1940-10-29 The Plainsman

              Election Extra
Tonight! Thz VlairidmarL Good Luck
Freshmen!
"AUBURN—the friendliest college in the United States'
VOL. LXIV Z-I ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, OCTOBER 29, 1940 No. 15
He Tames the "Shrew"—
That's Jim Burt, or Petruchio, taming Claudia Weinmann, or
Katherine the Shrew, at the Auburn Players first production of the
year, "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare, to be presented
tomorrow and Thursday nights in Langdon Hall.
Players to Present
Shakespearian Play
The Taming of the Shrew' Will Be Given
Tomorrow and Thursday Nights in Langdon
The first performance of a "two-night stand" of the
latest production of the Auburn Players, "The Taming
of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, will be presented
tomorrow night at 8:15 in Langdon Hall.
Leading roles in this first production of the year will
be played by Claudia Weinman, of Decatur, and Jim Burt,
of Rochester, N. Y.
Miss Weinman will play the part of Kate, the shrew,
and Mr. Burt that of Petruchio,
Freshmen Elect Officers Today
Twenty-Five Seeking
Six Class Positions
Plainsman Will Announce All Results in
An Extra Election Edition Tonight at 9
Election is being held today, not for the national presi­dent,
but for the positions of the freshman class. There
are twenty-five "rats" in the race for the six positions.
The ballot boxes will close at five o'clock, according to
Tom Roby, Chairman of the Elections Committee.
An "extra" edition of the Plainsman will be on the
street tonight to announce the winners of the election.
The extra will be out about eight o'clock in five "delicious"
colors. No results will be announc-the
tamer.
According to director Telfair B.
Peet, students will be admitted to
either tomorrow night's perform­ance,
or the second performance, on
Thursday night at 8:15 in Lang­don,
by their Student Athletic
Books. Admission for townspeo­p
l e and faculty members will be
twenty-five cents.
The play, according to Profess­or
Peet, will be given in much the
original Elizabethan spirit, al­though
adaptations have been
made for the differences in stages.
"The Taming of the Shrew" is
one of the best known of Shake­speare's
comedies. It deals with
the methods employed by one Pe­truchio,
who marries Kate, in do­ing
exactly what the name of the
play implies " t a m i n g " the
"shrew." who is Kate.
During both performances- of
the play, two numbers will be
given by members of the Dance
Club.
Cast of the play, besides the
two members already mentioned,
includes Paul McCoimick, of Au­burn,
as Baptista; Bill Lynn,
Montgomery, as Vincentio; J. C.
Jones, Birmingham, as Lucentio;
Fred Duggar III, as Gremio; War­ren
Bridges, West Orange, N. J.,
as Hortensio; Bobby Haas, Mo­bile,
as Tranio; J. M. Silverstein,
Birmingham, as Biondello.
Bill Ellner, Mobile, as Grumio;
Eloise Cameron, Cincinnati, Ohio,
as Curtis; Edward Drake, Au­burn,
as Pedant; G. C. Robinson,
Mobile, as the Tailor; Marjorie
McKinnon, Auburn, as Bianea;
Dorothy Norman, Fort Deposit, as
the Widow; Bill Acker, Brigton,
as Nathaniel; Owen Munroe, At­lanta,
Ga., as Philip; Woodrow
Breland, Henager, as Gregory;
Jim Morgan, Albertville, as Nich­olas.
Members of the dance club to
be featured in the two numbers
are Jean Beasley, Mary Ella Fun-chess,
Martha Gerhardt, Del
Thomas, Helen Jordan, Margaret
Tucker, Jean Thomas, Madge Jer-rard,
Margaret McCain, and An-nice
Watkins.
(Continued on page 4)
Fletcher to Deliver First of Three
Lectures Tonight at Langdon Hall
Will Discuss P o e t r y on
Concert Series P r o g r am
John Gould Fletcher, noted
American Poet, will deliver a lec­ture
on "Modern Poetry: It's Val­ue
and Its Object," tonight at
8:15 in Langdon Hall.
Tonight's lecture by Mr. Fletch­er
will be the first of three to be
presented this week as features
of the 1940-41 Concert Series.
Second of these lectures will be
delivered tomorrow night at an
open meeting of townspeople, stu­dents,
and faculty at 8 in Duncan
Hall Auditorium. Subject of this
discussion will be the philosophy
of art.
Mr. Fletcher's final lecture will
be at 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon
before students and faculty at the
School of Architecture in the Ar­chitectural
Library.
(Selections from some of Mr.
Fletcher's works may be found in
the column, "General Delivery,"
on page 2 of this issue.)
Ag Club Meeting
There will be a meeting of the
Ag Club tomorrow night in Ross
Auditorium at 7 p.m. A moving
picture will be presented.
Mitec Meeting
There will be a meeting of
Mitec Club Thursday at 7 p.m.
in Ramsay 109. All coops are urg­ed
to attend.
Soph Hop Tickets
Are Now on Sale
Price for Entire Set
Reduced to Six Dollars
Tickets to the Sophomore Hop
to be held on Homecoming Week­end,
November 8 and 9, are now
on sale by members of the Social
Committee.
John Deming, Chairman of the
committee, stated that these tick­ets
may be purchased from the
following men: Paul Ellis, Jimmy
Ware, Johnny Davis, Bobby Pick­ens,
Jimmy Martin, and Buddy
McMahan.
Block tickets for the entire set
have been reduced this year to
$6.00. The set will consist of two
night dances, a morning dance
and a tea dance. If the orchestra,
that of Tommy Tucker, arrives in
time Friday afternoon, there will
be either an extra tea dance or
a free concert.
All of the dances will be held
in Graves Center auditorium.
Bid cards have been placed in
fraternity houses and several local
drug stores, along with boxes,
during the past week. Students
wishing to have invitations sent
to dates are urged to fill out
these cards and place them in the
various boxes, at once.
Several fraternities will enter­tain
dates with house parties dur­ing
the week-end. These include
Theta Chi, Beta Kappa, Lambda
Chi Alpha, and Delta Sigma Pi.
Another fraternity may be asked
to give a house-party, in order to
accommodate the steadily growing
date list.
ed until then.
The office of president is over­running
with candidates. In last
Friday's issue there were only
eight candidates but Tom Roby
announced last night that anoth­er
had entered the race. The new
candidate- is Bill Nordan. Other
candidates for president a r e I
James Cooper, Roy Fuller, Bob
Jeffers, Herman Warren, Bob
Mathews, Robert George Mun-caster,
W. B. Oates, and "Cap"
Swift.
Candidates competing for the
office of vice-president are John
C. Hadley, "Pistol" Merrill, Carl
Schmidt, and Cullen Ward.
James Foster is assured of his
office of secretary of the fresh­man
class as he is the only poli­tician
in the race for that office.
The treasurer's office is being
sought by "Butch" Montgomery
and Hal Simms.
Five coeds are seeking the posi­tion
of historian. They are Ruth
Blair, Betty Jane Harwell, Eliza­beth
Herzfield, Margaret John
ston, and Anne Randle.
Four boys, Emerson M. Evans,
Henry Park, Boyd Pullen, and
Homer Reid, are fighting for the
important office of freshman rep­resentative
to the Cabinet.
The voting has been going on
since eight o'clock this morning
at the ballot boxes in Comer Hall
on Ag Hill and in Student Center.
Football Playoff
Begins This Week
Playoffs among league winners
in interfraternity touch football
started this week to determine the
champion on the campus among
frats for this year.
Those participating in the play­offs
are the winners in League
One, sthe ATO's; League Two win­ners,
the PiKA's; winners in Lea­gue
Three, to be determined by
a playoff between Sigma Chi and
SPE early this week; and the
winners in League Four, the Sig­ma
Nu's.
It was not announced as the
paper went to press this morn­ing
what the pairings for playoff
would be during the week. All
games will be played on Bullard
Field during the week, and each
league winner will meet each of
the three other league winners in
the comprehensive playoff system.
