1932-03-05 The Plainsman

              Congratulations
Architects THE PLAINSMAN
TO FOSTER THE AUB-URN S P I R IT
Congratulations
Architects
VOLUME LV AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1932 NUMBER 42
MILITARY BALL ACCLAIMED
SOCIAL YEAR'S HIGH SPOT;
MANY GIRLS IN A TTENDANCE
Miss Yarbrough Leads Grand
March With Cadet Colonel
Sullivan
MUSIC APPLAUDED
Unique Decorations Lend Milit­ant
Effect; Guest Officers
Here; Knights At Best
Amid glittering buckles in the dim
shades of Japanese lanterns, militant
figures, silent guns, and the deco­rative
fortification of sandbags, Au­burn
cadet officers made merry last
night at the Annual Military Ball.
Young lady visitors to the affair
included representation of the social
contingent from surrounding cities.
The Auburn Knights, campus mu­sic
masters, rose to new heights of
popularity as they exhibited their
ability to play the best of modern
dance music as only great orchestras
can play it.
To the strains of an especially
prepared medley, the cadet officers
led out their dates in the grand
march, while myriads of tiny dots
of light flickered around the dance
floor as they were reflected from a
beautiful crystal ball. Miss Evelyn
Yarbrough, and her escort, M. J.
Sullivan, cadet colonel of the bri­gade,
led the long line of young
people.
A fifteen minute intermission du­ring
the evening allowed the dancers
a brief pause to rest before continu­ing
the revelry. As a special attrac­tion,
punch and cakes were served
during the dance.
The army officers and their wives
acted as chaperons for the ball and
joined in the festivity of the occa­sion.
There were also several visit­ing
officers present to enjoy this
social function.
Street Parade Features
Exercises on Play Day
Led by the Auburn High School
drum and bugle corps, 1500 Lee
County elementary school children
paraded through the streets of Au­burn
Friday afternoon, as the final
feature of a varied program of con­tests
and exhibits at the first annual
play day celebration. With banners
and colors designating the eight par­ticipating
schools, the marching
children presented a parade of over
a mile in length.
Schools taking part were those of
Smith Station, Auburn, Botsford,
Salem, Pepperell, Beulah, Loacha-poka,
and Beauregard.
The children competed for prizes
in games, athletic events, and ex­hibits
of many types of school work.
Arriving here at 9:00 a. m. in Coun­ty
school busses, they brought
lunches and remained until 2:00
o'clock in the afternoon.
Mrs. T. B. McDonald, county sup­ervisor
of elementary schools, se­cured
the services of Miss Norma
Smith, State supervisor of element­ary
education of Montgomery, and
Miss Ada Causey, Chambers Coun­ty
elemetnary supervisor, to act as
judges in the 32 contests.
Beauregard and Auburn were win­ners
in the special feature contest.
An elaborate patriotic folk dance
done in costume in celebration of
the bi-centennial of George Wash­ington
was presented by Beauregard,
while the Auburn feature consisted
of a colorful, artistic balloon dance.
Following are general and individ­ual
prize awards in the various
schools exhibits: First grade, Pep­perell
and Auburn; second grade, Sa­lem
and Beulah; third grade, Au­burn
and Beauregard; fourth grade,
Beauregard and Botsford; fifth
grade, Beulah and Pepperell; sixth
grade, Auburn and Pepperell.
Prizes were won as follows in play
ground events: First grade, hop­ping,
Pepperell; second grade, hop­ping,
Beauregard; third grade,
broad jump for boys, Beauregard;
for girls, Auburn; cartwheels, Smith
Station; wheelbarrow race, Pepper-
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Plans For Engineers'
Day Near Completion
Celebration on March 17 Now
Under Arrangement of Va­rious
Committees
Plans for the Engineer's Day cele­bration,
to be held Thursday, March
17, are rapidly taking form under the
direction of student subcommittees
appointed this week.
A technical moving picture, barbe­cue,
baseball game, polo match, and
dance will form the major part of
the program, according to Sam Wade
of Birmingham, president of the En­gineers'
Club. The celebration is
sponsored by the club, in conjunction
with Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa
Nu, honorary engineering fraterni­ties.
The showing of a technical film
will offically open the observance.
Wade is chairman of a committee in
charge of the movie.
Following the show will be a bar-becut,
an added feature of this year's
annual engineers' banquet. Commit­teemen
for this event are H. E. Wil­liams
of Little Rock, Ark., chairman;
A. C. Cohen of Brookhaven, Miss.;
Joe Barrett of Birmingham; L. H.
Haley of Auburn; J. M. Jones, Jr., of
Roanoke; Alan Troup of Mobile; V.
W. Rendecker of New York City; I.
L. Letbetter of Bessemer; and W. H.
Free of Bamberg, S. C.
Engineering students will oppose
a team of agricultural students in the
baseball game to be played during the
afternoon. Jack Turner of St. Ste­phens,
chairman, T. E. Hunter of
Pinson, and Jack A. Cumbee of Five
Points form the committee in charge.
Another new feature will be a polo
game between engineers and students
of other departments. Details for
the match are being arranged by R.
E. Wingard of Elyria, Ohio.
I The Engineers' Ball will be a cli­max
to the festivities. It is the out­standing
event of the day, as well
as one of the most successful of social
affairs on the college calendar. Dec­oration
of the gymnasium will be done
by pledges of Tau Beta Pi and Eta
Kappa Nu fraternities, under the di­rection
of L. H. Norris of Ensley and
L. B. Crouch of Lanett.
Frank G. Noble of Tuskegee is
chairman of the music committee for
the ball, and he will be assisted by
William H. 9ims of Beatrice and
Walter Mullin of Seale.
The committee on invitations is
composed of R. A. Mann of New Mar­ket,
chairman, and Milton Lurie of
Auburn.
In charge of the ribbon committee
will be a representative of each en­gineering
course. They are John
Blette of Hanceville, chemical; Cleve-
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AUBURN FRESHMAN
DISCOVERED DEAD
EARLY THIS A. M.
COUNTY CAMPAIGN
FOR FREE MEDICAL
AID NEARS FINISH
James M. Tew Found Dead In
Room At Boarding House
Early This Morning
HOME IN DOTHAN
Thomas States Acute Indiges­tion
Is Cause for Sudden
Death
James M. Tew, 17-year-old fresh­man
from Dothan was found dead in
a boarding house room here at 1:00
o'clock Saturday morning. Acute
indigestion was given as the cause
of his death by Dr. B. F. Thomas,
college surgeon.
Tew was studying business admin­istration,
having graduated from Do­than
High School before entering
Auburn last fall. His guardian, A.
A. Smith, came to Auburn early Sat­urday
and accompanied the body to
Dothan wheer funeral will take place
Sunday.
Workman Wins Local
Oratorical Contest
Charles Workman won the local
George Washington bi-centennial or­atorical
contest held Thursday night
in Brown Hall as an elimination for
the state contest at Tuscaloosa.
Workman was presented with five
dollars in gold by J. W. Letson, act­ing
chairman and vice-president of
Alpha Phi Epsilon, honorary fratern­ity
which cooperated with the Eng­lish
department in sponsoring the
local program.
Others entered in the cotest were
Thomas Pyke, W. E. Edwards, and
Kenneth Hall.
Charles Workman is from Ashland,
Alabama. He is a sophomore in the
school of business administration,
and is a member of the Pi Kappa
Phi fraternity.
Judges for the contest were Dean
Judd, Rev. McGehee, and Mr. Roop.
Dr. Irvine Makes Announce­ment
of Satisfactory Re­sponse
for Aid to Cripples
16 CASES OUTLINED
Final Reports Be Released On
March 9; Sponsored by Civic
Organizations and Churches
Major Johnson Inspects
Auburn Artillery Area
Major Thomas J. Johnson, field ar­tillery,
from the Army Remount
Purchasing and Breeding Headquar­ters
at Lexington, Ky., was in Au­burn
Wednesday where he made an
informal inspection of the stable
area and horses used by the R. O. T.
C. unit. He expressed himself as
greatly pleased with the general ap­pearance
of the area and the excel-letn
condition of the horses.
Having formerly been detailed to
R. O. T. C. duty at Culver Military
Academy, Culver, Ind., Major John­son
has long been interested in the
branch of army service. He is a
classmate of Auburn's commandant,
Major John T. Kennedy, who is now
attending the War College in Wash­ington.
