1927-01-24 The Plainsman

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Sat., Jan. 30
TO FOSTER THE AUBURN SPIRIT
VOLUME L. AUBURN, ALABAMA, MONDAY, JANUARY » , 1927 NUMBER l!
PLANS ARE NOW COMPLETE FOR RECORD JUNIOR PROM WEEK
NEW MEMBERS INITIATED BY
PHI KAPPA PHI FRATERNITY
'umew -a xrear
Twenty - Four Seniors
Selected For High
Honors
Solemn initiation ceremonies mark­ed
the reception of twenty-four sen
iors into Phi Kappa Phi, national hon
or society organized for the purpose
of promoting scholarship and encour­aging
original study among stu­dents.
Doctor Fred Allison, who succeeds
Doctor F. W. Parker as president of
the fraternity, welcomed the initi­ates
and administered the oath in
the office of Doctor Dowell.
After the formal initiatory cere­monies
had been dispensed with,
the newly ordained members repair­ed
to the dining room of the Thom­as
Hotel where a delicious repast
awaited them. Dr. Allison was
quite efficient as toastmaster, while
Profesor C. A. Baughman, secretary-treasurer
of the organization, was
responsible for the arrangements.
Students initiated, all of whom
have made exceptionally high grades
follows:
J. B. Barnes, Ozark; Redus Collier,
Decatur; J. M. Edwards, Tuskegee;
W. B. Fisk, Montgomery; S. W. Har­bin,
Luverne; H. W. Head, Veto; J.
M. Herren, Tallassee; F. H. Ingram,
Opelika; Rowe Johnson, Alex City;
I. L. Knox, Chattanooga Tennessee;
J. B. Leslie, Troy; S. H. Lynne, De­catur;
L. B. Martin, Enterprise; J.
N. Nelms, Birmingham; J. C. Mathis.
son,. Birmingham; Alberta Proctor,
Scottsboro; W. H. H. Futnam, Birm­ingham;
G. L. Scott, Longview; J.
D. Stewart, Florence; J. C. Street,
Anniston; J. W. Thomas, Birming­ham;
Ruth Warren, Opelika; S. L.
(Continued on page 6)
NEW MEMBERS
ARE INITIATED
BY BLUE KEYS
Ten Juniors Elected By Hon­orary
Organization
On last Friday night the Blue Key
National Senior Honorary Fraterni­ty
initiated 10 new members into
the local chapter. All of the pledges
were from the Junior Class.
Before the initiation there was a
banquet at the College Cafe, over
which Rodney Carter presided as
toastmaster. During the banquet
and after, there were speeches by
the members, new and old. D. P.
Grant and Bill Strong, guests of the
fraternity, rendered several \ery
enjoyable vocal selections.
The object of the National Blue
(Continued on page 6)
' PROGRAM *
Tiger Theatre
Monday, January 24
"THE MIDNIGHT FLOWER" [
Comedy
Tuesday, January 25
"NOBODY'S WIDOW"
Aesops Fable and Pathe News
Wednesday, January 26
Clara Bow in Her Greatest
Picture
"IT"
by Elinor Glynn
15 and 30 cents
Thursday, January 27
Clara Bow in "IT"
Friday, January 28
"FOR WIVES ONLY"
Krazy Kat and Comedy
Saturday, January 29
"WHILE LONDON SLEEPS'
Comedy
REVEREND LEE
INSTALLED BY
LOCAL CHURCH
New Episcopal Minister Is
Native of Virginia
Sunday morning, January 9, wit­nessed
the installation of Rev. Wil­liam
Byrd Lee, Jr., as pastor of the
Auburn Episcopal church, by Bishop
W. G. McDowell, a former pastor of
that church. Reverend Lee succeeds
Rev. George Ossman, who left Au­burn
in the fall of 1925. From Nor­folk,
Va., with the new pastor comes
his wife and three children.
Reverend Lee is a native of Virgin­ia,
having descended from two of her
oldest and most renowned families.
He is related to both Gen. Robert E.
Le6, and Col. William Byrd.
Reverend Lee received his early
education at the Episcopal High
school, Alexandria, Va. From there
he went to William and Mary Col­lege,
where he finished in 1911. Later
he entered the Theological Seminary
of Virginia, Hanover, Va., and was
graduated in 1914, the year that he
began his career as an Episcopal
minister.
While at William and Mary, Mr.
Lee was prominent in many phases
of student activity. In spite of the
fact that he weighed only 150 pounds,
he played center on the football team
for four years, and served as cap­tain
of the team. Mr. Lee holds the
unique distinction of playing every
football game in full, during his en­tire
four years at this college, hav-ing
never had time called on his ac­count.
During the World War, Mr. Lee
was overseas with the 80th division
of the United States Army. After
the war, he occupied the place as
chaplain at Virginia Polytechnic In­stitute,
Blacksburg, Va. for four
years. While at Blackburg he also
served, as state chaplain of the Amer­ican
Legion, and as division chap­lain
of the National guard.
From Blacksburg, Mr. Lee went
to Norfolk, Va., where he has been
actively engaged in church work for
the last four years.
,Aside from being a member of the
American Legion, Mr. Lee is a mem­ber
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
and of the Kappa Sigma fraternity.
Mr. Lee is the fourth new pastor
to come to Auburn within the past
year, the others being Rev. W. H.
McNeil of the Methodist church, Rev.
J. R. Edwards of the Baptist church,
and Rev. S. B. Hay of the Presbyte­rian
church.
MANY STATES TO FURNISH
GIRLS FOR FORMAL DANCES
0 . M.DUGGAR
TALKS TO CLASS
IN JOURNALISM
Chaperones Are Named
For Event By Social
Committee
Staffs of Various Publications
Welcomed By Grant
'/10 THIS iVrtT
A VErtlCt 6UT OUR
.CU6TO0WH'<b I0CA
O* ^ WALK.. WE HAVE
" » MONqr TO RUM A r f H *
BUT T*Y TO MAKE CLASSES WHE.N IT
SPRINKLES
• i -
FIRE VISITS THE
POULTRY FARM
ATEARLY HOUR
Incubator House Destroyed By
Flames Sunday Morning
SIGMA NUS MOVE
INTO NEW HOME
ON GAY STREET
House Erected By Davis Is
Pressed Into Service
The Sigma Nu's, whose compara­tively
new house on Fraternity Row
was destroyed by fire during the
holidays, have moved into their new
home on the corner of Gay and Mag­nolia
streets. The new Sigma Nu
house, which is the property of Mr.
Davis, is furnished throughout with
the most modern equipment. Each
of the eight study rooms are furn­ished
entirely with a new pet of
very attractive furniture. Work on
this new house is rapidly nearing
completion, with only a few of the
finishing touches remaining to be
done.
Actual work of rebuilding the Sig­ma
Nu house on Fraternity Row has
already begun, and it is hoped that
this will be completed before the
Summer vacation in June as the
(Continued on page 6)
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the incubator house at the poultry
farm at 4:30 A.M. Sunday morning.
The loss is estimated at ten thous­and
dollars with no insurance to
cover it.
The Auburn Fire Department made
a record run, but found the plugs
frozen and from lack of hose could
do nothing, after thawing the plugs.
Four students lost practically all of
their personal belongings. This loss
is above that sustained by the col
lege.
This is the second disastrous fire
that has visited the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute within the short
time of three weeks. The amount
lost at either fire would equip and
maintain adequate equipment for fire
(Continued on Page 6)
i in M' i
Random Notes
«By V€. <dvkuikr, Jr.
At a meeting of the Junior class
Thursday morning in the Main build­ing,
"Pop" Paterson was elected
Captain of class basketball, and the
following committee appointed on
Senior class rings: "Goat" Smith,
Pete Spinks, W. H. Gregory, and M.
S. Kestler.
Campus gossip is saying that there
will be a very small enrollment in
both slide rule and current events
the coming semester.
There will be about 25 or 30 Sen­iors
graduating at the conclusion of
mid-year exams. A complete list has
not yet been located.
AUBURN'S BAND
STRUTS BEFORE
NEW GOVERNOR
Many Compliments on Appear­ance
Received By Authorities
GRIM REAPER
CLAIMS LIFE OF
W. D. STEELE
Popular Cashier Is Called To
Reward
Auburn citizens were saddened last
week because of the death of W. D.
Steele, assistant cashier of the First
National Bank of Auburn, who died
early Thursday morning. Mr. Steele
was widely known in East Alabama
where he had resided for many years.
He was very popular with Auburn
students who regarded him as a
friend. The Auburn Masonic Lodge
had charge of the funeral services
which were held at the home Friday
morning.
NOTICE
All students interested in tak­ing
Geology the next semester
please see me, phone 105-W,
leave your name at the Orange
and Blue.—W. O. CRAWLEY.
The next edition of The Plains­man
will leave the press the week fol­lowing
examinations; and will be de­voted
almost entirely to the dances,
Professor Crenshaw is back again
after an absence from his classes for
several weeks due to illness.
The recent cold wave experienced
in Auburn did little toward thinning
the crowds of students who swarm
the streets. Although the thermom­eter
sank to 13 degrees, everyone went
about their work as usual. This tem­perature
was the lowest experienced
in Auburn for two or three years.
(Continued on page 6)
Again, the famous Auburn Band
displayed its usual dignified high
standing in the exercises of the in-auguarl
of Alabama's new governor
in Montgomery last Monday. Num­bers
of sincere compliments have
been bestowed upon the excellent
showing made by the Auburn band
there. And what makes the situa­tion
doubly brilliant is that even the
highest praise was wholly deserving.
The entire band, compsoed of
fifty-five (?) pieces, left Auburn
early Monday morning for the cap-itol
city, in charge of its efficient
instructor, Mr. P. R. Bidez.
In the inaugural parade the Au­burn
Band was second in line; four
other band squads participated. The
services of the Auburn Band appar­ently
brought more response through
applause than any other band in the
procession. The showing made was
excellent, and a credit indeed to the
institution which the band represents.
On similar occasions, the Auburn
Band has served extensively as an
advertisement for the institution-and
probably as credible one as is
now in force. It may be recalled
(Continued on page 6)
Students in Journalism were very
fortunate in having the pleasure of
hearing Wednesday evening Mr.
