1939-02-03 The Auburn Plainsman

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AUBURN, ALABAMA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1939 NUMBER 37
Cabinet Starts Student Government Revision
Faculty Forum Session Hears Starr
Explain Work of Veterinary School
President Duncan Talks to
Group on Legislature
And Needs of College Here
Dr. L. E. Starr, assistant dean
of the School of Veterinary Medi­cine,
discussed the work of his de­partment
at the regular February
meeting of the Faculty Forum
Wednesday noon at Bibb Graves
Center.
Dr. L. N. Duncan gave a short
discussion of the work in the pres­ent
Legislature and needs at Au­burn
to be met by the group. Dr.
B. R. Showalter presided at the
forum.
Dr. Starr pointed out that the
Auburn veterinarian school is the
only one in the Southeast, and
serves all the states from Louis­iana
to the Atlantic, and from
Maryland to Florida. This is the
largest territory in the nation
served by one veterinary school.
An attempt is being made at
Auburn, Dr. Starr said, to take
care of all students applying from
any state within this territory.
Consequently most applications
from other sections of the nation
must be rejected.
While the southeastern terri­tory
is by far the largest served
by one veterinary school, live­stock
development is low in this
section, and the school and the
Regional Veterinary Laboratory
located here are able to give con­sideration
to the needs of the en-tir
territory.
Included in the present expan­sion
program at Auburn is con­struction
of a new veterinary
building, and Dr. Starr explained
that future plans for handling
and developing. ..the school are
built around this new construc­tion.
The present building near the
stadium site must be torn down
to make room for the stadium, and
several small frame structures
will also be abandoned.
The new building will be mod­ern
in every respect, and will
house a complete small animal
clinic. Provision will be made to
segregate animals brought to the
clinic so as to prevent diseases
from spreading, and modern diag­nostician
quarters and operating
rooms will be located in the
building.
The new building will also pro­vide
facilities for research work,
for, as Dr. Starr pointed out, there
is much to be learned yet con­cerning
animal diseases, and the
research is a vital part of any vet­erinary
school.
Veterinary work is concerned
with diseases of all mammals and
birds. Particular attention is giv­en
to domesticated animals, but
wildlife diseases are also studied.
Mammals are divided into two
grcups, large domssticated ani­mals
such as horses and sows, and
the small animal group,, including
principally dogs and cats.
In discussing the present Legis­lature,
Dr. Duncan praised the
organization and harmony among
representatives. Most of the at­tention
so far has been given to
organizing the two houses and
adopting governmental reform
measure:;. No appropriation bills
have yet been presented.
Dr. Showalter announced that
Dr. J. B. Needham, biological au­thority
from Cornell, will be in
Auburn Feb. 17, and will lecture
to students, faculty and townspeo­ple
on the subject, "Biological As­pects
of War.'
Whitney Addresses
Open Forum Group
Leads Discussion of Human
Sterilization, Its Benefits
The Open Forum Club was ad­dressed
last Tuesday night by
Leon F. Whitney of New Haven,
Conn., who is here at Auburn in
the School of Veterinary Medi­cine.
Mr. Whitney was formerly
executive secretary and later a
director of the American Eugenics
Society. His subject for discussion
was "Sterilization, for Human
Betterment."
Mr. Whitney opened his talk
with an apropos statement from
a book by Charles Edward Rus­sell,
which showed the value to
the individual of enlistment in
some betterment movement. While
the eugenics movement is not of
primary concern, Mr. Whitney
stated that he felt convinced that
it was without question the sub­ject
of greater concern to the hu­man
race today. Sterilization, he
explained, is but one of. the tools
of eugenics which may be used
in helping to raise the general
level of humanity.
After explaining with diagrams
the operations used to effect ster­ilization,
which is no way affect
the personality of the individual
nor alter him or her in any phy­sical
respect except to make it
impossible for that individual to
become an ancestor, Mr. Whitney
told briefly of his objections to
compulsory sterilization and de­scribed
the types that should be
sterilized. "These people want to
be sterilized," he said, "when they
understand the operation, because
they do not want to pass on their
defects of insanity and other mis­fortunes
of an hereditary nature to
their children."
The speaker mentioned some
humorous personal experiences
which he had had in getting ac­quainted
with certain persons of
the type who need to be steriliz­ed.
He spoke of the saving to the
state and to the nation of prevent­ing
the perpetuation of human de­generacy.
Then Mr. Whitney men­tioned
a dozen or more of the
common objections usually heard
from opponents of the measures
for sterilization.
The audience was urged to take
a keen interest in the subject be­cause
of its importance to society,
for the reason that as the number
of the stupid, dependent people
increase, the burden on those who
maintain and support them be­comes
greater and greater.
The next meeting of the Open
Forum Club will be held in
Broun 422 on Tuesday, Feb. 14,
at 7 o'clock. All students are cor­dially
invited to join the Open
Forum Club and participate in
these debates. Whether you are
a member or not, you are invited
to be present on Feb. 14.
B. Lowe Announces Selection
Of New Manager
Charles Woodruff of Anniston
has been named manager of B.
Lowe's, men's clothing store, Mr.
Lowe announced today.
Roy Lowe, manager of the store
for over a year, has resigned to
look after farming interests near
Opelika.
Mr. Woodruff comes to Auburn
after being connected with the
Wakefield Clothing Co., of An­niston
for the past six years.
Mr. B. Lowe stated that he has
recently ordered a considerable
quantity of new spring merchan­dise
for his store.
Sarg's Marionettes to Present
"Treasure Island" Monday
Tony Sarg's marionettes make
their annual appearance in Au­burn
Monday night, Feb. 6, with
a performance of Stevenson's
"Treasure Island" on Langdon
Hall stage.
The Sarg marionettes are known
over the nation as the best in
their type of entertainment. In
1938, they presented "Robinson
Crusoe" here.
Performance Monday night be­gins
at 8 o'clock. Admission will
be 25 cents for adults, including
college students, and 15 cents for
children.
NOTICE
The local branch of the Amer
ican Red Cross has sent a check
to the earthquake sufferers in
Chile. Some have contributed es­pecially
to the fund. Any others
who wish to make contributions,
mail check to Rev. Sam B. Hay.
The funds will be mailed within
a few days.
Engineer Speaks to
Ag's on Russia
Wednesday
Tells of His Agricultural
Surveys in Soviet Russia
Five Years Ago
By Dan W. Hollis and R. W. Gay
Last Wednesday night the Ag­riculture
Club heard a lecture by
G. D. Jones, widely traveled ag­ricultural
engineer of the Cleve­land
Tractor Company. Mr. Jones
gave an illustrated lecture, by
means of a slide projector, on his
agricultural survey of Russia some
five years ago.
Mr. Jones was especially invited
by the Soviet government to make
a survey and report of agricul­tural
engineering possibilities in
regards to cotton, tobacco, and
sugar beets in Russia. After ar­riving
in Berlin, he and his as­sistant
advanced due east to Mos­cow
by rail. Several days were
spent in the capitol city, viewing
the city and making plans for the
trip into the agricultural regions
of the vast Siberian flats, near the
Globi Steppe.
"Moscow," relates Mr. Jones, "is
a very dirty city, as are other
Russian cities and towns. The
building in which Stalin and the
Supreme Economic Council con­duct
the affairs of the govern­ment
is a rather dilapidated struc­ture.
The most remarkable struc­ture
observed in Moscow was the
great mausoleum in which the
Russian's beloved Lenin is pre­served
entirely in a glass case.
"Leaving Moscow and heading
due east on the Trans-Siberian
railway, we soon left White Rus­sia
and entered, into the vast lands
of Siberia. Many towns were in­spected
and various pictures were
taken at the risk of our lives. All
bridges are lighted and guarded
by trenches with cannon, barbed-wire
entanglements, and Red sold­iers.
The entire Russian border is
surrounded by barbed-wire en­tanglements
20 feet thick and 10
feet high; in addition, this is also
guarded by soldiers.
"Soon we left the soft cars and
continued our journey on flat,
wooden cars. Riding hobo fashion
underneath these cars were scores
of young Russians, 14 to 14 years
of age. They wore nothing but a
sack-like overcoat, were oily,
grimy, and completely disease-ridden.
In some sections of Si­beria,
venereal diseases ran as
high as 95 to 98 per cent in the
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Amendments
Last night the Executive Cab­inet
unanimously approved
needed changes in the constitu­tion
of the student body. The
fate of the measures! will be de­cided
by all four classes in the
spring elections next month.
Briefly, the proposed amend­ments
hope to do the following:
1. Provide a more effective
referendum on Cabinet actions
by the student body.
2. Give complete and effec­tive
publicity to the minutes of
the Cabinet and all its acts and
decisions.
3. Increase the membership
of the Cabinet from 11 to 16
and make it more powerful by
giving the class presidents and
the co-ed president seats on the
Cabinet.
