1940-11-22 The Plainsman

              Congratulations,
Miss Auburn!
VOL. LXIV Z-l
77i£ VlaindmarL ' fA UBURN—the friendliest college in the United States"
ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, NOVEMBER 22, 1940
Only 28 Shopping
Days Til Xmas
No. 22
Elaine Freeman Chosen "Miss Auburn, I94l"
Fraternity Pledges
Give Dance Tonight
Second Annual Pledge Hop Will Begin
At 9 O'Clock in Girls' Gymnasium
Pledges of Auburn's 20 fraternities will present a
dance tonight at 9 o'clock in the girl's gymnasium.
Bobby Adair and the Auburn Knights will play for
the pledges.
Tonight's dance will be the second of its kind to be
given in Auburn. Last year fraternity pledges gave such
a dance, and the affair may become an annual one.
Tickets are being sold to the dance by Homer Reid,
PiKA pledge and member of the
Meet "Miss Auburn", 1941 Model;
She's Most Popular Auburn Coed
pledge dance committee. Price of
tickets is fifty cents. All pledges
who have paid for their tickets
are requested by the committee
to see Reid today.
Other members of the commit­tee
are Chairman Jim "Butch"
Montgomery, Freshman President
"Cap" Swift, and Henry Park.
The program of the evening
will feature a lead-out, in which
freshman officers, the committee,
and the presidents of all fraterni­ty
pledge groups will participate.
The dance will be held in the
Girls' Gymnasium, recently re­modeled
for dancing. The gym has
a new floor, bandstand, and re­decorated
walls.
The hall will be decorated with
huge replicas of the pledge pins
of each fraternity on the campus.
Because of the large number
of students who went home for
Thanksgiving and remained for
the week-end, the pledges consid­ered
postponing tonight's affair,
deciding to give a script dance.
However, this plan was dropped,
and the dance will be held as pre­viously
planned.
Certain parking regulations rel­ative
to the use of the dance hall
in which the hop will be held were
issued last week by city authori­ties.
Since the hall is located on a
much-traveled highway, parking
will be prohibited on the Opelika
Road and the entrance to the hall
from that direction will be closed.
However, the college has provid­ed
ample parking space in the
rear of the building. Separate
, exits and entrances are available
from Drake Avenue.
Two members of each fraterni­ty
have been invited to the dance
by the pledges, and these members
and the dates of the freshmen
are the only students allowed to
attend the hop.
Tonight's dance will end prompt­ly
at 12 o'clock.
Debate Tourney
To End Tuesday
Interfrat Council to
Present Cup to Winner
Debates between several of the
nine teams represented in the
inter-fraternity d e b a t e tourna­ment
have been held this week.
Two of the remaining debates
are to be held tonight, and one
or two more on Monday. The re­sults
of the tournament will be
announced Tuesday.
The interfraternity council will
present a cup to the fraternity
which wins the tournament by de­feating
all other teams in debat­ing
both the negative and affirma­tive
sides of the question: "Re­solved:
That the Fraternities on
the Auburn Campus Should Adopt
a System of Cooperative Buying."
The nine lodges who are par­ticipating
in the "urnament are:
Kappa Alpha, Kappa Sigma, Al­pha
Gamma Rho, Sigma Chi, Al­pha
Tau Omega, Pi Kappa Phi,
Delta Sigma Phi, Phi Delta Theta,
and Pi Kappa Alpha.
Fraternities which have already
debated are: PiKA and Phi Delta
Theta, ATO and Delta Sigma Phi,
Alpha Gamma Rho and Kappa
Sigma, and Sigma Chi and Kappa
Alpha.
She's Just Five
Feet Tall, But You
Look Up to Her
By HERBERT MARTIN
Without shoes, she has to stand
on tiptoe to look over a five-foot
wall, and even with shoes on, she's
only five feet two inches tall, but
she doesn't know it. She's the only
girl we've ever seen who can look
up at an interviewer almost a foot
taller, and give the impression
that she's looking down at him.
The girl under observation is
Elaine Freeman. The reason for
the observation is the fact that
she'll have to get used to it, be­cause
she's Miss Auburn for 1940-
41.
She weighs an even 100 pounds,
but she explains this with an
"I've gained!" Her eyes? She says
call them hazel, because "it sounds
better," but she admits they're
"sorta greenish" s o m e t i m e s .
Brown hair completes the picture,
or most of it, and she's a Home
Ec junior, majoring in Clothing
and Textiles.
As for the ODK-Hutsell Cake
Race coming up soon (custom de­crees
that among the rewards of
the winner each year is a kiss
from Miss Auburn), she has that
all figured out. "I'm going to pick
out a cute freshman and train
him!"
She hasn't picked the rat yet,
and rodents desiring to compete
for the honor may enter the
sweepstakes by submitting a pic­ture
at the Freeman home on
Payne Street any afternoon be­tween
one and five. Only fresh­men
are eligible, and upper-class­men
who would be willing to run
the race again for such a reward
are hereby discouraged.
Miss Auburn is an incurable op­timist.
She doesn't think the U.S.
will go to war. In fact, she thinks
"we'd better not."
For a few other facts about this
young lady, we uncovered the fol­lowing:
She has a dog named Pup. "He
would be a Scottie if he was all
what he is. His mother was named
Pup. He comes from a long line
of pups."
Her cat is coal-black. Name is
Spooky.
She uses Colgate tooth-paste
"because it tastes good."
Likes Glenn Miller and Artie
Shaw's new band.
Coca-Cola is her favorite bot­tled
drink. "Nothing like being or­iginal."
As for food, she likes "any­thing
fattening," with emphasis
on fried oysters, fattening or not.
She skipped the senior year at
Walker County High School, in
Jasper, and once won a prize for
the best Halloween costume.
Her shoes are number fours.
Her dresses . . . size 10, young
misses. "Size 12 is just too big."
She wouldn't believe Tom Roby
when he told her of her victory in
the Miss Auburn efection. Pester­ed
him for hours with "Do you
really mean it?"
And there may be a moral in
this. She wouldn't tell this her­self,
but it's a proven fact. She
did no poll-politicking Wednesday!
In fact, she didn't even vote!
Turkey Day Is Quiet in Auburn
Except for Midget Football Tilt
Larry Clinton
To Play Tonight
In Montgomery
Larry Clinton and'his orchestra
will play for a dance to be given
tonight in Montgomery by Chi
Sigma Chi fraternity.
Clinton, known as "the miracle
man of the music business," is
perhaps best known for his com­position
of such hit tunes as "My
Reverie," "The Dipsey Doodle,"
and "Our Love." He has arranged
for Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey,
and for Glen Gray, as well as oth­er
well-known band leaders.
Clinton is one of those rare band
leaders who did not have a "Long,
hard struggle to the top." From
the day that he picked up a ba­ton
in the record room of RCA-Victor,
his career began to shape.
'- His' first records became instan­taneous
best-sellers.
Larry played for some time at
the public bandstand at Glen Is­land
Casino. His first day there,
*in May, 1938, shattered all rec­ords
for that night spot. He also
set a new high at his first day at
the Paramount Theatre in New
York.
Tickets to the dance tonight in
Montgomery may be obtained at
Lee's Grill, Nick's Place, and
French's Music Store, in that city,
for $1.35 per person.
Annual Ag Fair
Is Wednesday
Dance to Be Given After
Fair in Graves Center
The twenty-third annual Ag
Fair will be presented at Graves
Center Wednesday night at 7.
Activities of the fair will in­clude
a program to be held in
the amphitheatre, the display of
i exhibits in Graves Center Audi-i
torium, and the annual Ag Dance,
Auburn Midgets
Defeat Hitchcock's
Opelika Bullpups
By HERBERT MARTIN
Thanksgiving came and went in
Auburn, and the streets looked
like Christmas. The only time
enough people got together to cast
a shadow during the morning
hours was when the down-town
stop light happened to catch two
cars of tourists at the same time.
That was the picture during the
morning. After consuming tur­key
and fixin's around noon, a
few hardy souls ventured forth,
found the atmosphere to their lik­ing,
and spread the world. First
by two's, and then by the dozen,
Auburnites who haven't dared
leave their homes since the open­ing
of school came out.
Main attraction of the afternoon
was a football game in the sta-
I dium between the Auburn Midg­ets,
and a team about the same
size from Opelika. The Midgets,
| coached by J. Edwin Kennedy,
1 whipped Billy Hitchcock's Opelika
Bullpups to the tune of 12 to 6,
but the game festivities' didn't
I even begin there.
The youngsters ( m a x i m um
weight . . . 105) put on a show
which took a crowd of over 500
(estimate, and not very good, at
that) some time to realize. There
were sponsors, four of them, and
the stands were led in yells by
four more charming misses. "Aw-w-
w-w-w-w NUTS!!" vied with
"Happy Thanksgiving" for favor­ite
honors as group yells, but the
best of the afternoon, without a
doubt, was that of an over-en­thusiastic
Auburn fan (too small
to play on the team) who express­ed
his opinion that "Opelika's got
FLEAS!!" in a very audible voice.
Sad to relate, the convincing
football aspect of the game was
carried out in the stands, in a
motif all -too common. The fa­miliar
cry of "Fight" rang out,
and it was no bluff. Some twenty
were engaged, either pugnastical-ly
or pacifically, and self-appoint­ed
cops finally stopped the fracas
with no blood being shed.
The game over, Auburn slowly
resumed its holiday aspect. Stu­dents
and townspeople vanished
from the streets, and all street
cars and busses stopped running.
All was quiet, except for one small
fellow who patroled the streets,
punctuating the silence now and
then with a shrill "WE BEAT!"
The score for the day . . . no
casualties, except for one broken
toe for an Opelika backfield man,
and severe neck injuries to hun­dreds
of assorted Alabama tur­keys.
And the town gets sorta
lonesome when everybody vacates.
Anyway, Merry Christmas!
1200 Students Vote
On Eight Candidates
Margaret McCain Wins Second Place in
Honor Election, Mattybelle Tabor Third
Elaine Freeman, junior in home economics and a resi­dent
of Auburn, was chosen by the student body in an
election held Wednesday for the honor of being "Miss
Auburn" for a year, according to an announcement made
yesterday by Glomerata Editor "Trigger" McGehee.