Oscar M. Duggar, editor of one of
Alabama's most successful papers,
The Andalusia Star. .Mr. Duggar
was welcomed and introduced by
Prof Hugh G. Grant of the Journal­ism
Department. The speech con­sisted
mainly of the problems that
confront a newspaper and its editor.
The speech began by offering a
word of praise to Auburn for its
success in getting news to the out­side
world in such a remarkably
efficient way as by the Plainsman,
The Auburn Engineer and the Ala­bama
Farmer. The mechanical con­struction
as well as the contents
were highly commended.
In discussing. everyday problems
that come to a newspaper editor, the
speaker first gave this word of warn­ing
to any prospective newspaper in­vestors:
"Never start a daily news­paper
in a town with a population
under eight thousand." "Ninety*
seven men," he declared, "out of
every hundred fail in the newspaper
business because of a lack of knowl­edge
of the necessary financial re­quirements."
The first great problem that a
news editor must meet is. to under­stand
the community and make the
paper stand for the upbuilding of
(Continued on page 6)
All indications point toward a very
successful series of formal dances
during the Junior Prom, which are to
be held January 27-29, inclusive.
Many bids have been sent out to
all parts of the country. Among the
states to be well represented are:
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, South Carolina, North
Carolina and Tennessee. There will
be at least 150 girls attending in ad­dition
to many alumni and friends.
Preparations are being made by
the Social Committee, with the co­operation
of the Faculty Social Com­mittee,
to make these the best dances
of the year. The members of the So­cial
Committee are: J. P. Atherton,
Chairman; Joe Wallis, Treasurer;
W. V. Albright, Bob Parker, Pat
Moulton, H. C. Hopson, B. W. Vaughn,
B. E. Meadows, Buck Ellis, L. A.
Hixon, J. M. Garrett, C. A. Manley,
W. O. Baskin, J. N. Crump. Those
(Continued on page 6)
REGISTRATION
SCHEDULED FOR
JANUARY 2829
Cards Must Be Approved By
Dean
HONOR SYSTEM
DISCUSSED BY
BOARD MEMBERS
Delegates Put Proposition Be­fore
Freshman Class
At convocation last Tuesday the
Honor Board put the condition of
the Board in Auburn before the
Freshman Class. According to the
speakers, the Honor System cannot
become a success unless the students
support it, for it belongs to them.
All the members on the Board spoke
for a moment on some phase of the
System in Auburn.
The students apparently refuse
to support the System. However,
(Continued on page 6)
WEISIGER TELLS DANCERS OF
TOO HIGH SPECIALIZATION
By Hugh G. Grant
A tendency of high specification
in technical work means it is highly
important that engineering students
should broaden themselves along
cultural and spiritual lines against
the narrowing influence of this high
specialization and to equip themsel­ves
for human relationship in busi­ness
and social fields, is the opinion
of Kendall Weisiger, head of the
personel department of the Southern
Bell Telephone company, Atlanta,
Ga. Mr. Weisiger, a convocation
speaker before the upper classmen
at Auburn, was introduced by Dean
J. J. Wilmore of the college of en­gineering.
Mr. Weisiger is one of
the leading engineers of the South.
"The trend of technical education
gives way slowly to liberalizing sub­jects
that tend to broaden the stu­dent's
outlook on life and prepare
him for a fuller and richer life ex­perience,"
Mr. Weisiger declared.
"The college has a direct responsi­bility
in the development of the
physical, social, spiritual and econ­omic
aspects of the student's life,
all with a view of correlating these
(Continued on page 6)
CICERO MUSE
INJURED IN
SEVERE CRASH
Registration for the second semes­ter
begins at 8:15 A.M. Friday, Jan­uary
28, and closes at noon Satur­day,
January 29. Students who wish
to register before Friday should see
the Accountant and Dean.
Registration is not completed until
cards are approved by the Dean.
An extra/fee of $5.00 will be
charged thereafter for each day reg­istration
is deferred, the maximum
charge for late registration being
fixed at $10.00.
Absence from class on or after
January 31, due to late registration
on the part of first semester stu­dents
will count the same as other
absences. No exception will be made
to these regulations.
College. Fees.
Fees for residents of Alabama:
(Men) $52.00
(Women) _ ($40.00
Special Fees
Students in architecture and arch­itectural
engineering and in pharma­cy
(except freshmen in the four-year
pharmacy course) pay an ad­ditional
fee of $10.00 and students
in veterinary medicine pay an addi­tional
fee of $5.00 each semester.
Students of home economics pay an
additional fee of $7.50 each semes­ter.
Local Alumnus Reported In
An Improved Condition
C. G. Muse, graduate of Auburn
in the electrical engineering class of
1924, has been reported seriously
injured due to the crash of a huge
smokestack of the Birmingham Elec­tric
Co., in Birmingham last Friday
afternoon.
The stack atop of the power dis­tributing
plant at Powell avenue and
eighteenth street buckled and nose
dived through the roof of the build-ing,
killing two workmen on the in­side
of the stack and injuring Muse
and five fellow workmen in the
building. The smokestack plunged
through the nerve center of the 2,300
voltage distributing system for the
city, cutting the main part of Birm­ingham
from light and power from
1:08 till 3 o'clock Friday afternoon
Latest reports state Muse's con
dition as improving. .
PROGRAM
College Show
NO SHOW
Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday
Thursday, January 27
"THE MUSIC MASTER"
David Belasco Production
15 and 30 cents
Friday, January 28
"STEPPING ALONG"
First National Picture
With Johnny Hines and Chorus
from Broadway
Beauty a la Mud Comedy
Saturday, January 29
"THE BETTER WAY"
Ralph Ince Feature of Fun
and Frivolity
Lloyd Hamilton Comedy
25 cents
PAGE TWO
THE PLAINSMAN
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Published weekly by the students of the
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Alabama.
Subscription rates $2.00 per year (82
issues). . Entered as second class matter
at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala.
STAFF
S. H. Lynne Editor-in-Chief
F. A. Smith: Business Manager
H. G. Grant Faculty Adviser
EDITORIAL STAFF
Rowe Johnson • Associate Editor
L. O. Brackeen : Associate Editor
C. D. Greentree .Managing Editor
H. Fulwiler, Jr - News Editor
H. W. Head Proof Reader
J. W. Powers Proof Reader
R. Alston — - Cartoonist
J. L. Price———Bulletin Board Editor
Redus Collier Sports Editor
D. O. Sikes Associate Sports Editor
Catherine Nunn- Co-Ed Editor
John Thomas Humor Editor
R. C. Cargile Exchange Editor
REPORTERS
J. W. Handle—-'28 A.V.Blankenship '30
P. F. Crenshaw_'29 Rex. Sikes '30
C. R. DeArmen_'29 R. B. Kelso '30
J. B. McMillan_'29 K.~Kimbrough~'28
Coke Metthews-,29 Chas. Howard—'30
J. W. Milk _—'30 V. Savage, Jr.—'SO
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 w Ass't Advertising Mgr.
Drinking and dancing may be legiti­mately
used to produce alliteration, but
retribution must follow when they produce
intoxication.
We understand that prospects for a war
with Mexico are hailed with delight by a
number of students. This can be readily
understood with the more dreaded struggle
during examinations just around the cor­ner.
Several students are in dire straits
having received letters from girls whom
they invited to attend the dances for latter
effects informing them that they would
be thrilled to.death to come down.
Others are downcast as the result of
the reception of notes from loved ones
declaring that they were so sorry that
they could not make the dances this time
as they had planned something else, but
if they should ever be invited again they
would be sure to come. The epitome of
feminine fickleness.
All indications point toward a marked
decrease in the enrollments in Current
Events and Slide Rule during the second
semester. Those who enrolled in these
courses for the present semester are breath­ing
a sigh of relief as the end approaches.
Those who expected a bed of roses en­countered
a veritable briar patch here.
Many will emerge from these two courses
a sadder but not necessarily a wiser group.
Many local students when they seem
to be men are content to be little better
than asses, but -just as soon as they seem
to be asses they try their best to become
men. All of which approves their present
seeming to their former being.
We should like to compliment the mem­bers
of the Journalism staff for the effi­cient
manner in which they published the
last week's issue of this paper.
And while we are in the process of show­ering
bouquets, we wish to congratulate
John R. Bullock, Jr., Editor-in-Chief of
The Kentucky Kernel, on the general ap­pearance
of his sheet. The front page es­pecially
attracts our attention and diverts
a portion of our praise to the excellent
staff with which Mr. Bullock has surround­ed
himself.
Some students are beginning to wake
up to the realization that, in addition to
their more pressing social duties, there
is a certain amount of staying at home to
be done.
All girls are not dumb, but the percent^
age is decidedly against them. We heard
one fair damsel down at the gym on the
night of the Florida game remark that
she didn't see why Auburn did not hold
the ball like Florida instead of throwing
it through the hoop every time they got
their hands on it.
IS CHRISTIAN MOTHERHOOD OUT OF
THE QUESTION
"A home is becoming practically im­possible.
Children are almost out of the
question. Real Christian motherhood is
almost a thing of the past. Marriage to
most young men is no longer an asset,
but an insurmountable liability."
So said Dr. Gus Dyer, head of the de­partment
of sociology at Vanderbilt Uni­versity
in an address Sunday night.
"Our home life is disintegrating. The
disintegration started when we left the
country and came to the city.
"Today nobody works but father. The
wife is no longer a producer and neither
are the children. Apartment life, growing
out cof the heathen . desire for ease, has
made the husband the sole supporter of
the family. The wife just sits at home or
goes out—the burden of living is on the
father alone.
"Just why should the man bear the
whole burden? Why should the husband
support the family? Today there is one
divorce to every four, or slightly less mar­riages.
Why is this?
"It is because a man cannot support a
whole family by himself. Practically all
divorces grow out of economic difficulties.
Few young men can marry now. Most of
those who can marry can have no children.
"Marriage, monogamic marriage, taught
by Jesus, has been the sex control of the
world through the ages. Without marriage
the control is lost. What are our morals
coming, to?"
Thus does another pessimist add his voice
to the chorus welling from Russian and
French throats since the eighteenth cen­tury.
