1937-02-10 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOLUME LX
TO FOSTER THE A U B U R N S P I R IT
AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1937 NUMBER 35
Sewanee Is
Defeated In
Two Games
First Game Was Close But
T i g e r s Improved To Hold
Margin In Second Contest
SCORES 39-32, 36-16
T i g e r s Will Play Two Home
Games This Week Meeting
Florida On Friday, Saturday
Dude Frosh Goes A'Courtm'
* * * * * * * *
Scared Youth Burns Up Road To Tuskegee
Wild Papa Comes A'Shootin'
By EDWIN GODBOLD
The Freshman slicked down his cow- companion only served to increase
The Auburn basketeers rang up two
more Southeastern Conference victo­ries
last Monday and Tuesday nights
as they set back Sewanee in two suc­cessive
games by the respective scores
of 39-32 and 36-16 before a fair crowd
in Alumni Gymnasium.
The Monday night contest was by
far the most interesting of the two as
Rupert Colemore, All-Southeastern
football tackle last season, led the
Sewanee five through a hard-fought
battle, personally accounting for 16
tallies. With Auburn leading the visi­tors
22-10 at half-time, Sewanee came
back with a bang to come within four
points of tying the Plainsmen with
but ten minutes of the game remain­ing.
However, the Tiger's big guns
starting dropping them in from all
angles to successfully stave off the
Purple's attack. Rex McKissick garn­ered
five double deckers and two foul
shots to iead his team with 12 points
while Malvern Morgan ran a close
second with 10 tallies.
Eaves Outstanding
Last night's tilt turned out to be
rather dull with Coach Ralph Jordan's
outfit holding a comfortable lead
throughout. Colemore, star of Monday
night, was well taken care of by Red
Childers who allowed him only four
points while taking second place scor­ing
honors for the Tigers with 8
points. The outstanding star of the
night was Captain Joel Eaves who
was high scorer of the evening with
10 points besides playing a superb
defensive and floor game.
The Tigers showed some improve­ment
since their contest with Birming­ham-
Southern in that their passwork
and general offensive play was much
smoother. However, the most notice­able
improvement was in the defensive
department of the game. The fact
that they allowed Sewanee to score
but 16 points in last night's contest is
ample proof of this.
Andrew Ciirlee, although kept out
of the scoring column, played a stellar
game at guard and allowed his man
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lick for the last time as he and his
friend walked up to the Bee House
just past Comer Hall out on Ag Hill.
His friend had made a date for him
with a young lady purported to reside
there. "The girl's father is a wild
man and doesn't approve of his daugh­ter
going out with college boys," he
was told. "But he's a night-watch­man
and won't be at home, so don't
worry."
At the door of the house the boys
knocked, only to be answered by a
harsh masculine voice demanding to
know what they wanted. For a mo­ment
they were dumb, as they had ex­pected
to hear a sweet feminine voice
asking them to enter. "We want to
see your daughter," they weakly an­swered.
"My daughter! I'll teach you to
fool with my daughter!" roared the
man, flinging the door open and firing
his shotgun at the astonished boys.
The Freshman's friend fell groaning
to the ground, crying that he had been
shot.
Hearing the horrible groans of his
Freshie's speed as he ran over the
Ag Hill grounds, clearing shrubs and
fences in great leaps. Approximately
one second later he was passing Smith
Hall crying for the police. "Police!
Help! They killed my room-mate and
shot at me! Oh, my God!"
The Auburn police turned out in
full force and accompanied the boy
back to Ag Hill, but the sight of the
body stretched out on the ground was
too much for the poor student. He lit
out down the Montgomery highway,
his heel taps kicking up sparks so fast
that it seemed that he seemed to have
flashlights tied to his heels.
No word has been received from
him yet, but Tuskegee authorities re­ported
that a minor cyclone passed
down the highway about midnight that
same night, so the Auburn police, as­sisted
by the Highway Patrol and the
local ROTC unit are seeking the boy
in that neighborhood.
It is hoped that no harm has come
to him, for the entire affair was noth­ing
but a hoax perpetrated by several
local students.
Peace Men
Meet With
Few Groups
Southern Field Secretary Of
Emergency Peace Campaign
Contacts Students On Peace
H. M. Wheeler
Lectures To Ags
Thursday Night
ON SECOND VISIT
Contacted College Authorities
On First Trip, But Has Ad­dressed
Students This Time
Student Group
To Contribute
Most Gets Cup
Group Registrations Unneces­s
a r y For Award, Which Is
Not Taken From School Fees
Final Casting Made
For Next Production
Final casting for the remaining
roles of "Wings over Europe" was
held last Friday evening in the Y-Hut.
The roles awarded were: Mat­thew
Grindle, Chancellor of the Ex­chequer,
to Paul Rudolph; Esme Falk-iner,
Secretary of State for the Air,
to L. C. Worthy; St. John Pascoe,
Attorney General, to P. Duggar Mc-
Cormick; Hart-Plimsoll, and Taggert,
"men of the street", to Dan Martin
and Prof. J. R. Jackson respectively;
Cabinet Messenger to Bill Hendrix;
and Sir Berkeley Rummel to Frank-lyn
Ward. Mrs. Hubert P. Davis will
act as prompter.
General readings of the play began
Monday and the first practice is to be
tonight.
As an incentive for greater accom­plishments
among the various campus
clubs, organizations, honor' fraterni­ties,
and societies the Plainsman has
decided to award a trophy to the
gsoup making the outstanding con­tribution
to the school's welfare. This
"contribution" may be a form of
special activity or an actual gift in
one form or another.
The award will be recognized as
'The Plainsman Award" and is to be
given in form of a ten-inch loving cup,
the money for which will be raised by
the Plainsman and will not be taken
from student activity fees.
Registration Not Necessary
No group registration is necessary
as the existence of such a body auto­matically
makes it eligible for the
award. There are no restrictions as to
the type of organizations that may
compete in the contest and every group
on the campus is urged to begin work
on some worthwhile project, or to pub­licize
the work now being carried on.
As the winner will be judged with al­lowances
made for size of body, re­lative
wealth, and position occupied on
campus, all organizations have an
equal chance for the award.
Judges for the'contest will be Editor
of The Plainsman, chairman, and Joe
Sarver, president of the Executive
Cabinet, Albena Pierce, Woman Stu­dent
Government head, P. O. Davis,
Executive Secretary, and Kirtley
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Ag Honor Frat
Elects Six Men
New Members
Chandler, Little, Bailey, Fer-gerson,
Stokes, And Welch
A r e Selected By Ag Society
Six Seniors in the schools of Agri­culture
and Agricultural Education
heen have been elected members of
Gamma Sigma Delta, national agri­culture
honor fraternity.
The men listed by Professor F. S.
Ararit, secretary of the local organi­zation,
are: W. V. Chandler, Anda­lusia;
L. H. Little, Alexandria; C. H.
Bailey, Montevallo; M. L. Fergerson,
Sylacauga; C. M. Stokes, Elba, and
H. K. Welch, Wetumpka.
Each year the organization selects
Seniors from the upper twenty-five
per cent of the class in scholarship.
Not more than fifteen per cent of the
class may be selected. Besides schol­arship,
leadership and personality are
considered.
This organization awards a cup to
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Registration Total
2310 At Last Count
Official registration figures this
morning totaled 2310. As published in
an earlier issue of the Plainsman, it
was expected by the Registrar that
as many as 2600 students would enroll
this semester.
The present figure exceeds the mark
of the same period last year by almost
400 students, yet falls short of the ex­pected
number by approximately 300.
Students are still registering in the
various schools, and the total may yet
reach the hoped-for goal.
By ROBERT JOHNSTON and
J. H. WHEELER, JR.
Stuart Wright, Southern Field Sec­retary
of the Emergency Peace Cam­paign,
and associates have again been
on the campus for the past week con­tacting
student and faculty leaders in
the interest of promoting world peace.
On his previous visit Mr. Wright
contacted many college authorities and
students and made the beginning of
making Auburn "peace conscious."
On' this return trip the peace of­ficial
has spoken to a number of the
campus organizations including O. D.
K., Oracles, and a joint meeting of
Christian young peoples groups Sun­day
night. As Mr. Wright explained,
his plan of activities on the campus
is to organize a cabinet of the inter­ested
groups. This cabinet will elect
its own officers and formulate its own
program. However, a i general pro­gram
to be followed is to present
peace programs in the various organi­zations,
and to establish information
service at the library.
Is Not Dictating
According to Mr. Wright, the job
of the cabinet is to coordinate educa­tional
programs for peace on the cam­pus.
