1941-03-07 The Plainsman

              Swap You A '90'
For An 'A'
VOL. LXIV Z-I
77i£ Qlaindmcuv Concert Season
Closes
"AUBURN—the friendliest college in the United States'
ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, MARCH 7, 1941 NO. 47
Auburn's Aqua Boys .
(Plainsman Staff Photo—Lewis Arnold)
Auburn's five mainstays in this afternoon's swimming meet with
Georgia are, starting at the bottom and reading clockwise, Captain
Davis Gammage in the backstroke and distance events; Jim Burt,
breast stroke; Douglas Wingo, sprint; George Austin, diving and
breast stroke; and Jim Gaston, in the sprint events.
'A Day To Be Held
Here Next Saturday
'Miss A Day' Will
Be Elected Monday
The annual "A" Day, sponsor­ed
by the "A" Club, will be held
on the campus Saturday, March
15.
"Miss 'A' Day" will be elected
by an all-student election, to be
held Monday. Students will be en­titled
to vote for any girl enrolled
in school.
Voting for "Miss 'A' Day" will
be held at the Main Gate of the
campus from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.
One feature of "A" Day will be
a track meeting between two
intra-squad teams, to be called the
"Orange" and "Blue" squads, and
to be picked by Coach Hutsell
from the entire track squad, at
1:30 Saturday.
The annual "Orange and Blue"
football game, also between intra-squad
teams, chosen by Coach
Meagher, will be played at the
Stadium at 3 o'clock. These teams
will be selected for the spring
training squad, a roster of which
is presented on page 5 of this is­sue
of the Plainsman.
Both the track and football
orange and blue teams will be
announced in one of next week's
issues of the Plainsman.
The coed elected "Miss 'A'
Day" will sponsor the track meet
and football game.
Admission prices for the com­bined
track and football events
will be 15 cents for college and
high school students, and 25 cents
for all others.
Eta Kappa Nu Taps
Five Electricals
Hargett, Milton, Pope,
Kirk, Roberson Tapped
Xi chapter of Eta Kappa Nu,
national electrical engineering so­ciety,
elected five new members at
a meeting held Wednesday, March
5. The new men were selected be­cause
of their outstanding records
of scholarship and character and
their evident ability to succeed in
their chosen profession.
The list of new^members follows:
Yuell S. Hargett, from Russell-ville,
a senior in electrical engin­eering,
and a member of Tau Beta
Pi and A.I.E.E.
Abie George Milton, from Bir­mingham,
a junior in electrical en­gineering.
John Allen Pope, Jr., a Sigma
Pi from Columbus, a junior in elec­trical
engineering.
Don Kirk, a pre-junior in elec­trical
engineering and a co-op stu­dent.
R. H. Roberson, also a pre-ju­nior
co-op in electrical engineering.
ASME Meeting
The A.S.M.E. will hold a smoker
in Ramsay 109 Tuesday, March 11,
at 7:00. All members are urged
to attend this meeting.
Barrere Little Symphony Closes Out
Auburn Concert Season Last Night
Council Adopts Letter System
Board Qualifies Two
For Plainsman Posts
Grants Week's Extension to Allow
Additional Applications; Glomerata
Candidates to Meet Board Monday
Bob Anderson and Jimmy Rouse, candidates for the
editorship and business managership of the Plainsman,
were yesterday qualified by the Board of Student Publi­cations
as eligible to run for the two^ positions.
No students were qualified according to the standards
of the Board to oppose these two. Because of this fact,
the. Board granted another week in which other students,
who have met the requirements for qualification as set
up by the Board, may submit appli­cations
for positions.
If no student applies for quali­fication
for either of the two
Plainsman posts by noon, Thurs­day
of next week, Anderson and
Rouse will enter the April 3 elec­tions
unopposed.
Candidates for qualification for
the editorship and business man­agership
of the Glomerata will ap­pear
before the Publications Board
Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, as
time did not allow their examina­tion
yesterday afternoon at the
meeting.
There are five candidates for
qualification for the two Glomer­ata
positions, including Brad Clop-ton,
Harry Huff, and Joe Meadows,
applicants for editorship of the
annual, Gray Carter and Sammy
Nettles, applicants for the position
of Glomerata Business Manager.
The Publications Board will
meet again on Thursday afternoon,
at 4 o'clock, to consider any other
possible applications for candidacy
for the two Plainsman jobs.
Applicants must meet the follow­ing
requirements, as established by
the Board of Student Publications:
Completion of 92 hours of credit
at the end of the first semester of
the junior year with a minimum
scholastic average of 80 per cent
and submission of 1,000 word pa­pers
on plans for the job.
Also candidates for the editor­ship
of the Plainsman must have
completed, with minimum average
of 80, courses in reporting and
copy reading. Candidates for the
business manager of the Plains­man
must have completed, with
minimum average of 80, a course in
accounting.
The qualifications also include
the stipulations that successful ap­plicants
agree not to hold or secure
any other job or position with or
without remuneration unless first
obtaining approval of the Board.
Successful candidates must also
agree to abide the policies set up
by the Board and to adhere to any
other rules which the Board may
prescribe.
Players to Present
Record Concerts
Weekly at Center
Only Classical Music
Will Be Used on Program
Acceding to many requests from
students and faculty, the Auburn
Players will present a series of
Sunday afternoon record concerts
in the Graves Center Amphithea­ter,
on in case of inclement weath­er
in Langdon Hall, probably be­ginning
sometime in April.
The records will be played on the
Players' especially built machine,
the high fidelity and volume of
which is equalled locally only by the
machine at the movie theater. This
machine, with its 18-inch speaker,
was assembled two years ago by
rneihbers of the Players. It has
been improved since. •
The machine is equipped with a
double turntable, which allows rec­ords
to be changed with little or
no interruption. It has been used
to provide incidental music and
other sound effects for Player's
productions.
Anyone interested in lending rec­ords
for use in these concerts is
requested to submit a list of the
recprds he wishes to contribute to
any member of the Auburn Play­ers
or to.place it in the mail slot
in the door of the Y-Hut.
Only the best recordings can be
used, and contributors will be ask-
(Continued on page 6)
Large Audience Calls for
Encore After Encore
By HERBERT MARTIN
You could have heard a safety
pin drop in Alumni Gymnasium
last night as the Barrere Little
Symphony closed out the Auburn
concert series, but for sheer group
musicianship t h i s organization
must be ranked as highly as any
to appear here in the last few
years.
The size of the orchestra, which
numbered only 13 members, made
the group unsuitable for the hea­vier
concert numbers, but what it
lacked in power it made up in the
delicate interpretation of some of
the less familiar works of the great
composers. Excellent ensemble
and individual performances made
it possible for the organization to
present an interesting program,
and the small size did not keep
the concert from including a va­riety
of selections.
Georges Barrere gave adequate
evidence that he is indeed the
'world's premier flutist' as advance
notices billed him. His phrasing,
technique, tone, and wonderful lip
control combined to make up one
of the most beautiful solo exhibi­tions
Auburn has been fortunate
enough to hear.
The program included selections
f r o m Rossini, Haydn, Griffes,
Gluck, Pierne, Debussy, and Al-beniz,
and Mr. Barrere graciously
played encore after encore as the
audience would not leave the po­dium.
The arrangement of Schu­bert's
"Serenade", played as an en­core,
was perhaps best received by
the audience, possibly because it
was more familiar than most of
his other numbers.
The selection from Griffes, "The
White Peacock", was ideally suited
to a group of this size, and the or­chestra
played it very effectively.
This and Debussy's "Menuet et
Clair de Lune" were especially well
liked by the large audience attend­ing
this last presentation of this
year's concert and lecture series.
Mr. Barrere showed that taste
in the interpretation of music and
excellent musicianship by the per­formers
can make effective many
of the works formerly played only
by the larger symphony orchestras.
Pi K As Induct
Fifteen New Men
Upsilon chapter of Pi Kappa
Alpha fraternity initiated fifteen
new men Sunday night.
These include: Wilbur D. Smith
Jr., William Penn, Eugene Mc-
Eachin, Robert Cater Jr., M. O.
Smith Jr., Virgil Lansing Smith
Jr., Hugh Maddox, Walter Berry
Jr., Francis McCulloch, Luther
Brown Jr., Richard Crenshaw, and
William Bedford.
After the ceremony the entire
fraternity was entertained with
a banquet in the chapte"f house.
Guest of honor for the evening
was Miss Allie Glenn, treasurer
of the college. A jeweled join was
given to Lansing Smith Jr., in
recognition of his being the most
outstanding pledge for the year.
Auburn-Georgia
Swimming Meet
This Afternoon
Events Begin at 2 in
Alumni Gym Pool
Capt. Davis Gammage's Auburn
swimmers open their schedule this
afternoon as they face the tankmen
from the University of Georgia at
2:00 o'clock in the Alumni Gym
pool.
The meet is the first of a series
of five on the A.P.I, slate for this
month. Following today's events
Georgia Tech will be met at At­lanta,
Emory at Emory, Tennessee
at Knoxville, and the Southeastern
Conference meet in Atlanta will
round out the year's schedule.
Tomorrow they take on the sec­ond
week-end foe in the mermen
from Georgia ,Tech in Atlanta.
Aside from the services of Gam­mage,
one of the South's leading
backstrokers and also participant
in the distances, the scoring bur­dens
will be left up to the follow­ing
standouts on the squad: Jim
Burt, breast stroke; Douglas Win-go,
sprint; George Austin, diving
and breast stroke, and Jim Gaston,
sprints.
The 1941 schedule: —
March 7—Georgia at Auburn
March 8—Georgia Tech at At­lanta
March 14—Emory at Emory
March 15—Tennessee at Knox­ville
March 21-22—SEC at Atlanta.
Numerical Grading
System Abolished
Deans and Department Heads to Decide
What Will Constitute Students' Grades
The college Executive Council this week adopted a
resolution to put the letter system of grading into effect
at the beginning of the 1941 fall term. This announcement
was made yesterday by Mr. R. B. Draughon, Executive
Secretary.