4. Provide a clear and fab-method
of amending the Con­stitution.
5. Employ a permanent secre­tary,
who shall not be a student.
Space will not permit more
detailed study of the proposed
amendments, but they will be
examined and intrepreted in
later issues.
The Plainsman offers to John
Ivey and his Committee on
Constitutional Revision and to
the entire Cabinet its heartiest
thanks and congratulations for
working toward much-ne'eded
reform of student government
at Auburn.
Results of Interfrat Basketball
Play Given for First Week
In opening the current interfra-ternity
basketball play, Sigma Nu
ran true to form in defeating The-ta
Kappa Nu by a score of 21 to
17. Sigma Nu gained an early
four-point lead but trailed at the
half, 8 .to.5. They opened the sec­ond
half with three quick field
goals and never lost the lead.
Theta Kappa Nu threatened late
in the game but never tied the
score.
A. T. O. gained a 27-21 verdict
over Delta Sig in the other game
Wednesday night. A. T. O. took
an early lead but ended the half
two points behind. Entering the
third quarter with a slight lead,
A. T. O. added to this lead until
the end of the game.
First-round matches left the
two winners tied for the lead in
this league.
Johnnie Davis, President of the
"A" Club, announced today that
the "A" Club dance, scheduled
for tomorrow night, would not be
held.
Approves Important Constitutional Changes;
If Passed, Cabinet To Have 16 Members
PUBLICATION STUDENT VOTE
CANDIDATES
MUST QUALIFY
Candidates for elective po­sitions
on the Plainsman and
Glomerata must meet the
same qualifications this year
as last year, according to the
decision of the Board of Pub­lications
rendered Monday af­ternoon.
The board re-adopted last year's
qualifications, which were printed
in the Tuesday Plainsman, and
set noon of Friday, Feb. 10, as the
deadline for prospective candi­dates
to hand in to Kirtley Brown,
Secretary of the Board, their plans
for improving the publication on
which they intend to serve.
The Board will qualify publi­cation
candidates in its next meet­ing,
which is scheduled for Mon­day,
Feb. 13.
The Board of Student Publica­tions,
set up in the spring of
1937 in place of the old Publica­tions
Committee, is a joint stu­dent-
faculty group and is empow­ered
to "exercise general super­vision
over the business and edi­torial
management of the student
publications receiving monies col­lected
by the college."
Movie Short of Mid-Terms To
Be Shown at Tiger Saturday
Are you in the movies? You
may be, for the Tiger Theater will
show scenes photographed on the
campus during the Mid-term dan­ces
here.
The pictures, which will run a-bout
ten minutes, were made by
Ross Ptfaff, theater projectionist,
supervised by Manager G. H.
Coats.
A special theme will run through
the entire subject and stars a
very prominent Auburn student,
whose name will not be released
until its appearance.
The subject will be shown all
day Saturday at the Tiger, ac­cording
to Mr. Coats, and features
scenes from the dances, the grand
march, Dick Stabile's orchestra,
and shots of students.
"Nonsense," Says the Editor, "Just Plain, Simple Nonsense"
By Edwin Godbold
There was an Old Stupid who
wrote
All this below we quote,
His want of all sense
Was something immense,
Which makes him a person of
note.
Almost any good anthology of
American poetry that you pick up
will contain that most amazing
bit of nonsense by Gelett Bur­gess:
I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.
Now, I have described this pro­duction
as nonsense, and I have
therefore no doubt led the reader
to suppose that I look on it with
contempt. Far from it! As a child
I ran across that nonsense verse
and memorized it, thinking it the
most irrestible and amusing thing
I had ever heard. A great deal of,
that appeal still remains. During
my last year in high school I
learned that the author of that
piece, after being characterized
for years as "the man who wrote
the Purple Cow," when in reality
he had written much more ser­ious
literary productions, publish­ed
this:
Oh, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow,
I'm sorry now I wrote it;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'll kill you if you quote it.
"But that's nothing but non­sense!"
the reader probably says.
"Exactly," I answer. And that is
the very reason I like it. It is with
chuckling fascination that I re­call
my childish treble sing-song­ing
the quaint words of the Peli­can
chorus:
Plofifskin, Pluffskin, Pelican jee!
We think no birds so happy as
we!
Plumskin, Ploshkin, Pelican jill!
We thought so then, and we think
so still!
I was firmly convinced then that
whether or not pelicans sang this
pleasant song that they ought to.
To illustrate somewhat the a-biding
influence of this type of
poetry, filled with such terms as
"The Jumblies," "Jabberwocky,"
"A Quangle Wangle," and "The
Pobble That Had No Toes" I will
say that only last year, while en­gaging
in a "Professor Quiz" ques-tion-
and-answer contest, I defin­ed
a "whiffletree" as "a mystical
beast renowned in nonsense
rhyme," rather than associating
the word with a mule and a plow.
A volume of Edward Lear's
"Nonsense Book" was a constant
companion of mine during my
younger days. And I suppose that
my delight at the appearance of
each new absurdity in that book
was no more uproarious than that
of the children for whom they
were originally written.
All the photograpns oi j-.ear, the
originator of the limerick, that
best form of nonsense poetry,
show that he possessed a bushy
countenance not unlike that of
Stonewall Jackson. However, to
me he looked so much like the
"Old Man with a Beard" in his
poem that I was sure that "two
Owls and a Hen, four Larks and
a Wren" might have easily built
their nests in his beard.
These brief memories from
childhood are merely to show that
I was fortunate in having non­sense
verse thrust upon me, so to
speak, at an early age. Most peo­ple
become acquainted with it
later, and some—alas!—never dis­cover
its enchantment.
To characterize something as
nonsense is, for many people, to
rule it out as literature. Perhaps
a little journey in the realm of
nonsense will help us to discover
that only the greatly in earnest
can be greatly nonsensical and
that it takes uncommon sense to
write real nonsense.
Edward Lear, famous the world
over for his "Nonsense Book" fill­ed
with limericks and nonsensical
prose, was a landscape artist who
at twenty published his first book
entitled "The Family of the Psit-tacidae,"
which sounds like non­sense,
but means parrots. He was
a simple, childlike, child-loving
man who spent his life in lonely
wanderings through foreign lands
In spite of frail health and ex
hausting work he, remained al­ways
"old Derry-down-Derry, who
loved to see young folks merry."
Generations of young folks and
adults have been made merry by
the verses that Lear wrote ev­ery
evening after dinner for the
children who hung uproariously
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To Speak Here
MAURICE HINDUS
Maurice Hindus to
Speak Here Soon
Russian-born Authority to
Speak on European Affairs
Stating that faculty members,
townspeople and students are
"anxiously awaiting" the appear­ance
here on March 1 of Maurice
Hindus, noted author and lectur­er,
Prof. James R. Rutland, chair­man
of the Auburn Lecture Com­mittee,
this morning predicted a
capacity audience will hear the
famous Russian-born speaker
when he speaks in Langdon Hall.
"When Mr. Hindus lectures here
he will present the latest avail­able
first-handjauthoritative in­formation
as to developments in
world affairs, with a complete and
truthful picture of events in
Czechoslovakia," said Prof. Rut­land.
"Events which during the
past few months have aroused
world interest and concern will
be discussed by Mr. Hindus in his
address."
The lecturer is considered to be
one of the best informed Ameri­can
citizens on world affairs. He
was on the scene when troublous
events of last summer and fall
were occurring in Europe, and he
will discuss these here on March
1.
In June of last year he left New
York for Czechoslovakia on one
of the biggest investigating and
reporting assignments of the year,
commissioned by one of the na­tion's
greatest publishing houses.
His authoritative account of the
events which took place abroad
last year will be brought out in
book form this spring[
"There is a great depth to Mr.
Hindus' observations and he pos­sesses
a mind that grasps the his­torical
significance of these world
events," Prof. Rutland stated. "In
a single lecture he can give his
listeners a better understanding
of conditions than can be obtain­ed
by the reading of many books."
Hindus spoke here to a large
audience last year, when he lec­tured
on Russia.
Metallurgist to Address ASME
On Cast Iron Monday Night
Charles K. Donoho, prominent
metallurgist for the American Cast
Iron Pipe Company, will address
members and guests of ASME
Monday night, Feb. 6, at 7 o'clock
in Broun Auditorium, it was an­nounced
today by Gore Kemp,
President of the Mechanical En­gineering
society.
Having presented papers to the
American society of Metals and
the American Chemical societies
in Washington and New York, he
is regarded as one of the South's
most promising young metallur­gical
engineers. He received his
Bachelor and Master degrees in
engineering at Vanderbilt, and has
since been affiliated with Acipco.
