1940-10-04 The Plainsman

              Stop That
Ripple!
VOL. LXIV Z-I
Hw Plainsman, Start Politickin'
Freshmen!
' 'A UBUKN—the friendliest college in the United States"
ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, OCTOBER 4, 1940 No. 8
Freshmen to Run ODK Cake Race November 22
Auburn Will Have Advanced Pilot Training
Ten Students with CAA
Training Are Eligible
For New Instruction
It was announced eysterday by
Lt. B. M. Cornell that ten stu­dents
would now be accepted in
the secondary course of the Civil
Pilot Training course. This sec­ondary
course will begin this fall
not later than October 16 and
will end not later than January
15.
The new restricted commercial
training course will be divided in­to
two parts. The first part will
be a 126 hour ground course pro­vided
for by the college and the
flight instructor contractor. A 40
to 50 hour flight course will be
the second part of the course.
This advanced course will be to
instruct the students in flight that
primarily will be to familiarize the
students with a heavier plane and
acrobatics with that plane.
A Waco bi-plane with an open
cockpit will be used by the ten
advanced students. It will be a
220 horsepower plane similar to
that used by the Tuskegee Insti­tute
students at the Auburn air­port.
Frasier Fortner, CAA instruct­or,
is now in Chattanooga getting
the secondary instructor's rating
so that he will be able to start at
once in the new training series.
Applicant* who with to take
thi* advanced training must be
able to pas* the following qualifi­cations.
They must be citizens of
the United States and must pledge
themselves to apply further train­ing
in the military service of the
U.S. They must have reached their
19th and not their 26th birthday
by October 1, 1940. Private pilot's
certificate, obtained through the
preliminary course, effective at
the current date must be possess­ed
by those who will seek advanc­ed
training.
If they are still in college, they
must have satisfactorily complet­ed
one-half of the necessary cred­its
leading to a degree in an in­stitution
whose credits are accept­ed
by the U.S. Army or Navy.
Those no longer enrolled in col­lege
must have satisfactorily
completed one-half of the neces­sary
credits leading to a degree
in an institution whose credits are
accepted by the U.S. Army and
Navy as evidenced by a transcript
signed by the registrar for the
institution where the necessary
credits were completed.
Also, they must be recommend­ed
for the Restricted Commercial
Training by the Director of the
Civil Pilot Training and by the
Flight Instructor Contractor un­der
whom they took preliminary
training. They must pass a com­mercial
Civil Pilot Training phy­sical
examination and a complete
eye examination which includes
refraction given by the designed
Civil Aeronautics Medical examin­ers.
The ten students accepted
must never have been disqualified
from participation in the Civilian
Pilot Training program by the
Advisory Board's action.
They must be recommended for
the Restricted Commercial Course
by the coordinator (formally di­rector)
of the Civil Pilot Train­ing
and the flight instructor con-
Training and the flight instructor
under whom they received private
or preliminary training. Selection
of trainees, who have been proper-
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Four Students Chosen
To Publications Board
Dance to Be Held in
Craves Center Hall
Tomorrow Night at 9
A dance will be held in Graves
Center Hall tomorrow night from
9 until 12, with music by the Au­burn
Knights, according to an an­nouncement
this morning by
Chick Hatcher, business manager
of the musical organization.
The dance is being sponsored
by the Knights and an admission
price of fifty cents will be charg­ed.
During the course of the eve­ning
there will be three no-breaks
and possibly a surprise no-break.
Mary Marshall Named
New WSCA Secretary
Mary Beth Marshall, junior in
home economics from Ozark, was
elected Tuesday to the position of
secretary of the Women's Student
Government Association. Her only
opponent was Ann Pafford.
The election was held to fill the
vacancy left by Dora Brice's fail­ure
to return to school and not
Mildred Brown Davis as stated
in Tuesday's Plainsman. Miss
Davis is treasurer of the WSGA.
The Plainsman is glad to make
this correction.
The exact number of votes cast
in Tuesday's election was not dis­closed,
but it was announced that
the voting was lighter than in us­ual
elections.
Cabinet Selects New
Members for Group
Board of Eight Members Serves Function
Of Supervising All Student Publications
At a regular meeting of the Student Executive Cabi­net
last night four outstanding seniors were elected to
serve on the Board of Publications for this year. In the
order named they are Merlin Bryant, L. B. Freeland, Car-lyle
McCulloch, and Ed Paul.
The publications board is composed of four student
members and four faculty members. This board has the
the governing power over all student publications. Each
September, a list of eight seniors
Third Pep Rally of
Year Held Yesterday
The third pep rally of the year
was held yesterday at five o'clock
at the Auburn Stadium. Chick
Hatcher, head cheerleader, lead
the student body is the yells.
President L. N. Duncan and
Head Coach Jack Meagher made
speeches to the assembled group.
Jimmy Hitchcock, Boots Chamb-less,
Porter Grant, and Buddy
McCollum also made short talks.
That great Auburn Band, just
back from the State Fair at Bir­mingham,
furnished those snappy
tunes in between the speeches and
the cheers.
Briaerean Selects
Seven New Members
Two Juniors and Five
Pre-Juniors Tapped
Beta Chapter of the Briaerean
Society, national honorary group
composed of co-operative engi­neers,
announced this morning that
two men of the junior class and
five of the pre-junior class have
been tapped. These students are
enrolled in section A of the co-op
group.
Those men who were tapped to
become members of the honor so-
• ciety were as follows:
Ray Ewald of St. Louis, Mo.
who is a junior in chemical en­gineering
and a member of Theta
Zi social fraternity. The other jun­ior
was Hans Von Aller of Mo­bile
who is a member of ATO and
a student in electrical engineering.
The pre-juniors were W. R.
Clinton of Mobile who is taking
electrical engineering; Will Greg­ory
of Birmingham who is a stu­dent
in civil engineering and a
member of Pi Kappa Phi; J. L.
Griswold of Auburn who is a stu­dent
in electrical engineering;
John Rollins who is taking chemi­cal
engineering and is from Jasper
and Merlin Sims who is from Bir­mingham
and who is taking chem­ical
engineering.
The Briaerean Society, founded
at Georgia Tech in 1922, was
named after Briaereus, a god in
Greek mythology who had a single
eye and 100 hands. Beta chapter
was established in January, 1940,
at the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute.
Members of the society are tap­ped
from co-op students who are
excelling in leadership and student
activities and who possess the re­quired
scholastic average of 85 or
better.
is selected by the faculty mem­bers
of the board and presented
to the Executive Cabinet for se­lection
of four student members.
Merlin Bryant is a senior in ag­riculture
from Andalusia. He is
president of the Ag Club and the
International Relations Club. He
is a Theta Chi pledge, and a mem­ber
of the Dean's List. Last spring
Bryant was awarded the cup as
"the best all-round junior in ag­riculture."
L. B. Freeland is president of
Sigma Pi social fraternity and is
from Mobile. He is enrolled in
civil engineering and was a mem­ber
of last year's polo squad. He
is also president of the ASCE.
Carlyle McCulloch is a Pi Kap­pa
Alpha from Huntsville and is
enrolled in Aeronautical engi­neering.
He is president of Tau
Beta Pi, honorary engineering
fraternity and is a member of
Spades and Scabbard and Blade.
He is a Dean's List student.
Ed Paul is a member of Sigma
Chi social fraternity and Scab­bard
and Blade honor society. He
is also a member of Blue Key
honor fraternity.
Faculty members of the Publi­cations
Board are Dr. J. R. Rut­land,
head of the English Depart­ment;
W. T. Ingram, college busi-
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Two ROTC Cadet
Appointments Made
Upon the resignation of F. A.
Head, 2nd Lieutenant H. A. Fill-mer
has been promoted to 1st
Lieutenant and Adjutant of the
2nd Battalion of the 1st F.A. This
promotion in the Corps of Cadets
of the ROTC was made on Sep­tember
26, 1940 with the approval
of President L. N. Duncan.
Also Cadet 2nd Lieutenant J.
W. Edwards is relieved from Bat­tery
"G" of the first F.A. and
assigned to Battery "G" of the
second F.A.
Student Directory
To Be Published
Correct Address Must
Be Given t o Registrar
The Registrar's Office is pre­paring
copy for the directory of
faculty and students, and is re­questing
the cooperation of stu­dents
in completing the necessary
information.
All students who have not filed
their correct local addresses and
telephone numbers with the Reg­istrar's
Office should do so at
once in order that this informa­tion
may be carried in the direct­ory.
Sororities and fraternities are
requested to submit copy for their
respective chapters by Saturday
noon, October 5. Copy should
show information in exactly the
same form as carried in the di­rectory
of last year. Present full
names of students with no initials,
abbreviations, or nick-names.
Presidents or chairmen of the
various campus organizations,
that is literary or technical socie­ties,
honor societies, publications,
classes, etc, are requested to fur­nish
a list of the officers of their
particular groups in the same
form as carried last year by Sat­urday
noon, October 5.
Theta Upsilon Will
Make Award to API's
Outstanding Coed
At the last convocation before
commencement, Iota Alpha chap­ter
of Theta Upsilon will present
a cup to the girl selected as the
most representative Auburn girl.