Last Call for Your
Clomerata Picture'
It was announced last night by
Kirk Newell, Business Manager
of the Glomerata, that the photo­grapher
will be back in Auburn
on Thursday and Friday of this
week. He will be at Student Cen­ter
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
Thursday and from 8 a.m. until
5 p.m. on Friday.
This is definitely the last time
that students will get a chance to
have their pictures made for the
Glomerata. All those students
whose first print did not turn out
so well may go to the Student
Center on one of those days to
have a new picture made.
Engineer Stunt
Night to Be Held
On Next Tuesday
Proceeds of Carnival
Will Help in Staging
Annual Engineer's Day
By FRED HENNING
Engineers' Carnival will be
held on Tuesday, November 5, on
the green between Ross Chemical
Laboratory and Ramsay Engineer­ing
Building. This program of
events has been planned by the
engineering students and is being
sponsored by the Auburn Student
Engineers' Council.
The purpose of the endeavor is
to raise funds with which to part­ly
defray expenses of the annual
Engineers' Day which has been
tentatively set for a date late in
March of this 1940-41 school
year.
Each student engineering or­ganization
on the Council is par­ticipating
to the extent of spon­soring
at least one g a m e of
chance at the carnival. For ex­ample,
one organization will spon­sor
a booth at which may be play­ed
Bingo.
One of these member organiza­tions
has arranged to offer for
sale popcorn, cold drinks, and
those famous "goobers" without
which no carnival is a success. So
that the enjoyment of the visit­ors
to the carnival may be in­creased
still more one group of
engineering students has arrang­ed
to have free dancing.
Of interest to students, girl? as
well as boys, is the announcement
that by special arrangement per­mission
has been granted for
freshmen and sophomore girls to
date on this evening without be­ing
"charged" with the date.
'Roll Out the Football'and Go to
The Pep Rally Thursday at Stadium
Pitts and Duncan Will
Speak at Georgia Rally
Thursday afternoon from five
to six o'clock, Boozer Pitts, form­er
football coach, and President
L. N. Duncan will speak at the
pep rally. At 4:45 p.m. the Alpha
Phi Omega, honorary Scout fra­ternity,
will roll the huge orange
and blue football out and all stu­dents
are asked to fall in behind
it and go to the pep rally in the
Auburn Stadium.
The rolling of the football is
a traditional event which began
20 years ago. At that time the
event only continued for five
years for it was destroyed by
Georgia Tech students after Au­burn
defeated Tech 14 to 0.
Last week the Alpha Phi Ome­ga
again made another football
and carried it to the Tech game
last Saturday where the Auburn
Tigers again defeated the Geor­gia
Tech Yellow Jackets, 16 to 7.
The football will be taken to the
rest of the games during this sea­son
except the Boston game.
The traditional football of the
Auburn Tigers began its new ca­reer
of rolling with the defeat of
Georgia Tech, the same as it end­ed
its first career. As it brought
only good fortune to Auburn last
Saturday, it may bring only con­tinued
good fortune.
Alumni Plan for
5 Class Reunions
Grad G a t h e r i n g Will Be
Held During Homecoming
Reunion meetings of five class­es
of old Auburn grads will be
held on Homecoming Day here
November 9 prior to the football
game with Clemson.
Classes for which special re­unions
will be held are those of
1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930,
according to announcement of
George Mattison, Birmingham,
president of the Auburn Alumni
Association. A special invitation
to members of these classes, in
addition to a general invitation to
all Alumni, has been issued by Mr.
Mattison and Porter Grant, ex­ecutive
secretary of the Associa­tion.
Annual meeting of the alumni
association will be held on the
morning of November 9 at which
time the principal speaker will be
Roy W. Moore, Class of 1910 and
president of a large New York
firm. The meeting is to begin at
11 a.m. Several of the new build­ings
will be dedicated at the meet­ing.
Want Some Inside Dope on the Rat
Politicos? Then Here's the Story
Davies Speaks to
Engineer Seminar
C. E. Davies, of New York City,
national secretary of the Ameri­can
Society of Mechanical Engi­neers,
addressed more than 1,000
Auburn students in engineering
here last night at Alumni Gym­nasium.
The addresses, which began
promptly at 6:30, was one of a
series of such to be presented once
each month at the meeting of En­gineering
Seminar, a required
course for all students in engi­neering.
An outstanding member of the
engineering profession, Mr. Davies
has served the society for the
past 20 years, the last ten of
which have been in his present
capacity.
Reporter Tells About
Each Frosh Candidate
By HENRY PARK
At least twenty-three freshmen
will roam the Auburn campus to­day
with worried expressions,
hoarseness, and tired hands from
innumerable hand-shakings in an
effort to get votes from approxi­mately
1200 other members of the
Class of 1944.
The names of the following em­bryo
politicians will be found on
today's ballots:
James Cooper, an inmate (ex)
from G.M.C. at Milledgeville, Ga.,
is running for the class presi­dency.
He is from Montgomery
and is a pledge of SAE.
Roy Fuller, of Samson High
School, prominent in State F.F.A.
activities before entering Auburn,
candidate for president.
Bob Jeffers is a third candidate
for presidency of his class.
Herman "Harpo" Warren, "the j
ladies man" from Mobile Bay, is j
in the presidential competition.
He is a Sigma Chi pledge.
Bob Mathews, known as "Red," !
a little fellow with a big smile, i
Poll Shows That API Students
Heartily Endorse "Plainsman"
Georgia Came Tickets
Co on Sale Tomorrow
Tickets to the Auburn-Georgia
football game will go on sale to­morrow
morning at 8 o'clock, at
the ticket offices in the lobby of
the Field House.
The sale will continue until 5
o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and
will reopen from 8 until 5 on
Thursday.
Students will turn in Coupon
No. 5 and fifty-five cents, and
guest tickets will sell for $2.50.
Feud Between Plainsman
And Glomerata Is Over
The student opinion poll held
last week by the Plainsman serv­ed
the purpose of showing the
members of the staff of the pa­per
exactly what the students of
Auburn do and don't like about
their newspaper.
Consequently, the Plainsman of
the future will be slightly chang­ed
and possibly improved as a re­sult
of the "vote of the people."
Those departments, columns
and features most liked by the
ballot-casters will appear more of­ten,
while those which were given
"thumbs down" will either cease
to be in the paper entirely, or will
appear only infrequently.
In the line of editorials, stu­dents
favored local editorials ev­ery
week over state, national, and
international' subjects by three to
one. The majority seemed to de­sire
editorials on non-local sub­jects
at least once a week, how­ever.
The Campus Camera Cartoon
seems to be a favorite of the
campus. 226 students desired its
publication twice a week, 63 once
a week, and only 17 never.
In the column department, the
"Plains Talk" of Herbert Martin
proved the most popular. 262 of
the voters chose it for a twice
weekly column, 53 for once each
week, and only 18 never.
Next in popularity was Boots
Stratford's Tiger Tales. 229 votes
were cast for it as a twice-a-weeker.
Latest column to be added to
the Plainsman came out third in
the popularity contest. The "Key­hole
Kapers" of Columnist Bob
Chisolm received 202 twice a
week supporters votes.
Other columns ranked as fol­lows,
in order of the most popular
first—"General Delivery" by Red­ding
Sugg; "Up in Society" by
Emma Nell Parrish; "Song on the
Campus" by "Anonymous"; "With
the Ag Boys" by Paul Pruitt; and
"With the Co-ops" by Fred Hen-ning.
These last two columns are
each of course strictly for two
certain reader groups of students,
and should not be judged unpop­ular
by this poll. In fact, as soon
as one of these misses the paper
for several issues, the fans begin
their clamoring for the return of
their own departmental favorites.
Sports news coverage proved
very popular on the campus. 283
votes were cast for the semi-weekly
appearance of sports fea­tures,
and 273 for general sports
news. Only 2 students placed a
check in the "never" column of
the ballot by sports features, and
only 4 by sports news.
Humorous features were as
much the campus favorites as
ever. Only one voter was for nev­er
having such in the Plainsman.
