1941-04-15 The Plainsman

              Seniors,
Vote Wednesday!
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More Weeks!
"A UBURN—the friendliest college in the United States"
ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, APRIL 15, 1941 NO. 57
SPE's, Delta Zeta's
Win T Contest Cups
Co to-Church Month
Contest Results
Are Released
Sigma Phi Epsilon won the an­nual
YMCA Go-to-Church-Month
contest held during the month of
March with over ninety percent
attendance for the ten services.
Delta Zeta sorority won the
YWCA contest held at the same
time, with 76.7 percent attendance.
Second place winners in the
YMCA contest were the members
of Kappa Sigma fraternity, who
tallied 56.6 percent attendance for
the month.
Theta Upsilon copped second
place in the YWCA contest, scor­ing
70.9 percent.
YMCA president Mohns Thorn­ton
announced last night that cups
would be awarded to the winners
of the two contests next week, the
time to be announced later, at a
joint meeting of the YMCA and
the YWCA.
The contest was held for one
month, with members of fraterni­ties
and sororities attending both
the morning and evening services
of any church, and signing their
names at the door of the church
to show their attendance. At the
end of the month the totals of at­tendance
for the ten services were
added, and an average obtained by
dividing the number of members in
the fraternity or sorority by the
number attending church.
Fraternity and sorority mem­bers
who attended out-of-town
church services during the month
were counted as present.
Third place in the fraternity
division went to Beta Kappa, which
trailed Kappa Sigma by only 1.6
percent, with a total of 55 per­cent
attendance.
Sorority third place was won by
Phi Omega Pi, the total attend­ance
being 23.3 percent.
Fraternity fourth went to Alpha
Psi, who scored 37.2 percent.
Omega Tau Sigma came fifth
with 34.4 percent. Sixth place was
taken by Alpha Gamma Rho, with
27 percent.
President Thornton, of YMCA,
stated last night that he wished
to acknowledge the help of offi­cers
and members of both YMCA
and YWCA for making the con­test
possible. "Also," he said, "I'd
like to thank the members of the
student organizations of the vari­ous
churches, for their cooperation
in keeping attendance records
straight."
Rules for the annual contest
were as follows:
Fraternities and sororities were
required to send lists of actives
and pledges to YMCA and YWCA
officials before the beginning of
the month.
Members of fraternities and so­rorities
identified themselves to the
ushers at the doors of the churches,
giving their fraternity affiliations.
Members who were out of town,
and who went to church in other
towns, obtained signed and dated
statement from the minister of the
church they attended, stating that
they were present at that service.
The contest lasted for the five
Sundays in the month of March.
The percentage of attendance
each Sunday for each fraternity
and sorority was averaged, and
the fraternity and sorority having
the highest percentage, will be
awarded a cup.
Both morning and evening ser­vices
counted in the contest.
Student Forced to
Emergency Landing
Henry Britt Slightly
Injured in Accident
Henry Britt, fourth year stu­dent
in mechanical engineering
from Eufaula, gave out of gas
in a training plane last week-end,
and had to make a forced landing
near Chewacla Park.
The landing gear of the plane
was washed out, and the wing was
damaged, as the plane nosed over,
landing upside down. Britt was
not hurt in the landing, but fell
on his head when he released the
safety belt, and sustained neck in­juries.
Sweetheart Special
Social to Be Held
In Baptist Church
The Baptist Student Union will
hold its spring social next Friday
night at 6:45 in the basement of
the Baptist church. Several promi­nent
guests have been invited and
a full program of entertainment
has been planned for the students
attending.
The banquet and social will carry
out the theme of a giant strato-liner
called the "Sweetheart Spec­ial".
All of the decorations will be
in harmony with this idea.
Dan Wiley, Negro
Skater, Gives
Impressive Show
Booked by a number of frater­nities
and civic organizations here,
Dan Wiley, world champion Negro
roller skater, can display a brief
case full of recommendations
from all parts of the country.
Wiley gives a ten minute dem­onstration
of fancy skating which
is generally described as a clean,
skillful exhibition of extraordin­ary
muscular coordination.
Wiley, now 52 years old, has
been traveling about the country
as a professional skater for more
than 30 years. He still uses his
first pair of skates, which are now
35 years old.
His specialties include the Air­plane
Whirl, which is a lengthy
pirouette on one skate; the Com­bination
Whirl; and the Wiley
Special, an extremely complicated
bit of gymnastics the mechanics
of Vhich we do not fully under­stand.
Wiley's demonstrations are giv­en
in free will, and the hat is
passed afterwards.
Wiley's claim to the world
championship of roller skating a-rises
from his winning of tourna­ments
in DesMoines in 1918, in
Cleveland in 1920, and in New
York in 1923.
| Chi Epsilon Taps
Honorary Member
J. L. Land, Materials
Engineer, Is Chosen
Chi Epsilon, honorary civil en­gineering
fraternity, which an­nounced
the tapping of four stu­dents
last week, has tapped one
more man as honorary member.
He is Mr. J. L. Land, materials
engineer with the State Highway
Department.
"Uncle Jimmy," as he is famil­iarly
known, has been with the
highway department since its or­ganization.
The officers of Chi Epsilon are'
Sam Pettus, president; Bill Mit­chell,
vice-president, and Buck
Freeland, secretary and treasurer.
Tau Kappa Alpha
Initiates Three
Moore, Guillot, and
Hall Are New Members
Tau Kappa Alpha, honorary de­bating
society, initiated three men
at its meeting on April 7. The new
men were William (Billy) Moore,
Hoyt Hall, and Bob Guillot.
Billy Moore, junior in the
School of Agriculture from Sel-ma,
is the vice-president of the
Student Executive Cabinet and
was recently elected to president
of that body for next year. Moore
is a member of the Kappa Alpha
social fraternity and was tapped
by Scabbard and Blade, honorary
military organization for juniors
and seniors in ROTC, this spring.
Hoyt Hall is a junior in Veter­inary
Medicine and is from Pinel­las,
Florida. Hall is on the track
team and a member of the "A"
Club.
Bob- GtrHiot- is a member «f the
Pi Kappa Phi social fraternity. He
is a sophomore from Dothan and
is taking Pre-Law.
Officers of Tau Kappsi Alpha
are Archie C. Allen, president;
Kirk Newell, vice-president; Char­les
Dubberley, secretary; and
James McBroom, treasurer.
Annual Engineers'
Banquet to Be Held
Thursday Night
The Auburn Engineering Coun­cil
will hold its annual banquet
Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. in
the Green Room of the Pitts Ho­tel.
Leroy Thompson, senior in
Chemical Engineering from Green­ville
and president of the Coun­cil,
will preside over the banquet
as toastmaster.
The feature of the banquet will
be the induction of new officers
who will be elected at the meet­ing
of the Council tomorrow night.
Senior Class Ballots Tomorrow
Phi Lambda Upsilon Announces Ten V o t e o n D a n c e a nd
New Members Tapped Last Week
Seven Juniors, Three
Grads Are Honored
Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary
chemical society, last week tap­ped
seven juniors and three grad­uate
students for membership.
Men honored were George Pal­frey
Tait, Charles August Miller,
John H. McArthur, Donald Clifton
Wells, Roscoe E. Barringer, Frank
N. Browder, Benjamin H. Craig,
Thomas Spencer Hostetter, Fran­cis
A. Woolfley, and John L.
Downing.
George Tait, a graduate student
in chemical engineering, is from
Birmingham.
Charles Miller is a graduate
chemical engineering student from
Linden.
John McArthur is another chem­ical
engineering graduate student,
a member of Sigma Nu, and is
from Moultrie, Ga.
Donald Wells is a member of
AIChE from Selma, and is a jun­ior
in chemical engineering.
