1927-02-19 The Plainsman

              OFFICERS BALL
MONDAY NIGHT THE PLAINSMAN SHINE UP FOR
THE GOVERNOR
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOLUME L. AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1927 NUMBER 20
GOVERNOR TO REVIEW R. 0. T. t ON WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY
WAR DEPARTMENT CHANGES
SUMMER CAMP TO BENNING
Captain Althaus Enum­erates
Desirability of
New Location
The summer training camp for the
Field Artillery and Engineer ROTC
students of Auburn will be held at
Fort Benning, Ga., this summer in­stead
of at Fort Bragg, N. C, as in
the past. Instructions to this effect
have just been received from the War
Department by Major Kennedy, Pro
fessor of Military Science and Tac­tics.
This change is the result of
the War Department's plan to cen­tralize
the summer training camps,
thus materially reducing the cost of
transporting several hundred ROTC
students over long distances.
This change in the location of the
summer training camp will doubtless
be a disappointment to some members
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WAR VETERANS
CAN NOW RENEW
OLD INSURANCE
Cal. Coolidge Asks Support of
All in Spreading This
News
Communication was received at
headquarters of the Auburn R. O.
T. C. from the War Department with
reference to the law providing for
the reinstatement of war risk life in­surance
up until July 2, 1927.
The communication contained a
statement signed by President Cool­idge.
It is stated that detailed in­formation
with reference to such in­surance
may be obtained from the
central office of the United States
Veterans' Bureau, Washington, D. C,
or from the regional office of the
United States Veterans' Bureau,
Washington, D. C, or from its rer
gional -offices located throughout the
country.
President Coolidge's letter is as
follows:
"Wherefore, I, Calvin Coolidge,
President of the United States, do
hereby designate the period January
31 to February 7, 1927, as a time
during which special effort should
be made to inform all veterans of
the World War of the right they
have to reinstate lapsed war risk life
insurance, and to convert it into
United States Government life in­surance;
and, that all such veterans
may, in some manner, be properly
informed, I urge all citizens, particu­larly
employers, the press, labor or­ganizations,
woman's associations,
professional groups and civic and pa­triotic
bodies, to secure full infor­mation
and use such means of inform­ing
the veterans as may be most ef­fective."
PROGRAM
College Show
Monday, Feb. 21
"COHENS AND KELLYS"
With George Sidney, Charlie
Murray, and Vera Gordon.
Tuesday, Feb. 22
"GOING CROOKED"
With Bessie Love, Oscar Shaw,
and Leslie Fenton.
Wednesday, Feb. 23
"BEN HUR"
Francis X. Bushman, May Mc-
Avoy, Claire McDowell, Bet­ty
Bronson and others.
Friday, Feb. 25
"LUNATIC AT LARGE"
Leon Errol, Dorothy Mackaill
and Kenneth MacKenna.
Saturday, Feb 26
"STOLEN PLEASURES"
With Helene Chadwick, Doro­thy
Revier, Gayne Whitman,
Harlan Tucker, Ramon
Ripley.
COMEDIES—NEWS EVENTS
GOOD PROGRAM
IS PRESENTED
BYMONTEVALLO
Girl's Glee Club Entertains in
Langdon Hall
On Saturday evening, February
the twelfth, at seven-fifteen o'clock,
the Alabama College Glee Club, from
Montevallo gave a concert in Lang­don
Hall, which was well received
In spite of the bad weather, there
was a large crowd persent.
The girls arrived n Auburn Satur­day
afternoon accompanied by Mr
Colin B. Richmond, director; Miss
Polly Gibbs, accompanist; and Mrs
Nora Reynolds, chaperone. They
came here from Woman's College, in
Montgomery, where they appeared
Friday night in concert. There were
twenty-six girls who made the trip.
Among them were: Minnie Peebles
Johnson, Helen Bishop, Frances Lof-tion,
Alace Lyman, Myrtle Plant,
Eleanor Toomer, Alice Minton Quar-les,
Joyce Jackson, Margaret West,
Jane Stallworth, and Myrtle Tuber-ville.
The performance was opened by
three songs sung by the whole club.
This was followed by selected num­bers
by the "Alabama College Var­sity
Sextette," which is composed of
Misses Johnson, Bishop, Loftin, Ly­man,
Plant and Toomer. .Soprano
solos were then rendered by Minnie
Peebles Johnson, after which the Glee
Club sang several other selections.
Then Alice Lyman played three vio­lin
solos. The next on the program
was a short act called "Stage Struck"
successfully featured by Alice Min­ton
Quarles, and Joyce Jackson. There
were also other soprano solos by
Heleen Bishop, selected numbers by
the Varsity Sextette, and the final
selection on the program was the
Alma Mater.
The girls left Auburn Sunday morn­ing
at eight-thirty on their way
back to Montevallo.
DR. SHOWALTER
TALKS TO RATS
ABOUT SCIENCE
Science Seeks Truth Through
Many Experiments
Dr. Shouwalter of the Extension
Department made a very interesting
talk to the Freshman class last Tues­day.
He began by saying that the
students by selecting Auburn as their
school made themselves seekers of
truth in science. One comes to Au­burn
to learn something of science
and how to apply this knowledge.
To some people science is a deep,
and unfathomable mystery; while to
others it is .a cut and dried matter
of no interest. Science appears this
way to ignorant people only; men
who desire to learn the truth are
of a scientific nature. Scientists are
viewed with alarm by a great many
people who care nothing for the scien­tific
truth.
r
The search for truth calls for close
observation. Innumerable tests have
shown that most people are unobserv­ant;
they do not see very much from
an observing point of view. The
trained observer on the other hand
must know what to see and what to
study.
Intelligence and achievements are
obtained from the results of certain
tests of that nature. In the scien­tific
world a single test is of no value
in the way of truth. To establish a
theory or a law, many tests must be
made so that the law can be proved to
be good. After the tests have been
made to the best of the ability of the
scientist performing them, the find-
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OPINIONS O1 ^ ^ 1T^XTQR SYSTEM 'UI^JB]S[ "H AlEJtf
_
Dr. Dowell—If the Honor System
cannot function with reasonable sat­isfaction
it ought to be abolished.
However I should regret exceedingly
to learn that our student body did not
feel that a "student conscience" for
its enforcement should and can be
developed.
Dr. Petrie—I beleive the large ma­jority
of Auburn boys mean to be
honest. It certainly ought to be pos­sible
to have an honor system here
that will work effectively. I can­not
believe the time has yet come to
treat Auburn men as convicts, and
not as gentlemen. a
Prof. Judd—The Honor System at
Auburn has fallen far short of legi­timate
expectation of all who have
given it serious consederation. In
my opinion the fault lies partly with
the faculty and partly with the stu­dent
body. I believe an honest ef­fort
on the part of all would restore
the Honor System to its old-time dig­nity
and respect.
Prof. Rutland—I firmly believe
in an honor system. Of course if
ours • won't work, let's scrap it. I
cannot believe however, that this stu­dent
body and this faculty lack the
tact, good sense, and loyalty to Au­burn
necessary to make the right
kind of -honor system work.
Dr. Clark—I should regret exceed­ingly
to see the Honor System abol­ished
at Auburn. But, if it is not
working with reasonable satisfaction,
and if it is a detriment rather than
a benefit, our better judgment would
dictate its suspension. I hope, how­ever,
that some other worth-while
alternative may be found.
Dr. Allison—The only hope of
saving the Honor System at Auburn
is for a sufficient number of students
to pledge themselves to support the
System to the extent of reporting
the man who cheats. It is this atti­tude
that has made a success of the
Honor System at other institutions.
If Auburn students will not- assume
this responsibility, the Honor System
should go.
W. F. Tidwell—The Honor System
is not working. I am in favor of
abolishing it until student and fac­ulty
sentiment is such that it will
work effectively.
Prof. Shi—If the Honor System is
to be successful the students must
assume responsibilities of enforcing
penalties for violations. It cannot
fulfil its purposes if unfairness in
examinations are tolerated.
R. C. Crawford—The Honor Sys­tem
will not work at Auburn with the
sentiment now prevailing.
F. A. Smith—Unless the student
sentiment toward the Honor System
at Auburn undergoes a radical change,
it had best be removed.
A. F. McGhee—With the present
attitude of the faculty toward the
Honor System, it is impossible to se­cure
student cooperation which is es­sential
to the success of the system.
F. H. Ingram—In my opinion the
Honor System is a shield for dishon­est
students.
J. M. Edwards—The success of the
Honor System hinges on the willing­ness
of the students to report each
other for violations of the constitu­tion.
Until they will do this it will
not work and should be abolished.
M. G. Smith—The backbone of the
Honor System is the students' re­porting
violations of its constitution
and until the majority are willing
to do this the. system is of no value
and should be abolished.
G. B. Phillips—The honor system
is taken too lightly by the under­graduates.
It should be abolished.
W. H. H. Putnam—The Senior
Class should take the lead in mak­ing
the Honor System work, not in
throwing it out.
S. H. Lynne—Due to the general
concept of "tale-bearing" entertained
by the majority of the students here
and built up by the parents and sec­ondary
school organizations, the Hon­or
System at Auburn is impractica­ble.
It should be removed.
BIBB GRAVES AND STAFF TO
SPEND HOLIDAY IN AUBURN
MUSICAL SHOW
TO BE GIVEN BY
LOCAL PLAYERS
Tuxworth to Dispense Maiden­ly
Charm
SENIOR CLASS
TAKES VOTE ON
HONOR SYSTEM
Proposes Plan for Building of
Auburn Stadium
Bewildering paradox occurred in
Senior Class meeting Tuesday morn­ing
when the honor system was
brought up for discussion. J. M.
Edwards, president of the honor
committee, made a final plea for
some means to insure the satisfac­tory
operation of the system here,
declaring that the foundation of the
honor system was the obligation of
the students to turn up those guilty
of cheating on quizzes and examina­tions.
It was revealed in subsequent
questioning that five students in the
senior class would be the maximum
of those who would expose their class
mates guilty of dishonesty. Accord­ing
to Edwards this was a virtual ad­mission-
that the honor system was
powerless to work on the Auburn
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NOTICE!
The Auburn Players cordially in­vite
everyone interested in the little
theatre movement to hear Mr. Reeid,
of New York City, who will talk to
the group in the Y Hut on Wednes­day,
February 23, at eight o'clock.
Mr. Reeid is making a tour through
the South in the interests of the lit­tle
theatre organizations and audi­ences
throughout his series of meet­ings
have been enthusiastic about his
talks. No admission will be charged
and everyone will be welcomed.
PRESIDENT OF
U. OF A. SENDS
HEARTY LETTER
STADIUM PLANS
ARE SUPPORTED
BY BLUE KEY MEN
Seeks Arrangement Of All
Campus Organizations on
This Policy
Following its policy of promoting
the interests of the college, the Blue
Key fraternity declared its member­ship
in hearty support of the reso­lution
adopted by the senior class in
regard to the proposed plan for the
construction of an athletic stadium at
Auburn.
Definite steps were taken toward
the futherance of this scheme and a
committee was authorized to signify
the willingness of the organization
to support the senior class in its at­tempts
to get the plan fairly started.
Members of this committee are: S.
H. Lynne, G. B. Phillips, and F. A.
Smith, all of whom are on the sen­ior
class committee for the same
purpose.
In order that the resolution be giv­en
its maximum of appeal, it was
suggested that the signatures of all
campus organizations in agreement
with this policy be allowed to sign
the resolution. After Ibeing drawn
up it will be submitted for the ap­proval
of the various societies and
organizations.
Sister Institution Wishes Suc­cess
for Basketball
•
Team
HONOR SYSTEM
CONTEST WON
BY M'MILLAN
J u d g e s P i c k Sophomore's
Theme After Much
Difficulty
February 14, 1927.
Dear Dr. Dowell:
Please convey to all who are inter­ested
in the continued success of your
basketball team our sincere congrat­ulations.
I am sure that I voice the senti­ment
of our faculty and student-body
when I say that we are pulling for
your team and wish for it complete
triumph in Atlanta.
We realize that our own team is
unequal to the task of winning the
Conference championship. Next to
our own success we are for the suc­cess
of our sister institution.
Faithfully yours,
George D. Denny.
President, University of Alabama.
Prize offered by the Honor Commit­tee
for the best theme on "The Ad­vantages
of An Honor System to A
College" was won by J. B. McMillan,
a sophomore.
Considerable difficulty was exper­ienced
by the judges in awarding the
verdict of winner to the author of
the best theme as there were so many
excellent papers submitted on the sub­ject.
As the result of the contset, marly
new ideas were advanced and'many
honest opinions and views of the Hon­or
System were brought to light.
