1927-03-05 The Plainsman

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VOLUME L. AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1927 NUMBER 22
ATLANTA BISHOP WILL CGm/uli SERVICES IN LANGDON HALL
AG CLUB WILL GIVE ANNUAL
BANQUET MIDDLE OF APRIL
STUDENTS AGRICULTURAL CLUB
Gamma Sigma Delta gQYS AND GIRLS
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Around Junior
Characterized by its membership
of over one hundred students and the
excellent spirit existing among them,
the Ag. Club is recognized as "the
liveliest organization on the campus."
The club was organized in 1913 by
W. E. Ayres and is composed of stu­dents
taking agricultural science, ag­ricultural
education and home eco­nomics.
The club meets Wednesday
night in Comer Hall, where varied
and interesting programs are present­ed
by the students. Different phases
of agriculture are discussed with the
object of putting into practice the
knowledge gained in the classroom,
the laboratory and from the experi­ment
station. These programs always
deviate from the agricultural topics
enough to keep plenty of pep and
enthusiasm which is manifested at
every meeting.
Each year the club sponsors an
~Ag. fair the purpose of which is to
let the other parts of the campus
know a few of the things that are
going on on Ag. hill. This fair is
featured by a parade in the after­noon
and a program at the animal
husbandry hangaf that night. All
exhibits are on display at Comer Hall
for those who care to inspect them.
The Alabama Farmer which is the
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PROMINENT MEN
LECTURE ABOUT
SALESMANSHIP
Wholesale Electrical Dealers
Talk to Class
Students in the salesmanship class
deviated from their regular work last
Wednesday to hear addresses by M.
G. Williams and Gordon Smith, vice-presidents
of Matthews Electric Com­pany,
Birmingham.
Mr. Williams stated, "There is a
great opportunity for skilled sales­men,
but to be a successful salesman
a man must be optimistic and indus­trious.
It is no lazy man's job."
Mr. Smith devoted most of his time
to a very instructive talk on adver­tising
and the part advertising plays
in modern salesmanship* His talk
was instructive and well illustrated
by means of an assortment of "ads"
and slogans.
It will be gratifying to know that
these gentlemen have expressed a de­sire
to return to Auburn next year.
This is a splendid means of linking
the practical with the theoretical in
the various business subjects.
WILL REPRESENT
STATE AG CLUBS
Four Members Holding Best
Records to Go to
Washington
Two Alabama farm boys and two
farm girls who have been leaders in
agriculture and home economics club
work will represent the state at the
first National 4rH Club Camp in
Washington, D. C„ June 16-22, ac­cording
to announcements made to­day
by club leaders of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute. Miss Betty
Raoul and Miss Lizzie Mae Dees, of
Montgomery County, will represent
the club girls, they having won this
honor at the state short course here
last summer.
The club boys have not been named
but T. A. Sims and J. C. Lowery,
state club leaders, are now at work
with the county demonstration agents
with a view to deciding which two
boys shail go. One will go from the
northern part of the state and the
other from the southern half.
The winners will be determined by
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NOTED CHEMIST
WILL LECTURE
TO PUBLIC HERE
Will Talk in Langdon
Thursday Evening
Hall
PROGRAM
College Show
NO SHOW
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the noted
chemist and authority on foods is ex­pected
to visit Auburn the latter part
of the coming week and is scheduled
to deliver a lecture in Langdon Hall
on Thursday evening, March 10, at
eight o'clock.
The general public as well as the
students and members of the faculty
is cordially invited to attend.
Dr. Wiley has visited Auburn be­fore,
delivering the commencement
address a number of years ago, at
which time he highly entertained and
delighted his large audience whose
attention he held closely from be­ginning
to end.
The is a very unusual opportunity
to hear a distinguished scientist of
world wide reputation. It is hoped
that a full house will greet the speak­er
on this occasion.
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METERMEN WILL
MEET IN AUBURN
TO TAKE COURSE
Repairing and Adjusting
Meters to Be on
Program
of
CAPT. CUSHMAN
WILL BE SENT TO
HAWAIIAN POST
Came to Auburn with Class
of 1927
HOWARD SMITH
REVIEWS STATE
FARM TROUBLES
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Gives Interesting Subject Mat­ter
to Ag Journalism
Class
Friday, March 11
"McFADDEN FLATS"
First National Picture
The house that laughs built.
With Charlie Murray and Ches­ter
Conklin.
Pathe News.
Matinee 3 p. m.
Night
10 & 25c
15 & 35c
Saturday, March 12
"REMEMBER"-
Columbia Picture
With Dorothy Phillips and an
all star cast.
/
ox Comedy
and 25 cents
George H. Cushman, Jr., Captain,
F.A. (DOL), has received orders from
Washington to report, early in July,
to the commanding officer of the
Hawaiian Division of the U. S. Army
at Schofield Barracks, Haiwaii, for
field artillery duty. The eighth,
eleventh, and thirteenth regiments of
field artilltry are stationed at Scho­field
Barracks, the second largest
camp of the U. S. Army.
Not the smallest part of this
change for both Captain and Mrs.
Cushman, will be the trip to Haiwaii.
When asked about this trip, Captain
Cushman said, "On June 30 we sail
from New Yprk, calling at Havana,
Cuba, for a day or two days; sailing
across to the canal; stopping at Pana­ma
for a few days; making a final
stop of a few days at San Francisco
before sailing toward the setting sun,
and Haiwaii, the land of eternal
spring. Honolulu will be the first
stop on the island. Schofield Bar­racks
is twenty-five miles out from
Honolulu on a fine paved road.
"Many people of the South and
East have the wrong idea of the con­ditions
in Haiwaii. The majority of
the population on the island is very
similar to the people of the States.
For a real vacation of pleasure I know
of no place I would rather go. We
are looking forward to the time when
we shall be there. Only nine miles
from the barracks is a fine beach for
year round bathing. The climate is
such that there is no summer heat
or winter cold," Captain Cushman
concluded.
Captain Cushman has been at Au­burn
four years and has many friends
and admirers among the students and
faculty of Auburn. When questioned
about his service here, Captain Cush­man
said, "My 'class' entered Auburn
four years ago. I was as green as
any 'rat' in the class* Now • I am
glad to finish my career at Auburn
with the Class of '27."
Captain Cushman is an all-round
athlete and gentleman. He is a mem-
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A Vote of Thanks
In accordance with the plans
of the regular Plainsman staff
for each class in journalism to
edit one edition of The Plains­man,
the present edition is edit­ed
by the Ag. journalism class.
We wish to extend to Mr. Lynne
and his staff our most hearty
thanks and appreciation for this
privilege of putting into actual
practice what we have learned
about newspaper interviewing,
reporting, and feature writing.
Our motto is "we learn by do­ing"
and with this experience
we feel as though we can go
back to our class work with a
broader view of real journalis­tic
work and profit by what we
have learned about the practical
side of journalism.
CAPT. ALTHAUS
IS TRANSFERRED
TO CAMP MEADE
Last Infantry Officer at This
Post
PLANS MADE FOR
DRAMATIC MEET
IN BIRMINGHAM
English Association of Alabama
to Sponsor Movement
Failures of Alabama farmers to
prosper because of the lack of horse
power on farms has been discussed
by the Agricultural Journalism stu-t
dents of Auburn since the address
of Howard G. Smith, editor of Agri­culture
and Industries of Alabama,
to the Journalism class Wednesday
afternoon. "The Alabama farmer
will remain poor," Mr. Smith said,
"if he continues to use one horse
power."
"Although farmers of Alabama are
moving from rough to smooth land,
they can not hope to prosper unless
they have better methods of farm­ing,"
Mr. Smith declared.
"Texas, Oklahoma, and the Delta
of the Mississippi use three to four
horses per farm hand and they raise
one half the cotton of the United
States. In Texas cotton is gathered
with the cotton stripper. Two men
can gather from four to five bales
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' Dean Marion J. Funchess,
of the Agricultural College. Dean
Funchess succeeded Dan T. Gray,
who resigned from the Ag De­partment*
In addition to his
position as Dean he is derictor
of the State Experiment Station.
The English association of Alaba­ma
will sponsor a dramatic tourna­ment
in Birmingham during the
meeting of the Alabama Educational
association there in April, according
to Prof. J. R. Rutland, professor of
English at Auburn and president of
the association.
Miss Janie Graham, teacher of dra­matics
and English in Barton acade­my,
Mobile, suggested the idea to
the association last year and it was
heartily approved. Miss Graham is
chairman of the committee on dra­matics
and will have general charge
of the contest.
Other members of the committees
are Miss Clarie Lynch, Phillips High,
Birmingham; Miss Elizabeth Cole­man,
Sidney Lanier High, Montgom­ery;
and Mrs. Louise Hamilton, di­rector
of dramatics in the Mobile
High; Professor P. M. Munro, super­intendent
of schools, Selma; Profes­sor
Orr, DeKalb County High, Fort
Payne.
The exact line of the performances
have not yet been set, but will be an­nounced
later. High schools wishing
to participate should get in touch with
Miss Graham immediately, Professor
Rutland said.
This unique contest will be model­led
after the contests of the Little
Theatres staged in New York annu­ally.
Each cast will present its short
play not only to a small audience but
also to a committee of judges who
Kenneth G. Althaus, Captain, Inf.
(DOL), has received orders to report
to Camp Meade, Md., at the begin­ning
of next scholastic year, for duty
as student instructor in the tanks
school. Captain Althaus will be in
Auburn the remainder of this school
year and go to Camp McClellan for
the summer.
Captain Althaus is the only infan­try
officer attached to the Auburn
R. O. T. C. unit at present. Infantry
instruction is to be discontinued at
Auburn after the present year.
The many friends and admirers of
Captain Althaus will hate to see him
called away. Captain Althaus is a
member of the honorary fraternity
Scabbard and Blade and Square and
Compass. Also he is past president
of the Auburn Lions Club. We will
certainly miss Captain Althaus from
the campus next year.
LOCAL AG CLUB
TO STAGE CLASH
WITH GEORGIA
Debate Will Be Held in Athens
This Year
"Beat Georgia" is the slogan of
the members of the Ag. Club as the
debate with the Agricultural Club of
that college nears. The event is to
be held on April the eighth at Athens,
Georgia, since it was held on our
campus last year. This debate is an
annual affair each spring between
the two clubs being held one year on
the campus of one institution and
on the other the next. Auburn wants
to win this year especially because of
the fact that they have lost for the
last three years and too, becaiuse
that it is to be held at Georgia.
The subject this year is: resolved,
that thirty hours of academic work
be required upon entrance to an Ag­ricultural
college. We have the af­firmative
side of the question and the
boys feel sure that they are going to
win this year and break that jinks
that Georgia has over us.
Believing that it can render to the
citizens of the state a real service in
this matter, the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, in cooperation with the Ala­bama
Power Company and several
of the electric manufacturing com­panies
will hold a five day school
for metermen March 14-18, 1927.
Instruction will be given by lec­tures,
problems, demonstrations, and
laboratory work. Every effort will
be made to give each man the maxi­mum
possible instruction In install­ing,
repairing, adjusting, and testing
meters under the guidance of experts.
The laboratory work will be varied
somewhat to suit the desires of the
individual, but speaking generally
it will consist in the taking apart
and assembling meters, the use of
rotating standards, adjusting, locat­ing,
and correcting faults in defec­tive
meters. Instruction in practical
mathematics and the use of the slide
rule will also be given if a sufficient
number of men desire it.
To supplement the equipment be­longing
to the school which will be
used, students attending are urged
to bring with them meters, meter re­pair
kits, artificial loads, and if pos­sible,
rotating standards.
Both to the general public and to
the utility companies the matter of
accurate metering is of great im­portance.
Every citizen who pays a
bill for lights or power should get
exactly what he pays for. The ever
widening use of electric energy by
the general public every year is mak­ing
the matter of correct metering of
greater and greater importance.
will award the victory to the best all
round performance.
