1933-09-27 The Plainsman

              Semi-Weekly Plainsman
Wednesday Edition THE PLAINSMAN
TO FOSTER THE A U B U R N SPIRIT
Mass Meeting
Tomorrow Night
VOLUME LVII AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1933 NUMBER 6
PLAINSMEN CONQUER
BHAM.-SOUTHERN IN
LAST QUARTER RALLY
Strong Southern T e am Displays
Mid-Season Form To Throw
Scare Into Plainsman Lair
AUBURN SCORES EARLY
Sustained Drive Of Sixty-eight
Yards Nets Touchdown In
First Four Minutes Of Play
DUPREE TALLIES TWICE
Fleetfooted Fullback Show* Great
Promise With Brilliant Play;
Southern Center Outstanding
A surprisingly strong Birmingham-
Southern eleven, displaying mid-sea­son
form, threw a scare into Auburn's
ranks Friday night at Cramton Bowl,
and only by a spirited last quarter
rally were the Plainsmen able to
break a 7 to 7 deadlock. The final
score was 20 to 7.
The Panther team from Birming­ham,
smarting under a 61 to 0 de­feat
administered by Auburn's cham­pionship
team last year, went down
to Montgomery to hold the Tigers to
a close score, and succeeded remark­ably
well. In fact, Auburn supporters
were fearing the game would end in
a tie until the Tigers suddenly came
to life and put the game on ice.
The Plainsmen started off in an
auspicious manner, scoring a touch­down
in the first four minutes of
play. Southern won the toss and
elected to defend the south goal.
McC/jllum kicked off to Davis, Pan­ther
left end, who returned 10 yards.
Teel gained four through the line,
and Captain Bulldog Johnson failed
over center, being stopped by Chrietz-berg.
McKay punted to Auburn's 32
yard line, and the Tigers started
their drive immediately for a touch­down.
Rogers made a first down in two
plays over center. Dupree, Auburn's
leading offensive threat, circled left
end for 13 yards. Rogers and Du­pree,
in three plays, carried the ball
to the 25 yard line, from which point
Dupree scored on a wide end run
behind magnificient interference led
by Chambless. Ariail kicked the extra
point.
Southern came right back to tie
the score five minutes later as a
result of McKay's 27 yard run and
a nice pass, Young to Teel which
carried to Auburn's four yard stripe.
Johnson and Teel advanced the oval
two yards, and then Teel, in a super
burst, scored. Davis tied the score
a moment later with a perfect place
kick.
Auburn spent the next two periods
dashing up and down the greensward,
only to see their offensive bog down
when Southern's goal line was ap­proached.
Early in the fourth per­iod,
however, the Tigers began to
click. Taking possession of the ball
on their own 20 yard line, the Plains­men
tried two line plays which fail­ed.
Then Rogers, from punt forma­tion,
skirted end for eight yards,
Phipps broke loose for 25 yards and
placed the ball on Southern's 44.
Dupree and Rogers picked up nine,
and then Dupree streaked 18 to the
Panther's 15 yard line. The Tigers
made it first down on Southern's
five, and then, after three attempts,
Rogers scored standing up.
In a desperate effort to tie the
score, Teel heaved a long pass down
the field intended for Beaird who
had just entered the game. Dupree
intercepted the ball, and, in an amaz­ing
burst of speed, sold out for the
promised land. And thus ended the
scoring.
Southern presented a greatly un-
'der-rated aggregation against the Ti­gers,
one which wouldn't give up.
Wedgeworth, center, was the' shin­ing
light in the Panther forward wall,
Davis, Clark, and Haygood supported
him magnificiently.
In the backfield, McKay, a sopho­more,
and Teel, were the leading
ground gainers.
Auburn's team appeared sluggish.
The line was slow in charging, and
failed to display, except in spots,
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Pajama Parade Planned For Tomorrow Night
As Student Body Prepares For Howard Game
Clothed in pajamas the student
body will parade through the streets
Thursday night as a feature of the
large mass meeting to be held on the
eve of the. team's departure for Bir­mingham
where they are to engage
the Howard College Bulldogs in'their
second football game of the year.
The students will gather as usual
at Langdon Hall, and the parade will
continue from this point up town,
through the streets, and back again
to the Main Gate. A stand built es­pecially
for meetings of this kind
will be placed at the entrance to the
main campus, and Prewitt and "his
corps of cheerleaders will direct the
cheering from this corner. The band
is to be out in full strength to fur­nish
the music for the occasion.
In urging a large attendance to
the meeting, Prewitt stated that he
wanted more students to learn the
yells and how to give them in unison
"This can only be done by attending
the meeting and yelling with the stu-dent
body before going to the sta­dium'",
Prewitt stated. "The cheer
ing section should make a much better
showing at the Howard game than
it did at the Birmingham-Southern
game last week," he continued.
Upperclassmen living in fraternity
houses, dormitories, or out in town
are urged to make it a point to get
all their freshmen out to the mass
meeting in multi-styled and multi-col­ored
pajamas.
It was learned yesterday that
classes woold not be excused Friday
afternoon for the Howard game. The
next excused game is the Georgia
Tech game in Atlanta, October 14.
HONORARY MILITARY
SOCIETY TO INITIATE
MEN WITH CEREMONY
MEETING OF SENIOR
CLASS HELD TODAY
Morrill Presented Plan To Turn
Over Dues To Cabinet For
Dispensation
WILMORE SPEAKS
Money Would Be Used For
Improvements On Student
Union, Tennis Courts
At a call meeting of the senior
class this morning in Langdon Hall
at eleven o'clock, Justin Morrill, pres­ident
of the class, presented a plan
whereby the class dues would be giv­en
over to the Student Executive
Cabinet for dispensation as they
think advisable.
The proceeds from the dues paid
by this year's graduating class would
be dispersed on such things as the
improving of school tennis courts,
developing the Student Union de­partment
in the basement of Lang­don
Hall, securing athletic equipment
for Alumni Gymnasium, etc.
After the question was stated and
talks made by Don Pierce, George
Hardy, Horace Shepard, and several
others in support of the proposition
the vote was taken and the motion
passed by a clear majority.
The feature of the plan is to buy
new furniture and draperies for the
student center. It is the plan now
for the several classes to co-operate
with college authorities in raising
the money which will be needed in
the new program of developing this
center for the-use of all students.
Such equipment as medicine balls,
mats, horizontal bars and other gym­nastic
accessories would be installed
on the main floor of the gymnasium
for the use of the students.
In a brief address to the senior
assembly, Dean John J. Wilmore,
chairman of the Administrative Com­mittee,
expressed the committee's ap­preciation
for the cooperation the
students and faculty members were
giving in an effort to make this a
successful school yeai' at Auburn.
He emphasized the fact: that the
faculty was staying on here this year
at a sacrifice to themselves and
urged the class to work with them
in every way possible. Dean Wilmore
expressed the opinion that this year's
graduating class should be thankful
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POST OFFICE WILL
BE OCCUPIED SOON
Eighty Thousand Dollar Gov­ernment
Building Will Be
Formally Opened Friday
GUESTS INVITED
Invitation Extended Entire City
To Inspect New Building;
Occupation Saturday
REGISTRATION IN NEW
COURSES CLOSES SOON
After Saturday, September 30,
registration for new courses is clos­ed
except by permission of the Execu­tive
Council. Also a zero will be
assigned for all subjects dropped af­ter
this date except in cases especial­ly
authorized by the Council. Stu­dents
undecided regrading any course
should make a definite decision dur­ing
the present week. If it develops
that a course should be dropped for
any good reason after September 30,
the student should confer with his
Dean and have the drop authorized
in the'regular manner.
NOTICE!
Blue Key meeting Thursday night
7:00 P. M. at 215 Sanjford Hall.
Auburn citizens are cordially invit­ed
to inspect the handsome new $80,-
000 Post Office building on Friday
afternoon and evening, 5 to 9 p. m.
