1933-02-08 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LVI AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 1933 NUMBER 35
WYNNE AGREES TO
REMAIN; ACCEPTS
3 YEAR CONTRACT
Auburn Fans Assured Coaches'
Services as Wynne Accepts
T h r e e Year Offer
AUBURN MEN RELAX
P e r i o d of Uncertainty Ends as
Head Coach Signs; Entire
Staff Expected to Return
ASKS SALARY BE CUT
Enviable Record Piled Up by Mentor
Over Three Year Period; Seemed
Due for Promotion
After keeping students, faculty
members, alumni, and friends of Au
burn in suspense for over two months,
Chester A. "Chet" Wynne accepted
the offer of the Administrative Com­mittee
yesterday and signed a con
tract to remain here until May first,
1936.
For several weeks there has been
considerable doubt in the minds of
Auburn supporters as to whether or
not the head coach, who has made
football history during the past three
years, would return to lead the Tig­ers
through another season. Quite
a number believed that he would take
the position of head coach and ath­letic
director at Michigan State, a
post left vacant by Jim Crowley; but
after spending almost a week con­ferring
with officials in Lansing, he
returned to the Plains and would
make no announcement as to his fu­ture
plans.
The general census of opinion
throughout the entire state was that
Wynne would leave Auburn, and he
could not be blamed for doing so,
since it was felt that his brilliant
work here certainly merited promo
tion.
In addition, conditions within the
State are not conducive to uninter
rupted payment of salaries and con
siderable back salary is due Wynne.
Considering all these facts, it was ex
tremely probable that a powerful
coaching staff was to be wrecked by
the resignation of its head.
Reports were to the effect that the
new contract called for a salary re­duction
upon the coaches own recom­mendation,
however no announcement
of the exact figure has been made
and any speculation as to the amount
would be merely a guess.
Upon Wynne's signing, it seems
fairly probable that the entire coach­ing
staff "will return. Coach Hutsell
and Coach McAllister have already
signed contracts and there is a good
chance of Coach Kiley's remaining to
continue along side of Wynne. Fresh­man
Coach McFaden has made no an­nouncement
concerning his plan's.
Since Wynne reported to Auburn
three years ago, the wearers of the
Orange and Blue have risen from a
place of oblivion in the conference
to co-champions in 1932. In the last
two seasons the Auburn gridiron ma­chine
has lost only three games, and
the last season was negotiated with­out
a single setback.
Grave Tragedy
Ends Air Cruise
Thrice it had dived to the
crest of the trees, but a skilful
pilot had righted the ship every
time. The cutting February wind
made the air lanes bumpy, and-the
ship shivered as it struck
each new gust.
Suddenly it turned on. its side
in a sickening dive, and the spec­tators
gasped in horror. Truly
it was going to fall this' time.
The pilot wrestled with the con­trols
like one possessed. But
nought would avail. With a rip­ping
of fuselage it smashed into
a tree, and all was disaster—
little Haygood Paterson had not
put enough tail on his kite.
GRAVES WILL SPEAK
TO PRE-MED GROUP
Dr. Stewart Graves, Medical
Dean at University, Will Ad­dress
Students
MEETING POSTPONED
Address to Deal With Prepara­tion
for Admission to Medi­cal
Schools-
The pre-medical society of Auburn
will have as a speaker at their meet­ing
Friday night, Feb. 10, Dr. Stew­art
Graves, dean of the Medical
School at the University of Alabama,
who will speak concerning the prep­aration
necessary for enti-ance in an
accredited medical school.
The meeting was originally sched­uled
for this Friday night but had
to be postponed due to the inability
of the speaker to be present.
Dr. Graves is an extremely inter­esting
speaker, and holds a very
prominent place among the physi­cians
of this State. His talk on Fri­day
evening will deal with the sub­ject
of pre-medical work and the
attendant requirements for entrance
in medical school, stressing the im­portance
of application to the school
for admission and the necessity of
the aptitude tests. All pre-med stu­dents
are urged to attend this meet­ing
of the society since the address
by Dr. Graves is very important to
those who are contemplating entrance
in some medical school in a short
time.
BERGMAN PLAYERS
TO PERFORM HERE
ON FRIDAY NIGHT
"The Bubble" to Be Presented
in Langdon Hall Friday Eve­ning
at Eight P. M.
COMEDY BE PRESENTED
Auburn Players and Debating
Society Join in Sponsoring
Second Event This Year
PRICES REASONABLE
Players Have Enjoyed Long Run in
New York and Chicago; Acting is
Clean and Amusing
The Bergman Players, a troop of
excellent actors, will present a de­lightful,
modern comedy, "The Bub­ble",
Friday evening in Langdon Hall
at 8:00 o'clock. The players are
said to be among the best ever man­aged
by the Alkahest Lyceum Bu­reau.
The Auburn Players and the De­bating
Society are sponsoring the
event which forms the second enter­tainment
brought to the campus this
year, Tony Sarg's Marionettes being
the first.
Unlike most of the new plays of
the present season, it does not rely
on triangles or the more modern the­ories
of love to make it intertaining.
It was written with but one purpose
and that was to make the audience
laugh. It is clean, wholesome dia­logue
woven into a story that is sheer
delight and chocked full of laugh-pro­voking
situations that will keep an
audience in laughter most of the eve­ning.
There is a tear or two in it
too. . •
The play enjoyed a long run in
New York and Chicago last year, j
There will be but one performance
and that in the evening. Prices have
been adjusted to the present econ­omic
situation in Auburn and this
section of the State. Adults will be
admitted for 50 cents—children for
25 cents.
RE-EXAMINATIONS
BE GIVEN DURING
WEEK OF FEB. 13
Only Students Who Received
Conditioning Grades Be Al­lowed
to Take Re-exams
EXTRA FEE CHARGED
Class Cards Must be Secured
from Registrar's Office as
Soon as Possible
SCHEDULE RELEASED
Only One Re-exam to Be Given in
Each Subject; Passing Grades be
Recorded as Seventy
NICHOLS HONORED BY
INTERNATIONAL GROUP
DEBATING TEAM PLANS
ENTERING TOURNAMENT
"Possibility of the Auburn debat­ing
society entering the Speech
Tournament of Southern Colleges at
Berea, Ky., depends largely upon
making the Annual High School Play
Tournament a financial success", Pro­fessor
Hess said at the meeting of the
debating society Monday evening in
Samford Hall.
A committee of six was appointed
to assist in the advertising of these
plays.
An interesting argument was given
by the freshmen debaters on the ques­tion,
Resolved: that at least one-half
of the revenues of the United
States Government should be col­lected
on intangible property. The
speakers, Mr. Blackmer, affirmative
and Mr. Bohofus, negative, presented
very good material. A decision was
not rendered but Professor Hess as­sured
the society that there would be
a decision given on the debate next
Monday night. ..'
In a communication from Rome,
Italy, Prof. M. L. Nichols was in­formed
of his appointment as "na­tional
relator" for the first question
to be discussed in Paris, France, at
a meeting of the International Con­ference
of Agricultural Engineers,
January 26.
Notification came from the gen­eral
secretary of the organization,
Dr. Franco Angelini, a member of
the Italian Parliament.
Though Prof. Nichols .did not find
it possible to attend the conference,
he explained that the purpose of the
meeting was for the interchange of
ideas on agricultural engineering
among those of many countries.
Prof. Nichols was asked to lead the
discussion of "Unification of the
"Trial Methods of the Motor and
Operating Machines for the Plough­ing
of the Soil."
HIGH SCHOOL QUINTET
DEFEATS ALUMNI TEAM
With both his first and se«ond-string
teams making creditable show­ings,
Coach Frank Dubose's high
school quintet administered a 30-15
defeat to a team composed of form­er
Auburn High basketballers. The
locals displayed their greatest offen­sive
strength of the season in the ac­cumulation
of 30 points, Franke and
Whatley accounting for 17 of the
points. Pennington, regular center,
and McGehee, forward, were unable
to participate in the game; Nichols,
first-string forward, was temporarily
shifted to center and succeeded. in
getting the tip from his more rangy
opponents. Wright and Junior What­ley
held down the forward positions
in the absence of McGehee and Nich­ols.
For the alumni, Glenn Smith
with 7 points, and Norman Walkley
with 4 were outstanding performers.
The summary: Auburn High: for­wards,
Wright (2) and Whatley (8);
center, Nichols (3) ; guards, Franke
(9) and Biggins (4). Substitutions:
Jolly (4), Rew, G. Hardie, Friel, Pen­nington.
Alumni: Walkley (4) and Powell
(2); center, Whatley (2); guards,
Parrish and Martin. Substitutes:
Smith (7), W. Hardie.
Mrs. Marietta Johnson Discusses Grading Systems In
Talk Before Large Group Of Students And Townspeople
The value of grades or marks in
schools was seriously questioned by
Mrs. Marietta Johnson, founder of
the Fairhope School of Organic Edu­cation,
in speaking recently before a
large group of faculty members, stu­dents,
and townspeople in Smith Hall.
"Grades restrict freedom of mental
play", she said, "and set up artificial
standards which divert the student's
attention from the real objectives in
learning". "Moreover, the giving of
grades or marks tend to create a
basic insincerity in students which
may be in many cases basically re­sponsible
for later immoral attitudes"
said Mrs. Johnson.
No grades are given at the School
of Organic Education. The students
are guided in their work by the in­centive
to learn because of their in­terest
in the subjects.
Singing, dancing, clay modeling,
arts and crafts, and languages con­stitute
a large part of the curriculum
in the lower grades. Mrs. Johnson be­lieves
that a student should not learn
to read until 10 or 12 years of age.
