1931-11-11 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LV AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11, 1931 NUMBER 19
COLONEL W. L. REED
TO MAKE INSPECTION
OF R.O.T.C. UNIT HERE
Review For Colonel»Reed Is to
Be Held At 11:00 O'Clock
Tuesday, Nov. 17
WILL BE HERE NOV. 16-17
Has Enjoyed Long and Success­ful
Career In the United
States Army
To make a brief inspection of the
R. 0. T. C. unit at the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, Colonel William L
Reed, of the Fourth Corps Area
Headquarters in Atlanta, will be in
Auburn on Nov. 16 and 17. Colonel
Reed comes as the representative of
General Frank R. McCoy, corps area
commander. A review of the unit
will be held for Colonel Reed at 11:00
a. m. on Tuesday.
Colonel Reed has enjoyed a long
and successful career in the army
During the World War he was ap
pointed colonel, National Army. He
went overseas with the 316 Infan
try. While in France he attended
the Command and General Staff
School, 3rd Term, Langres, France
1918. After finishing this school he
was appointed Liaison Agent from
the 5th Corps of the 17th French
Corps, 2nd Army. He was later re
turned to the United States and was
assigned Chref of Staff,' 100th Divi
sion, at Fort Worth, Texas. He re­ceived
his permanent colonelcy in
1928.
He is a gradaute of the Infantry
and Cavalry Schools, 1904; of the
Command and General Staff School,
1924, and is on the General Staff
Corps eligible list.
Colonel Reed was born in New
Jersey, but was appointed to the
United States Military Academy from
New York in 1893.
¥. M. C. A. SECRETARY
VISITS AUBURN FRIDAY
Mr. John Minter, travelling secre­tary
for the Student Volunteer Move­ment,
will be in Auburn on Friday,
November 13th, as a guest of the
local organization of the Y. M. C. A-Mr.
Minter, a graduate of the Uni­versity
of Texas, was formerly presi­dent
o* the Y. M. C. A. of that in­stitution.
He is at present making a
tour of all Southern colleges in in­terest
of the Mission program. An
opportunity will probably be offered
to hear Mr. Minter, whose headquart­ers
are at Duke University, in Dur­ham,
N. C.
Our own "Y" has recently been
put on a volunteer basis and so far,
has made a fine showing. The rooms
have been renovated and enlarged to
afford greater convenience and beau­ty.
They are open to the public at
all times.
Reserves and Frosh
Defeat Benning, 41-2
The Tank Regimental football
team, from Fort Benning, was turn­ed
back today by a team composed
of varsity reserves and freshmen.
The final score was 41-2. The re­serves
played for three quarters, the
frosh finishing the game.
The Tiger's scores were made on a
variety of plays, line bucks and off-tackle
plays playing a large part.
Two of the three touchdowns made
by the frosh came from long runs
after Whitten and Moore had inter­cepted
passes; Whitten going 50
yards and Moore 60. The other tally
made by the frosh resulted from a
run by Whitten, who went through
the line, cut back, and went 45 yards
across the goal line.
The varsity showed power on bucks
and dashes over tackle, and although
no long runs were made, consistent
gains resulted in their six touch­downs.
f
A bad pass from center which went
two feet over the head of one of
the freshman backs was converted in­to
a safety by the Soldiers, after the
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TIGERS DEFEATED BY POWERFUL ANDREWS SPEAKS TO
GREEN WAVE IN BITTER BATTLE BUSINESS STUDENTS
Look to Sewanee with Team In Poor Physical Shape; Game UW I i l l ) J 1 D A IN IVI IN U
Saturday to Be Only Appearance of Tigers in Birmingham
This Season
Left in a somewhat battered con­dition
as a result of the terrific
pounding of the Green Wave, the
Tigers of Auburn began preparations
Monday for their tussle with Se­wanee
in Birmingham Saturday. This
game will mark the only appearance
of the Plainsmen in the Magic City
this season.
• Tulane ran true to form and prov­ed
just a little too heavy, powerful
and experienced for the Tigers, but
it took two full quarters for the big
green steam roller to get under way.
The New Orleans gridder sobviously
had their minds on their battle in
Athens this week and regarded the
Auburn game as already in the bag.
They were rudely awakened in the
first quarter when they ran into an
alert, hard tackling bunch of Tigers,
who were ready to take advantage of
every break.'
According to New Orleans sports
casion advanced to the 15 yard line
before being halted.
The running, passing and kicking
of Jimmie Hitchcock featured the
first two periods as the Auburn back-field
ace completely stole the show
from the highly touted Tulane ball
carriers. Jimmie topped off his of­fensive
performance by halting the
first drive of the Green Wave when
he intercepted a pass on his own 14
yard line and ran the ball back into
safe territory.
Tulane's truly great team was not
to be . denied, however, when the
Greenies finally woke up and real­ized
that they were in a football
game and they pushed over a touch­down
a few seconds before the end
of the first half. "Wop" Glover, one
of the six substitutes that went into
the fight in thosei few moments, sup-plied
the necessary punch and Tulane
left the field holding a seven point
critics the Green Wave ran into the lead
toughest opposition they have re­ceived
this season in that first half,
and vicious tackling on the part of
the Tigers caused the Tulane backs
to fumble time after time. Not sat­isfied
with merely halting their heav­ier
opponents, the Plainsmen launch­ed
a couple of offensive drives on
their own hook that carried the ball
deep into Greenie territory. Once
Auburn "lost the ball through a
fumble whe'n only six inches were
needed for a first down on Tulane's
20 yard stripe and on the second oc-
The second half was a nightmare.
The big Greenie line wore down the
lighter Tiger forward wall and Nollie
Felts, Tulane's hard driving fullback,
completed the demolishing process as
he crossed the Auburn goal line three
times in the last two quarters before
he was relieved by Lemon. Both
teams finished the game with reserve
line-ups on the field with the play
about even in the closing minutes.
Casey Kimbrell, fleet sophomore half­back,
gave the Tulane second-string-
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DR. PETRIE'S CLASS
IS WELL ATTENDED
Extension Course In History Is
Attracting Many In Mont­gomery
An extension cjass in current his­tory,
taught in Montgomery by Dr.
George Petrie, head professor of his­tory
at Auburn, has attracted much
interest among school teachers and
others interested in national affairs
of the 'day. The 65 class members
meet every two weeks, on Monday
afternoon, at 3:30 o'clock, in the La­nier
High School building.
Longtan ardent student of history
and one who is particularly interest­ed
in present world developments, Dr.
Petrie centers'his discussions around
current happenings in world affairs.
For years Dr. Petrie's classes in cur­rent
events have been among the
most popular and best attended
courses at Auburn. Many people in
this vicinity attend his lectures with­out
receiving college credit merely as
a source of expert explanation of cur­rent
events.
In addition to his position as head
professor of history, Dr. Petrie is
also dean of the graduate school at
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
Becoming a member of the Auburn
faculty in 1887, he organized and
coached the college's first football
team which played, its initial game in
1892, winning from the University
of Georgia 10 to 0.
RAT CHEERLEADERS
WILL BE SELECTED
Former Graduate Delivers an
Interesting Address Here
Tuesday
TRACES TRUST GROWTH
Speaker Has Had an Eventful
Career Since Leaving Here
After Graduation
Selections Will Be Made At
The Mass Meeting Tomor­row
Night
A mass meeting will be held in
Langdon Hall tomorrow night, at
seven C'clock, according to an an­nouncement
by Head Cheerleader C.
