Semi-Weekly
Tuesday
Edition ©lj£ Auburn plainsman Congratulations,
Spades
of 1940!
VOL. LXII Z-I AUBURN, ALABAMA, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939 NUMBER 61
SPADES TEN JUNIORS
New Social Committee Set-Up
Referred To Fraternities
Individual Lodges to Pass
On Revised Organization
Of Chairman Tom Henley
In a heated meeting last night
the Interfraternity Council discussed
a new social committee
set-up submitted by Chairman-elect
Tom Henley, which it is hoped
will be put into effect next
year to replace the present system
which is not obtaining first-rate
bands for the major dance
sets.
The Council voted to defer action
on the proposal until each
fraternity voted on it in meeting
tomorrow night, after which the
Council will meet again in special
session and its members vote according
to the preference of their
various fraternities.
The proposed set-up is modelled
closely on those of the University
of Georgia, Georgia Tech,
and several other southern schools
which have, by use of similar
systems obtained top-flight dance
orchestras at prices less than
those charged Auburn students
for less well-known bands.
The new system provides that
each fraternity shall pay to the
social committee $2 for each member
for each of the three dance
sets, that is, $6 during the entire
year. The total of $6 per man is
to be paid in two installments, the
first half being due on or before
October 1, and the other half being
due on or before noon of the
first day during which the Mid-
Term dances begin.
When each fraternity has paid
its first installment, each member
obtains one ticket which entitles
him to attend one dance either
afternoon or evening of the opening
dance set. Payment of the
second installment entitles each
member to a ticket to one dance
either afternoon or evening of the
mid-term dances and the final
dnaces. The tickets so issued will
be transferable to other Auburn
students but not to anyone else.
Furthermore, the single ticket
on either of the three dance sets
may be traded in on a block ticket
for the entire set for which the
ticket applies, receiving a credit
of $2 toward the price of the block
ticket. ;
Also, any non-fraternity may
take advantage of the same set-up,
obtaining his single tickets to the
three sets in the same way as the
fraternity man. However, on or
before October 1 he must notify
the Chairman of the Social Committee
of his intention to do. His
installments will be divided into
a $2 fee payable on or before October
1 and a $4 installment payable
on or before noon of the first
day of the Mid-Term dance set.
He also has the privilege of trading
in his single ticket on block
tickets, doing it in the same way
as fraternity men.
Yippee!
Elmer Salter
Publicity Dept. API
Confident and cocky from
victory last Saturday over Missouri
at Columbia and aided by
first period spill of McNulty,
Illinois polo team crushed Auburn
in first half five to one.
Warren substituting in the
fifth period starred, enabling
Auburn to enter final period
behind six to three driving toward
Illinois goal. McNulty
again was unhorsed, but Shell
scored on play.
McNulty and Franke teamed
to drive in another goal with
time fading fast, but not until
Herren and Franke had rammed
in scores on brilliant
passes from McNulty ending
game seven to six Auburn.
Both teams played equally hard,
but Warren's inspiring fifth
period play and McNulty powerful
drives and hard riding
were basic factors in win.
Please notify Plainsman and
Colonel Wallace.
L. E. Jacoby
Textile Research
Meet Held Here
Manufacturers, Professors,
Students Attend Meet
"The time is coming when business
research departments in the
leading textile mills will be as
common as laboratories for the
testing of materials," said Dr.
George W. Taylor of the Wharton
School of Finance and Commerce,
University of Pennsylvania, in
speaking here Monday afternoon
at the Conference on Textile Research
held in Broun Hall under
the auspices of Auburn's department
of textile engineering and
the Textile Foundation, Washington,
D. C.
"Just as mills with technical
research departments tend to
have an advantage over their competitors,
it has become more and
more apparent that competitive
advantages frequently accure to
those companies that have developed
business research departments
to provide facts with which
questions concerning basic policies
may be answered," said Dr.
Taylor.
Present at the conference were
prominent manufacturers, members
of the Auburn textile faculty,
and members of the senior
class in textile engineering.
"Fundamental Research in the
Textile Industries" was the title
of an address by-Warren E.- Em-ley
of the National Bureau of
Standards, Washington. F. M. Fea-ker,
general secretary of the
American Education Council, discussed
the "Interrelations of Edu-1
cation and Industry."
"We have been using wool since
the dawn of history," said Mr.
iEmley, "yet the chemical and
physical make-up of a wool fibre
are so complex that we do not yet
know what wool really is." Likewise
Mr. Emley said that despite
the fact that scientists know that
silk conains two components, it is
not known how they are put together.
"A controversy is now
raging about the composition of
cotton," he added.
Mr. Feiker reviewed the works
of the Textile Foundation has carried
on the last five years in developing
new teaching materials
in cooperations with the textile
schools. Extensive materials have
been published and distributed to
schools on cotton manufacturing,
textile economics, textile marketing
and textile accounting, and
mill management. Four books
have been published on textile
economics dealing with the analysis
of economic factors in the textile
industry, mill management,
marketing, and costing from a
management viewpoint, he said.
Other representatives of Textile
Foundation who participated
in the round-table discussions
were Prof. Hiram S. Davis, University
of Pittsburgh, and Stanley
B. Hunt of the Textile Economics
Bureau. Presiding at the
conference was Prof. E. W. Camp,
head of the textile engineering
department. The conference was
opened by President L. N. Duncan
who welcomed the group to
Auburn.
New Teacher
One of the leaders of the
special reading clinic to be conducted
at Auburn's summer
school beginning June 5 will be
Miss Daisy Parton, Supervisor
of Elementary Education, State
of Alabama. With degrees from
Peabody College, and Columbia
University, Miss Parton has also
had wide experience in the field
of education.
Delta Sigma Pi
Elects Six
Honorary Business Group
Names New Members
Delta Sigma Pi, the pYofessio-nal
commerce and business administration
fraternity, elected six
men to membership at a recent
meeting. This number includes
Sameul Thomas Bentley, Paul
Freeman Carr, James Archibald
Harkins, Albert Branscomb Head,
John Eli Ivey, and Kench Lee
Lott Jr.
> To be elected to Delta Sigma
Pi is one; of the highest honors obtainable/
in the' business department.
Selection is made from those
students whose scholarship ranks
in the upper quartile of the business
department. In addition to
scholarship, qualities of leadership
and service are determining factors
in the selection of members.
Sabuel Thomas Bentley is ,a
sophomore from Thorsby; Paul
Freeman Carr is a senior from
Headland; James Archibald Harkins
is a sophomore from Alice-ville;
Albert Branscomb Head of
Troy, is a member- of Phi Delta
Theta fraternity and a sophomore.
John Ivey Jr., a junior from
Auburn, is president of Alpha Tau
Omega fraternity, and presidentelect
of the Executive Cabinet;
Kench Lee Lott Jr., a sophomore
from Birmingham, is a member
of Sigma Nu fraternity.
Yearbooks Be Given
To Student Body
Tomorrow
Distribution to Be Made
By Classes, Says Farley;
Given Out Two Days Only
The Glomeratas will be delivered
Wednesday or Thursday only
from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m.
Students will receive books
from Glomerata office according to
classes, freshman receiving books
from the window classed as freshman,
and so on up.
All students must be paid up in
full before they may receive their
books. Those students that have
been in school only one semester
may pay $1.8(fand get their book;
however, they are requested to
wait until Thursday afternoon to
get their books.
Books will only be given out
two days!
There will be a meeting of the
business staff Tuesday night at
7 o'clock in the student center.
I
Paul Rudolph to Head Glee
Club for Next Year
The new oficers of the Glee
Club, chosen last night at a special
meeting, are: Paul Rudolph,
president; Walter Going, vice
president; Winfrey Boyd, reelected
business manager; and Keatley
Baker, secretary.
