1941-02-25 The Plainsman

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"AUBURN---the friendliest college in the United States"
ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, FEBRUARY 25, 1941 NO. 44
Revised Cut System
Now Being Enforced
Absences Incurred Prior to Yesterday
Will Not Count Against Cut Quota
The new cut quota regulations went into effect yes­terday
morning at eight, according to an announcement
by Executive Secretary Ralph B. Draughon. Any absence
incurred before this date this semester will not be charged
against the student quota.
The new limitation on cuts is the major change in the
class attendance rulings. Deans' Lists will still be in ef­fect,
and will be announced at an early date.
The reduced number of cuts
allowed students was put into ef­fect
because of the mass absences
during the two semesters under
the former cut system. It was the
opinion of the faculty that the
leniency of this system was re­sponsible
for the increased num­ber
of failures during this period.
Instructors will now keep an
accurate record of absences, but
will not report these to the regis­trar
until the student quota for
any one class has been exceeded.
Instructors may require a stu-
"dent to make up any work missed
during an excused absence. With
these exceptions, the new system
is almost identical with that used
the past two semesters.
POP Holds Pledge
Service for Two
Pledges Thursday
Psi chapter of Phi Omega Pi
held formal pledge service last
Thursday for new pledges, Mar-jorie
Lois Lee, sophomore in home
economics from Birmingham, and
Emma Jean Vick, freshman in
home ec from Fayette.
Mattybelle Tabor, president of
the sorority, was in charge of the
service. She was assisted by Lil­lian
Thrower, Marion Fitch, and
Martha D. Vest. After the serv­ice,
an informal gathering was
enjoyed by the entire sorority.
Annual Interscholastic Track,
Field Meet Will Be At Auburn
Go-To-Church Month Begins Sunday;
Contest Sponsored by YMCA and YWCA
RABBI MYRON SILVERMAN
"The Jew in the Modern World"
is the subject of an address to be
delivered in Auburn by Rabbi Sil­verman,
of Birmingham, Tuesday
evening, 8:15 p.m., March 4, in
the auditorium at Ross Chemical
Laboratory.
The lecture is free to the pub­lic
and students and townspeople
are invited to attend. The Rabbi's
visit to Auburn is sponsored by
the Jewish Chautauqua Society of
Cincinnati, Ohio, in cooperation
with the Auburn International Re­lations
Club. Rabbi Silverman is
an outstanding scholar and lec­turer.
'All Work and No Play' Doesn't Apply
To NYA Boys; Recreation Provided For
New P l a y g r o u n d Nears
Completion; Small Gym
Planned In Clubhouse
By BILL ROWE
Mr. A. C. Allen, who has
charge of the National Youth Ad­ministration
at API, informs us
that the NYA boys of this school
are building a new playground
out Graves Center way. It seems
that the boys will now have a
swell chance to play tennis, bas­ketball,
volleyball, badminton, and
games such as softball when spring
rolls around.
One of the cabins is to be made
into a clubhouse where the NYA
boys can study after ten at night,
when the lights are turned off in
the other cabins. The clubhouse
will be provided with ping-pong
tables and will have a punching
bag and other equipment that goes
to make up a small gymnasium.
Mr. Allen further stated that
the NYA boys of Auburn are go­ing
through a stage of self-im­provement
and will have a regular
session of calisthenics every morn­ing.
The lads are 120 in number,
and have to have a physical ex­amination
before becoming a
member of America's extensive
NYA program. The men have a
daily schedule of work in the
morning and school during after­noon,
or vice versa, and some of
the boys have night classes for
two or three hours. The boys are
taken care of by the college in­firmary
in case of sickness or in­jury.
All NYA boys study some
course as prescribed under Na-
Dubberly Named
IRC Delegate
Will Attend Conference
In Tallahassee, Fla.
Charles Dubberley, junior in
mechanical engineering from Tal-lassee,
was selected Thursday by
the local International Relations
Club as its delegate to the division­al
conference in Tallahassee, Flor­ida,
to be held Feb. 28 through
March 2.
Dubberley is vice-president of
IRC, a varsity debater, and a mem­ber
of Tau Kappa Alpha, honor­ary
debating fraternity.
The Southeastern Conference of
International Relations Clubs is
held annually in a city chosen by
the council and* delegates are sent
by all the clubs in the division.
Lecturers and journalists of note
come to address the meetings and
to lead discussions on important
phases of international affairs.
tional Defense Program; they
study such courses as welding,
sheet-metal work, and aeronauti­cal
engineering, being taught in
the college shops by college pro­fessors,
and others who can fit
their schedule to that of the NYA
students. All the NYA boys in
Auburn have high-school educa­tions'.
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Helping Mr. Allen in this NYA
work is a young man by the name
of Preston C. Bennett of Selma
who is going to direct the boys
in their line of athletics. Mr. Ben­nett
reports that the NYA boys
are to have a team in the intra­mural
softball league, and he will
attempt to develop some classy
boxers.
At present the NYA boys are
engaged in" beautifying our al­ready
beautiful campus. Some of
the work. in which they are en­gaged
is the building of a retain­ing
wall around the stadium, work
in the Quadrangle, and they are
also building a log cabin for the
Boy Scouts of Auburn.
NYA boys at Auburn are paid
$30 a month, and they pay $18
of this for rooms and board, for
insured medical attention, for
laundry, etc. This leaves the boys
about $12 a month to spend as
they like.
Their daily schedule is a vigor­ous
and busy one. They roll out
at 5:30 a.m., breakfast at 6, make
their beds, and sweep out before
they go to work or class at 6:45.
Studies or work compose a full
day, except for an hour or so that
is actually leisure, but fortunate­ly,
there is less studying for them
than for most regular students,
because most of their work is in
actual experience.
Frosh Cagers Close
At Opelika Tonight
• The Auburn freshmen put the
lid on a successful cage season
tonight as they tackle Opelika
High School in the Opelika Gym.
Up to last night's struggle with
Lanier the frosh had won 17
games while losing but six. Most
recent win was that over South­ern
Junior College of Wadley Fri­day
night by a 22-21 score.
The rat quintet, coached by
Publicity Director Elmer Salter,
had been defeated but once be­fore
a road trip of two weeks ago
proved destructive to the near-perfect
record to the extent of
four defeats in five games;
Season figures, which will be
available after tonight's game,
will be published in a future
edition of the Plainsman, togeth­er
with a complete record of the
team's accomplishments.
Interfrat Council
To Hold Annual
Ball Friday Night
Mary Jane Phillips
Will Lead Affair With
Council President
The Interfraternity Council will
hold its annual ball Friday night
in Graves Center with the Auburn
Knights playing for the occasion.
An announcement to this effect
was made last week by Thomas
Schuessler, publicity chairman of
the council, and since then, plans
have been under way for a gala
evening.
