1931-11-06 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LV AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, NOV. 6, 1931 NUMBER 18
TIGERS READY TO MEET TULANE
CHEERLEADERS ARE
CHOSEN THURSDAY
AT MASS MEETING
Ham, Jenkins and Prewitt Are
Named Assistant Cheerlead­ers
After Tryouts Thursday
VICTORY SONG PRESENTED
Tight 'Urn Tigers" and Alma
Mater Are Presented by the
Glee Club
W. F. "Bill" Ham of Cottonton,
George "Red" Jenkins of Columbus,
and Ed. C. Prewitt of Mobile, were
chosen assistant cheerleaders after
tryouts held Thursday evening at the
mass meeting in Langdon Hall. Ham
and Jenkins are juniors and Prewitt
is a freshman. Selections were made
by the "A" Club.
Members of both the Glee Club
and band were .present at the meet­ing.
The former, under the direction
of Prof. John W. Brigham, sang the
new victory song, "Fight 'Um Tigers"
and the Alma Mater song. Follow­ing
the glee club's presentation of
the victory song, the student body
joined, and the general effect was re­ported
to have been exceptionally
good.
A parade at seven o'clock started
the meeting, and although a small
body of students were in the parade,
Langdon Hall was comfortably filled
after the demonstration.
The new cheerleaders will swing
into action tomorrow afternoon at
the Tulane game. The crowd was
unanimous in its approval of the se­lection.
C. D. "Bull" Stier, Harry "Happy"
Davis and George Calloway are the
present cheerleaders. The first two
will graduate this year, necessitating
the choosing of additional men in or­der
that they might get experience
for next year. .,
Post Office Will
Be Larger Than
Planned At First
Federal Authorities Decide to
Enlarge Dimensions Origi­nally
Selected
That the officials of the postal de­partment,
at Washington, have reach­ed
a decision which will enable the
new Federal building, in Auburn, to
be of larger dimensions that had been
formerly decided upon was announ­ced
today by local officials after re­ceiving
a telegram from Hugh G.
Grant, secretary to U. S. Senator
Hugo Black. Mr. Grant stated that
he had been in an all-night confer­ence
with the officials.
A move of this kind conforms to
the expressed general desire of local
citizens for a structure large enough
to accommodate overflow crowd dur­ing
the rush periods at the post of­fice.
The exact size of the building was
not announced but it is a fore-gone
conclusion, by local federal heads,
that the building will be near the
proportions which were contained in
a story in the last issue of the paper.
The questios was asked in the mes­sage,
as to the type of architecture
which would be most satisfactory to
build upon the chosen site. It was
learned that Postmaster Knapp will
consult Frederick Child Biggin, dean
of the Architectural department as
to the advisability of constructing a
building of the Georgian or colonial
type. Decisions will be forwarded
to Grant, who will be in constant
touch with the program.
Local officials were loud in their
praise for Grant, who has carried
transactions on this proposed plan
through to the present state they are
now in and stated that without his
aid, such plans would not have taken
such definite form at this time.
Speaks Tuesday BOWLING TO MAKE
ARMISTICE SPEECH
HERE WEDNESDAY
J. WARREN ANDREWS
AUBURN GRAD WILL
SPEAK ON BANKING
J. Warren. Andrews Has Had
Colorful Career Since Fin­ishing
Here in 1916
The investment phase of banking
will be the subject of an address to
be made at 8:00 p. m. Tuesday eve­ning
by J. Warren Andrews, vice-president
and trust officer of the
First National Bank of Mongomery.
The speech will be in the auditorium
of the Ross Chemical Laboratory.
Mr. Andrews, an Auburn graduate
in 1916, has been invited by Delta
Sigma Pi, national professional busi­ness
fraternity, and his talk will be
made primarily to students in busi­ness,
although anyone interested is
invited to attend.-
Following his graduation at Au­burn
in 1916, he was made associ­ate
professor in history, meanwhile
taking post graduate work. He was
awarded a master's degree at Auburn
in 1917.
During the same year his volun­teered
for service in the World War
and joined the Field Artillery Corps
of the U. S. Army. He remained with
the army until 1924. Entering as
a second lieutenant, Mr. Andrews
subsequently attained the rank of
captain, and since his retirement the
rank of major in the Reserve Corps.
From 1920 to 1924 he was assigned
to Princeton University, as profes­sor
of military science and tactics.
He was also coach of the Princeton
polo team.
In 1924 he accepted a position
with the Farmer's Loan and Trust
Company, of New York, becoming a
manager of one of its largest offices.
He resigned in 1928 to become sec­retary
of the Investment Research
Corporation of Detroit. He resigned
in 1930 to accept his present po­sition.
Game Between Freshmen and
Fort Benning Infantry to Be
Played in Afternoon
PARADE, REVIEW AT 10
All Ex-Service Men Invited to
Participate, Whether Legion
Members or Not
AG CLUB PLANS
DEBATE WITH GA.
In the eliminations for the Au­burn
Ag Club Debating team Wed­nesday
night, E. E. Nelson ahd W.
G. Hall were elected to represent the
local Ag Club in a debate to be held
with the Ag Club of the Georgia
State College of Agriculture. Ralph
Jones will serve as alternate for the
local team. Prof. E. D. Hess of the
Speech department has consented to
direct the representatives of Auburn.
The question for debate is "Re­solved
that Southern Agriculture
would be promoted by a complete
holiday in the cotton production in
the United States in 1932." The
event is to be held with the Unvier-sity
of Georgia, at Athens, December
the eleventh. The affirmative is to
be upheld by the Auburn team while
the team of Georgia takes the Nega­tive.
According to Prof. Hess, the local
team has some very good material
and is making progress.
The debate is an annual affair be­tween
the two institutions.
A message, vital to all ex-service
men, will be delivered by Judge W.
B. Bowling, of Lafayette, on Drake
Field, at the Armistice Day celebra­tion
on Wednesday, Nov. 11. Long
a prominent figure in Alabama judi­cial
circles, Judge Bowling will speak
from a wealth of experience as a
successful jurist and United States
Congressman, who was never defeat­ed
for this office.
He gave up his seat in the 69th
Congress to accept the circuit judge­ship
which he now holds. Following
his admission to the bar in 1900,
Judge Bowling practiced law and
was solicitor of the fifth Alabama
district for 16 years. Upon election
of Hon. J. Thomas Heflin to the U.
S. Senate, he was elected to fill his
unexpired term in the 66th Congress.
He was re-elected to the 67th, 68th,
and-69th congresses.
"All veterans of the World War,
regardless of whether or not they be­long
to the American Legion, are
urgently requested to be present at
the Armistice Day rally," said Capt.
E. S. Ott, local commander of the
John H. Wills Post. "It is our pur­pose
to get all ex-service men to­gether
for a good time and to ob­serve
the final day of American Le­gion
Week f(Tr the enrollment of the
1931 members for 1932.
"Ex-service men will be honored
with a review of the Auburn R. O.
T. C. unit, an address by Judge Bow­ling,
a real old-fashioned barbecue,
and a football game between the Au­burn
Freshmen and the 29th Infan­try
team from Ft. Benning".
Veterans will gather at 10 o'clock
at Meadow's Garage, after which
they will march to Bullard Field for
the review. Judge Bowling will
speak on Drake Field just before the
barbecue which takes place in Ag
Bottom.
Classes have been suspended for
the day after 10 a. m. and from 10
to 12 will be held the review and
address. The football game will be­gin
at 1:30 p. m.
Shirts and Blouses
Uniform for Review
To Lead Attack Tomorrow
Jimmie Hitchcock, scintillating Auburn ball-carrier, who will per­form
against the strong Green Wave from Tulane tomorrow. Hitch­cock,
who is under consideration for all-southern honors has shown
more form and effectiveness than any Auburn back in the past decade.
He will pass, run and kick from left-half in the Auburn-Greenie clash
tomorrow following a shift from the opposite half at first of the week.
PLANS MADE FOR
X CLUB DANCE
Dance Will Be Given At Jeff
Davis Hotel on Saturday;
Auburn-Knights to Play
Final arrangements have been
made for the "A" Club dance to be
given in Montgomery Saturday
night, November 7, at the Jefferson
Davis Hotel. The affair will be spon­sored
by the Auburn "A" Club and
will start at nine o'clock. The dance
will climax a week-end of football ac­tivities
in Camton Bowl and is ex­pected
to draw a large attendance.