This award is open to any wom­an
student and the committee to
make the selection is composed of
faculty and students. The selec­tion
will be made on the basis of
scholarship, leadership, and citi­zenship.
Miss Amy Drake of Auburn,
senior in Education, was selected
by the committee to receive the
award last year, and the cup was
presented by Miss Helen Porch,
past president of Theta Upsilon.
Winner of Event to
Receive Large Cake
Race Will Be Held Over 2.7 Mile Course;
Record Set by Ball in Last Year's Race
The annual ODK Cake Race, one of the most famous
of Auburn traditions, will be held on Friday, November
22, at 3 p.m., according to an announcement made this
week by John McCabe, president of ODK.
Freshmen are advised to begin training as soon as
possible. Every freshman who is registered in ROTC will
be required to enter the race.
Winner of the race will receive, among other prizes,
a huge cake, and a 1944 numeral
Opelika Football
R. B. Mardre, Superintendent
of the Opelika High School, an­nounced
this morning that the
students of API could attend the
Opelika football games for the
regular student admission price of
25 cents if the students will
bring their student athletic book.
sweater.
Next twenty-four freshmen to
cross the finish line will each re­ceive
smaller cakes. The fraterni­ty
having the lowest four-man to­tal,
that is, the first four men to
finish, will receive a loving cup.
Record time for the race was
set last year by John C. Ball, an
ATO. Ball's time was 14:05.6.
This bettered the record set by
Herbert Drake in 1937 by some
fifty seconds.
Fraternity cup went to Alpha
Tau Omega last year.
Letters have been written to
several of the nation's leading pic­ture
magazines, including "Life",
"Look" and "Pic", inviting these
publications to send representa­tives
from their staff to cover the
race. Paramount News cameramen
have also been invited for the
event.
The usual 2.7 mile course will
be followed again this year. Start­ing
at the Freshman football
field, the participants will run to
Thach Avenue and down to Col­lege
Street. Turning North on Col­lege
they will continue to the
corner of Glenn. Down East
Glenn for three blocks, they turn
South until they hit Magnolia,
West down Magnolia to Gay, and
then South to Samford. Running
West on Samford for one block,
they turn up College again down
to Ag Bottom. Turning West
across the bottom, the final lap
will be along the dirt road be­tween
the quadrangle and Bullard
Field. The event will end as the
boys file through the entrance to
the Varsity football field. Here
they will be numbered in the or­der
in which they finish.
The Cake Race was first run
in 1930. It was instituted by Dr.
Charles S. Davis, then president
of. ODK and now on the history
staff of the college.
Bridge Party
Sphinx will give a benefit
bridge party at the Gymnasium
Tuesday night at 7 o'clock. Pur­pose
of the party is to raise funds
for a club house for women stu­dents.
WJHO to Present
API-Tulane Game
Thirty-three Auburn Tigers en­trained
last night for New Or­leans
where they will meet the Tu-lane
Green Wave at the Sugar
Bowl Stadium. This will be the
Tigers first game of the year in
the Southeastern Conference series.
Officials of W.J.H.O., local
broadcasting station, announced
last night that they will broadcast
the Auburn-Tulane tussle tomor­row
afternoon. The time for this
broadcast will be announced over
the air this morning.
For the pre-game story on to­morrow's
classic, turn to page four
and read JFohn Pierce's forecast.
Freshmen Politics
Freshmen are respectfully warn­ed
against putting up signs ad­vertising
their candidacy for of­fice
in the coming elections. This
type of publicity is strictly
against election rules.
New Enrollment
Record Reached
Registration for First
Semester Almost 3,800
Latest figures on this year's
registration show that a total of
3786 students have enrolled for
the first semester. This is the larg­est
number of students ever to
enroll at Auburn and is an in­crease
of 414 over last year's fig­ures
of 3372.
The total number of women
students has not been ascertain­ed
yet but Dr. Rosa Lee Walston,
director of the women students,
states that the number will prob­ably
be between 700 and 800.
Co-op student registration fig­ures
show that the present num­ber
is 173. There will be approxi­mately
350 by the end of Decem­ber
including those out on jobs
at the present.
With the Co-op registration on
the increase, and taking into con­sideration
the enrollment for next
semester, officials a r e confi­dent
that the anticipated 4,200
will be reached by the end of the
year.
Chemical Society to
Meet Monday Night
There will be a meeting of the
Auburn student chapter of AIChE
Monday night, October 7, in Ross
203 at 7:30 p.m.
An interesting program is as­sured
by the entertainment com­mittee,
and the fact that Dr. Alli­son
is to be the speaker is a posi­tive
guarantee that the meeting
will be well worth attending. His
subject has not been announced
but it should prove interesting to
all chemical engineers.
A membership drive is now on
and all freshmen and sophomores
are urged to attend this meeting
Monday night.
Phi Lambda Upsilon
Taps 6 New Members
Three Seniors, Three
Juniors in Croup
Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary
chemical society, held its annual
smoker and fall tapping last
Tuesday evening on the terrace of
the Ross Chemical Laboratory.
Three seniors and three juniors
were tapped at the meeting.
' Those students tapped for mem­bership
in the society were Pat­rick
Henry Perry of Hurtsboro
who is a member of the Sigma Nu
social fraternity and a senior in
chemical engineering; Conyers
Relfe of Mt. Meigs who is an SAE
and a senior in chemistry;
Maurice D. Sellers, who is a sen­ior
in chemical engineering and
is from Montgomery.
The juniors were Ronald D.
Young of Florence; Malcolm
Bethea of Birmingham and a The­ta
Chi pledge; and James L.
Rouse who is an SAE from Mont­gomery.
The program was conducted by
President James Edwards and in­cluded
talks given by Dr. Roger
Allen and Leroy Thompson. A
chemical handbook was awarded
to John Bruce Martin as the out­standing
sophomore in chemistry
and chemical engineering. Further
entertainment was provided by
movies and refreshments.
Freshman Elections to
Be Held on October 29
Members of Elections
Committee Named; Rules
For Election Listed
Election of class officers of the
freshman class will be held on
Tuesday, October 29, according
to an announcement this morning
by Tom Roby, Chairman of the
Elections Committee.
Roby also announced the names
of the associate members of the
Elections Committee for this year.
They are Sue Quattlebaum,
George Maxwell, Henry Britt, and
John Lawrence.
Sue Quattlebaum is women's
representative to the Executive
Cabinet and is a member of Chi
Omega sorority. Her home is Con­way,
S. C. She is enroiled in in­terior
decoration.
George Maxwell is president of
Sigma Chi social fraternity and
is a member of Scabbard and
Blade. He is enrolled in mechanic­al
engineering and is from Atmore?
Henry Britt is a member of
ODK and Scabbard and Blade and
Tau Beta Pi honor fraternities.
He is enrolled in mechanical en­gineering
and is from Auburn.
John Lawrence is president of
Kappa Delta Pi, educational hon­or
society. He is enrolled in ag­ricultural
education and is from
Centre.
According to the constitution of
the Cabinet, a student is eligible
to hold office in the class in
which he is a voter.
Nomination blanks must be sub­mitted
in the following form:
We, the undersigned members of
the Class of __, do hereby nomi­nate
for " (Signature
of 4% of the class must be sign­ed
below the above statement.)
At the bottom of the petition
the following must be placed: "I
do hereby accept the above nomi­nation."
This is to be signed by
the nominee.
Nomination blanks must be
placed in a locked box provided
for that purpose between the
hours of 8 a.m. on the Wednes­day
and 1 p.m. on the Thursday
of the week preceding the elec­tion.
Announcement will be made
next week as to the location of
this box. Places of voting will be
announced by Roby next week.
Other business of the Executive
Cabinet last night included the
election of Sue Quattlebaum as
treasurer of the Cabinet. The new
amendment to the constittuion
which has appeared in previous is­sues
of the Plainsman was pass­ed
by the Cabinet and is now in
effect.
Page Two T H E P L A I N S M AN October 4, 1940
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Certain Auburn Merchants
May Soon Be 'Holding the Bag'
At a recent meeting of the Interfra-ternity
Financial Officers the subject of
advertising in the Plainsman by mer­chants
in and around Auburn was dis­cussed,
both pro and con. Some very
heated arguments took place at this
meeting, arguments which we had best
not print.
But those financial officers of Au­burn's
20 fraternities struck a respon­sive
chord. There are several merchants
in Auburn who purchase large amounts
of advertising space in the Plainsman
throughout the year. These merchants
realize the fact that their business de­pends
upon the students who make their
homes here for nine and sometimes
twelve months a year.
As one financial officer expressed it,
"If it were not for the students who make
their home at Auburn, businesses would
be as scarce as they are in deserted gold
mining towns in the West." And there's
some truth in those words.
While there are several merchants
who realize that advertising in t h e
Plainsman is worthwhile because the
Plainsman is a student institution, there
are also many merchants who practical­ly
kick a business staff member of this
paper out of his place of business. Al­though
they are making money at the
expense of the students, many merchants
in Auburn are not willing to do anything
for the students in return. It looks like
injustice to us.
The financial officers of the various
groups have resolved to do their trading
in other places if these merchants are
not willing to show some reciprocation
for the business the students give them.