D. "Bull" Stier. The feature of the
meeting will be tryouts for Fresh­man
cheerleader. All applications
must be turned in to one of the
cheerleaders not later than the start
of the meeting.
A large crowd is expected to be
present to let everyone know that
the old Auburn Spirit cannot be
downed by defeat. An additional
incentive to the pep of the occasion
will be the fact that this meeting is
prior to one of the few games this
season in which the Tigers do -not
appear the underdogs. Auburn will
meet Sewanee in Birmingham Satur­day,
in their only game of this sea­son
to be played in the Magic City.
The manner in which the Green Wave
was held for two quarters last week
makes everyone the more certain that
this week's cheers will not be in
vain.
The band will be present to play
for the parade through town and will
probably feature the new victory
song, "Fight 'Em Tigers". This song
is rapidly gaining popularity on the
campus.
Before an audience of representa­tive
business students, J. Warren
Andrews, vice-president of the First
National Bank, in Montgomery, spoke
last night on "The Trust Phase of
Banking."
Tracing the history of the Trust
departments in our banking institu­tions,
Mr. Andrews pointed forceably
to their advantages, and spiced his
talk with sparkling illustrations. He
was brought to Auburn by Detla
Sigma Pi, national honorary and pro
fessional fraternity, as the 'first of a
series fo speakers, to address the stu­dents
of business.
The address was full of repartee
between the speaker and Dr. Petrie,
the latter having b.een a former pro­fessor
of the distinguished banker.
The genial amiability and wit dis­played,
served to make the evening
one'of the most interesting.
Mr. Andrews is a former Auburn
graduate, and has had a most color­ful
career since leaving here. He saw
much service during the World War,
and was stationed at Princeton Uni­versity
as professor of military sci­ence
and tactics for a period follow­ing
the war. He received his bank­ing
experience in New York, where
he was stationed until called to
Montgomery to assume his present
position.
Delta Sigma Pi will present an­other
speaker in the near future.
DR. SMITH HOPKINS
TO INSPECT SCHOOL
OF CHEMISTRY HERE
Head of Chemistry School At
U. of Illinois t o Speak to the
Chemistry Students
WILL BE HERE NOV. 16
To Confer with Dr. Allison in
Regard to Magneto-Optic
Method of Element Detection
JUDGE BOWLING DELIVERS
ADDRESS ON ARMISTICE A T
. CELEBRATION HELD TOD A Y
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
IN U.S. ARE IMPROVING
INTERESTING TALK BY HIXON
FEATURES A . S . M . E . MEETING
A meeting of the American So­ciety
of Mechanical Engineers was
held last Monday night at 8 o'clock
in room 109, Ramsay. The meeting
opened with a short business session,
and the suggestion of forming an
aeronautical section to this branch
of the A. S. M. E. was discussed. It
was decided that this section be form­ed
and that aeronautical students
should wear' the aeronautical pin of
the society.
Immediately following this, Pro­fessor
Hixon spoke on the manufac­ture
of bakelite, rubber and porce­lain,
and their application to indus­try.
The talk was extremely inter-efting,
some very surprising points
about these materials being brought
out. Professor Hixon informed the
group that bakelite is transported
over the country in a liquid condi­tion,
being "cured" in the sectional
factories over the country. . He also
mentioned its use in impregnating
wood. The discussion included the
latest developments in the search for
cheap rubber produced from plants
native to this country; the collection
of the latex or gum from which rub­ber
is made, and the manufacture of
automobile tires. The manufacture
of insulators from porcelain was
touched upon and traced. A num­ber
of members of the chemical so-siety
were present taking advantage
of Prof. Hixon's talk.
Upward trends for practically
every line of Alabama was shown in
September over August in the Ala­bama
Economic Review, published
here, whch was distributed yesterday.
The exceptions to the upward
trend were pig iron production, coal
production, advertising lineage, auto­mobile
sales, life insurance sales, and
checking deposits.
The brightest spots were in electric
energy sales, cotton consumption and
cotton spinning, all of which in addi­tion
to increases over August, show­ed
increases over September, 1930.
Bank debits for 42 banks were
$141,744,000, an increase of 4.7 per
cent, but were 27.1 per cent under
September, 1930, and building per­mits
bounded upward 25 per cent.
Construction contracts totaling
$1,559,800 showed an increase of 7
per cent over August, and cotton con
sumption amounted to 48,806 bales
with textile mills operating 499,462,-
000 spindle hours, Increases of 13.4
and 7.3 per cent respectively.
• "A seasonal improvement is report­ed
in retail trade," the review said,
"with the result that the volume of
bank debits have expanded. The out­look
fos new building and construc­tion
as reflected in permits and con­tracts
showed- considerable gains in
particular sections, but the facts do
not indicate general improvement in
industry.
"The iron and steel industry, which
is very important in the Birmingham
district, continues extremely dull and
offers little hope of advancement this
Fall, however, improvement in the
market for steel rails and structural
steel has been reported during the
latter part of October."
Dr. B. Smith Hopkins, head of the
College of Chemistry, at the Univer­sity
of Illinois, and one of America's
most capable chemists, will be in
Auburn on Thursday, November 12,
for an inspection of the Chemistry
School, here, and conferences with
Dr. Allison, in regard to Allison's
magneto-optic method of element de­tection.
At 11 o'clock Thursday
morning, Dr. Hopkins will speak in
the auditorium of the Ross Labora­tory
to students in the School of
Chemistry and. Pharmacy.
While his subject has not yet been
announced, it is expected that Hop­kins
will speak on the discovery of
illinium, which he succeeded in iso­lating
several years ago at Illinois.
All students are invited to attend.
•
Dr. Hopkins has - a brilliant repu­tation
in the annals of chemistry, and
chemical research. Perhaps his great­est
achievement was the discovery of
illinium, which was the first element
to be discovered in America, and
which he named after the state in
which the discovery was made. Hop­kins
is, particularly interested in the
rare earth elements and has publish­ed
a textbook which is recognized as
the standard authority on this branch
of chemistry, "The Chemistry of the
Rarer Elements." Other textbooks
include "A Qualitative Analysis of
the Rarer Elements", "A Laboratory
Guide for College Chemistry", and
his most recent work, "General Chem­istry
for Colleges". '
Dr. Hopkins joins Dr. Gordon
Hughes here and they will return to
0
Illinois together. Dr. Hughes has
been in'Auburn several weeks work­ing
with Dr. Allison and his associ­ates
in the department of Physics.
Staff Demoralized As
Paper Gets Big Scoop
The deadline had been pas­sed
and the presses were al­most
ready to run. Suddenly
there swooped down on the edi­torial
offices an urchin clutch-irig
a precious bit of paper. The
Editor seized it! Read! Rushed
madly back to the machine room.
All activity was suspended.
Then came a reorganization of
the make-up. The Scotch Busi­ness
Staff was consulted on the
possibility of an extra, with the
anticipated results. The story
must go—must go big.
A scoop, the journalist dream,
lay in the- palm of the Editor's
hand. Could he flash the news
to the public first? Associate
Editors buzzed, News Editors
rushed, the Sports Staff sat
dumbfounded, and the Editor
tore his hair with renewed vigor.