Indeed the above article is merely
a restatement of the doctrines held by
many philosophers of the continent.
We admit that there is an element of
truth in what this professor states, but
we emphatically disagree with him in his
estimate of the decline of Christian moth­erhood.
We realize that modern women
are prone to depart from the more useless
conventions which obscured the individ­uality
of our maternal ancestors and we
are delighted in this metamorphosis. Our
mothers are too sacred to us for us to
overlook this slander and our sisters too
dear to refrain from condemning the ten­ets
of this speaker.
We believe that Christian mothers, in
the vital sense of Christianity, are still the
most potent influences in the world's
progress as they have ever been.
The morals of the present age would
work out their own salvations if they
could be freed for one moment from the
incessant nagging to which they are sub­jected.
UNDRINKABLE ALCOHOL
In the old days of the saloon and grog
shop the American nation annually suffered
the loss of thousands of lives from alco­holism
and from the murderous instincts
that were aroused by debauchery. Those
who advocate a return which will give
liquor a free hand to resume its former
sway ignore the history of the past when
they point dramatically to the compara­tively
few alcoholic deaths now recorded.
The organized manner in which a large
portion of the Eastern press and spokes­men
for the liquor interests seek to mis­lead
the public regarding prohibition is
one of the striking features of the wet
propaganda now so rampant over the na­tion.
The Springfield Republican though
it is published so close to wet and lawless
Boston, sees clearly through the disregard
for the laws. " 'Good' whiskey", says that
Massachusetts paper, "killed its thousands
and tens of thousands and filled many a
potter's field in the generations that, passed
under free rum, and then license, before
prohibition was heard of. No one in those
halycon days called the government a mur­derer,
as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler now
calls the government of the United States
because people died of alcoholism. But let
26 persons in New York Cfty, out of a
total of 6,000,000 odd inhabitants, die of
too much hootch as an incident, to the
Christmas celebrations, under prohibition;
and the United" States government has the
brand of Cain placed upon it by the horri­fied
humanitarians of the publicity squad
of the wet propaganda."
It is further pointed out that for many
years prior to prohibition the government
put materials in industrial alcohol to make
it undrinkable and now effort is made
to have it appear that because the gov­ernment
pursues the same policy a new
practice is being indulged. It is entirely
likely that the government chemists now
working on the problem.will be able to
discover materials to be placed in indus­trial
alcohol which will not be actually
poisonous but which will make the 'taste
or smell so repulsive that the alcohol will
be unpotable. The hue and cry that is
suddenly being raised against the efforts
to keep people from drinking alcohol plays
directly into the hands of those corrupt
and lawless elements which want to make
it easier to divert the supply of industrial
alcohol into other channels and get it
into the hands of the bootleggers for
drinking. As the government gains m ex­perience
and resources the bootleggers be­come
more desperate. The government
has gradually tightened its grip on the
foreign importers so that rum row is a
thing of the past. The stream of liquor
across the Canadian border is being stop­ped.
Wholesale sources of supply from
foreign fields are drying up. In this sit­uation
the bootleggers turn desperately
to the domestic industrial supply to meet
the demands of their customers. The fact
that Uncle Sam is so successful in making
this alcohol unpotable is proving a still
further serious blow to the trade.
The criticism of the government's meth­ods
come from the wet centers. They
were dissatisfied with the appropriations
of money to clean out rum row. They
thought it a terrible misuse of power to
employ the coast guard in law enforcement.
No efforts the government may make to
enforce the law is going to meet with
the approval of those elements. Yet with
all their objections prohibition. enforce­ment
marches on. As-the big sources of
supply are dried up, it becomes more and
more difficult for the smaller fry to vio­late
the law. Fortunately the country
does not view with seriousness the strict­ures
of those communities which cry that
prohibition can never be enforced, since
those communities have never tried enforce"
ment.
Birmingham Age Herald.
. GLASS WILL BREAK
Recently a custom has been instituted
here at Auburn which has seemingly be­come
a habit. After each basketball game-it
is apparently necessary that each stu­dent
in the gym is attempting to reach'
the exterior simultaneously. As a result
the main doorway is cluttered by a~ howl-ling,
shoving pulling, clawing, tearing
scowling, laughing mass of humanity.
On several occasions women have been
caught in these relentless jams and have
been slightly injured. True, there have
been no serious casualties, thanks to the
density of the mass which renders one un­able
to get his hands on a dangerous wea­pon,
but the affair is extremely disgusting
to visitors. In fact, several citizens of
this and also neighboring cities have been
known in no uncertain terms their inten­tion
of never returning to a contest in the
gymnasium as long as this contest persists.
This naturally deprives the athletic associ­ation
of much needed funds. ^
Then too, it seems to be great sport to
burst out the glass panes in the front door
during these wild stampedes. During the
past games there have been ten or more
glasses shattered by carelessness. In turn
this occasions the association to go to no
end of trouble and expense to keep the
door in repair.
Local students are capable of gentleman­ly
conduct and we urge them to display
this highly desirable quality henceforth.
JUSTIFICATION BY WORKS
In the Thanksgiving issue of The Plains­man
there appeared an editorial entitled
"A Faux-Pas" which has recently created
a tensity of feeling between students and
faculty in Several classes. After careful
deliberation into which neither personal
bias nor administrative edict has intruded
we have reached the conclusion that the
article in question may perhaps have been
a little too caustic in the direction of its
censorship.
It seems to us that it completely ignores
the fact that the most serious breach
of the Honor System occured in the theft
of the professor's book, of which the edi­torial
takes no cognizance. We heartily
condemn the motives which prompted this
act and recollect with disgust the student's
failure to return it when to keep it meant
disgrace for the entire class.
The editorial was not intended as a con­demnation
of the professor's personality
but was merely a student's conception of
the part the instructor should perform in
upholding the Honor System.
We sincerely regret any offense that
might have been taken either in this article
or any others which have directed a with­ering
fire of editorial criticism toward an
individual—without a just cause.
The Editor.
With Other Colleges
A flip of a coin at the close of North­western
University's frenzied football cele­bration
recently, decided the engagement
of a beautiful co-ed to one of two rival
fraternity brothers. This was disclosed
when it became known that Gwynfa Ruth
Thomas and Leslie Oglivie have left North­western
and are to be married shortly.
After the football celebrants had invad­ed
Chicago's loop, built large bonfires,
listened to an address by Vice-President
Dawes, delivered from a fire truck, and
"crashed the gates" of the Rapid Transit
System, spirits were still running high.
The more induring of the participants
gathered at a cosy tea room not far. from
« AUBURN FOOTPRINTS «
"Love is blind." For that reason R. G.
Cargile is the editor of the "Blind Tiger."
This recalls an incident that happened in
the career of this.young Lochinavar last
summer, fie was seen coming into town
with a back seat of a Ford on his shoul­der.
Upon being questioned as to the
meaning of this strange maneuver he con­fessed'
that he had taken a girl out rid­ing,
and someone had stolen the Flivver.
* * * * * * *
We can not help but notice that this col­lege
is growing more effeminate every
day. At the Phi Kappa Phi banquet last
Thursday night we noticed the president
of the instution" with a co-ed on either
side (and only three co-eds were present).
No, Mrs. Dowell was not there.
* * * * * * *
We have noticed the latest contribution
to the engineering world comes from an
Auburn student. Ruben Ray has just pub­lished
his masterpiece, "Line Charts Made
Easy."' Every Civil should have one.
* * * * * * *
We understand that Kelly Posey is still
looking for a T-square that he lost in his
Freshman year. We hope he finds it.
* * * * * * *
We wonder what>became of that picked
company of R. O. T. C. that was to parti­cipate
in the inaugural parade.
* * * * * * *
We also wonder why Alabama's "Mil­lion
Dollar" band was not there. This is
the first occasion of which we have any
knowledge that the University of : Ala­bama
declined to use for - its publicity,
where the opportunity offered. We won­der
if .they really cared to stack their
wares up against "Beedie" Bidez's outfit.
* * * * * * *
Tribute to whom tribute is due. Again
it is fire chief Simms and his cohorts.
Who else would have braved the elements
to go to the chicken farm last Sunday
morning. Yet the fire department func­tioned,
although their efforts were in
vain. After exhaustive research it was
learned that "Firechief" had an idea that
he would have a roast chicken dinner.
Willie Frank thought that they meant the
Zoo, when it was reported that a fire had
broke out at the chicken farm. Rand
Hood thought that he would be able to
keep warm, if it were a fire, but he was
not particular where the fire was to be
held.
* * * * * * *
We hear that Charlie Apps has refused
to attend any future fires unless they
give him a day's notice.
Bob Leary is getting anxious about the
dances. He says that he cannot see the
high cost of dancing without financial re­inforcements.
He has exhausted all the
old gags about, getting money. If any one
has a new one Bob will appreciate it.
* * * * * * *
We hear that since "Shack" Matthews
joined the McNeal Epworth League their
co-ed membership has increased until it
now surpasses all the other Epworth
Leagues.
* * * * * * *
Since then his membership has been
sought by the C. E., B. Y. P. U. and six
of our local Literary Societies.
* * * * * * *
Forney Ingram has invited him around
to the A. S. C. E. Wonder what ac­tion
the S. A..M. E. will take.
* * * * * * *
Signing off 2i00 A. M. January 20, Ar­chitectural
Drafting room. Good bye and
good luck on the exams. (Curtain.)
BOOK REVIEW CONDUCTED BY
MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY
Edited by John B. Clark, A.M., Ph.D.,
Professor of Economics
AMERICAN PORK PRODUCTION IN
THE WORLD WAR,
F. M. SURFACE, A. W. Shaw Co, Chicago
Who will be the next president of the
United States? Mr. Coolidge has been ve­ry
successful and, principally, because he
hit upon a policy which has resulted in
wonderful prosperity for the Nation; that
is, economy. Let me invite your atten­tion
to one of the most sincere workers in
the National Government, and one who is
not a politician because he is too busy.
This man is a dynamic business personali­ty
and one of the greatest economists that
ever lived—Herbert Hoover.
Frank M. Surface has written an account
of how pork was handled during the World
War. His is a well written book, sup­ported
by documentary evidence. He is
ably fitted for such an undertaking, due
to his close association with Mr. Hoover
during the war. Here are some of the
things he presents:
1. The problem of the food supply crisis
in. Europe during the early days of the
war.
