OCR::/Vol_033/WLURG39_RTP_19281215/WLURG39_RTP_19281215_001.2.txt Hawkins Makes I I («-1 $ Morning After Breakfast Will Return January 5. V. M. I. Will Close Tomorrow Call, Account of Influenza. Cadets Roll Uhr fling-tum lfihi BY THE STUDENTS, FOR THE UNIVERSITY At Washington and Lee Mild Influenza Epidemic is Receding. Read Lead Article RING-TUM PHI. in Today’s VOLUME XXXII WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1928. NUMBER 26 Tackle on all- South Atlantic New Year’s Captain Only W. & L. Man on First String GENE AND FITZ ON SECOND TEAM North Carolina Gets Three Men on First Team, Virginia Two W. H. “Bill” Hawkins, captain- elect of the Generals, was select- ed as a tackle on the first team and Fitzpatrick and White were placed on the second by a compo- site vote of fifteen prominent sports writers and a number of coaches of Virginia, North Caro- lina, and Maryland in response to inquiries sent out by the RING- \/TUM PHI for all-Southern ' choices. The University of North Caro- lina placed three men on the team to lead the list, while V. P. I. and Virginia each secured two births. Peake, the flashy Gobbler half-back, and Schwartz veteran center of Carolina, were selected by virtually all the scribes and mentors and tied for the high- est number of votes received. Snyder, was close on their heels in the final count, while Barnes of V. M. I., Bailey of V. P. I., and Vaughn of N. C. tate polled a heavy vote. The question of the best pair _ of ends in the South Atlantic was most bitterly contested. Flippin of Virginia and Sapp of North Carolina led the’ field, but Scott of V. M. I. was only one vote be- hind Sapp. One ballot behind the V. M. I. star was Dodson of Maryland, while Jordan of N. C. State and Gray of V.P.I. were picked among the best by several writers. Bailey had things his own way among the tackles with" Hawkins next in line. Fitzpatrick missed a tie with his team mate by one vote and in turn topped Captain Luke of Virginia by a single vote. Howard of North Carolina and Hewlett of V.M.I., had many sup- porters. Vaughn of N. C. State, in the opinion of the wise ones, is the outstanding guard of this sec- tion of the country. Farris of North Carolina managed to nose out Hotchkiss of V. P. I. for the other position, while the number of votes polled by Crothers of Maryland from Washington, Balti- more, and eastern Virginia enab- led him to beat out Hasse of V. M. I. for a place on the second team. The personnel of the backfield, which was selected by taking the four men with the highest vote, or U was a point of little controversy among the writers and coaches. Barnes, Peake, and Snyder were never in danger of losing their positions, but Sloan, the Cavalier ‘field general managed to nose I out over White of Washington & M Lee by two votes for the fourth man. Kessler of Maryland has quite a backing from all sections along with Warren of N. C. State, ard of North Carolina, (Continued on page three) ___..._o_____.__ Billy Long Has Eye Badly Hurt In Boxing Bout William T. “Billy” Long, cap- tain of the Washington and Lee freshman football team, received a serious injury to his left eye during boxing practice recently. A blow received during a bout caused him to losecontrol of the nerves and marred his vision to a considerable extent. Lexington doctors sent him to consult a. specialist in Lynchburg who advised him to avoid using his eye. until more treatment dcould be given. Long has left for . his home in Abilene, Texas, but he is -expected to be back in school when classes are resumed on January 4. the Maryland fullback,, Doc Wilce Makes His Last Tackle Coach John W. Wilce has made his “last tackle” at the Ohio State university, thereby giving virtual assurance that his pictu- resque career as grid mentor at this University has ended. Each year the graduating play- ers at Ohio State in theid final practice sesions line up and take their “last tackle.” This year when the last of the 15 graduating players had made their last tackles. Coach Wilce stepped forward and dove into the dummy. Quickly he turned and waved the squad to training quarters. The last practice was over. Freshmeh—Clbse Second Week of Court Practice Coach Davis Eees Yearling Squad Rounding Into Expected Shape The Blue and White Freshman basket ball squad has been work- ing this week each afternoon and evening in its second week of practice under.Coach Eddie Park Davis in Doremus gymnasium. They are fast rounding into the shape which Coach Davis has hop- ed to reach before the Christmas recess. Light scrimmage sessions with passing and' floor work have been the nature of workouts this week. Some 40 candidates have been reporting daily for the Frosh squad and at this early date it is impossible to name anything like a tentative line-up with so much material on hand. Of these candidates many have much prep and high school experience and a fast five should be developed from this material. No Regular Team The first scrimmage sessions found Burke and Smith at for- wards with Atzback and Camp- bell as guards and Fulton center running on the first five. oach Davis has been using all of his men in scrimmages and no five men have remained anything like a permanent quint. On Thursday afternoon the Var- sity courtmen were scrimmaged against the Frosh squad and from all appearances the Frosh will present a fast offensive quint with a defense of husky guards and center. Wilson Goes Well _ Wilson, tall end on the Little Generals football eleven, has been working well at center as have Jones and Wolfe. Martin, former Baltimore Poly . star is show- timore Poly player has been show- ing up well at a forward posi- tion along with Vickers and Lightle. Barach, Bailey, Nesbitt and Cross have been seeing a lot of action also, as guards. ___.__o_______ Richmond Scene of Masonic Meet Dr. Brown, National Secre- tary Will Attend—- Local Lodge Initiates The biennial national convention of the Square and Compass will be held with the Virgiina Medical College of Virginia, Richmond on December 31, 1928, and January 1, 1929. Sessions will begin at 10 o’clock A. M. on December 31, preceded by a meeting of the General Council on the night of December 30. This information was obtained Thursday from Dr. William M. Brown, professor of education and psychology at Washington & Lee University, and national secretary of Square and Compass, but as yet no details as to convention arrangements and programs have been released for publication. The personnel of the present General Council of the Fraternity is: National President, Howard V. Funk of Bronxville, New York; National Vice-President, Phil D. Coates of Atlanta, Ga., National Secretary, William M. Brown, of Lexington, Va.; National Treas- urer, Dean J. G. Eldridge, of University of Idaho; and Nation- (Cbntinued on page four) Nashville Scene of ’28 Southern Conference Meet Coaches Fletcher and Smith Represent W&L in‘ An- nual Convention QUESTIONS COME BEFORE DELEGATES General Consensus Approves of Sending Tech to Post Season Game Ccoaches Forrest Fletcher and Dick Smith represented Washing- ton and Lee at the anuual meet- ing of Southern Conference of- ficials which was held in Nash- ville Tennessee yesterday and to- day. The sessions were presided over by Dr.S.V.Sanfard, president of the University of Georgia. The chief business to be decid- ed by the conference was the of- ficial sanction of the Georgia Tech-California game to be play- ed in Pasadena California at the Tournament of Roses, the ques- tion of whether or not to permit a game to be played by the stars of the northern and southern sec- tions