The composing men talked of
streamers in unmentionalVlimen-tions,
and the newsboys down­town
were notified to prepare
for the rush.
Yes, it was true—the Auburn
Grammar School's sixth grade
had defeated the fifth grade by
a score of twenty-five to noth­ing.
In the excitement every­one
forgot to get any details, but
V
that aforesaid precious bit of
paper stated that Max McLen-don
was the hero for the victors,
and that a dazzling passing at­tack
was responsible for the im­pressive
defeat.
Review of R. O. T. C. Unit t o Be
Feature of the Morning Ex­ercises
LEGION GIVES BARBECUE
Football Game This Afternoon
to Climax Armistice Day Ac­tivities
TRAVIS BROWN IS
BECOMING STAR
ON ARMY ELEVEN
Major Franke Makes
Armistice Day Talk
To Auburn Rotarians
NOTICE!
All faculty members and graduate
students "interested in tennis, please
send their names and schedules of
time when they wish to play. It is
desirable that as much playing as
possible be done in the forenoons. '
H. B. G. Gordon, Treas.
P. O. Box 85
"We still find ourselves too uncivil­ized
to go to international courts for
our national troubles. The six-shooter
still cinches the argument," said Ma­jor
G. H. Franke, Auburn command­ant,
in speaking before the Rotary
Club he.r? Tuesday. Recall the many
minor armed conflicts since the great
war. Reflect upon ' the Manchurian
situation today with its tragic possi­bilities,
continued the Major in point­ing
to the limitations of internation­al
peace parleys as a substtute for
war.
Because of the appropriate message
for Armistice Day and his candid dis­cussion
of the subject of internation­al
peace.
y :
NOTICE!
There will be a meeting of Edi­torial
staff* of the Plainsman Sunday
night, 7 o'clock, at Sigma Nu House.
The athletic career of Travis
Brown, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. V.
Brown, of Auburn, at the United
States Military Academy is being
watched with much interest by many
students and alumni of Alabama Poly­technic
Institute. Young Brown
completed his junior year at Auburn
before enrolling at West Point.
Brown, who was a star halfback
on the plebe eleven at the Academy
in 1930, is one of the few sopho­mores
to play regularly for Army
this season. Against Yale, the for­mer
Auburn athlete ' replaced Frent-zel,
left half, early in the game and
stood out.
He stopped a 37-yard march by
Yale when he intercepted a pass and
was brilliant in supporting Ray
Steckef when the Cadets ripped
through the Eli line for 34 yards
after gaining possession of the ball
because of Brown's alertness. •
His playing against Yale won for
him a starting position against Colo­rado
College last Saturday. While
playing at left half against the New
Haven team, Brown opened at right
half against Colorado College, and
the future officer proved his ability
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Armistice Day was observed here
today by the dismissal of classes at
ten o'clock, followed by a review of
the R. O. T. C. unit on Bullard Field.
Judge W. G. Bowling of Lafayette,
speaker of the,occasion, was the re­viewing
officer.
The program for the day was un­der
the direction of the John H. Wills
post of the. American Legion, com­manded
by Captain E. S. Ott. *
While the unit was forming in
front of Samford Hall, members of
the American Legion headed by the
band, marched past to take their
placed in the reviewing stand. Fol­lowing
the review, students and citi­zens
gathered on Drake Field to hear
Judge Bowling's message.
He pointed out the fact that the
world is now at a great crossroad,
where it must choose between war
and peace. He emphasized the neces­sity
of choosing the latter and out­lined
the unestimatable destruction
that will result in the next war. The
audience stood silent one minute fol­lowing
Judge Bowling's Speech in
memory of those who gave all for
humanty, following which the band
played the national anthem.
Climaxing the morning program
was a barbecue in Ag Bottom at
noon, sponsored by the American
Legion Posts of Auburn and Opelika.
The day's" program was completed
in* the afternoon with a football game
between Coach McFaden's Rat team
and a team from Fort Benning.
"A" CLUB DANCE GIVEN
AT HIGHLAND PARK SAT.
PROF. BECK SPEAKS BEFORE
BUSINESS WOMEN'S CLUB HERE
The wide acclaimation of success
accorded the "A" Club dance in
Montgomery, following the Tulane
game, has prompted the organization
to give another out-of-town dance.
It is to take place at the Highland
Park club, in Birmingham, and will
climax the Sewanee game of next
Saturday afternoon.
The music will again be furnished .
By Jimmie Robbins and his Auburn
Knights. This orchestra is rapidly
gaining state-wide prominence, and
is expected to be popular in Birm-
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Literary Societies Plan
Declamation Contest
In speaking to the Business and
Professional Women's Club of Au­burn,
at their luncheon this week,
Professor M. L. Beck, of the School
of Education, Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, declared that education has
failed to eliminate harmful supersti­tions
in the lives of millions of peo­ple.
As superstitions Which, in a broad
sense, almost amount to. poor judge­ment,
he named fortune" telling,
phrenology, and planting seed by the
moon.
Many business men have allowed
themselves to become affected by and
to fall into the belief of some astrol­oger
of superstition, which have caus­ed
complications to arise later, he
said. It is not only a poor tribute
to the economic leadership of Ameri­ca,
but to the schools in which these,
men were educated, he added.
Prof. Beck pointed out that educa­tion
has failed in another way in
that it has not taught people the most
fundamental things about personal
finance. Most people, he declared,
are eager to believe anything put be­fore
them.
"Who among us has not been suck­ed
in on propositions that should
have been exposed by a ten year old
child/' he interrogated. "Wildcat
schemes, all the way from an oil
well in Mexico, to a Florida boom!
We never find out things for oursel-
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In the eliminations last night for
the declamation contest which is to
be held between the two literary so­cieties,
Randall Parrish was elected
to represent the Websterians. Walter
Edwards was chosen to -represent his
society, The Evans. This declama­tion
is to be held next Tuesday night
in Samiord Hall at seven o'clock.
Since this is one of the annual con­tests
which are put on between the
two societies each .year, the interest
is running very high. A large at­tendance
is expected to turn out to
hear these well prepared declama­tions.
Train Tickets To
Birmingham $4.68
No special train will be run to
Birmingham for the Auburn-Sewanee
game this week-end, but a special
rate of $4.68 for the round trip has
been offered by the railroad. The
rate of $4.68 will apply on trains'
going both by Montgomery and Ope­lika.
Tickets will be good on all
trains leaving Friday, Nov. 13 and
the return limit extends until mid­night
Monday, 16th on the Mont­gomery
route. The return limit
through Opelika extends until Sun­day
night only.
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' EDITORIAL STAFF
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REPORTERS
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ARMISTICE DAY #
Thirteen years ago today, a terrible con­flict
came to an end. There was rejoicing,
the blast of orators, and the world cele­brated
the end- of the most devasting strug­gle
it had ever known. "All over the nation
people are commorating that event. Arti­ficial
lust to kill was gone—there was rest,
reconstruction, and a cry for universal
peace.
While we celebrate today, many call to
mind those days of horror; two of the lead­ing
countries of the world are at each oth­er's
throats. The remaining powers stand
in the offing waiting, wondering, what com­plications
may be involved.
