Lieut.: W. B. Johnson, Per­sonnel
Adjutant.
BATTERY A
Cadet Captain: R. M. Howard. Ca­det
1st Lieuts.: T. C. Allen, Clinton
McCIure, Howard Upchurch. Cadet
2nd Lieuts.: J. W. Jones, W. F. Sims,
J. P. Watts.
BATTERY B
Cadet Captain: 0. S. Moreman.
Cadet 1st Lieuts.: J. C. Toscano, B.
A. Bentley, F. M. Burgess. Cadet
2nd Lieuts.: Clifford McCIure, J. P.
O'Rourke.
BATTERY C
Cadet Captain: B. B. Gregory. Ca­det
1st Lieuts.: T. B. Kirkland, J. T.
Harris, W. M. Askew, Jr. Cadet 2nd
Lieuts.: B. W. Collins, S. F. Lewis.
Second Battalion, 2nd F.A.
Cadet Major: L. L. Hatfield. Ca­det
Captain: N. Waller, Adjutant.
Cadet 1st Lieut.: R. W. Payne, Per­sonnel
Adjutant.
BATTERY D
Cadet Captain: R. A. Wible. Ca­det
1st Lieuts.: J. M. Fletcher. V.
Taylor, F. J. Creighton. Cadet 2nd
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Lieuts.: F. E. Johnson, A. A. Lewis,
R. L. Rhodes.
BATTERY E
Cadet Captain: K. P. Conradi. Ca­det
1st Lieuts.: C. M. Bowling, John
Jewell, J. W. Gwin. Cadet 2nd
Lieuts.: John Blette, Jr., W. Henry
Johnson.
BATTERY F
Cadet Captain: W. B. Hardin. Ca­det
1st Lieuts.: H. B. Brown, J. F.
Hutto, H. L. Sims. Cadet 2nd Lieuts.:
J. C. Kennamer, E. F. Oakley.
Cadet Captains assigned to Band:
A. C. Cohen, Engineer; R. S. Knapp,
F.A.; C. S. Perry, F.A.; G. E.~ Tuck­er,
F.A.
Cadet First Lieutenants assigned to
Band: L. C. Adams, Engineer; R. J.
Kooiman, F.A.; J. E. Robbins, F.A.
Cadet Captain Instructors: T. G.
Johnson and C. A. Hearn.
FIRST ENGINEER REGIMENT
STAFF
Cadet Lieut. Col.: J. D. Bush. Ca
det Major: G. N. Anderson, Execu
tive Officer. Cadet Captain: C. S
Hooks> Adjutant. Cadet Captain: G
V. Egge, Intelligence Officer. Cadet
Captain: T. S. Coleman, Plans and
Training Officer. Cadet Captain, J.
R. Farris, Camouflage Officer.
First Battalion
Cadet Major: G. C. Walter, Jr.
Cadet Captain: R. J. Miller, Adju­tant.
Cadet 1st Lt.: A. H. Feagin,
Jr., Personnel Adjutant.
COMPANY A
Cadet Captain: C. B. Gregory. Ca­det
1st Lieuts.: C. W. Mullin, B. B.
Mabson, Jr. Cadet 2nd Lieuts.: R.
E. Williams, C. B. Thompson, H. C.
Gunter.
COMPANY B
Cadet Captain: J. A. Cumbee. Ca­det
1st Lieuts.: D. M. Winston, O.
Bostick. Cadet 2nd Lieuts.: W. B.
Garretson, G. R. Carter.
Second Battalion
Cadet Major: J. R. Jordan. Cadet
Captain: B. C. Jones, Adjutant. Ca­det
1st Lt.: R. P. Boyd, Jr., Person­nel
Adjutant.
COMPANY D
Cadet Captain: F. J. Wullenbuch-er.
Cadet 1st Lieuts.: M. M. Fink,
C. H. West. Cadet 2nd Lieuts. J.
M. Plant, Jr., W. W. Timbes.
COMPANY E
Cadet Captain:. C. D. Stier. Ca­det
1st Lieuts.: J. Nicol, H. C. Ty-singer.
Cadet 2nd Lieuts.: James F.
Turner, W. B. Irby.
College Official Talks
On India's Conditions
New York —(IP)— An India res­cued
from threatening chaos will
emerge from the forthcoming round
table conference in London, said Dr.
William J. Hutchins, president of Be-rea
College, Kentucky, on his arrival
here aboard the liner Mauretania. Dr.