Over 1200 of Auburn's 400 students voted in the elec­tion,
which was held at the Main Gate of the campus,
throughout the day Wednesday.
" Miss Freeman, "Miss Auburn,"
r\> •# All was an independent candidate.
Pi Kappa Alpha
Presents First
Formal of Year
to be held after the fair.
During the program in the am­phitheatre,
Miss Frances Hamil­ton,
recently chosen Harvest
Queen, will be crowned to reign
over the festivities.
Other features of the program
will be a wood-chopping contest
by two world champions, the pres­entation
of the Alpha Gamma Rho
cup to the sophomore who made
the highest scholastic average in
agriculture as a freshman, last
year, a mock faculty skit, a sack
race, a rolling pin contest, a hog
calling contest, songs by a negro
quartet, and music by the FFA
band.
The dance will be in the audi­torium,
and will last from 9 until
12. Girls living in dormitories will
be excused for the dance, which
will not count as one of the al­lowed
week's dates, according to
Dr. Rosa Lee Walston.
The Auburn Plainsmen will
furnish the music for the dance.
Tickets to the fair and to the
dance are being sold for 10 cents
and 75 cents respectively by the
following students: Levie Croft,
Bobby Haas, Jack Snow, Tom
j Bullington, Roy Fuller, Bill Nor-
|dan, A. C. Allen, Morgan Wallace,
1 and John Davis.
Frosh Hold Annual Track Meet
In Auburn Stadium Wednesday
Auburn Knights to
Play for Fraternity
Dance at Graves Center
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity will
present the first formal dance of
the season tonight at 9 o'clock in
Graves Center auditorium.
Miss Martha Young of Fairfield
will lead the dance, escorted by
her brother, R. T. Young, presi­dent
of the fraternity.
Other officers and their dates
are i Bill Rotenberry, escorting
Louise Thrash, of Selma; Mac
Davis, Becky Rankin, of Judson.
Approximately fifty girls have
been invited to the dance. Pi Kap­pa
Alpha will have a house-party
this week-end.
Bobby Adair and the Auburn
Knights, featuring Polly Hall, vo­calist,
will play for the dance.
The Graves Center Hall will be
decorated with fraternity colors.
Behind the orchestra will be a
back-drop of blue velvet with the
PiKA Crest in the center.
The program of the formal will
feature, in addition to the grand
march, three no-breaks.
(Continued on page 6)
Fletcher, Hans
Star on Cinders in
Tourney Wednesday
By HOMER WRIGHT
The annual Freshman intra­mural
track meet held last Wed­nesday
in the Auburn stadium
gave Coaches Hutsell and Beard
plenty to smile about. Several
boys turned in A-l performances,
and showed definitely that this
year will be no exception to the
rule that Auburn's Plebes will
rank with the best in the confer­ence.
Although the track was unusual­ly
slow, due chiefly to the recent
heavy rainfall, several better-than-
average performances were
turned in.
John Fletcher, a slender frosh
with lots of natural ability, ap­peared
to be the outstanding man
of the afternoon. He copped top
honors in the 100, the 220, and
the 440 yard dashes, and also was
winner of the broad jump. He
stepped off the century in 10.5,
and was clocked at 23.5 in the
furlong. He won the broad-jump
easily, and finished the day's work
by doing the quarter mile in 56.4.
The versatile Fletcher has clear­ly
demonstrated that he has the
ability, and under the wing of
Coach Hutsell should develop into
a top flight performer soon.
Jack Hans, who had never don­ned
a spiked shoe before entering
Auburn, won the half-mile with­out
a great deal of difficulty. He
jumped into the lead at the start
and was never headed. At the half
way mai'k he held a commanding
lead of 50 yards, and from here
he coasted in for an easy victory.
His time for the distances was
2.12.4.
Buddy Drake, brother of Herb­ert
Drake who established the
record for the cake race three
years ago, set the pace in the mile
run. Like Hans, he obtained an
early lead and was never serious­ly
threatened. In winning he
stamped himself as one to be reck-
'Possum Hunt
- Members of the Auburn Pres­byterian
Student Association gave
a 'possum hunt Wednesday night,
at Spring Villa.
The students and their dates,
chaperoned by Dr. and Mrs. Sam
B. Hay, ate picnic supper, hunted
and caught two 'possum, had a
midnight snack, and spent the re­mainder
of the night in the ante­bellum
mansion at Spring Villa.
oned with in the coming cake race.
Due to the fact that most_of
the men counted upon for heavy
duty with the weights were prac­ticing
football, no field events
were held. With the addition of
these gridders, and several others
who were held out of competi­tion
Wednesday, Coach Hutsell
should be able to develop one of
the most potent freshman aggre­gations
to represent Auburn in
several seasons.
This annual freshman track
meet is looked upon each year as
a prediction, not only of freshman
track team potentialities, but also
of cake race winners. The Wilbur
Hutsell Cake Race which will be
held on December 11, is the big­gest
all-campus track attraction
of the year.
The frosh who showed up good
in Wednesday's track meet ai-e
the ones who most likely will take
the honors in the cake race, and
will probably all become varsity
track men.
Herbert Drake, winner of the
1937 cake race, is a senior on the
varsity squad. "Rat" Russell, 1938
winner, was on the cross-country
varsity last year. John C. Ball,
last year's winner, recently broke
the new record on Auburn's Cross
Country course.
Team Leaves for
Boston; Plainsman
Writers Cover Came
The Traveling Tigers left Au­burn
Wednesday night at 8 o'clock
via train, enroute to Boston,
where they meet the Eagles of
Boston College in a major inter­section
football game Saturday
afternoon.
The Tigers will return to Au­burn
on the 11:50 train Monday
i morning. All students are urged
to meet the train and give the
Iteam an Auburn welcome, "win
or lose."
With the team went Chet Bulg­er
and Rufus Deal, two first
stringers who have been on the
injured list for several weeks. The
chances are that Bulger will see
action against the Eagles, but
Coach Meagher may not risk
Deal's weak elbow in Saturday's
game.
Dan Hollis and John Pierce,
Editor-in-Chief and Sports Edit­or
of the Plainsman, respectively,
left yesterday for Boston to cover
the game, along with other such
prominent writers as Ed Danforth
or O. B. Keeler, of the Atlanta
Journal, Jack Troy of the Atlanta
Constitution, Max Moseley of the
Montgomery Advertiser, and Jack
House of the Birmingham Age-
Herald.
For details concerning tomor­row's
game between the Tigers
and the Eagles, see Sports Editor
John Pierce's pre-view story on
page 4.
She was elected by a substantial
majority over the seven other co­eds
in the race.
Recently chosen as one of the
eight beauties whose pictures will
appear in the beauty section of
the 1941 Glomerata, Miss Free­man
will also be pictured in the
yearbook on the pages presenting
"Miss Auburn."
Second place in the election fell
to Margaret McCain, sophomore
from Montgomery in commercial
art. She is a member of Kappa
Delta sorority, and one of Au­burn's
two coed cheerleaders.
Mattybelle Tabor of Owen's
Cross Roads won third place when
the votes were counted. She is a
junior in home economics, and
was sponsored by Phi Omega Pi
sorority, of which she is president.
Christine Blackburn, another
local candidate, received fourth
place in the balloting. She is a
member of Alpha Gamma Delta
sorority, and is a junior in in­terior
decoration. Miss Blackburn
will appear in this year's Glom­erata
beauty section for the sec­ond
consecutive time.
Other candidates in the election
were:
Martha Gerhardt, of Mobile,
who is a sophomore registered in
commercial art. She was sponsor­ed
by Chi Omega sorority, and
was another of the three candi­dates
whose pictures will appear
in the Glomerata beauty section
when the yearbook is published in
the spring.
Frances Hamilton, of Spring-ville,
who was recently chosen
Harvest Queen, and who will
reign over the Ag Fair to be held
next Wednesday night. She is a
junior in home economics and was
an independent candidate.
Dorothy Dickinson was an inde­pendent
candidate, from Adams-ville.
She is registered in home
economics, and is a sophomore.
Adelaide Lindell is from Mobile.
She is a freshman in secretarial
science. Miss Lindell was an in­dependent
candidate.
Votes in Wednesday's election
were counted by the Elections
Committee of the Executive Cabi­net.
Students casting ballots were
required to present ticket books
as identification.
Cirl Break
Owls, sophomore honorary so­ciety
for women students, gave
the first no-break dance of the
year Wednesday night in the stu­dent
center. A rock-ola furnished
the music.
Pharmacy Professor
On Sub-Committee
Prof. George W. Hargreaves, of
the Auburn pharmacy department,
has been named an auxiliary mem­ber
of a subcommittee on Proxi­mate
Assays, by Dr. E. Fullerton
Cook, who is chairman of the com­mittee
on revision of the Phar­macopoeia
of the United States.
Pharmacopoeia is used as a
standard for strength and purity
of drugs in enforcement of the
Federal Drug, Food, and Cosmetic
acts.
Prof. Hargreaves' subcommittee
is at present engaged in the study
of the determination of- ether-soluble
extractions of official
drugs.
Prof. Hargreaves was the Au­burn
delegate to the recent con­vention
of pharmacists from all
over the nation. He has been in
Auburn since 1926, was appoint­ed
Professor in 1937. He holds the
degrees of Ph.C, B.S., M.S., from
the University of Nebraska.
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Greece May Soon
Face the Inevitable
Greece's warriors are daily reporting
gains against the Italian army along the
Albanian border. From all reports the
Italians are fleeing for their very life.
It does the heart of every American
good to hear that the proteges of the
"Nervous Nellie of Rome" are beating a
hasty retreat before an "underdog"
army of "Hellenic ladies" from Greece.
But the inevitable question arises.
How long can Greece hold out? It is a
well-known fact that Mussolini has the
larger army of the two countries. Of
course it is also a well-known fact that
the Italians are poor soldiers. But never­theless,
the words of Benito in saying
that he has an army of eight million
men is not to be sneezed at. In all prob­ability
he has an army that large. And
such a force of manpower compared
with Greece's would make the Greecians
look like a pretty sickly bunch.