UNITED STATES LEADS OTHER
NATIONS IN CIVIL AVIATION
That the United States leads all
other nations in civil aviation is re­vealed
in the current issue of the
Auburn Engineer, which is published
by students' engineering clubs. The
issue was given entirely to aviation,
containing articles by men of author­ity
in this field.
Statistics presetned showed that
the United States has 49,254 miles
of airways. The British Empire is
second with 28,287, Germany 20,272,
France 19,750, and Russia 19,002.
In air armament France leads the
nations of the world with 4,683
fighting planes. Great Britain was
second with 2,065, tlaly third with
1,834, and the United States fourth
with 1,809.
France is first also in the number
of war pilots with 7,952, United
States second with 4,669, British
Empire third with 3,858 and Italy
fourth with 3,715. These figures-presented
by Popular Science—in
elude active and reserve forces.
There are 1,258 airports in the
United States as compared with 507
in the British Empire, 256 in Rus­sia,
and 176 in France. The United
States has 10,235 civil planes in ope­ration,
the British Empire 2,070,
France 1,320, and Italy 750. It is
said that the United States has 16,-
700 civilian flyers more than all the
rest of the world combined.
Authors of articles in this issue are
Professor V. C. Finch, head of the
school of aeronautical engineering;
V. W. Randecker, instructor; Harry
R. Blee, U. S. department of com­merce;
and L. S. Cook and C. H.
Pihl, students.
Kenneth H. Clark, Fairfield, is edi­tor
in chief of the publication and
Robert A. Mann, New Market, is
business manager, and A. C. Cochran,
Jr., Brookhaven, Miss., is news edi-or.
The advsory board is composed
of Dean John J. Wilmore of the
school of engineering, and P. O.
Davis, director of public informa­tion.
Results of the campaign for the
support of crippled children in Lee
County will be prepared by the next
issue of the paper according to Dr.
Paul Irvine, chairman of the commit­tee
that is carrying on the work
sponsored by the various civic organ­izations
as a unit of the state pro­gram.
The various civic clubs of
the county are carrying on individ­ual
campaigns and are to report for
the final time to the chairman the
earlier part of next week. Dr. Ir­vine
intimated that those in charge
of the campaign were highly pleased
with the response received from citi­zens
and organizations.
A statement prepared by the chair­man,
in which the individual cases
already known and desirous of treat­ment
are given below. It is believed
that as soon as the work becomes
known that there will be numerous
cases, worthy of treatment uncover­ed
throughout the county. The state­ment
is as follows:
The health and happiness of six­teen
crippled children of Lee County
depend upon the success of support
provided through the Alabama Socie­ty
for Crippled Children. The mem­bership
campaign is being carried on
in Lee County during this week, and
interested citizens are asked to join
and have a part in this work.
Some of the cases in need of im­mediate
attention are described as
follows:
Case A, boy, five years old, has a
clubfoot. This child can have an
almost complete correction at an esti­mated
cost of $50.00.
Case B, boy, age eleven, has a
short heel cord. This condition can
be relieved by a simple operation.
The hospitalization will cost about
$30.00.
Case C, boy, age fourteen, has had
infantile paralysis in both legs, dis­located
right hip, partial paralysis
of left leg with curviture of the
spine. The recommendation in this
case was multiple operation. The first
operation has been completed^ and
the case should receive further at­tention
in order that this fine boy
may make his way in the world. Cost
$100.00.
Case D, boy, age thirteen, has in­fantile
paralysis of the right leg with
heel drop. Although his defermity
appears to be slight, it tends to grow
worse and is most uncomfortable. A
minor operation should be performed
as soon as possible. The estimated
cost of hospitalization is $35.00.
Case E, boy, age seven, has a dis­located
hip. Hospitalization should
be given as soon as possible. Esti­mated
cost, $50.00.
Case F, boy, age seven, has a club­foot.
This case could have "an al­most
complete correction. The soon­er
the operation is performed the
more complete will be the correction.
Estimated cost of hospitalization,
$35.00.
Case G, girl, three years old, has
a clubfoot. Estimated cost $30.00.
Case H, boy, age thirteen, has pa­ralysis,
short .hamstrings, and heel-cord.
Parents can probably pay if
given the benefit of the Society's hos­pital
rates.
Case I, girl, age sixteen has a frac­tured
hip. The estimated cost of
hospitalization is $50.00.
To care for these and similar cases
in Lee County the Society is devot­ing
its activities. The work has re­ceived
the hearty cooperation of all
the civic organizations of Opelika,
Phenix City, Auburn and churches
in the county. Contributions may be
made to the representatives of the
society in any of the above organiza­tions
or to Paul Irvine, Auburn, who
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Biggin Accorded Praise As Program
Of Architectural Celebration Opens
On Friday; Ball Is Featured Tonight
DEBATING TEAM WILL MEET
FIRST OPPONENT MARCH 11
Birmingham-Southern to Be Encountered Here and In Birming­ham
in Initial Competition of Season; Brown, Hare, Mor­rill
and Baskerville to Speak •
The debating team of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute will begin its
1932 schedule with a dual contest
with Birmingham-Southern College
in Birmingham and Auburn on Fri­day,
March 11.
Douglas Brown of Ozark, presi­dent
of the Auburn Debating Socie­ty,
and Nicholas Hare of Monroe-ville
will compose the negative side
that will debate in Auburn.
Justin S. Morrill of Mobile and
W. H. Baskervill of Birmingham will
journey to the Magic City to uphold
the affirmative against the teams of
the Birmingham college who will visit
Auburn for the date.
"Resolved: That Congress should
enact legislation providing for cen­tralized
control of industry, consti­tutionality
waived" is the question
for the debates.
Under the supervision of Prof. Eu­gene
D. Hess of the department of
take place in March ,and April has
been arranged. In addition to the
debate with Birmingham-Southern,
the schedule includes the following
contests: Mercer University fresh­men
and varsity team, March 18, at
Auburn; University of Florida, March
26, at Auburn; Colorado College,
March 25 or 26, at Auburn; and Ga.
Tech, April 28, dual meet in Atlanta
and Auburn.
The student Agricultural Club will
debate with the Agricultural Socie­ty
of the University of Georgia on
April 8, at Auburn, on the question:
"Resolved: That the raising of live­stock
for market is essential to agri­cultural
prosperity in the southern
states."
The girls team will meet the Ala­bama
College debating team in a
match here on April 15. "Resolved:
That the United States should rec­ognize
Soviet Russia" will be the
Dean of Architects Receives
High Laudations in Develop­ment
of Department
BALL IN PREPARATION
Historical Tabloids Featured at
Program Given in the High
School Auditorium
speech, a program of 10 meetings to'topic for the contest."
Go-To-Church Month
Will Begin Tomorrow
System Slightly Altered In An­nual
Campaign; Grading Be
On Percentage Basis
Wynne To Speak For
Cosmopolitan Class
Program Inaugurated In Effort
to Have Attendance Increas­ed
At Sunday School
As letters to the various organi­zations
on the campus have announc­ed,
the fraternity "Go To Church
Month" will begin tomorrow and will
continue for four Sundays.
The custom in the past was for
the Y. M. C. A. to sponsor this pro­gram
at some time during the spring
term in an effort to gain a larger!
church attendance among the various
fratenities. A cup will be awarded
to the fraternity with the highest
percentage of attendance.
John C. Fonville, chairmon of the
committee that has charge of the
program, stated that it had been de­cided
that onl ythose members and
pledges living in the house would be
counted in the contest. Due to the
fact that all grading is to be made
on a percentage basis, this ruling
will have no bearing on the final
outcome.
The maximum number of services
to be attended in the contest is three
a Sunday. The president of the
farternity will fill out the cards that
were sent to him and return it to
the Y. M. C. A. not later than the
Thursday following the Sunday
church was attended.
The grading will be made on the
basis of a possible three points for
each person. One man can score
from one to three points each Sun-
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In an attempt to proomte Sunday
School attendance among those stu­dents
whom are not attending any
of the churches in Auburn, an inter­denominational
class will be held in
Langdon Hall tomorrow morning at
9:30. Coach Chet Wynne will speak
at that time.
The sponsors of the movement
stated that a new speaker will be
asked to speak on each Sunday fol­lowing
if possible. There will be an
attempt made to arrange to have
Jlorgan Blake, sports editor of The
Atlanta Journal here as the featured
speaker on March the twentieth.
All students who are not attending
any Sunday School are invited to at­tend
these meetings each Sunday and
aire assured of receiving particularly
timely words from the speakers.