No definite limits were set for the letter grades. Ac­cording
to Mr. Charles W. Edwards, registrar, the vari­ous
deans and heads of departments will determine what
constitutes each letter grade. Mr.
Cooper Elected to
Head A. C. S. S.
At a recent meeting of the Ag­ricultural
Graduate Student Socie­ty,
Arthur W. Cooper was elected
president of the organization.
Cooper succeeds John I. Wear who
served as president during the first
semester.
The other officers of the society
are as follows: Vice President,
Coyt Wilson; Secretary, Clarence
M. Wilson; Treasurer, Robert M.
Prather^
• A program has been planned for
each week of this semester, and
professors and upperclassmen are
cordially invited to attend.
Senior Class Meets to Discuss Dance
Situation; Vote Yes or No on Finals
Alpha Lambda Tau
Initiates Four Men
Beta Chapter of Alpha Lambda
Tau initiated four men into the
fraternity Wednesday night. These
men were:
Malcolm Karl Kelly, Repton;
Robert Milton Miller, Ft. Benning,
Ga.; Sam Mayo, Quincy, Fla.; and
Thomas Embry, LaGrange, Ga.
May Reduce Block Prices
And Abolish Corsages
The results of the senior class
meeting of Wednesday are as yet
unknown, since the ballots have
not been" tabulated.
At the meeting, which all seniors
were requested to attend, two ques­tions
were put before the students:
(1) Did they (the seniors) think
that Auburn should sponsor a ma­jor
set of dances? (2) Would they
support the final set of dances this
year? A ballot was taken of the
seniors' ideas on these questions,
the results of which should prove
of interest to the Finance Board
and the Student ^ocial Committee.
Chairman Deming of the Social
Committee put several ideas before
the group, one of which offered to
sell block tickets to the proposed
senior dances, all to seniors, for
three or four dollars, provided 250
or 300 of the seniors pledged their
attendance. The amount thus
guaranteed, says Deming, would
probably pave the way for the final
dances this spring. He also of­fered
tentative plans for a senior
leadout at each dance, and the abo­lition
of corsages.
Student Cabinet President Jim
King stated that if the seniors as­sured
the Finance Board of their
support and more widespread sup­port
from the student body as a
whole, the Finance Board would
feel safe in continuing the propos­ed
dance program for this year.
Government Seeks
Junior Engineers
Civil Service Exams
To Be Offered Seniors
Because of the increasing need
for engineers in national defense
work, the United States Civil Ser­vice
Commission has again an­nounced
an examination to fill ju­nior
engineer positions in any
branch of engineering. The sal­ary
is $2,000 a year less a 3%
percent retirement deduction. Ap­plications
will now be rated as re­ceived
at the Commission's Wash­ington
office until December 31,
1941. Qualified persons who do not
have eligible ratings under pre­vious
junior engineer examinations
held by the Commission within the
past year are urged to file their
applications at once.
Appointees will perform profes­sional
engineering work including
assisting in experimental research,
design or testing of machinery,
and testing and inspection of en­gineering
materials. Separate em­ployment
lists will be established
in each recognized branch of en­gineering.
Competitors must have complet­ed
a 4-year engineering course ex­cept
that senior students will be
admitted under certain conditions.
(Continued on page 6)
Post of SAME Is
Established Here
By Engineers
Henry Britt Elected
President of Group
A Post of The Society of Amer­ican
Military Engineers has been
established at API through the in­terest
and negotiations of the En­gineer
Instruction.
Efforts of Lt. Col. Robert A.
Laird finally culminated in a
meeting of juniors and seniors of
the ROTC Engineers on Monday,
Feb. 24 and a formal application
for admittance into the national
chapter of The Society of Ameri­can
Military Engineers was sign­ed.
Lt. Col. Laird addressed the
group briefly, stating the pur­poses
of the society and how the
local Post could fulfill them.
Temporary officers were elect­ed
and they follow:
Pres. H. S. Britt, a senior in
mechanical engineering, a Lt. Col.
First Battalion, Engineer Cadet
Regiment; member of Scabbard
and Blade, Tau Beta Pi, Spades,
ODK, Pi Tau Sigma, and ASME.
First Vice-Pres. Paul R. Dar-den,
a senior in aero engineering,
Captain, Regimental Adjutant;
Engineer Cadet Regiment; mem­ber
of Scabbard and Blade, Blue
Key, AIAE and SAE.
Second Vice-Pres. Frank Ka-base,
a senior in aera engineer­ing,
Captain of Co. B. Cadet En­gineer
Regiment and member of
AIAE.
Secretary U. H. Johnson, a sen­ior
in electrical engineering, Cap­tain
of Co. H. Cadet Engineer
Regiment, member of Tau Beta
Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Sigma Pi.
Treasurer G. T. Maxwell, a sen­ior
in mechanical engineering,
Captain of Co. A. Cadet Engi­neer
Regiment, member of Scab­bard
and Blade, ASME and Sig­ma
Chi.
(Continued on page 6)
Edwards said, "The council agreed
that the matter of determining
what constitutes each of the sev­eral
grades, that is, the quality of
work required for each grade,
would be left to the deans and de­partment
heads."
This was not set out in the reg­ulation
adopted by the council.
Student leaders discussed the
matter with members of the coun­cil
before the meeting, and accord­ing
to Mr. Edwards, the students
expressed approval of the change.
No definite time has been set by
the council for meeting of the deans
and department heads in the va­rious
schools for the consideration
of the question. This has been
left up to the individual schools.
Decisions will probably be made,
however, before the beginning of
the next semester in September.
The new catalogue, for next
year, will state the grading sys­tem
on a letter basis, with grades
of A, B, C, D, etc.
Theta Chi's Hold
Annual Election
William T. (Bill) Curry, textile
engineering student from Gadsden,
was elected president of the Theta
Chi Fraternity, Wednesday night
at the regular annual elections.
Benny Davies, sophomore in civil
engineering from Birmingham,
was elected to the office of vice-president
of Chi chapter.
Other newly elected officers were
Jesse Twilley of Selma, secretary;
J. D. Lee of Anniston, treasurer;
and Wallace Allen of Jacksonville,
Fla., marshall.
First Aid Course
To Begin March 10
The two - weeks instructors'
course in first aid scheduled to
begin March 10, has been post­poned
until a week later, March
17, according to Dr. V. W. Lapp,
chairman of Lee County Red
Cross First Aid Committee.
The meeting is postponed due
to the illness of Ellis Fysal, Red
Cross First aid and Life Saving
Representative, who was to con­duct
the course.
Kotton King and Kween .
(Plainsman Staff Photo—Lewis Arnold)
Nathan Adam*, president of Phi Psi, honorary fraternity, shows
Margaret McCain, his leading lady for tonight's Phi Psi Cotton Ball,
how to sample cotton. Dates for the members of Phi Psi for tonight's
dance include: Mary Vaughn, Dot Blackburn, Edna Earle Wilson,
Gloria Smith, Jane Lawrence, Mary Colvin, Ann Johnson, Mrs. .Clar­ence
Graham, Jean Wilson, Elizabeth Penny, and Ruby Hatfield.
(See Story on Page 4)
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Page Two THE P L A I N S M AN March 7, 1941
Cooperating to Learn
Students are human, and so are pro­fessors.
Sometimes neither seem to real­ize
that fact about the other. For years,
in Auburn, people have said that there
should be a better spirit of cooperation
between students and professors.
That spirit of cooperation has certainly
progressed, in certain departments of the
campus, during the past few years. It
still isn't what it should be.
There are professors in Auburn who
will stop in the halls, on the walks and
streets, to chat with students about things
other than that examination they failed
to take, or simply, failed, or that assign­ment
they didn't hand in, or that plate
they're a week behind on.
There are students who like to chat with
their teachers, thinking not for a minute
about its helping their grades, merely
talking with the pedagogues as friends,
or as students seeking the information and
knowledge which should emanate from
older, more experienced men and women,
not necessarily in regard to their partic­ular
field or subject.
In recent years, there have been more
student-teacher conferences, in which the
problems of the students have been con­sidered,
and in which ideas were traded,
and advice given freely. But there haven't
been enough of these.
Some students, perhaps most students,
still look upon professors as anti-every-thing
which is of interest and help to the
students. Some professors still look upon
all students as bad little boys .and girls
who are trying to get out of everything
which hints of study or learning, who come
to college to have fun or to get a degree
whether they learn anything or not. A
mere handful of students and professors
consider each other as human beings who
are cooperating in their search for know­ledge
and education, remembering that
the purpose of education is learning how
to live and living that way.
The present attitude divides the school
into separate and sometimes militant
camps. There is little wonder then, that
students sometimes find professors dull
and boring, and that professors sometimes
find students disgustingly dumb. .
The world, to better itself, is gradually
leaning toward social and economic coop­eration.
May Auburn rapidly lean toward
student-teacher cooperation in learning!
Congratulations, Players
We like the idea of the Auburn Players
who plan to sponsor a series of record
concerts on Sunday afternoons. The need
for something of the kind has been felt
for some time.
Back in the days when the enrollment
was much smaller, and when students had
to depend more on themselves for Sunday
afternoon entertainment, music was not
passed over lightly, and classical music
was a source of pleasure to many. Now,
it seems, we know too little of music, and
consequently miss one of man's oldest
pleasure.
Formerly, informal band concerts were
held on the steps of Langdon Hall, and
attendance at these concerts was as regu­lar
as that now at the cinema. Perhaps
this move by the Players may open the
way to more appreciation of music by the
students as a whole.
The Players have a varied library of re­cordings,
and will be glad to use any rec­ords
that anybody would like to lend them
to be played. Anybody having records
who. would like to let the Players use them
may do so by contacting any member of
that organization. H.M.
Tennis Courts
In the spring of last year, there were
fourteen tennis courts under construction.
What happened to them? Three of them
have been made into girls volley-ball
courts, and the others contracted some
fatal disease during construction.