When, and if, Mussolini decides to
turn loose the full force of his army, the
Greecians may suffer ignoble defeat.
However, it's hard to tell what will hap­pen.
We are all amazed at the defense
the Greecians are putting up. But how
long can they hold out? Will, or can
England send enough forces to aid the
Greeks in continuing to stop and push
back the Italian invasion? We've seen
underdog football teams fight much su­perior
teams and win, and possibly
Greece can do this, but war is a bit dif­ferent
from battle on the gridiron.
However, one can find an amusing
note, at least at the present, on the
Italian - Greecian struggle. Mussolini
stated the other day that he would
"break the Greek's back" as Italians
were making a "hasty retreat" from the
Albanian border. And so one comedian
added another cheerful note the other
night on the radio, "Latest reports state
that the Italians are still in Albania—
very still."
But Greece must soon face the inevit­able—
the full force of the Italian army.
And we wonder what will happen then.
But whatever happens there, we still say
that "There'll Always Be An England,"
and we're also hoping that "There'll Al­ways
Be A Greece."
Co to Work,
Or Get Out
Out in California, in the land of milk
and honey and sunshine and beautiful
women, is an airplane factory. At this
factory, thousands of men are supposed
to be turning out materials for our de­fense
program. These men are supposed
to be doing their part toward preparing
our nation for an emergency that may
arise any day.
But instead of working, these nim-witted
fools are sitting around on their
inglorious end in what they call a "sit-down
strike." They want to receive sev­enty-
five cents an hour instead of the
fifty cents an hour they are receiving
for their labors. And to obtain this they
have quit work. They are holding up our
vital defense preparations. Most Ameri­cans
are probably saying, "Well, I'll be
damned." And we will too. If these nit­wits
had the sense that the good Lord
A Challenge to
Student Government
Why doesn't the Student Executive
Cabinet set up qualifications for all stu­dent
elective offices on the campus? We
asked this question once before and no'
results came from our plea. We repeat
once more, and finally, at that. A sim­ple
scale of qualifications for all stu­dent
officers would not be a step to
make these offices more efficient and
progressive, for the majority of these
student officers do absolutely nothing.
They simply hold the office as an honor.
And they are content to let the matter
drop at that. Only the publication heads
and the social committee chairman are
required to fulfill any sort of qualifica­tions.
But why not place the election of all
student officers on an even better "honor
basis"? Why not set a certain scholastic
goal for these student officers? Why
not make the honor that goes with these
offices really mean something? Make
them a little more difficult to obtain?
Wouldn't you much rather say that the
president of your class is a student who
averages above 80, rather than a "good
politician," who barely manages to pass
enough of his work to remain in school.
By setting up certain standards for all
student offices, there would then be a
definite goal for those seeking these of­fices
to strive for. Eventually, these of­fices
might be raised to such an esteem­ed
position that students would be elect­ed
on the basis of their actual worth,
rather than their ability to "politick."
However, we are not condemning poli­ticking,
by any means, we are simply
saying that a man should not be elected
merely oh the basis that he is a good
politician. He should have some qualifi­cations
that merit his selection for that
office. Politicking is a great thing. It
helps persons make friends, learn how
to associate with people, and learn how
to take defeat with a smile and victory
with deserving modesty.
And while we are on the subject of
student offices—why not organize class­es
better, in order that these officers
will actually have something to do? Why
not have class meetings, and promote
some worthwhile projects. Why not
make something worthwhile out of these
student offices, instead of purely an
honor.
If the Executive Cabinet does not want
to make any step toward making these
student offices a working part of student
government and action; and if the Cabi­net
does not desire to set up any list of
qualifications for those seeking these
offices to fulfill — then we say, throw
out these offices. What's the need of
having elections if there's no value to
be obtained, no purpose to be gained?
These student offices can be made con­structive
training grounds with a little
action from the Cabinet.
We bear no malice toward the Execu­tive
Cabinet. We are not "mad" at any
of the students who compose this stu­dent
governing body. This is simply a
challenge to them, either to accept, or
let fall by the wayside. We hope that
the Cabinet members will not procrasti­nate
any longer on this move. We hope
that they will not hesitate because one
of their fraternity brothers or best
friends wants to run for a certain of­fice,
and would not be able to meet a
certain standard, a list of such qualifi­cations,
if set up by the Cabinet. We
hope the Cabinet will not shirk its duty
as the student governing body of our in­stitution.
promised a dead billy goat with his
horns sawed off, they'd go back to work
and do their part toward helping this
country through a crisis.
We'd like to have our salary raised too,
but we don't sit on a tack and let the
newspaper go to blue blazes because of
that. Who in the hell wouldn't like to
get more money for his work? Either
go back to work or get out—out of the
country, we mean!
At Kilby Prison, Alabama — Turkey,
yesterday.
At Anycity, Germany—Dog meat, yes­terday.
* * *
The English ought to try some hot
Southern biscuits and gravy with their
pork chops.
* * *
Question: Is dog meat better, fried,
broiled, or boiled?
CAMPUS CAMERA PI ains Talk
By HERBERT MARTIN
BILL BRANNAN,
BLIND BELOIT COLLEGE
SENIOR, IS A MAINSTAY
OF THE WRESTLING TEAM'
H T U.C.L.A. 8000 STUDENTS DRIVE TO
• * l COLLEGE DAILY IN" 4700 CARS.
General Delivery
By REDDING SUGG
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 modern social system has
long been recognized as barbaric in
certain of its aspects. It does vio­lence
in particular to girls. It has
widened that awful category known
as wallflowers from which there
is usually no returning.
* * *
The system is illogically built on
lop-sided foundations, and it lays
emphasis on and judges people by
a shallow scale of values. Dancing,
after all a mere pleasure and only
a part of the system, is conceived
as the measure of so precious a
thing as popularity. The system is
vicious in that it does not allow
fair-minded or compassionate boys
to aid victimized girls. It stigma­tizes
the boys who step over the
line among the wallflowers.
* * *
Date Agencies
Date agencies, such as the new
one on the campus have some
posibilities in the direction of re­form.
I know before I say any­thing
that dates from an agency,
if secured by girls, are set aside
with contempt. It might just be
possible, though, that date agen­cies
could be used to give wall­flowers—
hateful word!—a fair
chance. It is often mathematically
true that one wallflower minus
one belle is equal to still another
belle or so. Wallflowers are a natu­ral
part of humanity and will al­ways
exist under any kind of social
system, but under the present social
system they are thoughtlessly
branded and their number is arti­ficially
large.
* * *
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, whose works
whole English departments labor
in vain to sell college students, is
made to appear palatable to the
readers of pulp magazines by a
practically fool proof advertising
method. Geoffrey did not mince his
words, and along with those of
Boccaccio and Rabelais his works
are seductively advertised as "ab­solutely
unexpurged" and "daring­ly
frank." Maybe the English de­partments
ought to take a hint.
Nature in this part of Alabama
seems a little niggardly to cursory
observers, although I am told that
for the careful eye there are mani­fold
beauties. So few are the spec­tacular
exhibitions that I feel they
should be noticed when they do
come about. If you like lucious
color, go out and find a thicket of
beautyberries, or some people call
them Japanese cranberries, with
the sun shining on them. The pur­ple
looks good enough to eat.
* * *
France's Downfall
The Germans used 25,000,000
Frenchmen in conquering France—
they used the refugees to prevent
the French armies from destroy­ing
roads and bridges and they
used them to impede the movement
of the French forces. Vincent
Sheean, who spoke here last week,
flew from Paris to London just be­fore
the armistice, when the refu­gees
were thickest. He said that
from the air he could see northern
France spread out in relief. The
north-south roads were black and
working with people as far as the
horizon, while the east-west roads
were deserted and the intervening
country was desolated. It must have
been like watching a body bleed
to death, with the life blood flow-
Plainsman Forum
Letters to the Editor
The Plainsman
Auburn, Ala.
Dear Mr. Editor:
Please express for us through
your paper our heartfelt and sin-cerest
gratitude to the ones who
aided us in any way during the ill­ness
and death of our dear son
and brother, James Willard Dav­enport.
To those who helped financially,
sent trays, flowers, gave meals,
furnished a room, visited, express­ed
sympathy; and those fine boys
who gave their blood to try to
save our son; and those christian
people who prayed for Willard,
words are too futile to express how
we feel. But we say, from our
hearts, may God richly bless and
reward, is our prayer.
Sincerely,
Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Davenport
and Children.
Maplesville, Ala.
Mr. Porter Grant
Secretary, Auburn Alumni Asso.
Auburn, Alabama
Dear Porter:
The Auburn Dinner and "Bull
Session" was a huge success.
Those present resolved that the
New York Chapter would be more
active than ever. We spent the en­tire
evening talking about Auburn,
giving the different yells, singing
Touchdown Auburn, led of course
by the "Old Maestro" Charlie Dud­ley.
We made plans for attending
the Auburn-Boston College game
on November 23 and will see the
gang at the Hotel Kenmore on
that date. It would have pleased
us immensely if you, Elmer Salter
and the balance of our Auburn
friends could have been with us.
We elected the following offi­cers
for the year 1940-1941. Presi­dent
— William E. Del Homme,
vice-president — John M. Garrett,
Jr., secretary — Inez Shepard
Archer, treasurer—Ed Bukofzer.
We know that in spite of the
setback on Saturday, that Auburn
will give a good account of itself
next Saturday, and you may rest
assured that we will do our bit to
cheer the boys along.
Looking forward to seeing all
of you on the 23rd, I remain,
Sincerely,
Ed Bukofzer
Class 1900
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.
It's Auburn versus the Univers­ity
of Alabama on the Crimson's
home grounds once again, come
December 5. You say Auburn-
Alabama competitive relations are
a thing of the past or very dist­ant
future? Perhaps you're right,
if it's football you're speaking of,
but you're dead wrong if you
mean that statement very inclus­ively.
* # *
Feature of the evening on the
Bama campus that night will be a
Battle of Music at a dance spon­sored
by the commerce school.