The school is this year celebrating
its 25th anniversary. Many success­ful
college students have prepared at
Miss Johnson's school.
Mrs. A. L. Thomas introduced the
speaker, after whose address a dis­cussion
period and reception were
held.
From the Registrar's office comes
the announcement that re-examina­tions
will be given all students who
received conditioned grades on sub­jects
during the first semester during
the week of February 13-18. Condi­tioned
grades are ones that were
turned in as being between sixty and
sixty-nine. Students who were ab­sent
and excused from first semester
examinations will also be allowed to
take re-exams at this time.
All students who wish to take re-exams
must secure class cards from
the registrar's office and notify the
instructor in sufficient time to allow
preparation of examination ques­tions.
Absenses from class work
conflicting with this re-examination
schedule will be excused.
A fee of two dollars will be charg­ed
for each individual exam, but the
maximum charge for three or more
exams has been fixed as five dollars.
Students absent from examinations
on account of illness are not charged
a fee.
Students are asked to notice care­fully
that only, one re-examination
will be allowed in each subject, and
that all grades on re-exams, whether
passing or failing, must be promptly
reported to the Registrar's office. A
passing re-exam grade will be record­ed
as seventy. All conditioned sub­jects
must be repeated in class un­less
a re-examination is passed within
one resident year after the semester
in which the condition was incurred.
Grades of "Incomplete" will also be
recorded as failures unless made up
within one resident year.
The schedule for re-examinations is
as follows:
Monday, February 13
3 P. M.—Botany, business admini­stration,
machine design and draw­ing,
mathematics.
Tuesday, February 14
10 A. M.—Home economics, horti­culture,
industrial engineering, physi­cal
education, R. O. T. C.
3 P. M.—Agricultural engineering,
architecture, electrical engineering,
physics, sociology.
Wednesday, February 15
3 P. M.—Agronomy, agricultural
economics, civil and highway engi­neering,
English, textile engineering.
Thursday, February 16
10 A. M.'—Animal husbandry, dairy
husbandry, poultry husbandry, religi­ous
education, veterinary medicine.
3 P. M.—Applied art, bacteriology,
"chemistry, economics, pharmacy.
Friday, February 17
3 P. M.—Education, foreign lan­guage,
history, mechanical and aero
nautical engineering, zoology and en
tomology.
Saturday, February 18
9 A. M.—Conflicts in above sched­ule.
INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL DANCE TO BE
FRIDAY, APRIL 14TH; DEFERRED PLEDGING
PLAN DROPPED AT .MEETING ON MONDAY
Dr. M. W. Emmel Receives International Recognition
Upon Publication Of Second Article*"On Poultry Care
From the laboratories of Dr. M. W. Emmel, Auburn pathology,
bacteriology, and research professor, has come another publication
which reveals important facts to members of the poultry industry.
Dr. Emmel's work on poultry diseases has received international
recognition. Recently he received a copy of one of his papers from
Berlin, Germany," which had been published there in the "Archiv fur
Geflugel Kunde Jahrgang", German publication. Several months ago
a scientific magazine in Holland carried a story about his work.
This latest paper bears the title, "The Effect of Feeding Colon
Organisms and Dried Whey on the Bacterial Flora of the Intestinal
Tract of Baby Chicks Affected with Pullorum Disease." It is a con­tinuation
of a paper published last Spring in the "Journal of Infectious
Diseases."
The first paper showed that in the fore part of the intestinal tract
the number of pullorum organisms in baby chicks was very great. As
the posterior end of the intestinal tract was approached, however,
these organisms decreased considerably in number. There was a simi­lar
increase in the number of colon organisms present.
It also included an experiment which showed that when cultures
of pullorum organisms were placed in test tubes, and contaminated with
colon organisms, the number of pullorum organisms originally present
were considerably reduced after twenty-four hours..
This second, and latest paper, therefore, produced the growth of
colon organisms in pullorum organisms to show decrease of latter. Dried
whey proved to be the more preferable because it contains a large per­centage
of lactose, which is easily fermented by the colon organisms.
The benefits derived from dried whey was evidenced by a greater
net gain in weight, fewer chicks showing symptoms of disease, fewer
deaths from pullorum disease,-and an earlier disappearance of the pul­lorum
organisms in the feces.
An important discovery was the fact that pullorum diseases cannot
be controlled entirely by the feeding of dried whey, although this may
be used with success to some extent, because there are other channels
of infection, as the respiratory tract, for example.
Council Selects Date for An­nual
Dance; Preparations for
Affair Begun
DATE TENTATIVE
Each Fraternity Will Be Allow­ed
Ten Bids Instead of Eight
Formerly Given
COMMITTEES NAMED
Proposed Plan for Deferred Pledging
is Dropped Following Report of
Committee Chairman
RIFLE TEAM AWARD
BE OF NEW DESIGN
Regulation "A" On Back­ground
of two Crossed Rifles
Is Approved by Faculty
TEN BE GIVEN LETTERS
John M. Reynolds, Manager of
Team, Breaks School Record
With Score of 380
The Auburn Athletic Association
i-ecently approved a new type of let­ter
for the rifle team. The new let­ter
is the regulation minor "A" and
has two crossed rifles in the back­ground.
Lt. Bowman submitted the new de­sign,
which was made by team-cap­tain
Freret. Both the Lieutenant
COURT TOURNEY BE
HELD HERE FEB. 21
Fourth District Basketball
Tournament Again be Held
in Alumni Gymnasium
37 ARE ENTERED
Many Unbeaten Teams Sign Up
For Tourney; State High
School Rules be Used
That the Fourth District Basket­ball
Tournament will again be held
in Auburn has been announced by
the athletic department. This year
the tournament is scheduled for the
three days of February 21, 22, and
23. -
The tournament will be held under
the rules of the State High School
and Freret are happy to announce the I Association which are as follows:
SCOUTS TO CELEBRATE
ANNIVERSARY FEB. 8
Auburn Scouts will celebrate the
23rd anniversary of Scouting during
the week of February 8 to 14, which
is designated as Anniversary Week.
Throughout the week Scouts will
wear uniforms and there will be a
Court of Honor Wednesday evening
in Ramsey Engineering Hall begin­ning
at 7:00 o'clock. In addition
Scouts will gather at,the new High
School on Friday evening, at 7:00
o'clock, with their fathers and moth­ers
for a Parents' Night program.
One of the chapel periods at the local
high school will be given over to the
Scouts for exercises in the celebra­tion
of Anniversary Week.
approval.
Competition for letters is very
brisk this year. As Auburn has a
number of marksmen on this year's
squad, and only ten men are awarded
letters one can readily see the cause
for the brisk competition. The let­ters
are given to the ten men with
the highest averages.
Last season letters were awarded to
T. V. Wiillenbucher, C. P. Irwin, M.
P. Freret, M. J. Reynolds, R. C. Brew­er,
E. E. Casson, J. J. Scherer, A.
McKinney, W. B. Crane, C. L. Polk
and B. B. Gregory. Six of the pre-ceeding
men are members of this
season's varsity. This season quite a
number of freshmen have a chance
to be within the select ten.
J. M. Reynolds, manager of the
rifle team, shot a score of 380, the
(Continued on page 4)
1. Eight players shall constitute a
team. Ten men may be entered, but
two must be scratched before start­ing
time of the game.
2. No entry will be accepted unless
accompanied by a ten dollar deposit.
This deposit will be returned if the
team-appears for its first game. Entry
blanks must be sent to W. H. Hut-sell,
Auburn, Alabama, no later than
the 17th of February.
3. Drawings will be made by the
District Board, and each team will be
notifie'd of the time of its first game.
The Fourth District is made up of
schools in the following counties:
Bullock, Chambers, Coosa, Elmore,
Lee, Macon, Russell, and Tallapoosa.
A number of high school teams have
already entered, these being: Alex­ander
City, Hackneyville, New Site,
(Continued on page 4)
April 14th has been tentatively set
as the date for the Interfraternity
Council Ball, following a resolution
adopted in Monday night's regular
meeting of the Council. This date
must be approved by the Dean of
Women, but as a result of a previous
conference with her, the above date
may be taken as final.
Chairman of committees to be in
charge of preparations were appoint­ed
by John Farris, president of the
council, and they are as follows: Dec­orations,
Billy Wilson, chairman; or­chestra,
Lake Parker, chairman, to
be assisted by John Farris; Bids,
Howard Moss, chairman, to be assist­ed
by Sonny Paterson.
The council voted to allow each
fraternity ten bids instead of the
eight allowed last year, but this too
will be subject to the approval of the
Social Director. The two council rep­resentatives
will be included in the
ten bids so that each fraternity will
have only ten men on the floor.
The Interfraternity Council Ball is
one of the outstanding social events
of the winter season, and an annual
affair on the campus. A number of
girls from all parts of the state are
present as a rule to enjoy the affair
with the students.
Deferred pledging was also discus­sed
in the meeting of the Council and
a voluminous report was presented by
Justin Morrill. The general attitude
taken by colleges throughout the na­tion
is to oppose deferred pledging
and of the forty odd percent of col­leges
reporting the use of this sys­tem,
a number were unsatisfied. The
plan was discussed as applicable to
Auburn and upon a motion in the
Council, it was agreed that the mat­ter
be dropped from further consid­eration.