Only high schools fully accredited
wth the colleges of Alabama will be
allowed to participate. The commit-
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TIGER BASEBALL SCHEDULE FOR 1927
March 29—Birmingham Barons ..... at Auburn
March 30 and 31—Georgia - at Auburn
April 1 and 2—Tulane at Auburn
April 4 and 5—Florida - at Auburn
April 6—Montgomery Baseball Club - at Auburn
April 8 and 9—Georgia Tech at Cramton Bowl in Montgomery
April 15 and 16—University of Illinois - - at Auburn
April 20 and 21—Clemson at Clemson
April 22 and 23—University of S. C at Columbia
April 25, 26, and 27—Florida at Tallahassee
April 29 and 36—Vandy — at Auburn
May 4 and 5—Clemson at Auburn
May 6 and 7—Vandy . at Nashville
L. N. Duncan, Director of the
Extension Department. The Ex­tension
Service embraces the
state home demonstration work,
county agency work, and club
work. • .
FORMER EDITOR
VISITS AUBURN
Captain and Mrs. W. T. Sheehan
were in Auburn Tuesday and Wed­nesday
afternoon for Mr. Sheehan to
present some of his short stories over
radio. Captain Sheehan was for many
years the Editor of the Montgomery
Advertiser and a staunch friend of
Auburn. Mrs. Sheehan recently pub­lished
a book of short stories featur­ing
negro dialect. While here they
visited Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Winston.
Mr. Winston is the brother of Mrs.
Sheehan.
Y. M. C. A. Sponsors
Episcopal C h u r ch
Program
Bishop Henry Judah Mikell of the
Episcopal diocese of Atlanta, Georgia,
will inaugurate the annual session of
religious meetings at Auburn Mon­day
evening, March 7, at seven o'clock
in Langdon Hall. Reverend Mikell,
who is one of the leading Episcopal
divines of the United States, will con­duct
seven services on the campus
under the auspices of the Auburn Y.
M. C. A.
All services will be held in Lang­don
Hall. The evening services are
to be held from seven to eight, on
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thursday nights. The morning ser­vices
will be from eleven to twelve,
the convocation periods on Tuesday
and Thursday to be devoted to these
services and all classes will be dis­missed
for the eleven o'clock service
Wednesday.
Professor J. M. Robinson, of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, has
been chosen as chorister for these
services. The choir will be composed
of the choirs of the different church­es
of Auburn and the students who
will volunteer their services.
During the first four days of the
revival, prayer services will be held
at the "Y" assembly room from 5:00
to 5:20 P. M. These services will
be lead by students; S. L. Hancock,
Jr., R. B. Pearson, R. A. Vandersys
and Rosser Alston are to lead one
service each. During the past week
the Personal Workers - Council, led
by the pastors of the Auburn church­es,
met at the "Y" assembly room
each afternoon from 5:00 to 5:45 to
plan a definite program of personal
work to be carried on during the week
of the revival.
Notable preachers representing the
various protestant denominations have
visited Auburn in the last few years
in accordance with the Y. M. C. A.
program of each year. Among those
who have led the meetings are Dr.
John Phillips, pastor of the First
Baptist Church, Mobile; Bishop Ed­win
D. Mouzon, Methodist Episcopal
Church South, Nashville, Tenn.; and
last year Dr. James I. Vance, pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church,
Nashville, Tenn.
The ministers of the protestant
churches of Auburn cooperate with
the officials of the college in plan­ning
these annual meetings. It is a
joint affair between town and college,
committees of laymen from the vari­ous
churches working hand in hand
with the student religious organiza­tions
of the campus.
Bishop Mikell is a native of South
Carolina and a graduate of the Uni­versity
of Nashville, and also the Un­iversity
of the South at Sewanee. He
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PROGRAM
Tiger Theatre
Monday and Tuesday, Mar. 7-8
Mary Pickford in
"SPARROWS"
Laughs—Tears—Thrills.
A United Artists Picture.
Admission 15 and 35c
Wed. and Thurs., Mar. 9-10
"GETTING GERTIE'S
GARTER"
Featuring Marie Prevost with
Charles Ray.
A Metropolitan Production
You will enjoy it more than
you did "Up in Mabel's Room."
Admission 10 and 25c
Friday, Mar. 11
Marion Davies in
"THE RED MILL"
A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pic­ture.
A Dutch heroine—an
Irish hero—A combination
you'll never forget.
Admission 10 and 25c
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THE McNARY-HAUGEN BILL
Shall America have favored industries?
That seems to be the trend of affairs in
America today and our president seems to
have given it his sanction by vetoing the
McNary-Haugen farm relief bill.
Let us stop "and consider what this bill
proposed to do, and how it was to func­tion.
The main purpose of this bill was to
keep down the fluctuation in prices of the
staple farm products, such as corn, cotton,
tobacco, wheat, rice, and hogs. This was
to be done by removing the surplus of the
products from the market supply, and mar­ket
it gradually as the market would stand
it without a big drop in prices. The
board that governed this was to be like the
Federal Reserve Banking Board, except
that there was to be an advisory commit­tee
of five for each commodity. The mon­ey
to retire this surplus was to be obtain­ed
by collecting a fee on the whole crop
at some point in the production.
From this you can readily see that all
the farmer is asking for is an equal chance
with other industries. All the manufac­turing
interests of America today are pro­tected
by tariff, while agriculture has no
protection at all. Under the present sys­tem
the farmer sells in competition with the
world and buys where there is no competi­tion
at all. Is this unequal condition to
.continue? This bill may not have been
perfect yet it was a step in the right di­rection.
You cannot run without first
having learned to walk. It is for the Amer­ican
public to say. Shall you say so?
CONGRATULATIONS TO WAPI
W. A. P. I., the Auburn radio broadcast­ing
station bought and operated by the
Alabama extension service and. named for
Mr. Victor Hanson, celebrated its first
birthday on February 22, with a Jubilee
program. Governor Graves was the chief
speaker of the evening. He took this op­portunity
to tell the people of the plans
of the present administration for educa­tion
in Alabama.
Few people in Alabama stop to realize
the good the station has accomplished in
its first year's work. Some of these were
brought out by Mr. L. N. Duncan, director
of the extension service, in his speech.
"Fundamentally, this is an educational sta­tion,
and we have endeavored throughout
the year to keep the personality of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute behind it
and in it," states Mr. Duncan. Athletics
have been one of the major features of the
station, since thousands of people are in­terested
in all kinds of sports.
Station W. A. P. I. did not develop with­out
a purpose. Mr. P. 0. Davis, on being
asked the purpose of the station replied,
"Auburn is doing everything in its power
to reach every citizen of Alabama as well
as citizens of adjoining states.'' For
a while the equipment used did' not reach
everybody, but now with the first class
station in operation it is possible to reach
practically every section of the state.
Governor Brandon, in his address at the
formal opening of the station last year,
said,"Comprising as it does the highest
class equipment for broadcasting obtain­able,
you are prepared to serve your state
to a great advantage in the broadcasting
of educational programs, agricultural in­formation
and other extension activities."
Certainly the station has achieved this goal
set for them in grand style.
Auburn should feel very proud of the
station's record for the past year. Au­burn
is the best equipped college in the
South for radio broadcasting, radio teach­ing
and radio research work. The college
was among the first in the entire country
to give courses in wireless telegraphy.
We should also feel proud of these facts
in this connection.
The Plainsman takes this opportunity to
congratulate station W. A. P. I. on its
first birthday, and extends to it best wishes
for the future.
SHAKESPEAREAN REVIVAL
The movement to revive Shakespeare as
an endeavor at purifying the stage sug­gests
some such method might be employed
in literature to make possible house clean­ing
within its borders. Things are about as
badly off in the latter field as it is possi­ble
for them to become—but the likeli-hqpd
seems to be for their growing worse!
Therefore, action against the situation is
urgently needed.
And why might it not readily be taken
in a campaign for revival of good old
book reading?
Of course we buy the classics today—
for our library shelves. But who sits down
for a visit with Scott or Dickens or Charles
Reade or Verne or Irving or Cooper or
Hawthorne or Thackeray or Muehlbach?
Not even the high school class in English,
which pores over lessons having to do with
these great writers of the past, but has
little real joy in the experience.
It would bring sweet refreshment to the
world of books if people who read could
unitedly turn from the trashy novels now
being disgorged by publishers' presses and
for a five-year period find new and larger
delight in the works of those old masters
—delight in learning what good writing
really is like, and in finding that the mas­ter
craftsman paints real life upon the
pages of his novel, making that story as
fresh and appealing today as on the hour
it first was given to the world.
And "this present crop of spurious au­thors?
Well, they would go back, no
doubt, to keeping accounts or writing ad­vertising
stuff, all of which they did much
better than they or their kind will do in
adding to the output of alleged literature.
—Kansas City Post.
PUBLIC WATCHES WITH INTEREST
THE WISCONSIN COLLEGE
EXPERIMENT
Announcement by the University of Wis­consin
that Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn,
former president of Amherst, will establish
at Wisconsin an experimental college
which will abolish formal lectures and es­tablish
closer contact between students
and instructors, is received by the public
with approval and curiosity. Dr. Meikle­john
is quoted as saying: "The most strik­ing
feature of the plan is that we are
given complete freedom to take 250 fresh­men
and sophomores and to try with them
any method of teaching and any contents
of study which may seem to be promising.
The opportunity thus presented is quite
unparalleled, so far as we know, in the
field of American education."
"Many college presidents and other edu­cators,"
according to The Chicago Daily
News, "have deplored present trends in
the higher institutions of learning, and
have complained of rigid curricula, stu­dent
indifference to science and culture,
and routine and dry teaching methods.
Consequently the remarkable experiment
to be undertaken by the University of Wis­consin—
known for many years as a pro­gressive
institution or sociological labora­tory
not afraid of innovations—will be
watched with interest the country over.
. . . President Glenn Frank regards Dr.
Meiklejohn as an original, inspiring and
philosophical educator. His moral support
of the Meiklejohn experiment is hearty.
The laboratory practice thus to be under­taken
can scarcely fail to be unique."
"Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and
a boy at the other end—this has long been
the definition of an ideal university," re­marks
The Youngstown Vindicator. "Dr.'
Meiklejohn is to establish just such a col­lege
on the lake shore at Madison, Wis.
. . . There will be no prescribed class
hours, but students and professors will
study together, the professors employing
the Socratic method, in order to develop
the pupils' intellect for individual study.
The freshmen year will be devoted to a
study of the civilization of the Greeks. In
the second year these same will study
the civilization of the English-speaking peo­ples.
At the end of the second year they
will be admitted to the junior class at Wis­consin
University. It is an attractive plan,
but it all depends upon Dr. Keiklejohn's
getting the right kind of professors. There
will never be a better university than one
in which an eager boy studies with a good
and learned man who has fired his im­agination."—
Birmingham News.
Since the employment of a lady clerk
at the police station, it has been impos­sible
to get the Chief or any of his force
out on any kind of call. Looks like some
one has poured glue in their chairs.
THE DESPERATE SITUATION AT
AUBURN: SHALL ITS SOLVENCY
BE ASSURED?
"The situation which the institution has
heroically faced for years has become a
critical one. To continue the present pro­gram
without additional state aid and to
be solvent is impossible. Unless aid is giv­en
it will be necessary to increase the fees,
to eliminate courses and to refuse to re­ceive
any increase in students."
In these words President Spright Dowell
summarized the tragic situation in which
the great Alabama Polytechnic Institute
finds itself today. President Dowell was
making his report to the Board of Trustees
last Tuesday when he made this statement.
He had just set forth the service Auburn
had been rendering for years to the people
of the state; he had jtist shown that Au­burn
receives the smallest per capita ap­propriation,
based on population, the small­est
per capita appropriation according to
students enrolled and the second largest
per capita fees charged the student of all
of the so-called land-grant colleges in the
entire South. He had also shown that Au­burn's
student fees, plus certain public ser­vice
operations, aggregated a larger per­centage
than the funds derived from state
appropriations. He had recited the aver­age
annual increase of 100 students. With
all of these facts in hand, President Dowell
announced to the trustees that the situa­tion
had become critical and that the insti­tution
could no longer continue even its
present inadequate program, without ad­ditional
aid, and remain solvent.