And assuredly the financial officers of
Auburn's 20 fraternities would be right
in taking such steps.
'And You Shall
Know the Truth*
I am the voice of the city, the bringer
of tidings, the companion of your fire­side
hours. I am your friend away from
home. I am the prophet of tomorrow,
your link with the world beyond your
doorstep. I am today's link with history.
ONLY A FREE PRESS CAN PREVENT Plains Talk-ty Herbert Martin
THE PEOPLES
SERVANTS
FROM BECOMING-THE
PEOPLE'S MASTERS
But most of all, I am the Conscience of
America. And I must be heard.
I fired the spirit of another America
when I told of lands beyond the fron­tier.
I set ten thousand covered wagons
on their sunset Odyssey. I tore the veil
from men's eyes and bade them see that
their country could not exist half slave
and half free. ""*;
I have never become "an instrument
of government policy." I have never—as
in Russia—been used to blackout the
truth. No hidden power has used me, as
in Germany, to stifle the kindlier in­stincts
of a whole people, rouse barbaric
passions and set feet tramping the long
red road. No secret voices made me keep
silent, as in France, while a trusting na­tion
died.
I am not infallible. I have your weak­nesses
for I am of you and by you, but
I also have your steadfast strength.
Sometimes I have slumbered, complac­ent,
and then wrongs were done. But I
have always awakened. I am the con­science
of America—YOUR conscience
and I will be heard.
I bid you have faith in America. I
tell you Democracy is NOT on trial. It
is NOT outmoded, worn out, finished. It
is still the newest thing on earth; too
new even to be fully understood. All else
is a throw-back to medievalism, cynic­ism,
despondency and despair.
I bid you read the Declaration of In­dependence.
I tell you to read the Con­stitution
of The United States and Lin­coln's
words at Gettysburg.
I tell you the Republic is NOT on trial.
It is rather we who are on trial. It is
our faith, our courage that is being put
to the test and will be put to the test
in the years to come. Perhaps, caught
in the mesh of social and economic
change, we shall give ear to the honey­ed
voices of the demagogues. Perhaps,
softened by ease, corrupted by ease, cor­rupted
by paternalism, we shall forget
truth, tolerance, kindliness, initiative.
Maybe we shall forget that while the
burden of responsibility always rests
heavy on the shoulders of them willing
to bear it, that very willingness makes
those shoulders stronger. Perhaps we
shall decide that Democracy is not for
us, that we are not ready for it.
I don't think so. For I am America's
Conscience and I have faith in America's
destiny. I know that as long as I am free
to speak, America will listen. I must not
be silenced, for when you silence me you
silence your own heart. I must not be en­slaved,
for when you enslave me you are
alone, cut off from reality, abandoned
by truth, at the bottom of a black pit
of horror and fantasy. Gag me and your
children will never know the America
you have known. Keep me free and you
will be free.
I look insignificant enough on your
doorstep, yet I am your link of under­standing
with a changing wrold. I am
a passing, ephemeral thing, born and
dying every day. Yet I am one of the
foundations of the Republic. I am the
Conscience of America. I am beholden
to no one. I tell you the truth. And you
trust me.
I am the free press of America. I am
your newspaper.
Plainsman Observing
National Newspaper
Week in This Issue
This week is National News­paper
Week and also Newspaper
Appreciation Week in Alabama.
The Plainsman is observing this
week set aside for newspapers
through its editorial columns and
its feature columns on other pages
of this issue. We urge you to read
the editorial to the left of this
column and the story on page 3
concerning the actual "story be­hind
the scenes" in publishing
your Plainsman.
We have word from President
Roosevelt saying, "I hope that due
emphasis will be placed on the
necessity for maintaining free­dom
of the press in a democracy.
The very fundamentals of democ­racy
would be nullified should
freedom of the press ever be suc­cessfully
challenged."
Governor Frank Dixon says,
"The newspapers of this State and
Nation typify the freedom of press
and speech, which with religious
liberty, constitute the most sacred
rights of the free people of the
United States."
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.
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Student Center last Monday af­ternoon
gave an excellent imita­tion
of a hospital waiting room
as representatives from various
organizations held a conclave to
pick dance dates. These represen­tatives
paced the floor and bit
fingernails in a manner much too
realistic for mere social dates
drawing.
* * *
About the tea and morning
dance uprising . . .
It seems rather obvious to us,
and we hope we are right, that
the sole reason for the ban on
morning and tea dances is the
fact that the feeding of nearly
200 boys in Graves Center (fig­ures
courtesy statistical board of
Martin Forecasting System) makes
it rather difficult to hold dances
there from eleven to one or from
four to six.
If this is correct, we believe
that a temporary remedy could
be effected by holding these
dances in Student Center or in
the gymnasium. Of course, this
would not be a permanent solu­tion,
but at present daytime
dances are somewhat smaller than
others, and these places could ac­commodate
the crowds.
* * *
Possibly by next year more fav­orable
arrangements can be made
for the nourishment of these boys,
as it is true that Graves Center
is the only building on the camp­us
suitable for holding all dances.
Even discounting daytime dances,
the conflict between the regular
boarders and socially inclined or­ganizations
works a hardship on
both parties.
Perhaps, for the three major
dance sets of the year, other ar­rangements
can be made for the
feeding of these boys for one day,
as it would be rather hard to per­suade
a really top-notch band
from out of town to keep on the
move all of the week-end from
Graves Center to Student Center
and back.
Nation's Students Both Condemn
And Praise Collegiate Football
Echoing anew at scores of col­leges
as the 1940 football season
gets under way is the white-hot
pro and con argument about foot­ball:
Is the University of Chica-.
go on the right track in sharply
de-emphasizing the sport, or should
football as a big business be giv­en
even further impetus?
Scores of college editors have
spoken out on the subject last
term and this. Many are convinc­ed
Chicago's Pres. Robert M. Hut-chins
has courageously struck out
against a national evil. Many, but
not all.
At the University of Illinois,
the Daily Illini expressed opinion
that "When President Hutchins
told the world that subsidization
of athletes was a prerequisite to
gridiron glory, he crawled -far out
on a limb. The Illinois boys still
win football games in the tough­est
league in the nation, and they
seem to do it without the aid of
the subsidies which President Hut-chins
implied they received."
The Purdue Exponent, while
"admitting some faults and com­mercialization
in football," de­clared
it has "no desire that Pur­due
should ever 'follow' Chicago.
Football contributes a certain
'something' to college life which
we would .not want thrown into
discard."
Likewise, it is the opinion of
the Washington and Jefferson
Red and Black, that "collegiate
football is of definite benefit to
colleges, to students, and to num­erous
other interests alike. If, as
Dr. Hutchins alleges, football is
a major handicap to education,
the Red and Black feels that the
American system of higher learn­ing
needs more such handicaps."
Contrasted with these opinions
are those of several college pub­lications
that believe steps must
be taken to curb commercializa­tion.
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology's Tech declares "the
situation is so flagrantly non-amateur
intercollegiate football
and declare it frankly as the pro­fessional
occupation it is."
The Richmond Collegian poses
for its readers the question, "Can
we take the spotlight from foot­ball
and put it on scholarship,
where it belongs? Chicago had the
courage."
The Rice Thresher agrees that
"in subsidization we are defeating
the whole purpose for the exist­ence
of football on our campus, a
game of recreation for the stu­dents."
The Michigan Daily feels "it is
just as well that Chicago saw fit
to retire."
And at Chicago, the Daily Ma­roon
itself expresses satisfaction
with the Hutchins arrangement,
saying, "Its educational function
is the essential reason for a uni­versity's
existence. It is true that
not having football any more will
make autumn duller for a few
people. But even those few were
not able to become very enthusias­tic
about the games."—(ACP)
On Intelligence
So-called "intellectuals" who
know all the answers oftentimes
are "unintelligent," a University
of Iowa psychology professor told
the American Psychological Asso­ciation
here.
"When carried to extremes,
mental stunts such as cross-word
puzzles and question-and-answer
superficiality have the effect of
making a waste-basket of the hu­man
mind," said Dr. George D.
Stoddard. "Sheer accumulation of
information is the antithesis of in­telligent
activity."
Dr. Stoddard charged that pres­ent
intelligence tests overlook
"originality," and "measure only
items which have been overlearn-ed
and do not show what new
solutions or original patterns a
child or an adult can produce.
"Therefore, an I.Q. of 140 or
even more can no longer be con­sidered
an evidence of genius."—
(ACP)
Tulane, after the pasting dish­ed
out by the Bostonians last
, week, should be hot as a burning
stump tomorrow. With nothing to
lose and plenty to gain, they can
afford to open up and take some
chances which could be pretty
dangerous to us.
And there's the chance that we
may be a bit over-confident after
last week's results. All of this adds
up to bad news for the home
team. Based upon this exhaustive
study, we predict . . . Auburn 53,
Tulane 6.
* * *
Where is this year's "Seven"??
* * *
It's hard to predict the weather
this far ahead, even with the aid'
of a crystal ball, a pair of sus­penders,
a deuce of clubs, a brok­en
shoestring, and Dr. Zieglehoff's
Almanac and Fishing Calendar,
but at the date of this writing
(midnight, Monday, September
30, 1940, A.D.) we're preparing
the premises for six feet and four
inches of snow by next Sunday.