PROF. IVEY SPEAKS TO
LOCAL KIWANIS CLUB
Relation Between Veterinary Profession And Control
Of Diseases Common To Man Discussed At Vet Meet
Importance of the veterinary pro­fession
in control of many animal
diseases which are communicable to
humans is being better understood by
the public, said Dr. T. A. Sigler of
Green Castle, 111., at the opening ses­sion
of the Ninth Annual Short
Course for graduate veterinarians
here Monday.
"Veterinarians are no longer look­ed
upon as just 'horse doctors'—they
are regarded as guardians of public
health", he said. Veterinarians treat
all livestock upon which humans are
dependent and the horse requires on­ly
one-seventh of the average veteri
narians
cerried with cattle, sheep, hogs, dogs,
fowls, and many others", he said.
Dr. Sigler said that veterinarians
are receiving longer and better train­ing
than ever before.
Dr. D. M. Campbell, editor of
"Veterinary Medicine", professional
magazine published in Chicago, re­viewed
some of the outstanding ad­vancements
of the science during the
past year.
In opening the short course, Dr. C.
A. Cary, dean of the veterinary school
here and State veterinarian, explain­ed
that the week will be given over
to addresses and practical demonstra-
Professor O. T. Ivey, of the Au­burn
history department, was the"
speaker at the local Kiwanis luncheon
Monday, with President Emil Wright
presiding. Professor Ivey discussed
the Chinese-Japanese situation as it
centers in and around Manchuria.
Franklin King, representative of
Kiwanis International was a visitor
who spoke briefly, bringing greet­ings
from the International office.
Mr. King came to Auburn to confer
with Lieutenant-Governor Paul Irvine
concerning Kiwanis work in the dis­trict
of which the Auburn club is a
part.
Instrumental music for the meet­ing
was presented by a trio composed
of Billy Askew, Jeff Miller, and Tom
Kimbrell.
G. N. Mitcham, former professor
at Auburn, was a visitor. Mr. Mit­cham
is now in engineering work on
the Auburn-Tuskegee paving job.
NOTICE!
The regular meeting of the Auburn
Agricultural Club will be held tonight
at 7:00 o'clock. All Ag students are
urged to be present as topics of a
general and varied interests are to
be discussed.
NOTICE!
There will be an important meet­ing
of the Spiked Shoe Society Thurs­day
night at 7:30 at the gym. All
time. The profession is con-1 Auburn veterinary students.
members are urged to be present as
tions for visiting practitioners and | an interesting program has been ar­ranged.
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SUCCESS OF THE GREEKS
In this institution there prevails a much
fainter distinction between the fraternity
man and the .non-fraternity man than is
likely to be found in any other institution
in the South. In this respect, the student
body as a whole is to be congratulated, for
bringing about closer relationship unmark­ed
by snobbish distinction between the pin-wearer
and the student who has not been
chosen to a campus Greek organization.
In many institutions throughout the
country, a radical line is drawn between
the two groups, bringing on a large amount
of hostility between student factions.
Whether one believes that a too marked
system of democracy is for the best in­terests
of any educational institution, it
is an undeniable fact that snobbishness
and intra-campus warfare has denied many
of lasting friendships and a clearer con­ception-
of the often forgotten debt that
one man owes to another.
STUDENT INACTIVITY
At times, the absolute unconcernedness
the average student at this institution takes
toward all student affairs is lamentable. In
a majority of instances, it literally takes
a "kick in the face" to propel the student
into any active part of student affairs.
Annually, ninety percent of the student
body confines its activity to a criticism of
student affairs which have been brought
about through a total lack of initiative
among these same students. Annually they
allow numerous injusticies to be brought
upon themselves as well as the minority
who has seen fit to combat certain detri­mental
actions surrounding the welfare of
the student body as a whole. The aver­age
student spends four years at Auburn,
spends part of these years in class, a small
part at athletic contests and other forms
of amusements, and is contented to spend
the remainder of the time in a criticism
of student controlled failures due to his
unprogressive indifference.
THERE'S A REASON
Why do so few college students retain
any semblance of religion after two years
in school? Reformers and rock-ribbed pil­lars
of the church have bemoaned the fact
for years and pointed it out as a funda­mental
weakness in our educational sys­tem.
Among this class the concensus of
opinion seems to be that the blame may
be placed on the heads of college instruc­tors,
"disciples of cynicism."
Anyone who has ever spent as much as
a year in any college can testify. to the
injustice of this wide-spread opinion. Re­ligious
creeds or doctrines are so rarely dis­cussed
in class rooms, that a student may
spend four years in college without being
influenced one iota in regard to his beliefs.
Even those instructors who advocate lib­eral
thinking are usually discreet enough,
in view of the narrow-mindedness so preva­lent
through the South, to refrain from
discussing such topics with their students.
It is clearly evident, however, that a
laxity in religious worship does exist in the
colleges and becomes' more wide-spread
among the students with the passing of
each scholastic year.. There are two clear-cut
causes. In the first, place, the college
youth, just breaking away from home ties,
finds decided relief in avoiding what for
many was an irksome duty for many years.
On Sunday he does not go to church be­cause
no one makes him go. There is no
moral or theological creed involved. If he
> s
takes his religion seriously he will sooner
or later return to the fold.
On the other hand, some students really
do some thinking about the matter. Their
college training enables them to apply logic
to religion for the first time; and the re­sult
is confusing. They have accepted
numerous biblical incidents of the Old
Testament literally, merely because they
were "in the Bible". Not realizing that
this portion of the good book is nothing
more than Hebrew folk lore and has no
real bearing on the Christian religion, they
begin to wonder ifthe whole business isn't
just a fairy tale.
The place for the remedy to these con­ditions
is not the colleges but much farth­er
back. The home, perhaps, or the Sun­day
schoolsvbut take the blame from the
colleges.
QUICQUID AGUNT HOMINES
It is often surprising how the human
mind fears the truth, and makes every ef­fort
to suppress it. Even in this late day
there are many educational leaders and
professors who believe that college editors
should be subject to a censorship. Occa­sional
outbursts of radicalism in college
papers have a naive way of horrifying
school authorities. Any number of college
boys have been forced to resign from their
institutions because they published, unde­sirable
facts. But youth persists, and to­day
the young journalists are given a great
deal of freedom. But,they are often cursed
with pedagogical vehemence when they ex­ercise
that freedom in what is ingenuously
known as the "wrong way."
Truth has an uncomfortable way of com­ing
to light. It is invincible. Though its
foes fight it to a bitter finish.it always wins
out. In like manner falsity is short-lived.
It may gather disciples for a time, but it
soon loses its prestige and is dethroned by
truth. Falsity poisons itself; it gives
strength and power to truth. Truth clois­tered,
unexpressed, hidden behind false
walls, is for a time powerless;, but let it
once..get a glimpse of the sunlight and it
becomes a force that knows no bounds.
This year The Plainsman has endeavored
to seek out and publish the truth, and in
turn to base its opinions on that truth. We
care little for guilty conscience and em­barrassed
prestige. We say with Pope:
"Whate'er men do, or say, or think,
or dream,
Our motley paper seizes for its theme."
BABY SCHOOL FOR MEN
Men can now know how it feels to be a
mother—and the women are crowing with
delight! New York has a most revolution­ary
and unique school in its midst. All
for the freedom of womankind—now the
poor, overworked mothers can at last be
freed from the shackles of child care and
be serenely conscious that her offsprings
will be properly taken care of.
At the Maternity Center Association in
New York there has been started a Baby
School for men. The clumsy fingers of
the stronger sex are being trained for the
gentle art of caring for infants and the
entire routine from baths to diapers is-taught.
Dolls are used for models so that
precious lives may not be snuffed out by
the efforts of the none too gentle male.
This is only another example of the re­versal
of conventional duties which a broad
minded age has brought us to. . Women
are launching out into all lines of masculine
endeavor and proving equally efficient.
They are enjoying the freedom and inde­pendence
of man. So why should not the
men turn their hands to the irksome tasks
which have been the duty of women since
the beginning of time? Women are will­ing
and capable of standing the knocks of
the business world—men should be intro­duced
to the chores of the domestic world
and be equally as willing and capable of
bearing the brunt of "househusbandly"
duties. The only reasons now left to man
to excuse shirking his share of the heir's
care are that he either does not wish to be
bothered with the tediousness of the task,
or that he narrpwly believes such duties
beneath his manly dignity. Which are not
sufficient reasons in the eyes of the mod­ern
woman. In- the near future, a man
will have to be as good a mother and wife
as he is a husband. Which is all quite
fitting and proper and suited to the trend
of the times.
DEFERRED PLEDGING
The deferred pledging system as prac­ticed
at a number of colleges throughout the
country, is one which drew the attention of
the Interfraternity Council at a recent
meeting. It was found that about' forty
percent of the colleges who were questioned
by the Council, had a system of deferred
pledging, but a large number of these were
dissatisfied.
Deferred pledging causes a cockiness in
Freshmen which breeds contempt; and gen­eral
unrest between fraternities and fra­ternity
men. It leads to unfair methods of
pledging, and direct breaking of the rules.
This system is surely one which would be
contrary to the general harmony and well
feeling which are so much in evidence on
the campus during the pledging season.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in this
column are not necessarily the editorial opinions of
this paper. It is a column of personal comment,
and is not to be read as an expression of our
editorial policy.
I HAVE heard I can shoot more bull and
say less than most anyone around here.
Perhaps. Possibly. And well what of
it? If what you say is true, I'm a genius,
as this town is very nicely blessed with
your so-called bull shooters.
Oh, it's all all right anyway. I told you
not to let me matter. I'm the person, you
know, who eats tomato sandwiches at 1 A.