The people of Alabama, as represented
by their Legislature, can not ignore, or pass
by without vsry serious and definite con­sideration,
this summary of a situation
much more desperate than even those fa­miliar
with Alabama's educational troubles
have known. ,
Auburn's incomparable service to the
state can not be measured by any known
standard of values, and this is said without
disparagement or detraction from the vital
needs of the state's other greater institu­tions
of higher learning. Auburn has not
only furnished the trained leadership for
the development of the state's natural re­sources,
a service that has added thousands
of dollars of taxable wealth for every dol­lar
received by the institution; it has not
only furnished leadership in every walk
of life in all parts of Alabama; it has not
only filled with its graduates the highest
positions of responsibility in many other
states of the Union and in foreign coun­tries,
but, in addition, through its experi­ment
station, and it. agricultural extension
work has saved millions of dollars to Ala­bama
and created other new millions of
wealth on Alabama farms, wholly aside
from its function as teacher and instructor
within its college halls. These are demon­strable
facts, properly set forth and item­ized
in President Dowell's report to the
trustees.
Roger Babson says: "There is no techni­cal
institution in the United States which
possesses greater opportunities for service
than the one with which you are connected.
. . . It lacks only knowledge, industry and
faith to make Alabama the greatest indus­trial
state in the country. Surely the de­velopment
of the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
should be the first step toward this
wonderful future."
Here is something definite and concrete
for the Legislature to do. Here'is a great
opportunity for service that is not spec­tacular,
but sound; not pyrotechnical, but
fundamental; not hysterical, but construc­tive.
The people of Alabama, as represented
by their Legislature, can not ignore these
facts; they can not refuse to face them
squarely. An educational system that fails
properly to develop its institutions of higher
learning is basically unsound. The com­mon
schools and the high schools must be
taken care of in adequate fashion; they
have more popular appeal; aid for them ob­tain
more votes, but the whole structure is
pitifully inadequate to the need if the high­er
institutions are neglected. But Auburn's
problem cuts deeper than this. Not only
as an institution of higher learning does
it deserve especial consideration, but as the
servant of the farmer and the creator of
those branches of technical leadership that
can develop the unexampled natural re­sources
of the state, as a potential and ac­tual
creator and developer of wealth, it de­serves
and must have the greatest possible
amount of money to remove the hideous
load of indebtedness that has accrued,
rather than shut off its service in the face
of inadequate appropriations; to enlarge
and strengthen faculty and staff; to add
new and necessary courses; to provide
buildings and equipment; to provide for re­pair
and upkeep of existing buildings; to
maintain and enlarge extension and experi­ment
station work.—Birmingham News.
Speaker—"I haven't the least respect
for a coward. What kind of a man would
you call a person who hides behind a lady's
skirt?"
It is rumored around the Baby Zoo that
Willie Frank has IT.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Stadium
To the Editor:
If you have the room to spare this week,
I would like to get in a few words concern­ing
the present plans for building a sta­dium
here.
As I understand it, the plans that are
now under consideration by the student
body, call for an extra fee to be added to
the present registration fees for all the
students, the proceeds from this extra
money to go toward the raising of the nec­essary
amount of money to build a hand­some
and glaring stadium here.
Personally, I think that it would be a
nice thing to have a real stadiu mhere if
there was any necessity for it. -But is
there any real necessity for such a thing
here at Auburn? We only have two games
here each year, and we can't afford to
play any more here each year simply for
the reason that we can't get the large
crowds here that we can draw elsewhere.
Consequently, we can't receive the large
gate receipts here that we can elsewhere.
Everyone knows that we are not getting
any too much money from our games now.
If we had this stadium here, we could not
pay the stronger teams the amount they
would demand to come here for we have
not the drawing power here to get the nec­essary
gate receipts.
Why build this stadium to stand here for
a whole year just for the sake of two foot­ball
games, and those usually with some
second-raters? It seems to the writer that
this is an absurd idea. Some of the sup­porters
of this movement have made the
statement that there are many people who
say they would attend the games here on
the campus if they had any place to sit
when they got here. This cannot be the
truth in every sense of the word, because
there were many empty seats on the west
bleachers last fall at both of the home
football games. We have plenty of room
to add good bleachers to the ones we al­ready
have, if the crowds warrant the ad­dition
of more bleachers. Why do away
with all these and spend $100,000 to build
a useless stadium? Will the extra fans it
would draw every pay for the stadium?
No, not in many seasons.
Auburn hasn't the funds to secure ath­letic
talent much less build a magnificent
stadium in which to strut a second-rate
team. Auburn should begin at the bot­tom
of the thing and build upward. She
has no crying need for a costly stadium
yet, and will never need one unless she has
more formidable teams to put on the field.
This can be done only by aiding athletics
more, as our antagonists are doing. Our
present fields are adequate for all the
games we play here.
There is a far greater need in the way
of athletics at Auburn, than the need of
a stadium. What about our gymnasium?
Why not add a couple of wings to it?
Everyone here knows that we do not have
the needed equipment for our gym. We
need vastly more room than we have now.
We should have room in the gym for all
the students to take part in games. We
need a volley-ball court, another basket­ball
court, more dressing rooms, and some
good baths. Everyone .knows that not half
the students who are interested in playing
basketball have had the chance to play for
the fraternity tournament, has kept the
floor busy all the time with scrimmages
and games. Why not give all a place to
work-out, and then add some decent
dressing rooms and showers?
Campus Characters
WHO'S WHO IN AUBURN NO. 2—
MELVIN BROD
The subject of our consideration today
is none other than the Honorable Melvin
Brod, Esquire. The accompanying picture
was extremely difficult to obtain, as the
subject is very modest, unassuming and
extremely camera-shy. But by one of the
master tricks of photography we were able
to catch our subject unawares.
Brod is the only member of a large fam­ily
of Brfids, according to a recent article
in the "Gasden News." He has elected
Arch-i-tect-ure. And this article in the
Gadsden News goes on to say that he has
won two gold prizes for the excellency of
his work in architectural design. It states
further that he is at the top of his class.
(But it forgot to mention that this condi­tion
is true only when the class is re­versed.)
It is doubtful that Brod will ever follow
ai-chitecture as a profession. It would be
a shame to waste such a good professor in
the architectural world. The fact that
Brod would make a good professor is evi­denced
by his remarkable memory. It is
rumored that Brod, after taking a six-week
memory course threw his shoe at his room­mate,
and went to bed with the cat. We
hear that Benny Ross is making a close
study of this achievement.
Another characteristic of Brod is his
over-powering personality. He possesses
teeth similar to Theodore Roosevelt, a nose
like Woodrow Wilson, a lip like Napoleon,
a brow which resembles Mussolini's, a
forehead that resembles that of Abraham
Lincoln and a pair of feet that would do
justice to Ben Turpin.
Brod has also attained social success.
He is a prominent member of the Boy
Scouts, and is deciding whether he will
accept the bid of the Sigma Rho's or that
of the Kappa Delta's. But we believe
that his interest on the other side of the
railroad will keep him from accepting eith­er.
All Hail, Brod!
The Laundry
Among the abuses on the Auburn cam­pus
there is none so flagrant as the laun­dry.
We come to college with the idea of
being trained in the arts of manhood but
as little children we are compelled to send
i our clothes to one set place to be cleaned.
! Children are made to do things because their
' older and wiser parents figure them out
for them. The laundry was needed for
just such a purpose when the college was
younger and there was only one way of
getting clothes cleaned, the negro wash­woman.
Such is not the case now. There
are several laundries within this territory
that would compete for the student trade
if they could. They would grant prices
equally as low as the one we are compelled
to patronize and in competing with one an­other
would have to turn out much better
work than is now termed "Ideal."
It is a little thing but if we are men
enough to run our own cars, find our own
boarding places, buy our own clothes and
choose our^own companions, we certainly
are men enough to see to the laundrying of
our own clothes.
"Rinktum"
Everything has a beginning and strange
as it may seem the word "Rinktum" which
is known to all Auburn men has been trac­ed-
to its authentic origin. The man who
has the honor of starting the far famed
"Rinktum" is now a successfully engineer
with the Birmingham Electric company.
All the boys call him "Andy," but his real
Nome de Plume is Mr. Andrew Cruel, steam
heat engineer.
The other day the above mentioned gen­tleman
came into the office with his nice
curly locks shorn into a beautiful new style
cut. Now being a true Auburn man and
therefore unable to outlive the habits fram­ed
during the years between '19 and '24,
I immediately insisted upon a "Rinktum."
And I got it too. After getting said "Rink­tum"
Mr. Cruel and I fell into a bull party
and he gave the following story.
"One balmy spring day in 1916 two rats
sat with their feet propped upon the backs
of their neighbors listening attentively to
Professor Crenshaw discuss'Why and what
is a quadratic' Now it seems that one of
the young gents in front of Rat Cruel had
just spent two bits for a boyish. Mr. Cruel
kept his place but the man next to him
could not resist the shining cranium in
front of Cruel. Therefore he, Mr. George
Murrah, reached over and gave the new
shorn head a peculiar hard dap with his
knuckles using the thumb as a pivot.
Mr. Cruel at the sight of this strange
action, was immediately struck with a spark
of genius which comes only once or twice
in a life time.
"That sure was a hot 'Rinktum" you gave
him, Murrah," shouted Mr. Cruel, much
amused.
"Rinktum," exclaimed Mr. Murrah.
"Why, pray tell me what does Mr. Webster
say that beautiful word means?"
"Well I can't say what Mr. Webster
calls it," replied Mr. Cruel, "for all I re­member
is that my father used to recite
an old Mother Goose rhyme to us kids and
the rhyme started off, 'Rinktum, Rink­tum
Ree.' I never knew what Rinktum
meant until you zipped your shining head
in front of us, but now after all these years
of life and labor I have discovered what
it stands for."
Mr. George Murrah, who is now a part­ner
in the Terry-Murrah real estate com­pany
of Bessemer, Alabama, agreed ab­solutely
with Mr. Cruel and immediately
the "Rinktum" came into its own.
BLIND TIGER
There was an explanation of the Locha-poka
speed laws in the Advertiser one day
last week. We were interested to note
that they have collected $2,114.10 in the
last ten months. We think that the Au­burn
faculty should be more careful with
their money 'while out of their own metro­polis.
We understand that Miss Dobbs
was the first victim of this far-reaching
law, and she was closely followed by Pro­fessors
Roe, Grant, and Covington. If it
had not been for the activities of these
afore mentioned members of. our faculty,
this neat sum would have been lowered to
the $2,000 mark very easily.
Since these happenings took place, Prof.
BOOK REVIEW CONDUCTED BY
MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY
Edited by John B. Clark, A.M., Ph.D.,
Professor of Economics
COLLEGE GEOGRAPHY
By Roderik Peat tie
(Ginn and Company, 1926)
Why did Professor Peattie not name this
text "Human Geography?" That is the
question which runs through our minds
as we read his book. Perhaps the author
preferred to call it "College Georgraphy"
to convey the oft-forgotten truth that
Human studies are College studies. At
any rate we find in this a publication that
is genuinely humanistic throughout. It is
purely an introduction to the study of
geography, and therefore deserves addi­tional
praise for the cultural value it
possesses, as well as for all the funda­mental
geographic principles it elucidates.
Rarely does one find such a scientific
approach to a study which is, at the same
time, so readable, intelligible, and inter­esting
to the mind that has not yet devel­oped
a scientific attitude. College Geog­raphy
clearly illustrates the modern idea
that one does not study geography to learn
and to remember the boundaries of states
or countries and arbitrary things of that
sort. It gives us strong visualizations of
countries, of peoples, of animals, of plants,
and of all the geographic influences upon
them. It takes us to the places about which
it wishes to have us learn.
