1940-12-06 The Plainsman

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VOL. LXIV z-i
"A UBURN—the friendliest college in the United States''
ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA/DECEMBER 6, 1040 No. 26
Students Leave for Last Game, 'War Eagle'
Students WillSelect'May Queen'
Wednesday from 7 Candidates
Coed Elected Will
Rule Over May Day
Selection of seven girls as can­didates
for May Queen was made
yesterday by the different wom­en's
organizations on the campus.
Each sorority will have one candi­date
and there will be one candi­date
from the non-sorority group.
Election is to be held Wednesday,
December 11, at which time one
girl will be elected for Queen of
the May. The other candidates will
serve as attendants in the Queen's
Court. Sphinx, Senior Women's
honor organization, is sponsoring
the election.
Candidates selected were as
follows:
Ruth Price, junior in physical
education from Decatur represent-the
non-sorority group.
Anne Pafford of Daytona Beach,
Florida, a junior in home eco­nomics
is to represent Chi Omega.
Margaret Nash selected by The-ta
U is a junior in home economics
from Helena.
Hazel Garrison, a senior from
Gadsden in clothing and textiles
is being sponsored by Delta Zeta.
Kappa Delta has selected for
their candidate Anne Tatum, a
senior in secondary education
from Opelika.
Frances Hodges of Wadley is
the candidate from Alpha Gamma
Delta. She is a senior in home
economics.
Martha Dee West has been se­lected
by P.O.P. as their candi­date.
She is a senior in home eco­nomics
from Hartselle.
The election of "May Queen"
will be held under the supervision
of the Elections Committee of the
Student Executive Cabinet, head­ed
by Tom Roby, chairman.
According to the recent resolu­tion
passed by the Executive Cabi­net,
members of the Elections
Committee will supervise the vot-
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Complete Train and
Bus Schedules for
Came Announced
Bus schedule for those wishing
to attend the game in Montgom­ery
tomorrow are as follows:
Leave Auburn at 8:23 a.m., ar­rive
in Montgomery at 9:55 a.m.
Also, leave Auburn at 12:05 p.
m., arrive in Montgomery at 1:30
p.m. On the return trip, leave
Montgomery at 7:00 p.m. and ar­rive
in Auburn at 8:20 p.m. Also,
leave Montgomery at 12:30 a.m.
and arrive in Auburn at 2:05 a.m.
Train schedules are: Leave Au­burn
at 9:52 a.m., arrive in Mont­gomery
at 11:30 a.m. Also, leave
Auburn at 11:44 a.m., arrive in
Montgomery at 1:05 p.m. On the
return trip, leave Montgomery at
6:20 p.m., arrive in Auburn at
7:55 p.m.
Tigers Meet Villanova Tomorrow
AVMA Dance Will
Be Held Tonight
Auburn Plainsmen Will
Play for Annual Affair
Vet Hill swings out tonight at
nine o'clock when the annual Jun­ior
AVMA formal begins in
Graves Center Auditorium.
Leading the dance will be Mary
"Jerry" Creel, a senior in Home
Economics from Birmingham and
a member of Kappa Delta sorori­ty,
with Sylvan D. Haworth, presi­dent
of the Auburn chapter of the
junior AVMA, a member of OTS
from Okeene, Oklahoma.
As a courtesy to Ag Hill, the
AVMA has issued a blanket bid
to the Ag Club. During the even­ing,
besides the AVMA leadout,
there will be an Ag Club lead-out.
The junior AVMA, a'subsidiary
of the American Veterinary Medi­cal
Association, has 202 members
in the Auburn chapter. The chap­ter
includes outstanding students
enrolled in the College of Veter­inary
Medicine and has the repu­tation
of being one of the most
active chapters in the country.
Besides S. D. Haworth, presi­dent,
the officers of the associa­tion
are T. E. Brown, Spartan­burg,
South Carolina, vice-presi­dent;
G. C. Thornton, Three
Notch, Alabama,' secretary; and
M. L. Crawford, treasurer. Dr. M.
O. Robinson, professor of bacter-ology,
is faculty adviser to the
association.
Music this evening will be sup­plied
by the Auburn Plainsmen.
Woman Dean Talks
To Auburn Coeds at
Thursday Meeting
In her address "A Challenge to
You Today," before the women
students yesterday morning at
convocation at the Auburn Meth-odisf
Church, Dean Sarah G.
Blanding of the University of
Kentucky compared the life of the
young college woman to that of
a juggler juggling seven balls at
once.
"The seven balls of the young
college woman may be named
scholarship, extra curricular ac­tivities,
love life, health, profess­ional
training, citizenship, and
philosophy of life," said Dean
Blanding.
She laid particular emphasis on
the last three topics listed, telling
of the advancement of women in
professional life since the World
War and the ultimate fate of
women today in the totalitarian
nations.
Art Slide-Lecture
To Be Given Sunday
A series of graphic slides il­lustrating
progress made in the
construction of the Washington
Cathedral will be shown by Prof.
Sidney Little at the parish house
of the Episcopal church, Sunday
night at 6:30.
The slides, which were brought
to Auburn for use in the school
of architecture, are accompanied
by lecture notes which tell the
story of the building of the cathe-deral
which is still in the construc­tion
stage.
Game Will Be Played
In Montgomery Bowl
Kickoff to Be at 2 O'Clock; Wildcats
Will Present Great Show for Spectators
Those Rambling Tigers pause near home for their
final game of the 1940 season when they tackle the Wild­cats
of Villanova in an intersectional tilt at Cramton Bowl
in Montgomery tomorrow. The gamg will begin at 2 o'clock.
A crowd of around 15,000 is expected to attend the classic.
Villanova is probably the nation's most interesting
team from the spectator's standpoint. The backfield shift
is as graceful as a ballet, all arms outstretched at a hori­zontal
angle.
Mammoth Parade, Pep
Rally Will Be Meld
Montgomery Is Scene of Last Engagement
For Plainsmen; Parade to Begin at 11:30
Since early this morning, "War Eagles" have resound­ed
from the Montgomery "catch-off" corner as Auburn
students, upholding that traditional Great Auburn Spir­it,
start enmasse for the Capitol City, where they will see
the curtain ring down on the last act of their Alma Mater's
tough 1940 football schedule when the Tigers tangle with
the Villanova Wildcats tomorrow afternoon in Cramton
Bowl.
Dance Club Will Give
Program in Langdon
Wednesday Night
The Auburn Dance Club has
made final plans for the Christ­mas
program to be held Wednes­day,
December 11, in Langdon
Hall at 7:30 p.m. The program
will consist of Christmas Carols,
and old and new dance numbers.
Mrs. Louise Kreher Forte is di­recting
the program.
The program will be composed
of the following n u m b e r s :
"Ghosts," a modern dance; "Joy
to the World;" "We Three Kings
of Orient Are"; "Bring a Torch;"
"Here We Come A-Wassailing;"
"Twelve Days of Christmas;"
"Deck the Halls with Boughs of
Holly;" "O Come All Ye Faith­ful;"
and "Good King Wencelas,"
a new number.
Dancers who have parts in the
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'A Greater Auburn'—TheStory of
Our Five- Year Impovement Plan
Plainsman Writer
Gives Exclusive
Account of Plan
By REDDING SUGG
Russia's five-year plans and H.
G. Wells' worlds of the future
have nothing on Auburn, which
has begun a period of develop­ment
surpassing in magnitude and
beauty even the recently com­pleted
million-and-a-half - dollar
expansion program.
Plans prepared by Director Sam
F. Brewster of the Department of
Buildings and Grounds predict a
radical and comprehensive job of
face-lifting for Auburn's homely,
wild, untended campus. Within
the next five years, if the plans
are carried out on schedule, Au­burn
will have changed into a
more efficient and formalized
place of park-like elegance.
Completed Work Not Spectacular
"I am having to undo some of
the mistakes of many years of
This is the first of a series
of four exclusive articles on
the plans for a "Greater Au­burn."
The information has
been released through the cour­tesy
of Mr. Sam Brewster,
superintendent of buildings and
grounds. The next article of
this series will be carried in
next Tuesday's issue of the
Plainsman.
unrelated planning," points out
Mr. Brewster, "and people who
are impatient for spectacular re­sults
should realize that much
time must be spent in repairing
the old before building the new."
Recent work done has been
largely a matter of renovations,
remodelings, and excavations. The
basement and part of the first
floor of Samford Hall have been
remodeled to house various ad­ministrative
offices. Half the
money spent in Samford has gone
into rewiring the building, which
had long been in danger of fire
from faulty and inadequate elec­trical
facilities.
Many aged floors in the older
buildings have been sanded and
refinished. Floors in the new
buildings are being properly main­tained.
Leaks are being repaired,
paint is being applied, and a gen­eral
bolstering and propping is
being done.
Somewhat more eye-filling have
been the vast excavations on Vet
Hill, where digging will be in
progress for several months to
come before preliminary land­scaping
is finished.
Landscaping of Mell and Thach
Work has begun on the laying
of sidewalks on both sides of Mell
Street from the library to the
Animal Husbandry Building. The
plans call for eight-foot asphalt
walks and eight-foot planting
strips between the walks and the
street. Asphalt has been selected
for the walks because it is not so
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Don't let the toe
dance fool you though, as every­thing
that follows is strictly busi­ness.
Last year the Cats fooled
everybody by shooting the first
series of plays from no huddle,
going for 12 yards on the first
scrimmage.
Aside from the definite absence
of Deal, Chalkley, McMahan, and
possibly LeNoir, Auburn will be
in its best condition since the
Tech game. With the recovery of
Ty Irby the backfield will re­sume
its regular order—McGowen
at left half, Wendling at right
half, Cheatham at quarter, and
Irby at full.
