1927-01-08 The Plainsman

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VOLUME L. AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1927 NUMBER 16
AUBURN SUFFERS COSTLY BLAZE DURING CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
R.O.T.C. UNIT IS ORGANIZED
INTO THRffi BATTALIONS
DESTROYED BY FLk» wA>. 'i}£%&g&R 24,1926
Field Artillery Promo­tions
And Appoint­ments
Announced
The organization of the Field Ar­tillery
Regiment, ROTC, Alabama
Polytechnic, into three batalions is
announced as follows:
1st Batallion—Batteries A-B.C.
2nd Batallion—Batteries D-E-F.
3rd Batallion—Batteries G-H.
The Mowing promotions of Cadet
Officers, Field Artillery ROTC Unit,
are announced:
To be Cadet Major, Cadet Cap­tain
B. C. Goode; to be Cadet Cap­tains,
Cadet 1st Lt. J. D. Stewart;
Cadet 1st Lt. W. E. Kaley.
To be Cadet 1st Lieutenants, Cad­et
2nd Lt. R. M. Hardy; Cadet 2nd
Lt. W. M. Marks; Cadet 2nd Lt. R.
W. Vaughn.
The following assignments and
transfers of Cadet Officers to organ­izations
of the Field Artillery ROTC
Unit are announced:
Cadet Major B. C. Goode to Com­mand
3rd Battalion; Cadet 1st Lt.
(Continued on page 3)
TENPRORAMS
WILL FEATURE
WEEK AT WAPI
LOCAL STATION WILL BE
"ON AIR" NOON AND
EVENING
HOLIDAYS FIND
FRATERNITIES
IN CONVENTION
LOCAL CHAPTERS SEND
DELEGATES TO NA­TIONAL
MEET
Among the interesting events of
the Christmas season was the meet­ings
of the National Fraternity Con­ventions.
The Pi Kappi Alpha fraternity
held ther national meeting in Atlan­ta,
Georgia. S. H. Lynne, of Deca­tur
and Clyde Hendrix of Decatur,
represented the Auburn Upsilon
chapter.
Vinceenes, Indiana, was the scene
of the Sigma Pi fraternity national
meeting. S. S. Tatum of Longview
and B. P. Robinson were the dele­gates
for the Alpha Delta chapter
here at Auburn.
The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
met in Tampa, Florida. W. M. Marks
of Montgomery and Alvin Smith of
Prattville were the delegates who
represented the Alpha Upislon Chap­ter
of Auburn.
The Sigma Nu fraternity met in
Columbus, Georgia. The delegates
from the Beta Theta Chapter of Au­burn
were, L. G. Wade of Montgom­ery,
and D- S. McKenzie of Tallas-see.
The Theta Kappa Nu fraternity
met in Birmingham. Those repre­senting
the Ala Gamma chapter of
Auburn were, J. C. Sellers of Mont­gomery
and J. B. Jones of Midville,
Georgia.
Station WAPI, operating on a wave
length of 461.3 meters, will broad­cast
lO^programs during the week
'beginning January 10. The noon
programs will begin at 12:30 and the
evening programs at 7:.30.
Monday noon, solos by Mrs. A. D.
Mayo and her four-year old son,
Sammy. Miss Ruth Kernodle will
talk on camps which were held for
club women and girls last summer.
J. D. Pope will discuss the cotton
situation and John E. Ivey will give
a report of the egg-laying contest.
Monday night, silent.
Tuesday noon, piano selections by
Mrs. Dick Yarbrough. Prof. G. D.
(Continued on Page 6)
HANDSOME SIGMA NU HOME
IS TOTALLY DESTROYED
The beautiful structure pictured above is now but a mass of ugly ruins, a scar on a once picturesque
landscape. Gaunt chimneys stand like lonely sentinels to mark the spot of a proud house. Masses of deb­ris
clutter the spacious yard and an atmosphere of desolation prevades the surrounding territory.
One of the two modern fraternity homes on the campus, the Sigma Nu house was of the colonial
style of architecture. Four stately columns rising in front of the main entrance gave it a dignified appear­ance,
while the white of the woodwork combined pleasingly with the several colors of the brick.
The floor plan of the building was calculated for the maximum comfort and convenience. Downstairs
was located the large living room, a spacious dining hall, the sun parlor, guest room, one extra bed room, of­fice,
den, bath, kitchen and the wide porch. Upstairs one found fifteen study rooms, two sleeping porches,
baths and showers.
Hardwood floors downstairs added to the beauty of the interior while steam heat was an attractive
feature of the house. According to advice received from members of the local chapter of the Sigma Nu
fraternity the style of the new house which will replace the old. is yet to be determined.
TIGER THEATRE
BEAUTIFIED BY
IMPROVEMENTS
ELECTRIC SIGN TO BE A
REALITY IN THE NEAR
FUTURE
PROGRAM
Tiger Theatre
Program for Week of
January 10 to 16
Monday, January 10
"THE LADY FROM HELL'
Tuesday, January 11
"MANBAIT"
Wednesday, January 12
"MILLENARIES"
Thursday, January 14
"SON OF THE SHEIK"
Friday, January 14
"SON OF THE SHEIK"
Saturday, January 15
"THE MAN OF THE
FOREST"
Tiger Theatre, owned and operat­ed
by Foreman Rogers, has under­gone
several improvements during the
Christmas holidays. Probably the
most noticeable is the new front which
has been built and which has done
away with the open space, so un­attractive
formerly.
According to Mr. Rogers, exten­sive
plans for beautifying the play
house are being contemplated and
work on them will probably begin
in the near future. Among the ad­ditions
will be an electric sign and
program, quite an innovation on
the plains.
In addition to securing the best
class of pictures for the students,
Mr. Rogers is also offering employ­ment
to several students who depend
on their income for their colloge edu­cation-
LIBRARY ADDS
MANY ITEMS OF
IMPROVEMENT
TWO ASSISTANT LIBRA­RIANS
EMPLOYED; 500
NEW BOOKS ADDED
STUDENTS POUR
INTO AUBURN TO
RESUMESTUDIES
HARD WORK BEGINS WITH
EXAMINATIONS IN
THE OFFING
Monday morning students began
pouring into Auburn from all over
the south. Class cuts counted double
and they just had to be there. All
classes Monday arid Tuesday .were
devoted to catching up on sleep lost
during the holidays and to thinking
of the girl who had promised to come
over to mid-winters. Mixed with
this was some kind of horrifying
thought concerning examinations.
Examinations begin at 8:30 A.M.
Friday, January 21st, and end Jan­uary
27th. That's about all that is
that none of them are going to be
"quips."
The evening of the last day of ex­aminations
will witness the first
dance of the Junior Prom. There
will be three days of dancing, morn­ing,
afternoon and nights. Of course
registration is to take place the
28th and 29th but everyone now has
a wheelbarrow to haul their cash to
the registrar's office and their books
to Burton's.
Following the dances will be a
period of extreme quiet in Auburn,
broken only occasionally by a movie,
bridge game or trip to Opelika.
There have been several rather
important improvements made to the
Colege Library since the beginning
of this semester.
Two full-time assistant liabraians
have been employed. They are Mrs.
W. L. Bain, and Miss Mary Steele.
Another very important improve­ment
is that more than five hundred
new books have been added to the
Library since October. These new
books cover many fields, and are a
very great asset to the College, for
all types of reference work.. There
are also many good novels in the col­lection.
When new books are secured, there
must be places to put them," and in
order to take care of the lack of
room, several racks have been con­structed
and have been placed on
both sides of the Librarian's desk.
Still another improvement to the
Library is that the Modern Langu­age
Department has been moved to
Broun Engineering Hall, leaving
three vacant rooms, which are to be
turned into a small museum. The
second floor is also to be used for
reference books of the Department
of Agriculture,
GLOMERTA NOTICE|(JREEK LETTER
It is necessary to have a complete A \ 7 I 7 D A / " ^ CC A D'I7
list of the individual senior* smme- A V E I I V / Y \ J J L I | J / \ I \ £ I
diately. This request comes from the JLM A f \ I ? Df T B I I f
Glomerata office together with a lYIAL/Ll I U B L i V s
warning that no senior's picture will
be run in the annual if he fails to
comply with this request. Cards
may be left at Homer Wright's over
the week end and all must be turned
into the Glomerate office not later
than 6:00 p.m. Monday, January 10.
Blank cards will be available at Mr.
Wright's for those who have lost thj
ones mailed to them.
WRITING CLASS
ATTRACTS WIDE
INTEREST HERE
PROFESSOR J. R. RUTLAND
CONDUCTS COURSE IN
ORIGINAL WRITING
Much interest has been manifested
in the class in original writing now
being conducted by the Department
of English. The inauguration of
such a class covers a field that has
heretofore been sadly neglected. Re­cently
a group of interested students
brought the matter to the attention
of Prof. Rutland who kindly consent­ed
to lend his time and efforts. This
work is being approved by all foren­sic
organizations and those promin­ent
in literary activities. Students
will find connection with such a class
highly valuable to them not only
throughout their college careers but
in after life. It "is hoped that the
The walls of the second floor have. class will be instrumental in awak-been
repainted, which adds much to
the looks of the place, and several
interesting paintings have recently
been placed there.
ening some of the hidden ability
along general literary lines and
serve to greatly elevate the quality
of writing in our several publications.
SQUARE AND COMPASS
LEAD IN FRATERNITY
AVERAGES WIT
The faculty committer
H 84.2
on frater-nities
submits the Second Semester
average of fraternities
ties, for the school year
Square and Compass
Kappi Phi -
Sigma Hho *
Kappa Delta *
Phi Delta Rho *
Sigma Pi
Tau Omega Chi
Alpha Gamma Rho
Alpha Tau Omega
Pi Kappa Phi
Alpha Phi
Sigma Nu
Delta Sigma Phi
Alpha Lambda Tau
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Greek Letter Average
Pi Kappa Alpha
Phi Delta Chi
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Phi Kappa Delta
Sigma Theta
Theta Chi
Lambda Chi Alpha
Kappa Sigma
Sigma Phi Sigma
Chi Omega *
Phi Delta Theta
Theta Kappu Nu
Kappa Alpha
* Sorority.
and sorori-
1925-26.
No. Av.
29 84.2
15 82.7
9 92.4
19 82.3
7 81.5
28 80.7
22 80.6
24 80.3
32 79.7
19 79.4
8 78.9
38 78.9
. 39 78.7
17 78.5
32 78.2
78.8
32 78.0
22 77.6
33 77.0
21 76.8
23 76.6
31 75.9
36 75.4
34 75.3
26 75.2
11 75.0
27 74.2
23 73.9
21 72.6
TRUSTEES ARE .
SELECTED FOR
ENSUING TERM
APPOINTMENTS OF SEVEN
NEW MEMBERS OF BOARD
CONFIRMED BY SENATE
Appointments to the board of trus­tees
of the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
have been made and ratified
by the Senate according to word re­ceived
here today. These appoint­ments
include W. H. Oates," of Mo­bile;
Charles S. McDowell, Jr., and
Thomas D. Samford, of the third dis­trict;
Victor H. Hanson, of Birming­ham
and P. S. Haley, of Corona, to
succeed themselves for the term ex
piring in 1939, and Cyrus W. Ash
craft to succeed the late C. M. Sher
rod, the term expiring in 1935.
Loss From Flames More
Than $35,000; To
Rebuild At Once
Y.M.C.A. CLOSES
SEMESTER WITH
GOOD BANQUET
WINNING GROUP IS EN­TERTAINED
AT TWO-COURSE
DINNER
U AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS» >
POLICY OUTLINED BY SIBLEY
By HUGH G. GRANT
"Africa for the Africans," is the
new policy formulated by represen­tatives
of European powers as well
as the United States, in plans for the
future development of the dark con­tinent,
according to Prof. James L.
Sibley, advisor for the American ad­visory
committee on education in Li­beria,
and formerly of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, Auburn.
Prof. Sibley recently returned
from Liberia, West Africa, where he
made a survey of educational condi­tions
with the view of making rec­ommendations
for the reorganization
of educational policies in Liberia. He
represents American educational
groups and boards, including the
Phelps Stokes Fund of New York,
the Foreign mission boards of the
Episcopal, Methodist and Lutheran
Churches, as well as a number of
colonization societies which orignal-ly
founded the republic of Liberia.
Although engaged in a definite
piece of work in Liberia, Mr. Sibley
participated in conferences at which
policies, embracing the future devel­opment
of practically the entire con­tinent,
were formulated. He was a
member of a group consisting of 200
delegates which convened in Lezonte,
Belgium, for the purpose of. outlining
plans for educational and missionary
work in Africa.
The keynote of the Belgium confer­ence,
Mr. Sibley declared, was that
"Africa should be developed for the
Africans," a policy in striking con­trast
to the former plan of exploita­tion.
The new policy formulated for the
development of Africa is two fold, as
follows; ,
First, the holding in trust of man­dated
groups and other colonial areas
for the benefit of the native Afri­cans;
second, the development of the
African countries as well as the Af­rican
dependecies.