By reading sucn a book, we learn to
love the lands, the seas, the rivers, the
skies, and to develop a sympathetic atti­tude
at least, toward all the people of the
earth. But more! We learn to love geog­raphy;
and those who love geography will
someday "experience geography!"
There is our reward! And in the final
analysis, doesn't geography make us what
we are? Doesn't geography make all peo­ples
what they are, so far as their vital
habits qnd customs are concerned? Geog­raphy
links "pure science of the earth
with historical, social, and economic stu­dies."
Through it we learn to know "how
other people think, and act, and why."
Therein lies democracy! for when -we
understand "how a people came to a state
of culture, and why they think, act, and
have their being as they do," then do we
not "come almost invariably to sympathize
with their condition?" "College Geography
will bring you to a realization of why
your neighbor, near or remote, is what he
is. The author has supplemented also an
excellent bibliography for each chapter so
that the reader can know to what publica­tion
to go for additional information
about climates, about soils, about topo­graphy,
about peoples, and all other splen­did
contents of this work.
Those who wish to keep abreast of the
times, to keep clear of all the frailty, flac-cidity,
and weakness of human society,
those who wish to become true Democrats
must go back to geography to find the way.
To these we heartily recommend College
Geography as an excellent helpmate. It
is readable. It is intelligible. It will sat­isfy
your thirst for knowledge, and for true
democracy.
—J. Myron Herren.
Grant has sold his Ford, and Prof. Roe's
Essex is on the market since a certain
young lady of Auburn has purchased a
Hudson. Doc. Covington is now walking
to and from the Vet. Building, to play safe,
and Miss Dobbs hasn't' been out of Au­burn
since her accident.
* * * * *
It is with a great deal of pleasure that
we announce to our student body that
Prof. Herren has leased a seat on the pas­senger
train plying between Auburn and
Notasulga every afternoon at 5:30. There
is no use in trying to beat him out of this
seat, for he has it reserved for the next
four months. It seems that he is very
deeply interested in some members of the
fair sex at the other end of the line. We
wish him well, and hope he doesn't feel
hurt.
* * * * *
We would like to nominate our Ail-
American team this week. After studying
over the situation, and looking over all the
candidates, we have come to the conclu­sion
that we can never find a better team
than E. A. Terry, a very prominent and re­nowned
member of our "SCRUB FACUL-TY,"
is within himself. He has very clear­ly
demonstrated that he is fully capable
of playing all eleven positions on the team,
act as captain, and head coach, all at the
same time.
* * * * *
Goat Smith—"Are you the barber that
shaved me last?"
Barber—"No, I've only been here six
months."
* * * * *
We understand that Dr. James E. Farga-son,
of Dadeville, has already hung out
his shingle at Tallassee. Here's luck to
you Doc. Luck to you!
* * * * *
'Tis done beneath the mistletoe,
'Tis done beneath the rose,
But the proper place to kiss, you know,
Is just below the nose.
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PRODUCERS OF
COTTON FACE
GREAT CRISIS
Facing one of the greatest crisis
in history, the farmers in the cotton
belt east of the Mississippi river are
trying to adopt a farm program
which will place them on a competi­tive
basis with the western farmers.
Southern farmers have, and prob­ably
will continue to grow cotton as
their chief money crop. Prospects
for higher price cotton was very good
last spring, and the results were an
increase of approximately 1,000,000
over 1925, resulting in the largest
production the world has ever wit­nessed—
18,681,080 bales plus a heavy
carry over.
Cotton produced east of the Miss­issippi
river has been sold for less
than cost of production, or held off
the market while western farmers
have been able to sell their cotton at
a profit.
Cost of production in the east is
far greater than that in the west.
One man in Texas, Oklahoma, or Ar­kansas
cultivates from 75 to 100 acres
of cotton using no fertilizer which
produces on the average approxima­tely
150 pounds of lint per acre. In
Alabama, one man clutivates from 10
to 20 acres of cotton, fertilizing heav­ily,
which produces approximately
185 pounds per acre. The West can
import cheap Mexican labor to har­vest
their cotton while the East has
no cheap labor available.
The west is using better and more
machinery than the east. It takes
only 40 hours of labor to produce
one acre of cotton in Texas while in
Alabama it requires 142 hours of
strenuous labor.
Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas in
the past ten years have doubled their
cotton acreage while the eastern
states have increased their acreage
very little. The western states have
one million acres of land suitable for
growing cotton that is still in ranch­es
and when once this land is convert­ed
from ranches into cotton fields it
is no longer suitable for growing
grasses.
Out of 49,085,1:50 acres of cotton
planted last year, Texas alone plant­ed
19,138,000 acres which is more;
than all the states east of the Mississ-ippi
river planted. .
GOOD-LOVE
The marriage of Miss Myrtle Love
and Prof. Henry Good was solemniz­ed
at the Presbyterian church' of
Benton, Ala., on Friday, February 18.
Their marriage is the culmination of j
a summer school romance with Prof.
Good as teacher and Mrs. Good as
pupil.
Mrs. Good is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. D. K. Love. She is very
popular in Auburn where she was a
former student. Mr. Good is profes­sor
of entomology. He is a member
of the Sigma Pi and Square and
Compass fraternities.
MRS. BLAIR IS
VISITING HERE
MISS GATCHELL
GIVES LECTURE
IN BIRMINGHAM
Miss Dana Gatchell, assistant pro­fessor
of Home Economics at Auburn,
has returned from Birmingham where
she conducted on Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday one of her lecture de­monstrations
on foods at Pizit's store
for the Woman's Club of Birming­ham.
Between 200 and 300 women at­tended
the demonstration regularly.
During the demonstrations high
school girls and men were constantly
visiting and observing the work. Sev­eral
Auburn basketball girls also at­tended
the lectures.
The program was varied each day
with practical methods of the prepar­ations
of fruits, vegetables, meats,
and breads.
In preparing and cooking the foods
at this school, Miss Gatchell was
furnished with all necessary ingredi­ents
by different grocers of Birm­ingham.
Miss Gatchell gave a lecture on
menu making, in which she empha­sized
the correct amount and good
quality of food for the body require­ments.
Mrs. Margaret Blair of Athens,
Georgia, who graduated at Auburn
in 1926, is spending this week-end in
Auburn as the guest of her sister,
Miss Agnes Ellen Harris. Miss Har­ris
and Miss Beulah Pipkin are en­tertaining
the senior girls Saturday
afternoon in honor of Mrs. Blair.
Mrs. Blair spent last summer and
fall at Columbia University and is ]
now teaching clothing in the State
Normal School at Athens, Georgia.
DR. SHOWALTER MAKES TALK
TO FRESHMEN ON SCIENCE;
cut and dried procedures—the very
essence of all that is uninteresting
and tedious—it is the very epitome
of hair-splitting, super-refined exact­ness
in matters that count not at all
in human Happiness and progress.
"Yet it is only to the ignorant, the
prejudiced and uninformed that sci­ence
means these things. It is not
surprising that it should be so mis­understood
and misinterpreted. It
represents one of the newest weapons
which the human mind has forged in
his search for wisdom and learning.
It is true that Socrates, among the
Greeks, exemplified the scientific
spirit—though unconsciously, per­haps—
and for it drank the hemlock.
Men who have given themselves to
the search for truth no matter what
RESEARCH IN
FERTILIZERS IS
BEING_MADE
The nitrogenous fertilizers, such as
sodium nitrate, ammonium nitrate,
Leunasalpeter, Urea, ammonium phos­phate,
calcium nitrate and calcium
cyanamid are the chief fertilizers
with which the Agronomy department
of the Agricultural College is dealing.
J. T. Williamson, Associate Agron­omist,
is conducting fifty co-operative
tests with farmers in the different
parts of the state with these various
fertilizers. Several tests will be con­ducted
on each of the seven soil divi­sions
of the state and each test will
be conducted from one to three
years. The results from the tests
will give fairly conclusive results in
that there are so many types of soil
in the state.
In addition, the Experiment Sta­tion
has started several long-time ex­periments.
The Arkansas, Mississ­ippi,
South Carolina and Georgia
Costal Plain stations are cooperat­ing
in the long-time experiments.
Field work will be carried on at these
stations and all of the technical work
will be done at Auburn. Dr. Pierre,
Associate Soil Chemist, has charge
of this phase of the work and is mak­ing
a special study of the influences
of the different fertilizers on soil
acidity.
He has also developed a method
by which it is possible to determine
the capacity of a soil to resist the
acidifying influence of some of these
fertilizers. Ammonium sulphate and
Lenuasalpeter are the two fertilizers
that make the soil acid.
A study is also being made of the
influence of these fertilizers on the
availability of phosphorus and potas­sium.
This work is being carried on
by Dr. Fudge, Assistant Soil Chemist.
The study is being made on soils from
the Rhode Island, New York, Penn­sylvania,
and Ohio Experiment Sta­tions.
These stations are the oldest
in the United States and the repeated
application of fertilizers, potassium
and phosphorus, to the soils have
made them very satisfactory for this
type of study.
She: "Do you college boys waste
much time?"
He: "Oh, no, most girls are reason­able."—
Bulldog.
The eastern cotton farmers are
looking forward to a farm program
to help them compete with their
neighbors of the west. What plan
will be adopted is still a question of
interest.
All science starts with a search
for truth and during the past few
centuries a very exact' procedure has
been brought up. Dr. Benjamin R.
Showalter, director of extension
teaching and professor of education,
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, de­clared
in a talk to Auburn students
and later in an address before the
Opelika Rotary club. Dr. Showal-ter's
subject Was the "Scientific
Spirit."
"All true scientists," the speaker
added, "accept things as settled only
in the light of what they then know.
They understand that the realms of
knowledge and truth are very limited
and that they have penetrated only
the outskirts. New light will intro­duce
new angles on the problem."
Doctor Showalter added that the
scientific spirit is the spirit of the
open mind that calls for an attitude
which is willing at any time to disre­gard
what has been accepted as true
when it is found that truth, so called,
is too limited to apply.
It is easy to say why scientists are
frowned upon, the speaker continued,
why they are regarded as doubters—
as men will undermine our faith for
they are forever saying: "We have
thought it to be true, but it isn't.
Does it fit all cases; 'does it apply
here?"- ." '
Doctor Showalter's address fol­lows
in part:
"What is science and how does it
differ from other knowledge? To
many it is a form of hidden mystery
—unreasoning, unfathomable—cold,
cheerless—a closed book. Because
they do not understand it, they fear
it, and everything for which it stands.
To others it is a curious realm of
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Auburn Representative
they might have to discard of what
they had held dear—these men have
always shown the scientific attitude.
Foundation Note
"At this point then we are begin­ning
to find the foundation note on
which the great cord of harmony
that we know as science is built. It
is first of all a search for, truth, for
light, for knowledge. In this sense,
science is as old as the human race.
"If this be true, you may well ask,
why are there folk who decry sci­ence?
I believe I can make this clear
in just a moment. What is the meth-
'od of science? Are all people able to
work in science?
"Remember, all science starts with
a search for the truth. Modern sci
ence—and particularly the science of
research and investigation— is char­acterized
also by a method which sets
it apart from the approach which
Socrates used. During the past few
centuries a very exact procedure has
been built up.
"In the first place, the search for
truth calls for a trained worker. Or­dinary
observation is very unreliable
The trained observer must know what
he is to see and study. His expert
ment must be devoted to a single end,
and that must be separated from all
other influences. When we want to
know how much mileage a certain gas­oline
will yield we must be very cer­tain
that it is the gas and not any­thing
else that is responsible. So we
start with the motor that is hot—we
drain the carburetor, and the vacuum
tank, and we use exactly a standard
gallon of gas calibrated for an exact
temperature.
"At this point we reach the heart
of the scientific method; your true
scientist accepts things as true, as
settled, only in the light of all he then
knows. He understands that the realm
of knowledge and truth is very great,
that he has penetrated only its out­skirts.