Roscoe Barringer, a member of
AIChE, is from Loachapoka. He
is a junior in chemical engineer­ing.
Frank Browder is also a junior
in mechanical engineering, and is
a member of AIChE. He is from
Montgomery.
Ben Craig, junior in chemical
engineering, is a member of AI­ChE.
He is a Phi Delta Theta from
Florence.
Thomas Hostetter, a junior in
chemical engineering, is from Tus-kegee.
Francis Woof ley, junior in chem­ical
engineering, is a member of
AIChE and Lambda Chi Alpha
social fraternity. He is from Ft.
Benning, Ga.
John Downing, another junior
in mechanical engineering, is a
member of AIChE, and is from
Atmore.
Static in Your Radio?
Would you like to have your ra­dio
static investigated and possi­bly
eliminated absolutely free of
charge? A group of co-operative
students are making an investiga­tion
of static in radios in and
around Auburn. If you have any
unusually bad static and are in­terested
in eliminating it, please
send your name and address to J.
H. McClanahan, 309 Alumni Hall,
Auburn, not later .than Saturday.
Women's Convocation
There will be a convocation for
all women students Thursday
morning at 11 o'clock at the Meth­odist
Church.
Southern Student
Federation Meet
To Be in Atlanta
Heads of Student
Government and Student
Publications to Meet
The annual convention of the
Southern Student Federation of
southern colleges and universities
will be held in Atlanta, Ga., from
April 24 through April 26. Heads
of student body governments and
student publications from all over
the south will attend the meet­ing
in Atlanta.
• The student government heads
that will go to the convention
from Auburn will be James A.
King of Rome, Ga., 1940-41 presi­dent
of the Executive Cabinet and
Student's Undergraduate Associa­tion;
Billy Moore, who is the new­ly
elected president and old vice-president
of the Executive Cabi­net
from Selma; Elizabeth Wheel­er,
Birmingham, president of the
Women's Student Government As­sociation
for the past year; and
Nelle Gilchrist, the new president
of the Women's Student Govern­ment
from Courtland, Alabama.
Representatives of the Auburn
Glomerata that will attend the
meeting are William (Trigger)
McGehee, of Tullahoma, Tenn.,
and Joe Meadows, of Opp, the old
and new editors of the year book.
Kirk Newell, Birmingham, and
Sam Nettles, Tunnel Springs, will
be the representatives from the
business staff of the Glomerata.
Newell is business manager of the
1940-41 yearbook and Nettles will
be the 1941-42 business manager.
Plainsman representatives that
will accompany the Auburn dele­gation
are Bob Anderson, Monte-vallo;
Warren G. Darty, Lake
Wales, Fla.; Jimmy Rouse, Mont­gomery;
Willard Hayes, Maples-ville;
Herbert Martin, Auburn;
and John Pierce, Fort Benning,
Ga.
Anderson is the newly elected
editor of the Plainsman for next
year and has been serving as edit­or
of the current issues since the
resignation of Dan Hollis. Warren
Darty is the present business man­ager
and Jimmy Rouse is the new­ly
elected business manager for
the 1941-42 Plainsman.
Hayes is the present managing
editor, Martin is the associate
editor and columnist, and John
Pierce is the sports editor.
PRESENTING...
PAN-AMERICAN DAY exercises yesterday were colorful, well
attended. Jimmy Gilbert tells the story on page 3 of this issue.
UNDERRATED TIGER TRACKSTERS took Saturday's meet from
the Rebs of Mississippi State by a big margin. Officials say it was
the best meet in Auburn in quite a while. Manager Warren Fleming
elaborates on page 4.
TWO MORE TOUGH GAMES for Auburn's baseballers this week,
as the Tigers tackle some crackers from Georgia. Sports Editor Pierce
shoots the dope on page 4.
INTRAMURAL TRACK MEET began and finished the fraternity
and independent track season. See page 4.
SENIOR DANCE OR NOT? is the question seniors will vote on
tomorrow. On this page.
WORLD CHAMPION SKATER Dan Wiley, negro, is in Auburn
this week, giving free will engagements. Offers to show at frat
houses. On this page.
YMCA-YWCA TO GIVE CUPS to the winners of the fraternity,
sorority go-to-church-month contest. Upper left.
THE BOMB SHELTER behind Samford isn't a bomb shelter, but
a cistern, says Martin, on page 2.
EDITORIALLY SPEAKING, Spring is here, something should be
done about elections, and so forth. Page 2.
ODK Miscellany Be Held Week
From Tonight in Langdon Hall
Soprano, Rockettes,
And Glee Clubs to
Offer Entertainment
By WILMER WHITE
(Editor's Note: The annual
ODK Musical Miscellany will be
held one week from tonight, in
Langdon Hall. This is the third
article of a series describing the
entertainers booked for the pro­gram
of that night.)
Jean Byrd
Do you like soprano? No! Well,
maybe you think you don't, but
the way Jean Byrd sings it is dif­ferent
— and everybody likes it.
Perhaps you belong to the group
of people who classify all vocalists
in two divisions—those who sing
soprano, and those who sing music.
If so, before you come to the
Musical Miscellany you'd better
build up a plentiful supply of
prejudice, for when Miss Byrd be­gins
to sing, opposition melts like
icebergs in Ethopia, and before
she is half through with her selec­tions
your resistance will look like
the Italian army.
The young lady with the high
pitched pipes comes from Phenix
City, and during her stay at Au­burn
last year carved quite a place
for herself in musical circles on
the campus. Those who know her
need no coaxing, but to those who
don't, we can promise "she's de­lightful,"
and "the gal is good."
The Rockettes
This number is produced with
the understanding that any acci­dents
which occur, bruised shins,
dislocated hips, etc., shall in no
way be the fault of the producer
(identity held secret for reasons
of personal safety). He is hereby
relieved of all responsibility. The
chorus includes such campus fav­orites
as "Toots" McCabe, "Dim­ples"
Deming, "Flossie" Darty,
and "Babe" Wilson, not to men­tion
such well known cuties as
the Misses King, McGehee, Roby,
Stratford, Britt, Newell, McGehee,
Wender, and Young.
Seldom has such a cast of well
known names been presented
here, and we warn all older men
with weak hearts to take seats
near the rear of the auditorium.
Each year this number main­tains
its reputation as being, as
the critics say, "The most exquis­ite
example of imperfection ever
produced on the stage."
And it may be added that any
resemblance to any chorus girls,
either living or dead, of any race
or creed whatsoever, is uninten­tional
and purely coincidental.
Glee Clubs
In an effort to restore order
after the act of the Rockettes, the
Auburn Glee Clubs will present
several selections. The Glee Club
makes only a few appearances
each year, and this is the oppor­tunity
for most students to see
them at their best. To prove that
the boys and girls really can sing,
they are going to offer £fc varied
program of classic, folk, and pop­ular
songs. There will also be a
mixed number with twenty-five
coed voices and thirty male voices.
The Glee Clubs are under the
direction of Professor Lawrence
Barnett, who has been serving as
their leader for the past six years.
From the best information a-vailable,
we can promise you that
neither club will sing "The- Three
Blind Mice."
Senior Barbecue
Class Meeting Will Be Held Thursday
Night to Discuss Results of Balloting
By HERBERT MARTIN
Senior class members will have an opportunity tomor­row
to express their opinions concerning the proposed
senior dance and barbecue which is to take the place of
the Final Dances, according to Sam Pettus, president of
the class.
Ballot boxes will be placed at three places on the
campus. One will be on Ag Hill, one at Vet Hill, and the
third either at the Main Gate or in Student Center, ac­cording
to weather conditions.
It is urged that all seniors avail
themselves of the opportunity to
vote on this question, and every, ef­fort
will be made to make it as
convenient as possible for students*
to go to the polls.
