1941-02-21 The Plainsman

              Ladies' Night
Tonight 77i£ PlahridniarL Cuts Are
Cut
"AUBURN—the friendliest college in the United States'
- VOL. LXIV Z-I ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, FEBRUARY 21, 1941 NO. 43
Cut System Change Announced
Sadie Hawkins Dance
Tonight At Center
The three Sadies above, all decked out in their Sunday best, are
getting in practice for tonight's Girl-Break dance. Left to right, Miss
Luella Haselton says "May I break, please," to Miss Margaret Lee
Bradford and Miss Mary Vaughan.—Plainsman Staff Photo—Lewis
Arnold.
President Roosevelt Advises Students
Not to Leave School for Enlistment
P r e s i d e n t ' s L e t t e r to
FSA A d m i n i s t r a t or
The White House
Washington
My dear Mr. Administrator:
Reports have reached me that
some young people who had plan­ned
to enter college this fall, as
well as a number of those who
attended college this year, are in­tending
to interrupt their educa­tion
because they feel that it is
more patriotic to work in a ship­yard,
or to enlist in the Army or
Navy, than it is to attend college.
Such a decision would be unfortu­nate.
We must have well-educated and
intelligent citizens who have
sound judgment in dealing with
the difficult problems of today.
We must also have scientists, en­gineers,
economists, and other
people with specialized knowledge,
to plan and to build for national
defense as well as for social and
economic progress. Young people
should be advised that it is their
patriotic duty to continue the
normal course of their education,
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Plainsmen to Play;
Girl-Break Affair
They've hunted them in the hills
and they've hollered for 'em in the
hollows. Results of this mammoth
search for males will be paraded
tonight at the girl-break dance in
Graves Center. In case you're a
coed and lonely, the Plainsmen will
begin the music around nine. It'll
cost you 65 cents to get in with a
date, but single gals enter for four
bits only.
The past few days have made a
Dogpatch out of Auburn and some
students do say something about
leading a dawg's life themselves,
but its all in fun and, since it's
just once a year, no one minds . . .
much.
There is one thing which gives
away the scheme of things this
week. The campus might look al­most
normal, were it not for the
fact that when you glance in the
drug stores and eating establish­ments,
you find that the girls are
drinking the five-cent drinks, while
the boys swill the two-bit concoc­tions.
Besides that, other than a cer­tain
young lady who slunk to the
movie 'tother night in Daisy Mae
costume with an all too willing
captive, and with the exceptions of
several costume lovers, students
are taking the week rather grace­fully.
Boys who had counted on an
evening of entertainment at the
expense of the ladies were not en­tirely
disappointed, but many
found that the principal campus
diversion, nightly speaking, was
still sitting on benches and listen­ing
to Ole Samford chime the time.
Listening in on telephone con-
Military Service Information Given
In Bulletin Received by War Department
Gives Requirements,
B r a n c h e s of Service
The ROTC Department of API
has received information relative
to the enlistment of men for vari­ous
branches of the Army and
Navy.
Concerning this information, a
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Miss Isabelle Stowers, of Montgomery, will lead the annual Theta
Chi formal tonight at Grave* Center, with fraternity president Vern­on
Wells, Selma.
letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt,
President of the United States,
was recalled by the ROTC offi­cials,
and is printed in full at the
left.
The official release presented
to the Plainsman yesterday by
Colonel John J. Waterman, reads
as follows:
To the men who are enrolled
as students, API.
The following data reference
to service in the Army or Navy
Air Corps, the Marine Corps and
the United States Coast Guard
Academy, having been received at
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, is
published for the information of
the student body.
1. U.S. Army Air Corps. Fly­ing
Cadet. Requirements: Male
citizen of the United States, un­married,
20 to 26 years of age,
successful completion of half
number of credits required for
graduation. Must enlist as flying
cadet. Rate of pay $75.00 per
:<ionth and $1.00 per day for ra­tions.
Barracks and clothing furn­ished
by the government. Upon
successful completion of course,
cadets are commissioned 2nd Lieu­tenants,
Air Corps Reserve. Then
serve as such and are subject for
duty as the President directs.
2. U.S. Navy Air Corps. The
requirements and allowances are
practically the same as for the
Army. Upon successful comple­tion
of course commission as En­sign
in the Naval Reserve is a-warded.
3. U.S. Marine Corps. No ROT-C
senior will be commissioned
this year in the Marine Corps.
Members of the senior class grad­uating
in June of 1941, who are
NOT members of the ROTC may
enlist in the Marine Corps Re­serve
prior to July 1, 1941. They
take 3 months course as enlisted
men as candidates for commission
as 2nd Lieutenant Marine Corps
Reserve. Then 3 months school
for officers and then such active
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versations (privilege of the~ press,
you know) has been quite amusing,
especially when the boys answer a
request for a date. Most popular
has been, "I'm sorry, but I have a
date", but "Can you call me back
later?" had its followers.
Other favorites were "Do I know
you?", "Why?", "I'm subject to
headaches", and "Can't we do
something else?"
Some fellows treat it as a good
game, but they don't mind being
prepared. For instance, there's the
lad who has accepted four invi­tations
to the dance, just to be sure
he'll have his no-breaks filled, as
if there'll be anything besides no-breaks
at the dance.
Disillusionment is unhealthy,
but if that lad has read, this far,
he might as well know that the
girls know about it, and that they
all plan to dance the first no-break
with Him at the same time,
and to do the same when the last
tune rolls around. They'll not see
him again except for intermission,
at which time they will take him
to town, order a substantial sand­wich
course, and consume it, be­fore
realizing that they left their
money in their other skirts. Now
he knows.
Plainsman Meeting
There will be a meeting of the
editorial staff of the Plainsman
Monday night at seven o'clock in
the Plainsman office. All staff
members who plan to continue
their work this semester, and any
new students interested in Plains­man
work, are urged to attend.
Invitation Orders to
Be Taken Monday
Through Thursday
May Be Placed
W i t h Invitations
Committee at Gate
Orders for senior class grad­uation
invitations will be taken
a t . the Main Gate from Monday,
Feb. 24 through Thursday, Feb.
27, according to Drew P. Hale,
Chairman of the Invitations Com­mittee.
In the event of stormy
weather the orders will be taken
in Student Center. Hours for tak­ing
orders are from 9:00 to 12:00
a.m. and from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
each day.
Prices of the invitation this
year will be only 20 cents for the
standard, 60. cents for the special
invitation with an excellent quali­ty
vellum finish folder; and 70
cents for the extra-special one
that is placed in an excellent
quality vellum leather folder.
It was pointed out by Hale that
the special invitation was worked
up and put on sale due to the
many requests for a finer invita­tion.
Hale urged all seniors to turn
in their orders as soon as possible
and emphasized that orders will
be taken only on the four days
listed. Orders must be paid for at
the same time they are taken.
Notice
Anyone with short wave radio
equipment or transmitter, please
drop by Room 114, Ramsay Hall.
One Cut Allowed for
Each Semester Hour
Executive Council Takes Action After
Tremendous Increase in Failures
By JIMMY GILBERT
Executive Secretary R. B. Draughon announced yes­terday
that the cut system which has been in effect in
Auburn for a year has been replaced by a new system,
in which "each student is allowed a quota of cuts for each
course amounting to the number of credit hours in the
course for the semester. Classes involving one credit hour
or less shall have a quota of two cuts per semester."
The system was adopted after a meeting of the Exe­cutive
Council for the purpose of
ty that mass absences from class­es
during the first semester of
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Theta Chi Formal Is
Tomorrow Night;
Dance in Afternoon
discussing ways and means of re­vising
the cut system of the last
two semesters for the greatest
benefit of all concerned.
Except for the cutting in half
of the number of cuts per semes­ter,
the general points of the sys­tem
will remain the same. The
only other changes in the system
were as follows:
1. In the case of excused ab­sences,
the instructor has the
right to require that the student
make up any work that was miss-
The Theta Chi social fraternity
will hold its annual week-end of
ed during the period in which he ,fun and frolic with a house party
and formal dance beginning to­night.
was excused. Excused absences
are only acceptable from t he
Executive Secretary, the Dean of
Women, and the College Physic­ian.
2. Instructors will not be re­quired
to report class absences
every week to the Registrar. Only
in the event that a student has
exceeded his quota of cuts will
he be reported to the Registrar.
The statement released to the
Plainsman y e s t e r d a y by Mr.
Draughon stated that "It is . . .
the general opinion of the facul-
Miss Isabelle Stowers of Mont­gomery,
will lead the dance to­morrow
evening in Graves Cen­ter,
with the fraternity president,
Vernon Wells. The A u b u rn
Knights will furnish the music
from 9 till 12.
Other events planned will be a
t e a dance tomorrow afternoon
from 4:00-6:00. Following the
formal that night, a breakfast
will be served between 12:00 and
1:30.