Anyone wishing to read the themes
which were entered in the competi­tion
may do so bay calling by the
"Y" office. • McMillan's theme fol­lows:
ADVANTAGES OF AN HONOR
SYSTEM TO A COLLEGE
All Honor Systems as in use in
colleges today embody the same fun­damental
principles. An Honor Sys­tem
is a plan eliminating the faculty-spying
practice in situations involv­ing
the honesty of students. It sub­stitutes
a plan whereby each student
is trusted on his own sense of honor
to conduct himself incorruptibly at
all times. The essential aim of an
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Interest in the musical show soon
to be staged by the Auburn Players
has been heightened since the dance
director, Miss Lillian Gist, assisted
by that worthy exponent of Mechan­ical
Drawing and the Black Bottom,
"Pup" Jones, gave an exhibition of
the popular dance at the Stunt Night
celebration. We have been hearing
of this latest terpsichorean craze and
those of us who were fortunate
enough to get to Birmingham saw it
demonstrated there, but this was its
first appearance in Auburn. Miss
Gist predicts that it will be more
popular than the Charleston and the
audience at the stunt night show
seemed to second her motion. Offi­cials
of the Y. M. C. A. say that
when the entire chorus of forty peo­ple
begins to do the Black Bottom
over their heads, it is hard to con­centrate
on anything else.
In addition to this athletic dance,
a further contribution to the Foot­ball
Frolic is made by such campus
adornments as Moulton, Tuxworth,
"Diz" Pruett, Sankey and "Red" Rob­erts.
Sounds almost like the line-up
for a big game, doesn't it? .And it
is, only this game is played behind
the footlights. Roberts pursues Tux­worth
about the stage in an attempt
to steal a kiss and Pruett tells of the
time when he was a happy mother:
Sankey steals the diamond necklace
and Pat Moulton wins the fair dam­sel,
Tuxworth. Never was such a
melodrama as "The Fatal Necklace"
seen in Auburn, and never were such
actors evidenced before! (The lat­ter
is inteded as a sort of compli­ment.)
It has been rumored that
Tuxworth will sell the kisses for a
nominal sum, but this has been de­nied.
The date of the frolic has defini­tely
been set for Thursday, March
third, and Langdon Hall will shelter
this motley mob of jazz enthusiasts.
ETA KAPPA NU
TO PUT ON HIKE
FOR ELEC MEN
Honorary Electrical Engineer­ing
Fraternity to Give
E. E.'s Treat
PROPOSAL IS MADE TO MAKE
CHANGE IN STATE'S MOTTO
Mr. Max Rogers, a member of the
House of Rperesentatives, at my re­quest,
has introduced a bill propos­ing
a change in the motto which is
inscribed upon, the scroll carried in
the beak of the eagle on the great
seal of Alabama. The present motto
is "Here We Rest." The change pro­posed
is "We Drive Forward.'.'
I am not at all wedded to the pro­posed
slogan or motto but have sug­gested
it as in direct opposition to
the present one which is based upon
a legend now proven untrue. Please
let me refresh your memory as to
the history of the great seal of Ala­bama.
The original seal adopted in
1817 when Alabama was a Territo­ry,
was a map of the State showing
its principal rivers. The Reconstruc­tion
Legislature of 1868 abolished
this historic old seal and substituted
our present seal therefor, declaring
in the Act that the words "Here We
Rest" should be shown at such place
on the seal as the Governor might di­rect.
The present seal as you, know
is a circle with a diameter of two
and a quarter inches, near the edge
of which is the word "Alabama' and
opposite this the words "Great Seal."
In the center of the seal there is an
eagle on-a shield and in the beak of
the eagle is a scroll as above de­scribed.
The law says that this seal
shall be called "The Great Seal of
the State of Alabama."
The origin of the phrase "Here
We Rest" is based on an Indian leg­end
given in the writings of an early
Alabamian, Alexander B. Meek, in
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In order to bring the seniors and
juniors in the electrical engineering
school closer together, Eta Kappa Nu,
honorary electrical engineering fra­ternity,
is planning a hike and wein-er
roast for these classes on Friday
afternoon and evening, February 25,
according to plans recently made pub­lic
by the officers of the fraternity.
This get-together is prompted by
a desire that the members of the
two upper classes ally themselves
more closely with each other, and
come to know each other better. Be­ing
the largest single course in col­lege,
it has proved difficult to mingle
as much as we would like, so this in­formal
outing has been arranged.
Eta Kappa Nu is especially desir­ous
of having every junior and sen­ior
who is pursuing electrical engin­eering,
as its guest on this occasion,
Jack Nelms, who is in charge of ar­rangements,
tells us. In that way,
the society will feel that it has ac­complished
something.
The feature of the hike will be the
"feed," so they say. Mr. Nelms prom­ises
that there will bo no formal
talks called for from among the
guests, and that there will be plen­ty
to eat for everybody.
Exercises to Be Held in
Langdon Hall Follow­ing
Review
In accordance with the custom es­tablished
by his predecessors, Gov­ernor
Bibb Graves and his official
Staff will review the Auburn R. O.
T. C. Tuesday, February 22, 1927.
The Governor and Dr. Tidwell,
state superintendent of education, ac­companied
by their wives will drive
through the country and are expect­ed
to arrive in Auburn about nine-thirty
A. M. Upon their arrival,
they will proceed to Dr. DowelPs of­fice
wherethey will meet Colonel
Moon and Staff.
The Governor will remain in ses­sion
with his Staff and the Board of
Trustees until time for the review.
As the Governor comes upon the
field a salute of twenty-one guns will
be fired in his honor. The review
will be followed by exercises in Lang­don
Hall at which Governor Graves
will be the principal speaker.
In the afternoon, there will be a
reception at the home of the President
in honor of the Governor and the
Board of Trustees, to which members
of the Faculty and their wives, and
also the town people are invited. Af­ter
the reception, Dr. Dowell will en­tertain
the Governor and Board of
Trustees at a dinner.
It is expected that the Governor
will speak from Station WAPI on
some subject of current interest to
the people.
Invitations have been extended the
Governor and his Staff to attend the
Military Ball which is to being given
by the Cadet Commissioned Officers,
Monday, February 21, 1927, which
is is hoped they will be able to accept.
STATION W A P I
WILL END FIRST
YEARJUESDAY
Will Celebrate Anniversary of
Opening Night with
Big Program
As a climax to a year of success­ful
broadcasting, Radio Station WA
PI, the Victon Hanson radiophone lo­cated
here, will observe its first
birthday with an all-star jubilee pro­gram
Tuesday, February 22, begin­ning
at 8 p. m., according to an­nouncement
made today by Prof. L.
N. Duncan, director of the station.
The program announced calls for
representatives of the various fea­tures
which have gone with the regu­lar
programs from Station WAPI
during the first year of continuous
broadcasting. In addition, state of­ficials
and those who as individuals
and as representatives of corpora-continued
on page 6)
PROGRAM
Tiger Theatre
Monday, Feb. 21
"MORALS FOR MEN"
Conway Tearle, Alyce Mills and
John Miljan
Tuesday, Feb. 22
"THE VIRGIN"
With Dorothy Revier, Kenneth
Harlan, Walter Heirs, Alice
Lake and Sam DeGrasse.
Wed.-Thurs., Feb. 23-24
"STELLA DALLAS" N
Starring Ronald Coleman, Lois
Moran, Jean Hersholt, Alice
Joyce and Belle Bennett.
Friday, Feb. 25
"THE TAXI DRIVER"
Starring Joan Crawford and
Owen Moore.
Miss Crawford is Hollywood's
best Black Bottom Dancer
Saturday, Feb. 26
"THE TOUGH GUY"
With Fred Thompson and his
great horse, Silver King"
GOOD COMEDY EVl'KY DAY
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The senior class is addicted to strange
paradoxes. In the first place they admit
that the honor system is a failure at Au­burn
and that they are convinced that
there is no way by which to make it work;
then they immediately pass a resolution
to retain it.
We can hardly understand this attitude.
The honor system, as it is now and as it
has been since its inception, is merely a
shield to protect those who wish to cheat
on quizzes and examinations. We do not
insinuate that only those seniors who voted
for its continuance reasoned this motive.
Many were sincere in their desire to see it
function properly here. We heartily in­dorse
this ideal, but realize that the sys­tem
is becoming weaker and will eventu­ally
be a boomerang on its supporters.
There were not five men in the senior
class who would pledge to "turn up" any
classmate he saw cheating. In fact, sev­eral
of the most prominent members of the
class emphatically declared that they would
turn up a classmate under no conditions.
Unfortunately this attitude is but com-patabile
with existing conditions. The
statement was made that for a man
to turn up a fellow student was virtual deg­radation
in the eyes of his friends.
To state things plainly, it is unfair to
turn up a student guilty of dishonest con-
- duct as things now stand. Why should
one man be cast out of school for a mistake
eighty per cent of the student body are
guilty of? If each man would swear to ob­serve
the rules of the honor system rigor­ously,
especially in regard to reporting
infractions of those rules, the honor sys­tem
would work here. But when less than
five per cent of the senior class, supposedly
composed of partially matured minds, agrees
to assume the latter obligation, what may
we expect from the juniors, sophomores
and freshmen?
The first move toward the erection of a
new standium on the campus has been tak­en.
The senior class awoke from its lethar­gy
long enough to pass a resolution favor­ing
a plan by which a ten-year endowment
policy will be contracted with a reliable
insurance company, from which policy
the school will receive at its expiration, one
hundred thousand dollars plus the accumu­lated
interest. This action is highly com­mendable
and should provide a means for
the realization of a dream, long cherished
by Auburnites,J a football standium of Au-
^._.---burh, by Auburn and for Auburn.
Despondency is the result of self-pity
and self-pity the result of wounded egotism.
Some humans are like potatoes in that
they have eyes but don't see.
How capricious is Fate. At her will he­roes
are created through an elaborate
complication of circumstances. At her
^rtnmand a brilliant mind is surrounded
by a deftimental environment with too of­ten
a disastrous result to the mind.
' "Love's Greatest Mistake," reads the title
of a picture recently shown here. If the
reader will pardon the inelegant pun, isn't
love love's greatest mistake?
Chancing to gaze through the pages of
"The Bridge," Eta Kappa Nu's official
publication, we were attracted by a fami­liar
photograph under which were inscrib­ed
the words: "South's handsome dele­gate,"
or a similar statement. We are
happy that William Henry Harrison Put­nam,
erstwhile editor of our excellent Au­burn
Engineer so successfully promulgated
our Alabama type of masculine beauty in
the annual convention of that organization.
Many favorable comments regarding the
editorial "Do we want a new football
coach," appearing in last week's issue of
the paper have found their way to this of­fice.
We cordially invite students who so
desire to express their opinions through the
columns of this paper.
The exhortation, "Go West, young man,
go west," has taken on a new significance
from a local standpoint since the dances
drew so many of Montgomery's fair maid­ens
to the plains.
WELCOME PREP TEAMS
Following the custom of a number of
years, Auburn is again host to a number
of basketball teams from the high schools
and preparatory institutions of this and
neighboring states. We are always glad
for the time of the year to roll around
when we may entertain these youths and
enjoy the exciting contests certain to en­sue
when combinations all of championship
calibre are assembled together.
We wish these young men to feel com­fortable
while they are our guests as it is
our sincere desire that they carry back to
their schools with them a wholesome im­pression
of Auburn and Auburn courtesy.
Although the entertainment and housing
of these players is entrusted to the sever­al
fraternities on the campus designated
for this purpose, the student body as a
whole may aid greatly in creating a fav­orable
opinion of the school in the minds of
these lads.
In the first place each individual student
is expected to display a true type of south­ern
chivalry and sportsmanship while a
spectator at these games. Doubtless he will
have special favorites, but in his ardent
support of them he should not lose sight
of the rights of the other participants. It
is hoped that no student will be guilty of
the disgraceful conduct of hissing one of
the players even though he may have over­stepped
the bounds of fair play.
Even as Auburn feels honored by your
presence, visitors, so should you be proud
of the privilege of meeting under the aus­pices
of one of the greatest institutions.
We hope that after viewing the worth of
Auburn you may decide to cast your lot
with her and in her halls obtain your edu­cation.
FRATERNITY LIFE
Since the beginning of this semester ap­proximately
two hundred and fifty fresh­men
have been initiated into the many fra-ternities
on the campus. These men are en­tering
into a new experience not only in
their college careers but in their life ca­reers
as well. Many a freshman could not
wait to write home that he "made" a fra­ternity,
and they are now finding out there
is something more to it than making it.