Most encouraging factor of last
week's win over Florida was the
improved pass defense which held
the Gators to but four comple­tions
all afternoon. With a passer
like Nick Basca loose for Villa­nova,
the secondary lines may
well prove a determining factor.
Only change in the line will fea-t
u r e Francis Crimmins, 195-
pound junior, starting at right
tackle in place of Jim McClurkin.
Probable Lineups:
Auburn
Cremer
Bulger
Mills
Williams
Ardillo
Crimmins
Samford
Cheatham
McGowen (c)
Wendling
Irby
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Quad Hostess to
Resign Position
Mrs. L. Y. Dean Takes
New Position at Emory
Mrs. L. Y. Dean has resigned
her position as hostess and house
manager for the Women's Quad­rangle
here, effective Jan. 1., to
accept a position as house mother
for the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra­ternity
at Emory University in
Atlanta, Ga.
"It is with great regret that
Mrs. Dean is leaving Auburn,"
commented Dr. Rosa Lee Walston,
Dean of Women.
Before accepting the duties as
hostess and house manager for
the Quadrangle, Mrs. Dean had
served two and one-half years as
housemother for the Auburn chap­ter
of Theta Chi. She came here
from Eufaula. .
Mrs. Dean's successor will be
Mrs. J. O. Cosper, of Birmingham,
who has had wide experience in
working with young women.
A graduate of Florence State
Teachers College, Mrs. Cosper is
the wife of the late Jesse O. Cos­per
who attended Auburn from
1902 to 1904. Mrs. Cosper has for
many years been active in civic
and club affairs in Birmingham
and has served as camp counselor
for girls for the past several sum­mers.
She will come to Auburn
on February 1 to assume her new
duties as hostess and house man­ager
for the Women's Quadrangle.
Glomerata Snapshots
The Glomerata Office requests
that all students who possess snap­shots
of scenes in the ROTC camp
at Fort Benning, Ga., this past
summer, and who wish for these
to be carried in this year's an­nual,
to please bring them to the
Glomerata Office in the Plant
Service Building by next Wednes­day
at noon.
The corner will be crowded un­til
late this evening, and t he
dawn of another day tomorrow
morning will find a new crowd of
early risers. Other students tak­ing
part in this mass migration
are using every available means of
transportation, motor-car, bus,
train, and airplane.
Boots Stratford, Pep Manager,
announced this morning that a
parade will be held tomorrow
morning through the main streets
of Montgomery. The parade will
be led by the Auburn Band and
headed by Chick Hatcher and his
five cheerleaders. Starting at
11:30 a.m. at the Union Station,
the mammoth parade will continue
up Commerce Street to Court
Square where a pep rally will be
held.
Tickets to what promises to be
one of the most exciting games
of the season judging from Au­burn's
10-9 victory last year in
Birmingham, were on sale at the
field house Wednesday through
Thursday. Student tickets will be
sold at the game for the price of
fifty-five cents and coupon num­ber
seven. Guest tickets will sell
for $2.25.
All Auburn students and sup­porters
who will have cars in the
capitol city at that hour are re­quested
to have their cars, jalopys
and other modes of travel at the
station to participate in the pa­rade.
Tickets for Game
Students tickets for the Villa­nova
game will be sold at the sta­dium,
Cramton Bowl, Saturday.
Ticket windows open at 12:00
noon and tickets will be 55c and
coupon number seven. Guest tic­kets
are $2.50 each.
Plainsman Meeting
There will be a brief meeting
of both the editorial and business
staffs of the Plainsman Monday
night at 6:30 at the Plainsman
Office. Pictures for the Glomerata
will be made at this time.
Musical Pageant
To Be Presented
By Presbyterians
Christmas Program Will
Be Given Sunday Night
At Presbyterian Church
Sunday night the Presbyterian
Student Association, Young Peo­ple
and the Choir will present a
Christmas Musical Pageant at 7:30
in the Presbyterian Church.
This pageant will feature the
choir under the direction of
Mrs. R. D. Doner. The choir will
sing the old familiar Christmas
Carols and such beautiful hymns
as "The Holy Night," "Cherubim
Song," "Hark, Hark My Soul,"
and "The Lord Is My Shepherd."
The soloist will be: Mr. Dressier
on the flute, Mrs. R. D. Doner,
Mrs. Nelson Grubbs, Mr. J. T.
Fain, Sgt. George Moxham, Mr.
Hugh Francis, Mrs. Rose Hard
who is coming from Roanoke to
sing that night, Miss Melba Stone.
Other members of the choir
will be: Mrs. Woolf, Miss Kathryn
Blake, Miss Ann Tamblyn, Miss
Anna Powers, Miss Eleanor Scott,
Miss Elizabeth Roberts, Miss
Ernestine Lloyd, Mrs. Eva Coch­ran,
Mrs. J. E. Pitts, Mr. Ed Hend­erson,
Mr. H. W. Baker, Mrs. E.
P. Smith, Mr. Allen Clapp, Mr.
Fred Schultz, and Mr. Henry J.
Jones.
The pageant starts with the
prophecy of Christ, continues
through the birth of Christ and
his ministry. It features the Christ­mas
Story and is acted out in
pantomine. Those participating
are: Lane Thigpen, Carl Hicks,
Burney Hay, Nell Gilchrist, Archie
Harkins, Ara Nigosion, Paul Mul-ler,
Wordon Weaver, Sam Mur­phy,
Morgan Bunch, Willard Dahl-berg,
and Bill Mullins.
Squires' Drive Gets
Started; Owl Show to
Be Held Next Friday
The drive by Squires, sopho­more
honor society, for the pur­chase
of an ambulance for Great
Britain, is rapidly gaining mo­mentum.
Beginning with an owl show
Friday night, December 13, of all
the Auburn football games played
during the 1940 season, the drive
really gets under way. The fol­lowing
day, between the halves of
the SPE-A11 Star game, to be held
in the Auburn Stadium, the hold­er
of the lucky number in the
drawing will be given a round
trip ticket to the Sugar Bowl game
in New Orleans on New Year's
day, or the cash equivalent.
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SPE's Cop Fraternity Football
Crown by Defeating ATO's, 12-6
Davis Addresses Ag
Clubbers Wednesday
Mr. P. O. Davis, director of the
Alabama Extension Service, ad­dressed
the Agriculture Club at
its regular meeting last Wednes­day
night in Duncan Auditorium.
Mr. Davis traced the develop­ment
of farming in this country
and gave facts showing the in­creased
efficiency of farming. He
told of the leaders that the farm
has produced and stated that 17
of our 31 presidents were reared
on the farm.
Mr. Davis stressed the value of
the study of the social sciences and
briefly explained the nature of ex­tension
work.
Championship Game
Played on Opelika
Field Last Night
By J. O. BRYAN
Sigma Phi Epsilon won the in-terf
raternity touch f o o t b a ll
championship Wednesday night by
defeating the Alpha Tau Omega's
12 to 6 at Moore Field, Opelika.
The SPE's had tied the ATO's
twice, 0-0 in each case, and won
the last tie game in an overtime
period by gaining more yardage
than the ATO's in four tries by
each team.
The SPE touchdowns Wednes­day
night were made in the sec­ond
and fourth quarters, the ATO
tally coming in the fourth quart­er.
Stars of the game were: for the
ATO's, Left Halfback G e o r ge
Carter, Quarterback Jimmy Mc-
Cauley, Right Half Charles Scott,
and Ends Eddie Taylor and Nick
Kieffer; for the SPE's, Right
Half Rains, Left Half Ted Wright,
Right End Bud Reid, Left End
Curlee, and Center James Hard-wick.
The Alpha Tau's crossed the
goal line twice, one touchdown
made on a pass in the third quar­ter
from Carter to Scott, which
was called back because there
were six men in the ATO back-field
on the play.
At the opening whistle, Carter
of ATO received the ball on his
own 18 yard line and returned to
the ATO 35. After three passes,
Carter punted to the SPE 10,
Wright was downed after a one-yard
return. The SPE's completed
three passes for a total of 19
yards. Other attempts netted no
gain, and Wright kicked to the
ATO 7. Carter quick-kicked on
first down for 31 yards. McCauley
intercepted the third SPE pass on
his own 6. Carter kicked again on
first down, for 49 yards, to the
SPE 45. After two SPE passes
the quarter ended, ATO 0, SPE 0.
SPE took the ball on the ATO
42 as the quarter began. SPE
passes took the ball to the ATO
11, where Wright passed to Rains
for a touchdown. The try for the
point was blocked by Cook, ATO
guard. This was the first time the
Alpha Tau Omega goal line had
been crossed in two seasons. Score,
SPE, 6; ATO 0.
ATO took the kickoff on their
own 17 and returned to the 29.
Two passes gained four yards, and
Carter quick-kicked for 42 yards.
SPE lost yardage on running
plays, and the half ended.
ATO received the kickoff on
their own 17, returned to the 29.
SPE intercepted the third ATO
pass, but ATO regained the ball
when Brinson intercepted their
own third pass. Carter passed 16
yards for a first down. Carter
started around end, but passed 35
yards to Scott, who galloped 35
more for a touchdown. It was
called back. ATO passed again,
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Page Two T H E P L A I N S M AN December 6, 1940
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New Plainsman Features
Beginning in this issue we proudly
present the first in a series of feature
articles on two interesting subjects. The
contents of both bear some of the most
interesting information we have read in
some time.
The first of these two continued fea­ture
articles concerns the program of
planning and building of a "Greater Au­burn."
The complete and detailed plans
of this vast program will be published
exclusively in your newspaper. This
series will run for four or possibly five
issues. The first article is on the front
page of today's issue.
The second of these articles concerns
the history of football at Auburn as a
major sport, and the part that Auburn
has played in making college football
the major sport that it is in the South
today. From the very beginning of foot­ball
in the South, Auburn has played an
important part, from Coach Petrie to
Coach Meagher. We take pleasure in
presenting this series of articles, even
though the football season is closing.