The spirit of the Wild West will be present in Auburn on April 5 and 6 when the Ag Club, the FFA, the AVMA, and the Ag Engineer
ing Club will sponsor the first rodeo to be held at this institution. Pictured above are the men in charge of the rodeo committees. In the
upper left, John Blunschi, chairman stock committee; upper right, Jimmy Carney, chairman equipment committee, who hails from Circle C
Ranch of Meridian, Miss.; lower left, left to right, Blunschi, Sam F. Brewster, manager Auburn Rodeo Association; Carney and "Cowboy"
Haworth, from Bar S Ranch of Okenee, Okla.; and lower right, Haworth rides again.—Plainsman Staff Photos—Lewis Arnold.
Page Two THE P L A I N S M AN February 21, 1941
"To Foster the Auburn Spirit"
A few years ago the Plainsman had a
motto, which was printed each issue be­neath
the front page banner. This motto
was an "aim". It was "To Foster the Au­burn
Spirit."
Since that motto was dropped from use
in the paper, the Auburn spirit, and all
that it stood for, has dropped too, to its
present level, perhaps an all-time low.
And with it dropped the spirit of co­operation
which in earlier years prevailed
between the students of Auburn and the
officers of administration of the college.
Dissatisfaction, discontent, misunder­standing,
born perhaps of a greed for
power, grew up between the students and
the officials, and divided the two into sep­arate
factions.«
For several years, the split between the
two factions has grown. The mutual co­operation
which once existed isn't what it
used to be. The mutual aim of "Fostering
the Auburn Spirit" has almost been for­gotten.
The attitude of the students, or of a
certain portion of the students, has been
that the faculty and the administration
was entrenched behind a wall of power,
firing bursts of regulations at the stu­dents,
hoping to push them into slavery
and subjection. The students themselves,
they considered, were behind another wall,
that of numbers, returning the official fire
with bursts of criticism and shouts of
"dictatorship" and "undemocratic."
There should be no two such factions.
There are no two sides to the question.
There isn't' even a question. The students
want to make Auburn the best school in
the nation, and so do the officials of the
college. The only way to do this is to "Fos­ter
the Auburn Spirit"; to promote co­operation
between the school and the stu­dent
body.
- The administration makes mistakes, of
course', but we students make them too.
There wouldn't be as many mistakes on
either side if the purpose of both sides,
that of building a greater Auburn, was
kept in mind. With the Auburn Spirit
functioning as it did several years ago,
during the first few terms in the period of
time which saw Auburn's enrollment in­crease
from 1,600 to 4,200, there would be
no controversy.
It is the intention of the editors of the
Plainsman to attempt a better spirit of co­operation
between the college officials
and thg students.
It is the intention of the editors of the
Plainsman to once again "Foster the Au­burn
Spirit."
Class Meetings
Has the Auburn student body grown
too large to have worthwhile class meet­ings?
We don't think so.
Each year, it is the policy of candidates
for major class offices to include plans
for holding class meetings in their vote
talks. They plan to have meetings at reg­ularly
scheduled intervals, and to have a
good program prepared in order that the
students will keep coming.
Something always happens to these
plans during the summer months. Whether
it's the heat, or an office already won, we
are not prepared to guess, but nothing is
heard of them when the school term rolls
-around.
It is possible that there is no real need
for class meetings, as we finally decided
about the gate at the corner of College and
Thach, after innumerable senior classes
failed to produce it. If that is so, there
seems to be little use in stressing this ,
point in pre-season campaigns.
On the other hand, there is the possi­bility
that these meetings could be quite
x valuable as a unifying influence on the
student body as a whole. As far as we are
concerned, we'd either like to hear less
about them or see more of them. H. M.
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Rodeo
On April 5 and 6 Auburn will make its
debut as a southern rodeo center. Although
it will be the first time that Auburn has
gone western, we predict that the rodeo
will be a great success and that they will
be continued in the years to come.
This being the first rodeo, it may not
be up to par nor have the crowds that
those do in Cheyenne and other western
rodeo centers, but those places are located
in an old cattle country and the rodeos
began back in the last century. Auburn is
getting a late start in the rodeo game but
if she is as successful in this added at­traction
as she has been with other events,
the Auburn rodeo of the next generation
will undoubtedly be above par in compari­son
with some of the western city rodeos.
• Mr. Sam Brewster, director of buildings
and grounds, will be in charge of the
events to take place on April 5 and 6 and
is already doing a great job of arranging
for many of the events. The Ag Club and
the Military Department are also making
many preparations for Auburn's first ro­deo.
If the actual rodeo contestants are as
vigorous in putting on the event as those
men who are making the arrangements
are, the rodeo should be a great success.
W. H.
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By REDDING SUGG
Are We on the Decline?
At the time of the fifth invasion of the
barbarians, the Roman Empire was in
such a state of corruption that it could not
resist the invaders. True, this invasion was
no stronger than the others had been, yet
the greatest civilized nation of that period
fell to a mere tribe of barbarians. Now
why?
For many years after the rise of the
empire, the people took great pride in
their country. The armies were strong and
well led, the national leadership was in
good hands, and the whole empire was uni-ifed
in its struggle to survive and become
the greatest civilization of the age. This
unity helped repel the first four invasions.
But eventually there were signs of weak­nesses
in the great and seemingly invin­cible
nation. There were wholesale deser­tions
in the army and the governmental
heads were forced more and more often
to issue writs giving them more and more
power over the people. Taxes went higher
and higher, and in the great middle class,
like the nobility, there was a general an­tipathy
to the problems facing the nation.
Their lives revolved about the search for
pleasures rather than the search for great­er
power within their nation. In their
search for pleasures, they had forgotten
that a downfall was possible . . . in put­ting
the slaves to creating the great cul­ture
they had forgotten how to work them­selves.
Are we getting in the same rut today?
We in college can be made an example.
How many of us here really strive with
all our capacities to learn as much as we
can in order to go out into the world and
help both the United States and ourselves?
Do we seriously think of the great prob­lems
that are facing democracy today?
Do the people of America, as a general
rule, have the pride and spirit of self sac­rifice
that is necessary to see this country
through another war more horrible than
any in the history of man? Are we hell­bent
on having a good time as often as
possible rather than giving up something
so that in the long run civilization will
survive ?
Will our fate be the same as that of the
Romans? Will we wake up in time to mend
the evils of our present system and find
strength to repell the invaders? Only time
will tell, but let's wake up while we can!
J.G.
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.
Grub Street poets, both actual
and affected, have a habit of rhap­sodizing
over trees to such an ex­tent
that I hesitate to add to the
sticky mass of sentimentality. But
it is true enough that I have a
cross between exasperation and
despair when I see a tree such as
the oak near the classroom build­ing
being destroyed so that some
other tree can be planted to con­form
with a human plan.
* * *
The campus has been in the
throes of transition so long that I
can hardly wait for replanting to
begin. Expanses of raw red earth
left uncomfortably naked by the
removal of trees depress me, and it
strains the imagination to see them
as they will be some day.
* * *
The Lee County Training School
for Negroes put on an excellent
program of spirituals the other of-ternoon
over WJHO. Especially re­markable
was a baritone soloist
whose name I didn't catch but who
deserves encouragement and ap­plause.
He sang beautifully and
with uncommon, Robeson-like ex­pression
and modulation. The Ne­gro
announce^, I couldn't help no­ticing,
used the King's English
successfully while his white col­league
used Negro's English un­successfully.
* * *
Most people are surprised to
learn that gaol is pronounced jail.
* * *
Visitors to Montgomery come
away, with a coldness in the pits
of their stomachs. The mad rush of
activity at Maxwell Field drives
home the imminence of war. Car­penters,
plumbers, mechanics, sol­diers,
surveyors, excavators, and
builders are working at a feverish
pace which indicates, one fears, a
great lack of time. The sky drones
with planes, the tents stretch in­to
the blue, the uniforms are so
numerous that they are a domi­nant
color on the streets. And still
we hope that it all means not what
we know it must mean.
* * *
Deposed King Alphonso of Spain
made news recently when he rather
pathetically handed over his rights
to the Spanish throne to his son,
who on accession would be Juan
III. I think of royalty in terms of
ancient glories, without bothering
to protest the inglories; and I hate
to see the kingly houses deprived
of their power. If monarchy must
be had, I would rather a Habsburg
or a Bourbon had it instead of a
paper-hanger's parvenu.
* * *
Truth and Huntruth, the pun­sters
say, are so entangled that we
find the newspapers unreliable.
* * *
The other day I received a series
of electrical shocks when getting
in and out of our automobile. The
shocks came whenever metal touch­ed
me—the door handles, the horn,
the switch. Most of them were light
and prickly, but occasionally one
would crackle out and do a pretty
thorough job of electrocution. So I
took the car to the garage and
found out the trouble was with me.
Sliding across the seat covers gen­erated
static electricity, I was told,
according to the amount of electric­ity
in my body. Not many people
have enough native electricity to
generate into shocks, but—and this
is only an obvious conclusion—it
seems I am a high-powered lad.
* * *
Things some other simian has
formerly said: "There are 36 dig­nified
ways of meeting one's ene­my.
The best is to run away."