New light will introduce new
angles on the problem. For the scien­tist
then, things are never permanent­ly
settled. They are true with quo­tation
marks about the word true.
True with reference to the past. They
may not be true with reference to
the future.
"This is not an attitude which
troubles the scientist, for he under­stands
what it means; that in the
search for truth he has advanced so
far. It may be that he has found it—
but of that he can never be certain.
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Cite* Scientific Spirit
"The scientific spirt then is the
spirit of the open mind. It calls for
an attitude which is filled at any
time to discard what has been ac­cepted
as true when it is found that
truth, so called, is too limited to ap­ply.
i
"It is easy enough to see, now,
why scientists are frowned upon.
Why they are regarded as doubters
—as men who undermine our faith.
They are forever saying—we have
thought this to be true: but is it?
Does it fit all cases? Does it apply
here? There?
"In this atttitude, scientist run
counter to a very fundamental train
of human nature. By birth we are
given certain inborn habits—instincts
—for doing things easily, mechanic­ally,
without thought. Through
training, we acquire habits which al­so
relieve us of the need for think­ing.
We are endowed with capacity
for thought but we do not like to use
it. We like to settle down into com­fortable
groves and to remain there.
The new troubles us and we want to
be comfortable and not troubled.
"So it is that science and its serv­ants
are viewed with suspicion. So
it is that there is conflict between
science and religion—between leaders
of public opinion and those whose
minds are made up.
"It has always been so. Jesus who
taught a new conception of God was
not welcomed by the high priests of
Israel. Instead he was crucified. The
march along the path to truth has
been marked by the bones of the mar­tyrs—
the men who have allowed their
KAPPA DELTAS
ENTERTAINED
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Staple and Fancy
Groceries and
Feeds
Kappa Deltas of Auburn gave a
tea Saturday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. S. L. Toomer on Magnolia
Street in honor of Miss Gladys Pugh
of Union Springs, national president
of the sorority, and other visiting
members. The Kappa Delta's moth­ers,
patronesses, and some intimate
friends were there.
Mrs.-Toomer's home was decorated
for the occasion by the use of pear
blossoms, carnations, and roses, carry­ing
out the Kappa Delta colors, green
and white. The same color scheme
was effectively carried out in the
menu.
In the receiving line were Miss
Gladys Pugh, Miss Dorothy Duggar,
chapter president, Mrs. Toomer, and
the pledges, Mrs. Elizabeth Motley
Yarbrough, Misses Minnie Motley,
Frances Moore, Frances Hickman,
Mittie Lee Stanford, and Sarah Hall
Crenshaw. Mrs. B. B. Ross and Mrs.
L. E. Miles were at the tea table and
served the tea and coffee.
A dance was given the sorority
Saturday night at the home of Mrs.
E. P. Cauthen. The pledges were
initiated in the Kappa Delta room
Sunday morning at 4:00 o'clock after
which they had a breakfast at the
Clement hotel in Opelika.
passion for truth and yet more truth
to bring them into conflict with those
who want things settled once and
for all."
DR. C. L. BOYD
Doctor of Dental Surgery
and Oral Pathology
Tiger Drug Store Building
Upstairs
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PAGE FOUR THE PLAINSMAN
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MOREY PUTTING BASEBALLERS
THROUGH EARLY TRAINING
With the arrival of balmy spring
weather on the plains, Coach Morey
has issued a call to those who desire
a place on Auburn's baseball team
this spring, and in response the dia­mond
has been steaming with ambi­tious
boys working hard in the^prep-atory
training for the coming season.
However, practice has been suspend­ed
for the past several days on ac­count
of inclement weather. Three
of the outstanding men of last sea­son
have been lost through gradua­tion,
and their services will be missed
this spring. Still Coach Morey has
a group of real baseball players to
pick his team from this spring, and
another fast team will represent Au­burn
this year.
The most serious problem facing
Coach Morey lies in his pitching
staff. Although a good size group
have reported for practice, their abi­lity
under fire is untried. "Dog
Face" Sherdian, who carried the
bulk of the pitching work last sea­son
has been lost by graduation, and
it will be impossible to fill his place.
Also "Lefty" Hughes, Sherdian's
chief helper of last spring, has not
reported for practice so far and his
absence will be keenly felt.
Wood, Potter and Moulton are vet­erans
from last spring who are at
work now. Grant, Ingram, Market,
McGhee and Fuller are reserves and
members of last year's freshman
team who are likely to be called upon
by Coach Morey. Frank Maury, an
outfielder of last year, is being con­verted
into a pitcher and he is work­ing
daily with the other moundmen.
A merry battle will be waged by
the candidates for infield births, and
much speculation is being expressed
as to who will play each position. C.
O. Stewar-t, captain and one of the
best infielders in the South, will be
showing his wares to Manager Dobbs
of the Barons instead of Coach Morey
this spring. To partly compensate
his loss "Rough Ed." Allen has re­turned
after a year's absence and
has reported for work. He is one of
the best hitters to play for Auburn in
some years, and his service should
prove valuable. It is likely that he
will be placed at third base for this
season, although this is not certain
yet.
Should this change be effected,
"Billy" Hitchcock will probably play
short with Ben Sankey going to sec­ond
base. Ben and Hitchcock are two
good infielders who can play almost
any position and this combination
should prove a very favorable one.
In fact any combination that plays
for Auburn this spring will be simi­lar
to one of McGraw's in that any
man can play at any position. This
should prove a great help should
any members of the squad get injured
this year.
Howard Smith, a member of last
year's Rat team, is making things
hot for the veterans, and he will like­ly
be used at some place this season.
He can hit and field too good to set
on the bench all of the time.
F. James, regular first baseman
last spring until he left the squad
for the movies, is back at his post.
Captain Joe Wallis is also a first
baseman and should be stationed at
this post instead of the outfield where
he can also strut with ease. It would
be hard to say who would play the
bag, however, Wallis will likely be
placed in the outfield where he play­ed
last year.
p]bb James is as good catcher as
can be found, and he will be on the
receiving end for the Tigers again
this yeai-. This means that few bases
will be stolen against Auburn this
year and that one of the best slug­gers
in the South will be playing for
Auburn. Five other candidates have
also reported for this post, and this
insures reserve strength for this job.
Last year Auburn's outfield was
rated by some critics as one of the
best in the South. Akin, Ellis and
Wallis formed the combination and
they are back for work now. An­other
strong candidate who can play
beside them without any embarras-ment
is "Lefty" Wattwood. He
played with the Rats last year, and
is going to keep the regulars of last
year going at top speed at all times
to stay ahead of hini. Beside being
able to hit the ball at a terrific pace,
all four of these candidates can make
drives cut out for hits look like easy
outs to the spectator.
Spring Trainers
Hard at Work
On Drake Field
With the absence of two of the
most prominent members of the foot­ball
squad from school,' Captain "Pop"
Patterson and Mike Fisher, and with
several other members out tempor
arily with vaccinated arms, a gloomy
atmosphere has been cast over Coach
Morey's spring trainers, but in spite
of this fact, the candidates are hard
at work mastering the art of the
game for the campaign next fall.
Real football is being handed to the
candidates who are out for practice,
and it looks like real preparation for
a fall schedule to those who venture
out on Drake Field in the afternoons.
Drill in cutting, blocking, tackling,
punting and passing is being conduct­ed
each afternoon. This practice is
being given to the men in its real
form and not in theory. Regular
scrimmages are staged for the men
to show their talent to the coaches.
One striking fact is evident in each
workout. Coach Morey is putting
due stress on his punters each day,
and much improvement over the work
of last fall is being shown. Pat Moul­ton,
who did the most 'of the punt­ing,
Tamplain, Callahan, Cosper,
and Crawford are sending nice, long
spirals in the air that look good to
the coaches. "Lefty" Wattwood has
been shifted from end to half back
and he and Bolton Shotts are taking
turns in place , kicking the oval
through the bars each day. Snider,
Mosley, Densmore and others are
working in the back field drill with
the other men.
In the line we find "Red" Carter
has been shifted from guard to tack­le,
and the big fellow looks better than
ever. He should be one of the best
in Dixie next "fall with the extra
training and experience he is getting.
"Pete" Spinks, who is making his de­but
as a sporting writer in this issue
of the Plainsman, Andress, Raymond
Turner and "Mutt" Gregory are the
other tackles who are taking the
punishment every day.
The guards who are out for spring
training are a fine aggregation of
ex-freshmen who are rounding into
varsity material in good style. They
are Crouse, Spence and H. Long.
Some of these men are going to make
a strong bid for the varsity next
fall..
"Pop" Patterson, who is captain
of the team, is one of the best centers
in the South, but he is absent from
spring training for a few days on his
"honeymoon." Nexa fall "Pop" will
find plenty of opposition from Carter,
Logan and two men from "Red"
Brown's squad, Burt and Stoughten-buro,
Logan and Carter lack in weight
but they never quit fighting regard­less
of their foe.
Merit Burns proved to be one of
the best ends in the South last fall,
and the stocky built gentleman is
working harder than ever each day.
Along with him is his mate of last
fall, Ingram, who is also well ac­quainted
with the end play. As an
understudy for these two men, "Rat'
G. Long is proving himself to be a
candidate who will bid well for a var­sity
birth next fall.
Tigers Eliminate
Gobbler Quintet
Jin S. C. Tourney
In the initial round of the South­ern
Conference tournament the
strong Auburn five proved them­selves
superior to the Virginia Poly­technic
squad. The entire game was
fast and furious and was by far the
closest and best played tilt of the
day.
Auburn opened up with a rush but
soon fell off until finally the Gob­blers
tied the count at eight all. From
then on it was nip and tuck until the
whistle blew to call time for the half.
Dear for the northeners was leading
in scoring and was about the most
elusive forward on the floor. Akin
of Auburn was running him a close
second, however.
V. P. I. took the lead when the
game again started and kept it until
she obtained sixteen points, then Au­burn
tied counts. Again the swap­ped
the leadership, and both tried to
tighten up their defense. With only
about two field goals separating
•them at anytime, the affair continu­ed
until the Gobblers led the Tigers
29 to 28. Here the Papkemen seemed
to find themselves and
left the Virginia boys.
"LEFTY" HUGHES
"Lefty" Hughes has as much stuff
as college pitchers have. He has a
good curve ball, plenty of speed, and
a good change of pace. Last year he
had the highest winning percentage
of the Tiger's pitching staff. There
has been much speculation as to
whether he will be seen on the mound
this spring, but when his arm, which
lias been in bad shape from the small
pox vaccination, gets in shape he will
be out with the rest of the moundmen
getting in shape for the coming sea­son,
and he should prove a valuable
cog in the team this spring.
Carney is one of the loyal ag stu­dents
as well as the namesake of one
completely of the famous figures in the national
In the last i past time. He will get his dip in the
What Has Become
of the Ag Faculty
Baseball Team?
What has become of the Agricul­tural
Faculty baseball team?
The faculty met and organized an
Agricultural Faculty Athletic Club
which resulted in the election of. the
following officers for the ensuing
year: Prof. G. L. Fick, president;
F. S. "Red" Arant, vice-president,
and Dr. W. H. Pierre, secretary and
treasurer.
This club has a membership of
twenty-five and each member is
spending odd hours getting tennis
court ready for a tournament be­tween
the different agricultural de­partments.
After an elimination be­tween
the different departments has
been brought about it is highly hoped
j that the "other hill" will respond to
a general call to compete with the
"racket slingers." Bill Tilden in the
form of Duke Kimbrough has already
won world wide fame at the hold­ers
end of the racket, also others with
less renown have wonderful futures.
The baseball team is still seeking
revenge for the one-four score by
which the "other hill" won in the
AUBURN DRIBBLERS COMPLETE
A MOST SUCCESSFUL SEASON
two minutes, the Plainsmen landed
five field goals to their foe's two, the
last goal passing through the basket
as the final whistle blew.
The individual star of the scoring
end was Dear of V. P. I. He made
half of his team's points and kept the
Auburn guards on the go at all times.