M. every morning while listening to Guy
Lombardo on phonograph records. When
I shot marbles in grammar school, I never
held the marble like everyone else. My
fourth grade teacher spent a year trying
to get me to hold a pencil the way every­one
else holds a pencil when he goes to
write. I'm half way left handed. I was
totally until I was discouraged.
Call this an autobullography and I'll pro­ceed.
Call me a fool, and be pitied. I
know I'm no fool, see? A fool is a man
who lets people worry him. If you just
knew, there are more lovely things to wor­ry
about than people.
I like to go to church and hear theorgan
bumble, and look at the people there. I
can't take the square root of any number
at all without a slide rule. I detest cross
word puzzles and checker playing. And no
matter what you think . . . very likely I
don't care what you think . . . I still think
a girl shouldn't wear one boy's fraternity
pin, and hold hands with two or three other
boys. Girls should have their own pins.
Girls should have their own cigarettes. I
like girls tho, they are so nice and import­ant
looking; they remind me of rain falling
in swishes through pine needles . . . they
make me wonder. ,
I don't like to see Clara Bow and Con­stance
Bennett act. The first is just not
there, and the second has a voice like a
razor blade scratching on a jagged tin can.
I don't like Joan Crawford, and I would be
willing to buy Thelma Todd a dress if she
would wear it. She is not a big sight un­dressed.
I wear much louder underwear.
I care nothing for the Mills Brothers, Bern-ie
Cummings, George Olsen, and Abe Ly­man.
They are all great of course, but so
is Charles Dickens.
Whenever I go to the library to get a
book I always first look in the back to see
who has read it. If I find a long list of
professor's names, I get the book and read
it to see what kind of people are profes­sors.
I want to read this ballyhooed book,
"Maghificient Obscession" and see if I don't
still say, "Hell" when I say, "No".
Really, I'm not such a terrible awful
person. Come to see me sometime and I'll
let you see my cut finger.
* * * *
Two facts for you to think about: All
newspapers are printed in such language
that people of twelve years intelligence can
understand them. All movies are made for
fourteen year intelligences.
Read- the first and stop criticising my
writing. I can't take time to educate -you,
you know. And about the second: It's
well known; movies are made for fourteen
years olds to understand. Yes, but the
movie moguls flattered this town. You fun­ny
people are all right in a wild-west show,
or a hot-cha, undressing show, but when a
show like "Strange Interlude" comes to
town, you don't know what to do. I could
not enjoy that show Sunday because of
your bright remarks, your laughs, and
your general dumbness. If you didn't like
the show why didn't you keep quiet about
it and let someone else enjoy it? Stay at
home next time and read your love-story,
and wild-west magazines. Wait. Clara
Bow, and Thelma Todd will be back to
town.
* * * *
And every time I go to a sad show, some­one
on the row back of me sniffles, i But
I don't mind that. I appreciate it. I don't
indulge myself, and I like for someone to
ease my tenseness. Any time you need
a handerchief just reach over and top me.
I'll bring a towel and a mop if you want
me to. I appreciate you people.
x I saw "Smiling Through" three times.
The last time I wore a raincoat, and jumped
the puddles.
* * * *
I'm in a quandary . . . That's not some­thing
like a rock quarry is it? Let's say
dilemma. . . What's that mean? Let's say
a hell of a mess so both of us will under­stand.
All right I'm in. Now. This big
War dance is coming off March 3rd and I
can't decide which pretty little "rain
through pine needles" to escort. I can't
decide whether to take the co-ed who failed
to invite me to her sorority dance this year,
or the co-ed who failed to invite me W her
sorority dance last year. . . or was it two
years ago? Any suggestions will be appre­ciated.
* * * *
Well how did you like this "Bull?" Must
I really try to please you? Must you
CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
OBITUARY FOR SNOB
When tomorrow dawns, many of our citi­zenry,
will be mourning the death of the
intellectual snob. Many will get out their
smelling salts and sniffle in their black
bordered handkerchiefs to mourn the pass­ing
of this "great" American. But pro­gress
and depressions kill many manner­isms.
When the hearse begins its short trip
from the Hill to Limbo, there will be many
followers and not the fewest among these
will be the bond salesmen. As the higher
professions of law, medicine, banking and
"big" business become more and more
crowded, as it becomes harder and harder
for the professionals to And positions, col­lege
graduates will be forced to consider,
as did their ancestors, life in the trades.
It is time that university graduates climb­ed
down off their high'horse; it is time to
realize that while we have been privileged
by the benefits of four or more years of
higher education, this does not lift us, by
some miraculous metamorphosis, above the
working man. Rather, we may soon find
the worker eating bacon while we scratch
for bread.
Intellectual snobbery is peculiar to
America. In other countries it is not un­usual
to discover a college trained man in
a blacksmith shop, or behind'a grocery
counter. And why should these trades be
considered less desirable than bond selling?
We believe that the present consideration
of a college as a glorified business will soon
be corrected. The depression is teaching:
the golden fetish may be nothing more than
a barbaric bauble, a student should learn,
not how to make the most money, but how
to live most happily. Happiness isn't a
necessary correlative to the dollar.
The graduates of 1933, 1934 and, so far
as we can discern, 1932, will find a cold
welcome awaiting them when they leave
the campus. They will have to scratch
gravel if they plan to come out ahead. It is
our proposition that there is easier and
happier gravel on the path of the trades
than with the professions.—Syracuse Daily
Orange.
- oOo
"ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOAL"
A news story from Cincinnati states that
"the boys who boss the University of Cin­cinnati
yearbook turned up their noses at
beauty today and announced that they
would pick the brainiest—not the niftiest
—girls for the publication's positions of
honor this year
Here, at last, is some manifestation in
substantial form of the absurdity in pick­ing
"campus leaders" and "representative"
types by looks and popularity. A moment's
thought on the part of anyone discloses how
utterly unfair such selections are. One goes
to college not necessarily to improve his or
her appearance but to improve the mind
and become useful in this world, and by
these standards ought the honors be award­ed.—
Vanderbilt Hustle}:
ACROSS THE CAMPUS
By P. 0. Davis
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in this
column are not necessarily the editorial opinions of
this paper. It is. a column of personal comment,
and is not to be read as an expression of our
editorial policy.
* * * *
DR. EDNA R. BISHOP, of the re­search
staff at Auburn, has peeped
through an instrument which was
conceived, designed, and built by Dr. Fred
Allison and discovered new knowledge con­cerning
the radio-active elements of which
there are one dozen. Other scientists who
have studied this group had concluded that
they are divided into three families but
Miss Bishop "is confident that she has be­come
acquainted with four. Her discovery
is one of major importance from a scientific
standpoint.
And to her much honor is due because
anyone who finds and identifies new facts
concerning the secrets and mysteries of na­ture
is entitled to great honor. To Dr. Alli­son
also, whose scientific genius made pos­sible
the achievement of Miss Bishop, much
praise is due. As we think of this we think
also of' Colonel 'Lindberg from whom no
one wishes to take one jot or one tittle of
honor, glory, and heroism, but back of him
those who designed, invented, and' made the
machine which he used in traversing the
air over the' Atlantic Ocean, great honor is
due.
* * * *
Students whose grades are too low seem to
have one fact in common. It is that of
straggly, unattractive, and unlegible writ­ing.
This discovery offers the suggestion
that student should give more serious
thought to writing. Neat and clear writ­ing
is attractive and very helpful. The stu­dent
who writes clearly a'nd attractively
has a distinct advantage over the student
who does not.
And'anyone who wills to do so can im­prove
his or her writing by attention to it
and by practice.
* * * *
You have heard of the man who when
asked if he believed in ghosts replied: "No,
but I'm terribly afraid of them."
This reminds me of the man or the wom­an
who is prominent or conspicuous for
any reason. Human beings—almost all of
them—like to be -conspicuous but many fail
to understand that he or she who is out­standing
for any reason carries a great re­sponsibility
as to conduct and example.
An inconspicuous person can make mis­takes
or do unwise things without attract­ing
attention but the person who stands out
is in the spotlight and is being watched.
This fact applies in student life. The stu­dent
who is conspicuous because of out­standing
achievement in anything has a
much greater responsibility; and this re­sponsibility
calls for wise and proper con­duct
all the time and everywhere. The
conspicuous person who overlooks this is
making trouble for himself and for others.
* * * * *
Radio broadcasting added Sunday night
a new feature to the writer . The General
think I sit up till 2 A. M. to write some­thing
you will like? Stop it. I'm having
fun out of this. You're not. This is my
game. You go find something for yourself.
You're the kind of person who likes to play
with the push cart which belongs to the kid
next door.
Social Committee: I do so desire Jan
Garber;
Electric Company presented a program,
part of which came from this company's re­search
laboratories at Schenectady, N. Y.
The speaker spoke into a microphone con­nected
with input equipment and his voice
was carried several hundred feet by light
waves before going into the input equipment
connected with National Broadcasting Com­pany
wires which carried it thousands of
'miles to broadcasting stations throughout
the United States. '
Using light waves as a carrier is new to
me. What may we expect next?
* * * * *
Prof. T. B. Peet of the English Depart­ment
and a group of students are doing a
very creditable work in dramaturgy. It is
worthy of more attention. They wrote and
produced recently "The Golden Gate." They
are now producing another play which they
expect to present later.
The same group and Prof. James R. Rut­land
and others of the English department
are doing other things in behalf of drama­turgy—
an undeveloped opportunity at Au­burn.