In the issue of The Plainsman of Jan­uary
12,1940, there was an article describ­ing
what w^s to be an abundance of
courts for the tennis-minded students of
A.P.I. The article states that plans had
been made for. fourteen first-class courts,
several of them black-topped. They were
to cost the almost unbelievable sum of $125
each, even with the use of convict labor.
The money for the courts was furnished
partially by the school and partially by
ODK and the Lions Club. We presume
the Lions Club paid their share out of
their treasury, but ODK raised their por­tion
by student-attended musicales in the
years of '38 and '39. We also presume
that these clubs know what went with the
money supposedly expended upon these
courts, but we would like to know why
these tennis courts were so grandiloquent­ly
begun, and never finished.
Spring is almost here. The weather
will soon become moderate, and the stu­dents
who have not been able to enter into
sports of any kind during this academic
year will begin to stretch their muscles
and desire to work up perspiration in some
kind of physical activity. There is prac­tically
no other sport available, at two or
three persons convenience, except tennis.
It is helpful mentally and physically to
play several sets of tennis, and to those
who desire to play, the lack of tennis
courts in Auburn is appalling. Why, in
a town and school having this many young
people, are there no more than half a dozen
courts available to the public, and those
being ill-kept and hardly in condition to
be played upon? In all probability, the
proposed fourteen courts of last year
would be hard pressed to handle all the
students who desire to play, but why not
make available at least a few first-class
courts? D.W.A.
The Landscaper's Axe
The following is a vision of the future
seen by certain of the folks hereabouts
every time they hear another tree fall
under the "landscaper's" axe, every time
they stumble in another of the holes left
by the roots of the shrubs that took years
to grow.
Ten years later we come back and there
isn't anything but sand dunes, mesquite
and a hardy cactus here and there. We
ask the keeper of the keys who lives in the
tower of Samford (which is by this time
at "sand level"): "My, my, what has be­come
of the lovliest village of the plains?"
He says wisely, lookin' out of the corner
of his eyes: "Progress, haw, that's what
it was; there were too many landscape
artists; each one dreamed of beauty and
each one moved in with a vengeance with
axe, truck, shovel, blueprint, and a gleam
in his eye. Each sheared off a knoll, filled
in here, cut swaths through our trees,
dug up the shrubbery and imported tons
and tons of foreign soil until there was
nothing left to shear off, nothing to fill,
nothing to cut down; then there were no
more dreams of beauty; even the most
rabid could see no visions. Rumor came
on the wind one day that there was a new
land, beyond the blue, where trees and
shrubs abounded to do with, and without
a protector. The next morning no sound
was heard but the scraping of sand on
sand and the moaning of the wind through
the cactus. The landscapers had mi­grated."
C.J.B.
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in this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the ed­itorial
policies of this paper.
Soloist with the Lee County
Training School for Negroes choir,
which is presented Sunday after­noons
by WJHO, is William
Charles Phillips, whom I compli­mented
last week without knowing
his .name. Phillips' voice is a full
and lovely baritone with those
nuances which only Negro voices
seem to achieve. This past Sunday
he sang "Water Boy," which with
its gradually increasing tempo was
evolved to help tired workmen
speed their labors, and it was as
moving as I have seldom heard it.
* * *
I wish for the money and 'energy
—sometimes I suspect the energy
is at least as valuable as the mon­ey,
but I do nothing about it—to
play the patron to such singers as
Phillips. Everybody is aware of the
extraordinary power of song with
which the Negro race is endowed;
and everybody hails Negro folk-music
as America's principal con­tribution
to world music, but hardly
anybody undertakes to polish the
not so very rough diamond.
* * *
With a Marian Anderson, a Paul
Robeson, a Dorothy Maynor to
light the way, it seems to me that
it is a patent duty of the South­ern
white to work hard in behalf
of Negro music, particularly the
vocal music. It is his duty to dis­cover,
sponsor, and champion the
many excellent solo and choral
voices which apparently lie like a
vein of gold among the American
Negroes. Here perhaps is at least
one easily straightened thread in
the tangled skein of race relations.
* * *
Robert Frost was a relief to those
who are a little weary of the con-*
vention of eccentricity which the
poetic fraternity cultivates. He
looked like a movie character actor
with his white hair and his shrewd
but gentle expression. His talk in
Langdon Hall was a pleasant bit
of conversation with an occasional
piquant story and a number of
readings. He said nothing start­ling,
but it is nice to know that
poets can be human.
* * *
In Atlanta last week-end I found
myself, like any rustic, fearing the
city, which with the help of a little
imagination can turn into an ogre
bigger and better than any in the
fairy tales. I happened to pass an
enormous, office building just at
noon, and the people it was spew-
As if we intended to buy we
listened for half-an-hour to records
in a music store. I couldn't get
properly appreciative on account of
the fellow in the next glass booth
who was doing calisthenics in di­recting
a revolving disk. In a min­ute
he started a record of some
fervent basso, and clutching f his
heart he also sang. This was too
much for the sound-proofing, which
was giving way as we departed in
embarrassment.
Letters to the Editor
Mr. C. J. Bastien,
care Plainsman,
Auburn, Ala.
Dear Friend,
I read and not only enjoyed, but
admired your column Co-oping
w h i c h appeared in Tuesday's
Plainsman. For once I think that
there will be nobody to "misinter­pret"
your work or even to dis­agree
with you. I think your ar­ticle
was very good.
You may know me Bastien, but
I have to admit that I don't know
you. It is not your fault. It is
of course mine. But I feel that I
know you from the way you write
your articles. Not being a very
good writer, I can't say with au­thority
just how much of himself
a good writer puts into his stories.
But I do like the way in which you
handled the co-oping column.
I still refuse to agree with you
on the local band situation, and
incidentally the Auburn Knights
played a return engagement in
Tuscaloosa for a Fraternity dance
the other night, so they must be
good. But I noted in your column
that you are checking out soon to
get back to work for the next three
By HERBERT MARTIN
ing into the street looked as if
they had forgotten what living is.
The thronging streets had a prim­itive
atmosphere in which human
beings push and jam and survive
if they're the fittest. I saw an au­tomobile
hit a small Negro boy, and
I was shocked at myself as I passed
on the other side with all the
other strangers who evidently felt
no freer than I to help.
* * *
On the other hand Atlanta has
its points. A friend and I stood
at a counter in one of the big
stores and tasted and sampled the
kinds of things o»e can't find in
a small town. We tasted fish pastes
under the name Escoffier—salmon-and-
shrimp, . anchovy, bloater—
from London spread on little cylin­drical
crackers which sell at better
than two cents a bite. We tasted
babas, which are spongy cakes the
size of marshmallows put up in a
syrup made with cognac and,
brandy—at a dollar a dozen. We
had a minute sample of crepes Su-zette,
the appearance of which was
a surprise and the taste of which
made me love Edward VII, who I
believe put them on the culinary
map in the early part of the cen­tury.
The only trouble with the
session was the comparatively il­literate
saleswoman's pseudo-gour­met
act, during which she pro­nounced
cognac co-ny-ack and kept
telling us everything was simply
divine.
* * *
In a bookstore we thumbed
through "Fantasia," which Con­tains
stills from the movie and text
by Deems Taylor. The format is
something to meditate on. The pa­per
is rich, the colors are perfect,
and the print is better than the
Readers Digest. Even prettier is
the exquisite "Ave Maria," a book­let
which amplifies the section of
the same name in "Fantasia." But
I still can't visualize music, al­though
I am impressed by the
imagination of those who say they
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed
in this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the ed­itorial
policies of this paper.
At the University last weekend,
we had the pleasure of dancing in
one of the sturdiest auditorium-gymnasiums
we've ever encounter­ed.
It was as big as an airport,
and as solid as the rock of Gibral­tar
before the war.
* * *
We met some of the finest fel­lows
you could find on either side
of- the Mason-Dixon, and were sur­prised
to find that the "I don't
know you so I won't speak" atti­tude
is largely a myth.
We saw some of the finest phy­sical
equipment in the South
(speaking of b u i l d i n g s and
grounds, of course) and listened
with pleasure to Denny Chimes.
* * *
We found out that fraternity
rows and sorority circles promote
inter-Greek fellowship, and that a
Student Union building is a great
asset.
* * *
We saw the oldest building on
the campus, and it reminded us of
Broun Hall on a windy day.
* * *
We went down past the "million
dollar band" office to the Crimson-
White (weekly news organ of the
Univoisity . . . pardon, University)
office, but it was closed at the
time.
* * *
We looked through the Crimson-
White and saw an item which
might be of interest to Auburn
students. We quote. "We see by
the Auburn Plainsman that they
are going to have a rodeo, their
first, in the 'lovliest village' come
April 5 and 6. We've been wonder­ing
a long time why Auburn didn't
have either a rodeo or a cow and
hog meet. Heh, heh, heh, heh!"
* * *
We don't mean to be finding -
fault with your campus odor,
'Bama, and we won't say that, con­fidentially,
it stinks, but we do
feel that the sweet, unsullied odor
of a hawg pen is much to be pre­ferred
to the perfume your paper
mill puts out. That vile scent came
dern near routing us early.
* * *
Of course, we realize that you
say you don't notice that smell
after staying there, but we'd be the
last to admit that we could get
used to such an odor.
* * *
The circulation department is
having a terrific argument to de­cide
who shall deliver the Plains­man
to the dormitories. Brer Hop-ton
still has the inside track.
* * *
We are glad to note that we are
at last back in grace" with the ex­change
column of the Alabamian.
The Alabamian is published by the
students of Alabama College. If
you don't know that Alabama Col­lege
is in Mpntevallo, you are like
90 per cent of the students here.
* * *
We are proud to have the oppor­tunity
of returning the favor, and
would like to mention a recent edi­torial
of that paper.
* * *
Under the caption of "We Want
Chivalry!" the writer deplores the
degeneracy of young American
manhood, who are at last, at the
instruction of the Denver police,
we gather, abandoning the prac­tice
of trotting around the car to
open the door in order that a fra­gile
thing may alight.