Jimmie Robbins and his popular
Auburn Knights will furnish the
music for the occasion. The Auburn
Knights broadcasted regularly last
year over station WSFA, and are
well known to Montgomrians. Ad­mission
for the dance will* be one
dollar.
Unit to Assemble At 10 A. M.;
Artillery at Samford and En­gineers
at Ross
Uniforms for the Armistice Day
review Wednesday will consist of
white shirts and blouses in addition
to the regular uniform, it was an­nounced
from the Military Depart­ment
today.
First call will be sounded at 10:00
a. m. and assembly at 10:00. Mem­bers
of the Field Artillery will as­semble
in front of Samford Hall,
and the Engineer Corps in front of
the Ross Chemical Laboratory.
There will be an inspection in addi­tion
to the review.
LEGION MEETS .
MONDAY NIGHT
Final plans for the observance of
Armistice Day will be made at a
meeting of the John H. Wills Post,
No. 36, at 7:30 p. m. Monday in the
basement of Samford Hall. Capt.
E. S. Ott, commander, urges all mem­bers
to be present.
A special program of entertain­ment
has been arranged by Prof.
John Winans Roe, chairman of the
program committee.
Auburn High Playing
In Columbus Today
Coach Frank Dubose's Auburn
High gridders journeyed to Colum­bus
today to meet the powerful Co­lumbus
High School eleven. The
locals worked at a fast pace this
week in preparation for Auburn's
second out-of-town game, and the
team is being counted upon to put
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JUNIOR CLASS TO
AID AUBURN BAND
Preparations For Game
Concluded Today After
Week of Light Workouts
Most of Regulars Are In .Good Shape For Strug­gle
With Green Wave of Tulane; New Plans
and Defense Are Stressed During Workouts
Given This Week; AH Departments at Best
Except Parker and Davidson, Quarterbacks;
Largest Crowd Ever to Witness Tiger Eleven
in Action Expected to Attend
Auburn—
Grant . .
McCollum
Molpus . .
Jordan .
Chambless
Bush (Co-C.
Ariail
Parker .
Hitchcock
Rogers .
Brown . .
PROBABLE STARTING LINE-UPS
Position
Left End . . . .
Left Tackle . . . .
Left Guard . . . .
Center . . ' . .
Right Guard . . . .
Right Tackle . . . .
Right End . .
Quarterback . .
Left Half . .
Right Half . ."
Fullback, . .
(C.)
—Tulane
. Haynes
Bankston
. Scafide
Lodrigues
Schroeder
DeColigny
Dalrymple
. Dawson
Zimmerman
. . Glover
. . . Felts
OFFICIALS:
Cheeves (Georgia) Referee; Ervin (Drake) Umpire;
Moriarty (St. Mary's) Head Linesman; and Hill (Georgia
Tech) Field Judge.
Designs for Class Rings Decid­ed
Upon; Salesmen to Be
Appointed
A donation of $200 to be applied
to the fund for the purchasing of
capes for the Auburn Band was
made by the Junior Class at a meet­ing
held Thursday. This is the sec­ond
such donation made by classes,
the Senior Class having made a con­tribution
recently.
Appreciation for the interest and
loyalty that has been shown to the
band was expressed by P. R. Bidez,
conductor. He said that as the band
was a representative group of stu­dents,
the members made a reflection
on the school. He added that a fine
spirit to the band has been exhibit­ed
by students.
Designs for the class rings have
been decided upon, Howard Pringle,
chairman of the ring corAmittee an­nounced
at the meeting. He said
that students would have the choice
of several settings. Co-eds will de­cide
whether they want small rings
or pins.
Student salesmen for the rings
will be chosen soon, three to be ap­pointed.
Pringle reporter that addi­tional
information concerning the
rings may be obtained from him.
Ellis Will Attend Interfrat Meeting
President of Local Council to Attend Convention
In New York City on November 27-8
{T To Help Frosh
With Hard Courses
Freshmen interested in secur­ing
help with their courses are
requested to leave their names
and subjects in which aid is
needed at the "Y" office Mon­day.
The Y. M. C. A. is at­tempting
to provide tutoring for
those freshmen having difficul­ty
with their class work.
There will be a meeting of
those interested Monday evening
at 7 o'clock in the "Y" Library.
R. F. Carey Visits
Auburn Thursday
Former Westinghouse Official
Addresses Juniors in Ma­chine
Design While Here
R. F. Carey, formally Director of
the Education Department of the
Westinghouse Electric Company, at
the Philadelphia works, was in Au­burn
Thursday, on a brief visit. For
a number of years Mr. Carey came
to Auburn to select men for the
Westinghouse Company and has made
numerous friends here. For the last
four years he has been director of a
trade school in central Pennsylvania.
With his family, Mr. Cary was en
route to Florida, to spend the winter,
when he stopped in Auburn to re­new
old acquaintances, and to inci­dentally-
give avery interesting talk
to the members of the junior class
in machine design.
PISTOL TEAM WILL
PRACTICE MONDAY
Hugh W. Ellis was recently select­ed
delegate to the National Inter-fraternity
Conference, which will
convene in New York, on November
27th and 28. He will represent the
local Interfraternity Council at the
conference which meets in conjunc­tion
with the National Undergraduate
Interfraternity Council.
During the meeting, problems of
interest to all member councils will
be brought up and suitable solutions
sought. Among the topics discussed
last year were: "The Rushing Agree­ment
in practice", "Substitutes for
Hell Week", "The Attitude Toward
Scholarship", and "At What Point I
Do Fraternity Obligations Yield to
University Obligations".
In addition to the discussions, a
study will be made of the activities
of the member councils in an effort
to make plans to strengthen them as
constructive influences in their re­spective
schools.
Ellis is a fifth year student in
Architecture, who was elected presi­dent
of the Interfraternity Council
last Spring during their annual ban­quet
in Opelika. He will attend the
eighth annual meetnig of the con­ference
convening at the Hotel Penn­sylvania,
in New York. John T.
Harris, secretary of the council, was
selected alternate.
Practice for freshman pistol team
will begin on November 9th, with a
squad of ninety?five men, the larg­est
number ever to turn out.1 Prac­tices
will be held in the mornings
and on Tuesday and Thursday after­noons
from one to three. Instruction
this year will be under the direction
of Sgt. Moxham, who has turned out
two college championship teams here,
and Lt. Huggins, officer in charge.
The present schedule of practice
is posted on the bulletin board, and
any man whose name is not listed is
requested to see Lt. Huggins. The
members of last year's varsity
team will be asked to assist in the
instruction of the freshmen as much
as possible. Practice for the varsity
team will begin the latter part of
November.
By Tad McCallum
With most of the regulars in good
shape, the Auburn Tigers will con­clude
preparations Friday afternoon
for their struggle with the Green
Wave of Tulane, in Montgomery Sat­urday
afternoon. Work this past
week has been extremely light for
the Plainsman squad, and most of
the time has been devoted to learn­ing
new plays and preparing a de­fense
for the peculiar offense that
the Greenies employ.
Every department of the Auburn
machine should be at its best except
the signal calling group. Ike Parker
and Chattie Davidson, the two lead­ing
quarterbacks are not in the best
of condition, the former having been
slightly ill for several days while
Davidson, was injured in blocking
practice Tuesday afternoon. "Rip­per"
Williams, a sophomore, is the
next in line and he has been groomed
to fill the breach in case the regu­lars
are unable to serve for the full
sixty minutes.
The Tiger line, although consid­erably
lighter than the Tulane for­ward
wall, should give the New Or­leans
boys an interesting afternoon.
Porter Grant and David Ariail will
compare favorably with the Greenie
flankmen even with the great Dal­rymple
guarding on terminal. Buddy
McCollum and J. D. Bush are an ag­gressive
pair of tackles and Boots
Chambless, "Slepy" Molpus, and Ralph
Jordan will make the center of the
line rather hard to penetrate. This
is the same line that took all Wis­consin
had to offer for an entire
game without relief.
Trainer Hutsell hopes to have Ike
Parker ready to start at quarterback
Saturday but in case he doesn't Da­vidson
will direct the Auburn at­tack.
Jimmie Hitchcock and Allen
Rogers are slated to start at the
halves with the reliable Tom Brown
at fullback. Willis Phipps, Lindley
Hatfield and Casey Kimbrell, three
halfbacks who will stack up with the
best in the Conference, will be ready
to enter the battle when needed.
The largest crowd of Auburn sup­porters
that has ever witnessed a
Tiger eleven in action is expected to
be on hand when the Plainsmen take
the field for the opening kick-off.
Coach Wynne stated that the en­tire
squad of. 37 players would be
taken to Montgomery.