Specifically, according to Mr. Sib­ley,
the Belgium conference, which
incidentally was the second inter­national
conference of its kind,
(Continued on page 6)
THE PRINCE OF
TEMPTERS'TO BE
SHOWN TUESDAY
BEN LYON PLAYS PART OF
PRINCE OF TEMPTERS
ON SCREEN
The proverbied Prince Charmings
relinquish their claim to the spot­light
as Ben Lyons looms up as the
Prince of Temptors in this magni­ficent
Universal screen production.
It has direction—sparkling direction
that holds you breathless in your
seat as the scenes unfold. It has a
story that you are willing to have
told you—a story that is worth while.
It has a cast that sets the story off
like a tiffany setting that displays
(Continued on page 6)
PROM NOTICE
All bids must be in the hands
of the Social Committee not
later than Monday, January 10.
No bids will be accepted after
that date.
Date of dances: Jan 27, 28,
and 29.
Orchestra: Zez Confrey.
See "Brother John" Garrett
for tuxedos.
The Y. M. C. A. Friendship Council
banquet marked the close of a suc­cessful
semester's work for the "Y"
discussion groups. The winning
group in the contest was entertained
at a two-course dinner, with inter­esting
talks by members of the coun­cil,
officers of the Y. M. C. A. and
guests.
The banquet was held at the Au­burn
Inn at seven o'clock, Decem­ber
10th, 1926. The record atten­dance
of eighty-four members of the
Friendship Council, officers of the
"Y" and guests were gathered to­gether
for the occasion.
• With J. M. Edwards, colonel, pre­siding,
an interesting program was
given, with a message by Dr. J. R.
Edwards, pastor of the Baptist church
as the feature of the evening. J.
Ward Nelson, state "Y" secretary,
could not stay for all of the program
so he "blew in, blew up, and blew
out." Several students gave inter­esting
talks on the different phases
of the work of the Friendship Coun­cil.
The chairmen of the committees
made their reports for the semester.
HAMILTON TELLS
STORIES ABOUT
THEATRE IDOLS
INTIMATE SKETCHES OF
STAGE'S GREAT TAKES
PLACE ON PROGRAM
During the Christmas holidays of
1926 the most unexpected calamity
befell the members of the Sigma Nu
fraternity in the destruction of their
new home by fire, Christmas eve
night, December 24th. The losses
of which the insurance covers. The
are estimated at $35,000 only $24,000
house was the second completed on'
Fraternity Row under the auspices
of the college. The spring of 1926
marked the completion of the "frat"
house. It was regarded with pride
not only by the members but by the
college in general.
The fire is said to have been caused
by a stove pipe falling in the kitch­en,
a fire being built for the purpose
of heating water. The two members
who had built the fire were remain­ing
in Auburn during the holidays,
but had gone to Opelika just before
dark. As soon as the news spread
an attempt was made to extinguish
the consuming flames as they rapid­ly
spread in the strong wind that pre­vailed.
The nearest water plug in
front of the library was used, but
the hose being so old and the dis­tance
so great it immediately burst
when full pressure was reached.
The insurance company is making
plans for the reconstruction. During
this time members of the Sigma Nu
fraternity are living in private homes
scattered throughout Auburn, until
the Davis' home is completed, which
is located on the corner of Gay street
and Magnolia avenue. They will oc­cupy
this house until their own is
completed.
Everyone enjoins in sympathy
with them for their loss and wishes
them success in soon recovering from
the disaster.
DR. EDWARDS IS
RAT SPREAKER
ON THURSDAY
BENEFITS OF COLLEGE
TRAINING DISCUSSED
BY BAPTIST MINISTER
Dr. Edwards of the Auburn Bap­tist
Church delivered a very impres­sive
address to the Freshmen class
last Tuesday. Dr. Edwards stated
that every man should ask himself
the question, "What am I worth."
There are several ways a man may
be analyzed when his worth is sought.
According to the chemist a man is
worth about ninety-eight cents: ac­cording
to the economic analysis a
man is worth what he can make. A
man, however, is not worth what he
can make or what he costs. Dr. Ed-
(Continued on page 6)
The Auburn Players at their reg­ular
meeting. Monday night enjoyed
a most interesting variation in the
program in the form of a lecture by
Prof. Harry L. Hamilton in which
he related with his characteristic
individualism intimate stories about
the great names of the theatre. The
speaker has had close contact with
many great actors and actresses eith­er
as a member of their troupes or
as a spectator behind the scenes.
Prof. Hamilton has had a wide exper­ience
in amateur and professional
dramatics. He is planning to stage
a musical show early in February
which will prove to be greater and
more beautiful in costumes, settings
and novel color effects than anything
before attempted by the local drama­tists.
New drapes are being secured
and brilliant new and original sets
to be designed and executed in the
local studio. Much interest has been
shown in the preparation for the
coming production to make it the
one big show of the season.
PROGRAM
College Show
Monday, January 10
3:00 P. M. and 7:30 P. M.
"BIG PARADE"
Starring John Gilbert, Renee
Adoree, Karl Dane, Hobart Bos-worth.
Special Symphony Or­chestra.
Tuesday, January 11
"PRINCE OF TEMPTERS"
With Ben Lyons and Lois
Moran.
Wednesday, January 12
"THE CITY"
Starring May Allison, Wal­ter
McGraw, Richard Walling.
Friday, January 14
"MIDNIGHT LOVERS"
With Lewis Stone and Anna
Q. Nilsson.
Saturday, January 15
'"THE WRECK"
With Shirley Mason and M.
McGregor.
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" STAFF FOR 1926-27
S. H. Lynne Editor-in-Chief
F. A. Smith Business Manager
H. G. Grant —Faculty Adviser
~~~~~~ EDITORIAL STAFF
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REPORTERS
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J. B. McMillan_*29 K. Kimbrough—'28
Coke Metthews.,29 Chas. Howard—'30
J. W. Mills —.'30 V. Savage, Jr.—'30
J. D. Salter '30 B. B. C. Lile—_'30
G. N. Sparrow—'30 J. F. Mitchell-—'30
Harry Wise —-'28
BUSINESS STAFF
H. C. Hopson Ass't. Bus. Mgr.
William Frank .Advertising Manager
T. T. Wall : Circulation Manager
George Hann__ Ass't. Circulation Manager
Hershel Hatchett ..Mailing Clerk
A. V. Blankenship Mailing Clerk
H. W. Glover Ass't Advertising Mgr.
L. P. Dumas Ass't Advertising Mgr.
Jupiter Pluvius, who substituted for
Santa Claus this Yuletide, did much to
dampen the ardor of the holiday crowds.
It seems that the increased demand and
diminished supply of illicitly distilled al­cohol
in Lee county has driven the price
upward in Montgomery where the supply
is unaffected.
Several boys who were fortunate enough
ratisvnity pins as Christmas
theii while sweethearts
if they had been dealt a mortal
Ail of which go - prove that the
heart as an element in reasoning is very
fallacious. Their minds would immediate­ly
reach the conclusion that, providing that
said pins were returned in their original
condition sans the substitution of paste
jewels, the gifts were investments.
Longfellow's well known poem, "The
Brook" might as aptly be christened "The
Tide" when one considers the significance
of several of its lines:
"Men may come, and men .may go;
But I go on forever."
In the language of the Crimson Tide of
Alabama it would become:
"Stars may come and stars may go;
But I go on forever."
Now that the holiday festivities are
things of the past, we eagerly await the
results of further investigations and the
subsequent trials due to the Halls-Mills
murder mystery.
Broken hearts and broken pocketbooks
seem to be synonimous terms.
"The Battle of Horse-Shoe Bend" should
be the title for some lucky novelist to profit
by. The setting would naturally be the
Rose Bowl out in California while plenty
of local color could be supplied by the
crimson jersied hosts over at the Uni­versity.
Now that the public has been fed up on
exposures of crime, Paris decrees a far
more attractive exposure. Feminine charms
are to come to light with the shortening
of skirts by several inches.
Now that the holidays, originally in­tended
for days of rest are over, local stu­dents
are planning on catching up on their
lost sleep.
What has become of the mooted ques­tion:
"Which will be the more successful,
the greasy grind or the star athlete?"
Incidentally we should like to know what
»-a~ fceome of the greasy grind.
BE HONEST
Preserve your honor and in so doing
you will be a blessing to your institution,
your fellow students, your professor, your
friends, and most of all a blessing and
honor to your father and mother who are
back at home working day after day in
order that you may get a bit of training
at college.
Picture in your mind two boys in the
same class, occupying adjoining seats and
taking the same test, one of which is pull­ing
his hair trying to think of the answer
to a question while the other is taking life
easy and copying the answer to the same
question from his note book. Two or
three days later the same students receive
their papers with a grade attached. The
guy who copied received a higher grade
than the one who took it fair. This con­tinues
until the honest student becomes
entirely disgusted in the fact that he is
not getting a fair deal.
Does the student who "cribs" on the
tests ever stop to think what he is doing
and what his father and mother thinks
of such a thing? If your father or mother
were to pat you on the back and ask what
you are doing when you are copying from
a note book, what would be your answer?
You would feel like flying to some isolated
place on earth and saying "Father, Mother,
you have done your part, but I have dis­graced
you, myself and relatives by trying
to "crib" my way through college, I have
been caught and am now ready to die but
not as my father's and mother's son but
as one who has done as the devil would
have me do. Oh! If-I could only be what
my father and mother always taught m
to be."
A man is not a man if he cribs on a quiz.
He is not worthy of having his name in any
college. He is a coward and no depend­ence
can be put in what he says or does.
He should be kicked out of college and
never allowed to enter any public occu­pation.
It would be hard to see them go
but there is nothing so deceiving as a
thief. He not only disgraces himself but
disgraces the institution and his fellow
men.
If this fits you, wear it, but if it does
not, let it pass without giving it too much
thought. What we want is honor and
honor is what we must have or else out
goes the honor system.
It hurts the honest students to sse dis­honesty
in the classes but the damage is
greatest to the man that gets his grades
dishonestly. In the long run it hurts the
student worse than he thinks at present.
THOUGHTS ON CHRISTIANITY
At the close of the holiday season in­cident
to the greatest religious celebra­tion
of the civilized world it might be
well for us to turn to a consideration of
the vital significance of the christian re­ligion.
P. O. Davis, editor of The Digest, de­lightful
monthly magazine published by
the local Extension Service, presented his
views of the fundamentals of religion in
the December issue of this publication.
We pass his ideas on to you with our
heartiest endorsement of the views ex­pressed
by Mr. Davis:
"History teaches that' certain events
have resulted in a changed world. Among
them was the birth of Jesus Christ which
was heralded by a choir of angels although
His birthplace was a manger. Wise men,
guided by a star, came from afar to visit
Him while kings were aroused and looked
and listened with jealous eyes and ears.
"From the hour of His birth until this
day the world has been different because
of Him. A new philosophy, and a new
law of life were ushered in. He fulfilled
the old law and established a new. Laws
and customs dating back to the Egyptian
bondage of the Israelites were swept aside
and a perfect law established upon the
earth.
"A search of all history reveals no char­acter
like Jesus. As a teacher, as a man
of action, as a thinker, as a philosopher
no man has compared with Him in breadth
of vision and range of action. His philos­ophy
of life was amazingly correct in de­tail;
and it is just as true today as it was
when He walked the shores of Galilee.
"After 2,000 years of testing His sys­tem
of ethics, life, and religion remains
true and feasible in daily life. It will be
true forever because He spoke the truth,
lived the truth; and truth is eternal.
"The accuracy of this statement is
proved by comparing the teachings of
Jesus with others. Plato was a great
thinker, a man of much learining for his
day; but his teachings failed when put to
the acid test. Experience has revealed
his errors.
"A new religion and a new system of
ethics were introduced by Mohammed and
adopted by millions of human beings but
they have decayed as a nation. While
once there were cities there are now des­erts
and villages. Instead of going for­ward
they have gone backward.
"Likewise, acceptance of the teachings
,i Buddha resulted in mental, moral, and
.naterial decay; and this decay is being
felt in the religious, social, and economic
•life of his followers and of the world.
"And the same is true of all others who
might be considered with Jesus. They can­not
be compared with Him because they
do not compare with Him. They were all
human while He was divine; and one who
is only human cannot compare with Him
who was both human and divine. He was
clothed with the spirit and knowledge of
God, being sent to the earth by God on
a supreme mission. His every action, His
doctrine, His life, and experience of 2,000
years have established his divinity.
"As human beings others have taught
men and women how to establish govern­ments
while Jesus taught them how to
perfect their minds. Above all, He em­phasized
love—love of God and of each
other for these are the two greatest com­mandments.
"Try as hard as they may, no other
has ever uttered a message worthy of con­sideration
along with the Sermon on the
Mount as found in the 5th, 6th, and 7th
chapters of St. Matthew. It is remarkable
for its simplicity and completeness, being
as applicable today as it was the day it
was delivered.
"Into the humblest homes and into the
most expensive mansions Jesus enters and
comforts. The humblest peasants and the
most determined rulers accept Him. The
dethroned Kaiser of Germany—once pic­tured
as the most cruel of warlords—ad­mits
that to him Jesus is a 'living pres­ence,
not a picture on a glass window.'
"Every president the United States
has ever had has accepted the religion and
power of Jesus. The same has been true
of the most humble citizen though far
from the busy affairs of American life.