(Chinese proverb quoted by Nina
Federova)" ". . .Lovers aret>dious
things at best." CAgnes Repplier)
" .. . . a greasy leering tolerance,
such as Hell v/ould show to one who
had arrived there after being
counted on earth as a saint."
(Rebecca West) " . . . where there
is smoke there is fire—that is, that"
wherever there is the foulest of
things, there also is the purest."
(G. K. Chesterton) Democracy has
the habit of "making itself gener­ally
disagreeable by asking the
powers that be at the most incon­venient
moment whether they are
the powers that ought to be."
(James Russell Lowell)
* * *
And then it was Lord Chester­field
who said that polished brass
passes more readily in society than
rough gold.
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
I happen to be one of those little
students who knows only what he
reads in the paper. I happened to
be reading a Crimson-White, Ala­bama's
school paper, and I notice
that the lads arid lassies of that
school have become dissatisfied
with the school spirit or the lack
of spirit that exists at 'Bama. Well
now, we could not help writing this
in an effort to show the students
here at Auburn that we are not
the only ambitious school in the
South or even in Alabama, that
wants to drop the Martin-Coy feuds
and be friendly. We, on the Plains,
have not found it necessary to
stage any special friendship drives
or a "hello" week as 'Bama is cur­rently
doing, praise Allah, because
the people~on this campus are just
so darned friendly that even a
mean old hoomanity-hater like me
and my Grandpa Snazzy can't help
cracking a little smile. It must be
that Auburn never let the r~.al
Southern hospitality get away
from them, or that the people on
our campus just believe in being
democratic about fellowship. One
man or one woman is not restricted
to one smile a day, nor one dozen
smiles a day.
We keep bragging about the
•friendliness of API, and even the
school paper carries this theme;
Auburn IS the friendliest college
in the United States too, but you
know we will have to do a lot of
work to keep it that way.
Old man winter is just arriving,
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed
i n this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the ed­itorial
policies of this paper.
Have you ever thought of the
penny gum machine as a subtle in­strument
for the spreading of iso­lationist
propaganda? Did you ever
stop to think that many of the
simpler things we run into serve
just that purpose?
* * *
Take the gum machine, for in­stance.
Doesn't it seem to whisper
insistantly that, "This is America,
where you have the choice of even
the flavor of gum you chew. This
is America, where no food ration­ing,
even on chewing gum applies.
This is America, where, for one
cent, you can insure yourself either
white teeth or sweet breath or
both, in a pleasant manner, and
you can at the same time give your
jaws and gums healthy exercise, be­sides
doing your bit to share the
wealth."???
* * *
And another we once ran into,
literally, offered your weight, your
fortune, a mirror for inspecting the
person, and a stick of gum, all for
one little copper penny. It didn't
whisper. This machine seemed to
shout, "In what other country
could you find such- a bargain?
Why should we waste time insur­ing
the health of democracy of
other nations when our country has
developed so wonderfully that any­body,
government official or un­employed,
can, for one cent, get
his weight, fortune, a glance at a
mirror, and a stick of gum? Would
'it not be better to continue setting
this wonderful example than to lose
this while helping others?"
* * *
And" take the combination ma­chines.
Unrestricted by the custom
of centuries which says they must
sell only gum, and untouched by
past greeds and hates, some of the
more modern machines offer, be­sides
a tasty assortment of gum,
several varieties of delectable choc­olates.
For one cent you get prac­tice
in discrimination, as well as
unlimited mechanical knowledge
gained by the trial and error meth­od
in solving the manipulation of
the various handles, knobs, and
levers.
,, * * *
All machines are not the same
color, size, or design, and all do
not have "This machine is operated
by the federal government for the
benefit of the people who have giv­en
it its authority" painted on the
side in neat letters.
* * *
No, this is still the land of op­portunity,
of free enterprise, of in­dividuality
in business, the little
machines seem to stay. They are
not stereotyped, although possibly
one company controls the field. If
these represent a monopoly, they
still proudly point out that this is
not necessary, but has been done
to increase efficiency, and still keep
the control in the hands of the
people.
* * *
You see, you do not have to pat­ronize
these little soldiers of de­mocracy.
You are at perfect liberty
to step across to the refreshment
counter of some nearby eating es­tablishment
and purchase the
goods, but you don't have the feel­ing
of independence you get by
operating the machine all by your­self.
* * *
On the face of it, they are simple
little machines operating to satisfy
a want and to show a profit, but
when you look at them more closely
they show as much propaganda as
a soap-box orator. Each bit of the
mechanism has a separate mean­ing,
and put together they spell
something.
* * *
How different this must be from
such devices in certain foreign
countries. There, you probably have
to show a medical card showing
that, owing to a special ailment,
you need chicle in your diet. Then
you have to substitute the gum for
something in your ration list, plunk
down twice its value in good cold
cash, and get a pass check before
being allowed to chew it.
* * *
Like all good propaganda, the
gum machine is subtle. It affects
you without your knowledge, but it
is powerful just the same. It is as
slick as greased glass, and you
catch it like the flu.
* * *
That just goes to show that even
gum is not wholly, innocent.
* * *
Karrie, the Kampus Kutie, says,
"Looking for propaganda in chew­ing
gum is like looking for bed
bugs on an army cot. It just ain't
there. It's as silly as chewing corn
shucks."
On Policies . . .
Last week the Plainsman pub­lished
a formal statement of its
editorial policies and aims. Last
winter the Collegiate Press Re­view
published statements of poli­cies
of newspapers on other camp­uses.
A few of these are presented
below. These are all rather general,
as compared to the specific one of
the Plainsman. But they cover the
subject, and present good ideas.
OHIO UNIVERSITY POST: An
editor's job is to edit. He should be-and
it will be quite a while before
young man's fancy turns lightly
toward love, so to speak. If the stu­dents
at Auburn let a cold or a
little Flu get them down and out
of spirits, we sure won't be able
to carry on with the Auburn Spirit,
as has been done in the past. The
old grads leave the Freshmen with
a tradition that we must carry on.
If we don't do this little bit for
API we can be justly called real
HEELS.
The great thing about the whole
thing is that each and EVERY stu­dent
can do as much as the biggest
shot on the campus to keep up our
reputation of friendliness.
We have to congratulate the peo­ple
at 'Bama for recognizing one
of their worst faults, and DOING
something about it. But what they
are trying to do is something that
we already have. Naturally that
doesn't mean that API doesn't have
faults, too. We do and we want to
stay on our toes to correct them as
soon as they come up.
We like to think that the im­petus
behind Alabama's campaign
was furnished in part, by the suc­cess
that Auburn has had as a real
hospitable college.
So if we can furnish inspiration
for 'Bama, we can positively
KNOW that the Auburn Spirit is
not in vain, and will be needed as
long as civilization exists. Let's try
to see the good side of things for
a change. When you see a man or
a gal on the campus, just give out
with. a. grin. It won't hurt . . .
Really.
Bill Rowe.
ware of joining this and that com­mittee,
of piling activity upon ac­tivity.
When that happens he no
longer has the TIME—or the neces­sary^
OBJECTIVITY—to put out
a good newspaper. Newspaper edi­tors
should confine themselves to
interpreting the news, and let
others MAKE it. If he is free from
any connections with the campus
institutions, an editor can regard
them from a detached point of view.
He has no loyalty obligation to
boost or political motive to heckle.
If he gets big ideas for campus
projects, a yen to "do things," let
him pour them forth in printed
words that will stimulate others to
act. The important point is not
WHOSE ideas are used or WHO
does things, but that MORE PEO­PLE
get ideas and join in their
achievement. And it's the journal­ist's
duty to provoke this mass in­terest.
An editor's job is to edit.
THE B E A V E R COLLEGE
NEWS: The purpose of the Bea­ver
News is threefold: it shall at­tempt
to establish a tradition of
alertness and initiative; it shall
offer its full cooperation to the
college—to the administration, to
the faculty, and to the students;
and it shall become an articulation
for student thought and opinion.
RIPON COLLEGE DAYS: The
broad policy of a college paper
must be one of coordination of the
three major campus groups: the
faculty, the administration, and the
student body. In developing that
policy, the Days this year will con­centrate
around three salient fea­tures:
the development of greater
faculty and administrative faith in
student government and responsi­bility,
an attempt to break campus
provincialism, • the . necessity of
bringing student politics into tite f
open. One thing more must be said1"
to make our stand clear—there has
been a noticeable trend m some
college journalism toward coloring
the news, covering it with a feature
frosting to make it more palatable
to what is called the "average read­er."
To this type of news writing,
(Continued on page 5)
February 21, 1941 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Lt O. D. Yarbrough in
Squalus Disaster Work
Local Boy, Medical Officer at Pearl
Harbor, Recognized in Medical Journal
By WILLARD HAYES
Lt. Oscar D. Yarbrough, son of Dr. C. S. Yarbrough and
pre-med student here in 1920, now stationed at the Pearl
Harbor Submarine Base, when interviewed about his work
in the Squalus disaster, replied, "We three medical officers
who worked in the Squalus disaster have received recogni­tion
from the world of science. That is all the reward a
member of my profession should expect from the product of
his experiments and labors."