His talk is to be on "The Char­acteristics
of Cast Iron," and the
assembly is open to the public.
cJoHH lt/£Y
ON AMENDMENTS
NEXT MONTH
With only one change, the
Executive Cabinet last night
approved the first report of
the joint student-faculty Com­mittee
for Constitutional Re­vision,
which calls for impor­tant
amendments to the Con­stitution
of the Undergraduate
Students Association.
J o h n Ivey,
chairman of thej
committee and I
A c t i n g Vice!
President of the J
Cabinet, present­ed
and explainedf
the proposed a-mendments
to!
Articles Four, |
Five, and Six off
the Constitution, I
and, with one|
change, the mea-"
sures were un­animously
approved.
The changes will be passed on
by all four classes of the student
body during the regular spring
election next month, and, if they
receive a two-thirds favorable
vote, will become amendments to
the document that governs the
student body.
The proposed amendments read
as follows:
Article IV, Section 2
Acts, Decisions of Cabinet
"All acts and decisions of the
Executive Cabinet shall be con­sidered
decisions of the Associa­tion
except that on petition pre­sented
in writing to the President
of the Cabinet, carrying the sig­natures
of 8 per cent of the regis­tered
undergraduate students
within ten days of the enactment
of such acts and decisions of the
Executive Cabinet, they shall be
presented to the Association for
ratification or rejection, as pro­vided
in Section 3.
"All acts and decisions of the
Cabinet shall be published in the
official student newspaper of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute in
the issue next following the meet­ing.
A copy of the minutes of each
meeting of the Cabinet, certified
by the President and Secretary
of the Cabinet, shall be published
in the official student newspaper
of the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute
in the issue next follow­ing
the meeting at which they are
approved."
Article IV, Section 4
Membership of Cabinet
"Membership in the Executive
Cabinet shall consist of five ex-offico
members, who shall be the
regularly elected presidents of the
four classes and the regularly
elected president of Womens Stu­dent
Government Association, and
11 regular members elected from
the four classes of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute as follows:
Four members of the senior class,
three members of the junior class,
two members of the sophomore
class, one member of the fresh­man
class, and one co-ed elected
by the women students.
"Each class shall elect by popu­lar
vote its representatives de­signated
as above, the election to
be under the supervision of the
Cabinet. The freshman represen­tative
shall serve immediately
after his inauguration."
Article V, Section 1
Organization of Cabinet
"Officers of the Executive Cabi­net
shall consist of the following:
(a) a president, elected by the
senior class; (b) a vice-president
elected by the junior class; (c) a
treasurer chosen by the Execu­tive
Cabinet; and (d) a perma­nent
secretary, chosen and em­ployed
by the Executive Cabinet.
Article VI, Section 1
Amendments
"Members cf the student body
may propose amendments to the
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Nonsense Poetry
We think a lot of the Montgomery Adver­tiser
and of Grover Hall's delightful edi­torials,
but both rose quite a bit in our esti­mation
this summer. For in one issue last
year we found heading a serious editorial on
the Alabama teacher and his pay this lime­rick:
There was a Young Boy from Quebec
Who was stood up in snow to his neck.
When asked, "Are you friz?"
He replied, "Yes, I is,
But we don't call this cold in Quebec."
And on the same editorial page was this
editorial, headed "The Lady and the Tiger:"
In another editorial today a limerick is
quoted. The Advertiser makes no excuse for
limericks. In some cases, it loves them, es­pecially
if they are completely divorced from
any commercial taint. There is one limerick
which stands out in its memory as being the
most perfect jewel of a literary creation that
it has been its experience to run across. It is
complete; it is perfect; it leaves no raveled
end; in fact, there is nothing whatever wrong
with it.
The limerick is, and we guess that most of
you have seen it a thousand times, a famous
one. For those who have not run across it, we
reproduce it in full:
There was a young lady of Niger,
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger.
They came back from the ride
With the lady inside,
And the smile on the face of the tiger.
Though there is a slightly gruesome picture
involved, that never affects a reader. If any
flaw could be detected, the possibility of of­fense
in that manner would certainly be it.
Rules of short story writing are only too of­ten
abridged in modern works. The authors
seem to take an almost fiendish delight in
leaving problems, real ones, unsolved. The
modern novel, likewise, all too often strains
after effect and impact to the loss of satisfac­tion
to the reader.
This little limerick leaves nothing untold.
It leaves no unsolved problems. The lady
goes, she smiles, and she comes back. The
tiger goes, and he also comes back. The point
of departure is of no consequence, because
the action takes place elsewhere. In short,
again, it's perfect.
The Advertiser has evidently discovered
what most people never do, that there is more
to nonsense than meets the eye and that,
as we have pointed out in an article else­where
in this issue, "only the greatly in ear­nest
can be greatly nonsensical and that it
takes uncommon sense to write real non­sense."
Please note that we say "uncommon" sense
and "real" nonsense. For real nonsense, of
course, is not just nonsense. It's quite anoth­er
sort of sense—child's sense. Satire, alle­gory,
and parody all have a context, an out­side
meaning, but real nonsense, like mu­sic,
means nothing outside itself. It has its
own meaning, as its creators and lovers have
always known.
It was Stratford, we believe, who called
the Victorians "Those Earnest Victorians."
But it was those same "Earnest Victorians"
who created all those mirthful, irrestible, out­rageous,
childishly delicious productions like
"The Nonsense Book," "The Rose and the
Ring," "The Babs Ballads," "Alice in Won­derland,"
"Alice Through the Looking
Glass," and "The Hunting of the Snark."
But, shucks, as Alice would say, there is
"no sort of use" in trying to explain non­sense.
Try, for example, to explain:
There was a Young Lady in blue
Who said, "Is it you? Is it you?"
When they said, "Yes, it is."
She replied only, "Whizz!"
That ungracious Young Lady in blue.
Could anything be more senseless? And
yet, we have met charming young ladies right
here in Auburn whose conversation, though
more gracious, was not a bit more sensible.
Nonsense has meaning, but no explana­tion.
All we know about it is that we love
it and that by showing us the absurdity of
things and giving us a lively sense of the ri-duculous
figure we are cutting it keeps us
usefully sane.
The Glomerata
A depressing feature of the Auburn Glom­erata
is the stereotyped section devoted to
"The Classes." Our yearbook annually de­votes
one-third of its pages to this gallery of
student faces, and in turning through back
volumes we are struck with the iron-bound
regularity it has come to have.
Each year brings the same rows of pic­tures,
the same lists of names, addresses, and
fraternity affiliations, the same enumeration
of senior honors. Now and then a bright spot
in this section comes along, as in the 1938
yearbook, when snapshots of the officers and
outstanding seniors were shown. But on the
whole, "The Classes" is a static section.
These pictures are, of course, useful to
campus politicians, and they are of momen­tary
interest to us when we first get the
books.
The remedy to this situation has been sug­gested.
Why not divorce the "Classes" from
the Glomerata entirely, combine the sec­tions
with the student directory, and convert
the yearbook to a four-issue magazine. The
change is in reality not so radical as it seems.
Names, plus pictures, plus addresses would
make a very effective guidebook to the cam­pus.
Printed on good paper and with the
same quality of pictures, this directory
would be just as valuable a keepsake as the
photos enclosed in the larger volume. Mean­while,
the Glomerata would become a much
more flexible publication, with interest in
it maintained throughout the year.
The Jayhawker of Kansas University and
other college magazine-annuals publish the
same material as the regular yearbook in a
more diversified form and add many new
touches of their own. Their issues are en­cased
in an attractive binder, and the com­pleted
volume is very durable. JH.W.
Well! I'M GONNA REALLY STUDY THIS SEMESTER"
Wasted Education
American colleges for teachers are "wast­ing
money on too many stupid students."
That is the conclusion of Dr. Herbert L.
Spencer, noted educator, based on a survey
of sophomores in Pennsylvania colleges. In
the group surveyed, teacher-training students
had an average score of 211 in intelligence
tests. Students of business administration
scored 217, candidates for bachelor of science
degrees, 259; candidates for bachelor of arts
degrees, 275; while engineering students had
the highest average, 280.
Comparing these results with those of
similar tests administered to high school pu­pils,
Dr. Spencer arrived at an astounding
fact Ninety-eight per cent of the high school
seniors and the teacher candidates fell with-ing
the same range of scores, and 25 per
cent of the prospective teachers knew less
than the top fourth of the high school sen­iors.
Pennsylvania, it seems, is saddled with
great numbers of teachers who rank lower
than the boys and girls they are to lead
upon the paths of learning. There is no rea­son
to believe that the situation in our own
state is different. Competent observers have
long suspected that one of Alabama's chief
educational ills was mass production of teach­ers
who neither knew their subject matter
nor had the native ability to teach it.
The answer is difficult to find. It seems
that the state should in some way supervise
the selection of candidates for entrance to
our teacher preparation institutions. But un­til
more financial inducement is offered to
young people, the teaching profession will
continue to find itself with a perennial
shortage of mental equipment. J.H.W.