of the Southern Conference in Atlanta on January 1, and the changing of certain clauses in the conference constitution. There seems to be no doubt that the body will grant the Golden Tornado the privilege of playing the post season although several officials have frowned at the sug- gestion. The current opinion is that the conference will reject the proposal of the two all-star teams playing for charity in Atlanta on New Year’s Day. The changes in the Constitution and by-laws of the conference are said to be im- perative. In conjunction with the meeting of conference officials, the Foot- ball Coaches Association went in- to session and selected Dan Mc- Gugin of Vanderbilt as president for next year. Major Bob Neyland of Tennessee was chosen vice- president while Robert Fetzer, athletic director of the University of North Carolina, was re-elected secretary-treasurer. ———0 Alumnus Takes Motion Pictures of Lehigh Univ. A movie of Lehigh University which was started last June when pictures of the Lehigh gradua- tion were taken was completed last week. An alumnus whose name is withheld had the picture made. The picture will chronicle the life of the students at Lehigh and will include shorts of the faculty and all buildings, life in fraternities, and dormitories, all kinds of athletic contests, customs of the students, dances, and all other activities which interest the student. The picture will be shown to alumni associations and will be sent to various pre- paratory schools to interest men in coming to Lehigh. ’ south. California and Georgia Tech Clash Jan. 1st The inter-sectional foot-ball conflict will culminate in a strug- gle for supremacy between Geor- gia Tech, the Southern Conference champions and California, the east Coast title-holders, on New Year’s ' day at Pasadena. This game will close one of the most evenly match seasons for sensational competition. Georgia Tech has a record that looks en- couraging, to experts, to carry successfully the hopes of the They have gone through the entire season without a sin- gle defeat. California has also completed an undefeated season, which asures a. real battle bet- ween the two well perfected grid- iron machines. ' The sports writers seem to be rather skeptical about the out come of the clash. The survey" of the personnel of the two teams leaves the result in the “laps of the Gods.” The Southern cham- pions have always been victorious in the past years, and the pre- sent bearers of that honor are given more than a fair chance for victory this year. 0__.__. Seventeen Men Asked to Report New Year’s Day Varsity Wrestlers to Return Early to Get in Shape for Princeton Bout New Years day has been set as the date for seventeen varsity wrestlers to return to school to prepare for their first meet of the season, January 11, against Prin- ceton at Princeton. William & Mary have requested that their match scheduled for today with Washington and Lee be postponed as ,the “flu” had wrought havoc in the Indian camp Coach A. E. Mathis has turned his attention to the northern in- vasion of January 11 and 12 at which time the Generals will en- gage the Princeton Tigers and the Army cadets. on two successive nights. Two workouts a day one at ten-thirty in the morning and the other at four-thirty in the af- ternoon, will be in order for the varsity regulars when they re- port. Three days later final try- outs for the Princeton-.Army trip will start. .Mathis expects his men to keep in condition during the holidays and to be in their prime when they report for action. “Bill” Hawkins, captain of the 1929 eleven and a heavy weight con- tender for a mat position, ex- pects to be here during the Christ- mas recess and will take daily workouts. The seventeen grapplers who have been requested to report for training two days prior to the opening of school are: Barkus, Stultz, Kessler, Bowes, Halpern, Palmer, Rule, Belser, Gautier, Hall, Lewis, Flagg, Madison, Clark, Bolton, and Hawkins. l. C. President Says Leadership Still in College MR. L. A. DOWNS EDITOR’S NOTE—This is one of several articles to appear in the RING-TUM PHI written for this publication by some of Am- erica’s leading business geniuses. Mr. Downs is president of the Illinois Central railroad, and is considered one of the greatest of railroad wizards. By L. A. Downs (Pres. I. C. Railroad) One of the inescapable results- whether it be penalty or reward —of a college or university edu- cation is a certain degree, great or little, of public leadership in later life. We are not yet educat- ing thoroughly so large a propor- tion of our youth that the college or university graduate is com- monplace, and that means his op- inion will be sought by various groups, large or small, when prob- lems of local, state or national policy are placed before the elec- torate for solution. Railway men have had occasion in the past to regard as unfor- tunate the formless or unconstruc- tive opinions which many other- wise well-informed college and university graduates have held with respect to railway affairs. This weakness of public leader- ship has been the cause of much trouble to the railroads, for their affairs are publicly regulated and (Continued on page four) ___o___..__.. Former Student Produces Unique Newspaper Book A former student, John H. Sor- rells, now editor ‘of the book in the unique newspaper style which has been placed journalism library. The book is" a manual of pol- ices and technical requirements of the Press. It is written in an informal style, quite diffesrent from publications in its class. The word “Staff” is printed in gold on the soft leatiherr .cover. Mr. Sorrells was a student in the University from 1914 znzntil 1917 when he -entered the ser- vice. His home is Pine Blsufi’, Arkansas. Early History of Campus Newspaper Is Told; _ Ring-tum Phi Named for Famous Football Yell K By C. H. Wilson “Just cut classes if you dare! If you do it you had better be sure your grades are high.” “Slash goes your grade, two points down for every cut you take.” From a certain faculty members of Washington and Lee in 1898 came these threats. Whet- her you were sick or just wanted to leave early for Christmas these professors chopped two points off your grade for any class you cut. “lnjusticel”. powerful editorial in the Ring- tum Phi. Former Governor of Virginia, E. Lee Trinkle, then a student at the U. of Virginia saw the editorial and exclaimed: “Washington and Lee has a real newspaper!” Surpress It” “Suppress the publication-I Suppress that issue of the Ring- tum Phi, anyway,” demanded several members of the faculty. The paper did not fall "under .argued a the threatened inquisition. It lived . . . . .and distinctly outlived the “two-point slash” for each class absence. Just a year before, Washington and Lee students were snake- dancing between halves to a gut- tural drige: “Ring-Tum Phi-—-Stickeri Bum We are the stuff from old Lexington." An Opportunity And certain ambitious students saw a treble oportunity——a chan- ce to get rich—a chance to learn newspaper work. These six stu- dents met in serious conclave. They plotted. They argued—— Next week a campus newspaper flying at its masthead the first three words of the football yell appeared. V Advertisers could not be per- 1 suaded to buy space in the pub- lication. Not even the offer of front page position at low rates hooked in many advertisers. Sub- scriptions appeared even more slowly. “How do we know we will get the thirty issues we ‘pay for.’ What if the paper goes broke next weekl,” students argued. In the Bob Ninety-seven dollars in the hole the Ring-Tum Phi closed it first- year. The paper ended the year. The paper ended the first year owing the printer so much that he refused to take it for the next year. ~ A student, Thomas J. Farrar, now head of the department of German here, took over the bat- tered sheet its second year. He acted as editor, business manager, and proof—reader. At first he had to underwrite the expenses from his own funds. The Ring-Tum Phi itself had no credit after the financial wreck of its first year. That year the first “Finals issue” appeared. The first year endd, the Ring-Tum Phi twelve dollars to the good. Within five years after its birth the paper was clearing (Continued from page two) Fort ‘ Worth Press, is the author of 3.‘ Divine Approves of an Extra Girl “Boys should have more than one girl friend,” says the Rev. University. “One of the prime duties of a college man,” he says “is to show by living example that the age of chivalry is not dead; and girl friends offer the finest way of developing chivalry in a man.” The Reverend Mr. James points out that there are two types of petters. The first type is the man who loves and respects a girl, but is too poor to marry her. The se- .cond man does not care for the girl, but pets because he thinks it is the right thing to do. DeaITC:II;l;ll ls Back From Southern Trip Amended Constitution At Fort Worth; Spoke in Tenn. and Tex. Dr. Henry D. Campbell, dean of the University, returned Thursday night, from his two week trip to the Southwest where he attended the convention of the Association of Colleges and Secondary schools of the Southern states in Fort Worth, Texas. Leaving Lexington Thanksgiv- ing day. Dr. Campbell went to Memphis, where he addressed the alumni of Memphis, December 1, at the University Club. The dean spoke on the ideals of Washing- ton and Lee with influences to the future outlook of the Univer- sity. From Memphis, Dr. Campbell hurried on to Fort Worth to an executive meeting of the asso- ciation. The convention lasted four days; the principal business be- ing that of admitting schools into the «A-1 group. Visits at San Antonio Dr. Campbell then went to San Antonio where, from December 8 to 11, he was a guest of Albert teves, Jr., prominent Washington and Lee alumnus, and father of Albert Steves III, a junior in the University. The dean, while there, spoke at a dinner of Washington and Lee alumni and was also hon- ored with a dinner by Mr. Steves where he met many former Wash- ington and Lee men and the prin- cipals of the high schools and aca- demies of San Antonio. Dr. Campbell left‘ the Texas city December 11, and reached Lexington Thursday. “I had quite an enjoyable trip,” the dean stated “and was highly entertained everywhere I went.” Flu lhgjiledes ln Basketball “Red” Hanna Added to List; Sick and Injured Now Total Six Flu is still playing havoc in the ranks of varsity basketball with “Red” Hanna being added to the list of sick and disabled yester- day. Those men unable to report because of sickness or injuries are Hanna,‘ Groop, Freeman, Cox, Faulkner and Williams. Leigh Williams returned Wed- nesday from a trip to “Boneset- ter” Reese at Youngstown, Ohio, wit a very encouraging report. The specialist assures him that there are no bones out of place in his foot and that it will be just a matter of time before he will be able to play. Coaches hope that Williams will be able to re- port for practice immediately af- ter the Christmas holidays. For the past week Coach “Dick” Smith has been holding light prac- tice using two tentative teams in short scrimmages. For the most part these teams have been composed.of Lowry, Wood, Gor- don, McComas, Lowdon, Memer, Spencer, Scott, Dean and Jacob. Intensive practice will start im- mediately after the holidays when it is expected that the epidemic will be over and all the men now on the sick list will be ready to go. Walter S. James of Ohio State White Denies He Recommended School Closing University Physician Says That He Does Not Think Case Serious Enough * SEVERAL MEMBERS FACULTY STRICKEN Deans Easter and Moreland, President Smith, and Sev- eral Other Are Ill Dr. Reid White, University phy- sician, last night denied that he, had recommended to the Univer- _ sity officials that Washington & Lee be closed because of the in- fluenza epidemic. There has been a rumor to that effect on the campus, but Doctor White says there is absolutely no truth in it. Several members of the faculty are confined to their homes with Flournoy has had a slight touch of pneumonia, but is now much better, and will be out in a few days. Doctors Hoyt and Easter, President Smith, Professor Gil- liam, and Dean Moreland have been victims of light attacks. Due to these illnesses, meeting of the executive committee of the facul- ty, called for yesterday afternoon, was postponed. Twenty-Nine Confined Twenty-nine students were in the Jackson Memorial hospital yesterday afternoon. Six of these were discharged last night, and nine more were dis- charged this morning. Mrs. Clyde Morehead, superintendent of the hospital, stated that, barring complications which now seem un- likely, the fourteen students now under treatment would be able to leave for home the twenty-first, No new student cases have been received since Wednesday, and conditions in Lexington are gen- erally clearing up, stated Dr. Robert P. Cooke, county health of- ficer. The quarantine on the Jackson hospital, stated Mrs. Morehead, is only to protect visi- tors, who cannot in safety be al- lowed to visit in thelwards, and does not extend to patients, who are discharged on recovery. No Serious Cases There have been no serious cases of la grippe or influenza among the students. One of the leading papers in New York City stated several days ago that hun- dreds of students in Southern col- leges were dying, and that condi- tions were serious.....Washington and Lee was described as “hard- hit.” As a result of such exag- gerated reports telephone calls and telegrams from all parts of the United States have been flood- ing into the hospital and into the Dean's office. Doctor White is now issuing excuses for a few students to go home early. How- ever, students from some of the schools that have been dismissed as a precautionary measure have and exposure. Local difficulties, it is best continue school, where medical supervision can be maintained. The average duration of a light case of influenza is from a week to ten days. Patients in the local hospital are being held for four or five days after they have re- (Continued on page two) Who’s Who ON THE CAMPUS J. M. HOLT, President of the Freshman Council. Joe is a Senior in the Law School, a member of Phi Kappa Psi social fraternity, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Delta Phi legal fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi commerce fraternity, Sigma Senior honor- ary, the Eleven Club, and White Friars ribbon society. He was awarded the Economics Scholar- ship in 1924 and was a member of the Executive Committee in 1925. He was also a member of the Student Research Commit- tee in 1927. His home is Lewis- burg, West Virginia. light cases of the flu. Professor‘ developed pneumonia from travel; authorities . state that, forgetting scholastic: from a. standpoint of student. health to. OCR::/Vol_033/WLURG39_RTP_19281215/WLURG39_RTP_19281215_002.2.txt Page 2 one Iliittg-Iuitt no (ESTABLISHED 1897) WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY SEMI-WEEKLY « Members of Southern Collegiate Newspaper Association Subscription $8.10 per year, in advance OFFICE AT DEPARTMENT OF JOURNALISM Telephones: Editoibin-Chief, 489 and 816 Business Manager 430; Managing Editor, 412; University News Editor, 679: Sports Editor, 112; Editorial Rooms 2043 and 2143. Entered at the Lexington, Va... Postoffice as second class mail matter. ' I Editor-in—Chief Business Manager HENRY P. JOHNSTON, 29 A ALLEN B. MORGAN, 29 C REPORTORIAL ’30L...... . Harrison, Jr., —..ASBOCi8t€ . Hill, 29A A-==*-tant . Lowdon, 29C ............................................... .