2. How the food administration stimu­lated
pork production in this country to
supply the European demand and, in so
doing, created an artificial economic situ­ation.
3. How that situation was maintained,
and disaster to the American swine grow­er
prevented during periods of depression.
4. How this abnormal condition was
successfully readjusted after the war.
6. The official documents of Mr. Hoov­er,
by which he juggled the economics of
a number of nations, preventing starvation
in Europe, and disaster from over-produc­tion
in the United States. •
—W. E. SEWELL.
% BLIND TIGER %
Well people all th' excitement is done
over, 'n all but the shoutin'. Nothin' bad
happened durin! the holidays 'cept when
that Anniston Sheik let that air Calhoun
County Sheba break his ribs in a pettin'
party. Gosh, what are the women goin'
to do next? Anyway we pity that boy
what got hugged so tight it broke two of
his ribs that night. As a means of pro­tection
for the weaker sex (male) we rec­ommend
that they begin wearing hoop
skirts and steel corsets when they enter
into .petting parties from now on.—;
Yours'for unbroken ribs. HIC!.!.!.
Gertrude.—"What became of Dean Petrie's
hair?"
Phillips.—"Oh, he played the heroine in
"The Rape of the Lock".
She.—"Oh, you've broken my heart".
He.—"Was it? I thought it was a rib
when it broke."
Prof. Rutland: (in Freshman English)-
"Use the word "Jeopardy" in a sentence."
Wooten.—"You'd make a good Jeopardy
sheriff."
MI AMI FOR MAY QUEEN!!" "BONES"
VAUGHN, PUBLICITY MANAGER.
Phillips says that the easiest way to
keep from eating too much is to be in
the campus of the University.
Among those present were the two rivals
and the girl. Larry Stokes sauntered up
to Gwynfa and said: "Gwynfa, let's wind
up this celebration in the right way. Let's
get married, just you and I?".
Then in came Les Oglivie, whose engage­ment
had already been announced. An
argument ensued and fistic combat was
averted by the suggestion of Larry, that
they toss a coin to decide. Leslie .agreed.
He tossed and won.
Copied.
At a recent meeting of Land Grant Col­leges,
a resolution was passed, asking larg­er
appropriations in order to continue
compulsory military training, which reads
in part:
"It is ridiculous to assert, as some have
done, that America is being prussianized.
No facts in support of such charges have
been cited, nor could they be collected on
any campus in America.
Enrollment in the R.O.T.C. for the first
semester of the school year 1926-27 total­led
119,914, the War Department announ­ced
recently.
Illinois has the largest inrolled in any
State, with a total of 10,636 of whom
4007 were in senior and 6628 in junior
units. The Second Corps Area, which in­cludes
New York, has an enrollment of
7443. The enrollment in other corps
areas is: First, 6108; Second, 7443, Third,
10,037; Fourth, 18,846; Fifth, 13,424
Sixth, 14,748; Seventh, 20,002; Eighth,
9549, Ninth, 18,628. The enrollment in
Hawaii is 1130."
New Student.
love with a coed, take her to shows, and
buy her candy and flowers.
Miami says that if it hadn't been for
the apple, she doesn't know what the
clothing business would have been today.
Prof. Grant: "What is the U. S. Congress
doing now?"
Coed Mardre: "Having the largest bull
session of the year."
Coed Thomas says that one thing the
beauty contest shows is that a lot of the
pretty girls are too proud to enter them.
Miami says that her idea of a mean
man is one who will lie cold and fake ;
snore so his wife will get up for the extra
quilt.
Olive—A fruit that tastes like something
you did and was sorry for afterwards.
Apps says that loving an unresponsive
woman is worse than trying to play a
uke with a pair of boxing gloves.
"A little paint will brighten up any
joint," said the flapper as she applied the
rouge to her dimpled knee.—Bearcat.
What every freshman knows:—IT ALL.
—Bearcat.
Mucker—an individual of male persua­sion
that goes on a goober hanging
contest with a girl and then broadcasts
the details.—Collegian.
Woman on boat: "Oh, Captain, I'm
seasick, and don't know what to do."
Captain: "Dont worry madam, you'll
do it."—Collegian.
Minister: (eulogizing the deceased at the
funeral )"My friends, all that remains here
is the shell, then it is gone."
Policeman: "What are you.crying about
young man?"
Stewed: "I've just found a good recipe
for making home brew and I ain't staying
at home."
(Upon a moonlight-minus evening)
He: "It's perfectly ripping, isn't it?"
She: "Thank goodness we are in the
dark then."—King College News.
We suggest that the Crimson Tide
change its name to "The Crimson Tied,"
and adopt as its official song "California,
Here we come."
"You say he was choked to death?"
"Yes, he was eating a piece of horse
meat last night when someone hollered,
"Whoa."—Alabamian.
Rat .Wooten: "Do you know the differ­ence
between a bathroom and a parlor?"
Big Six: "No."
Wooten:. "Gosh! Where do you enter­tain
your friends?"
AMERICAN BANKING PRACTICE
W. H. Kniffin, McGraw-Hill Book Co.,
New York City, 1921
One who has attempted the study of
money, credit, and banking conditions has
no doubt realized the need for a text on
the. daily routine and practical operation
of a bank. It is this operation and bank­ing
practice, presented in a clear, but com­prehensive
manner that Mr. Kniffin deals
with in his book, American Banking Prac­tice.
Because of the increasing number and
uses of credit instruments in modern busi­ness,
the importance of this subject should
be realized and studied by every one.
The author of this book who is a practi­cal
business man and who "has had experi­ence
in bank operations, has tried to pre­sent
a simple, yet a broad picture of the
work of banks in every detail. Moreover,
he has attempted to weave into banking
practice the Negotiable -Instruments Law,
which is so essential to bank operations.
In presenting the work of the banks
from many angles, a picture is drawn of
the* ordinary bank, supplementing this by
reference to the practices of the larger
ones. The same work in its fundamentals
is done in both, and the difference lies
altogether in the number of people and the
departments required to carry on the
fundamental functions.
This book covers the whole subject of
banking, and could weir be used as a text
for teaching, as well as for the business
man. By eliminating the elaborate details
which would not be easily understood by the
average reader, this text has been narrow­ed
down to 389 pages. It is divided into
twenty-one chapters, and contains many
forms and tables which enable the reader
to understand the subject more fully.
Among the important chapters are those
on The American Banking System, The
Function'of A Bank, Types of Banking
Institutions, The Paying Teller, Bank
Checks and Protests, Bank Accounting,
Bank Organization and Operation, and the
Federal Reserve System. Besides the twen­ty-
one chapters which it contains, it is pro­vided
with a copy of the Negotiable In­struments
Laws, which are uniform in
forty-six states.
A survey of business today shows that
ninety-five per cent of all business transac­tions
are being done on a credit business.
These transactions involve many credit in­struments
and classes of exchanges, which
are handled through the various banks. It
is surprising to know what a meager un­derstanding
the average man has of the
different credit instruments, and how he
is forced to rely on someone else for his
information and advice along this line.
Any one interested in credit instruments
and practical bank operation, regardless
of the nature of their work will find Mr.
Kniffin's book interesting as well as very
helpful.
—G. L. SCOTT, Economies Dept.
'Tis said that Prof. Posey wants things
so snappily that he poured boiling water
down a hen's throat to make her lay a
hard-boiled egg, but at that, he couldn't
keep up with Prof. "Pup," who tried the
same thing on a rooster.
THE PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
PROGRAM OF
WEBSTERIAN
IS EXCELLENT
The Websterian Literary Society
had a very interesting program at its
regular meeting last Tuesday night.
Miss Irene Fletcher gave us ac­counts
of what American Travellers
think of Sweden. "The secret of the
enthusiasm about their experiences is
probably because Sweden is a land
of a very ancient culture. With phy­sical
proofs in hand the archeologist
now can prove the members of the
present day Swedish race have inhab­ited
their present land for at least
5,000 years. In scenery,," she says
"Sweden is one of the most varied
countries in the old world, due to its
variety of climate, vegetation, and
animal life. The industrial side of
factory produces 40,000 boxes of
matches an hour, and Sweden stands
very high in the world of electri­city."
Miss Mathews gave us a short
sketch of the life and works of Mrs.
Belle Richardson Harrison of Tus­caloosa.
"In all that she has written"
she quoted one of her admirers as
saying, "there is an optimistic phil­osophy,
a genuine wholesomness that
has given her a secure place in* the
affections of those people who want
to see a smile through tears and con­solation
behind prison bars." She
gave us a humorous account of the
origin of one of Mrs. Harrison's
negro dialects, "Pomp's Defense."
A negro man was brought up for trial
for stealing a pair of trousers. His
defense before the judge was that
he had stolen them to be baptised in.
Mrs. Harrison seized upon the oft
truism which so clearly illustrated
there, "that the negro has more re­ligion
and less morals than any race
on earth" to make a poem.
Mr. Lynne gave us a very inter­esting
talk on "Rennaisance of Lib­eral
Arts in the Colleges.* "We
"know little about what true art is,"
he said, w^ hould study culture of
some capiu land depth. Very few
of us dwell . jig and conscientiously
enough oh the works of geniuses to
appreciate their finer feelings and
their works. He compared the life
and works of two of our great writ­ers,
Count Leo Tolstoy, a Russian
novelist, poet, and social reformer,
and Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian dram­atist
and poet with our life today.
He urged each of us to try to live
in a cultural atmosphere and to cre­ate
this cultural feeling in our so­ciety
as it should be by each mem­ber
bringing up his part of the pro­grams
in the right wayi
Miss Hester was with lis for .the
last time since she graduates at the
close of this semester. She assured
us that she had enjoyed the work of
the society and that she would al­ways
be interested in its work. Mr.
Jester, our president, wished for her
in behalf of the society much success
in her work and future life.
-Our next meeting will be held
on Tuesday night, February 1st.
Come and bring that new member
with you.