Headliners in the main event will
be the Auburn Knights and the
Alabama Cavaliers, who will vie
for musical honors for several
hours.
* * *
Some of the Cavaliers were in
Montevallo last Saturday night,
reportedly scouting the Knights,
and the event is being played up
big on the Tuscaloosa campus.
Featured with the Cavaliers is Ed
Wadsworth, last year's business
manager, first team fiddler, and
trumpet man with the Knights.
The Cavalier leader, Taylor Har­dy,
fronted the Knights summer
before last while they were on
tour. It'll be old home night in
more ways than one, and we pick
the Knights, 53 to 6.
* * *
It would appear that the Alpha
Gamma girls are not afraid of
being seen before breakfast (con-,
tributed), judging from the num­bers
. . -. spurred on by a five
buck absence fee . . . who congre­gated
for a very fine midnight
feast before daybreak Tuesday
morning, or perhaps late Monday
night.
The frolic was enjoyable, and
even more, but we believe that
it would have been just as good
at night. "Sunrise Serenade"
fought hard for the honor of be­ing
theme song, but it was edged
in the last quarter by a gallantly
fighting "I'm Tired and 'm Teepy
and I Wants to Go to Bed."
* * *
Even at an hour too early for
honest folk, some of the students
present looked' fairly presentable,
but all had a rather shame-faced
look for being caught there at
that time of the night. A large
representation was there from the
Hill, who dropped around after
four to six plowing lab. Also
among those present were visiting
Skay-rabs who must think we have
rather queer customs. •-
* * *
Representatives from other fem­inine
lodges showed up shortly af­ter
seven-thirty, not being in­fluenced
by any five buck fines.
And this getting up with the
chickens ain't what it's cracked up
to was, come eleven ay em.
* * *
It was the best sorority dance
we've ever attended. We still say
it's unconstitutional to get up so
early, and tohellwithit.
* * *
Latest reports have it that the
three, or thereabouts, Emory stu­dents
daring to invade the Agnes
Scott campus are practically on
the ropes, despite the well-known
fact that all Miss Agnes Scotts
have a well-noised-about reputa­tion
for true-loving the boy who
is in school somewhere else. May­be
they just like to keep in prac­tice,
as far as boy-chasing is con­cerned.
At any rate, it's open sea­son
on males the year around at
that institution!
* * *
There'll always be an England,
on the Hill in Boston, and we
predict the Tigers to scale the
heights tomorrow, LIII to VI.
* * *
We respect Thanksgiving for
what it is, and what it stands for,
but we don't think those old pio­neers
would have any great objec­tion
to our holiday's being moved J
from Thursday to Friday. Wonder
why that wasn't done? Students
could have gone home, had that
been so, but yesterday in Auburn
was about like any other day, ex­cept
for the fact that no one had
anything to do. Anyhow, Turkey
Day is gone again, and a good
many of us missed the turkey.
* * *
And the Atlanta Journal carri­ed
this headline last Monday.
"Duce. Pledges to 'Break Greece's
Back' as Troops Attempt Desper­ate
Retreat." Sorta optimistic.
* * *
Karrie, the Kampus Kounselor,
kounsels, "You're right for once.
The Alpha Gam morning tussel
was a success, but one is enough
for any college. Let us pray that
no other sorority plans to give a
repeat performance. Man should
not be awakened from his early
morning sleep, 'cause it ain't
healthy. In the words of our edit­or,
God forbid that he be treated
so in the future."
Parade of Opinion
By ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS
"RUSSIA," comments the Daily
Kansan at the University of Kan-
- sas, "appears to be simulating a
half-asleep bear, able to stick out a
heavy paw when the time arrives."
When Soviet Premier-Foreign
Commissar Molotov recently made
the first trip of his life outside
Russia to confer with Adolph Hit­ler
in Berlin, new attention was fo­cused
on the peculiar status of the
Soviet Union in the European
cauldron. Recent Axis activity in
the Balkans has brought forth
lengthy speculation in the nation's
collegiate press.
"There could be no question,"
says the University of Minnesota
Daily, "but that the newest Axis
moves were a direct threat to its
military position, yet Russia gave
no indication that it would proceed
any further than its mild rebuke
to Germany for failure to give
adequate notice of the occupation
(of Rumania). IT IS EXTEMELY
UNLIKELY THAT THE SOVIET
UNION WILL RISK A WAR
WITH GERMANY AT THE
PRESENT TIME; IT IS NOT
POLITIC TO DO SO. The stale­mate
with Britain still leaves Ger­many
the opportunity to create an
eastern front, and the Red army
is not yet sufficiently developed and
reorganized to easily defeat the
reichswehr."
The Cornell Daily Sun feels that
"in the Balkan powderkeg the two
most powerful forces on the con­tinent
have now reached positions
where their interests are irrepar­ably
in constant conflict. A SIT-ing
away and leaving the tissues
white.
* * *
In that excellent book, "You
Can't Go Home Again," Thomas
Wolfe, speaking through his
character George Webber, declared
(Continued on page 3)
UATION I S DEVELOPING
WHEREIN ONE OF THE CON­QUERORS
WILL E I T H ER
HAVE TO R E T R E A T OR
FIGHT. To those of us who have
so long been in the dark concern­ing
the nature of the alliance be­tween
Hitler and Stalin, this last
conflict merely serves to increase
the general confusion. But who
among us would not be willing to
stay in the dark in this respect as
long as the conflict ivhich is brew­ing
promises, however slightly, to
give light to the world ivhich is
sinking ever deeper into darkness?"
Russia, sandwiched between the
two most active Axis members, "is
in a crucial position both as an
ally or as an enemy," declares the
University of Michigan Daily. "Al­ready
the Soviet has made several
agreements with Germany and has
shared in the partition of Poland.
But the tensity created between the
two nations by the occupation of
Rumania has not been lessened by
a reiteration of Russo-German co­operation.
The Soviet has always
shared a mutual hostility with Italy
and has repeatedly opposed Italian
expansion in the Balkans. Russia's
relations with Japan have been
historically belligerent. That the
Soviet cannot be ignored in the
reconstruction of Europe and Asia
is undeniable. Either Russia must
co-operate or her vast quantities of
food, raw materials and land must
be divided among the potential rul­ers
of the continent.
"Thus," concludes the Daily, "an­other
paradox is formed in Eu?
rope's chaotic political free-for-all.
The biggest bully of all is neither
admitted officially into the gang
nor openly marked for liquidation.
Unless a secret agreement is made
between the four spoilsmen of the
Eastern Hemisphere, one of the
two alternatives will break into
action soon."
November 22, 1940 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Boston College Has Great Team
But Writers See Possible Upset
'Li'l Abner' Shows At Tiger
Theater in Comedy Tomorrow
Annual Sadie Hawkins Day Will Not Be
Held Until February 2 1 ; WAA to Sponsor
Although Auburn's campus is
far from resembling the hills of
Dog patch and our students are
not replicas of Li'l Abners and
Daisy Maes, API will have their
own Sadie Hawkin's Day next
February 21. The Women's Ath­letic
Association will sponsor the
event which will include many
novel features such as a girl-break
dance and a contest for the Li'l
Abners and Daisey Maes partici­pating
in "the great day".
The Plainsman, student news­paper,
was to have sponsored the
event today but seceded the honor
to the WAA because they intend­ed
to make the event a part of
their regular activities. A Li'l Ab­ner
contest was to have been held
on the stage of the Tiger Theatre
tomorrow during the showing of
the screen version of Al Capp's
famous comic strip, but it was
postponed since "the day" will not
be held until next February.
Providing the entertainment ap­peal
of a robust comedy romance
at the Tiger Theatre Saturday,
"Li'l Abner," screen version of
Al Capp's popular newspaper
comic page feature, now brings
all of the fantastic Dogpatch
characters into life, with the roles
taken by a score of popular Hol­lywood
players.
Untjl brought to the films, they
existed only in the mind of Al
Capp, their creator, and in his
highly humorous cartoons. Now
they are translated into active be­ing
in a slap-dash production with
the love theme highlighted as in
the comic strip series.
The entire action of "Li'l Ab­ner"
takes place in Dogpatch*
There lives Li'l Abner a big and
b a s h f u l mountain boy who's
"afraid of love" and of beautiful
Daisy Mae, in particular. But love
"is what Daisy Mae is in of" with
Li'l Abner, and she loses no op­portunity
to try and induce Ab­ner
to woo her.
Li'l Abner's pint-sized parents—
Pansy, with the strength of a lion,
and Lucifer, with the heart of a
rabbit—are in favor of the match
but can't do anything about it un­til
one day Abner is told by a
train barber, whom he mistakes
for a doctor, that a tummyache
he has acquired from eating a
huge Starvation Prevente* Sand­wich
indicates that he will be
dead within twenty-four hours.
Then, Li'l Abner gets a lot of
things off his chest, thinking he
has only a short time to live.
Among them is a proposal to Daisy
Mae and the capture of mighty
Earthquake McGoon, the bad man
from Skunk Hollow, in order to
get a reward to leave behind for
his parents. He even proposes to
Wendy Wilecat, Daisy Mae's hat­ed
rival.
When he learns the next day
that he is dead only from the neck
up, he faces a situation more fear­ful
even than that of kissing Daisy
Mae. The solution is finally work­out
in the Sadie Hawkins Day
Race, Dogpatch's famous annual
event.
Good Luck,
TIGERS!
FRANCIS CRIMMINS, Virgin­ia.
Tackle; height, 6' 1"; weight,
203. Outstanding player.
WE
ARE ALWAYS
BEHIND YOU—
WIN OR
LOSE.
All of the action of "Li'l Ab­ner"
is adapted from some se­quence
of the famous comic strip,
and the familiar characters have
been recreated on the screen with
remarkable fidelity.
Granville Owen, former college
athlete and amateur heavyweight
boxer of note, portrays Li'l Abner.
Martha O'Driscoll, one of the
most beautiful young actresses in
Hollywood, is the curvaceous Daisy
Mae. Tiny Mona Ray is Mammy
Yokum, Johnnie Morris is Pappy,
Buster Keaton is Lonesome Pole­cat,
the Indian, Kay Sutton is
Wendy Wilecat, Billie Seward is
Cousin Delightful and Maude
Eburne is Granny Scraggs in the
picture. Earthquake McGoon is
brought to life by Charles A. Post
and Bud Jamison is Hairless Joe.