Seniors will be asked whether
they favor the dance and barbecue,
and whether they plan to attend.
Also, the hour of the barbecue, if
one is held, will be decided to­morrow.
Tentative times have been
set as noon or late in the afternoon,
and seniors are asked to choose be­tween
them.
There will be a senior class meet­ing
Thursday night in Langdon
Hall at eight o'clock to discuss re­sults
of the balloting. Senior offi­cers
are anxious that all seniors
attend who can possibly make it,
in order that the wishes of the
seniors may be carried out.
Plans for the functions will be
presented, as well as the results
of the voting, and any parts not
understood by class members will
be explained.
There has been some question as
to whether or not seniors may
bring dates from other classes, or
whether senior boys must bring
senior girls or go stag. Sam Pet­tus
stated that any senior may be
accompanied by anyone he or she
desires to date. One senior in a
couple will make that couple eli­gible
for the dance and barbecue.
Tentative prices for the barbe­cue
have been set at 65 cents per
plate, or two plates for one dollar
and 25 cents. Dance prices have
been currently set at 75 cents per
couple.
The plan to hold a senior dance
and barbecue instead of the usual
Final Dances was made when the
financial advisers of the Social
Committee stated that the major
dance sets have been losing money
steadily, and a poll of seniors re­vealed
that not enough students
were interested to warrant backing
of Final Dances this year.
It was felt that, although the
Senior Ball as such could not be
financed, some recognition of this
type should be given the senior
class, and that one dance, with
music by a local orchestra, and
possibly a barbecue, could be fi­nanced
if interest justified this.
The lower price of admission
will make it possible for students
to attend who could not have af­forded
the higher priced dances,
and it is thought that more seniors
will be able to take advantage of
these functions than would have
been able to take part had the
Final Dances been held.
The date of the dance is unde­cided
as yet, but it will be either
on April 26 or March 3. The exact
date will be announced as soon as
arrangements have been complet­ed.
Library List of New Books for Week
Of March 27 to April 2 Is Released
New Book List Given
Weekly; Have Contained
Over 100 Each Week
Each week for the past year the
library of API has released a list
of new books added to the six
campus libraries. Each of these
lists have contained the names of
over a hundred new books. •
Latest list released is for the
week of March 27 to April 2, and
contains the following books:
Main Library
Horgan, "The Return of the
Weed." Miller, "Sam Adams, Pio­neer
in Propaganda." Muzzey,
"James G. Blaine." Vernadskii,
"Lenin: Red Dictator." Nichols,
"Franklin Pierce." Harrington,
"Modern Feature Writing." Skin­ner,
"Child Psychology."
Hartshorne, "From School to
College." GoodSpeed, "The Four
Pillars of Democracy." More, "The
Catholic Faith." More, "The Skep­tical
Approach to Religion." Zim-mern,
"Spiritual Values and World
Affairs." Glover, "The Influence
of Christ in the Ancient World."
Mannheim, "Man and Society in
An Age of Reconstruction." Phil­lips,
"Adventuring in Democracy."
Hansen, "The Immigrant in
American History." U. S. WPA,
"Migrant Families." U. S. WPA,
"Rural Migration in the U. S."
Spiegel, "Land Tenure Policies at
Home and Abroad." Jackson, "The
Struggle for Judicial Supremacy."
U. S. WPA, "State Public Welfare
Legislation." Burgess, Who Walks
Alone." Eells, "Teachers Salaries
and the Cost of Living." Smith,
"A Guide to Guidance." California
Elementary School Principal's
Association, "Children's Interests,"
"The Elementary Principal as
Supervisor in the Modern School,"
and "Guidance in the Elementary
School."
Reason, "The Road to Modern
Science." Shepherd, "Science
Marches On." Roters, "Electromag­netic
Devices." Shand, "Earth
Lore," Stanford, "Man and the
Living World." Hooten, "Why Men
Behave Like Apes and Vice Ver­sa."
Thomson, "Concerning Evo­lution."
Hylander, "Plants and
Man." Writer's Program, Penn­sylvania,
"Life in an Ant Hill"
and "Salmon." Haggard, "The Doc­tor
in History."
Shohl, "Mineral Metabolism."
U. S. Public Health Service, "Com­municable
Diseases." Kirby, "The
Early Years of Modern Civil En­gineering."
U. S. WPA, "Chang­ing
Aspects of Rural Life", and
"Rural Families on* Relief." Pat-ton,
"Raising Fur-Bearing Ani­mals."
{Writer's program, Penn­sylvania,
"Gold."
Sprague, "Better Lawns." Pen­cil
Points (Periodical), "TVA Ar­chitecture."
Olson, "Old Buttons
and Their Values." Gilies, "Popu­lar
Home Decoration." Harbin,
"The Fun Encyclopedia." Hart,
"Invitation to Fun." Brown, "Ne­gro
Poetry and Drama." Hay,
"This, My Letter." Percy, "Select­ed
Poems." Knight, "The Burning
Oracle." Gilbert, "James Joyce's
Ulysses." Plautus, "Three Plays."
Perkins, "Man's Advancing Civil­ization."
Raper, "Sharecropper's
All." Slaughter, "Roman Por­traits."
"Book of the Ranks and
Dignitaries of British Society."
Grinnell, "The Cheyenne Indians."
Hicks, "The American Nation."
Parkes, "Recent America."
Agriculture Library
Banks, "The Economics of Land
Tenure in Georgia." Richardson,
"ABC of Cooperatives." Sanders,
"An Outline of British Crop Hus­bandry."
Titus, "The Scientific
Feeding of Chickens."
Page Two T H E P L A I N S M AN April 15, 1941
Pan-American Day Elections Again CAMPUS CAMERA
A large student audience attended
the Pan-American Day exercises held
yesterday at the Stadium! Many of them
were required to go, or be marked ab­sent
from their classes. If they hadn't
been required to go, there wouldn't have
been a large student audience. '
Everyday, on this campus and doubt­less
on all the campuses of the nation,
some student remarks that he'd like to
go to South America to make a career
for himself. Students admit that vast op­portunities
for the future lie in South
America. They not only admit, they
state with confidence that South Ameri­ca
is the land of the future, a compara­tively
new frontier for modern develop­ment.
Yet they don't seem to be interested
in better relations with that country—
they don't seem interested in learning
about the opportunities there, the lan­guage,
the people, their problems and
their steadily progressing development.
They wouldn't have been interested
enough in these things to attend yester­day's
exercises if they hadn't b e en
forced to.
, Yesterday's speeches—the Pan-Amer­ican
Day program events in general —
were not only interesting. They were in­structive.
There was lots that could have
been learned from such a program, even
by those who weren't remotely consider­ing
a future in South America.
Yesterday's main speaker, Dr. Alfaro,
was one who knew South American
problems and interests. He was once
president of the country which is. per­haps
most important to us—in this hem­isphere—
most important because neces­sity
demands that good relations be­tween
the United States and Mexico be
continued and expanded.
And yet the majority of Auburn stu­dents
wouldn't have taken the trouble
to walk four or five blocks to the sta­dium
to hear him if they hadn't been
forced to by fear of excess absences.
Dr. Alfaro told of the advancements
made since the establishment of the Pan-
American Union, fifty-one years ago, to­ward
better relations between the Unit­ed
States and the nations to the south
of this country. »
And Auburn students slept, or at best
squirmed and wiggled under the Spring
sun, while he spoke.
Prologue to Spring Fever
Spring officially began several weeks
ago, according to the calendar. Accord­ing
to Auburn students, it began last
Wednesday.
Wednesday the annual homeward
trek and Easter celebration began for
four thousand Auburnites.
When Auburn students left the camp­us,
it was rather barren of those things
which are 'sure signs of Spring'. But nar
ture held Spring Cleaning over the holi­days,
and Monday morning school-goers
gaped wonderingly at leafy trees, new-green
grass, buds in profusion—and a
warm sun.