The building is now practically com­pleted
and will be ready for occupancy
next Sunday by Postmaster L. A
Knapp and his staff.
During the above hours, the public
will have opportunity to go through
one of the most beautiful and well-equipped
post offices constructed by
the Government in any town the size
of Auburn throughout the country.
Mr. Knapp urgently requests and in­vites
everyone to visit the post office
at this time since the building cannot
be open later to public inspection.
Federal regulations prevent access to
the work rooms after the actual
handling of U. S. mail begins.
With the cooperation of every mem­ber
of the post office staff, the shift
from the present quarters to the new
building will be made Saturday even­ing
and there will be no interruption
in the postal service.
Major H. G. Little, Government con­struction
engineer who has carefully
supervised every detail of the build­ing's
construction since the beginning
more than a year ago, believes that
Auburn will be proud of this fine
building for years to come. He com­mended
the expertness of its con­struction
done by the contracting com­pany,
The Charles H. Barnes Con­struction
Co., of Logansport, Ind. The
building is so constructed, he said,
that its official depreciation will be
judged as dnly one per cent a year.
The building was designed by an
Auburn alumnus, Sidney N. Wellborn,
class of 1913, who is now with the
Office of the Supervising Architect
in Washington. Mr. Wellborn made
a special trip to Auburn soon after
beginning the drawings in order to
incorporate every detail necessary to
making the building meet local condi­tions
in point of beauty and useful­ness
to the people of Auburn and the
large number of college students
whose mail must be handled at the
Post Office. Later, after the build­ing
was well under construction, Mr.
Wellborn made another trip to Au­burn.
Design of the building, which is a
most artistic adaption of Colonial
architecture, won fourth place last
Spring in a competition of those of
more than 300 Government buildings
then under construction. The compe­tition
was held by the Association of
Federal Architects.
Outstanding feature of the build­ing,
according, to Major Little, is the
excellent lighting and ventilation of
the main workroom. By means of
what is termed a "clear story", the
lighting and ventilation is as nearly
perfect as is possible to have. Only
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Scabbard And Blade Will Ini­tiate
Twenty-five Pledges
During Ceremony Saturday
UNIFORM PRESCRIBED
Public Part Of Affair Win
Take Place In Business Dis­trict
And On Campus, Morris
INSPECTION PLANNED
Formal Inspection By Old Members
And Members Of Military Depart­ment
Scheduled for Seven P. M.
The regular fall initiation of L
Company, 5th Regiment of Scabbard
and Blade, national honorary military
fraternity, will be held Saturday,
September 30, according to 2nd.
Lieut. Hamp Morris of the local chap­ter.
Twenty-five men selected from the
Senior cadet officers of the mili­tary
brigade and Capt. E. H. Alm-quist,
recently appointed to the A.
P. I. R. O. T. C. staff, were tapped
at the regular drill hour September
26; These men were selected from
a list recommended by the military
department and approved by the
War Department in Washington, D.
C.
The initiates dressed' in pajama
trousers and regulation tunics, cov­ered
with medals, will start the pub­lic
part of the initiation in the busi­ness
district of College Street early
Saturday. According to tradition
this motley company will direct traf­fic,
escort people across busy inter­sections
and from time to time dem­onstrate
their ability to drill and
handle firearms.
At 7 p,.,m. Saturday the initiates
will form at Toomer's corner for a
formal inspection by members of the
military department. Immediately
after the inspection the initiates will
go to the stables for horses for their
night ride through the country ter­minating
at an appointed place not
yet announced. When all initiates
and members reach the appointed
place they enjoy a barbecue, follow­ing,
which will take place the formal
initiation.
The new men tapped are: T. N.
Eager, H. A. Shepard, W. L. Gaines,
C. E. Hooten, J. S. Scott, H. C. Orme,
J. J. Sherer, W. J. Bowers, J. B.
Ledbetter, N. M. Snow, E. R. White,
J. A. Jones, W. W. Beck, J. S. Mc-
Lauren, L. H. Giles, J. M. Jackson,
J. K. Fuller, W. A. Rogers, C. P.
Irwin, C. E. Rich, V. K. Sims, G. E^
Lourie, R. D. Campbell, W. N. Sharp,
S. R. White, and Capt. E. H. Alm-quist.
Members of the local chapter are:
Loyd Richey, Captain; John Reynolds,
1st. Lieutenant; Hamp Morris, 2nd.
Lieutenant; and Dick Greer, 1st
Sergeant.
Scoreboard Installed In Langdon Hall For
Football Fans Who Cannot Attend Contest
For the convenience of the large along the field as each play is run.
number of Auburn football fans who
will not be able to see the football
team in action in all their games this
year, a modern scoreboard has been
installed in Langdon Hall and will
be used for the first time Friday
night when the Plainsmen meet How­ard
College in Birmingham. A small
admission price of 25c will-be charg­ed.
The scoreboard is up-to-date in
every respect, thereby enabling the
fans to trace the progress of the ball
throughout the enltire game. The
board includes such features as lights
to indicate who has possession of the
ball, yards to go, number of downs,
and the period of the game. On each
side of the board is the line-up of
both teams, while in the center is a
miniature gridiron. A ball moves
There is an electric light beside the
name of each player which indicates
who is carrying the ball, who is punt­ing,
etc. For instance, if Phipps car­ried
the ball the light beside his name
would flash on, or if a forward pass
was thrown from Kimbrell to Ariail
lights would flash on by each of their
names. At the bottom of the board
is a section which shows what play
is run or what happens on each play.
The terms forward pass, touchback,
fumble, blocked kick, punt, through
line, end run, penalty, and incomplete
pass are in this section. A light'also
flashes by these words to indicate the
procedure of the game.
Plans now are to use the score­board
when Auburn plays Howard in
Birmingham Friday night, Georgia
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DANCE DECORATIONS
CONTRACT AWARDED
TO STUDENT ARTISTS
George Sewell, Lynwood Poole,
Thomas Brugh Awarded
Sophomore Hop Decorations
NOVEL THEME
Scenes Depicting "Streets Of
Paris" Will Carry Out
World's Fair Idea
ADMISSION SET
PROF. BECK WRITES
HISTORY TEXT BOOK
NATIONAL SOCIETY
ELECTS SEVEN MEN
Incorporates Ideas With Those
Of Miss Lane Graves Of
Mobile To Form Work Guide
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Despite Publication In Late
Summer, Book Being Used In
Over 75 High Schools
PICTURES FOR ANNUAL
TO BE TAKEN THURSDAY
According to an announcement by
Joe Ledbetter, editor of the 1934
Glomerata, pictures for this year's
annual will be taken beginning to­morrow
morning at eight o'clock.
Students are to receive cards stat­ing
the time and date when they are
to appear at the Glomerata office in
the basement of Alumni Hall to have
their picture taken and they are urg­ed
to be there on time.
The class pictures are already paid
for but for each picture which is to
appear on an honor society or other
panel will carry an extra charge of
fifty cents.
Don Johnson, of Columbus, Ga., has
received the photographer's contract
this year, while the Alabama Engrav­ing
Company, of Montgomery, and
Benson's Publishing Company, of
Nashville, will do the engraving and
publishing respectively.
NOTICE!
There will be a Cardinal Key
meeting at the Kappa Delta room on
Thach Avenue at five o'clock Thurs­day
afternoon.
"History is by no means the bunk,"
says Prof. Martin L. Beck of the
Auburn school of education, "for it
serves as a gigantic spotlight whose
rays of past human activity will ex­plain
present-day conditions and cur­rent
events.
"History makes intelligible our
present-day problems. Without some
knowledge of our political, social,
economic, and religious institutions
and problems, no one will be able to
understand the civilization into which
he is born . . . . These problems
have a basis in history; they are in­telligible
only when viewed in light
of other days, other peoples, and
kindred issues.