-Afifiifimllt Anninfnnt Mnnnvinur m . nry MacKenzie, 310. H. Elias, 30A E. Beaton, :n>axgui:-«sun:-«rd mo. . . . ,,,, _._ .............1..:._Copy Editors BIL .......................... ..... EDITORIAL ASSOCIATES C. Jones, 29A; G. F. Ashworth, 30A: C. H. Wilson, 29A. EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS C. Hutchinson, 29A; J. B. Masree, 31A; J. G. Berry, 29A: . G. Tarrant, 30A; W. 0. Thomas, 31A; A.J. Le1bow1tz.31A. REPORTERS . A. M. Harvey, 31A; A. M. Helfat, 31A; A. D. Noyes, 31A; 3.0.4 :6?" All matters of business should be addressed to the B_usi- ness Manager. All other matters should come to the Editor- in-Chief. _ _ We are always glad to publish any communications. that may be handed to us. Nu unsigned correspondence will be published; however, we shall gladly withhold your signature from print upon request. If the choice were left to me whether to have a free ‘ press or a free government, I would choose a free press.— Thomas Jefferson. BE A REAL AMERICAN One often hears that the American youth spends freely, but believes in get- ting his money’s worth. We took this as as axiom until the recent flu epidemic hit the campus. But like all rules it has its ex- ceptions. While the greatest number of students confined in the Stonewall Jackson hospital at any one time has been less than forty, it is generally known that considerably more than this number have been sick at the same time. One fraternity has furnished only six men to the hospital, yet its number of flu patients has been fourteen. We, as young Americans are not getting our money’s worth. We are too cocksure of our ability as physicians. One flu patient was asked why he did not go to the hospital for treatment. He re- plied they would keep him too long in the hospital and he would not get home early enough for Christmas. . We wonder if this student ever stopped to realize the quite serious after effects of flu in many cases....that it would have been far better for him to have remained in the hospital two or three days over the holidays than going to class ?—that he was throwing the flu germs into the classroom where healthy students might contract the highly contagious disease? Every student is allowed seven days in the hospital without charge. If you are sick, go to the infirmary; you’ll” get much better attention. Be a real American and get your money's worth. __M0__..: POVERTY VS. CO-OPERATION We wonder if students realize the de- pressing illiteracy and poverty, in this lit- tle placid town of Lexington? A trip into the nearbyhills will quickly reveal deplor- able living conditions beyond human imag- ination. Fathers, daughters and mothers, sons, live in one-room slanting shacks. Last year the board of public welfare distributed Christmas baskets to these needy people. Fraternities and individual students made it possible for 250 homes to receive baskets. Actual knowledge of social conditions in Rockbridge county is startling. Not until two years ago, did compulsory education exist, and even now hundreds of children as old as fourteen, are running around half clad,——lacking the facilities to read or write. By canvassing students and townspeo- ple last year, ladies of the Episcopal church paid off a mortgage on a widow’s farm, keeping her and her eight children together. No one was asked to give more than ten cents. This year Mrs. Woolfolk is hoping to raise enough from voluntary contributors of ten cents to keep another widow together with her"four children. Her drive begins Saturday. Students and fraternities have an op- portunity to contribute to a worthy enter- prise. The response last year was gratify- ing; let’s make this year’s response more so. 5 WOW COME ON ARKANSAS Come on Arkansas, bring on another Scope’s trial!!! December 6 was the date the new anti- evolution bill became law. And now what illegitimate children—diseased, half, clad, existing on corn meal and beans, alli - ’ I an opportunity Arkansas has in keeping her name before the eyes of the world. Oppor- tunity is knocking at her door, just as it did in the little east Tennessee town sev- eral years ago. The new legislation is considered an in- sult to the intellect. Many Arkansas teach- ers have voiced loud disaproval, and have repeatedly expressed their sentiments of ignoring the stupendous law altogether. No book which refers to evolution will be allowed in state schools. Webster’s dic- tionaries have been declared illegal, just as moonshine whiskey. Medical students are prohibited from using any book which re- lates to evolution of the human race. Pos- sibly doctors in Arkansas will not be allow- ed to attend babies, because it would nec- essitate a knowledge of adult-man in an em- bryonic state. Whatever the next step be, unless it be to repeal the sixteenth century act, Arkan- sas students seem prepared for many thrills. Wholesale “bootlegging of evolution” is ex- pected, human nature can stand so much. Some little country town in Arkansas has a bright opportunity to make future history for itself; so come on Arkansas, bring on another Scope’s trial. ____.____0____ THE THIRTEEN-MONTH YEAR In theory the 13-month year seems log- ical. In practice it would be economical, es- pecially in the field of business. According to the report of the special committee of the National Industrial Council on calendar simplifications, a strong sentiment among business men in favor of it is revealed by a questonaire sent out by Mr. George East- man. There would be under the plan pro- posed 13 months of 28 days each, a new month being inserted between June and July. Every month would begin on the same day. Knowing the date, one would know on what day of the week it fell; for always Sunday would be the first, the eighth, the fifteenth and the twenty—second. This may seem inconsequential. The great practical advantage would be that there would be un- varying unit of measurement in all opera- tions extending through years in which the time element is a factor, as in making pay- ments, in permitting exact comparisons, month by month, and thus taking another step toward scientific accuracy in business methods. It is not surprising that the scheme makes such a wide appeal in the realm of practical affairs. Sentiment opposes its adoption, that is, a sentiment against any change which would disturb dear traditions. What would happen to one’s birthday to which one clings with proud affection? And holidays? If Christmas no longer fell on the accustom- ed day, it would not be quite Christmas. The Fourth of July might, to be sure, be kept by introducng the new month between July and August; otherwise it would be the sixteenth of S01, or whatever name was given to the month (an intolerable as- sociation), unless, indeed, holding still to its name it was moved into what is now the month of August, a social adjustmnt which it would take a generation to make. Sentiment, personal and patriotic, and inertia——these are the forces that stand in the way of logic, convenience and added business efficiency. , If birthdays could be preserved in some way till all those born under the old cal- ‘ endar had passed away, their children nam- ling their birthdays under the new; and {then if some adjustment of national holi- ‘days could be made which would preserve the association they now have, business could have it LL/S way.