* * * *
The Neiv York Times printed recently an
interview with Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase,
who is retiring from the presidency of the
University of Illinois to become chancellor
of the New York University. Prior to his
Illinois connection he was president of the
University of North Carolina. The inter­view
is too long to be printed here but a
few of his pithy sentences are quoted:
"Educators in their teachings must help
people to grow up to be the sort of people
who can keep on growing with their work.
The aim of education is not fixity but pla­cidity—
it is the mature individual who will
find himself at home in this world."
Dr. Chase named teaching and research
as the two paramount tasks of the univer­sity
and the college. He declared that the
material side of modern civilization has been
builded in the laboratory and that> in this
the educational institutions have served in
the front rank. He added: -.
"We are in a period readjustment. It is
evident that we have to rethink and restate
certain of the fundamental conceptions on
which we have been operating. We know
well enough that the difficulty which we
face is not a difficulty in production. It
is rather, a difficulty in distribution and
consumption. We are learning for the first
time on a large scale the tragedies of the
problem of unemployment which result
from this lack of balance in our machinery.
We know that those difficulties are not go­ing
to vanish overnight.
• "I have heard it said recently that the
progress in effectiveness and technique in
the industries has been so great since 1929
that if peak production was suddenly to be
restored not more than half of our industri­al
unemployment would be canceled.
"This problem of unemployment is one
which is testing and will test the statesman­ship
of men and nations. It interlocks in
a curious way with the problem of higher
education."
Dr. Chase pictures succinctly here the
responsibility of the land-grant colleges and
universities of which Auburn is one. The
problem of unemployment—to which he re­ferred
very forcefully—is one with many
ramifications, one which challenges the best
thinkers. -
INVICTUS
By Casual Observer
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in this
ulumn are not necessarily the editorial opinions of
this paper. It is a column of personal comment,
and is not to be read as an expression of our
editorial policy.
ONE HUNDRED and forty com­munities
in twenty-nine states, says
a weekly publication, are using
"scrip" to tide over the business enterprises
of these localities. The dollar refused to
reveal itself in as plentiful a fashion as was
needed for a sounder economic basis, so.
local governments and civic organizations
have sought to give trade the required mo­mentum
by artificial action.
Trading in many localities throughout
the country had reverted to the bartering
stage when a few associations devised plans
for the issuance of scrip. If the plans now
being used are carried out on as sound a
basis as they have begun, a successful trade
impetus will be achieved. There can be no
danger if the plans operate on the strict­ly
cooperative scheme upon which they are
laid and continue to remain under the regu­lation
of public governments or civic or­ganizations.
Though there are many plans, the most
widely adopted system of the issuance of
scrip might be explained as follows: Em­ployees
of local governments or'trade asso­ciations
are paid salaries in scrip; in turn
the local merchants accept these certificates,
affixing a stamp thereon, purchasing this
stamp from the sponsoring organization.
When a predetermined number of stamps
are placed upon the certificate, it is re­deemed
in United States currency by the
organization that issued it. Merchants are
credited in tax anticipation warrants for
the purchase of stamps.
And so, the idea is most simple, as may
be readily seen; "artificial respiration" is
being administered to near-drowned busi­ness.
Sales turn-overs and a general flux-uation
in the local economic conditions is
the goal. ,
There seems to be little opposition or real
basis for opposition to this plan so long as
it operates as it now does. No one loses
and someone may gain.
* * * *
No year, nor no year for the paper could
be complete without some reference to the
cooperative bookstore "sore thumb". And
so, dear reader, the author shall unwrap the
throbbing digit for a most casual observa­tion.,
We have no cooperative bookstore at Au­burn.
We pay a sizable price for the sec­ond-
hand texts we buy. We pay a perfect­ly
legitimate price for new books. But the
story goes back a little further than that.
Someone besides the publisher and the re­tailer
makes a profit on text books used in
state educational institutions. It would be
interesting to go through the bank deposits
of the state authorities who select the pub­lishing
houses for text books in state
schools. To learn the lucid details. But
try to get that far. The single thing left
for us to do is to strive for an even break
on the re-sale and purchase of second-hand
texts. Bread and butter has come down to
a reasonable price level; but not. so text
books. And bread and butter are much
more necessary to health and • happiness
than a rather indigestible red and brown
volume. There is evidently" only one way
in which to escape paying one and two
hundred per cent profit on second-hand
books—someone with a little capital to be­come
one of the privileged employed. - A
noble opportunity for the Executive Cabinet
to disprove certain established theories.
And why not?
* * * *
At it again . . . the state capitol play­boys
are still playing tag with the "500"
. . . guess who's "it?" .. . . brushing the
Prussian Diet aside, Herr Hitler raises
his arm in true Mussolini fashion and pre­dicts
a voting victory for Hitlerism . . ..
looks like a busy spring East of the Rhine
. . . . FLASH! a state official( has been
dismissed for incompetency . . . just like
that . . . . Nebraska farmers get together
and bid a penny for their friends furniture
when the sheriff forecloses . . . . the D. A.
is getting all "hepped" about it . . . just
as I was preparing to comment on the scar­city
of hurricanes this year the lights went
out . . . and I quite agree with the man
on the other side of Footprints . . . it is
quite nice to walk in the rain . . . the hard­er
the better . . . . one can. think the most
pleasing thoughts walking in the rain . . .
wonder what Noah thought? . . . or better
still, what those who missed the Ark
thought? . . . probably the equivalent to
our most expressive English slang expres­sion
. . . think maybe I'll hum "Chloe" on
Toomer's corner some bright sun-shiny day s
at high noon for the sole benefit of my
anxious friends . . . oh yes, I have a few
left . . . . nope, Utopia could not have been
a small town . . . so be it.
, \
The amount of arms-reduction achieved
at Geneva just about equals the amount of
real beer thus far produced by Congress.—
San Diego Union.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 1933 T H E P L A I N S M A N -:• A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE PAGE THREE
GERALD THOMPSON, FORMER STUDENT,
DISCUSSES CONDITIONS IN FAR EAST
In response to a request by Mr. P.
0. Davis, head of the publicity de­partment,
Gerald R. Thompson wrote
the following letter concerning his
travels in Asiatic waters. Thompson
was a member of the class of 1932
but left school to join the Navy.
The letter is as follows:
December 23, 1S)32.
"Dear Mr. Davis:
"Some little time ago I received
The Alabama Polytechnic Institute
catalogue and a letter from you ask­ing
that I write you about my experi­ences
so that you might publish them
in the 'Plainsman'. I started, on sev­eral
occasions, to write but some in­terruption
has, heretofore, called a
halt to my endeavor
"Had I completed my course at
Auburn my class would have been
'32, as it is, it will be '38. I couldn't
realize, as greatly as I do now, the
absolute necessity of a college edu­cation.
I wanted to see something
of the world. My work at Auburn
was interesting, yes, but I thought
travel would prove more interesting.
Then the question of how to travel
and where to go arose. I wanted to
, see everything so I decided to enlist
in the Navy and take whatever came
my way. So the Navy it was. I pas­sed
the necessary examinations, held
up my right hand, said I do, signed
on the dotted line and was whisked to
Hampton Roads, Va., to begin a three
months training period. A strictly
military routine was to follow and
incessant drills were the rule rather
than the exception. My military
training at Auburn enabled me to
have an edge on some of the fellows
who'd never had military. The train­ing
period completed, competitive ex­aminations
were held for naval train­ing
schools for men who wished to
specialize. Auburn training again
stood me in good stead and I made a
satisfactory mark and was selected
for the Radio Operators School. Hav­ing
more education than most of the
other students made it possible to
Tiger Theatre
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 8
ANN HARDING
Leslie HOWARD
in Philip Barry's
great stage success
"The Animal
Kingdom"
Comedy, "FISH FEATHERS"
and Pictorial
THURSDAY, Feb. 9
IRENE DUNNE in
"The Secret of
I Madame Blanche"
' —with—
Lionel Atwill - Phillips Holmes
Also Comedy, "VEST WITH A
TALE" and a Sportslant
FRIDAY, Feb. 10
BARBARA STANWYCK
—in—
"Ladies They
Talk About"
—with—
Preston S. Foster and
Lyle Talbot
Comedy,
"FAMILY TROUBLES"
and NEWS
THE JUNG HOTEL
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
Eighteen stories of mod­ern
Hotel Luxury.
700 Rooms, 700 Baths,
700 Servidors.
700 Ice Water Faucets,
700 Electric Ceiling Fans.
The only Hotel in New
Orleans that has all of these
conveniences in every room.
Without exception. Largest
Free Parking Grounds in the
South.
Rates $2.50 and $3.00
"You can live better at the
Jung for Less"
graduate from my class with the
highest marks-and I was allowed to
select the ship or station on which I
preferred to serve. I requested to
be sent to ^ s i a and my request was
approved.
"I can't say anything that will im,-
press, too much, the dire necessity
for a good education. I wish that I
could see and personally talk to each
and every one of the men now -at Au­burn,
so that I might, in a measure,
make them realize what an education
means. I am in daily contact with
men who have good educations and
also with men who haven't. In every
case it's the man with education who
has the better position and who is
steadily advancing to higher and
more responsible positions.
"After graduation from the Radio
Operators School I was transferred
to the U. S. S. Asheville, a gunboat,
Tor duty. The Asheville was in New
York harbor. A few days in New
York and then off to the Canal Zone.