Most of us, the youth of today, were to
young for those bitter days to make much
impression. We have seen the war in the
pictures, read books, and, let our imagina­tions
run wild. We dare say that, at this
moment there is a tittering of unrest on
every college campus in America. There
are countless young imaginations dreaming
of glamor, romance, heroism, and the satis­faction
of adventurous impulses. There is
little patriotism, such as might have in­spired
the "embatterd farmers", and the
majority would scoff at any such preposter­ous
idea as making the world safe for de­mocracy.
Yet, present economic and social
conditions are disheartening to the young
man. Too many have assumed the attitude
of indifference, and secretly long for some­thing
vastly different, something revolu­tionizing,
and should war be declared this
moment mosf* of us would laugh in youthful
enthusiasm and gladly plunge into the mid­dle
of it.
There is much to ponder over as we cele­brate.
WHAT WE READ
Leading magazines of the country boast
of enormous circulations and take in im­mense
sums from their advertisers. The
merry chase for the almighty dollar rolls
on and the reading public, as those who buy
these periodicals are called, are presented
with a type of literature far below the
standard of the progressive qualities of the
world of today. The majority of people
who have made a practice of reading certain
publications, find the habit almost unbreak-able
and are filled by the month and by the
week with unintelligent trash. Such prac­tices
are direct insults jt'o the intelligent
people of today when/they are presented
witn articles and moflern ales of the pic­torial
variety which are calculated to in­terest
the moronic as well as those of a
reasonable amount of intelligence.
Needless to say, the intelligent person
does not read a publication of temporary
value for the benefit of his mind, but pure­ly
as a momentary diversion. And the pub­lishers,
supposedly men possessing at least
average mind, attempt to force down the
readers respective throats a display of
interlectual and emotional content could
be derived from a dftne novel and a third
rate burlesque.
Those magazines that have made an at- i
tempt to break away from this variety of
periodic blah, have in many cases succeed­ed
in giving the public an intelligent brand
of reading matter, but in doing so they have
been forced to sacrifice the all important
advertiser and are forced to establish prices
which are far above the popular ones.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to start a
"back to the classics" movement. Even to­day
we have authors who have shown that
they possess rare ability. There are libra­ries
which we support and from which we
attempt to derive little benefit. Now, if
ever, is the time to make the break with a
cheapening habit and become a littles more
conscious of what we are really doing.
EDUCATOR DISCUSSES PROBLEMS
^Vriting under the title "College-Student
Problems", ,Dr. Karl 'Menninger says, in
part:
"Young men and women who have en­tered
college with high hopes of success,
although often without any definite idea of
what they want to succeed at, are right
now—many of them—-facing discourage­ment
and distress. Some will have already
dropped out, some will have been asked to
leave because of unsatisfactory work, some
will be out of funds. Others are about to
desert their educational plans for a career
in business or the Navy. Some are home­sick,
some heartsick, some physically or
mentally sick; these, too, are very likely
to drop by the wayside."
"One of the commonest difficulties of col­lege
students is, of course* connected with
the learning process—that is, difficulties in
studying, reciting, understanding, and the
like. . . Students frequently appear stupid
Because of emotional conflicts with the prop­er
functioning of their intelligence."
"By far the most painful manifestations
of maladjustment are the moody reactions.
It is an amazing paradox that among college
students, whom we are apt to regard as the
most jolly, carefree and gay of all individ­uals
in the world, there exist the keenest
depressions, heartbreaks, discouragements
and disappointments."
"Many students go through all the mo­tions
of education, attend classes, appear to
work hard, even get good grades, but sub­stantially
accomplish nothing. They elect
profitless coursesj recite mechanically, in­terest
themselves in nothing, create nothing,
retain nothing. At the bottom of this is
very often a fundamental hostility to the
whole business of education because it rep­resents
the wishes of parents."
I
Dr. Menninger also discusses the way in
which psychologica 1 problems may bring
about physical symptoms; how over-sensi­tiveness,
inferiority feelings, painful con­sciousness
of and misunderstandings about
sex may effect moods; and how students can
be aided.
Incidentally, Dr. Menninger offers to help
you with your problems if you will write
him, according to the Ladies' Hoine Journal
article.
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS ~>
Lettefs to the Editor
Editor of The Plainsman:
Conscientious Cletus, the much talked
about critic, is one of the two thousand
students in the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute,
who has courage enough to give
certain types of constructive criticism to
the student body of this school. \ Any per­son
knows that in a large group of human
beings connected with an organization there
is any number that have critical ideas of
their own regarding the administration of
such an organization. This number com­prises
all the different types of mentality
in' such an organization. If such an or­ganization
is comprised of intelligent men,
rich in "Experience, technical, scientific, or
executive it is capable, of offering a wealth
of constructive criticism. On the other hand
if the organization is composed of a group
of minors, who are both intelligent and un­intelligent,
there is a source for much, un-needed,
criticism of destructive quality. One
needs only to refer to history and present
day circumstances to determine the validity
of the above statement. Always the small
countries, which are usually composed of
peasants with mentality unfit to rule them­selves,
have had more success -as an organ­ization
under a monarchy or some other
similar form of government than they'have
had as democratic organization. In such a
group one might pick out persons capable
of offering constructive criticism toward
some minor element of the organization, but
rarely toward the vital administrative ele­ment
whose power is controlling and di­recting.
I do not think that Conscientious Cletus
falls into the above category, but I do think
that he is incompetent to criticise the ad­ministrative
policies of a state school. The
reason that I emphasize the fact that this is
a state schqol, is that in such schools the
administrative executive is a person picked,
for his wealth of experience and intelli­gence
in such fields by the executive of the
state, who has been elected to suph an office
by a group of intelligent" people in that
state.
,' To be a critic one must be an expert, no
matter what he criticises. To be an expert
authority on administration one must have
intelligence and experience above that of
the average executive. I hardly think that
Conscientious Cletus will fall into this cate­gory
as he lacks the years of experience
with his intelligence to criticize the vital
actions of seeded men old enough to be his
father. Why not criticize all of our o|*m
student organizations instead. —A Senior.
•
For eighty years, or
possibly one hundred,
the world has seen its
greatest era of mate­rial
advancement. Sci­ence
has made almost
all of its great dis­coveries
during these
years. The death of
t h a t g c e a t m a n,
Thomas A. Edison, reminds us of the con­tributions
which science has made to our
living, or comfort and our happiness. I
wonder what the next eighty years will
bring forth. There is much talk these days
of social democracy. May we not hope
and feel that the next century may bring
forth its discoveries in how to adjust hu­man
relations. We drive high powered au­tomobiles
and flying machines and have
lighted the whole world with electricity and
yet we still stumble in the darkness of an
old and out-worn system of human relation­ships.
If in this new development freedom
is preserved and democracy promoted there
might come a time some of these days when
there would be a better distribution of
wealth, a continuous opportunity to w<)rk
not sov much for a bare living as for a
chance to enjoy this world by enjoying the
society of other people and. helping to make
others happy. I am sure we have not
reached the end of our scientific discoveries
but the newer fields of economic and social
relationships surely are the fields in which
we need the greatest work. There ought
to be in this institution a profound regard
for the study of economics and sociology in
every course offered. The college man of
the future should not only know his history,
his languages, and his sciences, but should
know also the great field - of human life
and relationships. '"
* * * *
Every human being makes mistakes. The
honest mistake is an experience. The great
thing is not to make it the second time. A
mistake which becomes a habit may wreck
your life. Judgment and wisdom are the
products of experience. We can gain in a
knowledge of the facts of the world rapidly
but the more exercise dt this ability to un­derstand
facts does not equip us for a useful
and successful life unless we can gain, also,
gradually and methodically, in judgment
and wisdom. Youth too often 'acts upon
impulse. Intellectual training- and then ac­tive
participation in the affairs of life
through which: we gradually get these other
attributes, together make up the life of
the man of maturity.