By mid-day yesterday the students
had donned sport shirts, summer, dress­es,
white shoes, moccasins, and even a
few bathing suits. Professors were re­splendent
in light-toned suits, straws,
and white shoes.%
All those things heralded the coming
of actual Spring.
But the thing which makes assurance
doubly sure—that tells for certain that
Spring is here—is the simple fact that
whoever opens and locks the doors at
the Post Office has at last opened all
three front doors for the public.
The recent campus elections proved
beyond a doubt that the rules and con­stitutional
revisions which have been
thus far established by the Executive
Cabinet, though much improved over
former rules, are yet far from being ade­quate.
The Cabinet stated in its official last
meeting minutes that there would be an
attempt to revise these rules further—
to further amend the constitution to re­move
"loopholes" existing in the-present
set-up.
We hope the Cabinet does so.
Campus elections can never be per­fect,
of course. Perhaps they shouldn't
be. Perhaps they should be made slight­ly
imperfect, so that students will be
used to corrupt politics — with which
they may have to contend after gradua­tion.
But we don't think so. We think that
campus politics can and should be made
as nearly perfect as possible—to serve
as a model for the future voters and
office-holders of the nation. Students
who learn clean politics in college will
be more likely to practice clean politics
in life—and to perhaps insist that others
practice clean politics.
The Cabinet will no doubt attempt to
clarify the rulings about political adver­tising—
to remove the opportunities for
students to even write their names and
prospective offices by hand for the vot­ers
to read. If there must be rulings
against advertising candidacy, there
must be exact rulings.
We are in favor of abolishing all writ­ten
and printed political advertising.
But we are also in favor of open class
mass meetings, open political rallies, at
which politicians may express their pros­pective
programs, their platforms, their
aims and ideas, and at which students
who are interested may meet their can­didates
face to face, see who they are
and hear their ideas.
Such a program needs no constitution­al
change. It is not illegal, as the consti­tution
stands to day. It only needs the
initiative and support of future candi­dates.
What Do You Think?
In a recent article Mahatma Gandhi
asks "What will tomorrow's world be
like?". He answers that it must be a so­ciety
based on nonviolence. "It may
seem a distant goal, an impractical
Utopia," he admits. "But it is not in the
least unobtainable."
Gandhi's hope for the future revolves
around the individual. He says that an
individual can adopt the way of life of
the future—the nonviolent way—with­out
having to wait for others to do so.
"And if an individual can do it, cannot
whole groups of individuals? Whole na­tions?"
Tomorrow's world depends upon the
people as a whole, but the whole is only
a sum of its parts. And we are the parts.
If our tomorrow's world is to be one
of nonviolence, what must we do today?
Do you harbor the idea that "What I
think makes little difference. In fact, it
makes little difference whether I think" ?
If you do, to get rid of this mistaken
idea is the first step, for it is important
that you think and what you think.
Let's think out this question of vio­lence
or nonviolence. Let's form our own
convictions and take our stand.—V.S.
Now that most of the radio stations
have moved down the dial a ways, the
push buttons are about as much good as
a campused gal friend in spring.
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By BERTA CAMPBELL
Familiar scenes around the airport were included in the "Real
Life" picture, designed to show various local activities. As was expect­ed,
the contrasting planes supplied the most interesting note. In case
you wondered, Frances Wilson was at the controls of the ship making
that humorous take-off backwards (made possible by trick photogra­phy).
Inst. W. G. Rhodes did the flying at the time the cameraman
was shooting from the air.
* * * *
The mechanical staff of Alabama Air Service has a new member,
John C. Renfroe of Dothan, Alabama. Thumbnail biography would in­clude
schooling at California's Curtiss-Wright Tech, and he came to
us from Eastern Airlines. Tall, dark and more than half way hand­some,
it's no use girls. The Mrs. is formerly the attractive Cecil
Meadows, who was a career girl with an enviable record before the
"I do". Incidentally, she could afford to congratulate brother Joe
Meadows, next year's annual editor, with a great big hug. We're pretty
happy over the whole thing out here too.
* * * *
Also we can confine our political efforts to having that bad stretch
of road between the airport and highway paved or scraped, now that
Francis Crimmins is all set as Social Committee Chairman. We want
to drop him the gentle hint that flying is an activity holding its own
socially these days.
* * * *
Lumpkin once accused this of being a gossip column and right or
wrong, it's congratulations de luxe and a slap on the back for Bill
Fowler—it was a fine boy.
Relations between Columbus and Auburn continue to progress.
Ralph Swaby and Cecil Gibson, both enrolled in our Instructors Acro­batic
Course, fly over here every morning for their six o'clock schedule.
And last week the Auburn flyers accepted the Columbus pilot's invi­tation
to fly over for breakfast. Reports come that plans are already
being made for another get together. Margaret Tigner, writer of
"Wings Over Columbus," the Ledger column, made the whole thing
sound so pleasant that I'm still unhappy 'bout missing the trip. And
A. L. Lumpkin makes a weekly trip over. He is teaching ground school
for Swaby School of the Air, reporting an enthusiastic group of 60 stu­dents.
If you want to put two and two together, figure out why
Justice, our janitor, invested in a chauffeurs cap.
* * * *
John Rencher and Charles Roberts finally came to an agreement
on the sweater proposition. John managed to sell it to Charles for the
rumored sum of 10 net 2 net 60 (that's 4 bits to you). Wonder how
he did it.
* * * *
Unmistakable signs of spring: Wilbur Stokes suggesting a violet
picking trip up some of these streams (which look so romantic from
the air according to Stokes) to guess who. . . . Students recalling
how last summer's bunch flew without shirts and the Cub side en­closures
open. . . . Bessie Taylor in cotton dresses. . . . Brittian being
glad that he is here in the Sunny South instead of that snow country
he comes from. . . . Frasier Fortner in a white sport shirt. . . . Stanley
Kennedy in a spring blue Mercury cruising around the coed territory.
People standing around in line before the water fountain.
That Cistern
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed
in th.s column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the ed­itorial
policies of this paper.
We hope your holidays brought
you the greatest in pleasure and
that you found enough Easter aigs
to make the poultry industry feel
a severe let-down. And now, pray,
let us hear no more about them.
* * *
For now is the time for all good
men to come to the aid of their
school work.
* * *
The Murphy Hi Times, high
school paper which copped first
prize in the journalism contest
held here recently, reprinted this
verse which it lifted from the Sid­ney
Lanier White and Blue.
"Together they sat
On a lonely bench
In the park;
Together they sat
So close in the dark.
The breeze blew gently
The moon shone above
'Twas a warm summer evening
A night made for love.
He snuggled up closer,
They kissed in the dark
He licked her sweet face
And let out a bark."
* * *
We hate to be the kind of per­son
who would notice this, but
the lapel flags passed out to stu­dents
of 21 for Citizenship Day
bore the neat label, "Made in Ja­pan".
* * *
That's like borrowing jerseys
from the Jackets for the Tech
football game. We think, if it's
really true that the United States
is not capable of manufacturing
her own flags, we might at least
pick some country to furnish them
with which we are not almost at
war.
* * *
King Victor Emanuel (we've
probably got the name wrong, and
if we're headed right, it's prob­ably
spelled wrong. But you see
it so seldom!) of Italy, can't do a
heap of kinging, and he has to ask
permission to put on his crown,
but he's monarch of all he sur­veys.
He's the only king on record
who has to shine his "subordi­nates'
" boots . . . with his chin.
We bet he'd get a big kick out
of having a real honest-to-good-ness
soldier give him a real
honest-to-goodness salute without
giving the impression that he's
just doing it as a joke: -.