Y. M. C. A. TO MEET
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Members of the Y. M. C. A. will
meet Sunday afternoon at two
o'clock. Those who have joined dur­ing
the recent financial campaign are
cordially invited to be present.
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the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au-i
burn, Alabama.
Subscription rates $2.50 per year (60
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at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala.
Business and editorial offices at Auburn
Printing Co. on Magnolia Street.
Office hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily.
STAFF
Victor R. White, Jr ...Editor-in-Chief
J. Roy Wilder Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Gabie Drey ' Associate Editor
R. A. McMillan .....Associate Editor
J. W. Letson Associate Editor
J. R. Chadwick .....Managing Editor
L. C. McCallum Sports Editor
H. W. Moss News Editor
Horace Shepard News Editor
Charlie Simmons _ —Composing Editor
V. H. Kjellman Exchange Editor
Helen Garrett _ Society Editor
Frank G. Keller Contributing Editor
W. W. Beck _ Contributing Editor
REPORTERS
Otis Spears, '$4; M. M. Spruiell, '34; Billy
Hamilton, '34; Hugh T. Lawson, '35; Walter
Brown, '35; J. C. Ivey, '34; W. G. Hall, '35;
B. C. Pope, Jr., '33; Jack Knowlton, '35;
Walter Smith, '35; Marion Kelley, '33.
BUSINESS STAFF
James Backes Asst. Business Manager
Knox M. McMillan .... Advertising Manager
Robert Greer Circulation Manager
Phillip M. Benton Asst. Adver. Mgr.
THEY LAY WASTE THEIR POWERS
As a result of the publication of some
supposedly humorous item,in the Amherst
college weekly, which received the hearty
disapproval of members of the Catholic
church, certain papers of the nation have
turned their editorial guns on the brand of
humor found in American college periodi­cals.
The Birmingham Age-Herald says: "In
fine, the world is too much with these
youngsters, with the result that they lay
waste their powers. Here is another in­vasion
of the campus which is to be de­plored.
As with football, which has" evolved
into a sport in which semi-professionalism
prevails largely by reason of its depend­ence
on the crowd's emphatic warrant, so
with what might be an interlectual activity,
if college journalism were not so intent on
echoing the cheap pruriency of outside mag­azines
and papers. Incidently, what has
become of the campus monthlies which
formerly provided an outlet for students
students who wished to do serious writing?"
The Birmingham paper continues in this
vein to disparge the college publications.
We don't exactly agree with the statement
that the minute powers of these "young­sters"
are entirely laid to waste. Our office
is flooded with current college literature.
We are not of the expressed opinion that
college journalism is so intent on echoing
the cheap prusiency of outside publications.
The ancient campus monthlies which pro­vided
such an ideal outlet for serious
thought have become weeklies, semi-week­lies,
and dailies which provide the outlet in
a much better form. The college paper of
today is somewhat ahead of the dusty old
monthly of by-gone days. Compare the
standard size, seven column paper, of today,
with the publication of the late nineties.
Brand it radical, puerile, and dirty.
» IN DEFENSE OF MILITARISM
Each succeeding day finds the mail box
filled with propaganda from anti-militar­istic
organizations, throughout the country
—propaganda which has been originated by
fanatics, who are not satisfied with the
present order of things, and settle upon a
subject which now occupies the eye of the
world. Such prattle can only be branded
as an outburst from men and women who
wish, either to focus the spotlight of pub­licity
upon themselves, or have convinced
themselves that they are leading a crusade
against an evil power.
In respect to world peace, The Plainsman
stands firm in favoring it in its entirety.
It is this paper's belief that the advancing
world can not withstand a course which
leads in any other direction; war of any
kind would prove fatal. It has been proven,
however, that peace cannot be insured by
disarmament with the world mired within
the state she finds herself at the present.
World peace can only be insured by pro­viding
a defense sufficient to instill within
all other nations a desire for universal
brotherhood; a weakened defense invites
disaster. We believe that the greater por­tion
of the world does not want war, would
take the most extreme measures to pre­vent
it; but, the fact remains that the
mass has bound dwn its hands with legisla­tion
which is ready to take the severest
measures to defend a point of international
relations. We are handicapped by a neces­sary
evil and must follow the single course
which lies open before us. Insane patri­otism
will drive a man to decisions entirely
foreign to his real beliefs. It is for us,
now free of all enhancing circumstances,
to provide for ourselves and for those who
are to follow us, a world insured against
the slightest possibility of conflict. In con­clusion,
and in all sincerity, only strict
preparedness and not war, will end world
conflict in the future.
BRICK BATS AND BALLOTS
Several issues ago The'Plainsman carried
an editorial concerning the way in which
voting in class meetings and convocations
was carried out. It was suggested in this
article that the Student Undergraduate As­sociation
take measures in order to remedy
this condition in some way. An additional
provision was suggested to the end that
some clause be inserted to insure as nearly
a unanimous ballot as could be reasonably
expected. Yesterday's issue of the Mont­gomery
Advertiser contained an editorial
which we quote in part: "Less than half
our citizens exercise their voting privilege,
you know. A fact which perturbs no little
some of our serious thinkers."
The issue is placed plainly before the
students. This condition exists not only
within the world of politics, but also within
our own institution. Elections come and
go and the average man will find time to
express his disgus't with the officers which
have been elected to office. This same
man has not voted since he became of legal
age and has denied himself the opportunity
to combat those whom he does not favor.
He dismisses all argument, with the state­ment
that all forms of politics are dishonest.
The only means by which he would be able
to cleanse such practices has been ignored.
Similar conditions, to a certain extent,
exist in Auburn. Past elections have shown
that a large number 6T students do not
take the trouble to perform a duty to them­selves
and to the school at large by voting
for the man whom they believe is best
qualified to hold office. A condition of this
kind needs remeding and this paper urges
the individual to consider this obligation
in all seriousness before he again passes
by the inalienable right which has been ac­corded
him.
Emphatic Euphonies
By Uuscrupulous Unipulons
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.
* * * *
While the campus babbles over that in-emit'able
crusader, Conscientious Cletus, and
those braggardly gentlemen of the "A"
Club send out threats of no gentle nature
concerning the activity of the dauntless
one—I make my debut as a colyumist.
I come as an answer to the Editor's pipe
dream, as he sits in perplexity over the
yawning galleys of space, and scrawl my
name in the halls of the damned to begin
moralizing. ,
* * * *
Shades of the little red school of my child
hood, where we stole away with the little
golden haired lassies at recess to hold hands,
exchange shy glances, and chatter sillily.
I can not pass the vicinity of Langdon Hall
and listen to the idle prattle coming from
the cars, without feeling a tinge of remorse
for those bygone days.
* * * *
What of Cletus? What of the "A" Club?
Perched on the unbiased hill of indifference
it is an interesting battle. Cletus would
seem to be an extreamist, and one of those
misinformed youth's who take college se­riously.
The "A".Club, a group splitting
with pride over their power as a campus
organization. Cletus must pause to remem^
ber that the formation of the Vigilance
Committee was a compromise measure with
them. He must realize that the whole Amer­ican
educational system is in the throes
of commercialized athletics, and all the
verbal T.N.T. he can summons up will be
"wasted. The "A" Clul> as a group of in­dividuals
are a very likeable bunch of
chaps. Their methods are no more than
the outgrowth of the hero-worship accorded
them by the student body for all these
years. They are making personal sacrifices
of course, and it is a mayterdom they like.
It is only too true that their success is
more important to the reputation of the
school than any heights of scholastic pre­lection
we might attain. It is a sporting
age, Cletus, and the general public is more
interested in winning a football game than
the mastering of any number of intellectual
truths. Officials realize this, and College
Presidents are forced to extend themselves
to support athletic departments. Its Amer­ica—
the color, glamor, thrills, exuberation
of a big football clash has sufficiently ap­pealed
to its people, and they will pay any
price to satisfy the desire.
Cletus has advanced some truths, and
.all (however secretly) must admire him for
unrestrained expression of personal ideas.
Yet, he has often gone to the extent of
folly.