He stresses the point that he is
not dictating, but he emphasizes the
fact that something must be done be­fore
it is too late. "College students
are the potential intellectual leaders of
the country, college students are the
ones who will be drafted in the next
war so why not work to prevent war
as a national emergency?"
Mr. Wright, a young University of
Vermont graduate, is one of twenty-five
college graduates sent out by the
Emergency Peace Campaign to cover
all the colleges in the country in an
effort to organize groups of students
who are interested in preventing war.
The Emergency Peace Campaign
was launched more than a year ago
by a number of individuals who felt it
their duty to take some action upon the
rapidly increasing international ten­sions
which threaten to precipitate a
general European and Asiatic war,
with disastrous effects to the United
States. Its purpose is to promote a
cooperative nation-wide campaign to
keep the United States from going to
war, recruiting and uniting in one
dynamic movement all organizations
and individuals who do not approve of
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Tony Sarg Marionettes Thrill Crowd
In Langdon Hall Last Monday Night
Clara Belle Wright
Dies In Columbus, Ga.
Clara Belle Wright, 22, Resettle­ment
worker here, died in Columbus,
Ga., yesterday afternoon. No definite
details of the death are known, but
from a reliable source it was disclosed
that an overdose of some sedative was
the cause.
Miss Wright left town yesterday
on the pretense of going to Mont­gomery,
her home, to see the dentist.
A report came to Dr. C. S. Yar-brough
several hours later and to
George Fuller, head of the admini­stration
work, from a Columbus mor­tician
that he had the body of Miss
Wright. Mr. Fuller left immediately
for Columbus.
By FRANKLYN WARD
The miniature curtain of the 10
foot by 4 foot stage of the Southern
unit of the Tony Sarg Marionette
Troupe was rung back on the second
performance of the day at eight o'­clock
Monday evening in Langdon
Hall. The performances presented to
the mixed group of approximately 250
in the evening and to the 150 children
at a matinee at 3:30 were the play
"Alice in Wonderland" and the Gil­bert
and Sullivan operetta "Mikado".
The lifelike miniature actors and
actresses captured the hearts of the
children and brought smiles of amuse­ment
and pleasure to the faces of the
adults gathered in the auditorium. The
marionettes average in height about
28" although the largest, that of Mark
Twain, is almost 40".
One of Oldest Troups In Country-BF
This unit, which is composed of
four members, is of the reknowned
troupe of Tony Sarg of New York.
This troupe is one of the oldest in the
United States, having presented its
first performance over'eighteen years
ago.
The clever skill of the pupetteers
can readily be realized when the fact
is known that the four members have
under their command many times in
the presentation of the productions as
many as twelve or fourteen marion­ettes.
After the performance the audience
was allowed to stay and watch the
members of the troupe "strike" the
set. Almost everyone remained to see
how the backstage was arranged and
the packing was carried on.
About seventy dollars, which was
received from both, performances,
went to the troupe. The performances
were sponsored by the Auburn Players
on a non-profit basis.
MacCutcheon To Visit
A.I.E.E., February 24
A. M. MacCutcheon, of Cleveland,
Ohio, president of the American In­stitute
of Electrical Engineers, will
visit the student branch here at Au­burn
on Wednesday, February 24. He
will arrive at 11:40 a. m. from At­lanta
and remain in Auburn for an
evening meeting and conference at 7
p. m.
Accompanied by Mrs. MacCutcheon
and H. H. Henline, national secretary
of the A. I. E. E., the visitors will be
the luncheon guests of the officers of
the student branch and several mem­bers
of the Engineering School
faculty.
Beginning on February 15, Mr. Mac­Cutcheon
will visit all sections of the
A. I. E. E. and colleges where stu­dent
branches are located in the
Southeast. Following his visit to Au­burn
he will be in Birmingham on the
following day and at the University
of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, on February
27.
According to Professor W. W. Hill,
of the school of engineering, National
Secretary Henline will return to Au­burn
on April 2 and 3 for the South­eastern
Student Branch Convention of
the A. I. E. E. to be held at the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute.
H. M. WHEELER
A lecture, illustrated on colored
slides, will be given at Langdon Hall
at 8 p. m. Thursday, February 11, by
H. M. Wheeler, noted lecturer of the
United States Forest Service, an­nounces
Lyle Brown, forester of the
Alabama Extension Service. The
lecture is being sponsored by the Stu­dents'
Agricultural Club.
Agricultural students, faculty mem­bers,
boy scouts, soil conservation, ex­tension
and experiment station em­ployees,
townspeople, and others in­terested
in forestry in Alabama and
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Shannon Resigns As
Business Manager;
Morland Appointed
Co-Eds Be Addressed
By Mabel Y. Lawson
Frosh Defeat
NehiTeamln
Gymn, 31-21
Baker And Dickenson Are Out­standing
For Rats; Defeated
Marion Last Saturday, 46-40
The Auburn Frosh continued their
victory march last night when they
defeated the Columbus Nehi quintet
31 to 21 thus marking their third win
in the last three starts.
The Marion Cadets fell victims to
the freshmen's superior attack last
Saturday night by a score of 46 to
40, but only after fighting in vain to
regain the lead that was theirs at the
half when the score board read 18-17.
It was anybody's game until the last
few minutes of play'when a rally led
by Dickenson placed the Rats 12 points
to the fore. The margin held over
them proved to be too great for the
Cadets to overcome in the short time
remaining and the final whistle blew
with them trailing the Freshmen by
6 points.
Baker, six-foot center, and Dicken­son,
stellar forward, were the out­standing
performers for the Rats and
the play of Jones, Beck, McGill, and
Wilkinson featured for the Cadets.
In Monday night's contest, the Frosh
ran wild over the Columbus Dr. Pep­per
basketeers trouncing them to the
tune of 55 to 28.
The Rats gained the lead in the
opening minutes of the contest and
held it throughout. At half-time, the
Columbus aggregation was hopelessly
lost as the score stood 30 to 18 against
them and their brand of ball-playing
could not match that of the Freshmen.
Renfroe and Dickenson took scoring
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Mrs. Mabel Yerly Lawson,
prominent attorney from Greens­boro
will address a convocation of
women students in Langdon Hall
tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock.
The address emphasizes the gen­eral
theme of convocations for
women students for this year,
that of impressing the woman's
place and importance in the pro­fessional
and business world to­day.
Mrs. Lawson received her A.
B. degree at Huntingdon College
and her law degree at the Uni­versity
of Alabama. During her
Junior year at the University,
she received the annual scholar­ship
prize offered by the Ameri­can
Law Book Company for hav­ing
attained the highest scho­lastic
average in the Law Depart­ment.
She is a member of Kappa
Delta social sorority and has
served several times in national
offices of that society.
According to Miss Albena
Pierce, president of the Women's
Student Government, the lecture
will be open to townspeople and
students alike.
The address is another in the
series arranged for women stu­dents
this year with the general
theme of "women in the profes­sions".
A number of outstanding
Alabama women in the professions
have addressed the Auburn
women students this year.
Classes will be excused for all
co-eds at this hour.
February 16, Deadline
For First Round Of
Interfrat Basketball
The deadline for all first-round
matches in the Interfraternity Basket­ball
Tournament has been set by Lo­pez
Manteaux, chairman, for Febru­ary
16. This will call for about two
matches a night in order to complete
first-round competition before the
final date. With the varsity squad on
the road Thursday, the gym will prob­ably
be available most of the day.
Team captains should arrange their
first-round games without further de­lay.
Alumni Gym has been the scene of
unusual activity these last few days.
Many of the fraternities have had
their quintets out practicing plays and
shots which they intend to use on their
opponents in a few days. Every team
has had ample time to get in shape
for the tournament.
NOTICE !
All juniors on the editorial and busi­ness
staffs of The Plainsman be in
front of the chemistry building tomor­row
at 12:45 to have a picture made
for the Glomerate. This is the only
chance.
5,000 View Air Corps On Week-End;
Applications For Appointment Made
By JACK STEPPE
A crowd of over 5,000 students and
townspeople from Auburn and Ope-lika
viewed the flight of planes com­posing
the graduating class of the
Army Air Corps advanced training
school of Kelly Field which visited the
Auburn-Opelika Airport on Saturday.
The flight consisted of thirty-seven
planes of various types, flown by the
cadets, their instructors, and officers.
The corp's is making a tour of the
leading colleges and universities of the
South for the purpose of arousing the
interest of college men in the Air
Corps. The tour is also serving as a
final cross-country flight for the ca­dets
before their graduation and as­signment
to active duty.