Original Enrollment in
Summer Term Was 83
Enrollment in Auburn's Summer
Session has grown steadily
from 83 students in the summer
of 1913 to 2,027 in 1938, Dr. Zeb-ulon
Judd, director, said in predicting
that a new record would
be reached this summer.
From a few subjects in 1913,
the Summer Session has grown
until it now offers 410 courses,
372 undergraduate and 38 graduate,
with 166 officers of administration
and instruction.
Pi Kappa Phi
Initiates Four
Into the Alpha Iota chapter of
Pi Kappa Phi at Auburn were initiated
four pledges on the evening
of Sunday, April 30. The initiates,
all freshmen, being brought
into membership were Albert
Bishop Powell, in Mechanical Engineering
from Birmingham; Philip
Exton Adams, in Business Administration
from Alexander City;
James Darrington Deslonde, in
Aeronautical Engineering- from
Mobile; and Robert Morris Tru-lock,
in Aeronautical Engineering
from Climax, Ga.
On Thursday evening, April 20.
the . chapter entertained with a
steak fry taking place at Chewacla
Park near Auburn. The social
was chaperoned by the chapter's
housemother, Mrs. Stella Williams.
Members and their dates attending
were: Jack Adams, Gertrude
Watson; Bill Boynton, Johnnie
Dee Stansberry; George Coleman,
Marjorie Miller; Tony Cortina,
Christine Clifton; Douglas
Durden, Helen Porch; Jake Fort-ner,
Nell Gilchrist; Tom Henley,
Sadie Edwards; "D" Huggins,
Ruby Helen Stokes; Ben Nuttall,
Margaret Linden; Charles Phillips,
Margaret Smith; Homer Gentry,
Elizabeth Green; Harry Trafford,
Jean Cogburn.
Pledges and their dates who
were at. the social were Darry Deslonde,
Annie Lyde Lewis; Bert
Powell, Laura Ernst; Blackie
Grimwcod, Peggy Green; Harvey
Stokes, Jane Boland.
Stags attending included Billy
Clanton, Arthur Frazier, Reeves
Haley, and Moyer Harris.
Betty Showalter to Head IRC
During Coming Year
The Auburn chapter of the 'International
Relations Clubs last
week elected officers for the coming
year.
Betty Showalter, Auburn, will
head the club as president, while
Martin Wender, Columbus, will
be vice-president, and Lillian
Jane Smith, Birmingham, secretary
and treasurer.
Hurdler
Percy South, high split hurdler
an dhigh jump man, has been
one of the chief point-getters
during his three years of varsity
competition and is winding
up his fine competitive record
this year.
Staff Members
Interview Fields
Band Leader Says Swing
Has Always Been Here
By Nancye Thompson and
Charles Burns
"Swing has always been here—
it is just the name that has changed,"
Shep Fields, creator of Rippling
Rhythm, said when interviewed
Saturday.
Fields, well-known wielder of
the baton, said that his style of
music developed quite by accident
when he saw his wife, Evelyn,
blow into a bottle of soda-pop
with a straw. Thus Rippling Rhythm
was born.
His career in the orchestra field
began in New York, his birth
place, with Velez and Yolando,
nationally known dance team,
when he conducted their orchestra.
He remained with them for a year
before starting out "on his own
hook."
Before embarking on his musical
career he studied law at St.
John's University, New York City.
His favorite sports are football
and golf. He usually shoots an
eighty in the latter sport. His
hobby is sleeping and his favorite
color is blue.
When asked as to what pieces
he liked to play best he said, "I
Love You Truly" and "Jeanie
With the Light Brown Hair." His
favorite orchestras are Lombardo,
Kemp, Goodman, and Kyser.
Features with the orchestra are
accordian, piano, and viola numbers.
Personally, Fields plays the
saxophone and clarinet, but now
he only wields the baton.
His theme song which usually
identifies the band on the air is
"Rippling Rhythm," written by
Sal Gioe, his pianist. The rippling
sound'is produced by blowing into
a straw in a bowl of water.
Jerry Stewart is employed especially
for this purpose. The arranger
with the orchestra is Cornell
Tannessy.
Highest Undergraduate Honor
Conferred On Local Juniors
Ten prominent and influential juniors were recently
elected to membership in Spades and were formally tapped
in a public initiation ceremony on Toomer's corner Saturday
morning at 9:25.
Election to Spades is considered the highest undergraduate
honor. "To wear a Spade is the goal which all upper-classmen
may seek as the highest honor an Auburn man may
obtain." A local organization, Spades was founded in 1914,
and with the exception of one scholastic society founded the
same year, is the oldest honor group on the Auburn campus.
NOTICE
Cap and gown measurements at
Burton's Bookstore will continue
through Wednesday, according to
announcement made this morning.
All seniors who have not been
by to have measurements taken
should do so at once.
National Dance Week Being Observed Here During May 1-3
National Dance Week will be
observed here May 1 through 6.
An interesting exhibit of dance
shoes and dresses has been placed
in the window at Wright's for
three days, May 1-3. A display of
valuable books and pictures is being
shown at the library all this
week.
Saturday night there will be a
reunion of all members of the
social dance clesses since November,
1937, at the Girls' Gym. Friday
members of the Auburn Dance
Club will present nine dance numbers
at the annual Spring Festival,
under the direction of Miss
Louise Lee Kreher, at the amphitheater.
A dance "did you know" quiz
has been published in the Plainsman.
Answers to these questions
are to be handed in at the Tiger
Theater office not later than Saturday
night. For the best solution
Manager Gus Coats will award
two passes to the new Ginger
Rogers-Fred Astaire picture, "The
Story of Irene and Vernon Castle"
to be shown next week at the
Tiger Theater. Answers will be
published in next week's paper.
Name the most famous American
1. Negro dancer 2. Ballroom
dancing team 3. Oriental dancer.
Name the popular ballroom
dance of the following American
periods: 1. Revolution 2. World
War 3. New Deal 4. 1937-38.
What popular American ballroom
dances are named after the
following: 1. American aviator 2.
American insect 3. American farm
building 4. American dessert.
With what famous American
dancers do you associate the following:
1. Stair tap dance 2. The
Bubble Dance 3. My Red Fires
4. Carioca 5. Precision.
Name the first American dance
team to set dance fashions: 1. for
the world 2. for the movies.
Name the first American university
to give a degree in dancing.
What is the name of America's
largest ballet corp apd who
is the director?
Partial List of
Graduates Given
Coming Graduates Are
Listed by Schools
Following is a partial list of the
seniors in this year's class who
will receive diplomas in the annual
graduation exercises May
28:
School of Agriculture (Bachelor
of science in agriculture) r'Elmer
Jefferson Dissell II, Birmingham;
Jackson Mayfield Boiling, Center
ville; Robert Charles Burk-hardt,
Cullman; James Leon Burleson,
Guin; Harry Campbell,
Sectinon; John Eldred Clifton,
Autaugaville; John Croxton Cly-burn,
Lancaster, S. C; Charles
William Copeland Jr., Auburn;
William Woodrow Cowart, Ope-lika;
Andrew Johnson Darby,
Florence; Jeptha Sellers Davis
Jr., Pike Road; William Crawford
Howell Dawsey, Birmingham;
Cona Garrett Deas, Coffee-ville;
Lowell Coan Detamore, Birmingham;
Robert Harris Espy,
Abbeville; Leslie Edd Fowler,
Garden City; Charles Franklin
Grisham, Athens; Joseph -Earl
Herbert, McKenzie; Bracey Cobb
Hill, Jackson; John Crawford
Holmes, Joppa; James Robert
Hubbard Jr., Dadeville; James
Dlavid Huggins, McKenzie; Lyman
Curb Jones, Centerville;
Jack Brown Kinzer, Tuscumbia;
James William Lester, Glen wood;
Robert Francis McNulty, Med-ford,
Mass.; Fred Potts Moore,
Auburn; James Freeman Murphy,
Centerville; William Flynt Nichols,
Sylacauga.