By John Ivey Jr.
WILL MANKIND allow itself
to be caught in the heat of na­tionalistic
and militaristic propa­ganda
which will result in the
opening of the doors of eternity
for the present civilized world? In
all countries of the world, the cit­izenry
is being subjected to those
pleas for prepardness and self-de­fense
arguments that always pre-ceed
an armed conflict . . . and,
as always, human beings swallow
the line without questioning the
source or the cause for such pleas.
Since the beginning of time, it
has always been the accepted the­ory
that the individual who could
hit the hardest, run the fastest, or
think up the cleverist way of get­ting
possession of those things
most valuable to man, would al­ways
outlive his weaker neighbor.
We have allowed this concept to
survive through the ages without
realizing that with the beginning
and development of civilization,
Darwin's theory concerning those
individuals who would inherit the
earth fades into obscurity the more
man gives up certain privileges
for the so-called best interest of
society.
As man developed and his de-sides
became more complex, the
systems of barter and those insti­tutions
connected with it gave
way before the crude earlier forms
of capitalism . . . the beginning
of money as a unit of exchange
. . . private ownership of proper­ty
. . . free competition . . . and
the exchanging personal rights for
certain privileges in the commu­nity
and state for the protection
by law of private property and
life.
The desire for power and mon­ey
took forms, tout always they
were protected as long as they
were carried on according to the
rules of the society in which the
individuals lived; but then we had
the division of man into two va­rious
groups under different eco­nomic
systems . . . each able to
give good reasons why their"s was
the only form of government for
the best interest of the individual,
or state. Even though we had
widely varying organizations in
the make-up of society, we had
one common human trait foremost
in the minds of the individuals or
those who governed . . . the same
desire for economic security
which could be fullfilled only by
gaining possession of those arti­cles
dear to man.
That "God-given document" re­ferred
to as the Constitution of the
United States may have been
God-given, but it was written by
a bunch of capitalists who quite
clearly intended that the teach­ings
of Adam Smith in his "Wealth
of Nations" . . . capitalistic laissez
Faire . . . should be embodied in
the economic set-up of these
United States as long as our so-called
democracy should exist. Al­though
the document contained
means by which it could be
moulded so as to fit the needs of
the people as the occasion might
arise, basically there could be
very little change from the sys­tem
of capitalism as it was taking
hold of the entire world in that
day. We do not mean to say that
we are not satisfied with ideals
of democracy as it is known to­day
as compared with the rest of
the world, but we do want to show
that regardless of how sacred cer­tain
things might be pictured to
a very unsuspecting world, in the
background there is contained that
man-created economic power
which crops out in our most sac­red
institutions.
We fought a war to make the
world safe for democracy, but
since 1918, when by an allied vic­tory
the world was made safe for
the future development of democ­racies,
some individuals have de­cided
that such an ideal as we
fought for then is all wrong. In­stead
of the state for the indi­vidual,
man must exist for the
further greatness of the state . . .
which by the way, must acquire
raw materials and other forms of
wealth to exist.
Man has allowed himself to be
sacrificed for the ideals of a
money mad world . . . regardless
of how pretty an argument may
sound, how idealistic our views
might be on government, when
nations fight, when men disagree,
somewhere there is an evil that
has cropped up and has been fan­ned
by the desire for economic
gain.
"We must rearm to defend our­selves
against totalatarianism," is
the word that is being slowly but
completely circulated around the
democratic nations. True enough
that we do not want the United
States to change to a system of
Fascist or Nazi government, but
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
How doth the gentle laundress
Search out the weakest joints
And always scrape the buttons
Off the most strategic points.
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"There's nothing strange in the fact," says the Chase Register,
"that the modern girl is a live wire. She carries practically no in­sulation."
Daffynitions
Orator: loud person with his tongue in his cheek, his mouth in
your ear, and his hope in your patience.
Incident: foreign term for an event too small for local news,
not large enough for international news, used frequently to start mass
homicide between nations.
Debate: dull discussion between two disinterested parties on a
subject that is too controversial for anything but verbal throat-cutting
and generating more heat than light.
Appropriation: legal robbery of cash on hand to unbalance a
budget never intended to be balanced. Expressed in terms of mil­lions
of dollars of credit.
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"This is one helluva tough course!" said the chemist as he took
a clean whiff at a golf ball.
* * •
Since jokes in this week's contest were not numerous, we have
requested that the Tiger Theater award the free passes to the fol­lowing
seniors whose contributions to the Plainsman this year
have been more humorous than any jokes they might have sent in:
BILLY McGEHEE, ALLEN MARTIN, CHICK SPARKS, and PER­RY
SCHWARTZ.
They may secure their passes from the box office of the theater,
NOT from the Plainsman office.
Entries in the weekly contest must be left on the Editor's desk
by early Thursday morning.
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Questions and Answers
(Dug Up by Roy Taylor)
Q.—Who is Julian "Bunchy" Fowler's big moment?
A.—Julian "Bunchy" Fowler.
Q.—what course is the toughest in school?
A.—Engineering, according to Godbold.
Q.—What is the Midway Tavern?
A.—Refueling station for non-stop trips to Opelika.
Q.—why aren't there any rats in the College Inn?
A.—Partly because of Colonel Roberts and his exterminators,
partly because P. Bag doesn't pay the rats union wages.
Q,—What is keeping the architecture building from falling down?
A.—Frankly, we don't know.
Q __Who winds up the clock on the main building?
A.—We wish we knew. Probably some science and lit. student
who can think of nothing better to do, which is why he took scinece
and lit.
must we fight solely to protect
democracy as an institution from
becoming the victim of some "ism"
which is telling its citizens that
they should fight the democra­cies
because we endanger their
form of government economical­ly
and in any other way they can
cook up a fine sounding argu­ment.
Instead of Americans rushing
around hunting a gun to defend
themselves from an evil that has
not yet appeared in any tangible
form, let us figure a little more
on the "why" and "what will hap­pen"
side of the matter.
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"CONTRIBUTE TO the world's
peace" is the demand made of
Adolph Hitler by the democracies
of the world. Several months ago
•this approach would have been
taken very lightly, but now -that
the democratic nations of the
world have learned to talk with
totalitarian states in their own
terms, namely those of the ma­chinery
of war, the matter takes
a different light.
Hitler was not the author of the
last purge on the Jews in Ger­many,
but as a result of that
purge, which came from the fer­tile
mind of one of his under side­kicks,
two things have happened
which the German dictator want­ed
to avoid according to his plans
in "Mein Kampf" . . . an armed
England and a hostile United
Before Tomorrow
By John Godbold
THE SUPREME COURT'S ap­proval
of TVA adds another un­dertaking
to the long list of New
Deal accomplishments which are
making the world a better place
in which to live.
In the light of the Court's de­cision,
power companies will have
to conduct their business with a
little more consideration for the
consumer and a little less for
themselves. The time was when a
great utility company had almost
free rein to do as it pleased. Ru­ral
communities begged for elec­trical
developments—and were
laughed at. Cities and towns ask­ed
for lower rates—and had their
requests flipped back at them.
Farmers wanted rural electrifi­cation—
but couldn't get it.
Then the TVA stepped in and
led the way in new power de­velopments,
lower rates, and elec­trification
of rural sections. And
when this government agency
showed what could really be ac­complished,
the power companies
fell all over themselves building
new lines, slashing rates, and giv­ing
the consumer consideration.
Furthermore, TVA performed
miracles in the way of aid and
development of a backward and
often impoverished region. It
brought the light of real civiliza­tion
to communities which were
far behind the times. ^^
It has built up a flood control
system which has helped to keep
the Tennessee within its banks
while other streams were running
rampant.
Of course, TVA has made mis­takes.
No complex organization
is perfect. Taking into considera­tion
its magnitude and complex­ity,
TVA has been quite efficient.
TVA has been called a "yard­stick
for future power develop­ments."
But it is more than that.
It is a criterion of what a gov­ernment
can do for society when
it sets about it in earnest.
NO BETTER MOVE has been
made by Governor Dixon that his
clearing of surplus employees from
state payrolls. He has removed
them by the hundreds, cutting
down expenditures at least seve­ral
hundred thousand dollars.
Everyone who has ever been on
Capitol Hill knows how idle job­holders
stand around and talk
shop while vital state departments
are sometimes understaffed or
have incompetent workers.
Governor Dixon hopes to put
in some kind of merit system
whereby state offices will not be
held by so many political appoin­tees,
often untrained and unfitted
for the work.
Only this week the governor
has ordered several hundred cows
removed from the state "payroll."
The offending beasts belong to the
families of prison guards and
have been fed at state expense.