Reigning over this affair will
be Miss Mary Jane Phillips, of
Birmingham, who will lead the
dance with R. T. Young, III,
president of the Interfrat Council.
Miss Phillips is a sophomore in the
School of Science and Literature.
The formal is given annually
for the members of the council
and ten members of each frater­nity.
Bids include the president,
the council representative, and
the ten members according to sen­iority
from each fraternity. Each
of these members may take a
date.
Cup Given for Best
Attendance; SPE and
Delta Zeta Won Last
The annual Go-to-Church Month
sponsored each year by YMCA
and YWCA will begin Sunday,
March 2, and continue for five
weeks from that date.
The contest is held each year,
and a cup is given td the frater­nity
and sorority having the best
attendance record, based on per­centage
averages, for church serv­ices
throughout the contest.
Last year's fraternity cup was
won by SPE, wii;h an. average of
93.2 per cent. Delta Zeta led the
sororities with 94 per cent at­tendance.
All fraternities and sororities
desiring to compete this year are
asked to get in touch with Mohns
Thornton, YMCA president, and
to give him a list of active mem­bers
and pledges. He may be
reached at 135 Tichenor Avenue,
or called at 505.
Society News Must
Be Given Society
Editor of Paper
The society editor of the Plains­man
is Mary Dean French. She
can be reached at Dormitory 3.
She will do her best to get the
dope on all social happenings
about the campus, but all organi­zations
are hereby warned that
Miss French takes no responsibili­ty
for the non-appearance of any
stories unless the organizations
sponsoring the affair communi­cate
news of same to her. Pub­licity
chairmen of fraternities and
sororities are therefore asked to
get in touch with our society edit­or
whenever they want mention of
their society functions in the
Plainsman. We will try to handle
material phoned in to the office,
but we much prefer that you give
such news to Miss French.
Nineteen Pledged by
Sororities Last Week
Kappa Delta Leads With Five, Alpha
Cam Second; Delta Zeta and Chi O Next
Event Will Be Held
In Stadium April 5
To Be First of Yearly Events for State
Schools; Winners Will Receive Awards
By JOHN PIERCE
Coach Wilbur Hutsell yesterday announced that an
annual track meet for statewide interscholastic competi­tion
had been arranged for Auburn Stadium, with the
first meet in the series to take place on the afternoon of
Saturday, April 5, at two o'clock.
The meet will be known as the Auburn Interscholastic
Track and Field Meet and will be open to all those eligible
under the rules printed below.
In announcing the founding of
By BEVERLY KILIAN
With the smoke of another so­rority
rush week clearing away,
it is possible to glance around and
sum up the results of the week of
frenzied activity.
Numerical superiority goes to
the Kap"pa Delta girls, who snared
five girls, the maximum for sec­ond
semester pledging. Alpha
Gamma Delta was second with
four, while Delta Zeta and Chi
Omega tied for next honors with
three each. POP and Theta U
each pledged two girls.
New Kappa Delta pledges are
Martha Gordy of Columbus; Mary
Taylor, also of Columbus; Sarah
Culpepper of Cuba, Alabama;
Dorothy Norman of Fort Deposit,
Alabama; and Miriam Anderson
of Greenville, S. C.
The Chi Omega group includes
Month's Book List at Library Shows
Over One Hundred New Reference Books
List Includes Several
Books on Civil War
By DAVID ALLEN
The library has just published
a list of books recently purchased
by them and now available for stu­dents.
They have listed over one
hundred reference books bought
during this month, but because of
space we will mention only a few
of them. The number in paren­thesis
after each book is the call
number under which it is listed.
There are several books con­cerning
the Civil War, but the
more interesting of them is a bi­ography
of Stonewall Jackson,
"Stonewall Jackson, A Military
Biography" (B. Jackson), by
Cooke, and two volumes by Wise,
"The Long Arm of Lee" (973.7),
concerning the campaigns of that
soldier and gentleman..
Along totally different lines is
"The Physical Examination of
Metals" (-669), by Chambers.
"The Symbolist Movement in
Literature" (804), Symons, will
assuredly be of interest to lovers
of literature who wish to enjoy
and understand this phase of
prose and poetry by the Writers
of many nations. Of interest to
collectors who also read is New­ton's
"The Amenities of Book-
Collecting and Kindred Affec­tions"
(814).
The Agricultural Library has
added several books of interest to
the ag student: Tiffany's "Algae,
The Grass of Many Waters" (589-
.3); Hawley's "The Fundamentals
of Nutrition" (9612.39). Also
added to their collection was Ren­der's
"Manual of Cultivated Trees
and Shrubs" and "Writing the
Technical Report" (808), by Nel­son.
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The Architectural Library has
placed on its shelves at least two
books which would interest per­sons
other than the students in
that work: Wellington's "Historic
Churches of America" (726.5)
and "The Pine Furniture of Early
New England" (749), by Kettell.
"Potentionmetrifc Titrations"
(545.5) by Kolthoff, has been
added to the shelves of the Chem­ical
Library; also "Inorganic Col­loid
Chemistry" (541.3452), by
Weiser, and Wallach's "How to
Take Pictures at Night" (9770).
Among the new books in the
Engineering Library is Domono-ske's
"Aircraft Engines" (629.13)
and "Geology and Engineering"
(550), by Legget.
To the Vet Hill Library have
come many additions, the more
interesting being "Principles of
Pharmacy" (615.1), by Arny;
"Selected Readings in the History
of Physiology" (612), by Fulton,
and Buckstien's "Clinical Roent­genology
of t h e Alimentary
Tract" (6.16.3).
Eddie Lennep, Moss Point, Miss.;
Kathryn Jones, Wedowee, Ala.;
and Kathryn Enloe, Roanoke, Ala.
Phi Omega Pi pledged Emma
Jean Vick of Fayette, Ala., and
Marjorie Lois Lee of Birmingham.
Myrtie Drinkard of Nicholsville,
Ala., and Charlie Faye Nixon of
Auburn pledged Theta Upsilon.
Alpha Gamma Delta pledged
Celeste Allen, Alexander City;
Sara Mulloy, Laurel, Miss.; Mar­garet
Weller, Gadsden; and Fran­ces
Finley, Tupelo, Miss.
The new Delta Zeta pledges
are Alice Chateau of New Orleans,
Georgette Davies of Bessemer,
and Mary Lee Stone of Birming­ham.
Delta Sigma Pi
Holds Junior-Senior
Smoker Thursday
Delta Sigma Pi, professional
commerce fraternity, h e l d a
smoker last Thursday night in the
accounting lab of the new class­room
building, for Seniors and
Juniors in the School of Science
and Literature. Speaker for the
evening was Professor C. P. Aus­tin
of the Economics Department
and head of the Employment Bu­reau
for the School of Science and
Literature, who discussed the em­ployment
problem and other vital
questions.