DR. C. L. BOYD
Doctor of Dental Surgery
and Oral Pathology
Tiger Drug Store Building
Upstairs
CIVILSPLAN
FOR FUTURE
The General Lane chapter of the
American Society of Civil Engineers
held its last meeting for this semes
ter, on Friday night, Jan. 14, 1927
This was a special meeting called
for the- purpose of electing officers
for the coming year.
The meeting was called to order
by President F. H. Ingram, and the
election of officers immediately fol­lowed.
The following' men were
elected: H. L. Mulilins, president;
V. A. Bates, vice president; R. P.
Sitz, secretary and treasurer. After
the election President Ingram turned
the meeting over to the new presi­dent,
, who appointed the follow­ing
committees: Program Commit­tee,
E. L. Pearce, chairman; L. A.
Easterly and J. B. Leslie; Member­ship
Committee, H. B. Sims, chair­man;
G. Gilchrist, and W. B. Mc­Donald;
Finance Committee, F. H.
Ingram, chairman; F. L. Jennings,
CHILD WELFARE
W0RKERSPEAKS
Every child in the United States
has' the right to be well born, free
from handicaps and free to develop
a personality, according to Miss An­na
Richardson, of Washington, D.
C, national field worker in child
development and parental education.
Miss Richardson represents the Amer
ican Home Economics association,
her work being made possible by a
grant from the Laura Spellman
Rockefeller foundation. She was the
guest of Auburn last week upon in
vitation of Miss Agnes Ellen Harris,
dean of women. Miss Richardson's
audience consisted of members of
the Auburn chapter of the American
Association. of University Women,
home economics students at Auburn,
wives of the members of the exe­cutive
council, and members of nur­sery
school children.
The speaker traced the progress
of the work for child development
as follows: "Smith college maintains
a nursery school to enable mothers
to develop professionally and at the
same time carry on household duties.
Cornell, University of Minnesota,
State college at Ames, Iowa, and
University of Iowa also have courses
for mothers. University of Iowa
has a child psychology and nutrition
specialist. The heads of modern
clinics are also adding instructors in
home economics. Parents are eager
for the training. So far we have
developed in individuals only three-
. ^fourths of their natural capabilities.
Now every child has the right to be
well .born, free from handicaps and
free to develop personality without
infringing on the rights of others.
The pattern of the child life is made
early and therefore, correct training
in the home is of great importance."
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HOME EC. CLUB
H0LDS_MEETING
A subject relating to the house­wives
of tomorrow was featured in
the Home Economics program Fri­day
afternoon.
Miss Strain stressed the point of
having an attractive room for young
girls. She stated that the girl could
express her personality in her room.
Miss Igou seemed to think that
high school boys should take Home
Economics, and the writer wonders
if it would be a bad idea for boys to
continue the course in college.
Miss Allen believes in having a
garden, both flower and vegetable.
She must have been taking Psyche-logy.
f or she said, "One must imagine
and visualize the garden."
Miss Russell impressed the girls
that every member of the family that
can walk and talk has a duty in the
household work. She says that a
five-year old child has its duties the
same as other members.
Miss Marvin rendered a piano so­lo
after which a reading was given
by Mrs. Alverson. In her reading,
Mrs. Alverson asked if we are going
to make this year a "blue year."
Folowing the program, the follow­ing
officers were elected: Mattie
Mae Allen, president; Eunice Stin­nett,
vice-president; Alice Whitcher,
secretary; Irene Fletcher, treasurer;
Mamie Mathews, Plainsman reporter.
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OFFICIAL OF C.
OF G. SPEAKS
TO STUDENTS
Declaring that expansion of the
railroads is the order of the day and
that they cannot stand still but must
go forward, Alexander R. Lawtpn,
vice president of the Central of Geor­gia
Railroad company, told Auburn
students of business administration
that he believes in the proper regula­tion
of the railroad industry as main­tained
today.. Mr, Lawton, one of
the highest railroad executives in the
south, spoke under the auspices of
the department of economics, headed
by Dr. John B. Clark. The speaker
was introduced by President Spright
Dowell.
Mr. Lawton traced in an interest­ing
manner the development of the
railroad in the United States from
the beginning of steam engine trans-and
G. M. Coleman. There being no
further business, the society adjourn­ed
to meet again Friday night, Feb.
4th, at 6:45, in Room 109, Ramsay
Hall.
The past semester has witnessed
a very successful period for the Gen­eral
Lane chapter of the A. S. C. E.
The Junior class has had a very ac­tive
part in this success, and now it
is up to his class to help make this
chapter the best in the country.
Therefore, every member of the Jun­ior
class should support the Socie­ty,
by attending its meetings and tak­ing
an active part in its function-ings,
more than ever before.
The members of the Sophomore
class are especially invited, and their
attendance is very desirable.
Article IV from the Constitution
of the local chapter reads: "Any
member of the Sophomore class in
Civil or Highway Engineering may
become an associate member, and
will be duly enrolled by the secretary
as such, on the minute books. No
dues shall be demanded of Associate
Members." Credit for attendance is
now under consideration by the So­ciety,
and with the assistance of
Professor Baughman, it is expected
to be put into effect right away.
"LET'S GO OVER THE TOP,
CIVILS!"
OF BIRMINGHAM
AUBURN BRANCH
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portation to the present time. He
condemned the rebate system practic­ed
by the railroads some forty years
ago, saying that it resulted in doing
good to very few people and much
harm to very many people. The rail­roads,
he said, yielded because the
shippers demanded the rebate.
"Business ethics in those days,"
the'speaker added, "are not what
they are today. In fact, there were
no ethics and young men of the pres­ent
are going out into a much better
world than the one entered by the
business men of forty years ago. .
Mr. Lawton said that the rebates
were established to kill all competi­tion
and that rebating was the foun­dation
of the great Rockefeller for­tune.
The railroad officials were
frank in declaring that they were in
the business for profits for the be­nefit
of their stockholders and not
for. the welfare of the people.
"The state of Georgia," the speak­er
continued, "led the way in legisla­tion
providing for the regulation of
the railroad in 1878. Other states
including Alabama soon followed and
today all of the railroads in all of
the states are regulated not only by
the state public service commission
but by the all-powerful federal inter­state
commerce commission. The in­terstate
business of railroads, inci­dentally,
is infinitely greater than
the intra-state business, the Central
of Georgia doing three dolars worthy
of interstate business as compared
with one dollar's worth of intra­state.
Therefore, the regulations by
the Interstate Commerce commission
has greatly overshadowed state con­trol
of the railroads."
Mr. Lawton paid a high compli­ment
to the present membership of
+he federal interstate commerce
board, in Washington, saying that
they are a fine group of men. He
declared that he favored the system
of regulations over the old and buc­caneering
days of the railroads. Un­der
the due process clause of the
Fourteenth amendment to the con­stitution,
courts and congress have
recognized the inherent right of rail­roads
to earn fair and reasonable
returns on their porperty, the actions
of the Interstate Commerce commis­sion
imply prudent investment on
the part of the railroad people.
Railroads should be regulated, Mr.
Lawton concluded and they must be
given a fair chance, for expansion is
the order of the day.
Mr. Lawton is a native of Georgia
and at one time parcticed law in Sa­vannah.
He is an alumnus of the
University of Georgia, where he made
Phi Betta Kappa. He studied law at
the University of Virginia and Har­vard.
He is a member of various
societies, member of the law com­mittee
of the Association of Railroad
Executives, president of the Savan­nah
Board of Trade and since 1912
chairman of the Georgia Bar associa­tion's
committee on legal ethics and
grievances.
No husband can understand why
the neglect of some trifling house­hold
errand should cause so much
trouble.
BULLETIN BOARD
Friday, January 21, through
Thursday, January 27. First Se­mester
Examinations.
Sunday, January 23. At the sev­eral
churches: Sunday School, 9:45;
morning services, 11:00 a. m„; Young
Peoples Organizations, 6:30; even­ing
services, 7:30 p. m.
Y. W. C. A. Cabinet meeting, Y
Hut, 1:30 p. m.
Thursday, January 27, through
Saturday, January 29, the Junior
Prom.
Friday, January 28, and Saturday,
January 2.9, Registration for second
semester.
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Class Football Soon To
Get Underway at Auburn
Class Football To Get Under Way'
Since the memorable Turkey Day
tussel in Atlanta there has been very
little said about old king fotball
around the village . Soon there will
be the class games that will for a
time attract quite a bit of local in­terest.
These games are always not­ed
for their hard fighting and this
is meant literally too. Due to the
keen rivalry between classes and
this being the only chance that eith­er
has to prove the superiority in
any way, these battles always call
out the fighters of the classes. Stars
are not in the minority in these
games. Even the "hefty" Lovelace
blossmed into a very dependable cen­ter
in last years' games. It is to
be regretted that due to injuries,
Harry Fox will not be able to par­ticipate
as the opponent of "Ounce"
this year. This pair was about half
the show last season. There will be
no Butlers or Cannons in either line­up
this time, but there is sure to be
some good exhibitions of football as
there are men that will be on either
team that is capable of putting up
good games in this class.
The seniors will be out there to
keep the class championship won last
year as juniors, the juniors to avenge
the defeats of the past two years,
the sophomores to prove that they
are "the stuff," and the rats to try
to get even with some guy on the up­per
class teams. We do not mean
that these teams do not fight for
the glory of winning, this they sure­ly
do with all the sportsmanship that
any team can under the circumstan­ces.
It is just the circumstances. It
is just our annual family free for all.
Picking the winner now would be
as much of a problem as it will be
just before the games. There are
so many dark horses on all these
teams that it is never known what
will happen next. For instance, last
year one of these dark horses was
playing half back and all he knew
was that he was supposed to run in­terference
for some body on this cer­tain
play and when center passed
the ball back he slapped it down and
prevented its getting to the man it
was intended for, and then he flew
around end forming the unneeded
interference. That is the type of
men that will have to be contended
with in these games so Kate is not
putting out any dope.
The seniors will be coached by
Salter and Nelson. Their team will
probably be built around the remain­ing
elegible men from last years
team. Among these are Adams,
Lovelace, Stone, Smith, Hitchcock,
Pitts, Phipps, and Gantt. With this
collection Salter should be able to
shape a very formidable line. The
problem is for Nelson to get a back
field that will do its part.
The Juniors are coached by Patter,
son and S. Hoots. They will have a
tea mto build upon. Most of the old
very good nucleus from last years
team is in school and eligible to play.