"The state in which you live, the
United States, the Solid South, the
Forty-Niners, the. Spirit of '76,
Watchful waiting, Dollar Diplomacy,
Democrat, Methodist, Roman Cathol­ic,
Mason arid Dixon Line, Crusader,
and untold thousands of facts and
terms and conceptions that make our
experiences rich and full are given
meaning only in light of history.
There is not a community, a tradi­tion,
or custom in the land upon
which the great spotlight of history
will not shed its illuminating rays of
explanation. ,
"Formerly, history was regarded as
a dry' catalog of dates, battles, and
inert facts that were studied largely
for sake of acquaintance with 'dead
bones of forgotten peoples.' But to­day,
history is looked upon as an
overflowing stream of continuous hu­man
drama depicting all that man
has thought and done in the past as
an explanation of what he is doing
today, The complete story of today's
problems involves their origin and
continuous changing aspects through­out
hundreds of years."
After several years of work, Prof-esssor
Beck and Miss Lane Graves of
Mobile have incorporated these ideas
of history instruction into a work
guide for high school students in
which the student is called upon to
apply events of history to an under­standing
of current conditions.
The principal theme feature of the
book is that it requires students "to
think" in bringing up to date the de­velopment
of more than 200 incidents
of present-day American life. Stu­dents
must explain and interpret
these with historical facts learned
in their textbooks. Some of the
events to be analyzed occurred as
late as August 15 of this year.
Despite its publication in the late
summer, the initial application of
this idea in a work book for Ameri­can
history instruction has so appeal­ed
to Alabama educators that the
book is now used by high school stu­dents
in more than 75 ' towns and
cities in the state.
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Spiked Shoe Society Selects
Six Track Stars And Man­ager
To Membership
RICHEY PRESIDENT
Only Those Track- and Cross­country
Men Who Make
Letters Eligible
Seven men were elected to the Au­burn
chapter of the National Collegi­ate
Society of Spiked Shoe at a meet­ing
yesterday. They are: J. L. Eid-son,
E. H. Kelly, Andy Anderson,
Sterling Dupree, Allen Rogers, Tiny
Holmes, and Clark Rudder.
Six of this group were members of
the track team last spring and re­ceived
their varsity letter in track.
Rudder was elected manager of the
traek team for the- coming year. Du­pree,
captain-elect of track, was the
outstanding sprinter in the South,
winning the Southeastern Conference
100 and 200 titles. Eidson and Rogers
ran the quarter and on the relay.
Rogers also 'threw the javelin. Kelly
starred in the hurdle events while
Anderson attained new heights in the
high jump. Holmes was the outstand­ing
shot-putter on the team.
Athletes are eligible for election to
Spiked Shoe by earning a major or
minor letter in track or cross-coun­try.
Last year the Spiked Shoe So­ciety
sponsored, together with the In-terfraternity
Council, a track meet
among the fraternities on the campus.
It proved a great success and it is
planned to run it again this year on
"A" Day.
The present officers of Spiked Shoe
are: Loyd Richey, president; Carl
Pihl, vice-president; and Robert Rut­land,
secretary-treasurer.
Information Concerning Kibler's Or­chestra
Indicates He Has Out­standing
Band
PLAYERS WILL PRESENT
NOVEL THREE-ACT PLAY
In preparation Jfor their annual
three-act presentation, the Auburn
Players completed casting for "Ran­som
Racket" at their regular meet­ing
Monday night.
"Ransom Racket" is a melodrama
of three acts, and a prologue, by Ed-mon
Emulep. The plot concerns the
abduction of a high society girl, Ju­dith
Raminway, by a gang of Man­hattan
crooks. How she outwits them
and her subsequent escape make a
most absorbing plot.
The part of Judith Raminway, the
heroine, will be played by Georgia
Lee Jackson. Johnnie "Studs" Drake,
the head of the outfit, will be acted
by Clinton Wallis, who took the lead­ing
role in the three-act play of last
fall, "The Importance of Being Earn­est."
Mike Feltman, his ambitious
lieutenant, will be played by Leonard
Nelson. Mike's sweetheart, Polly
Smith, an extremely jealous individ­ual,
will be played by Ruth Jones.
Giustina, the Italian housekeeper for
the. "boys" will be enacted by Ella
South. Chimp, the brawn and muscle
man of the outfit, will be played by
William Womalsdorf. Christopher
Raminway, the fiance and cousin of
Judith, will be Franklin Woodruff.
The Players will again be under
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In a meeting Sunday night, Sep­tember
24, the Executive Cabinet
awarded the contract for the Sopho­more
Hop decorations to George
Sewell, Lynwood Poole, and Thomas
Brugh. According to the president
of the Cabinet, the contract was let
to the fairest bidder which is defin­ed
in the constitution of the Stu­dent's
Undergraduates Association as
the lowest responsible bidder. All
three of the successful bidders are
registered in the School of Architec­ture.
The theme which the artists will
execute- is taken from the World's
Fair, "Streets of Paris": The back­drop
will depict a life size scene of
two Apache dancers. This scene is
to be done in full color, bordered
with a modernistic band of color.
Illumination effects for the back­drop
will be supplied by indirect
lighting fixtures.
Around the orchestra pit will be
a wall thirty inches high, designed
with ornament of the modern style.
Silhouettes of buildings from the
Fair are to be placed along the wains­cot.
The balcony side's will also be
done in decorations with bands of
modernistic ornament, with smaller
spots of motifs along the sides. The
goal posts will be covered with large
paintings taken from scenes of the
Fair, and a spot light will be trained
on them to bring out the varying
colors at night.
The ceiling is to be made of crepe
paper, and will be raised high to
allow sufficient ventilation. The
paper will be run straight up from
the balcony several feet, thence
across the ceiling horizontally to
form a flat but covering ceiling.
The entrance doorways are to have
paintings on each side one of the
two most important buildings at the
Exposition. These buildings will be
painted in their full color, ornament
and trimming, just as they are in
Chicago. A flood light will be plac­ed
under the projection of the bal­cony
in order to provide illumination
of the doorways at night. Colored
gelatin paper will cover these lights.
The designers stated that it was
their scheme to make the lighting
effects a major part in bringing out
the spirit of the design. A large
chandelier of four sections will be
suspended to the center of the room.
Each section will be equipped with
differently colored lights, which will
illuminate the ceiling dimly in these
various colors. Below the chandelier
is to be hung a crystal ball which
will have three spot lights trained
upon it.
Six wall brackets will be placed
upon the walls. These will be done
in full color and will be trimmed with
flitters wfiiich will cause them to
sparkle.
At a recent meeting, the Social
Committee set the price for a sea­son's
ticket to the dance series at
five dollars. Those attending the
day dances will be charged one dol­lar
for each while the dances Friday
night and Saturday night will carry
an admission charge of $2.50 and
$3.50 each. Tickets can be bought
for all the dances during one day
and night for the same price of the
night dances on that day's schedule.
Advance information from the
Southern Radio and Entertainment
Bureau concerning "Red" Kibler and
his orchestra states that the band has
played for dances at such schools as
Notre Dame, Ohio State, Western Re-
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P A G E TWO T H E P L A I N S M A N -:- A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1933
* AUBURN FOOTPRINTS &
Now that Oberlin has claimed its own, we feel as if we have half a chance of
getting a Glomerata this year. How about it Ledbetter?
* * * * * * * *
From Florida: "Freshmen, it's an honor and a distinction to \vear a rat cap!"
Down here it's, "You'd better wear that rat hat or else . . . ."
* * * * * * * *
Numerous requests have been passed around that the general of Battery A 2
blow the other horn on his car sometime instead of trying to wear out one of them.
* * * * * * * *
She was only a dentist's daughter, but she ran with the worst set in town.
* * * * * * * *
"Give a sentence using the word ammonia."
"Ammonia poor working girl trying to get along."
* * * * * * * *
Word has just been received that Joe Purvis will be amongst us again this
fall. Joe wTites that his late registration is due to the fact that after he had built
the Hall of Science at the Fair by himself in one day, he acted as a 36-piece orches­t
ra at a summer resort, and he feels the need of a rest before he enters school.