There is not a fraternity which does not
have lofty ideals. These ideals mean noth­ing
if they are not supported by each mem­ber
of the house. The group does not and
never will make the fraternity. The basic
foundation of fraternity life is the indi­vidual.
When these individuals are brought
together and made to work along the same
line then fraternity life begins. It cannot
be done in any other way.
The fraternity endeavors to prepare for
leadership by taking its members out of
a large crowd and making each a distinct
unit in a small crowd. This may be done
by furnishing the new men an opportunity
to develop self confidence. The fraternity
keeps before each member a definite aim
by demanding a consideration of the rights
of others, by expecting obedience to its
laws and orders and each of these center­ing
around the idea of brotherhood. Lead­ership
with these things in mind is not
likely to fail.
The fraternity provides a boy with fam­ily
ties and the essential elements of a
home. The fraternity, by insisting on a
high scholarship record, proper school spir­it,
a high regard for the best social observ­ance
paves the way for the respect of the
student body. To each initiate the pin
should always be a reminder that he has
pledged his heart and hand to honor and
truth.
NO SNOOPING, THANK YOU
An interesting situation has developed
at the University of Alabama. Eight girl
students have refused to sign the "senior
plan" for the second semester, and their
reasons, as given in a dispatch in Sunday's
Advertiser, are excellent.
The incident seems to have created quite
a stir at the University. Apparently, there
is a widespread, although unorganized, re­volt
against the plan among the girls in
the senior and graduate classes; and it is
equally apparent that the revolt is justi­fied.
From all accounts, popular senti­ment
among the students is in sympathy
with the eight girls who have taken the
lead in refusing to subscribe to the plan.
The "senior plan" gives seniors certain
privileges, but binds them to act as officers
and report all breaches of the honor system
which they see. It was in use the first
semester of the present academic year, and
was signed by all of the senior girls. Last
week the plan was circulated in Tutwiler
Hall for the girls to sign up for the second
semester. Six seniors and two graduate
students withheld their signatures. The
Crimson-White, the student paper, printed
a front page account of their refusal, and
it became a subject of campus discussion.
The plan gives the senior girls such priv­ileges
as riding in automobiles after dark,
having "dates" every night of the week
and visiting fraternity houses under spe­cial
permission of the dean of women, in
return for which they are required to as­sume
certain responsibilities, including
that of reporting violations of the honor
system. One provision reads that "accept­ance
of the senior plan is entirely volun­tary
on the paTt of each senior," but not­withstanding
this, a senior girl is reduced
to the status of an under-classman if she
does not sign.
The eight girls who refused to sign the
pledge evidently concluded that they could
not do so and be conscientious about it.
One of them is quoted as saying: "I cannot
understand a plan which does not force
you to submit to its propositions, but pun­ishes
you if you don't by reducing you in
rank to a lower, classman. I signed the
pledge the first semester, because I think
any promising idea should be given a work­ing
chance. I believe the! plan could be
changed to a better working form." An­other
merely said she was too busy with
her studies to take the responsibilities ex­acted.
A third said: "I have already brok­en
the first pledge and I don't intend to
put myself in a position to do it again."
Another girls said senior gorls violated the
rules without reporting themselves, and
still another explained that she was "un­willing
to police.' '
In other words, these eight girls do not
fancy turning snoopers. They do not want
to put themselves in the position of spying
on others and reporting their infractions of
the rules. They cannot be accused of un­willingness
to cooperate with the univer­sity
authorities, for they have already
given the plan a trial. But they find that
their consciences rebel at snooping. They
prefer to forego the privileges offered and
to be reduced in rank rather than do a
thing that is obnoxious to them. "They will
not be compelled to sign the pledge by the
threat of reduction in status. In the face
of the provision that signing is "entirely
voluntary." And being honest and sincere
about it, they will not sign in order to take
the privileges and then shirk the spy work.
Obviously, the plan is not a good one.
It imposes snooping, which is ignoble
and obnoxious, and, moreover, it is unfair,
because the provision concerning "volun­tary"
acceptance of the plan is an outright
sham. One girl thinks the plan could be
put in a better form. Undoubtedly, if the
plan were improved and the unpleasant
features removed, so that the girls could
accept it and feel right about it, every one
of them would agree to it.
An honor system for students is a good
thing. The university has one, adopted
last year. Only three things are included
under it—cheating, stealing and perjury
before the honor committee. The "senior
plan" should not be confused with the
honor system, although it is related to it
under its provisions. An honor system
should apply only to the individual; that
is, the individual student should be re­quired
to answer only for himself. The
student should be put on his own honor,
and not required to look after the honor of
others. Inasmuch as snooping is odious,
an honor system that includes it is not de­sirable.
Our hat is off to these eight girls. The
spirit which prompted their action is ad­mirable.
So is their courage. We hope
that every other senior girl at the univer­sity
will follow their example.—Montgom­ery
Advertiser.
« BLIND TIGER IB
Letters to the Editor
It seems that when a business de­votes
its time and money to the best in­terests
of the Auburn students, it should
also receive the undivided support of the
Auburn Student Body. .
The College Picture Show operated pri­marily
for the benefit of the Auburn Band
and the A Club scholarship fund, also hir­es
student employees in the capacity of
ticket sellers, projectionists, advertising
men, etc. During last year the college
show paid out for student help alone
$1459.50. And has the student body shown
its proper appreciation?
It seems to me that the pictures being
Hie—Ladies and gentlemen: We would
like to announce that Messers. John Con­don
and Sam Harvey are in love with the
same damsel at Martha Washington Col­lege.
It seems to me like Mr. Harvey has
tried to get Condon to form a partnership
with him, and get the lowdown on the girl
from said college, but Mr. Condon refuses
to do business with Mr. Harvey only. In­stead,
he proposes to establish a general
information bureau, with himself as the
sole operator, and confidant. Blind Tiger
moves that they get together on the ques­tion
for the good of peace^and cooperation.
Yours for getting the lowdown, if possible.
§ § §
(IN ENGINEER'S SHAM BATTLE)
Lieut. Bowley—"If anything moves,
shoot."
Hann—"Yes sir, and if anything shoots,
I move."
"Where are you going?"
"To get some water."
"In your pajamas?"
"No, in a glass." --Alabamian.
Hypocracy—An infidel at a funeral, sing­ing
"Safe in the Arms of Jesus."
I § §
Hann thinks that Zoology is a course in
flirting with the co-eds at the Baby Zoo.
§ § §
It was a cold and stormy night.
There was no fire in the furnace.
They were sitting alone in the living room.
She had no coal. Neither did he.
They shuddered to think how cold they
might have been.
§ § §
A line is as strong as its weakest word.
§ § §
Billie—"Charlie has an awfully tricky
car." ^
She—"How's that?"
Billie—"It plays dead in the most con­venient
places."
§ § §
"I say Miss, there is a law forbidding
swimming here."
Tourist—"Well, why didn't you tell me
before I undressed?"
"There's no law against that."
§ § §
Co-ed Northcutt says that a coupe is an
inferior type of car, because every time
she goes out into the country, the roads
are lined with those that have stalled.
§ § §
(Husband comes in late) Wife—"Are
you drunk?"
Husband—"Well, if I'm not, I've been
cheated out of ten dollars."
§ § §
Co—"I know a man that has been mar­ried
ten years and he's in love."
Ed—"But his wife hasn't found out yet
who the girl is."
shown at the college show are the very best
and the kind that will serve to produce the
highest type of amusement. With such
productions as Ben Hur, The Big Parade,
The Bat, and Don Juan's Three Nights,
I don't know of any theatre that can give
better entertainment, and at the same time
contribute to such worthy cause as our
own picture show. Of course there might
be more flaring posters advertising an­other
picture, but at the same time the stu­dent
can't go wrong on attending The Col­lege
Show. He's helping our band, and
he's providing scholarships for The Au­burn
Tigers.
The Social Committee, in setting the
dates for the commencement dances, is di­vided
in their decision between two differ­ent
periods. Some favor the three days
beginning May 5 and ending May 7, while
others propose May 19, 20 and 21 as the
logical dates.
Those who are in favor of the former
time maintain that there will be less con­flict
with examinations in the girls' schools
and institutions from which the young la­dies
come, insuring a large attendance of
girls. Then too, they say, if we have our
prom at that time, it will be the first of the
college finals and will naturally draw the
largest attendance. .
Proponents of the latter dates base their
choice on the fact that the seniors will have
finished their examinations and tha.t this
season will consequently lend itself to more
gaiety. As examinations for the seniors
begin on May 12,. this period will follow
their examinations and directly proceed
the commencement exercises and the und­er-
class exams.
In behalf of the first suggestion it might
be said that the senior members of the
committee would have a tremendous bur­den
of work if the dances were to begin
immediately after the close of their exams
as that would entail a considerable amount
of work even during exam week.
It is necessary that a date be set in the
near future in order that the members of
the committee may enter upon negotiations
for an orchestra. However, before the date
is finally set, the committee wishes to se­cure
reaction from the student body to
these two plans.
"Do you believe in marriage?"
" "Only as a Jast resort."
—Medley.
§ § §
She—"What's a party platform?"
He—"More gin, more girls, bigger al­lowance."
—Widow.
§ § §
But for this, though do not scorn it:'
An humble insect is the hornet
For perseverance, it's sublime.
It carries its point every time.
—Sample Case.
§ § §
He—"What would you say if I threw a
kiss at you?"
She—"I'd say you were the laziest boy
I ever saw."
§ § §
"Jane lost her job in the grocery store
because she wouldn't do what her boss
asked her."
"What was it?"
"He asked her to lay some eggs in the
window,"—Widow.
§ § §
Women wear short skirts to make the
men long."—Tiger.
BOOK REVIEW CONDUCTED BY
MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY
Edited by John B. Clark, A.M., Ph.D.,
Professor of Economics
THERE ARE THRILLS, BUT THEY
ARE DIFFERENT!
The writer with an enduring fame is a
creator. The best-sellers are often short­lived,
and so frequently serve only as a
means of questionable entertainment for
their contemporary readers. If you were
to compare the best-sellers of your grand­father's
day with those of the present, you
would possibly conclude that they were read
merely for the thrill which many modern
"soul-ful" readers desire to experience.
Now one does not get the proper sort of
thrill by reading Richardson's "Clarissa
Harlowe," Goethe's "Sorrows of Werther,"
or Rosseau's "Heloise." People liked to
.shed copious tears when those stories were
written. The broader education of the
masses, the easy and rapid disemination
of ideas in a multutude of books, maga­zines,
and newspapers have helped to de­velop
a new psychology, to change our ways
of thinking, in a large measure. The thrill
is different.
Fundamental truths, however, do not
change, but our ideas regarding them may
change. Our reactions to an old truth, or
en en to an old theory, may be more lively
after reading what another has to say
about them the idiom of today.
Now. human suffering is a fundamental
truth. It is as old as the human race. The
medical profession strives to relieve, and
is striving more and more to prevent, hu­man
suffering. There is another kind of
suffering that may, or may not, fall within
the sphere of the medical profession for
alleviation. One may come to feel that all's
wrong with the world, and, consequently,
suffer acute mental pain, or spiritual an­guish.
Relief will come to him only when
he adapts himself to the prevailing cus­toms,
or at least, by outwardly adapting
his living and thinking to them. The wid­er
one's experiences are, the more easily
will he be able to adapt himself to his sur­roundings,
and the more charitable will he
be toward others.
What is the cause of human suffering?
E. G. Lessing, one of the first great Ger­man
critics of the drama maintained that
all human suffering is the direct result of
some fault of the individual, whether con­sciously
or unconsciously committed. He
wrote the beautiful tragedy of "Emilia
Galotti" to substantiate his theory. Wheth­er
he did so or not may be questioned.
You may read it and decide. Futhermore,
you may look about you and find examples
in real life to prove, or disprove, his theory
to your own satisfaction.
But since suffering of some kind is in­evitable
in the life of every individual, what
is the meaning of it? One can readily
see that hatred and the desire for revenge
may be the cause of suffering, and see the
evil results of it. Love also may be the
cause of human suffering. Love is the
dominating force in the life of the char­acters
who come under the sway of suffer­ing
in the book of M. Edouard Estaunie,
entitled: "L'Appeal de la route." It is,
in my opinion, a great creative effort, met­aphysical
of course, but universal. The
author avoids vague, theoretical discussion
by treating the theme in a series of three
different stories related by as many dif­ferent
men, each of whom had met, by
chance, one eor more actors in the same
tragedy. The group forms a connected
whole, and each story connects and clari­fies
the story of them all. He concludes
that there is a meaning and justification
for suffering .One MIGHT apply to this
book Lessing's theory.
