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Clean Your Fingertips 77i£ VlairiAmarL Ride Those Nags "AUBURN—the friendliest college in the United States' VOL. LXIV Z-I ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, APRIL 25, 1941 NO. 60 Air-Minded Hiker Julio Cesar Berrizbertia, above, of Venezuela, as he visited here Wednesday in route to Washington. Standing on the left is Alberto Parra, Auburn student of Troy, N. Y., formerly of Venezuela. Venezuelan Hiker Stops Here on Trip J* Cortina Interviews |ulio Berrizbertia By HERBERT MARTIN He's been* walking for four years in order to learn to fly. That's the story of Julio Cesar Berrizbertia, Venezuelan Boy Scout who reached here Wednesday as a stopping point on his hike from his South American country to Washington. Julio is now wearing his fifty-second pair of boots since he left Venezuela four years ago with five other youths to begin his long-distance goodwill walk. His plans call for walks to Washington to see President Roosevelt, from whom he hopes to get a scholarship to study aviation, and to whom he is to deliver a letter from the President of Venezuela, as well as a trip to New York, where he plans to rest and get his daily notes of his trip in order. He speaks very little English, but Tony Cortina, Auburn student from Mexico, spoke to him for an hour or so in his native Spanish tongue, and learned many interesting details of his trip. The 19 year old youth says that it is all right to turn your back to a charging mountain lion, but don't make the mistake of ignoring him. The animal pounced upon Julio while the boy was sleeping, but while the lion was tearing his blankets to shreds, Julio whipped out his knife and polished off the foe. He has two souvenirs of this encounter. The first is a leather wrist guard made from the hide of the animal, and the second is shown by two deep claw marks on his leg . . . about an inch wide and four or five inches in length . . . and several scars on his back. He narrowly escaped death on two more occasions. Once, a band of hostile Indians attacked the band with delightful little arrows dipped in snake venom. One of the hikers died as a result of this encounter, and Julio lingered for three months between heaven and earth before recovering. Speaking of the member who was killed, Julio said, "The Indians hurt, him pretty bad, so he had to die!" The third near-fatality occurred as Julio crossed a ravine hundreds of feet deep, and 20 or 30 feet wide. The supporting pole broke, and Julio still cannot tell how he managed to get across. Fever took its toll of the band, and homesickness took care of the rest, leaving Julio to carry on a-lone. Arriving in Auburn, after hiking from Montgomery in a little more than a day, the 120 pound Scout- put down his 100 ;p°tmd pack and sat down for a rest. He was immediately surrounded by curious students and townsfolk, but little was learned about him until Tony Cortina arrived to take over the questioning. Julio was born in Madrid, Spain, as were his mother and father. His parents moved to Venezuela early in his life. After traveling through Mexico for two years, Julio finally reached the United States. He has walked every inch of the way, even through Mexico's almost im-. passible marshes and mountain country, and was decorated by the President of Mexico. He expressed surprise at the ignorance shown by the inhabitants of such a great and powerful country as the United States. "They asked me what flag it is I have on my pack," he said, "and it seems to me it's only fair if I know their (American) flag, they should know mine." "They don't know what is below the Rio Grande. They know Mexico is there because of the travelogues, but past that, only Panama, for its canal. I can't understand them!" (Continued on page 6) PRESENTING... NINETEENTH ANNUAL HORSE SHOW will be held Sunday on Drake Field. For particulars see story on this page. Complete roster and program on page five. ARCHERY RANGE location criticized. Editorial on page 2. SCOUT HIKES FROM VENEZUELA in four years. Heads for Washington. Story above. SQUIRES SPONSOR fingerprinting drive. Page 1 story. TRACK TEAM LEAVES for AAU meet in Atlanta. See page 6. TILLAGE MACHINERY LAB is only one of its kind in U. S. Sugg tells the story on page 4. Funds Raised for Fountains by ODK June 1 Is Scheduled As Completion Date Tuesday night's presentation of the ODK Musical Miscellany raised sufficient funds for the construction of the proposed fountains to be placed on the west side of Samford Hall. The total cost of the fountains is expected to amount to approximately $125, and it is hoped that they will be completed by June 1. Work has already begun on the digging of the ditches and laying of the water and drain pipes. The fountains are to be constructed of granite and are to be provided with a plaque on which will be engraved the explanation that they were presented to the college by ODK in 1941. The layout behind Samford Hall will be such that there will be four diagonal walks which form the center of two squares where they cross. One fountain will be situated in the center of each square, surrounded by a 10 foot circle of pavement. "The construction of these drinking fountains," said Mr. Sam Brewster, Director of Buildings and Grounds, "is in my opinion one of the finest projects ODK could have sponsored. They will be of such construction that they will last for years to come, and hundreds of thousands of people may make use of them in the future." Horse Show To Be Held Sunday Colorful Program Arranged by Adams Squires, Owls, Sponsor Fingerprinting Drive for Students and Faculty Student Leaders Meet in Atlanta Publication Heads and Prexies Leave Thursday Student government leaders and publications heads left for Atlanta yesterday to attend the annual convention of the Southern Student Federation, which will last through tomorrow. . Government officials attending are Jim King, president of the student body; Billy Moore, next year's prexy; Elizabeth Wheeler and Nelle Gilchrist, past and future presidents of the Women's Student Government Association. Glomerata heads attending are Bill McGehee, editor of this year's book; Joe Meadows, next year's editor; Kirk Newell, present business manager, and Sam Nettles, business manager-elect for the coming year. Plainsman staff members absent are Bob Armstrong, Warren Darty, Jimmy Rouse, Willard Hayes, John Pierce, and Joe Gan-dy. Herbert Martin was unable to leave town to attend the convention. Three Mechanical Instructors Added To API Faculty Recent additions to the faculty of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute are two instructors in Mechanical Engineering. The men are Clarence H. Long of Portsmouth, Va., and Thomas J. Hails of Montgomery. Mr. Long has earned three degrees from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1939, his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1940, and his M.S. degree in Power and Fuel in 1941. Mr. Hails earned his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1923, and received his A.B. degree from Spring Hill in 1919. Mr. Hails has already come to Auburn, and Mr. Long will join the staff at a later date. Caps and Gowns A special notice was issued from Burton's Book Store yesterday urging all seniors and faculty members who have not been measured for their caps and gowns to do so at once. The latest time that they can be measured is May 1st. Arrangements should be made immediately. Propose Voluntary Fingerprinting in Registration Lines Sponsored by Squires, honorary sophomore service fraternity for men, and Owls, honorary service organization for women, a drive for the fingerprinting of all members of the student body and faculty of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute was launched this morning after several days preparation. Following the nation-wide trend of colleges all over the country, it is proposed that members of the student body be voluntarily fingerprinted in the registration lines this spring, when under new ruling, the entire student body will make out their schedules for the forthcoming year. Previous to the launching of the drive, many students were asked for their opinions of the desirability of such a movement, and an almost unanimous majority - was found to be enthusiastically in accord with the plan. Among the benefits derived from such a movement is the protection afforded the individual by way of a fool-proof means of identification. In case of accident or death in the immediate future or in later years, the individual involved can be positively identified and his situation cared for promptly. In event of such disasters as amnesia the fingerprints of the victim can be taken and compared with those on file, and in this manner his family can be located and he can be returned to his home. The materials and equipment necessary and the technical advice and assistance needed will be provided through the facilities of the Federal Bureau of Investigaton, the State Law Enforcement Agency, and the State Toxicologists Department located in the L Building. If the present plan is as well endorsed as it has been in other colleges throughout the country, it is proposed that the fingerprinting of students become a permanent and voluntary function of the registration process. Under this plan, all students who register at Auburn for the first time may be fingerprinted when they do so. Second Semester Engineering Dean's List Is Released Fifth Dean's List Contains 17 Names The Dean's Office of the Engineering School has released its "Dean's List" for the second semester of the 1940-41 session of school. This is the fifth dean's list to be published and the rest will be in the paper as soon as they are released. The men on the Dean's List of the Engineering School are given below: Edwin C. Allen is from Memphis and is a Sigma Chi pledge; James Walter McCrea is from Natchez, Miss., and is a Sigma Pi member; Duke Davis is a Sigma Nu from LaGrange, Ga.; Ross Bishop Holmes is from St. Petersburg, Fla.; Charles William Scott is an ATO and is from Birmingham; Walker Lewis Richmond is from Mobile and is a member of PiKA fraternity; Roger A. Petrey is from Haines City, Fla. George Benjamin Clarke comes from McShan; Robert G. Nester is another ATO who comes from Mobile; Stanley Floyd Coley is from Alabama City; Jack Evans LeMay is from Sheffield; John Newton Cooper also comes from Natchez, Miss; Hugh Jackson Barron is from Atmore; James Car-lyle McCullough is another PiKA from Huntsville; C. A. Pruitt is from Wallace; Samuel Jones Price is another boy from Birmingham; and Holdman W. Baker is from Eufaula and is a member of Theta Chi fraternity. No Concert The record concert scheduled for Sunday afternoon by the Auburn Players will not be held on account of the horse show. various departments and their families, and another special box will accommodate the president of the college, Dr. L. N. Duncan. Seating arrangement for the other spectators will be provided for by bleachers to be erected on Drake Field in addition to 500 folding chairs. All concessions will be handled by the Athletic Department, and admission charge for the show will be 25 cents for high school and API students, and 35 cents for all others. Eleven classes and events have been scheduled for the horse show, including two special features by the trick riding class, exhibitions of Roman riding and bareback jumping. Other events are Class I, Sophomore Horsemanship; Class II, Junior Jumping; Class III, Ladies' Jumping; Class IV, Senior Jumping; Class B, Pair Jumping; Class VI, Ladies' Horsemanship; Class VIII, Ladies' Horsemanship; Class IX, Junior Riding. Program for the Show will be as follows: Henning, McClanahan Run for Co-op Post University Is Host For Theta Chi Meet Annual Rebel Reunion To Be Held Next Week The Alpha Phi chapter of Theta Chi fraternity at the University of Alabama will be host next week-end to the third annual Rebel Reunion of Theta Chi chapters of the South, j Delegates will assemble for the two-day convention from as far south as Florida and as far north as Virginia. Some of the highlights of the program include an inter-chapter ping - pong tournament, inter-chapter horseshoe competition, a buffet luncheon, undergraduate forum on university problems, and a banquet and dance at the Hotel McLester. To climax the occasion, there is to be a softball game between the two arch rivals, Alabama and Auburn. Two of Theta Chi's most distinguished Grand Chapter officers, Edwin O. "Nick" Huntley, National Historian, and Charles H. Mann, member of the National Board of Trustees, will be present for the event. Miss Camilla Sutton, of Delta Delta Delta sorority, has been named "Miss Reb" by the Alpha Phi group and will reign over the banquet and dance. Election Will Be Held Next Week Petitions were due this week for candidates for co-op representative to the Executive Cabinet. Jim King, president of the student body, is out of town attending the student government conclave in Atlanta, and the official list of candidates has not been released, but it is reported that Fred Hen-ning and Harvey McClanahan will be the only candidates for this post. Henning is a senior in electrical engineering and is from Birmingham. He is president of Mitec Engineers, co-op society. McClanahan is also an electrical engineering senior. He is from Hartselle, Ala. This election will be held next week, according to Tom Roby, chairman of the elections committee, but the date has not been definitely set as yet. The election will probably be on Wednesday or Thursday, but even this is not definite. Full particulars of this election will be given in Tuesday's Plainsman. Student voters, at the regular .spring elections, voted to amend the constitution to allow for a coop representative to the Cabinet. The voting next week will name the representative for the time this group is in school. The incoming group this summer will hold another balloting to name its representative to the Executive Cabinet. Events to Take Place on Drake Field; Is 19th Annual Show, Begins at 2 O'clock By ART JONES Headed by Lt. Charles C. Adams, the 19th annual Auburn Horse Show will get under way at 2 p.m. Sunday on Drake field. Contestants in this year's event will be judged by Col. John S. Wood, of the Field Artillery, and Col. Richard A. Gordon, both of Fort Benning. The gala occasion will be announced over a public address system by Maj. Harry L. Watts, F.A., senior instructor in Military Science and Tactics here. Special boxes will be arranged for the deans of the _. T _ , „ Class I—Sophomore Horsemanship. Open to ROTC sophomores. Class II—Junior Jumping. Open to ROTC juniors. Class VI—Ladies' Horsemanship— 1st year. Open to members of 1st year class not students of API. Class III — Ladies' Jumping. Open to members of Advanced & Intermediate Class. Class IX — Children's Class Horsemanship. Open to riders under 14 years of age. Class XI—Harnessing Race. Class IV — Senior Jumping. Open to ROTC seniors. Class VII — Ladies' Horsemanship. Open to members 1st year class students of API. Class V—Pair Jumping. Open to ladies of Advanced & Intermediate Class and their partners. Class XII—Roman Riding. Class V i n — Advanced Ladies' Horsemanship. Open to members of Advanced & Intermediate Class. Class X—Bare Back Jumping. Cups will be awarded to the winner in each event of the show this year, as well as blue ribbons. Ribbons will be awarded for second, third, and fourth prizes in each event. Another outstanding feature of the 1941 show will be a Field Artillery harnessing race, the participants to be chosen from among the enlisted men of the regular army who are attached to the Auburn ROTC. The event will be comprised of three teams of three soldiers each, and at the firing of the gun the contesting teams will race against one another in the harnessing of caissons, after which they will drive the caissons about halfway down the field and across the finish line. The harnesses will then be inspected and the winners announced. No cup will be awarded to the winning contestants, but the members of the winning team will receive cash prizes of $5.00 each. Penalties in the jumping events will be as follows: Front tip, 2; hind tip, 1; front knock down, 4; hind knock down, 3; circling between jumps, 3. Additional penalties applying to pair jumping are: uneven by a head, 1; uneven by a neck, 2; uneven by a horse length, 5. Three refusals or runouts, or horse or rider falling will bring about disqualification. (Continued on page 6) Three Instructors Join Aeronautical Engineering Staff Information has been released from the Engineering School that provision has been made for the addition of three instructors to the staff of the Aeronautical School. As yet, no one has been employed to fill the vacancy left in the department by the resignation of Lt. B. M. Cornell. An able and experienced man has been promised to the department by next fall, it was said. The other recent additions to the staff are two former Auburn students. Wilmot G. Rhodes has his ground and flight instructor's rating and is the holder of a Commercial Pilot's Certificate. Mr. Rhodes intends to work next summer on his master's degree in Aeronautical Engineering at New York University. M. J. Fortner is the holier of Commercial Pilot's Certificate, and he plans to attend the University of Michigan this summer for work on his master's degree in aeronautical engineering. ROTC Notice Tuesday, April 29th, the entire Brigade will form on Bullard Field for presentation of O.R.C. awards. After the presentaton of awards all units will proceed with regularly scheduled work. Uniform will be as previously announced for drill periods. This order, does NOT include the Band. By order of Colonel Waterman R. P. Grant, 1st Lt., F. A., Adjutant. Horse Show Announcements All contestants in the horse show report to the booth at the entrance to Drake Field at 1:30 P.M. and receive the numbers they will wear in the show. Contestants are requested not to go to the stables. There will be no privilege riding Saturday and Sunday afternoons because of the Annual Horse Show to be held at 2 P. M. Sunday afternoon. Scout Announcement Mr. W. H. Edwards, field scout executive of the Montgomery area council announces a Scout Training School meeting at the new scout cabin at 7:30 Monday night. All scouts who are interested are urged to attend. Announcement is also made of a camporal for all Auburn scouts to be held the week of May 2nd and 3rd. Glomerata Notice Glomerata* will again be given out Saturday morning, nine to twelve o'clock inclusive. Only students who have paid both semester student activity fees will be eligible to receive a yearbook. After Saturday books will be sold to >ther students who have been in ichool for only one semester for $1.80. Seniors will be given preference. The Glomerata office will be kept open every afternoon next week to take these orders. Page Two T H E P L A I N S M AN April 25, 1941 Nice Going Trigger And Kirk The long awaited Glomeratas are out. Many students received their copies of the yearbook on Tuesday night, after the ODK miscellany. The remainder of the student body stood in line sometime Wednesday or Thursday, or today to get the yearbook. And after a look through the new book, we are ready to congratulate the competent staff of the Glomerata, under the leadership of Trigger McGehee, for turning out a really swell piece of work. The book is well balanced, colorful and in some instances, really original. New tones, colors, departments and a different style of cover add distinction and readability to the book. The Glomerata's "ace in the hole" is the beautiful water-color picture of old Langdon Hall which decorated the cover. The cover itself is of a canvas composition, and the colorful old building lends itself well to the cover decoration. Student interest has been manifested most in the enlarged and equally good snapshot section. A nalural point of interest, this section this year should be adequate to satisfy the students. Trigger and his staff should be congratulated, too, for the ability to get their publication out on schedule. The Glomerata is one of the two yearbooks in the south now ready for student consumption. Autograph fans will have plenty of time to work. The Plainsman-Graft Wave feud is over, so we can truthfully say, "You've put out a fine book, and we appreciate it." The P. O. Again Several editorials have been written about the United States post office and the way it handles the excessive amount of mail coming into Auburn for the students and the residents of Auburn. But, nothing seems to have been done about the situation. We understand that the post office in this town holds first class rating. We also understand that the term "first class" means that it handles a very large amount of mail, much more than the second or third class post offices. By terms of the standard dictionary "first class" means "of the highest quality". In either event or case the service is nothing to brag about. The staff of the office is not large enough in the first place to handle the increasing large amount of mail that is growing as rapidly as the student body. And there is another thing that is especially disconcerting to the students and to the visitors to Auburn. This is the friendly attitude for which Auburn has always been noted. But, do the clerks and the employees of the post office follow this highly prized custom? No and emphatically NO! » As far as we have seen there is one clerk that speaks and smiles to you when he meets you on the street as he is delivering his mail. He smiles so much it makes you think that he is trying to make up for his fellow employees. With these two major facts in mind, can't something be done to remedy the situation? This would help the students and the townspeople equally as much. Surely Uncle Sam can afford to hire one or two more clerks to clear up the congestion in Auburn's mail service. I think the employees themselves would appreciate this move no little bit.