Student* Inspect Planei
Making the most of the opportunity
to inspect this arm of the national de­fense
students swarmed over the field
throughout the day looking over the
planes. The planes of the flight rang­ed
from the swift single seater pur­suits
to the giant lumbering bombers.
One plane, a new Seversky basic
trainer which joined the flight here,
attracted the major share of the
crowd's attention.
On Saturday afternoon Lt. Thorne,
one of the instructors, gave a lecture
at the field for the benefit of students
interested in applying for appoint­ments
as flying cadets. Such appoint­ments,
open to men with at least two
years of-college, entail a year of "flight
training at Randolph and Kelly fields
and two years of active duty with an
opportunity to obtain a commission in
the Air Corps on completion of the
course.
In charge of arrangements at the
field were Lt. B. M. Cornell, head
professor of aeronautical engineering
at Auburn; and Prof. Robert G. Pitts,
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Large Number Of Credit Hours
To Be Completed Before
Graduation, Reason Given
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
New Head Is Honor Man On
Campus, Being Member Of
S p a d e s And O.D.K. Societies
Due to a large number of credit
hours to be completed before gradua­tion,
M. C. Shannon, Jr., Business
Manager of the Plainsman, has decid­ed
to drop his connections with this
paper. Shannon believed it would be
to his greatest benefit to give up his
extra-curricula work in order to finish
school in May.
Alvin Morland, Associate Editor,
has been appointed by the Publica­tions
Committee to fill the vacated of­fice
for .the remainder of the school
term.
These changes are effective immedi­ately
and should cause no break in the
routine of the business end of the
paper.
Morland Is Experienced
Morland has been connected with the
Plainsman in several capacities since
his Freshman year and should fit
nicely into the Business Manager's
position. Besides being Associate
Editor, Morland has had charge of the
circulation department of the publi­cation
this year and has discharged
this duty in a very effective manner.
The new Business Manager states
that there will be no immediate shake-up
in his staff, but that several re­visions
will probably be made as soon
as he deems it feasible. A meeting
of this staff is to be held before any
changes in personnel are made.
Before his resignation, Shannon had
worked for the paper over three years.
He is a member of Blue Key honor
fraternity and the Theta Chi social
fraternity and is from Gadsden.
Morland is a member of Spades, O.
D. K., both honor fraternities, and
S. A. E. social fraternity. His home
is in Birmingham.
L. E. Cox Named Head
Of A. S. C. E. Group
An election of officers for the second
semester in the local student chapter
of the American Society of Civil En­gineers
was held last Monday night.
The new officers are L. E. Cox, Presi­dent;
D. S. Pruitt, Vice-President; W.
B. Stelzenmuller, Secretary; and B. C.
Jordan, Treasurer.
At this meeting slides were shown
of the Miami Flood Control Project in
Ohio. Professor J. A. C. Callan made
explanatory comments while the slides
were being shown. The program was
especially interesting in view of the
fact that the recent flood on the Ohio
River occurred in the close vicinity of
this flood control project. The value
of the project was clearly shown by
the fact that the heavy rains in that
part of Ohio drained by the Miami
River did not exceed the capacity of
the flood control works to carry off
the water.
Textiles Invited To
Have Meeting Here
An invitation to the American As­sociation
of Textile Chemists and Col-orists
to hold their Spring meeting in
Auburn will be extended by Phi Psi,
national honorary textile society, ac­cording
to James Pike, president of
the Auburn chapter.
The meeting will be held some time
in April, and it is expected that a
large number of men from all sec­tions
of the country will be present.
Members of the Auburn society plan
to entertain the visitors with tours
about the Auburn campus.
Plans for the annual Open House
and the Cotton Ball, which, it is hoped,
will be an annual affair are being
pushed to completion. A definite date
for both events will be announced in
the near future.
P A G E TWO T H E A U B U R N 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, FEBRUARY 10, 1937
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Think It Over
The Plainsman award should make
at least some of our better societies
sit up and take notice. Others will go
along in the same ruts they have been
traveling in since the time they were
organized.
Do you know what the purpose and
good of the average honor society, or
fraternity, is? It is simply this: To
elect Junior politicians once a year—
getting streamers in the paper, to
sponsor one or two events year after
year with little or no change—getting
the same publicity each time, to col­lect
anywhere from ten to twenty-five
dollars from each member, to buy
keys which are to bedeck the mem­bers,
to hold at least one big banquet
and buy a dance at the Openings,
Mid-terms, or the Finals, or at all
three, and in general to keep their
group before the student body.
Do you know what the real purpose
of an honor society should be? Simply
this: To elect those men who have
proved themselves worthy of recogni­tion,
not by political prowess but by
real accomplishments in school and
social life, to aid the school by some
worthy contribution that should bet­ter
Auburn socially, to win recogni­tion,
not by simply being but by
doing.
Do not think we deem every campus
honor fraternity or society unworthy.
Far from it. Some are now doing work
that should receive much praise. We
mean by "average" the societies which
have no other reason to exist than the
simple fact they existed last year and
the year before.
We do believe that these things
should be thought over by those be­longing
to honor groups and by those
who have hopes of someday being a
member of such an organization.
We are aware of the fact that our
program will not cause an overnight
change in the work and accomplish­ment
done by our clubs, societies, and
honor frats, but it should at least
make these groups take stock of them­selves,
consciously or unconsciously.
Change?
Little do the people of the United
States realize that the present Su­preme
Court controversy is a histori­cal
one that may mark the beginning
of a new type of governmental setup
in this country. The changing of the
conservative, ever - stabilizing Su­preme
Court so that it may be con­trolled
by the party in power would
eviscerate our entire judiciary.
To this body goes all credit for a
successful defense of our Constitu­tion
and by-laws. It is the one federal
department that may authoritatively
render the "no's" and "yesses" to the
inter-class and inter-group questions;
to place this in a position that it may
be manipulated by political affinity is
to devitalize an agency that has serv­ed
since its first day of existence as a
counter check on the legislative
bodies.
The Supreme Court as it stands to­day
is an intrinsic element in Ameri­can
government and any liberation
toward it should be prevented. The
masses of people proclaim this revolu­tion
in the judiciary a wise thing, but
history is too full of instances in
which the minds of the masses were
in the wrong to let this be a deciding
factor. We must retain one conserva­tive
body.
The Cost Is Minor
It is inconceivable why there should
be so much antagonism offered to the
passing of bills appropriating money
to prevent future floods in this coun­try.
Each time a proposal of this
nature is put before our legislative
assemblies it is met by any number of
repugnant leaders who cry "Too
Much money".
With the vivid pictures of lost lives,
wrecked property, homeless families
and innumerable other social molesta­tions
being constantly reflected on the
minds of all, it is unfeasable to even
consider the expense argument that
always impedes action in the matter.
The loss of property alone would
offset the expenditure required, and
the inestimatable value of human
lives lost would redundate this sum.
The horror of the present flood dis­aster
may be the opening wedge to
the fund appropriation; whether it is
or not, we must push this issue to the
front. It is of prime importance and
must be regarded as such. Any prob­lem
in which the lives and property
of our people are involved is a vital
issue that must be given action. We
must rid society of the handicap that
has brought so much hardship to
American families and enterprises.
News and Views
By JAMES BUNTIN
How's Business?
Management is the essence of good
-business. Going to school is a busi­ness.
Now, if you do not take your
arithmetic literally, add the two and
the answer is: manage your school­ing.
There must be an organization, an
aim to this business of acquiring an
education. It takes a great deal of
planning—for the present and the
future. If we have our object in mind
and our plans formulated, we will
save a great deal of time and money
by not having to grope around trying
to find ourselves.
It would be surprising to students
to know what a great number of their
fellow-men "go through" their first
three years without any object in
view and then suddenly realize it is
not chemistry wanted, but business,
or agriculture. Some even go entirely
through four years without a look in­to
the future—they become misfits.
But assuming we decide it is busi­ness
we want to take; there is nothing
to do but change. A loss of time and
money. Had we been able to manage,
to look ahead, pause and take stock,
never would this situation arise.
Just One Of Those Things
One Auburn institution, if it may
be called such, which we have never
seen editorialized is the local Negro
and his attachment to students.
This individual prides himself on
the fact that he can call the names of
all the big shots and that all the
prominent boys know him by name.
A grin a mile wide spreads on the
face of the shine boy, the drug store
carrier, the grocery boy, and the
loafer when Mista Walter Gilbert or
Mista Joel or Mista Joe Stewart calls
to him in passing.