(Continued on page 4)
is also running for the presidency.
He is a Sigma Nu from Miami.
Robert George, "Bobby" Mun-caster,
candidate for president, at­tended
Lanier High in Montgom­ery.
His main high school activity
was playing with the band.
Bill Nordan, of Abbeville, an­other
candidate for president, re­porter
on the Plainsman staff.
W. B. Oates, a graduate of
Gult Coast Military school, is a
candidate for president. He is
from Headland, Ala., and is a
Kappa Sig.
"Cap" Swift, better known to
most of us as Cap Swift and his
Sofisticated Swing, is in competi­tion
for the presidency. He is a
K. A. pledge from Selma.
John C. Hadley, candidate for
vice-president, is a Delta Sig
pledge from Cuba. Incidentally he
has an accent, girls!
"Pistol" Merrill, a Theta Chi
pledge, is also seeking the posi­tion
of vice-president. He's the
fellow with the executive front.
He is from Jacksonville, Fla.
Carl Schmidt is another candi­date
for vice-president.
Cullen Ward, another contest­ant
for the vice-president, is an
Auburn boy. Incidentally, he holds
down the milk depot.
James Foster, the Pi Kappa Phi
contestant for secretary, is the
only candidate assured of his posi­tion.
He is unopposed.
"Butch" Montgomery and Hal
Simms are competing for treasur­er
of the class. Montgomery is an
SPE pledge and was a cheer lead­er
in high school at Birmingham.
Simms, a Lambda Chi, is from
Dothan, Ala. He participated in
dramatics in high school.
Ruth "Teenie" Blair participat­ed
in athletics at Lanier High in
Montgomery. She is a candidate
for historian.
Betty Jane Harwell, better
known as "Beevee", is a popular
beauty politicking for historian.
She is a pledge of Kappa Delta
Sorority.
Elizabeth Herzfield, an Alpha
Gam pledge from Alexander City,
is another historian prospect.
Dramatics was her main line in
high school.
Margaret Johnston, who lives in
Auburn is seeking the office of
historian too. Her main high
school interest was the band.
Anne Randle, from Piper, is
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Page Two T H E P L A I N S M AN October 29, 1940
THE PLAINSMAN
Published semi-weekly by the Students of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala.
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An Editor Talks
To Himself About—
A Great Guy
We want to pause long enough to give
thanks of all Auburn men both here and
afar to a great little guy, our sports
publicity director, Elmer Salter. We feel
sure that in doing so we are giving praise
where praise is due.
Throughout the past two months we
have received many letters and cards
from alumni all over the nation prais­ing
the work of our sports publicity di­rector
for the wealth of material that
has appeared about Auburn in other big
papers throughout the East and other
sections of the country. This publicity
for our team is also great for our be­loved
school—this publicity is "putting
us on the map." Only this morning we
received a letter from Washington say­ing
that "there hasn't been as many
write-ups about one school appearing in
the papers up this way since the days
when Huey Long's LSU Tigers were on
the rampage."
The Plainsman also wishes to thank
Mr. Salter for his invaluable help in pro­viding
us with mats of our football play­ers
for use in this paper.
The Plainsman Poll
Our first Plainsman Opinion Poll con­ducted
last week was most successful.
In last Friday's issue we did not have
sufficient time and space to analyze all
the results of the poll. In today's issue
we carry another story on our survey.
Briefly here is what the poll showed.
Roosevelt was favored by 85 per cent
of the students participating in the poll,
the other 15 per cent favoring Willkie.
Almost 60 per cent of the student
body believed that we would not go to
war in Europe, while 46 per cent of these
students cast votes in the belief that we
would go to war in the Far East. This
was perhaps the most surprising result
of the poll.
As to the survey on the various fea­tures
and departments of the Plains­man,
it would take too much space here
to analyze the results. Read the story on
these results on the front page of today's
issue. However, we would like to men­tion
these significant facts. Most pop­ular
column in the paper is "Plains
Talk." Next are "Tiger Tales" and "Key­hole
Kapers". Most unpopular column
is "With the Ag Boys." Most popular
features of the paper are humorous fea­tures,
sports features, sports news, and
Letters to the Editor. Most unpopular
feature of the Plainsman are the stories
on the Plainsman-Glomerata feud. Local
editorials are more popular than any
other type of editorial. Our new ban­ner
met with almost unanimous approv­al.
Ed Danforth
Our newspaper friend, Mr. Ed Dan­forth,
sports editor of the Atlanta Jour­nal,
is a great supporter of Georgia
Tech's Yellow Jackets. That much is
evident from the reading of any of his
stories on Tech's football games.
You should have read his account of
the Tech-Notre Dame game which Tech
lost 20-26. By all fairness, Tech should
have won by one touchdown. They had
the Notre Dame team completely out­classed.
But as fate and luck would have
it, Tech lost by that same margin.
Before the Tech game with Auburn,
it was affirmed by Mr. Danforth that
the Tech team was riddled with injur­ies.
It was however written by neutral
writers that Tech was in the best phy­sical
condition of the year.
Then Auburn whipped Tech, soundly,
at that. But, Mr. Danforth says that Au­burn
received all the breaks and lucked
out a 16-7 win over Tech's injury-rid­dled,
tired-out, Yellow Jackets. Tsk, tsk,
Mr. Danforth, you should really be
ashamed of yourself. You remind us of
Zipp Newman of Alabama fame.
German Propagandists—
A Bunch of Liars
In our humble opinion, the German
propagandists are simply a big bunch
of glorified liars. They have even be­come
as naive as their allies, the Japan­ese—
they simply say that nothing ex­cept
what they say is the truth, every­thing
else, and especially what the Brit­ish
say, is simply a lie.
These propagandists are at work to­day
in our own nation. It seems to be
no secret that they are at work here. We
receive weekly bulletins at this office
from the German Library of Informa­tion—
a bureau that is called "a clear­ing
house of knowledge."
The pictures that adorn the cover of
these weekly bulletins are typical of the
German propaganda that is flooding our
country. One picture shows "the house
beautiful in Germany," another "the Or-denburgen
(a university) — cradles of
of leadership," still another shows a
view of a scientific laboratory where
"the Germans are striving for the ad­vancement
of science and civilization.
The Germans say that the Nazi block­ade
of the British Isles was necessary
because of the continued violations of
International laws by the British. That's
a lie as any decent, clear-thinking Amer­ican
knows. For every military move
that the Germans make, they have an
excuse to give that throws the blame on
their opponents and leaves the hands of
the Nazis unsoiled—leaves the Nazis as
the crusading preserver of civilization,
mankind, and right. The Nazis are
dumbfounded to learn that American
newspapers have been "misquoting Hit­ler,"
attributing statements to the Fueh­rer
that he has "never made and for
which he is in nowise responsible."
The Nazi propagandists are trying to
show us that they are lovers of peace,
that they do not want war — it was
forced upon them by the Barbarious
British. They are trying their dead-level
best to make us believe that they are
more interested in science, literature,
culture, art, and advancing civilization
than in the destroying of the same.
Well just between us Americans, we
think the Nazis are just a bunch of the
biggest liars that ever lived. And con­fidentially,
fellows, just between us,
they stink!
Thanks to Our Library
We think it is time the really extra­ordinary
service rendered by our mod­ernized
library should be publicly com­mended.
Several years ago the library
service, by contrast with the present,
was ajDart of the Dark Ages.
The selection of current literature is
unusually varied and large. There is al­ways
a row of new books waiting on a
table in the main reading room, and the
shelves proper are loaded down with re­cent
publications.
Readable editions of many of the
classics have been provided. Instead of
the familiar musty, two-by-four editions
printed to be used with a microscope,
there are standard-sized, new editions
printed in regulation type.
There are plenty of magazines rang­ing
from technical journals to news
magazines and the fiction and women's
magazines. Besides the current issues,
those of several months back are read­ily
available in the periodical room just
off the old reading room.