"Without this teaching, this religion,
this power of Jesus, this country of ours
would not be the greatest country of the
world. The religion of Jesus makes for
a great nation, humble but progressive
people, and complete life and development.
Thus is it proper to observe Christmas, the
birthday of Jesus."
WHO IS THE THIEF?
During the past holidays it seems that
a very determined attempt was made to
deprive the college of its already sadly
inadequate money supply. Perhaps the
burglar or burglars needed a little spend­ing
money during the Christmas holidays,
and having neither will power nor scruples,
hit upon this scheme to enrich himself at
the college's expense. Very ingenuous, it
is true, but the would-be thief or gang of
thieves reckoned without one thing. Be­ing
amateurs and without so -much as
primary training in the gentle art of safe­cracking,
they were baffled by the heavy
door to the vault.
It is very fortunate for the students
that this disgraceful occurence happened
at a time when all the college men and
women were absent. We are happy in­deed
to know that there can be no im­plication
of the honor of the student body.
It is doubtful as to whether or not the
robbery would have been attempted had
the students been here to protect the
property of the school.
With detectives at~work on the case, an
arrest may be expected any date. It is
understood that finger prints were in the
possession of these sleuths and with sus­picion
hovering over the heads of certain
individuals, identification should follow
immediately.
We should resent this despicable act
and be on the watch for any clues which
might lead to the arrest of the cowardly
scounderls. Robbery of private individu­als
is within itself a vile crime, but when
an individual seeks to unlawfully enrich
himself at the expense of the wellfare of
his fellow man, the fellony is all the more
odious. -~
That someone within the city of Au­burn
was implicated in the deal is a severe
indictment to return against the citizens
of the villiage who have given their ef­forts
toward the growth of the school.
Yet it is apparent that the crude job was
the work of someone who evidently knew
his surroundings well. We call on you,
citizens of Auburn, to vindicate your good
name by discovering the culprits and
punishing them accordingly.
THE RED MENACE
Fire, the invincible element, destroyed
one of our most beautiful fraternity hous­es
when the Sigma Nu house was burned
to the ground during the holiday period.
Only a solitary chimney marks the place
where the beautiful structure formerly
stood.
Inadequacy of fire equipment cost t
college and students thousands of dollars,
a loss which might easily have been pre­vented.
Time after time the inadequacy
of the present arrangement has been im
pressed on the citizens of Auburn and yet
nothing has been done to curb the fury of
fire on the plains.
Statements were made to the effect
that the house could have been saved if
the fire fighters had had command of suf­ficient
water pressure.
Old residents recall the burning of the
old agricultural building when the college
was plunged deeply into debt by a fire,
the full damage of which might have beer
averted had the pressure been sufficient.
The fire truck which the city now pro-
BOOK REVIEW CONDUCTED BY
MEMBERS OF FACULTY
Edited by John B. Clark, A.M., Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
An Introduction to Money and Credit,
James D. Magee, Croft* and Company,
N. Y. City, 1926.
To even the casual observer there can
be little doubt as to the rapidly increasing
interest in the science of Economics, and
more particularly those phases of the sub­ject
which concern practical business. A
flood of books—many of them worth­while—
is coming from the press. Books
dealing with marketing, economic statis­tics,
business organization and manage­ment,
money, credit, and banking con­stitute
the bulk of these newer publica­tions.
In the book named at the head of th:
page, Professor James D. Magee, Head
Professor of Economics in New York Uni­versity,
presents the most recent, com­plete,
and yet the most interesting history
of the important subjects of money and
credit. The text will inevitably fill a
fong-felt need for a satisfactory treatise
on this phase of economics. Professor
Magee's book, although it makes no at­tempt
to offer a full history of banking,
will prove very helpful in many instances
fesses to operate is hopelessly antiquated
and is helpless in combating a large blaze,
A volunteer department at its best is a
poor substitute and when it is poorly or­ganized,
is of little use.
College property is too valuable to
fail to protect it and the hazard attendant
on the menace of fire is too great for
negligence. With the present cloister of
old buildings which are veritiable fire traps,
a conflagration might easily sweep away
our most useful structures, entailing ai
enormous loss of property and perhaj
life.
Civic growth is as much dependent oi
a competent fire department as an adc
quate water supply. As long as Auburn
is unprotected from flames it is folly
to suppose that outsiders will consider it
a desirable location in which to settle
down and build.
We have had our lesson, a costly
at that, and we should certainly profi
by it.
BLIND TIGER
'Evenin' gentl'm'n, hie—I got hic-hic,
a ques'on t' ax yuh. HIC. Why is it
it -hie- that all th' gurls is ashamed uf
their faces, I mean th' Coeds. They all
have to rebuild their face every mornin'
so they won't be 'shamed to wear them in
public. HIC! I move we appoint a con­gressional
com-hic committee to 'vester-gute
th' siturvation. HIC.
Rat Price: "Is Prof- 'Pup' dumb?"
Rat Lichty: "Dumb? Why he bought
a ticket to see the "Big Parade,' and stood
outside for two hours watching for it to
Gentlemen Prefer Blonde*
Rat Springer: "Why do gentlemen
prefer blondes?"
Frank: "They are tired of squeezing
blackheads."
Wooten: "Are mine the only lips you
ever kissed?"
Rat Parker: "Yes, darling, and the
nicest.''
Lefty:
things."
Wifie:
me why
sleep last night."
"Shut up, or I'll tell you a few
"You might begin by telling
you called me 'baby' in your
• Francis Moore: praying) "Dear Lord,
I don't ask for anything for myself, but
please give Mother a son-in-law."
Capt. Cushman: "What's that on your
neck?"
Plebe: "A freckle, sir."
Capt. Cushman: "Well, If it's a freckle,
it's the first one I've ever seen that could
move." '
John Thomas: (looking at his picture)
"These ears remind me of the front fend­ers
on an automobile."
Dean Petrie: (in history quiz) "What
was the Mayflower Compact?"
Co-ed Price: "Sir, it is a new 'beauty
compact creation' that contains a powder
made from flowers that bloom in the
month of May, sold by Holmes and Gar­rett."
Dr. Morphet: "Miss Nesbit, what is the
outstanding contribution of the middle
ages to Modern Youth?"
Nesbit: "Chaperones, Doggone 'em."
Prof. Naftel: (in chemistry) "William
Bryant, name four bases."
Rat Bryant: "Firs*, second, third, an
home." "S
where the older books on money and bank­ing
fall short.
This text appears to be well-proportion­ed
as to topic space. It has thirty-eight
chapters, with 467 pages. Among the im­portant
chapters are those on Reasons for
the Study of Money and Credit, the Origin
and Functions of Money, Monetary Sys­tems,
Index Numbers, Price Movements,
Domestic and Foreign Exchange, Theory
and Practice of Bimetallism, Effects of
the World War on Monetary Affairs, etc.
In plain, non-technical language the author
presents an authentic and refreshing dis­cussion
of practically all phases of the
important subjects of money and credit,
covering not only its history in the United
States up to the late summer of 1926,' but
he deals also with the money and credit
affairs of many of the foreign nations.
This text is refreshing in that it has
a free and unorthodox style of presenta­tion.
It manifests the author's profound
knowledge of the subjects treated. It is
simple and lucid,—adjectives that can
seldom be applied in describing works of
this character. Those who know Professor
Magee personally expect nothing short
of the best in his productions. He leaves
nothing unexplained. His style is analy­tical.
He is good on the "whys," the caus­es
and effects. Exceedingly valuable
features of the work are comprehensive
sets of tables such as the world production
of gold and silver, given by the different
nations, from earliest times to the present;
index numbers of prices covering long
periods of years, etc. Another very vital
and stimulating feature is the two pages
of questions or projects following each
chapter. Adequate references to parallel
readings are cited. Although marred
times by lack of a discriminating eye c
the part of the proof-reader, the work at
a whole is well done.
J. B. C.
The Royal Road to Romance
Richard Halliburton, author, traveler,
lecturer, roughneck and gentleman, objects
to being called "the boy who dared to
live his dreams," but he did just that. Not
only does he dare to live his own dreams,
but he does the things all of us long to do
and so few of us actually go through wit
In his vastly entertaining book of travel,
The Royal Road to Romance, which i;
much more interesting than fiction be­cause
it is true and therefore sounds im
possible, Halliburton gives us his own per­sonality
on every page. It is this quality
of alert life and vibrant enjoyment of ad­venture
which makes the book a best seller,
the only contemporary book of travel to
achieve this distinction.
Dick Halliburton is the son of a wealthy
planter of Memphis, Tennessee, a man
who has a yearning to write of his ow.
rich impressions of a life of vital hap
penings. In his son he sees a realizatioi
of the things which he has always dreamed
of doing—and has not dared to do. Th
mother of young Halliburton is that r.
cious and all too rare person, a mother
who puts the welfare of her son above
her natural desire to have him always
with her. She feels that when a boy
reaches the age of twelve, he should dc
cide what he wants life to give him and
what he wants to give to life. Some peo­ple
feel that a boy of twelve is too young
to know his own mind, but Mrs. Hallibur­ton
contends that it is then that a boy
is at his most sensitive stage, when he is
alive to life which he does not understand
and enthusiastic as he looks for the oppor­tunities
which he imagines lie ahead of
him.
Dick Halliburton was sent to Lawrence-ville,
the famous preparatory school for
Princeton University, and later went to
Princeton. Hrere he found many boys
like himself, of wealthy families with lib­eral
allowances and unlimited freedom
to form social contacts. He says that
somehow, vaguely, he felt that all of them
were being cheated of something. Halli­burton
is not one long to endure the feel­ing
that he was being cheated of any thing,
especially if that something were life, ad
venture, romance. Soon after, he made
another dream come true and ran away
from home. He appreciated the fact that
it was a beautiful home, filled with the
ones he loved better than anyone on earth
and with comforts which he enjoyed im­measurably,
but he felt that he had to
prove that he could provide comforts for
himself by means of his own efforts.
There were moments in New Orleans, to
which he fled from his past restraint oi
wealth, when he had good reason to doubt
his ability to provide the comforts, or
even the necessities of life. When h'
parents learned where he was, instead of
sending for him to come home, they sent
a hundred dollars so that he might stay in
New Orleans and go through with the
thing he started. As a stevedor along the
ill-smelling wharf of the Mississippi port,
Dick worked harder than he had ever
imagined a human being could work ar.
still live. His money gave out and wl
a strike of the longshoremen came along,
his courage almost gave out, as well. Al­most,
but not enough that he wanted to
go home. A well-aimed blow on the head
by one of the strikers put Halliburton on
a charity cot in the hospital. He had been
a scab, because to give up his job as a
stevedor, he would have had to endure star­vation
or go home—to acknowledge him­self
beaten by life and to become a de­pendent
on his wealthy father for the rest
of his life. He left the hospital too soon
and shortly returned to the same cot.
When he was discharged from the hospital,
a grim bandage on his head lead a sea
captain to mistake him for a tough old
salt, so Dick got a job as a seaman on a
ship, thus fulfilling another dream of eve­ry
college boy.. A frightful ship it was,
unseaworthy, rotten, barnacle-infested,
but it was a ship and as such would carry
hifni^tft'-strange lands, provided it held to­gether
long enough. The captain of the
ship was a tyrant and the crew the tough­est
gang of outlaws on the seven seas,
but to young Halliburton they represented
at least life and adventure, if not romance.
After they left port, however, and the
rough life of the sea, coupled with an epi­demic
of boils, had begun to buffet him
about, the seeker of adventure decided he
had been clutching to a false bubble. When
the ship put in to Norfolk with a defective
propeller, Dick quit the ship; he asked
for two days leave and the captain, in
granting it, implied that he would be de­lighted
if his young sailor never came back
to the ship. In fact, Dick had no inten­tion
of coming back to it. Here enters
that Spartan mother again, who had r
intention of allowing her son to give v
life as a bad job. She astonished him i
making him return to his ship, then cf
lapsed in her husband's arms when Dick
went back.
Halliburton tells what happened next
so graphically, so colorfully, that his own
book must be read so that one might get
a distinct picture of this aesthetic-rough­neck.
Adventures in England, in France
are told so clearly that one seems to know
the spots he desscribes as well as he. learns
to know the author as he pours out his
youthful enthusiasm and zest for life on
the pages. He climbed Mount Matterhorn
at tremendous risk to limb and neck; ha
got in jail in Gibralter for taking snap­shots
of the fortress and spent a night on
top. of the Cheops pyramid; he took a
moonlight swim in the Nile and hunted
tigers in India with a Mennonite mission­ary;
in crossing the Siamese jungle, he
stepped on a corba's nest and narrowly
escaped death. He spent a night in the
Taj Mahal, that exquisite monument to
love built two hundred and eighty years
ago by the Emperor Shah Jehan to com­memorate
the perfection of his adored
wife, the Empress Mumtaz-i-Mahal. He
swam the Hellespont, that magic stream
where Leander swam to his death for
love and Byron swam for the sheer ro­mance
of it; that fact was enough to make
Halliburton determined to swim it and he
smiles when he says that he swam the
Hellespont on a can of sardines; the sar­dines,
however, were within him. All of
these things are told in The Royal Road
to Romance, told so amazingly well that
no one has been known to start reading
it and then put it down again before h
has finished reading the entire book.