* * *
We agree in full and in minute
details. As the editorial states,
after a girl has been opening doors,
putting on coats, and striking
matches for herself for six days,
it is not too much for her to de­sire
a little attention on Sunday,
and she is entitled to be treated as
a helpless little thing who lives to
make men feel big and important.
* * *
And then, if all boys develop
once again the habit of doing little
things like opening doors, .girls
won't have to jump to conclusions.
When the car is parked, the Mon-tevallo
miss will know that she
doesn't have to get out until her
escort paves the way. This, we
think, is the reason for the edito­rial.
* * *
Sal, the School Scholar, whose
name is a bit misleading, believes
that "A little learning is a dan­gerous
thing, and more than a
little learning is too dern hard to
get." This is Happy Thought
Number Two.
OFF THE
RUNWAYS
By BERTA CAMPBELL
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed
in this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the ed­itorial
policies of this paper.
Auburn-Opelika Airport
TUESDAY
From Josh "Buddy" Speight of
Dothan comes word that he is en-'
tering the Army Air, Corps with
new address, Love Field, Dallas,
Texas.
We sent a bunch of hello's to Lt.
Cornell at Camden, S. C, via In­structors
Griffin and Lingo of
Southern Airways. They came by
here enroute to the new Army Unit
up there where Lt. Cornell is head
of the Ground School.
THURSDAY
The Premier of "Wings Over Au­burn"
was shown at the new Field
House by photographer Jeff Beard.
An enthusiastic audience voted on
the spot to give Mr. Beard the
months. I have always wanted to
give the Co-ops a pat on the back
for the hard work they have to do
to stay in school. I know, if a
few others do not, that the pro­fessors
are forced to double up on
the co-ops to cover the material
that has to be learned in the time
that you fellows are here, and the
work is harder, simply because the
assignments are much longer. You
have to keep your average up to
certain standards. Then, too, it is
so much more fun to be here the
full year that it must be hard to
keep on the co-op system.
So more power to you. You
called me Don Quixote. Take it
back and let's be friends. We'll
be looking forward to your return
to Auburn. But I still say that
Auburn has the three best bands
in the United States; namely, the
Auburn Knights, the Plainsmen,
and that new band, the Auburn
Aces who are said to really have
plenty on the ball. If you haven't
heard them you had better.
Signed,
Bill Rowe. . . .
academy award. He attempted and
succeeded something which few
amateur photographers have ac­complished—
the filming of acro­batic
maneuvers performed by one
of the Wacos. Taking them from
the cockpit of another plane gave
an accurate conception of the re­lation
between the performing
plane and the earth beneath.
Most colorful were the Waco's
blue fuselage in contrast with yel-
<low wings, Ruth Price's green fly­ing
ensemble, and the instructor's
rose grey uniforms. John Rencher,
Spencer Garrett, W. A. Chapman,
Doris Green, and Julian Braswell
were among those who participated
in the close-ups of the various ac­tivities
shown.
SUNDAY
An Auburn delegation was on
hand to welcome the Columbus
bunch that flew over and had
breakfast here. They arrived at
seven o'clock in the morning.
So much fun was had, we decided
to accept their invitation and to
do the same thing in the near fu­ture.
The visitors were Ralph
Swaby, owner of Swaby School of
the Air, Cecil Gibson, instructor,
Donald Drennan, Ocie Crumpler,
Ernest Liebman, Helen Tigner,
and Margaret Tigner, writer of the
Columbus Ledger column, "Wings
over Columbus". Those of us from
Auburn who joined them for break­fast
were Ozella Taylor, Frances
Wilson,, W. G. Rhodes, Fiwsier
Fortner, and Jack Birdsong.
The first solo flight in the Spring
Program was made by W. A. Chap­man.
His shirt tail was properly
cut and he bought cokes for the
crowd. Chapman was instructed -
by A. L. Lumpkin.
MONDAY
Spencer R. Garrett made his first
solo flight in the Waco. He says
that if he had known it, he would
have worn an old shirt for now he
has a new one minus the bottom.
(Continued on page 5)
March 7, 1941 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
General Campus Being
Landscaped by NYA
Grounds Around Samford Hall Now
In Process of Being Landscaped
Samford Hall Landscaped. . .
Under the supervision of Prof.
Dan Jones, the NYA students have
begun the landscaping of grounds
around Samford Hall, as a part
of the general campus improve­ment
program headed by Sam
Brewster, Director of Buildings
and Grounds.
New walks will be constructed
on that portion of the campus in
front of Samford Hall. The em­bankment
which now exists near
the rear of the building will be
moved back ten yards to make
room for a ten foot walk which
will be constructed along Mell
Street in the rear of the historic
building, and will continue along
the block until it reaches Magnolia
Avenue.
A second fountain will be con­structed
in the rear of Samford
Hall, and shrubbery will be artis­tically
placed in order to further
enhance the beauty of the building.
A m o n g other improvements
around that vicinity will be the
betterment of parking space which
now exists behind Broun Hall and
the Plant Service Building. This
space will be smoothed off and as­phalted
for better appearance and
safer parking.
The Engineer's Drill Field which
extends between Ross Chemical
Lab and the Ramsay Hall has been
declared too low and it will there­fore
be filled and landscaped.
'Come Live With Me'
To Show at- Tiger
Sunday and Monday
Presenting a new romantic team
which is scheduled to be one of the
most popular in screen history,
"Come Live with Me", co-starring
James Stewart and Hedy Lamarr,
will be shown Sunday and Monday
at the Tiger Theatre.
Based on a story tailor-made for
the pair, the plot deals with a
beautiful Austrian refugee who is
given the alternative of marrying
an American citizen and thus ob­taining
a quota number, or being
deported to her native Austria.
Preferring the former she proposes
marriage to Stewart, a peniless
young author. Through a purely
business arrangement, the mar­riage
is to give Miss Lamarr her
number and, in return, Stewart is
to have his living expenses paid
until he can sell one of his novels.
The complications of this strange
deal, made more puzzling when the
two actually fall in love, supplies
the screen with one of its amusing
stories.
Stewart, who stepped directly
into this role from the lead oppo-cite
Katherine Hepburn in "The
Philadelphia Story," is ideally
suited for the characterization of
the ambitious author who finally
decides to write from experience
rather than imagination. Miss La­marr
comes to the role fresh from
her highly applauded appearance
with Clark Gable in "Comrade X".
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New Book List Is
Issued by Library
Includes "Reducing"
And "Doll House Book"
The new library list for the pre-ceeding
week has just been an­nounced
by the chief librarian, Miss
Mary E. Martin. Approximately
111 new books have just been re­ceived
in the library on general
subjects and quite a few new se­lections
on Agriculture, Architec­ture,
Chemistry, Engineering and
Veterinary Medicine.
The general list of books include
everything from "Eat and Reduce"
by Lindlahr to "The Doll House
Book" by Fish.
For those interested in history
and associated subjects we have
"After Life in Roman Paganism"
by Cumont, "The French Renais­sance"
by Boyd, "The Old North
Trail" by McClintock, and "A Foot­note
of History" by Stevenson. The
economic portion includes "The In­visible
Tariff" by Bidwell, "Editor
in Politics" by Daniels, "The De­velopment
of Transportation in
America" by Healy, "Learning the
Ways of Democracy" by N.E.A.,
and "The Development of Modern
Education" by Eby.
A book which will be of interest
to all of us is "A Treatise on Wis­dom"
by Charron. It is a fairly
old edition but the contents are
never-the-less up-to-date.
For the particular student who
likes to watch his dress or is in­terested
in past customs of dress
would like to Walkup's "Dressing
the Part" or "Early American Cos­tume"
by Warwick.
Spring is in the air if not an
actuality and some of the fair sex
shpjtld want to plant flowers or
else they might have to arrange
flowers for dances or parties. "Con­stance
Spry's Garden Notebook",
"How to Arrange Flowers" by
Biddle, "Fun with Flowers" by
Ferguson or Fisher's "Flower
Shows and How to Stage Them"
might be worth while to read.
For the sport fiend there is a
variety of new books on hand.
There is "Bowling" by Marino,
"Softball" by Noren or "Badmin­ton
Tips" by Jackson. To the ar­chery
fan we would recommend
Lambert's book "Modern Archery".
There is also a book on the two
sports of tennis and badminton en­titled
"Group Instruction in Tennis
and Badminton" by Edgren.
Modern Terpsichore . .
Hanya Holm, above, modern interpretive dancer, will appear
in Auburn on March 26, with a group of ten young women, to pre­sent
a dance program.
Hanya Holm Dancers Feature 'Dance of
Introduction' and 'Tragic Exodus'
Patronize Plainsman advertisers.
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STUDENTS!
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OPELIKA
Ten Young Women Will
Dance Here March 26
Hanya Holm, dancing with her
group of 10 young women here in
Langdon Hall, March 25, at 7:30
p.m., begins her program with
"Dance of Introduction", a gra­cious,
sunny series of nonrepresen-tative
dances, followed by "Tragic
Exodus", a reference to the pres­ent
movements of peoples under
the lash of tyranny.
"They, Too, Are Exiles", the
third item, is another attack on
the totalitarian regimes. This
dance brings out the utter humor-lessne'ss
of the Nazi-Facist theory
of society.
Two primitive rhythms done to
percussion accompaniment lead to
"Metropolitan Daily", a represen­tation
of the various fields of in­terest
in which big city newspapers
work. There is a "Financial Sec­tion",
with a big board on which
stocks presumably drop lower and
lower; "Society Section", with its
eager to be photographed ladies;
"Comics", where the dancers rep­resent
the antics if not the indi­vidual
personalities of the folk in
t h e colored supplement; and
"Sports", in which there appear
cheer leaders, ball players, and
others of the sport department.
Miss Holm in her concert pro­gram
offers something novel-in a
field that has been exploited al­most
universally. The unconven­tionally
of her chosen subjects
provide the company occasions to
exemplify all phases of the dance.
Methodist Church
Presents Musical
Program Sunday
James Overton, baritone, will
present a solo, "I Heard a Forest
Praying", Sunday night at the Au­burn
Methodist Church. Mr. Over­ton
is a freshman from Birming­ham
and is a member of Sigma Nu
Fraternity.