Ivey Speaks Before
Opelika Kiwanians
Prof. O. T. Ivey, of the history
department, told the Opelika Ki-wanis
Club at their meeting Wednes­day
that commercial gain in the form
of raw products is the main objec­tive
of the Japanese in their Man-churian
activities. He said that be­cause
of a living standard in Man­churia
below that in Japan addition-continued
on page 4)
RELIGIOUS WEEK ENDS WITH
SERVICES FRIDAY EVENING
Religious week was brought to a
close last night with the regular eve­ning
service in Langdon Hall to which
thronged crowds of students seek­ing
to hear for the last time Dr. A.
J. "Dad" Elliott. All society meet­ings
and extra-curricula activities
were dismissed during the hours of
service in order that all students
might have the opportunity of hear­ing
this noted religious worker.
Throughout the week Dr. Elliott
stressed the importance of forming
good habits while in college so that
the individual will be prepared to
face the ciisises that are inevitable.
On Wednesday evening a special talk
was delivered for men only followed
by a similar one for women. On both
occasions Langdon Hall was crowded I
to capacity as both students and
townspeople turned out. On Thurs­day
evening "Dad" talked particular­ly
to fraternity men and sought to ar­rive
at conclusions to their everyday
problems.
Dr. Elliott is associate national
secretary of the student division of
the YMCA and was brought here
jointly by the local chapter of the
YMCA, the college', and the churches
who annually sponsor religious week.
During the past week he conducted
services every day at eleven a. m.
and at seven p. m. except on Friday
when the morning service was sched­uled
at ten. He is well-known by
thousagnds of students in all parts
of the world, having engaged exten­sively
in student religious work since
1907.
Recognition was paid Dean Fred­eric
Child Biggin for his remarkable
work in developing the Auburn
School of Architecture and Allied
Arts from a minor college depart­ment
into a nationally recognized
school at a celebration of the school's
25th anniversary at the Auburn High
School Friday evening. The historic
tableau presentation traced the devel­opment
of art from pre-historic times
to the present.
President Bradford Knapp said
that Dean Biggin had developed a
center of learning art and architec­ture
at Auburn that is recognized
throughout the nation. He commend­ed
the architectural and applied art
professions in which beauty is re­duced
to the practical objeti'ts for hu­man
utility. Growth of this college
division under Dean Biggin has sur­passed
the average of other Auburn
schools, said Dr. Knapp.
Dean Biggin pointed to the abund­ant
support given him by Dr. Knapp
in his efforts to attain the present
standard where Auburn-trained archi­tects
are recognized the country over.
The architectural and allied arts fac­ulty
was commended by Dean Biggin.
Growth of the school from 13 to
140 students with full-five-year |
courses in architecture and architec­tural
engineering and three four-year
courses in commercial art, interior
decoration and landscape architecture
was referred to by Prof. Frank M.
Orr as evidence of Dean Biggin's ef­ficiency.
The school is now a mem­ber
of the association of collegiate
schools of architecture which serves
to officially recognize the excellence
of this work at Auburn and places it
on a par with the best in America.
Auburn's school is the oldest of the
three southern members of the asso­ciation.
Georgia Tech and the Uni­versity
of Texas also hold member­ship.
The staff at Auburn has grown
from one to 12 under the dean's ad­ministration.
Following a prologue in which art's
important place in the scheme of hu­man
existence was symbolically set
forth, the development of artistic ten­dencies
in man was traced from its
awakening in the creative spirit of
prehistoric man down through the
ages to th epresent. Art of primitive
man together with that of Egyptian,
Assyrian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine,
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Former Commandant In
Line For Higher Rank
Promotion this spring to the rank
of lieutenant colonel is slated by the
War department for Major John T.
Kennedy, former commandant at Au­burn
for five years. Only 15 officers
are ahead of him in line of promotion
and his advancement is considered
certain at an early date.
After leaving Auburn last sum­mer,
Major Kennedy has attended the
Army War College in Washington
from which he will graduate in June.
He has already received orders indi­cating
that he will be attached next
summer to the General Staff in Wash­ington
as a member of the Inspector
General's department.
In addition to being extremely "pop­ular
with students, faculty, and
townspeople, Major Kennedy rounded
out a five-year term of splendid ser­vice
at the head of Auburn's R. O.
T. C. Unit. With the assistance of
an efficient staff of officers, Major
Kennedy brought the highest possible
ranking each year by the War De­partment
to the unit under his com­mand.
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Published semi-weekly by the students of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
Alabama.
Subscription rates $2.50 per year (60
issues). Entered as second class matter
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
M. M. Spruiel Exchange Editor
Frank G. Keller Contributing Editor,
W. W. Beck Contributing Editor
REPORTERS
Billy Hamilton, '34; 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; J. A. Parrish, Jr.,
'35.
BUSINESS STAFF
James Backes Asst. Business Manager
Knox M. McMillan .... Advertising Manager
Robert Greer Circulation Manager
Phillip M. Benton Asst. Adver. Mgr.
Circulation Department: T. A. Dunlap,
'35; Edward W. Prewitt, '35.
BASKETBALL AND PERCY BEARD
Followed by injuries for three seasons
of tournament competition, the varsity bas­ketball
team returned for the third time
from Atlanta without the coveted confer­ence
crown.. There is no doubting now that
they have played against more than five
opponets for they had both certain physical
handicaps to overcome as well as the op­posing
team. For three years they have
placed excellent teams on the floor against
the best in the South but have never been
successful in keeping in playing form
throughout the tournament. Though the
elusive goddess has refused to smile for the
larger part of three years, six men have
practically carried the effective portion of
the basketball squad for these three years
and have terminated their college court ca­reers
by forming one of the greatest com­bined
ever to play for Auburn. They de­serve
more credit than can be given them
and can now take their place among the
athletic giants of days gone by.
—fl­i
t is with a somewhat redeeming aspect
for the loss in the semi-finals of the basket­ball
campaign, that Auburn receives anoth­er
of her athletes, perhaps the greatest in­dividual
performer in its history. Percy
Beard returned from the East just a short
time ago after repeating his startling en­trance
into the track world of just one
year ago. With the exception of his initial
meet of the winter season, he successfully
defended his world record against the finest
hurdlers in the country.
Though he terminated his athletic career
at Auburn four years ago as individual
high point man in the Southern Conference
Championships he has always been regard­ed
as a part of Auburn, where for the first
time in his life he entered track competi­tion
under Wilbur Hutsell. Since that time
he has combined his natural ability with
the expert coaching of the Auburn track
mentor in becoming the nation's premier
hurdler. . >
As an entrant against the pick of the
world's hurdlers, he will bring to a conclu­sion
in the tenth Olmypiad in Los Angeles
this summer, the meteroric course of a true
amateur athlete and a true gentleman.
THE BLACK HAND
The imagination of childhood knows no
bounds. The child late.from the movies or
entrancment of a detective tale often retires
to secrecy that he may enact the melodrama
after the whims of his own fancy. Fol­lowing
the recent flurry in college affairs,
which has brought to light many would be
leaders, a great many childish imaginations
have been brought to play.
Prominent among such has been that
individuals or group of individuals known
as "The Black Hand". Like the Klan of
old this dynamic force now comes forward
to drive the host of oppression from the
field, and to restore uninterrupted peace
and self satisfaction. The clandestine or­ganization
is quick to analyze the entire
situation, and quite crudely but forceably
brands Cletus as the chief cause of all the
existing evils.
This is not the time to play detective or
give vent undernourished romantic natures.
If it must be a game let it be "cowboy", so
we can see the swagger. Such bravo, shout­ed
behind an anonymous signature, as "I
am out to get Cletus" or "I will exterminate
him" is quite patiently the product of a
misinformed individual laboring under the
impression that the old fashion lynching is
still in vogue.
Auburn crusaders have too often sought
to do their work under cover. Might we
suggest that the author familiarize himself
with some facts concerning present condi­tions;
and then, should he have anything to
offer, let him step out in the open and chal­lenge
Cletus to a dual, deliver a soap box
address, or anything else he considers bene­ficial
to his school.
THESE THREE
Stripped of all his sophomoric tendencies
and of his quaint conception of the manner
in which he must conduct himself while
among his associates, there may be found
the American youth in one of three classes.