The reserved books are all within
reach downstairs in the reserved read­ing
room. There is a lot of space and
light to use in reading these books.
The API Library is going great guns.
We appreciate it and say more power
to it. R.S.
Keyhole Kapers
CAMPUS CAMERA
By BOB CHISHOLM
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.
We are still a little breathless
from that fracas that happened at
Grant Field in Atlanta Saturday.
The powerful Auburn Tigers beat
Tech at their own game. Auburn
dazzled the Tech razzle-dazzlers
with such a display of trickery
razzling that Tech was swept com­pletely
off their feet. The Au­burn
line played a grand game,
most of it being played in the
Tech backfield. Little Johnny
Bosch is still trying to find out
how many men Auburn kept on
the field at once. It was a grand
game, and we're glad that Tech
no longer considers the number
combination 7-6 a jinx over Au­burn.
* * *
The student opinion poll con­ducted
by the Plainsman last
Thursday proved to be quite a
success. However, there was quite
a scarcity of feminine votes. Now
maybe the girls on the campus
don't know about woman suffrage
which gives women the right to
vote, and maybe a lot of them
were just a little timid about giv­ing
their opinion on any subject.
To all the coeds of Auburn: Please
in the opinion polls of the future,
let us have your vote. We want
to know how our young ladies
feel, and they have a right to
voice their opinions. So please,
girls, exercise your rights as Au­burn
students and vote next time.
The opinion poll proved a lot
to some of us at the office. As
we counted the votes, we arrived
at the conclusion that the greater
majority of our students really
have the power to think and to
criticise with intelligence. There
were a few votes, however, that
made us feel as if the voters were
nothing more than cranks. One
voter almost committed treason
when he wrote in the space allot­ted
for presidential choice, "Neith­er
one of them are worth a
damn!"
Now this was an opinion poll,
and we suppose that voter ex­pressed
his opinion, but perhaps it
was a little harsh. But in this
country of ours we can say what
we please and get by with it.
* * *
We were very amused and dis­gusted
the other day to read of
a man who said he refused to
register for the draft because
there wasn't anything in America
worth fighting for. It is a shame
this man wasn't asked in what
country was there something
worth fighting for. If he had had
an answer he should have been
shipped to that country post haste.
Incidentally, the man got a nice
term in the federal pen for his
failure to register.
The United States may not be
perfect in all respects, but what
country is? In most of the Euro­pean
countries, the voter we spoke
of above, who stated his opinion
of the presidential candidates,
would have been thrown in jail,
or perhaps he would have been
executed. But not so in America.
We Americans enjoy the glorious
freedom of speech, press and re­ligion.
In no other country in the
world are all these benefits en­joyed,
and yet many, yes, a great
many of us are not thankful for
these luxuries.
Most Americans fail to realize
that this is the sole remaining ma­jor
nation of the world upon which
shines the sunshine of peace. It is
true that we are arming and turn­ing
out war materials at mass pro­duction,
but we are only protect­ing
ourselves. President Theodore
Roosevelt had what he called a
"Big Stick" policy concerning a
nation's armament. He believed
that we should be so powerful
and so well prepared that no other
nation would deem it wise to fight
us.
That policy is full of logic and
we hope and pray that our pre­paredness
may give us that "big
stick" which will show the other
nations of the world the futility
of war on and against the United
States of America.
General Delivery
By REDDING SUGG
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.
This column, as you are aware,
properly appears only once a
week; but this week it has receiv­ed
an unusual impetus and ap­pears
twice. Mr. John Gould
Fletcher, noted poet and tonight's
lecturer here, sent me very kind­ly
a short essay on the famous
MacDowell Colony at Peterbor­ough,
New Hampshire, where he
has done some of his writing. So
this time General Delivery is not
so much by me as by Mr. Fletch­er.
You may know Mr. Fletcher
from his poem "Irradiations,"
which Amy Lowell is said to have
thought to be a work of true
genius. Mr. Fletcher's autobio­graphy,
"Life Is My Song," will
probably also be known to you.
* * *
"For four summers, since 1936,"
begins Mr. Fletcher, "I have been
going to the MacDowell Colony,
established at Peterborough, New
Hampshire, by Marion Nevins
MacDowell in memory of her hus­band,
Edward MacDowell, Ameri­ca's
foremost composer, as long
ago as 1907. SJnce the day of its
opening . . . it has grown from
a tiny establishment boasting but
a single studio for working to an
estate of over 600 acres, with
twenty-five studios in which fifty
or more writers, painters, sculp­tors,
and musicians live and work
for one or two months every sum­mer.
And the original intention of
Mrs. MacDowell to provide a place
where the creative spirit of artists
of promise could live and work
undisturbed u n d e r practically
ideal conditions has persisted
through all these years.
"The record of its achievement
is impressive. Since the time it . . .
was opened, no less than twelve
Pulitzer prizes have been won by
writers who have been associated
with the MacDowell Colony. Works
conceived and created here range
from Edward Arlington Robin­son's
major output of poetry to
Hervey Allen's "Anthony Ad­verse";
from Thornton Wilder's
"Bridge of San Luis Rey" and
"Our Town" to Du Bose Heyward's
"Porgy" and Peterkin's "Scarlet
Sister Mary." In music and in art
the colony has not been backward
either. Many of our best known
men have "graduated" at the
colony by establishing their repu­tations
on work done there.
"The conditions under which the
MacDowell Colonist lives are
unique. . . . Here, for an insig­nificant
sum, he is given a seclud­ed
studio where he may work all
day long without interruption . . .
overlooked by majestic Mount
Monadnock with its Emersonian
associations. Fellowships are gen­erously
provided for those who
cannot afford to pay. The colonists
meet only at the breakfast table
and again after the work of the
day is done. They have, to a large
extent, over the course of years,
worked out the laws, written nad
unwritten, whereby they are gov­erned.
As Mrs. MacDowell once
said to me, .there is no place in
the world where so much liberty
exists with so little license. Work
under such conditions is not a
tedious effort, but an exciting ad­venture;
and living is a constant
contact with stimulating minds.
"Since I owe to the MacDowell
Colony the writing of my auto­biography,
'Life Is My Song,' as
well as most of the literary work
I have done since (1937), in both
prose and poetry, I have felt that
the public should be informed
more fully as to what the Mac­Dowell
Colony is and what it has
achieved. Last summer I spent two
months there, together with a
group which contained, among
others, Thornton Wilder, Carl
Cramer, William Rose Benet, Hor­ace
Gregory, Alfred Kreymborg,
Marya Zaturenska, and Chard
Powers Smith. That list in itself
speaks volumes for the MacDowell
Colony."
* * *
Since we are being Fletcherites
today, I'll leave a quotation from
"Irradiations" for you to chew:
"The morning is clean and blue,
and the wind blows up the
clouds: »
Now my thoughts, gathered
from afar,
Once again in their patched
armor, with rusty plumes
and blunted swords,
Move out to war."
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By HERBERT MARTIN
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.
C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s to some unher­alded
heroes . . .
To the Auburn cross-country
squad, whose victory over the
Tech harriers Saturday morning
was a bit over-shadowed by events
of the afternoon. This was the
first defeat suffered by the Tech
cross-country team in six years,
their last loss being to Tennessee
in 1934. Auburn won last over
Tech in the fall of '33.
* * *
To the cheerleaders, not only
for cooking up a fitting sequel to
"Aw-w-w-w, NUTS!" with "Gee-e-
e-e, T'ANKS!" but also for pick­ing
one of the best spots to use
this which could be imagined.
"Aw-w-w-w, Nuts" had been
used with surprising regularity
when Auburn was on the receiv­ing
end of punts. Consequently,
it was somewhat of a surprise
when Tech punted, Auburn re­turned
for some distance, and no
penalty was called. The officials
were rewarded for this unexpect­ed
favor as a grateful "Ge-e-e-e,
T'anks!" went up from the Au­burn
stands.