—G.H. Birmingham and Auburn They call Birmingham "The Magic City." Nobody around here seems to know where that name came from. But everybody agrees that it's a good one. Birmingham furnishes Auburn with quite a number of its students. Birmingham's Auburn alumni association chapter is one of the largest and most active in the nation. For the past ten years, with the g r o w t h of Auburn, Birmingham's "school interests" have been steadily swinging in a Southeastward direction —toward Auburn. And Birmingham has proved this swing in other ways than by sending students and organizing their alumni chapter. Each year Auburn plays at least one football game on Birmingham's Legion Field. Each year Birmingham turns out in numbers to support the Auburn aggregation and the Auburn students. If Auburn wants to put on a parade in Birmingham, t h e n Birmingham blocks off its streets, drapes its windows, and stands around watching the parade. Birmingham seems to pull good will and support out of hats and hidden pockets. Birmingham is indeed "The Magic City." Archery Range . . . Plainsman columnist Bob Chisolm suggested in Tuesday's paper that the archery range be moved to a less dangerous location. He suggested the corner of the stadium for the new place. We think this suggestion good, and we also like the idea of moving those steel-tipped arrows, which have already pierced one leg, to another spot. Although archery classes are held during regular class periods, there are still students who might desire to cross this ground, although there are probably few who would care to dispute the ground with an angry Pocahontas. We crossed in the middle of the period the other day. We were chided none too gently for the gall we showed in disputing the right of way with the implements of earlier, wars. While realizing that the smart thing to do is to let the arrow, steel tip and all, hold possession of any land it traverses, we somewhat resent being pushed around by a couple of pieces of wood and a leather thong. Archery is a healthful sport. It is fine for girls to learn to support cupid by the practice thereof. It is not so fine to endanger vulnerable student anatomies by parking the target in front of a thoroughfare. We are not sure the stadium corner would be the place. We are not sure where the best place would be, but we feel sure that the present location is about the worst. We'll miss the sight of beautiful young girls drawing the bow, but we'll feel a lot easier in our mind as we pass.—H.M. Auburn tennis courts look like a plowed field after a thunder-shower. The new ones are under construction . . . the old ones under destruction. The New Classroom Building is still as bell-less as a lost calf. We'd even like a radio hook-up with Denny Chimes. In the absence of the editor, the managing editor, the associate editor, and the sports editor, this issue of the Plainsman was edited by sophomore members of the staff. Taking the places of the editors are Jimmy Gilbert, George Heard, Art Jones, and Warren Fleming. CAMPUS CAMERA PI ains Talk By GEORGE HEARD THE 1ST COLLEGE FRATERNITY, WAS ORGANIZED AT THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND NVARV ON DECEMBER 5J776. ODDLY ENOUGH, OF THE FIVE ORIGINAL FOUNDERS. TWO WERE NAMED SMITH AND 1 ONE JONES' THE KEY WAS FORMERLY A SILVER MEDAL. BUT LATER THE STEM WAS ADDED FOR THE PRACTICAL PURPOSE OF NIGHTLY WINDING THE SCHOLARS • •• WATCH. •••• £ 9 THE PLAINSMAN Published semi-weekly by the Students of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Editorial and Business Office on Tichenor Avenue, Phone 448. Editor may be reached after hours at 627. BOB ANDERSON FRANK B. WILSON W. G. DARTY Editor-in-chief Advertising Manager Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Willard Hayes Managing Editor Herbert Martin Associate Editor John Pierce Sports Editor Mary Dean French Society Editor Merle Woodard Women's Editor Lewis Arnold Staff Photographer NEWS STAFF Redding Sugg, Jimmy Gilbert, C. J. Bastien, Boots Stratford, Art Jones, George Heard, Warren Fleming, Albert Scroggins, Homer Wright, Mary Poor, David Allen, Bob Chisholm, Nick Nigosian, Berta Campbell, and Beverly Kilian. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mail: $2.50 per year, $1.60 per semester. BUSINESS STAFF Joe Gandy Asst. Adv. Mgr. Jimmy Rouse Asst. Adv. Mgr. Warren Nesmith Collections Mgr. Marion Smith Asst. Collections Mgr. Ham Wilson Circulation Mgr. James Thomas Asst. Circulation Manager BUSINESS ASSISTANTS Fred Allison, Alfred Green, Ham Wilson, Woodie Cauley, Quentin Strong, John Scott, Wade South, Emmo Nell Parrish, Carl Schmidt, Jack Berry. Member Associated Colle6iale Press Distributor of (x>lle&iateDi6est General Delivery By REDDING SUGG Except for the occasional clatter of passing cavalry, the practically unattended concert of recorded music sponsored last Sunday afternoon by the Auburn Players was as smooth and full as if a flesh and blood orchestra had been there. Band concerts in the park have played a conspicuous part in the American tradition; and the Players' programs, of which three more are scheduled for the next three Sunday afternoons, have much the same restful quality. * * » * A young woman who had recently been brought into the field of the Salvation Army was standing on a street corner beating a drum and giving testimony. "I was a bad little girl," she sang out, "and I used to smoke! But I got converted, and now I don't do that any more." She beat on the drum. "I was a very bad little girl," she continued, "and I used to drink! But I got converted, and now I don't do that any more." She beat on the drum a little more. "I was a terrible little girl, and I used to go around with married men! But I got converted, and now I don't do that any more." She started to beat on the drum again, but she stopped. "In fact," she confided to passers-by, "I don't do anything any more but beat this damned drum." * * * * The ODK project to place water fountains behind Samford Hall is, I hope, an indication of a reviving desire on the part of the student body to give memorial gifts to the school. Auburn is somewhat lacking in that traditional love of alma mater which has made so many schools both in England and in this country the beloved institutions they are. I wish the custom of class gifts to the college could be resumed. Benches and fountains and the like with little bronze plaques on them add a great deal to the atmospheres of colleges. * * * * I have been very much interested in Harry Hopkins, the President's friend and adviser, especially since he assumed his unique place as First Boarder of the land. In last week's Saturday Evening Post the first of two articles about Hopkins, written by Marquis Childs of "Sweden—the Middle Way" fame, is extremely impressive. Hopkins certainly has a seldom equalled gold mine of material for sensational autobiography; and as soon as his daughter Diana is old enough, I'll bet she gets rich on her memoirs. * * * * Last summer I was hiking in the North Carolina mountains on the American Youth Hostel Trails. At Max Patch the AYH trail coincides with the famous Georgia-to-Maine Appalachian Trail, and for fifteen miles or so hostelers clamber over Snowbird Mountain. Somewhere along this stretch my companion and I separated; and, after several hours of vertical struggling, I noted with dismay that the trail was no longer with me. After admitting to myself that I was lost, I felt like another Daniel Boone as I started following a half-dry stream, which obviously couldn't go anywhere but down. At length I came upon a shanty, and on its sagging porch reclined a mountaineer whose main characteristics were a somnolent head and big, bare, and exceedingly black feet. In answer to my request for directions, this disreputable person mumbled, not to me, but to the landscape, "Them as gits themselves lost ought to git themselves found agin without bother-in' other folks." And so back to the descending stream. * * * * This year's Glomerata deserves a great deal of praise because it succeeds more thoroughly than any of its predecessors with which I am familiar in presenting an accurate pictorial record of the college. I pay it the highest compliment an annual can get when I say that it is actually the Diary of API, 1940-41. War—Right or Wrong? An Editorial by VIVIAN STALLWORTH "The United States is already at war on the moral and spiritual front." (We quote a statement made by the United States Office of Education, Washington, D. C.) "Its institutions, its way of life, its principles of democracy, its form of government are being attacked NOW by organized propaganda machines. Dictators openly announce that they plan to attack all democratic societies by propaganda designed to confuse, frighten, divide and demoralize the citizens. Only as a last resort do they intend to defeat a democracy by force of arms." The evil of propaganda lies in the fact that it stifles individuality and tends to form for us (though we are unconscious of the fact) convictions which we would never adopt if we should only think things out for ourselves. Our convictions, regardless of the manner in which they are formed, determine the stand we take in regard to war. We all are probably anxious to find the Christian solution to the problem of war. But what are we doing to find this solution? To whom are we going for advice? There is no earthly person who can tell us, "Thu is the right attitude toward war and that is wrong". The question of war is one that each of us mutt answer, and one that each must answer for himself. To find the Christian solution we must consult Christ. Let us pray over the matter and have faith that God will direct us in such a way that some day love will rule the world, casting out all hate, jealousy, and greed, the source of war and its evils. 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. Subbing for these feature writers who suddenly decide to take a "short vacation" is getting to be a habit. The SV disease seems to be contagious too. First it was the Filcher, Art Jones and now it is the Plains Talker, Herbert Martin. Guess it must be the atmosphere this time of year or to put it Plains Talk—just pure laziness. * * * Still can't figure out why all this sudden dissension about South and Latin American countries. I don't see any reason why we should not be friends with them; more reason to than not to. Takes a lot less energy to smile at somebody than to frown at them, and right now I can use all the energy I can get. Maybe this is TOO Plains. * * * When I walked in the office a few minutes ago I over heard some one on the business staff remark that H.M. kept on one subject too much and the subjects he spoke on weren't the least bit interesting. I'm trying to keep off one subject but as far as finding something interesting to write about is concerned, that is a horse of another color. Or shape. Or sumpin'. * * * Just had a gander at the new Glomerata and for once the editorial staff of the Plainsman wishes to congratulate the Graff Wave heads. That is some book and they have really done a swell job which is going to be hard to beat in the coming years. We haven't seen any digs at the Plainsman so far but we hardly think it possible that they would let such a good opportunity to slip by without saying something —even if it is bound to be bad as is expected. * * * Spring will soon be over and then summer will roll around and in three months falLwill be back and bring with it school and more trouble. It won't be long now. Just like prosperity, always just around the corner. School itself is not so bad. In fact, I can even get something out of a couple of my classes, but it is this idea of final exams in the heat of the day (or any temperature) that makes me wonder if it is all worth it. * * * Running out of dope to write about I turned to our extensive library up here. We have all of one book and it is a text book which belongs to some student who left it up here the night of the election. Guess the poor boy must have lost it and was too heart broken to remember he went to school. Can't say as I can blame him, because with half the student body against politicians and the other half too young to vote for or against him, it is all but discouraging to the future Senators and Presidents of our country. * * * After rereading that last paragraph I can't understand how I got off on the subject of politicians and their problems. Anybody subbing for a feature writer for one issue has enough problems without bringing in anything new. * * * Anyway, getting back to this book I found in our "extensive" library, I found that a good and successful writer must have several qualities that the average person doesn't need. One of these is a nose that senses the news and the unique. This may give some of our budding freshmen writers the wrong idea, so if any suspicious characters are seen about, the best plan would be to ignore them. * * * Another "good quality" to have is an indispensible note book which can be purchased in any five and ten store. The purpose of this little item is to record the "tips" and scoops that might slip the rriind before the writer has time to forget. I guess this is to give the writer confidence. * * * I was told to write a lot of nonsense when I started this bit of journalism but even a red-head has some seriousness about him. Most of this stuff has been just plain ramblings anyway and not much sense either. * * * Despite all of this roaming about I have enjoyed the "trip" and the work and I only hope you don't stop reading H. M.'s column because of this. Merry Christmas. (It's not far off.) Why Shouldn't This Happen? (Editor's Note: This is an article that appeared on the editorial page of the April 19th. issue of the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American. The point is obvious.) Pressure on the American-British lines was terrific. The Huns and their Asiatic allies were sending over thousands of bombing and fighter planes. Tons of high explosives and millions of machine gun bullets were raining death into the fields, the woodlands and the trenches. Weary-eyed, haggard staff officers huddled over maps. Their breathing rasped through white, tight lips. An orderly stepped forward suddenly and saluted: "A messenger, General." '"Bring him in." A white-faced aide in the intelligence section reported. He saluted. "Well?" said the General. "Sir, the enemy soon will be through our center. The battle is lost." The officers leaped up. "What?" they- cried. "Yes Sir; it pains me to report Sir, but the entire enlisted personnel of the Oak and Iron Divisions have struck." "What?" screamed the officers. "Yes, Sir, struck is what I said, Sir. "The men have appointed divisional committees which sent me to report, Sir, that they are serving the usual five-day notice of intention to quit. The infantry intends to stick their rifles, muzzle- first, in the mud; the air force intends to jimmy the plane motors; and the artillery intends to wreck all firing mechanism unless their demands are met. The committee is outside now, Sir." "Bring them in." Six soldiers, unmarked by battle, enter. "Who are you?" cries the General. As spokesman for our abused mates," said one, "I am an organizer in charge of bargaining $ for the Oak and Iron Division enlisted personnels. "Briefly, and to arrive quickly at the point, the men have held a collective labor election and mass-meeting. "They have itemized the following complaints: " 1 . On Thursday last one of our agents discovered in a field "" kitchen garbage can a flour sack which did not carry the imprint of the Union of Amalgamated sack Weavers. We refuse to eat any bread made from flour packed in such non-union sacks. "2. We also have definite information that the boots found on the body of a lieutenant were manufactured from the hide of a Brazilian bull in defiance of the federal laws prohibiting the use of the meat or skins of foreign-raised beef animals. "3. The men further demand that the base pay scale for privates be raised 20 cents an hour during non-action periods and 50 cents an hour during battle periods. "4. It also is further demanded that Private Jimgin who recently was deprived of his first-class ratings for slowing down during an infantry charge, be restored to active duty and be promoted to a first lieutenant and that his pay raise be retroactive to the first of January. "Within the next five days, unless our terms are met, we will proceed to do our duty by our organization and order the men, not only to cease fighting, but to sabotage all equipment in both divisions." As the six organizers turned to leave a tumult started outside the tent. The officers rushed to the tent flap and peered into the faces of *--2?" German shock troops who had cracked through the "struck" center and enveloped the general staff headquarters. "Is this one of the prices a Democracy has to pay?" muttered the General, as he was marched off between two German guards. April 25, 1941 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three PiKA s To Entertain With Annual Party Show, Dances and Outings Planned The Pi Kappa Alpha social fraternity will entertain out of town guests, faculty members that are alumni of the chapter, and members and pledges with its annual spring week-end of fun. The festivities will include a picture show party, a morning dance, a barbecue and the annual barefoot house dance, which will wind up the week-end on Saturday night. Tonight the chapter will entertain guests with a picture show party. The entire group will meet at the chapter house and after supper will go to the Tiger. After the movie, dancing will be enjoyed at the house. The Auburn Plainsman will play for the PiKA morning dance which will be held at the Girls' Gym from 11 until 1 tomorrow. In the afternoon members, dates and guests will invade Chewacla park for games, barbecue, and the traditional "Boozer Pitts bruns-wick stew", concocted for the chapter annually by Professor Pitts himself. The annual "Bare-foot Jook" will be held at the chapter mansion tomorrow night. Members of the faculty who are alumni of the fraternity, and out of town guests will be entertained by the members and pledges of the local chapter. Members and their dates include: Joe Gandy, Nell Lazenby; Robert Snow, Mary Hazel Ford; Walter Going, Dot Smith; Mac Saturday ALONG THE RIO GRANDE' With TIM HOLT Owl Show 'LUCKY DEVILS' With RICHARD ARLEN ANDY DEVINE ALSO NOVELTY: "Take It Or Leave It" Sunday-Monday April 27-28 'THAT NIGHT IN RIO' ALICE FAYE DON AMECHE CARMEN MIRANDA (IN TECHNICOLOR) The Year's Great Glamour-Musical H it! The Show of Your Dreams, Gay, Romantic, Tuneful! Don't Miss It! HITS—you'll soon be humming! "Chica, Chica, Boom, Chic" (It don't make sense—but it's immense!) "I'Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi" (I Like You Very Much) "Boa Noite" (Good Night) "They Met in Rio" (A Midnight Serenade) ADDED TREAT: Late News and Popeye Cartoon! Regular Prices! No Advance! Davis, Becky Rankin; Ham Wilson, Margaret Crane; Lansing Smith, Louise Sivley; Jim Sta-hnke, Reid Anderson; Jimmy Brown, Ann Barratt; Hampton McRae, Jean Gittings. Allen Nottingham, M a r i on Tompkins; R. N. Yarbrough III, Margaret Alice Terry; Charles Bradford, Ernestine Lloyd; Jack Dandridge, Jean Hollingsworth; Bob Ramey, Jean Atkins; Walker Richmond, Alice Kennedy; Car-lyle McCulloch, Betty Foxx; Jack Berry, Betty Barnes; Bill Smith, Beverly Kilian; Jack Willis, Rebecca Williamson. Bill Rotenberry, Louise Thrash; Bill Penn, Luella Haselton; Bill Sherling, Dottie Norman; Callen Aired, Lillian Luke; Frances McCulloch, Helen Wagner and Li-nelle Dobbins; Wade South, Jeanne McMullen; Eugene McEachin, Frances Plaxco. Michelson Named to Prexyship of TEP In Recent Election The Tau Omicron chapter of Tau Epsilon Psi has selected Harold Michelson, junior in Pharmacy, as Chancellor for the coming year. Robert Fry has been elected to serve as vice-chancellor and also representative to the Interfrater-nity Council from the fraternity. Morton Novick was elected secretary of the organization, and J. M. Silverstein was chosen scribe. Norman Cohen will serve as chaplain. Makes Part Expenses By Being 'Fire-Eater' CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — (ACP) Reed B. Dawson of Mount Vernon, N. Y., is paying part of his college expenses by acting as a "fire-eater." He is a junior at Harvard and his acts have made him a popular attraction at Boston parties. His specialty is setting fire to his hands and letting the flames creep up his arms. "It really only tickles," he said, "though most people think you are burning to death. I do it all with chemicals." Swallowing fire, he said, is just like breathing in warm air — if done properly. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. I Cuts made for all printing purpose^ I in an up-to-date plantby I expert workmen^ - ^ Thefa U Sorority To Have Steak Fry Patronnesses of Local Chapter Feted Today The Theta Upsilon sorority is giving a steak fry this afternoon in honor of the sorority patronnesses. Mrs. Bob Smith, Miss Eleanor Home, Mrs. J. T. Fain, Mrs. H. W. Nixon, and Mrs. F. W. Applebee are the ladies being feted at the party. The steak fry will be held at Chewacla Park. All members and pledges of the sorority and their dates will attend the event. Members and their dates include: Alice Little, Enos Clark; Ruth Williams, W. T. Kyser; Mildred Davis, Lamar Phillips; Ruby Morrison, Bennie Edwards; Helen Arauss, George Taylor; Ruth Prentiss, John Maddox; Mary Elizabeth Pritchett, William Clarence Pritchett; Earle Rives, Charlie Smith; Jean Black, Tom Bull-ington; Katie Lee Robinson, Jimmy Jowers. Fonda, Stanwyck In Film at Tiger "The Lady Eve" Shows Sunday and Monday If ever a picture showed promise of being the comedy hit of the year it is Paramount's new excursion into the laugh field, "The Lady Eve," written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in the chief comedy roles. Featured in the brilliant cast of the picture, which will be shown Sunday and Monday at the Tiger Theatre, are such always-welcome players as Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Martha O'Driscoll and Luis Alberni. Even Hollywood, supposed to be accustomed to the unusual, was amazed at the rapid-fire pace that Sturges set when he completed three pictures in approximately a year. The remarkable thing is that they're all hits! First came "The Great McGinty," which Sturges then followed up with last season's solid comedy success, "Christmas in July." Now, he comes up with a picture, "The Lady Eve," which advance reports say is the best thing Sturges has done to date. Hollywood is already hailing Sturges as a genius at handling comedy. "The Sturges touch" is by way of becoming as real and distinguished as the vaunted "Lubitsch touch." "The Lady Eve" is about a rich young man, an expert on snakes, a naive fellow, not very worldly, who becomes the target for a gang of slick international cardsharps, as he is returning aboard ship from an Amazonian expedition. The beautiful leader of the sharp- Betty Sanitone W$**ff. c* *r \M M(0Sf VWIIOM Here's How to Foil Their Attack . . . Sanitone dry cleaning kills moth eggs and larvae. So before putting away winter woolens, be sure to have them Sanitoned. If you wish, we'll return them in sealed, mothproof bags, so they'll stay fresh and clean until you're ready to wear them again. IDEAL LAUNDRY Phones 193 * 294 Commerce Ball to Be Held Tonight in Graves Center; Plainsmen Will Play Commerce Queen to Be Announced; Dance Will Be Semi-Formal Affair The annual Commerce Ball will be held tonight at 9:00 in Graves Center. The Ball, which has been sponsored by Delta Sigma Pi honorary business fraternity for the last several years, will be highlighted by the presentation of the coed chosen as Commerce Queen. The selection of the Commerce Queen was made by the students of Business Administration and Secretarial Training in the election last Wednesday. The nominees for the successor to Betty Belle Brandt, last year's choice as "Queen of the Commerce Ball" included Sara Boles, Notasulga; Frances Plaxco, Russellville; Dot Smith, Union Springs; Frances ^Ellis, Centre; Madrid Davis, Auburn; Monta Mitchell, Tallassee; Martha Gardner, Huntsville; Annie Lyde Lewis, Tuskegee; Jean Atkins, Jasper; Helen Jordan, Birmingham; Doris Greeson, Ce-dartown, Georgia; and Willie Chase, St. Petersburg, Florida. The election for the Commerce Queen is probably the only election of the campus the result of which is really secret. Not even the president of Delta Sigma Pi, national professional fraternity which is sponsoring the election, knows who has been chosen until he receives the notice from the professors who will count the votes. This year the results will not be known until the time for the presentation of the winner at the ball tonight. Even the winning coed herself will not know until she hears her name read by the orchestra leader. All Business Administration and Secretarial Training students were eligible to vote in the election Wednesday, and most of them did vote. Frank Wilson, president of Delta Sigma Pi, said that the number of voters exceeded the number of bids. He had to have another supply printed so that each voter could be given a bid to the dance when he voted. The young ladies who have been nominated for the title of Commerce Queen will attend the dance tonight, and just previous to the leadout, the winner of the title will be announced and presented with a bouquet of red roses, the flower of the fraternity. The girls will be lined up in a semi-circle at the opposite end of the hall from the band at the time As president of Delta Sigma Phi, Frank Wilson, senior from Greenville, will have the job of presenting a bouquet of red roses to some Auburn coed tonight at the Commerce Day Ball, thus notifying her that she has been selected Commerce Queen. sters is Barbara Stanwyck, who didn't plan to let love take a hand when she marked the rich young man, Henry Fonda, as a card victim. When Fonda learns she's a double-dealer at cards, he's sure she's a double-crosser about being in love with him, and he quits her. But Barbara can't be brushed off that easily. Posing as a titled Englishwoman, "The Lady Eve," she gains entrance into the circle of wealthy families Fonda hobnobs with, through the aid of a former confederate, Eric Blore, who presents her as his niece. Fonda allows himself to be convinced he has never seen "Lady Eve" before, and sets down her resemblance to the beautiful cardsharp as a miraculous coincidence. Although he's still in love with the clever card-lady, he marries the girl he believes to be her double, "The Lady Eve." From this set of circumstances, Sturges has woven what advance reports agree is some of the smartest comedy in many screen seasons. For Fonda, his role in the Sturges picture must have come like sunlight into a dark-gray scene, for his last few pictures have been rather on the grim, dramatic side. In this picture, however, Fonda slips the tether and is allowed to run riot in light, farcical comedy. He even is permitted the luxury of wearing evening clothes after being in rough denim and dungarees in films for so long. Miss Stanwyck, too, gets a chance to don some eye-opening clothes. As a matter of fact, Sturges, in one scene, says in his script, "She wears a nightgown that makes our senses reel." Patronize Plainsman advertisers. Automobile Loans If you are interested in purchasing a new car, or obtaining a loan upon the car you now own, call or see— Harvey C. Pitts, Agent Phone 375 Auburn, Ala. of the event. After the leader of the orchestra reads the winner's name, Frank Wilson, president of Delta Sigma Pi, will go to the winner and present her with the flowers, then walk with her to the front of the hall. The elections committee has taken precautions that no one should learn the name of the winner. The name of the winning coed has been written on a sheet of paper and sealed, and it will not be opened until tonight at the dance. The Auburn Plainsmen will play for the semi-formal affair. Decorations will be simple, consisting of the pin and fraternity name on the backdrop behind the band. All members of honorary organizations on the campus have been sent bids to the dance. Members and dates of the fraternity will be served breakfast at the College Inn following the dance. Members from Delta Sigma Pi chapters at LSU, University of Alabama, the University of Georgia, and the Evening School in Atlanta will attend. »»4»<*»» WITH OUR APPROPRIATE GREETING CARDS we have many kinds thai- " diploma -atically" say just the right thing to the boy or girl graduate. BURTONS BOOK STORE "Something New Every Day" Delta Zeta National Officer Visits Here Pan-Hellenic Tea Honors Visitor Mrs. Guy-H. Gale, national inspecting officer for Delta Zeta sorority, will arrive here this week-end to inspect Beta Xi chapter of the sorority. Mrs. Gale is national membership vice-president of Delta Zeta, and is from San Francisco, Cal. She will come Sunday evening, and is planning to be in Auburn for four days. Kappa Delta will entertain for the Pan-Hellenic Council at a tea Tuesday afternoon from four until five-thirty. In the receiving line will be, besides Mrs. Gale, Dr. Rosa Lee Walston, Dean of Women, and the presidents of the different campus sororities. The alumnae group of Delta Zeta here, with Mrs. J. C. Grimes as chairman, will give a luncheon Tuesday in honor of Mrs. Gale. The affair will be at the Clement Hotel in Opelika. The Delta Zeta chapter will be host at a pajama party Monday night for Mrs. Gale. Dolores Sanders is president of Delta Zeta. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. Hannum, Thomas, And Pitts Attend Engineer Conclave Three members of the Engineering staff left Thursday afternoon to attend the annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, to be held Friday and Saturday, May 25 and 26 in Lexington, Kentucky. Those who are attending the meeting are Dean J. E. Hannum, Prof. A. L. Thomas, and Prof. Robert G. Pitts. After attending the meeting, the men will return to Auburn Sunday by motor. Subject of a paper delivered before the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters: "The Effect of the Histamine Antagon-i s t , Thymoxyethyldiethylmaline (929F) on Gastric Secretion." Dr. Egbert S. Wengert of the University of Wisconsin has been appointed to fill the Carter Glass chair of government at Sweet Briar college. LOST — Kappa Sigma fraternity pin, plain without initials. Reward. Tel. 864. John Belue. The Season's Smartest " Young Fashions For Young Women . . . . BURGERS FASHION SALON THIRD FLOOR BURGER'S BUDGET SHOP FOURTH FLOOR BURGERS SPORTS SHOP FOURTH FLOOR For Young Men V • * • BURGERS MENS STORE FIRST FLOOR ANNEX BURGER-PHILLIPS We Fe about POETS always call the violet the shrinking violet. We feel bad about anything that shrinks — but chiefly shirts. So we've spent our life making the shirt that doesn't shrink, the ARROW shirt. It's Sanforized Shrunk, which means fabric shrinkage less than 1%. Its Mitoga figure fit is superb and its collar is the world's finest. College men everywhere prefer Arrows. Try an Arrow Gordon today. $2 UP ARROW SHIRTS COLLARS . . . TIES . . . HANDKERCHIEFS . . . UNDERWEAR Sold Exclusively in Opelika at HAGEDORN'S Page Four THE P L A I N S M AN April 25, 1941 Laboratory Unique in U.S. Operated Here Tillage Lab Tests Farming Machinery By BEDDING SUGG A laboratory unique in the United States and in some respects in the world has been in operation at Auburn since its completion in 1935. The little known Tillage Machinery Laboratory, a part of the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering, is located in the middle of the Alabama Experiment Station, with which it cooperates. The laboratory was established, according to its official descriptive bulletin, to provide facilities for comprehensive studies of tillage tools under controlled conditions in a variety of soils. Plows, harrows, and other tillage implements can be tested under different soil conditions within a very short time without the objectionable variables which are encountered in field testing. The principal building of the laboratory contains offices, a soils laboratory, a photographic dark room, a drafting room, a machine shop, and storage space for heavy equipment. The largest part of the laboratory consists of 11 bins or plots of soil, seven of which are 20 feet wide and 250 feet long and the remaining four of which are 20 by 125 feet. All the bins are two feet deep and separated by reinforced concrete walls along which run heavy H-beam rails used in the operation of testing equipment. On these rails run a soil-fitting car, a power car, and cover cars, each of which is wide enough to bridge the bins so that only the tool being tested touches the soil. The equipment for fitting soils to the desired conditions for testing consist of a tractor or utility car in which various types of tillage implements may be mounted. Fitting soils for testing includes a number of operations depending on the state in which the soils were left by preceding tests. Lumps are broken up and smoothed out, the subsoil is evenly worked, the plot is rolled into any desired compactness, and, if necessary, water is applied to achieve any desired moisture content. The plot is finally "shaved" just before the test is run to as nearly a plane surface as possible. The test equipment consists of two major units, a power car on which is mounted a special instrument called a dynamometer and Engineers' Banquet Held Wednesday at Pitts Green Room The Student Engineers' Council held a banquet Wednesday night in the Pitts Hotel Green Room as the last official meeting of the year. Dr. L. N. Duncan arid most members of the engineering faculty were present, as well as members of the Council. Leroy Thompson, president of the group, presided for the first part of the meeting as toastmaster, and turned the seat over to Hold-man Baker, newly elected president, at the conclusion of the meal. After the banquet, members and guests were entertained with a baseball movie short. Odds and Ends By BOB CHISHOLM the test unit car. The dynamometer measures the components of the draft of the tools being tested and records them on a graph. The test unit measures and records the forces necessary to hold various tools in their working positions. The power car is an unusual piece of machinery which straddles the plots, resting on eight large pneumatic tires which run along the tracks on the dividing walls. It weighs nine tons and furnishes a motive power of from 0.2 miles an hour to 10 miles an hour with its 135 h.p. gasoline motor. Photographic equipment is a-vailable to record the features of tests. In addition to equipment for taking of still pictures, motion picture cameras may be used to record the action of any -tool or machine as it is tested. The soils in the bins are selected to obtain as broad a variation as possible in soil characteristics which affect the behavior of tillage machinery and implements. Soils at the laboratory include Norfolk Sand and Cecil Clay from local lands; Lufkin, Huston, Oktibbeha, and Eutaw Clays from the Alabama Black Belt; Sharkey Clay from the Mississippi Delta; Decatur Clay from the Tennessee Valley; and Davidson Loamy Sand and Clay. To avoid as far as possible the introduction of variables into the tests, the soils in the laboratory bins are kept free of vegetation. After four years in the bins the soils show no significant changes from the field soils from which they were dug. The soils are protected by cover cars made of tin ! ! ! ! ! Our profession is your business! Our profession is vital to health . . • to your well being in time of sickness . . . it is your business as well as ours. You can have confidence that the. prescriptions written by your doctor will be followed to the letter. College training, State examination and registration plus long experience have given your pharmacist competence. Telephone 606 GEO. M. BAYNE DRUGCIST NEXT DOOR TO THEATRE Last Monday an announcement was made that the ROTC cadets would be permitted to wear cotton shirts to drill for the remainder of the year was welcome news. We have campaigned for quite a while for this change. Our writing may or may not have had anything to do with it, but we feel that the military department has the interest of the cadets at heart. A change in the regulation uniform requires quite a bit of red tape, and one of the main reasons for hesitancy in doing something about the heavy wool uniforms is that the student will have to pay an extra amount for the issuance of a cotton uniform. The military department is working on some scheme to settle the situation, and hopes to have something settled very soon. They should be congratulated for their actions in regards to the uniform situation. * * * The ODK-Musical Miscellany was a glorious success. The mobs and mobs of people who packed, jammed and crowded into Langdon Hall Tuesday night certainly got their money's worth. Every act] was excellent, and API ghould be proud that there is so much talent on the campus. A grand idea would be to have such a show about once every three months. This would give the the atrically inclined people a chance to produce a few shows. * * * The new Glomeratas are worthy of plenty of orchids. We think the cover is one of the most distinctive covers ever to grace an Auburn year book, and we have seen them New Uniform Rules Given Again as Student Reminder In order that confusion may be cleared up as to the correct uniform on different occasions, the Plainsman once again publishes the regulations set up by the Military Department. 1. After Tuesday, April 22nd, the uniform for drill will be uniform caps, civilian cotton shirts, any color without neck ties, uniform trousers, black shoes. Cadet officers will wear white shirts, black ties, Sam Browne belts and sabers. 2. There will be no drill on Thursday, May 8th and Tuesday, May 13th. Tuesday, May 6th, will be a practice review preparatory to the review for the inspectiong officer, May 12th. 3. There will be a review of .the entire Corps Saturday, May 10th, at 11:00 a.m. for the Alumni. Uniform for all members of the Corps: Uniform cap, white shirt with black tie, belt, uniform trousers, black shoes. 4. For the annual inspection May 12th and 13th, the uniform cap, grey shirt, black tie, grey trousers and black shoes are required for all ROTC classess. For drill and review at 3:00 p.m. Monday, May 12th, the uniform will be caps, blouses, white shirts, black ties, grey trousers, black shoes. 5. Uniform f o r competitive drill and graduation parade will the same as for the inspection parade. which ward off the effects both of excessive rain and of drought with equal efficiency. In order to obtain the greatest return from the investment in the Tillage Machinery Laboratory, manufacturers of tillage tools are invited to make use of the available facilities in any way which may be of value in improving their products. Data from such tests is considered confidential and is never published without the consent of the cooperating manufacturers. back as far as 1909. The members of the Glomerata staff should be complimented for their laborious efforts for they have turned out a very worthy product. * » * The lines of students waiting for the Glomeratas last night reminded us of the queues of people waiting for food in France. There was one very noticeable difference, our students all had pleased looks on their faces. As a matter of fact they seemed at peace with the whole world in general. * * * The crowded condition of Lang' don Hall last night would have been a fire inspector's nightmare. Such conditions are far from safe, and although a fire is not probable, it is not impossible. It is terrify ing to think what would have happened Tuesday night had a conflagration broken out. A mob like that would not have left the place in an orderly fashion. A great, great many would never have left the place. * * * To Harvard College: Please accept my apologies for giving Princeton University the credit of putting on the Hasty Pudding Show. This will never happen again. * * * The government is getting ideas of extending the selective service training to two years. At this rate we'll never get out of school. And there'll be a lot of young ladies who may have to join the lonely heart clubs of the country. * * * IN AND OUT OVER THE CAMPUS: It is raining again! New we really feel as though we are in Auburn. . . . Rumor has it that the Rockettes have been signed up by Ziegfield, Billy Carroll, and Flo Rose to terrorize the Germans. Could be! . . . The campus is covered with Glomerata-glancing students. . . . Wonder when next year's Glomerata is coming out? Oracles to Assist Sphinx in Drive Will Help Raise Funds For Recreational Cabin Oracles honor society for girls will not attempt to carry out a project of its own this year, but will instead assist Sphinx, its "big sister" organization, in the construction of a recreational cabin for women students. Members of Oracles are making macaroons for sale in the Quadrangle. Billy Tamblyn, local high school boy and the winner of the recent state-wide high school piano contest held here, and his sister, Ann, appeared on the program of Oracles recently. He played several selections, and accompanied his sister as she sang two solos. Prof. E. A. Bond, of the psychology department, spoke at the meeting held prior to this last one. Sara Smith is chairman of the committee for arranging the meeting programs, Dr. Rosa Lee Walston, Dean of Women, entertained members of Oracles and Sphinx at a picnic just before the Spring Holidays. The affair took place at Chewacla State Park. Beta Kappa Wins From Lambda Chi In Softball Scrap Beta Kappa, winner of last year's softbaH tourney, got off to a flying start in this year's intramural warfare by dumping the Lambda Chi Alpha aggregation, 3 to 2. Norman Hall, all-campus basketball star, pitched the Beta Kappa ten to this initial victory in league competition this year. Warren Darty, pitching for the Lambda Chi's, tied the game with a homer after the Beta Kappa's had taken an early lead, but the Beta Kappa squad came back to capture the close fracas. Sigma Phi Epsilon to Have Convention For Chapters in the Southern States For Men Who Must Have Dependable Styling . . . . See Us FREEMAN & FORTUNE SHOES KOPLON'S Opelika'a Beat Shoe Store University of Toledo's defense program is the largest of its kind in Ohio. Special engineering courses have attracted 1,140 students. 