Mitchell Wadkins, a senior in
business administration, and a
member of Delta Sigma Pi, was in
charge of arrangements for the
affair, which was attended by
some 35 seniors^
Dean Sackett to
Speak at Engineer
Seminar Tonight
Juniors and Seniors
Required to Attend
Meeting at Langdon
Dean Robert L. Sackett, form­erly
of Penn. State, will speak to­night
at eight o'clock at the En­gineering
Seminar to be held in
Langdon Hall. Juniors and seniors
are required to attend.
Dean Sackett is a prominent
engineering authority, and is the
author of numerous papers which
have appeared in educational and
engineering publications, and of
the volume, "The Engineer, His
Work and His Education".
He is the eleventh Lamme Med­alist
of the Society for the Pro­motion
of Engineering Education.
Dean Sackett received his ed­ucation
at the University of Mich­igan,
and has had a long career
combining teaching with engineer­ing
practice.
He is a member of Phi Gamma
Delta, Triangle, Tau Beta Pi, Phi
Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi; the AAAS,
ASCE, SPEE, and ASME. He was
president of the SPEE for the
year of 1927-28, and vice-presi­dent
of ASME for the term of
1936-37.
Formal Pledging
By Delta Zeta's
Delta Zeta Sorority held pledge
services Sunday afternoon at six
o'clock for the following girls:
Georgette Davies, Birmingham;
Alice Chateau, New Orleans, La.;
and Mary Lee Stone of Birming­ham,
Ala."
Holden Speaks
Mrs. Raymond Holden, poet, of
New York City, who writes under
the name of Sarah Henderson
Hay, will speak at women's con­vocation
on Thursday at 11
o'clock at the Methodist Church.
Mrs. Holden will be .entertain­ed
Thursday afternoon by the
Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority, of
which she is a member.
Notice
Mrs. Marion Spidle will speak
to the members of the Dana King
Gatchell Club tonight at 7:30 in
the Social Center.
The subject for her talk will be
"Personality and How to De­velop
It". All members are urged
to attend.
the yearly event, Coach Hutsell
stated that there were many out­standing
high school track per­formers
throughout the state who
were given too little chance to
take part in large competitive
meets. Such a meet at Auburn
will not only enable those inter­ested
to compete for awards but
will bring to Auburn an exhibi­tion
of the cream of the state's
track contingent, both team and
individual.
The events will all take place
on Auburn's new track layout, so
should offer visitors the best pos­sible
conditions under which to
perform. There will be 13 events
and they will take place in the
following order: 120 yard high
hurdles, 100 yard dash, mile run,
440 yard dash, 220 yard dash,
880 yard dash, 200 yard low hur­dles,
12 pound shot-put, discus,
pole vault, high jump, broad jump,
880 yard relay.
Scoring will be done on the fol­lowing
basis: five points for first,
three for second, two for third,
and one point for fourth.
Awards given will be gold med­als
for first place, silver for sec­ond,
and bronze for third.
Rules regarding the meet:
Eligibility — All competitors
must be eligible under the State
Association rules, -certified by the
list on the official entry blank
which is to be signed by the prin­cipal.
Entries — A contestant m ay
compete in only three events, not
more than two of which are to be
track events, including the relay.
Contestants may compete in
only one event of 440 yards or
more in length. Three men may
be entered in each event, but only
two shall start. Any man entered
is eligible for the relay.
Entry Fee—Entry fee will be
10c per man for each event enter­ed.
Hanya Holm Is Outstanding in Field
Of Dance; Has Won Many Honors
Will Appear With Her
Troup of 14 Dancers
March 26 at Langdon
One of the most outstanding
choreographic achievements of
Hanya Holm and her company of
14 dancers, who will appear in
Auburn at Langdon Hall, March
26 at 7:30 p.m., is "Trend," a
heroic dance drama embodying
innovations in staging, music, and
composition.
"Trend," which was produced
at the Bennington Festival in
1937, marked Miss Holm's New
York debut later the same year.
Hailing the composition as blaz­ing
a trail towards a greater syn­thesis
of all the arts, John Mar­tin
of the New York Times award­ed
her a citation for the greatest
composition of the year. The fol­lowing
year she introduced two
successful compositions, "Dance
of Work and Play" and "Dance
Sonata" at the Bennington Fes-tivaL
Two years ago she and her com­pany
made their first transcontin­ental
tour, introducing the new
famous "Metropolitan Daily", a
newspaper satire which later was
the first modern dance composi­tion
to be televised by the Na­tional
Broadcasting Company.
That same season saw the intro­duction
of another new number,
"Tragic Exodus", a timely dra­matic
piece which won Dance
Magazine's award as the best
composition of the year.
In the summer of 1S40 she con­ducted
a master course at Ben­nington
School of Arts, Benning­ton,
Vt., and has again renewed
all her teaching engagements of
last year. She has served as a
member of the faculty at Mills
College, California, and at the
University of Iowa. During the
last two years she has taught at
Columbia University, New York
University, Temple University, and
Tyler School of Fine Arts in Phil­adelphia.
Miss Holm and company is be­ing
brought to Auburn by the
Dance Club and Mrs. Louise Kre-her
Forte, adviser. Tickets will
be on sale Monday — 50c for
townspeople and faculty, and 25c
for high school and college stu­dents.
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Page Two T H E P L A I N S M AN February 25, 1941
What's the Use?
The phrase "What's the use, I'll be
in the army next year anyway" has be­come
a familiar one on the campus. It's
been used as an excuse for not study­ing,
for not taking certain courses, for
cutting classes, for dropping out of
school. ..
There appeared in the last issue of
this paper, a letter, written by the Presi­dent
of the United States, in which he
advised students to continue their edu­cation
without interruption, stating that
the country needs educated young men
now more than ever. We urge all stu­dents
who have said "What's the use,
I'll be in the army next year anyway,"
to read that letter, and to heed the ad­vice
of Mr. Roosevelt, who, we should
suppose, knows some little bit more
about the situation than you, or we,
could possibly know.
Not only do we, as students, owe it
to our country to continue our educa­tion—
we owe it to ourselves. As we say,
we may be in the army next year. That
certainly is not, in any sense, an excuse
for loafing and throwing away educa­tional
opportunities. On the contrary,
it's perhaps the best reason that we have
for taking every opportunity to learn,
for getting all the education that we
can, NOW.
On Coeds and Styles
It is coming to that period of time in
Auburn in which no man nor woman
can tell what the ladies' styles are on
the local campus. In only one way do
the coeds follow the style as given by
the "Vogue" editors and that is in the
color scheme, in which many of the girls
go a little too far.
On practically any breezy morning,
the Auburn student sees from ten to 110
coeds strolling about the campus attired
in a flaming red jacket, similar knee-length
socks, a crimson hat, and prob­ably
a dress of similar eye-catching
color. After several hours of such scen­ery
on the campus, the male student
would not be surprised in any sense if
he saw several pink elephants walking
over the tower on Samford Hall.