Texas Aggies and
Gophers Are Top
Teams of Nation
Stanford Follows Close
Behind These Two Teams
In National Rankings
Minnesota, Texas A. & M., and
Stanford held fast to their posi­tions
in the Williamson and Asso­ciated
Press ratings which estab­lish
them as the nation's three
greatest teams for the second
time in two weeks. Cornell, beaten
Monday by a motion picture film,
dropped into the first ten's sec­ond
division. It marks the first
time this season that the Big Red
has not been included within the
top four selections of both rating
systems.
Texas A. & M. turned loose all
of its power in thundering over
Rice, 25-0, to take first place for
Williamson, second by AP. Minne­sota
did even better by blasting
Purdue, 33-0, and held third as
selected by Williamson, first for
AP. Stanford thumped Oregon
State, 28-14, now is second for
Williamson, third for AP.
Associated Press
Minnesota
Texas A. & M.
Stanford
Boston College
Cornell
Tennessee
Michigan
8. Nebraska
9. Georgetown
10. Northwestern
Williamson
1. Texas A. & M.
2. Stanford
3. Minnesota
4. Tennessee
5. Michigan
6. SMU
7. Nebraska
8. Cornell
9. Boston College
10. Georgetown
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Eagles Are Undefeated, Untied in Eight
Straight Games; Tigers Are Unpredictable
The Tigers of Auburn play the Eagles of Boston Col­lege
tomorrow afternoon at Fenway Park in Boston, Mass­achusetts.
The Eagles have one of the best teams in the
nation. The Plainsmen have probably the most unpre­dictable
team in the nation. The Eagles should win to­morrow's
game. But no sports writer or predicter in the
nation is going head over heels in predicting a Boston
Victory.
General Delivery
(Continued from page 2)
his belief that the Biblical book of
Ecclesiastes is the greatest single
literary production, the greatest
piece of writing. Take his tip, as I
have, and read the book; it is
beautiful, and it helps to soften and
resolve the troublesome questions
so frequently presented in this day
of apparently limitless immorality,
insecurity, and grief.
* * *
An Old Maid
There was once an old maid who
considered it her duty to guard the
morals of her fellow villagers. One
day she accused a laborer of hav­ing
given himself to drunkeness,
for she had seen his wheelbarrow
leaning against the wall of the
village saloon. The man didn't say
anything, but that same evening
he leaned his wheelbarrow against
the old maid's house and left it
there all night.
* * *
President Hutchins of the Uni­versity
of Chicago has said, "It is
not so important to be serious as
it is to be serious about important
things. The monkey wears an ex­pression
of seriousness which would
do credit to any college student,
but the monkey is serious because
he itches."
Ouch!
The American Association of
University Women has»cabled $6,-
050 abroad to help European wom­en
scholars in distress because of
the war.
The following interesting story
was written by Leslie Avery,
United Press Correspondent, con­cerning
the contest at Fenway
Park tomorrow:
Experts and fans already have
consigned Boston College to the
Sugar Bowl as an opponent of
Tennessee on New Year's Day,
but Boston Coach Frank Leahy
sees Auburn as a formidable
stumbling block next Saturday.
As the season wears onto its
final week it becomes increasingly
harder to keep a football team at
top pitch, and Leahy realizes this
danger in facing a strong Auburn
club trying to atone for fumbling
away victory against LSU last
week.
In rolling over eight straight
opponents by a total of 290 points
to 45, Boston College has not had
a letdown all season and Leahy
fears that one might be due to
follow that tough 19-18 victory
over Georgetown last week. East­erners
who saw that bruising
game figure that any of the bowl
promoters could do worse than
scheduling those two great clubs
for a replay on Jan. 1.
This week, following the Eagles'
victory over a strong Georgetown
team last Saturday, Coach Frank
Leahy was honored for the record
made by his team. Since he start­ed
his term as coach at B. C. at
the start of the 1939 season he
has not lost but two games, and
now his team boasts an eight-game
winning streak.
Last Saturday the Eagles had
to come from behind after George-
CHESTER BULGER
Chet will probably see action
tomorrow for the first time since
the Mississippi State game back
in October. The Tigers will need
his services against the Eagles of
Boston College.
town's Hoyas had scored 10 points
in the first five minutes of play,
to win the game 19-18 in one of
the most hair-raising games of the
1940 football season.
Tomorrow Coach Leahy's team
will face another real test. Sports
writers grant that if Boston de­feats
Auburn they will in all prob­ability
play in some post-season
bowl game. But if Auburn upsets
the Eagles — well you figure it
out.
$10. REWARD for return of
black suede "Nat Lewis" bag
lost during homecoming week­end.
Had pair of glasses with
dark glasses over them; also
Merchant's and Mechanical
Bank check and $4.00. Phone
546-W or 52.
LOST—November 9th at Auburn,
a bunch of keys on key ring.
One long narrow flat key. Find­er
please return to this office
and receive $2.50 reward.
COMMUNITY Choir—Wednesday
7 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Student
Center—Mr. P. R. Bidez Direct­or
and Billy Tembelyn Pianist.
Men . . .
THE PRICES OF LABOR
AND WOOLENS ARE
GOING UP—
The prices on woolen
clothes are bound to ad­vance
but LEE JAMES
down on Railroad
Avenue must
sell . . .
1,000 MEN'S SUITS
All of our $14.95 Suits—
$12.50
All of our $16.50 Suits—
$14.95
All of our $19.50 Suits—
$16.50
All of our $22.50 Suits—
$19.50
We Do Not Sell Cheap Merchandise, But Good Merchandise Cheap
LEE TAMES
OPELIKA
Page Four T H E P L A I N S M AN November 22, 1940
Tigers Seek to Upset Boston College Eagles
TIGER TALES
By "BOOTS" STRATFORD
800TS'•SVZATFOR.D
Last week Captain McGowen's Plainsmen had their
long rifles aimed for game, but the quarry obviously was- j
n't LSU's Tigers. They were aiming over the Purple Tiger's
head straight at the high flying and more
difficult game, the Eagles of Boston Col­lege.
These unpredictable Plainsmen are
pointing for this ball game. We said at
season's start that they could not point
for any one game in view of the devas­tating
schedule. But they have elected to
point for this one and lost the LSU game
because of it. Now they've got what they
want; the chips are down and its up to
the brain and brawn and brashness of
those gallant lads in orange.
Can they do it? On respective records, no. Frank
Leahy's behemoths are unbeaten, have been accorded the
number three spot in national rankings and possess the
multitudinous talents of several all-America candidates,
two of whom are Cheerful Charlie O'Rourke, slingshot
halfback, and Gorgeous Gene Goodreault, omnipresent
end.
On the other hand, the Auburns have lost three
and tied one while winning four; they have been rid­dled
with injuries and will be minus the much needed
services of Johnny Chalkley and Rufus Deal, Deal the
Devastator, who battered the Eagles half crazy last
year, and Chet Bulger will be able to play but in ev­ery
other quarter. The Tiger offense is potent but the
defense is not—witness the 13 points scored in each
losing fray; 13 points would win most ball games.
So there you have the comparison.
Auburn is an "every other Saturday" team but this
is that "other" Saturday! Bill Boni and other experts have
found Auburn "unpredictable" and except for the Howard
fray have not picked an Auburn game correctly this year
and they are picking Boston! Auburn is known for losing
the games they are supposed to win and winning those
they are supposed to lose; they are supposed to lose this
one! We can't recall the Tigers ever having won a game
in the East and so the law of averages is with them. And
lastly, as we said before, the Tigers are pointing for this
one!
Now all this negative reasoning may be only a bit
of wishful thinking, but in spite of overwhelming
odds, we give the doughty Plainsmen better than an
outside chance and if their gridiron gods who frown­ed
so frightfully last Saturday will smile over Fenway
Park tomorrow, they will bring home some Boston
bacon.
At any rate, we wish good luck and God speed to the
dam'dest team we know of.
* * *
2.7 miles ain't no promenade, freshmen!
Coach of Ramsay High School
in Birmingham, Will Chrietzberg,
Auburn's pivot mainstay on the
gridiron in 1933, is the older
brother of the Tigers valuable
senior center in football this fall,
Abb. While at Auburn, Will was
known as "Hank" and Abb is
called "Little Hank."
Young men and women ai'e more
curious about economic problems
of marriage than about sex, or
anything else, according to Prof.
Homer L. J. Carter of Western
Michigan State Teachers College.
Fairmont (W. Va.) State College
is located at the headwaters of the
Monongahela river, one of the few
rivers that flow northward.
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The Auburn footballers will
meet Tigers, Eagles, Gators and
Wildcats in their last four games
of the 1940 campaign. They will
tackle the LSU Tigers in Birming­ham
on November 16, the Boston
College Eagles in Boston on No­vember
23, the Florida Gators in
Columbus on November 30, and
the Villanova Wildcats in Mont­gomery
on December 7 in their
final four bouts for this year.
Princeton's Theological semi­nary
opened its 129th year with
an enrollment of more than 220.
Britain reports three former
team captains at Eton College have
been killed in the armed service.
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Jim has turned in some stellar defensive play at his end position
in the past few games. Last Saturday he blocked a punt against LSU
which was recovered for the Tiger's first touchdown against the
Bengals. __
McGowen Leading
Auburn Scoring
D i c k H a s A m a s s e d Total
Of 3 9 P o i n t s for Y e ar
Although the Tigers dropped
their third decision of the season
last Saturday in Birmingham they
kept on scoring and ran the sea­son's
total up to 130 points for
eight games. Theo Cremer recov­ered
the first period punt blocked
by Jim Samford to become the
fourteenth Auburn scorer and the
thirteenth to score a touchdown.
Dick McGowen, who converted
after the first touchdown and
later scored on Buddy McMahan's
pass, widened his lead to 20 points
and moved up into the bracket
with the leading scorers of the
Southeastern Conference. The Au­burn
Captain has now accounted
for 38 points.