* * *
Of course, there's the tale that
the army officers, the old ones,
are still royalists to the core, and
that these are the sole reason he
is still on the throne. This may
be true, but we think we'd swap
the throne off for a kitchen chair
that we could call our own, and
prop our feet on the table from
" without getting written permis­sion.
* * . *
Don't look for news or features,
as the number of ads blended in
the Plainsman pages prohibits the
use of them.
* * *
Indelicate observation . . . Hen­ry
Ford may be a motor magnate
to the great American public, but
he's just a labor' maggot to the
CIO.
* * *
Karrie, with increasing alarm,
recently took stock of her rapidly
increasing kin. She found, besides
cousins Sal, the School Sage, and
Phoebe, the Pheverish Philcher in
the Plasmodium, several other
members of the blood line around
the country.
There was a Karrie, the Kamp-us
Kutie speaking her bit for the
New Mexico State College Round-
Up some time back.
An Eastern college paper fea­tures
Lois, the Lazy Lover.
And the Opelika Daily News,
in an occasional column of high
school briefs, has sprouted a Phil,
the Prophesying Philosopher. Kar­rie,
proud wench, doesn't recog­nize
Phil. Says Karrie, scathingly,
"A better name for that lad would
be Phil, the Paralytic Parasite!"
* * *
The ole cistern is not a bomb
shelter. Neither is it a group of
sorority members.
* * *
Karrie, the Kampus Kompact
Kid, warns, "Please replace your
divots these warm spring evenings,
girls. That's what compacts are
for." Karrie, tch, tch!
The Filch Column
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Workers preparing the slope behind Samford Hall for an approach­ing
construction of steps were surprised last Tuesday when a pick bit
into the earth and disappeared.
An investigation of the case of the missing pick revealed the open­ing
to an abandoned cistern, which in earlier times served to store
rain water falling from the roof of the building.
After clearing away the concealing dirt, workers found the cistern
to be about 25 feet in diameter, according to Mr. Sam Brewster, di­rector
of grounds and buildings, and the tank was about 20 feet deep,
with seven feet of water standing in it. There was an opening at
the top around two feet across.
The history of the cistern has not been definitely ascertained, but
it is believed to have been built about the same time as Samford Hall,
which would place its birth somewhere near 1857. However, Samford
burned in 1887, and was rebuilt the following year, so it is possible
that this is when the tank was constructed.
Three drain pipes from the building connected with the cistern, and
a pump was formerly over it. The rain water was purified and used
as drinking water by Auburn students as late as 1916.
Mr. Brewster says that they plan to cover the tank and build steps
over it. First, however, an opening will be made at the foot of the
tank, in order that water may be drained from it.
The discovery was a surprise to all concerned, and at first no one
seemed to know quite where it came from. A railing was placed around
the open cistern for the safety of spectators, and the crowd which
remained throughout the day would rival that of the famous Associated
Sidewalk Foremen organized by the younger Rockefeller during the
construction of Rockefeller center.
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.
The filcher is back at his desk,
and as he sits down once again to
pound out a column on his bat­tered
old typewriter, he wishes
to thank the wit who graciously
consented to pinch hit by filling
the last appearance of this space
with filchered trash. The wit was
made up of two half wits—those
famous and outstanding examples
. of grotesque humanity, he of the
slender appendages Herbert "Bird
Legs" Martin, and the Fairfield
Hotshot, he of the carrot-topped
cranium George "Pinky" Heard.
Thanks "pals", that was a fine job
of journalistic sabotage.
* * * «
There's always the problem of
the co-ed whose boy friend ask*
her to dine with him at his frater­nity
house. Different girls meet
this problem in various ways. If
it is her first invitation of such
a nature, she is thrilled beyond
words, and scared half to death.
After the first of such experi­ences,
the thrill is gone, but the
fright reappears , with each new
invitation.
* * *
Cutie Coeds' first evening at a
fraternity house will be spent in •
trying to look as appetizing to her
date's fraternity brothers as the
food on the table looks to her.
As a result the meal drags on with
her doing most of the talking and
she leaves the table with a "simply
ravenous" appetite.
» * *
Some girls, after a few disheart­ening
experiences of this sort,
soon take the "let's get at it while
the gettin' is good" attitude, and
proceed calmly to devour every­thing
in reach with an amazing
thoroughness. Even though this
method Would certainly be frown­ed
upon by those of a more im­practical
nature, Miss Coed has
at least inhaled enough calories
to enable her to keep going for
the rest of the strenuous evening.
* * *
Others have acquired the unique
habit of rushing uptown a half
an hour before their dates arrive
and feverishly cramming their
faces with malted milks, sand­wiches,
and double chocolate
fluffy-wuffies. After that, she is
well equipped to mince daintily
and femininely on the food before
her, and she has plenty of time
to try out her line, and to make
her date jealous.
* * *
For those who can't find it
within themselves to do things
halfway we wish to suggest the
following scheme. While waiting
for your date to arrive, spend
some of your time in preparing a
full sized picnic lunch. Give half
of it to somebody's dog, or to your
roommate, and wrap the rest up
neatly in a bandanna handker­chief.
When you arrive at the
lodge, peck slowly at your meal,
and do everything else you are
expected to do. If you don't get
enough to eat, as you undoubtedly
will not, don't let that bother you
as you are now as well outfitted
as a camel with three humps.
Your date might not like the idea
of your munching apples when he
wants to dance to Moonlight Sona­ta,
but at least you won't have to
go home hungry.
* * *
Highlight of the current news
at Montevallo College these days
is the tall story about a sorority
founded there. Hi Kappa Kappa
is the name of the club, and only
requirement for membership is
that the candidate be 68 inches
tall or over.
* * *
And speaking of tall people,
we'll wager a five gallon jug of
Gran'pa Snazzy's rub-of-the-brush
to a bottle of scamper juice that
the lad who ran out of gas the
other day in the Waco bi-plane
and had to land in a rough field,
is glad that he is no taller or long
necked than he is. His plane tip­ped
over after washing out the
landing gear, and there he was
suspended upside down. Without
thinking of the results, he unfast­ened
his safety belt—and plum­meted
earthward, landing square
on top of his head. Said he, "I al­most
broke my neck."
April 15, 1941 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Alfaro Says Pan American Peace
Is Based on Cooperation
Audience of Over 5000 Hears Panama
Statesman Praise Peace Efforts in U. S.
By JIMMY GILBERT
Dr. Ricardo Alfaro, ex-president fo Panama, said yes­terday
in his Pan American Day address that "the peace
that the Western Hemisphere has known for many years
has been based on international cooperation rather than
treaties."
In his speech, "Solidarity and Defense of the Ameri­cas",
Dr. Alfaro furthered his statement by saying that all
countries in South America as well as those of North
America are bent on maintain­ing
the peace of the world and
personal freedom of their peoples.
The speech was held yesterday
at the Auburn stadium. From the
temporary platform erected for
the occasion, Dr. Alfaro, standing
in front of the flags of the 21
countries of the two Americas
talked to an audience of over 5,-
000 students and townspeople.
The well built man in the dark
suit and white shirt talked for 49
minutes, after being introduced
by Judge ' Walton of Lafayette.
The entire program lasted slightly
over an hour.
The entire military unit of the
college was marched to the sta­dium
from Bullard Field for the
event.
According to a summary of the
address issued by the News Bu­reau
office, "That the contempor­ary
aspects of inter-American re­flations
have been chiefly, if not
wholly,- determined by the Euro­pean
war and the aggressive poli­cies
of the totalitarian powers,"
was the thesis developed by Dr.
Alfaro in his speech.