Clayton Oscar Nordan, Abbeville;
Clyde Craddock Owen,
Gunterville; Ernest Gregory Pap-pas,
Birmingham; Charles Nichols
Parnell Jr., Maplesville; Mel-vin
Cameron Patty, Cedar Bluff;
Robert William Rhodes, Monroe-ville;
Ernest James Rogers, Morris;
Franklin Dudley Sadler, Fair-hope;
John Allen Seibold, Gun-tersville;
James Horace Sellers,
Hope Hull; Dwight Grover Som-erville,
Aliceville; James Snede-cor
Somerville, Aliceville; Rush
Ray Spradley, Troy; Harold
Philip Thomas, Athens; Ernest
Peyton Thornhill, Wetumpka;
Wayne Olen Wagnon,- Tuscumbia;
and Abbott Brand Walton, Greensboro.
Bachelor of science in agricultural
administration; William
Gray Brockway Jr., Panola; Rob-
Max McAliley, Coffee Springs;
James Lewis Merriweather,
Greenville; Vance Paul Nicker-son,
Jackson's Gap; Hugh L. Rice
Jr., Florence; Harrison Glendon
Sims, Eldridge.
Bachelor of science in agricultural
engineering: George Richard
Carter, Auburn; Arthur Wiggins
Cooper, Montevallo; Charles
Jacob Hager Jr., Ensley; Howard
Patterson Lloyd, Hurtsboro; Thomas
Perkins McCabe, Dora; and
Cleburne Osborne, Cullman.
School of Architecture and Allied
Arts (Bachelor of architecture):
Robert Henry Adams Jr.,
Cleveland, Ohio; Gerald Lee Bil-bro,
Alabama City; Louis Gardner
Goldberg, Birmingham; Morris
Aaron Hall, Jasper; John
Morgan Morton, Montgomery;
and Stanley Moore Worsham,
Birmingham.
Bachelor of applied art: Devoe
Jackson Brasfield, Dora; Robert
Daughdrill Welch, Birmingham;
Annie Lou Whittaker, Tuskegee;
Bachelor of landscape gardening:
Perry Jerome Schwartz, Bir-
(Continued on page four)
The new Spades appeared for
a few minutes on the main corner
Saturday, in what is the group's
only public appearance during the
year. Dressed in flowing robes of
white, the new Spades presented
the traditional black-faced negro
comedy on roller skates. This
year's initiation ceremony featured
a negro baseball game, culminating
in the trial and hanging of
one of the players for stealing a
base.
The ten new Spades and their
honors are given below:
Rollins Aldridge, Columbus,
Ga., is a member of Sigma Chi social
fraternity and is registered in
civil engineering. He is a member
of Chi Epsilon, ASCE, Scabbard
and Blade, and was recently tapped
by ODK.
Bob Armstrong, an SAE from
Birmingham, is business manager-elect
of the Plainsman and is registered
in mechanical engineering.
A member of the polo, and fencing
teams, he is also a member of
Scabbard and Blade and is soon
to be initiated into ODK.
Winfrey Boyd, a Delta Sigma
Phi from Gilberts ville, Ky., is registered
in science and literature.
President of Tau Kappa Alpha,
he is also president of his social
fraternity and business manager
of the Glee Club. A Scabbard and
Blade man, he was recently tapped
by ODK.
John Dabbs, a non-fraternity
man from Bessemer, is a student
in mechanical engineering, and is
a member of Tau Beta Pi. Recently
tapped by Blue Key, he is
also a member of Scabbard and
Blade.
John Godbold, a non-fraternity
pre-law student, is from Auburn
and is editor-elect of the Plainsman.
One of the school's outstanding
debaters, he is a member
of Tau Kappa Alpha, IRC,
and is president of the Writers'
Club and the Debating Council.
He is a member of Scabbard and
Blade and was recently tapped by
ODK.
Carl Happer, Birmingham, is a
member of SAE social fraternity
and is taking business administration.
An outstanding star on the
football and baseball team, he is
a member of the "A" Club, of
Scabbard and Blade, and is a
pledge to ODK.
John Ivey, Auburn, is presidentelect
of the Executive Cabinet
(Continued on Page Four)
Take Your Pick
In order to arrange a concert
course next year that will
appeal to a majority of Auburn
students, the following list of
artists and musical attractions
is presented by the committee
with the request that students
indicate their three first choices.
Students are asked to designate
their three preferences in
order by Placing Number 1, 2,
and 3 before* the names on the
list. No. 1 will indicate first
choice; No. 2 second choice;
and No. 3 third choice. After
indicating preferences, clip the
list and leave it at The Plainsman
office or at the News Bureau,
1st floor, Samford Hall,
not later than Thursday, May
4.
Allen Jones
Don Cossack Chorus
Richard Crooks
Albert Spaulding
Helen Jepson
_ Richard Bonelli
U. S. Navy Band
Jan Peerce
Igor Gorin
John Carter.
PAGE TWO THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939
The Auburn Plainsman
Published Semi-Weekly By The Students
Of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
Auburn, Alabama
Editorial and business offices at Lee County Bulletin
Office on Tichenor Avenue. Phone 448. Editor
may be reached after office hours by calling 169-W.
Edwin C. Godbold . . . . . . Editor
Charles F. Grisham . . Business Manager
Editorial Staff
Managing Editor Roy Taylor
Associate Editor - . J. H. Wheeler
Society Editor Eleanor Scott
Sports Editor - Boots Stratford
News Editor John Godbold
Business Staff
Assistant Business Manager Bob Armstrong
Assistant Business Manager Julian Myrick
Advertising Manager _ Billy Smith
Circulation Manager ~ Arthur Steele
Assistant Circulation Manager Walter Going
Office Manager _ -- Martin Wender
Entered as second-class matter at the post office
at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mail:
$2.50 per year, $1.50 per semester.
Represented for national advertising by National
Advertising Service, Inc. Member of Associated
Collegiate Press. Distributor of Collegiate Digest.
At Long Long Last
That step-child of Auburn student publications,
The Glomerata, is to be distributed to
the student body tomorrow, rain or shine,
is the word that we have from the yearbook
heads.
We have had our fun with the Glomerata
and the Glomerata boys, beginning at the
first of the year.. Throughout all our jibing
and joking, they simply jibed and joked back
at us. No one could have taken our friendly
insults in a more appropriate fashion.
All joking aside for the present, The
Plainsman wants to tell both of the Glomerata
heads, Curty Farley and Perry
Schwartz, that they have done a swell job.
We have not as yet seen the book. From
some who have seen it we hear that it is an
excellent yearbook; others say it isn't. We
reserve our judgment for later. Regardless,
however, of its appearance, the Glomerata
staff is to be highly complimented for getting
the book out so early. We know that
there is more advertising in this book than
in any previous one. Collections from local
organizations are better, too.
All in all, Curty and Perry, we want to
say that you have worked hard and that you
deserve great credit for your work.
ers by not launching into a vicious editorial
expose of the whole affair. But after
sixty issues, we are weary of quarreling.
Earlier in the year, we would have shot the
works for you. Now, all we're interested in
is a job and getting out seven more issues.
Moral: trust no one, and get your passes
before you give the publicity.
We Are Snake-Bit!
We are usually the first to point a laughing
finger at the campus politician who slips,
who lets his opponent trick him, or who is
caught asleep. Our loudest and most sarcastic
laughs have been for the men in campus
public life whose plans have gone awry
because of someone else's skillful maneuvering.
The tables have been turned now; the
Plainsman is snake-bit. Of course, our pride
is hurt. We don't like knowing we have been
a sucker.
Our readers will hear sooner or later, so
we just as well write about it now. We've
given plenty of mocking laughs this year.
The law of averages sooner or later had to
play against us. It's someone else's turn
now.