This attachment of Negroes to col­lege
men has lasted back over the
years and it is just one of those things
we thought of while wondering why
Auburn has always been such a swell
place to go to school.
Seems Funny
Garbo is not counting heavily on
the Social Security Act. She has by
purchasing annuities, insured herself
that whether the Old Age Pensions
are reliable or not she will have
$3,500 a month beginning at fifty
years.
Now that strikes us as being funny,
or something.
When we see the great Garbo in
those torrid love scenes, it's hard to
imagine her coming down to earth
long enough to make plans for her old
age.
It's a funny old world.
THIS TIME: NECESSARY EVILS, SU­PREME
JUSTICES, CONSERVATION,
AND ITEMS IN THE BRIEF.
A professor of public speaking at Oregon
University uses a light to signal the mem­bers
of his class when to stop their speeches.
He has found that tapping a desk or ringing
a bell awakens the other members of the
class.
THE SKUNK is forever with us, whether
as a beautiful and harmless animal or as
a thing depicting all that is vile and revolt­ing.
The sender probably had no idea as to
the consternation that was to result when
he attempted to send one of these animals
by parcel post from a New York postoffice.
Anyway, he made the proper negotiations
with postoffice officials and made his exit
from a scene that was soon to be quite de­void
of all beings, with the exception of one,
in all probability, not-unproper-meaning
skunk that was being submitted to the in­dignity
of being shipped through the U. S.
mails. For a while, all "further business
must needed to be carried on in the streets.
Thus, necessary evils are with us in various
forms and degrees.
* * * *
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in view of
the fact that the Supreme Court has been
one of his chief hinderances in the carrying
•
out of his New Deal policies, is asking for
new blood for the high Judicial Bench.
These old men have already been too long
with us, and they are continually providing
stumbling stones for present-day admini­stration.
Mr. Roosevelt advocates increas­ing
the number of Justices to 15, retiring all
who have reached the age of 70. Six of the
present members would fit into his category
of those who should be replaced by men who
would take a "more enlightened" attitude
toward modern problems. The Lower House
seems to be with him, but further than that,
a party cleavage seems to be in line.
* * * *
MAYBE a necessary evil that will result
in ultimate improvement, yet one hard to
relish—"The flood sufferers and the storm
sufferers are martyrs to an ignorance, an
arrogance and an ineptness which are being
overcome". One can speculate with infinite
bounds as to the sum total cost of recent
and foregoing floods and wind storms. Con­fronted
with an immediate situation, Con­gress
has appropriated and is laying plans
for appropriations of vast sums to stop these
disasters and to put these implements of
nature to work.
* * * *
PLACE IN THE SPACE—Another su­spect
of the kidnapped and murdered Matt-son
boy has been found in North Dakota.
He appears to be the very facsimile in ap­pearance
and actions of the man wanted . .
. . . Gen. Franco, of the Rebel forces, has
captured Malaga and along with other vic­torious
advances is well on the way to Va­lencia,
the now coveted stronghold of the
Loyalist The Comptroller of the Cur­rency
sees no use in enacting any new bank­ing
laws as there has not been a bank failure
since 1935 The flood waters recede in
the Ohio and upper Mississippi Valleys, and
engineers believe that danger is past for the
region The strikers continue to "sit"
as both sides display fine tempered
obstinacy.
Cats and Canaries
Wonder how Curtiss Griffen felt when he
saw his bag bounce back from Montgomery
Saturday, the 30th, after he had so carefully
checked it away until the next big set of
dances?
* \ # * *
ROMANCING AT THE RITZ (Colic
Inn): Elmore Ragan and Caroline Hendrix,
Charlie O'Reilly and Olga Sneed, the "Pro­prietor"
and Mildred Glass, Bert Reinow
and Mary Hayes, "Twirpy" Murphy and
Bob McCullough.
* * * *
Schley Gordy: If you had been a good boy
during the dances, her mother would have
let you come to see her again. •
* * * *
"Pretty Eyes" Watson is beginning to
complain as to how tired she gets trudging
up the hill at four a. m.
* * * *
Who put the striped skunk in the Sigma
Chi basement? Maybe it's one of Paul Tal-madge's
friends.
* * * *
PLAINSMAN PEST: Kate Crossley.
* * * *
Prof. Sam Simmons would like, to know if
there are any available dating spaces (For
him) at the P. O. P. House.
WE wonder if the following are married:
Walter Gilbert and Frances Wright,
Howard Davis and Jean Kitchens, George.
Griswold and Marie Kelley* Jim Pike and
.. .., GEORGE QUINNEY and
George Quinney, Mary Pierce and Yank
Friedman, Jimmy Fenton and Scottie
Reeves, Mary Haygood and Wesley Laney,
Alvin Moreland and Most Anybody, Hoyt
Jolly and Bruce McGehee.
* * * *
BANKHEAD BEAUX.: Ross Ogletree,
Jace Green, Frank Perdue, Jimmy Roberts,
Scott, Huey Ford, Dallas Benton, and Luke
West.
Plainsman Forum—Voice of the Students
Come* To The Defense Of The Auburn
Police Department
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
Upon reading Stand Pat's letter in the
last issue of our paper, I cannot refrain
from writing this letter. Undoubtedly, Pat
has suffered a moral degradation.
I believe he was a bit too severe in his
criticism of Auburn's Police Dept. and won­der
if he has ever held an administrative
office of any sort; also if he ever thought
of the fact that Mr. John Law and his aids
are on the spot at all times in regard to
what people say about their activities? Was
there ever a rum runner that loved a Fed­eral
Agent, or a burglar that would pat a
night watchman on the back and beg his
pardon when said watchman interfered with
his planned looting?
In my opinion, the Police Dept. is to be
commended in their handling the various
situations caused by the student. After all,
when we came here, the city didn't sign a
contract with us to provide a steam heated
pent house for a "jug" when we violate city,
state and federal laws. 'Tis true that Cab
Calaboose is seldom inhabited by whites, and
more rarely by a student. Yet that is no
guarantee that the whites or students are
too good to be his guests if they ask for an
invitation.
Pat says if the Dept. intends to start a
reform, they should give warning to all stu­dents.
Why so? Is your home town police
force even half as lenient as Auburn's? A
student steeped in John Barleycorn can do
equally as much damage as enlisted men or
the Beale St. Memphis Negro.
I'm sure nobody wanted a set of dances
so dry they could be blown about as the
western sands; nor so wet they would cause
the damage the Ohio-Mississippi Rivers
have. There must be a happy medium, and
until that moderate degree of absorption
and funneling is prevalent, there is the ne­cessity
of John Law and Cab Calaboose's
restrainment. Just who are we to tell the
town and school that we can get along with­out
the Police Dept. and their little "jug".
Come across Pat, those guys will do the
right thing; even help a fellow home when
his stomach lining gets loose and he is in
the gutter. Just give them half a chance to
treat you decent. Yours, Mike.
Andy Believes In Treating Students
According To Their Behavior
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
In the Plainsman Forum of Feb. 5 Stand
Pat cavorted about a subject in which I, too,
am interested.
If it is true that the 'prom' drunks were
handled like enlisted men in Columbus or
negroes on Beale Street, it is also true that
they were acting like enlisted men in Co­lumbus
or negroes on Beale Street. Every
privilege carries an implied obligation. If
people insist on being given the privileges
of gentlemen they should be under obliga­tion
to act like gentlemen. How do you ex­pect
the law to know you are a gentleman
except by your conduct? No one has yet
devised a badge to wear whereby the wearer
would be recognized as a gentleman, and if
anyone wants to try this badge idea out
don't use Four Roses for "Pat's" sake for
they would be swallowed up immediately, if
not sooner.
The boys who were put in the "Negro pot"
should expect nothing else for they were
down on that level. As for a decent jail, I
can't see any reason for a decent jail to put
indecent people in—they would feel out of
place.
And while I am 'venting my spleen' I
would like to add a word to Cletus about
the extra prints that never come back. I
can't imagine who would want my picture
but I do know that I have never been able
to get mine for my fraternity panel. I know
many more who have never gotten theirs
either. We pay in fifty cents and by our
democratic student government we elect
people to 'put out' the Glomerata and where
our extra prints go only heaven and a few
insiders know. Andy.
Believes Local Theatre Should Have
Films To Fit Admission Price
Editor, The Auburn Plainsman
Dear Sir:
To accept things as they are in every in­stance
would be foolish and unwise for any
of us. It is with this thought in mind that
we bring a point or two to your attention
and to the attention of the readers of the
Plainsman.