Recently) this young adventurer took
the Odyssey for his guide book and fol­lowed
the journey of Ulysses, visiting the
island of the Cyclops, of Circe, of the
magic lands of the majestic Homeric
poem. His newer adventures are soon to
be published as The Glorious Adventure;
if the book is as interesting as The Royal
Road to Romance, its sale will smash the
records which the earlier book have set.
More copies of this book have been sold
than of any other travel book of its price
ever published. s
Put this book on your reading list. If
you like zestful, breath-taking stories of
adventure, of romance which really lives
and of romance which gets you involved in
its course because of the charm of the
writer, follow the trail of the man who
found the royal road to it.
Note: The Royal Road to Romance i
published by Bobbs-Merrill, price five
dollars.
—HARRY L. HAMILTON.
WHY ARE YOU IN COLLEGE?
What did you come to college to gain?
There are many answers to that question.
Many students come to college to have
some place to spend four years away from
home. Others are in college because their
parents want them to be a "college man."
A few young people come to college in
order that they may be able to do something
worthwhile for society in their brief life.
Why are you in college? Are you here
to learn how to make money? If that is the
only reason, then you should not be here.
Are you here because your parents sent
you? If so, you will always be hunting
"snaps." The student who is getting
most out of college is the one who is here
to be equipped for life's work. He puts
his best into his college work, and it is
certain he will get the most out of it. He
KNOWS why he is in college. Do you?
—O. B. U., Shawnee, Oklahoma.
THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
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IN ANY group of regular fellows, you'll find
Prince Albert. It belongs. It speaks the lan­guage.
You get what we mean the minute you
tamp a load of this wonderful tobacco into the
bowl of your jimmy-pipe and make fire with
a match.
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with never a regret.
Buy a tidy red tin of P. A. today. Throw
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BULLET1NB0ARD
Sunday, January 9
At the several Churches: Sunday
School 9:30; morning services 11:00
a.m.; Young People's organizations
6:30; and evening services 7:30 p.m.
Y. W. cabinet meeting, Y -Hut. 1:30
p.m.
Monday, January 10
Y. Normal meeting, Y. M. C. A.,
6:30 p.m.
Auburn Players, Y Hut, 7:00 p.m.
S. A. M. E., Engineers room base­ment
Main building, 7:00 p.m.
Pharmaceutical Association, Phar­macy
building, 6:45 p.m.
Evans Literary Society, third floor
Main building, 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday, January 11
Wirt, Websterian and Wilsonian
Literary Societies, their respective
rooms third floor main building, 7:00
p.m.
Phi Delta Gamma, 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 12
A. I. E. E., 7., room 200, Ramsay
Hall; A.S.M.E., room 109, Ramsay
Hall; Ag. Club, Comer Hall; Archi­tectural
Association, second floor of
Main building; Chemical Society,
Chemistry biulding, and V.M.A., Vet­erinary
building, 7:00 p.m.
Friday. January 13
A. S. C. E., room 109, Ramsay Hall,
7:00 p.m.
R.O.T.C. UNIT ORGANIZED
INTO THREE BATALLIONS
(Continued from page 1)
Tulane has started a drive to
raise .funds for the erection of a j
music hall on her campus. The
name. of. the hall is to be "Dixon
Hall," and will cost about $100,000.
About $10,000 had been raised be­fore
Christmas.
"Girls used to be talked about if
they wore their dresses up to their
knees, but now they're ostracized if
they wear them down to their knees."
—Va. Tech.
OF BIRMINGHAM
AUBURN BRANCH
—In the—
IDEAL LAUNDRY
THE
TOGGERY SHOP
COLLEGE JEWELRY
SPORTING GOODS
MEN'S WEAR
I n t he
Orange & Blue Soda Co.
COMMISSION OF
FORESTRY SENDS
WEEKLY LETTER
Montgomery — Special investiga­tions
are being conducted by the
State Commission of Forestry with
View to demarcating more closely the
forest land areas of the state. A
more exact defining of the regions
that are likely to remain in forest
growth as distinguished from other
uses of land is regarded essential in
order to make the limited funds av­ailable
for forestry work go as far
as possible. Frequent requests for
the establishment of forestry districts
are received by the Commission, of
Forestry and in all cases these are
given very close consideration.
B. J. JONES
Shoe R e p a i r i n g •
neatly done with
Goodyear Machine
17 years' service for
the students
Best materials used
all work guaranteed
Next door to Print
Shop.
"$ay it 'With <&lo1vers"
FOR ALL OCCASIONS
ROSEMONT GARDENS
FLORISTS
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
Homer Wright, Local Agent for Auburn
Two guiding principles in the es­tablishment
of forestry districts are
the forest character of the land to
be included and the desire of the
local residents to cooperate among
themselves and with the state in pro­tecting
and developing the forest re­sources
of the community. The ter­ritory
within the districts thus far
established is eighty-one per cent for­est
land and the districts average
nearly three hundred thousand acres
each.
Obviously no single ranger through
his own- physical exertions can sup­press
all the fires that may originate
over such an extensive area. How­ever,
he can assist materially in co­ordinating
the efforts of the forest
landowners, meanwhile doing all that
one man can in the way of detecting
and extinguishing fires in their in-cipiency.
During times of high haz­ard,
the bulk of the work in extin­guishing
fires must naturally be per­formed
by the owners of the threat­ened
property and their friends and
helpers. In most localities the reali­zation
of the harm done to the entire
community through damage to its
forest resources has resulted in large
numbers of volunteer workers turn­ing
out to fight fire.
THE RHYME OF THE RESTLESS
ONES
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For your parties and feeds ask your
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Montgomery, Alabama.
We couldn't sit and study for the
law;
The stagnation of a bank we
couldn't stand;
For our riot blood was surging, and
we didn't need much urging
To excitements and excesses that
are banned.
So we took to wine and drink and
other things,
And the devil in us struggled to
be free;
Till our friends rose up in rath, and
they pointed out the path,
. And they paid our debts and
packed us o'er the sea.
Oh, they shook us off and shipped
us o'er the foam,
To the larger lands that lure a man
to roam;
And we took the chance they gave
Of a far and foreign grave,
And we bade good-bye for evermore
to home.
And some of us are climbing on the
peak,
And some of us are camping on
the plain;
By pine and palm you'll find us,
WIRT SOCIETY
H0LDSMEETING
The Wirt Literary Society held a
very interesting meeting Tuesday
night in Wirt Hall. The largest
crowd of this semester was there,
and much enthusiasm was shown by
everyone.
The president made a speech in
which he outlined the policy which
he hoped that the society would fol­low
this year. His schedule called
for a larger membership, and he
pledged himself to help bring this
about.
Mr. M. T. Gowder spoke on "How
the Society can be Made Better,"
and it was a very enthusiastic talk.
He urged everyone to help make this
year the best in the history of the
society.
Mr. J. R. Sudduth told how he
spent his holidays. He gave a very
interesting account of his Christmas
vacation. Miss Estelle Sentell spoke
on "The Ways to Improve the So­ciety."
She urged the members to
be regular in attendance, and to pre­pare
their parts well.
Misses Bethune, Pinnell, and
Hutcheson made speeches in which
they expressed their desire to see
the society grow. Messrs. Moore, Le-
Croy, Wood, Christensen, Lynch,
Thomas, Davis, Comer, Culpepper,
Strub, and Tatum, all made excel­lent
seepches, and expressed their
desire to see the society function bet­ter
in the new year than it did last
year.
By track and trail you'll meet us
once again.
We are water serfs of freedom—sky
and sea;
We have failed where slummy
cities overflow;
But the stranger ways of earth know
our pride and know our worth,
And we go into the dark as fight­ers
go.
Yes, wo go into the night as brave
men go,
Though our faces they be often
streaked with woe;
Yet we're hard as cats to kill,
And our hearts are reckless still,
And we've danced with death a doz­en
times.
And you'll find us in Alaska after
gold,
And you'll find us herding cattle
in the South.
We like strong drink and fun, when
the race is run,
We often die with curses in our
mouth.
We are wild as colts unbroke, but
never mean.
Of our sins we've shoulders broad
to bear the blame;
But we'll never stay in town and we'll
never settle down,
And wel'U never have an object or
an aim.
No, there's that in us th eittamA
No. there's that in us that -time can
never tame;
And life will always seem a calre-les
game;
And they'd better far forget—
Those who say they love us yet—
Forget, blot out with bitterness our
name.
—SERVICE.
W. M. Marks to Adjutant, 3rd Bat­talion;
Cadet 1st Lt. C. A. Johnson
to Personnel Adjutant, 3rd Battal­ion;
Cadet Capt. J. D. Stewart to
Regimental Adjutant; Cadet Capt.
J. C. Lovelace to Command, Battery
A; Cadet Capt. W. E. Kaley to Com­mand,
Battery B; Cadet Capt. M.
E. Stephens to Regimental Supply
Officer; Cadet 1st Lt. R. M. Hardy
to Adjutant, 1st Battalion; Cadet 1st
Lt. J. B. Walters to Battery D.
The following appointment of Cad­et
Non Commissioned officers in the
Engineer, ROTC Unit, of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, are an­nounced,
effective this date:
To be First Sergeants, Hancock,
S. L. Alston, W. 'D., Whitten, L. S.
To be Staff Sergeants, Meadows,
B. T., Croom, S. G., Wilson, D. Q.,
Lile, R. O., Hunbory, H. M., Weath-erby,
W. C, Pearson, R. B.
To be Sergeants, Bankston, W.
E., Walls, A. G., Young, W. W.,
Nuckolls, E. B., Scott, J. W., Wright,
W. E. Wilkins, M. K. Umbenhauer,
S., Hurt, W. C, Wilson, J. Avery,
Martin, E. T., Okel, W. J.
To be Corporals, Woodall, C,
Pearce, T. H., Easterly, L. A., Col-lum,
A. J., Floyd, W. C, Jackson, L.
E., Nichols, H. L., Sikes, D. O., Wil­son,
J. Aubrey, Rush, C. C, Hayes,
W. B., Bates, V. A., Feagin, J. S.,
Jones, H. G., Smith, H. B., Matthews,
R. J., Sims, H. B., Chambers, J. W.,
Dennis, H. B., Floyd, H. L., Kahn,
M. E., Williams, J. W., Hakasson,
G., Malone, F. M., Jones, J. B.
The following appointments of Ca­det
Non-Commissioned Officers in
the Field Artillery ROTC Unit of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, are
announced, effective this date:
To be First Sergeants, Tatum, S.
S., Battery A; Hydrick, J. E., Bat­tery
B; Cullars, E.,^ Battery C;
Stephens, P. A., Battery D; Root, E.
W., Battery E; Longshore, W. H.,
Battery F; Sankey, B. T., Battery
G; Apps, C. N., Battery H.
To be Sergeants, Allen, A. C, Bat­tery
A; McKnight, S. D., BatteryA;
Wylie, B., Battery A; Clarke, C. A.,
Battery A; Smith, E. V., Battery
A; Jones, R. B., Battery B; Hagood,
A. C, Battery B; Christensen, C. A.,
Battery B; Burnett, C. A., Battery
B; McKinnon, R. P., Battery B;
Stowe, C. S„ Battery C; Miller, R.
O., Battery C; Rudder, W. H., Bat­tery
C; Threadgill, W. A., Battery
C; Salter, J. H., Battery C; La-
Grene, G. H., Battery D; Discker,
E. G., Battery D; Cardwell, F., Bat­tery
D; Moore, G. A., Battery D;
Tucker, F. L., Battery D; Horgley,
W. J., Battery E; McKenzie, W. H.,
Battery E; Gregory, W. H., Battery
E; Jones, J. L., Battery E; Weaver,
J. H., Battery E; Jones, T. H., Bat­tery
F; Johnson, H. T., Battery F;
Jackson, D. M., Battery F; Power,
W..A., Jr., Battery F; Grinelle, D.
C, Battery F; Beard, J. B., Battery
G; McLendon, J. C, Battery G;
Burns, W. M., Battery G; Foster, N.
B., Battery G; Coleman, G. M., Bat­tery
G; Beck, A. M., Battery H;
Rumph, J. G., Battery H; Salter, E.
G., Battery H; Thomas, J. W., Bat­tery
H; Wiggins, H. A., Battery H.
To be Corporals, Bottcker, E. C,
Battery A; Clayton, J. H., Battery
A; Copeland, W. D., Battery A;
Cunningham, H. M., Battery A; Mc-
Leod, H. M., Battery A; Mosley, L.
L., Battery A; Richardson, O. P.,
Battery A; Singleton, A. C, Battery
A; Spinks, E., Battery A; Foster,
R. L., Battery B; Harkins, B. F.,
Battery B; Hornaday, P., Battery
B; Jones, N. P., Battery B; Oxford,
C. K., Battery B; Sitz, R. P., Bat­tery
B; Snow, H. A., Battery B;
Tamplin, L., Battery B; Wade, L.
G., Battery B; Whatley, H. D., Bat­tery
B; Threadgill, G. E., Battery
C; Campbell, J. A., Battery C; Ellis,
G., Battery C; Evans, R. B., Bat­tery
C; Fowler,--J. L., Battery C;
Fox, H. L., Battery C; Nunn, J. H.,
Battery C; Randle, J. W., Battery C;
Rush, C. S., Battery C; Sandlin, P.