* * • * *
The Springfield Republican ventures to
say that College humor is a bit too broad for
Prexy's Paragraphs
By Bradford Knapp
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The program for
Armistice Day has
been published. To me
Armistice Day will al­ways
be a celebration
devoted to peace. The
rumbling of war in
Manchuria should re­mind
all of us very
forceably of the strain
and distress of 1917-18. I cannot believe
that any thing so unfortunate will happen
to drag the world again into war; at least
for years to come. Every Armistice Day
I feel that we ought to have two great pray­ers
rising to Heaven; one a prayer of thank­fulness
for America and the other a prayer
for the courage, the conviction, and the
generous impulses which will make our
America always a champion of peace. I
know of nothing we could want in all the
world except the happiness and prosperity
of other people. We shall have these always
if we can only restore them to the rest of
the world and then live up to our own op­portunities
here in our own country. I hope
my country will always be right. I hope
there may be the intelligence and the high-mindedness
which will make our America
a leader for peace. I hope we may be pre­pared
to defend our ideals and our honor
only in case these are really at stake. We
have played the part of no craven in the
world but let us play the part of the real
Tmerica and make Armistice Day a day
when we think not so much of war but of
the blessings of peace.
* * * *
Mid-term grades are going to be due
November 21. I am not saying this to in­dicate
that grades are the most important
thing. Sometimes we emphasize them too
greatly. The grade is only an artificial
measure of progress. If teachers could be
sure that real progress had been made in
absorbing the training for which the course
was intended a grade would not be neces­sary.
Nevertheless it is a good thing to
face your tests and be prepared in some
measure to submit yourself to examinations.
The ideal way is to keep all the work be:
hind you as you go. This gentle reminder
is to go to those who procrastinate.
* * * *
Again on Saturday the whole of Auburn
leaves town to go to a great game. Tulane
has one of the most outstanding teams in
America and hence our team is tackling
about the hardest job that any team has at­tempted.
Hopefully, courageously and earn­estly,
I know that they are going to play
the game for the honor of OLD Auburn.
Whatever the results I, for one, would rath­er
have the good reputation which this in­stitution
has for clean sportsmanship than
win any game in our whole schedule.
* * * *
I am very deeply concerned always when
we go away from one of the games. I can­not
impress upon your minds too strongly
the fact that the good name of this insti­tution
rests in the hands of every student,
every alumnus, every townsman, every per­son
who bears the name of Auburn in any­way
whether responsible for that good name
or not. Long experience has taught me that
bers of our party all come home to the rest
the acts of the thoughtless, indifferent mem-of
us before we get through. After the
excitement is over and the report has been
made to the President of the School and
the School's name seriously hurt, you will
find that the erring student is exceedingly
sorry for what he has done. When that
time comes it is too late. The wrong can­not
be made right and there will be always
a few who have seen the mistake and re­member
it not against the individual but
against the whole institution. The time to
think about the consequences of these things
is before they happen. There will be an
immense crowd in Montgomery on Satur­day.
Let us all pray that we may come
away with nothing to mar the thorough
enjoyment of a great occasion.
<* AUBURN FOOTPRINTS *:-
Pretty good poetry, said Professor
Copeland pf Harvard, is like pretty good
eggs.—David Carb.
Those people are strongest who do not in
an emergency let their emotions dominate
their reason.—Aristide Briant.
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous
man.—Addison.
There is no road or ready way to virtue.
—Browne.
those who have not been entirely weaned
from their Victorian ideas. The right hon­orable
editorial staff of the Birmingham
Age-Herald, feeling it was about time to
swat the collegians, echoes the disapproval.
I should like to call the attention of these
gentleman to the College Humor, which is
undoubtedly the leading source of humor in
the college world. Compare it with the
risque humorous literature the average lay­man
buys on the news stand.
Should Auburn defeat Tulane the students are planning some intensive rocking
of the Cradle of the Confederacy Saturday night.
. * * * * * * * * * *
What wise man said, "It is worth while going through college if only to know
what is not there"?
* * * * * * * * * =*
Prof.: Why did Hannibal cross the Alps? '
Frosh: For the same reason the hen crossed the road. You don't catch me with
no puzzles.
Ed. Note: This, most gentle readers,-is an example of what true ingenuity
can do with the oldest of jokes.
* * * * * * * * * *
Mr. Hoover's committee has named three committees to tell local committees
how to tell unemployed committees to get themselves employed.—Dallas News.
* * * * * * * * * *
A sophomore at N. C. was apprehended under a bed somewhere in New York
after he took French leave from his Alma Mater because he was flunking Spanish.
We wonder where the police would have found him had he flunked aviation.
* * * * * * * * * *
Signs of the depression: '^Vericose veins reduced."
* * * * * * * * * *
The Springfield Republican is of the opinion that humor in college publications
is a bit too broad for persons who have not yet been weaned from a certain Victorian
sense of the proprieties. Glad to have you gentlemen with us. Step up to the front
where we can hear better. They call this the Twentieth Century.
* * * * * * * * * *
TREES
I think I shall never see,
Along the road, an unscraped tree.
With bark intact, and painted white,
That no car ever hit at night.
For every tree that's near a road
Has caused some auto to be towed.
Sideswiping trees is done a lot
By drivers who are not so hot.
God gave them eyes so they could see,
Yet any fool can hit a tree.
—Selected.
* * * * * * * * * *
We are wondering if the balance in congress referred- to in the newspapers has
anything to do with mental state.
* * * * * * * * * *
Someone has said that Providence raises up a great leader for every crisis—
we are glad to know there isn't a crisis.
* * * * * * * * * *
And over-speculation is the father of depression.
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
Another one of those people who qualify
for Ripley's famous column has been dis­covered
at the University of North Caro­lina.
This human wonder has gone un-praised
for the first part of the year, and
no one even suspected his poweress. But
you can't keep a good man down, someone
has said, and that's what happened in this
instance.
Just who discovered this marvel has not
yet been made known but their name will
probably be handed down to posterity as
the discoverer of a man who really likes
asparagus. Recently, when asparagus was
served at the college cafe at Chapel Hill,
this one man ate twenty-one plants; or, to
put it on a tip basis, eighty odd tips. When
asked the reason, the genius answered, "I
really like the stuff".
Ladies and gentlemen its up to Auburn
now. Will our fair name be besmirched be­cause
we don't have an asparagus eater.
If you meet anyone who really likes the
stuff send in his name to this column. Spin­ach
and mushroom lovers will be accepted.
* * * *
The fact that people of Montgomery are
hungry for knowledge is evidenced by this
letter which was recently in the medical
advice column of the eminent Journal:
"If a person takes one or two bichloride
of mercury tablets by mistake and does
not discover the mistake, what would be the
result and what effect would it have on
the person."—C. A. M.
On inquiry here, it has been found that
all the chemistry professors agree that the
poisonous qualities of a compound are not
the least affected by whether the compound
was taken intentionally, or by accident, or
ignorantly. Does this answer your question
C. A. M.?
This depression seems to drive many
college students to desperation in their ef­fort
to work their way through school. The
latest in jobs for hard working college
boys is that of state electrocutioner. Two
boys at Wake Forest in North Carolina ap­plied
for this job at the state penitentiary.
They stated they had heard that the state
paid twenty-five dollars for throwing the
switch. ( >
* * * * ,
"The highest point in Alabama", says the
Crimson-White, is Cheaha Mountain in
Mountain in Clay and Talladega Counties."
This will no doubt be a relief to many Au­burn
students who are of the opinion that
Auburn is the highest place in the state.
* * * *
Culture at Mississippi A. & M. reached a
point recently when a large number of stu­dents
turned out to hear the debating so­ciety.
The subject wsrs: "Resolved, that
the sweetest date can be had in the light
\
of the moon." The affirmative side won,
needless to say, but it is believed that the
opinion of the judges was pre-formed.
* * * *
Five members of the Princeton football
team were recently asked to turn in their
uniforms because the assistant coach caught
them visiting a "speak-easy". Now will
someone tell us why the coach was there.
—Crimson-White.
" MAMMONIAC ODE
By SIEGFRIED SASSOON
I
Hark, hark, the Mark in the Money Market
sings!
And sweet Swiss francs in Bernese Banks
Yodel to Mammon a million thanks
For swift and profitable flight on funded
wings.
To Mammon's face of many facets,
"Firm in tone," they raise their song;
"Fluctuant Bonds and Frozen Assets
Unto us no more belong."
II
Toll for the brave,
Gold Standard sunk beneath the European
wave.
For Britain's Gold Redemption Policy sus­pended,
And the Parity of the Pound (Alas, poor
Yorick!) ended,
Lament from fiscal throats,
O Patriot Five-Pound Notes;
And let your dirge with Wage Reductions
be well blended.
I ll
On Franco-franc, 0 Dollar, and O Florin,
Exceed your rights, ferocious-fanged and
foreign!