Hutchins is a former Oberlin College
student and the father of Dr. Robert
M. Hutchins, president of hte Uni­versity
of Chicago.
Dr. Hutchins spent a year in India
and Burma as a member of a com­mission
study Christian education un-
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Students may get their Athlet­ic
Tickets at the Accountants
office Tuesday. Registration
cards must be presented before
the book swill be given out.
Schneider Planes
Ready For Tests
Electrically-heated blankets were
wrapped last night around three wasp­like
seaplanes, one or more of which
is expected tomorrow to set a world's
speed record.
The three machines were flown
above the Solent and Spithead Air­ports
today in final tests before to­morrow's
effort to set a new Schneid­er
cup mark. Afterward they were
cared for like babies in special hang­ars.
One of the planes clocked unofficial­ly
today was known to have traveled
in excess of seven miles a minute—
420 miles an hour. It is this figure
which British fliers expect to maintain
tomorrow over the 217-mile Schneider
cup course.
Fair and cool weather and a huge
gathering of watchers in yachts,
launches, small boats and even large
ocean liners are promised for the big
event which, although it has lot some
of its significance by the withdrawal
of France and Italy, still should be
an amazing spectacle.
Among the watchers will be mem­bers
of French and Italian high speed
teams who were denied the right to
compete by their governments. The
Italians were saddened by the death
yestarday of one of their number, Lt.
Bellinf, on Lake Garda. He was the
11th man designated as a Schneider
cup pilot to meet death.
The British high-speed fliers who
will race against time are well aware
that the slightest mistake in manip­ulation
of their machines will spell dis­aster.
There still is some uncertainty as
to the exact procedure to be followed
by the airmen. It was believed, how­ever,
that Flight Lieut. J. N. Booth-man
will take one of the two new
mystery machines to the preliminary
trial area shortly after noon and will
prove its seaworthiness by taking off
on a short flight, alighting and taxing
to the starting line.
The machine then will be taken up
and will dive into the course from
about 1,000 feet. The triangular
course covers about 31 miles and must
be flown almost seven times.
If the first machine up fails to set
a record one of the 1929 planes, pi­loted
by Flying Officer Snaith, will
make the attempt. If it fails, the sec­ond
of the mystery ships, piloted by
Flight Lieut. Long, will try to raise
the record of 328 miles an hour set
by the late Flight Lieut. Waghorn in
1929.
After the contest is over the Schnei­der
cup, which will pass permanently
into British possession, Flight Lieut.
G. H. Stainforth will attempt to break
the world's record of 357 miles an
hour over a three kilometer course.
ALUMNI AND PARENTS WILL
FIND PLAINSMAN INTERESTING
Those who are connected with Au­burn
or have ever been are interested
in all of the grand old school's activi­ties.
. . her progress, hopes. . . changes
. . . .and the marvelous preservation
of The Auburn Spirit- Alumni are
still part of the college, and the rich
tradition, that undergraduates boast
of today. There are many out of
touch with their posterity.
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Census Figures Show
Students On Increase
INTER-FRAT COUNCIL TO
HOLD FIRST MEETING OF
YEAR MONDAY, SEPT. 14
(Continued from page 1)
tion. The financial budget of the
Council for the ensuing year has
been made and wherever possible
every effort has been made to cut
expenses. The Council this year ex­pects,
as usual, to furnish referees
and other officials for the Cotton
States Basketball Tournament.
The Inter-fraternity Council is
composed of two representatives
from each fraternity, elected for a
term of one year. The officers for
the preesnt term are as follows:
Hugh Ellis, president; Louis Ghol-ston,
vice-president; John T. Harris,
secretary-treasurer.
der the auspices of the International
Missionary Council.
He talked with Ghandi, whom he
described as a charming personality,
and with Lord Erwin, former British
viceroy. From his study of conditions,
he predicted that the conference,
which he said would be dominated by
Ghandi, will assure peace in India.
Contrary to general belief, Dr. Hut­chins
said, the major part of the funds
supporting Christian colleges in India
does not come from the western world.
Government grants and fees repre­sent
65 per cent or more of the total
contributions, he said.
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As millions of children throughout
the country mournfully answer the
toll of school bells for the fall term
the Census Bureau reported Thurs­day
more youngsters in classes than
a decade ago.
The bureau found in its 1930 count
that of 38,387,032 persons between
5 and 20 years old, 28,849,639 or
69.9 per cent were attending school.
Ten years ago, 21,373,976 or 64.3
per cent of 32,250,870 between the
same ages were pupils.