——New York Times. MOM. The faculty to dream was not given to mock us. There is a reality back of it. There is a di- vinity behind our legitimate desires. By the desires that have divinity in them, we do not refer to the things that we want but turn to Dead Sea fruit on our lips or to ashes when eaten, but to the legitimate desires of the soul for realization of those ideals, the longing for full, complete self-expression, the time and opportunity for the weaving of the pattern shown in the moment of our highest transfiguration. A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the visoin of the rag-picker. RING-TUM PHI Early History , \ Campus Paper i Made Known Ring-tum Phi, Washington & Lee Paper Named After Football Yell (continued from page 1 five hundred dollars a year above expenses. Slogan Changed From Lincoln’s Gettysburg ad- dress, Farrar got the idea of his masthead slogan: “By the Students—For Students” About ten years later that slo- gan waschanged to: “By the Students—for the Uni- versity.” The paper has constantly ser- ved both sttudents and Univer- sity. When its editors decided the students would be better 0fl*' with- out the “two point grade slash” for each class absense they fought it and conquered it. When a Ring-Tum Phi editor became con- vinced once that Washington and Lee should change its athletic policy he waged an editorial war that resulted in the policy being changed next year. The first Ring-Tum Phis carried want ads. Here is one. “Found —Saturady morning in front of Dr. Howe’s, a shoe, number 3 1-2 C. Having a long tongue it is supposed to be of feminine gender, Gen R. E. M. Odd Advertising “Dropsy Cured” was included among the advertising ballyhoo flung in the readers faces from the front page. One tailoring company quoted Latin. Junta Juvant. . that might not go over to the more ignorant, ‘classically speaking, modern students. “Coca Cola all the winter thru,” advertised Gorrels Pharmancy, now McCrums. According to the public utility ads there were six- ty-eight telephones in Lexington. The first ten years the paper was four columns wide. Its headlines were as conservative as those of the present Rockbridge County News. Its reading matter was highly personalized. Per- sonals and write-ups of the lit- erary societies took up most of the space. Sports were played down, little space being given to them. ~ Paper Becomes Bi-Weekly About twenty years ago the paper had gone to a six- page instead of a four page regular edition. The editorial board met and decided to make the paper a bi-weekly, and so it has re- mained since. Later the paper went from four columns to five. In the fall of 1926, under the editorship of I. Lebow, the paper became six columns wide. This fall the paper went to seven columns. __M_0_____ PRESBYTERIAN SERVICES the Services at 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Sermons by Dr. James J. Murray. ray. Special Christmas music by quartet at evening service. MYERS HARDWARE CO. INC. MINNESOTA SENPO—R THROWN INTO JAIL AS RABID LUNATIC St. Paul Minn., police have agreed hereafter to leave cases of a psychological nature to the University of Minnesota authori- ties. Mirko P. Rudman, senior in the college of education, was ap- prehended by the twin-city police just as he was numbering the 2,- 664th plank on the High bridge in St. Paul. It was a clear case of insanity, the officers decided. In addition to Rudman’s peculiar action, an egg was found in his pocket. Somebody had called the police, “A man was on the bridge with a gun.” When the officers arrived they found Rudman on his hands and knees half way across the span and watched him write the number 2,664 on the ,664th plank. “He’s cracked all right,” the police muttered as they bundled him into their patrol wagon. “Crazy,” Captain G. N. Gates wrote on the docket. “Hold investigation.” The investigation was over with when they found a slip in his pocket marked, “Hell Week In- structions.” ctions. He was just a fraternity pledge. ________o___: Byron Eby, Ohio State halfback during the past football season, opened his professional career Sunday at Redland Field Cincin- nati. He played half for the Cin- cinnati National Guards against the Middletown Armcos. The game ended in a tie. Eby was unable to get away for any substantial gains, but provd himself a very valuable ad- dition to the Guard team from a defensive standpoint. Foxs IHNE FOOD W. J. THOMAS Meat Market iQuality and Service Phones 81 and 288 Established Incorporated 1865 1907 CUTLERY—RAZORS GUNS ‘ BROWN’S do not need; we do not refer to the desires that * Cleaning Works Phone 282 ~ I53-65 S..Main St. PAGE’S Meat Market Phones 126 and 426 White Denies He Recommended School Closing University Physician Says He Does Not Think Case Severe (continued from page 1 gained normal temperature. Doc- tor White is advising discharged patients to remain in bed or in- doors at least two days after leaving the hospital. There is danger of pneumonia developing from influenza if precautions are ont taken. The treatment of colds with aspirin and soda is advised as an effective safety measure. Those Discharged The following men have been discharged since Friday noon: K. M. Smith, Merle Suter, H. M. Tardy, Elliott Mackle, Joe Mel- ton, Haven Walton, Richard Coe,l R. Bishop, W. Steuchell, Ed Nichols, R. W. Phillips, C. A. Sydney, R. C. Maclain, J. J. Cook, and Charles Blake. Now in the hospital are Mac- Glashan, Leslie, Jones, Porter, Nanny, Heaps, De Montluzun, Lewis, Morgan, Parker, §\Iartin,, alker, Armour and Shackleford. These men will probably be re- leased within the next few days. ———0 Forty thousand special delivery letters were received by students at the University of Oklahoma last year. ' W einberg’s Music Shop Lexington, Virginia Opposite New Theatre VIC TOR and COLUMBIA AGENCY VICTOR Releases date Friday each week.’ COLUMBIA — 10, 20, 30th each month. Rockbridge Hardware Co., Inc. DESK LAMPS, LIGHT BULBS, WASTE BASKETS, ALARM CLOCKS SUBWAY KITCHEN, Inc. By Students—For Students 1'L\€],!i %L!l_\€_’il_\§2!!,\1Z!!_kW0 _4!,\0/_s"2,v_le.\9/,ll,&??/.s‘2'.V .1!_1:,!%,\'9j:i,\92s2,v,!l %‘ €!l.‘?";1l\.V’ ,_‘s:‘_Vill_\9i!ll- A ’ K'.3?.’i~‘! " ‘S911$2!ILQQLQIILQIlifllfliitkflllfiéll2&9:lfltfiilleflélkfillikfitfiilifiiéEkflflflflkflitkflfikflslkfl‘ General Headquarters “Capt. Dick Smith” ’13 Hot Ebert, ’29 The New Comer Store, Inc. fl3‘iII(3\'1JENi@V%NFZiV*Zfiliiiliifllifiiii‘iifK1Il7@‘7liHlrZ5l‘9Kiili’A' '0'-I1-1. '.’.|'l5'rIiI'/{WI ./LII?"-37"/A‘ii‘@"\l5'/_I\'1"73WW5"i"5?§l4‘/F‘l‘i1'i??N AI'i"»$'lI'/fl\iiZa‘\<'.“3'iiizfi‘ 6| ‘..5'§'ll"é'1'.lF'fa""f:i\"TI'/&Vfl§l.5 McCOY’S THREE STORES FRUITS, CANDIES, CAKES And all good thing to eat R. 1.. HESS & Bro. Watchmakers and Jewelers Keys Made, Typewriters Re- paired Next Door to Lyric Theatre THE MODEL Barber Shop Opposite Rockbridge National Bank HUGH A. WILLIAMS, Proprietor é Attention Managers of Fraternity Houses We have coal that will burn Phone us your orders Harper & Agnor, _ Inc. “The Fuel People” Our mental attitude, our heart’s desire, is our J A C K S O N ’ S The Barber Shop With a Conscience Opposite New Theatre NELSON STREET Nuff Said 1863 1927 perpetual prayer which Nature answers. She takes it for granted that we desire what we are headed toward, and she helps us to it. People little re- alize that their desires are their perpetual prayers —-not head prayers, but heart prayers-—and that they are granted.’ Most people do not half realize how sacred a thing a legitimate ambition is. What is this eter- nal urge, the push in the great force within us, which is perpetually prodding us to do our best and refuses to accept our second best.-Orison Swett Marden. ___._0__.___.. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the Great Man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.—Emerson. I SERVICE OUR MOTTO If you want that job in a hurry—-—bring it to Acme Print Shop First Nat’l Bank Bldg. Phone 146 ROCK BRIDGE Central Cafe New, Modern Soda Foun- tain Phone 176 J. Zimmerman Lexington, Va. Steam Laundry The Wife Saving Station PHONE 185 , Graduate Optician Rbgistered Optometrist ‘t A good shoe to ask for by name—MONTROSS There is style No longer need the well- SIIOCI nun pay the price of out-oi’-date production mctliods. Inefficiency is outmoded. Modern methods enable John ‘Vania to lead in qual- ity, in style, yet sell for dollars less I , Buy your next pair here —at seven and nine dollars! Qgeikvma m.en’.s 5 oes INCORPORATED .—-2 REG. U.5.'?AT. err. bea- *“"‘~'--—.<9— Vvfrna .....~,.‘,,..,. .,__, in the prices, too.’ ff STETSON D SHOP John Ward Stores in New York - Brooklvn - Newark and Phkidelphia -an-up. . --—~.——.....- __ Showing At Robt. E . Lee Hotel Building Lexington, Va. ; was. i 5.’ I OCR::/Vol_033/WLURG39_RTP_19281215/WLURG39_RTP_19281215_003.2.txt RING-TUM PHI l. C.TPr§ident Says Leadership Still in Colleges L. A. Downs Says Public Still Looks to College Trained Men (Continued from page one) the lack of informed leadership has militated against them. It is not too much, therefore, for the railroads to ask of college and university students something more than merely a casual inter- est in railway affairs, for no other public service in our coun- try is more intimately and vitally connected with the welfare of ev- ery individual than is the service the railroads perform. Railroad, Service Railway service permeates prac- tically every commodity in gen- eral use.. The printed paragraph you are reading is made possible by the union of ink and paper that undoubtedly have travelled many miles by rail to get togeth- er in their present state. The printing press which united them likewise made a rail journey, while the raw materials represent- ed in the prfctd ink, paper and ed in the perfcted in, paper and aggregate thousands of miles. The component parts of any meal you eat may have been assembled by rail from half a dozen states, and so the story goes on for all the things a person may W931‘, the house he lives in, the fuel that heats it—railway transportation is represented in them all. How vitally important it is, then, that so essential a service should be rendered at as reason- able a price as may be consistent with the just costs of production of the service, including fair pay for the workers engaged in it and an adequate reward for the capital that the machinery repre- sents. Problems of Adjustments Problems involving just such adjustments in railway affairs are of frequent occurrence, and because of our system of public regulation of the railroads there is a constant need for public de- cision concerning such problems or at least concerning the general principles under which they are to be worked out. Upon such ques- tions the college or university graduate should be prepared to pass if'he is to take his proper place as a participant in modern life. It is, of course, too much to expect every educated man to know all the details relating to railway transportation, for many of us who have given our lives to its study have not mastered them all, but he sould be expected to apply to the solution of such questions that reasoning faculty, that ability to grasp principles and to separate the false from from the true, which should be the crowning glory of an educat- ed man. Prior to Graduation Prior to graduation the stu- dent’s practical interest in rail- way transportation usually con- cerns itself with such things as passenger service to and from school, at vacations and for foot- ball games, the moving of bag- gage, the carrying of mail, and so on. After graduation, on the other hand, his practical interest should‘ cover, to a greater or less degree, all phases of the subject. should become’ acquainted, for ex- ample, with freight service, which usually provides the rail- roads with threo—fourths of operating revenues. learn something of the organiza- tion behind it all, and of the du-p owe I each other, in addition to thosci ties owners and employes they jointly owe the public, which buys their products and thus re- wards them both. He should learn something also’ of the competition of other means of transportation ' and of their possible effect upon the essential services which the railroads render. In thus becoming acquainted with railway affairs, the college or university graduate will find that as a citizen of’ the country he has 3 twofold interest in trans- portation: first, the interest of the individual in the relationship of transportation to the particular activity in which he is engaged; second, the interest of a citizen in the relationship to society as a whole. 'Most perplexing of all, he may sometimes find that his duty in the second case may seem to conflict with his duty in the first, as when the beneficiary of some artificially depressed trans- portation rate—such as, say, a shipper doing business solely along an inland waterway——comes to realize that the benefit he is He , their? , He should Clemson College Bows to Influenza Clemson College ‘has added its name to the long list of schools that have had to close on account of the present epidemic of influ- enza. On the the advice of the college physicians, the president of the college issued a proclama- tion on December 10 giving t e cadets a leave of absence until January 2. ______.o__m Parking tags have been issued to the car owners of the Uni- verstiy of Cincinnati who live in the dormitory. Parking spaces on the campus are designated by numbers to correspond to num- bers on the parking tags. Here- tofore no cars were allowed on the campus during football or basketball games. reaping is made at the general ex- pense or even that shippers at in- terior points have to pay increas- ed rates for transportation in or- der that he may pay less. Difficult of Solution Such a case is obviously one difficult of solution, and only the citizen grounded in economics and fully informed as to facts—as the college or. university graduate should be——is in the proper posi- tion to pass upon it. As a railway man, it seems to me that the development of rail- way transportation needs to be better understood by our people in its two most significant as- pects: first, the development in physical properties and operating methods; second, the causes and effects of changing public policy toward the railroads. Present-day problems of railway administra- tion partake of both these phases. Concerning the first-named phase, ‘physical development, there is need of constant modernization and expansion of railway facili- ties to meet the transportation re- quirements of our growing popu- lation; there is also need of con- stant improvements and better- ments to make it possible for the service of transportation to be produced more cheaply. Second-Named Phase Concerning the second-named phase, public policy toward the railways, there is need of an in- telligent, constructive public opin- ion that will hold railway regu- lation in that path of progress and make secure the future of our country, as dependnt upon the esesntial service the railroads per- form. In both these phases, capable