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SURPRISING as many of Gov­ernor
Dixon's revelations about
our state government have been,
none is more startling than his
statement that no records are
kept of the expenses of feeding
prisoners in the state penal insti­tutions.
It is common knowledge
how, even with an accurate ac­counting
system, monies and sup­plies
often disappear into the
hands of officeholders. But with
no system at all one can well ima­gine
how much state money has
gone to line the pockets of graft­ers.
Any big business would not dare
attempt to operate without meti­culous
records. Yet government,
the biggest business of them all,
futilely tries to go on without a
system.
• • •
There aren't many students
in Auburn who can't spare a dime
to the "Mile of Dimes" campaign
being sponsored all over the coun­try
to raise funds for the treat­ment
of infantile paralysis. Al­ready
the dimes are pouring into
headquarters in Washington, but
many many more are needed. You
can simply drop yours into an en­velope
and send in to "Mile of
Dimes" in Washington or to the
White House, and it will reach the
proper authorities and be put to
a.very worthwhile use.
States.
With a fascist victory in Spain,
which was brought about with
guns and bullets made in Ger­many
and Italy in the hands of
men born in the countries which
made their instruments of death,
the democracies are again behind
the proverbial eight ball. France
is already opposing demands made
by Italy in Africa.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1939 THE AUBURN PLAINSMAN PAGE THREE
Wareagle Cagers
To Meet Unbeaten
Georgia Five
Bulldogs Have Bowled Over
Alabama, Beaten Every
Other Team They Have Met
By M. R. Hazzard
Having just met one of the best
teams to ever show here, Auburn's
basketball squad is now faced with
the task of meeting an undefeated
Georgia five.
The Plainsmen must be in high
gear to take the Bulldog team. The
Georgia team licked the pants off
the highly touted University of
Alabama, and since that time have
bowled over every team they have
met.
The team is composed mostly of
sophomores, and they have made
a splendid record so far. There is
no question that the Tigers can
make the going too tough for the
Georgia five if the Plainsmen are
in form. The Auburn boys defi­nitely
have a fine aggregation
and could easily become the loop
leader if they find themselves.
So far this year the only men
who have been fairly certain to
start have been Morgan, Holmes,
and Curlee. At center Edwards
and Childers have seen the most
duty. Edwards has flashed a form
on and off this season which is
equal to any pivotman in the
South, and he is expected to set­tle
down and become a truly out­standing
player.
At the remaining guard post
Gibson and Huff have showed
their ability. Both Gibson and
Huff are creditable performers
when they are on their games, but
so far they have been erratic.
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Phone 218-W.
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Plainsman Sports -
SPORTS CHATTER
By Bill Troup
Dizzy Dean has the best looking teeth in major baseball
. . . Two physicians, a newspaper publisher and a lawyer
make up the California boxing commission . . . Eddie Arcaro,
leading jockey at Tropical Park, has no fear of winding up
as a penniless turf hanger-on . . . He has set aside $250,000
in annuities . . . His earnings in 1938 were $40,000 and they
may reach $60,000 this year.
Gustave Broberg, Dartmouth sophomore basketball star, made
28 of his first 29 free throw attempts this winter .'. . Harry Greb
once won six fights in six nights . . . Skiing first became an or­ganized
sport in Tromso, Norway in 1843 •„ , . Georgia Tech made
only $8,000 profit on its game/ with California in Berkeley.
Doyle Nave, fourth string quarterback, who threw the
forward pass that gave Southern California a victory over
Duke in the Rose Bowl, played less than thirty minutes all
season . . . Tarzan Tayor, Marquette line coach, needs only
three months' more study to be ordained a Methodist minis­ter.
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Carl Hubbel's $22,500 contract is tops for the 1939 Giants . . .
Paavo Nurmi will coach Finland's women athletes for the 1940
Olympics . . . Don Budge is the only man who ever has played
through a Wimbledon tournament without the loss of a set.
Col. E. R. Bradley is expected to stake his hopes of vic­tory
in the Kentucky Derby on Benefactor, off-spring of
Blue Larkspur . . .Statistics covering 100 colleges show the
average head football coach's salary is $6,107 . . . The salary
for professors is $5,158 . . . This will be Charley Gehringer's
fourteenth year with Detroit . . . Elmer Layden's five year
record as Notre Dame football coach is 33 victories, nine de­feats
and three ties.
The all-time Notre Dame record is 299 victories, 66 defeats and
22 ties . . . Strangler Lewis, former wrestling champion, now weighs
270 pounds . . . Mel Ott is the new captain of the Giants, succeed­ing
Gus Mancuso, now a Cub.
Lou Nova, latest conqueror of Tommy Farr, sleeps in
woolen pajamas and wears long underwear . . . He is a mix­ture
of four strains, Scotch, Irish, Italian and German . . .
The National League, using its new dead ball, pounded out
233 more hits and thirteen more home runs last season than
it did in 1937.
Don Budge and Ellsworth Vines will tour England, France, the
Scandinavian countries, and possibly Germany, after they have
completed the circuit of sixty-five American and Canadian cities.
Sport Notes
Heavier and more agile than he
was last season, Co-Captain Tom-mie
Edwards, senior center from
Montgomery, is playing his best
basketball for Auburn this year.
And he will be ranked as an out­standing
hardwood artist if he
can turn in his ace performances
consistently.
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BENSON'S
Conference broad jump champion­ship,
Bob Dickinson, Montgom­ery,
is a forward in the ranks of
Auburn's No. 2 basketball club
this season. The youthful Dickin­son,
who also is a valuable sprin­ter
on the cinders, annexed the
h-.oad jump crown as a sopho­more
in Birmingham last May.
* * *
Frequently filling in at any po­sition
in an Auburn court scrim­mage
is Manager John Dubberley,
senior from Tallassee. Manager
Dubberley, who also is a capable
referee, is called upon to partici­pate
in the intra-squad melees
any time some of the Tigers are
late for practice because of late
classes or for other reasons.
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Versatile athletic qualities are
located in four members of Au­burn's
1939 basketball squad. Co-
Captain Malvern Morgan, senior
forward from Lanett, and Abb
Chrietzberg, sophomore gurd, who
lives here, are both three-sport
athletes, and Guard Ray Gibson,
junior from Fort Walton, Fla.. and
Forward Bob Dickinson, junior
from Montgomery, are standard-bearers
in two sports.
On the gridiron Co-Captain
Morgan and Chrietzberg are both
centers and the two also are in-fielders
in baseball. Gibson is a
distance runner on the cinders and
Dickinson is a sprinter and also
the Southeastern Conference broad
jump title holder.
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Both being six feet, three inches
tall, Centers Red Childers of Eva,
and Bill Ray of Blue Ridge, Ga.,
are the longitudinal "giants" of
Auburn's basketball squad this
season. Childers is a senior and
Ray is a sophomore who will be
held out of competition this year.
Vet Profs
Two members of the Auburn
veterinary school faculty, Dr.
F. P. Woolf and Dr. W. E. Cot­ton,
will appear on the program
at the 33rd annual meeting of
the Mississippi State Veterinary
Midical Association in Hatties-iburg,
Miss., on Jan. 26-27.
Dr. Woolf will present a pa­per
on "Treatment of Digestive
Disturbances in Cattle," and
Dr. Cotton will discuss "Ban's
Disease and Undulent Fever."
Both will take part in the clin­ical
demonstrations during the
convention.
Schedule, Plans
For Tennis Team
Are Released
Several Meets Are Already
Planned for Trip During
April; Tryouts Be Soon
By Roy Taylor
With plans under way for the
most ambitious schedule ever un­dertaken,
the Auburn tennis team
will soon begin practice for meets.
With four veteran net men re­turning,
the team needs only one
more man to round out the five
man squad which it will use during
the season. Those letter men re­turning
are Bob McClure, Martin
Lide, J. W. McKee, and Joe Gay.
All men who wish to try out
for the team are asked to get in
touch with Martin Lide immed­iately.
He can be reached by tele­phoning
215. Tryouts will be held
in the near future and the date
for them will be announced in
the Plainsman.
The schedule will include a trip
into North Carolina and Virginia
during the first week in April,
with meets already planned for
the University of North Carolina,
University of Virginia, Virginia
Military Institute, Washington
and Lee, Duke, and Georgia Tech.
A home match with Presbyter­ian
College has been set for Ap­ril
12. The University of Florida
has been contacted for another
meet to be held on the Country
Club courts, but a definite date
has not been decided on. Contact
has been made with the Univer­sity
of Miami for a trip to Auburn
sometime in the spring. The sche­dule
will wind up with the South­eastern
Conference tennis tourna­ment
in New Orleans during the
second week in May.
The University of Miami has
without a doubt the standout
team of the nation, being ranked
nationally No. 1, and boasting
such stars of the clay court as
Gardiner Malloy and George Tol-ey,
the doubles combination that
is ranked No. 5 nationally. The
University of Miami team is so
strong that Louis Faquin, who is
tennis champion of Alabama,
Tennessee, and Georgia is only No.