As the situation now stands we, here at
Auburn, are getting little consideration
from our local theater. Heretofore we have
been quiet and said nothing about being re­lieved
of twenty five and thirty five cents
for shows of "dime calibre". We are not
asking for a reduction of admission prices
but we believe that type and quality of
shows should fit the admission price. Not
only are we having to tolerate cheap type
shows but are having to pay outrageously
for the "fair to medium shows".
Now we have something that really
climaxes the situation in that we are about
to have something that is colossal, stupen­dous—
in fact some one must go down and
pay a threefold price for a show that should
be shown for the regular admission charge.
There is no doubt that the show "Romeo and
Juliet" is a good show but why should the
local management charge such an outland­ish
price.
If the local theater can not give the stu­dents
proper consideration, we believe that
a college owned theater would prove a solu­tion
to the problem. We hope that after
bringing these things to the attention of the
Editor and readers that further comment
will be given to this subject which directly
affects all of us. Sincerely yours,
W. A. and O. M. Johnson.
On Other Campuses
By JOHN GODBOLD
At last we have found out—chi.valry is
not dead. There are at least two noble-hearted
men left in the world. One is the
University of North Carolina professor,
who, noticing the many drooping heads in
a class, assigned it two nights of sleep.
The other is a teacher of organic chemis­try
at Colby College. His students have
found that tea during an exam at least
makes a test sweeter to take. During one
of his early semester exams, some of the
students complained- that they were too tired
to think and write at the close of the quiz.
At the next exam the professor passed out
steaming cups of tea and plates of cookies.
* * * *
For over a decade The Brand, student
weekly of Hardin-Simmons University, has
sponsored the election of a campus beauty
queen. Now the staff of the publication
have realized that too much emphasis has
been placed on mere beauty—so they are
going to also honor a young man endowed
by nature to the opposite extreme. This
year the ugliest boy in the university will be
selected and will have a date, all expenses
paid, with the beauty queen. And funny
thing, the election promises to be a colossal
struggle.
* * * *
College students devise many novel ways
to earn money to pay their way through
school. A freshman at Butler University
digs graves, a University of Tennessee coed
operates a date bureau, a feminine pre-med
at Kent State runs her own shoe repair
shop. The prize though, goes to the two
Texas Tech brothers who lasso bobcats from
horseback and sell them to experimental
labs.
* * * *
BIG BUSINESS: The secret at last has
been revealed of a custom-written, mail­order
theme business which has netted a
potential magnate a nice profit for several
years. The originator, now doing post­graduate
work at Columbia, began writing
themes for other students in high school.
When he came to Columbia he expanded
his business to include clients at Yale, Har-
On This Campus
By EDWIN C. GODBOLD
There is one campus custom which we
think needs revival. Years ago fraternities
sponsored "exchange supper", nights. A
•group of Phis would have supper at the
ATO house, and the Lambda Chis exchang­ed
diners with the Delta Sigs. The lion din­ed
with the lamb; peace and harmony reign­ed;
the millennium seemed at hand. That
is, Until several members of one fraternity
happened to be dining with another group
and found their best silver, which had been
disappearing for some time, on their host's
table! That's how they say the custom came
to be discontinued.
Regardless of how it came to be stopped,
we think it could stand revival.
* * * *
We have always taken pride in the good
old Southern customs and the neighborly
atmosphere present on our campus. We
note with a kind of unholy glee this state­ment
from a Northern college: What this
campus needs is doors that swing. Doors
at Auburn swing for all, regardless of creed,
position, or any of the insignificant things
small brains have elevated to distinction.
* * * *
Our professors nowdays, to be successful,
must in our opinion no longer be the lean,
stoop-shouldered individual peering over his
horn-rimmed spectacles and pouring forth
his canned knowledge by the hour. Rather,
he must not only be able to present his
knowledge in a capable fashion, but also be
able to furnish enough spice to hold' stu­dent
interest. Our classes are no longer
formed only of select individuals seeking
knowledge. Our professors must not only be
teachers, but salesmen. There are students
who go to college for reasons other than
that of securing knowledge. They must be
sold on college life. Professors will have
more willing audiences when they learn
showmanship.
vard, Fordham, and Randolph-Macon. Af­ter
more than a million words of his tailor-made
papers have been graded as the work
of others, the writer has now abandoned
his business and dropped his thield of
anonymity.
Thunderations
By HUGH CAMERON
Such a lovely mess of planes we had here
this past Saturday thanks to the War De­partment,
and don't you really think those
"low wing" jobs were
better looking than
most any blonde you
have seen in some
time? And away more
safer. They both take
you about the same
height into the air,
but the plane, despite
its close to four hun­dred
miles an hour speed in diving, will let
you down a dite more gentler.
* * * *
Just get yourself into a spin with a high
speed blonde and there is no pulling out.
Like the Navy's F4B4 job. Ask Lt. Cornell
about that one.
* * * *
There are those who love little girls, those
who love swiss on rye, those who love rye,
and those who love wild west shows. They
are those who have never felt themselves
sitting motionless on top of two thousand
feet of air just before the plane "fell off"
and wound up into a spin. Then you sit mo­tionless,
looking between your toes at the
world spinning around. Little girls are all
right, but try setting the r. p. m. along
about 1650 in a sea plane at a thousand feet
and fly -around with one hand and watch
the fish slide by underneath.
* * * *
Who was it who made that crack that all
girls look alike at sixty feet and sixty days
later it doesn't make any difference any­way?
A very good crack but not holding
good for the months of March, April, and
May, when the members of the weaker sex
grab sheets off the bed and go gamboling
down the meadow where flows the babbling
brook . . . or they do at girl's schools, any­way
for I have seen pictures of the things
they do.
In other words a Spring costume at sixty
feet doesn't look like a Winter costume at
the same distance. There isn't as much to
see and there is a whale of a difference to
imagine..
* * * *
It gets SO awful at times.
* * * *
Since there is so much comment on the
way the police dept. is run in the town, and
since there are so many people who go to
jail . . . why not get out a jail paper and
stop spreading the stuff all over this paper?
The number of students who went to jail
during the dances could have almost gotten
out a city daily.
* * * *
The jail is all right; it is only the people
who go there.
* * * *
Romeo takes the place of Buck Jones this
coming Saturday. Any of you blokes want­ing
to see the usual Saturday show can go
to some of the surrounding towns and get
an eye full. Those of you who want to see
something good for a change may remain
in town and see Norma Shearer give one of
the best performances you have ever seen
given anywhere at any time.
Pete's Epistle
dere paw
Tear up the ole likker still fer i have a
new idear. we will start making that fine
ole apple ale. i recommend that fine stuff.
Hit is jest like that bar tender said hit is
fine fine fine, i am telling yew hit is shore
fine stuff, i will bring yew a bottle.
Let me tell yew something else, Shepherd
Nosey Nosey Nosey Fields sertainly got the
boos up at Teck fer i herd them boo him.
Yew no there is enough nose in that or-chestrey
tew supply a armey. the fokes in
front of the stand which was all smiling
remines me of when Balbo's fleet came in in
Chicago in 33. Hit was a Nosey holiday.
i tell yew one thang else, effin ole Cue
Ball dont quit looking at that picture of his
gal we jest wont have any treasury any
more. They is sum gal in Dallas which jest
takes up all his time writing letters tew
.her. i thank he is reddy tew become a mem­ber
of the Pinkey Club, funny aint hit? By
the way i jest found out that her name is
Ann Graves and she is jest ruining our
treasurer. Bad, bad.
yew no ole Shepherd's concerteena player
is jest fine. The only thang wrong with him
is the fakt that he has a combination of
teeth which is a combination of squirrel
teeth and western teeth, i mene that he can
play matchlessly but he has tushes and the
wide open spaces between. When he smiles
it looks like a dentist's nitemare.
Yew. no hits a funny thang the way i. have
been making Kaysex's dances, i have been
tew three sets of his dances but some how
or other i have made onley three of the
dances out of the fifteen, i gather from all
reports that i certainly enjoyed those three
though. Sew if i enjoyed myself all that
cawn likker money i spent has not been in
vane, by the way youd better start work­ing
over time fer a while sew i can pay up
my current bills, i cant leave the house
ontel midnite fer fear of running intew my
crediters. houndedly yours, pete.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1937 T H E A U B U R N 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 P A G E T H R EE
Cobb Speaks To Club
About Home Furniture
Professor C. N. Cobb gave a lecture
and demonstration of details of furni­ture
construction at the meeting
Thursday afternoon of the American
Homes Department of the Auburn
Woman's Club. The meeting was held
in the College Workshop, enabling Pro­fessor
Cobb to use furniture in the
shop as illustrations of points made in
his discussion.