'That Night in Rio' At Martin Sunday Ameche, Faye, Miranda Star in Exotic Movie The glamour and romance suggested by the soft Brazilian moon, the throbbing rhythm of the Samba, and the tantalizing movements of exotic dancers provide the background for 20th Century- Fox's Technicolor, musical, "That Night in Rio," which stars Alice Faye, Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda, and opens Sunday at the Martin Theatre. This latest cinematic contribution of the studio that produced "Down Argentine Way" and "Tin Pan Alley" is sprinkled with catchy tunes by those master tunesmiths, Mack Gordon and Harry Warren. The vivacious Carmen, who is accompanied by her Banda Da Lua, finds plenty of reasons to sing and dance when "I'yi, Yi, Yi, Yi," "Chica, Chica, Boom Chic," "Boa Noite" (Good Night), "They Met in Rio" and "The Baron Is in Conference" are played. Neatly interspersed with the catchy tunes "That Night in Rio" is the intriguing story of a double-dealing double, Don Ameche, who portrays first an American night club performer in love with his singing and dancing partner, the glamorous Carmen Miranda. But he is also a Brazilian boulevardier, Baron Buarte, married to the alluring Alice Faye. It is comedy at its best, and according to preview critics, it is tops as entertainment. Carmen Miranda, who was so sensational in "Down Argentine Way," is given a chance to act a full-length role in "That Night in Rio." As the flighty, fiery songstress, she displays her violent disapproval of her American boy friend in both English and Portuguese. The Brazilian "Bombshell" introduces her native dance, the Samba, to the American movie audience, and the chorus, trained by Miss Miranda, and Dance Director Hermes Pan, is said to be outstanding. Alice Faye emerges in "That Night in Rio" as an ultra-smart and fashionably gowned society queen. As the wife of the baron her outfits are striking—and her songs are, as always, a highlight of the film. The full richness of Rio's night life and the vivid costumes of the performers are captured by the magic of Technicolor. Amidst these gorgeous surroundings Director Irving Cummings has fashioned an outstanding piece of entertainment. The supporting cast, which includes S. Z. Sakall, J. Carrol Naish, Curt Bois and Leonid Kins-key, all accomplished character actors, has received its share of the plaudits. The screen play, Notice to All A.P.L Seniors We have arranged with the Chevrolet Motor Company to provide all Seniors with Chevrolet automobiles who are interested in buying an automobile at this time. For f u r t h e r information regarding prices, etc., see us. Tatum Motor Co* OPELIKA . Eight Chapters t o Be Represented in the Annual Affair The Alabama Alpha Chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity will hold a District Convention this week-end for the Chapters in the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Districts. The convention is designed to aid the individual chapters in their rushing, pledging, and other problems. The Convention Director is Willis B. Hayes who has planned an interesting program for the visitors which will last for two days this week-end, Saturday and Sunday. The fraternity has made plans to accommodate the representatives of the eight fraternity chapters which will be'represented at the convention. There will be a banquet at the Pitts Hotel Saturday night and immediately afterwards there will be a house dance at the chapter house. The Convention will officially begin at nine o'clock Saturday morning when the meeting is called to order and the roll is called. At 9:15, Felix Turnipseed, the newly elected President of the Auburn chapter, will welcome the visitors. The District Governor will then give a talk explaining the purpose of the District Convention and outlining the program of the events of the week-end and the subjects to be discussed. A paper will then be handed out to the various representatives on t he problems and facts about rushing. A round table discussion will then be held on this subject. At ten o'clock another paper will be presented dealing with the That Night in Rio," was by George Seaton, Bess Meredyth and Hal Long. Additional dialogue was contributed by Samuel Hoff-enstein. To prevent spread of tuberculosis, New York city's four municipal colleges now require X-ray examinations of the chests to all entering students. subject of pledge training and this will be followed by another round table discussion participated in by all the representatives present. Mr. Ralph Draughon will speak to the convention on the subject of scholarship. Mr. Draughon is the Executive Secretary of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Immediately after his address the convention will adjourn for lunch. The afternoon session will begin at 2:00 o'clock, at which time a paper will be presented on the subject of Chapter House Management and Administration. This will be followed by a round table discussion. At 3:00 o'clock another will be presented on the rela- i tions of the actives and the alumni and the members of the group will then discuss the matter. The District Governor will begin several discussions at 4:00 o'clock. The first one will be "The Chapter Advisors Program," the second one will be "The Executive Committee Ruling on Inactive Membership" and the last one will be on the subject of "Conscription and its possible effects on Chapter memberships." A recess will then be declared until the banquet at 6:15 at the Pitts HoteL-The toastmaster of the banquet will be the president of the host chapter, Felix Turnipseed, and the speaker of the night will be Dr. Herman D. Jones, Auburn. The convention will terminate on Sunday morning when the unfinished business will be discussed and the problems of "Fraternity Ideals" and "Intramural and In-terfraternity Activities" will be talked about. The Convention will end with dinner at the Alabama Alpha Chapter House at 1:00. The Chapters at the Universities of Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi will be represented as well as the chapters at Georgia Tech and Mississippi State. KELLY CABS Nice Cars — Courteous Drivers PHONE 9155 _____ Students! When ever possible patronize the BIRMINGHAM CONCERNS Advertising in this PLAINSMAN They are real Auburn supporters "The Business Staff Of The Plainsman" April 25, 1941 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Five College Libraries Receive Many More Books; Main Library Gets Majority All Six Department* Get Book Allotments The following new books were added to campus libraries during the two weeks from April 3 to April 17, according to an official list released by the Main Library. Main Library Arnold, "A Son of the First People." B u c h a n, "Mountain Meadow." Holmes, "Salt of the Earth." Niven, "Mine Inheritance." Sinclair, "Mountain City." Panneton, "Thirty Acres." Mc- Cluskey, "Bronson Alcott, Teacher." Winslow, "The Life of Hermann M. Biggs." Guerini, "The Life and Works of Giuseppangelo I Fonzi." Derleth, "Still Small Voice; Biography of Zona Gale." Holmes, "Holmes-Pollock Letters." Leopold, "Robert Dale Owen." Percy, "Lanterns on the Levee." Ware, "Jacob A. Riis." Hughes, "The Gentle Hereford, Her Life and Letters." Valtin, "Out of the Night." "Journal of Adult Education, V. 22." "Proceedings, National Conference on Planning." "Stamps, A Weekly Magazine of Philately." Cannon, "American Book Collectors and Collecting from Colonial Times to the Present." Santayana, "Little Essays Drawn from the Writings of George Santayana." Maritain, "The Degrees of Knowledge." Woodger, "The Technique of Theorgy Construction." More, "Platonism." Shorey, "What Plato Said." Maritain, "Three Reformers: Luther — Descartes — Rousseau." Love, "How to Read the Bible." Gewehr, "The G r e at Awakening in Virginia." Knappen, "Tudor Puritanism." Fincher, "Democracy at Work." Beard, "The Old Deal and the New." Eskew, "Guinea Pigs and Bugbears." Frankfurter, "Mr. J u s t i ce Holmes and the Supreme Court." Holoway, "Government and Politics in Alabama." Education Records Bureau, N. Y., "Guidance in Public Secondary Schools." Baird, "Baird'a Manual of American College Fraternities." Bowman, "The College Professor in America." Yeager, "Home-School-Community Relations." Orthovis Company, Chicago, "The Bird Kingdom." Borsook, "Vitamins." G o r d o n , Vitamin Therapy in General Practice." Stepp, "The Vitamins and their Clinical Applications." Salter, "The Endocrine Function of Iodine." Polowe, "The Home Book of Medicine." Lufkin, "A History of Dentistry." Better Vision Institute, "Why We See Like Human Beings." Wood, "Grow Them Indoors." Gregory, "ABC of the Vitamins." Wakefield, "Toll House." Swann, "An Approach to Choral Speech." Reference S h e l f , "Western Hemisphere Defense," "Compulsory Military Training," and "The Monroe Doctrine." Crane, "The Collected Poems of Hart Crane." B r o n s o n , "American Poems." More, "The Demon of the Absolute." Noyes, "Pageant of Letters." Tinker, "The Poetry of Matthew Arnold." Masefield, "Tribute to Ballet." Maxtone, "The Glass- Blower and Other Poems." Santayana, "Poems." Jones, "Spenser Handbook." Grieson, "The Oxford Book of Seventeenth C e n t u r y Verse." White, "The Metaphysical Poets." Schultz, "Gay's Beggar's Opers." France, "On Life and Letters." Toynbee, "A Study of History." Jungman, "Norway" and "Holland." Wilgus, Histories and Historians of Hispanic America." Bemelmans, "The Donkey Inside." Gosnell, "Spanish P e r s o n al Names." Lacroix, "Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance." Pol, "Suicide of a Democracy." Knollenberg, "Washington and the Revolution." Simkins, "The Women of the Confederacy." Summers, "Annals of Southwest Virginia." Rojas, "Estudias Indig-nas." Agriculture Library Whittaker, "A History of Economic Ideas." Hoagland, "Real Estate Principles." Architecture Library McNamara, "Landscape Architecture." Silcock, "Introduction to Chinese Art and History." National Association of Housing Officials "Housing Yearbook." Von Erdberg, "Chinese Influence on European Garden Structure." Chemistry Library American Pharmaceutical Association, Journal. Davision, "Manual of Toxicology." P e r k i n s, "Cause and Prevention of Disease." Mellan, "Industrial Solvents." Engineering Library ' ' Commercial Aeronautics . ' ' "Technology Review." Alabama Personnel Department, "Classification Plan." Fallis, "The Chield and Things." Fielding, "Photoelectric and Selenium Cells." Williams, "Exploring the Arts and Industries." Jackson, "Present Status and Trends of Engineering Education in the United States." Stoever, "Applied Heat Transmission." Ricker, "Electrical Engineering Laboratory Experiments." Smith, "Washroom Methods and Practice in the Power Laundry." Frailey, "How to Write Better Business Letters." M a r i e t, "Vegetable Dyes." Fielding, "The Ferrous Metals." Rayon Publishing Corporation, "Textile Chemical Specialty." Veterinary Library Strain Technology, A Journal for Microtechnic. Gorgas, "William Crawford Gorgas." Luciani, "Human Physiology." Complete dramas, staged and produced at an average cost of $10, are being developed by Wellesley college students in an effort to create inexpensive army camp entertainment. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. THE LADY EVE HAS EVERYTHING! Everything that men go wild about. . . . Everything to make this the fri»kie*t, riskiest entertainment to ever roar across the screen! n SUNDAY MONDAY TIGER DRAKE FIELD 2:00 p.m. - Sunday 1941 Horse Show Events and Contestants CLASS I. SOPHOMORE HORSEMANSHIP—Entrants will exhibit their horses at a walk, trot, and gallop. They will be judged on horsemanship, handling, turns, and backing. Alfred Green Norman Cohen C. D. Hopkins George Heard E. B. Kersh Bill Lynn R. A. Dobbins W. W. Cunningham A. L. Jones J. L. Petrey R. E. McFerrin E. H. Stratmeyer Jim Heard Abe Rosenthal 0. D. Alsobrook E. T. York P. M. Boyd L. E. Bassett George Cowart R. P. Knowles CLASS II. JUNIOR JUMPING—Entrants will follow a coures of six jumps, each three feet, three inches in height. Robert B. Allan Harry B. Huff Davis M. Gammage Charles Dubberly W. B. Moore Charles L. Davis J. H. Gilley J. E. Tanner Jack Fields Charles Grace Robert M. Huff A.. H. Nottingham Sam L. Tisdale CLASS III. LADIES' JUMPING—Entrants will follow a course of five jumps, at a height of three feet, three inches. Jean Yarbrough Doris Greeson Mozelle Breeden Katherine Wright Janet Welsted Jane Smith Suzelle Hare Mary Claire Burns CLASS IV. feet, six inches. Paul Ellis Drew Hale Ross Snellings David Savelle Anna Breeden Melissa Winters Shirley Smith Annice Watkins Mary Helen Smith SENIOR JUMPING—Entrants will follow a course of five jumps, at three Jean Laird Susan Dick Mary B. Bidez Charleroi McCue R. D. Hall W. F. Miller J. M. Hinson A. C. Allen Mitchell Wadkins V. W. Chumley Bill Ellner M. S. Esslinger Marlin Camp L. B. Freeland J. H. Staggers N. J. Adams CLASS V. PAIR JUMPING—Entrants will take a course of six jumps and will make each one three feet, six inches. Anna Breeden-Robert M. Huff Doris Green-Billy Elenor Annice Watkins-Paul Ellis Jean Laird-Charles Cox CLASS VI. LADIES' HORSEMANSHIP—Entrants in this event must be first year riding students not enrolled in Alabama Polytechnic Institute. It is for ladies only. They will show their horses at a walk and trot. Virginia Williamson Susan Lawson Marilyn Reynolds Vina Ditto Betty S. Eaton Frances Fuller CLASS VII. LADIES' HORSEMANSHIP—Entrants in the Ladies' Horsemanship class will exhibit their horses at a walk and a trot. They must be first year students enrolled in API. Doris Carpenter Margaret Kilburn Carolyn Kinsey Beulah Crawford Luella Hasselton Shirley Sargent Katie Lee Robinson Dorothy Johnston CLASS VIII. LADIES' HORSEMANSHIP—Entrants in the Intermediate and Advanced Ladies' Horsemanship class will exhibit their horses at a walk, trot and a gallop and will be judged on backing and turning also. Christine McGehee Moselle Breeden Ada Wright Annice Watkins Shirley Smith Anna Breeden Susan Dick Mary Claire Burns Jane Smith Charleroi McCue Jean Laird Mary Helen Smith Melissa Winters Doris Greeson Suzelle Hare Janet Welsted CLASS IX. JUNIOR-RIDING—Entrants in this class will be members of the Boy Scout Riding Class and must be under 14 years of age. They will exhibit their horses at a walk and at a trot. Pete Blair Charles Thomas Wallace Johnson Robert Sparks Howell Newton Buddy Moring TRICK RIDING CLASS—Entrants in this class will do some bareback jumping and will also give an exhibition of Roman Riding on two horses. They will stand erect on the two horses at the same time. Entrants—Bareback Jumping: Drew Hale John Dumar John (Red) Hinson Montgomery Truss Abe Rosenthal Paul Crow Harry Morgan Jack Willis Bill Spence Jorge Guzman Paul Crow Bill Spence Roman Riding Harry Morgan Alumnus Takes Part In Rotary Club Convention Plans Homer D. Cogdell, of Denver, Colorado (Class of '11), is taking an active part in preparations for the 32nd annual convention of Rotary International which will be held in Denver from June 15 to 20, and which is expected to attract more than 10,000 Rotar-ians and their families. Mr. Cogdell is Manager of the Denver branch of the International Harvester Company. As a member of the Overseas Committee, he is assisting in plans for welcoming and entertaining the many guests from outside the country who will attend the convention. According to Mr. Cogdell, delegates to the Denver convention will represent the majority of the 210,000 Rotarians and 5,000 Rotary clubs of more than 60 countries of the world. FOR SALE — A black four-door standard 1939 Ford. In excellent condition. For additional information, call Mr. W. Mc. Moore at 189. > i i Jorge Guzman "My favorite disft-soup- and-fish!" A / f EN actually like to •*•*•'" dress, now that there's a shirt 100% easy-to- get-into, and comfortable! The shirt is Arrow SHOREHAM —put it on like a regular shirt; collar attached. It has a semi-soft pleated bosom. It has a *£<*/>«* body. Well worth$3. For tails, we suggest A r r ow KIRK, a very smart, comfortable shirt. $2.50 to $3. HAGEDORN'S Opelika Alabama ARROW m > SHIRTS SANFORIZED I < < < < i' I < Ruise... at the familiar red cooler Opelika Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Phone 70 M-64-1 Glomeratas Given To Many Tuesday Night Maddox Elected IRC President Margaret Kilburn Is . Vice-President; Emma Jean Vick, Secretary Hugh Maddox, recently elected president of the senior class for 1941-42, will be installed formally as president of the International Relations Club on next Thursday night, May 1, at the regular meeting. He was elected by the members of the club at a meeting held April 17. Margaret Kilburn, Delta Zeta sophomore, has been elected to the vice-presidency of the organization, and Emma Jean Vick, freshman, will serve as secretary-treasurer for the coming year. All officers will be installed next Thursday night. ACSS Tours Farm Tillage Laboratory The Agricultural Graduate Student Society made a very interesting inspection tour of the Federal Farm Tillage Laboratory on Thursday of last week. The tour was conducted by Mr. I. F. Reed, Associate Agricultural Engineer, for the United States Department of Agriculture. After the inspection of the laboratory, a three reel technicolor motion picture was shown to the society. Mechanical cotton picker, kinds and types of tractor plows, and the actual operation of the laboratory were among the many interesting topics shown and discussed. A survey by students at Sarah Lawrence college resulted in $325,- 000 slum clearance grant for Bronxville, N. Y. LOST — High school class ring with initials S.L.K. on it. Reward. Finder call M. C. Pitts, -78-W. • We Buy Men's Used Clothing and Shoes. Jake's Place 123 So. 9th Street Opelika, Alabama Miscellany Attenders Get 800 Yearbooks By ART JONES Eight hundred Glomeratas were issued under cover of night last Tuesday evening following the presentation of the annual ODK Musical Miscellany. Eager faces hastily scanned the pages of the 1941 yearbook by light of the starlit sky. As soon as the musical came to an end, Bill "Trigger" McGehee unlocked the doors of the Graft Wave office, admitted the members of his staff, and then departed in a cloud of dust for parts unknown. After taking one look at the Glomerata, members of the Auburn student body began contributing toward a fund to be used as a reward for the person or persons who capture the Glom Chief dead or alive. While carousing in the vicinity of the Glomerata office, your reporter overheard a number of opinions expressed. The opinions ran something like this: "Well, I have two more lines to stand in here at Auburn, one to collect my contingent deposit, and the other to receive my diploma." "Every year they say it (the Glomerata) is not half as good as last year's but I don't think anyone will say that this year." "I'm a freshman and this is the first Glomerata I've seen, but it looks good to me." Said a member of the Glomerata staff. "I believe without a doubt that the 1941 edition of the Glomerata is the most beautifully bound, most attractively composed, most exquisite and lovely, most magnificent and colossal, most stupendous and astounding, and positively the most amazing volume I have even had the honor or pleasure of caressing with my ocular orbs." Said editor Trigger McGehee, just before his departure: "Ah'm gettin' tha H__ out of here!" These Days Perfect Grooming Is Compulsory Campus Barber Shop BLACH'S FEATURES Fortune Foulards AS THE FAMOUS Beau Brummell Here's a colorful splash to brighten up every spring wardrobe . . . beautifully made from the cleverest of new patterns. BLACH'S BIRMINGHAM $11.0 0 Exclusively shown at Black's Page Six THE PLAINSMAN April 25, 1941 Track Team Leaves for Atlanta Best Team in Years Reported for Auburn Inexperienced Performers Counted on Heavily Against Toughest Foes in South By WARREN FLEMING Track squads from all over the South will descend on Atlanta today and tomorrow for what promises to be one of the most hotly contested AAU track and field meets in recent years. Auburn is taking a talented though inexperienced team to the meet. Coach Wilbur Hutsell is basing heavy hopes on practically untried warriors, who are led by the promising John C. Ball, Auburn athlete who won the annual cake rraaccee here last year, and broke cross country records on every course on which he ran last fall. Ball is an ace two miler. Troubled by a foot blister last week, he ran the race against Georgia in cross country shoes, and still managed to win easily. Another sophomore who is counted upon to rack up