Briefly, here it 'is: as is customary with
the Plainsman, we gave the final dances
preferential publicity treatment in the paper
in return for the customary two passes
to the staff.
However, with last Friday's edition of the
Plainsman out and the dances underway,
when our representative appeared at the
hall, he was informed that the chairman of
the social committee and the local bank
which finances the committee had decided
that no free passes'were to be issued. Passes
were issued, of course, but not to the Plainsman.
We could neither help nor hurt the
dances any more, as this was the last set of
the year.
Of course, that is true, but such shortsighted
action has certainly neglected to take
into consideration that the Plainsman does
not live and die in one year. The strained
feeling and distrust between the publication
and the committee will carry over to next
year. We can not see how either the committee
or the bank can ask for or expect any
cooperation from the Plainsman next year.
And we are quite sure that it will not be
forthcoming.
The Plainsman is sorry to disappoint read-
Just An Incident
A man of letters once said, "An editor is
merely an incident in the life of a well-ordered
publication."
For years and years Plainsman editors
have come and gone. We are perhaps the
sixtieth to prop our feet on the editorial
desk and punch the editorial typewriter.
Most of those who have gone before have
contributed something to the sheet and,
therefore, to the college. But the basic principles
of the publication have remained the
same. Broadly speaking, the only policy the
Plainsman has is the good of the college—
"For A Greater Auburn" is the phrase that
formerly appeared on our masthead.
To us, the student body is the college. The
faculty, the administration, the buildings,
the campus—all are secondary in our viewpoint.
The Plainsman's policy is, then,
translated into a policy for student welfare.
It is mindful of the rights of others, but it
is concerned first of all with the interests
of those for whom and by whom it is published.
Each editor sees different means by which
his general objectives can be attained. Each
writes from his personal viewpoint; each
writes as he thinks. But each, realizing the
responsibility of this page, bears in mind the
purpose of the paper.
We have tried to do the same. Recognizing
and encouraging the rights of others to
differ, the Plainsman has always as far as
possible expressed its abstract ideals in concrete
proposals and criticisms.
We don't believe in blind consistency or
claims to eternal infallibility. If we are convinced
that an expressed opinion of ours is
in error, we'll correct it. But we must be
convinced. As long as we believe we are
right, we'll shout our opinion frm the housetops
as long and as loudly as we know how.
In all departments the Plainsman, like the
men who make it, can err. But as far as possible,
we made and will make necessary corrections.
We know we can be wrong; we
want to be right.
The Plainsman goes on and on. It's a well-ordered
publication. We are only an incident.
If I Were In College Now
I'd respect money. It represents somebody's
labor and sacrifice. But _even more than
this. In the college fees we pay with it and
the books we buy are plans and hopes for
the long future of life.
I'd respect manners too highly to lose
them. Good manners are not a superficial
adornment for dress occasions. They are the
flower of a fine and generous temperament
developed through years of well-ordered ana
gracious living, and are a friendly consideration
of the rights and privileges of others.
I'd respect my intelligence too much not
to apply it. To skimp and scant the assignments
of the lecture room, to apply just
enough mental labor "to get by," to do
nothing thoroughly, to fail at least to go to
the bottom of something each day, not to
read and think while ' reading--well, this
is simply to show a strange disrespect of
one's mind—a disrespect that in the end will
make it a pretty dull tool when we shall
need it most.
I'd respect my own personality enough to
rely on myself to get on. Much is said in
these days to discredit "rugged individualism"
and to praise "collectivistic cooperation"
nature of modern society. No amount
of "collectivistic cooperativeness," however
valuable it may be, can take the place of a
generous supply of downright self-dependence
in each of us. The cooperative spirit,
as fine and as important as it is, cannot do
our studying and reading for us, will not
hold us steady in the stress of temptation,
is unable to keep our heads up and face forward
under the weight of burdens and the
assaults of discouragements.
I'd respect my dreams. Seventeen to
twenty-two, these college years! They are,
as never again, the years of great hopes,
high ambitions, of splendid visions. In spite
of all that the realists say—whose way of
life is fallen into the sear and yellow sheet,
literally as well as figuratively—hold to these
dreams, and be only ashamed if your imagination
does not know their shining presence
at least every now and then.
I'd respect my religion as a very personal
thing. —North Carolina Christian Advocate
By John Ivey Jr.
The alarm clock had been waiting
for eight hours to play its
tune and when the proper time
arrived, it broke forth in a tune
that demanded immediate attention
. . . five o'clock, what's
wrong with that hunk of tin?
The idea was that the individual
who had set the time for
that mass of metal to unconside-rately
blate out, had expected to
rise and spend-some time in preparation
for a few forth-coming
classes . . . what really happened
was only natural in the spring.
* * •
While 'sitting on the front steps
early in the morning one's mind
is very apt to wander hastily from
one thought to the next . . . the
sun was peeping up from behind
the horizon timidly, but promised
to come forth and shine as soon
as everything looked favorable .
* * *
The air was clean, fresh, giving
the impression that it was new and
had never been tainted by the
pungent odors resulting from a
man-dominated world . . . the
dew on the grass clearly gave
proof that no one had tred on the
sod since nature had covered the
green plants with the crystal-like
dampness . . . a couple of robins
tripped and flitted across the sidewalk
playfully chasing each other
and then in a more serious mood
pursued an innocent insect.
« * *
Another glance toward the sun
. . . it was some distance higher
than when last mentioned . . . a
figure crossed the line of vision
. . . a negro carrying basket on his
head . . . he was in no hurry . ..
seemed to enjoy the very stillness
of things. There was no sound except
the unexpected chirp of a
bird as it flitted hurriedly by.
* * *
While living in the freshness of
the early morning and letting the
mind wander around in the world
of imagination, we forget . . . nature
has a habit of leading the
mind astray by virtue of a perfect
plan for things that is altered
only by the introduction of man's
desires and very feeble attempts
to exercise plan of permanent
control over natural forces . . .
» * *
Into this world of thought there
came the rude, dull thud of the
morning paper . . . all across the
front page was spread items concerning
the activities of men . . .
some items pleasant to read, others
that bring pictures of human suffering
and the acts which are
result of a greed for power and
domination . . . grancing up from
the paper, we see a snake-like
path through the grass suffering
from the recent pressure of the
newsboy's bicycle wheel . . . the
birds which before was in a playful
mood, has now a worm dangling
helplessly from its mouth . . .
these sights bring us back with a
start to the world of reality.
* * *
The sun now shines brightly on
the wonders of nature that have
been so soon disturbed by man
. . . from within: the house, floating
on the fresh, new morning air,
comes the odor .of coffee . . .
more reality . . . hunger strikes
and with it the grim realization
that the lessons still remained on
the list of unprepared . . . well,
'twas worth it!
,* * »
It won't be so very long until
the ordeal of final exams must
be weathered. During that time
black coffee will again be in order
while a frantic effort is made to
catch a few points that kinda slipped
our mind during the period
set aside for our regular course of
studying. Faces will begin to look
take a tired bored look while we
take leave of the most delightful
and necessary of all drugs, sleep
. . . circles under blood-shot eyes
will be very much in order . . .
why must we go through all this?
* * •
While the dictators march their
soldiers back and forth along their
national borders, one is a bit scared
to say anything about the recent
activities in Europe. However,
during the course of a review
here in Auburn last week, the
elements frowned on such display
of military might . . . the result
was one that made drills and
marching seem very artificial . . .
wet uniforms, hair hanging in the
face . . . guns with a start toward
developing rust . . . flags drooping
. . . the whole affair resembling
a good idea gone wrong.
* 4 *
The entire HOTC unit is to be
congratulated on the fine manner
in which it obeyed commands and
stuck to the work at hand, in
spite of such adverse conditions
last week.