Despite any controversial opinions, when
the question is finally brought down to its
source, it will be found that' the normal hu­man
being is more strongly governed in all
his actions by his conception of his higher
being and by his religious beliefs than by
any other force that is brought to bear
upon mind. To speak more plainly, his mind
and the generally accepted terminology of
the word conscience, which governs both his
mental and physical actions.
To the unbiassed mind, the statement
that human beings believe only that which
"they want to believe, is one that is far from
originating in this article but at the same
time is rational, in the light of personal ex­perience
and observation of hundreds of
others under similar conditions. Some be­lieve
because of ignorance while others be­lieve
due to their unquestioning faith in the
source from which their beliefs take their
origins, in many cases the latter type is
no more than slightly colored ignorance.
Of the three types of American youth,
perhaps the most piteous is the class which
has blind faith, a faith which never ques­tions
even though doubts may lurk in the
shadows to torture him for all the natural
course of his lifetime. This is the youth
who believes just that which he has been
taught to believe, asks no questions for fear
of finding that all is not pure and honest.
He must not venture from the bounds of
his narrow conception of life or he will be
touched by unclean hands and hear impure
thoughts. Never searching he can never
understand but one side of life. Believing
himself to be a Christian or a true believer
of whatever faith he follows, how is he to
know he may best follow his faith. The
greatest faiths of the universe base their
primary standards on service to the higher
being through the medium of service to fel­low
men. This youth has no imagination,
without which nothing of lasting worth is
created. Whomever created us and whom
ever created that in which we live had to
call upon imagination beyond conception
in order that others might be instilled with
the powers of creation in a lesser form.
We find this youth obsessed with the fear
of questioning, directed in all his actions
by only one belief, and that belief because
he has a greater fear that once he doubts
in any degree, that which he has been told
by others who can claim no greater intelli­gence
than he, he will be damned by his
god beyond redemption. He can not con­ceive
that he was given the powers of
thought so that he might find for himself
the standards to which he could most hon­estly
conform. To question shows interest,
and there can be no beautiful faith for this
youth who dares not do so.
The second type, in which the minority
of .the nation's younger generation may be
placed, is the youth who for well thought
out reasons, but in many cases, because of
the desire of sensationalism, professes to
believe in nothing higher than man. With
a reason, limited to bounds which prevent
the understanding of the origin of creation,
there is no definite proof that this youth
hsa not arrived at a perfectly rational con­clusion.
It is, however, reasonable to state
that he will be harassed throughout his life
with the doubt that he could be mistaken in
his belief, the effect of the majority over­shadowing
his mind and actions. There
should be no damning orations against him,
no persecutions for him; it is for him alone
to decide that which he wishes to believe.
The third division of modern youth finds
for himself that which he considers the most
honest course of belief. Deciding for him­self
that course which he can most consci­entiously
follow. Not fearing to "question
he finds for himself all sides of life and
determines how he may best serve where
he is most needed. Broad in his views, as
unbiassed as is humanly possible he ob­serves
and listens to anything by which he
may gain the greatest degree of understand­ing.
Governed by a certain degree of fear
but not because he fears punishment for
doubt. Arriving at a sincere conclusion
he will lead a more productive and a hap­pier
existence than those who are eternally
troubled by doubt and can never completely
rest upon their accepted beliefs.
There is no need for reform, it is a mat­ter
beyond human ability to change basic
beliefs. Let those who may, listen to the
tirades of fanatical moralists with the
threats of fire and brimstone, they will
gain a smug feeling of security. Let those
who wish, argue against the plasibility of
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.
Again we gaze vacantly into space, try­ing
to concoct some nauseating nonsense
to keep the presses going. The world of
news and opinion is dead, absolutely dead.
Every editorial page we have1 seen today
has been practically blank, and even Old
Odd went sterile on us this morning.
* * * *
Never since, we have been here has any
speaker created such a wholesale blast of
discussion on the part of the student body
as has "Dad" Elliott. His lectures have
been the subjects of bull sessions all over
the campus since his first address on Tues­day.
And it was remarkable the way in
which his audiences mounted numerically
as the week progressed.
* * * *
Again the Crimson and White comes
around begging for trouble with the state­ment
that Auburn boys and Montevallo
girls are alike when they get away from
their respective hangouts. And who is the
Alabama lad like when he gets loose? He
is to be congratulated on his originality, as
no animal or human being who ever walk­ed
God's green earth can ever hope to per­fectly
emulate the great U. of A. man
(Thank Gawd). However, one hears that
Alabama co-eds can be tamed, even by Au­burn
men.
* * * *
Montevallo seems to be sunk in a sullen
lethargy. No more curses and blasphemies
reach us from upstate. Maybe they are
planning an aerial attack to avenge.
Letters to the Editor
I'll take my stand. There are always
those who are ready to criticize, especially
in a cynical manner. Let me not be num­bered
with those who are merely "hurlers
of the cynic's ban". However, there are
certain topics connected with activities on
this campus that are withering for the
lack of criticism. I shall not be vague; in
the following paragraphs I have attempted
to be rather emphatic and specific—after
having heard numbers of such views ex­pressed
by students, only in language much
more impressive.
This campus would be helped to no small
extent if many of the special favors to cer­tain
students or groups of students were
done away with. I have been told that the
college gym was given by the Auburn Alum­ni
to the students of said school. Neverthe­less,
the "A" Club has a nice big room
which no other students are allowed to use.
Without any charge whatsoever all "A"
Club men go to every dance given at the
gym whether the club bears any expense in
putting on the dance or not. More organi­zations
could afford to put on a dance if
there were not so many free passes. Why
should an "A" Club man always get in free
when the gym was constructed for the use
of Auburn STUDENTS? Is an "A" Club
man any more of an Auburn student than
the rest of us?
Lately we have head plenty about cheat­ing
on examinations in this school. We
all know that this kind of thing is very
detrimental to the best interests of Au­burn.
The question that arises is how are
we to stop this illegitimate practice among
students. Clearly it is a problem for the
executive council to solve since there is
not a student organization for the pur­pose.
Too bad that the "A" Club will not
come to the rescue. They try to control
most everything else; perhaps a kangaroo
court would help. Does the executive coun­cil
have any hope of stopping cheating on
the examinations when it does not have any
set rule of action in case a student is
caught? Very few students would be caught
using unfair means if they knew that they
knew that they would be expelled when
caught. If the executive council has de­cided
on any set policies, they should pub­lish
their intentions. It is reported that
they have decided to deal severely with the
unlucky ones who are caught. If they
would publish their ruling and stick with
it no matter who was brought up, they
would not be criticized for being partial to
some certain one who might be on the track
team.
If this is cynicism, make the most of it.
—Richelieu.
creation, there* are still institutions full of
those who have argued beyond their scope
and there is always room for one more.
By all means let those who wish it, decide
for themselves that course which leads to
earthly happiness, for it may be their last.
No amount of crusading will change the
world to a great degree, for if it is going
back into the unknown from where it came,
let it go and let every man pray to what­ever
god he desires that he may rest at
his feet tomorrow.
It has been announced that important senate debates are to be broadcast over
the radio—we didn't know they had important debates in the senate.
* * * * * * * * * *
Several of the army's big guns were reported to have been in action last night.
* * * * * * * * * *
Nothing worries a girl more than to discover that the man after her own heart
is not after it at all.
* * * * * * * * * -*
We wonder whether Dr. Allison has received his remuneration as per recent
legislation for the use of his name and discovery in connection with the hyper-advertising
of a certain well-known manufacturer of a commodity used to cause
lowly churns to assume sinister characteristics in the eyes of certain law enforce­ment
officers.
* * * * * * * * * • *
It is reported the Interfraternity boxing tournament will be conducted in the
Pi Kappa Alpha living room.
* * * * * * * * * *
One wonders why the Auburn Knights played the "Wooden Soldier and the
Painted Doll" at the dance last evening.
* * * * * * * * * *
How small the lady friend must have felt when we told her we had a picture
of her in our mind all the time.
* * * * * * * * * *
Now they come forward with the theory that man got his idea of one mate
from the eagle. Personally we knew there was something about that bird we didn't
like.
* * * * * * * * * *
The reason some men never take a vacation is for fear that the firm will find
out that it can get along without them.
* * * * * * * * * *
The senior riding lab is bringing to light some "Prince-of-fellows".
* * * * * * * * * *
Japan seems to be detouring by Mars in her attempt to get a place in the sun.
* * * * * * * * * *
And no one has suggested that Cletus stole the Lindbergh baby. Not even
"The Black Hand".