It also appears that the coeds are be­coming
a little hazy on what is the ap­propriate
apparel for certain occasions.
Maybe we are wrong, but we think that
riding boots were made for the purpose
of using them when their owner has the
desire to ride horses, motorcycles, or
some other beast or machine. Certainly
it is not appropriate to wear riding boots
with a silk dress to such places as class­rooms.
As we are not authorities on the sub­ject
of ladies' styles we cannot say what
is right or wrong, but girls, for the sake
of the male population that is on the
campus, begin making your public ap­pearances
in a truly feminine fashion
and a little less of the masculine styles.
However, if we are wrong, we hereby
make our'apologies. W.H.
THE PLAINSMAN
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A Blessing in Disguise?
The headlines of Friday's Plainsman
announced the fact that the cut system
had been changed, that students would
now have only one cut per semester
hour, rather than two. The cut system
had been "cut in half."
Today's Plainsman carries a story
which states that absences which stu­dents
have taken during the already
gone three weeks of this semester will
not be counted against their quota of
cuts. This semester is short. There are
in reality only about 11 or 12 more class
weeks left in it. Last semester, when we
had 18 full class weeks, we were allow­ed
two cuts per hour—now we have one
cut per hour, and only two-thirds as
many hours left. So, in reality, at least
as far as this semester goes, the cut sys­tem
was "cut" only one-third.
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When the two-cut system was intro­duced
in Auburn a year ago this month,
it was to be a trial system. We students
had been clamoring for some change in
the absence system to allow us to be
absent from class sometimes without
penalty of losing points. So they gave us
a cut system, to be tried for one semes­ter.
We tried it. We used all of our cuts
—at least, according to the faculty ab­sence
reports, most of us did. And when
our quota was gone, we got sick and
were excused from more classes. Then
when our grades were averaged up, we
were short, and many of us failed
courses which, if we had been present
to learn certain parts of the subject mat­ter,
we might not have failed. In other
words, we took advantage of the cut
system to catch up on sleep and to have
more spare time.
The cut system had, in a sense, fail­ed
its purpose. But the administration
gave us another semester's chance. We
did the same thing—except more com­pletely.
There were more failures last
semester than ever before—many more.
So they took the candy away from the
baby. He was making himself sick on it.
And the baby cried.
Of course, not all the students took
all their cuts. Some of them probably
didn't take any. And those were general­ly
the ones who had the best grades
anyway—such is life. Those who didn't
use all their cuts, are who used some of
them and still used them to good enough
advantage to make good grades, have to
suffer now for the great majority's mis­use
of the system—such is democracy.
We had our chance—-two chances, in
fact-—and we muffed both of them.
CAMPUS CAMERA
PI ains Talk
By HERBERT MARTIN
OFF THE
RUNWAYS
By BERTA CAMPBELL
We haven't lost entirely, however. We
still have one cut per semester hour. We
still have the distant but quite attainable
Dean's lists. If we have one hour courses,
we even have two cuts allowed in them.
If we have one hour courses with several
lab hours, the individual instructor has
the right to secure additional cuts for
us, with consideration for the extra
hours. They didn't place upon us even
nearly all the restrictions they might
have. They could have taken away all
of our cuts, leaving the matter of un-excused
absences up to the discretion of
individual instructors — that plan was
suggested—but they didn't. They could
have enforced double cuts before and
after holidays — that was suggested —
but they didn't. They could have rein-stituted
the absence system which was
disposed of last year—but they didn't.
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed
in this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the ed­itorial
policies of this paper.
The extensive flight program of
API has scored another point. The
United States Government offer­ed
twenty Good-Will Scholarships
to Pan-American students enroll­ed
in American fcolleges. Out of
the hundreds of applications sent
in to Washington, three Auburn
students were chosen to receive
this gift course. Alabama Air Ser­vice
will train George Guzman
and Tony Cortina of Mexico and
Alberto Parra from Venezuela.
In' filling out their applications,
these boys all expressed a desire
to return home and use their
knowledge of flying to promote
an interest in Aviation in their
respective countries.
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Things we'd wish for on an Al-ladin
Lamp: A sign on the Ope-lika
Highway to mark the Air­port
Road — a shade tree planted
by the hanger to accommodate
Charlie Ashmore — a badge for
Jack Williams bearing his name
now that he goes around incog­nito
behind dark glasses — a
sweater for Charles Roberts so
his former student, John Rencher
can repossess his — more chairs
for boys like the Kappa Sigs and
their visitors who accepted that
invitation to come out and fly
— an alarm clock for John Leak
so he can make that seven o'clock
flight on Thursday mornings —
an information bureau to tell us
how Prudence Ozier looked fresh
as a daisy the morning after the
Chi Omega all-night initiation ses­sion.
* * *
Washington has not the only
claim to February 22nd for a
birthday. It was cake with can­dles
for Prances Wilson and a
surprise dinner party with a guest
list resembling an airport roll call.
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The old plan, the one which was in
effect prior to the cut system's appear­ance,
didn't provide for> any unexcused
absences whatsoever. There were dou­ble
cuts before and after holidays. There
was no Dean's list. Students who had
unexcused absences from class equal to
twice the number of credit hours were
automatically dropped from the course
with a zero. And when the infirmary
was built, excuses became increasingly
hard to get. To top it all, for each un­excused
absence, two points were, de­ducted
from the student's final grade
on the course, and students had to make
up work missed during such absences.
And all that was in effect just a year
ago.
Compared to that system, and con­sidering
the failures we made under the
system used for the past two semesters,
this new system may prove a divine
blessing, though perhaps a disguised
blessing, until considered objectively.
We wonder if Bob Hardin- will
start a Plane-U-Fly-It service now
that he has purchased the Aerono-ca
Trainer.
* * * 4
Quite a few visitors to the air­port
have been interested in
knowing the origin of the names
appearing on the planes. Well,
"La Golondrina" was so christen­ed
because that particular song
happens to be Instructor Roberts'
favorite; "Bess" because that par­ticular
girl is a very special friend
of Instructor Stokes'. Inst. Bren-nan
called the cub at his disposal,
"Spitfire" and Inst. Lumpkin
bears the tag "222 Divine". As
yet we have been unable to deter­mine
just how the "Super-Booper"
came by that name. But it took
such "aces" as Bobbie Hill, Spenc­er
Garrett, "Crockett Cook and
many others on their first solo
flight.
* * *
A flight over the Drill Field the
other day just made us swell with
pride. From the air the Auburn
ROTC unit looks like a million
bucks. We wish Col. Waterman
would leave the field long enough
to come out to the airport and
review his troops from the air with
the complements of Alabama Air
Service.
* * *
"Wish you were here" card
from the Mobile Azalea Trail sign­ed
Ozella Taylor; and from the
National Motorcycle meet in Mi­ami
signed Tolly Rogers (he also
reported that E. M. Lambert par­ticipated
in the Amateur Races at
Daytona Beach).