Dr. Paul Irvine is to be the di­rector
of the Choir for the evening
and Robin Russell will serve as
Organist. The services will begin
at 7:30 p.m. with the organ vol­untary,
"Ave Maria".
The following hymns will be
sung, led by the choir under the
direction of Dr. Irvine, during the
course of the church services. They
are "Day is Dying in the West",
"Softly Now the Light of Day" of
which the first stanza will be sung
as a solo and "Hushed Was the
Evening Hymn" of which the sec­ond
stanza will also be sung as
a solo.
Anthems that will be on the pro­gram
are "The Radiant Morn Hath
Passed Away", "How Lovely are
the Messengers", "O, Lord Most
Holy" that will be sung by Miss
Stone and the choir, "Now Thank
We All Our God", and "Open Our
Eyes" which will be sung by Mr.
Farnham and the choir.
The opening prayer and the
scripture lesson will be given by
the pastor, Dr. W. C. Cowart.
Huntingdon Glee
Club to Sing Here
Tomorrow Night
Group Includes Thirty
Selected Girl Singers
The Huntington College Glee
Club from Montgomery will appear
here at Langdon Hall tomorrow
night. The program will be spon­sored
by the Auburn Glee Clubs.
Miss Margaret Ann Mitchell,
pianist, and Miss Elizabeth Feagin,
talented vocalist, will accompany
the singers.
The 30 singers were selected
from the Huntington student body
by extensive tests. Many of- the
girls have been with the organiza­tion
for their entire college period.
One of the outstanding numbers
to be presented by the group is the
composition "The Green Window",
written by the late Prof. Olaf Jen­sen
of the Huntington College mu­sic
department. The composition
is the musical setting given to the
poem of the same name written by
Miss Sarah Jane Westerbeck,
Huntington graduate.
The inspiration for the poem
came from the large green window
in the college chapel, which is a
replica of the chapel in Christ's
chapel, Oxford. In past years this
beautiful window has inspired
many paintings and poems of note.
The chorus of girl voices will be
under the direction of Professor
Erie Danley.
One of the feature duets of the
evening will be the presentation of
"Bess, You is My Woman," from
the opera "Porgy and Bess" by
George Gershwin. This will be
sung by Miss Arline Hank and
Director Danley.
The program will include: "Joy",
Frederick Chopin; "Tomorrow",
Richard Strauss; "Charm Me A-sleep",
Johannes Brahms; "The
Glory of Life", F. Melius Chris­tiansen;
"Annie Laura", Scott-
Madsen; "Song from Ossian's Fin-gal",
Johannes Brahms; "The Gay
Ranchero", Stuart B. Hoppin;
"Love Like the Dawn Came Steal­ing",
Charles Wakefield Cadman;
"Out of Main Street", Charles
Wakefield Cadman; "God Bless
America", Irving Berlin; "Alma
Mater. These numbers will be
sung by the glee club.
Appearing as soloists are Misses
Arline Hanke, Margaret Ann Mit­chell,
Mary Ligon Soloman, and
Mary Katherine Baker, and Eliza­beth
Feagin. Miss Hanke will
sing "Ah, fors' e lui che l'anima",
Giuseppe Verdi, and "The Star",
James Rogers. Miss Mitchell, pi­anist,
will be presented in "From
a Log Cabin", Edward McDowell,
and "Polichinelle (The Clown),"
Sergei Rachmaninoff. Miss Solo­mon
will sing "Balm in Gilead",
William L. Dawson, and Miss Ba­ker,
"The Artisan", Harriet Ware.
Miss Feagin, violinist, will play
"Gypsy Tzigane", T. Nachez.
Accompanist
Miss Margaret Ann Mitchell, who is accompanist for the Hunting­don
College Glee Club, which will be presented in a concert at Lang­don
Hall in Auburn on Saturday, March 8, at 8:15 o'clock. The pro­gram
is under the auspices of the Auburn Glee Clubs.
Seniors in Education Must Teach
Before They Receive Teacher's Degrees
Now that spring is here, you'll need that tennis racket re-strung.
We offer the best of service at $5.00 for Johnson No. 5
and Tilden Jr. Gut Silk is available for $2.00 and $3.00.
• Spalding, Hollywood and Hedley Rackets—all
prices
• Dunlop, Spalding and Pennsylvania Balls at $1.25
per can
WARD & KING
A COMPLETE LINE OF SPORTING GOODS
HAGEDORN'S
Spring Is Just Around The Corner And Everyone Is Interested In
Redecorating the Home . . . .
Hagedorn's will help you in doing this by suggesting the color combina­tions
to be used in getting the best effects with draperies, rugs, and
slip covers.
SLIP COVER MATERIALS —
Stripes, Plains and Florals — including chintz!, glowsheens, novelty
cotton prints 39c to $1.29 yd.
DRAPERY MATERIALS —
Including monks cloth, damasks, and printed cottons 39c to $2.95 yd.
UPHOLSTERY MATERIALS —
Including damask weaves in stripes and small patterns —
$1.00 to $1.25 yd.
RUGS —
Complete line by famous Bigelow Sanford Rug Makers.
Other novelty items for the home include pictures, pottery,
glassware, and mirrors
HAGEDORN'S
OPELIKA
I n s t r u c t at LCHS for
Sixty Class Periods
By DAVID ALLEN
Seniors in the school of Educa­tion
must be teachers before they
receive their degrees as teachers.
One of the requirements of a
student in the school of Education
is that during his senior year he
teach at least 60 class periods in
the subject which is his major.
This is part of a semester course
of observation of demonstration
teaching. Members of the Educa­tion
faculty teach classes in the
Lee County High School here in
Auburn, and the seniors in Edu­cation
attend these classes each
day. Before the class period the
professor will explain to them
what he will attempt to put over
to the high school students, and,
after the class, he will again con­fer
with the Education students.
The School of Education of API
gives professional education for
teachers in a number of fields: the
general academic subjects, which
include history and social sciences,
natural sciences, English, foreign
languages, and mathematics; voca­tional
agriculture; vocational Home
Economics; Physical and Health
Education; commercial subjects;
and elementary grades.
Most of the practice teaching
is done in Lee County High School.
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"Long Voyage Home"
And Popeye Cartoon
Saturday
"Tug Boat Annie Sails
Again"
Sunday-Monday
HOW TO WOO AN
UNKISSED BRIDE!
• We Buy Men's
Used Clothing
and Shoes.
Jake's Place
123 So. 9th Street
Opelika, Alabama
THIS WEEK
The Auburn Grille
ANNOUNCES THAT
Carlyle McCulloch
has been selected to receive
a Steak Dinner for his out­standing
service to Auburn
during the last three years.
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Romantic Jim­my
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escapade!
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1 • Each week the Auburn
Grille will select an out­standing
student to re­ceive
this award.
TIGER
The Grille is Auburn's
finest and most modern
restaurant.
The Grille invites the stu­dents
to come in often for
"the best food in town."
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Page Four
Annual Cotton Ball
Is Tonight at 9
In Graves Center
Margaret McCain Leads
Phi Psi Dance With
President Nathan Adams
The Cotton Ball, sponsored by
Phi Psi, national professional fra­ternity,
will be held Friday even­ing
from 9 until 12 in the Graves'
Center auditorium. The Auburn
Plainsmen will furnish the music.
This informal affair will be led
by Miss Margaret McCain, of
Montgomery, who will be escorted
by Nathan Adams. Miss McCain
is a sophomore in Commercial Art,
- and a member of Kappa Delta so­rority.
She is Historian of the
Sophomore class.
The dance will feature a Phi
Psi leadout, and two no-breaks.
Dancers will be attired in ging­ham
dresses and overalls.
Decorations for this occasion will
be in black and gold, the frater­nity
colors. The coat of arms will
serve as a back drop for the or­chestra
stand, and bales of cotton
will be placed at the opposite end
of the dance hall.
T H E P L A I N S M AN March 7, 1941
Bob Sylvester, in
Person, at Martin
Theatre Sunday
Bob Sylvester and his Sophisti­cated
Swing orchestra will appear
at the Martin Theatre Sunday, in
person. Three shows, in addition
to the regular screen program, will
be presented by the orchestra, at
3:45, 6:15, and 8:45 p.m.
Sylvester's band will play for a
limited engagement at the Idle
Hour park Saturday night from
9 until 1.
Pi Kappa Phi's
Have Steak Fry
And House Dance
Pi Kappa Phi social fraternity
will entertain members and dates
with a steak fry tonight at
Wrights Mill.
A house dance will follow the
outing.
Wellesley college has a war re­lief
work room.
She Leads
Miss Carol West, West Point, Miss., will lead the Phi Delta Theta
dance Saturday evening, March 8. Her escort will be Harold Smith,
senior in pharmacy from Decatur, president of the chapter.
Phi Delta Theta Week-end to Feature
Breakfasts, Tea Dance, Formal Dance
Formal Is Tomorrow
Night in Graves Center
The annual house party of the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity will be
held this week-end. The party will
feature a breakfast tomorrow
morning, following the SAE dance,
a tea dance tomorrow afternoon,
and the formal dance tomorrow
night from 9 o'clock until 12 o'­clock
in Graves' Center.
Immediately after the dance, a
breakfast will be given at the fra­ternity
house.
Reigning over this gala event
It's A D a t e . . . .
Sunday Night Supper at the C.I.
Music 7:00 till 8:30 by
Auburn Plainsmen
Featuring Rosa Sheppard
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Light orchids will be presented to
the dates of the members.
Girls receiving invitations to the
activities include:
Misses Elizabeth Schell, Carol
West, Mary Dukeminier, Martha
Blackmon, Virginia Watson, Marie
Brice, Annie Rose Brooks, Alyse
Lewis, Eleanor Key, Jeanne Laurie,
Farish Fraser, Martha Floers,
Priscilla Scott, Heloise Marshall.