* * * * * • * * *
We wonder how the Sigma Nu rats happened to overlook A. K. Allen and C.
Witty Walter when they elected Joe Ledbetter and William Beck the two ugliest
men in the lodge. <
* * * * * * * *
Why doesn't George Hardy go on and marry Frank Smith and make an hon­est
lad of him?
* * * * * * * .*
She: Why do they call ships "she"?
He: Oh, I guess because they make their best showing in the wind.
* * * * * * * *
Jean: That man Smith is going around telling lies about you.
James: I don't mind that, but if he begins to tell the truth I'll break his neck!
* * * * * * * *
Dear Mr. Palmolive:
I bought a tube of your shaving cream. It says no mug required. What shall
I shave?
Yours truly,
Dozier Howard (33', 34', 35', 36')
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FRATERNITIES ON THE SPOT
When the "inner college" plan goes into
effect at Yale this fall, the Greek letter
fraternities are apparently going to find
themselves right out on the end of a long,
shaky limb.
The "inner college" plan, it might be ob­served
in passing, is an effort to restore
something of the faded intimacy and lost
classical calm of the dear dead days when
Joe College was on speaking terms with his
prof and even knew a number of his class­mates
by their nicknames. This the Uni­versity
hopes to accomplish by housing the
undergraduates and centering their inter­ests
during their four bright year in sep­arate
units or "colleges" as is done at Ox­ford.
But—not only are "barb" and Greek
alike required to live in the new college
dormitories; they must take a certain spec­ified
number of meals in the house dining
halls. And there's the rub. Fraternities,
hard-pressed as they are in these years of
the locust, rely on the income from their
own "grills" to meet a tidy share of the
overhead on their two million dollars' worth
of chapter houses. Let the dining halls
cut in ever so slightly on this income and
they may have to close up shop altogether.
Furthermore, quite aside from the financial
aspect, they find their social function
threatened by competition from the college
"commons" or meeting halls, which are cer­tain
to make some demands upon their
members' time.
Although President Angell has disavowed
any intent to injure fraternities, the Uni­versity
is taking no paternalistic steps for
their perpetuation, and he has made it plain
that they must work out their own salva­tion.
Just what this salvation will be, re­mains
to be seen. But it is generally agreed
that fraternities at New Haven are in for
a pretty thorny time of it.
Greeks at large view these developments
without any tearing of hair or beating of
breasts. The Yale chapters they consider
—well, a little odd. They call themselves
"Junior Societies". They are inclined to
set themselves apart and look down their
noses at other members! So these members
now find it possible to accept their calamity
with fine fortitude. A few of the brothers
with an ear to the ground, however, discern
in the turn of affairs at Yale, the alarming
rumble of a distant drum; to wit, a growing
disposition on the part of universities to
make their own provisions for the housing
and social activities of their students—and
to do so without any too tender a regard
for the existing fraternity plant with its
national investment of some seventy-five
millions. These brothers have already rais­ed
their voices in protest saying, in effect:
"Now that fraternities have developed to
their present important status with a heavy
invested capital as a spontaneous answer to
the housind and social problems in which
universities heretofore declined to interest
themselves, are they not entitled to some
consideration?"
Evidently a good many universities are
not of that opinion, for as in a greater de­gree
at Yale, so in lesser degrees at Wiscon­sin,
Colorado, Iowa, Texas, Minnesota and
on scores of other campuses where the first
of projected dormitories are beginning to
cut in on the number of men available for
chapter house residence, they are entering
into direct competition with the fraternities.
But since the menace of university com­petition
is only one more pain in the fra­ternity
neck, let us look at the picture as
a whole. We do not find it one of tradi­tional
jollity. Even the Greeks haven't a
word for it. It's no longer fair weather
when good fellows get together. Instead
they are singing "What to do about it?" in
a dismal minor key. For staggering along
as they are under heavy fixed charges with
depleted'membership, suffering from chang­ed
conditions and general apathy towards
the fraternity idea, it takes no seer to ob­serve
that the Greeks have come to what is
popularly known as a pretty pass.
Curiously enough they have come to this
pass at a time when organized opposition
was never less. True, the Columbia student
paper, the Spectator, caused a few eyebrows
to be raised when it demanded editorially
last winter that fraternities be abolished. A
faculty report at Rollins College, Florida,
detrimental to fraternities, kicked up its
little cloud of dust. An occasional bleat is
heard from a pained parent whose Little
Willie needs sixty smackers to .join the
lodge. But as far as I know the last of the
anti-fraternity laws have been expunged
from the state statutes and the perennial
rumbling voice of the militant objection- has
died to a piping echo.
A large proportion of fraternity difficul­ties
have resulted from the Great Headache.
Fewer freshmen are coming to school and
fewer of these can afford to wear the
badge. Active members are moving out to
off-campus nooks where they can boil their
own breakfast eggs over a gas plate. Good
old alumni, always the first to shell out
when the hat was passed, are now doing a
little hat-passing on their own behalf. Such
once-inconsiderable trifles as rushing ex­penses,
dues and levies for social affairs
now loom large to all of these in their skel-aton
budgets, even though their fraternal
hearts may be in the right place. And
meanwhile the unholy trinity of interest,
taxes and mortgage go merrily on without
any regard for doing right by Mu Mu Mu.
Other difficulties have arisen from the
changing college scene. Some of the larg­est
universities have grown up right in the
hearts of big cities, resulting in more fra­ternity
men living at home with divided
financial and personal allegiance. As edu­cational
institutions have expanded the cur­riculum
to take in everything from advanc­ed
beekeeping to embalming (theory and
practise), they have scattered students into
experimental stations, downtown branches,
and extension divisions, making it increas­ingly
hard for the brothers to get together
to break bread and to find anything to talk
about when they do.
The junior college threat has reared its
ugly head. At many a school we'have a
situation becoming comparable to that at
the University of California, where due to
increased junior college enrollment, the
number of juniors matriculating each year
is now equal to the number of freshmen.
Fraternities are still of two minds whether
to meet this condition by expanding down­ward
into the junior colleges at the risk
of lessened stability and greater emphasis
on the "whoop-de-do" spirit, or try to stag­ger
along with a more solid but less re­munerative
membership of two-year men.
Still other difficulties have arisen from
changing undergraduate psychology. To­day's
freshman is more serious-minded than
his precedessor. He is in college to work.
"Whoopee" is no longer his chief concern.
But the fraternity is still to him the symbol
of the whoopee spirit. And unless he can
be convinced that it offers something more
essential to his welfare, he is very likely to
do without it.
Fraternities might have been able to con­quer
all these obstacles, however, had it not
been for their own program of frenzied ex­pansion
and the campaign of competitive
overbuilding which it engendered. They en­tered
on this program partly to strengthen
their own position by silencing the voice of
objection with its attendant cry of exclusive-ness.
Deans approved it. Non-fraternity
men abbetted it, forming Greek groups of
their own. And this very program, given
a shot in the arm by the dizzying growth of
universities themselves and the huzza of
boom-day hysteria, has been largely respon­sible
for their present plight.
It all seemed so logical at the time. Fra­ternities,
universities, America, would keep
right on growing. The great national pas­time
was "keeping up with the Joneses", and
fraternities joined right in. If Phi Phi Phi
put a new chapter into that western Aggie
college, then Mu Mu Mu had to have one
there too. Or if the Phi Phi Phi brothers
at Southern State U. spread themselves and
blossomed out overnight with a $75,000 syn­thetic
French chateau, then the brothers of
Mu Mu Mu felt it incumbent on them to
crash through with a $100,000 pseudo-baro-nail
hall right next door. Alumni were lib­eral,
contractors honey-tongued; and mort­gages!—
well, those, in some instances up to
eighty percent of valuation, were to be had
for the asking.
The dawn of the day of reckoning, bring­ing
decreased enrollment and curtailed fi­nancial
support, has caught them in an ex­ceedingly
vulnerable position. The myriad
mushroom chapters that had gone Greek
on a shoestring have taken it on the chin.