* * *
And out of the mail box also
comes from Clarence Harless,
"The United States Government
has called for my services"; from
Joe Ware and postmarked Jack­son,
Miss., "I'm in the army now.
Koonce Williams is also over here
and will finish his primary train­ing
in a couple of weeks. Give
everybody my best regards". And
from Shannon West at Hicks
Field, Fort Worth, Texas, comes
a letter saying, "I fly a Steerman
PT18 and after all, have hopes.
Tell all my friends hello."
Congrats, Quaders
Heartiest congratulations to
Birmingham-Southern College for
its presentation of the "Quad",
student literary magazine. The
Winter issue of the "Quad" is
excellent. It contains a generous
variety of everything from seri­ous
articles to humor and poetry.
The art work—photography, is ex­traordinarily
good for a college
publication. The daily press of
Birmingham has p r a i s e d the
"Quad" in a number of columns
and editorials. Says Harold Hei­fer,
creator of "Byways of Bir­mingham",
"Incidentally, my hat's
off to the "Quad". It has a swell-egant
literary tone." Says a Bir­mingham
Post editorialist, "If col­leges
are to fulfill their function
of-preparing students to meet
adult situations with maturely de­veloped
critical powers, magazines
like "Quad" will help make it pos­sible.
The editors and the authors
are to be congratulated and en­couraged."
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed
in this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the ed­itorial
policies of this paper.
The Plainsman staff has been
balancing on its ear for the past
week trying to set up an editorial
policy for the new editor. In the
process of construction, the poli­cies
have become rather well mix­ed
up with new office rules.
* * *
Rule number one, whether poli­cy
or office procedure it might be
hard to say, states that the editor
must be open-minded about all
things, and that he must not sell
his best works to rival publica­tions.
* * *
And there's a plank which warns
that space must be left on the
tables and desks for the feet of
all staff members.
* * *
The business staff must not
come into the editorial sanctum
(one half of the room) unless it
is absolutely necessary, and then
only with the written permission
of the editor and four members
of the staff.
* * *
Both sides of questions must be
given fairly, and waste baskets
must not be thrown downstairs.
About at this point in the pro­ceedings,
sports editor Pierce lift­ed
a chair, typewriter, and typing
table to the top of the copy table,
and elevated himself dangerously
near the ceiling, pointing out that
"this is the only way you can get
a raise around here."
* * *
Weird concoctions must not be
cooked on the gas heater, and
long, windy, editorials should be
avoided.
* * *
Copy is to be placed in baskets
on the editor's desk, and not
thrown on the floor under it, as
has been the practice in the past.
The exchange papers will still be
tossed in a neat heap wherever
most tonvenient.
* * *
Matters of campus interest will
be given more attentions than
will be the solving of world puz­zles.
Still, if the world gets too
far off course, the Plainsman re­serves
the right to note this in its
editorial columns.
* * *
The paper will retain the name
of the Plainsman for the time be­ing,
although the old "Orange and
Blue" name has its advocants.
* * *
Any member of the staff suf­fering
from measles, mumps, or
flu is barred from the office for
a period of three days, effective
from the time mention is made of
the affliction in the columns of
this publication. Legal notice of
the quarrantine will be posted as
required by law . . . our law.
* * *
No member of the staff may,
without raising his hand, make
mention of the relative similarity
of the editor and an airdale. The
FBI is already working on this,
according to reports received this
week.
* * *
Such expressions as "Confiden­tially,
that stinks!" are forever
banned from the office or the
pages of the newspaper. These
will be reserved for exclusive
Glomerata use.
* * *
The Hayes Office shall be our
official censor.
* * *
Cursing and other obscene
language may not henceforth be
used to convey strong feeling in
an editorial.
* * *
Some members of the staff de­sire
to have a circulating mast­head
for the paper. They not only
want it to change its position on
the editorial page each issue, but
also would like to have it move
from page to page in irregular se­quence.
* * *
The paper will continue to use
the president's English.
* * *
No dictatorship will be present­ed
in a friendly manner without
the payment of a small stipend.
The p a p e r is wholeheartedly
against undemocratic forms of
government unless it interferes
with business.
* * *
Karrie, the Kampus Kutest
Koed, doesn't have much more in­terest
in the foregoing than you
or anybody else. Says Karrie,
"How nice. Anyway, it's tennis
courting time again, and we're
bad off for courts to court on.
What about those new ones they
started building innumerable years
ago?"
On Policies .
Editor's Note:—This is the sec­ond
and final article of a series
presenting the editorial aims and
policies of various campus news­papers
throughout the nation. It
is published in an effort to give
the readers of the Plainsman an
opportunity to compare the poli­cies
of other student publications
with those of this paper, as they
appeared in the February 14 is­sue.
* * *
University of South Carolina
Gamecock: The Gamecock will
make it a point to support the ad­ministration
of the university as
much as possible. As for campus
matters we are, bluntly, anti-fra­ternity
and pro-sorority. Seriously
—it's time the non-fraternity men
get a break on this campus and
we're for them.
The Gamecock will enter the
political field for the length of
this sentence at least, and come
out frankly, wholeheartedly, with
no reservations, for a third term
for F.D.R.
Pomona College Student Life:
We have no axe to grind. In the
midst of so much chaos and con­fusion
it would be quite natural
if Student Life were to burst
forth with a series of strident ed-
And More Congrats
To Alabama College for the
production of its twenty-third an­nual
College Night, combined this
year with Homecoming activities.
Letters to the Editor
Editor of the Plainsman: Possibly,
I would like to go on .record as
objecting to the extensive mis­quotation
and misinterpretation
of my articles in foot after foot
of print; since this has happened
twice in as many weeks I feel that
my objection is valid, and as a
remedy, I suggest that any and
all wishing to criticize my articles
in the future, please be so good
as to read them first.
I am hypersensitive,
but I, nevertheless, resent being
criticized for things I didn't say.
I would like to suggest, in clos­ing,
that one, Bill "Don Quixote"
Rowe, secure a copy of the ar­ticle
which he so exhaustively mis­interpreted
and read it. He might
be interested in what it says.
Very truly yours,
C.J.B.
To Haynes Thompson, (though
perhaps a bit tardy), editor of
'Bama's Crimson - White, for his
editorial written in answer to one
Mr. Huie, who wrote an article in
Colliers a few weeks ago, in which
he criticized in no uncertain
terms, the University's football
set-up. Editor Thompson answered
Mr. Huie with a three column
editorial in which he disproved
most of Huie's accusations and in­formation,
and in which he most
clearly brought out the fact that
Huie knew nothing about it.
itorials screaming about war, iso­lation,
presidential elections and
other controversial subjects.
However, we shall attempt to
avoid emotionalism. We announce
a policy of complete neutrality on
all controversial issues.