The Club was instructed that custo­mers
can learn to detect fraud in
furniture construction by studying it.
Professor Cobb further pointed ' out
that it pays to examine pieces of furni­ture
throughout before buying and to
pay a higher price for sturdy construc­tion
and good workmanship.
SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES
Society Editor, MARION STANLEY, Phone 305
Music Club Be Heard
Over W.S.F.A. Soon
APPEARANCES
ARE NOT
DECEIVING
^Phe appearance of your
card, as well as what
it says, expresses your
Valentine's Day senti­ments
to the one who
receives i*.
It is important, there­fore,
that the cards you
send truly reflect your
individuality and good
taste. In our greeting
card department you
will find only the smart­est
looking and most
appropriately worded
Valentines.
Come in soon while
our selection it still
complete.
BURTON'S
BOOKSTORE
Something New Every Day
"A radio program over station W.
S. F. A., Montgomery, sometime dur­ing
the month of February will be
sponsored by the Auburn Music Club.
This same program will be presented
in Auburn, February 25, in Langdon
Hall", says Mrs. Charles Floyd, chair­man
of the Music Department.
Last Friday the Club's musical pro­gram
under the direction of Dr. H. C.
Harkin was given at the Thomas Hotel
with Miss Willie Thomas and Mrs. J.
P. Creel as hostesses. Dr. Harkin's
subject was "Brahms and His Sym­phonies"
using recordings to illustrate
the style.
Announcement of prizes offered by
the Alabama Federation of Music
Clubs was as follows: $20.00 for best
song (sacred or secular). $20.00 for
best piano solo.
This offer is open to members of
Federated Music Clubs who are over
21 years of age.
PERSONAL
/nENTION
Death rides
in. every car
See us before he takes the
steering wheel out of your
hands
Harvey C. Pitts
AGENCY
Phone 375
CANDY
For Valentine's Day
FRESH SHIPMENT
Prices range from .39 to 1.50 per pound. The
best candy at the best prices we have ever had.
Come by or call us at once and let us put aside
a box for you. We will deliver this anywhere,
anytime you like.
L I P S C O M B ' S
Tiger Drug Store
Phone 200
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HIGH IN HEAT LOW IN ASH
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Phone 11 or 15-J
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DeBARDELEBEN COAL CORP., TRUSTEE
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HAGEDORN'S
DEPARTMENT STORE
Dry Goods
LADIES READY-TO-WEAR
LADIES AND CHILDRENS SHOES
DRAPERIES — CURTAINS — CARPETS
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OPELIKA, ALABAMA
Franklin Wilkes, Charles Gravely,
E. R. Donovan, Jack Stevens, Foy
Blackmon, John Morgan, and W. E.
Donovan are attending Mardi Gras in
New Orleans this week.
* * *
Fred Chapman, graduate of 1934,
spent Monday in Auburn enroute to
Washington, returning from a vaca­tion
spent with his family in Grove
Hill.
* * *
John Liles, former Auburn student,
who is now at the University of Illi­nois,
spent the week-end in Auburn.
* * *
Mrs. Ruby Hart spent the week-end
a,t her home in Dothan.
, * * *
Graham Putman and Dick Harbeson
were visitors in Birmingham over the
week-end.
* * *
Jean Campbell spent the week-end
with her family in Birmingham.
* * *
Martha Lennep is spending this
week at her home at Moss Point, Mis­sissippi.
While there she will attend
the Mardi Gras festivities in New
Orleans.
* * *
Doc Martin, Jean Bailey, Howard
Workman, Bill Lee, Vernon Merritt,
Billy Roberts, Clarence Pruet, Banks
Haley, Bill Boynton, Jimmy Fenton,
Sam McCrosky, Jim Howard Pitte and
Lopez Mantoux were among the Au­burn
students attending the mid-term
dances at Georgia Tech where Shep
Fields was playing this past week-end.
Local Women Meet With
Opelika Girl Scouts
• Mrs. A. L. Thomas, Mrs. G. H. Car-lovitz,
and Miss Ann Whatley, leaders
of the Auburn Girl Scouts Troop, met
with heads of the Opelika Scouts
Thursday in the Opelika "Little Hut"
to form a leaders' organization.
Mrs. Carlovitz and Miss Whatley
served on the nominating committee.
Officers elected were Mrs. Thomas,
chairman; Mrs. H. C. McRee, Opelika,
co-chairman; and Angie Lamb, Ope­lika,
scribe.
The leaders were divided into two
patrols. Patrol One elected Ann
Whatley, leader, and Mrs. Carlovitz,
assistant. This patrol plans to work
on a Girl Scout test and to find a way
to bring the girls in contact with the
national organization. Patrol Two
elected Mrs. Charles Leonard, Ope­lika,
leader; and plans to study handi­craft,
outdoor cooking, nature, and
singing.
Pharmacy Society To Have
Dance Tomorrow Night
The Auburn Pharmaceutical Society
is giving a dance Saturday night in
the Recreation Hall.
Music for the affair will be furnish­ed
by the Auburn Cavaliers. During
the evening there will be two no-breaks,
and one Pharmaceutical So­ciety
lead-out, and one Rho Chi lead-out.
Rho Chi is the honorary pharm­acy
organization.
Many alumni of the department and
numerous out-of-town girls will be at
the dance. It is the first dance spon­sored
by this organization and
promises to be quite a success.
Irene Arwood, Paul Horn
Marry In Atmore
The marriage of Miss Glenda Irene
Arwood, graduate of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute in 1933, and Mr.
Paul Brooks Horn took place January
25 in Atmore.
Prior to her marriage the bride had
been a member of the faculty at the
Escambia County High School. Mr.
and Mrs. Horn will make their home
in Atmore.
Two Auburn Graduates
Are Married Wednesday, 3rd
Miss Minnie Lee Mullins of Tallas-see
and Mr. Herndon Johnson of Au­burn
were married last Wednesday at
five o'clock at the residence of Mrs.
Nora S. Robinson. Both the bride and
groom attended Auburn.
Mr. Johnson is at present time con­nected
with government work in Au­burn.
•
Enie Menie Minie Moe
Down to Howard* We Must go
For Party favor* - Valentine*
There we'll find them cheap and fine.
Miss Fuller, Mr. Dean
Are To Wed, Feb. 20
The engagement of Miss Florence
Wingfield Fuller, of Montgomery, to
Mr. Robert D. Dean, Auburn gradu­ate,
has been announced; the marriage
to take place Saturday evening, Feb­ruary
20, at 6:30 o'clock, at the First
Presbyterian Church in Montgomery.
Miss Fuller is a gifted pianist Af­ter
graduating from Lanier High
School, she attended Huntingdon Col­lege
where she received a Bachelor of
Science degree and also graduated in
music. Miss Fuller also holds a di­ploma
in music from Sullins, Virginia.
Mr. Dean while at Auburn was a
member of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
He now holds a responsible position
with Church and Dwight Company,
New York. He was formerly of Mont­gomery.
O.D.K. To Be Guest
Of Colonel Wallace
Colonel and Mrs. F. C. Wallace will
entertain at their home on South Col­lege
Thursday evening with a dinner
in honor of the members of O. D. K.,
Senior Honor Society. Faculty mem­bers
of O. D. K. who will be present
include President L. N. Duncan, Mr.
P. 0. Davis, and Coach Wilbur Hut-sell.
J. E. Roop Tells Lions
Of New County Paper
Principal speaker at the weekly
meeting of the Auburn Lions Club
Tuesday at the Thomas Hotel was
Prof. Joseph E. Roop, assistant pro­fessor
of English, who told the club
about the new weekly paper which is
to be published in Auburn with Neil
O. Davis as editor.
The new paper, to be known as the
Lee County Bulletin, will begin publi­cation
this week with the first issue
on Thursday, he said.
Mr. Davis, who was a guest at the
meeting, said that it would be the poli­cy
of the new paper to promote the
City of Auburn and to serve the rural
sections of Lee County. He expressed
the belief that the paper would result
in a better understanding and coop­eration
between the rural and urban
sections of the county.
A report of the attendance by a dele-gation.
from the Auburn Lions Club at
the Melvin Jones meeting of the Bir­mingham
Club last week was made by
Prof. R. G. Pitts. Besides Prof. Pitts
the delegation consisted of Prof. A. F.
Nickel, club president, Dr. J. L. Seal,
and Prof. Roop.