No shot was too difficult for him to
try and his average on tries was |
mighty high.
For Auburn,' "Jelly" Akin was j
once more high point man. All ways j
ready and on the alert, Akin ran up |
14 points for his mates. As a whole j
the Auburn team was a bit off. They j
had a hard time getting started and
found Mr. Dear almost impossible to
cover. But they never lacked fight
and played the game hard and true.
This victory conceded us the pri-lviege
of meeting the North Carolina
Tarheels on the next day.
The summary for the above game
is as follows:
AUBURN (38); Ellis, (8), RF;
Akin (14), LF; Dubose (10), C; F.
James (4), RG; E. James (2), L. G.
agricultural education this spring.
He is but one of the men from Ag.
Hill who are doing their stuff on this
side of the campus.
SPE Puts Sigma
Nu Out of Race
In Tournament
In the only game of inte'r-fraterni-ty
basketball to be played, the S. P.
E.'s defeated the Sigma Nu's by the
score of 22-11. The game was fast
and well played throughout. The
Sigma Nu missed the services of their
star "Pop" Patterson who was vamp­ed
by dame cupid last week. Johns­ton
and Tamplain were the best the
winners had on the court and these
two boys played a jam up game. The
former was the high point man of the
game. Burns and Strong starred for
the losers. The game had been play
ed before and the Sigma Nu's victo-
Bowing to North Carolina in their
second game of the Southern Confer­ence
tournament, the Auburn basket­ball
team closed a most successful
season. in Atlanta on February 26.
Altho the Tigers didn't return home
with the Southern title, they remain
as one of the leaders of the South.
They bowed to five conference foes,
but each was a worthy foe and the
losing margin was never more than
four points execept in their last game
of the tournament.
During the season they won thir­teen
games and lost five. As an aver­age
for every game played, they
scored 36 points to their opponents
27 leaving a margin of nine points
per game.
They won eleven consecutive games
for the longest string of victories in
the conference this year and the long­est
ever made by an Auburn team.
This record justly placed Auburn
among the leaders of the South this
year.
Captain Buck Ellis proved his
metal through the entire year by al­ways
being in the thick of the fray
and obtaining the ball from the cen-game
last season. To get revenge
.. . , . „ . „J.„„f j ter of the floor after the tip <5ff. As
it is necessary to get a good start, r
., . ., , , . j i * J a forward, he was hard to watch; a
therefore, the club met and elected j '
these performers to
to success: Prof. W. E. Sewell, cap-unless
he scored some points to help
his mates. He ran second to Akin in
points for the season with a record
of 154 points.
The two James twins, Ebb and Fob,
held down the regular berths at their
opponents end of the court as guards.
No two men have ever displayed more
fight and spirit than this pair f
brothers. Unable to tell them apart,
it is impossible to tell which is the
best, but if we could, we. still doubt
if the question could be decided. They
were there and they had the stuff.
Frequently, one of them would drib­ble
down to the center of the court,
fake a pass, and drop in a well aimed
field goal. Without these boys, any
game would lack color.
Completing the roster of the squad
remains with five of the hardest work­ing
substitutes to be found for quite
a distance. Messrs. Kaley and Hall
are both well known about town.
Both have been at the basketball game
for about three years at A. P. I. and
both had earned their numerals be­fore
the present season. They answ­ered
the call for aid several times and
were not lacking in ability. We have
another senior, Slaughter, who proved
! to be a real find for the year. Quite
,;j *u„ *„„™ i fast shooter and careful passer. For
guide the team ;\ , > ,"_' -often during the later part of the
the season he ran up a total of 124'
JS, but through a protest it was
V. P. I. (33); Rice (3), RF; Dear replayed and the results reversed th;s
(18), LF; Payne (7), C; McEver time.
(1), RG; Pearman (2), LG.
Subs.; V. P. I. Looney (2)
Pearman; Johnson for Rice.
for
N. C. Tarheels
Defeat Auburn
The N. C. Tarheels were success­ful
in overcoming the dreaded Au­burn
quintet in the second round of
the S. I. C. tournament at the At­lanta
auditorium last Saturday night.
The Northern boys displayed a mi­raculous
defense that puzzled the Ti­ger
five and broke up their elusive
pass work.
The Tiger squad, starting things
off, led the Carolinians 6-4 after about
five minutes of play. Here the cup-holders
took the lead ond were never
in the rear. All during the first
half the score was exceedingly
close and no one had the least rea­son
to believe which team was to be
the victor or victim.
The second half started like a whirl­wind,
with Auburn evening the score,
13-13. The number of the pace
proved disastrous to the Tigers at
this point and never did they get a
chance to climb up on the champs.
Only one field goal was registered
by the Plainsmen during the second
half and that was from the worthy
hands of Fob James. Auburn just
could not find herself and the Tar­heels
would not give her a chance to
work through her formidable de­fense.
The summary of the game was as
follows:
AUBURN (15); Ellis, RF; Akin
(5), LF; Dubose (2), C; F. James
(6), RG; E. James (2), LG.
NORTH CAROLINA (28); R.
Hackney (2), RF; Van Story (10),
LF; Purser (4), C; B. Hackney (12),
RG; Morris, LG.
Subs. North Carolina: Baggett for
Purser; Price for Morris. Auburn:
Slaughter for Ellis.
CURB MARKETS
PROFITABLE FOR
MANY FARMERS
Alabama farmers have probably
found one of the best means of in­creasing
their income without an in­crease
in production by marketing
their miscellaneous farm and home
products through curb markets.
In the northeastern states market­ing
of vegetables and fruits by the
curb marketing plan has been prac­ticed
several years. In Alabama this
is a new system of marketing products
which has been practiced for about
two and one-half years.
Tuscaloosa was pioneer in Alabama
in opening the curb market for the
farmers. This market has been open
two and one-half years. Up to De­cember
1, 1926, 11,539 farmers have
made sales totaling $82,963 to 59,000
customers. Other cities that are
tain, and Professor Grimes, manager
Not a man has been lost from thei
last year's team but new material is
now waiting for a try out. Professor
Fick, a new man on the hill, is a
bright prospect for the first base in
that not a ball can go over nor under.
At the keystone will be found "Buck"
Appleton with plenty of applicants
crowding for the job. At short will
be found Prof. Sewell with Prof.
Good helping at the hot corner. Prof.
Farris will probably be behind the
bat while Brown or Weidenbach will
be slinging the pill.
Barnyard golf will be carried on
on a scientific basis under the auspic­es
of Dean Funchess and Prof. Rob­inson.
Other sports such as football, vol­ley
ball and basketball will be put on
foot when their respective seasons
return.
season, he answered the call and cov­ered
himself with glory by his fast
and furious playing. Then there are
two former "rat" stars, "Moon" Mul-lins
and Howell, who have plenty of
time yet to assume greater respon-court,
and from any position he was | ^ . ^ t h a n t h e y ^ t h e - ^
points, being the third high scorer
for the squad.
"Jelly" Akin, the Notasulga Kid,
proved to be the sharpshooter for the
Tiger outfit. From all angles of the
able to find the sought for hoop. To
guard him, the opponents found a big
problem in itself and few teams had
the required stuff to stop him. He
led his mates in scoring and ran up a
total of 205 points, which is an aver­age
of very nearly 11 points to the
game.
At the center post stood Frank
Dubose; a man of all trades as far
as basketball was concerned. He was
equally good at guarding, shooting
and jumping. To get the tip off from
season. They took part in several
games and have quite a few points
in their favor. Both have a liking
for the forward berth, and will be
ready to give their very best again
next year.
From the above nine men, we have
the nucleus of our Varsity. As fine
a bunch of players as ever walked
the Plains. Of them, only three will
bid us farewell this year. They are
Sam Hall, "Skik" Kaley, and "Red"
Slaughter. These three men have
him required a track star and a good I ^ by ^ b o a t ^ ^ ^ ^
one at that. Never, during the en
tire season did his fight and vigor
let up and never did he enter a game
Tangents from Sport Circles
Down went the curtain to the stage
of the 1927 basketball season; and
with it went Auburn's chance for the
Southern Championship rag. Papke
carried a strong team to the tourna­ment
last week but they did not get
very many breaks and drew strong
opponents each time. They were eli­minated
from the race by the winner
of the championship bunting for the
past three seasons and one of the
strongest contenders this time. It
was none other than the highly tout­ed
Tarheels from North Carolina.
The Tiger cagesters made a brave and
efficient showing for the first half
but cracked under the strain and let
the Tarheels walk away with the hon­ors
for the night with a 28-15 victory.
* * * * * * * .
As a starter the Bengals from the
Plains drew V. P. I. This was the
first meeting of these two institu-making
a rapid progress with the
curb market are: Gadsden, Opelika,
and Selma.
Indications for the development of
more curb markets is bright for all
reports are optimistic.
Our newspapers, county agents,
home demonstration agents, farm bu­reaus,
and chambers of commerce are
sponsoring these markets which aid
the farmer and the consumer by elim­inating
the middle man.
These markets are aiding the farm­ers
by giving them a knowledge of
what people demand and also by
stimulating them to produce more
and better produce plus a larger in­come
for a minimum of effort.
tions since the homecoming game of
1925 when the Tigers chewed the
Gobblers out of a victory to the tune
of 19-0. The Tiger again proved it­self
too vicious for the Gobblers and
emerged from the encounter with the
large end of a 35-28 score. This game
was certainly one thriller. With two
minutes left to play the Plainsmen
found themselves trailing the Virgin
ians by three points. In these final
minutes the offense rallied and count
ed ten points which was enough to
win the fray.
* * * * * * *
Much interest is being shown
around the Village over prospects for
the coming baseball season. With a
vast array of material from which
to pick a team, Auburn supporters
are expecting Morey to whip a neat
combination together and one which
should give all opposition plenty of
worry.
* * =:= * * • *
A few might have dreamed that
Vandy would have won the South­ern
tournament this year, but none
ever dreamed that Georgia would be
runner up. They not only pulled
through to the finals but gave Vandy
a very close call for the title. Some
have termed their game stand as
"luck," but the sporting critics have
called it "inspired" basketball. What
ever it was, Georgia always has a
plenty of the same stuff in football.
It may be luck, inspiration, or good,
hard fighting teams, but what ever
it is, we would not care if Auburn
could be afflicted with the same stuff.
est seas and have done their
best to conquer the troubled waters.
We will miss each one and are migh­ty
sorry that they are compelled to
depart.
As to the outlook for the coming
basketball season, we can find no
reason why Auburn should not stand
out even more than she did the pres­ent
year. The five men that start
every game of this season will be on
hand to answer the call. All will be
older both in age and knowledge of
the game and will have just as much
stamina. Then there are two of the
substitutes that will remain behind.
Without substitutes, we would not
have a team, and these two men are
going to give their very best to dis­lodge
one of the present Varsity men
in order that they may assume res­ponsibility
of starting the affair. We
look forward to next year and will
not look back until we have safely
brought the championship cup back
home to "The Fairest Village of the
Plains."
The score of each of the games for
the season were:
Ga. Tech 22
Miss. A. and M. 34
Miss. A. and M. 24
Florida 34
Tulane 33
Tulane . 30
Tulane 12
Tulane 11
Clemson 26
C/emson* 23
Florida 28
Sewanee 15
Ga. Tech 24
Tennessee 25
Chattanooga .">;>
Vanderbilt 35
Sewanee 28
V. P. I. 33
N. C. U. 28
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
Auburn
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27
51
42
35
50
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the United States. The main diffi- anything serious. He desired to write
culty of the unit now is not the air a beautiful idealistic story of Joan
equipment, but the ground equipment i of Arc, and so much of his writings
such as hangars and landing fields, he | were humorous that he wrote this
said. It presents quite a difficulty j story under an assumed name in or-to
make a forced landing on any der t h a t people might take it serious-place
you are lucky enough to find.
The United States is running several
lines . of airplanes- carrying mail,
freight, and passengers and making
money on most of them.