Those that have not folded are groggy and
gasping at the ropes. Even the brothers of
hoary, traditional Mu Mu Mu are badly wor­ried
with their $100,000 white elephant on
their hands.
What is this day of reckoning doing to
fraternities? At some of the smaller col­leges,
such as Dartmouth, where fraternities
have been taken casually, where houses are
well-endowed, it is, of course, scarcely felt.
But at the less wealthy and at many of the
larger universities they are in a condition
which the optimistic describe as a period of
evolution, the charitable as a state of flux,
and the carpers as a devil of a mess. And
brief as has been the history of the "Life is
earnest, life is real" period, it is already
bringing about rather revolutionary
changes.
Fraternities are diminishing in number.
Locals are dying like flies. Not a few
chapters of nationals are surrendering their
charters. One university in a large city has
five chapters no longer recognized and twen­ty-
one on probation because of insufficient
membership. A university in a small town
has some seven chapters lost and three more
on the point of going under. A similar state
of affairs is to be found elsewhere. Whether
this means that fraternities, over-expanded,
are now seeking a more normal level, or
whether it represents a decline of the fra­ternity
idea, it is too early yet to say. But
at any rate, the tide has now set strongly
in the opposition direction.
They are becoming less selective, forced
as they are still to draw heavily on the de­creased
enrollment to maintain their houses.
This has some beneficial aspect's. It tends
to bring into the fold Paul Plodder, the or­dinary
duck, who just pays his bills and
stays in school. Heretofore Paul has us­ually
been overlooked in the mad scramble
for the star athlete and the social "ball of
fire". Yet he is likely to prove the greater
asset to the chapter in the long run. But
it also tends to lessen fraternity prestige
by destroying once and for all the glamor­ous
myth of exclusiveness, especially the
prestige of those chapters which have gone
out frankly and frantically "to pledge ev­erything
with pants" in order to keep their
proud Attic symbols on high over the neo-
Georgian doorway for another year. .
They are becoming simpler, less expen­sive.
They have pruned the trimmings. No
more country club formals with Ralph
Rythm and his Rumba Boys to furnish the
minstrelsy; instead the brothers and their
babes foot it to the chapter radio with the
rugs rolled up. No more Corona-Coranas
at smokers to impress rushees. They'll
smoke five-centers now and like it. All
down the line they are carving costs.
But simplification has its limits. You
"can't simplify away a fifty thousand dollar
mortgage, although you can hang on for
a while and pray for a crop of solvent
freshmen, or that Brother Doakes, '88, bless
his fraternal soul, will remember the chap­ter
in his will. And that is what most of
them are doing . . . Nor have fraternities
been notable successful so far in simplifying
away the problem of national expense. In
the boom era are chapter rolls grew, no fra­ternity
was a fraternity unless. it had a
central office with files, records and what­not,
impressive New York clubrooms, maga­zines,
letters and traveling secretaries fo
shed the beams of brotherhood on chapters
1 in far corners of the land. All this was
well enough in the palmy days of raccoon
coats. But now that he brothers are forced
to choose between these blessings and hav­ing
meat on the chapter house table, they
are likely to forego the former.
National expenses have been cut, some to
fifty percent. But they are still so high
that fifteen old line fraternities at Colby
College, Maine, were forced to petition their
headquarters for a more drastic reduction
because they were finding that although
they had cut their chapter to the bone, na­tional
dues still made initiation fees so high
that many desirable rushees could not afford
to join. Some chapters have surrendered
their charters for no other reason than to
escape this burden. Others make no secret
of the fact that they would like to follow
suit and become locals once more. There is
grumbling going on in chapter house **bull
sessions". Unless these costs are speedily
reduced, they may fray the national frater­nity
bonds to the breaking point.
Besides these changes, fraternities are
swinging around slowly and haltingly, but
definitely, to a more serious point of view.
There is more emphasis on study and less
on horseplay, although there is still a long
way to go in this direction. The fraternity
scholarship average is now above the non-fraternity,
as indeed it should be consider­ing
the rigid initiation requirements. But
they are going further: enforcing strict
house rules; adopting in many houses a
resident tutor system whereby an older man,
sometimes a faculty member, lives in
the house and gives a part of his time for
which he is subsidized by the chapter, the
alumni or the college, to helping the under­classmen
in their work. At Lafayette this
has reached a point where there is a fac­ulty
member resident in every house. Hell
Week, the rough house initiation period, is
on the wane. It is banned at Oklahoma
and Texas, frowned on at Illinois and Ohio
State, and discredited by the Interfraternity
Conference.
More far reaching, however, is the
change which has occurred in the relation­ship
between fraternities and college auth­orities.
For years the dean looking out of
his cloistered -window quite failed to note
the existence of the chapter house except
when his academic ear was disturbed by
the raucous clatter of gin bottles and he
called solemn conclave to do something about
the Drinking Problem. For years the frat­ernity
man condescended to recognize the
existence of the dean only when that worthy
threa'tened to interfere with his God-given
right to make an ass of himself.
Now we actually find fraternity man
and dean rushing into each other's arms
with a cry of, "Where have you been all
my life?" Not, certainly, from any dis­covery
of latent mutual affection; but
simply because co-operation remained the
last solution of their common dilemma. Fi­nancial
supervision had to come as the Band
of Jolly Boys, expanding into a chapter of
fifty-odd members, assumed the status of a
$25,000-a-year business. When an enter­prise
of this scope took a nose dive into
the red, it could no longer be laughed off
with an indulgent murmur of "Oh, well,
boys will be boys!" It was a matter of
serious concern not only to the fraternity
but to tradesmen and other creditors, and
to the university itself.
This supervision ranges from the com­paratively
mild form of faculty-directed
buying cartels now to be found on many
campuses, to more advanced forms as at
Montana, Penn State, Indiana and Rhode
Island State, where authorities have step­ped
in to help the fraternities collect their
accounts receivable. At two important col­leges
the administration has actually tak­en
over ownership of the chapter houses,
deeding them back to' the fraternities on
long term lease. Probably the most com­prehensive
plan of university control is to
be found at Ohio State, where the adminis­tration
working through the inter-frater­nity
council not only directs the financial
affairs of the chapters, but aids in the
securing of pledges and gets out reports on
scholarship and other pertinent affairs.
What a howl such a plan would have raised
from the brothers a few years back! Yet
today it is not only received warmly at
Ohio State, but enthusiastically endorsed
by the National Conference.
The trend is the same everywhere: fra­ternities
earnestly seeking official support
and guidance; administrators laying down
more and more rules governing pledging,
scholarship and social affairs. How the
scene has changed since the carefree days
when Brother Blank, Iota, '08, went to col­lege!
He was pledged in high school,
"sunk" by the first outfit to strongarm a
button onto his coat lapel. The one rush­ing
rule was to use a club if necessary.
Initiated, he became one of a tight little
group of ten or fifteen lads, all of whom
were his "chums".. When he said his fra­ternity
house was his castle, he meant it
only as a figure of speech. It differed
little from any other modest student board­ing
house. When there were only house
rules they were just simple decrees forbid­ding
brothers "to bring cabhorses or chorus
girls into the lodge". Or something of the
sort.
If Brother Blank should desire to drink
himself into a stupor nightly (provided he
kept his name out of the local papers and
his face out of the local lockup), if he
should flunk out every semester and come
back the next, if he should nonchalantly
forget to pay his bills, no one greatly car­ed.
As to making common cause with other
fraternities or with the dean for the mu­tual
welfare, the very idea, to Brother
Blank, was rank heresy. Other fraternity
men were inferiors. The dean was an
hereditary enemy. Old Iota chapter was
small, secret and sacrosance, a law unto it­self.
What a different picture confronts Bro­ther
Blank's son, Omicron '37! When he
is rushed and pledged, it is all strictly ac­cording
to Hoyle and only after a proba­tion
period in which he has proved his ster­ling
worth. Of the large crowd he joins
there are many whom he -will know only
by sight at- the end of his four years.