E., Battery C; Shotts, T. B., Battery
C; Smuggs, W. A., Battery C; All-dredge,
T. D., Battery D; Colling, T.
H., Battery D; Crauch, T. J., Battery
D; Griffin, F., Battery D; Henter, J.
W. D. COPELAND
Staple and Fancy
Groceries and
Feeds
AG. CLUB NEWS
A short peppy program was en­joyed
by a large crowd at the first
meeting of the Ag Club after the
holidays.
Culver DeLoach discussed in a hu­morous
manner, "What I Did During
the Christmas Holidays." He describ­ed
his journey from Montgomery on
the "Sun Set Limited" to his home.
De Loach next told of taking his girl
to ride on an ox cart, and of how he
A., Battery D; Hodgen, F. A., Bat­tery
D; Howard, F. E., Battery D;
Savage, E., Battery D; Willis, R. H.,
Battery D; Wyatt, C. H., Battery D;
Andress, H. C, Battery E; Cameron,
A. L., Battery E; Carnes, S. A., Bat­tery
E; Condon, J. L., Battery E;
Dees, R. D., Battery E; Francis, A.
P., Battery E; McConnell, N. B.,
Battery E; Paterson, W. W., Bat­tery
E; Pirkle, R. J., Battery E;
Ribertsin, J. M., Battery E; Tucker,
J. D., Battery E; Vanderays, R. A.,
Battery E; Cargile, R. C, Battery
F; Carter, J. B., Battery F ; Hill, R.
R., Battery F; Winton, R. F., Bat­tery
F; Judkins, L. D., Battery F;
Kindik, H. F., Battery F; Martin, R.
H., Battery F; Potter, E. L., Battery
F; Tabor, H. L., Battery F; Wood,
N. C, Battery F; Herndon, L. H.,
Battery G; Houston, N., Battery G;
Jackson, W. V., Battery G; McCord,
O. W., Battery G; Paulk, B., Bat­tery
G; Sims, ' B. R., Battery G;
Smith, V. W., Battery G; Strother,
J., Battery G; Thigpen, D. C, Bat­tery
G; Tuxworth, F. E., Batterly
G; Ward, A. R., Battery G; Buck-shaw,
E. C, Battery H; Copper, H.
E., Battery H; Duncan, R. S., Bat­tery
H; Hopron, H. C, Battery H;
Lynn, J. A., Battery H; Matthews,
R. J., Battery H; Norris, N. G., Bat­tery
H; Pruitt, E. P., Battery H;
Webb, C. M., Battery H.
By order of Major Kennedy:
Kenneth G. Althaus,
Capt. Inf., Adjutant.
made love to her.
"How I Vamped so Many Girls
While at Home Christmas" by "Shor­ty"
Culpepper was thoroughly enjoy­ed
by everyone. "Shorty" said that
he did not really vamp any girls, but
that several tried to vamp him.
J. M. Matthews kept the Club
laughing for several minutes with
jokes of various kinds.
"The Alabama Farmer Program for
1927" was ably discussed by G. B.
Phillips. He said that everything
looked good for many subscriptions
to the Farmer are still coming in and
that he had heard many favorable
comments on the last issue of the
Farmer.
W. E. Collum outlined the work of
"The Commission of Forestry of Ala­bama."
He showed that many bene­fits
are derived from the forests,
and that we should do all we can to
prevent forest fires which are the
worst enemy of the forests. About
260 species of trees are found in the
forests of Alabama, he said.
"New Year Resolutions and Why
I Made Them" by "Red" Carter was
well received by the Club. However
"Red" said that his most important
resolutions were not for the public.
F. S. Arant made a few helpful
remarks. He stressed the importance
of beginning J» prepare for the an­nual
Ag Club banquet which is al­ways
the biggest thing on the campus.
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ATHLETICS AT AUBURN IN
YEAR 1927 IN RETROSPECT
There is much to be said about
Auburn's progress in the field of ath­letics
during the year 1926. There
has been many accomplishments, that
bring praise from the outside world
and joy to the hearts of the followers
of Orange and Blue athletes and ath­letic
events. There has been no
championship football team, no un­defeated
basketball quintet, nor a
baseball team that went through the
season with a perfect record. Never­theless
there has been the uncovering
of some very promising athletes who
bid fair to carry on the traditions of
the institution in a manner that
should prove satisfactory to all con­cerned.
There has been some thrill­ing
encounters with some of the best
athletic teams in the country in which
the Tiger of the Plains emerged vic­tor;
true the same Tiger has tasted
the bitter dregs of defeat on some
occasions.
To make a survey of the records
of the different athletic teams rep­resenting
Auburn during the season
of 1926 it is well to begin with the
basketball team. Under the dilli-gent
and skillful coaching of Mike
Papke the Auburn cagesters proved
themselves a worthy foe to all comers.
This was the first season the Plains­men
had been under the guidance
of Papke and naturally a champion­ship
team was not expected nor was
it realized. The only cagesters to
finish their career on the plains were
Bill McKinney and Bill Gray. These
two were worthy scrappers on the
basketball court and they shall be
missed by the older student spectators
at first. At the end of the season
the Tigers saw fit to elect Buck Ellis
to captain the 1927 squad and Sam
Hall manager. Just as the warm
days of spring gave warning that the
basketball season was coming to a
close, King David Morey issued the
first call for baseball candidates. On
the diamond Morey showed himself
a coach of no mean ability because
he took a bunch of inexperienced'
Sophomores and whipped them to­gether
into one of the fastest aggre­gations
in Southern Conference cir­cles.
The only artists of the diam­ond
to take their last stand in an
Auburn uniform were Cecil Stewart
and "Dog Face" Sheridan. These
two big league aspirants are at pres­ent
the property of the Birmingham
Baseball club of the Southern League.
The calibre of baseball exhibited by
these Tigers is evidenced by their
record of twenty victories out of
twenty-five starts. This string of
victories included several triumphs
over some of the highest rated teams
in the Southern Conference. Georgia
Tech was the only southern confer­ence
team to win a series from the
cohorts of Morey. With at least ten
letter men back from the 1926 squad
Morey should find littlg difficulty in
turning out a winning combination.
During the same time Morey was
having such success on the diamond,
Hutsell was putting one of the south's
greatest track teams on the path. In
Nelson, Snider, Greene and Baskin,
Auburn Had four of the South's best
and most versatile track men. These
four men represented Auburn in the
meet in Iowa making a wonderful
showing considering the strength of
the opposition met. They brought
back several medals to the Village
of the Plains. Auburn made her best
showing in track in a meet staged
in Birmingham by the Birmingham
Athletic club. In competition with
such colleges as Tech, Georgia, and
Alabama, AubuVn had little trouble
THE SAME
PLACE
in landing the high scoring position.
Baskin alone scored 26 points in this
meet which looks pretty good when
placed alongside the total of the Ala­bama
team. They managed to gar­ner
14 points for the day. Incident­ally
Baskin holds the southern rec­ord
for the 120 yard high hurdles.
His time is 14.6 seconds. This same
runner is to captain the cinder-path
team for the season of 1927. Anoth­er
potential man on the track team
was "Shorty" Morrow a distance run­ner
of much renown. This lad steps
off the two-mile in ten minutes eigh­teen
and two tenths seconds. It
might be well to say that the Tiger
track men did not lose a single dual
meet.
Auburn received another honor in
the field of athletics when the cross
country team landed in second place
in the Southern Conference cross
country meet held in Athens, Georgia,
late in October.
The best known of. all the teams
representing Auburn during the year
just past was the Orange and Blue
eleven. The season was the most
successful one from many angles of
the game. They won five games
with four reversals, one of which
came from the hands of a northern
foe, namely Marquette University.
The S. C. standing was a fifty-fifty
proposition. The crew of Auburnites
defeated Clemson, Sewanee, and Tu-lane,
and lost to L. S. U., Georgia,
and Georgia Tech.
The closing of the season was sad­dened
by the loss of such warriors as
Salter, Turner, Allen, Long, and Mar­ket.
"Pop" Paterson, was elected to
captain the destinies of the 1927
eleven with Bolton Shotts to be the
alternate captain.
TANGENTS FROM
SPORT CIRCLES
Coach Mike Papke sends his
charges against a foe for the initial
time this season when the Tiger cage­sters
journey over to Atlanta Satur­day
to take on the quintet from Geor
gia Tech. This game should prove
a thriller from many points of view
but mainly because of the keen rival­ry
that always exists when an Au­burn
team meets a Tech team. True
the teams will show a lack of the
finer points of the game that they
will acquire later on in the season
but they will show just as much pep
and fight as in any mid-season game.
* * * *
It seems to be a hard matter to
even make a guess as to the probable
lineup. To the average spectator
there seems to be two or three men
for each position with 'equal ability.
If Papke himself knows who will start
the game against the Yellow Jackets
he is certainly keeping it under his
hat. From the last year's team Hall
and Ellis seem to be showing more
stuff than any other. Mullins is a
youngster who is exhibiting some nice
work toward ringing goals which is
one of the main essentials of the
game.
* * * *
The coeds managed to bring home
the bacon in their first tilt of the
season. The girls from Athens Fe­male
College were unable to cope
successfully with the coeds and the
home girls came out of the encounter
with the large end of a 11-8 score.
This was not such a decisive victory
true enough but it was the first game
BUCK ELLIS
This lad pictured above is none
other than the captain of the basket­ball
team that is to represent Auburn
in southern circle for the present
season. It is George (Buck) Ellis
from Marve|, Alabama. He needs no
introduction to Auburn's host of ath­letic
followers having played on the
cage team last season and later on
the baseball and the football team.
Last spring Ellis was awarded the
Porter Loving Cup for being the
best all round athlete on the campus.
Incidentally he is the first three let­ter
man Auburn has boasted of since
Joe Harrison finished in 1924. There
is much that might be said about this
erstwhile athlete as to his ability,
sportsmanship, and earnestness both
off and on the athletic field, however,
the record he has made here speaks
for itself so well we will make no
further comment. Ellis is well known
on the campus and is a member of
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
of the season for the coeds and no
doubt they were diseased with a bit
of the much discussed stage fright.
* * * *
Stock rose slightly .in the Coed
basketball market last week when
Rubye Powell made her appearance
on the Plains. Last year she was
9
one of the mainstays on the team
and was the manager. She is prac­ticing
with the team every night now
and hopes to be in good condition by
the beginning of the second semester
at which time she will be eligible to
pacticipate in the games.
This is the first appearance of this
column since the first of the year I
and it is appropriate that some men­tion
should be made of the wonder­ful
showing of the Crimson Tide out
at Pasadena Bowl on New Year's
day. It was a great triumph for the
great University team to journey so
far and tie what had previously been
considered the best team in the coun­try.
Auburn students send their
heartiest congratulations to the Crim­son
Tide for their good showing.
* * * *
As our thoughts journey back to
football for a moment it reminds us
that Auburn was "in" on one of the
freak records of the year. The 88
yard run made by O'Keefe of Mar­quette
against Auburn was the long­est
run of the season on record made
by a player after receiving a forward
pass. The publicity is gratifying but
the fact that we were on the small
end of the play is a stinging remem­brance.
* • * *
We were very sorry to note that
our beloved football coach found it
necessary to undergo an operation
a few days ago. It is joyful news to
know that the operation has thus far
been a very successful one and no
danger seems probable. Morey was
selected as the southern representa­tive
at the- meet of the football
coaches of America which seems to
us a bit of prestige to the Tiger foot­ball
mentor.
"A" Club Initiates
Greatly Impressed
By Its Procedure
Saturday before the holidays was
the date of the annual A Club initia­tion
and it was quite evident to the
students and residents of Auburn that
the initiation was being carried
through with all of the old time vigor
and persistence that the Tiger war­riors
have and will always show when
there is work to be done. The cere­monies
are very impressive though
comical to the observer. The great­est
impressions are purely physical
but they are strong enough to react
on the intellect of any man that is
on the receiving end. (Ask Watt-wood).
Those taking the initiation
were Pearce, Carter, Snider, Fisher,
Howard, Wattwood, Burns, Vaughan,
Ingram, Collum, Sitz, Whigham, and
Spinks, and James. Each of these
had his particular part and was dress­ed
for the occasion. Pearce was a
very attractive maiden in his Gilda
Grey outfit and though Carter was
a salesman he spent most of his time
in pursuit of the elusive Gilda instead
of trying to dispose of his wares.
His line was ladies silk hose and per­haps
he was taking Gilda around for
a model. We will grant him that
much at least. Snider was another
debutante of the season and proved
to be just as fast as was reported
but in the track meet on College
Street he was beaten very decisively
by Fisher. Burns must have been
running for mayor as he had on Nel­son's
clothes and was talking more
than usual and that is characteristic
of the small town politician. Collum,
the other member of the fairer sex,
that was present surely missed his
calling. He should have been a girl
and come to Auburn as a coed. He
certainly had the qualifications as
far as looks were concerned. Spinks
was busy trying to collect money for
the A club scholarship fund and you
know what a job it is to collect
money in Auburn. We don't know
what Cunningham was representing
but we bet he knows that he was
not left out of the initiation.