E. T. Martin gave us an account
of the work of the engineer unit in
the Revolutionary war as viewed by
a Frenchman. They were very effi­cient
in their work and received very
favorable comment. He showed us
ly, and the story brought him fame
She reminded us too that when we
frown we utilize more than twice as
many muscles as when we smile, and
t h a t we should strive to be able to
smile while others are frowning as
well as while they are smiling.
Miss Proctor gave a very interest­ing
reading, "The Man Waiting Be­low."
Girls you should have heard
it, for the young man proved not to
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Camel is the understanding smoke
CAMEL is always the friendly ciga­rette.
In days of tense achieve­ment,
in moments of joy and
gaiety, a lighted Camel will spur
you to the stars with its cool,
crisp fire. Camels understand your
every mood.
A purchase of Camels brings
you the choicest Turkish and
Domestic tobaccos. Blended by
skilful experts into the world's
Unfathomed quality is the distin­guishing
mark of Camel.
No matter what the price you
pay,, you can buy no better ciga­rettes
than Camels. Smoke them
as frequently as you please. You
will never be left with a cigaretty
after-taste; Camels aren't made
that way. That is why experienced
smokers everywhere demand them.
That is v/hy millions thrill to three
short words: "Have a Camel!"
some of their defenses and clearly! be as anxious after the first half
explained it with . t h e help of dia- j hour of waiting as he was at the end
granis on the board. j 0 f t h e first fifteen minutes.
R. 0. Lile explained why in olden j M r J o h n s o n t o W u s o f t h e fi££g
times armies didn't need demolitions, j m o v i e s w h i c h a r e o f t w Q t y p e s . t he
but in modern warfare it is very im-j D e F o r e s t t y p e w h i c h fe & r e c e n t jn_
portant work. The first organized I v f e n t i o n > a n d t h e W a r n e r t y p e w h j ch
demolition work was in the Civil war j -s a , s 0 a n e w d e v e l o p m e n t . T w o p i c.
when the northern forces tore up j t u r e h o u g e s o n Broadway are now us-
"Say it "With <&lolvers"
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Homer Wright, Local Agent for Auburn
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about sixty miles of railroad in n o r t h !;
Georgia.
ing the Warner Brothers system.
I t is so important to place; T h e a d v a n t a g e s o f a s y s t e m l i k e t h is
obstacles for the enemy that the en- j t o s m a „ t h e a t r c s w o u , d b e t h f t t t he
to prevent so many conflicts. There
was a good turn out this meeting but
we want more of the engineers to
come out and get in the swim.
WEBSTERIAN SOCIETY
A very interesting program was
i music goes with the picture, hence
i t would not be necessary to have a
player piano and, is more realistic.
With-the consent of all upper class­men
present, Freshman Taylor was
given the privilege of giving us a very
interesting and humorous prophecy
rendered at the regular meeting of the i concerning the unpleasant future of
m o s t p o p u l a r s m o k e , a n d t h e b e s t.
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Notes of the Societies
A. S. M. E. | ing the square root of numbers. His
The A. S. M. E. enjoyed a good pro-1 example was the taking of the square
gram at its regular meeting Wednes- j r o o t o f t h e number 1.15, and explain-day
night in Ramsay Hall. The pro­gram
consisted of two interesting
talks by members of the society.
The first, G. R. Ashcraft, explained
the operation of lubricators for inter­nal
lubrication of steam engines. He
pointed out the advantages and dis­advantages
of the two general types
of lubricators, the hand operated and
the mechanically operated.
The other speaker for the evening,
E. F. Fisher, took as his subject,
"Landmarks of Prime-movers." Fish­er
traced the developments of prime-movers
from the very beginning, start­ing
where actual man labor was the
only known source of power.
All mechanicals are urged to turn
out for the next meeting as there is
some important business to be cared
for at that time.
A. S. C. E.
The student chapter of the A. S.
C. E. held its regular meeting Mon­day
night. Due to some misunder­standing
on the part of the members
in regard to the change made in the
meeting night, only a few members
were present.
The first speaker was Prof. C. A.
Baughman. He gave a short talk on
the common mistakes made in extract­ing
the easiness of making careless
mistakes in the handling of such
numbers. In Professor Baughman's
illustration the fact was brought out
that some students had turned in
papers with .33 as the square root
of 1.15, instead of 1.07.
The next talk was on the construc­tion
of Conowingo Dam, and was giv­en
by H. B. Sims. Mr. Sims stated
that this was the second largest sin­gle
hydroelectric installation in the
United States. The construction work
was explained in detail, including
each main generating unit. These
units are unique in that each one has
a structural steel pit liner, and gen­erator
support attached to the top of
the speed ring. He stated that the
dam and power house will be located
in the state of Maryland, and the up­per
half of the reservoir will be in
Pennsylvania. This talk concluded I
the program for the evening.
The fact that some members of
the Civil class were not supporting
the A. S. C. E. was brought to the at­tention
of the society. It has been
stressed before that it was the duty
of every civil engineer on the campus
to become a member of the A. S. C.
E., and support the society by being
present at all meetings. Sophomores
a r e cordially invited and urged to
attend.
As there was no further business,
the society adjourned until Monday
night, March 14.
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EVANS SOCIETY
After the" usual Bible reading and
roll call a short business session was
held. At this time Mr. T. H. Pearce
was elected basketball captain, and it
was decided to call off the next regu­l
a r meeting because of a conflict
with evangelistic week. A pending
social was discussed and plans are be­ing
made.
Professor Daughrity discussed
briefly the popular conception of Lit­erature,
that is held by most under­graduates.
He touched on several
branches of literature and then in­troduced
Professor Herren who talk­ed
on one particular branch of liter­a
t u r e : Economic Literature. This
talk was very interesting and educa­tional
to all and thoroughly enjoyed.
The speaker was only able to give
something of a birds eye view of the
l i t e r a t u r e of economics in the few
minutes he had but will be back at a
later date to tell us more about it.
Following this, Mr. Cottier gave a.
short talk on meter formations.
S. A. M. E.
S. A. M. E. held its regular meet­ing
Tuesday night at 7 o'clock in the
Engineer's room in the Main build­ing.
The meeting was opened by Presi
dent Putnam and minutes of last
meeting read. Announcement was
made that the Engineer Hike would
be March 12, and all engineers should
sign up and pay their dollars to eith­er
Lt. Higgins or Lt. Bowley as soon
as possible. All you engineers come
out and back up the unit. You will
have a good time, and it will give
you some idea of real camp life. This
also furnishes a possibility of getting
a "boot" on the Lieutenants.
Dan Sikes gave us an interesting
talk on the development of the Mo­bile
port and dock. He explained
t h a t this is a state wide project and
not one concerning Mobile alone. The
results are already being felt by the
number of new industries that are
locating in Mobile since the work on
the docks started. The bonds were
passed for $10,000,000 to be sold as
needed. This is a lot of money, but
the benefits will be worth it to the
s t a t e as a whole.
,T. H. Pearce spoke next on the
future and the present air service of
Websterian Literary Society last
Tuesday night.
A reading, "The Courtship of Aunt
Jermima," given by Miss Rhodes,
was enjoyed by all.
Miss Eunice Stinnit gave a very
interesting talk on the Life and
Works of John Galsworthy. She told
how Mr. Galsworthy had studied law
and later decided t h a t he disliked it.
His inspiration to write came as a
result of meeting Joseph Conrad. He
studied humanity, inequality of so­ciety,
and "most of his writings were
comparisons between the upper and
lower class of people. "The Dark
Flower" is one of his books which
tells of the love life of a man; while
"Beyond," another, tells of the love
life of a woman. His book entitled
" S t r i f e " which told of the strife be­tween
labor and capital brought him
fame. She told also how he had
managed to study the prisons of his
time which is told in his volume "Jus­tice."
Miss Irene Fletcher brought to us
a study in humor, titled "Well Furn­ished."
She told us that Well Furn­ished
meant that a person in order
to get the best out of life should
possess the five physical senses and
also the psychological sense. If we
the soul of Mr. George B. K. Hann
after his body had returned to dust.
The meeting adjourned, planning
to spend next Tuesday night for the
"Try outs" of the oratorical contest.
Be sure to be there.
WIRT SOCIETY
The Wirt held its regular meeting
Tuesday night. An appeal was
made to those who anticipated going
out for the inter-collegiate debate.
An announcement was made that the
society is making plans to broadcast
a regular program in'the near futui'e.
How F a r Can Ford Go, was discuss­ed
by T. H. LeCroy, who said that Mr.
Ford's limitations were bound only
by the consuming public due to his
well planned organization and poli­cies.
Miss Bernice McMillan most ably
discussed "The Defeat of the Twen­tieth
Amendment" which deals with
the child labor situation. We learned
t h a t twenty states had notified the
| United States Congress that they had
considered this amendment and re­jected
it. She declared that this
seems to be a, mere halting on the
edge of a precipice.
An interesting debate was . heard,
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much that he was never thought of
as a statesman, and his life was a
failure, and too, if we are always
joking we might have to do as Mark
Twain should we ever desire to do
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society. In order to acquaint the
students and others how different
electrical apparatus is manufactured,
the General Electric Company has
filmed a great number of reels of in­teresting
picturizations of electrical
ufacture of steam turbine units, was
of interest.
"King of the Rails" was the title
of the first picture shown. This was
a series of developments as progress­ed
from the earliest electric locomo­tive.
Advantages • of electrically op­erated
engines over steam operated
were shown. Besides the cleanliness,
due to absence of smoke and coal, the
increase of power over steam opera­tion
was well shown.
Another picture, showing the man-machinery
in the process of being
manufactured and tested.
A complete assembling of a small
electric motor was' also interesting be­cause
of the animated effect given
by the process of filming.
The making of porcelain insulators
and parts of electrical devices was
shown under the title of "The Potters
Wheel." The importance of the shape
of the insulator was noted as well
as the glaze given it at the factory.
vice, who is spending this semester
a t Columbia university.
Miss McCain graduated in home
economics from the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute in 1923 and has
since that time been engaged in sev­eral
different phases of home eco­nomic
work. She taught in high
school one year and then took up
home demonstration work. She serv­ed
first as acting demonstration
agent in Madison county for several
months, then took up her regular
work as permanent agent in Coosa
county, where she worked for two
years. She resigned in September,
1926, in order to receive training at
Columbia University, preparatory to
the work which she is now doing with
the extension service.
Miss McCain began her work as
clothing specialist February 1, and
since that time many favorable re­ports
concerning the efficiency of
her work have been received by Miss
Agnes Ellen Harris, state home dem­onstration
agent of Alabama.
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debaters were absent but Afley Bass
spoke for the affirmative and J. B.
Beard for the negative. The negative
won.
Several rich, rare and wholesome
jokes were rendered by Miss Kath-erine
Nunn. The Wirts challenged
the Wilsonians to an inter-society bas­ketball
game. The challenge was ac­cepted
and plans are under way to
play the game in the near future.
Miss Grace Pinnel greatly helped the
society by her constructive criticism.
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HOME EC CLUB
The Home Economics Club held
its regular meeting Friday afternoon,
February 25, in Smith Hall lobby. In
the business taken up at this meet­ing,
the hour of meeting was changed
to the hours of 7-8 o'clock on Friday
night, March 11. We a r e planning to
make a campaign for new members,
and if you are not a member of our
club and do not want to be worried
with us, make plans now to come to
the next meeting.
Miss Rhodes talked to us about the
activities of home . economics clubs
including the education, financing,
recreation and social activities.
We were very happy to have Miss
Agnes Harris with us on this occa
sion. She gave us some of the plans
which had been made for the home
economics meeting which is to be
held in Birmingham and the Nation­al
meeting which is to be held in
Ashville. It is always inspiring to
have Miss Harris with us, and
through the inspiration given us by
her on this occasion, we are planning
to send two delegates to the National
Home Economics Association which
is to be held in Ashville in June.