* * *
One of the better stories of the
past weeks happened here when
the Tigers returned from the SMU
game, but a Macon sports column­ist
scooped the Plainsman, by vir­tue
of a verbal report made by
Auburn alumnus Harry Kendall,
who has maintained a perfect at­tendance
record for the Auburn-
Tech scrap since 1910, except for
the time he spent in France with
the AEF.
In New Orleans, the Auburn
team, returning from Dallas, met
up with the Mercer Bears, who
had met defeat at the hands of
LSU. Learning that the Mercer
team had only one coach, the Tig­ers
invited the Bruins up to visit.
The Men of Mercer accepted, and
the party lasted for twelve hours.
Coming into Auburn, the Bears
confessed that they were "knock­ed
out" by the reception the d e ­feated
Tigers received, as they
had seen nothing to equal this at
home even in victory.
The Auburn fans, learning that
the Mercer team was on the train,
loosed several mighty cheers for
the Bears, which were duly ap­preciated
by the defeated Bruinfe.
* * *
It's things like this which help
spread Auburn's good name. It
seems that folks who haven't come
into contact with the Auburn spir­it
face to face can't quite realize
it the first time they meet up
with it. It's one of those things
which seem too good to be true.
We tend to forget things which
we bump into every day, and it's
a good thing once in a while for
us to be jolted back into a realiza­tion
of what we have and how
rare it really is.
* * *
And another of the unsung he­roes
. . .
Davis Gammage, cheerleader.
Reason for merit . . . tactful
handling of the enthusiastic bunch
who paraded in Auburn immedi­ately
after the arrival of the spec­ial
from Atlanta Saturday night.
Davis led the parade, led sev­eral
yells, and called on the band.
So far, all was stock. And then
he did something which must go
down as a major achievement in" -
Auburn. Masterfully, he dispelled
the mob as he dismissed it. He
mentioned that it was possible for
us to have a mass meeting without
tearing up the town, and put his
point over so well that we did just
that!
Karrie, the Kampus Kounter,
kounted only six clarinets in the
Tech band. Long an avowed en­emy
of those particular reed in­struments,
she figgers that if Tech
can get along without dozens of
clarinets, we can too.
After thinking over Karrie's
reasoning, we believe that she's
exactly right.
Plainsman Forum Letters to the Editor
Dear Mr. Editor,
In the last issue of the "Plains­man"
the lead editorial plumped
for new uniforms for the Band,
saying that in public appearances
the Band does not come up to the
expectations of Auburn patriots.
The editorial contained several
more or less unimportant misstate­ments,
the principal one being to
the effect that besides the capes
there is nothing to distinguish a
Band member's uniform from the
rest of the ROTC uniforms. The
striking white Sam Browns and
the shoulder braid were forgotten.
As a member of the Band I wish
to say that the uniforms are quite
satisfactory. Indeed, they are of
mulh better quality than the uni­forms
of most other schools. They
are colorful—what could be more
attractive than a blue-gray uni­form,
white Sam Brown, a nd
orange and blue cape?—and yet
they are restrained and in good
taste. As a military organization
and as a representative of Au­burn,
the Band would be a sorry
sight all tricked out in garish uni­forms.
If you will notice, most
of the bands which have the kind
of uniforms the editorial would
seem to advocate look like circus
bands.
The editorial would further
seem to imply that Band members
receive a raw deal by being forced
to wear their present uniforms. I
don't think you will find that
Band members think so.
Sincerely,
A Band Member.
Arthur B. "Bud" Boeringer,
All-American center at Notre
Dame 14 years ago, still keeps m .1
as good condition as any of the
University of Detroit linemen he
coaches.
Smoky Joe, Negro trainer at
North Carolina State for many
years, has thrown away his rab­bit's
foot and acquired a fox's
foot as a luck charm.
/
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October 29, 1940 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Sadie Hawkins Day Will Be November 22
Seated above with Helen Jepson, center, are Mary Dean French,
left, and Redding Sugg, right, two Plainsman reporters, who inter­viewed
Miss Jepson when she appeared here in concert before 1,500
people last week in Graves Center Auditorium.
UP IN SOCIETY
By EMMA NELL PARRISH
SIGMA PI HOUSE DANCE
Sigma Pi fraternity entertained at a house dance Friday night.
The chapter house was cleverly decorated to carry out the Hallowe'en
theme. Punch was served from an old iron pot in the corner, and
ginger-bread, apples, popcorn and candies were passed to the sixty
students who were present.
SCABBARD AND BLADE
BANQUET
Scabbard and Blade paid tribute
Sunday night to Theodore Roosevelt, at
a banquet honoring his birthday. Fol­lowing
the banquet members and their
dates attended a picture show party.
Captain of Company "L" of Scabbard
and Blade is Buddy McMahan.
KAPPA DELTA-JEPSON RECEPTION
Sigma Lambda of Kappa Delta sorority entertained Wednesday
evening at a reception in honor of Miss Helen Jepson, following the
Metropolitan Opera star's concert. Mrs. L. Y. Dean and Miss Etta
Clair Brackin greeted the guests upon their arrival at the social
center, and Mrs. J. L. Lawson presented thim to the receiving line,
which included: Miss Dorothy Burk, president of the chapter; Miss
Jepson, Dr. and Mrs. Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Draughon, Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence Barnett.
THETA U. ENTERTAINS WALSTON
Doctor Rosa Lee Walston was the guest of the pledges of Iota
Alpha chapter of Theta Upsilon on Monday night after their regular
meeting at the Club Room in Dormitory No. 4. Doctor Walston spoke
interestingly on "A Portrait of the Modern Girl," after which there
was an informal discussion. Delicious refreshments were served by
Pledges Norma Ray Autery, Vivian Clay, and Ruth Prentiss.
Lee County Fair Is
At Opelika This Week
The Lee County Fair is now in
progress at Opelika, starting yes­terday
and ending Saturday night.
The fair is an annual event spon­sored
by the American Legion.
The Gold Medal Shows are fur­nishing
the midway attraction for
the fair. This carnival unit has
come here from a tour through
the Dakotas and Minnesota, and i
the Central Alabama State Fair j
in Montgomery.
Features of the midway at­traction
are Tarzauka, a giant
gorilla; Dottie Moss, famous Hol­lywood
Stunt Girl; Cliff Miller's
mechanical battlefield, and two
score other attractions.
County and city schools have
declared half-holidays so that stu­dents
may attend the fair.
'Kit Carson7 to
Show at Martin
Theatre Thursday
J o n Hall Will Star as
Colorful Indian Scout
In Action-Filled Show
Based on the real-life story of
one of the boldest and most dash­ing
adventures in American his­tory,
Edward Small's latest pro­duction,
"Kit Carson," with Jon
Hall playing the title role, is slat­ed
for its local premiere at the
Martin Theatre on Thursday
through United Artists release.
The stellar cast in "Kit Carson"
features, in addition to Hall,
Lynn Bari, Dana Andrews, Ward
Bond, Harold Huber and Clayton
Moore. The picture was directed
by George B. Seitz, and John Du-
Casse Schulze acted as Art Di­rector.
Spotlighting the adventure-filled
episodes of Carson's life when he
joined John C. Fremont of the
United States army to survey and
map the shortest overland route to
California, Small's film of "Kit
Carson" abounds in spectacular
scenes involving bitter fighting
with the Indians, dangerous treks
in wagon trains, plots and coun­terplots
engineered by sly and
cunning Mexican schemers.
Most of the sweeping outdoor
scenes for "Kit Carson" were pho­tographed
on location at Kayenta,
Arizona, next door to the Navajo
reservation, and hundreds of the
Navajos participated in filming.
Small was delighted that he won
the cooperation of the Navajos.
Otherwise he would have been un­able
to transfer to film the great
scenic beauties and amazing top­ography
of Monument Valley.
This vastly picturesque section
was chosen for the major location
site because of its natural mag­nificence
and complete isolation.
The "Kit Carson" cameras operat­ed
on a mile-high plateau flank­ed
by eroded buttes, table lands
and pinnacles cut out of a strata
that was once 16,000 feet high.