There are thrills, but they are different.
Auburn Footprints
"L'Appel de la route"—E. Estaunie
(Perrin et Cie., Paris. Abridged edition,
Ginn and Co., Atlanta.)
—T. P. ATKINSON.—
We understand that we have a new
social luminary on the faculty in the per­son
of Prof. Hare. We hear that a certain
girl accepted his bid to the Junior Prom.
But we have not been able to learn the
attitude of Mrs. Hare to the incident.
* * * * *
It is rumored that J. P. (Nappy) Ather-ton
takes the lead as a ladies man to the
extent of some dozen girls at the dances.
We admire the ingenuity, or the attraction
(whichever it was) of a man that can do
such a thing and get away with it. It is
more than we would like to do to attempt.
* * * * *
We understand that the co-ed basketball
team has turned dramatic and are staging
"The Visual Tragedy" with Edna Creel
playing the leading role as "Black Eyed
Susan."
* * * * *
We hear that the mid-term has netted
us two new co-eds, while the number of
male students has- been decreased. We
wonder what this institution is coming to.
We remember that while we were in high
school the exponents of Auburn presented
it to us as a he-man's school. But it ap­pears
as though the he-man, that once con­trolled
this institution, is fast becoming
extinct.
* * * * *
We have unearthed a new name for one
of our promising sheiks. We understand
that "Sunshine" Worthington has made
quite a hit in Columbus; the object of this
infatuation being the cigar-counter girl al
the Ralston. We think that he received
the name of "Sunshine" from this source.
We also hear that a certain girl came all
the way up here from Mobile to tell him
that he was cute. We agree with her. But
the latest and most audacious act of sheik-ery
of this young man in question was his
trip to Birmingham during the exams. We
hear from reliable sources that he success­fully
filled nine dates in two nights.
* * * * *
We have wondered what has ailed
"Skick" Kaley lately. This otherwise hus.
ky member of our basketball squad has-been
eating very lightly and sleeping very
rarely of late. It puzzles us until a special
delivery letter arrived in Auburn. This
letter was from "Skick" to a certain young
lady who resides in this fair village. It
was mailed from Columbus, Georgia, which
means that it was mailed in less than two
hours after "Skick" had left on the Flor­ida
trip. Far be it from us to read or
attempt to read another person's mail, so
we do not know what was said, but from
certain other sources, which we are not
at liberty to disclose, we have formed a
very good idea. We also hear that the
postmaster has petitioned for a separate
branch office here to take care of "Skick's"
private correspondence during the basket­ball
season.
* * * * *
We understand that our local Civil Ser­vice
is becoming more prominent. Fire-chief
Sims attended church last Sunday.
When the collection plate was passed Fire,
.chief merely showed his A.F.D. badge and
passed the plate. After this incident it is
generally understood that "Cannonball"
Purser has petitioned for a star to denote
his authority.
* * * * *
In our observations during the recent
exams we are convinced that our "Honor
System" is wrongly named. Honor is an
ambiguous term, and it certainly lacks sys­tem.
It appears as though "To be, or not
to be" is the question before the Honor
committee now. But ft is not primarily
their question. It is a question that every
Auburn student must consider, no matter
how well he would like to overlook it. We
must consider the facts. The honor sys­tem
is not working 100 per cent in any
department of the college.
In a few classes it is enforced fairly
well, but in the majority of classes it is not
enforced, and no one gives a d n. This
is as equally true of Seniors as Freshmen.
What is everybody's business is nobody's
business. Since it is nobody's business the
faculty has threatened to make it their
business, and yet most of the Student Body
has failed to be concerned. If this repre­sents
our "Auburn Spirit" it is time that
we cease to boast of it. Most of us connect
the "Auburn Spirit" with athletics. We
do not wish to deny the athlete a single
laurel, but the standing of the college, to
the commercial and academic worlds will
be determined by its graduates and not by
its athletes. This is more important than
our athletic standing, which lasts only a
season at a time. We all favor clean, hard
athletics. We despise the man who slugs,
roughs, piles on, or employs any other dirty
tactics. How much more should we des­pise
the man who cribs. The editor of an
humorous column is usually thought of as
an optimist, but we can not look at this
honor system in any other manner than
pessimistic.
* * * * *
"Oh, Justice, thou hast fled to brutish
beasts, and men have lost their reason.—
Shakespeare.
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A large number of Baptist people
attended Sunday School and B. Y. P.
U. in spite of the heavy down pour
of rain. There was a total attend­ance
of one hundred eighty-five at
Sunday School. Seventy-five of these
were at the Baraca class.
About fifty per cent of the regular
attendance were present at B. Y. P.
U. One hundred per cent of those
present in the Dowell and Tichenor
unions had done their daily Bible
readings.
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PHARMACY MEN
ELECT OFFICERS
The Pharmaceutical Society met
Monday night at 6:45 in the Phar­macy
Building for the purpose of the
election of its officers for the sec­ond
term. The officers are elected
twice each year, i.e., at the first of
each semester.
Impromptu talks were made by
several of the members on the ad­vantage
of attending the meetings.
Others expressed their views on the
method of making the meetings more
beneficial to everyone, and the value
of all the Pharmacy men attending
these meetings.
The officers elected for the second
semester are: R. E. Carpenter,
president; T. J. Jennings, vice-presi­dent;
Sim Thomas, secretary and
treasurer.
1
'WAR DEPARTMENT CHANGES
' SUMMER CAMP TO BENNING
(Continued from page 1)
of the Field Artillery and Engineer
units who have been looking forward
to the trip to Fort Bragg this sum­mer.
To others, who are familiar
with the attractions of Fort Benning
and the city of Columbus, the change
in campN location will be most wel­come.
Let us hear something about
the attractions at Fort Benning, Ga.
Captain Althaus served two years
at Fort Benning just before coming
to Auburn and in response to our re­quest
contributes the following in­teresting
article about the post.
"Before the world war, the use of
the Infantry Arms, whose close and
harmonious cooperation is vital to suc­cess
in battle, was taught at three
widely separated points, while no­where
in America was there a cen­tral
school for the teaching of In­fantry
tactics. The-School of Mus­ketry
was located at Fort Sill, j Ok­lahoma
; the small arms firing school
at Camp Perry, Ohio, and the ma­chine
gun school at Augusta, • Ga.
The importance of coordinated train­ing
for infantry was so emphasized
in the war that the War Department
saw the necessity of consolidating
the three schools at one- post under
one control. Camp Benning, Ga.,
was chosen as the most suitable site,
and in 1918 the three separate schools
were transferred thereto and the
foundations of the present institu­tion
were solidly established.
The Fort Benning reservation com­prises
97,000 acres located approxi­mately
nine miles south of Columbus,
Ga. The post proper is situated on
a large plateau on the east bank of
the Chattahoochee river. It has an
elevation of 300 to 400 feet. The
soil is red clay with an ample mix­ture
of sand to prevent mud and in-
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sanitary squad has been active ever
since the site was selected with the
result that very few mosquitoes are
found during the summer months.
The climate is delightful; the sum­mers
being tempered by an almost
constant southwest wind; the wint­ers
are mild and pleasant. The new
paved highway from Columbus to
the post affords one of the most
beautiful short rides in this vicinity.
Fort Benning, like every earlier
Camp or P«st has had to go. through
its tent-house stage; has had to make
its roads, sow its grass and plant its
vines and shade trees. Fort Benning
has had to string its own telephone
wires, lay its own pipe lines, build
its own bridges during that stage
preliminary to the erection of perman­ent
buildings and quarters. During
the past few years an elaborate
building program has been pursued.
Now the Post is the pride not only
of the army but of the country. It
is the most modern and most com­pletely
equipped service school in the
world. The hills and roads on the
reservation have been named for
soldiers who were post-humously
awarded the Distinguished Service
Cross during the war.
In the center of the Post and dom­inating
all is the typically Southern
plantation house which originally be­longed
to the Bussey family, whose
estate was the nucleus' of the Ben­ning
reservation. This beautiful old
house, surrounded by stately oaks,
is now occupied by the Commanding
General of the Post.
To the best of the writer's knowl­edge
the following regular army units
are located at Fort Benning.
29th Infantry Regiment, (white).
24th Infantry Regiment, (colored).
1st Battalion, 83rd Field Artillery,
(motorized).
"Detachment 15th Tank Battalion.
Detachment 7th Engineers.
Chemical Warfare Unit.
Ordanance Maintenance Company.
Detachment Signal Corps.
School for Bakers and Cooks.
Medical Administrative Unit.
Calvary Detachment.
The training facilities are the best
to he had anywhere. But what about
the social aspect? What can the stu­dent
do over the week-ends or after
"school is out?"
open fields, over ravines and creeks,
down steep embankments, have been
developed. Two excellent polo fields
are available for the lovers of the
"Sport of Kings."
Fishing
For the followers of Izaak Walton,
there are two streams full of fish—
the Chattahoochee and the Upatoi.
Swimming
Nothing could be more tempting
than the beautiful swimming pool
near the entrance to the Post. This
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diving boards and platforms,
11 the devices essential to water
This pool is fed by a clear, cold
g insuring clean water at all
Jefferson pool is located five
south of the Post. A dip in its
eool waters, followed by a camp cook­ed
supper and a brisk ride back to
barracks will prepare you for the
strenuous training that might follow
on the morrow.
Golf
A nine-hole golf course, in excel­lent
condition, is located in the very
center of the Post.
Tennis
The tennis courts have been the
pride of Fort Benning ever since its
development. They are centrally
located and are among the best to
be found in the South.
Baseball
Goudy Field, built by soldier labor,
with covered concrete stands and a
beautiful playing field, has no equal
in this section of the country. It
bears the name of the famous major
league player, "Hank" Goudy, who
distinguished himself as a Doughboy
during the World War.
Track and Field
The beautiful Doughboy Memorial
Staudium, built by sdTdier labor from
funds, donated by Infantry units of
the regular establishment, is now
completed. The athletic field in this
stadium is bordered by a cinder
track,
Gymnasium
The gymnasium is located in a
large aeroplane hangar especially
put up for this purpose. It is com­pletely
equipped and affords excel­lent
opportunity for training in bas­ketball,
boxing, wrestling and gym­nastic
work.
Theatres
There is a large movie theatre on
the post, where the best pictures are
shown at popular prices. Columbus
offers two good movie houses, the
Grand and the Rialto.
Tea Rooms
It is hardly necessary to remind
an Auburn student of the delicious
meals that can be had at the attrac­tive
tea rooms in Columbus.
Dancing
There are two large dance floors
available on the Post, one in the Of­ficer's
Hop Room, the other at Bigler-ville,
a section of the Post just south
of the main headquarters.
The City of Columbus is nine miles
away, and Columbus like most of our
Southern cities, is famous for its
pretty girls. Just take those old
rattle-trap cars right along with you
—they might be used for one purpose
or another.
Aside from its excellent training
facilities, could any place have more
or as many advantages and oppor­tunities
for gay, happy, healthful,
delightful times? It is an outdoor
man's paradise. All one needs is the
desire for the enjoyment of it, which
is the natural attribute of most RO
TC trainees with whom the writer
has come in contact.
(Continued from page 1)
which the word "Alabama" was in­terpreted
to mean, "Here We Rest."
Since that time men learned in both
the Choctaw and Creek Indain lan­guages,
have • declared that the word
"Alabama" means "Vegetation gath­ers"
or "Thicket clearers." It there­fore
is evident that the motto is false
in its historic significanse and there­fore
should not be perpetuated on
the great seal of the State. A better
reason, however, for its disuse is
that the phrase brings ridicule upon
us by persons of other parts of the
country indicating inertion and lack
of energy, as it does.
The bill that was introduced by
Mr. Rogers proposing the motto to
be changed to "We Drive Forward,"
was presented at this time in order
that the public might have an oppor­tunity
to discuss the matter before
the summer session of the Legisla­ture
when action may be taken. I
will thank you to ask your readers to
make suggestions to you and when
these have been made please send
them on to me inorder that I may
lay them before the Committee on
Revision of Laws, to which the bill
has been referred.
Very respectfully,
(Mrs.) Marie B. Owen,
Director, Department of Archives
and History, Montgomery, Aal.
S.A.M.E MEETING
IS HELD MONDAY
SENIOR CLASS TAKES
VOTE ON HONOR SYSTEM
(Continued from page 1)
campus. In spite of this adverse tes­timony
the class voted for its con­tinuance,
eight votes constituting the
controlling vote.
In addition to the honor committee
proposed plans for the erection of an
athletic stadium at Auburn were dis­cussed.