This does not mean that the '
columns of this paper will be clos­ed
to controversial subjects. To
the contrary: we solicit any and
all letters on any side of any sub­ject,
and promise impartial con­sideration
of everything submit­ted.
Centre College Cento: We are
operating under the principle that
the Cento is primarily for the stu­dent,
both for his interest and as
an indication of his .opinion. We
shall endeavor to measure the
opinion of all students, and pub­lish
without alteration the results.
We shall bend our every effort
to improve Centre college physic­ally
and mentally. We shall cam­paign
for various projects during
the year, but in every way we
shall remain nonpartisan. Almost
invariably the first sign of op­pression
is censorship. The staff
of the Cento is its own censor. We
alone determine what shall ap­pear.
Texas Wesleyan College Ram­bler:
To serve Texas Wesleyan
college in its fiftieth year of con­tinuous
service will be the pri­mary
function of the Rambler
during 1940-41. The editors will
plan the weekly newspaper so that
it will serve the students, the
faculty, the community, the par­ents
of students, and the friends
of the college. The Rambler's pur­pose
is not only to reflect campus
life, but to train journalists for
future service.
The Tech, Bradley Polytechnic --
Institute (This year in tabloid
form for the first time): We are
trying this year to give you a dif­ferent
paper, a Tech that will
strive weekly to be interesting and
varied and a Tech that will not
settle down for a catnap during
the last thirty issues or slip easily
into a pretty narrow groove.
February 25, 1941 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Rodeo Dates Moved
To March 29 and 30
Two-Day Affair to Be Held in Stadium;
Will Be Western Show, Southern Style
The first rodeo ever held on the Auburn campus will
take place on March 29 and 30 under the auspices of the API
Rodeo Association, composed of representatives of the
AVMA, the Collegiate FFA Chapter, the Ag Club, and the
Ag Engineering Club. Also cooperating in staging the
event is the Military Department.
With Sam F. Brewster as manager, officers of the
Rodeo Association include Sylvan (Cowboy) Haworth,
Okenee, Okla. and William T. Ky-ser,
Minter, assistant manager;
Dr. R. S. Sugg, secretary and
treasurer, and James I. Dailey,
Camden, and James A. Green,
Auburn, assistant secretary-treas­urers.
Tentative plans have been made
to hold the rodeo in the stadium.
Admission will be 35c (for stu­dents)
and 50c.
The rodeo, which begins at 2
p.m. on both days, will open with
a "grand entry" in which all visit­ing
officials and contestants will
parade in front of the stands. Fol­lowing
will be 14 other events in­cluding
introduction of visiting of-
3. Contestants are requested to
wear a big hat, highly colored
shirt, and boots throughout the
contest.
4. Any contestant who mis­treats
or in any way enacts cruel­ty
to any animal automatically
disqualifies himself in all events
and forfeits any prizes due him.
The Management positively will
not permit cruelty in any nature
to any animal. It is the judges
duty to enforce this rule.
5. Any contestant withdrawing
from any event in which he is en­tered
will be disqualified from all
other events.
6. Identification numbers will
ficials, wild mule scramble, calf be worn on the back when in the
roping contest, mounted musical
chair race, steer riding, mounted
wrestling, bareback bronc riding,
steer riding, (continued), wild
cow milking contest, saddle bronc
riding, cowgirl milking contest,
bareback mule riding, bull-dog-
-ging contest, and "double-bull"
riding contest.
Mr. Brewster stated that Gov­ernor
Dixion and a number of
prominent officials in- the State
will be invited to attend the ro­deo.
Anyone interested in taking
part in the rodeo is asked to get
in touch with Cowboy Haworth at
the OTS House or Mr. Brewster
at the Department of Buildings
and Grounds, college telephone
243, or by calling his home tele­phone,
228.
Mr. Brewster said that arrange­ments
had been made whereby
students who wish to take part in
the rodeo may rent chaps, hat,
neckerchief, and shirt for $2. This
outfit plus boots may be rented
for $2.50, he said.
Animals to be used in the rodeo
include 45 horses, 18 wild steers,
16 wild cows, eight wild mules, 10
calves, and eight broncs.
Following are the general rules
for the rodeo:
1. The Management reserves
the right to reject any entry.
2. The Management is not re­sponsible
for accident to the rider
or his mount.
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7. Every rider must draw for
his or her mount and must ride
that mount. Refusals disqualify
that contestant automatically for
that event.
8. Contestants will be disquali­fied
for the following:
(a) Being under the influence
of intoxicants or drinking on the
rodeo premises.
(b) Rowdyism
(c) Quarreling with judges or
officials
(d) Abusing stock
9. The rodeo will last for two
days. Winners will be announced
at the end of the second perform­ance,
and will be determined by
the number of points accumulated
under the R.A.A. rules.
Wanna Play Tennis?
Try-Outs for Team
To Be Tomorrow
All students who are interesting
in trying out for the Auburn Ten­nis
Team, are urged to attend
try-outs at the Country Club, to­morrow
at 3 o'clock.
The first match for this year's
tennis team will be with the squad
from Clemson College, here in
Auburn, on March 31.
Auburn's Tennis Captain, J. W.
McKee, stated yesterday, that
there were several open positions
on the team, and that these will
be filled with the best players who
enter the try-outs.
McKee said that it is-the ob­ject
of the team to promote a
better interest in tennis on the
Auburn campus, so that there will
be better opportunities for those
who enjoy playing and watching
the sport to do so in the future.
Coach Jack Meagher recently spoke at a banquet held at Baylor School, in Chattanooga, in celebration of Baylor's championship
football team. Pictured above, from left to right, are: Coach Scrappy Moore, University of Chattanooga; Mr. Jimmy Rike, athletic director
at Baylor; Coach Meagher; and Humpy Heywood, football coach at Baylor. Toastmaster at the banquet, not pictured, was Headmaster
Herbert Barks, an Auburn alumnus.
Local Red Cross to Sponsor Series
Of First Aid Classes at Alumni Gym
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A series of classes in first aid,
sponsored by the local Red Cross
chapter, will be held at Auburn
in Alumni Gymnasium, beginning
March 10 at 7 p.m., according to
Dr. V. W. Lapp, associate profess­or
of Physical Education, who is
chairman of the First Aid Com­mittee
of Lee County.
There will be ten meetings in
all, lasting two weeks, Monday
through Friday. The course is open
to the public and should be of
special interest to firemen and
policemen.
No charge will be made for the
course, except for a 60 cent Red
Cross Manual which each person
receiving instruction is supposed
to buy. However, all persons who
enroll must be 21 years of age.
"The national headquarters of
the Red Cross in Washington re­cently
revealed that many letters
are received each month recount­ing
instances where first aid train­ing
was the means of saving lives
and preventing lasting injuries,"
Dr. Lapp said. "In our own state
and county we also have had
numerous instances called to our
attention where knowledge of
first aid came in handy."