and well-informed public leader- ship is an essential thing. As a university graduate, I have had reason to know the in- fluence which the educated man can wield if he only has the will [Hawkins Makes Tackle on All- South Atlantic Next Year’s Captain Only W. & L. Man On First String (Continued from page 1) "Close of Virginia, and Spear of V. P. I. The selections are as follows: First team pos. School Flippin Virginia Bailey V. P. I. Vaughn N. C. S. Schwartz North Car. Farris North Car. Hawkins W. & L. Sapp" North Car. Sloan Virginia Peake V. P. I. Barnes V. M. I. Snyder Maryland School V.M.I. W&L VPI Md. ‘Md. Va. Md. Md. N.C. Va. RH Pos. LE LT LG C RG RT RE QB LH RH Second Team Scott Fitzpatrick Hotchkiss Madigan Crothers Luke Dodson Kessler Ward Close White FB W&L Honorable Mention: Spear, V. P. I., Hasse, VMI, Hewlett, VMI., Brown, VPI., Metts, N.C.State, Howard, N. C., Jordan, N.C. State, Warren, N.C. tate, Gray VPI. to do so, and I have likewise seen’ any number of instances in which this call to wholly unselfish pub- lic service has been disregarded or misused. It is my hope-—and I speak as one interested in the success 0% universities as well as of railroa s—that the public lead- ership of ‘the future may be re- garded as not only the privilege but the duty of the educated man. In rendering such a service he but repays in part the debt he owes society, which trained him. QUALITY AND SERVICE Special Dinners 50c 12 noon to 9 p.m. Meal Tickets R. E. Lee COFFEE SHOP ALEXANDER THELEN, Mgr. ) LYONS TAILORING C0’S. Wishes to announce the arrival of their Fall and Winter Woolens FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC—— Now is the time to see about ypur Fall Suit! Our Clothes Speak For Themselves! Opp. Court House Fashion Park M icliciel—S terns Charter H osue SUITS and OVERCOATS and California- Weight TOP-COA Ts J. Ed Deaver& Sons “Courteous, Conscientious Service” Phone 25 / Initiation of . “13” Club Held on December 13 The “13” Club initiated Thurs- day night at 7 :30 in Washington College.This club is purely social. Its activities consist of one dance during the Easter holidays, and initiation of 13 men from the Jun- ior class every year; pledging them on November 13 and putt- ing them through on December 13. ‘ ' According to Bill Harrington, they will hold a banquet and din- ner dance the evening before the “13” Club dance at Easter. The following men were initiat- ed: Roby Sutherland, Bill Haw- kins, Bill Plummer, Stanley Ham- pton, Harvey illiams, Dick Ham- ilton, Leland Logan, Ernie Wood, Tom Atwood, Campbell Banks, Jake Dorman, Beverly Lambert and Al Steves. 0 The “spy clause” in the honor system of the University of Tex- as has been abolished by the un- animous consent of the student body. Formerly it was required of the honor system that students report all fellow students seen cheating in addition to taking the pledge that they had neither re- ceived or given help during the examination. Now the pledge is all that is required. Richmond Scene of Masonic Meet Doctor Brown, National Sec- retary to Attend; Local Lodge Initiates (Continued from page one) al Historian, Fred M. Davis, of Lynchburg, Va. The Masters degree team of the local Square conferred Master Ma- son degrees on two candidates at the Mountain City Lodge here last Thursday night, December 13. The men are: S. T. Hatton and G. P. Hatton, both residents of Lexington. On Tuesday of the previous week, December 4th, three men were initiated intp the local Square; two of these candidates, D. Brainard Kirby, and J. Ar- lington Painter, are students at the University here, and the third, Major Samuel F. Heflin, an officer at the Virginia Military Institute. Palace Barber Shop First Class Service in a San- itary Way Located in 1 ROBERT E. LEE HOTEL You will want to send and mail any date you be over. ‘Vr1"rY‘1I"rr‘r‘rr'r7?~r'r'~r?~r*r =:x4Aa;;s;1-x v==??7?1:?.???7??:7.v We Are Now Booking Orders.For Best Girl. Let us book your order. We will pack Whitman’s Christmas Candy RlCE’S DRUG STORE Opposite New Theatre i . ..77—.--.7;-7:::r7e::;?7.__ a box to your Mother or say— Your troubles will I .5 L.‘_iLi.1.i.i.3.‘-{.3-%.l".L.|.A!..L.L' Meet Your Equipment LEXINGTON POOL co. 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Inca-vounn OCR::/Vol_033/WLURG39_RTP_19281215/WLURG39_RTP_19281215_004.2.txt Page 4 THE RING-TU M PHI All-Opponent Teams Picked By Generals Princeton and Florida Place Two Each on First Team Crabtree and Steele of Florida, Howe of Princeton, Peake of V. P.I., and McEver of Tennessee were unanimous choices for the all-opponent team which has been picked by players, managers, and others who have seen the Gen- erals in action a number of times this year. There was little variation in the choice of linemen, but with the exception of the three unani- mous choices, the votes for the backfield were scattered among tight ball carriers. Snyder of Maryland managed to nose out over Stump and Keefer of West Virginia by a narrow margin, while Bennett of Princeton, Cov- ington of Kentucky and Hackman of Tennessee also came in for considerable mention. The first and second all-Op- ponent teams, based on the size of the vote they polled are as follows: First Team Vansickle, Fla. Brewster, W. Va. Steele Fla. Howe, Princeton Vaughn N. C. State Bailey, V. P. I. Lawler, Princeton Crabtree, Fla. McEver, Tenn. Peake, VPI Snyder, Md. Second Team Flippin, Virginia Drury, Kentucky Forquer, Kentucky Brown, V. P. I. Meisel, W. Va. Thayer, Tenn. Dodson, Maryland tumpp, W. Va. Covington, Kentucky Bennett, Princeton Geefer, W. Va.. :___o____ RICE PLACES PUND ON ALL-AMERICAN TEAM PICKED FOR COLLIER’S LE LT LG C RG RT RE QB LH RH FB LE LT LG C RG RT RE QB LH RH FB New York, Dec. 14.——-Collier’s Weekly gave out today for pub- lication its all-American football team, selected by Grantland Rice. The team includes six players from the East, three from the‘ Middle West and one each from the South and Far West, in ad- dition to which three utility men are named. The selections follow: End—Fesler, Ohio State. Tackle-—Getto, Pittsburg. Guard——Post, Stanford. Center—-—Pund, Georgia Tech. Guard—Bur-ke, Navy. Tackle—-Pommerening, Mich. End——Haycraft, Minnesota. Quarter—Harpster, Carnegie T. Halfback-—Cagle, Army. Halfback—Scull, Penn. Fullback—Strong, N. Y. U. Utility Back——Brazil, Detroit Utility Lineman——Douds, W&J. Utility End—Vansickle, Florida. / AGNOR BROS. Successors to W. Harry Agnor Staple and Fancy Groceries Phones 86 and 76 eatre Progm 1&1 LYRIC THEATRE Saturday, Dec. 15 Jacquelin Logan “STOCKS & BLONDES” Stan Laurel-Oliver Hardy “EARLY TO BED” NEW THEATRE Monday, Dec. 17 Tuesday, Dec. 18 Lew Cody Aileen Pringle “A SINGLE MAN” with Marceline Day AMONG THE BOOKS “Jingling In the Wind,” Eliza- beth Madox Roberts, The Viking Press, N. Y. C. The poet tries to present an emotion, he attempts to create an effect. He is content to make us feel and realize. He plays on us with words as a musician pulls the stops in an organ. There is no attempt at explanation or clarification. Frequently the re- sult is bewilderment, followed by questions and tumbled thoughts. We are troubled. Our minds are befuddled. The poet cares not a whit for this sad condition, in which he has placed us. Untthink- ingly he flits on, leaping from one high pitch of emotion, from one twitching combination, to another and another. The poet is a roman- ticist, he is unmaterial, he doesn’t care about life so long as he may gaze at women and stars and other things of beauty. When a person leaves his own field of work to labor in another there is either ‘a reason or a wreck. Jack