It was announced that the annual
Ladies Nite would be held Tuesday
evening, Feb. 16, 7:00 o'clock, at the
Thomas Hotel. A special program and
banquet has been arranged.
G-E C/impus News
Woman's Club Will Meet
Tomorrow, Methodist Church
The Auburn Woman's Club will hold
its monthly meeting tomorrow after­noon
at 3:00 P. M. at the Methodist
Church. The principal speaker for the
afternoon will be Miss Mary De Bar-deleden
who will talk on "Negro
Authors".
Auburn Feed & Seed Store
FEED, SEED, SUPPLIES
Call Us For All Kinds
Local Hauling
Phone 86-J
The many desirable constructional features of
the modern high-speed electric locomotive will
be incorporated in the design as a result of
General Electric's many years of experience in
building and equipping electric locomotives.
DUKE UNIVERSITY I
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
DURHAM, N. C.
Four terms of eleven weeks are given
each year. These may be taken con­secutively
(graduation in three and
one quarter years) or three terms may
be taken each year (graduation in four
years). The entrance requirements are
intelligence, character and at least two
years of college work, including the
subjects specified for Grade A medical
schools. Catalogues and application
forms may be obtained from the Dean.
BY A NOSE
A century ago there was a race between a horse '
and a locomotive. No such race will be neces­sary
to determine the supremacy of the steam-electric
locomotive being built for the Union
Pacific Railroad by the General Electric Com­pany.
This new unit will get its first trial run
on the test tracks at the Erie, Pa. Works early
this year.
This new passenger unit will carry a steam-turbine
electric generating plant to feed power
to the traction motors. The turbine will ex­haust
through condensers, using the same wa­ter
over and over with small additions to make
up for leakage. A new, highly efficient type of
steam boiler has been built, and heavy fuel
oil similar to that used in present-day loco­motives
will be used.
The new unit will be a double-cab locomotive,
streamlined, practically smokeless, and pro­vided
with power equipment for air-condition­ing
the trailing passenger cars. It is rated at/
5000 horsepower and is capable of hauling
1000-ton trains at a speed of 110 miles an hour.
The efficient fuel consumption will allow runs of
hundreds of miles at top speed without a stop.
LOSE A NEEDLE?
Not a needle in a haystack, but perhaps a needle
in a rug. During the manufacture of rugs,
needles may become broken and embedded in
the finished product. Former methods of in-,
spection were tedious and time-wasting, but'a
new magnetic device indicates the exact loca­tion
of the steel fragment.
This iron detector, developed in the General
Engineering Laboratory of the General Electric
Company, consists of a test coil, a motor-gen­erator
set, and an amplifier. The rug is passed
through the magnetic field twice in directions
at right angles. The presence of a broken
needle causes a distortion in the magnetic field
and consequently an unbalanced voltage in the
secondary coil. This unbalance is amplified,
and the relays cause signal lights to glow.
Detectors of similar principle have previously
been developed for such uses as detecting scrap
iron in sugar cane and in scrap cellophane. The
General Engineering Laboratory is constantly
receiving problems from industrial concerns
and is developing equipment or giving sugges­tions
to solve these problems.
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and so do other leading artists of the radio,
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P A G E F O UR T H E A U B U R N 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, FEBRUARY 10, 1937
STUDENT GROUP TO
CONTRIBUTE MOST
WILL RECEIVE CUP
(Continued from Page 1)
Brown, publications editor, members.
The trophy is to be awarded at gradu­ation
exercises in May and shall be
the permanent possession of the win­ner.
If enough interest is created this
year it is expected that the award
will be made an annual event.
LOST—Package addressed to Hazel
Kelly. Contains a gold watch. Lost
January 30. Call Plainsman of­fice.
Reward.
YOU CANT CHEW OFF
THE MOUTHPIECE!
STEMBITER
YELLO-BOLE
H. M. WHEELER
LECTURES TO AGS
THURSDAY NIGHT
The smoke
doesn't hit
your tongue
CAKED WITH HONEY
(Continued from Page 1)
throughout the United States are urg
ed to be present, states Mr. Brown.
"Wheeler's lecture is intensely in­teresting,
bristling with facts given in
rapid-fire entertainment manner, in­terspersed
with stories and humor,"
said Mr. Brown. "There are dramatic
passages that hold the undivided at­tention
of people whether they be doc­tors,
lawyers, teachers, farmers, or
business men."
Former Forest Ranger
In 1905 Mr. Wheeler entered the
Forest Service as a ranger on the
Gunnison National Forest in Colorado.
He later served as forest supervisor at
Fort Collins, and for 15 years was in
charge of National Forests in Colo­rado
and California. He has been on
the lecture platform for the United
States Forest Service for 10 years,
speaking to schools, service clubs, and
civil organizations on the subject of
forest conservation in practically every
state in the Union.
The State Forestry Department,
Montgomery, is preparing for Mr.
Wheeler to lecture in Montgomery on
i
Friday, February 12.
FOR RENT—Room for one boy. 271
S. Gray. Phone 296.
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BACK YOUR BRAINS WITH THE
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W1
It Lets Yon SEE
When to Refill
—hence won't run dry
in classes or exams
Yes, thousands of students start
to rate higher when they replace
their-old blind-barrel" pens with
this new Parker Vacumabc
This is because it is people who
are capable of rating high who go
for this Pen in a big way, and be­cause
it is this kind of Pen—and
only this kind—that can bring out
the best that is in them.
Its Scratch-Proof Point of Plati­num
and Solid Gold writes like a
zephyr. Unlike pens that hide the
ink within the barrel, this laminated
Pearl Beauty lets you SEE Days
Ahead when it's running low. When
held to the light it shows the EN­TIRE
Ink Supply—holds 102%
More Ink than old-style.
It's the pen that received more
votes than any other TWO makes
of Pens COMBINED when 30 Col­lege
Papers asked 4,699 students
"Which pen do you own?" It was
awarded by the All-America Board
of Football to 90 nominees for the
All-America Team of 1936.
Go at once to any good store sell­ing
pens and try this revolutionary
invention. Identify the genuine
Parker Vacumatic by this smart
ARROW Clip,—this holds this Pen
low and SAFE in the pocket. The
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Get Parker Quinft, the new quick-drying
ink. Dissolves sediment left by pen-clogging
inks. Makes your pen—a Parker or any
other—work like a charm. 15c and 25c.
National Officer Is
Visitor To Pi K. A.
An official visit to the Auburn
chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha was made
Wednesday and Thursday by R. M.
McFarland, Jr., Atlanta, national
executive secretary of the fraternity,
and Roy D. Hickman, Birmingham,
president of the Alabama district.
After visiting the chapter, inspect­ing
the records, and holding a con­ference
with G. H. Plumlee, of Bir­mingham,
chapter president, the of­ficials
made a highly favorable report
of the Chapter's condition. They left
Thursday for Birmingham where
they will visit Pi Kappa Alpha chap­ters
at Birmingham-Southern and
Howard College, completing their
tour with a visit to Tuscaloosa to
visit the chapter at the University of
Alabama.
The officials commended in par­ticular
the work of Mrs. J. W. Bis-sitt,
the chapter house-mother, and.
the beautiful formal flower garden
and court which is maintained by
members of the fraternity. The Pi
Kappa Alpha Chapter house is one
of the most beautiful fraternity
homes in Auburn.
Mr. Plumlee announced Thursday
that plans were being worked out
whereby a bus would be chartered to
carry the entire Auburn Chapter to
Birmingham for the elaborate 69th
Founder's Day celebration of Pi Kap­pa
Alpha on February 26 at the Bir­mingham
Country Club. Principal
speaker for the occasion will be Dr.
Freeman H. Hart, of Hampden-Syd-ney
(Va.) College, who is the na­tional
historian and vice-president of
Pi Kappa Alpha.
Fat Students Make
Poor Grades, Report
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SHPA CUMA TfC-m
GUARANTEED MECHANICALLY PERFECT
Junior, $5;
Over-Sizo, $10 q*° Pencils, $2.50,
$3.50 and 55
Fat students, says the psychologist,
are positivejy out of the running as
far as scholastic averages are con­cerned;
they may be comforted, how­ever,
in the thought that at least they
seldom go insane.
According to conclusions obtained
from four years of research by a pro­fessor
of psychology of the University
of Michigan, stout students are in
the lowest rank of grades averaging
C-minus which is the equivalent of
70 at Auburn.
Tall, thin students, according to the
Michigan professor, maintain a stand­ard
B average, and the middle, ath­letic
type carries a C-plus average.