There is Weed, Chambers, Gregory,
Mosley, Strickland, Copeland, Pearce,
Jones, Alexander, Simms, Hydrix,
Martin, Kenny, Smith, and Garrett.
From this gang the captains of the
next Tiger campaign should be heard
from.
The sophomores will be coached
by Fisher ' and Carter. If football
players makes the coach these boys
will be well coached. They will have
probably the smallest number to pick
from of any. This is due to the fact
that most of their football men, have
either been promoted or demoted.
Quite a number of them are mem­bers
of the big gang and several have
left school. However, Fayett, Tryon,
Reddock, Smith, and several others
will be on hand. These boys made
a grand fight for the championship
last year and were not denied it by
a very wide margin and though they
have lost most of that team there is
sure to be something else to replace
some of it. They are not out "of the
race yet and will not be for some
time.
The freshmen are the real dark
horses in the race. They have one
candidate that answers to the name
"War Horse." Ellis and Long have
been selected to coach these boys
and it is our guess that no class boasts
a better coaching staff than does
the rats. Too, quite a number of
these men have played and practic­ed
together all during last fall and
are better acquainted footballically
speaking. There will probably be a
larger number of men out for this
team than any of the others. There
is Britt, Green, Jones, Blankenship,
"Dean" Taylor, Jones, "War Horse"
Stewart, Bottoms and Sawyer. Shor­ty
Long is sure to get a line from
this collection and Ellis will likely
secure a good backfield. It is rum­ored
that the rats are contemplat­ing
asking George B. Hahn
to act as their mascot during the com­ing
hectic campaign, McDaniels and
Wooten are also bidding for this job.
At a'late hour one night last week,
Miss Miami was unanimously elected
sponsor for the freshman team.
With this brilliant array of sponsors,
water boys, mascots and so on, to
cheer the boys on they should be
inspired for this their first official
bid to leadership in Auburn.
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W. E. "SKEEK" KALEY
Skik Kaley came to Auburn in the
fall of 1923 unknown in the athletic
realm of the institution. In his heart
was the desire and determination to
earn "for himself one of the coveted
A's. He sought the basketball court
as the place to concentrate his ef­forts
and abilities in gaining his
goal. It is not necessary to say here
that he was successful as very one
on the campus knows already and
the ones who were here during the
winter months of 1925 know that he
fully deserved it:
Kaley is a fine example of aggre-siveness
and determination and one
can truly say that as far as fight
and sportsmanship is concerned Kal­ey
holds his own with the best.
This season finds Kaley playing
the role of one of the reserves. Papke
having his first team made up prac­tically
of younger material; however,
a team is said to be no stronger than
its reserves. If this is true we have
a strong link in our chain as Kaley
is certainly a fine reserve man.
Coeds Lose 3446
To Girls From
B'ham-Soutnern
TANGENTS FROM
SPORT CIRCLES
Lee County High
Wins Fast Contest
From Shawmut
"Snitch" Snyder pitted his high
school basketeers against the cage
team from Shaumut High last Sat­urday
night and saw his charges
emerge victorious. The game was
played at the college Gym. as a sort
of' preliminary to the Auburn-Flor­ida
affair and attracted a large group
of spectators.
The game was a fast one through­out
with both teams showing plenty
of stuff. The wain feature of the
game was the excellent all-round
playing of Willie Roe Tamplin with
the Lee Countians. This aspiring
athlete was all over the floor drib­bling,
passing, and shooting goals
promiscuously. Ellis, Tamplin's run­ning
mate at forward, also played a
stellar game for the home team. Au­burn
got off to an early start scor­ing
three goals in the first minute
of play. They were never in dan­ger
and as the game advanced they
widened the gap between the two
scores. The final score being 29-19.
It is interesting to note that the
coach for the visiting team was Ger­ald
Salter who graduated here a
year ago. We did not know Salter
was an artist in imparting inside
dope on how to play basketball but
anyone who say his outfit in action
will admit that he has whipped to­gether
a fast quintet and one that
handles itself well on the floor.
The next game on the schedule of
the local high school is Wetumpka
High. This game is to be played in
Wetumpka Friday night.
"Buck" Ellis and Co. managed by
Mike Papke, came into their own last
Saturday night down at the College
Gym. and blasted the hopes of Uni­versity
of Florida's basketball team,
in easy fashion. Auburn was the
aggressor throughout and was never
in danger. The score was 51 to 34.
As a check on the comparative
strength of the victims of the Tiger
we noticed the results of the Alaba­ma-
Florida clash Tuesday night. The
Crimson Tide defeated the 'Gators
49-43. This was not quite as de­cisive
as the Tigers' victory and
though it is not safe to place too
much on comparative score, it looks
somewhat encouraging to the follow­ers
of the Orange and Blue.
Fighting an uphill battle all the
way, the Auburn coeds lost a thrill­ing
basketball game to the coeds
from Birmingham-Southern by the
score of 34-16. The game was not
thrilling as far as the closeness of
the game was concerned as the fair
basketeers from the Magic City were
always safely in the^lead. The real
thrills afforded the spectators was
the results of the inability of the
.girls to keep their equilibrium. This
handicap caused quite a number of
skinned knees and bruises and gave
the game the aspect of a gridiron
tussel at times. Though the Birm­ingham
girls were able to keep safe­ly
in the lead they were unable to
break that fighting spirit so char­acteristic
of any Auburn team until
the re'ferees' whistle sounded the
finish of the game the wearers of the
Orange and Blue were attempting a
desperate though futile rally. Just
who were the luminaries among Till­man's
cohorts would be hard to say.
"Big Six" Price seemed to be the
most formidable on the defense, with
Pertise Tucker showing the greatest
accuracy of ringing goals. Edna
Creel played a good game at both
offense and defense, her passing be­ing
the most accurate among the lo­cal
girls. Guthrie was the star for
the visitors, her ability to shoot goals
being the feature of the game. It
was Whistenant's accuracy in toss­ing
goals that gave the Birmingham
Southern girls their early lead. This
young lady showed herself to be a
skillful player but had to retire from
the game as a result of an injury
in the first half.
It was the first reversal for the
Coeds this season and they have gone
about practice this week with the de­termination
to redeem themselves in
the next game. They play Jackson­ville
State Normal next and the sup­porting
group of the Coeds are ex­pecting
them to bring back the ba­con
to the village.
their won column. The game was
won by the small margin of 5 points,
the final score being 35-30. There
seems to be some promising material
showing up under the supervision
of '"Red" Brown, Collins, Ward and
James all handle themselves well on
the floor and should improve as the
season progresses.
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There is a two weeks lay off on I
the Tiger schedule to allow the boys
plenty of time for exams. After
this sojourn the Plainsmen journey
far away to the Crescent City to
engage the basketeers of Tulane in a
series of games. There is four games
in this Tulane series, two to be play­ed
in New Orleans and two in Au­burn.
We expect to continue a
stumbling block to the Green Wave
just as we were in football.
Birmingham Southern sent a quin.
tet of Coeds up. the the "Village"
last Friday that played havoc with
our Coeds. When the smoke of the
battle had cleared away and Till­man's
charges recovered from the
daze they found the visitors had
gotten away with the big end of a
34-16 score. This column believes
the coeds capable of playing a much
better brand of ball than that dis­played
against the fair athletes from
the Magic City.
Coach Brown had his Rats in
good condition Tuesday night when
he pitted them against Bevelle Ath­letic
Club and they added a game to
We are always pleased to notice
the men who leave Auburn in their
upward climb, toward success. The
last news received in the Plains had
reference to "Bull" McFadden popu­lar
football player of Auburn a year
ago. This athlete sought his suc­cess
in the field of coaching and
seems to have found his calling.
Last season he coached the Clover-dale
High team in one of its most suc­cessful
seasons. He is not being
asked to sign a three year contract
with this same school. It is under­stood
that his services are being
sought by Sidney Lanier of Mont­gomery.
As yet he has not accept­ed
either offer.
The baseball scandal that was
attracting nation wide interest a week
ago seems to have been settled to the
satisfaction of the public as a while.
It is gratifying to see the names of
such idols of the game as, Cobb and
Speaker cleared of the gambling
charges.
While discussing games of every
nature there comes to mind a big
W. L. "SHORTY" MORROW
We have shown above one of the
south's best distance runners and
none other than the captain of our
team. A team that made quite an
enviable record for Auburn this sea
son. They have down as their
achievements thus far this season the
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wining of the Birmingham Athletic
Club race at which time they suc­ceeded
in bringing to the Plains some
three cups and eleven medals. The
other outstanding achievement the
Cross Country Team was the win­ning
of second place in the South­ern
Conference meet. Much of the
credit of the success of this team
goes to Morrow for it is the ex*
ample he set for those under him
that helped to make them what they
are. -It is never too cold or too hot
for "Shorty" to go out and take a
five mile run if time for a meet is
nearing and he always has that spir­it
that believes success is coming.
This is Morrow's last year in Au­burn
and we wonder just who will
fill the shoes of this faithful runner.
FLORIDA 'GATORS FALL BEFORE
ATTACK OF AUBURN QUINTET
Exhibiting a brand of basketball
that cannot be denied, the charges
of Mike Papke overwhelmed the
cage team from the Univehsity of
Florida by the decisive score 51-34.
Auburn'got the jump on their op­ponents
in the opening minutes of
play and had the count 12-0 before
the 'Gators could get started. The
Auburn players had the edge on the
boys from Florida due to height.
They were able to keep the ball in
their possession by high passing and
also able to break up the passes of
the opposition. Akin. continued to
be the high scorer for Auburn ring­ing
up a total of 15 points. DuBose
ran him a close second in this con­test
with 12 points to his credit.
Captain Ellis also played a nice game
for the Plainsman having 10 points
to his credit for his evenings' work.
The James twins played their usual
jam-up game at guard.
Millman and Walker tied for high
scoring for the visitors having 8
points each. "Red" Smith gave a
fine account of himself at guard for
the visiting team.
Papke's cohorts showed vast im­provement
over anything thay have
previously exhibited to the support­ers
of the wearers of the Orange and
Blue and it is with just cause that
they have reason to expect the re­mainder
of. the season to be very
successful. The schedule is so ar­ranged
that there is a two week lay­off
due to examinations. The next
games are to be played in New Or­leans
with Tulane January 28 and 29.