Strict house rules drawn up not only for
his good but the good of the forty-nine
others prevent his singing, shooting craps
or banging beer steins on the table when
the spirit moves him. There may even be
a tutor in the house to whom he is answer­able.
He is given to understand that he
must pay his' bills, keep up his marks, be­have
himself, or get out. In short he has
become a circumscribed responsible citizen
of a rather circumscribed community. There
are many of the Brothers Blank, '08, who
looking back through the mist of sentimen­tal
memories, find cause to sigh with re­gret
for the dear, departed days. There
are' others who have had pretty sobering
experiences themselves these last few years
and feel that a little more mature guidance
wouldn't do anybody any harm.
In view of the changes which the day of
reckoning has brought about, the threat of
university competition makes the relation­ship
between the authorities and fraterni­ties
seem a little anomalous. While the
universities are taking the Greeks more and
more to the paternal bosom, showing an
extensive interest for the first time in
their financial, moral and spiritual wel­fare,
they are going quietly ahead with
plans which may put the fraternities, at
least in their present form, out of business.
They remind one somewhat of the Lewis
Carroll crocodile who "welcomes little fish­es
in with gently smiling jaws". •
It all boils down to this: that the univer­sities
have fraternities in a near hammer-lock.
As the universities go ahead with
their larger plans for the future, it is up
to the fraternities, as they say in the law,
"to show cause" why they should be in­cluded
in those plans. Some fraternity
leaders, aware of this extremity, have al­ready
undertaken a campaign to urge upon
college administrators the wisdom of utiliz­ing
existing fraternities in any contemplat­ed
housing and social plans, pointing out
that they could thus save effort and ex­pense.
Northwestern University, including
chapter houses along with dormitories in
the new campus scheme, and Duke Univer­sity,
allotting dormitory space to fraternity
members, have both been favorably and ac­tively
disposed toward their perpetuation.
But to get any appreciable number of
universities to commit themselves definitely
to such a program will doubtless require a
larger persuasion on the part of fraterni­ties
themselves, a persuasion of acts and
deeds. After years of easy sailing they
are facing their first real test. Will they
show themselves such an indispensable fea­ture
of undergraduate life, with such an
important contribution of their own to
make to the changing educational picture,
that universities will be forced to take them
into account? Or will they merely prove
Thunderations
By Gam
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in this
column are not necessarily the editorial opinions of
this paper. It is a column of personal comment,
and is not to be read as an expression of our
editorial policy.
* * * *
"Morris stated that he 'considered the
Committee fortunate in being able to se­cure
an orchestra of Kibler's calibre to
play for the Openings'".
Where have I heard them words before?
* * * *
Formerly we had to read the funny
papers for a laugh, but now we can read
the front page and the society page.
Not so long ago one of our big city pa­pers
carried a picture of a girl I know. It
was spread all over the society page. The
story said that Mrs. So and So was "Love­ly"
Miss Such and Such before her mar­riage.
S'funny I didn't notice she was
lovely during the four or five years I knew
her. I suppose, however, the newspaper
knew what it was talking about. Never
doubt what you see in a newspaper, you
know.
And I can happily enjoy myself reading
funeral notices in a certain paper. It al­ways
says: "Deceased was born in the
County and resided there all his life. He
is survived by . . ." Qne of the editorial
policies of the paper, I think, is to always
call the unfortunate man by the name of
"Deceased". When I do my dying it's go­ing
to be a thousand miles away from that
paper, because under no consideration will
I have them saying: "Deceased was born
etc."
Yes, there are many funny things to
read in newspapers, but the one which sent
me into gales of laughter was the one I
saw in a paper this summer. It said: "Mr.
Blank at the Post Office says that 350
Sears-Roebuck catalogues were distributed
in town this week. These are of interest
to the children."
* * * *
Here is a little poem by Dr. Samuel G.
Bushnell entitled "On The Aristocracy Of
Harvard" which may apply to some few
people I might happen to know. Here is.
I come from good old Boston,
The home of the bean and the cod;
Where the Cabots speak only to Low­ells,
And the Lowells speak only to God!
* * * *
That little kid over yonder is swinging
under a tree and freshly washed sheets
are blowing over her head, and I suppose
everything is nice and cool, but she is mak­ing
me dizzy as she is turning round and
round instead of swinging up and down.
I bet it's fun being a kid. I hardly
remember. That little girl under the tree,
with the sheets blowing over her head,
doesn't know what she's in for. Now she
doesn't have to go to football games and
dances and stay out till three in the morn­ing
and have the neighbors talking about
her. She has an easy time. No school
and eight o'clock classes. No boys to come
to see her and tell her that she is the one
and only girl in the world; and run off and
tell several dozens of other girls the same
thing.
She hasn't heard of Clark Gable and
Huey Long. Nor this now tiresome New
Deal. Only paper dolls and dirty feet to
worry her. Dirty feet to wash before she
can go to bed at seven-thirty at night.
She doesn't have to go to Sophomore
Hops and see all the big-shots, and the
little shots who are mostly full of likker
and trying to forget they aren't big enough
to have lotsa keys all over their brass
watch chains.
She hasn't learned to smoke yet so she
doesn't have to slip around and smoke in
the woods so her mother can't see her. So
she is spared that worry. No war paint
and rouge to smear on before going out.
No stockings to leave off, or wear rolled. . .
which is just as bad. No letters to write.
No nothing.
That is why I'm trying to stay a kid just
as long as I can. And I'm going up yon­der
and turn round and round in that
swing just as soon as I get through with
this writing which you think is lousy, but
which you do nothing about as you don't
write something better than this and send
it in for me to print instead. It's really
fun to be a kid and not know how to read
and write.
* * * *
Over in Columbus Wednesday night and
listening to Jan and Guy and learning that
Dozier and Stuart and Lil are thought a
lot about over there, but doing no thinking
of them myself as I was thinking of in­flation.
And I got all inflated up with
ice cream, and to the Country Club, and
saw some stars fall and some big trees a
standing all silent until the wind went
through, and drank soda pop, and came
home and pulled the covers up as it was
cold.
to be more excess baggage of an outworn
era that can be advantageously discarded
as the world moves on into the new?
.—College Humor.
/
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 27, 1933 THE P L A I N S MAN A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE P A G E T H R EE
American Legion Post
Endorses Resolution
Regarding Education
The John H. Wills Post of the
American Legion, in a meeting held
recently, heartily endorsed the reso­lutions
upon education adopted at the
Alabama Department's annual con­vention
in Tuscaloosa. In addition,
the local post drew up another set of
resolutions, concerning matters of
vital importance not only to Auburn,
but to the entire state.
The resolutions characterized the
condition of the state educational sys­tem
as "deplorable", with "starvation
salaries for teachers", "poor equip­ment"
and "shortened terms" as the
prospect for the current year. They
stated that "the welfare of the chil­dren
is at stake "and that "the wel­fare
of the state is so bound up in
the educational opportunities offered
its children that the economic, moral,
and intellectual welfare of the state
is being jeopardized". The Legion,
always an ardent supporter of edu­cation,
demands "immediate action"
and recommends a definite program
of relief.
The outstanding features of the
Legion's program are: an extra early
session of the legislature and the en­actment
of a general sales tax; a
succinct and understandable state­ment
from the Governor", to be pub­lished
within thirty days, in which
is set forth the disposition of all state
funds for the last four or five years,
and the payment of warrants in cash.
Copies of the resolutions were sent
to each member of the state legisla­ture,
and to the various Legion posts
throughout the state.
Home Ec Staff
Gives Reception
The Practice House was a lovely
setting for" a reception given Satur­day
afternoon, 5 to 6, by the Home
Economics Staff, honoring the new
students registered in that depart­ment.
Miss Dana King Gatchell met the
guests on the lawn; Mrs. Warren
Arnquist presided at the punch table,
assisted by Miss Lilly Spencer, Mrs.