It was decided that the plan
to be adopted should be the creation
of a ten year endowment policy taken
out on the life of Dr. Dowell, the
amount of the policy to be fixed at
$100,000. It was suggested that the
premium be paid by the students by
affixing to the matriculation fee each
semester a sum sufficient to cover
the needed amount, this amount to
be prorated among the students. It
has been estimated that this plan
would entail the addition of between
two dollars and a half and three dol­lars
each semester. According to the
plan $100,000 plus the accumulated
interest, about $20,000 will be paid
to the school at the expiration of
the policy or the full amount would
be given over to the authorities at the
death of the beneficiary.
Funds turned back to the school
will be designated for the purpose of
constructing a stadium and it is the
obligation of the insurance company
to see that it is used for no other
purpose.
A committee composed of S. H.
Lynne, G. B. Phillips, W. H. H. Put­nam,
and F. A. Smith was appointed
to draw up the resolution favoring
this plan which will be submitted at
the regular meeting of the board of
trustees next Tuesday.
S. A. M. E. held its regular meet­ing
Monday night. The program was
opened by Mervin Ernest who read
letters from the national headquar­ters
of the organization requesting
Auburn to elect a member to the ad­visory
council as a representative of
this district.
First speaker on the program was
Sims who gave an interesting talk
on Muscle Shoals.
Bates discussed the construction
of a concrete culvert. As the speak­er
had had practical experience along
the line of his subject his talk was
highly instructive and was appre­ciated
by his audience.
The program was closed with the
election of W. D. Alston to the ad­visory
council.
The difference between a fish and
a sucker is that once in a while the
fish gets off the hook.
DR. SHOWALTER TALKS
TO RATS ABOUT SCIENCE
(Continued from page 1)
ings are reported. The true scientist
gives the results based on his own
observations and calculations.
The scientist never settles a ques­tion.
He is always willing to dis­card
the old theories and ideas for
new after a thorough analysis has
been made. He is thinking out a way
is which new truth may be acquired.
Most people are willing to accept
things as they are. They do not
want to be bothered by having to
think. New ideas worry people. The
scientist, however, is always willing
to throw old ideas away in prefer­ence
for the new. This has been
proved to be exactly opposite to what
nearly everyone else does, for almost
all want to be left alone.
For the reason that they are at­tempting
to find out more truth
whenever possible, scientists are view­ed
with alarm. They prove, how­ever,
that they are broadminded by
the fact that they are always trying
to find the truth.
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PAGE FOUR
SENSATIONAL GAMES ARE
PLAYED BY
Tennessee Knocks
FRATERNITIES Auburn from Top
Finishing out the initial round of
the National League, the Theta Kap­pa
Nu's completely demolished the
Tau Omega Chi five by the score of
24-15. Cummings, long, lanky cen­ter
for the Theta Kappa Nu's, was the
high point man and did good at pass­ing
and shooting. Assisting him at
running up the score was Lee. For
the losers, Arnold made a good per­centage
of their points.
Next night the Sigma Nu's took
the floor to cap the climax on the
American League. This alley clan
completely outwcl^ssed the Sigma
Pi's 19-6. Spann and Captain Pat
did the basket work for the Nu's
while Root and McKnight were about
the best bid for honors on their side.
Looks like the Sigma Nu's are due
to go a bit farther.
Second Round Starts in Each League
The Pi Kappa Alpha's met the
Lambda Chi Alpha's in the first set-to
of the second lap of the National
League race. Again the Pi's came
through by a large margin, trouncing
the Lambda bunch, 37-25. "Weemie"
Baskin continued his campaign for
high honors in the National League
by starring for hits once more. This
time Smith and Clayton, assisted Bas­kin
around the loop and ran him a
close race. Joe Wallis and V. Jack­son
starred for the Chi's and put up
a very hard fight as guards.
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon quintet
then waged a hot one with the Theta
Kappa Nu's, coming out above the
top, 28-19. Herbert, Ingram and
Anderson furnished plenty of opposi­tion
to the unlucky boys and rang up
enough points to ensure victory.
Again Cummings came through for
his team but didn't have enough sup­port
to stave off defeat.
The only game in the second lap
of the American Leauge was the
closest conflict of the entire week.
This game was won by the fast Sigma
Nu five from the S.P.E.'s, the final
score was 19-18 and was decided as
the pistol shot by a long field goal by
one of the Sigma Nu's. As the pis­tol
shot failed to go off when the
trigger was pulled and the ball was
in the air when it finally did go off;
the game is being appealed to Coach
Morey that it be played over. -As it
now stands and until future decision
changes it, the S. P. E. team is out
of the race. Wilson, Captain Pat and
Wade (Wallace) found the point for
their team consistently, while Tamp-lin,
Tuxy Tuxworth and DeVaughn
rang up the most points for the de­feated
boys.
As things now stand, there are
three teams left in each of the Lea­gues.
The Pi K A's and the Kappa
Sig's seem to be the best shots in
their respective divisions and are fa­vorites
for the finals.
Spring Training
Shows Results to
Please Coaches
Last Saturday evening afforded
the first opportunity for the writer
to see anything about what King
David had up his sleeve for the spring
trainers. Saturday was the day of
activities on Drake Field that would
easily make one think of the fall even,
ings just after the arrival of a new
gang of freshmen. With the spring
training period not yet half over
Coach Morey has his charges in fine
shape and working hard. There is,
of course, no predictions forthcom­ing
as to who will fill the vacancies
that have occurred with the last call
of the '26 team, but there is a likely
looking bunch of freshman material
and all of the old reserves on the job
and making a hard fight for a berth.
Tangents from Sport Circles
It seems to be a hard pill to swal­low
in the form of a defeat at the
hands of the University of Tennessee
baficetball team Tuesday night, but
rjK may prove to be the "jewel in the
head of the Toad." In other words
away from the wise sayings of
Shakespeare, a defeat just before the
S. C. Tournament may be the best
thing that could happen to Papke's
cohorts. Had tbe Tiger cage artists
gone to the tournament with a string
of fourteen consecutive victories, they
might possibly have been a bit over­confident
and this does no team any
good.
* * * *
As a pleasing precedent to the
stinging "defeat mentioned above, Au­burn
administered a decisive defeat
to the crack team of Georgia Tech.
"Tiny" Hearn & Co. started off the
game last Saturday as if they were
certain of victory. It did not take
the Tigers long to change their mind
and with Frank Dubose in rare form,
the Bengals gradually pulled away
from their Georgia opponents until
they rested with a twenty point lead.
They held this lead until the last min­ute
of play when a Yellow Jacket
flung the ball through the ring* to
cut the margin down to eighteen
points. The game ended 42-24.
» » * *
There should be plenty of excite­ment
over in Atlanta next week when
the Championship of the Southern
Conference is to be decided. It is
the combined opinion of the Auburn-ites
that Papke and his cage artists
have just as good a chance as any
team in the South to bring home the
bacon. Any team that can run up
a .string of victories numbering thir­teen
after losing the first two games
on the schedule is bound to have
omething in #Nv
Judging from previous games,
North Carolina, Maryland, Georgia
Tech, and Mississippi A. and M. are
the strengest entries that Auburn
will have to cope with. If Papke
can have an average run of luck in
drawing his opposition, his men
should raise quite a bit of noise
before they concede their chance to
another.
* * * *
"It won't be long now" before we
will hear that old familiar yell: "play
ball." The first call for baseball
candidates met with plenty of re­sponse
on the part of the students
and the first day found half a hun­dred
aspirants for the varsity nine
warming up the old "soup bone."
Slick Moulton is in charge of the
first rush of candidates. Morey stjg
has his hands busy with the spring
trainers but expects to start with the
ball tossers in a couple of weeks.
* * * *
The coeds seem to have fallen in
step with old lady hard luck. Tues­day
night they all but had a basket­ball
game sewed up when the girls
from Jacksonville Normal suddenly
uncowred a long delayed attack and
before the Tigerette/s could apply
the brakes they found themselves on
the short end of a 13-17 score. The
next game on the schedule for the
coeds in with Athens College. We
wish them better luck in this game.
» » » *
There is a rumor among certain
A Club men about the campus that
"Square Jaw" Salter has been cutting
the corners rather promiscuously in
order to avoid being seen with cer­tain
coeds. This rumor cannot be
confirmed by the column but there
must be some truth in it to give rise
to so much comment on the strange
action.
of Conference Race
Up in the mountains, the Tiger of
the Plains suffered their first defeat
since the three point victory of Miss.
A. & M. early in the season.
Auburn made a gallant attempt
to even matters up when the score
stood 25-19 and only a minute to
play by taking perfect aim and drop­ping
two field goals from beyond the
center of the floor. The whistle,
however, stopped the rally, leaving
Auburn in the rear, 25-23.
Big Butcher, the lanky center for
the mountan team, was a very good
impersonator of "Tiny" Hearn. Alone
he scored 14 of his team's points.
Akin Again Is the Star
"Jelly" again spread his stuff, find­ing
the basket for a grand total of
12 points and was the second high
est scorer of the tussle. This young
man is an All-Southern without a
iff
doubt, we don't ask anyone to piw
on the team tho; all we ask
they look at him play. • Theyj
help but do the rest.
Last Week Before Tourney
Auburn is finishing up one of the
most successful basketball schedules
that she has ever known. The team
pulled throug a bad start with one of
the most outstanding headlights of
the present conference race. A
string of all conference victories from
six different Colleges. So far Au­burn
has scored 550 points to her
opponents 351, with an average of
39.3 tallies per game to her adver­saries
25.
When the boys come home, we
should all be down to meet them and
prove to them that we are back of
them 100 percent. They have earn­ed
our support, lets try and prove
ourselves worthy of it.
First Call Issued
to Baseball Men
Think what a hard time two cross­eyed
people would have looking at
each other in the eye.
Many will take the knocks and falls
that these boys will get before the
team is finally picked next fall, but
they are out there with the old fight
that will keep them till Auburn has
a real team; one that will make Dixie
fans travel miles to see in action.
Here is our guess now for the coming
campaign; the fastest and the best
blocking team in the S. C. next sea­son.
In the words of our own King
David, "that blocking is 1000 percent
better." Doesn't that sound good.
Saturday's practice was given over
to a heavy scrimmage in which every
man entered for a short time at least.
Up to this time only the fundamentals
and signals have been taught. This
was the first chance the boys had of
showing in a practical way just how
much of this they had absorbed in
the drill periods. From the atmos­phere
that prevailed during the entire
scrimmage it was easy to see that
the big chief was well satisfied with
the work of the boys. He had his
men lined up in three squads and
each squad had a different set of
formations and signals that they had
been taught. These three teams
were sent against each other with
all the force that two opposing teams
could be expected to muster. They
played straight football, tried trick
plays, passes and some punting. It
was just an inventory, and a through
one, of next seasons prospects. The
superb blocking was easily the out­standing
feature, but the was some
of those boys were stepping around
those ends and through that line was
a sight to behold. Next season Au­burn
should be able to put a season­ed
team on the field and have some
seasoned reserves and some mighty
good green material on the bench.
With these men and their spirit the
guiding hand of King David Grant
field will have different contours
when it is surveyed after next
Thanksgiving.
The local baseball diamond is echo­ing
with the loud sounds of the sharp
crack of the bat pounding at the
horsehide, the dull thud of a ball
sinking deep into a catchers mitt,
and the shrill yells of the baseball
candidates.. Truly basebajH season
has opened with a bang on the Plains
and the sap is beginning to rise in
every lover of the national pastime.
Monday found "Slick" Moulton in
charge of the first group of aspir­ants
for a place on Morey's nine for
the coming season' and he certainly
had a man size job. To the casual
spectator there was the outstanding
feature of the absense of many of
the faces expected to figure promi­nently
in the Auburns stand for the
championship rag this spring. First
Morey himself was not on the scene
of action; his absense being due to
his duties with the spring training
crew.- The noticeable absentees were
f'Jelly"*Akin, "Buck" Ellis, Ebb
is, and Fob James. These base-all
.a-rnsts are still among the basket-eers
so they will be in the pink of
condition when they are released for
diamond duty. The group present
that should prove to the most poten­tial
candidates were: Captain Joe
Wallis, "Bully" Hitchcock, Ben Sank-ey,
"Rough Ed" Allen, Cush Wood,
Earnest Potter, Pat Moulton, ,and
Howard Smith. Mingled in with this
group were something like thirty
other candidates with varied and un­known
ability. Some may material­ize
into strong contenders for a
berth on the squad. Most of them
will find the going too hard and will
fall by the wayside as unsung heroes.