Those now in the point parade
are: McGowen—38, Yearout—18,
Deal—12, Harkins—7, Cheatham,
Faulk, Samford, Chalkley, Wil­liams,
Reynolds, Wendling, Crem­er,
and McGehee—6 each, and
McMahan.
The eight opposing teams have
scored a 103 point total. Not a
game yet has failed to feature a
touchdown by both teams, with an
average of better than four touch­downs
per game showing on the
books.
Registration at Kent State Uni­versity
(Ohio) hit 2,536 to break
all records.
ROYAL CROWN BOTTLING CO.
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Physical Education
Club Will Sponsor
Minor Sports Play
A play night has been planned
in which all students of API are
invited to participate. When will
this be? Monday night, Nov. 25,
7:00. What games will be avail­able?
Badminton, shuffleboard,
ping pong, boxing, fencing, swim­ming,
recreational sports, ringo,
volley-ball, tumbling, and weights.
The faculty of the Physical Ed­ucation
Department with the help
of the Physical Education Club
will give a demonstration of the
different games available, at the
beginning. They will be on hand
for help in any game for the re­mainder
of the play night.
The purpose of play night is to
get the students more interested
in intramural sports which are
available here at Auburn, and if
enough interests is shown it may
be that one or two nights a week,
the gym will be open for the stu­dents
who wish to play games
available in the gym.
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OPELIKA
Eagles Boast Great
Unblemished Record
Plainsmen Have Good Chance to Stop B. C.
Winning Streak at Boston's Fenway Park
By JOHN PIERCE, Sports Editor
Tomorrow afternoon in Boston the Auburn Plainsmen
will take on their biggest order of the 1940 football sea­son
as they sail into the East's number one grid team, the
undefeated and untied Eagles of Boston College.
Reports have hinted a possible crowd of 40,000 cus­tomers
at Fenway Park, and Coach Jack Meagher's off
and on Tigers will have their top opportunity of showing
football, Dixie style, at its best. Pre-game odds fix the
Eagles as heavy favorites to con
tinue their winning streak of eight
games, but everyone who has ever
watched an Auburn team in action
knows that it's times such as this
when the Plainsmen rise to unpre­dictable
heights.
The boys from home are not only
up against a powerful football
team which has scored at least
three touchdowns in every game
but will have to face entirely dif­ferent
weather conditions and the
other disadvantages to be accrued
from a trip of some 1200 miles.
One needs but to look at the
Boston record to realize the class
of football they're dealing out up
there. Frank Leahy's Cotton Bowl­ers
have thus far played eight
games, winning them all with a
total score of 280 points as against
a meager 45 for the opposition.
Only close call for the Eagles came
last week when they were forced
to come from behind to beat
Georgetown 19-18 and end the
Hoya win streak at 23 games.
Aside from then it has been all
milk and honey for the northern­ers.
They have beaten Centre, 40-
0; Tulane, 27-7; Temple, 33-20;
Idaho, 60-0; St. Anslem's, 55-0;
Manhattan, 25-0; and Boston Uni­versity,
21-0. The lineup reads
something like a meeting of the
League of Nations, what with
names like Lukachik, Goodreault,
Manzo, Yauckoes, Zablinski, Kerr,
Dubzinski, Toczylowski, Holovak,
Maznicki, and O'Rourke adorning
the programs, but Russian or
Greek, Italian or Irish, this little
list of announcer's nightmares has
been winning football games, and
with not too much difficulty.
Charlie O'Rourke has been the
mainspring in the lightning at­tack
of the Yankee aggregation,
with his 170 pounds of dynamite
that is capable of doing any given
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task with a pigskin. He's now be­ing
boosted as the greatest passer
since O'Brien.
Number one line performer for
Frank Leahy is massive Gene
Goodreault, an end who appears to
hold the key to almost every All-
America problem now existing as
to the top choice for that position.
(Good as Gene may be tomorrow,
however, he will be nothing new
to these Tigers, for they've seen
the best in the flank department
and have come out satisfactorily
each time, holding up well against
such luminaries as Elrod of Miss­issippi
State, Ison of Georgia Tech,
and Blalock of Clemson, all of whom
will make anybody's All-Confer­ence
if not All- America list.) He
suffered an injured knee against
Georgetown but should be back in
the lineup by game time.
Then, if these two aren't enough
to throw fits into any opposing
team the Eagles can name off such
starters as Dubzinski, one of the
East's ranking centers, Toczylow­ski,
a back who can do anything
O'Rourke can do, and Kerr, the
English-speaking man in the mid­dle
of the line who is all a guard
could and should be. The forward
wall weighs in at approximately
199 pounds and so will outweigh
the Auburn line by ten or more
pounds.
A fearful array, the above, but
this is Auburn and the ball clubs
here laugh at both the rating and
record of the assortment facing
them. Every team has one game
it points for, and for Auburn it's
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in our corset department
Friday and Saturday
Nov. 22nd and 23rd
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A fine defensive end, Theo re­covered
a blocked punt against
the LSU Bengals last Saturday
for the Plainsmen's first touch­down
always the biggest team on the
slate. It was Tennessee last year
and the game turned into such a
close match that Auburn was sub­sequently
dropped from the Vol
schedule. This year it's Boston,
and there's even more behind this
fierce desire to knock off the Ea­gles
than the number three na­tional
ranking of the latter; last/
year the birds came from behind
to edge out Auburn, 13-7, in the
last three minutes of play.
This only throws coal on the
fire. There are no limits to what
an inspired Plainsman team is cap­able
of doing, and the team that
left Wednesday night was that sort
of a team.
With the exception of Bulger's
return the lineup should be fun­damentally
the same, with Sam­ford
and Cremer at ends, McClur-kin
and Eddins or Bulger at tack­les,
Ardillo and Mills at guards,
Williams at center, and McGowen,
Wendling, Irby, and Cheatham in
the backfield.
Sunday & Monday
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November 22, 1940 T H E P L A I N S M A.N Page Five
Auburn Will Observe National Art Week
With Exhibits At Architecture Building
•Raw Deal Laundry Wins First Place
In National Rippa Button Offa Test
Only Wins Second Prize
In Lost Socks Contest
By CHARLES WAGGONER
Word was received this morn­ing
via Western Union that Au­burn's
own Raw Deal Laundry
war awarded First Grand National
prize by Rippa Button Off, Na­tional
Honorary Laundry Frater­nity.
The fraternity is holding its
national convention in Kalamazoo,
Michigan.
Manager Wu Foo
Mr. Wu Fong Foo, manager of
the local laundry, has been named
chairman of the Department of
Research. Mr. Foo stated last
week that the most recent de­velopment
in laundry research
work is the new patented solution
for washing shirts. This solution
when added to the already excel­lent
solution of sulphuric acid,
which we now use, will raise the
standard forty-four one hundred-reths
per cent. Then our shirt de­portment
will have reached an ef­ficiency
mark of ninety-nine and
forty-four one hundredreths per
cent.
Losing Clothes
In losing clothes, suits, socks,
•etc., the Raw Deal Laundry was
awarded only second place. Mr.
Foo stated that his company is
striving to place first in this field
next year. In fact, a cardboard
propaganda campaign has already
been started. Every morning when
the workers enter the plant they
seen a large signboard with the
company's policies, in the form of
mottos, placed in the center of the
main bulletin board. The placard
this morning called attention to
the delivery department, it read,
"Never do today what you can
put off until tomorrow." This
motto along with "a button a day
will increase the pay" is very dear
to Mr. Foo's heart, and he hopes
that his employees will notice
these mottos and benefit from them.
Demolishing Collars
A representative from the Na­tional
Clothes Demolishing Asso­ciation,
of which the Raw Deal is
an outstanding member, visited
the local plant last week. He pre­sented
to Mr. Foo the association's
"Honorable Mention" for the
especially good and outstanding
work in demolishing shirt collars.
He complimented the work of the
plant and left some valuable
pamphlets for the employees to
study. These pamphlets discuss
freely the art of stripping buttons
from shirts, punching holes in
socks, scorching dress pants, and
the mechanics of ruining clothes.
One leaflet, which Mr. Foo point­ed
out, deals with new equipment
for college laundries.
Two Creases in Pants
"Sometime in the near future
we intend to install a machine
which will put two creases in
pants more efficiently than our
present method does," Mr. Foo
stated. He also added, "We hope
to have soon a machine designed
especially for ripping elastic out
of dainty things. This machine
also doubles the pleats in any
dress. The present machinery was
installed when Auburn was the
East Alabama Female College."
But he quickly added, "We have
been assured of quick delivery on
this new equipment, and we hope
that our efficiency in this depart­ment
will increase."
The Raw Deal Laundry is just­ly
proud of the honor bestowed
upon them, and every department
is striving to win first place next
year. This would entitle the local
plant entrance in the Internation­al
Laundry sweepstakes.
* * *
(The above is a lie, I deny it.
What's more it is written in fun,
SUPPOSED to be funny, and it
is not a degratory article on the
local laundry.)
Exhibits Will Be Placed on Display for
Public from Monday Through Saturday
By ALBERT SCROGGINS
During National Art Week, November 25 to 30, the
Architectural-Art library will be one of the six scenes of
art exhibits in Alabama.
The object behind this nation-wide Art Fair is to give
the American artist and the American public an oppor­tunity
to become better acquainted. The inevitable end
of the exhibition should be: "American art in every Ameri­can
home," this being the slogan for Art Week.
~ ~7 "Here is the opportunity,
PLATTER
PICKINGS
Ann Sheridan, the Oomph Girl, Finds
Herself at Top of the Film Ladder
Beautiful Star Comes
To Martin on Sunday
It's all right with Ann Sheridan,
if the rest of the world, taking her
and her films as examples, lavishes
a liking for romance on its motion
picture screens.
Ann doesn't go along with these
likings.
"I like moving pictures that
have a lot of fast moving action,"
says Ann. "Maybe that's because
I don't move so fast, myself." Ann
was relaxing near a fan on the
set of Warner Bros.' "City For
Conquest" as she talked. She is
co-featured in this picture with
Jimmy Cagney, at the Martin Sun­day.