* * * * * * * * * *
It is understood that paying the installments is the most difficult thing about
a piano.
* * * * * * * * * *
Now it is reported that the Grand Canyon was started when a Scotchman lost
a penny in a ditch.
INSIGHTS
By Conscientious Cletus
PREXY'S PARAGRAPHS
- By Bradford Knapp -
Congratulations to
the School of Archi­tecture
and Allied
Arts not only upon
t h e i r celebration,
which is enjoyable,
artistic and educa­tional
in every way,
but let us congratu­late
them in also up­on
these twenty-five years of progress. No
division of the institution is so deeply de­voted
to the work they are doing as are
the architects and this applies, I am sure,
to both faculty and students. The unity
of their purpose, the fine confidence which
they display in each other, as well as the
work they have been able to accomplish
constitute the reasons why this division has
made such progress. I cannot close this
little tribute, which is in feeble language I
know, without saying, just a word about
the head of the work in Architecture and
Allied Arts. Dean Biggin is not only a
man who works in all of the institution's
efforts earnestly and cooperatively but he
is a great artist and his long years of ser­vice
here and the splendid work he has done
in building up this school to its present
standing, which we believe to be he high­est
and best in the entire South, is the best
monument to the work he has done at Au­burn.
A school must be measured by its
fruits. The architects who have graduat­ed
under Dean Biggin and the surround­ing
influence of this whole campus are the
best measure of the work of the School of
Architecture.
* * * *
It has been a great misfortune not to be
able to be present all the week at these re­ligious
meetings. I have been there in spirit
even if not in the flesh. A continued and
constant drain upon my strength and time
in trying to find some financial relief to help
those who are devoted to the life of this in­stitution
has turned me away from the
things I have wanted to do. This is not
only true during Religious Week but it has
been true a good many other times since
financial disaster set in upon us last sum­mer.
I sincerely hope that the great work
which "Dad" Elliott has done here may
not be permitted now to weaken or subside
and all of us drop back into the old rut of
our daily routine. I am sure that these
pure expositions of the truth have had a
tendency to wake many up and force them
to think deeply. What we need in Au­burn,
and the same is true everywhere in
America for that matter, is not just one
Religious Week in the year but about fifty-two.
The hope of the future, the solution
of many of the deep and vexing problems
of the human race, it seems to me, will
come only when more and more of the teach­ings
of Jesus Christ become the infallible
guide to our conduct in our personal life
and in the lifo of the nation as well.
Sadness comes into our midst again in
the death of a student. It is sad to think of
the passing of this young man. I know
not what we may say. I think sometimes
that sympathy and a deep sorrow for the
relatives and loved ones which we feel is
all we can do and yet I know that it is not
all that we would like to do.
* * * . *
In these difficult days as we approach
the national campaign there is a great deal
of discussion of Prohibition. I may be
wrong and I want it distinctly understood
I am not talking politics, but I want to de­clare
most earnestly to the young men of
America that Prohibition is not the main
question—the main question, the vital one,
the one that concerns the real thinking man
is the question of Temperance. I would not
fear the prohibition law if America was a
temperate nation. I would not fear its
change or its abolition if we were a na­tion
in the life of which was deeply rooted
temperate habits in every way. "Dad" El­liott
has been talking to you this week and
I am glad he has said so strongly some of
the things that I have tried to say. "I am
my brother's keeper." I must stand always
for right and I must put out of my life al­ways
those things which may be an injury
to my brother. I feel that that must be
the stand of every Christian.
THE LIGHTHOUSE
By Harold Vinal
Here, lost forever in the foam
Ensnared and blinded by the sky,
The lighthouse stood and was a home
No living woman should profit by.
Upon the monstrous cliff it hung,
A Cyclop's eye, a weather-beaten
Barracks against the storms that sung,
A house too weather-eaten
For any woman to endure.
A place perhaps for tired ease,
But bounded by so small a shore,
There was no place for growing trees
By the imperishable wave,
It nestled on its rock crag, '
And like a sleeper in a grave,
She heard the endless summers lag.
And if at last when he had gone
Out in the dory, was it strange
.The tide that she was looking on
Promised a respite and a change?
Ebbing it did not flow alone,
It carried with it out to sea j
The flotsam of a spirit, prone
To leave behind mortality.
A blue calm was upon the spume,
The gulls looked down on summer dying;
Somewhere a ship went down to doom,
But with her tired banners flying.
Psychologists have said that movies ca­ter
to the morons. At least this a good
alibi for the financially embarrassed.—Caro­linian.
Never ask if a girl necks; get it from
her own lips.—Gamecock.
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.
Our present system of mass education is
doing more to tear down American individ­ualism
than any other institution of mod­ern
life. Qur colleges do not want students
who think for themselves unless their
thinking is of the mass type and unless it
keeps within the bounds of mass medioc­rity.
Our institutions of higher learning
are supposed to be places of intellectual
independence, but just as soon as this inde­pendence
exerts itself along lines that the
masses cannot follow, the institution calls
a halt. Institution in this case does not
mean administration, but it does mean that
overwhelming majority of little minds that
cannot conceive of anything or anybody
more intellectual than themselves.
Students come to Auburn every year with
individual traits, that, if allowed to develop
normally, would result in independent
think and independent action, but this
individualism is usually submerged before
even the end of the first year. We at Au­burn
pride ourselves on the concerted ac­tion
of the Auburn student-body; we boast
of the mass action that expresses itself in
terms of the Auburn spirit; we strive to
stamp every Auburn man with that intang­ible
something that will make him recog­nized
everywhere; we tolerate no disagree­ments
with what the existing order says is
right, and we teach men how to be popular.
There is no better indication of the fail­ure
of your present system of higher edu­cation
than the fact that we act in a body.
Regardless of what our objectives are we
are developing a bunch of spinless yes-men
who agree that the present order is always
right or always wrong because someone
told them so.
* * * *
Barnes in his "History and Social Intel­ligence"
makes the following statement
that experience indicates is absolutely true:
"By history fact, and definition the masses
can rarely be right, for, as Sumner has so
clearly shown, their mental content and
equipment are fashioned from the archaic
debris of past attitudes and interpretations,
which never get stereotyped into ideas and
institutions until they have become highly
anarchronistic. For the sake of the coope­rative
social activity, which seems to have
been essential to race survival, we have
paid the price of sacrificing far the greater
part of human originality, and have bred
a race in which docility and deference to
herd opinions, and savage intolerance of
doubt and dissent are the most character­istic
of our behavior patterns. It is psy­chologically
easy to understand why Thom­as
was the most intolerable of the disciples,
evidently more irritating than Judas Isca-riot".
* * * *
Half the people in the United States are
under twenty-six years of age. Most of the
readers of books and magazines are be- '
tween eighteen and twenty-six years of
age. Publishers have discovered that
books which appeal to a freshman in col­lege
are likely to have large sales; which
seems to be somewhat better than a read­ing
public with an average intelligence of
that of a thirteen-year-old, as the testers
believe they discovered. Or, is it just about
the same? >
* * * *
The following is quoted from the Blue
Stocking:
Build me a son, Oh Lord, who will be
strong enough to know when he is weak
and brave enough to face himself when
he is afraid. One who will be proud
and unbending in defeat, but humble
and gentle in victory.
A son whose wishbone will not be
where his backbone should be; a son
who will know, that to know himself,
is the foundation stone of all true know­ledge.
Rear him, I pray, not in the path of
ease and comfort, but under the stress
and spur of difficulties and challenges.
Here let him learn to stand up in the
storm; here let him learn compassion
for those who fall.
Build me a son whose heart will be
clean, whose goal will be high. A son
who will master himself, before he seeks
to master other men. One who will
learn to laugh, but never forget how to
weep. One who will reach far into the
future, yet never forget the past.
And after all these are his, add, I
pray, enough of a sense of humor so
that he may always be serious yet never
take himself too seriously; a touch of
humility, so that he may always re­member
the simplicity of true great­ness;
the open mind of true wisdom;
the meekness of true strength.
Then, I, his father, will dare in the
sacred recesses of my own heart to
whisper: "I have not lived in vain".
SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1932 T H E P L A I N S M A N -:- A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE PAGE THREE
TAD McCALLUM, Editor
CONTRIBUTORS:
HARRY BARNES^
MARSHAL KALEY
K. G. TAYLOR
NEIL O. DAVIS
New Football Rules Will
Keep Down Injuries Says
New York U. Professor
Last year's football toll of forty-nine
deaths and 1,346 injuries may be
reduced fifty per cent in 1932 by
rigid enforcement of the new de-bru­talizing
rule changes and by proper
training and care of athletes, Prof.
