The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-11


 the Alabama Polytechnic institute at Au- burn. perhaps the most distinguishing feature is praeticability-wha Dr. C. C. Thach. president, is pleased to call con structive work"
 Auburn graduates have come to a real ization that when they graduate it does not only mean the end of school, but the be ginning of work. Hundreds of Auburn men step right from the college halls into positions of trust and honor. It is averred that today of the men who are doing things" in Alabama and the south. the great majority are Auburn men-leaders in agriculture, in industry. in commerce, in science. Hundreds of these Auburn trained men are connected with the great mining and industrial activities of the Bir- migham district The assertion is made that there actually is a demand for Au- burn grads which is larger than each year can be filled.
 Jefferson county not only has the largest number of students attending Auburn of any county in the state, but the true Bir- mingham spirit is evidenced in the ad- mirable corps of Birmingham boys who are working their way through the col
 ege-boys who are illustrative of the great spirit of democracy which everywhere seems to pervade Auburn
 These boys already have tackled lifes problems with an energy that bespeaks much for the future. Who they are and whac they are doing to pay their college expenses is as follows:
 T.. A. Allen, senior, assistant in wireless telegraphy.
 F G shoes. junior, power plant assis- tant.
 L. P. sweatt, senior, power house en- gineer.
 II. l. Cook. freshman. stenosrap pher dean of engineering.
 J. S Burbage. freshman, secretary reg istrar's office.
 V. J. Douglass. Junior assistant to the registrar.
 c. A. Basore, post gradute. assistant in metallurgy (scholarship). A E. Hayes, junior, file clerk agricul- tural department,
 Theodore Roosevelt of fame, fuss and fortune Monday evening passed through Auburn-unheralded
 The little college town, completely ab- sorbed in the pleasures and settlements Of it's annual commencement, did not even know that the Jess Willard of the po- litical ring was anywhere near. The press of the state, with one exception. made no mention of the great presence within the borders of Alabama and the newspaper that did carry the item ap- parently was economizing space.
 Next morning the station agent re- marked to a neighbor that d citizen of oyster Bay had passed through the pre- vious evening en route to New Orleans. ani that not soul had been at the station to shout acclaim, although the train stopped some minutes. That so? said the neighbor. absent mindedly, as he went on brushing his ] clothes before dressing for the senior ora torical contest.
 The militia officers of the state of Ala bama confidently expect war with Mex ico within the next few weeks
 All plans for invading the land of cac- tus, deserts and revolutions had been made and the mobiizing of the army i started some several months ago, wher United States battleships still floated or the waters of Vera Cruz bay. This was learned from high officers of the Alabama militia in Auburn during commencement week. The belief was ex-
 pl essed when the resignation of Bryar
 was heard of that the invasi plans
 abandoned several months ago would now
 b. taken up and carried out within g short time.
 The statement was made that the mobil
 ization of the army and plans for estab ! lishment of a school in statecraft 1T l Nit xico-the first few lessons of whicf
 might have to be administered with rifle ] balls--were ordered abandoned when the wife of President Wilson died. i Friction between the President and Sec | retary of State is supposed to have had its n a an Ina rasi i dents decision at this time to go ahead with invasion plans, which undoubtedly l were opposed by Bryan was the begin ming of the end
 With the sudden death of the White House mistress, however, the ,viden l strain under which the President was la boring over his differences of opinion witt i MT. Bryan must have proved too much At any rate, the militia officer stated ht learned from good authority that upor l the Presidents return from Mrs. Wilson's 1 funeral at Rome. Ga. he ordered the plans abandoned and reports of their ex- ! istenee did not leak out until two or three months later.
 1 Dr. Daniel Harvey Hill, IL. D.. presi 1 dent of South Carolina Agricultural anC
 Mechanical college at Raleigh, who was l the commencement orator at Aubutn this week, is a good story teller. 1 He relates that once Senator Smith was sitting certain college in England and
 as the senator was strolling on the cam 1 pus one fine morning he chanced 10 meet
 a student of the institution whose ap.
 pearanee plainly showed that something more than a college course would bt necessary to insure for him a brilliant ] career. The student, it appears, wa.