' * ' .* * * *
Since I have been in Auburn I have heard
a great deal about the destructive character
of fires which break out in Auburn and I
have heard students charged many times
with causing more destruction than they
did good. On Sunday I witnessed a very
wonderful example of the opposite of that
charge. I saw the Fire Company, assisted
by a fine group of students who gathered as
volunteers to help, not only stop the fire
which was pretty well advanced and dif­ficult
to handle, but saw them take the
household goods of two families out of the
house with scarcely any material injury to
a single piece of furniture except those
which had been harmed by the fire itself.
Even the valuable keep-sake"s were cared
for earnestly and methodically. It was a
splendid record and I want to thank the
Fire Company and the students who helped
for all that they did on that occasion.
* * * *
I need not comment upon the game of last
Saturday except to say that I think every­one
from Auburn tried to put forth their
very best. It was a courageous fight un­der-
very great odds and I felt distinct pride
in those qualities which we are want to de­scribe
as the real "Auburn Spirit." Presi­dent
Dinwiddie, of Tulane, said over the1
radio that they liked to come and play Au­burn;
because Auburn men are the cleanest,
finest sportsmen with whom they come in
contact. It Was good to hear Kim say that.
Our boys have three great games ahead of
them. All of them will be difficult. I feel
confident that the end of the season we may
stand, with pride to honor this great team
and our coaching staff for their manly and
courageous bearing under all circumstances.
* * * *
Many of us on the faculty are deeply so-lici'tious
regarding the welfare of students.
Sometimes we call them in just for a little
,talk which we hope will be one of encourage­ment.
I know of cases where it has seemed
as .though the very fact that we called the
student in, discouraged him and made him
think that he was being reprimanded or
"called before his dean or professor." No
one takes any greater satisfaction in seeing
students work out all their difficulties than
those of us who call them in for these little
interviews. Our chief happiness is your ad­vancement
and success.
Proof readers, of the large newspapers, are crying for peace between China and
Japan. (
* * * * * * * * * *
A college professor made the statement recently that civilization was under
construction. Then we are on one of the worst detours.
•V * * * " * N * * * * * *
They are calling them suicide blondes now—dyed by their own hands.
* * * * * * * * * *
George Benard Shaw greeted an American radio audience the other day as
"dear boobs". However, it was with the special permission of the copyright owner,
H. L. Menckin.
* * * * * * * * * *
Some are of the opinion that Jerry Dalrymple sat on his alf-American end last
Saturday when Hitchcock was returning punts.
Women can't be blamed for crying. It gets them what they want.
* * * * * * * * * *
There is honor among theives. It is reported that several bales of cotton were
stolen recently in a north Alabama town.
* * * * * * * * * *
Those that are worried about the country being flooded with cotton must remem­ber
that it could be worse. It might be spinach.
* * * * * * * * * * ./
We don't seem to remember ever having had a nice time at the party, but we
can remember a nice party at the time.
* - * * * * * * * * *
The morning press reports that Hoover's brother-in-law was found in the posses­sion
of 19 pints of whiskey. At least one member of the family has done something.
* * * * * * * * * * *
Let me have some ginger ale.
Pale?
No, a glass will do.
—Ex.
* * * * * * * * * *
Down at Mississippi A. & M. boys cannot entertain their lady friends at fratern­ity
houses without a written permission from the Dean. We have a picture of the
brother entering the walls of his, Greek abode, with a girl on his arm, and looking
for the chapter president to present his papers. It is hoped that the Deans are
good pickers.
* * * * * * * * * *
My grandfather was a Pole.
Really, North or South?
—Ex.
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
Barbers at Emory University are having
trouble at the present time on account of
student competition. A room'at the dormi­tory,
at this school, has been turned into a
super-service barber shop, by the two enter­prising
occupants. They offer every parti­cle
of serve that a regular barber shop
offers—and more. Where else in the coun­try
will y«u find a barber shop that will
press your shoelaces while you wait? WheVe
else can you get a special feet perfuming
job for the small sum of two bits? And,
where else could you possibly find prices
as low as this for the super-deluxe service
that those boys offer: A hair-cut, with or
without bowl, may be obtained for the ri­diculously
low price (influence of WKBC)
The good man prolongs his life; to be
able to enjoy one's past life is to live
thrice.—Matrial.
(
of 18 cents. A shave, which these accom­modating
gentlemen offer, with or without
razor, costs only 4 cents! Other bargains
are a tonic, which may or may not be wa­ter,
for 4 cents; and a genuine .manicure
for 10 cents. A rushing business is re­ported.
Another noble experiment which a fresh­man
at the same college undertook met with
such success that, believe it or not, he had
to go out of business. This freshman of­fered
to wash underwear for 'ten cents per.
His room became so overcrowded with
shorts and shirts that he had to take down
his sign and quit the business world/ These
paragraphs are placed in this column at the
request of an assistant secretary to an as­sociate
chairman of the depression division
of a sub-committee of one of Hoover's un­employment
committees that we reassure
you that prosperity IS just around the corn­er.
* * * *
In spite of all we can do, our college pro­fessors
throughout the States keep on with
their incomprehensive attacks on American
institutions, mannerisms, amusements, and
whistlers. The latest to join this happy
throng is a professor of psychology at North
Carolina. He advances the bright idea that
"movies are made by morons for morons";
and promptly contradicts himself in these
two- statements: "Producers and directors
generally, are wise boys without brains"
and " . . . . the brains are possessed
more by the producers than the actors." And
to further disqualify himself with most
people as a thinking critic, this professor
announces to a startled world that the only
actors with a semblance of thinking capac­ity
are Greta Garbo, Charlie Chaplain, Clara
Bow, and Harold Lloyd.
Among those startled is Conrad Nagel,
who is a movie star, it ha* been rumored.
At the request of the Daily Tar Heel, he
sends this answer: "Dr. Dashiell is probab­ly
up to an old political trick, that of an
obscure person who attacks a person of na­tional
importance in order to get publicity
for himself." How is your repartee, Doctor?
* * * *
That old Tennessee temper is showing up"
at Sewanee, because of the way their foot­ball
team is treated by the sports writers.
When Sewanee beat Virginia 3-0, early
in the season, sports critics heralded the
victory as a big upset of the so-called dope
bucket. Again, when Sewanee gains a vic­tory
over a strong Chattanooga team 6-0,
the win is termed an upset—and when a
Southern conference team's win over»an S.
I. A. A. team is called an upset, the S. C.
team and the school usually feels 'nsulted
in spite of the fact that strong teams are
developed often in the S. I. A. A. But
when Sewanee beats L. S. U. and it is again
called a "big upset", by the papers, the
editor of the Sewanee Purple, gnashes his
teeth, wrings his hands, grabs a sheet of
paper, and forthwith come these stinging
words:
"It seems by the papers of last Sunday
that Sewanee again has upset the 'dope-buckets.'