We blame the unusual weather,
the foreign situation, and the so­cial
mix-up on sun spots.
* * *
We've discontinued the propos­ed
series on how to evade the
eleven o'clock curfew, having be­come
convinced that the project
is hopeless.
* * *
Deming promises a "wonderful"
band for the Openings. This
corner is placing its wager on the
nose of Freddie Fisher and the
Snicklefritzers, with other choices
being the Hoozier Hot-shots to
place, and Jack Guilroy's Stump
Stompers to show.
* * *
Karrie, the Kampus Kuddling
Kween, is quite perturbed about
the absence of the "Miss" elec­tions
so characteristic of Auburn.
Last year these elections were so
numerous that the only girl who
wasn't elected to one of these
honor posts dubbed herself "Miss
Celaneous" and took her place
with the others. These elections
make the girls feel good, and
hurt no one, so Karrie (the Miss
Celaneous of last year), would
like to see the practice revived.
Campus Leaders
. . . Jim King
The best politician that ever
graced the Auburn campus is Jim
King. It is our belief that he
knows more students on the camp­us
than any other one student.
And because of his "knowing peo- s
pie" he has established such an
outstanding campus political rec­ord.
Jim started into "big politics"
early when he won the sophomtfre
position as secretary of the Exe-cutive
Cabinet. He was unopposed
for the junior position of vice-president
of the Cabinet and this
past year he was swept into the
office of President of the Cabi­net
by a landslide vote.
But Jim is not just a politician.
He has many good ideas and plans
concerning student government.
At the annual Student Represen­tative
Convention in New Orleans
last spring, he distinguished him­self
as a progressive student lead­er
in the group discussions on
student government.
Jim is a member of ODK and
Spades, senior honor societies, and
is enrolled in industrial engineer­ing.
He is often taking a trip over
to Columbus to visit "a certain
young lady who we understand
is very beautiful, and that Jim is
very fond of said young lady.
Luck to you Jim, both in student
government and in your "other
activity."
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.
Ding-dong-ding, (discord) (dit­to).
Thissere's Stashun S-U-G-G,
thuh Voice uv East Alabaamer,
serving Aubeur and Opelika. It is
now egzactly two—I mean one
o'clock dayli—er, ah, oh, it's two
minutes past one o'clock CST, by
courtesy uv the Stewed Jewelry
Compny, which sells Garr'um's
silver. We will now hear thuh lat­est
nues uv thus hower, brought
to you by Ununited Press every
hower, on the hower, and-er, and-ah,
oh yes, by the hower.
Lundun waz bahmed agayn to­day
last night. Bums screamed and
tore great holes in the streets. It
waz fearful, flames shot into the
skies and the theater audience and
cafe patrons were all ilt as they
ran for air raid shelters. British
Spitfiers fought fierce battles with
the Mettersch-sh-shhh . . . German
airplanes and drove 'em off. Thuh
Nazzys say 3,500 British planes
were downed, and the British say
3,501 Nazzy planes were destroy­ed,
and both sides said none of
their planes were destroyed, and
this is very contradiktry. It wuz
announced by Marshal Pettin'
that there will be abslutely no con­ciliation
between his govmint and
the English. Adolf Hitler said so
too. Musselini has bin pounding
and thundering at the British
lines agayn. Japan has ultima-darned
French Indoo China and
French Indoo China has captulat-ed.
Prezdint Rosevelt has issued
a protest, but Nippon says it has­n't
done anything, only reduce a
few li'l forts 'in things on the
What-cha-call-it River. A late dis-pach
says Willkie is still running
for Rosevelt—I mean, the White
House. (Deep, gusty breath. Rust­ling
of paper.)
Ding-dong-ding . . . ding. This­sere's
Stashun S.U.G.G. Silence.
Indigestion. We will now have a
brief interlude of organic melody.
Umm. Umm-ah-er, the first num­ber
will be, umm-er-ah. Silence.
(A splintering crash. It is "Rock
of Ages" being catapulted against
the microphone.) We have bin
hearing a brief interlude of or­ganic
melody.
Ding-dong-ding. (The silence is
painful.) BONG! Thissere's Sta­shun
S-U-G-G. Music fer Moderns 1
Nathan Sch-sh-shhKILkrit and his
awrkistra will per — (Sudden
blast of sound, all out of kilter.
Abrupt and scratchy adjustments
are made. Then the thing is de­void
of sound. And now we hear
an unperturbed recording of "I
Got Plenty o' Nothin'.") We are*
listening to the music of Nathan
(Too bad, he swallowed some­thing.)
and his awrkistra, and we
hear next the-er-ah. Silence. The
brisk strains of "Bersuze" from
"Josslyn." (We hear "Sweet and
Low.") Bill's Bread is wonderful,
so healthful, so healthful, so
healtful, OH!, and only ten cents
a loaf. We will now hear Music
fer Moderns or "Sweet and Low."
(We hear the Berceuse.) Ding-dong-
ding. This is the end of
music for moderns.
Ding-dong-ding. (Just for good
measure.) Thissere's . Stashun S-U-
G-G, the Voice us East Ala­baamer,
serving Aubeur 'n Ope­lika
with studios in the Tipps Ho­tel
in Aubeur and Sender's Shack
in Opelika, somewhere between
1300 and 1400 on your dial, the
beauty spot of your dial. We will
now hear some fine music by Ro-sahrio
Bordon-n-n and the Sym-phny,
and first we hear Pianissi­mo.
(A work is performed.) Next
we hear ahndahnty. (The "An­dante
Cantabile" of Tschaikov-sky
swells forth. Then as a par­ticularly
lovely crecendo reaches
its height . . .) Awkkkk. Silence.
Gargling. The Spiffy Service Sta­tions
under the weather in eye-ther
Aubeur or Opelika offers
complete f'cilities. You can get
gas, oil, free air, free water, maps,
information, directions, and clean
rest rooms and thorough washing
and lubrication.
Ding-dong-ding - ding - dong -
dong - ding - dong. (At last some­body
stops it.) Thissere's Stashun
S-U-G-G. We will have an all-re­quest
program. The folks have ar­rived
en massay and the studio is
full. Let's see now. Umm-ah.
Umm. Zzzz-ummm. Silence. More
of the same. Ah-h-h-rumph. Why .
don't you all send some requests?*"
We can't have an all-request pro­gram
now.
Awkkkkkkkk!! Stashun S-U-G-G,
the Voice us . . . oh, you know
that line . . . anyway, it is eight-thirty.
Stashun S-U-G-G should
have quit thirty minutes ago. The
"Star Spangled Banner." SIL­ENCE!
October 4, 1940 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Student Engineering Council
Enters Second Year At Auburn
Powell, Blondell
Star in Comedy
At Tiger Sunday
Stars Are Married in
Real Life as Well as
In Motion Picture
Although Joan Blondell and
Dick Powell have been cast to­gether
many times in pictures,
there is scarcely doubt that they
have ever had a chance to cavort
the way they do in "I want a Di­vorce,"
the new comedy-drama
which Paramount will present on
Sunday and Monday at the Tiger
Theatre.
This assignment together finds
them cast as man and wife —
they're man and wife off the
screen, too, as just about every­body
knows. And as a young
couple who are faced with the us­ual
problems such as finding
enough money to get along, Joan
and Dick have an unprecedented
opportunity to utilize their abili­ties
along comic and dramatic
lines, too, for that matter.
With a supporting cast number­ing
such capable performers as
Gloria Dickson, Frank Fay, Jessie
Ralph and Conrad Nagel, Joan
and Dick launch the story in
a divorce court, where Joan's sis­ter—
Gloria Dickson—is getting a
divorce. Joan helps things along
with her testimony, and tells Dick
how she hates to do it, convinced
as she is that divorce breeds un-happiness.
In a natural course of events,
Joan and Dick are thrown to­gether
again, and as man and
maid will, they marry. Then comes
fun — the disputes faced by ev­ery
couple, sister-in-law arriving
to chase hubby out of the other
twin bed, and lots of things along
those lines. It's a safe venture to
say that the didoes will seem fa­miliar
to lots of married couples.
The climactic events of the story
revolve around the fact that Joan
wants Dick to struggle along on
Leroy Thompson Will Head Organization;
Plan to Publish Engineering Magazine
By FRED HENNING
The Auburn Student Engineers' Council is active al­ready
this semester and has mapped out a program worthy
of the efforts of any scholastic group. Its member organiza­tions
are showing an enthusiasm which would mean success
for any organization. So that those who are not yet familiar
with the council and with its aims and policies might become
familiar with them it would be well at this point to give a
brief history of the Council and also to mention a few of
its plans.
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Organized Last Year
The Auburn Student Engineers'
Council, commonly referred to by
the four initial letters ASEC was
organized here on the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute campus in
September 1939. Founded by stu­dent
initiative it has as its "pri-mary
aim the coordination of all
activities concerned with the en­gineering
department of this in­stitution.
Its functions range from
the sponsoring of social activi­ties
for engineering students to
the publishing of a technical mag­azine.