The first of these articles may be found
on page 5 in today's issue.
These two series articles are being
written by two of our most able staff
members. The feature of "Greater Au­burn"
is being written by Redding Sugg,
the series of articles on "Football" is
being related by Willard Hayes. We
hope you enjoy these two new exclusive
features.
Letter to the Editor
Just a word before closing on the sub­ject
of "letters to the editor". The Plains­man
Forum on the editorial page of this
newspaper, is the voice of the students
and other readers of the Plainsman. We
welcome any letters from our readers.
And we reserve the privilege of editing
letters of more than 300 words. But we
want to caution those who wish to write
these letters. We want to beg of you
that you ascertain all the facts contain­ed
in your letters. A few times this year,
we have been somewhat embarrassed
because of the fact that letters written
to the editor and carried in this paper
did not contain well-founded facts.
It is also necessary that those writing
letters sign their names. If you wish for
your name to be withheld, we shall do
so. But we must know the name of the
author for our own purposes. We shall
not divulge the name of any person writ­ing
us a letter if this letter is printed in
the paper. We resume responsibility for
this missle when it appears in print on
these pages.
Thirteen days until Christmas holi­days.
Isn't that a lovely thought?
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"Mush Mouth" is the latest name at­tributed
by the Advertiser in referring
to Mussolini.
Across the Waters—
British Will Win War
A United States Army Air Corps chief­tain
said this week, after a 43-day sur­vey
in England, that he was very much
pleased and optimistic about the out­come
of the war, from the British point
of yiew. He said that at the rate the
British were going in fighting and pre­paring,
they would not lose the war.
However, although he believed that the
British would not lose the war, he
would not say whether or not they would
win the war, as "that is another ques­tion."
The news does our hearts good. We
have firmly believed that as long as
Churchill had hope, we might not be­come
uneasy about the war situation.
Herr Hitler has at last met his equal.
Whether or not the British will prove
to be his superior in the winning of the
war, will remain to be seen. But the
British, although losing heavily in the
air warfare, have not lost as heavily as
the Nazis, and the British are continu­ing
to produce more and more airplanes,
with aid from the United States. At the
present time, the English have more air­planes
than when the war began.
Of course there is the gloomy side.
The Germans have been defeating the
English on the sea. Many convoys of the
British have been sunk. But the British
will soon show their evident superiority
in this field of the war. The stubborn
British will soon show that they are still
"rulers of the sea," at least on that side
of the Atlantic.
Christmas Day Truce
Pope Pius has issued a plea from the
Vatican to the warring nations to refrain
from fighting on Christmas Day. The
holy priest wants his followers to wor­ship
in peace on that sacred day. And
the answers received from the belliger­ent
nations are rather interesting. Ger­mans
say that they have "always" been
ready to cease fighting on Christmas
Day, and will be willing to do so again.
The Italians have not expressed their
opinion, but it is felt that they will fol­low
suit with the Nazis, if the British
will declare a truce for that one day.
But the amazing British! Churchill
has issued a statement to the effect that
the English people will not consider a
reprieve from fighting on that day. Some
people may call the British "heartless"
and "unreverent" because of this fact.
But we see no cause for any such state­ments.
War is war, and always will be.
War is no respector of persons or na­tions.
War is cruel and inhuman. War
is Hell. War is the greatest evil the
world has ever known. And thus we
agree with Churchill and the British in
saying that there is no need of ceasing
the struggle for just Christmas Day.
If it was a simple matter of being
Christian people, that would cause a dif­ferent
situation. This is because the Brit­ish
are much more Christian than the
Germans will ever be. The Germans
have forsaken God, then why should
they have any respect for Christmas
Day? To us it just seems like another
form of German propaganda. The Nazis,
by expressing their desire to cease fight­ing
on this sacred day, may fool some
people into thinking that they are God­fearing
people. But any intelligent per­son
can see through this fact. If such a
truce were declared for that day, the
Nazis would probably begin fighting
again one second after midnight on that
day, if they ceased fighting at all.
The Nazis are an inhumane lot of
barbarians. What decent thinking and
intelligent person would believe any­thing
they say? And why should the
British stop fighting on that day? Go
ahead and fight, you nations across the
waters, fight till all of your flower
of manhood has perished, fight until
your civilization has been completely
demolished, fight until doomsday if you
want to — but keep the fighting over
there, we want no part of it!
The Alabama Journal says that those
baby girls named for Willkie will have
a tough time 40 years from now con­vincing
folks that they are only 29.
Ain't it the truth!
* * *
Pretty soon it will be Christmas, and
then will come first semester exams, and
after that will be Spring Holidays, and
then will come second semester exams,
and then we'll receive our diploma —
we hope.
CAMPUS CAMERA
PI ains Talk
By HERBERT MARTIN
IS THE NAME
OFA
WILUSTON.N.D.
RESIDENT/
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.
A sensitive mind is often wound­ed
by our scholastic system of
grades. A callous mind^is left cal­lous
by it. The average mind, which
supposedly it fits, does not exist.
The system is too ambitious and
bold, for it dares to measure hu­man
mental abilities not generally
but down to tenths of a percent.
* * *
Where a system of numerical
grades is used (or where alpha­betical
grades are used, since the
letters represent numbers) the ob­ject
of learning is too often a cer­tain
figure, which, be it 70 or 90,
is still largely a mirage. The fig­ure,
of course, has some meaning:
it shows the average of other fig­ures.
However these other figures
have been arbitrarily set when
various answers to different ques­tions
were valued with points in
set amounts. Even the questions
cannot have been absolutely ex­haustive.
The final grade for any
course, then, is basically arbitrary
and rarely is a true representation
of what the owner has put into or
gotten out of the course.
* * *
It may be argued that an ar­bitrary
basis for grades is ac­ceptable
because everybody recog­nizes
it. In theory, everybody does
take the arbitrary nature of grades
into consideration; but in practice,
a 100 means somebody's brilliant
and a zero means somebody's stu­pid.
Between these extremes is a
vast amount of room for heart­break
and inferiority complexes
and superiority complexes. A 70
on your report card tends to im­ply
that you, and not what you
have done in school, are rated
mediocre.
* * *
The two-mai-k system, consist­ing
of P and F for pass and fail,
would seem to offer the best
change. These widely separated
boundaries are close enough, are
minute enough, for any human
measurement of human minds and
abilities.
* * *
There is a beautifully bound
book in the library called "Land
Below the Wind," by Agnes Keith.
It is about Borneo, and that in
itself was enough to whip up an
armchair - adventurer's interest.
Part of the book reminds me of
Margaret Halsey, who gave Ameri­ca
a slapstick picture of the Eng­lish.
Part of it gets soulful—and
I do mean mushy—about the flora
and fauna of North Borneo, which
are things to get soulful about.
The animal stories are equal to and
more varied than those of Albert
Payson Terhune. There are tales
of head-hunters to make it gory,
and a flavoring of Richard Halli­burton
to sugarcoat it. Treks in
the jungle, jaunts on the Sulu Sea,
life in Sandankan, fun with the
natives—why, it's almost good
enough to drag the adventurer
from his armchair.
* * *
Most embarrassing radio an­nouncement:
"Sal Hepatica pre­sents
the world in review."
* * *
There is a black, reptilian demon
in my typewriter which is pale at
one end and moth-eaten at the
other. The ignorant think it is
merely a typewriter ribbon, but I
know it is an envoy of Satan come
to haunt me for my sins. I dare not
take it out because it requires days
to tame a new one into submission,
during which I pendulum from
impotent despair to equally im­potent
rage. The Christmas holi­days
are going to provide time for
a bout between me and my new
ribbon. Meanwhile, the typesetter
will have to use his imagination—
who knows? he may be using it
now—in preparing this for you to
read.
* * »
Talking with Mr. Sam Brewster,
director of Buildings and Grounds,
I am dazzled by the immense plans
for developing the campus. I have
prepared feature stories about it
for other pages of the paper so
you can be dazzled too. Auburn will
soon have abandoned her rural, in­formal
character for the more ele­gant
vistas of parkways and geo­metrical
systems of paved walks
and drives.
* * *
Alcoholism would not be quite
so objectionable if all alcoholics
were as funny as one I amused at
the Florida game last Saturday.
He was reduced to slow motion. He
planted his feet as if they were
explosives, he smiled by degrees
and frowned likewise, the result
being that his expression never
matched his mood, and he turned
his head like a stiff-collared deacon.
* * *
Probably it is unseemly to ap­prove
of alcoholism in any form.
Those pathetic pictures of the hol­low-
chested boy, burdened with an
iron ball of alcohol, trying to run
a race have impressed me since
earliest school days. But the world
has gotten into such a dreary, mis­erable
state that I am ready to
advocate anything which causes
laughter.
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed
in this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the ed­itorial
policies of this paper.
We've just been to hear Bohumir
Krly, the "world's greatest living
cornetist", and we still haven't. He
not only did not blow a note . . .
he didn't even tote plumbing.
* * *
Perhaps we misunderstood some
of the advance billing, and the
cornet acclaim was in reference to
another Kryl. Or, perhaps, he's
getting a bit aged for the work in­volved
in blowing a cornet. Of
course, he may be retired from ac­tive
brass work for another rea­son
. . . he could be leaving an
opening for ambitious young cor-netists.
* * *
Now he could have forgotten his
horn. He may have dropped play­ing
the horns at concerts, or he
may have chapped lips. There's a
bare possibility that the billing had
typographical errors, and intended
to say that he had the "world's
greatest living coiffure".
* * »
He wore his hair in a semi-page
boy bob, the semi referring to the
fact that his hair begins at the
ears.