The Oomph Girl
Omph is one of the last things
Ann troubles herself to look for,
when she pays her money at the
box office.
"I like to be thrilled, and I like
Treat Yourself
To Music!
We have a complete
supply of . . .
Records,
Phonographs, and
Hook-ups
Student's Supply Shop
to laugh," says Annie. "I laugh at
anything on the screen that has
the slightest tendency to be funny.
I'll shop around and drive across
town, if I think I have spotted a
picture with good comedy."
Ann herself hasn't played com­edy
roles, but she thinks she might
like to. "It takes cleverness to be
really funny, don't you think?"
she asks.
Miss Sheridan also likes genu­ine
emotion in the pictures she
pays to see.
Easily Pleated
"I'm one of the most easily
pleased of moviegoers," she con-
(Continued on page 6)
By JIMMY GILBERT
Those nice Decca folks have
come across with six more platters
that are all plenty good. The va­riety
does not include anything
by that Dick Robertson fellow this
time.
Our choice for the best of them
all is the record those Andrews
gals have cut on "Beat Me Daddy,
Eight To a Bar". Eight to the
bar rhythm, plus those singing
gals gives us a version of this fa­vorite
that can't be beat. The other
side is another swingaroo, "Penn­sylvania
6-5000."
Still in the vocals, we bring out
the Ink Spots in "We Three",
backed up by another honey, "My
Greatest Mistake". Their usual
arrangement on both still makes
them sound good.
We have another "We Three",
this time by Glen Gray and his
Casa Loma band. Kenny Sargent
does the vocal, and we give the
nod for the best version to this
aggregation. Other side features
Ken Sargent again, this time in
"Our Love Affair". Good, but
nothing extra.
Two of these records feature on
four sides the band of Bobby
Byrne. The best pair, in our es­timation
is "Trade Winds" and
"Love Lies". Both are sung by
Jimmy Palmer, and the former
has, in addition, an ensemble back­ground
that is fine. On the other
waxwork, Dorothy Claire, on the
number one side sings "That's For
Me". Dot shares the spotlight
with some solid clarinet by ex-
Auburnite Yelverton and the
smoothness of the four trombyrns
(Sho' nuff, that's the way it's
said). Turn it over to hear Jim
Palmer sing again, this time "Only
Forever."
A sweetie and a killer makes up
the pair offered by Woodie Her­man.
The sweet one in that fine
"A Million Dreams Ago." Woodie
himself does the vocal.
Some individual by the name of
Dillagene does "Rhumboogie" on
the other side. Just like you'd ex­pect
the combination of Herman
and Rhumboogie to be . . . . Plen­ty
hot! ! !
Pennsylvania has more colleges
and churches than any other state.
• When in Columbus make Kayser-Lilien-thai
your headquarters. Just the type fur
coat, sport coat, suit, dress and accessor­ies
for college wear.
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The Shop of Original Styles
1109 BROADWAY " COLUMBUS, GA.
says
F. W. Lincoln, one of the instruct­ors
in the Applied Art Depart­ment,
"to purchase some good or­iginal
paintings by worthy Ala­bama
artists instead of buying in­ferior
reproductions as is usually
done."
Reasonable Priced Paintings
One of the features of the ex­hibitions
is to be the reasonable
prices of the paintings. Conform­ing
with the Government's re­quest,
artists will price their work
as low as possible.
Among the exhibited works at
Auburn will be paintings and
drawings by the Applied Art fac­ulty,
students, and it is hoped that
paintings by a number of the best
artists from Alabama will be re­presented.
According to Professor Apple-bee,
head of the Applied Art De­partment,
Mill Mildred Nungester
of Decatur, well known among
southern artists, is sending seven
water colors and two lithographs.
Her paintings will range in price
from 75c to $8.
"Art Jury"
All works submitted will be sub­ject
to criticism by an "art jury"
composed of Mr. Sidney W. Little
and Mrs. Byrd Moore, Art li­brarian.
This is done hoping that
a high standard among the paint­ings
will be reached.
Other places in Alabama where
exhibitions will be held are Mont­gomery,
Montevallo, the Universi­ty
of Alabama, Mobile, and Bir­mingham.
Applebee's Exhibit
Among Art faculty members
who have work to be displayed
next week, is Professor Applebee
whose "Burden Bearer" will ap­pear
in the Forty Eight States
Exhibit in Washington, D. C. Pro-
You'll Find Out'
Starring Kay Kyser
At Tiger on Sunday
KAY KYSER AND THE GIRLS—
Helen Parrish and Ginny Simms—
promise you'll find out whodunit
in "You'll Find Out," the screen
attraction Sunday .and Monday at
the Tiger Theatre. It's a mystery
with music—a comedy with ter­ror—
in which Helen Parrish plays
the romantic lead opposite Dennis
O'Keefe and Ginny Simms plays
a supporting role and sings sweet
and swing songs by James Mc-
Hugh and John Mercer.
fessor Staples and Mr. James will
have work in Columbus, Georgia,
Montgomery and Montevallo. Mr.
Lincoln and Mr. Madden will be
represented at the Auburn exhibit
by several abstractions and water
colors respectively.
Everyone is urged to attend the
Auburn Exhibition whether they
intend to buy paintings or not.
The Art Library will be open to
the public from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Saturday
JOHNNY MACK BROWN
"Law and Order"
Owl Show
THRILLS IN THE SKY
"Men Against the Sky"
SUNDAY - MONDAY
H.y/iNKV'V? V>>THEIR SoJueit SHOWT<
Tuesday
'Swiss Family Robinson"
MARTIN
"The Place To Go"
Our Rambling Auburnite Finds Himself
In Hot Water - 3 Girls for the Dance
First Installment Is
Related Today; Next
Chapter Coming Tuesday
I By JIMMY GILBERT
The Rambling Auburnite, sitting
on the large leather divan in the
Poo Phoo Poo fraternity house liv­ing
room was engaged in such ani­mated
mental gymnastics that he
amazed even himself. In the first
place, the time was only ten a.m.,
an ungodly hour for our hero.
Then too, any sort of thinking was
considered taboo by this flower of
his fraternity.
The "Rambler's" eyes were focus­ed
on the pile of invitation cards
on the mantle, just waiting to be
used. You see, this was opening
dance time, and with Homecoming
arriving at the same time, the Ram
was seriously contemplating using
one or more of said invitations to
carry his message to that one and
only.
The Great Problem
The great problem was just
which of the one-and-orilies did he
want. Naturally, there were ad­vantages
to all of them, but the
Ram was thinking in terms of mon­ey
and time. Like all good Auburn-ites,
Ram's pockets were,, not ex­actly
empty, but there wasn't any
too much jack to be had.
With the final selection in mind,
our hero took one of the tempting
little cards and filled it out. Little
did he realize that in doing so he
was veritably signing his own
death warrant . . . but then we are
getting ahead of the story.
Soon came a letter, saying the
usual "I'm sorry, but you know
how things are." After all the
thinking, Ram had been foiled . . .
Ah sadness reigned in the Ram's
heart.
To H-l With Women
To H—1 with women thought the
Ram, both to himself and out loud,
but night found him again con­templating
the mantle where still
reposed some of the tempting cards.
Well, he mused, "What've I got to
lose, besides some sleep?"
Morning found the Ram again
filling out a little card, still an­other
death warrant.
Two mornings later we find the
Ram again in the throes of des­pair.
With another "no" staring
him in the face, he was truly dis­gusted
with the weaker sex. "Nev­er
again," quoth he. "I'm cured.
This is gonna be a stag week-end
for me."
With this in mind, the Ram
stocked his larder well with those
things which go to make a stag
week-end happy. "If I wan't a
date," he thought, "I can always
get a late date after the dance . . .
we're having a houseparty."
The Ram Weakens
Three days before the big week­end,
the Ram was happy. Two days
before the week-end, the Ram was
still happy. One day before the
big week-end, the Ram should have
been happy, but he wasn't. It seems
that during one of his weaker mo­ments,
the Ram had consented to
squire one of the dear brother's
sisters to the various functions of
the week-end.
Now the Rain wasn't disturbed
because the girl was a lemon, be­cause
she was definitely on the
snazzy side. There were other com­plications
that would worry nearly
anyone. Chief among these compli­cations
was the fact that the ori­ginal
one-and-only had at the last
minute decided to attend, as a
guest of one Mr. Rambling Au­burnite.
In addition, the second in­vitee
was threatening to change
her mind about coming, and in
the meantime, the Ram had spent
the greater part of his available
cash in stocking his larder with
those things that he really needed
for the proper observation of any
stag event.
Those Frat Pins
If it weren't for the fact that
the Ram, who buys his fraternity
pins by the half-dozen, hadn't given
a pin to each of the gals he invit­ed,
and when he found out the
name of the brother's sister, had
refrained from sending her one
too, just to be friendly, things
might not have been so bad. As it
was, the Ram couldn't even be
twins and save his hide, his loves,
his money, and his larder.
With determined mind and a
heavy heart the Ram started look­ing
for the best path out of his
worries. After an hour's deep con­centration
he came to a conclusion,
but he knew that "he must act at
once . . .
(To be continued at an early
date.)
Wilson College, Chambersburg,
Pa., recently awarded honor schol­arships
to 11 students.
PROF. THOMAS — MADAM PEGGIE
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Carl may play at left half in tomorrow's game with Boston Col­lege
at Fenway Park in Boston. Latest reports from the Auburn
practice field indicate that Happer may alternate with Dick McGowen
at the triple-threat post.
Martin Theatre
(Continued from page 5)
fesses. "I never got over being
a fan. I'm as big a fan for my
favorites as I ever was. I can
swoon at Bette Davis. I used to
like to listen to Bing Crosby and
I still do. Paul Muni could twist
me around his little finger while
he was on the screen and I sat
out in the audience. I always for­get
I know Eddie Robinson per­sonally
when I see him start some­thing
crafty for the camera. And
I always get a big kick out of the
moment when Gary Cooper stops
acting lazy, and comes to life with
something that sweeps the villains
into the discard and makes the
heroine sorry she overlooked him."
Ann doesn't say much about
"Sheridan," as she calls herself, on
the screen.