Leads Mitec Dance
The above interview came about
following a n editorial entitled
"Life-Saving Services Without
Recognition," which the Journal of
the American Medical Association
recently published. According to
the editorial, "The saving of the
men on the Squalus was possible
largely because of some extraor­dinary
scientific investigations
made by members of the United
States Navy medical corps in the
years since 1932. The complete
story of the Squalus disaster and
the rescue has not yet been told.
At this time, however, not one of
the three medical officers, in at­tendance,
including Lt. Oscar D.
Yarbrough, has been given any
special award in recognition of his
performance."
Lt. Yarbrougrh could not deny
the truths in this editorial, but he
was embarrassed by the clamor
which it set up in behalf of all
three medical officers, demanding
^oTcnow why they were overlooked
while others who had helped in the
salvaging operations had won spe­cial
awards.
"What would a doctor do with a
medal, anyway?" he asked simply.
"None of us was seeking any
awards or recognition. It was all
in the line of duty."
"Trying to get more details of
that particular 'line of duty' out
of Lt. Yarbrough was like trying
to pry open a tin can without bene­fit
of opener, for modesty combined
with a natural reticence put up a
barrier," said Dorothy Benyas, who
interviewed Lt. Yarbrough in
Pearl Harbor on the Squalus dis­aster.
Eventually the gist of this in­teresting
chapter in his career came
out. He was in the Experiment
Diving Unit at Washington, D.C.,
in May, 1939, when the Squalus
sank. There he and his colleagues
had been working on experiments
that were to be tested out during
the summer.
"Submarine medical activity,"
Lt. Yarbrough explained, "has to
do with life aboard submarines, of
course, changes in air and temper­ature,
problems in physiology, air
conditions, respiration, a n d so
forth. We study the reactions oc­curring
in navy personnel from life
beneath the surface of the earth,
whether it be in diving suits or
not. Whenever they are .exposed
to increased pressure, we study the
effects on them. Surface pressure
is 15 pounds per square inch and
for every 33 feet you descend,
pressure increases approximately
15 pounds per square inch.
"So we develop apparatus, suits
and equipment for diving and test
ATO Housemother Is
"Grandma" Henry
Housemother Rebecca Henry, af­fectionately
dubbed "Ma" by the
brothers of the ATO chapter at
Auburn, is now "Grandma", not
only to her seventy ATO's, but
also to an 8% pound baby boy.
The father of the latest addition
to "Miss Becky's" family is her
son, Bob Henry, an ex-Auburn stu­dent.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Henry are
living in Rockwood, Tennessee, at
the present time.
The youngest Mr. Henry as yet
has not been named, since his time
of arrival Tuesday morning.
Socially Speaking
By MARY DEAN FRENCH
The Kappa Alpha fraternity has
planned a hay ride and steak fry
to be given tonight (Friday). The
group will journey to Chewacla
Park, after which follows a house
dance at the frat house.
* * *
Tonight the Pi Kappa Alpha fra­ternity
will hold a_ house dance,
and will probably stage a tradi­tional
"barefoot dance" of which
they are famous.
Refreshments will be served the
following dates: Louise Thrash,
Dot Knapp, Madrid Davis, Doro­t
h y Jacobs, Linnelle Dobbins,
Frances Hay, Betty Fox, Marjorie
Prince, Jean Hollingsworth, Mary
Jane Phillips, Martha Dee Vest,
Jean Gittings, Reid Anderson, Re­becca
Williamson, Emma Lou Far-rior,
Jean Atkins, Elizabeth John­son,
Edwina Martin, Agnes Por-teous,
Gloria: Van Smith, Ernestine
Lloyd, and Louise Gilmore.
* * *
The co-eds have taken a great
interest i n helping t o initiate
pledges of the fraternities. Va­rious'
fraternities have been holding
parties, and a large number of the
girls of the student body have been
attending.
dut new idea's. For instance, one
idea that we used in the Squalus
operations proved of great value,
mixing 80 per cent helium with 20
per cent oxygen. The salvaging
of the men and vessel couldn't have
been accomplished on air alone, as
that proved. This has all been pub­lished
in various scientific maga­zines."
When the" navy rushed its ex­perts
and rescue devices to the spot
where the Squalus had taken its
fateful dive, Lt. Yarbrough was
the senior medical officer among
those who set about salvaging both
men and ship.
"We worked 32 hours on end,
without stopping," he said, "but
none of us thought of time except
that every minute counted. There
were about 150 reporters under­foot,
and a reporter, Nat Barrow,
on the Boston Globe wrote the
most accurate and graphic account
of the story in a book called 'Blow
All Ballast'."
The modest young lieutenant
would not concede anything resem­bling
heroism in his part of the
rescue. He was too engrossed in
the experimental work now being
Thirty-One Girls
Tapped by Oracles
Dorothy Norman Elected to Head Croup;
Margaret Tucker Is New Vice-Pesident
Miss Dorothy Norman, freshman cheerleader from Fort
Deposit, was selected Monday night to head the thirty-one
member of Oracles, who were recently tapped by Sphinx.
Oracles is a freshman honor society for girls who have
a scholastic average of 85 or above for the first semester.
The group tapped last week was the largest group to be so
honored at one time since the origin of the organization in
1935.
Other officers chosen Monday in­clude
Margaret Tucker of Fair­field,
vice-president; Marjorie Mc-
Kinnon of Auburn, secretary-treas­urer,
and Sara Smith also of Au­burn,
program chairman.
The following are the freshman
coeds that were tapped by Oracles:
Mary Burns Snook of Scottsboro,
Violet Bruce of Auburn, Driscilla
Mullane from Alex City, Emma-gene
Dawson of Loachapoka, Kath-ryn
Gunter of Auburn, Clara Sla-ton
of Loachapoka, Ellen Breed-love
of Columbus, Ga., Eloise Lapp
of Iowa City, Iowa, Evelyn Knapp
of Auburn, and Frances Falmar
of Luverne.
Others who were tapped are Bar­bara
Stevens, Mobile; Alice Blair,
Birmingham; Beverly Jean Perry,
Auburn; Daisy Sue Northrop, At-more;
Winifred Swenson, Scotts­boro;
Edith Harper Hunt, Brent;
Edith Myzel Martin, Luverne;
Minnie Tippins, Auburn; Mildred
Haachett, Notasulga; Maxine Hill,
also of Notasulga; Ruth Blair,
Auburn; Mary Loranz, Birming­ham;
Pauline McGinnis, Birming­ham;
Emma Jean Vick, Fayette;
Betty Barnes, Montgomery; Geor­gette
Davies, Bessemer; Betty Ma­son,
Russellville; and Marjorie
Prince, Greenville, Florida.
Miss Marguerite Morgan, of Birmingham, above, will lead the Mitec dance tonight at 8:30, at the
Girl's Gymnasium, with her brother, Robert Morgan, president of the Co-op Club.
Mitec Dance Tonight, Girls' Gym
Miss Morgan Leads;
Milt Christian Plays
The annual dance of the Mitec
Engineers, club made up of co-op
students, will be held tonight in
the Girls' Gym, beginning at eight-thirty
o'clock. Music will be by
Milton Christian and his popular
orchestra from Birmingham.
Miss Marguerite Morgan, of
Birmingham, will lead the dance.
Her escort will be Bob Morgan,
president of the Mitec Engineers,
and a junior co-op in electrical en­gineering,
also from Birmingham.
done in helium. "It has immense
possibilities," he declared, "not only
in naval matters but in medical.
The field is large and so little ex­plored
as yet. It deserves the at­tention
of people who would devel­op
it further for use in medical
science. So far, the surface of it
has been barely scratched."
(Continued on page 4)
The hall will be decorated in the
club colors of blue and white. Fea­ture
dances of the evening will in­clude
three no-breaks and a lead-out
for members of Briaerean, co­op
honor society. There will be a
grand march for the 100 members
of Mitec Engineers.
Chaperones for the affair will
be Mr. and Mrs. Alex O. Taylor.
Mr. Taylor is director of co-op ed­ucation
here.
During the weekend, the Mitecs
will be honored with bids to both
Theta Chi afternoon and night
dances, and Theta Chi's have been
extended a blanket bid to the Mi­tec
dance tonight.
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Anniston Poet to
Address Coeds at
Next Convocation
Public Invited to
Hear Speaker on
February 27
Mrs. Raymond Holden, of New
York City, known by the pseudo­nym
of Sarah Henderson Hay, will
speak at the women's convocation
February 27, at 11 o'clock in the
Methodist Church.
Mrs. Holden will be accompanied
by her husband, the distinguished
poet and novelist.
A native of Anniston, Mrs. Hol­den
has been a regular contributor
of poems to leading periodicals.
Two collections of her work have
been published in book form, "Field
of Honor'! and "This, My Letter".
The poet will be entertained by
Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, of
which she is a member, on Thurs­day
afternoon. Miss Frances
Hodge will be in charge of the tea.
Townspeople are invited to at­tend
the convocation. Patronize Plainsman advertisers.