Glynn Schrader, Misses Jean Fun-chess
and Verna Patterson. About
75 people called during the hour.
PERSONAL
MENTION
Miss Cumi Mitchell and Mrs. J. N.
Wadkins have returned to their
homes in Washington, D. C. after vis­iting
their sister, Mrs. T. D. Wadkins
on South Gay Street.
* * *
Mr. Ben Gilmer, of Atlanta, visit­ed
in Auburn Monday.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. Ottis Ward and Mr.
and Mrs. H. W. Nixon attended the
Auburn-Birmingham-Southern game
in Montgomery last Friday night.
* * *
Sam Fort and George Walters, of
Birmingham, spent the last week end
in Auburn.
* * *
Mrs. Borden Jackson, who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. T. B.
Chambers, has returnred to her home.
in Columbia, S. C.
-* * *
Mr. Howard Moss, of Mobile, is
spending a few days in Auburn. He
is now connected with the Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New
York.
* * *
Miss Willa Hay, of Anniston, was
the guest of Miss Julia Pace this
last week end.
* * *
Miss Grace Waldrop of Montevallo
visited in Auburn this past week end.
* * *
Miss Zoe Dobbs was in Birming­ham
on business last week end.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. George Hargreaves
attended the football game in Mont­gomery
last Friday night.
* * *
Mr. and Mrs. John Williamson and
family returned home Sunday night
after spending last week at Cedar
Bluff, Alabama. v
NOTICE!
A social calendar for the week
will be run. in the Plainsman every
Wednesday. Will each organization
please notify the society editor or
leave a notice at the Plainsman of­fice
when a meeting is called or a
social function is planned? This in­formation
must be had by Monday
afternoon of every week.
CATS and
ANARIES
To my numerous dear readers:"
This, I am sure is a totally new
game to you all, but I am equally
sure that we are all going to enjoy
it. As you can see from the title it
includes both birds and beasts—no
I am mistaken—only one beast—the
cat (that's me)—but oh! so many
tempting birds. Now I suppose you
are able to gather from the hints al­ready
dropped that since the part of
the cat is taken, nothing but the part
of the canaries remains. So, to elab­orate,
I will add that you, gentle
readers, as well as those who are
neither gentle nor readers, are to
have the part of the canaries. Now
I am going to devour you mercilessly,
so that there will be neither one
single twitter nor even the slightest
vestige of a feather left—in fact,
nothing but a.reminiscent purr from
old Tabby (that's me) the cat.
Now, here's where I enter. But I
see some things that are hard to get
sharp claws about. When one looks
around, for instance, one must praise
the beautiful attitude of sorority and
fraternity' rushing, especially that of
the former. One of our sororities is
almost unbelievably fair to its rush-ees,
and fairer still to other groups.
This year it gave the rushees all of
five minutes to consider the possibli-ties
of other sororities on the campus.
This overwhelming display of sports­manship
merits our most heartfelt
applause, and we must call our atten­tion
to to the fact that in for any of
us to succeed we must persuade our
selves to use like tactics. We must
strive to keep our game as straight
and above-board, and to observe
every phase of every rule as this
most honorable organization has
done. We must certainly all admit
that the fruits of victory are much
more copious after such a noble con­test,
and that the winners shall be
everlastingly respected by all who
witnessed the stirring fight.
Highest Recognition
Granted Freshman At
Century Of Progress
Albena Pierce, a freshman at the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute has re­ceived
outstanding recognition at the
Century of Progress Exposition in
Chicago. She is one of the eight wo­men,
all from Macon County, to re­ceive
first prizes on an exhibition of
canned figs.
Last year, Miss Pierce was the win­ner
of the $100 4-H Club Skinner's
Scholarship Prize. She was also the
winner of the Senior 4-H Club Girls
Canning Contest, sponsored by the
Hazel-Atlas Glass Company. The
winner was awarded a trip to the
Thirteenth National 4-H Club Con­gress
and International Livestock Ex­position
in Chicago, Illinois. As she
had won a trip to Chicago in 1929,
she took the money as a scholarship
instead.
Hargey J. Sconce, who is in charge
of Agricultural Publicity for the Ex­position
paid high praise for these
exhibits. He said, "I note a peculiar
thing about the prize winners of the
canned fig class, that the first eight
winners are from the small towns and
country homes in Alabama near Au­burn."
SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES
Society Editor — SARAH STANLEY — Phone 240-J
Home Ec Club
Met Wednesday
The Home Economics Club held its
first meeting on Wednesday night,
September 20. Plans for the year
were discussed and with the coopera­tion
of the Home Economics students
great things will be accomplished.
Mrs. Schrader was elected as spon­sor
of the club for this semester.
At the next meeting, October 4, she
will talk on Nutrition, in which field
she has specialized.
Plans are being made for joining
the National Home Econbmics Club,
and three dates were set aside for
picnics.
All Home Economics students are
invited and urged to attend the
meetings every other Wednesday at
the nursery school from 7 to 8 P.M.
B. S. U. Entertains
With Reception
The Baptist Student Union gave
their annual reception for the Bap­tist
students Saturday evening, Sep­tember
23rd. All the Baptist stu­dents
and especially the freshmen
were invited.
Although under the unfavorable
condition caused by students not re­turning
to Auburn after the foot­ball
game, a large number were pres­ent.
The main features of the pro­gram
were solos by Miss Ruby Long,
and Mr. O. O. Manning. The pre­sentation
of several numbers by Mr.
Arnstein on his accordion were en­joyed.
After punch was seved, the
students gathered in the main audi­torium
to hear Mrs. Tidwell of Ope-lika
give an organ recital.
Parent-Teachers
Has First Meeting
The Auburn Parent Teachers As­sociation
held its first meeting of the
year Thursday night, September 21,
in the High School Auditorium. This
meeting was in the form of a social
and stunt evening with Mrs. Paul
Irvine, Chairman of the program com­mittee,
in charge.
Cooperating with the P. T. A. in
the meeting were the other clubs of
the town.
Business Women
Meet Today
The Business and Professional
Womens Club of Auburn will hold
its first Luncheon Meeting for the
new year September 27, with Mrs.
Atkinson in charge. Miss Lee,
Chairman of the Research Committee
will be in charge of the program.
Dr. H. C. Hoffsomer is the main
speaker for the occasion. His sub­ject
will be "Womans Work in the
Professional World.
Innocent bystanders were most un­expectedly
amused by a naive old wo­man,
from the far backwoods, yester­day.
This old gentlewoman said, "wuz
they a football game in town, and
how come 'em to change Auburn's
colors to green and white, or wuz
they jest a Irish fair a-goin' on, and
wher' could she git her ribbins at?"
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Reserve Officers'
School To Start
The first meeting of the Field Ar­tillery
and Engineer Reserve Officers'
School conducted at Auburn each year
will have its first meeting in the E.
O. T. C. Engineer class room, Monday
evening, October 2, at 7:00 p.m.
The purpose of this school is to
furnish a central meeting place where
Reserve Officers may receive coaching
in the study of the various correspon­dence
courses which are required for
promotion.
The Field Artillery section of the
school will be conducted by Capt. W.
A. Metts, assisted by Lt. Wm. C. Hug-gins.
Captain R. W. Grower will con­duct
the Engineer section.
MEETING OF SENIOR
CLASS HELD TODAY
(Continued from page 1)
that they did not finish Auburn last
year because business conditions
were on the upturn now and that
jobs should be more plentiful next
year.
In connection with the action which
the seniors took this morning, meet­ings
have .been called for the other
three classes as follows: juniors to
meet in Langdon Hall at ten o'clock
Thursday morning, sophomores to
meet Friday morning at eleven, and
freshmen to meet Friday morning
at eleven-thirty. Students who have
classes at the hour their meeting is
called will be excused from them.