Dr. Alfaro remarked humorous­ly
in the course of his address that
the people of the North American
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continent have a somewhat "warp­ed"
idea on the subject of how
the "other half of the hemisphere
lives". Rather than the shy, ro­mantic
women and the shawl-ar­rayed
men playing guitars, the
countries can boast of such firsts
as the first printing press in the
new world and the fact that "the
city of Panama was founded 101
years before the Pilgrims landed
at Plymouth Rock."
After reviewing the present
chaos in Europe, Asia .and Africa,
the speaker contrasted the com­paratively
peaceful time t he
American countries have had since
their beginning. All of this, he
said, has been due to the fact
that '-'people of this country
(United States) are becoming
more Pan-American minded", with
the result that the countries have
become closer and closer together.
"The countries," said Dr. Al­faro,
"have put on a tenacious,
resolute drive in efforts for peace
in the world."
In regards to the treaties made
by the European countries he said,
"It is a fact that in the eyes of
aggressors treaties are not worth
the'paper on which they are writ­ten,
international law is a dead
letter, and neutrality does not
mean a thing."
The Doctor lauded President
Roosevelt's initiative in promoting
the series of Pan-American con­ferences
which have been some­what
successful in coordinating
the work of the Americas. The
first of these conferences was held
in Buenos Aires. The conference
adopted three things, said Dr. Al­faro.
" 1 , A far-reaching declara­tion
of principles of inter-Amer­ican
solidarity. . . . 2, The con-tinentialization
of the Monroe
Allison Elected
President of SE
Physical Society
Section Holds Meeting
At Vanderbilt University
Dr. Fred Allison, head professor
of physics at the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, is the new presi­dent
of the Southeastern Section
of the American Physical Society.
He was elected at the section's re­cent
annual meeting at Vander­bilt
University.
The physicists, who represent
10 southeastern states, will hold
their 1942 meeting at the Uni­versity
of Mississippi, Oxford.
Other new officers elected to
serve during the coming year with
Dr. Allison are W. S. Nelms, Em­ory
University, vice-president; C.
B. Crawley, University of Ala­bama,
treasurer; and E. S. Barr,
Tulane University, secretary. The
executive committee is composed
of F. L. Brown, University of Vir­ginia;
R. S. Williamson, University
of Florida; N. F. Smith, The Cita­del;
O. T. Kopius, University of
Kentucky; and F. G. Slack, Van­derbilt
University.
The southeastern section, which
is affiliated with the American
Physical Society, includes physic­ists
in the States of Virginia,
North and South Carolina, Geor­gia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Kentucky, and Tennes­see.
Boughton Reelected to Office in
Southeastern Biologists Association
John Kirwin, 6-foot, 6-inch,
230-pound freshman at Ohio State
university, wears size 20 shoes
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Doctrine. . . . And 3, the adop­tion
of the consulation system for
preservation of peace in the Amer­icas."
The other conferences have
been held in Lima, Peru; Pana­ma
City; and Havana, Cuba.
"The agreements entered into
in those momentous gatherings of
the American Republics," said Dr.
Alfaro, "Tend to accomplish three
main purposes."
" 1 . To assure peace in the
Western Hemisphere."
"2. To seek ways and means of
counteracting the tremendous dis­ruption
caused by the war in
trade, finance, and economics of
the American countries."
3. To prepare for common de­fense
against any possible aggres­sion."
In conclusion he said, "Ameri­ca
(meaning the American Repub­lics)
is approaching now, at a pace
never seen before, the goal of po­litical,
economic and cultural uni­ty."
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A. S. Pearse, of Duke
University, Elected
President of Society
A. S. Pearse, Duke University,
was elected president of the
Southeastern Biologists Associa­tion
at the annual banquet last
Friday night, a part of the two-day
conference held here. J. T.
Penney, University of South Caro­lina,
was elected vice-president;
and D. C. Boughton, B.A.I. Re­gional
Laboratory, Auburn, was
reelected secretary-treasurer.
The executive members chosen
were Fred A. Wolf, Vanderbilt
University; and Martin D. Young,
U. S. Public Health Service, Co­lumbia,
S. C.
Miami was chosen as the con­vention
city of next April, with
the University of Miami acting
as host.
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Ark­ansas
were admitted to the biol­ogists'
group of southeastern
states which includes North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Tennessee, and Florida.
The 37 new members elected
are as follows: Taylor K. Alex­ander,
F. S. Walton Smith, E.
Morton Miller, University of Mi­ami;
E. Harold Hinman, Tennes­see
Valley Authority; Alvin V.
Beatty, University of Alabama;
Maurice Mulvania, Florida South­ern
College, Lakeland, Fla.; A. E.
Hopkins, director, Fisheries Lab­oratory,
Pensacola, Fla.; John
Edgar McCroan, Jr., Emory Uni­versity;
Herbert McCullough, Bes­sie
Tift College, Forsyth, Ga.;
Marjorie Estelle Carter, Georgia
State Women's College, Valdosta,
Ga.; Roy L. Mayhen, Louisiana
Famous "Tobacco
Road" to Show at
Tiger Wednesday
With the same triumvirate be­hind
the scenes as in the case of
"The Grapes of Wrath," the sen­sationally
successful stage play,
"Tobacco Road," has been brought
to the screen at last. Darryl F.
Zanuck, Nunnally Johnson and
John Ford are the men responsi­ble
for it.
Both Jack Kirkland and Erskine
Caldwell—who authored the play
and the novel, respectively—were
reluctant to sell the screen rights
to "Tobacco Road" until" assured
it would be given the proper han­dling.
20th Century-Fox's produc­tion
chief, Darryl F. Zanuck, per­suaded
Caldwell and Kirkland that
"Tobacco Road" would be pictur-ized
honestly and fearlessly—and
the sale was consummated.
Nunnally Johnson went to work
on the script, and to the immense
satisfaction of the studio, as well
as meticulous Director John Ford,
Johnson's masterful handling of
"Tobacco Road," which will be
shown Wednesday and Thursday
at the Tiger Theatre, iyas consid­ered
to be even greater than his
adaptation of "The Grapes of
Wrath." He kept all the pungency,
the humor and the intense love of
life of both the novel and the play,
making of "Tobacco Road" some-ting
all will enjoy to the hilt.
Casting a Knotty Problem
Meanwhile Production Chief
Zanuck and Director Ford were
in daily huddles. The problem of
finding the proper persons to cre­ate
the famous Lesters was indeed
a knotty one. After weeks of de­liberation,
Zanuck and Ford came
up with a dream cast. Charley
Grapewin, Majorie Rambeau, Gene
Tierney and William Tracy were
chosen to head the cast.
Experiment Station, Louisiana
State University; Elizabeth L.
Sawyer, Converse College, S. C;
Edna C. Cordts, Vanderbilt Uni­versity;
Flora A. Haas, Arkansas
State Teachers College, Conway,
Ark.; Richard Lee Caylor, Delta
State Teachers College, Cleveland,
Miss.; G. W. Wharton, A. Bascom
Hardcastle; James Holt Starling,
Duke University; Graeme A. Can­ning,
University of Tennessee;
Harry H. Laidlow, Jr., State
Apiarist of Alabama; L. D. Kava-nagh,
Louisiana Department of
Conservation; Albert M. Laessle,
University of Florida; R. M. Harp­er,
University of Alabama; Lewis
Jelfs Marchand, Harton H. Dobbs,
Jr., University of Florida; Samuel
L. Meyer, University of Tennes­see;
H. K. Wallace, University of
Florida; Eugene P. Odom, H. Eu­gene
Brown, L. R. Kuhn, Univer­sity
of Georgia; Dale A. Porter,
B. T. Simms, Regional Laboratory,
Auburn; O. E. McCrory, Jones
County Junior College, Ellisville,
Miss.; Nolan E. Rice, Middle Geor­gia
College, Cochran, Ga.; Allan
F. Archer, Alabama Department
of Conservation, Montgomery;
Robert Burrows, South Carolina
State Hospital, Columbia, S. C;
Myra A. Williams, Meredith Col­lege,
Raleigh, N. C.