Dot Stanaland, Margaret Reich,
Mary Eloise Cox, Elizabeth Phil­lips,
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AUBURN, ALABAMA
Announces a
Free Lecture on Christian Science
Entitled
"Christian Science: The Revelation of God's
Nature and Omnipresence"
BY
ADAIR HICKMAN, C.S.B.
Of New York City
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. . . IN . . .
Duncan Hall Auditorium
Sunday Afternoon, March 9th, 1941, at 3 o'clock
— The Public Is Cordially Invited To Attend —
Engineers Will
Select Queen
Next Wednesday
Engineering Honoraries
Nominated Fifteen
Coeds as Candidates
By W. A. COCHRAN
During the weeks of preparation
for the annual visit of St. Patrick,
the greatest task of the sons of
Erin is to select from the fairest
maidens on the campus a Queen
of the Engineers to rule over them
until their patron saint returns.
The candidates for the honor of
being the Engineers' Queen are se­lectively
chosen by the Engineering
Societies, and by secret ballot the
technical gentlemen choose their
queen, whose identity is unknown
until the arrival of St. Patrick
himself, when the revered saint, in
a simple ceremony, crowns the fair
lady "Queen of the Engineers".
Not quite as much significance
is attached to the title "Candidate"
as to that of "Queen", but one
could appropriately say that from
these queens will be chosen a can­didate:
Lillian Luke, sophomore
from Eufaula, sponsor for ASCE;
Henri Lucille Prather, freshman
from Rockford, sponsor for Eta
Kappa Nu; Ethel Gardner, sponsor
for AIEE, senior from Florence;
Annice Watkins, sophomore from
Birmingham, sponsor for Chi Ep-silon;
Mary Erwin, junior from
Huntsville, sponsor for Phi Lamb­da
Upsilon; Helen Wagner, fresh­man
from Birmingham, sponsor
for ACS; Margaret McCain, sopho­more
from Montgomery, sponsor
for Phi Psi; June Adams, fresh­man
for Cordele, Ga., sponsor for
ASME; Francis Plaxco, senior
from Russellville, sponsor for
AISE; Dot Knapp, freshman from
Plainville, Conn., sponsor for Tau
Beta Pi; Frances Hamilton, junior
from Springville, sponsor for
ASAE; Mary Jane Phillips, soph­omore
from Birmingham, sponsor
for IAeS; Florence Clapp, sopho­more
from Eufaula, sponsor for
MITEC; Edith Champion, junior
from Wadley, sponsor for Briae-rean;
and Betty Barnes, freshman
from Montgomery, sponsor for
AIChE.
All students registered in the
following schools are expected to
cast their vote for the queen: Ag­ricultural
engineering, all of school
of engineering, school of Chemis­try,
and chemical engineering. The
ballot box will be placed next to
the engineering library on the first
floor of Ramsay Hall, and ballots
will be marked on Wednesday
March 12, between the hours of
9 to 12 and 1 to 4.
Once Again . .
Sorority
Notebook
With elections, initiations, and
new pledging, the sororities have
created a social whirl all their own.
Alpha Gamma Delta started it
all when they were hostesses to
Helen Henderson Hay, Alabama
poet now living in New York and
an alumni of Alpha Gam, who
visited the campus recently.
* * *
Newly elected (officers of Chi
Omega are Anne Pafford, presi­dent;
June McWhorter, vice-presi­dent;
Bennie Ross, secretary; Jim-mie
Jerkins, treasurer; Martha
Gerhardt, pledge mistress; and
Nancy Ray, correspondent.
Thirteen pledges have been for­mally
initiated into the chapter.
Other new members are Anne
Randall, Virginia Ware, Judy
Wynne, Jean Goodin, June Adams,
Martha Frances Kilgore, Helen
Wagner, Dot Wrye, Katherine
Hall, Annette Taylor, Anita Tor-bert,
and Betty Bell.
* * *
New officers of Theta Upsilon
are to be inducted Sunday. They
are Margaret Nash, president;
Norma Ray Autrey, vice president;
Mary Elizabeth Pritchett, secreta­ry;
Mildred Brown Davis, treas­urer;
Eleanor Poe, chaplain; and
Dorothy Johnson, ex-collegia.
* * *
Tuesday night marked the ini­tiation
of 14 new members into
Kappa Delta. They are Janie
Strickland, Jean Thomas, Margar­et
Tucker, Mary Read, Mary Davis,
Dot Freeman, Dorothy Fenn, Peg­gy
Thorson, Margaret Lee Brad­ford,
Peggy Page, Lillian Evans,
Eva McCurdy, Helen Kent, and
Betty Jane Harwell. The new
members were entertained at a
banquet in the Green Room of the
Pitts Hotel. Dorothy Foreman,
model pledge, was awarded a ring.
For the second time this year, Miss Becky Beeland, of Greenville,
will lead a formal dance in Auburn. She leads tonight's SAE dance
with chapter president John Deming. Miss Beeland also, led the 1941
mid-term dances.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon to Hold Formal
Dance and House Party This Week-end
Taylor Hardy Will Play
Tonight in Alumni Gym
The annual formal of the Sigma
Alpha Epsilon social fraternity
will be held tonight in Alumni
Gymnasium from 9 until 12 o'clock.
Leading this dance will be Miss
Becky Beeland, of Greenville, with
John Deming, chapter president.
The University's Taylor Hardy will
furnish the music with his orches­tra.
Included in the week-end's round
of activities will be a breakfast to­morrow
morning following the
dance. A morning dance will be
given tomorrow from 11 until 1 at
Girls' Gym. On Saturday after­noon
a barbecue will be served at
Chewacla Park picnic area.
A unique lead-out has been plan­ned
to feature the entrance of
members and their dates through
an improvised temple. A grand
march will take place after which
the fraternity song, "Violets" will
be played.
Girls invited for the occasion
are:
Misses Peggy Thorson, Jean
Howie, Marthe Clark, Betty Ty-enly,
Katherine Underwood, Jane
Blackwell, Caroline Acme, Isabell
Dunklin, Frances Ellis', Susan Al­len,
Regina Ingram.
Carolyn Bartlett, Joy Seales,
Lil Anderson, Lillian Duffee, Betty
Phillips, Mary Johnson, Marie
Pike, Beth Barnes, Dot Punsley,
Ann Beddow, Marilyn Meagher,
Edith Cecil Carson, Annice Wat-kins,
Pat McDaniel, Elizabeth Mat­thews,
Laura Dixon.
Mary Lynch, Jean Wilson, Ann
Ellis, May King, Peggy Wright,
Margaret Loving, Jessie Turner,
Helen Miller, Inez Taylor, Frances
Foley, Becky Beeland, Jeanelle
Ray, Canal De Gruey, Almeta An­derson,
Margaret McCorkle, Shir­ley
DeGinther, Claire Davis, and
Ann Parham.
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The girls' intramural sports pro­gram
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now with basketball holding the
spot light. To date Dermitory 3
and Delta Zeta are holding the lead
in League A with Dormitory 3 hav­ing
one more game to play.
In League B, the Dana King
Gatchell Club managed to shut out
their competitors and fix for them­selves
a bracket in the semi-finals.
Mae Patton is the group leader.
Dormitory 2 is leading League
C and threatens the Town girls in
their last try for the semi-finals.
The outcome of this toss-up will
determine which group will enter
the finals.
League D has already placed
Theta Upsilon in the semi-final
group. They have won both games
played.
The tournament is scheduled to
reach the finals by March 25, after
which mass badminton will begin
for the next team sport.
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March 7, 1941 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Five
Sportsfans To S
Plenty of Action
Spring Brings Series of Track, Field,
Swimming, and Baseball Events Here
By REMBERT HOUSER
Auburn sportsfans, and of course this includes all of the
students, faculty members, and townspeople, are going to
have plenty of chances to see a lot of action before school
turns out for the summer. Three varsity track meets, an
Interscholastic Track and Field Carnival, a swimming meet,
arid twelve baseball games are scheduled to be held in'The
Lovely Little Village this spring.
An outstanding sporting event
Roster 1941 Spring Training Football Squad
Name Class Weight Home Town
CENTERS
"Tex Williams Junior 180 Llanerch, Fla.
Jack Ferrell Junior 175 Birmingham
Jim Pharr Sophomore 190 Fort Payne
Herbert Burton Sophomore 175 Jasper
Red Meadows Sophomore 175 Opelika
GUARDS
that is attracting widespread at­tention
is the Interscholastic Track
and Field Carnival to be held in
the new stadium April fifth. The
meet will be open to all boys that
are eligible under the Alabama
High School Association rules.
Twelve events make up the pro­gram
and attractive trophies and
medals will be presented to the
winners.
This will be the first meet to
be held on Auburn's new track that
is rated among the South's finest.
Coach Wilbur Hutsell personally
supervised the building of the
track and he saw to it that it is
complete in every detail. A quarter-mile
straight away that is the
widest in the South is just one of
the outstanding features of the
new track.
The three varsity track meets
will be with Mississippi State on
April twelfth, Florida on May
-third, and Georgia Tech on May
tenth.
There will be only one chance
this season to see the swimming
team in action in the local pool
and that will be on March seventh
when Georgia will journey over to
be defeated . . . we hope.
Baseball fans will have twelve
opportunities to see the great
American pastime a la Auburn
style. Six teams will face the
Tigers on the home diamond. The
home games scheduled are : Pur­due
on March 27, 28, 29. Michigan
State on March 31. Indiana on Ap­ril
3, 4. Georgia Tech on April 16,
17. Georgia on April 18, 19. Ogle­thorpe
on May 9, 10.
In the way of statistics here
are a few left over from basket
ball season. Auburn won thirteen
games and lost seven. The Tigers
sank 280 field goals out of 952
tries for a percentage of .294. Op-
"17" Is Voodoo
Number for "Shag"
At the close of the basketball
season the following article ap­peared
in The Montgomery Adver­tiser
under the heading "17 For
Hawkins". "Undoubtedly 17 is a
charm for Auburn's Shag Hawk­ins,
top scorer in the 1941 South­eastern
basketball race. He has
bagged this number of points in
five of the Tiger's games this sea­son
and has averaged a fraction
over 17 points per game in leading
the Big Twelve sharpshooters. He
is one of the greatest all-round
cagesters ever to play in the
South."