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Tea Given in Honor
Of Mrs. K. O. Cosper
Mrs. K. O. Cosper, new attrac­tive
hostess of the Quadrangle,
was honored at a tea Thursday af­ternoon
given by Mrs. W. H. Gre­gory,
Sr., house mother of the
Theta Chi, and Mrs. W. H. Grego­ry,
Jr., at the latter's home.
'.Mrs. Gregory, Sr., is the sister
of Mrs. Cosper, and introduced her
formally at this occasion to Au­burn
faculty and citizens.
Mrs. Cosper is from Birming­ham,
a*id became the hostess of the
Womens' dormitories and Social
Center after the recent resigna­tion
of Mrs. L. Y. Dean.
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R. P. Drew, our factory trained service manager, will look after your
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Cecil Ward and J. Anderson Blackburn, owners of the Tiger Motor
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M .
Page Four THE P L A I N S M AN February 21, 1941
Seventy Candidates for Squad
Open Spring Training for 1041
Well Balanced Football Team Probable;
Seven Backfield Lettermen, Nine on Line
After a week's practice in blocking and tackling funda­mentals
Auburn's Spring football squad of approximately 70
candidates looks ahead to early scrimmage sessions in Au­burn
Stadium.
Here for an indefinite period to aid-Head Coach Jack
Meagher in his search for new offensive combinations and
plays is Jim Conzelman, coach of the Chicago Cardinals of
the National Professional Football League. Another pro rep-resentative
donating time to the
Tiger cause is Happy Sivell, for­mer
Auburn great, who plays for
Brooklyn's Dodgers during the
grid season.
Though the work to date has
been purely basic and has done
nothing in the way of picking a
team out of the mass of candi­dates
it can be said that prospects
point ahead to as well balanced a
team as has been seen at the Plains
in years.
The Auburn line, last season re­garded
as below the par of the
miracle backfield array, looms as
one of the strong points to be
looked to in the '41 grid wars. Vet­erans
are returning at every posi­tion
and, though some sections of
the forward wall may rank below
others, no position can be called
weak. Nine lettermen from the last
year's front rank have returned
to fight for line spots.
The backfield, though hit a stun­ning
blow in the loss of such head-liners
as McGowen, Wendling,
Happer, and Deal, is already form­ed
of a nucleus which boasts seven
experienced ball carriers. Return­ing
lettermen to the touchdown sec­tion
include quarterbacks Cheat­ham
and McMahan, fullbacks Irby
and Reynolds, and halfbacks Year-out,
Harkins and Gafford. Of the
seven all but Cheatham and Mc­Mahan
are now sophs.
Consoling factor for the • gaps
left by graduation proceedings will
be the star crop of freshmen which
has stepped up to take its regular
practice in varsity uniforms. The
squad won three of its four games
last fall and is led up to the front
ranks by Jim Pharr, lanky center
from Fort Payne, who is looked
upon as one of Auburn's top pivot
prospects. Two top ranking back-field
newcomers for the rats are
Donald Wilkes, Ocala, Pla., and
Buck Jenkins of Birmingham. Both
played a major part in the frosh
touchdown attack of 1940.
Yarbrough
(Continued from page 3)
Assigned last year to the subma­rine
escape training tank at Pearl
Harbor, where men are instructed
in the use of submarine escape ap­paratus,
Lt. Yarbrough explained
that this duty is routine training
given officers who are experienced
in treating air accidents.
Lt. Yarbrough hails from a fam­ily
full of doctors. He was pre­destined
/from birth to follow in his
father's footsteps, he believes, but
when he started out to be a sur­geon
he never dreamed of getting
sidetracked into such an absorbing
interest as the gas called helium.
CJftMES' -t/0J*LE/- &J&OBM
Above is James Holley, Alter­nate
Captain of the Auburn track
squad.
Following are the candidates by
positions:
Centers
Tex Williams, Jack Ferrell, Jim
Pharr, Red Meadows.
Tackles
Francis Crimmins (Alt. Capt.),
Joe Eddins, Jim McClurkin, John
Chalkley, Joe Cordell, Bill Schuler,
Earl Campbell, Bobby Long, Homer
Wesley, Louis Chatteau, Elton
Hinton.
Guards
Frank Bridges, John Bridges,
Merrill Giradeau, Nick Ardillo,
Max Morris, Fred Knight, Ben
Park, Vic Costellos, Leroy Jack­son,
Jimmy Rose, Jack Cornelius.
Ends
Henry Monsees, Theo Cremer,
Clarence Grimmett, James Sam-ford,
Fagan Canzoneri, Dummy
Barrington, Everett Harwell, Chois
Dyar, Carl Fletcher, Herbert Bur­ton.
Fullbacks
Jim Reynolds, Ty Irby, Charlie
Smith Mark Rainer, Jimmy Con­rad,
Donald Wilkes.
Halfbacks
Monk Gafford, Charles Finney,
Bill Yearout, Clarence Harkins,
Jim Barganier, Buck Jenkins, Tom
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Poems of Robert Frost Introduce a
New Mode of Thought and New Style
James Stephenson, above, is the
Captain of Auburn's 1941 track
team.
Weather Conditions
Slow Track Workouts
Forced to postpone any speed
trials due to inclement weather con­ditions,
Auburn's track squad con­tinues
to spend its afternoons in
fundamental work prior to prac­tice
which will prepare the Hutsell-
Beard aggregation for its first
meet, the Florida Relays at Gaines­ville.
The Relays will not take place
until late in March, the 29th, so
more than a month lies ahead in
which Coach Hutsell can smooth
out individual performances.
Almost sure for a large share in
Tiger pointage during the Spring
is Hoyt Hall, pole vaulter, who
shared in a tie for first place hon­ors
in the conference meet at Bir­mingham
last year. Hoyt is clear­ing
the bar with the same ease
Karam, John Richardson, Tommy
Kennell, James Sansing.
Quarterbacks
Lloyd Cheatham (Capt.), Buddy
McMahan, Aubrey Clayton, Jim
Sims, Ed Buckner, Billy Barton,
Gene Barranieu, Bobby Black.
Poet to Lecture Here
Next Thursday Evening
By REDDING SUGG
Subscribers to the 1940-41 Au­burn
Concert and Lecture Series
will hear a lecture by the eminent
New England poet Robert Frost
next Thursday evening, February
27.
Critics both in this country and
in England have consistently con­sidered
Frost a major poet. A maj­or
poet, they say, is one who in­troduces
a new mode of thought
or a new style of phraseology. His
work is distinctive and recogniz­able
in itself, and the omission of
a signature does not leave it un­identified.
"A complete poem," Frost has
said, "is one where an emotion has
found its thought and the thought
has found the words." His tech­nique
has been called that of "the
laconic Yankee" and a more rep­resentative
expression of his coun­try
than that of Walt Whitman.
Frost's work is loved for its
quiteness and restful emphasis by
understatement, and at the same
time it is respected for its occas­ional
flashes of dry, sharp wit.
Simplicity is perhaps its greatest
hallmark.
A five-minute recital of vital
statistics would include the fact
that Frost was born in San Fran­cisco,
March 26, 1875, the son of
a transplanted New England news­paper
man. After his father's
death, Frost and his mother re­turned
to the paternal home in
Massachusetts.
and has clear shot at the top spot
for his second consecutive year.
Jim Stephenson, Capt. of the '41
track array, took fourth place at
Birmingham in the shot put and
can this year be counted on for
an even better showing.
Alternate Capt. James Holley,
who came in fifth in the 880,
rounds out the list of Plansmen
who shared in the scoring which
gained a third place for Auburn
in the SEC. With the return of
Babe MeGehee, hurler, and the
coming of John Ball to the varsity
the squad can point to two others
who will have a definite share of
the point making this year.
The schedule, as reprinted from
the last issue of the Plainsman:
March 29th — Florida Relays at
Gainesville; April 12th — Miss.
State at Auburn; April 19th —
Georgia at Athens; April 26th—
AAU at Atlanta; May 3rd—Flor­ida
at Auburn; May 10th—Geor­gia
Tech at Auburn; May 16th
and 17th—SEC meet at Birming­ham.
Robert Frost, lecturer and poet,
who will appear here Thursday-night.
SPORTS PEN
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The poet disliked grammar
school, found high school slightly
more interesting, and entered
Dartmouth in 1892 only to leave
after a few months because of his
distaste for college routine and re­quired
courses. His first job was
that of a mill hand in a Massachu­setts
factory.
Marrying in 1895, Frost matri­culated
at Harvard in 1897, which
he left after two years. He worked
as a shoe-maker and a newspaper­man
until 1900, when he was given
a farm. After five years of farm­ing,
he taught English and psy­chology
in several New England
schools. Tiring of farming and
teaching, the poet took his family
to England in 1912.
Frost's first book was published
in England in 1913. His second was
also published there, and its success
marked him as the spokesman of
his country.
Returning to the United States,
he conducted informal seminar
courses at Amherst for students in­terested
in writing. He took ad­vantage
of a new fellowship at the
University of Michigan and be­came
"poet in residence" at Ann
Arbor from 1921-23. He then re­turned
to Amherst, then back to
Ann Arbor as a Fellow in Letters.