WAKE ME EARLY, MOTHER, FOR I'M TO BE QUEEN
OF MAY
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
Contributed
The Brenau girl bows her stately head,
And fixes her stylish lips
In a fine hard way and lets them go—
In spasmodic little snips.
The University girl removes her specks,
And frizes her face with a smile—
And sticks out her face like an open book,
And you can bet she misses it a mile.
The Judson girl says never a word,
, And you'd think her rather tame,
With her practiced view of matters in hand,
But she "gets there just the same."
The Montevallo girl, the pride of the world,
In her clinging and soulful way,
Absorbs it all with a yearnful yearn,
As big as a bale of hay.
The Huntingdon girls—so gentle and sweet,
Let their lips meet the coming kiss,
With a rapturous warmth, and the souls
Float away on the sea of bliss.
We have sung the songs of the girls that kiss,
And it sets one's brain in a whirl,
But to reach the height of an earthly bliss,
You must kiss an Auburn girl.
And closer together your lips do draw,
Till they meet in rapturous glow—
And the small boy hidden behind the fence
Cries, "Gallagher, let her go!"
• * *
About Thursday's Drill
Companies and batteries . . . call them A, B. and C,
Swam on Bullard Field for company,
'Cause the legislators came to see us drill.
If they come again, I think I will
Wear a. raincoat or a tent,
And a tin roof sorta' bent
To keep out rain, and hail and wind,
And maybe the legislature will be our friend
And send some money to our dear college
To aid us in our pursuit of knowledge.
The Gift of Grab
By Bob Anderson
"For the Glory of T. C. U." is
the title of a new Horned Frog
football song whose list of authors
sounds like a section of
"Who's Who."
The words are by Grantland
Rice, national sports authority;
Clarence Buddington Kelland,
noted fiction writer, familiar for
the "Scattergood Baines" stories;
and John Golden, New York
theatrical producer and playwright.
The music is by Raymond Hub-bell,
popular song writer, whose
best known hit is "Poor Butterfly."
* * *
Shure, the Oirish are a' comin'
back into the football picture at
the University of Detroit.
On the present freshman squad
are more than two dozen boys of
Irish extraction and a good percentage
of them look like future
varsity material.
There are Brennans and O'Connors,
and McLaughlins, and Good-riches,
and Burkes, and Calla-hans
and Cooleys and Gleasons,
and Shannahans and Moores, and
all the rest of the names that have
brought fame to the sons of the
'Auld Sod."
For years the Irish dominated
the Titan squad but of late years
there have been few of them.
* * *
Math problems and English
themes are usually thought of,,as
the freshman's greatest curriculum
problem, but at Vanderbilt
University this year the first year
students are tackling the nation's
number one economic problem—
"The South."
This innovation is the idea behind
the new social science survey
course. Purpose of the course
is to introduce all freshmen in the
arts college to the subject matter
and methods of the social sciences
and to interest them In contemporary
problems.
• * *
Why do students come to college?
Song and story traditicially
say, for fraternities, sports, and
college life.
However, this theory broke
down completely when 464 freshmen
at the University of Vermont
were asked to set down the
reasons for their choice.
Both men and women stated
that the courses of study offered,
more than anything else, decided
Before Tomorrow
Br John Godbold
In the current arguments in Europe
the Germans have found at.
least one foe worthy of their mettle,
and that is Poland. The Poles
have done about as much as
France or England to stop Hitler,
if not more.
Poland, while not one of the
major powers, is still very strong.
The Poles are numerous and good
fighters and they are well armed.
Their answers to Hitler's demands
on their nation has been to mass
nearly a million troops on their
border, and in effect dared Hitler
to come on.
The Germans' demands for the
Polish corridor, Poland's life line
to the sea, have been met by the
answer that if anything was to
be done about the corridor it was
to be expansion of it rather than
annihilation.
In return for the concessions
which he asks of Poland Hitler
has' offered little in return, only a
few "guarantees" very similar to
those which he gave to Czechoslovakia.
And of course, if he ever
gains a foothold, his "guarantees"
to Poland will be no more
sacred than those which he made
to the Czechs.
Poland's defiant stand is no
doubt partially inspired by the
knowledge that Britain and France
are backing her. If Poland does
have to fight France and Britain
will be on her side. But Whether
war comes or not, whether Poland
has the backing she thinks she
has or not, the Germans will still
find that they have a worthy opponent
on the Polish frontier.
it -* "••••- • - -
The many flights which Russian
aviators have made to the United
States; the trade agreements Which
have been negotiated between
Russia and the democracies, the
feeling of nearness in the face of
a common enemy—all these factors
have drawn Russia and the
democracies closer together. Once '
they were bitter enemies, and both
sides still move with a great deal
of caution, but the fact remains
that they are closer than ever before.
The day was when Britain ig-'•
nored, was even discourteous, to
Russian representatives to the
English nation. But not so long
ago in its fevered campaign to
gain Russian favor the Russian
ambassador began to get invitations
to social affairs in the inner
circle of government and society-. •
Many view with alarm the
friendship between the' democracies
and a nation whose philosophy
of government is the exact opposite.
Actually, the Communistic
theory is far from being put into
practice in Russia. More and more "
the Russians have compromised
between their ideals and actual '
facts. Again and again they have-been
forced to make changes in
their government which have
made it less and less communistic.
Furthermore, the Russians •'•
seem to have abandoned their plan;
of communizing the entire world:
All in all, everyone seems to
be of the opinion that they are
more fit companions for us to
negotiate with.
However, the Russians have
not forgotten the long years' during
which their government was
refused recognition by the great
nations who are now seeking their
favor. They can hardly forget the
insults and humilations which
their representatives have been
accorded in other countries. Russia's
position as a key power in -
the present situation may well
mean that she can gain concessions
and advantages which she
has sought ever since her present
government went in but which she
has not gained so far.
the question for them. Fraternities
and. sports fared badly and.
scholastic standing scored heavily
with the class of 1942.
• * *
Trailers, tents, log cabins, and
abandoned shacks have all been,
seized by America's college students
in search of inexpensive living
quarters) but undergraduates
of the University of New Hampshire
have gone one better. Some
250 men—from freshmen to seniors—
utilize war-time barracks,
built in the summer of 1918 to
house members of the national
army training corps.
These barracks, although far
from ideal, have opened the way
to higher education for well over
2,000 students since their construe-,
tion, according to administrative
estimates.
Approximately one-third of all
higher educational institutions in
the U. S. are state supported and
controlled.
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE —
Summer ROTC Camp in Ft. Benning
Editor's note: In answer to a number of requests from both
seniors and juniors, we are reprinting this article, which appeared
earlier in the year in the Plainsman.
By Edwin Godbold
. Six week* of Fort Benning sun . . . afternoons off . . . horses . .
more horses . . . saddle soap . . . imitation orange juice . . . range
firing . . . eggs with 1918 labels on them . . . baseball . . . best
swimming pool in Georgia . . . tennis courts . . . a golf course a mile
away . . . dances every Friday night . . . crawling several hundred
yards down the draining ditch at 2 p. m. to sneak back into camp
without the guards seeing you . . . AND getting caught anyway . . .
SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES
ELEANOR SCOTT, Editor
Columbus and Benning lassies
. v . the 29th and 24th Infantry
bands playing . . . the colored band
swinging out on "Tiger Rag" while
LSU and Auburn boys fussed over
whose song it was . . . three days
mounted march . . . saddle sore
. . . "Little Dead" Fowler bawling
out "Turn out!" at 3:30 in the
morning . . . eleven miles to Ochi-lee
. . . crystal clear creek that
feels good after clouds and clouds
of red dust . . . and white shiny
sand . . . cannoneers having to dismount
and walk up hills . . . riding
horses bareback to, the creek
at watering time . . . for further
information see "Bull" Knight,
who pulled a Paul Revere one afternoon
. . . Also see David Wittel,
who landed in the middle of the
creek after horse he was riding
looks invitingly at the creek and
chooses to roll . . .