Other activities of equal
importance are its sponsoring of
the Annual Engineers' Day, its
conducting the bi-monthly engi­neering
seminars, its fostering a
closer relationship between the en­gineering
students in different
branches of engineering and its
bringing about a greater co-op­eration
between students and
faculty.
13 Groups Are Members
The Auburn Student Engineers'
Council is truly a democratic body.
It is made up of two representa­tives
from each of the engineering
organizations, both honorary and
professional, here on the campus.
At present these organizations
number 13, giving a total of 26
members to the governing body.
Those professional organizations
now represented are the student
branches of the American Insti­tute
of Electrical Engineers,
American Institute of Chemical
Engineers, American Society of
Agricultural Engineers, American
Society of Civil Engineers, Ameri­can
Society of Mechanical Engi­neers,
the Auburn Society of In­dustrial
Engineers and the Mitec
Engineers, co-operative student
their small income, staying away
from divorce cases, while Dick is
tempted by the big money to be
made handling the cases.
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and Shoes.
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organization for all engineers.
Those honor societies who now
have representatives on the coun­cil
are The Briaerian, Chi Epsi-lon,
Eta Kappa Nu, Phi Lambda
Upsilon, Phi Psi, and Tau Beta
Pi.
Engineers' Day
On April 3 of this year the
Council sponsored its first Engi­neers'
Day. This exhibition was
hailed as a success by industrial­ists
and educators throughout the
state. The throngs of students and
visitors who attended this engi­neering
display convinced all con­cerned
with the sponsoring of it
that Engineers' Day should there­after
be given a date on the cal­endar
of campus activities. The
Engineers' Ball which highlighted
the display of April 3 also met
with the generous approval of stu­dents
and visitors. The monthly
seminars held last year by the
Council featured addresses by a
number of prominent engineers
from all sections of the country.
These and many other similar ac­tivities
so successfully conducted
last year went to make the 1939-
40 session a huge success for the
council.
Magazine to Be Published
In addition to repeating these
major activities in a bigger and
better way this year it is also the
plan of the council to revive the
publication of The Auburn Engi­neer,
a technical magazine pub­lished
some years ago here at
API but since discontinued. Until
such time as a sufficiently large
enough hall to accommodate all
engineering students will be made
available, the council has arrang­ed
to hold seminars for the stu­dents
in two groups in Langdon
Hall. The first of these groups
which met last Monday is the Jun­ior
Seminar and is made up of
the Freshman and Sophomore
classes. They are scheduled to
meet again on Monday, November
4. The Senior Seminar, composed
of the Junior and Senior classes,
is slated to meet on Monday, Oc­tober
14.
In behalf of its member organi­zations
the ASEC urges each en­gineering
student who does not
already belong to his respective
professional engineering society
to join as soon as possible.
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By P. M. PRUITT
Now who said those FHA gals
don't get around? Whoever they
were, they were grossly wrong,
and I do mean grossly. Old Alum­ni
Gymnasium has seldom been
flattered by housing such exquis­ite
specimen of femininity as made
their appearance there Saturday
evening. And not to be ignored
were the FFA boys who showed
themselves up right 'peart like.
The program was very nicely
carried out by Miss Pate, Mr. and
Mrs. Montgomery, Margaret Day,
U. K. Wise, and Jimmie Dailey.
They are all to be heartily con­gratulated.
* * *
This column probably is not
the proper place for such an ar­ticle,
but the writer thinks there
should be some move started to
erect that long-dreamed-of gate
at the intersection of College and
Thach streets. That barren corner
is nothing more than an ugly scar
that could easily be removed. Just
because every other senior class
has failed is no reason why we
can't do something about it. The
student contingence deposit is
probably the only way to finance
another gate to the main campus,
but if we all put our shoulders
to the wheel, we can do it.
* * *
And in passing, we might add
that some walks connecting the
buildings on Ag Hill would come
in rather handy on rainy days.
* * *
And another thing. . . . The
opinions expressed in this column
are purely coincidental.
* * *
The Ag prof is my master; I
shall not graduate on time. He
maketh me to take exams in all
subjects; he leadeth me to Cullar's
Rotation. He destroyeth mine en­ergy
on long lab trips; he maketh
me sit through long lectures for
his job's sake. Yea, though I en­ter
his office, I will fear the
worst: for his quiz and his grade-book
they fail me. He preparest
a quiz before me in the presence
of mine fellow victims: he dec­orates
my paper with red marks;
my grades runneth low. Surely
conditions and failures will follow
me all the days of my college ca­reer,
and I will dwell in Auburn
forever.
Alabama Association of University
Women Will Convene Here Tomorrow
Dr. Walston Will Direct
Meetings of State Group
Thirteen Alabama chapters of
the American Association of Uni­versity
Women will be represent­ed
here Saturday when the State
executive board of AAUW holds
its fall meeting at Auburn.
Dr. Rosa Lee Walstori, Auburn,
president of the Alabama division
of AAUW has announced that the
entire day will be taken up with
business. Meeting in Duncan Hall
auditorium at 10 a.m. the morn­ing
session will be given over to
State chairman for presentation
of plans for the year.
Delegates will be entertained at
lunch in Smith Hall by the Au­burn
School of Home Economics.
In the afternoon branch presi­dents
will lead the discussion, and
adjustment is slated for 4 p.m.
Members of the executive board
are Dr. Walston, president; Dr.
Ann Gary Pannell, Tuscaloosa;
Dr. Bessie Martin, Judson College;
Mrs. M. H. Sterne, Birmingham;
Mrs. R. E. Tidwell, Tuscaloosa;
Miss Mary Moss Wellborn, Au­burn;
Miss Dawn Kennedy, Mon-tevallo;
Dr. Lois Ackerley, Mon-tevallo;
Dr. Eulah P. Egan, Flor­ence;
Mrs. Claree K. Grauel,
Troy; Mrs. Ben Thorpe, Birming­ham;
Mrs. Louis Ambler, Auburn;
Miss Catherine Kennedy, Birming­ham.
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Formed by Girls in Dormitory Three
Club Is Supported by
Dating of Its Members
Formed this week on the camp­us
is the AD Club, one of the
most unusual organizations we
have ever heard of. We were in­formed
that the "A" meant Au­burn,
the "C" meant Club, but
we could not find out what the
"D" meant. However, our star
sleuths report that the "D" stands
for Disappointed. And so we shall
call the new group, "The Auburn
Disappointed Club."
Full-fledged members of the
new club are Mary Emma Hicks,
who will serve as president; Caro­lyn
Henderson; vice-president;
Eva McCurdy, secretary; Dora
Robinson, treasurer; and Martha
Hicks, social chairman. Pledges
include- Nell Lazenby and Helen
Martin. Three more pledges are
to be selected soon.
The members wear gold safety
pins, such as little babies wear,
and the pledges wear silver safety
pins. Pledges remain as such for
only a week after which they be­come
members.
The organization is supported
by the dating of the members.
Each time a member has a date
she must pay five cents to the
treasurer. Each time a member
leaves town they must pay five
cents to the treasurer. When the
treasurer has accumulated a to­tal
of 75 cents, the club "throws
a big party".
The group will make one big
trip a year. This year they will
attend the Villanova Game in Bir­mingham.
Only juniors and seniors can
belong to the organization be­cause
freshmen and sophomores
cannot have enough dates to sup­port
the organization. That sounds
plausible, doesn't it.
And here's the best part of all,
when any of the members of the
club have dates, "Anything goes."
Which, it seems, speaks for it­self.
All in all, the whole idea and
the group seems like something
any silly bunch of high school
girls would form. But "gals will
be gals," yes they will. And their
address boys, is Dormitory Three,
because after all, it looks like a
publicity campaign to us.
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Page Four
THE P L A I N S M AN October 4, 1940
Tigers Tackle Tough Tulane Team Tomorrow
API Band Leads
Cows in Parade
Trip to State Fair
In Birmingham Told
By HERBERT MARTIN
Wednesday was Governor's Day
at the State Fair in Birmingham
according to rumors wafted hither
by recent equinoxial gales. Plans
called for a mammoth celebration
which included performances by
the Auburn and University bands,
which were to share equal honors.
Transportation for the Auburn
Band was taken care of by two
busses of ancient vintage, includ­ing
Number 304, which has been
a nemesis to the band before.
These two busses had a total ca­pacity
of about 50 persons, so
only 70 musicians made the trip.
Unfortunately, but not alto­gether
unexpectedly, the band was
a bit late in arriving, and were
placed an estimated kilometer in
the rear of the front of the Gov­ernor's
Parade, which was proud­ly
led by the University of Ala­bama
90-piece band, unhampered
by transportation limitations, and
decked out in beautiful pastel
shades of red and white. A plume
reposed blissfully above each cap.
The Auburn jive crew, content
with presenting a military appear­ance,
were resplendent (and hot)
in the orange satin capes. The
band stood more or less at atten­tion
during the speaking, but
could have squatted by bunches
just as easy, for all the notice it
got from the crowd.
Later there was a flag cere­mony.