Cristobal and Colon—quaint, delight­ful
Panama, the old ruins of forts
and ancient Spanish cathedrals, rem­nants
of the days of the Spanish Con­quest,
the Panama Canal, a work
which is the heighth of engineering
attainment. We transitted the canal
—then Balboa, C- Z., and Panama
City; I can't describe Panama and
do it justice. The semi-tropical cli­mate,
the Indians, the beautiful and
almost forgotten architecture of an­other
day were so new and interest­ing
that I was carried away with its
strangeness. After spending ten days
on the Pacific side we hoisted anchor
and 'shoved off' for San Diego, Cali­fornia.
After bucking headwinds
on aViontrnually stormy sea for twelve
days, we arrived in sunny San Diego.
Four days in California, our last
glimpse of the United States for two
and a half years, and we departed
for Honolulu, T. H. After ten un­eventful
days at sea we steamed into
Pearl Harbor and saw Hawaii in all
its glory. The beautiful beach of
Waikiki, hotels of marvelous archi­tectural
beauty, and the real Hawaii­an
music, we found most interesting.
Twelve days of ultra-pleasure and we
were again on our seemingly never
ending trek across the Pacific, this
time for Agana, Guam, Marianas Is­lands.
"Our fifteen day voyage from Pearl
Harbor to Agana was the longest, tho
by far the most pleasant, of our hops
from port to port across the Pacific.
We crossed the 180th Meridian on
February 26th (the international
date line) and consequently had only
twenty-eight days in our month of
February. Agana, the capital, is a
small town of a few thousand, and
there we .saw, for the first time, the
grass huts, ox-carts, the quaint and
friendly people in their native cos­tumes,
and real tropical weather. Our
four days in Guam were* most thor­oughly
enjoyed but we had to depart
for Shanghai as the Sino-Jap con­troversy
was becoming more and
more serious.
"We hurried to Shanghai and ar­rived
just in time to see Woosung
Fort and Woosung a crumbling,
smouldering mass of ruins. A good­ly
portion of the Japanese fleet and
also warships of China, Italy, France,
Great Britain and the United States
lay anchored in the Whangpoo River
as we steamed in. The tenseness of
the situation had relaxed almost as
suddenly as it began. Japanese war
vessels departed and warships of oth­er
nations were assigned to various
duties elsewhere and Shanghai began
a period of reconstruction. Then we
4
saw Shanghai which is truly worthy
of its name, the cosmopolitan city.
Pagodas (Architecture and construc­tion
of a type which would hardly be
ventured in America), "rickshas—the
Chinese means of conveyance, swarm­ed
the streets—coolies the motive
power, ready and willing to take one
to any part of the city, for the
equivalent of two cents, these things
all proved most interesting but one
of our greatest surprises was had
when we changed our dollars into
Chinese money and found we had re­ceived
more than four dollars for
one in exchange. But the real China
was yet to be seen. Shanghai with a
few minor changes would not be so
very unlike our own New York City.
"After the Sino-Jap situation was
'well in hand' we again 'shoved off',
this time for Hsin Ho, China. Two
days at sea, up the Pei Ho River and
we arrived at Hsin Ho. Moored
alongside the Chinese National Rail­way
Dock at Hsin Ho we were' able I
to take stock of our s'urroundings and
we found Hsin Ho to be a small vil­lage
of some four or five thousand
ignorant Chinese of the Coolie class;
All, with the exception of two or
three hundred, who live in sampans
(small boats about 3' by 12', in which
families of as many as six seem well
content) live in small one room huts
built of mud and straw.
"One morning, on awakening, we
found the whole ship covered with,
about one and a half inches of sand.
Upon investigation we discovered it
was the result of one of the frequent
sandstorms of the Gobi Desert, sev­eral
hundred miles distant. This was
an experience we were to find most
frequent and annoying during our
three months stay at Hsin Ho.
"Another thfng we could hardly be­lieve
until we had experienced it, was
that it rained mud. The rain falling
through the dust laden air simply
became nothing less than mud. Dur­ing
a rain storm it rained mud till
the dust had completely settled.
"Tientsin, a city of 900,000 and
only an hours ride by train from
Hsin Ho, was to be our recreation
center and after settling ourselves
Spr a three months stay in Hsin Ho
many of us began to make prepara­tions
to visit Tientsin. In Tientsin
we were to find our Chinese money,
which we had exchanged in Shanghai,
was absolutely worthless. (Each
province has its own currency and
that of another province simply can't
be spent.) Rickshas were just as
numerous as in Shanghai, all lumber
was sawed by hand, coolies carried
enormous loads and were hitched to
heavy trucks which we in the states
would hesitate to expect a good horse
to pull. We found that man power
was the only power. Machinery plays
little part in the life of Industrial
China.
"One day we were fortunate or
perhaps unfortunate enough to wit­ness
a Chinese execution. The execu­tions
are held in public, supposedly
to set examples. Two forms of pun­ishment
seem to be the most popular:
cutting off the head, and the death
SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES
Society Editor — BAM A LYNE AYRES — Phone 122
New York Wedding
Is Of Local Interest
News has been received by the lo­cal
Chi Omega chapter that Miss Inez
Sheppard and Mr. Thomas Archer
were quietly married in New York.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Archer were stu­dents
here and both achieved a very
enviable record during their four year
stay. Miss Sheppard.is a member of
the -Chi Omega sorority and was ac­tive
in campus affairs. Mr. Archer is
a member of the Sigma Phi Sigma
fraternity and received numerous
honors on the campus.
Miss Dobbs is Honor Guest
At Chi Omega House
Last Wednesday evening, members
of Chi Omega had as their guest Miss
Zoe Dobbs, who-made a very inter­esting
and inspiring talk on scholar­ship,
bringing in at the end, technoc­racy
and current reading.
Following the meeting, members of
Chi Omega were guests at a bridge
party given by Mrs. C. R. Brooks at
her home on Thatch Avenue in honor
of her sister, Miss Mattie Floyd Nor-dan,
of Abbeyville, Ala. The room
was attractively decorated with flags
and patriotic hangings to carry out
the general theme of Lincoln's birth­day.
PERSONAL
AENTION
Chi Omega Offers Three
Prizes for High Averages
Chi Omega is encouraging scholar­ship
this year by offering prizes to
students making' the highest averages
in three subjects. Five dollars will
be awarded students_attaining the
highest average in sociology, psy­chology,
and economics. It has been
the pleasure of the fraternity in form­er
years to give these prizes, but dur­ing
the last two years, due to lack
of finances, the practice has been dis­continued.
Misses Phelia Walker, Dadeville,
and Caroline Lawson, Smith Station,
were week-end guests of Misses Lu-cile
Pound and Margaret Martin.
* * #
Miss Lula Baxford entertained the
Pi Kappa Sigma sorority with a waf­fle
supper on Sunday night at her
home in Opelika. Besides members
of the sorority, several other guests
were invited.
The wedding of Miss,Fennie Cor-bitt
and Cleveland Adams, which oc­curred
on Saturday afternoon, Feb­ruary
4th, will be read with a great
deal of interest by Auburn residents
and students, as well as others
throughout the state. Several papers
carried a detailed account of the wed­ding
Sunday. Mr. Adams was a mem­ber
of the 1931 graduating class and
was very prominent in social activi­ties.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Lewis enter­tained
at a house warming in their
new apartment over the week-end. A
number of guests joined the host and
hostess in the gaiety of the occasion.
* * *
Miss Jewell Davis of the Auburn
Library Staff spent Saturday and
Sunday at the Birmingham Library,
where she studied their method of fil­ing
clippings and pictures.
* * *
Mrs. J. J. Milligan has moved to
Orlando, Fla.
Choral Society Plans
Several Performances
The Choral Society has been reor­ganized
under the direction of Mr.
Chas Floyd. Mr. Floyd has plans
that should be of interest to all music
lovers.
The club is now working on several
interesting short numbers for presen­tation
at an early concert. The plans
of the society include a presentation
of the opera, Martha in the Spring.
Dues are one dollar each for the
semester. Meetings are held in Lang-don
Hall each Tuesday evening at
7:30 o'clock.
Mr. Draughon Speaks
To Local Lions Club
of a thousand cuts, in which the last
slash is used to cut the heart out. Htt-
(Continued on page 4)
"No Fine W e e k " Acclaimed
Success by Library
As a result of a recent, campaign
of the Library to get lost books back
by the inducement of a "No Fine
Week", the Library is happy to have
returned to them a dilapidated copy
of O'Henry's J-'Short Stories", which
had been overdue at least ten years.
Freshman Class P r e s e n t s Six
Books to Library
The Library is very thankful to the
Freshman Class for the gift of the
following books; "The Fountain", by
Morgan; "The Store", by Stribling;
Van Loon's Geography; "Invitation
to Waltz", by Lehman; a book of nine
plays by Eugene O'Neil; and the cor-respondance
of Ellin Terry and Ber­nard
Shaw.
Vice-president George W. Har-greaves
presided at the Tuesday eve­ning
meeting of the Auburn Lions
Club at which there was almost a full
attendance of the memebrs. Profes­sor
Ralph Brown Draughon, the
speaker of the evening, addressed the
club on the subject of "Technocracy"
giving a splendid explanatory talk in
which he neither attacked or defend­ed
this new doctrine.
The Lions plan a Ladies Night i:o
be held during the second week oj:
February.. The time and place will be
announced later, when the finance
and entertainment committees have
completed their plans.
LOST.—One white and black John
Holland combination pen and pen­cil.
Please return to the Plaint-man
office and get reward.
FOR RENT.—Have room for five
boys. Meals if wanted. Rates rea­sonable.
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Chesterfields are
Milder
WH E N you ask a Chesterfield
smoker why that's his brand — he
generally comes right out flat-footed and
says . . . " I t ' s because They're Milder!"