AUBURN COEDS VICTORIOUS
OVER ATHENS COLLEGE
SAM HALL
The elongated cagester shown
above is assuming the duties of man­ager
of the present Tiger basketball
team and from the appearance of the
schedule thus far it seems that he
knows his job in a most pleasing man­ner.
Sam has been a member of the
quintet here for the past two seasons
playing center most of the time. He
has shown himself a skillful player
and one of the hardest fighters to
aspire for the team in many a season.
They came, they saw, but they
failed to conquer. Thus might be
told the story of the visit of the bas­ketball
team from Athens Woman's
College, to the Plains on the night of
December 16, 1926. .
Before a howling mob of fans, the
Auburn Coeds won one of the most
highly scintillating games ever played
on the local court. One would have
thought that there was a grand cham­pionship
at stake, the way the crowds
yelled and howled. The game consist­ed
of four quarters of the most
breath-taking excitement that has
ever been seen here. It. was a fit
match for the Battle of the Marne>
for never have warriors surged up
and down the field of battle any har­der
than these two teams fought that
night. It was not until the closing
minutes of the game that the result
could be anyways like definitely fore­casted.
Athens presented a very creditable
It is expected that Hall will have his team which showed speed, drive, and
best season this winter and we feel
confident that he will prove himself
capable of staying with any opposing
center he is matched against. This
is Hall's last year at Auburn and
when he bids adieu to his athletic
career here it will be after he has
made a large host of friends who wish
him much success after he leaves
the Village. Hall is a member of the
Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity.
Mobile group at Auburn. We make
this statement with all honesty of
purpose for as far as is known this
was the first time in the history of
Mobile, the oldest town on the Gulf
Coast that two teams hooked up on
such an occasion. The spectators
brawn galore. In Misses Wilcoxson
and Scott, they showed a tall rangy
pair of forwards capable of going
with the best of them. Miss Scott
showed exceptional ability at shooting
the hoop from difficult angles with
ease all during the first half. They
were both completely covered by the
magnificent playing of the Auburn
guards, Misses Edna Creel and "Big
Six" Price. These two guards show­ed
the crowd how the position at
guard should be played, during the
last half of the game, as may be seen
by the fact that the Athens forwards
got only two open trials at the goal
during the half, succeeding in one of
them, for their only marker from the
field.
Athens' guards were fast and ag-tioned,
we would give the mention to
the Auburn forwards and • Athens
guards. They fought over the ball
practically all the last half. The
Athens guards could not get the ball
to their forwards, and the Auburn
forwards could not get the ball to
score, for the close guarding of the
Athens players kept them down.
When Athens did get the ball to their
forwards, Auburn's guards quickly
sent it to the other end of the court,
via Johnson & Co. .
There was a slight tendency on
the part of both teams to travel with
the ball. Athens' passing attack was
superior to that of Auburn's, and only
the ferociousness of the Auburn de­fense
kept them from scoring. The
game was well called, by F. James
and E. Snyder r two mainstays on the
Auburn varsity.
The lineups and scores were as
follows:
Auburn (11)
Tucker (c), f -• 3
Dubose, f 0
Johnson, c 2
Creel, g 0
Price, g 0
Athens (8)
Wilcoxson, f 0
Scott,.f 8
Jones (c), c 0
Allgood, g 0
Murphy, g 0
Substitutes: Auburn, Floyd (6) for
Dubose, Hutcheson for Price, Dubose
for Tucker.
Athens, Sandley for Wilcoxson.
were disappointed as they were ex­pecting
a free for all and not a foot- j gressive throughout the game, holding
ball game. They were compensated
Mobile Freshmen
Lose By 19-7 to
Upperclassmen
Saturday before the holidays found
the Old men and Rats from Mobile
battling for the gridiron supremacy
of their respective classes. This
game, though not a drawing card on
the campus as a whole, was attended
by a very picturesque gathering from
the various ranches that were repres­ented
on the team. The game had
been talked up quite a bit at these
places and there was quite a bit of
local interest aroused. Of course,
as with other important games, there
was the usual amount of negotiations
for the officials and the time and
place of the game. After several
prominent members of the student
body were turned down by one side
or the other as referee, Slick Moulton
was given the job over such men as
Fire Chief and Rat Hahn. These
boys were not left out though as
Simms aspired to headlinesman • and
Hahn to temporary coach of the Rats.
Emma Goleman was the umpire and
did a fine job of it. He is being re­commended
for "Majority's" job next
year. ,
The starting whistle called into ac­tion
two of the greatest teams that
for their disappointment by a nice
exhibition of football. Both teams
played a great defensive game but
showed lack of practice on the of­fense.
Winter, the Rat star quarter
ran his team well and made some
the fast Auburn forwards to a close
score. They were well matched in
size with the Auburn Forwards. Their
stellar guards were Misses Allgood
and Murphy.
Auburn's forward, Miss Pertice
Tucker, and Mrs. Dubose, were on the
nice gains but failed to live up pre j top of every play in their territory,
game dope. This was perhaps due to I and played a very good floor game
the excellent pair of flankmen that at all times. Miss Elizabeth Floyd
were opposing him. The passing of | was substituted for Miss Dubose in
Lavallett, Rat half, was a sensation
of the game as Worthington, flashy
Junior half back, was on the receiv­ing
end of two of them and converted
the latter part of the second half,
and played during the rest of the
game, shooting most of the goals, and
proving the deciding factor of the
them into tounhdowns for his team, j game. These three forwards are three
This boy proved to be the best ground | of the best, and when Coach Tillman
gainer of the day. He was quick! gets them rounded into shape and
to get started and hard to stop, i their eyes trained on the baskets,
Captain Allen of the upper classmen they will give some one a tough scrap,
played a fine game at quarter and At the center position, Athens pre-showed
judgement in running his
plays. Hardly any one used failed
to gain. The upperclassmen suffered
more from penalties than from any
other source. They were able to
run the ends and drive the line with
comparative ease but the penalty
would always set them back. The
Rats were penalized only one time
for having thirteen men on the field
and that was for only one yard. The
Rats made their score on a fluke but
all credit must go to them for being
on the alert and converting the move
into a score. The lineups were: Up­perclassmen,
Mahoney and Alexander,
ends; Sikes and Rush, tackles; Lynch
and Kaye, guards; Hakanson, center;
Allen, quarter, Kenny, full; Worth­ington
and Weatherby, halves; Rats,
Gilliard and Williams, ends; Lynch
and Brewton, tackles; Bell and
Ownes, guards; Shennessey, center;
Winter, quarter; Lavallet, full; Swift
and Giddens, halves. Score 19-7 in
ever fought for class honors of the favor Upperclassmen.
sented a good all-round player in Miss
Jones,' their captain. Auburn was
represented by Miss Johnson, a tall,
aggressive player. She succeeded in
placing the ball well, on the tip offs,
and if the forwards had been taller,
would have been of more use in the
tipping process. She shot the longest
goal of the evening. Auburn showed
another real guard in Miss Jackie
Hutcheson. She certaily showed
that she could fight, and fight for
all there was in it. It is this writer's
guess that she will be Auburn's best
guard before the season is over. •
The lead changed hands six times
before the game was over. Athens
was»leading at the half 6 to 5. They
could only connect once during the
last half, and the Auburn forwards
garnered a total of six points giving
Auburn the verdict 11 to 8, with
Floyd of Auburn getting 6 points, and
Scott of Athens getting 8 points, to
lead the scoring.
If there are to be any stars men-
The Gold and Black, of Birming­ham-
Southern College, has started a
new column called "Student Forum."
The purpose of the column is to give
a place in the paper for the free ut­terance
of the opinions of the stu­dents
regarding anything that comes
up. From the start they have made,
it seems that some of the students
are going to be a bit radical in their
writings, but we are glad to see the
students given a chance to express
their opinions without being hog-tied
by a few high-ups, who do not give
the students of our colleges a chance
to argue their side of some questions
which certainly involve them, and
consequently, they have a right to
discuss them freely, as they think
about them.
Following are a few proposals, giv­en
by the American Association of
University Professors, for the re­forming
of King Football: "No stu­dent
shall be allowed to play in­tercollegiate
football for more than
one year. No college should play
more than four intercollegiate foot-*
ball games each year. The coaches
should be paid according to the reg­ular
schedule of the professors."
They, gave as their reasons for ffght-ing
football as it is, the fact that it
leads to neglect of school work, dis­tortion
and shakes the "Faculty Mor­ale"
considerably.
It seems that International Inter­collegiate
debates are growing in fav­or
with the public. The debating
team from Oxford recently met the
University of Kentucky team at Lex­ington,
Ky., where they debated the
question; "Resolved, that Society has
more to Fear than to Hope from
Science." The debate, which was won
by the affirmative, was witnessed by
2,000 people.
"The greatest 'Bull Session' of the
season has convened at Washington,
to adjourn March 4, 1927.—Techni­cian.
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— Three hundred delegates,
mostly responsible student govern­ment
officers, student newspaper
editors and other campus leaders,
poured into the Michigan Union
building for the second annual con­gress
of the National Student Fed­eration.
They had come from one
hundred and sixty institutions and
from every geographic region, to dis­cuss
"The Student's Part in Educa­tion."
Gravely and earnestly they
listened to speeches, buzzed about the
corridors of the imposing Michigan
Union building, discussed in commit­tee
meetings—there was even some­thing
dignified in the tea dances.
Here, according to the recommenda­tions
of the committees, is what the
American students and the Ameri­can
colleges should be doing next:
Recommendation!
According to the committee on the
curriculum (led by Douglas Orr of
Swarthmore and Marvin Brecken-ridge
of Vassar), the colleges must
become "distinctly cultural and in­tellectual,"
taking greater pains to
stimulate "intellectual curiosity."
Students should participate in this
educational policy, studying the cur-ricular
problems and making recom­mendations,
as student committees
have already done at Harvard, Dart-
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In athletics, the college of the fu­ture,
if it follows the report of the
committee on that subject, will refuse
to pay its coach more than its best
professor; it will look askance at
post-seasonal games fostered by com­mercial
interests; it will require a
pledge from athletic directors not to
turn professional till after gradua­tion
of their college class. Its ath­letic
director will be responsible only
to the president and trustees, though
alumni will still be represented on the
athletic committee together with stu­dents
and faculty. Eligibility rules
wijl be strictly enforced, and the gen­eral
policy will be "athletics for
all."
Teachers will be studied by their
students as to general quality, while
the National Student Federation will
try to help the good ones when they
are suppressed.
The committee on teachers and
teaching, headed by Frederick Field,
chairman of the Harvard Crimson,
also showed a liking for tutorial sys­tems.
Fraternities will/remain, as today,
"not free from vice and immorality,"
but no worse than the rest of the col­lege.
More will be said when the
Federation collects its study of rush­ing
and pledging rules, interfrater-nity
government, choice of member­ship,
finances, methods of encourag­ing
scholarship, small dormitory sys­tems
and fraternity houses. The
committe on fraternities was headed
by Miss Margaretta Fleming of Ohio
State and Ben L. Bryant of Cincin-atti.
Student government will have a
choice of two paths to follow, for the
discussion group on this topic split
into a majority and a minority, and
had a good stiff fight. Both factions
agreed that the student government
could win little faculty respect un­less
it handled purely student mat­ters
well, and proposed that .measures
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funds, mass meetings and chapel
speakers, social legislation, the con­trol
or inauguration of new organi­zations
and activities, the arrange­ment
of the social schedule, the con­vergence
of the faculty-student view­point
on all matters connected with
the college or university and the ju­dicial
powers to the extent of recom­mending
expulsion." There was doubt
as to the wosdom of student council
control over the complex athletic pol­icy,
and not complete agreement that
student council should regulate prof­it-
making campus activities.
The fight was on the matter of
the extent of faculty control. With
a wish for "student-faculty coopera­tion,"
the majority proposed faculty
representation on the student coun­cil
or in joint committees, while the
minority with the desire of first for­mulating
student opinion independ­ently
of faculty demanded that stu­dent
government of student affairs
be entirely a student matter, and
that joint student-faculty committees
control matters of joint interest such
as teaching and curriculum, leaving
the students out of only such purely
administrative matters as college fin­ances,
etc. This at any rate is the
version of your reporter; no one be­ing
able to agree on the exact issue.
The college of the future, listening
to the advice of the discussion group
on the honor system, will be certain
to install such a system, though in
details there will be great differences
between individual institutions. The
chief problem to which it will ad­dress
itself will be "creating the
spirit of honor," which the "expert"
of the group reported was a matter
of enviroment and could be trained.
J. S. Malloy of Birmingham-South­ern
made the report, while Charles
Gleaves of the University of Virginia
presided.
Such, whether you believe them im­portant
or inconsequential, radical or
conservative, will be the suggestions
by student bodies and colleges which
respond to the congress. Meanwhile
the National Student Federation of
America at the moment of reporting
has signed up the student bodies of
two hundred and fifty schools, the
only important hold-out reported be­ing
Yale. It elected as officers:
President, Fred Berger, U. of Cin­cinnati;
vice-pres., Marvin Brecken-ridge,
Vassar; treasurer, Joseph
Owens, Kansas Wesleyan; executive
committee: Chandler Wright of
Tufts for New England; A. T. Budd
of Franklin and Marshall for the
Middle Atlantic States; H. G. Chap-pell
of the U. of North Carolina for
the South; J. W. Rippon of Toledo
for the East Central region; Mildred
Boie, U. of Minnesota for the West
Central States; Laura Thompson of
Mills College for the Far West.