Pengo, Peseta, and Colonial Pound,
Abjure your minetal ancestry, and be
More glorious than mere gold from under­ground
;
Soar; sag; and more portentously unsound;
Cause all the trouble you can; but 0—be
free!
IV
Finally, O English Dictionary, this conun­drum
settle,
And aid me to be poet-laureate of the
• aureate. . . .
"Non-rusting yellow malleable ductile metal
"Of high specific gravity;" (as good as gold)
"Gold can be foil or dust or leaf; beaten
or rolled.
"Coins made of this. Money in specie. Bil­lion.
Wealth."
Gold this; gold that. Pure gold. Gold can­not
buy good health.
Gold plate. Resources. Interest. Incomes.
Power of purchase.
Pays Unemployment. Buys Champagne,
and builds new churches . . .
Deliver us, O Lord, from Currency In­flation.
INSIGHTS
By Conscientious Cletas
J. W. Letson, Jr.
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.
PIGS IS PIGS and apples is apples, but
when it becomes necessary for Con­scientious
Cletus to get up at four
o'clock in the rooming in order not to dis­appoint
the public (his and my public) it
is carrying "art" a little too far.
Thou "Art" on tb,e wrong track any way
Cletus. You have been told that so often
by those in positions to know and still you
play your part of dumbness personified and
heed not the advice of those who have your
interest at heart (tar and feathers). Know v
you not that a prophet is always without
honor in his own country, especially when
it comes to the point that he can infallibly
prophesy grits every morning for break­fast.
According to some reports that is
putting it mild so when tempted to over
indulge reach for a Lucky.
There is a time and place for all things
Cletus, and there is no excuse for a person
to go to college three years and not realize
this fact. In order to "rate" you must
live in such a way as to satisfy the general
public on the point that their conception
of college life is right. Above all, never
have a serious thought. If you find it im­possible
to keep them from entering your
head, by all means say nothing about it be­cause
in this time of unemployment we want
the picture shows to continue educating the
public on how colleges aa-e run. Anyway
the general public has so much fun talking *
about the wildness of youth that it would
be very unkind to deprive society the'pleas­ure
of this topic of conversation. Also
what would the Woman's Sewing Circle
Number 187, do to pass away the time at
its meetings if its members did not have
"what is this younger generation coming to"
to talk about.
Cletus do you know that you will never
become president unless you learn to live
with your fellow men and become popular.
On this point it is always a good idea to
never disagree with anyone. To express an
opinion that is not in keeping with the
opinions of your fellow students, especially
the "campus leaders", is a bad policy. It
is possible Cletus, that you might decide to
get an education sometime during the lat­ter
part of your college career, (try and
do it) and in doing this the most important
step that you could make would be to get
elected Big Chief Mogul of the Order of
semi-conscious Knighthood. If you have
opfhions that are not in keeping with the
accepted ones of the day it is by far the
best policy to keep quiet about them. Un­less
you agree with the Big Chief Mogul
in everything he says and does you will
never succeed in getting an education,, for
is education not measured by the amount
of brass a man is able to wear on his watch
chain. What good has been received from
college anyway, unless you have been elec­ted
to membership in the Most Exalted
Order of Amalgamated What Nots, the pur­pose
of which-is to recognize outstanding
merit, etc., etc., etc.
Cletus, to be a success /in life you must
agree with everybody about everything, but
who cares a damn about success.
* * *
The author's change of policy for this
week is made with all due apologies to
Bull Stier and the "A" Club. The author
has not gone back on his publicity contract,
but realizes that too -much attention will
often spoil the child. Also every question
has more than one side. Note: (I do not
choose to run for the office of Big Chief
Mogul in 1932.)/
The author wishes to make a public state­ment
to the effect that he is always open
for a bribe. Send all contributions to 135
South Gay Street.
Quotations
Leisure grows in popularity, now that so
many people wonder what is the use of
working scr hard for money when you will
lose it if you try to save it.—Elmer Davis.
It is not unlikely that in the next 50
50 years America will be divided into two
worlds ;the world of Peter and the world
of Pan.—Dr. Fulton Sheen.
Alas! by some degree of woe
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can ne'er a transport know
That never feels a pain.—Lord Lyttleton.
He best can paint them who shall feel
them most.—Pope.
America is a land where, if you receive
the count, the crowd doesn't want to hear
your groans. —W. G. Fern.
It is good to love the unknown.—Charles
Lamb.
FRIDAY, NOV. 6, 1931 T H E P L A I N S M A N -:- A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE PAGE THREE .
TAD McCALLUM, Editor
CONTRIBUTORS:
HARRY BARNES
MARSHAL KALEY
K. G. TAYLOR
NEIL O. DAVIS
Operation to Cost
Tigers Service Of
Holmes For Season
77 A/V HOLMEC -AU3UG.S1
Auburn's reserve ranks were
further depleted Tuesday, when
Mark Holmes, the .largest player
on the Tiger squad, was stricken
with an attack of acute appendi­citis
and taken to an Opelika hos­pital
for an operation. The big
tackle will be lost for the remaind-er
of the season.
There's something about quitting
when the whistle blows that big pay
never quite makes up for.
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Tigers To Face One of Nation's Strongest Teams On Saturday
HARRIERS MEET
GEORGIA TECH
NEXT THURSDAY
By K. G. Taylor
Thursday afternoon at one o'clock
Coach Hutsell's cross-country team
set out for Atlanta, where they will
partake in their second meet of the
season against Georgia Tech. -In the
first meet of the year the team show­ed
up much better than expected, by
defeating the strong Georgia team by
the score of 23 to 32.
With this meet on the right side of
the le4ger, the team hopes to make
it two straight victories, by defeating
Tech Friday afternoon. However,
word has come from the "Flats" in
Atlanta, that Tech has one of the
strongest teams it has had in years.
What makes this meet even more in­teresting,
is the fact that it is a typi­cal
Auburn-Tech battle, with the par­ticipants
willing to die for their Alma
Mater.
The team is in very good physical
condition and have a good chance of
returning with another Auburn vic-
-tory. Those men-who will run in the
meet are: Joe Plant, Allison Kyser,
Marshall Caley, Stokes Johnson, Zack
Huff, and Muffee. Percy Beard and
Manager Pat O'Bourke are also "ac­companying
the team.
PAPER DIAGRAM
SAYS GREENIES
HAVE A DYNAMO
75c
ROUND TRIP
—to—
MONTGOMERY
— t o -
Auburn - Tulane
Game
On Regular School Bus
with Cushion Seats.
—Leaves—
TOOMER'S CORNER
SATURDAY, 7:30 A.M.
—Returns—
SATURDAY NIGHT
We "borrow" the following dope
on the Green Wave from the Inter­collegiate
Sports magazine.
When tlie infantry advances fail,
Tulane will loosen up the opposing
defense this fall with an overhead
bombardment.
At least, on paper they should.
A combination of several fine pas­sing
backs and receivers considered
above the average, the Green should
be at home in the air.
Harry Glover, Don Zimmerman,
Nollie Felts, Jim Hodgins, Lowell
Dawson and George' Haik can pass a
football and get it there on time and
to its true destination pretty con­sistently.
Haik is the._ long range
shelter. Zimmerman can pick a re­ceiver
far or near and low or high.
Another advantage falls in the fact
that all of these backs can kick or
run and should thus cross up the op­position.
It simply adds mystery to
the offense when backs can punt, pass
or run as the defense shouldn't be
so well set. Especially is this true
when short bucks can be intermixed
to catch them napping.
Reliable Jerry
Tulane will have at one end no
other than Jerry Dalrymple. Jerry
goes down under a ball with remark­able
speed and has the knack of get­ting
them one handed or with both,
all according to the ease or tough­ness
of the situation and the position.
The end who should prove the
boon is Vernon Haynes, slated to fill
in much of the time at the opening
left vacant by' Jack Holland. His
performance in practice last year
was nothing short of spectacular in
the way he would snatch a ball. He
has the height, power and speed, too.
He will add a great amount of ex-
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LESLIE \rtOODALL - "PUBURN
One of Coach Kiley's "watch
charm guards", Leslie Woodall, is
an aggressive lineman of whom
much is expected before he grad­uates.
Woodall will see quite a
bit service this season in a reserve
role
RIPPER. VJILUIUMS -RUBURN
With Ike Parker and Chattie
Davidson, Auburn's two leading
signal callers in bad physical
shape, "Ripper" Williams, sopho­more
quarterback, may be called
upon to direct the play of the Tig­ers
in the Tulane battle Saturday.