It seems as if the tournament
in Louisville wrecked Shag's charm
and made it work in reverse for
the day after the Tigers played
Alabama in the tournament the
following quotation was noticed in
The Advertiser. "Shag Hawkins
fouled out after just 17 minutes
had elapsed in the game between
Auburn and Alabama."
To top it all, there are exactly
17 letters in "Shag's" real name,
Earl Albert Hawkins.
Coaching Auburn's 1941 cage
squad was the Tigers foremost all-around
senior athlete during the
1931-32 term, Ralph Jordan, a na­tive
of Selma. Coach Jordan, a
three sport athlete, was a fine cen­ter
in football beneath the Auburn
banner; an outstanding forward
on the court, and a pitcher, out­fielder
and first baseman on the
diamond.
ponents of the Tigers took 1,023
tries for the basket with 257 of
them being good for a percentage
of .252. Auburn scored 708 points
while their foes chalked up 625.
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*Nick Ardillo Junior
*Max Morris Junior
Ben Park Junior
Fred Knight Sophomore
Vic Costellos Junior
Jack Cornelius Sophomore
Jimmy Rose Sophomore
Merrill Giradeau Sophomore
John Bridges Sophomore
Frank Bridges ...Sophomore
Bobby Long Sophomore
Ulus Light Sophomore
Otto Sikes Sophomore
182 Amite, La.
190 Blountsville
190 Axsen, Ga.
180 Cullman
165 Birmingham
185 -. Jasper
178 Florence
170 Montgomery
174 Birmingham
174 Birmingham
190 Birmingham
170 Arab
180 Wedowee
TACKLES
•Atlernate-Captain Francis Crimmins Senior
*John Chalkley . Senior
*Jim McClurkin Junior
*Joe Eddins Junior
Joe Cordell Junior
Jesse Ridgeway Sophomore
Elton Hinton Sophomore
Bill Schuler Sophomore
Homer Wesley Sophomore
Louis Chateau ._-. Sophomore
Earl Campbell Sophomore
Kenneth Bishop Sophomore
195 East Falls Church, Va.
195 Americus, Ga.
190 Birmingham
198 Birmingham
215 Hartwell, Ga.
195 Remlap
190 Jasper
195 Birmingham
215 Gadsden
205 New Orleans, La.
185 Crestview
210 Midway
Tigers To Play Two
1941 Games A t Home
ENDS
*James Samford Senior
*Theo Cremer Senior
*Henry Monsees Junior
Fagan Canzoneri Sophomore
Clarence Grimmett Junior
Dummy Barringtori Sophomore
Chois Dyar - Sophomore
Carl Fletcher ' Sophomore
Everett Harwell Sophomore
172 Montgomery
190 Birmingham
190 Savannah, Ga.
170 . Bessemer
183 Birmingham
165 Birmingham
185 " Guin.
180 Gadsden
170 Birmingham
QUARTERBACKS
"Captain Lloyd Cheatham Senior
"Buddy McMahan Senior
Jim Sims Junior
Aubrey Clayton Sophomore
Billy Barton Sophomore
Gene Barranieu Sophomore
Bobby Black Sophomore
186 Nauvoo
178 Tuscumbia
180 Moulton
180 Collierville, Tenn.
180 Montgomery
175 Cairo, Ga.
165 Birmingham
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HALFBACKS
•Clarence Harkins Junior
*Bill Yearout Junior
*Monk Gafford Junior
Charlie Finney L Junior
Buck Jenkins Sophomore
Tommy Kennell Sophomore
Jim Barganier Sophomore
Tommy Karam Sophomore
Jim Sansing Sophomore
David Lyon Sophomore
Don Wilkes Sophomore
175 Gadsden
188 Dyersburg, Tenn.
165 Fort Deposit
160 ! Buffalo
170 Birmingham
170 Elgin, 111.
172 1 Opelika
180 Lake Village, Ark.
180 Birmingham
170 Hayneville
165 Ocala, Fla.
*Ty Irby
"Jim Reynolds
Charlie Smith
Mark Rainer
Jim Conrad :
*Letterman.
FULLBACKS
Junior 180.
Junior 175.
Junior 185-
Sophomore 190.
Sophomore 190.
Eufaula
LaGrange, Ga.
Greenville
Livingston
._ Apopka, Fla.
Off the Runways
(Continued from page 2)
TUESDAY
The Civil Aeronautics Adminis­tration
alloted Alabama Air Ser­vice
in conjunction with A. P. I.,
an enlargement of the program in
the form of an Apprentice Instruc­tor
Course. Students who have
completed the C.P.T. Primary and
Advance curriculum will partici­pate.
Among those who will re­ceive
this 35 hour course in prac­tice
instructing are Bobby Nester,
Craig Jackson, Ed Allen, and
Handley Thigpen. Since this is
the first program of its type here,
unusually keen interest has been
shown in its initiation.
WEDNESDAY
Dr. J. Newdorp of the Alabama
State Health Dept. progresses nice­ly
in his course toward a private.
According to Mac Crenshaw, the
definition of a split second is the
time between the leveling off pro­cess
and the wheels touching the
ground.
Tollie Rogers flew down to Mont­gomery
for the week-end in the
Silver Streak.
Ask Charlie Ashmore if that
mud on the back of his riding
habit could have possibly gotten
there when he and his horse had
a sudden separation.
THURSDAY
New traffic rules for the airport
were drawn up and will be posted
on the hanger bulletin board.
Strict adherence to these plans of
flight is absolutely necessary both
in the interest of safety and also
to prevent confusion. The method
(such as is existing in Atlanta)
may be adopted—that of having
mimeographed copies of the field
rules available. If this is put into
effect each pilot's signature will
vouch for his familiarization with
the rules and field permits will be
issued.
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Meagher Releases
Ten-Came Schedule
9 In keeping with the resolve to
bring the Auburn football team
home to Auburn occasionally
Coach Jack Meagher has released
a 1941 grid schedule which shows
the Tigers playing two games be­fore
the home crowds. On October
11 Louisiana Tech will furnish the
opposition at Auburn Stadium
while Clemson's Tigers have been
slated for a reappearance at the
homecoming festivities on Novem­ber
29.
The roving Plainsmen will play
ten games during the coming sea­son,
one less than during the past
three years. Neither Boston College
nor Florida is on the Auburn card
this year. L.P.I, took the place of
one of the two and the other
empty space will come at the end
of the season, so the Tigers will
play from September 26 to Novem­ber
29 without a break.
Negotiations had previously been
underway for a return game with
Boston College's Eagles at Fen­way
Park in Boston but a suitable
date could not be found for the
meeting. Another team stricken
from the Plainsman slate due to
date and place conflicts was Texas
A. & M., Southwest Conference
champions for the last two years.
The Tigers will meet six con­ference
foes in Tulane, Georgia,
Georgia Tech, L.S.U., Mississippi
State, and Tulane. Three inter-sectional
games adorn the card,
these being rematches with South­ern
Methodist in Birmingham, Vill-anova
at Philadelphia, and Clemson
at Auburn.
LOST: Alpha Gamma Delta jew­eled
Sorority Pin with name
Billie Owens on back. Reward.
Alice Blair, Dorm. 3.
Auburn's 1941
Football Schedule
Sept. 26—Howard in Montgom­ery
(Friday night).
Oct. 4 Tulane in New Orleans.
Oct. 11 — Louisiana Tech at
Auburn.
Oct. 18—S. M. U. in Birming­ham.
Oct. 25—Georgia Tech in At­lanta.
Nov. 1—Georgia in Columbus.
Nov. 8—Miss State in Birming­ham.
Nov. 15 — L. S. U. in Baton
Rouge.
Nov. 22—Villanova in Philadel­phia.
Nov. 29—Clemson at Auburn
(Homecoming).
The "C" boys, Quarterback Lloyd
Cheatham, Nauvoo, and Tackle
Francis Crimmins, East Falls
Church, Va., have been elected
Captain and Alternate-Captain,
respectively, of Auburn's 1941
football squad. They succeed the
"M" boys, Captain Dynamite Dick
McGowen, Empire, an All-South­eastern
Conference halfback, and
Alternate-Captain Ernest Mills,
Columbus, Ga., a splendid guard.
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Page Six THE PLAINSMAN March 7, 1941
Purdue, Michigan State, Indiana
Baseball Teams To Appear Here
Tiger Baseballers
To Play 23 Games
Under the directorship of Coach
Jimmy Hitchcock Auburn's 1941
baseball squad has swung into reg­ular
daily practice sessions, point­ing
to the first game of March 27
against Purdue.
A colorful schedule has been out­lined
for the Plainsman team
which will bring aggregations of
the caliber of Purdue, Indiana,
Michigan State, Georgia,. Georgia
Tech, and Oglethorpe here for
games. Georgia, Georgia Tech,
and Florida will comprise the Ti­ger
conference slate.
Teams outside of the college cir­cuit
to face the Auburn sluggers
will be the Montgomery Rebels who
entertain the Tigers in a single
game on April 1, and the Fort
Benning nine, which is a two-day
host to the locals on April 25 and
26.
The schedule:
March 27, 28, 29—Purdue Uni­versity
in Auburn
March 31 — Michigan State in
Auburn
April 1 — Montgomery in Mont­gomery
April 4, 5 — Indiana University
in Auburn
April 9, 10 — Oglethorpe in At­lanta
.April 11, 12 —Georgia in Athens
April 16, 17 — Georgia Tech in
Auburn
April 18, 19 — Georgia in Au­burn
April 25, 16 — Fort Benning at
Fort Benning
April 28, 29 — Georgia Tech in
Atlanta
May 2, 3 — Florida in Gaines­ville
May 9, 10 — Oglethorpe in Au­burn.