Plans were suggested and outlined
for the purpose of obtaining funds
for these delegates.
Miss Gladys McCain has come back
to Auburn. She is t a k i n g the place of
Miss Josephine Eddy, clothing speci­alist
of the Alabama extension ser-
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The A. I. E. E. departed slightly
from the regular schedule of pro­grams
by giving a series of motion
pictures on subjects of interest to
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RELIGIOUS MEETINGS
Monday—Tuesday—Wednesday—Thursday
Friday, March 11th
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FRESHMEN ARE
IN FAVOR OF
STADIUM PLAN
The Freshman class at a meeting
last Saturday, voted unanimously to
support the plan which has been put
forth for the proposed erection of a
stadium here. After the plan had
been presented to them, they voted
and it was found that everyone in
the meeting voted for it. The plan
is to insure some man's life for one
hundred thousand dollars; at the end
of ten years the money is to be used
for the building of a stadium. If it
is desired to build the bowl before
the lapse of that much time, the
money that has gone into the policy
will be supplemented by donations
from the alumni until the necessary
amount has been raised. This plan
is the best that has been brought
forward yet for this purpose. The
whole school has supported the meas­ure
splendidly so far, and one can
rest assured that the Freshman class
will do their part in supporting it.
This is something that Auburn needs
and something that every Auburn
man should stand behind in the build­ing
of in anticipation of what it will
mean when it is finished.
PLANS MADE FOR DRAMATIC
MEETING IN BIRMINGHAM
Tchockoff; "The Falcon," Tennyson;
"Nevertheless (Better Speech),"
Waler; "Six Who'Passed While the
Lentils Boiled," Walker; "The Weari-in'
o' the Green," Watts; "The Land
of Heart's Desire," "A Pot of Broth,"
Yeasts; l"The Pot Boiler," "Over­tones,"
Gerstenbery; "Not Quite Such
a Goose," E. Gale; "French Without
a Master," Triston; '"Op-o-me-
Thu," Pryce; "Suppressed Desires,"
Glaspall and Cook; "The Constant
Lovers," Hanken; "The Tents of the
Arabs," Dunsany; "Dod Gast Ye
Both," Haffner.
PHI DELTA RHO
ENTERTAINED
BOYS AND GIRLS WILL
REPRESENT STATE AG CLUBS
(Continued from page 1)
tee has issued. a list containing the
following plays suitable for this con­test:
"Mrs. Pat and the Law," Aldis;
"Columbine," Arkell; "Rosalind,"
Barrie; "Lonesomeline," and "The
Price of Coal," Brighouse; "Joint
Owners in Spain," Brown; "The
Burglar," and "Piper's Pay," "The
Kleptomaniac," Cameron; "Miss Civ­ilization,"
Davis; "Bringoire, the
Balladmonger," DeBanville; "The
Maker of Dreams," Down; "A Night
of the Trojan War," Drinkwater;
"The Lost Silk Hat," Dunsany; "The
Other Voice," Fairbanks; "The Pills
in a Bottle," Field; "The Neighbors,"
Gale; "The Goal Gate," "Spreaden
the News," "The Workhouse Ward,"
Gregory; "The Florist Shop," Hawk-bridge;
"King Rene's Daughter,"
Hertz; "The Mouse Trap," "The
Sleeping Car," Howells; "Between the
Soup and the Savoury," Jennings;
"Why the Chimes Rang," McFadden;
"The Bishop's Candlesticks," McKin-nel;
"A Follower of the Yoddle,"
Mapes; "The Welsh Honeymoon,"
"The Merry Cuckoo," Marke; "In­dian
Summer," Mehilhac-Halevy;
"Food," DeMille; "A Minuet," Park­er;
"The Far Away Princess," Sud-dermann;
"A Marriage Proposal,"
(Continued from page 1)
their entire records in club work
through the county agents and other
sources. A search is now being made
to find the two boys who have the
best club records to their credit, dat­ing
back over several; and these two
will receive the honor which comes
to fewer than one club boy in every
thousand.
Not only must the winner have a
good club record with his individual
project or projects but he must have
been a leader, causing other boys to
enroll and to do club work.
A man and a woman representing
the extension service will accompany
the boys and girls making a party
of six to go from Alabama. While
in Washington these boys and girls
will mix and mingle with club boys
and girls from most other states in
the Union. They. are scheduled to
call on President Coolidge at the
White House, in addition to visiting
other high government officials.
Miss Annie Katherine Nunn enter­tained
the Phi Delta Rho sorority
with a bridge party Saturday after­noon
in honor of Miss Alma Smith
of Mobile.
The hall and living room were
decorated with pot flowers and cut
flowers, giving them an atmosphere
of the approaching spring.
Miss Smith won highest score, and
was presented a box of candy.
A salad course was served to the
following: Mesdames J. C. Lowery,
Frank DuBose, Misses Neida Martin,
Lorene Parish, Viola Thorn, Cindy
Lester, Vera Isbell, Jane Springer,
Lillian Dunn, Alma Smith, and the
hostess, Annie Katherine Nunn.
HOWARD SMITH REVIEWS
STATE FARM TROUBLES
(Continued from page 1)
a day while in Alabama one good
hand may pick a bale in one week.
Under these conditions we can not
compete with Texas."
Although we have this defect in
the farming system of Alabama, Mr.
Smith said that farmers are begin­ning
to take new ideas and are doing
some interesting things. In referring
to news writing he said our farm
work gives some good subjects to
think, study, and write about.
"Many people have studied and
worked hard along special lines of
Agricultural work," Mr. Smith con­tinued,
"and have become qualified
as authorities in news writing."
FORESTRY WORK
IS PROGRESSING
During the year 1925 the landown­ers
became better organized and more
vigilant, and the state work in fire
protection, particularly along infor­mational
lines, had spread more wide­ly
over the commonwealth.
ATLANTA BISHOP WILL GIVE
SERVICES IN LANGDON HALL
(Continued from page 1)
was the rector of the Church of Holy
Communion in South Carolina and of
Christ Church in Nashville, Tenn.
He was consecrated bishop of the At
lanta district, comprising one-half the
state of Georgia, Nov. 1, 1927. He
is a trustee of the University of the
South and of Georgia Peabody Col­lege
for teachers. He is a 32nd de­gree
Mason, and is Knight Comman­der
of the Kappa Alpha fraternity.
CAPT. CUSHMAN WILL BE
SENT TO HAIWAIIAN POST
AG CLUB WILL GIVE ANNUAL
BANQUET MIDDLE OF APRIL
(Continued from page 1)
monthly agricultural publication, is
sponsored by the Ag. club.
It was first published in 1920 as
a small mimeograph sheet at which
time Frank Cooper was editor-in-chief.
This magazine is edited, man­aged,
and circulated entirely by the
students and now ranks among the
best of all college publications. At
present G. B. Phillips, Ag. education,
of Headland, Ala., is editor-in-chief,
and J. M. Herren, Jr., Ag. science,
of Tallassee, Ala., is business man­ager.
The biggest event of the year to
be held on Ag. hill is the Ag. club
banquet which is to be held during
the first part of April. The purpose
of this banquet is to bring closer
together the students and faculty
members whereby we can know each
other better, forming bonds of friend­ship
that can never be broken and
working toward one common end,
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ber of the honorary fraternity Scab­bard
and Blade and a member of
Georgia Tech chapter of the Kappa
Sigma fraternity. Also made letters
in both football and basketball at
Tech. Captain Cushman is a mem­ber
of the Auburn Lion's Club. We
will centainly miss his presence at
Auburn next year.
AG. STUDENTS
PLAN LIGHTS FOR
THE AG. CAMPUS
the development of agriculture.
A widely known speaker is always
selected for the event, Senator-elect
Hugo Black delivering the address
last year. The seniors are at this
time awarded with an Ag. club diplo­ma.
It is at this banquet that the Gam­ma
Sigma Delta loving cup is pre­sented
to the best all-round junior in
agriculture who meets the require­ments
in scholarship, student activ­ities,
Ag. club attendance, personal­ity,
and general popularity.
The Ag. club officers are: G. B.
Phillips, president; S. L. Worley, vice-president;
G. S. Williams, treasurer;
J. F. Hixon, secretary; E. T. Bright,
librarian; A. V. Culpepper, critic; and
W. H. Gregory, sergeant-at-arms.
Four big "white way lights" will
adorn the "Ag." campus in the near
future according to official announ­cement
made by the committee at
work on the plans announced that as
soon as soon as something definite
could be given out about the plans
in progress, figures on the «ost of
the project will be made public as
well as the type of lights to be in­stalled.
Dean Funchess heartily endorsed
the project under way for the campus
lights and urged the club to install
the best type available.' The students
are more than delighted with the
proposition and have expressed their
support unanimously by voting for
the lights to be installed.
Arrangement, kind, and cost of the
lights has been turned over to the
college electrician, Mr. Drake, to es­timate
the cost and make the plans.
In a few days the students and pro­fessors
hope to see the lights burning
on Ag. hill.
AUBURN HAS A
CHANCE TO GET
P.O. BUILDING
While in Washington, Governor
Bibb Graves and his party called at
the Postoffice and the Treasury De­partments
to urge a new postoffice
building to be erected at Auburn. If
Congress authorizes a second appro­priation
of $100,000,000 for public
buildings, Auburn will receive con­sideration
for the erection of a post-office
building, they were told.
The trustees of the Alabama Pcly-
To prevent forest fires by. every
means possible is a New Years reso­lution
to which every one can sub­scribe,
according to the Alabama
Commission of Forestry. While the
compilations for 1926 have not been
completed, it is evident that fire
losses to the landowners of the state
have been much less than in previous
years, and the prospects for a con­tinued
reduction for 1927 appear en­couraging.
Prior to 1925 statistics were lack­ing
as to the extent of burning in
Alabama. The Legislature of that
year, however, took the matter in
hand and provided for the organiza­tion
of the necessary public work to
make clear the enormous damage done
to the economic resources of the
state by promiscuous burning, and
to initiate appropriate action toward
abating this destructive agency. Pub­lic
work in forestry was started un­der
the law sufficiently early to per­mit
of a fairly close survey of the fire
conditions of 1923. This showed that
approximately thirty-six per cent of
the forest, cut-over and rough land
of the state burned over in that year.
From further investigations it ap­peared
that this had been substantial­ly
the prevailing average for many
decades.
With the realization of the harm
done by fires and the arousing of
general interest in their prevention,
the year 1924 began with prospects
of a reduction in loss. Conditions
during the late spring and early sum­mer
contiuned favorable, and the ef­forts
of landowners were reasonably
successful until the phenomenal fall
drought ensued with what was prob­ably
the worst season of intense
burning, extending over a period of
five or six weeks, that the state had
ever witnessed. As a result, the de­crease
of burning for the entire year
amounted to only two per cent, the
area burning over being thirty-four
per cent as compared with thirty-six
per cent in 1923.
Professor Pipe's popular
illustrated lecture...
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technie Institute have been working
for a new postoffice building for
sometime, and this action of the gov­ernor
is the result of a special request
by the trustees. Auburn is one of
the three towns where the annual
postal receipts exceed $20,000, and
with the extra mailing matter from
the college Governor Graves is em­phasizing
the dire need for hew post-office
quarters. As yet no definite
assurance has been given, but we are
looking with considerable interest to
the action to be taken upon this mat­ter.
You can learn far more about TOBACCO
from old Prof. Pipe, than you'll get by
studying every treatise ever written on it.
For Prof. Pipe is the world's most eminent
authority on the subject... He knows
tobacco from plant to pipe!
Experiments with every known species
have convinced the Prof, that the one
perfect pipe tobacco is Granger Rough
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conclusion: (G) the Granger'grade Burley,
the choicest tobacco grown; (R) the Rcdis'
covery of Wellman's mellowing method;
and (c) the Cut of the large slow'burning
flakes...
Prof. Pipe proves Granger, by practical
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ROUGH CUT
The half-pound vac­uum
tin is forty-five
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