KEY TO CRAMTON SCOREBOARD
TO HELP AUBURN SUPPORTERS
In order that the Auburn-Tulane
game may be more closely followed,
by the fans in the stands, we are pub­lishing
a "Key" to the scoreboard at
Cramton Bowl. There has been much
confusion in past games, because the
spectators failed to understand why
certain penalties were imposed. The
accompanying "Key" will assist the
fans iri the interpretation of the
scoreboard.
Key to Score Board at Cramton
Bowl, Montgomery
1 Offside—player starting before
ball is snapped—5 yards.
2 Holding by defense—5 yards.
*3 More than one illegal or incom­plete
forward pass in same series of
downs—5 yards.
4 Running into kicker—5 yards.
5 Crawling—5 yards.
6 Unreasonable delay—no delay
over 30 seconds—5 yards.
7 Time called more than 3 times
during half at request of captain—5
yards.
8 Failure of substitute to report
to official—5 yards.
9 Holding by side in possession of
ball—15 yards.
10 Failure" to come to second stop
in shift or huddle play—15 yards.
11 Interference with fair catch—
15 yards.
12 Pushing or pulling player by
the side who put the ball in play—1'5
yards.
perience. before the first kickoff.
Calvert DeCI.oligny, powerful tackle
and a real spot of strength in 1930,
may work plenty at end also. De-
Coligny is a star hurdler, has plenty
of speed and .is perfectly built for
the role of a star flankman. If Louis
Boasberg, Dick Bankston, Sam Ze-murray
or Bill Featherngill come
through properly for a tackle it
would b/e no surprise to see the
Frenchman at ah end a great deal
of the time. . v
Stephen Brasfield, a "freshman of
last year, is another who may work
some. He is of fine build for an
end, rangy and fast.
Charlie Kyle, a punter but an end,
is another frosh of 1930 who may
show well. So is Sonny Westfeldt,
strong and big. Doyle Magee and
Lloyd Guy are two ends of the 1930
squad who may come in for atten­tion
as they, too, showed promise but
lack experience.
Grid "Big Shots"
It would seem now that the big
shots in the pass game will be Dal­rymple,
Haynes, DeColigny and Bras-field
in a receiving way with Zim­merman,
Glover and Felts on the
throwing end and. Haik for long
range emergency duty.
If Haik's speed in offensive play,
getting away is improved, he may
upset many calculations though, as
he has all the form in the world
otherwise.
Whether Tulane's passing attack
is used as a threat or regular ground
gainer, it should be potent this fall.
The Green Wave holds the South­ern
Conference track and field cham­pionship
of 1930-31.
The Associated Press score sheet
of the best year any team in the
Southern Conference experienced
gave Tulane a big margin, the Uni­versity
of North Carolina, Universi­ty
of Alabama, University of Vir­ginia
and the University of Mary­land
being others to split into the
scoring.
13 Interference by side making
forward pass—15 yards.
14 Intentionally throwing ball to
ground by side making forward pass
—15 yards.
15 Piling up or roughing player
after whistle has blown—15 yards.
16 Tripping with legs after fail­ure
to block a defensive player—15
yards.
17 Unsportsmanlike conduct or
abusive language—15 yards.
18 Clipping—blocking a player be­low
the knees from behind—25 yards.
19 Player disqualified for striking
with fist or open hand in fall, kneel­ing
or knocking opponent—Half dis­tance
to goal line.
20 Holding or any illegal use of
hands when ball is not in possession
of either team—loss of ball.
21 Interference by defensive side
in case of forward pass—loss of ball.
22 Ineligible player touching for­ward
pass—loss of ball.
23 Loose ball kicked or kicked at
—loss of -ball.
24 Offside player touching ball—
loss of ball.
WAVE IS BETTER
THAN LAST YEAR;
KILEY REPORTS
The Tulane Greenies, whom the
Auburn Tigers will encounter in
Montgomery Saturday in a gridiron
"natural", are rated to be much
stronger offensively this season than
they were in 1930 by Coach Roger
Kiley, who scouted them for the
Plainsmen in their 59 to 7 win over
the Mississippi Aggies last Saturday.
Kiley was loud in his praise of
Bierman's first-string backfied of
Dawson, Zimmerman, Payne and
Felts and added that Tulane's sec­ond
quartet of ball carriers, Rich­ardson,
Hodgins, Glover, and Lem-mon,
would delight a large number
of coaches. ''Haynes arid Lodriguez
are making capabe replacements for
Holland and Roberts at left end and
center", said Kiley "and the only
way to get Dalrymple out is through
his cook."
The meeting in the Capital City
will be the 12th between the Plains­men
and the Green Wave on the
gridiron. The Crescent City eleven
has won five games, Auburn four
and two tilts have ended in tie "de­cisions.
Repulsing the Orange and
Blue charges 52 to 0 in 1929, the
New Orleans team went ahead , in
number of points scored and hold a
margin in number of tallies annexed,
H24 to 98.
Auburn and Tulane met for the
first time in 1906 when Auburn was
victorious, 33 to 0. No other games
were played until 1921 when the
present series started and has gone
on without interruption. Auburn's
last win was in 1926 when the Tigers
helped to dedicate Tulane's stadium
with a 2 to 0 triumph.
Past Auburn-Tulane scores:
Year Auburn Tulane
1906 ,33 0
1921 14 0
1922 19 0
1923 6 6
1924 6 13
1925 0 13
1026 2 0
1927 -1- 6 6
1928 12 13
1929 0 £L3
1930 0 21
Wave, Unbeaten Since 1928,
Looms As One Of Greatest
This Season's T e am Is t h e Most Powerful That Has Represented
Tulane; Goal Line Crossed Only by Mississippi A. & M.
Auburn's fighting Tigers will op­pose
one of the greatest football
teams in the nation tomorrow at
Montgomery. The Greenies, unde­feated
since 1928, have been at the
top of the heap in southern football
for a number of years, but this sea­son's
aggregation, according to the
unanimous opinion of Tulane back­ers,
is the most powerful that has
ever represented the New Orleans in­stitution.
So far this season the Green Wave
has nonchalantly engulfed Ole Miss,
Texas A. & M., Spring Hill, Vander-bilt,
Georgia Tech, and Mississippi
A. & M., not only piling up large
scores in most of these games, but
keeping her own goal line unmolest­ed
except for one lone touchdown
that was shoved over by a badly
Tiger Sports
Topics
i
Chet Wynne, head coach and ath­letic
director is not the only member
of his family in the coaching profes­sion.
A younger brother, Elmer,
who also starred ' at f ulback under
the v late Knute Rockne -at Notre
Dame, is coaching at Colorado
School of Mines. Chet graduated
from the South Bend institution in
1922 after receiving All-American
rating at the line-plunging post and
Elmer finished in 1928.
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Percy Beard, world's champion
hurdler, is an instructor in civil en­gineering
at his alma mater. Beard
is the greatest fence-topper of all
times and is the leading Hope of the
United States to win points over the
hurdles at the Olympic meet in Los
Angeles next year. He is training
for the Olympic meet under his col­lege
coach, Wilbur Hutsell, the pre­mier
track coach of the South, who
was a member of America's Olympic
coaching staff in 1928. Hutsell is
beginning his eleventh term as track
coach at Auburn.
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Jimmie Hitchcock, Auburn's sen­sational
halfback and a leading can­didate
for All-American honors, be^
gan his gridiron career as a 135 lb.
tackle on the high school eleven at
Union Springs, Ala. He is also an
outstanding baseball player, being
pursued by six major league scouts
during the past diamond season. He
is a brother of Walter "Bullett"
Hitchcock, who played football arid
starred at third base on the diamond
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for three years, graduating in 1927.
Walter is now coaching at Florala,
Ala. Jimmie intends to play pro­fessional
baseball and teach and
coach when he graduates.
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beaten Mississippi Aggie eleven.
Tulane publicity men can hardly
stay within the limits of normality
when they begin to sing the praises
of the big green team. Here is an
example of a Tulane publicity dis­patch:
"Tulane's 'gallopin' goblins,' com­pared
with Harvard's by Grantland
Rice as two of the- outstanding back-fields
of American football this year,
will be all steamed up for Auburn
Saturday at Montgomery.
"It goes without saying that big
Papa Felts, Flying Don Zimmerman
and Red Dawson, those three run,
kick and pass boys will be in there
but it is also expected that Wop
Glover, the mighty riiidget running
mate of Zimmerman will start for
the first time since October 3.