Getting up at five o'clock . . .
and breakfast at five-trirty . . .
and then drill and calisthenics . . .
mounting on the crack Fort Benning
special for a speedy ride to
the stables . . . horses and more
horses . . . piercing whistles I . .
confusing arm signals . . . the
clank of trace chains . . .
* » «
"This when we separate the men
from the boys" . . . officers shouting
"Christ Amighty! hurry up
there!" . . . a shaky "lost battalion"
found safe and sound—but
jumpy—after two hours under artillery
fire . . . funny feeling in
the pit of your stomach at sound
of shrapnel bursting too, too close
. . . wishing you were home safe
and sound or at the guns firing,
rather than out in front . . . "Little
Lost Cap'n" taking the whole
thing with a smile . . .
Miss Virginia Chandler Weds
Mr. White Matthews
The wedding of Miss Virginia
Chandler, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Virgil Chandler, t o white
Matthews, took place last Saturday
evening at St. John's Church,
Montgomery.
The bride graduated from Lanier
High School. She attended
Huntingdon College one year and
graduated with a B. A. degree
from Brenau College, where she
was a member of Alpha Delta Pi
sorority and took part in many
student and campus activities.
Mr. Matthews is an alumnus of
Alabama Polytechnic Institute,
where he graduated with a B. S.
degree. He is a member of Sigma
Nu fraternity. At present he is
associated with General Motors
Acceptance Corporation.
After a Southern wedding trip
the couple will make their home
in Montgomery.
Auburn's May Queen
: > ' • " " , " , , M • TTj^r- )
S5SSSSS
LU-RAY PASTELS—20-PIECE STARTER SET
consists of four pieces of each of the items
illustrated above in any of these colors,
Windsor Blue, Persian Cream, Surf Green
and Sharon Pink. Rainbow assorted color
combination is most popular.
PRICE, $2.95
B<U RTON'S BD OOKSTORE
Something New Every Day-
Piercing scream of shells in
mid-flight' . . . rattled commands
from nervous cadets at BC scope
. . . being 200 miles off the gunner's
position . . . joy at hearing
"close on number two" when you
are gunner on that gun . . . "ready
on the right! ready on the left*
ready on the firing line! raise pistol!
insert loaded magazine commence
firing! . . .
"End of problem, end of practice,
close station, march order!
. ,. . battery eicecutive bellowing
out commands that could be heard
a mile . . . horse and motor boys
arguing hotly about merits of respective
manner of transportation
The Engineers firing hour after
hour in their pits . . . and building
pontoon bridges . . . sore
shoulders and bitten lips . . .
working in water up to your
waist . . . mid-morning breakfasts
after firing since daybreak
. . . chagrin at missing targets entirely
. . . joy at the infrequent
bulls eye . . . shouting cracks at
the artillery . . .hard-fought
games of volleyball . • . . crap
games in the tents after supper
. . the post theater and khaki uni
forms . . . and khaki uniforms . .
track meet on July 4 . . . Spec
Kelly beating Lightboun by a mile
. . cajuns from LSU talking in
patois that no one could understand
. . . calling Battery B by its
real name . . .
"We don't give a damn for the
whole Motor Battery" sung loudly
for Captain Ham's benefit . . .
the buglar who always got that
"Li, Di, Di, Di dum" in to such
perfection . . . mail call in the afternoon
and.an officious CQ calling
out lucky names . . . fine to
get letters . . . boxing matches and
bloody noses . . . Nickerson saying
•"Perdon?" . . . and yelling "Corporal
of the Guard!" with gusto
. . . Hatley on July 4 being herd-
*ed around by a watchful tent mate
. . . hopping into a bed full of
frogs and sticks and sand . . .
bed check and flashlights playing
into faces . . . "Bull" Knight shouting
"Engineers and Signal Corps,
go to bed!" . . . "Kingfish" Mc-
Gehee prancing down the battery
street singing "Put out your can!
Here comes the garbage man!" . . .
Captain "Red Beak" Eagan and
his fiery probiscus . . . the pet tur-
Auburn's 1939 May Queen, Miss Edith Cecil Carson, Montgomery,
will be officially crowned at the climax of a beautiful Spring
Festival in the amphitheater on Friday evening, May 5. Directed
by Prof. Telfair Peet, the festival will be in the form of "A Medieval
Fantasy" with Claudia Welnmann, freshman in home economics,
taking the principal dramatic role, and Auburn co-eds
composing the entire cast. Miss Louise LecKreher, instructor in
physical education, will direct the dancing. Miss Carson, who is a
junior in commercial art, has been included for the second year in
the beauty section of the Glomerata, student yearbook.
NEW MID-SUMMER FROCKS
NELLY DON - KAY - DUNHILL
Priced From
$2.95 to $7.95
HAGEI II UN'S
Opelika's Best Store
B88aaS?^KS88S8«a&!i!.W.ri%J8!i!*?^%%:*!^.t.,.%%*.*.*.'.r.!.!.,.%%
tie, "Little Willie" . . . Brasfield
sketching cartoons for the "ROTC
Bugle" . . .
* * *
Bull session and conjecture as
to who will be the cadet colonel
. . . drinking beer at the canteen
. . . Signal Corps bravely falling in
for Sunday night mess with two
men there . . . Captain "Ding
Dong" and his buss-chested commands
: . . cussing and discussing
officers . . . . demerit duty and
Sarge Fitzpatrick bellowing orders
. . . Wilder and Preer shouting
Sgt. McGhoney's machine
gun commands after bed check
and next morning blaming it on
Wittel and Godbold . . . "RAPID!
rapid! SUPER-QUICK! super-quick!
AT MY COMMAND! at
your command!" etc. . . .
Cobb accusing everyone of stealing
his lightbulbs . . . Saturday
morning inspection and getting
demerits for having dirty -soap
. . . blitzing brass and saddle soaping
boots . . . the tough supply
sergeant . . . KP duty . God,
ain't it awful! . . radio announcers
saying "we will now be favored
with the early morning swing
session" . . . taps sounding out . . .
and turning over to sound sleep,
only to be rudely awakened in a
moment by reveille . . . "after all,
you are getting 70 cents a day for
this" . . . hot, sweaty, itchy feeling
of gas masks . . . Sam Tharp
getting stuck every time the demerit
sheet went up . . .
• • *
Camp what you make it . . .
routine worst feature . . . but a
good time had by all . . . better
to look back on than to go
through, as Colonel Wallace says
. . . Auburn every week-end you
can get off . . . . and nothing looking
better than civilization and
girls when this first week is over
. . . all this for information of
juniors . . . it's a lot of work . . .
and a lot of fun . . . and nothing
cements the senior class together
better . . . camp brings out the
best and the worst in anybody . . .
will come away liking a lot of
boys you didn't and disliking
Former Auburn Co-ed Is
Wed Recently
Miss Sarah Frances Halladay
of Fairfax and H. G. Blake of
Montgomery were married last
Sunday morning at the Capitol
Heights Methodist Church.
Mrs. Blake is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Halladay. She
is a graduate of A. P. I. and a
member of Pi Omega Phi sorority.
Since her graduation she has served
as home demonstration agent in
^several South Alabama counties.
Mr. Blake is an assistant examiner
of accounts with the state.
Mr. and Mrs. Blake will make
their home in Prattville.
BSU to Hold Annual Picnic
At Wright's Mill
The members of the Baptist
Student Union will go to Wright's
Mill Saturday, May 6, for their
annual picnic.
According to members of the
social committee, there will be
plenty of entertainment for everyone
attending the event. The program
of the afternoon includes a
variety of games, in which everyone
may participate, and a soft-ball
game between the freshman
boys and the upperclass boys.
There will be a Galilean service
Saturday night, which will
be of interest to everyone present.