The reason for the low rank of the
fat students, he explains, is that "the
proverbially easy-going fat person
'does not fight as hard to complete his
education." This same easy-going
nature explains the rare cases of in­sanity
among these persons, he states.
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by mistake from check-room Fri­day
night at mid-term dances. Call
Jane Billingsley at 244-J.
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Textiles Are To
Meet February 13
In Columbus, Ga.
The mid-winter meeting of the
Southeastern section of the American
Association of Textile Chemists and
Colorists will be held in Columbus,
Georgia, at the Ralston Hotel on Sat
urday evening, Februray 13.
Following dinner a program of tech
nical addresses will take place. An
nual election of officers for the en­suing
year will be held at the meeting.
The program is as follows: "Col-loidized
Vat Dyes", motion picture and
paper description of application by R.
H. Kienle. Calco Chemical Co.; "Re­search
.Paves the Way", by G. W.
Cox, International Nickel Co.; "A Re­port
of Mercerizing Research", Sidney
Edelstein, research member of the as­sociation.
County Supervisors
Meet With Mrs. Brook
Food Handlers Must
Attend Free Clinics
A free clinic for food handlers, in­digent
patients', and the poverty
stricken of the immediate area is be­ing
held on Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays at 11 o'clock over Toomer's
Drugstore. The clinic is under the di­rection
of the city health officer.
The primary object of the clinic is
the examination and treatment of food
handlers in Auburn. Food handlers
are required by a city ordinance to
obtain a certificate showing that they
are free from contagious or infectious
disease. These certificates may be ob­tained
by passing an examination at
the clinic.
The clinic is being sponsored by the
City of Auburn, the Inter-Club Coun­cil,
and the local physicians and will
be held over the period of a year as
an experiment and continued if suc­cessful.
Each clinic is supervised and
conducted by one of the local phy-
SEWANEE DEFEATED
IN TWO GAMES WITH
AUBURN, 39-32, 36-16
(Continued from Page 1)
only one point during the entire tilt.
Crawford Holmes, although only in the
contest for a short time, managed to
annex three points while playing a fine
floor game.
The Plainsman will play two more
games at home this week when they
meet the strong University of Florida
Gators on Friday and Saturday
nights in Alumni Gymnasium.
AUBURN
G F T
Morgan f i— 3 0 6
McKissick f _ — 2 1 5
Childers c —3 2 8
Eaves (C) g _ 4 2 10
Curlee g 0 0 0
Holmes f _ 1 1 3
Edwards c - --0 0 0
Rouche f -- --1 0 2
Pappas g — -1 0 2
Kargec _ -0 0 0
Dudley f - ~0 0 0
Hamm g . - -0 0 0
Totals .15 6 36
SEWANEE
G F T
0 1 1
0 1 1
Shelton (C) f ..
Turner f
Kiser c 1 1
Colmore g.....
Cochrane g _
Dedman g .
Guerry f .
Stanfield g
Luce f
. 1 2 4
2 1 5
0 0 0
.0 0 0
...0 0 0
1 0 2
Totals _: 5 6 16
Referee: Ben Chapman (Mont­gomery).
PEACE MEN MEET
WITH FEW GROUPS
(Continued from Page 1)
war, acquainting these people with the
facts of the situation and the necessi­ty
for action, and directing their ac­tive
efforts toward war prevention.
The Campaign differs from many
other organizations in that there are
no pledges to sign and no require­ments
other than sincerity in desiring
peace. Both extreme pacifists and
those who believe in a large army and
navy can participate. The organiza­tion
wishes to establish a concerted
public opinion against war, and to
adopt preventive measures before it
is too late. Sooner or later the United
States must make a sacrifice. The
Emergency Peace Campaign proposes
to see that the sacrifice of the future
is made for peace instead of war.
Twelve county home supervisors of
the Resettlement Administration
were in Auburn this week to attend
an all-day meat cutting and canning
demonstration arranged by Mrs. P.
C. Brook, supervisor for district No.
5, at the Lee County High School.
The demonstration of proper
meat-cutting methods was conducted
by Prof. W. E. Sewell of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, and the
canning demonstration was given by
Miss Mary Bailey, of Opelika, Lee
County home demonstration agent.
Mrs. Nonnie Wood Hearing, state
associate director of the Resettle­ment
Administration's home manage­ment
department, was present at the
meeting and addressed the super­visors.
Following are the names of county
supervisors who attended the meet­ing
and the counties they represent:
Talladega County, Mrs. Kathryn S.
Capps; Shelby, Miss Mary George
Burke; Chilton, Miss Bertha Dennis;
Elmore, Miss Hattie Wilson; Coosa,
Mrs. Ruth Hunt McClendon; Clay,
Miss Elizabeth Smith; Randolph,
Miss Virginia Coker; Chambers, Miss
Elizabeth Prather; Lee, Miss Doro­thy
Breedlove; Macon, Mrs. Lillie
Hall Cottier; Bullock, Miss Jo Tip-pins;
Tallapoosa, Miss Pauline Jen­nings.
AG HONOR FRAT
ELECTS SIX MEN
NEW MEMBERS
(Continued from Page 1)
the outstanding member of the Junior
Class in Agriculture. This award has
been made for fifteen years.
Professor B. F. Alvord, head of the
Department of Agriculture Economics
is president of the local organization
and E. L. Mayton is treasurer.
morning, the flight visited the Uni­versity
of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, then
Louisiana State University at Baton
Rouge, and returned to Kelly Field
near San Antonio, Texas.
Trade with those who support your
paper. They deserve your patronage.
FRESHMEN DEFEAT
NEHI TEAM IN
GYMNASIUM, 31-21
(Continued from Page 1)
honors for the Auburn five with 12
and 10 points respectively.
In a fast and exciting game last
night the Plebes defeated Columbus
Nehi 31 to 21. At no time during the
entire contest did the Columbus quint
threaten the lead gained by the Rats
early in the first quarter.
Sobut and Ginter led the Auburn
scoring attack with 8 and 6 points re­spectively.
This Friday night will see
the Plebes meet the Kerwin Reds in
Alumni Gymnasium at 6:15 o'clock.
Patronize Plainsman advertisers.
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APPLICATIONS MADEv
BY INTERESTED ONES
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instructor in aeronautical engineering,
assisted by students studying this
course.
Leaving Kelly Field on Wednesday,
the cadets' first stop was at the Gen­eral
Headquarters Air Force Base,
Shreveport, La., where they spent the
night. They flew to Maxwell Field,
Ala., on Thursday, and on to Athens,
Ga., for a visit to the University of
Georgia. Friday morning they flew
to Atlanta, where the cadets visited
the Georgia School of Technology. Af­ter
leaving Maxwell Field Monday
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Theatre
Wednesday
"ARIZONA MAH0NEY 9 9
w i th
JOE COOK — ROBERT CUMMINGS — JUNE MARTEL
9 9
Also Stage Show
"MERRY MAKERS
7 — ACTS — 7
GIRLS GALORE — STAGE BAND
Also News and Screen Snapshots.
Thursday
"ONCE A DOCTOR"
with
JEAN MUIR — DONALD WOODS
HENRY KOLKER — GORDON OLIVER
Comedy, "KNEE ACTION".
Novelty, "STRANGER THAN FICTION".
Friday
"SHE'S DANGEROUS"
with CESAR ROMERO — TALA BIRELL
Added—Comedy, "BOY, OH BOY".
Also News
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IME FLIES, and trains on the railroad fly with it.
It is a frequent compliment for watches and clocks
to he set according to the passage of the trains.
Yet the years are constantly requiring new schedules to
meet the accelerated tempo of modern business. Passengers
today must measure their miles by their minutes, and freight
must travel at what used to be good passenger-train speed.
The Illinois Central's streamline Green Diamond, for
example, makes its daily 588-mile round-trip between St.
Louis and Chicago in 590 minutes, including stops. The
MS-1 (Merchandise Special, a freight) reaches Memphis
overnight from Chicago, after several stops, covering the
:';;.f:
527 miles in 830 minutes.
Other trains are proportion­ately
speeded.
To maintain schedules under
present demands is a chal­lenge
to railway stamina and
resourcefulness. It is hearten­ing
to observe how capably
-sss^that challenge is being met.
REMINDER. . .
To meet new needs in new ways,
bnt with nevei a sacrifice oi
ancient virtues—that, I believe,
is the greatest achievement to
which the railroads can today lay
claim. Speed is fine, but it is at its
best when backed by the safety,
comfort and dependability of
railway experience.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL SYSTEM
i AN ALABAMA RAILROAD „