Frank S. Lloyd of New York Univer­sity
predicted today.
He made public the nation-wide sur­vey
of gridiron casualties which mo-tiavated
some of the recent rule
changes.
Professor Lloyd, New York Uni­versity's
authority on athletic statis­tics,
Dr. Marvin A. Stevens of Yale,
and Lloyd R. Eastwood of New York
University directed the survey. They
concluded that approximately half of
the casualties were due to:
1. Lack of rigid enforcement of
rules by officials;
2. Improper training, conditioning
and coaching of athletes;
3. Dangerous equipment;
4. Indifferent treatment of minor
injuries.
The survey was presented to the
national football rules committee at
their meeting recently, which framed
the six revolutionary rule changes.
It was accompanied by studies made
by other football authorities. —The
Athenaeun.
Outfield Stars Missing From Baseball Lineup Weakens Tigers
INFIELD LEFT
INTACT FROM
LAST SEASON
Merry Battle Between Wood
and Lewis for One of the In­field
Positions
Passenger in Elevator: "Fourth
floor please."
Operator: "Here you are, son."
Passenger: "How dare you call me
son, you're not my father."
Op: "Well, I brought you up."
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U N T I L M I D N I Q HT
The loss of an entire outfield and
an undefeated pitcher from Auburn's
1931 team, Southern Conference and
Dixie League baseball champions,
with no capable replacements' in
signt at present, will make Coach
Sam McAllister's 1932 Plainsman
nine weaker than the initial team
that he coached at the Plains.
The losses are: Joe Burt, All-Dixie
League and AU-American, who was
the champion swatsmith in the Dixie
League with an outstanding average
of .420; Phil Hodges, who hit .304
and was a star defensive player;
Pete Harris and Frock Pate, out­fielders,
and Dunham Harkins, who
turned in seven victories in as many
starts on the mound and wielded a
heavy bludgeon for an average of
.431, and Troy Hall, pitchers. Har­kins
was also selected on the All-
Dixie League team. Burt is now the
property of the Birmingham Barons,
champions of the Southern League.
Pate, an outstanding player when
in perfect physical shape, was of lit­tle
use to the 1931 team on account
of injuries. He also saw service at
shortstop.
Last year's team won the confer­ence
crown with a record of 11 wins
and three losses, the Dixie League
pennant with a record of 15 wins
and four defeats and finished the
season with a mark of 18 victories
and five setbacks. Florida, who
broke even with the Plainsmen in a
four game series, had the best rec­ord
in a series against Auburn. Mc­Allister
had one of the hardest hit­ting
clubs ever to appear on college
diamonds, the team batting .309 for
the season.
Returning as a nucleus for the
1932 team are Captain Clifford
Smith, All-American pitcher; Charles
Kaley and Aubrey Lewis, catchers;
Alternate-Captain Harry Lloyd, first
base; Duck Riley, second base; Jini-mie
Hitchcock, shortstop, and Ike
Lewis and Porter Grant, third base.
Not a single outfielder in the list and
only one pitcher.
The reserve back this season are
Sam Grubbs, Choctaw Creel, Clar­ence
West and Arvin "Slow Death"
Payne, pitchers; Sam Mason and
Ralph Jordan, first base, and George
Jenkins, outfield.
The leading sophomore candidates
are David "Gump" Ariail, catcher;
Leaders of Auburn Baseball Team Outstanding Stars TOM LUMPKIN AWARDED PLACE
ON ALL-CONFERENCE CAGE TEAM
Honor Comes As a Fitting Reward for Brilliant Play Through­out
Southern Conference Basketball Tournament; Team
Picked by Newspapermen Attending Tourney in Atlanta
Captain Clifford "Tchula" Smith, one of the
three college pitchers selected on the All-
American baseball team last season, who will
lead the Tiger baseball team through their
second Dixie College League schedule. Smith
won nine games and dropped only one last
spring as the Plainsmen won the Dixie League
and Southern Conference championships.
Another All-Dixie performer, Harry Lloyd,
first baseman, will serve as alternate-captain
on Coach Sam McAllister's nine this season.
Lloyd batted .378 in the Dixie College loop
last year and was one of the steadiest fielders
in the conference. He is playing his final sea­son
on the Tiger baseball team.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
TO MEET MONDAY NIGHT
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Made from tree-ripened
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There will be a meeting of the
American Society of Mechanical En­gineers,
Monday night, March the 7,
at 8 p. m. in 109 Ramsay. The pro­gram
for the evening will be featur­ed
by a number of reviews of prom­inent
articles from the mechanical
engineering magazine of the A. S. M.
E. by the students. In addition to
the reviews of the various articles,
these articles will be discussed by the
society.
The business of the meeting will
be taken up with further discussion
of the plans for sending delegates to
the student A. S. M. E. meeting in
Chattanooga on April 3-5, and for
the meeting with the Birmingham sec­tion
on April 6. Definite plans must
be formualted at this meeting and the
full membership is desired.
Also there will be presented to the
society for approval, bulletins to ac­quaint
the mechanical and aeronauti­cal
students of the activity and plans
for future programs. This is import­ant
in that the plans for the future
programs and activities should have
the approval of the entire society.
The society will be interested to
learn that the copies of Mechanical
Engineers have arrived and will be
distributed to each member.
Champion Returns
Beard Returns from Eastern Competition after Successfully
Defending Title
Auburn Junior High
Defeats Notasulga
With a final spurt that fairly took
away the breaths of the excited spec­tators,
the Auburn Junior High
School boy's basketball team defeat­ed
the strong Notasulga five by a
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Ripper Williams, Marion "Soprano"
Talley and Herbert Benson, pitchers;
Bill Bowers, first base; Rudy Blan-ton,
second base; Thomas "Red"
Head, shortstop; Juicy Wood, third
base, and Hamp Morris and Thomas
O'Barr, outfield. Williams and Wood
look the most promising of the soph­omores.
However, O'Barr is a ball
hawk and a good thrower and will be
a foremost aspirant for an outfield
berth if he improves his hitting.
It is highly probably that Grant
and Mason will be shifted to the
pastures. Both stand a good chance
of playing regularly in the outer
gardens. If the shift is made, the
outfield probably will be Grant, left
field; Jenkins, center field, and Ma­son,
right field.
McAllister's veteran infield of
Lloyd, Riley, Hitchcock and Ike Lew­is
has a good chance of remaining in­tact,
but Lewis has a hard battle
ahead of him of warding off Wood.
The Lewis-Wood conflict will pro­bably
develop into a "feud" before
"the 1932 campaign is over. Lloyd
and Riley, both seniors who batted
.378 and .322 as juniors, made the
All-Dixie League team last year, A
professional club probably will grab
them when they graduate in May.
Riley has no superiors and few
equals as a fielder.
Charles Kaley, All-Dixie League
backstop, is slated to do most of the
receiving but will have to hustle
every minute if he keeps Aubrey
Lewis from breaking into the regu­lar
lineup. Lewis was the most im­proved
player on the team last year.
Capt. Smith will carry the brunt
of the hurling, but who his first
lieutenants will be is a mystery at
present. Grubbs, Creel and Wil­liams
look the best now.
Winning in both his heat and in
the finals in five of the six major in­door
meets that he entered while in
the East, Percy Beard, captain of
Aubui-n's 1929 track and field team
has returned to the Plains to resume
his duties as an instructor in civil
engineering for the second consecu­tive
year as the supreme hurdler of
all times.
In his initial meet in the East, the
Millrose games, Beard won his heat
but was disqualified for knocking
over an excessive number of hurdles.
This was the first time since 1929
that he had not annexed first honors
in every meet in which he ran.
Following his spill in the Millrose
games, the world's greatest timber-topper
and Auburn's best-known fac­ulty
member who is an athlete was
crowned champion in the Meadow-brook,
New York Athletic Club and
Knights of Columbus games and the
Metropolitan A. A. U. and National
A. A. U. championships.
Beard and Fred Sturdy, splendid
pole vaulter representing the Los An­geles
Athletic Club, were the only
athletes to defend their titles suc­cessfully
in the National A. A. U.
indoor track and field championships.