Plans called for a short
parade, followed by the Star
Spangled Banner played in unison
by both bands. The Auburn band
was instructed where to assemble
to begin the parade, but the in­formant
neglected to designate the
' destination. After standing in one
spot for some time, the band was
asked to move up a little nearer
the front, please.
There was no place left at the
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Brass Band and stood at attention
as the above mentioned lads play­ed
the national anthem.
Later, the Auburn band was
accorded »the dubious honor of
leading a parade. This honor also
included the distinction of being
the only band in the parade. Oth­er
paraders were cows . . . yes,
cows. Big black ones; little white-faced
ones; ferocious looking
ones; friendly, sad-eyed bovines;
healthy horns on the hoof; sickly,
disgusted-looking animals . . . in
short, cattle.
That's about the end of the
trip, except for one minor inci­dent.
Old Faithful 304 burned out
a bearing, or got a tummy-ache,
or felt indisposed. Anyway, she
ceased to function. At length, giv­ing
up the task of repairing this
bus which should have been pen­sioned
years ago, bus officials
procured another, and got the sec­ond
load of bandsmen home safe­ly
at five o'clock, a.m.
So ended a perfect day!
Ag Club Weekly Meet
Held Last Wednesday
Claude Carter, secretary,
charge of the meeting.
Plainsmen Will Meet
Greenies on Rebound
Game to Be Played in New Orleans' Sugar
Bowl; First Real Test for Auburn Squad
By JOHN PIERCE
All preliminaries a thing of the past, Auburn's foot­ballers
last night left here to move forward into the thick
of the nation's most heated gridiron battles, journeying
to New Orleans where they meet the tidal Green Wave of
Tulane in the Sugar Bowl tomorrow afternoon.
Tulane, knocked sprawling last Saturday by the high
flying Boston College Eagles, is coming back with a roar,
and Auburn, true to form, waits in the number one revenge
spot to catch the Wave on a hard
The Ag Club held its regular
meeting last Wednesday night at
7 o'clock in Ross Chemical Audi­torium.
In the absence of the have completely patched
president and the vice-president, leaky pass defense and will suf-bourrce.
A stock of players such
as those gathered in the Greenie
camp couldn't stay down if dead.
Auburn Has Hopes
Yet, rooters from the Plains
see light as well as gloom in the
nearness of the contest. It is cer­tain
that Red Dawson will field
a much improved team tomorrow
but takes an elastic imagination
to conceive a Tulane eleven with
its shattered forces drawn togeth­er
sufficiently—all in less than
a week's time — to exhibit top
flight ball. Evidence that Boston
won with comparative ease comes
not only in the lopsided 27-7
score but also in the fact that the
Northerners used three full teams.
However, another logical argu­ment
looms too resoundingly to
be ignored. Up until last Satur­day
it was the universal opinion
of authorities the nation over that
if there was anything wrong with
the Green Wave squad it was the
way they laced their shoes before
supper, or some such equivalent.
This same squad will face Au­burn.
Real Game in Prospect
The fact remains — a powder
key waits behind the Sugar Bowl's
massive tiers. Tulane will hardly
up a
average 199% pounds and out­weigh
Auburn's best by approxi­mately
14 pounds per man. Co-captains
O'Boyle and Groves,
guards and bulwarks of the gi-gnatic
front line, have suffered
minor injuries but are due to see
at least part time duty. Aside
from these the Green Wave ap­pears
in top condition. Uncover­ed
in the Boston melee was the
brilliant all around backfield play
of James Ely who sparked and
engineered his mates in the last
second scoring drive.
Plenty of Reserves
Bob Glass and Fred Gloden also
will figure prominently in ball
carrying duties. Line standout of
last week was Charles Dufour, a
206-pounder who works from
right tackle and will aid Groves
and O'Boyle in steadying the 204
pound line. The Green Wave of
'$9 had everything but passers
and receivers; somewhere they've
dug deep and found these. With
every position three and four men
took fer from unpolished line play for
some weeks to come. But after
Short talks were given by R. C. last week's walloping, the worst
Horn, who won the state public Wave defeat since 1936, and a
speaking contest last year; Joe week to think back over the most
Bill Knowles, who was state presi- woeful proceedings, the Greenies
dent of FFA last year; and John will take the field with the 22
Haupt, business manager of the reddest ears in history, fire in
"Alabama Farmer."
Last but not least, the FFA mination to make up by sheer
band entertained with several se- fight any shortage in tactical per-lections,
including an imitation of fection, offensive or defensive.
Bob Burns.
The choice Tulane lineup will
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McGehee
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Cheatham
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Brekke
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Burwick
Dufour
Mullins
R. Glass
Gloden
Tittle
Ely
Auburn-Tulane
Scores Given
S a t u r d a y ' s Game Will Be
T w e n t y - F i r s t of Series
Tomorrow's contest between
Auburn and Tulane marks the
twenty-first meeting in a series
dating to 1902. In that year the
two teams battled to a scoreless
deadlock and the affair was given
up as a hopeless case until 1921
when the Tigers started things
off with a 14-0 win. Since then
the games have come annually
with Tulane taking eight victor­ies,
Auburn six, and five have end­ed
in deadlocks.
The Green Wave from New Or­leans
scored their most decisive
victory in 1929 when they slam­med
a 52-0 score against the
scoreboard, while Auburn's great­est
margin has been a 19-0 vic­tory,
that in 1922. Tulane's to­tal
points add up to 191 as against
107 for the Plainsmen.
Interesting is the story told by
scores of the games since 1934.
In five games only 22 points have
been scored, 10 by Auburn and
12 by Tulane. 1935 saw the Tig­ers
emerge with a 10-0 victory
and in the meetings of 1936, 1937,
and 1938 neither team was able
to score. The Tulane powerhouse
of '39 finally broke things up,
scoring two touchdowns to win
12-0.
If Auburn scores tomorrow it
will mark the first counter against
the team from the Delta in five
years. Altogether API has gone
scoreless in 10 of the 20 games
while the Greenies have struck
out eight times.
'Trigger' McGehee, Glomerata Editor,
Is Ducked in Lake by Plainsman Staff
All the Little Fish in
Lake Die After Ducking
By JACK BIRDSONG
Loaded to the gills with Plains­man
staffs and Glomerata heads
and their respected dates, the po'
lil' 'ol trucky took off for Lake
Auburn leaving a trial of hay for
the stragglers to follow. Included
in the gill-loaded truck contained
such luminaries as Trig "I write
the Glomerata" McGee, Daniel
"We Want Tea Dances" Hollis,
Kirk "10%—No less" Newell, and
Herbert "I play in the Band" Mar­tin
without the usual Karrie.
'Business members were under
the guiding wing of Mother Wil­son
of the Advertising Staff,
chaperoned, mind you, chaperoned
by Warren "Dean's List" Darty.
The receipt books formed a seat
for the diligent and hard working
money-grabbers, and they were
festooned with unpaid hills that
accumulated around the office.
Upon reaching the Lake, the
members immediately unwrapped
themselves from their dates, and
hied for the bushes. Hours later,
the bugle was sounded, and sup­per
began. The gorgeous meal con­sisted
of stale hamburger buns
fried in grease to a luscious gold­en
brown. Drinks consisted of
drippings from beer bottles as col­lected
from Blackie's and Roy's.
The Glomerata boys ate the food
with relish (I don't know where
they got it) and everything went
swell until Trigger emitted a
slight burp. Taking this as a grave
insult to the caliber of food serv­ed,
the Plainsman boys immediate­ly
pitdhed the Glomerata head in
the lake (I don't know what they
did with the Glomerata body).
While Trig was floating around
like a duck and making gurgling
sounds, the low, plaintive sound
of dying fishes filled the air.
Soon perch, trout, and catfish
were floating on the top and
breathing their dying breath.
After Trigger had gone down
for the third time, he was speared
with a rusty fish hook and drag­ged
to the shore. First aid meth­ods
were tried, such as throwing
water on head, rubbing palms
gently with ice, and the old reli­able
tourniquet around the neck.
All means were in vain-J-he re­covered
and came around with
loud shouts of graft and sabotage.
Conclusion: Pishes are dead.
Trigger lives. Plainsman honor up­held.
Wilson still in debt.
deep Auburn will find Tulane the
biggest single order since Tennes­see's
Rose Bowl Vols.
Spirit runs high in the Tiger
camp. Elated by the display of
Power against Howard, all have
pitched in and worked confidently
for the encounter in line posi­tions.
Faulk and Costellos are
once more in uniform, injuries
are confined to but two or three
twisted knees, and the general at­titude
from the stadium is a posi­tive
"This is our year."
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Co-op Engineer Tells
The Story of His Job
» -Pledging Service
Held for Seven
By Phi Omega Pi
Monday evening at 7:30 the
Phi Omega Pi chapter room was
the scene of an impressive candle
light service for seven pledges.
Mattybelle Tabor, president of
the sorority, presided over the
formal service. She was assisted
by Marian Fitch, Virginia West,
Mary Jane Weaver, and Martha
D. West.
Those receiving the degree were
Jessie Louis Sahm, Birmingham,
Ala.; Rose McLeod, Pineview, Ga.;
Nelrose Evans, Albertville, Ala.;
Mary Pauline Hoffman, Gadsden,
Ala.; Mary Edith Foshee, Mont­gomery,
Ala.; Virginia Martin,
Geneva, Ala.; Elaine Witmer, Bir­mingham,
Ala.