PROF. BECK WRITES
HISTORY TEXT BOOK
(Continued from Page 1)
The book was written by Alabama
authors, published by an Alabama
concern (The Frather Publishing
Company of Auburn), and printed
on paper from pulp of southern pine
trees. Drawing for the cover was
done by Prof. Frank W. Applebee of
the Auburn school of architecture
and allied arts.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Born on September 27 to Mr. and
Mrs. G. Joe Ward, a son, who has
been named- William Joseph.
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Special Classes To
Begin Saturday. 23
In accordance with custom the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, under the
direction of Dean Zebulon Judd, or­ganized
its Saturday program of
courses on Saturday, September 23.
This work is provided especially for
persons who are able to devote only,
part time to college study. Most of
the Saturday students are teachers in
Lee and nearby counties. However,
the courses are open to all interested
persons who have-, suitable prepara­tion.
The schedules are offered, morning
and afternoon. The morning classes
are in session from 9 to 12 and the af­ternoon
classes from 1 to 4. Students
may take both a morning and an af­ternoon
class and receive three se­mester
hours of credit for each in a
single semester. In two semesters a
student may earn 12 semester hours
of credit, the equivalent of one-third
of a whole academic year, full time.
The credit for a year of Saturday
work is also equal to that of a whole
summer session of two terms.
The Saturday and summer session
classes both are peculiarly adapted
for persons who are engaged for the
major portion of their time and want
to devote their spare time to study.
Two thirds of the work of a full
academic year may be accomplished
through Saturday and summer work.
The courses organized last Satur­day
were in the fields of English, His­tory,
and Education. These courses
are for both graduate and undergrad­uate
students. Other courses will be
offered if requested by a reasonable
number of students.
PLAINSMEN CONQUER
B'HAM-SOUTHERN IN
LAST QUARTER RALLY
Earl Smith's Braves
Off With Fast Start
News has been received in Auburn
that the Jonesboro Baptist College
Braves, Jonesboro, Ark., coached by
Earl (Preacher) Smith, a local b#y
are off to another successful season,
having won their opening game last
Friday night with Mississippi North­western,
61 to 0. The team plays
Southwestern second team in Mem­phis
this week-end.
Smith, former manager of the foot­ball
team here, is beginning his second
year as Director of Athletics and
Head Coach at the Arkansas institu­tion.
Last season he produced the
greatest team ever to represent Jones­boro.
Among Coach Smith's stars are
three players from Alabama, Fletcher
Ferguson, star end from Enterprise;
and Bill Adams, and John E. James,
both backfield men from Jasper.
Ferguson, elongated end, has been
elected alternate-captain of this year's
eleven. He was one of the outstand­ing
linesmen in Arkansas last season.
James is a triple-threat halfback,
and according to all reports, can do
everything with a football. His forte
is punting, having averaged 63 yards
on his boots last season.
Adams, regular quarterback, is a
heady field general, and also is a
triple-threat star.
Coach Smith has a squad of approx­imately
40 players out for positions.
Jonesboro is a Junior College.
Baraca Class Hears
Prof. Rutland Speak
Prof. James R. Rutland, head of
the English department, addressed
the Baraca Class of the First Bap­tist
Church last Sunday morning. He
used as his subject, "Literature and
the Bible."
Prof. Rutland discussed prose and
poetry as found in the various Books
of the Bible and the Styles in which
they are written, using illustrations
from Wordsworth and Milton to bring
out his point.
Prof. Ralph Draughon will teach
the class next Sunday at 9:45 A. M.
in the Church Auditorium.
POST OFFICE WILL
BE OCCUPIED SOON
(Continued from Page 1)
three such buildings throughout the
country have this feature, he said.
• The lobby is a thing of beauty, he
added. "It is one of the prettiest I
have ever seen. It is done in Ameri­can
black walnut with a Tennessee
marble base. The attractive terrazzo
floor and handsome bronze equipment
throughout make it beautiful in every
respect."
Patronize Plainsman Advertisers.
(Continued from Page 1)
a smooth working form. Bennie Fen-ton
at left end and Boots Chambless,
right guard, were the only ones out­standing.
Dupree and Rogers were the only
Tiger backs who made creditable
showings.
Dupree played a magnificient game
at fullback, accounting for 125 of
Auburn's 309 yards. Captain Wil­liams
ran the team in a flawless man­ner.
Both Rogers and Phipps turned
in creditable performances.
The lineup and summary.
Auburn (20)—Fenton, left end;
McCollum, left tackle; Welch, left
guard; Chrietzberg, center; Cham-bless,
right guard; Holmes, right
tackle; Ariail, right end; Williams
(c), quarterback; Phipps, left half­back;
Rogers, right half-back; Du­pree,
fullback.
Birmingham-Southern (7)—Davis
left end; Fisher, left tackle; Clark,
left guard; Wedgeworth, center;
Townsend, right guard; Surry, right
tackle; Haygood, right end; Young,
quarterback; Teel, left halfback;
McKay, right halfback; Johnson (c)
fullback.
Score by quarters:.
Auburn 7 0 0 13—20
B'ham-Southern __ 7 0 0 0— 7
Scoring — Auburn: Touchdowns,
Dupree 2, Rogers. Points after touch­down,
Ariail 2 (placement kicks).
Birmingham-Southern — Touchdown,
Teel. Point after touchdown, Da­vis
(placement kick).
Substitutes — Auburn: Talley and
Levi.
Birmingham - Southern — LeCroy,
Harper, Roberts, Beaird, Lawley and
Moseley.
Officials—Referee, Ervin (Drake);
umpire, Kalkman (St. Louis); head
linesman, Severance (Oberlin); field
judge, Halligan (Massachusetts
State).
CHANGES MADE IN
AG FACULTY FOR
PRESENT SEMESTER
Some changes have been made in
the faculty of the Agricultural De­partment
this year. Mr. George Jes­ter
and Mr. Taylor have gone to work
with the Federal Land bank in New
Orleans. Mr. George Scarseth has re­turned
from Ohio where he has been
working on his Ph.D. degree. He is
teaching Junior Soils here.
The student enrollment in Agricul­ture
for this year has been decreased
about 10 per cent over last year, 117
last year, 80 this year.
The Ag Club holds its meetings
every Wednesday night at seven
o'clock. They have made plans for
the Ag fair, an annual occasion on
the campus. Earl Soloman, is the
Senior Manager. Marion Tisdale, who
has been elected Assistant Manager
from the Junior class, will automati­cally
succeed Earl Soloman as Senior
Manager next fall.
DANCE DECORATIONS
CONTRACT AWARDED
TO STUDENT ARTISTS
SCORE BOARD INSTALLED
IN LANGDON HALL FOR
FANS REMAINING HERE
(Continued from Page 1)
Tech in Atlanta, October 14; George
Washington University in Washing­ton,
D. C, October 21; Tulane in New
Orleans, October 28; Duke in Dur­ham,
November 4; Georgia in Colum­bus,
November 18; Florida in Gaines­ville,
November 25, and South Caro­lina
in Birmingham, December 2.-
(Continued from Page 1)
serve, Syracuse, Bucknell, and North­western.
A few of the radio stations
over which he has been heard are:
WABC, New York; WTAM, Cleve­land;
WBAL, Baltimore; WOR, New­ark,
and others.
The orchestra was organized six
years ago and has carried the same
personnel for the last three. Eleven
artists make up the band, and they
play thirty-three different instru­ments
including the vibraphone, vio­lins,
mellophones, etc. Kibler also
features a quartette, trio, and a great
amount of glee club singing. The
four costume changes which the band
uses include red and white dress suits,
with ship jackets for formal dances.
It's musical library includes over 500
songs, 250 being special arrangements.
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DINTY MOORE'S PLACE
PLAYERS WILL PRESENT
NOVEL THREE-ACT PLAY
(Continued from page 1)
the direction of Professor Peet. Char­lie
Merkle is President of the organi­zation;
Mervin York, vice-president;
Ruth Jones, Secretary; Leonard Nel­son,
Treasurer; and Frank Jones,
Stage-Manager.
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