The weird formations combine the
eroded fantasies of wind and rain.
It is a fabled region with a history
too old to be discovered.
News of the coming of the "Kit
Carson" movie troupe from Hol­lywood
spread with remarkable
rapidity throughout the Navajo
reservation and soon Indians were
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Plainsman Plans to
Sponsor Gala Event
Tiger Theatre to Present Picture, "L'il
Abner," in Connection with Eventful Day
The Plainsman will sponsor "Sadie Hawkins Day" on
the Auburn campus on Friday and Saturday, November 22
and 23. This celebration is being held on most college
campuses on November 2, but has been postponed here
because of the football schedule, the Auburn Tigers play­ing
near-by games on November 2 and 9.
Last year, "Sadie Hawkins Day" was held for the first
time on this campus and although not a widespread event,
it was nevertheless popularly re
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ceived by all those participating
in the two-day event.
Although plans for the gala
week-end are in the embryo stage,
many interesting attractions are
being planned for that week-end.
Arrangements are being made
with the Tiger Theatre through
Manager Gus Coates to show the
picture "L'il Abner" here on that
week-end, to tie in with the fes­tivities.
Mr. Coats has also con­sented
to let the students use the
theatre stage for a skit on the
cartoon characters, and at pres­ent
plans are being made to award
prizes for the best and most orig­inal
costumes characterizing the
various characters depicted in the
comic strip.
ODK, Blue Key, Sphinx, and
Cardinal Key will be asked to co­operate
with the Plainsman in
staging "Sadie Hawkins Day*"
Further plans as developed will be
announced in the Plainsman.
On "Sadie Hawkins Day" the
girls play hosts to the boys. The
girls ask the boys for dates, take
them to the show, to dances, to
the drug store for a coke. In oth­er
words, the girls are on the pay­ing
end of the deal for once. It's
just "about face" for a change.
An effort is being made to
stage a "Sadie Hawkins Ball"
during the week-end. All in all,
present plans indicate that the
week-end should be one of the
most colorful of the school year.
SENIORS—Be sure to place your
order by November 1 for your
senior ring with one of the stu­dent
ring salesmen for a Christ­mas
delivery.
'Return of Frank
James' Coming to
Tiger Tomorrow
When Jesse James, six guns
blazing, rode triumphantly across
the nation's screens in the person
of Tyrone Power, it was a fore­gone
conclusion that the James
legend wouldn't end with just one
picture. For one thing, "Jesse
James" proved that popular de­mand
for fast-action pictures was
greater than ever. For another,
the cast of the picture turned in
such outstanding performances in
their various roles that everybody
wanted to see them again. Con­sequently,
it's pleasant to learn
that most of the favorites of
"Jesse James" are back in action
in "The Return of Frank James,"
the new Technicolor film which
will be shown Wednesday and
Thursday at the Tiger Theatre.
First and foremost of these,
Frank James had to be Henry
Fonda. Fonda placed his individual
stamp on the role of the quiet,
grim older brother of "Jesse
James," and no other actor could
ever be conceived in the role.
Of the many other unforget­table
characters, most of them are
back again, too. Chief among
these is John Carradine, once
flocking into Kayenta on horse- j
back, mule back and by foot.
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Tomorrow a n d T h u r s d ay
By HERBERT MARTIN
Portable bomb shelters won't be
out of place in Langdon Hall to­morrow
night at 8:15 o'clock when
Claudia Weinmann and Jim Burt
square off in the battle of more
centuries than one with no holds
barred, as the Auburn Players,
under the direction of Prof. Tel­fair
B. Peet, present the "Taming
of the Shrew" in their initial per­formance
of the year.
Extensive stage repairs have
been necessitated by the violence
of practice bouts as these two
warriors tangled horns during re­hearsals,
but it is believed that
the performance may be watched
with comparative safety by all of
the audience, with the possible ex­ception
of those sitting in the
first dozen or so rows.
You attend this production at
your own risk. The Players accept
no liability for accidents caused
by unscheduled outbursts on the
stage. Every effort will be made
to safeguard patrons, but the
events forthcoming are rather un­predictable,
and physical safety
cannot be guaranteed. Anything
can happen there, and does.
again as the villainous Bob Ford
Another returning villain is
Donald Meek, as the railroad mag­nate.
He was, perhaps, the real
menace of "Jesse James."
J. Edward Bromberg, who play­ed
the railroad detective, is back
as Meek's henchman.
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The shrewish Claudia puts up
a valiant fight for feminine su­periority,
but that gallant Burt
from up North where they grow
Yankees tough enough to be Re­publicans,
is a man's man when
it comes to showing the ladies
who's boss.
It's almost a case of irresistable
force versus an immovable ob­ject,
but not quite. The suffrage
is denied, partly through the as­sistance
of Bill Ellner, servant of
the tamer, who is as efficient a
swordsman as ever pinked an ad­versary.
A very touching love story par­allels
this lovely fight, and the
fight between the suitors of the
fair Bianca, Marjorie McKinnon,
almost rivals the main attraction.
Ringside, or dress circle, (we
can't make up our mind) tickets
will be available for early arriv­als.
Safer seats will be those in
the rear.
At press time, odds favor Jim
Burt by about eight to five, but
a last minute betting rush from
from the dormitories is expected
to lessen these odds considerably.
Inside information has it that the
maid in question is planning to
pull an un-Shakespearian ending
all her own and emerge with the
victory. Be that as it may, we're
stringing along with Shakespeare
and Burt. Our selection is Burt
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WELCOME TO THE
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(American Legion Sponsored)
OPELIKA'S GREATEST FALL EVENT
NOW until SATURDAY MIDNIGHT
— Huge Cash Awards for Prize Winning Exhibits —
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Brilliantly illuminated with their own $40,000 Electric Light
plants, and featuring:
Dottie Moss
famous Hollywood stunt girl, and an all-star cast of the nation's
foremost girl daredevils, selected especially for their charm,
youth and daring.
Cliff Millers
Mechanical Battlefield, showing more than 7,000 Mechanical
Soldiers as if in actual combat in the Argonne Forest during the
last World War—This grand exhibit has been a subject of
feature stories in newspapers in major cities throughout the
United States and Canada where it has been on exhibition.
Tarzauka
Giant Live Gorilla, weighing 174 pounds, 5 feet, seven inches
tall, has an arm spread of 66 inches and twenty times stronger
than a man.
TWENTY-NINE OTHER TENTED ATTRACTIONS—
WORTH COMING MILES TO SEE
12 GYRATING RIDES
Admission to A l l . . . . 10c
PLENTY OF FREE PARKING
S P E C I A L
THURSDAY afternoon, October 31st is WHITE SCHOOL
CHILDREN'S DAY and all children of school age thru-out
the county will be admitted to the grounds free and
all shows and rides from 1 to 6 p.m. will be—
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Page Four T H E P L A I N S M AN October 29, 1940
Fighting Tigers Rip Tech l6-7
Rufus Deal Is Lost:
For Rest of Season
Dick McGowen, Bud Wendling, Jim Lenoir
Star in Win Over Highly Touted Jackets
By JOHN PIERCE
Before a crowd of 27,000 at Grant Field in Atlanta
Saturday the Auburn Plainsmen won their third victory
of the season and remained unbeaten in Southeastern
Conference competition as they outscored Georgia Tech,
16-7, in a wide open contest.
The Tigers scored once on a
line plunge from the one yard
line hy Rufe Deal, fell behind
when a Tech pass, Bosch to
Plaster, connected for a touch­down,
than came back to take
the lead on Bud Wendling's
fine run and Dick McGowen's
field goal. The victory cost Au­burn
heavily as Deal suffered a
broken left elbow, an injury
which will probably bench him
for the rest of the year. Henry
Monsees, sophomore end, was
also among the injured with a
fractured cheek bone.