An increase in older children at­tending
classes over the number ten
years ago was shown. There re­mained,
however, a sharp decrease in
school population in children 15 and
older, although a slight gain was
shown in 1930.
The largest increase in older stu­dents
was reported in the 21 and over
division, which showed 1,034,872 in
school, against 344,789 ten years ago.
The total of eligibles in this division
was not given.
Girls and boys were about equally
divided in the total school citizenry.
Of the 19,112,883 girls, 13,327,871
were in school, while 13,521,768 of
the total of 19,274,149 boys were en­rolled.
Of the urban population, between
6 and 20, 72.3 per cent, were in
school; rural farm districts, 66.4 and
rural non-farm or villages, 69.3 per
cent. The bulk of students 21 and
over came from the urban areas, ac­counting
for 738,193; 143,283 in the
rural sections, and 156,217 in the
villages.
The report recorded 97.5 per cent
of foreign-born white children be­tween
7 and 13 in school, and 87.3
per cent of the negroes. The num­ber
in the age groups of foreign-born
and negroes likewise declined as the
children grew older.
The highest percentage and largest
number of pupils w_as found in the 7
to 13-year classes, which in 1930 ac­counted
for 16,398,400 or 95.3 per
cent of 17,209,566 against 13,869,-
010 in 1920, 90.6 per cent of 15,-
306,793.
Among the 4,678,084 of 14 and 15
years old, 4,156,378 attended school,
as compared with 3,124,129 out of
3,907,710 in 1920, respectively, 88.3
and 79.9 per cent.
The dropping out of classes was
more marked in the 16 and 17-year
division, with only 2,669,857 or 57.3
per cent of 4,663,137 in 1930, as com­pared,
with 1,644,061 in 1920, 42.9
per cent of 3,828,131.
In the 18 to 20-year section, 1,-
456,784 were reported in school, 21.4
per cent of 6,815,710, against 814,-
651 or 14.8 peT cent of 5,522,082
counted in 1920.
RAT RULES ARE REINSTATED
THIS YEAR; "A" CLUB TO BE
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
(Continued from page 1)
1. Rats shall wear rat caps at
all times.
2. Rats shall not smoke in school
buildings.
3. Rats shall not walk through
main gate.
4. Rats must furnish matches to
upperclassmen at all times.
5. Rats must attend all mass
meetings.
6. Rats must sit in a body at all
games.
7. Rats must'remove caps upon
entering any building on the
campus.
8. No rat under any condition
shall grow a mustache.
9. Rats must not cut corners in
crossing the street at Toom-er's
corner.
10. When a rat receives notice to
appear before the vigilance
committee, he must appear or
he will be visited by the com­mittee.
A further announcement stated
rats wearing uniforms not in accord­ance
with the military regulations
are also subject to the jurisdiction
of the vigilance committee.
Scientist Believes
Glaciers To Spread
Over Earth Again
Washington —(IP)— The National
Academy of Science here was in­formed
by E. O. Hurlburt of the Nav­al
Reserve Laboratory, that he has
discovered rather definitely that gla­ciers
probably would spread over the
face of the earth once again as in ice
ages of the past if the carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere were reduced by
half:
Hurlburt reported that a study of
the temperature of the earth's atmos­phere
indicates that reducing the
amount of carbon dioxide by such an
amount would cause an average temp­erature
drop of 10 degrees, which he
believes would be sufficient to bring
on another ice age.
Similarly, he said, if the amount of
carbon dioxide in the air were doubled
the average sea level temperature
would be increased ten degrees.
It is not known, of course, whether
it was a change in the content of car­bon
dioxide in the air that brought
on the ice ages in the past, but all
known evidence, Hurlburt said, indi­cates
that such a change in the at­mosphere
would have been sufficient
to start the ice flowing southward.
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Added Attraction - Comedy,
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Sept. 13-14
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- Marjorie White
Added Attraction - Comedies:
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College Represented
At Meeting In Canada
Dr. Minnie L. Steckel, student
counselor at Alabama College, repre-fcented
the institution Friday at the
annual meeting of the American Psy­chological
Association, Toronto, Can­ada.
A paper based on a preliminary
study of the effect of occupational
choice on scholastic achievement
prepared by Dr-. Steckel was one of
50 papers selected from all parts of
the United States, Canada and Mexi­co
to be read before the association.
Dr. Steckel's study, in which she
was assisted by Alabama College stu­dents
in vocational guidance classes
last session represents 18 Alabama
high schools, with an aggregate of
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