* * *
But we don't want to give the
wrong impression. We think that
he had the most engaging podium
personality and general appearance
we've ever seen in a conductor,
with the possible exception of a
Pullman conductor on the Central
of Georgia RR. He looked like the
kind of man all of his musicians
would like, and he gave the im­pression
of having a world of
knowledge about his field, which
he no doubt has.
* * *
We don't mean to be making
light of the performance. We really
enjoyed it a lot, but nobody likes
to read nice things about anybody
else. It's always easier to make
exceptions when you're on the spot.
Our fur-lined pewter syrup
pitcher for bandstand versatility
goes to the young oboe artiste. Be­sides
playing a rather handsome
oboe, he showed quite some mechan­ical
ability by taking his instru­ment
apart in the middle of a
number, cleaning it and making
minor repairs, and reconstructing
it in time for his final chorus.
* * *
It may be because we just don't
get around, but Tuesday night was
the first time we ever saw a long­hair
bass violinist (the kind that
uses a bow) double on snare drums.
* * *
And speaking of hair, these were
obviously excellent musicians, as it
was apparent that any lad with
ambition and a pair of sheep-shears
could have hit jack-pot.
* * *
Gesture of international good­will
. . . the tympani used by the
Kryl percussionist were borrowed
from the Auburn Band, as the or­chestra
drums did not arrive on
schedule.
* * *
We think the performance was
fine symphony work, in a mild sort
of way. We don't claim to be any.
judge, but a little power and vol­ume
are soothingly welcome to our
savage ear. If you like violins,
you'd have loved these boys.
* * *
And he still didn't play that ole
bent-up cornet.
* * *
The Glee Club is facing an un­usual
problem. Faced some years
ago with the handicap of no funds
and little prospect of any, the Glee
Club had more members than it
really needed. Now the situation
is reversed. The organization has
piled up some money which can be
used in almost any way the mem­bers
see fit.
They have the money to take sev­eral
lengthy trips, and the itiner­ary
will not be bound by cost.
But . . . they don't have enoughs
members to feel that they can take
a representative group anywhere.
* * *
Money to burn, and still they
yearn for more members, especially
tenors of any variety. A knowledge
of music, though helpful, is not
essential. While strong, powerful
voices are welcome, there are places
for some with not exceptionally
fine voices, but with the ability to
tote a tune.
* * *
Pleasure trips are on the pro­gram,
and a tour will be arranged
as soon as prospects make it seem
worthwhile. The Glee Club has al­ready
been invited to appear in
Miami, and there are several other
attractive offers on file. It's not
too late to come out, but it is too
late to hide if you're a good tenor.
* * *
Karrie, the Kampus Konscience,
sayeth . . . "Get Glee Klub Kon-scious!
It's the biggest secret ser­vice
organization on the campus,
and a little help now might come
in mighty handy."
Parade of Opinion
By ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS
Can the battling Greeks, seem­ingly
repulsing the Fascist "in­vaders"
at every point, possibly
keep their standard aloft in the
weeks to come? America's youth,
as reflected in the collegiate press,
is watching the Greek-Italian con­flict
closely. And undergraduate
editorialists are voicing quiet hope
and many words of caution in their
discussions.
"The effect of the Greek resist­ance
on the morale of both the
democracies and the totalitarian
countries will probably be inestim­able,"
says the Wisconsin Daily
Cardinal. "It will certainly hearten
the British and the 'Free French­men'
as well as the subversive
groups within the boundaries of
Germany and Italy. It means a
tremendous loss of prestige to Italy
and to Mussolini, who apparently
thought he could march down to
the Peleponnese with no more
trouble than he encountered in Al­bania.
To the German people it
demonstrates that the might of the
bully nations isn't invincible. The
Achaeans of 1940—the lineal de­scendants
of the defenders of Ther­mopylae,
of Marathon, of Salamis,
may once again save the West for
civilization."
In This Collegiate World
MADISON, WIS. — (ACP) —
The famous college song, "On Wis­consin"
was originally written for
the University of Minnesota.
Hard-pressed for money, William
T. Purdy composed the tune to
compete for a $1,000 prize offered
by the University of Minnesota for
a new football song. When Carl
Beck of New York, a friend of
Purdy, heard it, he wrote the words
and persuaded Purdy to give it to
the University of Wisconsin in­stead.
Played for the first time on the
eve of the Wisconsin-Minnesota
game in 1909, "On Wisconsin" was
an immediate hit. Since then it
has been adapted, with changes of
w o r d s , by numerous colleges
throughout the United States.
When Purdy died in poverty in
19 1 8 , Wisconsin Alumni and
friends gave $2,500 to his family.
Later the state provided scholar­ships
at the University for the
composer's two children.
AMHERST, MASS. — (ACP)
— The average freshman this year
is younger, lighter and shoi'ter
than the average member of the
class of '43, according to studies
by Prof. Allison Marsh.
This year's average is 18.31
(Continued on page 3)
At Syracuse, the Daily Orange^
declares that "with Britain's recent
material admission of extended aid
to struggling Greece, the world
wonders no longer about the valid­ity
of John Bull's promise of as­sistance
to the staunch Balkan
country's resistance to the yet un­proved
legions of Mussolini. With
the failure of the Fascist military
machine to crush the comparative­ly
weak Greek forces, it is no won­der
that the latter country is being
termed the 'Finland of the Bal­kans.'
Eventually the Italians will
probably subdue the Greeks, but
the surprising opposition that they
are encountering has amazed the
world."
That the expected Greek collapse
isn't likely to materialize, at least
for the present is the belief of the
Cornell Daily Sun. "Like the Finns
who last winter gave Russia a
tussle, the Greeks are trading blow
for blow with their Fascist invad­ers,
and giving a good account of
themselves," observes the Sun.
"Still, we have learned not to ex­pect
too much from these little
countries when pitted against the
Axis blitzkrieg machine. Even al­lowing
that the Greeks are fighting
the weaker part of 'World Wreck­ers,
Inc.,' still Adolph looms in the
background, and if things get bad
for his bully comrade, he will no
doubt plunge in to make sure the
fight is fair."
Readers of The Dartmouth are
cautioned against the "too rosy"
outlook. "We're glad to hear frora*
Athens," says the Dartmouth,
"that the Italians appear to be
driven back into Albania. We're
glad to read of the exploits of the
picturesque Greek evzones. But we
don't like this talk about the
'Greeks driving the macaroni-men
back into the sea with cold steel.'
(Continued on page 5)
t
December 6, 1940 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
ODK Cake Race Will Be Run Next Wednesday
Record Holder
John C. Ball, above, is the record holder for the annual ODK
Freshman Cake Race, which is to be run this year on next Wednes­day
over a 2.7 mile course. Ball set the new record last year, eclips­ing
the former record by almost one minute.
All ROTC Freshmen
Must Run in Event
Winner Will Receive Many Prizes; Classic
To Be Dedicated to Coach Wilbur Hutsell
By GEORGE HEARD
Next Wednesday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock p.m. all
physically fit freshmen will assemble on Bullard Field
for roll call preparatory to the running of the annual ODK
Cake Race. The freshmen will then be marched to Drake
Field, where, at the sound of the gun, they will begin the
2.7 mile course of the Cake Race. The same course that
has been used in previous races will be used this time.
The Cake Race was first inaugurated in 1929 by the
Omega Chapter of the national
honor society, Omicron Delta Kap­pa,
and has since become one of
our most famous traditions. The
members of ODK realized that
some system was needed to make
the freshmen keep as physically
fit as possible and to keep them
out of as much trouble-making
and rowdyness as was possible.
Consequently, the idea of an an­nual
cake race for freshmen was
hit upon. A prize of a large cake
was offered the winner and a kiss
from the prettiest co-ed enrolled
at API.
Wide publicity was given the
race in 1930 when ODK was un-
Jan Savitt, Playing for Mid- Terms,
Is Descendant of Imperial Family
Top-Hatters' Have Gained Wide Attention
During Past Three Years on Radio Network
By JIMMY GILBERT
This year's Junior Jook will fea­t
u r e that man with the fiddle, Jan
Savitt and his Top Hatters. This
is probably the best band to ap­pear
here since the Soph Hops
of 1939, when Russ Morgan held
forth.
Savitt and his eight-beat-to-the-bar-
rhythm, more c o m m o n ly
known as "shuffle rhythm" have
just wound up a Homecoming en­gagement
at the University of
Georgia, where, according to all
reports, they wowed the students
and other attending Georgians
alike. In the words of one Geor­gia
coed (via l e t t e r ) , we quote:
"He really is wonderful . . . rhy­thm
simply marvelous, and these
a i n ' t my sentiments alone. The
boss fiddler is a honey, and the
trumpet player caught quite a bit
of attention."
The only criticism that the U.
of Ga. students seemed to have is
that the band didn't have enough
variety in their program. They
played the same numbers over and
ovver.
J a n Savitt is a native of Rus­sia,
and his parents were of the
imperial family of Russia in the
days of the Czar. The Savitts emi­grated
to the United States when
l i t t le Jan was only eighteen
months old. They settled in Phil­adelphia,
where Jan began his
musical career at the age of four.
This musical start for the Sav­i
t t prodigy came with a toy violin.
He soon graduated to a real in­strument,
and by the time he had
reached the age of fifteen, Jan
was in the Philadelphia Symphony
class. Leopold Stokowski offered
the lad a position with the Phil­adelphia
Symphony Orchestra, and
at the age of 16, Jan made his
first appearance with the unit as
a violinist.
Seven years later, the 23 year
old Mr. Savitt left the orchestra
to work with station WCAU in
Philadelphia, but he soon trans­ferred
his talents to KYW of the
same city. It was here that Jan
met his now great "Top Hatters."
Up to this time, Jan's musical
talents were all directed toward
the classics. With his change to
the KYW staff, he fell heir to a
staff dance band that seemed to
be basically good, but definitely
commonplace. The Mr. Savitt,
putting his talents to swing, re-styled
the orchestra, and built an
entirely new set of arrangements
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around a shuffle rhythm style
that caught on immediately. The
name "Top Hatters", was derived
from their theme "Top Hat, White
Tie, and Tails."