"Can the average young American
be liberally educated?" asked Profes­sor
Alexander Meiklejohn in what
was generally considered the most
important speech of the congress.
Desperately, he said, the colleges are
asking whether they can give a lib­eral
education: "the process of so
informing and training and inciting
a mind that it will go forward steadi­ly
toward understanding the life to
which it belongs."
"Do we succeed? We don't. The
colleges are not places of understand­ing.
Our prize exhibit is composed
of our alumni. Whatever you say
of the American alumnus, of one
thing you may be sure: he don't
read books. What's his attitude to­ward
the college? To him it's a place
of sentimental loyalty and comrade­ship,
contacts and friendship and oth­er
immediate necessities. Surely col­lege
loyalty is one of the most unin­telligent
of things when it believes as
a matter of Gospel that his is the
best college in the country! Pretty
quickly after graduation our alumni
are caught up in something else. The
way of understanding, the way of
study, of liberal education? No!"
And yet for the speaker they were
not too much to be blamed. The col­leges
fail because they are in Ameri­ca.
"It's hard to teach literature to
children from homes where no good
book is read, orphilosophy in a socie­ty
with no taste for speculation."
Meanwhile there was one thing to
work with: that America has great
faith in education, even if it doesn't
know what education is, and goes out
for "culture or bust." To the speak­er
there were more important prob­lems
than enlisting support and mon­ey
for colleges, which now spend al­together
too much time deciding what
to do wth their money. The urgent,
all-important job was to find teach­ers.
Not only is it hard to get tal­ent
and power into the teaching pro­fession,
he said, but our teachers
themselves • have been trained in a
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rotten system of education. "They
have been taught technical scholar­ship,
and not liberal understanding."
As for the student, Dr. Meikle­john
had little use for him as a guide
of education. "Why, you can't even
get a young American to play his
own football games, let alone stand
on his own feet intellectually. His
papers are full of demands that we
get rid of a certain man if the team
fails, and you know who gets the
praise if it wins. He doesn't man­age
even the finances of his team."
And in study, "somehow we have got
to the point where the teacher is
responsible for what goes on in the
student's mind; and if he can't make
anything go on there, he throws in
what he can of stuff and informa­tion,
the result of which is zero."
The speaker denied that the stu­dents
should first have more freedom,
and release from discipline for which
there has lately been an insistent de­mand.
He had no use for such a
"negative" freedom. Freedom, he
said., could not exist except in a com­munity
with certain dominating pur­poses
and interests, with a common
heart and mind on fundamentals.
Such a community does not exist in
iqolleges. • "These young men," he
quoted Woodrow Wilson as asserting,
"are bound together by non-intellec­tual
ties." The first job was to
make of cellege's "a community of
learning." This could be done only
in small groups, groups in which the
the teachers were primarily students
themselves, and students were ap­prentices
to them. In order to get a
community of interests, Dr. Meikle­john
even proposed doing away with
the lective system, having everybody
study the same things in order to
have common ground. Only then
could freedom start, for the student
would be free to guide his own stu­dy,
reach his own conclusions, make
his own applications.
In matter of subjects of study, the
professor favored doing away, in col­lege,
with departmentalizing and
specialization of learning. "I "would
like to take a group of freshmen and
take a look at them with one high
civilization, the civilization of
Greece: not as literature and philos­ophy
and mathematics but as to a
high method of life. Scholarship
which does not result in leadership
has something wrong with it."
Dr. Dugan Counsel* Work
Dr. Stephen Duggan, director of the
Institute of International Education,
was cordially introduced as "God­father"
of the Federation. He advo­cated
a gradual change in both the
spirit of students and the organiza­tion
of colleges toward hard, discip­lined,
serious work of public import­ance.
"Some go to college to be pre­pared
to earn a better living, some
for social prestige, some to make the
contacts that will be of service to
them in life after college, some to
have a good time, etc. May I draw
your attention to the fact that the
men who are trying to steer the new
democratic republic in Germany are
Dr. Streesman, Dr. Wirth, Dr. Luth­er,
men of the gymnasium and uni­versity?
The same is true of France
and Great Brittain. But as I go
about the colleges and universities
of this country I find few young men
and women who intend to go into
political life, or even into the wider
public life." Dr. Duggan believed
that a coupling of the first two col­lege
years with the high school or
junior college and most of the last
two years with the university would
approximate the European system of
the gymnasium in Germany and the
lycee in France. More people could
get a general education; the teachers
in the higher classes of high school
would be the best whereas the fresh­man
now gets the worst; the univer­sity
would sooner begin to teach re­search;
more serious work could be
done. Dr. Duggan laid down only a
general principle, admitting many
exceptions and praising elasticity in
our education institutions.
President McCracken
If Professor Meiklejohn exemplifi­ed
the teacher and Dr. Duggan the
man of affairs, President McCracken
spoke clearly in his role of college
administrator. The main portion of
his speech was occupied with definite
proposals of work for the National
Student Federation to perform. The
fields he indicated were: "1. The
student and his support; 2. the stu­dent
and his choice of life work; 3.
his political status; 4. the student in
his academic and non-academic life;
5. faculty research and undergradu­ate
instruction; 6. the choice of the
college and of the field of work; and
finally, the student and other stu­dents."
There was no reason, thought Pres-
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ident MacCracken, why students
should not systematically try to
build up their own credit and loan
system instead of asking as they now
do, for more and more free scholar­ships.
"Student paper should be the
highest class of financial risk." Many
students are deprived by law of their
voting status; this is humiliating and
should be acted against. The Presi­dent
cited the passing of many ac­tivities
from extra-curriculum into
curriculum, and thought student dis­cussion
should occasionably try to re­late
the two. His plea was for the
scientific approach, for definite pur­poses
and controlled conditions in
student management of student af­fairs.
Other speakers were President C.
C. Little of Michigan, who covered
may subjects including the suspend­ers
of Henry VIII, the workings of
which in the real mof a Ph. D. the­sis
he described with considerable de­tail.
Dean Alfred H. Lloyd of the
Michigan graduate school and Thom­as
Cavanaugh, president of the Mich­igan
student conucil gave addresses
of welcome which were answered by
Lewis Fox of Princeton, past presi­dent
of the federation.
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students may room in an apartment
where members of the opposite sex
are rooming, and it seems that this
ruling has been violated this fall.
There has recently been a move
started at Emory University by the
students, to build a large Emory oh
the University Campus. As a start­er
to the funds needed for the build
ing of this Greater Emory, the fresh­man
class has given a pledge of $20,
000. It is estimated that it will take
about $10,000,000 to build the Great­er
Emory, but the start given by the
Freshmen, which was subscribed
within one morning, looks rather en­couraging.
"Women students of Marquette
University shall not live in unchap-eroned
apartments after Jan. 1,
1927," according to a statement giv­en
out by the Dean of Women there.
The University has a ruling that no
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Dr. Van Doren, literary editor of
the Century Magazine, and professor
of English at Columbia University,
in a recent address at N. C. College,
says that there is hope for the youth
of today,- and he thinks that they
will come out all right in the end.
He gave as one of his reasons for
faith in the Youth of today, and the
future of the United States the fact
that the younger generation is so
ungovernable.
The inter-collegiate debating team
from Dakota Wesleyan University
has refused to debate the subject re­lating
to the amending of the Pro­hibition
Amendment. They gave as
their reason for the objection: "This
question is unethical, verges on re­pudiation
of the constitution and
this college stands for law enforce­ment."
We commend the authorities
of this institution for their stand on
this question. If more of the leaders
of our nation would take a similar
view concerning this question, there
would, no doubt, be an increase in
respect for the laws.
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Sturkie will give methods for con­trolling
Johnson grass.
Tuesday night, J. D. Pope will
talk on "Farm finances," and Prof.
J. H. Hutchins will give a book re­view.
A McDowell program will be
presented by the McDowell Club of
West Point, Georgia, under the di­rection
of Miss Grace Crocker, and
P. R. Holman and J. N. Jones, har­monica
artists of Montgomery will
present several numbers.
Wednesday noon, solos by Mrs. A.
D. Mayo. Dr. C. A. Vary will dis-"
cuss a topic of interest to livestock
owners, and Prof. F. E. Guyton will
present an autobiography of "infam­ous"
bugs and rodents.
Wednesday night, beginning at
10:00 the Radio Tigers will present
a jazz program for an hour or more.
Thursday noon, solos by Mr. O. D.
Langston. Prof. C. L. Isbell will
give timely hints on orchard care.
Prof. Hugh Grant will give news
notes of Auburn.
Thursday night, a story by Mrs.
L. N. Duncan and the discussion of
a curent topic by Dr. George Petrie.
The studio orchestra with Miss Ruth
Wallington, soloist, will broadcast an
hour or more.
Friday noon, the new releases on
popular music will be played with the
Jesse French Victor program. Otto,
Brown, extension forester, will lead
a discussion on forestry.
Friday night, a class in the live­stock
school will be held with Prof.
W. H. Eaton and W. E. Sewell in
charge. The musical program will
be presented by the studio orchestra.
Saturday noon, saxophone and vio­lin
solos by Paul Fontille. Miss Eli­zabeth
Forney will lead a discussion
on butter making, and L. C. LeBron
will talk on ditching with explosives.
Saturday night, silent.
"AFRICA FOR THE
AFRICANS" POLICY IS
OUTLINED BY SIBLEY
(Continued from page 1)
adopted and recommended a four­fold
program for all of Africa name­ly,
health, industry, homemaking, re­ligion.
It is significant that the members
of the conference agreed that every­thing
that is worth while, or that is
best in African traditions, customs,
manners, even dialetcs, should be
preserved.
"Imitation White*" DUcarded
In short, the old idea that the na­tive
of. Africa should be made over
into "imitation white" people has
been discarded and thrown on the
scrop heap along with many other
political theories that prevailed
among civilized people prior to the
great war.
For example, the International In­stitute
of Africa, established during
the Belgium conference, will seek to
protect and preserve native African
dialects and to develop a real litera­ture
in the African language from
more than 2,000 dialects. European
dialects, such as English and French,
for instance, will be retained and
developed largely for commercial
purposes.
Already, as Mr. Sibley discovered
in making the survey of Liberia, one
important church group, the Epis­copal,
has taken over the initiation
ceremonies of certain tribes, eliminat­ing
objectionable features promul­gated
in ancient times by the primi­tive
people and at the same time re­taining-
all of the wholesome symbols.
Mr. Sibley declared that the native
people of Liberia have splendid char­acteristics,
being industrious, clean,
honest and law abiding. Violators of
local customs are severely punished
by the tribal cheiftains.
Mr. Sibley spent eight months in
Liberia, sailing from New York a
little more than one year ago.
He traveled 1,000 miles in the
interior by hammock, the chief means
of transportation, and by foot. He
visited all of the important mission
stations as well as the Liberian
schools. In fact, he observed every
phase of native life. He was greeted
as a friend and helper by all classes,
including Liberian governmental of­ficials,
tribal chiefs of the hinter­land,
missionaries and natives.
"The republic of Liberia," Mr. Sib­ley
said, "is about the size of Ohio
and has a population estimated at
between one and two million, includ­ing
250 white persons. The country
is governed by American-Liberians,
the descendants of former slaves who
ieft American between 1816 and 1850.
Of 20,000 that went over, there are
about 10,000 descendants living to­day
in the coast country of Liberia.
The original settlers from America
were sent over in conformity with
colonization plans formulated by
American leaders, including Thomas
Jefferson, Buckrod Washington, ne­phew
of George Washington, and
Henry Clay.
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"The ruling class on the coast has
maintained much of the traditions
of the old South, and their mode of
living is patterened largely after that
of the Southern planter. They use
the native labor as it used in the
South. The Liberian government
is modeled after the American sys­tem
of government, with a president,
congress and courts/ \ The capitol
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is Monrovia, named after President
James Monroe. Monrovia is about
the size of Auburn and the architec
hire of the houses' is similar to the
architecture of the old South.
"Up country in the hinterland the
natives are governed by five district
commissioners, appointed by the Li'
berian government at Monrovia. One
commissioner may administer the af­fairs
of 200,000 people."
In this connection a point of inter­est,
to Southerners particularly, is
the fact that one of these commission­ers,
and incidentlly one of the most
efficient governors, according to Mr.
Sibley, is a native of Ocilla, Ga.,
Capt. A. W. Harper. Capt. Harper
has been in Liberia 20 years, and gov­erns
a district with a population of
more than 200,000 people. It is said
that he rendered splendid service to
his country in 1925 in the intra-tribal
fighting, which was quelled by
the Liberian government with the aid
of the United States government.
Polygamy, Mr. Sibley added, is
practiced by the chiefs in the hinter­land,
some of them having as many
as 300 wives. However, a majority
of the men can afford only one wife.
Some of the natives still practice
witchcraft and indulge in supersti­tious
and fetish worship. The medi­cine
man is a very important person
in the tribe.