After the service the sorority
entertained the new pledges with
a picture show party followed by
a drug store party.
Mitchell to Head
Kappa Sig's Again
Thrasher and Sutton
Also Named Officers
At the last meeting of Kappa
Sigma fraternity, V. V. Mitchell,
senior in architecture from Tal-lassee,
was reelected president
for this year.
Other officers elected at the
meeting include Peyton Thrasher,
vice-president, junior in business
administration from Huntsville;
Harold Sutton, G.M.C., senior in
pharmacy from Villa Rica, Ga.;
Bill Miller and George Whitney,
who resumed their offices as sec­retary
and treasurer, respectively.
Bill Gordy was chosen as rep­resentative
to the Interfraternity
Council for this year.
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AIR-CONDITIONED
Makes Comparison of Big Steel Mill
With Campus and Buildings of Auburn
By C. J. BASTIEN
Early one morning, four weeks ago, I reported to the
employment office of the largest steel plant in Alabama,
worked through the line of job hunters and presented my­self
to the employment officer as a Co-op student returning
to work. He made out some papers, finger-printed me, and
sent me to the hospital for the physical examination which
we must take each time we return to work.
That took a couple of hours and then I reported to the
department in which I had pre­viously
worked to find out when
I was to come to work; the de­partment
is the maintenance de­partment
for the entire steel
works and my job on my last work
period had been draftsman, de­signer,
timekeeper, and all-around
helper and handyman for the
foreman of the shop.
Wide Variety of Jobs
I had worked in this shop for
two years and there was very lit­tle
that I had not done: laborer,
machinist's helper, operated some
of the machinery, tool room keep­er,
learned to operate the crane,
cared for the blueprint files and
made many changes in the meth­od
and system of filing, wrote
work orders, hauling orders, ma­terial
requisitions and in fact I
had written all of the papers used
in the running of the shop.
The idea seemed to be to put
me through the entire working of
the shop and give me a view of
the work from every angle. And
then too, all of my work hadn't
been in the shop; much of it had
been out in the mills, of which
there are a great many in this
works.
Plant Compared With API
There is a Plate Mill that would
reach from Burton's Book Store
to the girls' dormitories, a Struc­tural
Mill that is equal in size, an
Open Hearth building that you
could put a dozen Samford Halls
inside of, tower and all; with
smoke stacks that are easily three
times as tall as the radio tower
on top of the Elec. Lab., and with
cranes inside of this single build­ing
with an aggregate lifting ca­pacity
of almost a thousand tons.
But the enumeration is endless:
there are two Blooming Mills, a
Foundry, Machine Shop, Blast
Furnace, Fabricating Shop, and
not one of the buildings so small
but that it could house a half
dozen Langdon Halls. There is a
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Tin Mill Building that could cover
Alumni Dormitory in one end and
leave the "L" Building well in­side.
But enough of size.
Each building houses a thous­and
problems to which there are
no analytical solutions. The spick
and span glory of the formula,
handbook, and the slide rule is
shamed here by a scientist with
grease in his hair who has seen
" t " and felt "t" for twenty years
and who does not know why, he
only knows!
Power in "the Mill"
When I first went to work at
"the mill" I didn't like it and
didn't expect to, but it grew on
me; it does that. There is power
here; useful power, and who does
not bow to power? There is so
much of it that it dwarfs the
imagination and makes one hum­ble
and careful, exceedingly care­ful:
there is one crane that would
lift the equivalent of two hun­dred
Fords, a forging hammer
that has the striking power of a
thousand tons at a single blow,
burning torches that slice through
foot thick steel blocks, shears that
cut four inch slabs, rolling mills
that take red hot steel blocks three
feet square and ten feet long and
roll them out until the finished
product is as thin as the metal in
a tin can, and would probably be
a mile or more long if it had not
been cut in the process.
A steel slab feeds in the end
of a string of rolling mills at a
speed comparable to that of a
strolling turtle, a very aged tur­tle,
and the other end of the same
piece at the same time is traveling
faster than Spec Kelly at the end
of a "hundred."
. . . And then there is the time,
about a year ago, when the boss
asked me if I would like to take
a walk: I had been drawing for
about a week and this seemed like
manna from heaven. (Continued
next Tuesday.)
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The Sixth Prix de Paris, Vogue's
annual career contest for college
seniors, was announced today by
Edna Wollman Chase, editor of
Vogue magazine.
"Our purpose in sponsoring the
Prix de Paris contest," said Mrs.
Chase, "is to discover college girls
who have the ability to write and
a flair for fashion. To us the con­test
is a means of adding new
talent to our editorial staff. To
contestants it offers a training in
fashion reporting and feature
writing which they will find im­mensely
valuable, whether it leads
to a prize or not."
This year, Vogue's Prix de
Paris contest offers seven major
awards. First prize is a year's posi­tion
on Vogue's fashion staff.
Formerly, this prize included six
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but now, due to world conditions,
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special Vanity Fair award—is six
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Vogue's staff. In addition, five
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In addition, five cash prizes will
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awarded to contestants whose
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awards carry with them the pos­sibility
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winners will be interviewed for
jobs by stores, advertising agen­cies,
and publications. Of the 60
leading entrants in the five previ­ous
contests, 40 are today follow­ing
careers in a variety of fields.
Students who are interested in
participating in this contest should
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Behold, We Also
Find Twin Boys
And These Two Lads
Hail from Alabama
By DAVID ALLEN
It seems that the campus at Au­burn
is literally teeming with
twins. Another interesting set on
the male side was found by a
wandering reporter of the Plains­man.
They are the Hereford twins,
Clark and Bledsoe, from Gurley,
Alabama. They are both majoring
in Agricultural Science.
The 11th and 12th children in
the family to finish from the same
high school, they are following
in the footsteps of a brother at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
Both boys played football their
last year in high school, Clark
holding down guard like an All-
State, and Bledsoe doing an equal­ly
fine job at the end position.
The boys are almost identical
twins. They are the same height,
weigh the same, wear the same
clothes, and both had four of
their wisdom teeth pulled at the
same time. It seems that Bledsoe
has a slightly larger head, but
that may be accounted for by his
ballplaying. They have no small
amount of trouble with the laun­dry,
because they don't try to
keep their clothes separate, be­cause
it makes no difference to
them.
They are both extra fond of
vanilla ice cream and good sweet
milk. Their favorite sport .is foot­ball,
and both said that they were
well satisfied with the game last
Friday night.
Delighted with their pick of
schools, they are fond of its
friendly spirit, but dislike its Eng­lish.
The only trouble is that boys
who know Clark sometimes speak
to Bledsoe, and, as he doesn't
know them, he (foesn't seem to be
very friendly. Just a case of mis­taken
identity.
We are glad to have these boys
with us, and hope that they get
through with their English, or
learn to like it better.
Local boys who are members
of Auburn's 1940 football squad
are Abb Chrietzberg, center, and
Babe McGehee, end, two senior
lettermen. Both formerly starred
in three sports, football, basket­ball
and baseball, at Lee County
High School at Auburn.
Two API Professors Named on State
Nutrition Committee for Research
Spidle, Salmon Are
Named on New Group
Appointment of a State nutri­tion
committee to supply technical
advice on problems of nutrition
and food supply "in the present
emergency" has been announced
by Mrs. Marion Spidle, dean of
Auburn's School of Home Eco­nomics.
The committee was named, said
Mrs. Spidle, at the request of Dr.
Louise Stanley, chief of the Bu­reau
of Home Economics of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"It is unnecessary to review
with you the number of problems
on which help will be needed,"
Dr. Stanley wrote to Mrs. Spidle.
"Many of you are already work­ing
with the farm families in the
growing and conservation of their
own food supplies. There may be
some expansion of this program
but with the abundant food sup­plies
we have, our chief emphasis
now as opposed to 1917 will be
on education in nutrition and
working with agencies for distri­bution,
to see that all groups get
an adequate food supply."
Named on the Alabama commit­tee
to Mrs. Spidle are Dr. Lois A.
Ackerley, director of the School
of Home Economics, Montevallo;
W. D. Salmon, animal nutrition­ist,
Auburn; Miss Mildred Simon,
foods and nutrition specialist,
State Extension Service, Auburn;
Miss Agnes Ellen Harris, dean of
women, University of Alabama,
Tuscaloosa; Miss Amanda Tucker,
nutritionist, Department of Public
Health, Montgomery.
Gary Grant Stars
In Historic Show
At Martin Sunday
"Howards of Virginia"
Should Be one of the
Year's Best Pictures
Carved out of the rugged back­ground
of a mighty nation, and
considered one of the most stir­ring
pieces of literature of the
year, Elizabeth Page's "The Tree
of Liberty" comes to the Martin
Theatre screen on Sunday and
Monday as "The Howards of Vir­ginia."
Cary Grant and Martha
Scott are starred as "The How­ards
of Virginia," those two
young Americans who fell so mad­ly
in love that they broke with
all tradition; who believed in their
destiny and the destiny of their
country with such intensity that
they willingly offered themselves
and their future to share in Amer­ica's
struggle for freedom.