5 man on the team, while George
Pero, who is number three at Mi­ami,
upset Frankie Parker in a
match last year.
The University of North Caro­lina,
which with the possible ex­ception
of the University of Cal­ifornia,
has the next highest rank­ing
team in the nation, has been
toeaten only once in intercolle­giate
competition in the last ten
years.
A complete schedule of the ten­nis
team for the entire season will
ibe announced soon.
'Harry the Rover'
Pays City a Visit
'Man with the Radio Mind'
Astonishes API Students
By Nancye Thompson and
Charles Burns
A rather nondescript looking
character wearing a faded rough-dried
shirt, pants that bulged at
the knees, a wrinkled tie, and a
coat sadly in need of pressing
wandered into the office of the
Tiger Theater Tuesday night. He
spoke no word but mysteriously
scrawled something on a pad
which he carried and thrust into
the hands of Manager G. H.
Coats.
On reading the message, Mr.
Coats realized that the man who
had accosted him was a deaf-mute.
He further discovered from news­paper
clippings and a typewritten
sheet which the man produced,
that this person was none other
than Harry C. (the Rover) Coop­er,
the man with the radio mind.
The material further stated
that the bearer possessed super­human
magical powers, was a
wizard at palmistry, and was
well-versed in the Yogi School of
Masic.
This man was one of the many
phenomena featured by Ripley in
his renowned "Believe It or Not"
at the Century of Progress Expo­sition
in Chicago.
As proof of his amazing radio
mind, he gave a demonstration
before a small but baffled au­dience
in the theater office. His
method of procedure seemed sim­ply
enough in attempting to name
Spring Training Season Opens As
Varsity Joins Frosh in Practice
By Boots Stratford
The battle-scarred turf of old Drake Field shook with
the impact of cleated foot and echoed to the mellow plunk
of inflated pigskin once more as the varsity took the field
Thursday afternoon, joining the freshman squad to officially
inaugurate another Spring training season. The fundamentals
of football: blocking, tackling, running, along with cales-thenics,
will be the order for the first few days until the
kinks are worked out of legs and arms, and timing and wind
are improved.
The freshman team's record,
which consists of a win over Bir­mingham-
Southern, a tie with the
Florida Baby Gators and a loss to
the Yellow Jackets of Georgia
Tech, was not impressive, but in­dividual
performances give the lie
to the impression received by
glancing over the record. The fol­lowing
promising plebes were on
hand Thursday to greet the var­sity:
Center Howard Burns,
Guards Rufus Deal, Vic Costellos
and Wilton Thorp, Tackles Max
Morris, Gene Rush and John
Chalkey, Ends James Samford,
Theodore Cremer and James Tim-berlake,
Quarterbacks Francis
Crimmins and Doyce Hamrick,
Halfbacks Ty Irfoy, Woodie Mc-
Nair and Steve Johnson, and Full­backs
Dan Carmichael and Lloyd
Cheatam.
There is plenty of ability in
this squad and under the expert
tutelage of the Auburn coaching
staff they should develop rapidly.
They have the unenviable job
of fighting it out with the follow­ing
varsity stalwarts for regular
positions: Centers Malvern Mor­gan,
Getty Fairchild and Abb
Chrietztourg, Guards Captain-elect
Milton Howell, Ernie Mills, Walr
ter Chandler, Everette Smith and
Garth Thorpe, Tackles Alternate-
Captain elect Bill Nichols, George
Wolff, Chester Bulger and Gor­don
MacEachern, Ends Gus Pear­son
and Jim LeNoir, Halfbacks
Dick McGowen, Carl Happer and
Bill Mims, and Fullbacks Charlie
Haynswor.th and Ross Dean.
We may say without fear of con-tradition
that the Aubum Tiger
has the toughest schedule of any
college team in the nation and to
meet this tough fare that is to be
the Tigers', Coach Meagher and
his staff will have the squad put­ting
in some awfully hard licks
all Spring Training.
Alabama Power Safety Man
Speaks to AIEE Monday
J. L. Shores, safety engineer
for the Alabama Power Company,
gave a very instructive and en­tertaining
talk Monday night to
the local chapter of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers
on the safety methods followed by
his company and other companies
in the South.
He cited several causes of ac­cidents
and told of the precau­tions
which have been taken to
prevent similar accidents in the
future. One of the cases discussed
was that of a lineman who had
been severely burned while work­ing
in the vicinity of Auburn. The
talk was of great interest to the
members of AIEE and the visit­ors
present as it gave them an
idea of the practical problems they
will have to meet in the field.
those present.
Holding the subject's left wrist
and making mystifying finger
movements with his other hand, he
disclosed the names of each, even
to the correct spelling of unusual
names.
"Harry the Rover," in his 19
years of show business, has re­vealed
over 700,000 names and
has appeared in every civilized
country and performed before the
crowned heads of Europe.
He foretells the future, gives
advice concerning love, marriage,
vocation, talent, business, family
relations, and can even tell where
buried treasure is located.
This amazing individual, trav­elling
with his wife, also inciden­tally
a deaf-^nute, left Miami,
where he had operated a studio,
his destination being Washington,
D. C, Philadelphia, and points
East.
After holding his audience
spell bound for several minutes,
his only request for his services
was to see the feature attraction
at the theater.
Patronize Plainsman advertis­ers.
API Frosh Cage
Team on Trip
Auburn's freshman basketball
team are facing the busiest week
of their season on their week's
round trip that carries them a-round
the southland. The Tiger
Cubs present weekly card lists
seven games in six days and all
are away from home.
The annual southern tour for
the frosh basketeers began Mon­day
and they are to return to the
Plains this week-end. After com­pleting
their trip the Baby Tigers
will have played Eufaula High
School at Eufaula, Newville High
School at Newville, Donalsonville
Athletic Club at Donalsonville,
Ga., Opp High School at Opp,
Florala High School at Florala,
and Kingston High School at Opp.
They do not have a game carded
for tonight, but will return to ac­tion
Saturday night against Fair­fax
High School at Fairfax.
We have had reports on their
first three games played on this
trip, and the freshmen are still
traveling along at a 1.000 clip.
Monday night they defeated Eu­faula,
28 to 16, with Frank Manci
and Bob Dunbar supplying the
scoring punch. Tuesday afternoon
they took Newville in stride, 43
to 12, but had a little difficulty
that night before setting Donal­sonville
Athletic Club down, 35
to 25. Manci and Earl Hawkins
were the stars in both of these
tilts.
The starting lineup for Auburn
on this trip has been Manci and
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Quintet Outstanding in All
Departments in Thrilling
59-41 Match with Tigers
In handing Auburn a 59-41
spanking, Mississippi College
showed the spectators here the
best basketball team to be seen
here all season.
The Mississippi quintet was out­standing
in every department of
the game. Their passing and shoot­ing
were excellent and they had
the best quick break seen here
all year. Had the Tigers been able
to hit their best form for the
whole game, they may have
shown up more effectively, but
they were able to get going for
only short spurts.
Unquestionably the best player
seen here this year is Hitt, center
for the Mississippi team. Hitt is
certainly the answer to a coach's
prayer. Not only was he the high-point
man of the game with 18
points, but he was excellent on
defense. His ability to get the ball
from the blackboard and pass it
down the floor while he was still
in the air was uncanny.
The game was exceptionally
free from fouls and was without
a doubt the fastest, most exciting
game played here this season.
For Mississippi, Hitt, Watts, and
Carrol were outstanding, while
Morgan and Curlee turned in top
performances for Auburn.
Flemming at forward, Hawkins at
center, Dunbar and Tanner at
guards. Billy Flemming has also
been alternated at guard. The re­serves
are made up of Marvin
Motley, Tommie Mastin, Harry
Donovan and Bruce Allan.
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Alpha Phi Omega
Has Convocation
To promote further interest in
scouting activities for college stu­dents,
Delta chapter of Alpha Phi
Omega, national scouting frater­nity,
held a convocation for all
former Scouts in Langdon Hall
Wednesday-at 11 o'clock with Ev-erette
Brooks, vice president of
the local chapter, presiding.
About 500 students interested in
scouting heard speeches and made
plans for a state jamboree to be
held on this campus in the spring.
A barbecue is being planned for
the occasion, which will bring ap­proximately
2,500 Boy Scouts here
for the event.
Dr. Zebulon Judd, Dean of the
School of Education, addressed
the group, his theme being that
scouting activities promoted good
citizenship and friendly relations
not only with citizens of the
United States but over the world.
Prof. A. L. Thomas spoke on
"Budgeting Time at College" with
emphasis on how a Scout's day
should be spent. Rev. S. B. Hay
rendered the invocation and talks
were also made by Prof. J. M.