The most significant phase of La-berian
development from the commer­cial
standpoint, according to Mr. Sib­ley,
is the recent concession granted
to the Firestone Rubber Company
for the growing of rubber. Mr. Fire­stone,
of Akron, Ohio, has acquired
1,000,000 acres, or approximately
one-twentieth of the entire area of
the country, fbr a huge rubber un­dertaking
which will enable Amer­ica
to produce her own rubber. One
plantation of 125,000 trees is already
producing, the rubber being shipped
to the United States.
Mr. Sibley pointed out in this con­nection
that a $5,000,000 loan has
been made to Liberia by American
bankers for the development of a
new harbor and good roads. There
are practically no roads in the coun­t
ry outside of the Monrovian commu­nity
nor are there railroads.
In his educational survey of the
country, Mr. Sibley found 200 schools,
one-fourth of which are supported
by the Liberian government and the
remainder by missionary boards. In
addition there are three colleges, two
suported by the Episcopal and Meth­odist
Churches and one by the gov­ernment.
The instruction in these
colleges, he said, is largely classical,
more or less artificial and not related
to the real needs of the people, the
students being trained for political
and theological positions.
Education Needed
What is needed, Mr. Sibley pointed
out, is a type of education that will
enable the people to develop their
country along agricultural and in­dustrial
lines. Incidentally, the coun­try
is very rich agriculturally, the
products being tropical fruits, cof­fee,
palm kernels, passava and rub­ber.
The board of education, it was
stated, has shown a cooperative atti
tude toward Mr. Sibley's visit and is
working out plans for cooperation to
include both government and mission
boards. Mr. Sibley will return to
Liberia early in March, 1927. He
expects to) take with him several
American teachers, experts in agri­cultural
education and in hygiene.
Incidentally a number of mission­aries
from Liberia have recently
visited Alabama in order to study
school methods which may be applied
in Liberia.
Mr. Sibley has recommended a pro­gram
with emphasis upon three
things, namely, better selection of
teachers sent to Liberia by American
mission boards, better supervision of
the work on the field, adequate sup­port
of the instiutions selected to be
developed. The general policy for­mulated
provides for the building of
two or three colleges and normal
schools for the higher education of
the leaders, as well as high schools,
and, second, to provide facilities for
the agricultural and industrial edu­cation
of the masses. This program
CHEM SOCIETY
H0LDSMEETING
The Chemical Society held its
regular semi-monthly meeting Wed­nesday
night. The program was op­ened
with an interesting talk by
W. H. Morris on "Pure Salt as a
By-Product of* Caustic Alkali." The
election of officers for the second
semester folowed, resulting in the
choice of the following:
President, C. A. Clark; Vice-Pres­ident,
N. A. Nelson; Secretary, O. W.
Allen; Treasurer, G. H. Jester; Chap­lin,
C. F. Walters; Reporter, J. F.
Mitchell.
Since the next regular meeting
would be held during examination
week, it was decided that it would
be better to postpone it until two
weeks later, i. e., Wednesday night,
February 2. A cordial invitation is
extended to all students enrolled in
courses in chemical engineering and
chemistry and metallurgy.
News has just been received that
J. D. Neeley of Montgomery is in an
infirmary of his home city with
typhoid fever. His condition is said
to be serious. Neeley is solo clarinet­ist
in the band and incidentally one
of the best musicians in that organi­zation.
He is a Sophomore in Elec­trical
Engineering and a member of
Alpha Beta Chi local honorary musi­cal
fraternity.
THE PRINCE OF TEMPTERS"
TO BE SHOWN TUESDAY
(Continued from page 1)
a costly diamond. The acting is real
and not a single sour or flat note
mars the rythm of the popular pro­duction.
Trying to pick the best
things in the "Prince of Temptors"
is like trying to pick the best player
on a championship football team.
DR. EDWARDS IS RAT
SPAKER ON THURSDAY
(Continued from page 1)
wards cited the case of the Czar of
Russia as an illustration. The only
real answer to this question is the
developing and making the most of
what God gave us. If a man is base
enough to attempt cheap things un­der
cover of darkness, he does not de­serve
the name of man; for he is not
a man in any sense of the word. A
man should do his best, for God gave
His best to the world when He gave
Jesus. Jesus tested men according
to their supreme value to their day
and generation. Dr. Edwards says
that the man who achieves is the
most valuable thing a nation pos-sessess.
To do anything one must
have personality. •
College offers the greatest chance
to enhance the value of one's per­sonality.
It is a chance to make good.
In living if one has a bigness of soul
and mind, he has happiness and con­tentment;
this enhances one's per­sonality.
In short, the big thing to
do is to cultivate one's abilities and
make the most of his privileges. And
if he responds enthusiastically to the
fine- leadership • of the faculty, he
will surely profit by it.
Dr. Edwards led the devotional ex­ercises.
Dr. Dowell in a timely rebuke urg­ed
the students to remember what
was expected of them during the con­vocation
period.
F. W. Burns, M. H. Pearson, and
Miss Certie Reynolds are to attend
a meeting of agricultural workers at
Atlanta, Ga., January 31, and Feb­ruary
1.
will include the introduction of home
and farm demonstration work simi­lar
to that carried on in Alabama.
Mr. Sibley is well known in Ala-ibs^
na, where he wa(s engaged in
educational work for many years.
He was at one time in charge of the
educational work for the negroes
under the Alabama State Board of
Education. Following the war he was
head of the work for disabled sold­iers
in the sixth district, under the
Federal Board for Vocational Educa­tion.
Later he was in charge of club
work in -North Alabama, under the
extension service of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, and was also
assistant director of the child wel­fare
department of Alabama. He is
a native of Georgia and alumnus of
the Universtiy of Georgia. He is
widely known throughout the South
as well as Northern centers where
the foreign mission work is headed
up.
J. D. NEELY HAS PHI DELTA RH0S
OPERATION IN
MONTGOMERY
GIVE SUPPER
CUPID FIRES MANY
DARTS CHRISTMAS
Among the events of interest to
Auburn students that occured during
the holidays are the performances
on the part of Dan Cupid.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Motley, W.
C. of Ala., '26; Auburn, '27, and
member of the Kappa Delta Soroity,
and Richard Dexter Yarbrough '27,
member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Fraternity, were married in Novem­ber,
1926.
Miss Jennie Crenshaw and Rufus
E. Poole, who attended the A. P. I.
and member of the Sigma Nu fra­ternity
were married January 1,
1927.
Miss Eleanor Erie Thaggard and
Harry Osborn Halse, '26, and mem­ber
of the Phi Delta Chi fraternity,
were married January 1, 1927.
Miss Thaggard is a graduate of
Alabama College and Peabody Col­lege,
Nashville, Tenn.
The members of the Phi Delta Rho
who stay at Smith Hall, entertained
at supper Wednesday in honor of
Lillian Dunn, January 5* being her
birthday.
The tables were decorated with
white carnations and candles. A
four-course super was served to the
folowing: Jane Springer, Leetie
Gibbs, Cindy Lester, Linnie Cline,
Vera Isbell, Viola Thorn, Gertrude
Gerber, and Hadie Nichols. At the
close of the supper gifts from each
of the members were presented to the
honor guest.
COACH M0REY
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First National Picture
"MIDNIGHT LOVERS
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Anna Q. Nillson
SATURDAY
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"THE WRECK"
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Shirley Mason
also
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Coach Dave Morey, head coach and
athletic director at Auburn, subject
ed himself to the surgeon's knife
Monday at Robert Bent Brigham hos
pital in Boston, according to dis­patches
received here today. Ac­cording
to the information received
Coach Morey underwent a double op­eration,
one in having his tonsils re­moved
and another, a nasal opera­tion.
No word has been received as
to the condition of the Tiger men­tor
since the oaerations were per­formed.
The Auburn tutor stopped
in Boston on his return from the
American Football Coaches' associa­tion
meeting held in New York last
week. It is understood that Dr. Por­ter,
a former Auburn graduate and
W. L. McArthur, county agent of
Marion, has resigned his work as
agent to accept work with the Ni­trate
of Soda company. He is now
located in Little Rock, Arkansas,
where he is to carry on his new
work.
Mr. McArthur was an outstanding
county agent. He has done a great
work for the dairy industry as in­dicated
by his own statement, "On
April 6 of this year there were only
three men shipping cream from Ham­ilton
community and now there are
thirty shippers and ten more will be­gin
right away."
Prof. J. W. Randolph and family
visited at Union Springs; and Prof.
J. C. Grimes and family were at
Jones Mill.
Many extension workers at Au­burn
spent the Christmas holidays
"out of town" with relatives and
friends.
Miss Harris visited her family in
Cave Springs, Ga., and relatives in
Atlanta. Miss Forney was in An­derson,
S. C, and Miss Mauldin spent
her vacation at Easley, S. C. Oth­ers
who left the state were Miss Rey­nolds
to McMinniville, Tenn., and
Miss Eddy to Indianapolis, Ind. Miss
Ruth Kernodle was at home with
her parents at Camp Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Ruffin visited
relatives and friends in Deatsville
and Wetumpka. Mr. and Mrs. Otto
Brown visited people in Yantley. Mr.
and Mrs. Lowery spent the holidays
in Cullman county. E. H. Green and
family visited his people in Bullock
county, M. A. Barnes and family
were in Ozark. Mr. and Mrs. P. O.
Davis visited relatives and friends
in Limestone and Lauderdale coun­ties.
J. D. Pope spent the time in Au­burn
and nearby towns. L. C. Le­Bron
spent part of the holidays in
Wetumpka. "Unk" Sizemore was
out of town part of the time. B. M.
Anderson passed through his old
home town, Marion. W. A. Young
was in and around Vernon. J. T.
High was around Albertville on Sand
mountain which, he says, is a stable
mountain for it hasn't moved since
he has known it.
Prof. L. M. Ware and family visit­ed
at Marshallville, Ga. Prof. J. M.
Robinson attended a meeting of the
American Society for the advance­ment
of Science held in Philadelphia,
also, he visited his people in Ohio.
Prof. Henry Good visited friends
near Montgomery, Prof. D. G. Stur­kie
was at Smith Station; Prof. F.
E. Guyton hunted in South Alabama;
J. D. Moore of Winchester, Tenn.,
will be market specialist for the ex­tension
service of the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute after January 10,
according to announcement by Prof.
L. N. Duncan, director. He will suc­ceed
K. G. Baker, who has been with
the Alabama extension service for
eight years. Mr. Baker resigned the
first of December to move to Texas
on account of the illness of his son,
Lee.
Mr. Moore is an Alabamian, al­though
he has worked in Tennessee
several years. He was reared on a
farm in Bullock county, where he re­ceived
his public school and high
school training. He went from there
to the old Southern University at
Greensboro, and from there he came
to Auburn where he graduated in
agriculture in the class of 1916. Af­ter
he graduated he taught in the
secondary agricultural school at
Hamilton from where he went with
the Southern Railway where he
spent several years as livestock and
marketing agent. The work with the
Southern Railway gave him a nation­al
experience in handling farm prod­ucts
for farmers.
After working for the railroad for
a number of years, Mr. Moore be­came
county agent in Tennessee. He
specialized in marketing and made a
success with it.
During the time that Mr. Moore
works with the extension service, all
of his time and efforts will be de­voted
to helping farmers ih market­ing
livestock, poultry, poultry prod­ucts,
hay, corn and other products
produced by diversified farming. Mr.
Moore will work in close cooperation
with the state and county farm bu­reaus.
He will work with the coun­ty
agents in each county.
later a graduate of the Harvard uni­versity
medical college, performed the
operations.
Coach Morey was elected represen­tative
of the southern district of the
association, at which more than 200
football coaches throughout the Unit­ed
Stattes were in attendance.
A 1 L L HAS FIRST
MEETING AFTER
XMAS HOLIDAYS
The A. I. E. E. held its first meet­ing
after the holidays with a good
attendance. Mr. Stewart, president,
discussed' with the members another
suitable time for meeting which is
to be definitely decided at the next
meeting.
Professor Hill gave a talk on the
apprenticeship courses offered by the
larger electrical companies. He ad­vised
the Seniors who would interview
the representatives from these com­panies,
which well be in Auburn soon,
to have their minds definitely made
up as to what particular line of the
work they would prefer to follow.
Personal appearance and personality
in such an interview count much
toward determining whether the stu­dent
is to go with the company.
He went over the different depart­ments
a student may be expected to
go through including clearly a picture
of the workings of some companies,
and what he may expect while taking
the course.
Furthermore, he stated, there were
three elements that go to make up
an Engineer's life. Viz, business or
profession, social, and religious. To
be an all around engineer he must
not neglect either of these.
All electrical students, both Fresh­men
and Upperclassmen, are extended
a cordial invitation to join the A. I.
E. E. This is your society. Make
it a point to be there at 7 o'clock
every Wednesday night.
THE MODERN GIRL
Two Views*
Of manly brow, with husky shoulders,
The modern girl can lift huge bould­ers,
Hurrah for the modern girl!
She is champion on the links,
The boys are glad to get her winks,
Hurrah for the modern girl!
She is queen of the -athletic field,
Racquet or club she can equally
wield,
Hurrah for the modern girl!
But in the kitchen, though with a
recipe book,
She is sore misplaced, for she cannot
cook.
Down with the modern girl!
—From the Barton News.
Miss Elizabeth Mauldin^ district
home demonstration agent, l-esigned
for matrimony. Her successor has
not been announced..
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