Producer-director Frank Lloyd's
screen version of the novel, which
was a selection of both the Lit­erary
Guild and The Discoverers,
is said to have been made on an
elaborate and spectacular scale in
keeping with the high standard
of the book.
According to the publishers,
Miss Page spent more than five
years in writing the novel. Critic­al
comment of many world-famous
literary celebrities indicate that
it is one of the year's literary mas­terpieces,
just as the film is head­ed
for top honors.
Miss Page, now living in Cali­fornia,
is also the author of "Wag­ons
West" and "Wild Horses and
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Page Six T H E P L A I N S M AN October 4, 1940
TIGER TALES
By "BOOTS" STRATFORD
The Tulane game!!! What great memories are con­jured
by the mention of those words as the mind darts
in swift flight back to 1932, the year of All-American
. Jimmy Hitchcock and his mighty comrades-
~~~~ in-arms: Porter Grant at left end, Buddy
McCollum at left tackle, Boots Chambless
at left guard, Johnson at center, Jones at
right guard, Tiny Holmes at right tackle,
Gump Ariail at right end, Ripper Williams
at quarterback, Sterling Dupree at full­back
and Allen Rogers at the right half
post.
The year before a light but gallant
___ . Auburn team had been routed 21-0 by
B<*tt€m*TR*0 a p o w e r f u i Tulane eleven that boasted
the talent of such men as Don Zimmerman, Nollie
Felts and Jerry Dalrymple. And that Saturday after­noon
in New Orleans, Oct. 22, 1932, a decidedly par­tisan
New Orleans crowd expected nothing but an­other
devastating riptide of the Green Wave led again
by the redoubtable Zimmerman.
But they did not know the mettle of Captain Hitch­cock's
band of Plainsmen and before the sun had set on
that day of battle, the news was flashing forth that gave
the football world pause and made it wonder at the man­ner
of those glorious, unheralded men who had sent
mighty Tulane, unbeaten in the Southern Conference for
four dominant years, down into the mire and bitterness
of defeat by a 19-7 score.
That was the glorious afternoon that Jimmy
Hitchcock pranced his way into the Football Hall of
Fame and undying Auburn tradition. He could do
nothing wrong. His passing arm was unerring, punts
boomed from his toe as the thunderbolts of Thor and
his bewitched running carried him through the entire
Tulane team for two brilliant touchdowns as he drift­ed
through tacklers arms like a puff of storm driven
orange smoke. It was his day and as the last whistle
cut the stunned silence that lay over that vast sta­dium,
the New Orleans multitude that had come to
jeer the hungry Auburn Tiger, and remained to mar­vel
at it, swarmed down onto that brown October
sward, hoisted the bone weary and victory happy
young Tiger leader to their shoulders and acclaimed
him as one of the great.
The fray tomorrow promises to approach the mem­orable
day in thrills. The Green Wave, flat and listless
against Boston College, can be expected to wash strongly
up the comeback trail and capable men, three and four
deep at every position, are prepared to bolster the Olive
and Green claim to greatness and turn the Orange and
Blue back again.
Roughhouse Rufus Deal, Dynamite Dick McGow-en,
Lloyd Cheatham, Bud Wendling, and Bill Year-out
all looked particularly good.
Florida Game to be Played in Columbus
Social Calendar
Saturday, Oct. 19 ODK-Glomerata Ball—KD Tea
Friday, Nov. 22 Ag Fair and Dance
Saturday, Nov. 23 PKA—Tea
Friday, Nov. 29 M.I.T.E.C.
Saturday, Nov. 30 SAE—Tea—Phi Delta Theta morning
Friday, Dec. 6 Jr. A.V.M.A.
Friday, Dec. 13 Pi Kappa Phi
Saturday, Dec. 14 Kappa Alpha
Friday, Jan. 3 Kappa Delta
Saturday, Jan. 4 Alpha Lambda Tau
Friday, Jan. 10 Scarab-Beaux Arts
Saturday, Jan. 11 Theta Upsilon
Friday, Jan. 17 Delta Sigma Pi
Saturday, Jan. 18 Delta Zeta
Thursday, Friday and Sat­urday,
Jan. 30, 3 1 ; Feb. 1 --Mid Terms
Friday, Feb. 6 Honor Society
Saturday, Feb. 7 Military Ball
Friday, Feb. 14 Sigma Phi Epsilon
Saturday, Feb. 15 Kappa Sigma
Friday, Feb. 21 Women's Athletic Association
Saturday, Feb. 22 Theta Chi
Friday, Feb. 28 Interfraternity Council Ball
Saturday, March 1 Sigma Pi
Friday, March 7 Phi Psi
Saturday, March 8 Phi Delta Theta—Tea
Friday, March 14 ATO
Saturday, March 15 Sigma Chi
Friday, March 21 Sigma Nu
Saturday, March 22 Alpha Gamma Delta—Sigma Nu Tea
Friday, March 28 Omega Tau Sigma
Saturday, March 29 Alpha Gamma Rho
Friday, April 4 Lambda Chi Alpha
Saturday, April 5 Chi Omega
Friday, April 18 Alpha Psi )
Saturday, April 19 F.F.A. ) Optional with
Friday, April 25 )
Saturday, April 26 ) Final Dances
Friday, May 9 Phi Omega Pi
Saturday, May 10 Ag Club
Publications Board
(Continued from page 1)
ness manager; Gould Beech, jour­nalism
instructor; and Kirtley
Brown, college publicity director.
Ralph Draughon, executive secre­tary,
acts as ex-officio chairman
of the board.
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at new location, 200 Bragg
Avenue. Handpainted gifts for
any occasion. Myrtle Langston,
Director.
LOST — A black, Life Sheaffer
Ladies' Fountain P e n some­where
on campus. If found re­turn
to Nancy Wallace or call
563. Reward.
Pilot Training
(Continued from page 1)
ly recommended and who are oth­erwise
qualified shall be made by
a Selection Board composed of
the coordinator of the Civil Pilot
Training and theflight instructor
contractor under whom the train­ing
in the Restricted Commercial
Course is to be given.
There is no provision for re­placement
by alternates in the
Restricted Commercial Course.
All applicants, who are qualifi­ed
and who desire to participate,
will meet in Ramsay 113 at 10
a.m. on Saturday, October 5. If
they obtained preliminary train­ing
other than at Auburn, they
should write immediately to their
director and flight instructor con­tractor
or instructor for their
recommendations and ground and
flight records. In any event that
they cannot attend the meeting,
Lt. B. M. Cornell requests that
they please get in touch with him
at their earliest convenience.
LOST—A Kappa Delta Pin, with
plain guard. Finder please re­turn
to Jean Atkins, Dormitory
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TIGER
AUBURN
Change Made to Give
Tigers Another Game
Close to Auburn
It was announced Wednesday
that an agreement had been reach­ed
by athletic authorities' of Au­burn
and Florida whereby the an­nual
gridiron classic between the
two schools will be played in Co­lumbus,
Ga. this year, moving the
site from Gainesville, Fla.
The date, November 30, will re­main
the the same and Tiger fol­lowers
will have another oppor­tunity
to see the team in action,
something which the former set­up
made almost out of the ques­tion
for most students.
Florida, with three other home
games scheduled, allowed the
transfer on the grounds that they
will meet the University of Tex­as
at Gainesville on the following
week-end and two consecutive
home games would fail to draw
as required, while a good turnout
is guaranteed at a game played
near Auburn.
This will give Auburn eight
games to be played within a 150
mile radius of the school, some­thing
of a record for a Plains
team. Florida will follow Boston
College on the schedule, where a
game near home would be a boon
for both players and fans.
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OPELIKA
While Auburn battles Tulane in
New Orleans Saturday the rat
eleven will tend the home fires
when they clash with Florida's
frosh at 2 in the Auburn Stadium.
Due to the inability of a ma­jority
of students to attend the
main bout a large crowd should
be on hand to watch the debut
of a Baby Tiger squad dotted
with names of former high and
prep school luminaries.
The game is the first of three
freshman tilts scheduled for the
home field and will be followed
by meetings with Georgia on Oct.
19 and Georgia Tech on Nov. 11.
The rats, coached by Bobby
Blake and Walter Gilbert, have
been used largely thus far as spar­ring
mates for the Tiger varsity
and have spent little time in in­dividual
team practice sessions,
but will field a team comparable
in every respect to that of last
year which won two games and
tied one.
No Definite Starters Yet
No definite starters have been
picked as yet but should come
from the following: Everett Har­well
and Chois Dyar, ends; Bobby
Long and Bill Schuler, tackles;
Merrill Giradeau and Jim Rose,
guards; Jim Pharr, center; Bobby
Black or Gene Barranieu, Bick
Jenkins or Tommy Kennell, and
I Jim Conrad, and Johnny Richard­son,
backs.
Outstanding among the fresh­man
footballers is Jim Bargainer,
ex-Opelika High School star and
All-State choice, who has showed
sufficient promise during prac­tice
to make himself an almost
certain starter for the Saturday
game.
Plans have been made to have
the Auburn-Tulane score broad­cast
at the stadium at regular in­tervals.
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