It was such an upset that one
of the well-known Southern papers was so
shocked that it couldn't recover sufficiently
to even print the score of the game along
with the scores of Old Siwash vs. Hickville,
and the rest. To some persons it would no
doubt be an upset if Sewanee were to trim
the Academy.
"But the time has come when the team
that-has won all of its games save one, and
that to last year's national champions, and
that has some of the best players in the
conference in its line-up, and that can evoke
the highest praise from one of thfi confer­ence's
best officials, should cease to be rel­egated
to the 'upsetters'. Sewanee plays the
brand of ball that makes the best of teams
sit up and take notice, and it is high time
that the sport- pages of a few of the South­ern
papers found that out."
* * * *
We at Auburn can sympathize with the
plight they\are in at Sewanee, for here we
had to suffer the indifference of sports edi­tors—
except a very few, the number of
which could probably be counted on two
fingers—-for many, many years. Here's
hoping Sewanee gets recognition for the
strong team they actually are before this
season is oyer.
* * * *
This wail comes from North Carolina:
"Presentation of a student body card and
$1.00 entitles students of the University of
Southern California to a ticket to the Stan­ford-
Southern California game. Too bad
that something of that sort could not be
adopted, among Southern conference teams."
The point is not that those students want
the price increased, dear readers. When
they go to a football game they must pay
the regular price to get in—and naturally
think that condition prevails in every other
Conference school. In case they see this
they will be glad to note that we at Au­burn
and those at the University are sold
tickets for fifty cents and presentation of
the proper coupon from the athletic book.
What's more, all games on the campus here
are free merely on showing the athletic
book, with the supposition of course that
there are games played here; but at North
Carolina, they must pay, and pay, and pay.
Probably the athletic board thinks that since
North Carolina has the reputation of being
the most liberal school in the South, they
should apply this rule when they put the
prices on student tickets.
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.
N' EARLY A million young people are
enrolled in American colleges and
universities this year. A million
young people who expressly'state that they
are going to spend frtur years or more in
the search for truth, for after all what
more is college. When faced with reality,
however, it seems that students do every­thing
in their power to get away from the
truth. We as human beings are not inter­ested
in finding out the realities of our so­cial
existence. "What we desire is to be 1
told why our particular state, nation, cul­ture,
race, sect or party has been a product
of a majestic effort of divine inventive or
creative power and why our opponents are
feeble-minded servants of the devil." As
long as we are patted on the back the person
doing the patting is a fine fellow and
worthy of all the honors that can be heaped
upon him, but let him turn around and
tell the truth several times and no words
can express the opinion of the masses for
such an ingrate.
* * * *
We are continually talking about the Au­burn
spirit and we have no trouble seeing
the so-called results of this emotional con-al
condition, as expressed about the campus.
Should these examples of mob violence not
bring us to ask the question "What is the
Auburn Spirit". Are the examples of steal­ing
about the campus, expressions of this
spirit? ,We hear mainacs raving at all
hours of, the day and night; we have bar­baric
outbursts of the crudest sort in our
picture show; we see students in drunken
brawls at football games; even in public
places away from Auburn students find it
necessary to impress on all people that they
are from Auburn and have the Auburn
spirit.
It seems that this is the idea that is im­pressed
on all new men but until we estab­lish
a correct standard of relative values
there will be no Auburn Spirit.
* * * *
Cletus, Unscrupulous (Unconscious)
Unipulous is right. You are one of those
unfortunate and misinformed youths who
takes college seriously. You have been
told before that it is bad business to let
serious things interfere with your college
education and what a fool you have been
in not realizing this fact. You come to
college to learn to live and surely you do
not want to be a book worm all your life.
And of course you don't want to be one
of these old foggys, who are always moral­izing
about things and conditions because
they never have any friends.
One of the most important aims and ob­jectives
of college Cletus, is to' develop
friendships that will be of value in latter
life, and unless you "are very careful you
will-lose all the ones that you have already
made. First of all strive to be popular and
after that if you can do some good, in the
world so much the better. Bunk.
The following poem is affectionately dedi­cated
to our home-sick freshmen:
THE FARMER
Down on the farm about half past four
I slip in my pants and sneak out the door,
Out to the yard I run like the dickens,
To milk the cow and feed the chickens
Clean out the barn, curry Nancy and
Jiggs,
Separate the milk and slop all the pigs,
Work two hours then eat like a Turk,
And by heck, I'm ready for a full days
work.
Then I grease the wagon and put on the
rack,
Hitch up the hosses and hustle down the
lane
Must get the hay in it looks like rain;
Look over yonder as sure as I'm born
Cattle on the rampage, cows on the corn,
Start across the medder, run a mile or
two,
Heaving like I'm wind broke, wet clear
5 thru
Get back to the hosses, then for recom­pense
Nancy got astraddle of the barbed wire
fence.
Joints all aching and muscles in a jerk
I'm fit as a fiddle for a full days work.
Work all summer till winter is high
Then figure up the books and have a big
sigh
Worked all summer, didn't make a thing
Got less money then I had last .spring;
Now some people say that there ain't no
Hell
But they never farmed, so they can't tell.
When spring rolls around I take another
chance,
While the fringe^ grows longer on my old
pants;
Give my suspenders a hitch, and my belt
a jerk,
And by heck I'm ready for another years
** work. —Anon.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11, 1931 T H E P L A I N S M AN A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE PAGE THREE
PRESCHOOL CLUB
GIVES PLAY AND
TOY EXHIBIT HERE
An attractive play and toy exhibit
was the feature of the last meeting
of the Pre-school Study Club, on No­vember
4. Miss Doughty, who is in
charge of the nursery school, direct­ed
a practical discussion on "Toys,
Good and Bad". Mrs. High and Mrs.
Salmon assisted Mrs. Doughty in ar­ranging
the exhibit. On display were
cllections from Loveman, Joseph and
Loeb of Birmingham, and Milton
Bradley of Atlanta; and of unusual
interest was a large assortment of
pre-school books, shown through the
courtesy of Burton's Bookstore.
All pre-school mothers are cordi­ally
invited to attend the club pro­grams,
which are held on the first
Wednesday of each month, at 3:00
p. m., at the High School building.
On December 2, Mrs. J. Gt Lowery
will briefly review an artilce on
"Some Phase of Habit Formation",
and Mrs. Herbert Martin will present
a paper, "The Tired Child".
Notre Dame Fullback
Position Proves Jinx
BOSTON U. CO-EDS REFUSE
FOOTBALL MEMBERS DATES
Boston— (IP)— Boston Univer­sity
co-eds recently informed the
members of the varsity football team
by letter that they would not speak
to or make dates with the gridders
until they win a football game.
At the time the team had suffered
ten consecutiye defeats, and the girls
indicated that they were getting tired
of it. The letter said the ultimatum
would be altered only through a foot­ball
victory.
South Bend, Ind. —(IP)—During
the last two years Notre Dame's full­backs
have run into the injury or in­eligibility
jinx with startling regu­larity,
but each successor, from an
unfailing well of material, neverthe­less
has filled the bill satisfactorily.
George Melinkovich if the "Fight­ing
Irish", the Rocket's ninth full­back
since last year, is the latest ex­ample
of another fullback making
good.