Sporting flaming red sweat clothes,
score of 21 to 18. Taylor, at center
for Notasulga, kept his team in the
lead throughout the entire game un­til
the last few minutes when the des­perate
rally by the Auburn quintet
snatched victory away from them.
Not to be outdone by the boys, the
Auburn High School girl's basketball
team, one of the best in this district
put on a splendid exhibition of the
passing game, gaining a hard-earned
yictory over the Notasulga girl's sex­tette.
Due to the sensational shoot­ing
of Helen Funchess during the
closing minutes of the game, the
Auburn lassies enjoyed a 21 to 18
lead as the final whistle blew.
Beard has already started light train­ing
for the 1932 United States Olmy-pic
team. He will begin assiduous
work for the Olympic tryouts in a
few weeks. All of his training for
the Olympic meet in Los Angeles
will be under the supervision of Wil­bur
Hutsell, the keen strategist who
has been his guiding light since he
saw his first hurdle.
Hutsell, member of the 1928 Unit­ed
States Olympic coaching staff, is
the only coach Beard has ever had.
He changed Beard's form in 1929
and his greatest protege developed
into a world's record holder for the
70-yard indoor high hurdles and the
120-yard high hurdles. His 70-yard
mark is 8.5 and his other record is
14.2
As a fitting reward for his brilliant
play throughout the Southern Con­ference
basketball tournament, Tom
Lumpkin, Tiger sharpshooter, was
awarded one of the forward posi­tions
on the all-conference team se­lected
by the newspaper men in at­tendance
at the tournament.
Lumpkin .was the only Auburn
player who remained consistently up
to his usual standard of play in the
three games played by the Plains­men
in Atlanta. He scored 36 points
in these three games to place
fourth in the high score column and
his floor work, especially in the semi­final
game, brought forth much
praise from the experts.
Weathers, crack North Carolina
forward, was teamed with Lumpkin
on the mythical pick. Bill Strick­land
of Georgia was given the center
post, while Alexander, North Caro­lina,
and Young, Georgia, were placed
I at guards. Strickland was the lead­ing
scorer of the tourney and Weath­ers
was third.
The North Carolina game was the
conclusion of Lumpkin's basketball
activity at Auburn. He has served
on three varsity teams as a regular,
after playing on the crack freshman
team of 1929.
NOTICE!
The Friendly Class invites you to
attend tomorrow at 9:45. Dr. Weaver
will continue his lectures on "Fam­ous
Sayings of Jesus." Last Sunday
48 students attended The Friendly
Class and all spoke of the appropri­ateness
of the name. Come tomorrow
and bring a pal. Enjoy "The Friend­liest
Class in Town" for only one
hour of your time.
Be guided by your judgment—not
by your emotions.
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Definite knowledge of "where we are" and
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These men study present and prospective
industrial, economic and social conditions in
all parts of the country. They gather facts-analyze
them, correlate them, discover their
significance to the telephone business, draw
guidance from them. They study and fore­cast
the changing requirements of the public
for telephone service. They estimate the
probable future demand for new services,
such as radio telephony to foreign lands and
ships at sea. They keep the executives advised
as to current progress towards the objectives
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PAGE FOUR 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 SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1932
BUSINESS WOMEN SPONSORING
FIFTH BUSINESS WOMEN'S WEEK
Local Business and Professional Women's Club Members join
with National Federation, having 1,325 Branches, in Ob­servation
of National Business Women's Week, March 6-12
The National Federation of Busi
ness and Professional Women's Clubs
which is sponsoring the fifth annual
observance of National Business Wo­men's
Week, March 6-12, is the larg
est national organization of business
women in the world.
According to Miss Alma Lamar,
president of the local business and
professional women's club, it now
has 1,325 branches in an equivalent
number of communities in this coun­try,
the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska
and its membership numbers approx­imately
60,000. It is affiliated with
the International Federation of Busi­ness
and Professional Women, which
has branches in Canada and in 13
European countries.
Mrs. Geline MacDonald Bowman
of Richmond, Va., proprietor of one
of the largest direct mail advertising
businesses in the South, is national
president.
While the National Federation of
Business and Professional Women's
Clubs is composed primarily of self-supporting
women, its program has
had sufficient appeal to attract to
membership such women as Mrs. Her­bert
Hoover, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge,
the majority of the women who have
successively served in congress, Mrs.
Nellie Tayloe Ross, America's first
woman governor; Mrs. Bertha K.
Landes, first woman mayor of a large
American city, Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt and others of equal calibre.
Women high in government service
belong to the Washington, D. C,
club, affiliated with the federation.
The federation has sponsored two
important researches into the prob­lems
of business and professional wo­men.
The first was an inquiry into
the occupational history of nearly
15,000 members of the federation,
which disclosed illuminating facts
about the stability of women in the
business world, their earning capaci­ty,
their education, their living con­ditions,
their ability to save. This
was under the direction of Dr. Mar­garet
Elliott of the faculty of the
school of business administration at
the University Michigan.
The research committee of the
national federation, of which Dr.
Lillian M. Gilbreth of Montclair,
N. J. efficiency engineer, is chairman,
is sponsoring a second research to
determine whether advancing years
are a deterrent to business success,
and if so, whether the middle-aged
business woman can combat the sit­uation
through adult training or psy­chological
adjustments. Dr. Susan
M. Kingsbury of Bryn Mawr is di­recting
this study. Three volumes
about the first survey and a volume
to be published upon the completion
of the second will constitute the most
illuminating literature about business
women yet produced.
A vital phase of the federation's
program is its educational work. Ap­proximately
$300,000 accumulated in
nearly 700 local scholarship loan
funds throughout the country is used
to realize the educational objective
of the organization, "At least a high
school education for every business
girl." Last year more than $80,000
was loaned to keep business girls in
school until they had achieved a high
school diploma, or in advancing funds
Tiger Theatre
S a t u r d a y , March 5
"The GAY CABALLERO"
with
George O'Brien,
Victor McLaglen,
Conchita Montenegro
Also Cartoon, "CLOSE HAR­MONY"
and Charlie Chase in
"THE NICKLE NURSER"
Sunday - Monday,
March 6-7
Will Rogers
in
"BUSINESS and
PLEASURE"
with
Jetta Goudal - Joel McCrea
Also Comedy,
'HALF HOLIDAY" and News
Tuesday, March 8
"MEN OF
CHANCE"
with
Mary Astor,
Ricardo Cortez,
John Halliday
Also Cartoon, "LIGHT OF SIL­VERY
MOON" and Musical
Act, "SUBWAY SYMPHONY"
to women who wished college or pro­fessional
training.
In the vocational field the federa­tion
has taken almost unique leader­ship.
Through vocational round
tables held in connection with its bi­ennial
conventions and regional meet­ings
it affords the newcomer in busi­ness
an opportunity to pool her ex­periences
with experts in various vo­cational
fields. It is also working
through its local clubs to better voca
tional guidance facilities in hundreds
of communities throughout the Unit­ed
States.
Prominent Engineer
Visits Alma Mater
'Y' NOTES
In a recent editorial of the Plains
man, "Dad" Elliott was spoken of as
a most unusual man. He is indeed
one of the most unusual men who
for a long while has met the students
of our campus in helping them to face
the problems of life. Behind those
ideas which he so clearly and so forc­ibly
brought to us, we were able to
see years of experience and years of
offensive struggle builded into one
great Christian personality for per­sonal
service. Earnestness—yes!
Courage—yes! Sincerity—yes! Chris­tian
Faith—yes! Those of us who
have come to know "Dad" better
through an interview or a few pounds
of golf will appreciate the fact that
he certainly associates his religion
with the real things in life. If the
students who have come to know
"Dad" will only realize this one thing,
that our religion cannot be placed
in an airtight compartment, but is
essential to the development of the
worthwhile values of our life, "Dad's"
visit will have changed the course of
many a student's thought and life.
But we hope that this idea will not
be the only one, and that we may
conserve and develop to the fullest
these thoughtful messages from day
to day. "Dad", we are glad you
came, sorry that you have to leave
so soon, but hope and pray that it
will not be long before you return.
There may have possibly slipped
from your mind some of the exact
phrases and expressions which "Dad"
has used in his addresses.. Here are
some which we would all like to
keep:
"What we are to be, we are now
becoming". "Remember the dog and
cut the string". "Study the rules
and put yourself under the Coach in
Jesus Christ".