So we're going to keep on doing
everything we know how to keep them
that way.
That's why we look for and buy the
mildest and ripest tobaccos we can get.
That's why we age them in our ware­houses
till they're mellow and sweet.
We believe that even the shredding
of the tobacco... and the quality of the
paper it's rolled in, have a lot to do
with the even-drawing, mild smoke that
people enjoy in Chesterfields.
You can bank on this.. .every method
known to science is used to make Chest­erfield
a milder, better-tasting cigarette
that satisfies.
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Sunday, Columbia coast-to-coast Network.,
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PAGE FOUR T H E P L A I N S M A N -t- A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8, 1933
GERALD THOMPSON, FORM­ER
STUDENT, DISCUSSES
CONDITIONS IN FAR EAST
MUSIC DEPARTMENT OF
WOMAN'S CLUB TO MEET
(Continued from page 3)
man life means almost nothing in
China and we found that some of the
men who were executed were pun­ished
for crimes as trivial as that of
stealing food or a few cents.
"While in Hsin Ho I saw several
corpses floating down the river. Num­erous
sampans were in the vicinity
and I wondered why none of the oc­cupants
made an attempt to retrieve
the bodies. I asked a Chinaman why
no recovery was attempted. His re­ply
was that the person who recov­ered
the bodies must pay burial ex­penses
of the dead man. He also told
me of another custom or rather an
unwritten law.- It is that any man
who saves anothers life must forever
after provide for the rescued person,
because he is responsible for his be­ing
alve. Consequently a man in
danger gets little if any help from his
fellow man, in China.
"During our stay at Hsin Ho we
went to Peiping (the northern capi­tal)
to fire our annual qualification
tests on the International Rifle range.
In Peiping we saw the heart of China,
the summer palace of the old em­perors,
the great wall of China, a
few miles distant, and the tombs of
famous Chinese emperors, centuries
dead. Great carved stone elephants
mark most of the tombs and upon en­tering
the burial grounds one has the
effect of coming upon a herd of ele­phants
standing rigidly at attention.
We were well repaid for our trip to
Peiping by the many interesting
things we saw.
"From Hsin Ho we went to Chefoo
where we fired our annual short
range battle practice. From Chefoo
we went to Shanghai again. Shang­hai
this time was the real Shanghai
—all the chaos and confusion had
disappeared and a delightful ten days
were enjoyed before we departed for
Nanking (the Nationalist capital).
"We steamed out of the Whangpoo
River and up the Yangtze to Nanking
where we lay anchored for two
months. At Nanking we saw our first
real Chinese temples, there we found
the tombs of the Ming dynasty, and
the memorial to Sun-Yat-Sen, the
Republic of China's first president.
The memorial is of white marble and
is situated at the halfway point of a
mountain. The entrance to the me­morial
is several carved columns of
marble, joined together at the top,
not unlike figures standing with out­stretched
-arms touchin.g This en­trance
is at the base of the mountain
and a walk about fifty feet wide
leads upward to the memorial. Flow­er
gardens flank either side of the
walk and benches set at regular in­tervals
make it possible to rest be­fore
attempting the tedious climb up
the hundred or more almost perpen­dicular
steps leading up to the memo­rial
proper. Upon completion of the
climb one finds himself on a marble
plaza about 150' by 200'. Marble
figures which seem to be guarding the
memorial building are placed here
and there on the plaza. Across the
plaza stands the memorial, a beauti-
The Music Department of the
Woman's Club will meet Wednesday
evening, February 8, at 8:15, at the
home of Mrs. B. R. Showalter.
Dr. Paul Irvine will present a read­ing
of Ibsen's play, "Peer Cynt", as­sisted
by Mrs. E. L. Rauber and Mrs.
E. S. Winters.. They will give the
following selections from the musical
setting by Crieg: "Morning", "In-grid's
Lament", "Hall of the Moun­tain
King", "Ase's Death", "Anitra's
Dance", "Solvieg's Song."
PUBLIC IS INVITED
TO RECITAL SUNDAY
The public is invited to attend a
student piano recital to be given in
the studio back of the library Sunday,
February 12, at 4 P. M. College stu­dents
and junior pupils of Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Hazel will take part in the
program.
ful marble structure of modern archi­tecture.
We were permitted to see
little of the memorial as it is zealous­ly
guarded by Chinese"soldiers.
"From Nanking to Shanghai to
Kulangsu, Amoy. Arriving in Amoy
we were, almost without exception,
disappointed. Amoy, we found,, is a
dirty little treaty port situated on an
island in South China, 318 miles
north of Hongkong. During our six
weeks stajf in Amoy we found little
of interest save a few temples and
some immense carved boulders which
sit precariously on the mountain side.
"From Amoy we weighed anchor
for Hongkong. Two days at sea and
we arrived at Hongkong, Great Brit-ians
Asiatic fleet base. We steamed
in the harbor and saw Hongkong, a
city of some 600,000, which present­ed
the picture as of buildings super­imposed
upon several mountain sides.
"Beginning at the waterfront the
streets of Hongkong are built on a
graduated scale, stretching ever up­ward
until finally ending about half­way
up the mountains, thus "making
almost every building clearly discern-able
from the harbor. Perched pre­cariously
on the summit of each
mountain, like sentinels standing
watch over "the city, are the almost
feudal castles of deposed Chinese
war-lords and one-time generals.
"The English influence in Hong­kong
is predominant and the city is
much more modern and cleaner than
most cities in China. The architec­ture
is modern tho conservative. See­ing
the beautiful carved jade, amber,
and ivory, on display in nearly all
Hongkong stores, made our Hong­kong
visit most interesting.
"Hongkong at night is a beautiful
picture. Each light stands out sep­arately,
which is quite a contrast Jto
the usual glare one sees when view­ing
a city at night.
"Frong Hongkong we proceeded to
Swatow, the lace, linen and silk cen­ter
of South China. Swatow is a
small dirty treaty port which can
boast of nothing more than its beauti­ful
handmade linens, laces, etcetera.
"From Swatow we went back to
Amoy for six days before coming
back here to Swatow where we will
$20.oo
MADE TO
MEASURE
It's
Economy
to
purchase
Quality
when
you can
get it
at this
Price
DUALITY,
at every step of the journ­ey,
characterizes the tail­oring
of a Ed. V. Price
made-to-measure suit.
Tailors of national reputa­tion,
who are thoroughly
conversant with the style
trend of the -world, tailor
the garment.
Expert craftsmen, with
life-times of experience,
cut each garment separ­ately
with tailor's shears
—by hand.
The finest of woolens are
used, and each garment is
-fashioned and " finished
with a care akin to pride.
Fit and satisfaction are
guaranteed — absolutely.
Most certainly it is econ­omy
to purchase quality at
this price.
^he^ toggery
Across Street from
College Gate . . .
News Flashes
From Abroad
ALABAMA
University, Ala.—Faculty members
and students from the University will
join with Tuscaloosa townspeople in
presenting the Passion Play here next
week. The famous passion players
from Freiburg, Germany, will appear
in the performance, which is spon­sored
by the American Legion.
—0—
KENTUCKY
Lexington, Ky. — Captain Clyde
Grady, military department adjutant,
recently received his certificate of
membership in Lowell Thomas' "Tall
Story Club", among whose members
are only men whose stories merited
radio-casting on one of Thomas' regu­lar
programs.
The inscription reads:
"Know all men by these presents
that it is my tall privilege to give
high testimony that
"Captain Clyde Grady
" 'He tells 'em tall'
with lofty sacrifice of veracity has
proven his altitudinous devotion to
the great American whopper, and is
hereby elevated to the rank of Ex­alted
Ananias of the Tall Story Club.
"(Signed):
"Lowell Thomas
"Grand Giraffe of
the Tall Story_Club."
—0—
WINTHROP COLLEGE
Rock Hill, S. C.—"Happiness is the
submerging of'one's ego in unselfish
service for others", according to Mr.
Erwin Carothers, local attorney, in
his inspiring address to fifty members
of the S. C. Union in Curry Hall
Tuesday afternoon, January.
Although happiness is frequently
sought in attaining wealth, fame, or
social prominence, or in recreation
and amusements, it cannot be found
by selfishly searching for it, Mr. Ca­rothers
explained.
"One must forget self and seek to
serve others in order to be truly hap­py."
—0—
BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN
Birmingham, Ala. — After several
days of brawling and bawling, the
Birmingham-Southern student body
decided to adopt a five-dollar student
activity fee for next year, thus drop­ping
publication of the annual La
Revue. Judging from accounts of
the affair printed in the Gold and
Black, our little Hilltop friends
fought like real Christians over the
matter, the speaker being howled
down in good Protestant "form,
be until next January. On January
5th we depart for Foochow, China.
Next Spring we go to Manila, P. I.
"My new life is extremely inter­esting
because I am seeing new peo­ple,
new things, and new places, We
never stay in any port long enough to
tire of it. We never know what the
future holds in store for us in the
strange ports we visit, nor, as a rule,
do we know which port we may next
visit. The orient has a fascination
all its own, but in spite of this fas­cination
I think, once I am permitted
to return, I shall never leave Au­burn.
After visiting many cities and
towns since leaving Auburn I can not
fairly say I've found one that I like
better than "The Village of the
Plains.'
"No doubt I've failed to Ihention
many interesting things which, tho
now commonplace to me, would prove
interesting to you; however, the omis­sion
is entirely unintentional.
"Possibly you'll find that this is not
the kind of letter you'd like to pub­lish
in the- 'Plainsman' but perhaps
you'll find it interesting in its crude-ness.