Sheridan is Plucky
"I go to see 'Sheridan' once or
twice for every picture she's in.
Sometimes I go to see pictures like
'Torrid Zone' and 'Angels With
Dirty Faces' several times. I watch
those pictures and I say to my­self:
'That "Sheridan" is a lucky
kid to be up there with Cagney and
O'Brien.'
"When the girl does something
that I think is good, I feel like
giving her a hand. I'd feel proud
if it was my own sister, or my girl
friend, or any girl, who got her
chance to play with Cagney, and
didn't make a mess of it.
"But the 'Sheridan' I see in pic­tures
is hammy, too, at times. I'm
not puffed up about her. I think
she can become a better actress.
In fact, I'm taking steps," said
Miss Sheridan.
Connecticut's Lieut. Gov. James
L. McConaughey has been presi­dent
of Wesleyan University since
1921.
Josiah Macy, Jr., foundation of
New York city has made a grant
of $1,500 to the University of Cal­ifornia
institute of child welfare.
PiKA Dance
(Continued from page 1)
Many of the following girls,
dates of members of Pi Kappa Al­pha,
have already arrived in Au­burn
for the week-end:
Mary Eva Kelley, Stephens Col­lege,
Columbia, Mo.; Susan Heas-lett,
Judson College, Marion, Ala.;
Suzanne Gregoire, Lakeland, Fla.;
Mary Frances Cook, Birmingham;
Eloise Shoaf, Huntingdon College,
Montgomery; Reid Anderson, Au­burn;
Virginia McGaba, Hunting­don
College, Montgomery; Ed-wina
Powers, Athens; Becky Rank­in,
Judson College, Marion; Lois
Ringe, Agnes Scott College, De­catur,
Ga.; Polly Robinson, Wy-lam;
Vivian Vinyard, Birmingham.
Madge Norton, Birmingham;
Louise Thrash, Auburn; Judy Nee-ly,
Birmingham; Mary Jane Ride-out,
Birmingham; Martha Young,
Birmingham; Betty Barnes, Mont­gomery;
Carolyn Lee, University
of Georgia, Athens, Ga.; Margaret
Reeves, Birmingham; M. L. Wood,
Huntsville; Flody Mayne, Mont­gomery;
Pauline Brown, Birming­ham;
Helen Crook, Auburn; June
Essberg, Birmingham; Frances
Franke, Birmingham.
Hazel Roberts, Birmingham;
Margaret Chapman, Huntingdon
College, Montgomery; Luverne
Wise, Atmore; Betty Siler, Monte-vallo;
Audrey Busbee, Mobile;
Jean Atkins, Auburn; Margaret
McCain, Auburn; Nell Burford,
Birmingham; Elizabeth Mitchell,
Montgomery; Carolyn Mason, Bir­mingham;
Mary Katherine Cook,
Talladega.
Merle Wakefield, University of
Ala.; Frances Dean, University of
Ala.; Mary Ray, University of
Ala.; Sara Jo Howell, Anniston;
Jo Gatlin, Tallahassee, Fla.; Alice
Wise, Birmingham; Lorene Wood,
Huntsville, Marjorie Holcomb,
Birmingham.
North Dakota Agricultural col­lege's
registration of 1,697 set a
new record.
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At API's Susan Smith Cottage
Work Part-Time to Save on Expenses, and
Get a Big Kick' Out of Their Tasks
By MARJORIE PERRY
Susan Smith Cottage, in the few months since it was
opened, has become an accepted part of life on the Au­burn
campus. To those familiar with this "adventure in
cooperative living," it has become a significant experi­ment
designed to solve the serious problem of American
colleges—opening the doors to students of limited means.
The cottage was made available through the efforts
of President L. N. Duncan and Dr. Rosa Lee Walston.
Since the old co-op house had
Campus Events
November 25-28
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Jim is the Tiger's outstanding
defensive end and is a strong con­tender
for All-Conference honors.
He will bear a large burden of the
defense against Boston College to­morrow.
SPE's Win Over
ATO's Tuesday
SPE's Win in Four-Down
Playoff After Deadlock
By GEORGE HEARD
When an irresistible force meets
impassable object a deadlock re­sults.
This law of physics was
proven last Tuesday afternoon
when the Alpha Tau Omega fra­ternity
and the Sigma Phi Epsilon
fraternity battled for four quar­ters
to a 0 to 0 tie. Both teams
had met once before and had ex­perienced
the same result.
The game started at four o'clock
last Tuesday afternoon and ended
with the SPE boys on the top, but
not after a hard battle. By the
statistics Sigma Phi Epsilon was
on the top with a large margin.
SPE made 12 first downs to the
ATO's 4. This little fact enabled
the SPE's to march to their op­ponent's
3 yard line twice only to
meet that "impassable wall." The
ATO's had their chance when
they got down to the SPE 1 yard
line but they were stopped by a
force somewhat similar to the one
the SPE's had met only a few
minutes before.
After four quarters the score
been closed, they were faced with
the problem of finding work for
the girls who had been staying
there and also for other girls who
wanted a chance to go to school.
Dean J. W. Scott's property at
355 South College Street was
bought, equipped for the purpose,
and christened the "Susan Smith
Cottage" in honor of Mrs. Dun­can's
mother.
There are two houses on the
property, a main house and a
lodge. Fifteen girls stay in each
house.
was a flat 0 to 0. An extra quar­ter
was played in the fast ap­proaching
night. The result was
still a 0-0 deadlock and we do
mean deadlock.
Each team decided to run four
more plays; the team gaining the
most yardage in the four plays
would be the winner. The Sigma
Phi Ep. boys had their chance
first. On the first three plays they
made no gain, but on the last
down a surprise pass netted them
18 yards. The ATO's then took
over but were unable to gain a
single yard. Therefore, the Sigma
Phi Epsilon boys were officially
marked up the winner with a tech­nical
score of 1 to 0.
Two more games have to be
played to decide the Inter-fraterni­ty
champion. The ATO's play the
PiKA's and the winner will meet
the SPE bunch in the deciding
game next week.
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The
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In
Montgomery
Dec. 7
These girls have an organiza­tion
of their own, with Clyde
Dykes, president; Mary T. Lazar-ri,
dietician; Mazie Nelson, book­keeper;
Mrs. Eleanor Hamrick,
head of hall; and Virginia Shoultz,
captain of# intramural s p o r ts
team.
For their work the girls are di­vided
into groups of 15. One
group works one week, and the
other group the next. Each mem­ber
of the working group helps
with one meal a day. They usually
divide into groups of two or three
to prepare each meal. The girls
not in the working group are ex­pected
to keep their rooms clean.
Each of the girls pays $16.00
a month in addition to the work
she does. Four dollars of this
amount goes to the college for
rent, and $12.00 goes for food
and miscellaneous items. That is
a saving of at least $12.00 for
each girl as compared to the aver­age
cost of staying in the dormi­tories.
The "Susan Smith" girls consti­tute
a talented group on the camp­us.
They have representatives in
dance club, intramural sports,
Home Economics Club, FHA, dif­ferent
church organizations, girls'
glee club, and Owls, an honorary
society for sophomore girls.
The two houses of the Susan
Smith Cottage are quite modern.
On the first floor of the main
house are a large living room, a
sun-parlor, a kitchen, dining room,
pantry, refrigerator space, gen­eral
service room, two bedrooms,
Monday, November 25
Art Fair Exhibit. Architectural Library. (Continues
throughout week.) *
Tuesday, November 26
7:00 p.m.—Current Events. Dr. Petrie. Broun Audi­torium.
Wednesday, November 27
7:00 p.m.—Faculty Recreation. Alumni Gym.
7:00 p.m.—Ag Fair. Graves Center. (Dance from 9
i'til 12.)
7:00 p.m.
jtorium.
Coming Events
Dec. 3—Kryl Symphony Orchestra. Alumni Gym.
Dec. 5—Women's Convocation. Methodist Church.
Speaker: Dean Sarah G. Blanding, University of Kentucky.
Dec. 9—Faculty Forum Meeting. Speaker: John
Temple Graves.
Dec. 11—Freshman Annual ODK Cake Race.
Thursday, November 28
-Current Events. Dr. Petrie. Broun Audi-and
a bath. Upstairs there are
four bedrooms and a bath.
The lodge is a two-story build­ing
behind the main house con­taining
two bedrooms, two studies,
and a bath on each floor. Between
the two cottages is a spacious
yard where it is planned to have
a swing, lawn chairs, and some
badminton courts.
Behind the main house on the
right is a wash house with an
electric washing machine where
the girls do their own laundry.
Also, at the back of the yard is
a fireplace for picnic suppers.
These cottages, besides saving the
girls money, are a lovely place to
live. They are modern and much
more attractive than the old co­op
house.
"It's home," as Clyde Dykes
puts it, "we would not exchange
for the dormitories. It teaches
each girl to have a better outlook
on life. Here the girls learn to
appreciate the beauty of living
and to prepare themselves for a
greater future."
The following girls stay in the
main house: Anne Barnes, Alma
Bentley, Annette Cheney, Henri
Cook, Frances Dobson, June For-bus,
Mildred Hatchett, Maxine
Hill, Margie Houston, Linelle
Johnson, Imogene McLaughlin,
Mary Lazarri, Mary Frances Law,
Mazie Nelson, and Virginia O'-
Hara.
Girls staying in the lodge are:
Pauline Couch, Martha Dean Dob­bins,
Thelma Dobson, Clyde Dykes,
Alta Gamble, Margie Guyton,
Pauline Mathison, Louise Le
Compte, V e r a Reid, Virginia
Shoultz, Madge Pennington, Stel­la
Stewart, Melbe Swick, Minnie
Irene Yeager, and Ernestine Mc-
Millian.
University of Texas library has
one of the few known copies of
the first book of essays published
in the New World — "Dialogi de
Cervantes de Salazar," printed in
1554.
At its homecoming, Valparaiso
university also celebrated inaugu­ration
of its new president, Otto
Paul Kretzmann, and the fiftieth
anniversary of its reorganization.
A Brown university expedition
will travel to South America to
attempt to photograph the zodiacal
light of the sun during a total
eclipse.
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