Since 1926 Frost has taught at
Amherst.
FORGOTTEN SPORTSMEN
Case History Number One
The greatest boxer that this
world has even known was not,
as you may think, John L. Sulli­van,
nor Gene Tunney, nor Joe
Louis, but a bum of whom you
have probably never heard. He
was just a good fighter who got
too good. I will dwell upon Abey
Klutz here, endeavoring to clear
up some of the secrecy surround­ing
his tragic departure from the
ring.
The first traces we have of
Abey are records of his job at the
San Francisco dockyards. He was
then in the process of losing his
job at the San Fi'ancisco dock­yards
simply because of downright
careless methods. The white-collar
boys didn't mind his slinging cot­ton
bales from the quay up onto
the decks of ships as long as he
didn't hurt anybody; but Abey
was a victim of slovenly habits
and an acrimonious temperament.
Then, too, he just didn't like his
job. One morning he came to work
looking and feeling like a three-1
day hangover and started in on
the cotton bales. Before anyone
could stop him he had thrown 67
bales of cotton clear on over the
ship into San Francisco Bay and
had come damn near stirring up
a diplomatic crisis.
So they fired Abey and he
moved on to other parts, stopping
here and there for odd jobs. We
see him in the Artie wrestling
polar bears, and stopping off a
year later in Pisa where they
gave him five dollars to straight­en
up the Leaning Tower.
Soon a fight promoter got wind
of Abey and signed him for a few
bouts. He didn't have much trouble
with his first 15 or 20 bouts,
fighting twice a week and wrest­ling
now and then when there
was an open spot. New York
leaned down to lure him in and
he was booked for a Garden
match against Indian Joe O'Toole.
There, in the first round, he
slapped O'Toole into the 43rd
row and Abey's ship of fate was
launched. Fights followed which
yanked him to the top of the heap
like nobody's business. He broke
Lefty Smith's back with a left to
the forehead, kayoed Joe the Bear
at a walk, and took Ham Korinsky
apart with a right hook that had
Ham's teeth flying around New
York like dandruff.
Well, Abey was a real comer,
and they gave him a shot at the
champ. Abey went in, swung one
punch, and the ex-champ was
toted out like a wet string and
known therefrom as the noseless,
toothless, one-eyed son-of-a-gun.
So Abey -Klutz was heavyweight
champion and they started feed­ing
challengers to him faster than
the Harvard boys could find cam­eras
to eat goldfish in front of.
He slammed Kid Chocolate San­dusky
15 miles out into the At­lantic
before the seconds could
get the stools out of the ring. He
fought in Havana, swung a right
at Pedro Sanchez, and the island
shook like a wet dog.
Everything went along all right
until the experts started figuring
things out, as experts will do. One
watched Abey fight and asked of
his cohorts, "Do you think he
could have beaten Jack Demp-sey?"
The scribes, horrified, confer­red
in sibilant whispers.
Then, "Good God, man! Are you
crazy? Nobody could ever have
beaten Jack."
However, the scribes weren't so
sure of what the public would
think, so they were on Abey from
then on. Abey took three rounds
before he lifted Laughing Wild­cat
Petillo 30 yards into the air
with an uppercut and they watch­ed
with glee.
"Abey is on the skids," they
gurgled. "It took him t h r ee
rounds."
Abey fought a month later in
Boston, let Red the Marvel Zilch
have one on the chest, and Bunk­er
Hill rolled over on its back.
"Abey's gone, all right," they
said. "He had to use a body punch
tonight. Manassa could have got-
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February 21, 1941 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Five
Local Students Like
Serious Type Movie
Lamarr, Davis, Grable, and Lamour
Are Most Popular Actesses
By ALBERT SCROGGINS
That college-going lads and lassies do have their seri­ous
moments is upheld by what they like in picture shows.
Gus Coates, manager of the Tiger Theatre says that
people tell him he should be able to run almost any kind
of a show in a college town like Auburn but it doesn't
work like that. A great deal of thought has to be put into
his selection of pictures.
The popular opinion that college students would go
in most for the light romance or |
comedy is all wrong. "They do j L|ft|%L|||«|» ( f a r e IIt-like
comedies", said Mr. Coates, n C J J U U i l i j l f j l j III
"but they have to be really funny,
not silly. What they like most is
the serious type show." He knows
when the crowd calls a show silly
he should have stuck to a more
serious vein of selections.
"It's funny," went on Mr. Coates,
"how students find out about
shows. I can get a film that hasn't
been shown nearer than 200 miles
and by the time I have it adver­tised
they know whether its going
to be good or not."
There is no doubt as to who is
the greatest male drawing card in
pictures. Mickey Rooney has it all
over the rest of the boys. But, ac­cording
to Mr. Coates there are so
many good girl actresses, no one
can be called greatest at the box-office.
Some, though, like Hedy
Lamarr, Bette Davis, Betty Grable
! and Dorothy Lamour are popular.
The greatest attendance record
for the present school term was
registered when "Boom Town"
was shown. It was a great show.
It has been found that most stu­dents
attend shows on Sunday and
Monday, with the next largest
crowd on Wednesday and Thurs­day.
Knowing this Mr. Coates has
arranged a system of picture selec­tions
that will have the best shows
on Sunday and Monday, the next
best on Wednesday and Thursday,
dropping back to the third best on
Tuesday and the rest on Friday
and Saturday.
Action pictures are shown us­ually
on Saturday. The regular
western thriller doesn't go over in
Auburn. However, some outdoor
westerns with good players such
as Cary Grant and Gary Cooper
that have a historical setting are
popular.
Dunaway Elected to
Lead Sears Club
Robert Dunaway, of Orrville,
was elected president of the Sears
Club at its meeting last Monday
night. •
Durwood Tyler, of Valhermoso,
was chosen vice-president; Jasper
Jernigan, from Castleberry, sec-
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At Tiger Sunday
Co-Stars in Show
Are Cary Grant
And Jimmy Stewart
Back on the screen after an ab-scence
of more than two years,
during which she scored one of
Broadway's outstanding comedy
successes in "The Philadelphia
Story," Katherine Hepburn returns
in the hilarious firm version of her
New York hit, with Cary Grant
and James Stewart as her co-stars.
Tlie picture opens at the Tiger
Theatre Sunday for an engagement
of two days.
The sparkling comedy of high
society behind the scenes of the
forbidden Philadelphia " M a in
Line" casts Miss Hepburn as Tracy
Lord, whose first marriage was
broken up because she behaved
"more like a Moon Goddess than
a wife." About to be wedded a
second time to a man of the people,
George Kittredge, portrayed by
John Howard, her serenity is spoil­ed
by the appearance of her first
husband, Dexter Haven, an ideal
role for Grant's comedy talent.
Dexter, realizing that Tracy is
making a mistake, arranges a deal
with Spy Magazine, a keyhole so­ciety
publication, to have the wed­ding
covered by Mike Connor, a
highbrow writer forced to do low
brow magazine work to live. This
is the role played by James Stew­art.
Through Mike, Tracy learns
that it is better to be a human
being than a goddess, and in the
end finds the right man in an ex­citing,
romantic finish.
Adapted to the screen from the
play by Philip Barry, the picture
features a notable supporting cast,
headed by Ruth Hussey, John How­ard,
Roland Young, John Halliday,
Mary Nash and Virginia Weidler.
Intramural Basketball Schedules
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of Albanda, reporter; and Hugo
Whitely, Odenville, parliamenta­rian.
Plans were discussed at the meet­ing
for the activities to be carried
out by the club for the second se­mester.
The next meeting will be Mon­day
night, March 3, at 7 p.m. All
members are urged to attend.
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9:00 Alpha Tau Omega vs.
10:00 Sigma Nu vs.
9:00 Theta Chi vs.
10:00 Pi Kappa Alpha vs.
9:00 Sig. Alpha Epsilon vs.
10:00 Sig. Phi Epsilon vs.
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7:00 Sigma Phi Epsilon vs.
8:00 Kappa Sigma vs.
9:00 Sigma Chi vs.
10:00 Alpha Tau Omega vs.
4:00 Pi Kappa Alpha vs.
Tau Epsilon Phi
Beta Kappa
Alpha Lam. Tau
Alpha Psi
Lam. Chi Alpha
Pi Kappa Phi
Kappa Alpha
Tau Epsilon Phi
Phi Delta Theta
Kappa Alpha
Omega Tau Sig.
Alpha Lam. Tau
Lam. Chi Alpha
Alpha Psi
Phi Delta Theta
Alpha Lam. Tau
Omega Tau Sig.
Phi Delta Theta
Pi Kappa Phi
Tau Epsilon Phi
Kappa Alpha
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On Policies . . .
(Continued from page 2)
the Days does not subscribe. Rath­er,
though acknowledging the im­possibility
of completely imperson­al
and objective writing, it will
continue to attempt to be as im­partial
in its news columns as it
is outspoken in its editorials.