Robinson, local scoutmaster, Frank
Moseley and others, included an
address on "Scouting as a Voca­tion"
by P. L. Lambert, scout ex­ecutive
of the Montgomery dis­trict.
Nonsense
BSU to Sponsor Social
Beginning Friday Night
Beginning at 7:30 Friday night,
the Baptist Student Union will
sponsor a social at the First Bap­tist
Church. This social has been
planned especially for new stu­dents,
and an interesting prog­ram
of games and stunts has been
planned for the occasion.
All BSU members are urged to
attend this social and help in wel­coming
the new students. Any
other students who are interested
in BSU work, are invited to at­tend.
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over his shoulders. Such verses as
these are the legacy of children
everywhere:
There was a Young Lady of
Russia,
Who screamed so that no once
could hush her;
Her screams were extreme—
No one heard such a scream
As was screamed by that lady of
Russia.
There was an Old Man who said,
"Hush!
I perceive a youg bird in the
bush!"
When they asked, "Is it small?"
He replied, "Not at all,
It's four times as big as the bush!"
Walter de la Mere once said
that there were two distinct types
of limericks—the mere limericks
and the Lear limericks. By the
mere limericks I suppose he means
the kind which almost all of us
have perpetrated at one time or
another. It has been said that
more people have tried writing
limericks than any other form of
verse. There are few people who
have not at least attempted to
compose the last line of a limerick
in a contest. That is why it is
strange for me to understand why
it has not been more often em­ployed
in teaching poetry—espec­ially
the writing of poetry. If ev­er
I were teaching a class that
had to compose poetry, I would
start them off with the limerick,
a comparatively simple, but very
enjoyable form. Too often the
first type of verse students are
asked to write is the sonnet—that
most difficult of verse forms.
Why, with a little practice even
the worst of us can turn out lime­ricks
as good as the following:
There was an Auburn Professor of
History
Whose private life was so much
of a mystery
That no one ever knew
Whether one wife or two
Was possessed by this professor of
history.
There was a Young Lady named
Mabel
Who danced on the dining room
table,
But she blushed rosy red
When the gentleman said,
"Oh, look at the legs on the table!"
There was a Gay Young Fellow
named Roe
Who fifteen or twenty years ago
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Sutherland Named
New AVMA Head
Lloyd H. Sutherland was chosen
president of the Junior AVMA at
the Wednesday night meeting,
which was the first meeting of the
second semester.
Former Presi­dent
M. S. Piper
delivered his
parting address
to the assemb­lage,
thanking
the members for
their support
during the se­mester.
C i g a r s and
cigarettes were
passed out to the
old and prospec­tive
members
present.
President-elect Sutherland then
gave a resume of the work and
activity of the Junior AVMA, ex­plaining
that it is a child of the
adult AVMA, which is composed
of graduate veterinarians.
A letter from the AVMA was
read by Secretary Ben Huston,
stating that the senior members
automatically gain membership
into the parent organization with­out
the payment of dues.
Dr. L. E. Starr then spoke, stat­ing
that the veterinary profession
was one of the few still uncrowd-ed,
and urging that the members
do their best to keep the standards
of the profession on a high plane.
It was announced that the Jun­ior
AVMA dance is scheduled for
March 3.
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Had hair in abundance,
But now this encumbrance
No longer crowns one "Baldy" Roe.
The villian in the drama "Love's
Avertal"
Clasped the waist of a girl named
Myrtle,
"Curse it!" the villian hissed.
"Oh, it ain't!" replieS" the miss,
"It's really and truly a girdle!"
A girl from out west of St. Paul
Made a newspaper dress for the
ball.
She made a great hit
Till somehow she got lit
And .burned, funny section and all.
There was a Young Fellow named
Brown
Who, when tight, would invariably
clown
"Don't quote me," he said,
As he stood on his head,
"But this is surely one queer-looking
town!"
Many of my friends have scorn­fully
told me that next to the pun,
the limerick was the lowest form
of wit. This may be true, but
whether or not, I call attention to
the fact that many literary men,
famous for other things, have
nevertheless stooped to this next-to-
the-lowest form of wit, the
limerick.
Here is one by Robert Louis
Stevenson:
There was an Old Man of the
Cape,
Who made himself garments of
crepe;
When asked, "Do they tear?"
He replied, "Here and there,
'But they're perfectly splendid for
shape!"
And Woodrow Wilson wrote
many, some of them quite naugh­ty,
as can be seen from the fol­lowing:
I sat next to the Duchess at tea;
It was just as I feared it would be;
Her rumbling abdominal
Were simply phenomenal
And everyone thought it was me!
However, Wilson's favorite,
which he quoted on the least pre­text,
was this one:
As a beauty, I'm not a great star,
There are others more handsome
by far;
But my face I don't mind it,
For I am behind it,
It's the folks in front that I jar.
It could be expected that Kip­ling,
author of the "Jungle Books,"
would be a limerick-writer. And
so he was, as the following shows:
There was a Small Boy of Quebec
Who was buried in snow to his
neck;
When they said, "Are you friz?"
He replied, "Yes, I is —
But we don't call this cold in
Quebec!"
W. S. Gilbert, the English play­wright,
was somewhat of a prank­ster.
One day he read this lime­rick
by Lear:
There was an Old Man in a tree
Who was horribly bored by a bee;
When they said, "Does it buzz?"
He replied, "Yes, it does!
Ag Speaker
(Continued from Page One)
population. These young Russian
hobos begged and stole from un­der
your very eyes.
"Finally we came to the vast
flat lands of Tian-Shan in South­ern
Siberia. It was here that the
Soviet government was establish­ing
its cotton, tobacco, and sugar
trusts. Individual farms compris­ed
as much as 5,000 acres, and the
land was as flat as a billiard table.
The Russians have some very
strange ideas concerning agricul­ture
and it is very difficult to
change their beliefs. After spend­ing
three weeks in this locality,
we made a hurried trip of 8,000
miles back to Moscow.
"In Moscow, we continued our
sight-seeing for a few days. An
interesting observation was noting
the kinds of automobiles used by
the various classes of people in
Moscow. Stalin and the members
of the Supreme Economic Council
rode in Lincolns and Cadillacs.
The members of the Cotton, To­bacco,
and Sugar Trusts used
Buicks and some Studebakers.
Riding in Fords and Chevrolets
were other government officials.
The common, working Russian
walked.
"The majority of the Russian
rural population is very ignorant
and poverty-stricken. However,
the army is large and well-train­ed;
and the air force is very large
and extremely efficient. What will
happen when Stalin passes on is
a doubtful question. Perhaps there
will be another revolution; who
can tell?"
The vast fields of this country
are dominated by the red poppies
which became so famous from the
world war days, said the speaker.
In answering a question asked
by one of the Ag Club members,
he explained that the camels in
that country are fed mostly grass
and brush and some wilt resistant
alfalfa is now being grown for
them.
"The army force of this soviet
nation is very sufficient," he said.
On awaking one morning after
camping out in an open field that
night, he discovered that an escort
of 40 planes had landed during the
night without the aid of lights, or
any noise in landing. The entire
boundary is protected by trenches
and barbed-wire entanglements,
he explained, and all bridges are
also protected and usually illumi­nated
by an independent hydro­electric
system.
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took wrong overcoat by mistake.
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Birthday Ball
Here Is Success
The 200 Auburn people attend­ing
the President's Birthday Ball
and benefit bridge and Chinese
checkers parity at Bibb Graves
Center Monday night contributed
$118, of which $60 was clear pro­fit
to be used for the benefit of
the crippled.
The net amount will be turned
over to the Auburn Community
Council. Part will be used local­ly,
for the benefit of Lee Coun­ty,
and the rest will be sent to
the national foundation aiding in­fantile
paralysis victims. P. O.
Davis, district chairman for the
President's Birthday Balls, has
charge of the distribution.
Music for the dance was fur­nished
by the Auburn Collegians
orchestra under the direction of
J. W. McKee. A floor show was
staged under the direction of Miss
Louise Kreher and Mr. E. B.
Smith.
Appearing on the floor show
program were Sol Rachman in an
accordian solo; a tap dance by
Bernice Hawkins, Mary Ella Fun-chess
and Jean Beasley, accom­paniment
by Ralph Moody; dance
and play >by Rudolph Schramm;
comic skit and violin solo by Per­ry
Lamar; and vocal numbers by
Pauline Hallman of Alexander
City.
Prizes contributed by Auburn
business men were awarded at the
bridge and Chinese checkers par­ty
to Miss Edna J. Orr, Mrs. J. P.
Creel, Mrs. D. H. Reeves, Mrs. J.
W. Watson, Mrs. J. B. Dick, Mrs.
G. H. McDowell, Mrs. M. J. Sa-velle,
Mrs. Peter Myhand, Mrs.