I have tried to give you at least
a vague idea of the places I have
visited. At best it is a hard job to
picture them clearly.
"If at any time you have need of
photographs of things- Chinese I'll
be more than glad to supply you with
them.
"Immensely interested in Auburn,
and counting the days till I can re­turn,
I am
"Yours very truly,
"Gerald R. Thompson".
STUDENT CRUISES. — Magazine
subscription scholarship workers
and crew managers write immedi­ately
for very best scholarship of­fers
of leading publishers. Can be
worked there now. Permanent po­sitions
if experienced, also summer
crews for U. S. and foreign terri­tory.
For' full details write: The
Collegiate Scholarship Institute,
219 Republic Building, Miami, Fla,
Social Attitudes to
Be Discussed During
Meeting Next Friday
The Auburn Parent-Teachers As­sociation
will hold its regular meeting
Friday, February 10th, at 3 p. m. It
is hoped that a full attendance will
be present to discuss the message be­low
and determine what can be done
to further favorable legislation for
schools.
The program for the afternoon will
consist of a discussion of the subject,
"Parental Cooperation in Social Atti­tudes".
Dr. Paul Irvine will lead the
discussion. As this subject deals di­rectly
with the problems of Junior
and Senior,High School students, the
parents of those students are espe­cially
invited to be present and par­ticipate
in the discussion. As usual,
the Hospitality Committee, under the
leadership of Mrs. W. B. Lee, will
provide a delightful social hour. Also
time will be allowed for conferences
between parents and teachers.
The message received from the Ala­bama
Congress of parents and teach­ers
is as follows:
"The Board of Managers of the
Alabama Congress of Parents and
Teachers, after a full discussion of
the existing school crisis in Alabama,
suggests that the respective associ­ations
adopt the following statement
of policy relative to the special ses­sion
of the Legislature which con­vened
in Montgomery on January 31:
"That the associations hold, or re­quest
all county boards of education
to hold, county-wide meetings which
their representatives and senators be
urged to attend, and that at these
meetings the following facts be
brought to the attention of the rep­resentatives
and senators:
" 1 . That the local school situations
in the respective counties be care­fully
studied by the legislators;
"2. That the state appropriations
for education have already been re­duced
from five per cent to thirty-three
per cent.
"3. That even if these reduced ap:
propriations were paid in full the
school program would be sharply cur­tailed
when compared with the pro­grams
of re,cent years;
"4. That according to the best in­formation
available the revenue an­ticipated
for educational appropri^
ations for the current year will lack
$1,697,000 of being sufficient to pay
the reduced appropriations which
amount does not include the money
necessary to fund the state's debt;
"5. That the Congress recognizes
the necessity of the state paying its
debt, but it also recognizes that the
state owes a debt to its childhood, and
since our public school system has
virtually collapsed, in the opinion of
the Congress, some plan for the pay­ing
of the educational appropriations
in full is the most pressing problem
that confronts the people of the State
at this time;
"6. That the several associations
be urged to suggest to the respective
senators and representatives that, in
order for schools to be provided for
our children, they find some way of
"obtaining the $1,697,000 necessary
to pay the educational appropriations
in full."
YOUR HEALTH
By Dr. A. H. Graham
County Health Officer
Patronize Plainsman Advertisers.
S P E C I A L ! !
- HAM and EGG | AC
SANDWICH *"
DINTY MOORE'S PLACE
VIOLENT AND ACCIDENTAL
DEATHS
Violent deaths are those classified
as homicides and suicides. Lee Coun­ty
has had sixty-six such deaths since
1925, an average of ten deaths per
year. There are two violent deaths
in the colored population sfor each
one among white persons.
Accidental deaths are those result­ing
from accidents, as the term im­plies,
automobile, falls, burns in open
grates, railroads, etc. Since 1925,
143 persons have met death in this
manner, an average of twenty per
sons per year. White and colored
were affected about equally.
The annual loss to Lee County
from these causes alone is $75,000.
The cost of our failure to respect
human life, by thinking before we
act, or failing to stop, look and listen
runs high. The remedy is easy—we
must apply it.
H. P. MEIGS, FORMER
STUDENT, IS DROWNED
DR. LOWE VISITS IN
VICINITY OF AUBURN
Dr. C. D. Lowe of the U. S. De
partment of Agriculture was in Au­burn
and elsewhere in Alabama early
this week in the interest of livestock
extension work. While here he con­ferred
with livestock extension work-ers
after which he went to Montgom­ery,
Selma, and elsewhere in inter­est
of livestock work. He was ac­companied
by Dr. R. S. Sugg, exten­sion
livestock worker.
COURT TOURNEY BE
HELD HERE FEB. 21
(Continued from page 1)
Lee County, Beulah, Camp Hill, So.
Industrial Inst, Tallapoosa County,
Union, Daviston, Holtville, Elmore,
Fairfax, Five Points, Goodwater, Rus­sell
County, Lafayette, Ridge Grove,
Lanett, Langdale, Chambers County,
Macon County, Reeltown, Gift, Cen­tral,
Coosa County, Seale, Shawmut,
Shorter, Smith's Station, Tallassee,
Tuskegee, Union Springs, Weogufka,
Secondary Ag., Inverness, and Wav-erly.
Competition is expected to be
expected to be keen among the 37
entries because a number of them are
undefeated. The finalist will repre­sent
this district in the State Tourna­ment
to be held at a later date.
OPELIKA
THEATRE
Students 15c
( A n y t i m e )
THURSDAY, Feb. 9 -
PAUL MUNI
—-in—
"I Am A Fugitive
From A Chain
Gang"
—with—
Glenda Farrell - Helen Vinson
FRIDAY, Feb. 10
"A Farewell
To Arms"
—with.—
HELEN HAYES
Gary Cooper - Adolphe Menjou
SATURDAY, Feb. 11
"Law of the
North"
—with—
BILL CODY
Andy Shuford
SERIAL EPISODE NO. 10
"LAST FRONTIER"
—with Creighton Chaney
Always Ready to Serve You
BANK OF AUBURN
. B a n k of P e r s o n al Service
Women Traveling Alone
Prefer The Hotel Molton
FIFTH AVENUE AND
TWENTIETH STREET THEY know its character—its
reputation for rigidly main­taining
certain standards. They
like Its friendly, courteous and
i n f o r m a l atmosphere. They
value its considerate, attentive
service. And they find it moat
convenient to be so close to tho
shopping district and the
aters.
RATES
AS LOW AS $1.50
Howard Payson Meigs, 23-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Meigs, of
Alexander City and a 1930 graduate
of Auburn, was drowned in a lake
near Ft. Worth, Texas, on January 4.
" Meigs was employed by the Sin­clair
Refining Company. Reports say
that he and four other young men em­ployed
by this company were boat
riding on an artificial lake near Ft.
Worth and it is said that a hurried
squall capsized their boat. Another
of the party was drowned also, the
other three clinging to the boat and
saving their lives.
Mr. Meigs was interred at Alexan­der
City after the funeral services at
the parental home.
At Auburn he was a student in
chemical engineering in which he
graduated.
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highest score ever shot at Auburn.
This score, if fired in the Hearst
Trophy Matches would stand an ex-cellant
chance of winning the Na­tional
Championship.
Three teams have been selected to
take part in the Hearst Trophy
Matches, and they will shoot for rec­ord
sometime early in March. The
kneeling stage of the Corps Area
Match will be fired this week. Ac-codring
to Lt. Bowman, the team will
make a very creditable showing. The
averages that have been recorded to
date in this match are: Prone, 97.3,
and sitting, 94.6.
Matches with fourteen teams are
scheduled to be fired this week.
Tigers Split Series
With Tulane Quintet
The Auburn Tigers split a two-game
series with Tulane here Friday
and Saturday nights, winning the first
22 to 19 and losing the second 35 to
18.
The game Friday night was ex­tremely
close, and only by a last
period spurt, led by Sam Mason, for­ward,
did the Plainsmen pull out to
safety.
Coach McAllister started his soph­omore
forwards, George Quinney and
Frank Ellis, along with his regular
team, and both played a nice brand
of ball. Quinney scored four points.
It was a different story, however,
Saturday night. The Tulane cage-sters
were popping the basket from
all angles, and their team-work was
the best that has been seen on the
local floor in quite a while. "Little
Monk" Simons, football star, led the
Greenie offensive with 12 points.
Beck and Davies, forwards, came next
in the scoring column. "Little
Preacher" Roberts, Tulane football
captain-elect, entered the game in the
latter stages and played well.
Sam Mason and Captain Charles
Kaley were the shining lights for the
Tigers.
The Plainsmen will entertain the
Vanderbilt Commodores here tomor­row
night in one of the outstanding
Southeastern Conference games of
the week. The inter-fraternity quar­ter-
final game between Kappa Alpha
and Alpha Gamma Rho will be played
as a preliminary, starting at 6:30,
one hour before the varsity encount­er.
Men really have the best of it, and
the women know it.
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Wooden soldiers
in the war against decay
To conquer the forces of decay which attack
telephone poles, scientists of Bell Telephone Lab­oratories
carry on a relentless campaign.
They study many kinds of wood, test many
preservatives. They isolate wood destroying fungi
and insects—study them in the laboratory—search
for a practical means of combating their attack.
They have set out armies of stub poles in Mis­sissippi,
Colorado and New Jersey where altitude,
climate and soil vary widely. At- regular intervals
they inspect these poles to learn which woods and
preservatives are best.
Such scientific thoroughness is one reason why
Bell System plant becomes more efficient each year.
And why telephone service is so dependable.
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