"Glover didn't see a mintue of ser­vice
in the Spring Hill, Vandy or
Georgia Tech games. He was on
the bench ailing from the Texas Ag­gie
game injuries. But, he celebrated
his return to halfback against Mis­sissippi
A. & M., by playing a full
quarter, gaining some 7-0 yards, pass­ing
well and kicking the extra points
twice. Thus, the Wave will probably
start an all triple threat backfield at
Montgomery Saturday.
"Glover is sometimes to a football
game what a mad dog is to an old
folks home picnic. He ruins it.
"In many ways he is another
Stumpy Thomason. Plus some. He
runs like Stumpy and is one player
who can lose 15 yards and yet give
the crowd a thrill and bring a cheer.
He is one of the finest punters in the
conference. He is a splendid passer,
and a very good pass receiver."
FRESHMAN TEAM
MEETS BENNING
ARMISTICE DAY
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Auburn, Ala.
November 8, 1931
Rev. Wm. Byrd Lee, Jr., Rector
The 23rd Sunday after Trinity.
Church School and Bible Class—
9:45 a. m.
Morning Paryer and Sermon—11
a. m.
Meeting of the Y. P. S. L.—6:30
p. m.
Everyone is cordially invited to
attend.
By Neil Owen Davis
Coach McFaden's Baby Tigers
meet the strong Fort Benning foot­ballers
in the main attraction on the
Armistice Day celebration here Wed­nesday.
The freshmen are working
hard to go through the rest of the
season undefeated. They play the
highly touted Tulane "rats" Satur­day
week. Since losing to Florida
last Friday, the "rats" have improved
very steadily, and are determined to
pile up a big score over Fort Ben­ning.
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All of the cripples on the injured
list have recuperated and Haigler,
Wright, Kemp, and Snider are slated
to get in the game Wednesday. Kemp,
Wright, and Snider were unable to
play against Florida. With these
men back in the line-up, the "rats"
will present a formidable team, and
should regain their early season
form.
Coaches McFaden and Harkins
have not# been satisfied with the
team's blocking and are drilling their
proteges overtime in perfecting this
important phase of the game. Grass
drills are given the linemen every
afternoon in an effort to improve
their charging, and to increase their
speed. As some of the players have
failed to carry out their assignments
for each play, the men walk through
the plays every afternoon in signal
practice and dummy scrimmages.
They have all learned what their duty
is on each play, and are performing
them creditably: The team is work­ing
together as a unit; something
they did not do in the Florida game.
Little is known of the Fort Ben­ning
team, but they had a strong
machine last year, and most of the
men are back this time. The sol­diers
used to play a good game
against the. varsity and the freshmen
are expecting a tough fight Wednes-,
day.
Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and
Pennsylvania have organized light­weight
football teams and have
scheduled games for them. The
pound limit is 150.
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CHILTON COUNTY
RETAINS AGENT
By a ratio of almost four to one
voters of Chilton County declared
themselves as in favor of retaining
the services of C. E. Stapp, as coun­ty
agent. The proposition was pre­sented
to them in connection with
the bond issue election and the re­sult
was an overwhelming endorse-i
ment of county agency work and of
Mr. Stapp personally. The work was
endorsed by luncheon clubs, civic or­ganizations,
business men, both local
newspapers, and many others.
It was given a strong endorsement
in the town of Clanton, where the
vote was 555 for and 84 against
county agency work.
Mr. Stapp is an Auburn graduate,
being trained in agriculture. Farm­ers
and business men of the county
in advocating endorsement at the
polls declared that his services have
been invaluable in the promotion of
better farming and in many other
services rendered to the people of
the county.
Attempt To Bribe
Players Is Made
Prior to the annual football classic
between the Universities of Minne­sota
and Wisconsin three stars of the
Minnesota team received communi­cations
from alleged heavy Wisconsin
wagers offering them $1,500 each to
allow the University of Wisconsin to
conquer.
Charles Johnson, sports editor of
the Minneapolis Star "also received a
letter from the same persons, asking
him to publish that Minnesota was a
"cinch to win and to offer odds on
Minnesota to win at about 5 to 1."
Johnson was offered $2,500, in bills
if he followed the request and Wis­consin
were to win the game.
Opinions as to the serious nature
of the attempt are varied. While
many of the higher officials of the
institutions involved considered it
only a hoax, investigations were ins­tituted
to find the men. Relations
between the universities were not
affected, since the coaches realized
that if the attempt to throw the game
were serious, all actions were un­known
to either side.
Students To Shave
After Grid Victory
Geneva, N. Y. —(IP)— Four-weeks-
old beards were being stroked
last week by a staunch band of Ho-bart
College men who swore early
in the season to refrain from the use
of the razor, safety or otherwise,
until their football team had won a
victory.
The team has lost all four games
this year, it's one chance of victory
having been against Kenyon College,
which, however," roundly trounced the
local eleven 26 to 7. This was Ho-bart's
24th consecutive defeat.
WRITER'S IMAGINATION RUNS
WILD; RADIO AGE ENDS IN 1937
Something Should
Be Done About It
FROM THE
THRILLING
PAGES OF
A MIGHTY
NOVEL . .
"RIDERS
OF THE
PURPLE
SAGE"
ZANE GREY'S most popular
story now a thrilling picture.
—WITH—
GEORGE O'BRIEN
Sunday - Monday
STRAND
THEATRE
Montgomery, Ala.
The end of the Radio Age said
GP-77 last night, in the third of his
series of lectures on the History of
the Twentieth to Twenty-fifth Cen­turies,
inclusive—came suddenly in
1937. This calamity which wiped out
almost the whole human race was
due to trivial accident, a strike of
the employees of the broadcasting
stations. They seem to have been
dissatisfied because they were not
getting enough of a commodity
known as money, often mentioned in
the literature of the age, which pos­sessed
this peculiar characteristic—
that though it was accounted hon­orable,
or at least romantic—to judge
from the plays and novels which
have come down to us—to have none
of it at all, it was disgraceful as
well as inconvenient to have only
a little of it.
Had this deplorable event occur­red
a few years earlier it would have
had no serious consequences; but by
1937 the world had become thor­oughly
radioized. All previous me­diums
of communication, such as pub­lic
meetings and the printed page,
had become superseded. Churches,
theatres and schools had been closed;
newspapers had disappeared, and the
art of reading, less common since
the invention of talking movies, had
passed altogether into disuse. Con­sequently
the broadcasters' strike
left the world helpless.
The first effect was an alarming
increase in the domestic death rate.
Housewives had become accustomed
to getting their recipes, as well as
suggestions for the day's menu, by
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Pruitt, of
Hurtsboro spent the past week end
with their daughter, Mrs. J. M. Can­non.
Mrs. Malcolm Wilder has returned
to her home in Birmingham after a
visit to her mother, Mrs. Harry
Smith.
Mrs. Walter Glenn, remembered in
Auburn as Miss Fanny Casey, is visit­ing
old friends here.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper of Monte-vallo
were here Saturday and sun-day
to visit their son, Boland Coop­er.
Dea'h and Mrs. Zebulon Judd en­tertained
at afternoon tea Sunday
for Miss Josephine Marshall, Pro­fessor
of Education, and Dr. and
Mrs. Edward Cureton. Dr. Cure-ton
is Professor of Psychology. The
guests were President and Mrs.-
Bradford Knapp, members of the
faculty of the School of Education
and their wives, and other faculty
members closely allied with educa­tional
work.
Miss Margaret Lawrenz has been
dismissed from the hospital in At­lanta
and is getting well at her board­ing
place there. .
The Sigma Phi Beta Sorority gave
a tea Sunday afternoon at the Chap­ter
Room. A number of Alumnae
members were present.
Mrs. Charles Preston Weaver and
Mrs. C. D. Killebrew entertained at
an informal tea Friday afternoon for
Mrs. E. C. Weaver of Roanoke, Va.
Miss Elizabeth Mardre gave a
bridge shower Friday afternoon for
Miss Martha Power at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Wallace Tidmore.
The house was effectively decorated
with suggestions of Hallowe'en. Miss
Maryline Cauthen won the prize for
highest score at bridge, and the bride
was showered with a large number of
miscellaneous presents.
When in Montgomery
Stop and Eat at
Paramount Cafe
120 Montgomery St.
Montgomery, - * - Alabama
radio. Left to themselves, they
could neither cook a dish nor plan
a meal; all over-husbands began to
die of malnutrition. .
Deprived of their accustomed bed
time stories, children refused to go
to sleep, and parents by the thous­ands
were-accordingly driven insane.
In some few households very aged
persons revived the old cottage in­dustry,
of telling their own, but the
families thus reprieved soon suffered
in other ways.