Dempsey is even a better fighter than an actor. Eliz- abeth Roberts is a better poet than a realist. In her latest book she attempts poetic realism, soils her hands, and cries child- ishly for relief. Relief comes from tired fairies and talking spi- ders, as well as an Irish snake who deplores the cruelty of an alleged Saint with inhibitions. The snake belongs to neither Thomas Heflin nor Mayor homp- son. Jeremy is the hero, and Jere- my is a Rain-maker. Here Miss Roberts attains originality of subject matter, and opens a new though rather limited field for romance. Jeremy says he takes his science seriously, yet he is a poet in soul. He has fairy companions and talks to his in- ner self while consuming mar- ' vellous quantities of buckwheat xzcakes. But these fairies have 'ugly names and bad manners, ‘and falls in love they leave him. -This may be forgetfullness on the ‘part of Miss Roberts, or the fair- ;ies,- one dosn’s know which. At ‘any rate Jeremy is very sad and leaves a parade in his honor to talk to a very wise and sophisti- cated spider. He decides to start the revolt of man against the domination of woman, and to that end sends a note calling his love to him. She comes, and the book ends. The attempt to mix realism and romanticism results in the failure to acheive either. The poetry and the fairies are weak and out of place, far below the wandlike strokes of Donn Byrne. The real- ism is timid and half-formed, to- of Sherwood Anderson or Sinclair Lewis. Miss Roberts should avoid the pitfall which has snared so many of her kind. She should take warning from Eugene O'Neill, who hos spoiled a good poet to make a second-rate psychologist. The originality in Miss Ro- bert’s book is negligible. Origin- ality has nothing to do with art. The plot is poorly fashioned. Loose ends are multifarious. The Chaucerian tales are amusing, as is the exchange of presents be- tween the lovers. In fact the whole thing is rather amusing, but trivial and unedifying. “Jingling In the Wind” adds little to Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ reputation or credit. “The time of Man” is still her best work. “Jingling in The Wind” has been received by the University Library and has been placed on the student’s bookshelf. C0-EDS SNUBBED Coeds in universities and col- leges of Australia have no social standing with the males that lord it over their institutions of high- er learning, so declares N. C. L. Nelson, leader of the debate team of the University of Sidney, which recently opened its American tour at the College of the Pacific. The Australian team will debate the university squad some time in December. “In classes the front of the room is separated from the rear by a bar or rail,” Mr. Nelson ex- plains, “and the coeds sit in the front leaving the back of the room to the men.” Neither do the men pay any attention to the college women on the campus and it is seldom that a college man would think of “dating” a college girl or having anything to do with her in a so- cial way, Nelson continued. ___:.0__._.__ CAMPUS SOCIETY IS UNDER SUSPENSION Ann Arbor, Mich. Dec. 15- The committee on student affairs of the University of Michigan to- day placed Sphinx, junior honor- ary society, under suspension, fol- lowing an investigation of charges that liquor was used in connection with a recent initiation ceremony in which three students were scalded. The committee also passed a re- solution providing that no cam- pus society may hold a public in- itiation without written permis- sion from the dean of students. Rapp Motor Co. Handling Wrecks a Specialty Tire Service, Gas & Oil Phone 532 GOOD PRINTING AND NO OTHER « At The County News JOB OFFICE STUDEN'l"S PRINTING IN- VITED Opposite Presbyterian Sunday School Room, Main St. LIBRARY NOTICE In the rush to get away for Christmas holidays sometimes borrowers neglect to return bor- rowed books to the library. To protect the library against loss of books and to protect the stu- dent frbm having to pay a fine incident thereto, I am asking that books he returned to the Library by Tuesday, December 18th, by those students who are leaving Lexington that week. Blanche Prichard McCrum, brarian. ' Li- Fraternities We Solicit your patronage Welsh & Hutton Phones 192 and 144 CENTRAL BARBER SHOP Located Central Hotel Skilled Barbers and San- . itary Service HARLOW'S PRINTSHOP No. 17 JEFFERSON ST. FOR THE BEST PRINTING SPECIAL A Good I.-P. Student Note Book for 300-—Filler 10¢ London Man Gives Cool Tip Smokers Here London, England 30th December, 1927 Larus & Bro. Co., Richmond, Va.., U. S. A. Gentlemen: ' As my Christmas present I pur- :hased for myself a pound of Y0l1T_t°' bacco (Edgewo ‘ti ) in V; lb. flat tins. This morning on the train I met a man with whom I am only slightly acquaint- ed, and filling my me proguced you’ tin,at which he exclaimed: I am nota pipe smoker, but occasionally have a try in that direction and I consider that the tobacco in your hand is the finest made.” _ , . I am in entire agreement with I118 statement. Yours faithfully, J. J. Mason Edgcwortli Extra High Grade Smoking Tobacco ‘and when Jeremy goes to the city V tally unlike the virile disillusion. Lyle is Named Head of Local Kiwanis Club Two Washington and Lee Professors Executives of Club Two Washington and Lee pro- fessors will direct the destiny of the Lexington Kiwanis club for the iiext year. Dr. W. T. Lyle was elected president of the club and Dr. J. L. Howe was chosen trustee at the organiza- tion’s regular weekly meeting Thursday night at the Dutch Inn. Doctor Lyle and Doctor Howe are Civil Engineering school, while Doctor Howe dean of the school of applied science. Both Doctor Llye and Dr. Howe are listed in Who”s Who in Amer- ica for 1928-’29. Doctor Lyle was born in Uti- ca, N. Y., on January 10, 1875, and graduated from the Newark is academy in 1892. He received his C. E. degreesfrom Princeton ‘in 1896. Since his graduation ,he has been employed as: engi- neer with Essex county park com- imission; assistant professor of ci- ivil engineering at the Universtiy of Pennsylvania; professor of municipal engineering at Lafay- Iette college; engineer for Taylor- Wharton Iron and Steel company; lecturer at Rice institute in Hous- ton, Texas; and head of the civil engineering department at Wash- ington and Lee since 1921. He is 2. Phi Beta Kappa, Lambda Chi Alpha, director of the Lexington Chamber of Commerce, shriner, and newly elected president of the Lexington Kiwanis Club. Doctor Howe was born in New- buryport, Mass., on August 4, 1859. He received his A. B. at Amherst in 1880 and his Ph. D. at Gottingen (Germany.). He was awarded an honary M. D. by OUR NEW CUBS J. ‘W. Barger J. W. Clopton T. P. Doughty G. N. Nunn D. G. Price D. M. Price W. V. Rucker the Hospital College of Medecine, Louisville, Ky., 1886. He has been professor of chemistry at Central university; scientist and lecturer at the Polytechnic so- ciety of Kentucky; since 1894 pro- Lfessor and head of the chemistery [department of Washington and Lee; and since 1921 dean of the school of applied science at Wash- lngton and Lee. Doctor Howe is a member of several chemical societies, and is considered one of the world’s greatest experts on platinum. In 1917 he was appointed as a mem- ber of the special committee on platinum for national research. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa,‘ Delta Kap- pa Epsilon, Shriner, and newly e- lected trustee of the Lexington Kiwanis club. He is the author of five chem-I istry books, two of which deal principally with platinum. 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