NORTHERN ILLINOIS STATE
TEACHERS COLLEGE NEWS:
It seems that there should be cer­tain
ideas that every editor, re­gardless
of his personal views,
should include as a part of his pol­icy
because of the very position he
helds. First, at all times he should
be constructive rather than de­structive
in his editorials. Second,
any policy that he pursues that
proves contrary to general student
opinion and shows students in a
bad 'light should be discontinued.
Third, he should remember that he
is a representative of the students,
running their paper for them, and
not an owner of the commercial
publication. And last, he should
realize that the public judges his
college to a certain extent by the
paper he edits; and, therefore, he
should present his college to the
public in as true a light as possible.
THE TECH, CASE SCHOOL
OF APPLIED SCIENCE: Hereto­fore,
the Case Tech has conscien­tiously
performed the function of
a house organ, a newspaper with
campus activity as its sole and
chjef concern. For years, while
serving about one thousand read­ers,
this paper exercised its right
of free-press, totally unaware of
any responsibility it might have
had in preserving that right, un­aware
that it was an integral part
of a nation of newspapers, and un­aware
that the "first line of duty
of every newspaper is to preserve
the free-press tradition. No longer
can this indifference be tolerated!
The Case Tech, recognizing the
threatening regimentation of ideas,
intends to take a stand in the in­terests
of free press.
Bobby Haas to Lead
The Auburn Players
"George and Margaret"
To Be Next Production
On February 9, the Auburn
Players were guests of Dramatic
Director, Telfair B. Peet, at an
informal supper party.
Robert O. Haas, from Mobile,
was elected president for the new
term, William Buck Taylor was
named vice-president, and Marjo-rie
McKinnon was selected as sec­retary.
Retiring officers were Warren
Bridges, president; James C. Burt,
vice-president; and Claudia Wein­man,
business manager.
Plans for the forthcoming pro­duction
to be undertaken by the
Players were discussed during the
meeting. "George and Margaret",
a comedy in three acts, will be pre­sented
on Monday and Tuesday,
March 3 and 4 at 8:00 p.m.
LOST—Horn rim glasses in Ross
Chem. Bldg. Wednesday. Re­ward.
Tel. 74-R. Joe Stearns.
Sargent, Bottoms
Speak to Local FFA
Freshman Class in
Charge of Program
The collegiate chapter of FFA
met Tuesday night and was opened
by the formal ceremonies as usual.
At the beginning of the meeting
while the business of the chapter
was being discussed, W. V. Lord,
who was treasurer last semester,
gave a report on the financial sta­tus
of the chapter and asked that
three members check the record
books with him. "Pep" speeches
were made by Prof. G. T. Sargent
and D. N. Bottoms, vocational ag­ricultural
teacher at the Auburn
High School.
The program was put on by the
freshman class. Leroy Lawrence
was in charge with John Delony,
Benjamin Dickey, and J. H. Thom­as
assisting him.
E..JB. Nix, president of the chap­ter,
announced that the senior of­ficers
would be away for the next
two meetings doing practice teach­ing
and appointed M. M. Smith
and Hershall Gilley to be in charge
of the programs during their ab­sence.
Other officers for this se­mester
are Jack Barnes, vice-pres­ident;
Bob Ramey, secretary; Paul
Autery, treasurer; John Hinson,
parliamentarian; E. M. Rhodes,
sergeant-at-arms, and Howard
Gregg, reporter.
Before the meeting adjourned,
some of the campus politicians an­nounced
themselves before the
chapter.
Communications were read from
Prof. R. W. Montgomery, who is
away on a leave-of-absence from
the college doing graduate work at
Ohio State University.
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ASCAP-BMI Feud
Delays Auburn Song
Fred Waring Writes That Song Cannot Be
Written Yet for Auburn-Hands Are Tied'
Auburn was all set for a new song. Having heard the
job Fred Waring was doing for other colleges and uni­versities
in adding new blood to their time-worn anthems,
turning out fine alma mater and pep songs and giving
them a rousing introduction on his Friday College Smoker
programs, Auburn representatives wrote him asking "How
about one for us?". He said, in effect: "Whenever we can
fit you into our schedule". It seemed that the line formed
on the right and that it was pretty
long, since requests had been piling
up since his introduction of the
idea over a year ago on his series.
But now it looks like the answer
is up in the air. Waring's sched­ule
juggling has stopped. The
whole project is at a standstill
pending settlement of the differ­ences
between ASCAP and the ra-dia
broadcasters. Auburn and
other interested colleges and uni­versities,
together with disappoint­ed
Maestro Waring, are among the
victims of the current ASCAP-ra-dio
battle. Waring, among the
many performers who are also
creative members of the American
Society of Composers, Authors, and
Publishers, has had his work ban­ned
from the air.
Says Waring: "Since we (co-writers
Tom Waring, Pat Ballard,
and myself) are active members of
of ASCAP, the performing rights
for our creations are licensed
through that organization. As you
doubtless know, the radio networks
have not renewed their licensing
contract with ASCAP and the cop­yrights
controlled by that society
are prohibited on radio.
"Until such time as an agree­ment
is reached between the prin­cipals
in this controversy, we are
forced to file all requests for .fu­ture
consideration. The situation
is extremely embarrassing to our
radio unit, since we are also pro­hibited
from, even playing or sing­ing
any of the college songs writ­ten
previous to December 31st,
1940, on any of our current pro­grams."
The works of ASCAP members
were banned from the air as of
New Year's Eve at midnight. Ac­cording
to press association dis­patches,
student groups for whom
Waring had written songs were
not long in feeling the weight of
the situation.
Waring has been receiving anx­ious
letters from student groups in
the 50-odd colleges and universi­ties
for which he has written songs
for the past year and a half,' ask­ing
what, if anything, can be done
about performing their songs on
the air The answer is that the
performers of the airwaves, who
suffer together with the general
public, have done all they can in
New York by forming committees
offering to act as mediators and
make suggestions. Waring himself
headed a committee of orchestra
leaders on which Eddie Duchin,
Johnny Green, Meyer Davis, Nat
Shilkret, and Ben Cutler were also
active in drawing the brotherhood
of maestros into a constructive
unit, but their efforts to arrange
a meeting between ASCAP officials
and radio officials were in vain.
ASCAP agreed to meet, but radio
backed down. If there is anything
to be done now, it is by an expres­sion
from the public itself, who,
like Auburn, are the ultimate vic­tims
of the quarrel. Perhaps the
tuners-in can toss their hats into
the ring. Perhaps the college
groups who are- writing petitions
for college songs had better also
write petitions to the networks to
"break it up". Anyhow, Waring's
hands are tied.
Saturday
"ISLAND OF DOOMED
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"Junior G-Men"
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THIS WEEK
The Auburn Grille
ANNOUNCES THAT
Charles Kelley
has been selected to receive
a Steak Dinner for his out­standing
service to Auburn
during the last three years.
Philadelphia
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Ruth HUSSEY
John HOWARD • Roland YOUNG
John HALLIDAY • Mary NASH
Virgin^ WEIDLER
TIGER
CHARLES KELLEY
• Each week the Auburn
Grille will select an out­standing
student to re­ceive
this award.
The Grille is Auburn's
finest and most modern
restaurant.
The Grille invites the stu­dents
to come in often for
"the best food in town."
The Auburn Grille
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Page Six T H E P L A I N S M AN February 21, 1941
Dunbar Leads Tigers
To Win Over Howard
Late Scoring Spree
Brings 35-21 Margin
With Bob Dunbar throwing in
ten points to lead the night's
scoring Auburn thumped Howard
College's Bulldogs, 35-21, in front
of a capacity crowd at the City
Auditorium in Birmingham Wed­nesday
night.
The Plainsmen were forced to
take to their customary second
half scoring spree to go out in
front, score at intermission being
tied at 13-13.
Shag Hawkins, for whom the
Bulldogs had set a special de­fense,
scored but seven points. It
was the first time this season that
he had failed to count as many
as 10 in a single game, but his
team-mates were able to take the
scoring end well in hand, sinking
goals that sent them into the lead
early in the third quarter.
It was the Tigers' seventh win
over as many non-conference foes
and their 13th victory in 17 starts
for the 1941 season. The outcome
served as a revenge factor for the
game of last year which Coach
Ralph Jordan's quintet dropped to
Howard.
Close behind Dunbar in the
point parade came Motley, who
accounted for eight of the Au­burn
points, and Hawkins and
Manci, each with seven.
Ledbetter, Howard center, not
only held Hawkins to his season's
low but led all Bulldog scorers
with a total of seven points.
Auburn(35) Howard(21)
Manci, 7 F Gartman, 4
Dunbar, ^10 F Baker
Hawkins, 7 C Ledbetter, 7
Motley, 8 G Drake, 5
Canzoneri, 3 __G Morgan, 5
Substitutions: Howard—Welch,
Templeton. A u b u r n — Tanner,
Park.
Score at half: 13-13.
Referee: Malcolm Laney.