Until three years ago, the Top
Hatters played their beat-me-daddy"
rhythm in the studios of
said KYW. They made network
broadcasts from time to time, but
they were a strictly staff band.
Through constant h a m m e r i n g
from his superiors, Jan finally
started on a road tour that vir­tually
made the band. He wound
up in the Hotel Lincoln in New
York, where he broke the attend-ence
record set by Artie Shaw,
who had just preceded him.
The Savitt aggregation fea­t
u r e s Allen DeWitt as vocalist.
According to a University of Ga.
freshman, "He brought the wom­en
arunning. He was tall, dark,
and plenty smooth." DeWitt has
one of the finest ballad voices in
t h e present crop of singers. Bon
Bon, one time hep-hep lad for
der the leadership of Dr. Charles
Davis, now a professor in the His­t
o ry Department at Auburn. In­creasing
publicity has been given
the race each year. This year pho­tographers
from several leading
magazines in the country were in­vited
to take pictures of the
event. None of the magazines ac­cepted
the offer, but, "Look"
magazine agreed to print the pic­tures
if they were sent to them.
Staff photographers of the Plains­man,
Lewis Arnold, Leroy Spear­man,
and Julian Braswell, will
take the pictures.
This year the Cake Race is to
be dedicated to Coach and Train­er
Wilbur Hutsell, because "of
his many years of unequalled serv­ice
to Auburn as a track-coach
and t r a i n e r of our athletic teams."
"The Dean of Southern Track
Coaches" has been at Auburn for
19 years and has gained for him­self
an enviable record of training
and caring for "his boys." His of­ficial
"catalog" title is Professor
of Physical Education and Track
Coach. Because of his 19 years of
invaluable service to Auburn the
ODK Cake Race will be known in
future years as the Wilbur Hut­sell
Cake Race.
The winner of the Cake Race is
indeed "king for a day." He will
receive his numeral sweater, a
large cake, a month's free pass to
the Tiger Theatre and a kiss from
Miss Auburn of 1940-41. The next
twenty - four freshmen to go
through the gate will each receive
a cake of somewhat smaller de-minsions
than the winner, but
never-the-less a winner's cake,
and a pass to the Tiger Theatre.
The fraternity having the first
the Savitt band is now with Tony
Pasteur's orchestra. Bon Bon's
most famous recorded vocal for
Savitt was "720 In the Books", a
piece written especially for Jan
(Continued on page 6)
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Training for the Grind
Look at the freshmen getting in training for that arduous 2.7 mile Cake Race course. The race
will be held next Wednesday afternoon, beginning at 3:30 from the varsity baseball diamond. The
winner will receive a large cake, a numeral sweater, a month's pass to the Tiger Theatre, and a kiss
from Miss Auburn for 1941. Get going, you rats.
four men to finish the race will
receive a loving cup presented by
ODK.
Last year John C. Ball, an
Alpha Tau Omega pledge enrolled
in mechanical engineering, won
the 2.7 mile trek and also set a
new all time record for the
course. Ball ran the course in
14:05.6, b e t t e r i n g Herbert Drake's
1937 record by 50 seconds. The
ATO fraternity also won the fra­ternity
cup, with men finishing
first, eleventh, twentieth, and
forty-second in the race.
This Collegiate World
(Continued from page 2)
years old, as compared with 18.38;
he weighs 147, a drop of four
pounds; and his height is 69.8
inches, as against 70.01. One man
out of five in both classes is six
feet tall.
The drop in height and weight
is a reversal of trend, Professor
Marsh points out, for "compared
with bygone averages the present
student is on the whole heavier,
taller and younger than the giants
of yesteryear." Improved environ­ment,
more medical care and more
extensive physical education pro­grams
in high schools are factors
in changing youth's features, he
points out.
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Page Four THE P L A I N S M AN December 6, 1940
Ten Tigers Close Football Careers Tomorrow
Last Game for These Tigers
WALLACE WISE JIM LeNOIR
Bette Davis Stars in 'The Letter',
Showing at Martin Theatre on Sunday
Herbert Marshall Cast
Opposite Miss Davis
That fascinating, tantalizing
and dangerous Bette Davis, is
back on the screen, following up
her recent dazzling success "All
This, And Heaven Too," with "The
Letter," W. Somerset Maugham's
greatest drama of a woman's j
heart. "The Letter" will have its
local premiere showing at the
Martin Theatre, on Sunday.
It is becoming axiomatic that
each of Bette Davis' performances
should top the one which preced­ed
it. It happened with "Dark
Victory," "The Old Maid," "All
This, And Heaven Too," and ac­cording
to all advance reports,
she rides to even greater glory in
her newest vehicle, "The Letter."
"The Letter" tells a strange
story. It tells of a beloved and
sheltered woman who murders a
man, murders him in cold blood,
pumping his body full of bullets
until her husband's gun is empty.
Why did she do it? Well, she tells
her husband and her lawyer that
she did it to defend her honor.
But it seems there was a letter
. . . a letter in her handwriting
addressed to the murdered man,
and now in the possession of his
widow, an Eurasian woman. If
that letter were to show up in
court, there could be no other
verdict than "guilty." But down
in the Chinese quarter of Singa­pore,
there is a mysterious trans­action
under cover of night, and
on the day of the trial, there is no
sign of the letter.
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Villanova Contest
Is Finale for Year
Wide Open Battle in Prospect at Cramton
Bowl as Plainsmen Meet Spectacular Team
By JOHN PIERCE
Sports Editor
Nine seniors make their final appearance as part of an
Auburn football team tomorrow as the Tigers end their
1940 football travels at Cramton Bowl in Montgomery,
meeting the Wildcats of Villanova College in an inter-sectional
struggle.
Capt. Dick McGowen heads the list which includes
Alternate-Captain Ernie Mills, Gordon MacEachern, Abb
Chrietzburg, Carl Happer, Bud Wendling, Babe McGehee,
Wallace Wise, and Chester Bul-
Finale for These Four
ger.
Senior end Jim LeNoir is de­termined,
despite a painful knee
injury, to break in and throw one
last block for Auburn, but chances
of his being the tenth player to
finish seem doubtful. Buddy Mc-
Mahan gave his curtain perform­ance
last week at Columbus,
where a badly sprained knee end­ed
his pigskin career. He is the
eleventh senior on the squad, but
has one more year of football.
It's the fifth and payoff game
between the Tigers and Wildcats,
both teams having won and lost
a game while two were ties. Au­burn
was a 10-9 winner last year
at Birmingham's Legion Field.
The outfits involved tomorrow
have almost everything in com­mon.
Both are coached by former
Notre Dame greats, both use the
Notre Dame shift, Auburn weight
average is 185, Villanova's 183,
and both teams are as unpredict­able
as a forkload of spaghetti.
API's inconsistencies have been
These are the ingredients of
the drama. Bette Davis is the cen­tral
figure about which it revolves.
Herbert Marshall is the husband,
James Stephenson the lawyer who
sacrifices his deep personal integ­rity
to save the life of his friend's
wife. Gale Sondergaard is the Eu­rasian
woman. To tell more of the
story would lessen its tremendous
impact as it unfolds upon the
screen in all its dramatic intensi­ty.
pretty well covered, so let's jump
in and look over the Villanova
record. The teams of the past two
seasons for Clipper Smith have
been a shade or two less prosper­ous
than the undefeated editions
of '37 and '38, but the Wildcats
still pack a wallop that can spring
out of nowhere at any given place
or time. Witness the 28-0 slap­ping
around of Florida, a team
that has knocked over some of the
SEC's best. Aside from the Gator
win the Philadelphians have push­ed
aside Penn Military, 53-14,
Kansas, 33-7, and Manhattan, 13-
6. Temple came along after the
Villanova-Kansas game to thump
the Wildcats, 28-0, and fool the
experts; other losses have been to
Baylor, 0-7, Detroit, 0-10, and
Duquesne, 10-14.
Nick Basca is the Villanova
back who has given Auburn its
greatest worries in the games of
the past two years. He's back
again and is either better than
ever or some mighty biased news­paper
reporters have been cover­ing
the- Villanova games. They
say he's as good as O'Rourke. If
such is true he will be as wel­come
in Cramton Bowl as a time
bomb in the Christmas mail.
Taking up other craftsmen on
the Wildcat eleven — here is a
section of the Jordan-Hitchcock
scouting report, via Publicity Di­rector
Elmer Salter:
"Left side of line, End Stanley
Stress, Tackle Pall Stenn, and
Guard Bill Piscione, all veterans.
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Strong, fast, and very capable.
Center Sam Bray, regular, who
has been out with injuries return­ed
to lineup for Duquesne game
and will be in top shape for Au­burn.
Joe Behot, who operates at
both right halfback and fullback,
another fine all-around back.
"Villanova provides the fans
with an aerial circus. Passed 28
times against Duquesne, complet­ing
over half. Beside Basca, other
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halfbacks also are crack pitchers.
Two southpaw heavers in George
Smith and Mike Kupecki. Plenty
of talented receivers on hand. An
ace in End Stress."
HIS SMELLY PIPE WAS
OVER-RIPE-but
he's out of the dog-house now!
"OUT YOU CO, PETER I I
won't marry a human smoke­screen
! Where'd you get that
tobacco anyway—in a fire
sale? Snap out of it! Switch to
a mild and fragrant blend."
PIPE AT A WEDDING?
Sure! Pete made such a hit
with his mild, grand-smelling
Sir Walter Raleigh burley
blend that even his mother-in-
law smiled her approval!