One of the reasons for this prelimi­nary
practice is to give every ambi­tious
ball tosser an oportunity to
match his baseball ability with that
of other players on the campus and
let the inferior ones have the satis­faction
of having been given a
chance. The keen eyes of "Slick"
should be able to detect the real con­tenders
for the team so when Morey
takes over the reins he should have
a fair line on just who is who.
Auburn appears to havcone of the
brightest prospects for a champion­ship
team this spring than has been
her lot in the past five y&ars. With
the exception of C. O. Stewart, and
"Dog Face" Sheridan, Morey has
every one of the members of the
team of a year ago's team, incident­ally,
which landed third in the South­ern
Conference standing and one
which lost a series to Georgia Tech
only.
The staff which will have charge
of the coaching duties for the Plains­men
is one of the best in Dixie, which
is covering lots of territory. Morey,
head coach, has played baseball with
the best in the country having been
a member of the Philadelphia Ath­letics
for a while. "Slick" Moulton,
Morey's assistant was a member of
Auburn's championship team in 1921
and received his first training under
Mike Donohue. He has since play­ed
with Hattisburg in the Cotton
States League where he has made an
enviable record as a pitcher. The
addition of Moulton to the coaching
of the Tigers should boost the pitch­ing
prospects no small bit.
Auburn is expecting the baseball
team to come through this season and
give some one a strong fight for
championship honors, and they are
certainly not lacking in hitting and
fielding material. The only weak­ness
at present seems, on paper, to
be in pitchers.
What has become of the old-fash­ioned
woman who never complaine.i?
'Nooga Moccasins
Defeat Auburn by
Score of 36 to 31
The highly touted Auburn Tigers
failed to break the sudden jinx, caus­ed
apparently by the unaccustomed
Tennessee atmosphere, and let an­other
game slip through their fingers
when the fast stepping quintet from
the University of Chattanooga cash­ed
in with a 35-31 victory. Auburn
started off as if they were going to
reciprocate to the stinging defeat
handed them the night before when
they scored eight points before the
Moccasins were able to discover the
basket. When the Chattanoogans
did get started the Bengals were un­able
to stave off the attack and once
the lads from the mountains attained
the lead, Elis and Co. were never
able to regain the lead.
Kopcha for Chattanooga stood out
as the best player for the evening.
His duty at guard was executed with­out
criticism, especially was his work
at breaking up the passes of the Tig­ers
effective. Akin was Auburn's
best bet for the night. He was high
scorer in the game. The James twins
played their usual good game at guard
though their shooting was not up
to its standard.
Line-up.
Ellis F McCoy
Akin F Holland
DuBose C-.-- Wyatt
F. James .._ .G Braidwood
E. James G Kopcha
Georgia Techsters Fall Before the
Terrific Attack of Auburn Cagesters
If we love mystery and adventure
we must love life for life is both of
these.
In onions there is strength!!!
Coeds Lose Game
To Jacksonville
Normal School
The Aubun Co-eds staged a come­back
and held the fast Jacksonville
State Normal cagesters to a 17-13
score. It looked for a time as if the
local lassies were to be rewarded
with a victory, but as the closing
minutes drew on the Jax girls forg­ed
ahead the four points that proved
to be the deciding score. The game
started off slow and very unlike a
basketball game, but began to get
more interesting as time passed.
Both teams were slow to start scor­ing
and at the end of the first half
the score was 5-1 Jacksonville. With
the second half the local girls started
scoring and were soon ahead and
stayed in the lead for most of the
closing period. It as in the last fleet
ing moments that the State girls were
able to take the lead that was to
-mean a hard earned victory. The
defensive work of both teams was
the cause of the low scores and it
was superior offense that won the
game. In this line the State girls
seemed to have a slight edge and
used it to advantage. Meachem.for
Jax and Tucker for Auburn were
tied for scoring honors, each getting
two field goals and two foul shots.
Powell for Auburn was next with
five points. Lineups: Auburn, Price
and Creel guards, Tucker and Pow­ell
forwards, and Johnson center.
Subs; Haupt for Price, Creel for
Johnson, Price for Creel. State Nor­mal,
Akridge. and Griffith forwards,
Nolen center, Vines and Gilbert
guards. Subs; Wright for Vines,
Bernard for Nolen, and Meacham
for Griffith. Four eight-minute
quarters; time keeper Shotts, referee,
Watlington, umpire Snider.
The different classes at Clemson
adopted a code of honor just before
the examinations last week, and the/
reported to have worked well in ^11
cases. They are now agitating ffff a
full fledged Honor System. Jfhey
are also riding one of the members of
the faculty about watching, or spying
on the students during th« e*ams.
The prof is thought to, hvn &$*& a
diagram of every student in tN rdom,
for use during the proctM J* grading
the papers.
Anyone looking into the gym at
Auburn last Saturday night between
the hour of eight and nine would
have been amazed at the crowd that
had amassed there to watch the en­counter
of the cage artists of Geor­gia
Tech and Auburn. It was one
of the largest crowds that ever gath­ered
at the gym at one time to gaze
at a basketball contest. Truly, in­deed,
they were all rewarded for
their bravery in facing the dangers
of being trampled in the mass;
There ensued one of the hardest
fought games of the season. Au­burn's
quintet led by their indom-inable
captain Buck Ellis was out to
avenge the defeat handed them by
Tech in the early days of the season.
Tech was out to pull a reversal of
form and try to pull out of the slump
which had overtaken them on the
road trip. The result was that Au­burn
sipped of the sweet nectar of
revenge and Tech sank deeper in the
mire of the aforementioned slump.
Tiny Hearn was doped to be the big
man of the fracas; Frank Dubose
proved to be the big gun of the tuss-el.
The game started off true to
the way it was doped to go—a nip
and tuck affair. Auburn threw a
couple of fouls while Tech was en-joying
the results of one well placed
shot via the free shot route suddenly
Dubose uncovered a timely aptitude
at tossing the ball, threw the ring and
before Tech could shake out of them
the Tigers were enjoying a ten point
lead. Tech never was able to nar­row
the margin any and as the game
progressed others of the Orange and
Blue outfit began to get their eye
on the basket and gradually increas­ed
the lead to a twenty point margin.
The last few minutes of the contset
ran something like "you throw one
and I will throw one." The result
was that when the pistol fired as a
signal that hostilities were at an end
Auburn was leading their worthy ri­vals
by the comfortable margin of
eighteen points. The score was 42-
24.
Tiny Hearn, Player and Jamiason
played good basketball at times and
will all probably be heard from in
the Tournament that it to take place
soon. : For. the Plainsman Dubose
was the best thing for the evening al­though
every members of the team
played jam-up basketball. The James
twins at guards, Aiken and Ellis, for­wards,
were unsurpassed.
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WIRT PROGRAM
IS VERY LIVELY
The Wirt Literary Society held
its regular meeting last Tuesday
night with a large crowd present,
including several visitors.
"Current Events,'* of the latest
issue, were given by I. D. Thornton
in which he discussed Muscle Shoals
as a cyanamide plant; the present cot­ton
situation, and the Auburn Honor
System which he stated would func­tion
properly if the students would
only support it.
M. T. Crowder talked on "The pres­ent
situation of mine labor disposal,"
in which he gave concrete illustra­tions
of the punishment for crime
from the period of the French revo­lution
up to the present time. He
stated that "convicts have, unfortu-
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nately, been put under the ground in
Alabama away from fresh air and
light, thereby seriously injuring them,
but the recent governorship and leg­islation
has greatly helped this situ­ation
by congress having recently
passed a bill to remove prisoners
from the mines and working them on
the roads, in mills and on farms,
thereby giving them more humane
treatment.
"The United States Foreign Policy
Toward Latin America" was inter­estingly
discussed by Harry Wise
who based the theme of his talk on
"Should we give back our Southern
states to Mexico?" Wise showed a
thorough familiarity with the sub­ject.
J. B. Lynch spoke on "The Life of
Thomas A. Edison." He told us that
the first job that Mr. Edison filled
was that of news boy; from these to
a railroad position of telegraph oper­ator,
"which he took to like a duck
to water," stated Lynch, "which first
created his interest in the electrical
world until now he has more than a
thousand inventions to his credit."
The problem of the origin and sig­nificance
of Valentine Day was
cleared up by Miss. Bertha Bathoon,
who stated that it came about "acci­dentally."
Many peculiar fads and
superstitious ideas in ancient times
caused the origin of the national day
as the young men who went out on
the street in the morning would walk
a distance with their eyes closed and
then open them and the first young
lady they met was to be his valentine
for the day, she told us.
A reading, "Humble Petition," was
given by Miss Grace Pinnell. Miss
Pinnell is evry talented in the art
of giving readings and the society
thoroughly enjoyed her delivery.
M. T. Crowder, chairman of stunt
committee, read before the society a
list of those who participated in the
stunts on Stunt Night and made a mo­tion
that those who so ably served
be given credit for one serving on
the regular program. The motion
was carried and a rising vote of
thanks was given to the participants.
The Wirt is very happy to be the
winner of the first prize, a ten dol­lar
bill, on stunt night, which will
be used by the society in fostering
literary work on the campus.
It is more blessed to give than to
receive; also more expensive.
WILSONIAN HAS
MEET TUESDAY
An interesting and instructive pro­gram
was rendered at the regular
meeting of the Wilsonian Literary
Society Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock.
E. T. Bright very ably discussed
the question, "How far will Ford
Go." Mr. Ford is progenitor of the
five dollar eight-hour day and later
the five-day week. Contrary to
economic principles, Ford increases
wages when prices are cut.
Jack Nelms explained the Boulder
Dam fight in congress. The Swing-
Johnson bill would give permission to
construct a dam across the Colorado
river in the Imperial valley over three
times as big as the Muscle Shoals
dam.
Rat T. H. Wooten gave his inter­pretation
of a good sport as being the
fellow who can satisfy everybody and
still be cheerful.
That prohibition will win was sub­stantiated
in a very interesting talk
by George Stafford.
"The Boy Battle through the Cat-ilina
Marathon," by E. G. Salter
brought forth laughter from the au­dience
as "Little Square," humorous­ly
related the young swimmer's hard­ships
prior to his swimming the chan­nel.
George Young caught rides
from his home in Canada to the Cat-ilina
Marathon and stayed in the
water fifteen hours winning the $25,-
000 prize.
The president requested those in­terested
in debating contest to turn
in their names and be ready for the
tryouts two weeks hence.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
WORK IS DONE
The Annual State Convention of
the Alabama Council of Christian
Education, formerly known as the
Alabama Sunday School Association,
will be held in Montgomery on Tues­day,
Wednesday and Thursday, June
14, 15, 16, 1927.
Since August 1st last, thirteen
counties have been reorganized and
dates are fixed for conventions to
reorganize six other counties. Twen­ty-
nine counties have been visited
and conferences .held with Sunday
School workers about the work. As
soon as the counties are organized,
the districts are being organized.
The Council is a cooperative effort
of the Sunday School workers of the
Protestant denominations to extend
and improve the Sunday School work
in Alabama. It is the only organi­zation
in the state which aims to help
every Sunday School and to see that
a Sunday School is organized in eve­ry
destitute community.
EVANS SOCIETY
HOLDS MEETING
The meeting was opened with the
usual Bible reading and after the
roll call the Cup Case committee was
heard from and then there was a dis­cussion
about society pins and a show
of hands proved that the members
were in favor of getting pins at this
time. The matter was tabled till
next meeting for the members to
have time to give in their names to
the pin committee. This committee
is composed of Miss Gibbs, Cargile
and Hugh McCall.
The attention of the members was
called to the fact that three unex-cused
absences, or failure to appear
when placed on the program auto­matically
dropped them from the roll
unless a satisfactory excuse was giv­en.
Following the business, Mr. Irby
talked on Cruisers and Congress. He
called attention to the fact that the
majority of the present U. S. battle
fleet is obsolete compared to other
countries and that Congress is very
slow about making preparations for
bettering it.
Mr. Harris told of the compulsory
railroad grouping in Great Britain
under government control and of its
failure. The failure was due per­haps
to the same cause that was so
detrimental to government control in
the United States during the war per­iod,
ie., the owners were opposed to
it and did not support it.
Mr. Bethune's talk on the origin
of St. Valentines Day was quite in­teresting
and unique.
Mr. Lawrence of Arabia proved a
very interesting character when por­trayed
as he was by Croft in his dis­cussion
of the Life of Lawrence.
Mr. Hamm brought some rat her
interesting facts about the latter life
and successes of the proverbial bad
son's on the ministers. He proved
that they are not always as bad as
the neighborhood gossipers claim him
to be.