points for the Auburn aggregation is Dudley Tyler, miler and half-miler. This lad combines endurance and speed, and is one of the best prospects seen here in several years. Captain of the team this year is James Stevenson, who will enter the weight events. Hugh Mad-dox, 200 pounder, will enter the discus competition. Alternate-Captain Jim Holley, and "Bud" Reed, a sophomore, will run the 440-yd. dash. Jim Holley ran the quarter mile this year in 51.1. Both of these men will be relied upon heavily by Coach Hutsell. Hoyt Hall, one of the Southeastern Conference's leading pole vaulters, will have a chance to display his powers again this Saturday. His highest jump this year was made at the Florida Relays. Here he made a jump of 13 feet. Hall and Burton will represent Auburn in the high jumping events. Herbert Burton, another sophomore who has shown great promise this year, will also jump for Auburn in the high and the broad jumps. Ty Irby and Frank Manci will jump with him in the broad jumps and Hoyt Hall and James Stephenson will assist him in the high jumps. Auburn's main entries in the dash event will be '.'Bud" Wend-ling, "Chuck" Finney and Jack Brush. Wendling is one of the best dash men on the squad and is the fastest man on the football team. Finney, the fastest man on the track team, has been absent from the last few meets with a pulled muscle in his leg, but Sickness and Accidents Respect No M a n ! Hosp Prepare today with adequate ital Insurance —•— J. P. REED, SOLICITOR Phone 657-R & 375 Coach Hutsell said he would probably be in good shape for the AAU Meet this coming Saturday. Herbert Burton will represent Auburn again in the javelin throwing event. Herbert is a bit new at javelin throwing but is expected to make a creditable showing. Next week the Auburn Tigers will meet the University of Florida 'Gators here in Auburn. This meet will be held in honor of the visiting alumni who will be in Auburn on May 10 for Alumni Day. The field events start about 2:00 o'clock while the running events will begin about' 2:30 o'clock. Another Old Auburn Landmark Removed From Village An Auburn landmark is in the process of its death struggle. As familiar to present day students as those of the gay nineties —and even further back in history, as familiar as Samford tower, as Langdon Hall's columns, as the spires of the Architectural Building, even as the fickle Auburn weather, is the cornfield in the middle of town, on the corner of College and Tichenor. That cornfield has been a landmark since before the days of the oldest member of API's staff. The sound of the wind whistling through its corn and weeds was present long before the first loyal Auburn throat loosed an exultant War Eagle. And now that cornfield is no longer to exist. The machine age once again is glorying in triumph over nature. Trucks and shovels and perspiring laborers are removing the dirt from its aged embankment. In its place they say there is to be a drug store, and a bus station. Where stalks of corn once waved green on its soil, and rustled brown after the harvest, there will be a soda fountain and a drug dispensary. Soft drink bottles will replace the ears of corn. The rows of the plow will be replaced by the tire tracks of busses. Auburn will doubtless be proud of its new bus station and drug store—but something will be missing. Wilson college has begun preparation for the celebration of 1944 of its seventy-fifth anniversary. JAMES HOLLEY Alt. Capt. of 1941 Track Team Be sure to attend the track meet between AUBURN and FLORIDA in the New Stadium on May 3 Auburn Tennis Men Handed Setback by Georgia Netmen Two More Meets to Be Played This Season Auburn's 1941 Tennis Team was handed it's first defeat of the present season last Wednesday by the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia on the Georgia courts. Auburn showed fine form but was unable to cope with the superior Georgia team who took all six matches. The complete scores are given below. Auburn has two more games to play before going to the Southeastern Conference Meet in Nashville on May the 8, 9, and 10th. They play Mercer next and then will tackle Birmingham-Southern for their last game of the year. Captain McKee (Auburn) lost to Reynolds, 6-1 and 6-2; Drake (Auburn) lost to Byrd, 6-2, 6-2; Hazzard (Auburn) lost to Russell, 6-4, 6-4; Wells (Auburn) lost to Whiting, 6-2, 6-3; and Schoffner (Auburn) lost to Walker, 6-4, 6-4. Venezuelan Hiker (Continued from page 1) He was also vexed at the gaping interest and stares he got from the audience crowded about. He remarked that some of the friendly Indians he has met showed less surprise and had nicer manners than some of the people he has met here! As a whole, however, he likes Americans, and is "crazy about" their President "Roosvet", with whom he has corresponded. He met Governor Dixon in Montgomery, and was agreeably surprised to learn that the Governor spoke excellent Spanish. His biggest reception was in New Orleans, where he was feted, and where the mayor came out to see him. He has an interesting scrap-book of newspaper clippings about his travels, which he showed us, and he has been honored in many U.S. towns. He spent Wednesday night here before continuing his walkathon. ' He asked Tony to deliver a message to the "young people" here, and the Plainsman takes pleasure in printing it. He advises that we "Forget about Europe and European people, their customs and languages, their imports and exports. Stay in this hemisphere, for here alone you'll have more than you'll ever be able to learn. Forget the 'Oui, monsieur' and learn 'Si, senor'." "Learn to know other flags than your own, and make friends with their people. Don't let the Europeans steal this friendship, for you need it and needed it badly. If I can feel that I have helped to make the Americans realize the need of better understanding and relationships between the Americas, I would be satisfied." Julio's skin has been turned so dark by the sun that he had to get an affidavit from the chief of police of Beaumont, Texas, to prove that he is of Spanish extraction. The hiker said that he had anticipated trouble in the South because of his color, but that his documents had been of valuable assistance. Speaking of his return trip, Julio plans to ride back in style. When asked if he planned to walk back, he replied, "I'd be crazy to try to do that!" High School Band Concert to Be Given Tuesday The Auburn and Opelika high school bands will present a concert next Tuesday night in Langdon Hall, beginning at eight o'clock. Tickets for college students to the "Parade of Melody", as the program is entitled, will be 25 cents. Proceeds from the show will go toward the purchase of a sousa-phone for the Auburn High Band. A varied program will be presented, and include novelty numbers and modern arrangements as well as purely classical music. Plans call for a duplicate concert to be given in Opelika soon after the Auburn program. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. Horse Show (Continued from page 1) Final eliminations for the show have been completed and 110 persons have qualified to enter the program. Class I, Sophomore Horsemanship, is open to ROTC sophomores in the Field Artillery. The entrees will show their horses at a walk, trot, gallop, turns, and backing. Contestants will be judged on the ability of the rider. Class II, Junior Jumping, is open to ROTC Juniors, and the contestants will take their horses over five 3 foot 3 inch jumps. Class VI, Ladies' Horsemanship is open to members of the first year Ladies' Riding Class who are not students of API. They will show their horses at a walk, trot, backing, and turns. They will be judged on the ability of the rider only. Class III, Ladies' Jumping, is open to members of the Ladies' Riding Class. Those entered will compete in five 3 foot 3 inch jumps and will be judged on their performance. Class IX, Children's Horsemanship is open to riders under the age of 14. They will show their horses at a walk, trot, backing, and turns, and will be judged on the ability of the rider. Class XI, Harnessing Race is open to members of the Enlisted Men's Detachment of the ROTC unit. This will be a race in which time only will count, time penalties to be added for faults in harnessing. Class IV, Senior Jumping, is open to ROTC Seniors. These men will run their horses over a course of five 3 foot 6 inch jumps, and will be judged on their performance. Class VII, Ladies' Horsemanship, is open to members of the first year class who are students at API. They will show their horses at a walk, trot, canter. Entrees will be judged on their abilities as riders. Class V, Pair Jumping, is open to pairs consisting of a woman student, and a Field Artillery Junior or Senior. Those entered will show their horses over five 3 foot 3 inch jumps, and will be judged on performance only. Class XII, Roman Riding, is an exhibition given by four members of the volunteer bareback riding class. This class is not competitive. Class VIII, Advanced Ladies' Horsemanship, is open to members of the advanced and intermediate classes. The horses will be shown at a walk, trot, and gallop, turns, and backing. Contestants will be judged on their abilities as riders. Class X, Bareback Jumping, is open to members of the volunteer bareback riding class. Those entered will put their horses oyer five 3 foot 3 inch jumps, and will be judged on performance. ?W:^::.:^':;::::;:::;>:;:::::^:::-.:::>:^:o::.::-;- ^ K ^ S f f l ^ i v ^ S : : V Initiation Held By Pi Tau Sigma Eight New Men Taken Into the Fraternity The Chi Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma, National Honorary Mechanical Engineering fraternity, initiated its eight new members last Wednesday and Thursday. The initiation began on Wednesday morning and lasted until Thursday night. The eight new members which were inducted are: Richard C. Calloway, Huntsville; John N. Cooper, Natchez, Miss.; Charles A. Dubberley, Tallassee; Reese Gwillim, Birmingham; James P. Lewallen, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Samuel Jones Price, Birmingham; Charles W. Scott, Birmingham; and Thomas M. Smith, Bessemer. One faculty member was inducted. This was Professor T. W. Sparrow, assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department. During the informal initiation the neophytes were required to wear coveralls with Pi Tau Sigma written across the top and also an engineers cap similar to the one worn by railroad engineers. They were also required to carry a large wrench, wheel or other article of a mechanical nature. On Wednesday night each candidate was required to take an entrance examination. The formal initiation was held on Thursday night and immediately following this a banquet was held in the Pitts Hotel Green Room. The new officers will be elected at the next meeting but will not assume their offices until the next meeting of the fraternity. Pi Tau Sigma elects its members on the basis of scholarship, character, extra-curricular activities and their potentialities as leaders. Queens college is offering a new historical survey of the American scene in terms of its ballad and song. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. Bowery Ball To Be Given By Sigma Pi Cay Ninety Air to Prevail at House The Alpha Delta chapter of Sigma Pi will hold its second annual Bowery Ball Saturday night at the chapter house on the campus of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. The chapter house will be decorated to resemble a saloon during the height of the gay Nineties. A bar will be at one end of the dining room, from which refreshments in the form of soft drinks, pop-corn and pretzels will be served. Numerous signs will be placed about the room to further create an air of realism. A gaming room will also be open, where one may play cards, dice, and rou-lettee. Songs of the Gay Nineties will be sung by a barber shop quartet. Group singing will also be on the program. Prizes will be given to the best-dressed girl and the best dressed boy. The official hostess of the affair will be Mrs. D. W. Cros-land, the house mother. Members and their dates are: Don Brewer, Bebe Faust, Birmingham; Bob Brewer, Sarah Boles, Notasulga; R e u b e n Brawner, Elaine Wilkins, Roanoke; Jack Easterling, Lillian Thrower, Hef-lin; Dolph Mosley, Margy Graham, Birmingham; Tommy Prid-more, Mary Helen Smith, Auburn; Melvin Hagood, June Wilson, Mobile; James McCrea, Marion Fitch, Opelika; John Pope, Anne Goss-ett, Columbus, Ga.; Jim Warren, Jean Armstrong, Birmingham; Haskell Johnson, Henri Lucille P r a t h e r, Rockf ord; Cromwell Cleveland, Ann Barnes, Montgomery; Joe Johnson, Doris Ruth Bed-dingfield, Auburn; Alvin Strati-gos, Jeanne Mangum, Columbus, Ga.; Don Nebrig, May Edwards, Auburn; Eric Anderson, Virginia Riley, Auburn. Buddy Boteler, Jack Holt, James Holley, Bill Shealy, Mike Blevins, John Christopher, Buck Freeland, W i l b u r Davenport George Garrett, Ed Lindsey, and James West. John A. Pope is president. Expl; Through February, 17,742 cases had been treated this school year at the University of Indiana health center. University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, is the oldest university in the new world. Scientists Unable to ain Different Effects of Drinking STANFORD UNIV., Calif. — (ACP).—Science still is unable to explain why some persons can drink heavily while others cannot, according to Dr. Henry Newman of the Stanford University faculty. Experiments have been made at the university to prove or disprove every thesis that has been advanced on the subject. They were all found untrue. "Many people," said Dr. Newman, "believe an habitual heavy drinker can 'take it' because al-ehohol passes more slowly into his blood stream. But experiments showed that the chronic drinker's blood absorbs alcohol more rapid- •ly. "Many believe that alcohol goes more slowly to the brain of the heavy drinker, but our workers here found it goes more rapidly. "Others suggest that the habituated drinker remains sober because his body burns up the alcohol at a high rate of speed. But our experiments showed alcohol is burned up in both amateur and professional drinkers at exactly the same rate." Dr. Newman holds that the only possible explanation is that the chronic drinker has acquired some mysterious "tolerance" to alcohol, a mechanism that permits him to absorb alcohol without showing its effects. Its Chesterfield Everybody who smokes them likes their COOLER, MILDER, BETTER TASTE On the movie lot or wherever you go, the Right Combination of the best tobaccos from our own Southland and from distant Turkey and Greece makes Chesterfield the one cigarette that truly Satisfies. Note how many more smokers are enjoying Chesterfield's definitely Milder, Cooler-Smoking, Better Taste, r • PRISCILLA LANE, •tarring in Warner Bros.' forthcoming hit "MILLION DOLLAR BABY' Copyright 1941, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co /
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Title | 1941-04-25 The Plainsman |
Creator | Alabama Polytechnic Institute |
Date Issued | 1941-04-25 |
Document Description | This is the volume LXIV, issue 60, April 25, 1941 issue of The Plainsman, the student newspaper of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now known as Auburn University. Digitized from microfilm. |
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Decade | 1940s |
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OCR Transcript | Clean Your Fingertips 77i£ VlairiAmarL Ride Those Nags "AUBURN—the friendliest college in the United States' VOL. LXIV Z-I ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, APRIL 25, 1941 NO. 60 Air-Minded Hiker Julio Cesar Berrizbertia, above, of Venezuela, as he visited here Wednesday in route to Washington. Standing on the left is Alberto Parra, Auburn student of Troy, N. Y., formerly of Venezuela. Venezuelan Hiker Stops Here on Trip J* Cortina Interviews |ulio Berrizbertia By HERBERT MARTIN He's been* walking for four years in order to learn to fly. That's the story of Julio Cesar Berrizbertia, Venezuelan Boy Scout who reached here Wednesday as a stopping point on his hike from his South American country to Washington. Julio is now wearing his fifty-second pair of boots since he left Venezuela four years ago with five other youths to begin his long-distance goodwill walk. His plans call for walks to Washington to see President Roosevelt, from whom he hopes to get a scholarship to study aviation, and to whom he is to deliver a letter from the President of Venezuela, as well as a trip to New York, where he plans to rest and get his daily notes of his trip in order. He speaks very little English, but Tony Cortina, Auburn student from Mexico, spoke to him for an hour or so in his native Spanish tongue, and learned many interesting details of his trip. The 19 year old youth says that it is all right to turn your back to a charging mountain lion, but don't make the mistake of ignoring him. The animal pounced upon Julio while the boy was sleeping, but while the lion was tearing his blankets to shreds, Julio whipped out his knife and polished off the foe. He has two souvenirs of this encounter. The first is a leather wrist guard made from the hide of the animal, and the second is shown by two deep claw marks on his leg . . . about an inch wide and four or five inches in length . . . and several scars on his back. He narrowly escaped death on two more occasions. Once, a band of hostile Indians attacked the band with delightful little arrows dipped in snake venom. One of the hikers died as a result of this encounter, and Julio lingered for three months between heaven and earth before recovering. Speaking of the member who was killed, Julio said, "The Indians hurt, him pretty bad, so he had to die!" The third near-fatality occurred as Julio crossed a ravine hundreds of feet deep, and 20 or 30 feet wide. The supporting pole broke, and Julio still cannot tell how he managed to get across. Fever took its toll of the band, and homesickness took care of the rest, leaving Julio to carry on a-lone. Arriving in Auburn, after hiking from Montgomery in a little more than a day, the 120 pound Scout- put down his 100 ;p°tmd pack and sat down for a rest. He was immediately surrounded by curious students and townsfolk, but little was learned about him until Tony Cortina arrived to take over the questioning. Julio was born in Madrid, Spain, as were his mother and father. His parents moved to Venezuela early in his life. After traveling through Mexico for two years, Julio finally reached the United States. He has walked every inch of the way, even through Mexico's almost im-. passible marshes and mountain country, and was decorated by the President of Mexico. He expressed surprise at the ignorance shown by the inhabitants of such a great and powerful country as the United States. "They asked me what flag it is I have on my pack," he said, "and it seems to me it's only fair if I know their (American) flag, they should know mine." "They don't know what is below the Rio Grande. They know Mexico is there because of the travelogues, but past that, only Panama, for its canal. I can't understand them!" (Continued on page 6) PRESENTING... NINETEENTH ANNUAL HORSE SHOW will be held Sunday on Drake Field. For particulars see story on this page. Complete roster and program on page five. ARCHERY RANGE location criticized. Editorial on page 2. SCOUT HIKES FROM VENEZUELA in four years. Heads for Washington. Story above. SQUIRES SPONSOR fingerprinting drive. Page 1 story. TRACK TEAM LEAVES for AAU meet in Atlanta. See page 6. TILLAGE MACHINERY LAB is only one of its kind in U. S. Sugg tells the story on page 4. Funds Raised for Fountains by ODK June 1 Is Scheduled As Completion Date Tuesday night's presentation of the ODK Musical Miscellany raised sufficient funds for the construction of the proposed fountains to be placed on the west side of Samford Hall. The total cost of the fountains is expected to amount to approximately $125, and it is hoped that they will be completed by June 1. Work has already begun on the digging of the ditches and laying of the water and drain pipes. The fountains are to be constructed of granite and are to be provided with a plaque on which will be engraved the explanation that they were presented to the college by ODK in 1941. The layout behind Samford Hall will be such that there will be four diagonal walks which form the center of two squares where they cross. One fountain will be situated in the center of each square, surrounded by a 10 foot circle of pavement. "The construction of these drinking fountains," said Mr. Sam Brewster, Director of Buildings and Grounds, "is in my opinion one of the finest projects ODK could have sponsored. They will be of such construction that they will last for years to come, and hundreds of thousands of people may make use of them in the future." Horse Show To Be Held Sunday Colorful Program Arranged by Adams Squires, Owls, Sponsor Fingerprinting Drive for Students and Faculty Student Leaders Meet in Atlanta Publication Heads and Prexies Leave Thursday Student government leaders and publications heads left for Atlanta yesterday to attend the annual convention of the Southern Student Federation, which will last through tomorrow. . Government officials