Auburn (51)—Ellis (10) and Ak­in
(16), forwards; Dubose (12), cen­ter;
F. James (4) and E. James (9),
guards.
Florida (34)—Millman (8) and
Walker (8), forwards; Smith (7),
center; Kiracofe (5) and G. Litzkus
(6), guards.
Substitutes—Auburn, Howell for
Ellis, Mullins for Akin, Hall for Du­bose.
Florida, Felson for Kiracofe.
To all men who make a
hobby of pipes
game that is starting in Auburn Fri­day,
January 21. It is a game in
which all the porfessors and instruc­tors
of the institution pit their wits
against the students of the same in­stitution.
The professors prepare
for this big game for four months
and tell the student exactly how to
win. Curious enough, many of the
students cast all tips aside until the
last few days before the game, then
he gathers out all the books of infor­mation
available and labors dilligent-ly
in one final effort to be the victor.
Sad it is but true that the professor
often administers a humiliating de­feat
to the student. Another peculiar
feature of this fracas is that the
professors are glad enough to see the
students emerge victors in the con­test.
The rules of the game are: The
professor writes upon a black board
certain questions which he has been
telling the student how to answer
for some three or four months. The
student is supposed to try to answer
these questions in an intelligent man­ner
and submit his answers to the
professor. He wins if he can answer
sixty per cent of these questions. To
one who has never played it seems
like another of the games where you
can't lose. To the student it assum­es
quite the reverse. There seems
no chance to win.
There is to be a tournament simi­lar
to the one described above in
which fourteen hundred students and
some fifty or more professors will
engage to take place in the Village
Friday. Let us hope these kind"
hearted professors will cast aside as
many of their weapons as possible
and that a fair percentage of the
students will be able to write home
that he won the battle and please
send him an extra ten spot for his
bravery and ability.
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EVANS LITERARY
SOCIETY MEETS
Last Monday night marked the
close of the semester as far as the
society was concerned. However its
members have quite a bit to do before
each is through individually. It was
conceded by all that the semester's
work , though not what it should
have been, perhaps, was comparative-
4y successful. Quite a number of
very interesting games were given,
one hike with the usual amount of
fun and eats, and when the annual
Declamation contest came on there
was much interest shown and this
was rewarded by the Evans represen­tative
winning.-:
No program was rendered at this
meeting as it was given over to the
installation of -officers. Mr. Taylor
succeeds Miss Gibbs as president,
Hugh McCall succeeds Mr. Taylor as
secretary-treasurer, McConnell and
Walkley Succeed Smith and Collins as
program committeemen, Stevens suc­ceeds
Roy Cargile as critic, and "Utt"
Collins succeeds Al Smith as sargeant
at arms. Each retiring officer ex­pressed
his appreciation for the co­operation
he had received from the
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WIRT SOCIETY
ELECTS OFFICERS
The Writ Literary Society elected
officers Tuesday night in Wirt Hall.
A large crowd was present, and
much interest was manifested in
the election.
The new officers are: N. O. Smith,
president; C. R. Moore, vice-presi­dent;
C. T. Thompson, secretary; J.
W. Randle, treasurer; H. M. Bryant,
publicity agent; N. 6. Strub, ser-geant-
at-arms.
The new officers all pledged
themselves to do their best to make
the second semester the best in the
history of the Wirt Literary Socie­ty.
The society will hold its next
meeting on February 1 at seven
o'clock in room 302 of the main
building. Everyone is extended a
cordial invitation to' come and join
the society.
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members and asked them to be even
more thoughtful of the incoming
ones. The new officers expressed
their appreciation for the honor and
pledged, themselves to do their best
to uphold the standard of the society.
After the installation every one
indulged in an old time spelling
match. This proved very interesting
and humorous as a large majority
had to take their seats on the first
word; asafetida. Mr. DuBose should
have been awarded the prize for
being the only member able to spell
the word. He probably would have
have gotten a prize of some sort but
he failed to spell, awkward. At the
close of the match the society ad­journed
to meet again the first Mon­day
night of the second semester.
C. E. TO HOLD
SONGJERVICE
Sunday night,' January 23, the
Christian Endeavorers of Auburn
will hold a song service in lieu of
the regular program. Miss Neita
Grace will be the leader of this meet­ing.
Special music has been prepar­ed.
Favorite songs of those present
will be a feature of the program.
Those who have spent Sunday in
study will find it a relief to come
down and enjoy the music, but
whether you are tired of studying
or not, coins down and htlp us sing.
CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS
OF THE AUBURN HONOR SYSTEM
Article 1. Name
The name shall be the Auburn
Honor System.
Article II. Purpose.
The purpose of the Honor System
shall be to maintain a high standard
of honor throughout the college.
Article III. Control.
The Auburn Honor System shall
be controlled solely by the students
of the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute.
Artice IV. Memberihip.
Section 1. Personnel—The Au­burn
Honor Committee shall monsist
of eleven members, as follows: One
graduate student, four seniors, three
juniors, two sophomores, and one
freshman. The members represent­ing
the three upper classes shall be
elected on or before the fifteenth
day of April in the scholastic year
preceding the one in which they are
to serve. They shall take the full
duties of office on May the first.
The freshman and graduate repre­sentatives
shall be elected sometime
between the first and fifteenth day
of October of the scholastic year in
which they are to serve.
Section 2. Election of Members.
—The members of the committee
representing the Senior Class shall
be chosen from among the eight
representatives nominated by the
class; those representing the Junior
Class from among seven represen­tatives
nominated by the class;
those representing the Sophomore
Class from among six representatives
nominated by the class; and the
member representing the Freshman
Class from among four representa­tives
nominated by the class. All
candidates for membership on the
committee shall have a scholastic
standing equal to that required for
participation in student activities
and on college teams.
Section 3. Vacancies—Any va­cancy
that may occur shall be filled
by the class in which the vacancy
occurs by selection from four mem­bers.
Section 4. Installation of Mem­bers.—
The members of the Honor
Committee shall be publicly installed
before the time of assuming the du­ties
of office. They shall take the
oath of office administered by the
President of the College or his rep­resentative,
from whom they will re­ceive
a commission bearing the seal
of the college and the signature of
the President of the College and the
president of the class which each
member represents.
Article V. Officers.
Section 1. The officers of the
Honor Committee shall be a presi­dent,
a vice-president, and a secre­tary,
who shall be lected in May by
the newly-elected Honor Committee.
Section 2. The president of the
Committee shall be elected from the
members representing the Senior
Class, the vice-president from the
Junior members, and the secretary
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all of its members. The following
may be regarded as sufficient cause
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Neglect of duty, persistent tardiness,
continued absence from meetings, or
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Section 3. Expulsion of a mem­ber
shall be by a two-thirds vote of
the Committee.
Section 4. A quorum, consisting
of at least eight members of the
Honor Committee shall be necess­ary
to conduct business.
Article VII. Government.
Section 1. It is the duty of every
student to report any case of dis­honesty
that comes under his ob­servation.
If, however, the student
is not sure that the Honor System
is being violated, or believes' that
dishonesty can be prevented, it is
the duty of said student to tap upon
his desk lound enough to be heard.
Section 2. The Honor System
shall rest solely upon the honor of
each individual student and the pub­lic
opinion of his classmates.
Section 3. It requires that stu­dents
refrain from giving or receiv­ing
aid on tests or examinations or
on work designated by the profes­sor
as work requiring individual
preparation.
Section 4. It requires that stu­dents
refrain from answering to an­other's
name or in any way falsely
securing attendance for another.
Section 5. It requires that there
shall be no unnecessary talking or
disturbance during tests or exami­nations.
Section 6. It requires that, for
convenience, students seat them­selves
in alternating seats where
possible.
Section 7. It requires that stu­dents
assume entire ' responsibility
for maintaining honesty on all tests
and examinations. A faculty mem­ber
should be available to give nec­essary
information, but shall take
no part in enforcing honesty during
examinations and tests. The faculty
member is not required to remain in
the class room.
Section 8. Faculty members shall
turn over to the Honor Committee
examination or test papers when, by
comparison, they show probability of
dishonesty.
A r t i c l e V I I I . D u t i e s of t h e C o m m i t t e e
Section 1. It shall be the duty of
the Auburn Honor Committee to give
hearings to all cases brought to their
attention, to render decision and in­flict
punishment in such cases.
Section 2. In case there is no
woman on the Honor Committee,
Women's Student Government Asso­ciation
shall elect a woman to sit,
with vote, on cases in which a wo­man
is defendant.
Section 3. Notification -of the de­cisions
of the Honor Committee
shall be given the Dean of the Col­lege
in which the defendant is reg­istered
and to the Registrar.
Article IX. Power of the Committee.
Ssection 1. The Honor Commit­tee
shall have the power to act in all
matters pertaining to honor in stu­dents'
academic affairs.
Section 2. The punishment inflict­ed
by the Honor Committee shall
vary in degree from permanent dis­missal
from college as a maximum to
recommendation that the student be
dropped from the course and re­quired
to repeat it for credit.
Section 3. The Committee shall
have the power to inflict any punish,
ment that it sees fit on students vio­lating
the Honor System in accord­ance
with Section 2.
; Section 4. A student receiving
any penalty from the Honor Com­mittee
shall have the right of appeal
to the Executive Council of the Fac­ulty.
Article X. Amendment.
This Constitution may be amended
by a two-thirds vote of the Honor
Committee and ratification by a two-thirds
vote of the student body, pro­vided
the proposed amendments are
published at least one week before
the vote of the student body is tak­en.
An amendment' shall become ef­fective
after approval by the Exe­cutive
Council of the Faculty.
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Article XI. Ratification
This Constitution shall become ef­fective
upon ratification by three-fourths
vote of the registered stu­dents
voting and ratification by the
Executive Council of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute.
By-Laws of the Auburn Honor
System.
Section 1. The Constitution and
By-Laws of the Auburn Honor Sys­tem
shall be published annually in
the "Freshman Handbook" and in
"The Plainsman" the week proceed­ing
each semester examination.