Letters Will Go
To Five Auburn
Varsity Cagers
Four Juniors, One
Sophomore to Get
Basketball Awards
Shag Hawkins, Frank Manci,
Bob Dunbar, Marvin Motley, and
Fagan Canzoneri have been award­ed
major "A's" for basketball dur­ing
the 1941 season. Of the five
who lettered, all but Canzoneri are
juniors.
Both Hawkins and Manci earned
their letters for the second time
as they were members of the Au­burn
varsity last year. Dunbar,
Motley, and Canzoneri took early
places in the lineup at the start of
the season and have held them
since, frequently playing entire
games without relief.
The team was managed this
year by Charlie Rew, sophomore
from Auburn.
Junior Engineers
(Continued from page 1)
They will not have to take a writ­ten
test, but will be rated on their
education and will be given addi­tional
credit for graduate study in
engineering or for engineering ex­perience.
Further information and applica­tion
forms may be obtained from
the Secretary of the Board of U.S.
Civil Service Examiners at any
first- or second-class post office,
or from the U.S. Civil Service Com­mission,
Washington, D.C.
ATO's Initiate
Twelve New Members
Alpha Epsilon of ATO recently
initiated twelve men to member­ship.
New members of the chapter in­clude:
Ben Ash, Birmingham; Fred
Blankenship, Birmingham; Charles
Crane, Mobile; George Carter,
Sheffield; Jack Ford, Birmingham;
Dillon March, Mobile.
Charles Davis, Orlando, Fla.;
Joe Dean, Opelika; Z. A. Snipes,
Atlanta; Bigsby Snow, Birming­ham;
Eddie Wildsmith, Birming­ham,
and Tommy Galloway, Mo­bile.
HERE'S A BRIGHT
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A l w a y s come here for all your
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ROTC Engineering
(Continued from page 1)
Asst. Treasurer Robert Colvin,
a junior co-op engineer student,
Cadet Sergeant Major of Third
Battalion, Cadet Engineer Regi­ment.
These officers will hold their
positions until they have been
confirmed by the national chap­ter
of the society and then their
jobs will become permanent.
C. E. McMahan, G. T. Max­well,
and R. C. Stanfield were ap­pointed
to draw up by-laws and
a constitution, modeled after the
national constitutional but ap­plicable
to API. Lt. W. C. Eding-ton
has been designated as special
adviser to the Post.
Purposes of the Society include
the advancement of knowledge of
the science of military engineer­ing,
promoting efficiency in the
military engineer service of the
U.S. and maintaining its best
standards and traditions, and pre­serving
the memory of services
rendered by the engineering pro­fession
throughout the wars in
which the U.S. has been engaged.
The Society sponsors a maga­zine,
"The Military Engineer',
which is rated as one of the best
of its kind. It is the official organ
of the Corps of Engineers, U.S.
Army.
All three of Auburn's basket­ball
managers this season, Charlie
Rew, Bob Hodgson and Bob Mun-caster,
are graduates of Sidney
Lanier High School in Montgom­ery.
Rew, who now resides at Au­burn,
is the Tiger's varsity mana­ger
and Hodgson and Muncaster
are the plebe managers.
Patronize Plainsman advertisers.
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And this thrill lasts a lifetime, too—it's build­ing,
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Think h ow wonderful it would be for all the
family to live in a home that was built for in­dividual
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SPORTS PEN
By JOHN PIERCE
To supplement the long list of
sports events now booked to take
place at the Plains during the rest
of the school year an "A" Day
program has been mapped out
which promises to give a real in­side
preview on just what Auburn
has under cover in the athletic
departments. On Saturday after­noon
of "A" Day two football
contingents, the Orange and Blue,
will put on a full game-length
battle while the track squad whips
back and forth around the field
on Dixie's finest track.
The grid roiter on the ac­companying
sports page will
show the power in both weight
and numbers of the reserves
and regulars but it can't give
much idea as to what is ahead
in the future as regards the
games tactical aspects.
Coach Jack Meagher has come
out of a little huddle of his own
with a collection of new plays
from both the T and Notre Dame
formations which have dazzled
even the men who are testing
them out. Though plays were
used from both the systems last
season reports have it that some
of the newer combinations are
loaded with dynamite and primed
to make 1940 look like 1895. With
the four-star backfield now made
up of Harkins, Gafford, Cheat­ham,
and Irby pulling the trigger
on offense it looks like another
of those Auburn backfields com­ing
up.
Two or three issues back we
dove in and gave a few short
sketches on the guys who were
at the time playing, though al­most
unnoticed, basketball on
the same team with Shag Haw­kins,
of whom you have prob­ably
already heard somewhere.
A complaint or two hopped up
shortly afterwards says that
Dunbar, Motley, and Canzoneri
were listed but no Manci.
Truthfully, in apology to both
Frank and to the thousands of
Frank Manci fan clubs scattered
Record Concerts
(Continued from page 1)
ed to lend their records for a trial
playing in order to ascertain
whether or not they will be suit­able
for concert use.
Only classical music will be used.
The Players are eager for dupli­cate
recordings because they would
like to make use of the double turn­table
on their machine and thereby
achieve a smooth, unbroken pro­gram.
Definite announcements of dates
and time of programs will be made
later.
§mmii Sets the
piJf||! sty, e s t a»e
Ws^Ss Town and
%•-%% i ••?• Business
IJllf wear
Now showing on our
" S t y l e Stage," our
newest Jarman styles
are designed to go
properly w i t h y o ur
Town - and - Business
clothes. See these (and
other) styles today!
throughout the campus and world,
we can say that the works on him
was all there but disappeared be­neath
an editor with a pair of
scissors and an eye out for some
space.
For 'twould be a bit hard to
leave Mr. Manci out in any kind
of coverage of the basketball
team's merits, what with Frank
snapping back from his posi­tion
of eighth scorer in the SEC
last year to take scoring honors
close behind Shag Hawkins for
the second consecutive year.
This season he accounted for
180 points, a fourth of the
Plainsman total. He's played the
full time in about 15 of the 19
games and if you don't think
that's hard going then you don't
know basketball. Should be giv­en
even more credit in that eye
trouble makes it a bit tough for
him on the court without his
specs. His chief interest at the
Tournament last week was in
the way Tennessee's Mike Ba-litsaris
could play such bang-up
games with glasses on. Frank's
a fine ball player and a swell
guy and he'll be in at the same
spot next year.
Eleven Rats Receive
Basketball Numerals
Sigma Nu's Hold
Formal Initiation
The Auburn chapter of Sigma
Nu social fraternity held its for­mal
initiation Wednesday night,
February 26, for the following
twelve men: William Crawford,
Jr.; Duncan Liles, Jr.; Robert
Estes; Robert Mathews; Thomas
Mayes, Jr.; Robert Melton, Jr.;
James Overton; Edward Perry;
John A. Smith, Jr.; John Shaw;
Jack Thomas; and Lawrence Tuck­er.
After the initiation a meeting
was held in which Col. Laird, fac­ulty
adviser, made a short talk.
Other guests were Profs. Kendrick
and Fox.
Sally Rand recently lectured to a
student group at the University of
Minnesota on "The Value of White
Space in Advertising."
Squad Wins 19 of
25 Games Played
Eleven freshmen have been a-warded
numerals for their work
on the Auburn frosh basketball
team. This list includes ten play­ers
and manager Bob Muncaster.
Those who comprise the player a-ward
winning list are: Borland,
McKinney, Mitchell, Tyler, Cornel-ison,
Williams, Green, Cornell, Mc­Cain,
and Briscoe.
The record of the freshmen dur­ing
the '41 season was excellent.
Under the tutorship of Coach El­mer
Salter they played 25 games,
24 of them within a month's time,
and took 19 of the decisions. Teams
that defeated the frosh were the
Montgomery "Y", Pensacola "Y",
Naval Air Station of Pensacola,
Clanton High School, and Kinston
High. Both the Montgomery and
Pensacola "Y" teams were bested
by the rats in other encounters
during the season.
Fred Williams, talented co-op
eager, led all scorers with a 196
point total for the completed sched­ule.
He started out as a forward
and was later switched to the cen­ter
spot upon the withdrawal of
Chois Dyar from the team. He
scored in 22 of the 24 games in
which he played, averaging better
than eight points per game.
Individual scorers are as follows:
Williams ......196 Green 30
Cornelison 123 Lamb 14
Dyar 98 Tyler 14
Mitchell 89 Bishop 11
McKinney .... 84 Conrad 5
Briscoe 68 Hardin •» 2
Cornell 52 Owen 2
Borland 39 Penuel 2
McCain 33
During the season the freshmen
outscored all opponents by 261
points, ringing up 930 points as
against 669 for the opposition. The
season's scores:
Auburn
30, 39 Lanett 29, 24
39 Lee County High 14
49, 51 Columbus Millers 26, 32
37, 49 Phenix City 18, 11
38, 31 Lanier 21, 15
57 Auburn Independents 48
32, 32 Montgomery "Y" 45, 17
36, 36 Pensacola "Y" 29, 39
46, 24 Wetumpka 24, 15
30 Chadwick Gassers 24
39, 41 Opelika 23, 23
64 Eufaula 25
29 Kinston 32
20, 27 Naval Air Station 34, 39
32 Clanton High 41
22 Southern Junior College 21
Collegiate World
Dr. Oscar Kaplan, University of
California psychologist, predicts a
huge increase in mental disease of
the aged in America.
Students at the University of
Rochester are experimenting with
a combined junior yearbook for
their co-ordinate college.
Dr. Paul F. Kerr, professor of
mineralogy at Columbia university,
is on a six-month lecture tour of
several South American countries.
Dr. Hollis R. Upson of Duquesne
university is one of four persons in
the world working to translate the
liturgy of the Syrian Orthodox
church into English.
New York City college has set up
a student aid fund in memory of
the late Prof. Howard C. Green,
for 23 years director of the busi­ness
school evening session.
Half the men students and one-third
of the co-eds at the Univer­sity
of Nebraska are" either en­tirely
or partially self-supporting.
Southern California area of the
University of California extension
division recently added 17 new in­structors.
Fordham university has added
lecture courses on recent advances
in pharmacology and practice and
theory of first aid.
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