The Engineers from Tech field­ed
a versatile and fast moving
team but, with all apologies to Ed
Danforth and the Atlanta press
box contingent, were outclassed
by an Auburn outfit that played
smashing football on both offense
and defense to choke the Tech
backfield antics. Basic opinion
from that city seems to be that
Tech, battered, broken, and weary
as usual, had the situation well in
hand save for three breaks, one
of which was a 37 yard touchdown
run and another a field goal
which traveled some 40 yards be­fore
splitting the uprights. The
Jackets were, so the report goes,
worn down completely from last
week's contest (Tech 19; Vandy
0) and were altogether physically
unfit for the game. Mention of
Auburn's 2,000 mile trip and bat­tering
from SMU was omitted.
First Tiger break came on the
initial kickoff. Ison received the
ball on the 15 and was so jolted
by Jim Lenoir's thudding tackle
that he fumbled at the 15, where
Tex Williams recovered for Au­burn.
Earthquake Deal t o ok
charge and stomped over the gal­lant,
injury-studded Tech line
five times, scoring on a solo
flight over the line from the one.
The Jackets went into their now
famous 7-6 lead in the second
quarter when Johnny Bosch in­tercepted
a pass by Bill Yearout
and returned to the 41. This par­ticular
interception cannot be
classed as a break as Bosch was
forced to reach above his head for
the ball, revealing nothing but su­perior
playing skill. Auburn drew
a penalty to the 36 and Tech be­gan
operations with a 10 yard
pass, Bosch to Plaster. Bosch ran
10 more and Nettles, on the end
of a deceptive lateral, carried to
the five. The Engineers were too
weary from the Notre Dame game
to score by ground, so Bosch on
third down passed to Plaster who
crossed untouched. Goree convert­ed
and the Loveliest Village shook
with anguish as 7-6 went up on
the board.
The second Auburn break, how­ever,
was soon to follow. Hawk
Cavette, kicking on fourth down
in Jacket territory, fumbled mo­mentarily
and was knocked to the
ground at the 37. Bouncing Bud
Wendling took the snap, darted
through the left side of the ex­hausted
Tech line, sidestepped his
way past the fatigued secondary,
and shot down the sidelines for
the second Auburn score, a break
if there ever was one. McGowen
converted.
The Tigers scored the clinching
points in the' third period follow­ing
a drive from their 32. With
a fourth down on the Tech 10,
McGowen smacked through a field
goal. Before the ball had hit the
ground an official was stepping
off the customary 15 yards, so
McGowen stepped back to try
again from the 25. The second
kick was 40 yards long, 40 yards
high, and as straight as the first,
and the Tigers led, 16-7.
Tech twice drove dangerously
close to the Auburn goal, but in­terceptions
in the end zone by
Happer and Cheatham ended the
threats there. The Jackets played
heads-up, deceptive ball and trot­ted
out in Johnny Bosch the best
halfback yet to face the Plains­men.
Bob Ison lived up to all ex­pectations
and has a sure place
on any all-opponent team as re­gards
Auburn.
Thirty-two men shared duties
for Jack Meagher and outstand­ing
play by all makes any definite
standout selections difficult. Line
play was the best yet displayed
from these parts this year and two
or three backfields so competent­ly
did their jobs that any com­parison
is out of order.
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(Continued from page 1)
38 would be satisfied with a hum­or
feature once a week, but 295
of the votes cast went for this
type of writing in every issue.
The Plainsman-Glomerata feud
also is definitely over. 144 stu­dents
voted "never" in this ques­tion,
92 once, a week, and only
82 twice each week.
153 students favored the once-weekly
publication of the reports
by the National Student Opinion
Poll. 121 desired this service in
each issue. 24 did not want it at
all.
The "Letters to the Editor" de­partment,
long acclaimed as the
voice of the students, of course
received great acclaim. 18 stu­dents,
however, voted against its
continuance. 258 favored this de­partment
two times each week,
and 54 once a week.
The campus leader series seems
destined to be a once-a-week oc­currence,
tallying 147 votes for
this place, 125 for twice a week,
and 41 for never.
Society news coverage rang up
176 students favoring it, twice
each week, 99 only once a week,
and 35 who were "agin it" en­tirely.
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Cap Snatching
By C. V. BECK
As priceless as Ming jade to
owners, yet they may be bought
new for only fifty cents. Enemy
"Rat" caps, I mean. After every
football game a few lucky fresh­men
may be seen showing off
some of these symbolic laurels —
won only after a desperate snatch
and a record smashing dash for
freedom.
Perhaps it isn't etiquette; on­lookers
even call it barbarious.
Nevertheless, since the day college
football became America's most
competitive game, snatching an
enemy cap has been one of the
chief aims of all freshmen.
The first year men at API had
quite a gala day in this old tradi­tion
when they attended the State-
Auburn game, and again in the
Tech battle. After these contests
the Maroon and White caps of
State and the Gold ones of Tech
were seen on every corner in Au­burn.
Bids for them came from
every side, but the proud owners
only gave an aloof smile to those
less fortunate brothers.
Without a doubt, a few Orange
and Blue toppers are being equal­ly
honored on the State campus.
If this be so, the losers of those
caps will probably seek revenge
against the students of Georgia,
Clemson, et al.
Auburn Freshmen Lose Heart-Breaker
To Howard Bullpups by Score of 12-6
/?UJ=US DEAL.
Rippin' Rufus suffered injuries in last Saturday's tussle with
Tech that will probably keep him out of action for the remainder
of the season. Rufe injured an arm and was forced to leave the
game after scoring the Plainsmen's first touchdown.
Frosh Politicians
(Continued from page 1)
also in the race for historian. She
is a Chi Omega pledge and was
secretary of her class in high
school.
Emerson Evans' home is several
miles from Boaz. He was presi­dent
of his class in high school.
He is one of the four candidates
for the Executive Cabinet.
Henry Park, another candidate
for the Executive Cabinet, is from
Atlanta, Ga. He is a Phi Delta
Theta pledge, and it is rumored
that he is in the race for the
"Duchess", also.
Boyd Pullen, from Monroeville,
was president of the county coun­cil
for the 4-H Club. He is com­peting
for the Executive Cabinet,
Auburn Players
(Continued from page 1)
Allen Odom, of Birmingham,
will serve as prompter for the
play; Martha Dailey, of Birming­ham,
will be mistress of ward­robe.
Jean Williamson of Atlan­ta
will be sound effect technician;
Lillian Jane Smith of Birming­ham,
master electrician, with Miss
Daily and Miss Williamson assist­ing
her. Dorothy Floyd of Auburn
will be manager of properties.
SENIORS—Be sure to place your
order by November 1 for your
senior ring with one of the stu­dent
ring salesmen for a Christ­mas
delivery.
and is an Alpha Gamma Rho
pledge.
Homer Reid is running for the
Executive Cabinet. He is from
Birmingham and is a PiKA pledge.
Bullpups Score Twice
In Last Three Minutes
By HOMER WRIGHT
A small but scrappy team of
Howard freshmen marred Auburn
freshman hopes for an undefeated
season as they smashed out a 12-
6 victory over the Plainsmen
Thursday night before a crowd of
13,000 fans, in Birmingham.
Auburn grabbed an early lead
as midway in the first period they
drove from their own 40 to How­ard's
double-stripe in 8 plays. The
outstanding feature of the march
was a 24 yard off tackle jaunt by
Don Wilkes to Howard's 1 yard
line. Wilkes would have gone over
for the tally, but he stumbled
over an official and fell one yard
short of the goal. On the follow­ing
play, Buck Jenkins, a Bir­mingham
boy, smashed over for
the lone score by the Plainsmen.
From this point on, Auburn's
offense seemed to function only
between the 20 yard markers. No
serious scoring threats were made
by the Plainsmen except in the
third quarter when a 39 yard
aerial, from Jenkins to Harwell,
failed by inches to connect for a
touchdown as the latter was in
j the end zone alone.
Howard was never in the ball
1 game until the last five minutes
of play. From their own 29 they
drove 89 yards—chiefly via air—
to knot the count at 6-6. Auburn
took the kick-off and met disas­ter,
as they tried vainly to pull
the game out of the fire. Jenkins,
who had faded back to pass, was
hit hard by the entire Howard
line, fumbled and Howard recov­ered
to put the game on ice.