Among the out-of-town guests
were the following men from
Washington, D. C : Dr. W. L. Mc-
Atee, Technical Advisor, Fish and
Wildlife Service, U. S. Depart­ment
of Interior; Dr. A. E. Hop­kins,
U. S. Bureau of Fisheries;
Dr. H. W. Schoening, and Dr.
Benjamin Schwartz, Bureau of
Animal Industry, U. S. Depart­ment
of Agriculture.
Ex Auburn Student
To Enter Medical
School at Vandy
Announcement has just been
made by Dr. W. S. Leathers, Dean
of the Vanderbilt School of Medi­cine
that Hugh Green Ford of Au­burn,
Alabama, is one of the lim­ited
number of students accepted
into the Medical School for the
session beginning next September.
There were a total of approxi­mately
800 applications for en­trance
into the School this year.
Only fifty-two students are accept­ed
into the freshman class each
year, the majority of this group
receiving their pre-medical work
at Vanderbilt. Students are select­ed
on the basis of the quality of
their pre-medical work and per­sonal
qualifications.
Mr. Ford received his pre-medi­cal
training at Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute.
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OPELIKA
Judge Bowling Speaks
At Citizenship Day
Large Crowd of New
Citizens Attend
jjji'lB Democracy worth saving,
and what are you willing to give
to preserve it?" asked Judge W.
B. Bowling, LaFayette, in deliver­ing
the Citizenship Recognition
Day address here Wednesday be­fore
a large audience of Auburn
students who this year have or will
reach voting age.
"Liberty must be preserved by
those who enjoy it, but first you
must know your rights and con­sider
your duties to your coun­try,"
declared Judge Bowling. "It
is your duty to vote; it is your
duty to serve on a jury when call­ed."
Citizenship Day was initiated by
the Alabama P.-T.A. Congress,
the Alabama Education Associa­tion,
and the State Department of
Education. Auburn's meeting was
a part of the State-wide observ­ance
of Alabama Citizenship
Week, April 7-13, the purpose of
which is to emphasize the import­ance
of voting and the responsi­bilities
of citizenship.
Judge Bowling was introduced
by Dean George Petrie, who said,
"As a school teacher, Judge Bowl­ing
was the law; as a congress­man,
he made the law; and as a
judge, he interprets the law."
State P.-T.A. officials present
were Mrs. James Fitts Hill, Mrs.
C. D. Willis, and Mrs. Harry Nel­son,
Montgomery.
College student leaders presid­ed
at the meeting.
COLLEGE LOANS
Over $11,000,000 available (or stu­dent
loans. We have a list of over
50 agencies who lend money for en­tering
or continuing college work.
Names of 100 colleges that offer
scholarships and amounts are also
available. Price of list: $1 postpaid.
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Teachers—If You
Want a Job, Teach
Industrial Arts!
College students who are plan­ning
to teach should give careful
consideration to the fields of man­ual
or industrial arts and to com­mercial
subjects, according to an
announcement made recently by
Dean Zebulon Judd, of the School
of Education.
"For years our appointment of­fice
has received far more calls
for teachers in these fields than
it has been able to supply. These
calls come in from Alabama and
a number of other states," stated
Dr. Judd.
"Because of the scarcity of
teachers in these two fields," he
said, "the salaries paid are better
than those paid for most other
subjects. Then, too, appointment
is practically assured students who
complete the four-year program
of teacher-education specializing
in either one of these fields. They
will have many opportunities to
get good teaching positions."
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Page Four THE P L A I N S M AN April 15, 1941
Tracksters Down State
Seven Sophs Lead in
Cinder Meet Saturday
Black of Mississippi State Takes 100
Yard Dash with Time of 9.9 Seconds
By WARREN FLEMING
Auburn's highly underrated thinly clads upset the odds
last Saturday, April 12, and ran Mississippi State's cinder
squad into the ground. The Tigers, due to a great loss in
men, were favored to lose.
Mississippi's- congregation were mostly old tracksters,
while Auburn's team was composed mainly of sopho­mores,
or other new men out for the varsity squad this
year. The seven soph's who showed up so well under
State's pressure were John Ball,
Dudley Tyler, Jim Seay, Jack
Brush, Bud Reed, Herbert Burton,
and Alvin Robinson, all in the
varied events.
In the 100-yard dash, a fleet
tail-back of Mississippi State's
1940 football team, Black, pound­ed
down the track to cop the first
place in a time of 9.9 seconds.
Oar own Bud Wendling, also a
football star ran a close second,
while Jack Brush of Auburn, the
recent star in the interfraternity
meet, took the third position.
Perhaps the most exciting run­ning
event of the day, was that
440-yard dash, featuring a keen
dual between Alt. Captain Jim
Holey of Auburn, and the fleet
Gresham of Mississippi State. Off
to a fast start, all the runners
stayed pretty close together until
Holley of Auburn, and Gresham
and Wyatt of Stale began to pull
out in front on the far stretch.
Coming around the back curve,
Gresham and Wyatt edged out in
front and boxed Jim in. To pull
out to the side and to try to
pass them would have lost the
race for Holley. He did the only
thing he could have done — ran
righf between them. With a quick
elbowing movement, he cut in be­tween
them and breezed across the
finish line with the two State boys
right behind him. His time was
51.1 seconds. Jim's passing in the
middle caused quite a good deal
of comment from the rival coach
and some spectators, but his act
was justified by the fact that his
opponents had committed a foul
by boxing him in.
In the 220-yard dash, Black of
State, the fellow who looked more
like a weight lifter than a run­ner,
flew down the track .and
crossed the finish line in a time
of 21.1 seconds. Reed and Brush
ran him a close second and third.
In the half mile run, a new­comer
in the Southeastern Track
Conference, Tyler of Auburn,
won with a time of 1:58.7. Pepper
of State took second while Holley
of Auburn ran third. Tyler is a
mainstay on Auburn's cross-coun­try
team and is one of the most
promising men on the squad.
Another newcomer, Auburn's
own John Ball, of Cake Race
fame, took top honors in the two
mile race, with a time of 10:11.7.
Day of State ran second and Rob­inson
of Auburn came in third.
In the 120-yard high hurdles,
Auburn took all three places. They
were McGehee, first; Morton, sec­ond,
and Seay, third. The time
was 16.1 seconds.
Dudley Tyler again won a first,
this time in the mile, with a time
of 4:30.3. Day and Harris of Mis­sissippi
State took the second and
third place positions.
Another highly interesting event
of the afternoon was the pole
vault. Hall of Auburn, and Mc-
Clellan of State, tied for second
place last week in the Florida Re­lays
with a height of 13 feet. Sat­urday
they again tied, this time
with a height of 12 feet 6 inches.
Newman of State jumped into the
third spot.
McGehee of Auburn again took
a first in the hurdles. He topped
the 220-yard low hurdles with a
time of 25.2 seconds. Morton of
Auburn took second while Gresh­am
of State ran third.
The shot-put was entirely an
Auburn event. Mississippi State
entered two men, but to no avail,
as Captain James Stephenson of
Auburn took first with a throw of
46 feet 11 inches. Maddox of Au­burn
threw for a second, while
Cordell, also of Auburn took
third.
All Seniors who
are candidates for
degrees in June
will be measured
for cap and gown
service now
Dates April 1
through May 1
Fee will be paid at time of measurement.
Anyone not graduating will be
refunded his fee.
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Pi Kappa Alpha Is
Frat Track Winner
Kappa Sig Second,
SPE Third in Meet
Pi Kappa Alpha ran off with
the Annual Interfraternity Track
and Field Meet Monday and Tues­day
as they captured four first
places to cop top honors with a
22% point total. Second were the
Kappa Sigs with 20 points while
the SPE's scored 14 to edge into
third place one half point ahead of
Sigma Nu.