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December 6, 1940 THE P L A I N S M AN Page Five
Fraternity All-Star Football Selections Are Announced
History of Auburn's Part in Southern
Football Related by Plainsman Writer
Dean Petrie Was First API Coach; Team
Won Opening Came, 10-0; Lost Next, 64-0
By WILLARD HAYES
Associate Editor
Students at Auburn at the present know little of the
role that Auburn played in the history of Southern foot­ball.
Today the South is filled with good college football
teams, but in 1890 none of the Cotton States had a team
and there were only two colleges in the Upper South that
had teams and they were Virginia and North Carolina.
In 1890, however, football was introduced in the Cot­ton
States by Dr. C. H. Herty at the University of Geor­gia
and Dr. George Petrie at Au­burn.
Both of these men had been
together at Johns Hopkins and
had watched the progress of foot­ball.
They studied football as hard
as they studied chemistry and
history, and when they arrived at
their respective schools, they
wei-e ready to introduce the game
to the neophytes.
This is the first of a series
of articles on the history of
Southern football, and the part
that Auburn played in making
this game a major sport in the
South. Watch ensuing issues of
the Plainsman for further ar­ticles
on this subject. Any com­ments
will be greatly appreciat­ed.
In that era it was hard to find
enough boys who were man
enough to play football in the
small student bodies and those
that were found knew nothing
about the game. But even with
those hardships, Dr. Herty and
Dr. Petrie worked with their
teams and it is said that on the
first day, both went out on the
field armed with rule books and
began right from the beginning.
They continued to train the teams
and on February 22, 1892, both
teams played their first game at
Brisbine Park in Atlanta as op­ponents
of each other. There is
no record of the game in the files
of any newspaper other than the
score which was 10 to 0 in favor
of the Auburn Plainsmen. Auburn
was inspired with winning the
first game and scheduled a game
with the North Carolina Tar
Heels and as a result was defeat­ed
by the score of 64 to 0.
In 1894 Auburn met Georgia
Tech for the first time and de­feated
the Yellow Jackets by the
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score of 96 to 0. But the Plains­men
did not play any important
games until November 17 when
they again met Georgia and lost
with the score of 10 to 8 although
Auburn was picked as the best
team in the Southeast that sea­son.
It was at this game that news­papers
first mentioned the name
of the sponsors of a team. Au­burn's
fame was upheld by Miss
Allie Shropshire and Miss Lollie
Thomas while Miss Mildred Cab-aniss
and Miss Mary Lou Hinton
received the cheers of the Georgia
fans.
The following year Auburn lost
to Vanderbilt 9 to 6, but both
teams made history; Auburn by
pulling the first hidden ball play
and Vanderbilt by kicking the
first field goal ever kicked in the
South. (Some of the readers may
not understand how the score is
what it is for a touchdown count­ed
only four points, a goal from
touchdown two points, and a field
goal five points.) As the story of
the hidden ball play has already
appeared this year nothing will
be mentioned about it here ex­cept
the statement given by Reyn­olds
Tichenor who was quarter­back
and who carried out the play.
"I had for a long time been con­sidering
a play, which I believed
would be good for a touchdown
in any close game. In this Vander­bilt
game I soon saw that the
teams were so evenly matched
that neither side was likely to do
a great deal- of scoring on straight
football, so I determined then and
there to utilize the play we had
worked out. The play was simply
this: When the ball was snapped
it went to a halfback. The play
was closely massed and well
screened. The halfback t h en
thrust the ball under the back of
my jersey. Then he would crash
Presbyterians
Induct Students
Service Conducted at
Church Last Sunday
On Sunday December 1, 1940,
the Student Session of the Pres­byterian
Church held their ritual
and inducted into their fellowship
the following new members:
Nell Moseley, Annie Sue Miller,
Bill Mullin, Worden Weaver, W.
H. Crawford, Ann Tamblyn, Ara
Nigosion, C. O. Stephens, Jr.,
Wiliam M. Howell, Marguerite
Davis, Campbell Johnson, Jr.,
Henry Burr Green, Betty Pear­son,
Rosemary Dyer, Nelle Gil­christ,
Virginia Lowery, Thomas
House, and Jane Enslen.
The moderator, Morgan Bunch,
presided over the installation with
Archie Harkins, Lane Thigpen
and Willard Dahlberg assisting
him. Dr. Samuel Hay gave the
oath to the new members. During
the ceremonial Mrs. Samuel Hay
was given an honorary member­ship
into the Student Session. Af­ter
the ritual was given, Dr. Hay
led the congregation in a commun­ion
service in the light of a white
cross, made by 1940 graduate
Archie McGillivray.
into the line. After the play had
piled up I simply trotted away to
a touchdown. In this game the
play worked perfectly."
Again that same year Auburn
made football history in the Au­burn-
Georgia game that was play­ed
on Thanksgiving day—a game
that had become a classic in the
South. Again A u b u r n ' s little
quarterback, Reynolds Tichenor
starred. This historical play was
as follows: Stubbs kicked off for
Georgia and Tichenor took the
ball, but instead of trying to ad­vance
it, hurled the ball to Wil­liams,
who ran fifteen yards be­fore
he was downed. This was the
first recorded use of the lateral
pass.
The story that appeared in the
Atlanta Constitution on that Au­burn-
Georgia game read as fol­lows:
"After a furious struggle,
witnessed by 5,000 yelling, groan­ing
college men and their en­thusiastic
admirers, the Red and
Black of Georgia went down yes-
We've got orders from St. Nick
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to be sure all the men
folks in town get at least
one Arrow gift. Here's a
list to help you pick:
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the nicest patterns, the
handsomest whites, with
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made for perfect harmony
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ATO, SPE, and PiKA
Players Lead List
Two Teams and Honorable Mention
Roster Given by Intramural Sports Office
The all-star teams for inter/fraternity touch football
for this season were announced this week by the Intra­mural
Sports Office. These men were selected by the stu­dents
who acted as officials in the contests this season. In
previous years, each fraternity player voted on the ques­tion.
ATO, SPE, and PiKA teams led in the balloting for
the mythical positions, placing three men each on the
first team, although some of these
were ties for positions. The Sigma
Nu's dominated the second team
selections, placing three men on
the squad.
The first team is as follows:
Ends—Fred Hurst, Sigma Nu;
Bill Mitchell, SAE.
Guards—C. Cook, ATO; Bob
Saurez, SPE and Ham Wilson, Pi
KA, tied.
Center—James Hardwick, SPE
and George Austin, SAE, tied.
Backs—George Carter, ATO;
Jim McCually, ATO; Ted Wright,
SPE; Bill Rotenberry and Luther
Brown, PiKA's, tied.
The second team is composed
of:
Ends — Jackson, Sigma Nu;
Taylor, ATO.
Guards—Savelle, ATO; Cooper,
SAE.
Center—Bell, Sigma Nu.
Backs — Merrill, Sigma Nu;
Hendrix, SPE; Mastin, Sigma
Chi; Scruggs, SPE and Potter,
Delta Sigma Phi, tied.
Alternates—End, Curlee, SPE;
Guards: Jones, SAE, Young, Sig­ma
Nu, and Bacon, SPE.
Honorable mention went to the
following:
Ends—Buchanon, ATO; Green,
Delta Sigma Phi; Phipps, Sigma
Chi; Dunbar, Delta Sig; Oates,
Kappa Sigma; Craig, Phi Delta
Theta; Harris, PiKA.
Guards—Ford, ATO; Notting­ham,
PiKA; Varner, Phi Delta
Theta; Cox, Sigma Chi.
Centers — McCually, A T O ;
Elliot, Sigma Chi; Bayliss, SPE.
Backs — O'Reilly, PiKA; H.
Wright, SAE; Roy Smith, Theta
Chi; Bob Smith, Pi Kappa Phi.
Engineer and Band Non-Commissioned
Appointments Announced by Office
terday before the Orange and
Blue of Auburn." Later in the
story the old time reporter observ­ed
the following of Reynolds
Tichenor. "He is worth his weight
in gold." And the same is true of
every man on the first Auburn
football team, and of Dean Petrie,
who started the ball rolling here
on the plains in grand style.
Watch next week's issue for
further articles on Auburn's part
in making Southern football a
major sport in colleges.
Follow the example
set by some of the
leading campus so­cieties.
Have your
dinners in our new
BANQUET
HALL!
HITCHCOCK'S
CAFE
Parade of Opinion
(Continued from page 2)
We don't like this talk about the
'Albanians rising in mass revolt,
severing the Italian lines of com­munication.'
"We don't like this talk about
the 'Italian soldiers turning their
guns on their officers after they
lose a few more divisions.' We don't
like it because we don't like wish­ful
thinking. And we call this wish­ful
thinking because it glibly ig­nores
the minuteness of Greece's
army, the obsolescence of her navy;
because it ignores the enormous
odds against Greece, including 70
German divisions ready to strike
somewhere in the Balkans. — But
we do hope the Greeks do the im­possible."
R a n k i n g s of J u n i o r s and
S o p h o m o r e s R e l e a s ed
, The complete list of non-com­missioned
officers for the first,
second, and third engineer battal­ions
and for the cadet band as re­leased
by the ROTC department
is as follows:
Regimental Staff and Colors:
Master Sergeant—R. S. Carstens,
Technical Sergeant—E. C. Allen,
Sergeants—R. B. Clopton, R. M.
Harris; Corporals—F. McDowall,
H. L. Malone, J. B. Holt, E. B.
Sherrill.
First Battalion: Company "A".
First Sergeant—B. Z. Henry;
Staff Sergeants—E. C. Burgin, R.
A. Duke; Sergeants—R. C. Gwil-lim,
R. E. Wilson; Corporals—W.
H. Ashmore, W. A. Burgess, R. F.
Farrell, J. M. Harbert, W. B. Man­ning,
B. G. Peterson, G. W. Scrog-gins.
Company "B". First Sergeant—
L. F. Thigpen; Staff Sergeants—
J. A. Pope, W. L. Richmond; Ser­geants—
R. M. Morton, G. L.
Smith; Corporals—T. L. Dyer, A.