Section 2. Members of the Hon­or
Committee shall give short talks
on the Honor System at least twice
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Section 3. The action of the
Honor Committee, on cases, may be
presented to the student body as an
example, but no names shall be men­tioned
unless included in the penalty.
Section 4. Members of the Hon­or
Committee shall co-operate with
the faculty in an effort to prevent
crowded class rooms during exami­nations.
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ALL THE NEW DANCE STEPS IN FRIDAY'S SHOW
NEW MEMBERS INITIATED BY
PHI KAPPA PHI FRATERNITY
(Continued from page 1)
Worley, New Hope; W. G. Wooten,
Siluria.
In addition to the student initi­ates,
the Mowing old members were
present: Dr. Sprighi Dowell, Dr.
B. B. Ross, Doctor F. W. Parker,
NEW MEMBERS ARE IN­ITIATED
BY BLUE KEY
(Continued from page 1)
Key Honorary Fraternity as set
forth in the constitution is: "To
study, discuss, and strive to further
the best interests of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute; to foster in­tercollegiate
relationship and develop
a national collegiate spirit by plac­ing
the stamp of approval on all col­lege
leaders, which will make it pos­sible
to recognize them wherever
found."
Those initiated were:
B. T. Sankey, Nauvoo, Ala.; W.
W. Patterson, Montgomery, Ala.;
Frank Malone, Florence, Ala.; Dick
Evans, Birmingham, Ala.; Eai-le Mea­dows,
Birmingham, Ala.; Bolton
Shotts, Bexar, Ala.; J. B. Beard,
Scottsboro, Ala.; Ben Rives, Jr.,
Troy, Ala.; Harry Fluwiler, Jr., Bu­chanan,
Va.; and H. C. Hopson, Lees-burg,
Fla.
Prof. C. D. Killebrew, Prof. B. L.
Shi, Prof, and Mrs. C. R. Hixon,
Dr. Zebulon Judd, Earl Williams,
Kelley Posey, Prof. J. F. Duggar,
and Miss Dorothy Duggar.
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6:30 P. M. Christian Endeavor
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AUBURN'S BAND STRUTS
BEFORE NEW GOVERNOR
(Continued from page 1)
that, only a short time ago, this
famous band made a notorious trip
to Mobile, the result being a horde
of Rats coming to Alabama Poly­technic
Institute the following year.
Of that number, some have gained
a coveted place on the band.
The Auburn Band has served its
institution nobly this season, just
as it has during the past many years
—and as it is destined to for years
to come. Its showing made last
fall in connection with the Plains­man
Tiger was in no wise a mean
one. The trip to New Orleans was
especially brilliant.
And so in its every movement
the Band is noticed, praised and en­vied.
Those students who have been
fortunate enough to gain a place
on the band- are indeed in luck. Their
learning, their helpfulness, and their
entertainment are radiators of great
benefit, indeed. Not a stale or stu­pid
member is to be found in the
squad. All reported an especially
good time on the trip to Montgomery
last Monday.
HONOR SYSTEM DISCUSSED
BY BOARD MEMBERS
(Continued from page 1) .
from statements made by members
of the Board, most of the students
want the Honor System here, but how
can it function when they refuse
to support it? Some few students
who want the Honor System think
it is a failure, yet they are unwill­ing
to support it. Most of those
who are against it are so for the
reason that they have to report.
It is not necessary to report a stu­dent
if he is a true Auburn man, he
will acknowledge his error and will
join the forces of those who are for
the Honor System.
"The Honor System helps the col­lege
spirit," said the speakers. "The
spirit of a college is creed, duty,
and a symbol. If the creed is upheld,
the student will live according to
the ideals and standard set forth
for them. If the duty is upheld, al­legiance
to the school. The symbol
means the love and loyalty for the
school. If the school spirit is the
right spirit, the Honor System
should automatically become a part
of the school. At present something
must be done.
"The Honor System in Auburn is
facing a crisis. It cannot go on as
it has been attempting to do. The
students must either rally around the
cause or they must acknowledge their
preference for faculty supervision.
If the Honor System is a failure,
then the student body is a failure,
for it belongs to them, and they are
in a position to declare what its fu­ture
shall be. Then Honor System
is not on trial; it has been.on trial.
If there is not an immediate change
for the better, then the system of
government must be changed."
SIGMA NU'S MOVE INTO
NEW HOME ON GAY STREET
(Continued from page 1)
lease on the present house expires
June first. It was largely due to
the cooperative spirit and help of
Mr. Davis and the Theta Kappa Nu's
that the Sigma Nu's were able to
obtain the use of this new house.
The Theta Kappa Nu's stand ready
to occupy the house in June, by
which time the Sigma Nu house on
Fraternity Row should be ready for
occupancy.
FIRE VISITS POULTRY
FARM AT EARLY HOUR
(Continued from page 1)
protection. However, at the persent
time the college has absolutely noth­ing
in the way of fire fighting ap­paratus.
Neither has it any funds
from which to set aside money for
the purchase and operation of a fire
department.
Therefore, for the lack of fire
fighting equipment the fire depart­ment
makes another appeal to the
students to be careful while on col­lege
property. The students are
also urgently requested not to smoke
in the college buildings.
PLANS ARE NOW COMPLETE FOR
RECORD JUNIOR PROM WEEK
(Continued from page 1)
comprising the Faculty Social Com­mittee
are: Miss Zoe Dobbs, Social
Director; C. L. Hare, Roy Dimmitt,
Wilber Hutsell, Captain Anderson,
Captain Althaus, Captain Cushman,
Major J. L. Kennedy, Coach J. E.
Pitts, Dr. B. R. Showalter, Miss Ag­nes
Harris, Miss Dana Gatchell.
Zez Confrey, hailed as the "Pader-ewski
of Jazz" with his ten piece or­chestra
will furnish music for the oc­casion.
Mr. Confrey is well known
for his own compositions, including
"Kitten on the Keys", "Stumbling"
and "Dizzy Fingers." He has evol­ved,
a number of novelty stunts for
his orchestra which will add greatly
to the occasion.
Official chaperones will be: Pres­ident
and Mrs. Spright Dowell, Major
and Mrs. J. L. Kennedy, Captain and
Mrs. James Garrett, Captain and Mrs.
K. G. Althaus, Captain and Mrs. B.C.
Anderson, Lieutenant and Mrs. W.B.
Leitch, Lieutenant and Mrs. Higgins,
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Gentry.
According to W. E. Campbell,
president of the interf raternity coun­cil,
the visiting girls will be housed
in the following fraternity houses;
Theta Chi; Pi Kappa Alpha; Alpha
Gamma Rho; Lambda Chi Alpha;
Pi Kappi Phi. Chaperones have
been selected and approved by the
Executive Council.
The Junior class will sponsor the
dances. Officers of the class are:
T. B. Shotts, president; W. W. Pat­terson,
vice-president; F. E. Tux-worth,
secretary; H. C. Hopson, treas­urer.
O. M. DUGGAR TALKS
TO CLASS IN JOURNALISM
(Continued from page 1)
that community. His paper must
represent everything that pertains to
its welfare, its daily problems, both
social and religious. A newspaper
must stand for something, that is it
must have a policy. If it is to serve
the community it should further
represent its ideals in forbidden ad
vertisements for any thing that does
not pertain to the welfare of the
people. To illustrate this point the
speaker spoke of the temptation
that presented itself when prohibi­tion
was first passed to run an ad­vertisement
for whiskey. Knowing
that his community was against this
drink he refused to run the adver­tisement.
A large sum of money was
thereby sacrificed, but in the end he
gained.
In writing reports, stories, and
editorials one who expects to make
journalism his vocation should strive
to make his writings a part of him­self.
That is his product. It should
therefore bear the stamp of his per­sonality.
A reporter should train
his mind to remember so that he can
be able to tal* notes and reproduce
any speech or lecture that he might
be required to write. •
A clean paper is one of the most
important necessities in publishing
a paper. Print a paper with mate­rial
that is pure enough for every
word of it "to be read aloud any­where
at any time.
Then there are the mechanical
problems to be met and controlled
with equal skill. Solicit for an ad­vertisement
not to fill space not to
help the paper but present the ques­tion
to the prospective advertiser
showing him that it will benefit the
client. Be alert and procure adver­tisements
and avoid use of foreign
propaganda sent in to an idle edi­tor.
To have an office force that is
reliable and organized is another
equally important factor. Hold the
confidence of employees and then
organize them so they can cooper­ate
and work efficiently.
In closing, Mr. Duggar emphasized
the fact that every paper must have,
an ideal that is higher than they can
reach without a struggle. Let the
chief aim be TO SERVE, that is,
serve the people who support him
and success will consequently follow.
WEISIGER TELLS DANGERS OF
TOO HIGH SPECIALIZATION
(Continued from page 1)
things with his desire for knowledge,
his intellectual curiosity and his abil­ity
to think for himself, to the end
that the typical college graduate may
take his place in society not only
well equipped in his field of special­ization,
but as a man to be looked
up to, as a person of good judgment,
and as a person who can furnish that
leadership which, at this particular
time, is so necessary in our own
southland.
Conceive* Vision
"Not long ago one of the trustees
of a great mid-western university
conceived the idea that there should
be greater opportunities for genius
in the business world. So, together
with the dean of engineering, he
visited a number of captains of indus­try
for the purpose of soliciting their
aid in creating such opportunities.
"Upon presenting his idea to a
number of employers of technical
men, he was not long in finding
that industry was already well equip
ped with geniuses of the type that
could develop mechanisms and indus­trial
processes, but that it was very
much concerned with finding among
college graduates men with well de­veloped
personalities.
"He also found that there was a
dearth of men who could accommo­date
themselves to the necessities of
business, who could bring new ideas
to bear upon business problems, who
could supplement, in an advantageous
way, theefforts of industry to im-
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RANDOM NOTES
(Continued from page 1)
Dr. Allison's thesis presented be­fore
the annual meeting of the Amer­ican
Physical Society of Philadel­phia
on, "The investigation of the
lag in the Faraday effect behind the
magnetic field of force," was one of
the three thesis presented from the
entire south.
Copies of last week's Plainsman on
the inauguartion ceremonies written
by the journalism class, were distr-buted
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