Pretty thoroughly agreed was
the fact that the number one per­former
of the meet was John
Brush, PiKA sophomore from Bir­mingham
who single handedly
scored almost half his team's
points. Brush, who after the meet
was promptly grabbed for the var­sity
track squad (he won two third
places in Saturday's Auburn-Miss-
State meet), won the 100 yard
dash with a time of 10.2, the 220
in 22.6, and took part in the 880
relay which showed the Pikes win­ning
in 1.41:4.
Gene Fletcher, SPE performer,
shared the spotlight with Brush as
he scored 11 of SPE's 14 points.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, defending
track champion, failed to finish
among the first five squads. Teams
winning points in the meet were:
PiKA, 22V2; Kappa Sigma, 20,
SPE, 14; Sigma Nu, 1 3 ^ ; Beta
Kappa, 11Y2-, SAE, 9, Alpha Psi,
8; OTS, 8; Theta Chi, 7; Phi Delta
Theta, 4; ATO, 1.
The summaries:
100 Yard Dash—Won by Brush,
PiKA; second, Kennell, Kappa
Sigma; third, Fletcher, SPE. Time,
10.2 seconds.
220-Yard Dash—Won by Brush,
In the discuss throw, the crowd
was due for a big surprise. Hugh
Maddox of the Tigers, threw the
disk for a distance of 141 feet 7
inches, to walk away with first
place honors. Stephenson took the
second place spot and Welch of
Mississippi got third. This is
Hugh's best throw all year.
It looked for a while as if Mis­sissippi
State had won the javelin
event, but Burton, called back
from the high jump pit where he
was warming up, gave the stick
everything he had and threw it
161 feet 10 inches on his last
throw, to take first place. Thomas
of State took second and Stephen­son
of Auburn got third.
Burton, Hall, and Stephenson,
all of the Auburn squad, and Mur­phy
of State, tied in the high jump
with a height of 5 feet 10%
inches.
In the broad jump, Wohner of
State took a first with a jump of
22 feet 7 inches. Murphy, also of
State jumped into second place,
and Burton of Auburn was third.
It is interesting to note however,
that Burton had several winning
jumps, but he fouled them.
Individual high scorers of the
dual meet were Stephenson of our
track squad, with 10 and %
points, Tyler and McGehee also
of Auburn, with 10 each, and
Black of Mississippi State also
with 10 points. The final score was
Auburn — 81 %. Mississippi State
— 44%.
The Tigers drive to Athens next
Friday to met the Georgia Bull­dogs
in the second of their dual
meet schedule. The meet will
start about 2:00 o'clock Saturday.
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PiKA; second, Fletcher, SPE;
third, Morris, Beta Kappa. Time,
22.6 seconds.
440 Yard Run—Wo# by Harris,
Sigma Nu; second, Fletcher, SPE;
third, Morris, Beta Kappa. Time,
54.5 seconds.
880 Yard Run—Won by Cooper,
OTS; second, Harris, Sigma Nu;
third, Smith, Theta Chi. Time,
2.12:7.
Mile Run—Won by Smith, Theta
Chi; second, Cooper, OTS; third,
Whitney, Kappa Sigma. Time,
5.12:8.
120-Yard Low Hurdles—Won by
Kennell, Kappa Sigma; second,
Mitchell, SAE; third, Wilson, Pi­KA.
Time, 15.8 seconds.
880-Yard Relay—Won by Pi
Kappa Alpha (Sherling, Wilson,
Brush, and McEachin). Time,
1.41:4.
High Jump—Tie between Dirty
Dan Cheatwood, Phi Delta Theta,
and Charlie Ham, Beta Kappa.
Second place tie between Jackson,
Sigma Nu, and Samford, Sigma
Chi. Height, 5'9".
Shot Put—Won by Cordell, Kap­pa
Sigma; second, McEachin, Pi
KA; third, Barton, SAE. Distance,
40'8%".
Broad Jump—Won by Irby, Al­pha
Psi; second, Fletcher, SPE;
third, Kennell, Kappa Sigma. Dis­tance,
21'6".
Pole Vault—Won by Sherling, Pi
Kappa Alpha; second, Austin,
SAE; third, Phipps, Sigma Chi.
Height, 10'.
'So Ends Our Night'
To Be Shown at
Martin Theatre
Margaret Sullavan, who plays
the leading feminine role in the
David L. Lowe-Albert Lewin pro­duction,
"So Ends Our Night,"
which is slated for its premiere at
the Martin Theatre on Wednesday
and Thursday, is a southerner by
birth. At the age of two she showed
an interest in music and dancing
and at three she was giving reci­tations
at social gatherings. When
she was six, she began studying
dancing.
It was no surprise that her first
motion picture role brought film
stardom. She played the top role
in "Only Yesterday," and has been
a headliner ever since. In "So Ends
Our Night," she shares stellar
honors with Frederic March and
Frances Dee.
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Friday
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Baseball Team To Meet Tech
And Georgia Here This Week
Bulldogs Edge Out
Plainsmen, 30-4
Still groggy from a march
through Georgia which saw them
on the short end of three of four
ball games and deadlocked in the
other, Auburn's baseballers this
week entertain Georgia Tech and
Georgia on the home diamond in
an effort to climb from the' con­ference
cellar. Tech furnishes the
opposition tomorrow and Thurs­day
afternoon while Georgia's
Bulldogs meet the Tigers Friday
and Saturday in a return series.
The above engagements follow
defeats by Oglethorpe last Thurs­day
and by Georgia on Friday and
Saturday.
Georgia beat the Plainsman in
both week-end contests, edging the
locals by a 30-4 count in the open­er
and taking the second, 8-3.
Petrel Defense Tight
Coach Hitchcock's outfit wasn't
too troubled in getting to the
Oglethorpe hurlers, outhitting the
Atlantans 16-13 during the after­noon,
but the Petrels offered a
defense in the tight spots that
held the Plainsmen to but three
scattered runs in 19 innings of
play. Jordan pitched the first con­test
for Auburn while Bob Day
performed in a full time berth
for the first time this season in
the second.
Score by innings:
Auburn _ . . 000 100 0010—2 6 0
O'thorpe -_ 002 000 000 1—3 60
Oglethorpe: McClanahan and
Sprouse. Auburn: Jordan and Fer-rell.
Auburn ___ 000 100 000—110 1
O'thorpe ___ 100 000 000—1 7 2
Bulldogs Win Two
Luck over in Athens was even
worse for the home aggregation
as they ran squarely into a bar­rage
of Georgia bats which buried
them under 38 runs for the Dogs
in two games.
The opener on Friday afternoon
was little more than a track meet
for the winners, what with 29 hits
driving in runs in all but one in­ning.
Of the 29, 13 were for ex-"
tra bases, three for home runs.
Moore, Bulldog third baseman led
the hitting race as he got five hits
in seven times at bat. Four Tiger
pitchers worked from the mound
but were unable to hold the Crack­er
hitters in check.
Friday's contest showed the
Bulldogs hitting safely 16 times
to outscore the Plainsmen by- 8-3.
Tommie Mastin did the mound
duty for the latter team until the
sixth when he gave way to Walt
Milner. Kluk, Georgia catcher,
won batting honors with four for
four.
Auburn . 000 000 031 — 4 10 11
Ga. 353 202 510x—30 29 3
Georgia: Smith, Lyons and
Parker. Auburn: Milner, Motley,
Liles, Hawkins, F e r r e 11 and
Knight.
Auburn 100 011000—3 9 3
Georgia __- 221 001 20x—8 16 3
Georgia: Ruark and Kluk. Au­burn:
Mastin, Milner, and Ferrell.
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