S. Graham, C. F. Harris, J. G.
Johnson, F. Killingsworth, J. P.
Lewallen, E. V. Pope.
Company "C". First Sergeant—
T. R. Benning; Staff Sergeants—
F. P. Adams, J. N. Mueller; Ser­geants—
G. A. Austin, A. G. Mil­ton;
Corporals—T. A. Bell, G. W.
Cain, J. D. Grimes, H. G. McGee,
C. A. Overby, J. R. Shepherd, M.
L. Spearman.
Second Battalion: Company "D".
First Sergeant—T. M. Smith; Staff
Sergeants—C. H. McCall, L. V.
Tindal; Sergeants—V. P. Rice, H.
L. Sinclair; Corporals—J. P. Crow,
R. Houston, D. Lacy, F. T. Payne,
E. C. Singley, A. M. Smith, L. J.
Vickers.
Company "E". First Sergeant—
R. D. Wise; Staff Sergeants—G. H.
McBride, J. W. Meadows; Ser­geants—
W. W. Hollingsworth, C.
B. Hewitt; Corporals—W. A. Da­vis,
V. C. Hicks, W. H. Layton, W.
H. Livingston, B. W. Peake, W.
Praytor, W. L. Samuel.
Company "F". First Sergeant—
A. D. Mullin; Staff Sergeants—
W. C. Bentley, W. E. Morris; Cor­porals—
F. Fuller, W. H. Hall, R.
W. Kaisner, R. P. Kloeti, T. W.
Morgan, L. P. Jenkins, A. D. Penn,
W. C. Richter, J. L. Scarbrough.
Third Battalion: Company "G".
First Sergeant—H. C. McClana-han;
Staff Sergeants—J. L. Gris-wold,
G. W. Willard; Sergeants—
W. H. Donovan, T. M. Hoover, H.
H. Van Aller; Corporals — W.
Campbell, J. H. McClanahan, R.
Martin, B. M. Nash, P. M. Smith,
H. E. Withers, H. R. Wood.
Company "H". First Sergeant—
J. P. Brooks; Sergeants — R. A.
Sawyer, W. W. Penn; Staff Ser­geants—
W. R. Clinton, E. C. Sut-tle;
Corporals—J. E. Brush, R. C.
Chisholm, J. B. Jones, S. B. Mil-ligan,
E. C. Pritchard, C. C. Shep-ard,
A. Wojohn.
Company "I". First Sergeant—
J. B. Rollins; Staff Sergeants—
J. F. Suttle, J. A. Weems; Ser­geants—
F. Morris, H. W. Pearce;
Corporals—D. E. Buck, R. S. Mc-
Kinney, R. M. Mitchell, K. A. Rid­dle,
W. Sterling, K. H. Thomas,
C. D. Wood.
(Continued on page 6)
• We buy men's
second-hand Cloth­ing
and Shoes.
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Green Room — Pitts Hotel
Children's Classes Tuesday & Friday
Ballroom Class Tuesday Night
• When in Columbus make Kayser-Lilien-thai
your headquarters. Just the type fur
coat, sport coat, suit, dress and accessor­ies
for college wear.
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BLDG.'MONTGOMERY A U .
THIS WEEK
The Auburn Grille
ANNOUNCES THAT
JIM KING
has been selected to receive
a Steak Dinner for his out­standing
service to Auburn
during the last three years.
BABE McGEHEE, Auburn, Ala.;
senior, end; weight, 180; height,
6' 2". Very valuable flankman.
THE PATERSONS
Cordially extend an invitation
to all their Auburn friends to visit
them on or after Thursday,
December 12th
at
The New Location
ROSEMONT GARDENS
on
South Perry Street
(Across from First Baptist Church)
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
LUCAS GAZES, Mgr.
Page Six T H E P L A I N S M AN December 6, 1940
Campus Events
December 9-15
Monday, Dec. 9
7:00 p.m.—Faculty Forum Dinner. John Temple Graves,
II, speaker. Women's Dining Hall.
Tuesday, Dec. 10
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Home Ec. Tea Room. Social Center.
7:00 p.m.—Current Events. Dr. Petrie. Broun Hall.
Wednesday, Dec. 11
3:30 p.m.—Annual ODK Cake Race. Varsity Baseball
Field.
7:00 p.m.—Faculty Recreation. Alumni Gymnasium.
Thursday, Dec. 12
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Home Ec. Tea Room. Social Center.
7:00 p.m.—Current Events. Dr. Petrie. Broun Hall.
Friday, Dec. 13
3:00 to 5:00 p.m.—Home Ec. Tea Room. Social Center.
9:00 p.m.—Pi Kappa Phi Formal. Graves Center.
Coming Events
Dec. 16 & 17—Auburn Players present "Time and the
Conways". Langdon Hall.
Dec. 19-Jan. 1—Christmas Holidays.
Jan. 20—Joint Concert: Evans and Frantz. Alumni Gym.
Tennessee's Vols Take SEC Crown for
Third Straight Time; Maroons Second
A u b u r n Is Fifth in
Conference for Year
Tennessee's undefeated Volun­teers
closed out a rough schedule
with their third Southeastern Con­ference
crown in three years. The
Vols had little trouble getting by
Alabama, Vanderbilt, Kentucky,
LSU, and Florida and were scored
on only by the Crimson Tide. This
marks the third year without a
regular season defeat for Tennes­see
and the Vols tackle their third
consecutive bowl New Year's day
when they risk their untarnished
record against Boston College, the
Eastern champs.
Mississippi State, which goes
to the Orange Bowl as the South's
representative in the annual
classic, placed second in the con­ference
with four wins and a tie
by Auburn in the records. The
Bulldogs handed Mississippi its
only loss of the league and drop­ped
the Rebels into third place.
Following in the first division are
Alabama, Auburn, and LSU in the
order named.
Final standings:
Team W. L. T. P. Op.
Tennessee - - - 5 O O 122 12
Miss. State _._4 0 1 98 21
Mississippi 3 1 O 60 46
Alabama 3 2 O 89 80
Auburn 3 2 1 89 70
LSU 3 3 0 55 82
Florida 2 3 0 48 59
Georgia 2 3 1 82 106
Kentucky 1 2 2 40 79
Tulane 1 3 0 41 60
Ga. Tech 1 5 0 65 93
Vanderbilt — 1 5 1 55 91
Sewanee .0 1 0 0 20
SPE's Win Crown
(Continued from page 1)
failed. Carter punted 28 yards to
the SPE 42. Three Sig Ep passes
lost 10 yards, and they punted to
the ATO 28. Three ATO passes
gained but 5 yards, so they kick­ed
out to the SPE 29. The quarter
ended, 2nd and 6 for SPE.
On the second play of the
fourth, Hendricks passed 45 yards
to Curlee, who ran 25 yards for
the final SPE tally. The try for
the point was no good. ATO re­ceived
the kick-off, .returned 14
yards, passed for 20 more, lost
the ball by interception. Wright
kicked 34 yards to McCauley, who
dashed 64 yards for a beautiful
run and the ball was downed on the
SPE 11. Carter passed to Taylor
for the ATO tally. The try for
the point was wide. Score: SPE
12, ATO 6.
An exchange of passes gave the
SPE's the ball after the kick-off.
They held onto the ball and the
game, by using running plays en­tirely.
The game ended 12 to 6,
in SPE's favor.
Statistics show a punting aver­age
of 40 yards for each team.
SPE gained 8 first downs, ATO
2. ATO lost 20 yards by penalty,
SPE 40. ATO lost only 9 Vz yards
from scrimmage. SPE lost 49% in
the same method. ATO gained
52% yards from scrimmage, to
the SPE 288, having the ball 25
times to 44 for the Sig Eps.
May Queen
(Continued from page 1)
ing throughout the day, and will
count the votes following the bal­loting.
The results will not be an­nounced
until Friday's issue of
the Plainsman.
Balloting will continue through­out
the day at the Main Gate
from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Ticket
books are required to obtain a
ballot.
Dance Club
(Continued from page 1)
program are Helen Jordan, Mar­garet
Johnston, Jean Beasley,
Margaret McCain, Martha Ger-hardt,
Mary Ella Funchess, Dot
Johnson, Madge Jarrard, Jean
GET YOUR
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FROM THE LOCAL
PLAINSMAN ADVERTISERS.
THEY ARE NOW
DISPLAYING CHRISTMAS
MERCHANDISE.
Jeanetfe McDonald
And Nelson Eddy
Starred at Tiger
'Bitter Sweet' Shows
At Local Theatre on
Sunday and Monday
Jeannette MacDonald, Nelson
Eddy and Director W. S. Van
Dyke II, the trio responsible for
three of the most successful musi­cals
of screen history, "Naughty
Marietta," "Rose Marie" and
"Sweethearts," join f o r c e s a
fourth time with the picturization
of Noel Coward's "Bitter Sweet,"
which will be shown Sunday and
Monday at the Tiger Theatre.
A story of London and Vienna
in the late Victorian period, film­ed
in Technicolor, "Bitter Sweet"
presents Miss MacDonald in the
role of Sarah Millick, London
belle, which Peggy Wood created
on the London stage and which
Evelyn Laye played in the Broad­way
production. On the eve of her
wedding, Sarah runs away with
her music teacher, Carl Linden,
enacted by Eddy.