"Police and firemen, employees
of public utility companies, and
drivers of busses and interstate
trucks are being trained by the
Red Cross instructors in an effort
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that occur on our highways and
in our homes," stated Dr. Lapp.
"We feel that our local chapter
will be performing a distinct and
much-needed service to the com­munity
in training everyone pos­sible
in the rudiments of first aid
and its application."
Automobile accidents are in­creasing
at an alarming rate, he
pointed out. The total of lives
taken on highways and in city
streets continues to mount in
many places in spite of traffic
safety drives and stringent traf­fic
laws. The Red Cross has been
working hand in hand with local
officials throughout the country
in efforts to control traffic fatali­ties
and crippling accidents, and
the national organization has in­corporated
this accident preven­tion
work in its year-round pro­gram.
.
Dr. Lapp said that all persons
interested in receiving the in­structors'
first aid training course
should communicate with the local
Red Cross chapter at once, in or­der
to be enrolled in the class
which has been announced.
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Discovered Any Bodies Lately?
If So, Take Them
To Toxicologist
In "L" Building
By ART JONES
If you should ever happen to
discover a corpse, and not know
exactly what to do with it, the
man for you to see is Dr. H. W.
Nixon, State Toxicologist, who
maintains offices and laboratories
in the "L" Building.
Examining dead bodies, and
gathering evidence from scenes of
crime is all in a day's work for
Dr. Nixon and his staff of four
full time technicians, three part
time technicians, two NYA stu­dents
and a secretary.
Among the duties of the State
Toxicologist are included the in­vestigation
of all deaths and
crimes which are ordered by au­thorized
officers of the state, and
the investigation of deaths of do­mestic
officers of the state, and
the investigation of deaths of do­mestic
animals in cases of suspect­ed
poisoning of such animals.
In carrying out its duties, the
department uses many methods of
modern crime detection, such as
fingerprinting, examination of fa­tal
bullets, guns and other lethal
weapons, performance of autop­sies,
and photographing of such
evidence as may be found. About
fifty cases a month is the aver­age
amount of work handled by
the staff, with sometimes as many
as fifteen or twenty calls a day.
Inspection of the records of
past cases reveal astounding facts
and almost unbelievable ingenuity
in the solving of many mysteries.
One interesting case is that of a
murdered man found after he had
been buried four years, and by
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exhuming and examining the body
and by questioning of various per­sons
enough evidence was gather­ed
to bring about the indictment
of two men.
Upon entering the laboratories,
the eyes of the visitor fall upon
many instruments of fascinating
appearance. Comparison micro­scopes,
microscopic cameras, and
various other devices. Among the
shelves and cabinets lie bundles
of evidence ready for their ap­pearance
in court. This evidence
consists of such articles as guns,
knives, articles of clothing taken
(Continued on page 4)
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Page Four THE P L A I N S M AN February 25, 1941
Auburn Departs Tomorrow for
Conference Meet in Louisville
Alabama May Be First Opponent in
Playoff; Tigers in First Round Bye
By JOHN PIERCE
Auburn's surprising basketballers, their 1941 schedule
closed with a record of 13 wins against five losses, depart
tomorrow for Louisville where they will move into tour­nament
play Thursday, in the dark horse role.
The Tigers were assured of at least a berth in the
quarter-finals when they came out with a bye in the pre-conference
drawings. Seedings for the league meet place
Kentucky's defending champions at the top of the heap,
Tennessee in second, Florida
third, and the Crimson Tide of
Alabama in fourth.
All Alabama sports fans will
watch with interest the game be­tween
Alabama and Georgia Tech
in first round play which can
bring together athletic teams
from Tuscaloosa and Auburn for
the first time in a quarter of a
century. Alabama was paired with
Tech in the drawings and Auburn
drew a bye in the next bracket,
so a win for the Tide will make
certain a basketball game between
Auburn and Alabama.
Though critically weak in re­serve
strength, the same weak­ness
which has hampered ^Doach
Ralph Jordan's quintet all season,
the Tigers will floor an aggrega­tion
at Louisville which can stand
up and slug it with the best in
the league upon occasion. Led by
Shag Hawkins, certain All-SEC
performer at center and leading
loop scorer, the array consisting
of Frank Manci, Bob Dunbar,
Fagan Canzoneri, and Marvin
Motley. will face no competition
stiffer than that which they have
already met during the current
season.
The quintet, all of whose mem­bers
are juniors with exception of
Canzoneri, a sophomore, has play­ed
and downed Mississippi, LSU,
Tulane, Georgia, Georgia Tech,
and Vanderbilt, aside from seven
victories over non - conference
foes.
Of the five losses suffered
within the conference, four have
been by small margins.
In any case, the opener for the
Tigers will rank as one of the
meet's real thrillers, regardless of
whether Alabama or Georgia Tech
is the Auburn opponent. Suffice
to say that 'Bama is named the
fourth ranking team in the red-hot
loop race, while Tech and
Auburn stand even in this year's
two contests between the two.
Auburn took the Jackets, 51-45,
at home and lost in Atlanta by a
score of 39-48.
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'Chad Hanna' to
Show at Tiger
Fonda, Lamour, Darnell
Star February 2 6 and 27
Great novels which have been
swept by a wave of popular in­terest
onto the best-seller lists
throughout the nation are, more
and more, being sought by film
producers as suitable vehicles for
successful films. Some of the
greatest have been based on best-selling
novels, like "The Grapes
of Wrath," "The Rains Came" and
"Drums Along the Mohawk."
After purchasing the rights to
"Chad Hanna," 20th Century-Fox
assigned the task of bringing it to
life on the screen to the combina­tion
which had so much to do with
the success of "The Grapes of
Wrath" — Associate Producer
Nunnally Johnson, who also wrote
the screen play, and the star
Henry Fonda. Two other import­ant
starring roles went to Dorothy
Lamour and Linda Darnell. Film­ed
in brilliant Technicolor and di­rected
by the veteran Henry King,
"Chad Hanna" starts Wednesday
at the Tiger Theatre.
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Hawkins Holds 188
Point League Total
With a 26, point lead over his
nearest rival, Vanderbilt's Pinky
Lipscomb, Shag Hawkins Monday
appeared almost certain to close
out regular season play within
the conference in the top indi­vidual
scoring position.
Shag closed his season Satur­day
night by scoring 17 points
against Georgia to lift his total to
188.
The leaders (not including Mon­day's
Vandy-Kentucky match):
Player, Sch., Pos. G. FG. F. TP.