Everyone who is planning to attend
this picnic is requested to
meet at the Baptist Church Saturday
at 2 p. m., and they will be
furnished transportation from
there to Wright's Mill. The picnic
is predicted to be the most successful
social events of the BSU
Brotherhood Holds Discussion
Of International Relations
Sunday morning, April 30, the
Young Men's Baptist Brotherhood
met at 8 o'clock at the Baptist
Church. The theme of the
meeting was "International Relations."
Paul Kamata of Hawaii and
Ralph B. Jimenez of Puerto Rico
were present as guests of the
brotherhood.
Following an enjoyable breakfast
served by the YWCA girls,
Clyde Morris, president of the
brotherhood, led the group of 25
young men in an open discussion
of international affairs. Davis
Woolley, Baptist Student Secretary,
spoke on "Christ's Attitude
in International Relations."
The next meeting of the brotherhood,
to be held May 14, is the
last meeting of the school year.
All members are urged to attend '
this meeting, since an especially
interesting program is being planned.
in several years, and every member
is urged to be present.
SODAS
SANDWICHES
CIGARETTES —
15c per package
Popular Brands
CUT RATE DRUGS
ROTHENBURG'S
WALGREEN AGENCY
DRUGS
Opelika
Did you know that radio broadcasting stations from
coast to coast are linked by more than 53,000 miles
of special telephone circuits?
Even before the earliest days of broadcasting,
Bell System engineers developed means of transmitting
sounds of all kinds by wire. These have
been improved constantly to transmit the extremely
high and low sound frequencies of music and
entertainment.
Just as years of telephone research stand back
of today's special broadcasting circuits —so the
research of today is helping to solve the communications
problems of tomorrow. Another Bell System
contribution to your daily life.
some you , did and it's not
nearly so bad as the seniors make
out . . .
Hampden-Sydney College was
founded six months before . the
Declaration of Independence was
signed.
In 1936 there were 1,015,000 living
graduates of all U. S. higher
learning institutions.
Pause...
at the
familiar
red cooler
OPELIKA COCA COLA BOTTLING CO.
PHONE 70
M-64-1
PAGE FOUR THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939
Detailed Preview of Auburn Glomerata
Given Readers by Feature Writer
By Roy Taylor
The 1939 Glomerata, yearbook of the students of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, will be released Wednesday morning, according
to an announcement made today by Perry Schwartz, Editor, and
Curty Farley, Business Manager.
This year's Glomerata is dedicated
to Maurice Bloch of Selma,
for the fifth consecutive year
president of the Auburn Alumni
Association, the position he has
held since he was first elected in
1933 .At the time when Mr. "Bloch
took over the Alumni Association,
business conditions were none the
best, and the interest of alumni
in Auburn was at a low ebb. It is
a great credit to Mr. Bloch that
'through his personal sacrifice and
individual effort the Alumni Association
has undergone almost
complete reconstruction, and revival
of interest in Auburn was
no mean job during those five
years.
"It is with genuine pleasure
that we dedicate the 1939 Glomerata
to a man who has really lived
closer to the true Auburn
Spirit than most of us and to
whom the word 'Auburn' is more
than the name of the college,"
said Schwartz in commenting on
the dedication.
The Glomerata comes to the
students this year in a new cover
of copper-brown pressed imita-
•Mon leather, with "Glomerata"
across the front in copper leaf. A
modernistic circle in the center
of which is "1939."
On opening the first few pages
of the Glomerata, one comes first
to the dedication pages to Mr.
Bloch, then to views of the campus,
large photographs of the
buildings and campus grounds.
The next section of the Glomerata
will probably catch the interest
of the reader, for it is devoted
to the faculty staffs and
members of the administration.
This issue of the Glomerata marks
the first time in many years that
such a section has been included
in its pages, and will give the
students a chance to see some of
the faculty who won't face the
cameraman any other way.
Continuing through the pages,
there will come in order a presentation
of the year's activities,
the student governments and
staffs of the Glomerata and the
Plainsman, and a section of camera
shots called, in order of pres-
ANNOUNCING THE OPENING
of the
STUDENTS' SUPPLY SHOP
0 . S. Moreman, Jr., Class of '32
SCHOOL SUPPLIES — GIFTS — MUSIC
MAGAZINES — RADIOS
OPENED MAY 1ST IN PITTS HOTEL
SS8g^S8S8S8KSSSS2SSSS*i^S^SSS;SS^SS2S^^SS4SiSi^S^SSSS£S2S^^S^SSS^^3S^SS^iS^SSiS*
Campus Events
Today
4 to 5:30 p m Teakettle Tea. Smith Hall.
Wednesday, May 3
3 p. m.—Tennis: Auburn vs. Mercer. Country Club.
4 to 5:30 p. m.—Tea. Faculty Invited. Smith Hall.
4:15 p. m.—Faculty Softball. High School.
7 p. m.—Faculty Recreation. Graves Center.
s Friday, May 5
3:30 p. m.—Baseball: Auburn Frosh vs. Tech High.
Field.
8 p. m.—Spring Festival. Amphitheater.
Saturday, May 6
m.—Baseball: Auburn Frosh vs. Tech High.
Drake
Drake
-Track Meet. Auburn vs. Florida. Drake Field.
Tennis: Auburn vs. University of Florida. Country
Ad-
2 P
Field.
2 p. m.
3 p. m.-
Club.
7:30 p. m.—Address: Dr. Jerome Hunsaker, M. I. T.,
vances in Aeronautics." Langdon Hall (Admission Free.)
Sunday, May 7
Parents Day
2:30 p. m.—Polo: Orange vs. Blue. Bullard Field.
Coming Events
May 10—Faculty Forum, 6 p. m. Graves Center.
May 12-13—All-State Boy Scout Camporal. Graves Center.
May 12-13-^Baseball: Auburn vs. Oglethorpe. Drake Field.
May 13—Track Meet: Auburn vs. Georgia Tech. Drake
Field.
Burns Plays in
Missouri Film
entation, "Greater Auburn," "Tiger
Tracks," camera highlights of
the Junior Prom, and a section of
photographs of the different
phases of military life on the Auburn
campus and at 'Fort Ben-ning.
The section of the Classes has
been arranged in such a manner
that students using the Glomerata
for reference will have little
trouble finding the picture of the
man they're looking for. There
are snapshots of student activities
to be found in the section devoted
to the Seniors.
The Beauty Section of the
Glomerata is called "Sweethearts
of Auburn," and is led by Sadie
Edwards of Union Springs who
was elected "Miss Auburn" for
1939. Included in the Beauty Section
are Edith Cecil Carson who
was elected "May -Queen," Mary
Lucas Hall, Suzelle Hare, Margaret
Pearson, Louise Ward, Eileen
Nearing, Rubye Pitts, and Laurie
Houston. There follows a section
of "Favorities," an addition
to the Beauty Section, including
photographs of a number of Auburn's
favorite co-eds.
The rest of the Glomerata is
filled with the sections of the
fraternities and sororities, the organizations
and honor societies,
This traditional American motto
of the man who wants things
proved to him refers to Bob
Burns, king of the homespun hu
morists, in his latest picture, "I'm
From Missouri," which will be
shown Wednesday and Thursday
at the Tiger Theater.
What Burns wants proved to
him in this new, down-to-earth
comedy is that mules are inferior
to machinery when it comes to
equipping an army. And to show
that he's a Missourian in spirit as
well as in fact. Bob goes all the
way to London, where the heads
of the British army, unable to
prove their point, accept his!
"I'm From Missouri" shows
Burns for the first time since "The
Arizona Traveler," which picture
marked his change from light
musical comedy roles to the portrayal
of homespun American
characters. The new picture continues
the trend, casting Bob as
an ardent mule fancier, a family
man and Missouri's "unofficial
ambassador" to England.