Frosh Cagers Split With Wetumpka,
Clanton; Play in Wadley Tonight
Clanton Drops Locals
In Wednesday Contest
Coach Elmer Salter's Auburn
freshman basketballers broke even
in a pair of games played Tues­day
and Wednesday nights, down­ing
Wetumpka High School at
Wetumpka, 24-15, and losing to
Clanton High School in Clanton
by a count of 41-32.
Though Williams turned in his
Cut System
(Continued from page 1)
this year have resulted in a great­er
number of failures than usual."
For this and other reasons the
president has authorized t he
changes in the attendance rule.
All administrative rulings on the
absence regulations will be in ac­cord
with the regulations set out
in the handbook on Rules and
Regulations for Students. Dean's
lists will be provided as is stated
in the handbook.
"Please n o t e," stated Mr.
Draughon, "That these changes
still place the burden of responsi­bility
upon the student." Like the
system of the last two semesters,
this will be in the hands of the
students to do with as they see
fit. Students are requested to use
their cuts as wisely as possible.
Military Information
(Continued from page 1)
duty as required. Three vacancies
will be held for Auburn graduates.
4. U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Cadets for the Coast Academy
are selected by competitive exami­nation
held each spring at vari­ous
Coast Guard stations through­out
the United States. Cadets at
the Coast Guard Academy take
a four year course similar to that.
of West Point and Anapolis.
5. a. A Flight Selection Board
for Naval Reserve Aviation will
visit Auburn in the near future.
b. A representative of the
Coast Guard will visit Auburn on
March 14th.
c. An Army Air Corps examin­ing
board will visit Auburn May
13th and 18th.
6. For further information see
Colonel Waterman at the Military
Office.
Signed:
John J. Waterman,
Colonel, F.A.
Campus Events
Tuesday, Feb. 25
7:00 p.m.—Current Events. Dr.
Petrie. Broun Hall.
Wednesday, Feb. 26
7-9 p.m.—Faculty Recreation.
Alumni Gymnasium.
Thursday, Feb. 27
7:00 p.m.—Current Events. Dr.
Petrie. Broun Hall.
8:15 p.m. — Lecture: Robert
Frost, poet. Langdon Hall.
Coming Events
March 4—Lecture: Rabbi Sil­verman.
Place to be announced.
March 6—Concert: Barrere Lit­tle
Symphony. 8:15 p.m. Alumni
Gym.
March 26—Engineers' Day.
March 26—Dance Recital: Han-ya
Holm and Company. Langdon
Hall.
April 3, 4 and 5—High School
Tournament.
April 5 and 6—Auburn Rodeo.
usual high performance in the
Wednesday night tilt the rats
were unable to keep up with the
free-scoring Clantons and so went
down for the sixth time of the
current season.
As was erroneously reported in
dhe Plainsman of Tuesday, the
frosh were listed as having lost
to Wetumpka last week. The re­port
was caused by a general
mix-up in scores of the extended
trip and is here corrected. In the
only game played between We­tumpka
and Auburn the locals
came out on top.
The score was stated as having
been 39-27 in favor of the We-tumpkans,
but the score applied
to the second of two games be­tween
the rats and the Naval Air
Station quintet at Pensacola.
The freshman journey to Wad-ley
tonight where they will stack
"RflkPti FRHZIEK -AUBtJ'VJ
Ralph, Tiger first baseman, will
captain Auburn's baseballers this
year. He batted .400 as a soph,
has remained a leading slugger,
and plays a classy game in the in­field.
Sigma Chi's Hold
Annual Round-Up
The Auburn Sigma Chi chapter
has planned a week-end of fes­tivities
for all Sigma Chi's in the
State of Alabama. The occasion
is the Third Annual All-Alabama
Sig Roundup. The guests will in­clude
the Sig chapter at the Uni­versity
of Alabama and promin­ent
alumni.
A full program is slated to in­clude
an initiation, a banquet at
the Pitts Hotel Green Room, and
Plainsman Cagers Re-Engage
Georgia in Athens Tomorrow
SPORTS PEN
By JOHN PIERCE
Friday
"A Night at Earl Carroll's"
With KEN MURRAY
— ON STAGE 8:30 P.M.
Dairyland — Froz-Rite
Presents
QUIZ-BEE"
$25 in Cash Awards
Saturday
GEORGE O'BRIEN
'Prairie Law"
Owl Show
up against Southern Junior Col­lege.
Following tonight's tilt they
play but two more games, both
away, against Lanier High School
in Montgomery and Opelika High
at Opelika.
Bulldogs Seeking to Avenge Earlier
Defeat at Hands of Jordan's Juniors
By JOHN PIERCE
Sports Editor
Auburn closes out its regularly scheduled 1941 basket­ball
slate tomorrow night when the Plainsmen take on
Georgia's Bulldogs in a return bout at the Georgia Gym­nasium
in Athens. *
It will mark the final appearance of the Tigers before
the conference meet in Louisville next week, and should
show Coach Lampe's Red and Black array in a vengeful
mood after the most recent meeting of the two rivals.
In the game played earlier in
the season Shag Hawkins and the
Auburnites edged the Dogs, 43-
39, in a melee which preceded a
wholesale riot that had old Alumni
Gym rocking on its cornerstones.
So bitterly fought was the contest
that 20 personal fouls were level­ed
at the Georgians by referee
Malcolm Laney.
Auburn has now won six games
and dropped four in conference
battles, ranks fifth in the red hot
league race. Tomorrow's battle
should again shape up as one of
those battles where the opposi­tion
tries to hold down Shag Haw­kins
and tries to score at the
same time. Shag, it will be remem­bered,
looped through his high of
the season in the previous Geor­gia-
Auburn tilt, 22 points.
Georgia rests its hopes mainly
on the ability of Dan Kirkland,
high-scoring center from Colum­bus,
Ga. Other standouts for the
Athens array are Jim Killian, the
forward with the red hot temper,
and George Poschner, forward for
the cagers and regular left end on
the Bulldog football team.
the Auburn-Alabama chapter bas­ketball
game. Saturday morning
at 11 o'clock, the Alumni gym
will be the scene of the grudge
match to decide the leadership
in the three game series.
The Alabama Sig Roundup has
become an institution of the fra­ternity
which is anticipated more
keenly each year by the Sigma
Chi's in the State.
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ten him in three rounds."
Abey couldn't read, himself,
but his managers let him in on
the skids talk. He began to worry.
In his next bout he broke Irish­man
O'Schultz's neck with a jab
in the first three seconds.
"He's on his way out. A set­up
for the Mauler."
Abey's managers read the morn­ing
papers to him and he was a
gloomy boxer. The next time he
ran around and kayoed Cowboy
Tracy in his dressing room before
the fight, but even that impress­ed
nobody.
"He's lost his punch. The skids
have him."
After that Abey Klutz just
dropped out. He didn't even show
up for his next bout. He spent a
month trying to impress the New
Yorkers by walking down Fifth
Avenue and pulling up manholes
by the. roots, but soon stopped
this. He was moody and disgust­ed
with the game. No matter what
he did they rode him. A week
later he went crazy. He was un­heard
of until after a year- when
he was arrested in Paris for put­ting
a strangle-hold on the Eiffel
Tower. After that Abey Klutz
disappeared.
MORAL: Switch to tennis. Sam-
Chesterfields are made
with one aim in view...
to give you a
'Strawberry Blonde'
At Martin Sunday
James Cagney, Olivia
de Haviland Are Stars
A film with a warm, human
story starring James Cagney and
Olivia deHavilland called "The
Strawberry Blonde" will make its
local debut at the Martin Theatre,
Sunday. Cagney is cast as a sim­ple
fellow who doesn't go around
socking people (in fact, he finds
out what it means to be on the
receiving end of a right hook for
a change), who doesn't bowl over
the girl with his glib charm and
who doesn't want to blast his way
to the top of anything. All he
would like to do is become a darn
good dentist. It is a different Cag­ney
— a new Cagney — a Cagney
that will win millions of new ad­mirers.
Vivacious Olivia and sparkling
Rita Hayword are the two women
in Cagney's uncomplicated life
(that is, uncomplicated until they
come into it).
George Tobias, who has made
quite a name for himself with his
son couldn't have beaten
Dempsey with a crowbar.
Jack
Foreman Elected
Representative
Dorothy Foreman Chosen
To Women's Council
Dorothy Foreman, Birmingham,-•-
was selected as the freshman rep­resentative
to the Woman's Student
Government Council, according to
an announcement made by Eliza­beth
Wheeler, president of the
Woman's Student Government As­sociation
after the election held
Wednesday.
Miss Foreman won the election
over two opponents, Betty Barnes,
Montgomery, and Clara Ellen Sla-ton,
Loachapoka, a Delta Zeta
pledge.
Dorothy is a Kappa Delta pledge
and a freshman in the school of
Home Economics.
President's Letter
(Continued from page 1)
unless and until they are called,
so that they will be well prepared
for greatest usefulness to their
country. They will be promptly
notified if they are needed for
other patriotic services.
Sincerely yours,
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
many great screen characteriza­tions
since coming to Hollywood,
has added still another to the im­pressive
list with his role in "The
Strawberry Blonde." He is joined
by the inimitable Alan Hale.
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