Even in defeat, the Baby Tig­ers
looked far better than they
have in previous games. Their
plays were timed better, their
blocking was more effective, and
the backs ran harder than ever.
The starting team, including nine
Birmingham boys, played a fine
brand of ball throughout their
stay in the game.
Auburn's offense, which netted
14 first downs to Howard's 3, was
led by the hard charges of Don
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Wilkes and the fine passing of
Buck Jenkins. Stalwarts in the
line were Everett Harwell, Bill
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A Study in Flowing Rhythm
Jane Thompson of the Dance in Education group at the University of Maryland, glides
beautifully through the air in this graceful picture. Training educators to dance is a new
and modern method, a far cry from the straight-laced teachings of yester-year. Dtvis
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Shirt-tail Tackle Misses
Phillip Gutting, Navy back, wriggled loose from this William and Mary tackier to
record a nice gain in the first quarter of the game in which Navy sunk the Virginia
college, 19-7. Acme
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Twins Top Class in Scholarship
Twin sisters Ruth (left) and Jane Davidson, University of Louisville seniors, are
identical in scholarship as well as looks and personality. Both have phenome­nally
high 2.8 averages. Now university officials are wondering if the Wood­cock
medal, highest award offered to a graduating senior, can be hacked in two.
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He Carries Mail for the Broncos
ne of the main cogs in Santa Clara university's'backfield is Jonny
nna, 185-pound fullback. Here he shows off with a little power
running.
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Basketball Takes to the Tropics
Jumping the gun on his rivals, Coach Clair
Bee of Long Island university took his crack
team to Puerto Rico for "fall training". They
are warming up on the sands of the Escam-bron
Beach Club. wide World
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It's an Old Campus Custom
Cornelia Brooks, Cornell college co-ed, follows the advice of I
an old campus legend that says if a student combs her hair
under this ginkgo tree and makes a wish, it will come true. [
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which it believes gives the
most athletic good to the
most students. Competing
with colleges its own size,
Johns Hopkins asks and gives
no financial guarantees, pays
its own expenses, and charges
no admission to home con­tests.
Chief sport is Lacrosse (left)
which far overshadows foot­ball.
They consistently rank
high nationally in this sport,
average 10,000 spectators at
important games . . . remark­able
for an unsubsidized ath­letic
system.
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Techphoto Wormier and Quinn
She Rides the Crest of Tulane's Green Wave
Dorothy Lamour, visiting her home town of New Orleans, is officially proclaimed "Best Girl" of the Tulane university
football team, by co-captains Tommy O'Boyle and Claude Groves. They are presenting her with an autographed football.
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"Feather" in Her Cap
To promote interest in the
Omaha university football team,
members of the "Feathers", co­ed
pep organization, bought a
batch of gaucho hats then called
on all the businessmen in town.
Florence Kennedy, student man­ager
of the ticket campaign, dis­plays
one of the straw bonnets
which measure 32 inches in
diameter.
Gopher Cheerleaders Do a Sky Rocket
emonstrating perfect teamwork, Newton Loken and Bob Berg somersault through the air while drilling (or their spectac-lar
"skyrocket" cheer. O n the ground left to right, are cheerleaders Ray Eveland, Bill Braddock, and Bob Krone.
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This Takes Perfect Co-ordination
Big Don Clawson, Northwestern'* powerhouse fullback,
takes his pass from touted Bill DeCorrevant in full stride.
The 215-pound Wildcat is one of the ace pass receivers on
Coach Lynn Waldorf's squad. Acme Try Again When Ohio university freshmen registered they found some 200 of
their classes closed. This group are looking at the "call numbers" of
classes that have been closed. Coll«s'«t« Disci Photo by McConnaughey
if. if- Thrill of Exploring Backwoods Trails
A l l over the country the zest for youth hosteling is stirring. Thousands of col­legians
annually take advantage of this inexpensive means to travel and gain
knowledge. Located about 15 miles apart in chains, loops, or networks, Amer­ican
youth hostels are for the most part transformed farms with friendly farmer
folk acting as "house-parents". Hostelers travel primarily "under their own
steam" by foot, bicycle, horseback, canoe or skis, spend around a dollar daily.
Backed by educators and civic groups, the movement has gained momentum
until more than 200 hostels have been put into service.
Here a group of hikers enjoy a hearty breakfast outdoors
before starting on the next leg of their journey. They arc
exploring the mountain country of New England.
A pass costing one dollar will admit this cyclist to any of
the 4500 hostels here and abroad. Traveling alone for
the moment, this youth is apt to meet other cyclists be­fore
the day is over.
This house-mother is accepting passes from hostelers.
Typical house-parents are middle-aged folks who
have raised their own families, still want young people
about them.
Most trips are planned through beautiful country on sec­ondary
roads. Scenery and safety requires pushing on
the hills.
Inspecting the vagaries and solid comfort of an old-fashioned
wood stove intrigues this city-bred col­legian.
It's the first time he has cooked on a "metal
monster".
Outdoor dishwashing is simple, practical, and as much I
as Outdoor eating. Colligate Dis«t Photos by American Youth Hostels lnc|
He Has the Field to Himself
While other college gridirons of the nation echo to the clash of rival teams, the University of Chicago
groundkeeper, A l e x Kreyvich, furnishes all the noise on Stagg field. There was no call to football drill on
Vie M i d w a y , since the sport was abolished last December. Meanwhile A . A . Stagg, (right), who coached
at Chicago for 41 years, plunges into his work at College of the Pacific with all of his o l d time spirit. His
team made a creditable showing against Notre Dame early this month. Acme
Lures Footloose Collegiate Hostelers
Evenings find hostelers singing, follc-dancing, and com­paring
experiences before the fireplace.
Before departing, students clean lamp chimneys. They try
to leave every hostel better than they found it.
During winter months, hostelers take to the trails
on skiis and snowshoes. Some even ride horse­back.
Even the boys make their own beds. A cardinal principle
of hosteling is to leave bunks, kitchen, and all equip­ment
in readiness for the next fellow.
On a pioneer trip, sleeping bags are handy. These girls
have placed their bags in the softest hay and are already
dreaming of their next adventures.
Early morning finds travelers starting out toward the next
point. This form of traveling is fun whether you are alone
or with a group of friends.
Skiing is especially feasible in New England,
where snow is plentiful and distances between
hostels are short. In winter many of the inns are
used as week-end ski camps.
During College Days
Resourcefulness Pays
Not waiting for graduation to begin blazing new trails, this
group of ingenious undergraduates have struck out into new
fields to "work their way through college". Part time jobs are
scarce so they have pushed off the beaten path by exploiting
specialized knowledge already acquired. No soliciting mag­azine
subscriptions, washing dishes, serving tables or mowing
campus lawns for theml
Robert Maiden takes a business course at Stanford university.
He has also studied chemistry. Combining the two he has
established a good business selling perfume of his own mix­ing
to campus co-eds and local shops. His nose for business
will see him through college, may even be pointing to a per­manent
career after graduation. Acmr
Academically Frank H. George, Harvard, has
no illusions, but he plucks a living out of thin
air by performing feats of magic. Filling three
engagements a week at local functions, he earns
enough to defray his expenses at school. Acmr
Carlos Taitano, a native of Guam and senior at University of
Hawaii, dances his way through a college pre-med course.
He has danced professionally since coming to Hawaii to start
college. His performances are seen at nightclubs and private
entertainments.
Ralph Lidge pays his way through Northwest­ern
university with a "sweet racket" he started
during high school days. He raises bees, now
has 58 thriving hives which net him a yearly
profit of about $450. Acmr
Campus address for Tom Solinsky, center on the University I
of Idaho football team, is the county jail. A special dep-l
uty, he earns a quiet basement room in return for night radio!
and telephone duty while officers are out on calls. H«s«n |