This hard charging youngster, who
comes from Tooele, Utah, supplanted
Steve Banas, who was injured in the
Drake game, and proceeded to score
twice against Pitt. As a result he
seems to have taken possession of the
job. •
Last year Mullins, Savoldi, Hanley,
O'Connor, Howard and Staab fell
victims to the ill-fated fullback po­sition.
Then early this season, Nick
Lukats was forced out by injury, af­ter
which Banas, his successor, could
not escape the jinx.
Melinkovich, however, says he's go­ing
to stick, jinx or no jinx.
Flashes From the Collegiate World
PRINCETON U. HAS LESS
DRINKERS THAN DRUNKARDS
Princeton, N. J.— (IP)'—A ques­tionable
'conducted by the Daily
Princetonian indicated that there are
more abstainers among the freshmen
class at Princeton University this
year than there are drinkers. The
questionaire also revealed that a ma­jority
of the 545 freshmen prefer
a Phi Beta Kappa key to a varsity
"P". About 60 per cent of the class
did not know what it wanted to be
outside of alumni. '
THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES
HAGEDORN'S
OPELIKA'S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE
New Fall Goods Arriving Daily
SOLDIER FIELD IS JINX TO
STRONG TEAMS IT SEEMS
Chicago —(IP)— Notre Dame,
Army, Michigan and Northwestern
are beginning to cast doubtful eyes
when Chicago's Soldier Field stadium
is proposed as the scene of the next
big game.
Northwestern and Michigan played
a freak game there in 1925, the mud
making it possible for the spoil an
otherwise good Michigan year.
It was cold and dark when Army
and Navy, played their famous 21-21
game there in 1926.
Army and Notre Dame sloshed
about the field last fall and the same
kind of day greeted Notre Dame and
Northwestern there this year.
. Some are beginning to suspect the
field is jinxed.
FORMER 400-METER CHAMP
CATCHES BANDIT IN RACE
Quincy, 111. — ( I P )— When a 16-
year-old youth held up a-filling sta­tion
here he did not reckon with the
fact that one of the bystanders was
a world-famous runner.
Morgan Taylor, former Grinnell
College athlete and champion of the
400-meter hurdles in the Olympic
games, led two other witnesses of the
holdup in pursuit of the youth and
his gunman companion. He caught
the robber in front of City Hall, and
knocked his gun from his hand, hold­ing
him for police.
U. OF MTSS. BACK RUNS 109.YDS.
New York —(IP)— The longest
run made in a football game this
year was executed by Edmund Burke,
University^ of Mississippi back, who
caught the kickoff nine yards behind
his own goal and ran for a touch­down
in the game with Alabama.
NORTH CAROLINA HOST
SOUTHERN CONFERENCE
ON EDUCATION RECENTLY
Chapel Hill, N. C. —(IP)— The
annual Southern Conference on Edu­cation,
held last week at the Univer­sity
of North Carolina here, drew
educators from all parts of the
South. "Education and the Economic
Depression," was the subject for gen­eral
discussion.
As was the case the year previous,
there were no university funds avail­able
for the conference this year, but
the meeting was made possible by a
substantial contribution from a na­tional
association with "no strings at­tached."
Among the speakers were Prof.
Thomas H. Briggs of Columbia Uni­versity
and Dr. Edwin R. Embree of
Chicago, president of the Julius Ros-enwald
Fund.
. PRESIDENCY REFUSED
'New Brunswick, N. J.— (IP)—In
answer to a petition signed by 267
members of the, faculty of Rutgers
University, asking him to accept the
permanent presidency of the univer­sity,
Acting President Philip M. Brett
announced that under no circum­stances
would he accept the perman­ent
post.
CHARITY FOOTBALL GAMES
Auburn, Ala. —(IP)— Professor
C. L. Hare, president of the Southern
Conference, has announced that
members of the conference have full
authority to arrange post-season"
charity football games.
200 REPORT FOR RIFLE TEAM
Lawrence, Kans. —(IP)— More
than 200 women students at the Uni­versity
of Kansas reported when the
call went out for candidates for the
women's rifle team.
YALE STARS GATHER AGAIN
New Haven, Conn. —(IP)— Wyl-lys
Terry, '85, member of the Yale
football -team which defeated Dart-mouth
113 to 0 in 1884, was among
a number of prominent Yale stars
of other years who^ attended football
practice here last week. .
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MRS. HOOVER PRAISES
TAP DANCING FOR GIRLS
Baltimore, Md. —(IP)— As a
guest of the faculty and students at
Goucher College here last week Mrs.
Herbert Hoover watched the girl stu­dents
in their tap dancing, and prais­ed
the work the college is doing in
giving its students rigorous physical
education work.
She asserted that when she was a
student at Stanford University she
was one of the "subjects" on which
the physical education teacher "ex­perimented"
in those days.
PURDUE U. DEVELOPS NEW
RADIO AND TALKIE PICKUP
Lafayette, Ind.— (IP)—The phys­ics
department at Purdue University
has developed a "golden larynx" for
radio and talkie pickup, it being a bit
of gold leaf, stretched to the size of
a silver dollar, and which promises to
be one of the most effective pickups
yet used. It is claimed for the new
invention that it will catch the deep
tones better than anything hereto­fore
used as a microphone.
Kappa Delta Announces
Pledges And Initiates
The Sigma ' Lambda Chapter of
Kappa Delta has announced the
names of two new pledges, Cordelia
Smith and Nelle Crook.
On Friday night, October 30, Mary
McGhee and Lily Hall were initiated
into the chapter. Immediately fol­lowing
the service, the chapter and
new initiates were invited to the
home of Mrs. W. W. Hill, where a
delicious ice course was served.
LOST.—Gold Waltham pocket watch
with chain and knife, on Monday,
Nov. 9, in room No. 315, Broun
Hall. Finder please return to Capt.
W. A. Metts.
STUDENT EXCUSED
FROM DRILL FOR
PACIFIST IDEAS
Columbus, O. — ( I P )— Charles B.
Ha& of Madison, O.,. student at Ohio
State University has been excused
temporarily from compulsory mili­tary
drill, following his appeal t(A
President George Rightmire that he
has pacifist convictions. The excus­ing
of the student was to last until
the case finally had been decided.
Hart, a freshman, declared he had
the backing of the Methodist Church,
which recently adopted resolutions at
its two Ohio conferences declaring
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New 12-Pack Solves
A Long-Felt Need
The problem of how to carry a
package of "tailor-made" cigarettes
in a tailor-made suit of clothes, with­out
bulging the pockets of the latter,
has been solved!
A new and handy "twelve-p»ck"
has been produced by Old Golds,
which will repose in the side pocket
without betraying its presence or de­stroying
that "form-fitting efle'ct.
Men who are not silhouette consci­ous,
will also appreciate the new and
smaller package, because it can be
crowded into an already bulging
pocket without threatening the
seams.
The twelve-pack, of course, like
the standard twenty-pack, is wrapped
in moisture-proof cellophane, so that
the smokes will stay crisply fresh
and untainted under all climatic con­ditions.
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The new, handy package is avail­able
in cartoons of a dozen, contain­ing
144 cigarettes—enough to pro­vide
cerebral relaxation for several
"man-days".
Although this has nothing to do
\ with the 12-pack, Darwin said that
few things brought him the pleasure
and relaxation of a cigarette after
long concentration; and that was
even before cigarettes had been per­fected
by the manufacturers of Old
Golds.