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A winter drought such as the state
is now experiencing comprises an ex­ceedingly
hazardous period for the
forestry interests of Alabama citi­zens,
according to the State Com­mission
of Forestry. This is not only
because vegetation is very dry at this
time but also because for one pur­pose
or another more fires are set.
During the colder months of the
year people whose business takes
them into the woods frequently build
little fires for warmth during pauses
in their work. Usually these are ex­tinguished
before leaving, but some
times a fire thought to be out may
be fanned into flames by the wind
and start spreading. In all cases it
is a good plan to cover the* fire with
earth firmly packed down before leav­ing.
Usually enough mineral soil
can be scraped over the fire with the
foot, and it requires but a very few
minutes to make it safe.
Extensive burns may also result
from the failure of turpentine opera­tors
to confine their clearing fires
to the areas actually being worked
for naval stores. A safe and simple
precaution in this connection is to
rake a fairly wide strip and burn
from the outside inward, preferably
against the wind. A few men with"
rakes to clear the strip and with pine
tops to whip out such fire as may
blow over can soon safeguard com­pletely
the turpentine woods from
outside fire, and at the same time
prevent their own fires from spread­ing
over additional territory. This
process costs extremely little and does
a great deal to protect valuable prop­erty
and retain the good will of the
community residents toward the in­dustry.
Another cause of destructive burn­ing
is the mistaken belief, still pre­valent
in some quarters, that setting
fire to the rough makes better graz­ing
for stock. It has been found by
actual checking that the amount of
green grass growing through the
winter and early spring under the
shelter of the old growth is consid­erably
greater than exists on the
clean burns where all the green grass
is visible. Furthermore, weighing
tests of livestock grazed on the two
classes of winter and spring range
show conclusively that cattle and
sheep gain more weight on the rough
areas .than upon the clean burns.
This is due not only to the amount
of forage on protected lands but also
The regular Wednesday evening
meeting of the local branch of A. S.
M. E. featured a talk by Dean John
J. Wilmore.
Dean Wilmore took as his subject
the life of one of America's greatest
engineers, A)(r. John A. Brashear.
This great man began his career with
an humble start. Coming from a
poor family, he was able to obtain
only a fair education. He worked
to the quality, the tender grasses
which are killed out by fire being
better for grazing purposes than the
tough and wiry species that ultimate­ly
become the sole survivors of fre­quent
burnings.
at many different occupations before
he was finally able, through the fin­ancial
backing of his friends, to en­ter
a business of his own in-the manu­facture
of lenses for telescopes.
Quickly his reputation grew and his
fame spread for the accuracy and
precision of his work, until he was
known throughout the world. In
closing his talk Dean Wilmore sum­med
up the fundamentals on which
Mr. Brashear's success in life was
built. These were: first, industry;
second, health; third, marriage to a
helpful wife; fourth, unlimited ca­pacity
for friendship.
The society has a number of inter­esting
features and programs plan­ned
for the coming meetings. These
will probably include one or two mo­tion
pictures. Fellows, it is still not
too late to join the society and get
quality points for the second semes­ter.
Let next Wednesday evening
find you in room 109 Ramsay Hall.
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PAGE SIX THE PLAINSMAN
PROF. HAMILTON
PICKS AUBURN
DEBATING TEAM
Encounters Hard Job in Face
of Intense Competition
Competition has been strong among
the candidates for the debating team.
At last, however, the team has been
chosen. According to Professor Ham­ilton
it was indeed a hard job to se­lect
the ones who can best represent
Auburn. The team has been picked,
and each member has been assigned
to his question.
The date of two of the three con­tests
have already been chosen. Two
of the debates will be held at other
colleges and one at Auburn. The
debates shall be as fololws:
University of Florida vs. Auburn
at Florida, during March. Auburn
has the affirmative of the question:
Resolved: That the five-day week in
industry would advance the social
and economic interest of the coun­try.
S. H. Lynne and J. M. Ernest
with an alternate, N. Strub, will de­fend
the A. P. I. against Florida.
Mercer vs. Auburn at Mercer,
April 4. Auburn will uphold the
negative of the question: Resolved:
That foreign nations should relin­quish
all government control in Chi­na.
J. E. Walsh, as one member of
the team with C. S. Stone as alter­nate
will defend Auburn's side of the
question.
Mississippi" A. and M. vs. A. P. I.,
March 17. Auburn drew the affirm­ative
of the question: Resolved:
That Congress should enact a law for
stabilizing prices and disposing of
surpluses of farm products- by means
of an equalization fee levied upon
the farmers. Miss Meta Grace and
R. W. Vaughn will contend that Au­burn's
side of the question is the only
side.
It is a noticeable fact that one co­ed
secured a well-earned place on
the debating team for this year.
Probably other co-eds will take some
interest in debating and represent
Auburn in this line of endeavor.
The debating team which shall rep­resent
A. P. I. in the inter-collegiate
debates this year looks to be one of
which we will be proud. The ques­tions
which are to be debated are of
modern happenings and are of in­creasing
interest to the people.
Thursday afternoon, after meeting
with the chosen members of the de­bating
team, Professor Hamilton sent
them away for two weeks with the
words that during that time he did
not wish to see them. At the end of
this period the debaters shall present
Utr Professor Hamilton a certain
amount of the material they shall
use in their debates. The members
of the team left in a frame of mind
which seemed to bid its opponents
"Beware!" Probably this year will
bethe one in which Auburn shall
win for itself a great name in the
realm of debating.
STATION WAPI WILL END
ITS FIRST YEAR TUESDAY
(Continued from page 1)
tions have contributed to radio de­velopment
at Auburn, will be heard.
Prominent among them will be Gov.
Bibb Graves, Hon. Victor Hanson for
whom the station is named, Thomas
W. Martin, president of the Alabama
Power Company, donor of Station
WSY to Auburn, and members of the
faculty, headed by Dr. Spring Dowell,
president.
The all-star program will begin
with music by the studio orchestra
which has been a big and regular
feature from Station WAPI since the
formal opening program the night of
February 22, 1926.
Following this, Dr. Spring Dowell
will introduce Governor Graves who
will deliver his first, address to the
radio audience from Station WAPI.
Perhaps it will be his first radio ad­dress
since he became governor.
The remainder of the program fol­lows:
(1) Vocal numbers by Mrs. A. D.
Mayo, singing (a) Life's Paradise
(Mary Helen Brown); (b) How I
Love a Summer Day (Root).
(2) News of the day at Auburn
by Prof. H. G. Grant.
(3) Folowing this little Sammie
Mayo, 5-year old son of Mrs. A. D.
Mayo, will sing "Willie's Prayer and
"The Auburn Medley." Sammie is
said to be the youngest radio artist
of any station.
(4) "Radio and the Newspapers"
Hon. Victor Hanson, publisher of the
Birmingham News, and the Mont­gomery
Advertiser.
HONOR SYSTEM CONTEST
WON BY J. B. MCMILLAN
.(Continued from page 1)
Honor System is to place each stu­dent
on his honor not to give or re­ceive
aid on examinations or individ­ual
recitations. In some colleges the
Honor System is broader in scope,
including such offences as hazing,
gambling, stealing, intoxication and
other acts of a questionable nature.
Students automatically subscribe to
the system when they matriculate,
and are expected to report violators
to the governing body provided by
the local organization of the Honor
System. An ideal observance of such
a system obligates every student to
report any other student whom he
may see committing a dishonest act.
In actual practice the ordinary col­lege
man places personal friendship
and an innate tendency to avoid tale­bearing
above a religious observance
of the letter of the system.
A great benefit arising from the
use of an Honor System is in hav­ing
a faculty whose whole energies
may be directed along instructional
lines, and not divided between teach­ing
and policeing. A scholar who
has dedicated his abilities and ener­gies
to teaching in a college should
be free to do nothing but teach. He
should be unhampered in his efforts
to assimilate, sift and disclose truths
to his students. This is impossible
when he has to watch a class con­stantly
to detect any dishonest con­duct.
A highly educated man em­ployed
in teaching is cheapened, both
in his own eyes and in the eyes of
the students when he has to exercise
police powers in his classroom. Un­der
an Honor System a professor is
relieved of the responsibility for the
conduct of the students under him.
He is thus doubly benefitted, first by
having his time and energies free to
devote solely to teaching, and sec­ond,
by being lifted to an impersonal
idealistic pedestal which benefits an
intellectual leader. Aside from the
benefits derived by the professor
himself, the students are reciprocal­ly
benefitted by the augumented abi­lity
of the professor to guide them in
their intellectual pursuits.
Another advantage lies in the fact
that an Honor System takes away a
part of the temptation to use unfair
methods in examinations. Under the
old faculty-supervision system the
psychological effect of the profes­sor's
watching was to put the stu­dent
in a peculiar mental situation.
He instinctively felt that the profes­sor
was hostile to him; that it would
give him pleasure to detect a student
in a dishonest act. The student re­garded
an undected act of cheating as
something of an accomplishment and
as a victory over the professor. This
distorted idea was conceived in high
schools where teacher-spying is pre­valent.
Under an Honor System a
student is watched only by his fellow
classmates, who are not especially
concerned by his conduct. This dis­solves
the queer misconception that
a successful "crib" is an accomplish­ment.
The student knows that he
conquers only himself when he com­mits
a dishonest act when trusted
on his honor. Thus the temptation
to use unfair methods is removed
automatically by removing the stu­dent
from his former situation in
which there was the element of a
sporting risk in escaping detection by
the professor.
Another advantage is a direct re­sult
of the fact that an Honor Sys­tem
places a student entirely on his
(5) Vocal numbers by Rev. O.
D. Langston, singing (a) "Ah, Let
me Dream." (Taylor), (b) "Some­time,
Somewhere, Somehow." (Mil­dred
White Wallace.)
(6) Instrumental and vocal num­bers
by Hugh and Allen Francis,
playing and singing (a) "Roll on
Silvery Moon." (b) "Rock all my
Babies to Sleep."
(7) "Hydro-electric Developments
in Alabama" by Thomas W. Martin,
president, Alabama Power Company.
(8) Instrumental trio (cornet,
euphonium, and piano) (James Les­lie,
Ludlow Hallman, and Mrs. Mary
Drake Askew), playing (a) Simple
Confessions (Throne). (b) "La
Paloma."
(9) "George Washington" by Dr.
George Petrie.
(10) String music by the "College
Two"—Bill Strong and Peelie Grant.
(11) "The First Year of WAPI"
by Prdf. L. N. Duncan, director.
(12) College orchestra, playing
selections from "Student Prince,"
"Stepping Stone" and "Girl in the
Spotlight."
This program will continue two
or omre hours on a wavelength of
461 meters.
own sense of honor, making him an­swerable
to himself for his conduct.
One may ask a student to refrain
from "cribbing" or one may command
him not to "crib" but neither method
will prove to be a very reliable pre­ventative
to cheating. Normally, a
man does not hesitate to refuse a re­quest
nor to disobey an order when
he thinks that he will profit by such
an act, provided it will inconvenience
no one else. But place.him on his
honor not to cheat and a new situa­tion
develops immediately. This new
obligation to conduct himself hon­estly
transcends mere reasons or in­clination
and involves an almost om-minpotent
agency. That unfathom
able, all-powerful spirt, Honor is
called into play—that spirit which
men willingly defend with their lives,
and which all normal men are zeal
ous to guard from the slighest stig­ma.
The most powerful element in a
man's moral make-up rises to do bat
tie with the Tempter when Honor is
at stake. Almost invariably Honor
will triumph and the man is im­measurably
benefitted thereby. Each
new victory over the Tempter makes
him stronger and more determined to
remain above reproach in his school
duties. Then follows the greater re­action,
the application to Life. He
gains a broader insight; sees the faril
and fleeting results of cheating, and
is inured against s.uch practices in
the future. The benefit to the man's
mental being logically follows. He
begins to study conscientiously;
learns to assimilate and store facts
so that he can recall them at will
during an examination. He does not
forget them immediately the exami­nation
is over as he would if he had
employed unfair means to learn
them merelly for the purpose of at­taining
a high grade on the examina­tion.
He thereby accomplishes the
primary purpose of his presence in
the classroom.
Although it is not claimed that an
Honor System will instill honor in
a man devoid of it, it will bring home
the importance of honor to one who
is indifferent to it. There is only
a neglible minority of boys enter­ing
colleges whose senses of honor
are preverted. Very few freshmen
have essentially dishonest natures;
their sense of right and wrong is
merely latent, awaiting development.
An Honor System rightly instilled
in their natures performs this act of
development, and in so doing per­forms
a great ^service to the boys.
They are started out in life with a
clear unfaltering conception of right
and honesty with a logically proven
conviction that the right is always
best. Thus in another way the Hon­or
System proves advantageous to the
college man.