Without the radio time signals
clocks and watches got out of order;
railroad schedules were disorganized;
wrecks occurred that clogged the
lones. The loss of the stock-market
reports threw the business life of
the country into hopeless confusion;
the art of reading the tickers had
been lost since the broadcasting sta­tions
passed the news to anyone who
could listen. Criminals flourished
unchecked, since there was no way
to broadcast police alarms; with the
loss of the daily newspapers rumors
spread and multiplied terror. The
suffering caused by the complete dis­organization
of business, the spread
of disease in the absence of the ac­customed
daily health hints, paved
the way for the final disaster. A
belated frost ruined the crops. It!
was unforeseen, because the farmer
had come to rely on the broadcast
weather reports and had lost his abil­ity
to judge the turns in the climate."
With the crops failing and transpor­tation
ruined, millions starved to
death. /
This sudden and complete collapse
of a highly organized society is hard
for us to understand, but we must
remember that four of the five senses
had become completely atrophied;
with the radio, hearing alone was
needed. Moreover, even before the
invention of radio the Americans of
the twentieth century had become
used to wiggling out of initiative and
rsponsibility.
Leagues jand societies, maintained
at great expense, told them what to
think and what not to think. If
anything went wrong they passed a
law about it. If the law failed to
bring relief they passed another law
creating a commission at Washing­ton,
and felt that they had done
their full duty. The process thus be­gun
was completed by radio.
One class and one only had been
trained to self-reliance in a radio­ized
world—the technical ,staff and
performers at the radio stations.
Here were experienced technicians;
men who had retained the art of
reading, and were familiar at first
hand with the facts of agriculture,
finance, science, commerce and the
day's news; artists of both sexes;
and perhaps the most skilful of all,
the women employes, who arranged
the day's programs and announced
each attraction into the microphones.
From sheer force of habit the little
colonies of strikers, isolated near the
broadcasting stations, elected these
competent women as their executives,
thus establishing the matriarchate
which has ruled the world in the five
centuries since. Under their able
guidance these artists and technici­ans
easily maintained themselves;
for they alone had retained their
first-hand acquaintance with facts in­stead
of broadcast reports of facts;
they alone had preserved the • five
original senses. We may count our­selves
fortunate to be descended
from those selected persons who
alone, in the Age of Radio, were able
to do and think for themselves.
Brothers Manage
Tiger Grid Teams
Aubrey and Suarez "Ike" Lewis,
brothers, of Chapman, Ala., manage
the Auburn varsity and freshman
football teams. Before being elected
manager of Chet Wynne's Tigers,
Aubrey was assistant manager for
three years. "Ike" looked after the
uniforms, etc., for the first-year team
last season. Both are seniors and
lettermen on Coach Sam McAllister's
Dixie League and Southern Confer­ence
championship baseball club. Au­brey
performs behind the plate and
Suarez at the hot corner. They in­tend
to teach and coach next year.
There is no l'oad or ready way to
virtue.—Browne.
Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and
have it?—George Herbert, 1600.
Shades of Hallowe'en! The
freshmen architects arrayed in
their new smocks of orange
cause unprecented wonder on the
campus.
Reporters battle their way to
the front. The crowd mills about.
Man with a baby—let him by.
The courageous reporter fights
his way in the melee.
Questions— answers— smoke
—dust—more questions. Ah—
enlightment.
It is only these men who have
enrolled for five years of grip­ing—
the Architects. In keep-with
another one of our old cus­toms
they observed Friday as
"Smock Day", or its equivalent.
BAD TEETH RESULT
DIET DENTIST SAYS
CORNELL PROFESSOR WOULD
INTRODUCE BASIC ENGLISH
Memphis, Tenn. —(IP)— Speak­ing
before the American Dental As­sociation
convention here, Dr. Percy
B. Howe, professor of dental science
at Harvard University, declared that
diet and not neglect of the tooth­brush
is responsible for bad teeth
among civilized peoples. He assert­ed
that no amount of cleaning of the
teeth can prevent decay if the diet
is not such as to keep the teeth hard.
AUBURN HIGH PLAYING
IN COLUMBUS TODAY
(Continued from page 1)
on a good show.
There was no let-down in the work
given them after their fine showing
in defeating Lanett last week, by a
13 to 12 score. The team has im­proved
greatly in blocking and tack­ling,
it is reported.
The team is playing without the
services of quarterback Melton, who
is out with a bad rib. Outside of
this, the squad is in fine physical
shape for the fray.
A new auxiliary English, called
basic English, containing only 850
words, yet so simple that an intelli­gent
native of another country can
memorize enough words in a week to
read it and write it in a month, is
advocated by Harold Wentworth, in­structor
at Cornell University. The
850 words, all of them English, are
adequate for all ordinary purposes
and this is of interest to those want­ing
a single world-language and to
foreigners bewildered by the com­plexity
of English.
C. K. Ogden of Cambridge Uni­versity,
England, chose the words
used in basic English by determining
the frequency of occurrnig words.
One secret of this condensation is the
replacement of hundreds of verbs by
eighteen "operator" verbs, such as:
go, come, get, give, keep, let, make,
put, do, and see. To these are added
"directives" as in, out, up, and the
like. Go in is used for enter, go
up for ascend, send on for forward
—all examples of using small, com­mon
words to their capacity. Ma­tron,
husband, parents, hunger,
morn, unique, maid, miserable, are
unknown in basic English. The fol­lowing
are used instead: woman,
loved one, father and mother, need
of food, regret, without parallel, ser­vant
girl, and unhappy.
Bennett Former
Tiger Manager
Edwin S. "Chinkey" Bennett, pop­ular
and efficient manager of the
Exchange Hotel in Montgomery, was
manager of the Auburn football team
in 1917 and 1918. No other student
at Alabama Polytechnic Institute has
achieved the honor of managing the
Tiger gridders for two successive
years. The Plainsmen had winning
teams while Bennett was handling
the finances.
Other international languages have
existed but have never thrived. Basic
English is not designed to convert
the whole world to one tongue, he
explains, but to establish everywhere
an auxiliary language, for use where
people of many lands gather and for
world-wide organizations. Esperanto,
the best known of the international
languages, is still to most people a
name only. Ido, Volapuk, Novial,
and others are sometimes advocated.
In theory they are good world-lan­guages,
but not in practice. Basic
English is already understood by all
who understand English, thf most
numerous of any group of language
users, except the Chinese. More
than 500,000,000 persons already use
English. In Shakespeare's time Eng­lish
was the least impoi'tant of any
European language and now it is
the most important language, he
says.
Even literary works have been
translated into the 850 words of
basic English with no important loss.
Special fields as chemistry, and bot­any
need a- supplementary vocabu­lary
of about 200 words. Professor
Wentworth compares a standard Eng­lish
sentence with the basic English
version as: He was as disturbed as
if he had seen an omen or spirit from
the lower regions; In the new form
it is: he was as troubled as if he
had seen some unnatural sign or
shade from the land of the dead.
LEADER ENDORSES
MILITARY WORK
Providence, R. I. —(IP)— Mili­tary
training in American land grant
colleges and universities should be
continued as a defense against the
open antagonism of radicalism to
democratic government, in the opin­ion
of Dr. Raymond G. Bressler, who
has recently assumed his duties as
president of the Rhode Island State
College at Kingston.
FOOTBALL GAMES
SATURDAY, NOV. 7
Georgia vs. New York U. at New
York.
South Carolina vs. Furman at Co­lumbia,
S. C.
Georgia Tech vs. North Carolina
at Atlanta.
Vadnerbilt vs. Maryland at Nash­ville.
Mississippi vs. Sewanee at Oxford.
"Say It With Flowers"
And Say It With Ours '•
FOR EVERY SOCIAL
OCCASION
Rosemont Gardens
FLORISTS
Montgomery, Alabama
Homer Wright, Local Agent
for Auburn.
Tiger Theatre
Friday, Nov. 6
JAMES DUNN
LINDA WATKINS
"SOB SISTER"
—With—
Molly O'Day - Minna Gombell
Saturday, Nov. 7
"The CISCO KID"
—With—
Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe,
Conchita Montenegro, Nora
Lane
Sunday - Monday
November 8 - 9
"STREET SCENE"
—With—
Sylvia Sidney
William Collier, Jr.
Estelle Taylor
Tuesday, Nov. 10
GEORGE ARLISS
—As—
Alexander Hamilton
—With—
Doris Kenyon
June Collyer
Dudley Digges
Alan Mowbray
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