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With Sunday we enter again into
a series of religious activities—"Fra-ternity-
Go-to-Church Month". We
are hoping that this will be a worth­while
and a successful means of con­serving
some of the energy which
Dad" has let loose this week—and
that it will be a continuation of the
spirit which he has aroused. We feel
though, that to make this part of the
YMCA program count for each fra­ternally
we must keep in mind the
things which "Dad" said. It is not
for just a prize at the finish, it is
not for showing off the, group at
some service each Sunday, but for
the development of finer Christian
character in the fraternity men of
our campus.
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The month of March will certainly
be a big one in the eyes of the YMCA
if we are able to put on all of the
things we have planned. A glimpse
of some of the proposed activities.
Besides "Religious Week" and "Fra-terhity-
Go-to-Church Month" we hope
to begin our Spring discussions to­wards
the last of this month. We
are looking forward to a visit from
several YMCA and other Christian
leaders. Jim Hardwick, the other
YMCA secretary for this region will
be here ne,xt week. John Minter,
traveling secretary for the Student
Volunteer Movement and Professor
J. Paul McConnell are scheduled for
to visit here during the month. To­wards
the first of April we hope to
have the selection of next year's
YMCA officers. We hope that in
these many experiences the entire
student body will be able to share.
F. E. "Ipsi" Bell, Auburn '21, visit­ed
his alma mater Saturday en route
from Burlington, N. J., to Austin,
Texas. He is with the United Engi­neering
and Construction Company,
Philadelphia, and is engaged in pow­er
plant construction work. He re­cently
concluded a two and a half
million dollar plant at Burlington
and will erect a big plant at Austin,
Texas.
Bell was reared in Pensacola, Fla.,
being one of the many students, to
come to Auburn from that city.
IVEY SPEAKS BEFORE
OPELIKA KIWANIANS
BIGGIN AWARDED PRAISE AS
PROGRAM OF ARCHITECTURAL
CELEBRATION OPENS FRIDAY
ENTERS LAW OFFICE
Hartwell Davis, Auburn '28, is a
new member of the Opelika Kiwanis
Club. He is practicing law with J.
A. Walker at Opelika.
(Continued from page 1)
al land for settlement is secondary
to that of making raw products avail­able
to the Japanese for industrial
and agricultural purposes.
The speaker said also that Japan
is now in the most embarrassing po­sition
she has occupied in half a
century. He named two reasons for
this. The first is that public opinion
against the Japanese is widespread;
and the second is the fact that the
Chinese army has made a better
showing than was anticipated.
Mr. Ivey gave it as his opinion that
the Japanese are now looking for an
opportunity to suspend their efforts,
provided it can be done in a way not
to embarrass them. "Japan must
save her face and she is looking for
an opportunity to do so," he con­tinued.
Prof. Ivey is of the opinion that
other big nations will not become in­volved
in the Manchurian conflict be­tween
China and Japan.__ Because of
the unfavorable opinion abroad Jap­anese
bankers are now finding it dif­ficult
to float loans in foreign coun­tries.
In the meantime, domestic fi­nancing
is more difficult, thus handi­capping
their financing of their mili­tary
operations.
(Continued from page 1)
Gothic, and Renaissance art was ar­tistically
depicted in a series of beau­tiful
tableaux. Costumes and settings
were designed and executed by the
students in applied art and architec­ture
under the direction of Prof. Roy
H. Staples. Mrs. Staples assisted
with the preparation and design of
costumes "and Mrs. John W. Hyde di­rected
the spoken part of the tab­leaux.
Magnificant lighting and col­or
effects featured the entire per­formance.
Musical interludes were played by
Prof. Earl Hazel and appropriate
vocal numbers accompanied three of
the episodes sung by George Mox-ham,
Conrad Stayton, and Mrs. E. L.
Rauber. A capacity audience re­sponded
in unstinted fasion to the
excellence of the exercises.
STREET PARADE FEATURES
EXERCISES ON PLAY DAY
(Continued from page 1)
ell; fourth grade, running relay, Pep­perell,
Loachapoka, Salem, and Smith
station; circle dodge ball, Pepperell,
Beauregard, Salem, and Beulah; 50
yard race for boys, Smith Station;
50 yard race for gii'ls, Pepperell;
hopping race, Smith Station, Auburn,
Salem and Beulah.
Fifth grade, leap frog race, Au­burn
; ball • relay, Smith Station, Sa­lem,
Pepperell, and Beauregard; cor­ner
ball, Beulah, Beauregard, and
Pepperell; 50 yard race fro boys, Au­burn—
for girls, Auburn; broad jump
for boys, Beauregard—for girls,
Beauregard.
Sixth grade, volley ball, Loacha­poka,
Pepperell, Salem, and Loacha­poka;
50 yard race for boys, Salem
—for girls, Smith station; broad
jump for boys, Smith Station—for
girls, Smith Station.
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Opportunity for qualified young
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Training Camp, June 14 to July 13,
is afforded through the enrollment
campaign directed by Dr. Byron S.
Bruce of Opelika, county chairman.
Four weeks of valuable military
training under regular army officers,
together with an elaborate program
of recreation is in store for partici­pants
at government expense. Those
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DOGS HAVE MORE THAN ANIMAL
INTELLIGENCE STATES DR. HAYS
Head of the Small Animal Department of t h e School of Veteri­nary
Medicine Explains How Pschology is Used in Treat­ment
of Valuable Dogs Sent Here from All Over Country
COUNTY CAMPAIGN FOR FREE
MEDICAL AID NEARS GOAL
(Continued from page 1)
is county chairman.
Individual contribtuions are al­ready
being received and one organi­zation
has agreed to pay all hospital­ization
cost of one child. It is hoped
that Lee County will have 300 mem­bers
by the end of this week.
GO-TO-CHURCH MONTH
WILL BEGIN TOMORROW
(Continued from page 1)
day. The percentage, as stated
above, will be a ratio of the total,
points made to the total possible
points.
Weekly results of the contest will
be published weekly in The Plains­man.
PLANS FOR ENGINEER
DAY NEAR COMPLETION
(Continued from page 1)
land Adams of Eufaula, Textile; J.
D. Bush, of Mobile, civil; R. B. Wil­liams
of Little Rock, electrical; Joe
Plant of Birmingham, mechanical;
and George Walters of Birmingham,
aeronautical.
A dog understands psychology.
"You can't punish one with a
smile on your face for he'll know
you don't mean it," says Dr. I. S.
Hays, head of the small animal de­partment
of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute school of veterinary medi­cine.
"So well does a dog understand
mental attitudes of those who handle
him that his behavior reflects the
character and temperament of his
master", continued Dr. Hays.
"When being treated, sick or in­jured
dogs reach to the beneficial ef­fects
of cheerfulness just as humans
do. In my treatment of many valu­able
dogs sent here from all over the
country, I always giVe them a happy
word of greeting when I first ap­proach
them in the morning. They
return the greeting with a pleasant
expression of recognition.
"It is impossible to treat success­fully
an ill dog unless he can be
gotten into the best mental attitude.
This is not difficult to do. In two
or three days any dog which comes
to me, with only a very few excep­tions,
reacts to kindness, submits to
treatment, and willingly takes medi­cine
necessary for his recovery.
"Occasionally, though, I find a fak­er
who will hold a capsule or pill in
his mouth, feign the swallowing of
it, and then, when I am well away,
discharges the medicine from his
mouth. This doesn't happen often
and the vast majority of dogs can be
talked into taking medicine with no
resistance whatever. I am always
careful to talk reassuringly when
treating "them and my positive
though friendly tone of voice is just
as effective as with a sick child.
"Dogs ' are not dumb brutes. A
smart one understands much of his
master's language. I know an intelli­gent
fox terrier that becomes angry
when told that he will be taken to
the wood shed if he doesn't obey.
He knows that the wood shed is a
place of punishment and the threat
is effective—he then obeys. In addi­tion
to the understanding of many
commands, he can execute a type of
canine singing with piano accompani­ment
to which he will howl in accord­ance
with either the high or low
notes.
"Kindness will go just as far with
dogs as it will in the training of
children. But occasionally a dog
needs punishment, and when he does,
it should be given while he is in the
act of offense.
"Frequently at my approach a dog
with an injured paw or leg will pre­sent
the ailing member for my in­spection.
Occasionally a dog learns
that a certain medicine is particular­ly
nauseating and he cringes when
he has to take it. I sometimes uses
the threat of giving an undesirable
medicine when a dog refuses to exe­cute
my commands. There's no way
of telling the extent of simple mat­ters
which a dog understands.
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