Hawkins, Aub. c --11 75 38 188
Lipscomb, Van. f -11 63 36 162
Bozeman, LSU, c .12 67 27 161
McGee, Tulane, c -11 52 34 138
Chatham, Ga. c --13 52 24 128
Storey, Ala., f —-18 55 14 124
Simpson, Miss., f _17 45 33 123
Kirkland, Ga., c __13 47 22 116
Mehen, Tenn., f --11 44 23 111
Adair, Alabama, g -18 45 20 110
Lewis, Ga. Tech, g 12 39 30 108
Vance, LSU, f ---12 43 22 108
Terrell, Miss., f --17 45 14 104
Individual Auburn scores:
Hawkins 287
Manci 178
Dunbar 105
Canzoneri 92
Motley 86
Park 5
Tanner 6
Mastin 3
Allan 1
Total season's score: Auburn,
774; Opponents, 682.
Toxicology
(Continued from page 3)
from suspects or victims, bits of
glass from automobile headlights,
and numerous other items.
Since the establishment of a
State Toxicologist in Alabama,
Dr. Nixon has been located at Au­burn,
although there is a branch
maintained in Mobile, and a con­templated
branch for north Ala­bama.
Dr. Nixon received his
Bachelor of Science degree from
Auburn in 1923, in 1933, his
Master's degree, also from Au­burn,
and his Doctor of Law de­gree
in 1939 from Jones College
in Montgomery.
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Experiments to Be Made by API Station
In Breeding and Stocking of Fish Ponds
Project to Include
From 6 0 to 8 0 Ponds
By BILL ROWE
The API Experiment Station
has currently announced a pro­gram
of experiments with fish
breeding, the stocking of fish
ponds, and the fertilization of
such ponds.
Mr. H. S. Swingle, Department
of Zoology - Entomology stated
that the number of ponds to be
built by the Department will be
between 60 and 80; they will be
one fourth, one half, one acre, and
two acres and will be located
about four miles north of Auburn
on the "Bottle" road, which con­nects
the city with the Opelika-
Birmingham highway.
The purpose of these ponds and
the experimental work is to find
the best results of different types
of fertilizer, and to show the
farmers how successfully a fish­pond
can be built, and how well
stocked it will become if properly
stocked, fertilized, and cared 'for.
Mr. Swingle tells us that some
of the kinds of fish being used in
the experiments are: Bluegills,
Shell Crackers, Largemouth Bass,
Golden Chinas, Shad, Buffalo,
Redeye Bass, Apaluca Catfish. He
further states that the experi­ments
are intended to show that
a farmer can raise 600 pounds of
game and pan fish in a fertilized
pond, whereas only about 150
pounds can be raised in an unfer­tilized
pond. From these figures,
the fact seems to be that farmers
could use an acre or two of their
land much more profitably if they
build a fishpond on it and keep it
in good shape.
There is a definite danger of
weeds growing up in the ponds.
These larger plants are of little
use, and are detrimental in the
most part. They should be pulled
out of the ponds before they be­come
too well entrenched.
Mr. Swingle urges all people
interested in getting fish for
stocking their ponds, to write to
Doctor W. B. Jones, Dept. of Con­servation,
Montgomery, Ala.
Pierce
To the customary accompani­ment
of fanfares, war whoops,
and columns of newspaper space
Shag Hawkins has rocketed into
probably the most conspicuous
position of any eager in the South­eastern
Conference. We, like all
others, have tried to keep up with
the remarkable Shag's 18 and 20
points per night but now feel that
probably we have given the im­pression
of Auburn's being little
more than a one-man team.
This was not, by any means,
the purpose. We realize the tre­mendous
value attached to Fagan
Canzoneri, Frank Manci, Bob
Dunbar, and Marvin Motley. This
quartet has gone right along with
Shag, playing without relief in
almost every game, and bearing
up well even though forced to
face foes that are able to shoot
in reserves at will.
Fagan is the inspiration, the
pep that can fire a team up to
such a state that the impossible
can be accomplished. It didn't
take but one game for the Tiger
fans to find this out and the Bes­semer
soph was the favorite of
the crowd from then on out. Au­burn
can expect a lot from him,
both in the meet this week and
for the next two years.
Marvin Motley now c l e a r l y
shows up as the most improved
player of the year. A doubtful
starter at first, he moved in early
to take a berth and has recently
hit his high in scoring, dropping
in a good portion of the Auburn
points. Can always be depended
on defensively.
It's sufficient to say that Bob
Dunbar is the hardest player on
the floor. He makes up for any
shortage in height with the same
fire that somehow gets him from
one end of a court to the other
before teams, officials, or crowds
can figure out how he does it.
A real exception to the unspoken
theory that tabs .all good forwards
as gangling six-footers.
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SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY
Bulldog Rally Beats
Plainsmen At Athens
36-31 Win Evens
Tiger-Dog Series
A last minute bid by Auburn
fell short Saturday night at Ath­ens
and the Tigers bowed to Geor­gia,
31-36, as both teams closed
out their 1941 cards before a ca­pacity
crowd.
It was the combined sharp-shooting
of Jim Killian and Dan
Kirkland, Bulldog forward and
gaavd, respectively, that turned
the tide in the Georgians' favor
after an Auburn spurt had yank­ed
the Plainsmen back into a 31-
30 lead in the closing minutes.
Georgia led at the half, 24-21,
went behind under a 26-28 short­age
midway in the third period,
then soon drew ahead for keeps
when shots by Killian and Kirk­land
swished through.
Shag Hawkins virtually clinch­ed
top honors in the Southeastern
Conference scoring division as he
looped in 17 points to lead all
scorers for the night. The 17, of
which number 14 were made in
the first half, gave him a total of
39 points against Georgia in the
two games of this year, or an
average of 19.5.
Other top performer for Aui-burn
during the engagement was
guard Marvin Motley, who sank
10 points.
The starting Tiger lineup of
Manci, Dunbar, Hawkins, Can­zoneri,
and Motley played the en­tire
game without relief.
Auburn(31) Georgia(36)
Manci, 2 F Killian, 12
Dunbar, 1 F Poschner, 4
Hawkins, 17 _-C-_- Kirkland, 10
Canzoneri, 1 _G_-_ Chatham, 2
Motley, 10 G Moore, 4
Substitutions: Georgia — Rentz
(4), Roland.
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Hedy Wears Shock-
Proof Nightie
In 'Comrade X'
Co-stars with Gable in
Martin Picture Thursday
Universally called "the screen's
most glamorous star," Hedy La-marr
wears the plainest, most lu­dicrous
nightgown any actress,
heroine or comedienne has ever
donned for a motion picture, in
"Comrade X," her new co-star­ring
film with Clark Gable, which
comes Thursday to the Martin
Theatre for an engagement of
one day.
The odd garment was put on
Hedy purely for laughs, since the
film is a slam-bang comedy, her
first. In it she plays a Moscow
lady street car "motorman," and
Gable a daredevil foreign cor­respondent.
The "nightie" has the appear­ance
more of being "thrown to­gether"
than designed, resembling
nothing so much as an old-fashion­ed
linen duster. The gown reaches
the floor and is entirely without
shape. In it, Hedy looks like a
burlapped siren. She wears it for
a wedding night scene.
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