Rebecca Henry, Mrs. W. F. Tay­lor,
Mrs. W. C. Gewin, Mrs. E. H.
Almquist, Mr. and Mrs. A D. Lip­scomb,
George W. Bayne and I. F.
Reed.
It's a regular brute of a bee!"
He immediately sat down and
composed this one to accompany
it:
There was an Old Mn of St. Bees,
Who was stung in the arm by*a
wasp;
When they asked, "Does it
hurt?"
He replied, "No, it doesn't,
But I thought all the time it was
a hornet."
There is no use in trying to ex­plain
such nonsense verse. It
exists; it is delightful. That is all.
Perhaps we should rejoice in the
fact that it has escaped learned
analysis. Not even nonsense could
stand that. Lear once protested to
those commonsensical readers who
would find symbolic meanings in
his verses that his aim was "non­sense,
pure and simple." Lewis
Carroll apologized to a solemn cri­tic
who wrote a book interpreting
one of his poems as an elaborate
allegory that "I'm afraid I didn't
mean anything but nonsense."
No doubt Carroll, the theolo­gian
and mathematician, took him­self
more seriously as Rev. Char­les
Lutwidge Dodson, but the
world remembers him for Alice
and the Mad Hatter and the Mock
Turtle and the Duchess. When all
his mathematics and theology are
forgotten, these merry characters
will continue to prance merrily
down the years, cutting capers
for happy children and happier
adults.
So if you are one of those for­tunate
ones who can repeat "The
Owl and the Pussycat," "The
Jumblies," "The Babs Ballads,"
"The Cruise of the Snark," or
"Jabberwocky" rejoice and be ex­ceeding
glad. For after all, it is
nothing but nonsense—deliberate,
unadulterated nonsense. And I am
disposed to believe that it is all
the better for being that.
Wax Works
Just in case there is some doubt
in the minds carried around to
the different classrooms by you
jitterbugs, we might say that al­though
this column has been ap­pearing
before, it can be found
once a week containing the right
slant on the latest record releases
by the leading disc makers. We
will try to give a widely varying
group that will have some numb­ers
which anyone will enjoy get­ting
their mitts on. Well, here
goes!
• * *
Benny Goodman beats it out in
his fine style on an old Irving
Berlin waltz . . . When Benny
finishes with the tune, it is a
fox-trot being featured with some
very fine harmonics from the mu­sical
throat of Martha Tilton. The
tune goes under the tag of "We'll
Never Know." On the reverse
side a Goodmanized version of one
of the tunes of the day which was
dubbed "Undecided." These two
tunes are the tops in our opinion!
* » *
Decca has produced another ty­pical
Guy Lombardo recording of
two pretty good tunes, "Girl
Friend of the Whirling Dervish,"
and "I Must See Annie Tonight."
These might sound good to some
late-daters; if you like Lombardo
there is no doubt about it. The vo­cal
trio featured on these tunes
sounds the same on both sides.
*- * * *
Another Victor record that real­ly
has the goods cut into it is a
production of "Please Come Out
of Your Dreams," and "Study in
Green" made by Larry Clinton
with fine vocals by Bea Wain. The
last of these two selections /'Study
in Green," is Larry's latest com­position^
and bids fair to be his
best. The Clinton pen has been
turning out some of the top tunes
of the day for the past year un­der
the names of "Dipsey Doodle,"
"My Reverie" and others.
* * *
Pushing Henry Busse for top
honors in the race for corn trum­pet
playing, Clyde McCoy has just
turned a couple of tunes for Dec­ca
which can be had by calling
for "Old Man River," and "Tom,
Tom the Piper's Son." These tunes
are very commercial, featuring
the McCoy trumpet in its fine
style for the delight of corn-lovers
and an orchestra back-ground that
is pretty good. A vocal trio comes
into being on "Tom, Tom the Pi­per's
Son" with a fine sax course
that ends up in a pretty good
groove.
• * *
Van Alexander, a new name to
Victor followers, has just waxed
a couple of good tunes in a fine
style for Victor which are listed
as "The Girl Friend of the Whirl­ing
Dervish" and "FDR Jones." A
new personality behind the vocal
Amendment
(Continued from Page One)
Constitution by a petition pre­sented
in writing to the President
of the Executive Cabinet carry­ing
the signatures of 8 percent of
the registered undergraduate stu­dents.
On receipt of such a peti­tion
the President of the Execu­tive
Cabinet shall set a date for
the student body to vote on the
proposed amendment, (which date
shall be within one month after
his receipt of the petition."
Section 2
"The Secretary of the Executive
Cabinet shall publish in the offi­cial
student newspaper of the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute all
proposed amendments to the Con­stitution
in the three issues next
preceding the date on which a
vote is to be taken."
Present at the Cabinet meeting
were Acting Vice President Ivey;
Billy McGehee; Julian Fowler,
recently elected senior represen­tative;
June Tooker; Jim King;
Hankins Parker; and Paul Pruitt.
Absent were Allen Martin, Er­nest
Pappas, and George Mont­gomery.
The last-named member,
Montgomery, has not returned to
school and his vacancy will be
filled by special election soon.
chords is Butch Stone, who is fea­tured
with Jayne Dover In a fine
style of vocalizing. Van Alexander
has a band that is really on the
right track.
* » *
Decca has added a Ted Fio Rita
recording to its list which has vo­cals
by Muzzy Marcellino, and the
discs go under the names of "Ev­erybody's
Laughing" and "They
Say." Both tunes are done in a
fine manner for a sweet band such
as Fio Rita fronts. Featuring
flute and clarinets with a muted
brass background, the recording is
mighty good.
* * *
Another Decca that is really up
to the minute is the Jimmy Dor-sey
production of "Kinda Lone­some"
with Lee Leighton pulling
a neat vocal chorus, and "A Room
With a View" piped by Bob Eber-le.
The first of these is strictly on
the jive side with Jimmy doing a
super-fine job through the reed
of his alto. J. Dorsey has one of
the best-styled swing bands in the
business and plays some of the
finest alto saxes . . . he reminds
us very much of Johnny Hodges
who beats it out for the Duke El-ington
outfit.
* * «
Something different is the new­est
wax work done by the Paul
Whiteman string group. "Liza"
and "Oh, Lady Be Good" are play­ed
in the best exhibition of swing­ing
strings we have had the plea­sure
to hear. Featuring fiddles and
a grooving guitar, P; W. has done
something new in the swing line.
These two numbers are really
solid! A Decca.
* * »
Last on the review for this
week we have a couple of tunes
done in the typical sweet style of
Guy Lombardo, "Umbrella Man"
and "We Speak of You Often."
Carman Lombardo adds very lit­tle
to the tunes by his vocal work,
but he served the purpose. Again
we say, if you like Lombardo, a
good recording on a couple of
numbers.
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'The Dead March'
To Be at Tiger
By Nancye Thompson
One of the most amazing docu­ments
of screen history will be
shown at the Tiger Theater Owl
show, Friday at 11 p. m., Gus
Coates, theater manager, announc­ed
today.
This film which bears the eerie
title, "The Dead March," is strong
film-fare of the variety that de­pends
on no synthetic props for
its sheer horror. For no Holly­wood
studio could possibly fake
the horrors and bloodshed that
you will see. Every scene is ab­solutely
authentic in every detail.
This educational presentation
brings to Auburn movie-goers a
treatise on the most terrifying
things on earth: war and death.
Dealing frankly and fearlessly
with the past, present and future
aspects of war, "The Dead
March" makes no pretense of be­ing
anything other than it is—
peace propaganda, a preachment
against war.
In making its strong plea, this
picture brings to the screen the
most sensational scenes of actual
warfare that have ever been re­vealed
to the public. Many of
these ghastly scenes were includ­ed
in the picture only after a
lengthy battle with the censors
who believed that such a film
should be withheld from general
release.
When you stop to consider that
we, the public, are only viewing
from comfortable seats the depict­ing
of what actual men went
through, it seems that we have
only a small part in enduring the
horrors of war.
"The Dead March" is an incerd-ible
film, amazing throughout, it
is a true chronicle of events on
various battle fields, including
those of Ethiopia, Spain, China,
and the bloody areas of the last
Great War.
Words are inadequate in com­parison
to the lesson the screen
reveals. No one who has not ex­perienced
the fighting can pos­sibly
visualize the torture and
struggle of those living in the war
stricken areas.
Boake Carter, ace radio com­mentator
and well-known news­paper
columnist, makes his screen
debut in "The Dead March." Car­ter,
appearing in the role of peace
crusader and narrator of the film
is highly colorful and convincing.
He is not only a voice but he ap­pears
in it. The narration of the
film was written by Samuel Tay­lor
Moore, and the entire produc­tion
was conceived and directed
by Bud Pollard. Erno Rapee has
accorded the drama an appropriate
musical score.
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