These generalizations which have
here been set forth and applied to
the special act of cheating on'exami-nations
may in like manner be applied
to a host of other dishonest and im­moral
acts which may fall in the
category of an Honor System's juris­diction,
thus multiplying the advan­tages
named above. These advant­ages
have been suggested as apply­ing
to the professors and students,
and are thus applicable directly to
the college as a whole, for a college
is nothing more than its personnel,
instructors and students.
The college adopting an Honor
System becomes in truth an Alma
Mater to high-minded men or honest
convictions who are assets to their
communities and states. They are
educated men in the highest sense of
the word, men who wish clear visions
appreciate the values, beauties and
opportunities of Life.
RADIO STATION
WILL PRESENT
GOODPROGRAM
The outstanding program to be
broadcast from Station WAPI dur­ing
the week beginning February 21
will be an all-star birthday program
from 8 to 10 on Tuesday night. This
program will be featured by an ad-dress
by Gov. Bibb Graves, and mus­ical
selections" persented by all of the
station staff artists.
Monday noon, solos by Mrs. A. D.
Mayo. J. D. Pope will talk on agri­cultural
situation, and John E. Ivey
on the progress of the Auburn egg-laying
contest.
Monday night, silent.
Tuesday beginning at 11 o'clock a
Washington birthday exercise pre­sented
in Langdon Hall will be broad­cast.
Tuesday night, the all-star birth­day
program from 8 to 10.
Wednesday noon, the studio or­chestra.
Dr. C. A. Carey will dis-
MAJOR KENNEDY
TELLS VALUE OF
'LITTLE THINGS'
Major Kennedy spoke to the Fresh­man
class at the Tuesday convoca­tion
period on "Attention to Details."
He stated that the secret of our suc­cess
and the building of our char­acter
was in the attention we paid to
detail things.
In school we are now entering the
home stretch. It is not the race that
we are running that counts; it is how
hard we are fighting. It doesn't mat­ter
where we are in the race, for the
effort we are putting forth is by
far the most important thing to be
considered. It is the most important
because our standard should be so
high we can never reach it. If it is
that high, we shall continue to put
forth a great effort in our endeavor
to reach the goal. Too, our stand­ard
should be so high we cannot
reach it, for when we do, we may be­gin
to slip back instead of continuing
forward.
Few people ever reach the stand­ard
they have set for themselves. To
reach this standard or to come reas­onably
close to it, we must have de­termination—
a fixed purpose to do
something. Even if we have not de­cided
on a standard, we should not
allow anything to go by without at^
tending to it. These small things
may not show at first, but when we
put them all together, we can see
that /they constitute an important
factor in our lives. When we think
of doing these things, we naturally
think of the results.
One of the results is citizenship.
In Auburn the citizens make Auburn.
As a man grows, his responsibility
grows. A man can be and is judged
by the interest and loyalty he shows
and the effort he puts forth. The
outward appearance and conduct of
citizens create impressions on out­siders.
In Auburn there is room for im­provement
in the military bearing
and appearance of the students. In
the beginning of the year almost ev­eryone
was interested in his milita­ry
appearance, but time has brought
a laxity. To get back on the former
plane, the students should eliminate
the mixed uniforms, and should put
forth an extra effort to show some­what
of a marked military appear­ance.
The devotional exercises were con­ducted
by Dr. Hibbs, former pastor
of {he East Lake Baptist Cruch. Dr.
Hibbs stated that he did not believe
that the Bible was read as much as
it was formerly, but he believed that
it was better understood. Everyone
should get certain important princi­ples
and should then attempt to stick
to them. He went on to state that two
of America's greatest men's lives
were based on the Bible. The Bible
contains the greatest things that can
possibly be known. The greatest
thing a man can learn to do is to
learn how to pray.
Dr. Thomas, college surgeon, an­nounced
that all who did not have a
good vaccination scar should be vac­cinated
in order that a possible epi­demic
of smallpox could be checked.
Smallpox has been slowly spreading
over the country.
MAIN ENTRANCE
IS SCRUBBED BY
INDIGNANT RATS
Vigilance Committee Takes
New Lease on Life
TELEPHONE MAN
PAYS TRIBUTE
TO ENGINEERS
An astonished group of upperclass-meii
stopped before the main gate
Wednesday morning. On the walk
in large red letters was the inscrip­tion,
"To Hell with The Old Guard,
There aint no old Guard." Imme­diately
under this was signed by the
rats, "30 Caballeros."
Since there has been no Vigilance
Committee functioning around Au­burn
this year, the rats have not
bothered themselves with the observ-anve
of Rat Rules. Simultaneously
wth the reading of the inscription,
however, about half of the student
body began turning in names for vio­lation
of rules.
Thursday morning at Convocation
hour a bunch of good men got to­gether
and with paddles watched the
rats go down in overwhelming defeat.
The red paint has all been washed
away by conscience striken rats. But
the red scars of the battle will re
main a few days longer, and anyway
there's still an incentive to obey the
rat rules.
cuss a veterinary topic, and Prof. J.
M. Robinson will talk on insect pests.
Wednesday from 5 to 6, a Victor
twilight program.
Thursdays noon, solos by Mr. O.
D. Langston. Prof. Hugh Grant will
give news notes of Auburn.
Thursday night, music by a string
trio, consisting of J. B. Ellis, Jr.,
banjo; Bob McKinnon, guitar; and
Sam Mosley, violin. Mrs. W. B. Fra-zier
will present dialect numbers of
her own composition. Dr. Geo. Petrie
will discuss a current topic. Mrs. G.
S. Gaillard, freight claim agent for
the C. of Ga. Ry., will discuss "Rail­road
claims—How to avoid them and
how to handle them when necessary."
Friday noon, Jesse French Victor
program, at which time the new re­leases
on popular music will be pre­sented.
Several selections will be
presented by a group from Dale
County. "Aunt Sammy" will give
her regular weekly talk for house­wives,
and the class in the livestock
school will be conducted by Prof. W.
H. Eaton and Prof. W. E. Sewell.
Friday nfght, musical program by
artists from Dale County under the
direction of County Agent G. W.
Ray.
Saturday noon, music by the stu­dio
trio. Coach Mike Papke will con­tinue
his series of discussions on bas­ketball.
CAMPUS CAPERS
(By Ruth Plumly Thompson)
When Tommy's dad lost all his cash,
the loyal campus crew
Were filled with gloom and wonder­ing
what poor old Tom would do.
"He'll leave," groaned Steve. "That
rascal can do ANYTHING but
work; x
"Just picture Tommy slinging hash
or as a soda 'jerk!"
And, lacking Tom, they thought how
dull the daily grind would be.
Without the boy, the Junior Prom
would be as flat as tea!
And while they gloomed, poor Tom
cast up his assets; this addition
Left nothing much to count on but a
cheerful disposition.
"But I can dance and skate," cried
Tom, "and play a lot of things;
"Pianos, organs, saxaphones, and any­thing
with strings. •
"I'll work my way through college!
I've simply got to stay. . . "
Then Tommy smote his noble Wow,
"Hooray, I'll PLAY my way!
So now he toots the saxaphone in
Texas Johnny's band
Two evenings every week; and Sun­day,
dignified and grand,
He's at the organ in St. Mark's. The
girlies all adore him,
And at the ice rink Friday nights
they wait in dozens for him.
He teaches dancing, too, so well they
" simply crowd his classes;
As "swim instructor" many pleasant
afternoons he passes.
And so Tom swims and skates and
plays his laughing way through
college,
Accumulating life-long friends, be­sides
the usual knowledge.
And doubtless he'll turn out as well
as those who WORK their way—
This world needs cheerful folk like
Tom to teach it HOW to play.
—The Birmingham Age-Herald.
AUBURN MAN
CLAIMS YOUTH
HIGHEST ASSET
Declaring that ,the conservation of
the young manhood and young wo­manhood
of Alabama is the most im­portant
function of our state govern­ment,
I. T. Quinn, of Montgomery,
state commissioner of conservation
explained before Auburn students the
broad general principles of his work
in conservation. Mr. Quinn, an
alumnus of Auburn of the class of
1913, was introduced by President
Dowell. Approximately 800 Auburn
upperclassmen gave Mr. Quinn an
enthusiastic ovation.
Touching on his work as conserva­tion
commissioner in Alabama, Mr.
Quinn said that this state must devel­op
its resources to the maximum,
that it stands first in the develop­ment
of wild life of field, forest, and
stream, and hand in hand with the
preservation of the wild game goes
the conservation of our timber.
Following convocation exercises,
Mr. Quinn was the honor guest of
the weekly luncheon of the Villagers
Club, presided over by Prof. Roy
Dimmitt, president.
Declaring that southern boys, in­cluding
Auburn men who have been
trained in engineering colleges, are
wanted by the large corporations in
the north and east, Col. R. I. Rees,
assistant to the vice-president of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company, New York, today paid tri­bute
to the work of the technical
schools including the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute. Colonel Rees was
one of the chief speakers of the Au­burn
Lions club and later in the af­ternoon
addressed the Auburn fac­ulty.
Colonel Rees, the guest of J. J. Wil-more
of the Auburn Engineering col­lege,
spent the day here in looking
over prospective employes among the
Auburn engineering students. It was
his first visit to Auburn. He ex­presses
himself as highly pleased
with what he saw.
C. D. Flanigan, Jr., representative
of the Southeastern Underwriters As­sociation,
Atlanta, also addressed the
Lions club, explaining the methods
of rating towns from the standpoint
of fire protection. He poinded out
that the loss from fire in the United
States last year amounted to $550,-
000,000, which is equivalent to ap­proximately
$5.00 per capita as com­pared
to $1.00 per capita in England.
HOME EC CLUB
HAS MEETING
The Home Economics Club held its
first meeting of the new semester
Friday afternoon, February 4th, at
Smith Hall. Plans were made for
participation of stunts on Stunt night.
Plans were also discussed for the
sending of delegates to the meeting
of the State Home Economics Asso­ciation.
The folowing program was rend­ered:
Reading, "Miss Penolia," by Alice
Witty; "How Can Our Method of
Buying Textiles be Made Reliable,"
by Blanche Tancredi. "We have all
been disappointed in textile purchas­es
because we have not learned how
to analyze it carefully," she said.
"Scientific Discoveries," written by
Miss Nell B. Nichols, was given by
Mamie Matthews. We found from
this report that inadequate amount
of lime is one of the big mistakes in
most meals today. A larger consump­tion
of milk is an urgent need. Miss
Nichols said if we are prejudiced
against canned oysters, winter ripen­ed
tomatoes, milk and acid combina­tions,
we are behind the time nutri­tionally.
Winter ripened tomatoes
have as much food value in them, in­cluding
same amount of vitamine as
DR. HALL PLEADS
FOR CLEAN LIVES
Declaring that America stands on
the threshold of a period of world
leadership, Dr. Winfield Scott Hall,
noted physician, author and lecturer,
outlined his reasons for this country's
emerging from the chaos of Europ­ean
corruption as unchallenged cham­pions
of civilization, at upperclass
convocation yesterday.
According to Dr. Hall Europe lost
her potential leaders in the youth
who were killed inthe World War and
that with the passing of the gray
headed statesman from the stage of
world affairs America, the last of
the white race must step forward,
and assume the position of leader.
Although we owe everything we have
in the way of science and culture to-
Europe, three thousand miles of wa­ter
is sufficient to seggregate the
declining civilization and to save us
from being pulled down with it, the
speaker said.
"America is tremendously wealthy
in natural resources and for this rea­son
is the logical industrial leader of
the world," stated Dr. Hall. "She
has accumulated more than half the
gold of the world, but she did not
come by it dishonestly. She has
adopted the policy of refusing to ob­tain
new territory and is content to
lend her money and influence to her
neighboring republics without ex­pecting
anything in return. This big-brother
attitude will never lead to
harm," said the lecturer.
That this new period of leadership
will be approximately one thousand
years in duration was prophesied by
Dr. Hall. To support this opinion he
reviewed similar periods in the past,
all of which covered nearly an even
milenium. Egypt, Greece and Rome,
Chaldea, Europe—all knew periods
of control of world affairs. There
downfall in each of these cases was
brought about by leisure, lucre, lux­ury
and lust as Dr. Hall expressed
it. They only way by which Ameri­ca
may prolong her term at the helm
is by playing the game of life clean­ly,
concluded Dr. Hall.
tomatoes ripened at the usual time
of the year.
We cordially invite all new girls
who are interested to become mem­bers
of our club. We hope you will
come to our next meeting which will
be held February 18th.
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