An Impressive Cast
George Sanders, portrayer of
"The Saint" in the series by that
name, is seen as Von Tranisch,
with Ian Hunter as his gambling
opponent, Lord Shayne, who be­friends
the two principals. In­cluded
also in the impressive cast
are Edward Ashley as Harry Dav-entry,
Sara's original fiance; Felix
Bressart and Curt Bois as Max
and Ernst, penniless musician-friends
of Carl Linden; Fay Hold-en
as Sarah's mother; Diana Lewis
as Jane, who eventually marries
Harry; Lynne Carver as Dooly,
friend who aids Sarah's elope­ment;
Sig Rumann as Herr Sch-lick,
cafe owner, and Janet Beech-er
as Lady Daventry, Archie's
mother.
Sing Eleven Songs
The original Noel Coward music
is retained intact in the screen
version of "Bitter Sweet," with
Herbert Stothart arranging the
orchestration. The stars are heard
in the following numbers: "I'll
See You Again," "The Call of
Life," "If You Could Only Come
With Me," "What Is Love?" "To­kay,"
"Ladies of the Town,"
"Love in Any Language," "Our
Little Cafe," "Zigeuner," "If Love
Were AH", "Serenade in Vienna."
Thomas, Annice Watkins, Del-phine
Thomas, Laura Wallace,
Margaret Tucker, Teenie Blair,
Betty Bell, Margie Mallory, Jim-mie
Jerkins, Carolyn Kinsey, Sara
Frances Godfrey, Emma Nell
Parrish, Julia Wynne, Georgene
Hawkins, Violet Bruce, and Chris­tine
Thomas.
Sunday & Monday
SONGS!
What Is Love"
Our Little Cafe"
The Call Of Life"
I'll See You Again"
MACDONALD
NELSON EDDY
NOEL COWARDS
TECHNICOLOR
GEORGE IAN
SANDERS • HUNTER
FEUX BRESSART
Prlglml Play. Music and Lyrlci by
Noal Coward . S a m Play by
Lauai Samueli • Dlrectad by
W. 8. VAN DYKE II
Produced by Victor Savllla
TIGER
LeNoir, McGowen
Placed on Boston's
All-Opponent- Team
Captain Dick McGowen and
Jim LeNoir have been placed on
the Boston College all-opponent
team for 1940 as picked by mem­bers
of the Eagle squad.
McGowen, though in the Plains­man
lineup but half the game,
showed well on defense and in the
punting department with a 44
yard average for the afternoon.
It was also McGowen who ran 22
yards to start the last minute Au­burn
scoring drive. Jim LeNoir,
before removed from his right
end position with a third-quarter
knee injury was one of the top
performers on the field.
The team is as follows: ends,
Emanuel Defraites, Tulane, and
Jim LeNoir, Auburn; tackles,
Charles Dufour, Tulane, and Hen­ry
Zajowski, Temple; guards,
Frank Gaziano, Holy Cross, and
Augie Lio, Georgetown; center,
Al Matuza, Georgetown; backs,
Joe McFadden, Georgetown, Dick
McGowen of Auburn, Andy To-masic
of Temple, and John Grig-as,
Holy Cross.
Winners in Women's Foul-Throwing
Contest Named; Other Play Continues
'A Greater Auburn'
(Continued from page 1)
glaring as concrete, it blends bet­ter
with the landscape, and it does
not cost so much as concrete.
Half-grown oaks, 20 to 30 feet
high, will be planted at 80-foot
intervals in both planting strips
down the entire length of Mell.
Light Standards will eventually go
between the trees.
As soon as work is completed
Mell Street, Thach Avenue will
undergo a similar remodeling all
the way from College to Cary
Street. Eight-foot sidewalks will
be constructed on both sides of
the street, and there will be ten-foot
planting strips with oaks ev­ery
80 feet.
The laying of sidewalks and the
excavations have made necessary
the sacrifice of many trees which
Auburnites have hated to lose.
Still more trees will go when other
improvements are made. However,
they will be replaced generously,
and in the long run to better ad­vantage,
because it is estimated
that at least half the trees on the
campus are diseased and improp­erly
spaced. Instead of unhealthy
trees standing in the way of basic
landscaping, Auburn will have
new oaks, mimosas, poplars, elms,
dogwoods, and redbuds growing
sturdily in the right places.
Auburn's Formal Front
The President's Home and its
now practically completed land­scaping
have been designed for
the graceful handling of the many
large official and social functions
Sarah Tant Davis Wins
Basketball Competition
The individual basketball goal-throwing
contest on the women's
intramural sports program was
won by Sara Tant Davis, running
up a score of 75 points. Second
in placement was received by
Lillie Beulah Whatley with a
score of 60, and Sarah Smith
placed third with a score of 45.
The final round of the tenni-quoits
tournament wound up in a
general tie up, and further games
will have to be played before the
winners can be announced. In the
games this week Dormitory 1 and
the Town Girls tied for first place,
winning two games each; and
Dormitory 2 and Dormitory 3
played to a tie for second place
with a win of one game each.
Team shuffle board will be the
next game and is slated to begin
December 11. Each team will be
composed of four players. The
usual competitive plan of four
leagues will be used and league
winners will play in a winners
tournament for first, second, and
third places. All sports leaders
are requested to meet in the intra­mural
sports office for place
drawings in the tournament.
which the President is called upon
to give.
A formal reception garden dig­nified
with statuary and a pool,
with brick walks and summer
house with wall fountain and tile
mosaic, stretches to the south of
the Home. Directly in front of the
Home is a turncourt paved with
brick in herringbone pattern. It
is surrounded by a semi-circular
brick wall, which, for the inform­ation
of the many who have won­dered,
will be painted white and
banked with shrubbery. In the
turncourt is a tiled reflecting pool
28 feet in diameter. A magnifi­cent
job of grading and condi­tioning
the grounds for lawns has
been completed, and eventually
the whole place will be circum­scribed
by a white colonial fence
three quarters of a mile long.
Five-Year Plan Immense
So comprehensive are the plans
that even a general description
will require other articles.
Prom 1872 to 1938 Auburn ex­isted
quietly, growing like Topsy
whenever growth seemed in order.
In 1938 began a renaissance when
construction on 14 buildings was
ordered to begin. In 1940 it ap­pears
that the sky's the limit—
Greater Auburn is on the way.
Patronize Plainsman advertisers.
BALFOUR
The Official Fraternity Jewelers
CHRISTMAS ORDERS SHOULD BE
PLACED NOW
BIRMINGHAM OFFICE
2104 5th Ave. N.
Birmingham Alabama
Montgomery's
agent for
Hart-Schaffner &
Marx Clothes
welcomes
you to the Capitol
City
MARINE JACK MEAGHER,
Auburn head coach and athletic
director. Attended Notre Dame.
Best coach in America.
Drop by and see our
selection of men's
gifts.
ROSENBERG-DANIELS
16 Montgomery St.
Textile Students to
Hear Columbus Man's
Talk Monday Night
F. B. McDonald, vice-president
of the Medley Manufacturing Com­pany,
of Columbus, Ga., will ad­dress
Textile students at a meet­ing
to be held Monday night at
7:15 in the Textile Engineering
Building.
Mr. McDonald will bring a sliv­er
tester with him, and will dem­onstrate
this apparatus at the
m e e t i n g . This demonstration
should be of interest to all Tex­tile
students.
An invitation to attend this
meeting which is sponsored by
Phi Psi, is extended to all stu­dents,
including Co-ops, in Tex­tile
Engineering. The speaker,
Mr. McDonald, is considered to be
one of the best Boss Carders in
the South.
Jan Savitt
(Continued from page 3)
Savitt's band.
Jan's opening theme is the tor­rid
"Quaker City Jazz," written
by the leader himself. He derived
the name from his home port,
Philadelphia, often called the
"Quaker City." He ends his pro­grams
with the solid "It's a Won­derful
World," which shows the
distinctive offbeat rhythm at it's
best. His music ranges from hot
to sweet, with more emphasis on
the hot side.
Savitt and his Top Hatters, who
are being booked at present by
the Music Corporation of Ameri­ca,
is appearing this week at the
University of Fla. He is scheduled
to play for the mid-terms at Mis­sissippi
State on Feb. 7 and 8. He
will appear here on Jan. 30 and
31, and Feb. 1, 1941.
McGowen, LeNoir,
Cheatham Named
On All-SEC Team
Announcement was made this
week that three regular members
of the Auburn Tiger football team
had been named to the Interna-.v
tional News Service All-South­eastern
second team for 1940.
Auburn placed two men in the
backfield of the second team on •
the mythical selections. Lloyd
Cheatham was named to the quar­terback
post and Captain Dick
McGowen was selected as one of
the two halfbacks on the team.
Jim LeNoir, senior end, was
chosen as lineman on the second
squad.
Previously, Cheatham had been
named to the second team select­ed
by the United Press. McGowen
had been named on the first team
of the Associated Press all-star
aggregation. LeNoir had received
honorable mention on these two
selections.
Sq uires' Drive
(Continued from page 1)
For each twenty-five cent do­nation
to the ambulance fund, a
receipt will be given, and a dupli­cate
stub will be kept by the tic­ket
committee. The stubs will be
thoroughly mixed at the time of
the drawing and the numbers will
be called out. The holder of the
number called, must be present to
win. The drawing will continue
until someone wins. The receipt,
which serves also as a ticket to
the game, must be shown at the
gate, otherwise the cost of ad- . ^ -
mission will be 25 cents.
Appointments
(Continued from page 5)
Technical Sergeant—W. M. Gre­gory.
Cadet Band. Sergeant—O. P.
Board; Corporals—M. L. Griffith,
E. C. Rodgers.
Saturday
RETURN ENGAGEMENT
"South of the Border"
Owl Show
RALPH BELLAMY
"Meet the Wildcat"
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
..in her most
magnificent
role!
Regular
P r i c e s ! JamesjjTEP^SON^in
Tuesday
CLAUDETTE COLBERT
"Arise, My Love"
MARTIN
"THE PLACE TO GO"
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FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY
Our Entire Store Has Been Transformed
Into A . . .
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At East Alabama's Headquarters for Christmas Gifts
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