Observatory Director
Believes Planets Exist
Cambridge, Mass.—(IP)—Dr. Har­low
W. Shapley, director of Harvard
Observatory here, has announced his
belief that a dozen or so undiscover­ed
planets are circling around the
sun outside our known solar system.
"Their discovery would lead to
drastic changes in the present the­ories
about the origin of our solar
system," he said. "Both of the pres­ent
theories would have to be revised
considerably to account for new
planets in the system many hundreds
of millions of miles further from the
sun than any planets now known."
The most popular theory of the
solar system's origin now is that it
was caused by the near colision of
the sun with another star, which
caused the sun's gas to expand and
form a thin, broad ring, which later
formed into the planets when the
star went on its course.
Prisoner-Student Is
Married In Prison
Havana — ( I P )— Alfonso Hernan­dez
Cata, prisoner at Principe Castle,
formerly Cuba's national penitenti­ary,
and a university student and
son of the Cuban Consul in Denmark,
recently married, in the prison, An­gela
Farinas, also a student at the
university and member of the Stu­dent's
Governing Body.
Cata is held on a bombing charge.
Other prisoners furnished the best
man for the wedding, which is be­lieved
to have been the first ever
performed for a political prisoner in
a Cuban prison.
Little Theatre To Hold
Second Meeting Nov. 12
At the second meeting of the Little
Theatre Thursday evening, at 8:00
o'clock, in the Y. W. Hut, a prelimi­nary
reading of three plays for pros­pective
production will be held.
Telfair Peet, college instructor in
dramatics, was appointed director
and manager of the Little Theatre
at the organization's first meeting,
last Thursday evening. The three
plays to be read will be considered
for future public production.
Faculty members and townspeople
who are interested in dramatics are
cordially invited to be present, said
Prof. Peet.
TRAVIS BROWN IS BECOMING
STAR ON ARMY ELEVEN
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on the gridiron by playing as well at
his new post as he did the week be­fore
against Mai Stevens' machine.
At Auburn, Brown was awarded
first-year numerals in football,
basketball and baseball and was a
member of the varsity squad in these
three sports for two years. He also
took time off from the, diamond to
throw the javeline on Coach Wilbur
Hutsell's track team his sophomore
year. He played baseball at West
Point last season and is being count­ed
upon as a regular in 1932.
Brown comes from an athletic
family. His father, who is executive
secretary of the Auburn Alumni As­sociation,
captained the Auburn Tig­ers
in 1894. A brother, Kirtley Brown,
veteran football announcer for Radio
Station WAPI, played football, basket­ball
and baseball during his college
days at Baylor University.
RESERVES AND FROSH
DEFEAT BENNING, 41-2
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ball had rolled over the goal, and re­covered
by an Auburn man.
Benning's passing attack showed
real threats at time, and the Tank­ers
drove fifty yards on passes short­ly
"before the end of the game.
Biology Students Are
Filling Taylor Museum
Upland, Ind. —(IP)— Advanced
students of the Taylor University de­partment
of biology have been en­gaged
in a bit of sensational activity
according to the Echo, undergrad­uate
publication. Several days ago
students mysteriously returned from
an all-day trip to parts unknown
bringing with them huge bones, tied
to all parts of their automobile.
PROF. BECK SPEAKS BEFORE
BUSINESS WOMEN'S CLUB HERE
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, ves. For the one thing in life that
is most fundamental to existence, fi­nance,
we depend on others."
Prof. Beck showed also that schools
have not measured up to expecta­tions
in character training and citi­zenship.
He stressed the point, how­ever,
that habits are not formed of
the many things taught in school.
After millions that have been spent
on education there are still conflicts
over the difference between right and
wrong. If the public school has fail­ed
in this so have the churches and
the home, he explained.
Professor Beck's address was one
of the series of speeches to be de­livered
in celebration of Education
Week, sponsored in Auburn by the
Business and Professional Women's
Club.
Tiger Theatre
WEDNESDAY,, NOV. 11
"East of Borneo"
—With—
Rose Hobart
Charles Bickford
Lupita Tovar
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THURSDAY, NOV. 12
INA CLAIRE
" R e b o u n d "
—With—
Robert Ames
Myrna Loy
Hedda Hopper
Also Cartoon, "FLY HIGH"
FRIDAY, NOV. 13
"Friends and
Lovers"
—With—
Adolphe Menjou
Lily Damita
Laurence Oliver
Erich Von Stroheim
Also' Paramount News and
Comedy, "TROUBLE"
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STUDENT EXCUSED
FROM DRILL FOR
PACIFIST IDEAS
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against compulsory military/training.
Rev. Robert L. Tucker of Colum­bus
and a delegation of Methodist
ministers appealed to President
Rightmire on Hart's behalf. They
said 4,400 Methodist students were
enrolled at Ohio State.
Agitation against compulsory train­ing
started on the campus last spring,
and was the spark which set off the
explosion in which Prof. Herhart A.
Miller, head of the department of
sociology at the University, was
ousted from his job, much to the an­ger
of the libetal-minded educators
throughout the country.
'A" CLUB DANCE GIVEN AT
HIGHLAND PARK SATURDAY
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ingham. While in Montgomery they
broadcasted over station WSFA, and
were royally received by the radio
audience.
" The dance is scheduled to begin at
9:30 and will continue until the pro­verbial
'til. One dollar will be
charged as usual.
This activity of the "A" Club is
meeting with the universal approval
of the student body, and a large
crowd of students attending the game
will undoubtedly include the dance in
the day's festivity.
This dull product of a scoffer's pen.
—Wordsworth.
Mississippi Legislator
Attends Cumberland
Lebanon, Tenn. —(IP)— Edwin
D. Davis, 21, of Fayette, Miss., the
youngest man in the Mississippi
House of Representatives, is a mem­ber
of the junior law class at Cumb­erland
University here.
Davis attended the University of
Mississippi for four years, played
tackle on the football team, and in
addition to many other student ac­tivities,
was a member of Phi Pi Phi,
national social fraternity.
In an interview here the youthful
legislator pledged himself to action
to bring about the reinstatement of
the several Mississippi state colleges
and universities as members of the
Southern Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools, from which they
were dropped last year after Gov.
Bilbo and aides "fired" a number of
the schools' professors and presidents.
According to the Cumberland Col­legian,
Davis is just a "good egg" on
the campus.
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TIGERS DEFEATED BY
POWERFUL GREEN WAVE
IN A BITTER BATTLE
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ers something to worry about as he
nearly broke away on two occasions
after faking punts.
The entire Auburn team played as
well as could be expected against
such overwhelming odds and it would
be unfair to single out individual
stars. Tulane's outstanding perform­er
was undoubtedly "Papa" Nollie
Felts, however, and his exhibition of
line crashing must have been a thing
of beauty to an impartial observer.
The Tigers suffered only one ma-
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out in the third quarter with a
shoulder injury. A later examin­ation
revealed that several ligaments
had been torn and the star snapper-back
will probably be unable to play
against Sewanee.
AN AMBITIOUS SCHEDULE
St. Paul, Minn. — ( I P )— The Col­lege
of St. Thomas basketball team
has an ambitious schedule for the
coming season. It includes 24 games,
one of which is with Notre Dame on
Notre Dame's own court.
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