Burns and his new screen wife,
Gladys George, leave Missouri
for London when word comes out
that England is preparing to mot'
orize the mule units of the army
in accordance with the advice of
Burns' rival, "Gene Lockhart, a
machinery manufacturer. Burns,
goes abroad to save his. business
and that of his friends. Miss
George, on the other hand, goes
to crash British society.
and the advertising section which
contains a large number of candid
camera shots taken on the
campus.
A great deal of credit is due to
Schwartz and Farley and their
staffs for the fine work that they
have done in putting out the 1939
Glomerata. It was a mountainous
task, but the book is the proof of
their labor.
...the RIGHT COMBINATION of the
world's best cigarette tobaccos
. . . they're MILDER and TASTE BETTER
Copyrifbi \919, LIOOBTT * MVMS TOBACCO Co.
OWARD HILL, World
Champion Field Archer, can
flick the ash off your Chesterfield
with a single shot.
And Chesterfield's right combination
of the world's best
cigarette tobaccos hits the mark
every time for what smokers
want in a cigarette...
They're milder
refreshingly milder
© They taste better
you'll enjoy every one
9 They Satisfy
the blend can't be copied
When you try them you will know
why Chesterfields give millions of
men and women more smoking
pleasure ...why THEY SATISFY
Glomerata
Advertisers
The Glomerata staff wishes to
take this opportunity to express
its sincere appreciation to the
Plainsman for the full cooperation
they have rendered in putting out
the Glomerata. For without their
aid, it would have been impossible
to have succeeded in getting
many things accomplished.
The business staff especially
wishes to thank the Plainsman for
the fine support it has given in
the business end of the Glomerata.
They feel sure that a greater
part of the advertising secured
is due wholly to the column
"Glomerata Advertisers," that has
been run in many issues of the
Plainsman, and without their aid,
the large amount of advertising
solicited could not have been got
ten.
The staffs also wish to take this
opportunity to thank the Publications
Board, the members of the
faculty, and students for the fine
help they have given in making
the book possible; also to the student
body, for the patience they
have had in waiting for the delivery
of their books.
Spades
Graduates
(Continued from Pare One)
mingham.
School of Chemistry and Pharmacy
(Bachelor of science in
chemical engineering): James
Floyd Barnard, Fayette; George
Augustus Cabaniss, Birmingham;
James Weatherly Cabaniss, Birmingham;
Cecil Hamilton Chilton,
Birmingham; John Edwin
Cobb Jr., West Point, Ga.; John
Kelly Dixon, Talladega; John
Milton Eagan Jr., Bessemer;
Thomas Harold Gladney, Line
ville; Fred William Harmon,
Birmingham; George DeWitt
Knight Jr. Selma; John Alfred
Lanier, Birmingham; D„wain Gregory
Luce, Mobile; James Wilton
Lyons, Birmingham; Clarence Edwin
Mason, Birmingham; Arthur
Eugene Mize, Montgomery; Alexander
Hamilton Morris, Columbus,
Ga.; Robert Murray Nicker-son,
Jackson's Gap; Gayle Geron
Patterson, Florence; Leon Charles
Picard, Birmingham; Edward
Beale Plaisance, Birmingham;
Robert Webster Powell, Birmingham;
Albert Holt Price, Geor-giana;
Henry Graham Sellers Jr.,
Birmingham; Ernest Harold Stewart,
Belle Mina; Edward Roy
Taylor Jr., Birmingham; Samuel
Fuller Teague Jr., Birmingham;
Carter Wright Wall, Forest Home;
Harry Lee Welsted Jr., Auburn;
Jesse Winston Wood, Fairfield; and
Larkin Talmadge Wyers Jr., Birmingham.
Bachelor of science in chemistry:
Vernon Rhodes Childress,
Birmingham; Gustav Henry
Franke Jr., Fort Clayton, C. Z.;
Edward Moye Jordan, Opelika;
June Krause, Fort Lauderdale,
'Fla.; Henry Mason Maulshagen,
Birmingham; Joseph Louis Vogel
III, Cullman.
Bachelor of science in pharmacy:
William Shirley Coursey
Jr., Fayetteville, N. C; James
Wilson Hodges, Auburn; Herbert
McLeod Jr., Troy; Jamie Long
Meighs, Centerville; Milton Vernon
Mimms, Sylacauga; Frank
Bellamy Rutledge Jr. Demopolis;
Ruby Helen Stokes, Montgomery;
and Oliver Lester Thagard Jr.,
Andalusia.
School of Education (Bachelor
of science in education): Hor-tense
Bradford, Linden; Oscar
Woodrow Burford, Marion; Vernon
Paul Burns, Frisco City; Henry
Frank Chunn, Salem; Mary
Collins, Opelika; William Frank
Darnell, Phenix City; Walter
Bruner Golson, Fort Deposit; John
Willis Grady, Lanett; Thomas
Continued in next issue
(Continued from Page One)
ad is president of his social fraternity,
ATO. On the varsity debating
squad, he has played polo
and was formerly with the Auburn
Knights orchestra. He has
served as associate editor and
columnist for the Plainsman. He
is a member of Delta Sigma Pi
and is an ODK neophyte.
John Rice, Birmingham, is a
member of Scabbard and Blade
and is taking agriculture. Recently
tapped by ODK, he is one of the
most prominent men on the ag
campus.
Billy Smith, Birmingham, is a
Sigma Nu and is taking business
administration. A member of the
Interfraternity Council, he is a
Scabbard and Blade man and was
recently tapped by ODK.-
John Watters, Selma, is a member
of Kappa Alpha social fra-'
ternity, and was high man in the
race for senior Cabinet posts. He
is taking business administration
and is a Scabbard and Blade member,
as well as an ODK pledge.
Scarab Architectural Group
Installs New Officers
Scarab Architectural frathernity
last night held its annual installation
of officers and initiation of
new members. An intensive meeting,
attended by Professors Ap-plebee,
Little, and Lincoln, was
opened by Albion Knight, the retiring
president, at 7 p. m., and
the new officers were immediate-^
ly installed.
They are Phil Hamill, president;
David Rogers, vice president; Dallas
Benton, treasurer; Albion
Knight, secretary; and Edwin Mc-
Cowan, sergeant-at-arms.
After a short business meeting
the pledges were taken through
the full ceremony of initiation.
They are Joe F. Lacey, Milton,
B. E. Hill, Marshall Connor, Parker
Narrows, Leslie O'Gwynne,
and William Rush.
Following the formalities a party
was held in honor of the new
members. Other faculty members
of the School of Architecture and
Allied Arts joined the boys in the
picnic grounds north of Auburn,
where a moonlight evening of
songs and sandwiches helped new
and old Scarab men get better acquainted.
NOTICE
There will be a special meeting
of Scarab Wednesday at 4 p. m.
All members are urged to attend.
NOTICE
The Alpha Chi Omega Fencing
Tournament, both freshman and
all-campus, will b<* h«»ld Thursday
afternoon at 3 o'clock back
of Ramsay Hall.
All men who are interested in
competing turn your name in to
Bob Armstrong or Cliff Hogg not
later than Wednesday evening at
6 p. m. Trophies will be awarded
to the winners by the Alpha Chi
Omega Scout fraternity.
WED THUR
Just because your old
man was a jackass
ain't no reason for
« - i
More lovaWe, more laughabk...
BOB BURNS
in IM FROM
MISSOURI ll
•in
Gladys George • Gene Locklurt
TIGER
^SSSS8SSSSSSSSSS8S8SSSSSSSSSSS3S3SSSSSSSSSS8SS3a
«SS88S8S8SSSS8SSS8SSSSSSSSSSSSSS3SSSS88S8SS8Sk^SS8S3SSSSSSS^^
DRINK *T|.gffi MCmfie A FLAVOR YOU CANT FORGET
It Gives A Sandwich A College Education