attending are Jim King, president of the student body; Billy Moore, next year's prexy; Elizabeth Wheeler and Nelle Gilchrist, past and future presidents of the Women's Student Government Association. Glomerata heads attending are Bill McGehee, editor of this year's book; Joe Meadows, next year's editor; Kirk Newell, present business manager, and Sam Nettles, business manager-elect for the coming year. Plainsman staff members absent are Bob Armstrong, Warren Darty, Jimmy Rouse, Willard Hayes, John Pierce, and Joe Gan-dy. Herbert Martin was unable to leave town to attend the convention. Three Mechanical Instructors Added To API Faculty Recent additions to the faculty of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute are two instructors in Mechanical Engineering. The men are Clarence H. Long of Portsmouth, Va., and Thomas J. Hails of Montgomery. Mr. Long has earned three degrees from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1939, his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1940, and his M.S. degree in Power and Fuel in 1941. Mr. Hails earned his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1923, and received his A.B. degree from Spring Hill in 1919. Mr. Hails has already come to Auburn, and Mr. Long will join the staff at a later date. Caps and Gowns A special notice was issued from Burton's Book Store yesterday urging all seniors and faculty members who have not been measured for their caps and gowns to do so at once. The latest time that they can be measured is May 1st. Arrangements should be made immediately. Propose Voluntary Fingerprinting in Registration Lines Sponsored by Squires, honorary sophomore service fraternity for men, and Owls, honorary service organization for women, a drive for the fingerprinting of all members of the student body and faculty of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute was launched this morning after several days preparation. Following the nation-wide trend of colleges all over the country, it is proposed that members of the student body be voluntarily fingerprinted in the registration lines this spring, when under new ruling, the entire student body will make out their schedules for the forthcoming year. Previous to the launching of the drive, many students were asked for their opinions of the desirability of such a movement, and an almost unanimous majority - was found to be enthusiastically in accord with the plan. Among the benefits derived from such a movement is the protection afforded the individual by way of a fool-proof means of identification. In case of accident or death in the immediate future or in later years, the individual involved can be positively identified and his situation cared for promptly. In event of such disasters as amnesia the fingerprints of the victim can be taken and compared with those on file, and in this manner his family can be located and he can be returned to his home. The materials and equipment necessary and the technical advice and assistance needed will be provided through the facilities of the Federal Bureau of Investigaton, the State Law Enforcement Agency, and the State Toxicologists Department located in the L Building. If the present plan is as well endorsed as it has been in other colleges throughout the country, it is proposed that the fingerprinting of students become a permanent and voluntary function of the registration process. Under this plan, all students who register at Auburn for the first time may be fingerprinted when they do so. Second Semester Engineering Dean's List Is Released Fifth Dean's List Contains 17 Names The Dean's Office of the Engineering School has released its "Dean's List" for the second semester of the 1940-41 session of school. This is the fifth dean's list to be published and the rest will be in the paper as soon as they are released. The men on the Dean's List of the Engineering School are given below: Edwin C. Allen is from Memphis and is a Sigma Chi pledge; James Walter McCrea is from Natchez, Miss., and is a Sigma Pi member; Duke Davis is a Sigma Nu from LaGrange, Ga.; Ross Bishop Holmes is from St. Petersburg, Fla.; Charles William Scott is an ATO and is from Birmingham; Walker Lewis Richmond is from Mobile and is a member of PiKA fraternity; Roger A. Petrey is from Haines City, Fla. George Benjamin Clarke comes from McShan; Robert G. Nester is another ATO who comes from Mobile; Stanley Floyd Coley is from Alabama City; Jack Evans LeMay is from Sheffield; John Newton Cooper also comes from Natchez, Miss; Hugh Jackson Barron is from Atmore; James Car-lyle McCullough is another PiKA from Huntsville; C. A. Pruitt is from Wallace; Samuel Jones Price is another boy from Birmingham; and Holdman W. Baker is from Eufaula and is a member of Theta Chi fraternity. No Concert The record concert scheduled for Sunday afternoon by the Auburn Players will not be held on account of the horse show. various departments and their families, and another special box will accommodate the president of the college, Dr. L. N. Duncan. Seating arrangement for the other spectators will be provided for by bleachers to be erected on Drake Field in addition to 500 folding chairs. All concessions will be handled by the Athletic Department, and admission charge for the show will be 25 cents for high school and API students, and 35 cents for all others. Eleven classes and events have been scheduled for the horse show, including two special features by the trick riding class, exhibitions of Roman riding and bareback jumping. Other events are Class I, Sophomore Horsemanship; Class II, Junior Jumping; Class III, Ladies' Jumping; Class IV, Senior Jumping; Class B, Pair Jumping; Class VI, Ladies' Horsemanship; Class VIII, Ladies' Horsemanship; Class IX, Junior Riding. Program for the Show will be as follows: Henning, McClanahan Run for Co-op Post University Is Host For Theta Chi Meet Annual Rebel Reunion To Be Held Next Week The Alpha Phi chapter of Theta Chi fraternity at the University of Alabama will be host next week-end to the third annual Rebel Reunion of Theta Chi chapters of the South, j Delegates will assemble for the two-day convention from as far south as Florida and as far north as Virginia. Some of the highlights of the program include an inter-chapter ping - pong tournament, inter-chapter horseshoe competition, a buffet luncheon, undergraduate forum on university problems, and a banquet and dance at the Hotel McLester. To climax the occasion, there is to be a softball game between the two arch rivals, Alabama and Auburn. Two of Theta Chi's most distinguished Grand Chapter officers, Edwin O. "Nick" Huntley, National Historian, and Charles H. Mann, member of the National Board of Trustees, will be present for the event. Miss Camilla Sutton, of Delta Delta Delta sorority, has been named "Miss Reb" by the Alpha Phi group and will reign over the banquet and dance. Election Will Be Held Next Week Petitions were due this week for candidates for co-op representative to the Executive Cabinet. Jim King, president of the student body, is out of town attending the student government conclave in Atlanta, and the official list of candidates has not been released, but it is reported that Fred Hen-ning and Harvey McClanahan will be the only candidates for this post. Henning is a senior in electrical engineering and is from Birmingham. He is president of Mitec Engineers, co-op society. McClanahan is also an electrical engineering senior. He is from Hartselle, Ala. This election will be held next week, according to Tom Roby, chairman of the elections committee, but the date has not been definitely set as yet. The election will probably be on Wednesday or Thursday, but even this is not definite. Full particulars of this election will be given in Tuesday's Plainsman. Student voters, at the regular .spring elections, voted to amend the constitution to allow for a coop representative to the Cabinet. The voting next week will name the representative for the time this group is in school. The incoming group this summer will hold another balloting to name its representative to the Executive Cabinet. Events to Take Place on Drake Field; Is 19th Annual Show, Begins at 2 O'clock By ART JONES Headed by Lt. Charles C. Adams, the 19th annual Auburn Horse Show will get under way at 2 p.m. Sunday on Drake field. Contestants in this year's event will be judged by Col. John S. Wood, of the Field Artillery, and Col. Richard A. Gordon, both of Fort Benning. The gala occasion will be announced over a public address system by Maj. Harry L. Watts, F.A., senior instructor in Military Science and Tactics here. Special boxes will be arranged for the deans of the _. T _ , „ Class I—Sophomore Horsemanship. Open to ROTC sophomores. Class II—Junior Jumping. Open to ROTC juniors. Class VI—Ladies' Horsemanship— 1st year. Open to members of 1st year class not students of API. Class III — Ladies' Jumping. Open to members of Advanced & Intermediate Class. Class IX — Children's Class Horsemanship. Open to riders under 14 years of age. Class XI—Harnessing Race. Class IV — Senior Jumping. Open to ROTC seniors. Class VII — Ladies' Horsemanship. Open to members 1st year class students of API. Class V—Pair Jumping. Open to ladies of Advanced & Intermediate Class and their partners. Class XII—Roman Riding. Class V i n — Advanced Ladies' Horsemanship. Open to members of Advanced & Intermediate Class. Class X—Bare Back Jumping. Cups will be awarded to the winner in each event of the show this year, as well as blue ribbons. Ribbons will be awarded for second, third, and fourth prizes in each event. Another outstanding feature of the 1941 show will be a Field Artillery harnessing race, the participants to be chosen from among the enlisted men of the regular army who are attached to the Auburn ROTC. The event will be comprised of three teams of three soldiers each, and at the firing of the gun the contesting teams will race against one another in the harnessing of caissons, after which they will drive the caissons about halfway down the field and across the finish line. The harnesses will then be inspected and the winners announced. No cup will be awarded to the winning contestants, but the members of the winning team will receive cash prizes of $5.00 each. Penalties in the jumping events will be as follows: Front tip, 2; hind tip, 1; front knock down, 4; hind knock down, 3; circling between jumps, 3. Additional penalties applying to pair jumping are: uneven by a head, 1; uneven by a neck, 2; uneven by a horse length, 5. Three refusals or runouts, or horse or rider falling will bring about disqualification. (Continued on page 6) Three Instructors Join Aeronautical Engineering Staff Information has been released from the Engineering School that provision has been made for the addition of three instructors to the staff of the Aeronautical School. As yet, no one has been employed to fill the vacancy left in the department by the resignation of Lt. B. M. Cornell. An able and experienced man has been promised to the department by next fall, it was said. The other recent additions to the staff are two former Auburn students. Wilmot G. Rhodes has his ground and flight instructor's rating and is the holder of a Commercial Pilot's Certificate. Mr. Rhodes intends to work next summer on his master's degree in Aeronautical Engineering at New York University. M. J. Fortner is the holier of Commercial Pilot's Certificate, and he plans to attend the University of Michigan this summer for work on his master's degree in aeronautical engineering. ROTC Notice Tuesday, April 29th, the entire Brigade will form on Bullard Field for presentation of O.R.C. awards. After the presentaton of awards all units will proceed with regularly scheduled work. Uniform will be as previously announced for drill periods. This order, does NOT include the Band. By order of Colonel Waterman R. P. Grant, 1st Lt., F. A., Adjutant. Horse Show Announcements All contestants in the horse show report to the booth at the entrance to Drake Field at 1:30 P.M. and receive the numbers they will wear in the show. Contestants are requested not to go to the stables. There will be no privilege riding Saturday and Sunday afternoons because of the Annual Horse Show to be held at 2 P. M. Sunday afternoon. Scout Announcement Mr. W. H. Edwards, field scout executive of the Montgomery area council announces a Scout Training School meeting at the new scout cabin at 7:30 Monday night. All scouts who are interested are urged to attend. Announcement is also made of a camporal for all Auburn scouts to be held the week of May 2nd and 3rd. Glomerata Notice Glomerata* will again be given out Saturday morning, nine to twelve o'clock inclusive. Only students who have paid both semester student activity fees will be eligible to receive a yearbook. After Saturday books will be sold to >ther students who have been in ichool for only one semester for $1.80. Seniors will be given preference. The Glomerata office will be kept open every afternoon next week to take these orders. Page Two T H E P L A I N S M AN April 25, 1941 Nice Going Trigger And Kirk The long awaited Glomeratas are out. Many students received their copies of the yearbook on Tuesday night, after the ODK miscellany. The remainder of the student body stood in line sometime Wednesday or Thursday, or today to get the yearbook. And after a look through the new book, we are ready to congratulate the competent staff of the Glomerata, under the leadership of Trigger McGehee, for turning out a really swell piece of work. The book is well balanced, colorful and in some instances, really original. New tones, colors, departments and a different style of cover add distinction and readability to the book. The Glomerata's "ace in the hole" is the beautiful water-color picture of old Langdon Hall which decorated the cover. The cover itself is of a canvas composition, and the colorful old building lends itself well to the cover decoration. Student interest has been manifested most in the enlarged and equally good snapshot section. A nalural point of interest, this section this year should be adequate to satisfy the students. Trigger and his staff should be congratulated, too, for the ability to get their publication out on schedule. The Glomerata is one of the two yearbooks in the south now ready for student consumption. Autograph fans will have plenty of time to work. The Plainsman-Graft Wave feud is over, so we can truthfully say, "You've put out a fine book, and we appreciate it." The P. O. Again Several editorials have been written about the United States post office and the way it handles the excessive amount of mail coming into Auburn for the students and the residents of Auburn. But, nothing seems to have been done about the situation. We understand that the post office in this town holds first class rating. We also understand that the term "first class" means that it handles a very large amount of mail, much more than the second or third class post offices. By terms of the standard dictionary "first class" means "of the highest quality". In either event or case the service is nothing to brag about. The staff of the office is not large enough in the first place to handle the increasing large amount of mail that is growing as rapidly as the student body. And there is another thing that is especially disconcerting to the students and to the visitors to Auburn. This is the friendly attitude for which Auburn has always been noted. But, do the clerks and the employees of the post office follow this highly prized custom? No and emphatically NO! » As far as we have seen there is one clerk that speaks and smiles to you when he meets you on the street as he is delivering his mail. He smiles so much it makes you think that he is trying to make up for his fellow employees. With these two major facts in mind, can't something be done to remedy the situation? This would help the students and the townspeople equally as much. Surely Uncle Sam can afford to hire one or two more clerks to clear up the congestion in Auburn's mail service. I think the employees themselves would appreciate this move no little bit.—G.H. Birmingham and Auburn They call Birmingham "The Magic City." Nobody around here seems to know where that name came from. But everybody agrees that it's a good one. Birmingham furnishes Auburn with quite a number of its students. Birmingham's Auburn alumni association chapter is one of the largest and most active in the nation. For the past ten years, with the g r o w t h of Auburn, Birmingham's "school interests" have been steadily swinging in a Southeastward direction —toward Auburn. And Birmingham has proved this swing in other ways than by sending students and organizing their alumni chapter. Each year Auburn plays at least one football game on Birmingham's Legion Field. Each year Birmingham turns out in numbers to support the Auburn aggregation and the Auburn students. If Auburn wants to put on a parade in Birmingham, t h e n Birmingham blocks off its streets, drapes its windows, and stands around watching the parade. Birmingham seems to pull good will and support out of hats and hidden pockets. Birmingham is indeed "The Magic City." Archery Range . . . Plainsman columnist Bob Chisolm suggested in Tuesday's paper that the archery range be moved to a less dangerous location. He suggested the corner of the stadium for the new place. We think this suggestion good, and we also like the idea of moving those steel-tipped arrows, which have already pierced one leg, to another spot. Although archery classes are held during regular class periods, there are still students who might desire to cross this ground, although there are probably few who would care to dispute the ground with an angry Pocahontas. We crossed in the middle of the period the other day. We were chided none too gently for the gall we showed in disputing the right of way with the implements of earlier, wars. While realizing that the smart thing to do is to let the arrow, steel tip and all, hold possession of any land it traverses, we somewhat resent being pushed around by a couple of pieces of wood and a leather thong. Archery is a healthful sport. It is fine for girls to learn to support cupid by the practice thereof. It is not so fine to endanger vulnerable student anatomies by parking the target in front of a thoroughfare. We are not sure the stadium corner would be the place. We are not sure where the best place would be, but we feel sure that the present location is about the worst. We'll miss the sight of beautiful young girls drawing the bow, but we'll feel a lot easier in our mind as we pass.—H.M. Auburn tennis courts look like a plowed field after a thunder-shower. The new ones are under construction . . . the old ones under destruction. The New Classroom Building is still as bell-less as a lost calf. We'd even like a radio hook-up with Denny Chimes. In the absence of the editor, the managing editor, the associate editor, and the sports editor, this issue of the Plainsman was edited by sophomore members of the staff. Taking the places of the editors are Jimmy Gilbert, George Heard, Art Jones, and Warren Fleming. CAMPUS CAMERA PI ains Talk By GEORGE HEARD THE 1ST COLLEGE FRATERNITY, WAS ORGANIZED AT THE COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND NVARV ON DECEMBER 5J776. ODDLY ENOUGH, OF THE FIVE ORIGINAL FOUNDERS. TWO WERE NAMED SMITH AND 1 ONE JONES' THE KEY WAS FORMERLY A SILVER MEDAL. BUT LATER THE STEM WAS ADDED FOR THE PRACTICAL PURPOSE OF NIGHTLY WINDING THE SCHOLARS • •• WATCH. •••• £ 9 THE PLAINSMAN Published semi-weekly by the Students of Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Editorial and Business Office on Tichenor Avenue, Phone 448. Editor may be reached after hours at 627. BOB ANDERSON FRANK B. WILSON W. G. DARTY Editor-in-chief Advertising Manager Business Manager EDITORIAL STAFF Willard Hayes Managing Editor Herbert Martin Associate Editor John Pierce Sports Editor Mary Dean French Society Editor Merle Woodard Women's Editor Lewis Arnold Staff Photographer NEWS STAFF Redding Sugg, Jimmy Gilbert, C. J. Bastien, Boots Stratford, Art Jones, George Heard, Warren Fleming, Albert Scroggins, Homer Wright, Mary Poor, David Allen, Bob Chisholm, Nick Nigosian, Berta Campbell, and Beverly Kilian. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates by mail: $2.50 per year, $1.60 per semester. BUSINESS STAFF Joe Gandy Asst. Adv. Mgr. Jimmy Rouse Asst. Adv. Mgr. Warren Nesmith Collections Mgr. Marion Smith Asst. Collections Mgr. Ham Wilson Circulation Mgr. James Thomas Asst. Circulation Manager BUSINESS ASSISTANTS Fred Allison, Alfred Green, Ham Wilson, Woodie Cauley, Quentin Strong, John Scott, Wade South, Emmo Nell Parrish, Carl Schmidt, Jack Berry. Member Associated Colle6iale Press Distributor of (x>lle&iateDi6est General Delivery By REDDING SUGG Except for the occasional clatter of passing cavalry, the practically unattended concert of recorded music sponsored last Sunday afternoon by the Auburn Players was as smooth and full as if a flesh and blood orchestra had been there. Band concerts in the park have played a conspicuous part in the American tradition; and the Players' programs, of which three more are scheduled for the next three Sunday afternoons, have much the same restful quality. * * » * A young woman who had recently been brought into the field of the Salvation Army was standing on a street corner beating a drum and giving testimony. "I was a bad little girl," she sang out, "and I used to smoke! But I got converted, and now I don't do that any more." She beat on the drum. "I was a very bad little girl," she continued, "and I used to drink! But I got converted, and now I don't do that any more." She beat on the drum a little more. "I was a terrible little girl, and I used to go around with married men! But I got converted, and now I don't do that any more." She started to beat on the drum again, but she stopped. "In fact," she confided to passers-by, "I don't do anything any more but beat this damned drum." * * * * The ODK project to place water fountains behind Samford Hall is, I hope, an indication of a reviving desire on the part of the student body to give memorial gifts to the school. Auburn is somewhat lacking in that traditional love of alma mater which has made so many schools both in England and in this country the beloved institutions they are. I wish the custom of class gifts to the college could be resumed. Benches and fountains and the like with little bronze plaques on them add a great deal to the atmospheres of colleges. * * * * I have been very much interested in Harry Hopkins, the President's friend and adviser, especially since he assumed his unique place as First Boarder of the land. In last week's Saturday Evening Post the first of two articles about Hopkins, written by Marquis Childs of "Sweden—the Middle Way" fame, is extremely impressive. Hopkins certainly has a seldom equalled gold mine of material for sensational autobiography; and as soon as his daughter Diana is old enough, I'll bet she gets rich on her memoirs. * * * * Last summer I was hiking in the North Carolina mountains on the American Youth Hostel Trails. At Max Patch the AYH trail coincides with the famous Georgia-to-Maine Appalachian Trail, and for fifteen miles or so hostelers clamber over Snowbird Mountain. Somewhere along this stretch my companion and I separated; and, after several hours of vertical struggling, I noted with dismay that the trail was no longer with me. After admitting to myself that I was lost, I felt like another Daniel Boone as I started following a half-dry stream, which obviously couldn't go anywhere but down. At length I came upon a shanty, and on its sagging porch reclined a mountaineer whose main characteristics were a somnolent head and big, bare, and exceedingly black feet. In answer to my request for directions, this disreputable person mumbled, not to me, but to the landscape, "Them as gits themselves lost ought to git themselves found agin without bother-in' other folks." And so back to the descending stream. * * * * This year's Glomerata deserves a great deal of praise because it succeeds more thoroughly than any of its predecessors with which I am familiar in presenting an accurate pictorial record of the college. I pay it the highest compliment an annual can get when I say that it is actually the Diary of API, 1940-41. War—Right or Wrong? An Editorial by VIVIAN STALLWORTH "The United States is already at war on the moral and spiritual front." (We quote a statement made by the United States Office of Education, Washington, D. C.) "Its institutions, its way of life, its principles of democracy, its form of government are being attacked NOW by organized propaganda machines. Dictators openly announce that they plan to attack all democratic societies by propaganda designed to confuse, frighten, divide and demoralize the citizens. Only as a last resort do they intend to defeat a democracy by force of arms." The evil of propaganda lies in the fact that it stifles individuality and tends to form for us (though we are unconscious of the fact) convictions which we would never adopt if we should only think things out for ourselves. Our convictions, regardless of the manner in which they are formed, determine the stand we take in regard to war. We all are probably anxious to find the Christian solution to the problem of war. But what are we doing to find this solution? To whom are we going for advice? There is no earthly person who can tell us, "Thu is the right attitude toward war and that is wrong". The question of war is one that each of us mutt answer, and one that each must answer for himself. To find the Christian solution we must consult Christ. Let us pray over the matter and have faith that God will direct us in such a way that some day love will rule the world, casting out all hate, jealousy, and greed, the source of war and its evils. 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. Subbing for these feature writers who suddenly decide to take a "short vacation" is getting to be a habit. The SV disease seems to be contagious too. First it was the Filcher, Art Jones and now it is the Plains Talker, Herbert Martin. Guess it must be the atmosphere this time of year or to put it Plains Talk—just pure laziness. * * * Still can't figure out why all this sudden dissension about South and Latin American countries. I don't see any reason why we should not be friends with them; more reason to than not to. Takes a lot less energy to smile at somebody than to frown at them, and right now I can use all the energy I can get. Maybe this is TOO Plains. * * * When I walked in the office a few minutes ago I over heard some one on the business staff remark that H.M. kept on one subject too much and the subjects he spoke on weren't the least bit interesting. I'm trying to keep off one subject but as far as finding something interesting to write about is concerned, that is a horse of another color. Or shape. Or sumpin'. * * * Just had a gander at the new Glomerata and for once the editorial staff of the Plainsman wishes to congratulate the Graff Wave heads. That is some book and they have really done a swell job which is going to be hard to beat in the coming years. We haven't seen any digs at the Plainsman so far but we hardly think it possible that they would let such a good opportunity to slip by without saying something —even if it is bound to be bad as is expected. * * * Spring will soon be over and then summer will roll around and in three months falLwill be back and bring with it school and more trouble. It won't be long now. Just like prosperity, always just around the corner. School itself is not so bad. In fact, I can even get something out of a couple of my classes, but it is this idea of final exams in the heat of the day (or any temperature) that makes me wonder if it is all worth it. * * * Running out of dope to write about I turned to our extensive library up here. We have all of one book and it is a text book which belongs to some student who left it up here the night of the election. Guess the poor boy must have lost it and was too heart broken to remember he went to school. Can't say as I can blame him, because with half the student body against politicians and the other half too young to vote for or against him, it is all but discouraging to the future Senators and Presidents of our country. * * * After rereading that last paragraph I can't understand how I got off on the subject of politicians and their problems. Anybody subbing for a feature writer for one issue has enough problems without bringing in anything new. * * * Anyway, getting back to this book I found in our "extensive" library, I found that a good and successful writer must have several qualities that the average person doesn't need. One of these is a nose that senses the news and the unique. This may give some of our budding freshmen writers the wrong idea, so if any suspicious characters are seen about, the best plan would be to ignore them. * * * Another "good quality" to have is an indispensible note book which can be purchased in any five and ten store. The purpose of this little item is to record the "tips" and scoops that might slip the rriind before the writer has time to forget. I guess this is to give the writer confidence. * * * I was told to write a lot of nonsense when I started this bit of journalism but even a red-head has some seriousness about him. Most of this stuff has been just plain ramblings anyway and not much sense either. * * * Despite all of this roaming about I have enjoyed the "trip" and the work and I only hope you don't stop reading H. M.'s column because of this. Merry Christmas. (It's not far off.) Why Shouldn't This Happen? (Editor's Note: This is an article that appeared on the editorial page of the April 19th. issue of the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American. The point is obvious.) Pressure on the American-British lines was terrific. The Huns and their Asiatic allies were sending over thousands of bombing and fighter planes. Tons of high explosives and millions of machine gun bullets were raining death into the fields, the woodlands and the trenches. Weary-eyed, haggard staff officers huddled over maps. Their breathing rasped through white, tight lips. An orderly stepped forward suddenly and saluted: "A messenger, General." '"Bring him in." A white-faced aide in the intelligence section reported. He saluted. "Well?" said the General. "Sir, the enemy soon will be through our center. The battle is lost." The officers leaped up. "What?" they- cried. "Yes Sir; it pains me to report Sir, but the entire enlisted personnel of the Oak and Iron Divisions have struck." "What?" screamed the officers. "Yes, Sir, struck is what I said, Sir. "The men have appointed divisional committees which sent me to report, Sir, that they are serving the usual five-day notice of intention to quit. The infantry intends to stick their rifles, muzzle- first, in the mud; the air force intends to jimmy the plane motors; and the artillery intends to wreck all firing mechanism unless their demands are met. The committee is outside now, Sir." "Bring them in." Six soldiers, unmarked by battle, enter. "Who are you?" cries the General. As spokesman for our abused mates," said one, "I am an organizer in charge of bargaining $ for the Oak and Iron Division enlisted personnels. "Briefly, and to arrive quickly at the point, the men have held a collective labor election and mass-meeting. "They have itemized the following complaints: " 1 . On Thursday last one of our agents discovered in a field "" kitchen garbage can a flour sack which did not carry the imprint of the Union of Amalgamated sack Weavers. We refuse to eat any bread made from flour packed in such non-union sacks. "2. We also have definite information that the boots found on the body of a lieutenant were manufactured from the hide of a Brazilian bull in defiance of the federal laws prohibiting the use of the meat or skins of foreign-raised beef animals. "3. The men further demand that the base pay scale for privates be raised 20 cents an hour during non-action periods and 50 cents an hour during battle periods. "4. It also is further demanded that Private Jimgin who recently was deprived of his first-class ratings for slowing down during an infantry charge, be restored to active duty and be promoted to a first lieutenant and that his pay raise be retroactive to the first of January. "Within the next five days, unless our terms are met, we will proceed to do our duty by our organization and order the men, not only to cease fighting, but to sabotage all equipment in both divisions." As the six organizers turned to leave a tumult started outside the tent. The officers rushed to the tent flap and peered into the faces of *--2?" German shock troops who had cracked through the "struck" center and enveloped the general staff headquarters. "Is this one of the prices a Democracy has to pay?" muttered the General, as he was marched off between two German guards. April 25, 1941 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three PiKA s To Entertain With Annual Party Show, Dances and Outings Planned The Pi Kappa Alpha social fraternity will entertain out of town guests, faculty members that are alumni of the chapter, and members and pledges with its annual spring week-end of fun. The festivities will include a picture show party, a morning dance, a barbecue and the annual barefoot house dance, which will wind up the week-end on Saturday night. Tonight the chapter will entertain guests with a picture show party. The entire group will meet at the chapter house and after supper will go to the Tiger. After the movie, dancing will be enjoyed at the house. The Auburn Plainsman will play for the PiKA morning dance which will be held at the Girls' Gym from 11 until 1 tomorrow. In the afternoon members, dates and guests will invade Chewacla park for games, barbecue, and the traditional "Boozer Pitts bruns-wick stew", concocted for the chapter annually by Professor Pitts himself. The annual "Bare-foot Jook" will be held at the chapter mansion tomorrow night. Members of the faculty who are alumni of the fraternity, and out of town guests will be entertained by the members and pledges of the local chapter. Members and their dates include: Joe Gandy, Nell Lazenby; Robert Snow, Mary Hazel Ford; Walter Going, Dot Smith; Mac Saturday ALONG THE RIO GRANDE' With TIM HOLT Owl Show 'LUCKY DEVILS' With RICHARD ARLEN ANDY DEVINE ALSO NOVELTY: "Take It Or Leave It" Sunday-Monday April 27-28 'THAT NIGHT IN RIO' ALICE FAYE DON AMECHE CARMEN MIRANDA (IN TECHNICOLOR) The Year's Great Glamour-Musical H it! The Show of Your Dreams, Gay, Romantic, Tuneful! Don't Miss It! HITS—you'll soon be humming! "Chica, Chica, Boom, Chic" (It don't make sense—but it's immense!) "I'Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi" (I Like You Very Much) "Boa Noite" (Good Night) "They Met in Rio" (A Midnight Serenade) ADDED TREAT: Late News and Popeye Cartoon! Regular Prices! No Advance! Davis, Becky Rankin; Ham Wilson, Margaret Crane; Lansing Smith, Louise Sivley; Jim Sta-hnke, Reid Anderson; Jimmy Brown, Ann Barratt; Hampton McRae, Jean Gittings. Allen Nottingham, M a r i on Tompkins; R. N. Yarbrough III, Margaret Alice Terry; Charles Bradford, Ernestine Lloyd; Jack Dandridge, Jean Hollingsworth; Bob Ramey, Jean Atkins; Walker Richmond, Alice Kennedy; Car-lyle McCulloch, Betty Foxx; Jack Berry, Betty Barnes; Bill Smith, Beverly Kilian; Jack Willis, Rebecca Williamson. Bill Rotenberry, Louise Thrash; Bill Penn, Luella Haselton; Bill Sherling, Dottie Norman; Callen Aired, Lillian Luke; Frances McCulloch, Helen Wagner and Li-nelle Dobbins; Wade South, Jeanne McMullen; Eugene McEachin, Frances Plaxco. Michelson Named to Prexyship of TEP In Recent Election The Tau Omicron chapter of Tau Epsilon Psi has selected Harold Michelson, junior in Pharmacy, as Chancellor for the coming year. Robert Fry has been elected to serve as vice-chancellor and also representative to the Interfrater-nity Council from the fraternity. Morton Novick was elected secretary of the organization, and J. M. Silverstein was chosen scribe. Norman Cohen will serve as chaplain. Makes Part Expenses By Being 'Fire-Eater' CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — (ACP) Reed B. Dawson of Mount Vernon, N. Y., is paying part of his college expenses by acting as a "fire-eater." He is a junior at Harvard and his acts have made him a popular attraction at Boston parties. His specialty is setting fire to his hands and letting the flames creep up his arms. "It really only tickles," he said, "though most people think you are burning to death. I do it all with chemicals." Swallowing fire, he said, is just like breathing in warm air — if done properly. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. I Cuts made for all printing purpose^ I in an up-to-date plantby I expert workmen^ - ^ Thefa U Sorority To Have Steak Fry Patronnesses of Local Chapter Feted Today The Theta Upsilon sorority is giving a steak fry this afternoon in honor of the sorority patronnesses. Mrs. Bob Smith, Miss Eleanor Home, Mrs. J. T. Fain, Mrs. H. W. Nixon, and Mrs. F. W. Applebee are the ladies being feted at the party. The steak fry will be held at Chewacla Park. All members and pledges of the sorority and their dates will attend the event. Members and their dates include: Alice Little, Enos Clark; Ruth Williams, W. T. Kyser; Mildred Davis, Lamar Phillips; Ruby Morrison, Bennie Edwards; Helen Arauss, George Taylor; Ruth Prentiss, John Maddox; Mary Elizabeth Pritchett, William Clarence Pritchett; Earle Rives, Charlie Smith; Jean Black, Tom Bull-ington; Katie Lee Robinson, Jimmy Jowers. Fonda, Stanwyck In Film at Tiger "The Lady Eve" Shows Sunday and Monday If ever a picture showed promise of being the comedy hit of the year it is Paramount's new excursion into the laugh field, "The Lady Eve," written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in the chief comedy roles. Featured in the brilliant cast of the picture, which will be shown Sunday and Monday at the Tiger Theatre, are such always-welcome players as Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, Martha O'Driscoll and Luis Alberni. Even Hollywood, supposed to be accustomed to the unusual, was amazed at the rapid-fire pace that Sturges set when he completed three pictures in approximately a year. The remarkable thing is that they're all hits! First came "The Great McGinty," which Sturges then followed up with last season's solid comedy success, "Christmas in July." Now, he comes up with a picture, "The Lady Eve," which advance reports say is the best thing Sturges has done to date. Hollywood is already hailing Sturges as a genius at handling comedy. "The Sturges touch" is by way of becoming as real and distinguished as the vaunted "Lubitsch touch." "The Lady Eve" is about a rich young man, an expert on snakes, a naive fellow, not very worldly, who becomes the target for a gang of slick international cardsharps, as he is returning aboard ship from an Amazonian expedition. The beautiful leader of the sharp- Betty Sanitone W$**ff. c* *r \M M(0Sf VWIIOM Here's How to Foil Their Attack . . . Sanitone dry cleaning kills moth eggs and larvae. So before putting away winter woolens, be sure to have them Sanitoned. If you wish, we'll return them in sealed, mothproof bags, so they'll stay fresh and clean until you're ready to wear them again. IDEAL LAUNDRY Phones 193 * 294 Commerce Ball to Be Held Tonight in Graves Center; Plainsmen Will Play Commerce Queen to Be Announced; Dance Will Be Semi-Formal Affair The annual Commerce Ball will be held tonight at 9:00 in Graves Center. The Ball, which has been sponsored by Delta Sigma Pi honorary business fraternity for the last several years, will be highlighted by the presentation of the coed chosen as Commerce Queen. The selection of the Commerce Queen was made by the students of Business Administration and Secretarial Training in the election last Wednesday. The nominees for the successor to Betty Belle Brandt, last year's choice as "Queen of the Commerce Ball" included Sara Boles, Notasulga; Frances Plaxco, Russellville; Dot Smith, Union Springs; Frances ^Ellis, Centre; Madrid Davis, Auburn; Monta Mitchell, Tallassee; Martha Gardner, Huntsville; Annie Lyde Lewis, Tuskegee; Jean Atkins, Jasper; Helen Jordan, Birmingham; Doris Greeson, Ce-dartown, Georgia; and Willie Chase, St. Petersburg, Florida. The election for the Commerce Queen is probably the only election of the campus the result of which is really secret. Not even the president of Delta Sigma Pi, national professional fraternity which is sponsoring the election, knows who has been chosen until he receives the notice from the professors who will count the votes. This year the results will not be known until the time for the presentation of the winner at the ball tonight. Even the winning coed herself will not know until she hears her name read by the orchestra leader. All Business Administration and Secretarial Training students were eligible to vote in the election Wednesday, and most of them did vote. Frank Wilson, president of Delta Sigma Pi, said that the number of voters exceeded the number of bids. He had to have another supply printed so that each voter could be given a bid to the dance when he voted. The young ladies who have been nominated for the title of Commerce Queen will attend the dance tonight, and just previous to the leadout, the winner of the title will be announced and presented with a bouquet of red roses, the flower of the fraternity. The girls will be lined up in a semi-circle at the opposite end of the hall from the band at the time As president of Delta Sigma Phi, Frank Wilson, senior from Greenville, will have the job of presenting a bouquet of red roses to some Auburn coed tonight at the Commerce Day Ball, thus notifying her that she has been selected Commerce Queen. sters is Barbara Stanwyck, who didn't plan to let love take a hand when she marked the rich young man, Henry Fonda, as a card victim. When Fonda learns she's a double-dealer at cards, he's sure she's a double-crosser about being in love with him, and he quits her. But Barbara can't be brushed off that easily. Posing as a titled Englishwoman, "The Lady Eve," she gains entrance into the circle of wealthy families Fonda hobnobs with, through the aid of a former confederate, Eric Blore, who presents her as his niece. Fonda allows himself to be convinced he has never seen "Lady Eve" before, and sets down her resemblance to the beautiful cardsharp as a miraculous coincidence. Although he's still in love with the clever card-lady, he marries the girl he believes to be her double, "The Lady Eve." From this set of circumstances, Sturges has woven what advance reports agree is some of the smartest comedy in many screen seasons. For Fonda, his role in the Sturges picture must have come like sunlight into a dark-gray scene, for his last few pictures have been rather on the grim, dramatic side. In this picture, however, Fonda slips the tether and is allowed to run riot in light, farcical comedy. He even is permitted the luxury of wearing evening clothes after being in rough denim and dungarees in films for so long. Miss Stanwyck, too, gets a chance to don some eye-opening clothes. As a matter of fact, Sturges, in one scene, says in his script, "She wears a nightgown that makes our senses reel." Patronize Plainsman advertisers. Automobile Loans If you are interested in purchasing a new car, or obtaining a loan upon the car you now own, call or see— Harvey C. Pitts, Agent Phone 375 Auburn, Ala. of the event. After the leader of the orchestra reads the winner's name, Frank Wilson, president of Delta Sigma Pi, will go to the winner and present her with the flowers, then walk with her to the front of the hall. The elections committee has taken precautions that no one should learn the name of the winner. The name of the winning coed has been written on a sheet of paper and sealed, and it will not be opened until tonight at the dance. The Auburn Plainsmen will play for the semi-formal affair. Decorations will be simple, consisting of the pin and fraternity name on the backdrop behind the band. All members of honorary organizations on the campus have been sent bids to the dance. Members and dates of the fraternity will be served breakfast at the College Inn following the dance. Members from Delta Sigma Pi chapters at LSU, University of Alabama, the University of Georgia, and the Evening School in Atlanta will attend. »»4»<*»» WITH OUR APPROPRIATE GREETING CARDS we have many kinds thai- " diploma -atically" say just the right thing to the boy or girl graduate. BURTONS BOOK STORE "Something New Every Day" Delta Zeta National Officer Visits Here Pan-Hellenic Tea Honors Visitor Mrs. Guy-H. Gale, national inspecting officer for Delta Zeta sorority, will arrive here this week-end to inspect Beta Xi chapter of the sorority. Mrs. Gale is national membership vice-president of Delta Zeta, and is from San Francisco, Cal. She will come Sunday evening, and is planning to be in Auburn for four days. Kappa Delta will entertain for the Pan-Hellenic Council at a tea Tuesday afternoon from four until five-thirty. In the receiving line will be, besides Mrs. Gale, Dr. Rosa Lee Walston, Dean of Women, and the presidents of the different campus sororities. The alumnae group of Delta Zeta here, with Mrs. J. C. Grimes as chairman, will give a luncheon Tuesday in honor of Mrs. Gale. The affair will be at the Clement Hotel in Opelika. The Delta Zeta chapter will be host at a pajama party Monday night for Mrs. Gale. Dolores Sanders is president of Delta Zeta. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. Hannum, Thomas, And Pitts Attend Engineer Conclave Three members of the Engineering staff left Thursday afternoon to attend the annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, to be held Friday and Saturday, May 25 and 26 in Lexington, Kentucky. Those who are attending the meeting are Dean J. E. Hannum, Prof. A. L. Thomas, and Prof. Robert G. Pitts. After attending the meeting, the men will return to Auburn Sunday by motor. Subject of a paper delivered before the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters: "The Effect of the Histamine Antagon-i s t , Thymoxyethyldiethylmaline (929F) on Gastric Secretion." Dr. Egbert S. Wengert of the University of Wisconsin has been appointed to fill the Carter Glass chair of government at Sweet Briar college. LOST — Kappa Sigma fraternity pin, plain without initials. Reward. Tel. 864. John Belue. The Season's Smartest " Young Fashions For Young Women . . . . BURGERS FASHION SALON THIRD FLOOR BURGER'S BUDGET SHOP FOURTH FLOOR BURGERS SPORTS SHOP FOURTH FLOOR For Young Men V • * • BURGERS MENS STORE FIRST FLOOR ANNEX BURGER-PHILLIPS We Fe about POETS always call the violet the shrinking violet. We feel bad about anything that shrinks — but chiefly shirts. So we've spent our life making the shirt that doesn't shrink, the ARROW shirt. It's Sanforized Shrunk, which means fabric shrinkage less than 1%. Its Mitoga figure fit is superb and its collar is the world's finest. College men everywhere prefer Arrows. Try an Arrow Gordon today. $2 UP ARROW SHIRTS COLLARS . . . TIES . . . HANDKERCHIEFS . . . UNDERWEAR Sold Exclusively in Opelika at HAGEDORN'S Page Four THE P L A I N S M AN April 25, 1941 Laboratory Unique in U.S. Operated Here Tillage Lab Tests Farming Machinery By BEDDING SUGG A laboratory unique in the United States and in some respects in the world has been in operation at Auburn since its completion in 1935. The little known Tillage Machinery Laboratory, a part of the United States Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering, is located in the middle of the Alabama Experiment Station, with which it cooperates. The laboratory was established, according to its official descriptive bulletin, to provide facilities for comprehensive studies of tillage tools under controlled conditions in a variety of soils. Plows, harrows, and other tillage implements can be tested under different soil conditions within a very short time without the objectionable variables which are encountered in field testing. The principal building of the laboratory contains offices, a soils laboratory, a photographic dark room, a drafting room, a machine shop, and storage space for heavy equipment. The largest part of the laboratory consists of 11 bins or plots of soil, seven of which are 20 feet wide and 250 feet long and the remaining four of which are 20 by 125 feet. All the bins are two feet deep and separated by reinforced concrete walls along which run heavy H-beam rails used in the operation of testing equipment. On these rails run a soil-fitting car, a power car, and cover cars, each of which is wide enough to bridge the bins so that only the tool being tested touches the soil. The equipment for fitting soils to the desired conditions for testing consist of a tractor or utility car in which various types of tillage implements may be mounted. Fitting soils for testing includes a number of operations depending on the state in which the soils were left by preceding tests. Lumps are broken up and smoothed out, the subsoil is evenly worked, the plot is rolled into any desired compactness, and, if necessary, water is applied to achieve any desired moisture content. The plot is finally "shaved" just before the test is run to as nearly a plane surface as possible. The test equipment consists of two major units, a power car on which is mounted a special instrument called a dynamometer and Engineers' Banquet Held Wednesday at Pitts Green Room The Student Engineers' Council held a banquet Wednesday night in the Pitts Hotel Green Room as the last official meeting of the year. Dr. L. N. Duncan arid most members of the engineering faculty were present, as well as members of the Council. Leroy Thompson, president of the group, presided for the first part of the meeting as toastmaster, and turned the seat over to Hold-man Baker, newly elected president, at the conclusion of the meal. After the banquet, members and guests were entertained with a baseball movie short. Odds and Ends By BOB CHISHOLM the test unit car. The dynamometer measures the components of the draft of the tools being tested and records them on a graph. The test unit measures and records the forces necessary to hold various tools in their working positions. The power car is an unusual piece of machinery which straddles the plots, resting on eight large pneumatic tires which run along the tracks on the dividing walls. It weighs nine tons and furnishes a motive power of from 0.2 miles an hour to 10 miles an hour with its 135 h.p. gasoline motor. Photographic equipment is a-vailable to record the features of tests. In addition to equipment for taking of still pictures, motion picture cameras may be used to record the action of any -tool or machine as it is tested. The soils in the bins are selected to obtain as broad a variation as possible in soil characteristics which affect the behavior of tillage machinery and implements. Soils at the laboratory include Norfolk Sand and Cecil Clay from local lands; Lufkin, Huston, Oktibbeha, and Eutaw Clays from the Alabama Black Belt; Sharkey Clay from the Mississippi Delta; Decatur Clay from the Tennessee Valley; and Davidson Loamy Sand and Clay. To avoid as far as possible the introduction of variables into the tests, the soils in the laboratory bins are kept free of vegetation. After four years in the bins the soils show no significant changes from the field soils from which they were dug. The soils are protected by cover cars made of tin ! ! ! ! ! Our profession is your business! Our profession is vital to health . . • to your well being in time of sickness . . . it is your business as well as ours. You can have confidence that the. prescriptions written by your doctor will be followed to the letter. College training, State examination and registration plus long experience have given your pharmacist competence. Telephone 606 GEO. M. BAYNE DRUGCIST NEXT DOOR TO THEATRE Last Monday an announcement was made that the ROTC cadets would be permitted to wear cotton shirts to drill for the remainder of the year was welcome news. We have campaigned for quite a while for this change. Our writing may or may not have had anything to do with it, but we feel that the military department has the interest of the cadets at heart. A change in the regulation uniform requires quite a bit of red tape, and one of the main reasons for hesitancy in doing something about the heavy wool uniforms is that the student will have to pay an extra amount for the issuance of a cotton uniform. The military department is working on some scheme to settle the situation, and hopes to have something settled very soon. They should be congratulated for their actions in regards to the uniform situation. * * * The ODK-Musical Miscellany was a glorious success. The mobs and mobs of people who packed, jammed and crowded into Langdon Hall Tuesday night certainly got their money's worth. Every act] was excellent, and API ghould be proud that there is so much talent on the campus. A grand idea would be to have such a show about once every three months. This would give the the atrically inclined people a chance to produce a few shows. * * * The new Glomeratas are worthy of plenty of orchids. We think the cover is one of the most distinctive covers ever to grace an Auburn year book, and we have seen them New Uniform Rules Given Again as Student Reminder In order that confusion may be cleared up as to the correct uniform on different occasions, the Plainsman once again publishes the regulations set up by the Military Department. 1. After Tuesday, April 22nd, the uniform for drill will be uniform caps, civilian cotton shirts, any color without neck ties, uniform trousers, black shoes. Cadet officers will wear white shirts, black ties, Sam Browne belts and sabers. 2. There will be no drill on Thursday, May 8th and Tuesday, May 13th. Tuesday, May 6th, will be a practice review preparatory to the review for the inspectiong officer, May 12th. 3. There will be a review of .the entire Corps Saturday, May 10th, at 11:00 a.m. for the Alumni. Uniform for all members of the Corps: Uniform cap, white shirt with black tie, belt, uniform trousers, black shoes. 4. For the annual inspection May 12th and 13th, the uniform cap, grey shirt, black tie, grey trousers and black shoes are required for all ROTC classess. For drill and review at 3:00 p.m. Monday, May 12th, the uniform will be caps, blouses, white shirts, black ties, grey trousers, black shoes. 5. Uniform f o r competitive drill and graduation parade will the same as for the inspection parade. which ward off the effects both of excessive rain and of drought with equal efficiency. In order to obtain the greatest return from the investment in the Tillage Machinery Laboratory, manufacturers of tillage tools are invited to make use of the available facilities in any way which may be of value in improving their products. Data from such tests is considered confidential and is never published without the consent of the cooperating manufacturers. back as far as 1909. The members of the Glomerata staff should be complimented for their laborious efforts for they have turned out a very worthy product. * » * The lines of students waiting for the Glomeratas last night reminded us of the queues of people waiting for food in France. There was one very noticeable difference, our students all had pleased looks on their faces. As a matter of fact they seemed at peace with the whole world in general. * * * The crowded condition of Lang' don Hall last night would have been a fire inspector's nightmare. Such conditions are far from safe, and although a fire is not probable, it is not impossible. It is terrify ing to think what would have happened Tuesday night had a conflagration broken out. A mob like that would not have left the place in an orderly fashion. A great, great many would never have left the place. * * * To Harvard College: Please accept my apologies for giving Princeton University the credit of putting on the Hasty Pudding Show. This will never happen again. * * * The government is getting ideas of extending the selective service training to two years. At this rate we'll never get out of school. And there'll be a lot of young ladies who may have to join the lonely heart clubs of the country. * * * IN AND OUT OVER THE CAMPUS: It is raining again! New we really feel as though we are in Auburn. . . . Rumor has it that the Rockettes have been signed up by Ziegfield, Billy Carroll, and Flo Rose to terrorize the Germans. Could be! . . . The campus is covered with Glomerata-glancing students. . . . Wonder when next year's Glomerata is coming out? Oracles to Assist Sphinx in Drive Will Help Raise Funds For Recreational Cabin Oracles honor society for girls will not attempt to carry out a project of its own this year, but will instead assist Sphinx, its "big sister" organization, in the construction of a recreational cabin for women students. Members of Oracles are making macaroons for sale in the Quadrangle. Billy Tamblyn, local high school boy and the winner of the recent state-wide high school piano contest held here, and his sister, Ann, appeared on the program of Oracles recently. He played several selections, and accompanied his sister as she sang two solos. Prof. E. A. Bond, of the psychology department, spoke at the meeting held prior to this last one. Sara Smith is chairman of the committee for arranging the meeting programs, Dr. Rosa Lee Walston, Dean of Women, entertained members of Oracles and Sphinx at a picnic just before the Spring Holidays. The affair took place at Chewacla State Park. Beta Kappa Wins From Lambda Chi In Softball Scrap Beta Kappa, winner of last year's softbaH tourney, got off to a flying start in this year's intramural warfare by dumping the Lambda Chi Alpha aggregation, 3 to 2. Norman Hall, all-campus basketball star, pitched the Beta Kappa ten to this initial victory in league competition this year. Warren Darty, pitching for the Lambda Chi's, tied the game with a homer after the Beta Kappa's had taken an early lead, but the Beta Kappa squad came back to capture the close fracas. Sigma Phi Epsilon to Have Convention For Chapters in the Southern States For Men Who Must Have Dependable Styling . . . . See Us FREEMAN & FORTUNE SHOES KOPLON'S Opelika'a Beat Shoe Store University of Toledo's defense program is the largest of its kind in Ohio. Special engineering courses have attracted 1,140 students. 'That Night in Rio' At Martin Sunday Ameche, Faye, Miranda Star in Exotic Movie The glamour and romance suggested by the soft Brazilian moon, the throbbing rhythm of the Samba, and the tantalizing movements of exotic dancers provide the background for 20th Century- Fox's Technicolor, musical, "That Night in Rio," which stars Alice Faye, Don Ameche and Carmen Miranda, and opens Sunday at the Martin Theatre. This latest cinematic contribution of the studio that produced "Down Argentine Way" and "Tin Pan Alley" is sprinkled with catchy tunes by those master tunesmiths, Mack Gordon and Harry Warren. The vivacious Carmen, who is accompanied by her Banda Da Lua, finds plenty of reasons to sing and dance when "I'yi, Yi, Yi, Yi," "Chica, Chica, Boom Chic," "Boa Noite" (Good Night), "They Met in Rio" and "The Baron Is in Conference" are played. Neatly interspersed with the catchy tunes "That Night in Rio" is the intriguing story of a double-dealing double, Don Ameche, who portrays first an American night club performer in love with his singing and dancing partner, the glamorous Carmen Miranda. But he is also a Brazilian boulevardier, Baron Buarte, married to the alluring Alice Faye. It is comedy at its best, and according to preview critics, it is tops as entertainment. Carmen Miranda, who was so sensational in "Down Argentine Way," is given a chance to act a full-length role in "That Night in Rio." As the flighty, fiery songstress, she displays her violent disapproval of her American boy friend in both English and Portuguese. The Brazilian "Bombshell" introduces her native dance, the Samba, to the American movie audience, and the chorus, trained by Miss Miranda, and Dance Director Hermes Pan, is said to be outstanding. Alice Faye emerges in "That Night in Rio" as an ultra-smart and fashionably gowned society queen. As the wife of the baron her outfits are striking—and her songs are, as always, a highlight of the film. The full richness of Rio's night life and the vivid costumes of the performers are captured by the magic of Technicolor. Amidst these gorgeous surroundings Director Irving Cummings has fashioned an outstanding piece of entertainment. The supporting cast, which includes S. Z. Sakall, J. Carrol Naish, Curt Bois and Leonid Kins-key, all accomplished character actors, has received its share of the plaudits. The screen play, Notice to All A.P.L Seniors We have arranged with the Chevrolet Motor Company to provide all Seniors with Chevrolet automobiles who are interested in buying an automobile at this time. For f u r t h e r information regarding prices, etc., see us. Tatum Motor Co* OPELIKA . Eight Chapters t o Be Represented in the Annual Affair The Alabama Alpha Chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity will hold a District Convention this week-end for the Chapters in the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Districts. The convention is designed to aid the individual chapters in their rushing, pledging, and other problems. The Convention Director is Willis B. Hayes who has planned an interesting program for the visitors which will last for two days this week-end, Saturday and Sunday. The fraternity has made plans to accommodate the representatives of the eight fraternity chapters which will be'represented at the convention. There will be a banquet at the Pitts Hotel Saturday night and immediately afterwards there will be a house dance at the chapter house. The Convention will officially begin at nine o'clock Saturday morning when the meeting is called to order and the roll is called. At 9:15, Felix Turnipseed, the newly elected President of the Auburn chapter, will welcome the visitors. The District Governor will then give a talk explaining the purpose of the District Convention and outlining the program of the events of the week-end and the subjects to be discussed. A paper will then be handed out to the various representatives on t he problems and facts about rushing. A round table discussion will then be held on this subject. At ten o'clock another paper will be presented dealing with the That Night in Rio," was by George Seaton, Bess Meredyth and Hal Long. Additional dialogue was contributed by Samuel Hoff-enstein. To prevent spread of tuberculosis, New York city's four municipal colleges now require X-ray examinations of the chests to all entering students. subject of pledge training and this will be followed by another round table discussion participated in by all the representatives present. Mr. Ralph Draughon will speak to the convention on the subject of scholarship. Mr. Draughon is the Executive Secretary of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Immediately after his address the convention will adjourn for lunch. The afternoon session will begin at 2:00 o'clock, at which time a paper will be presented on the subject of Chapter House Management and Administration. This will be followed by a round table discussion. At 3:00 o'clock another will be presented on the rela- i tions of the actives and the alumni and the members of the group will then discuss the matter. The District Governor will begin several discussions at 4:00 o'clock. The first one will be "The Chapter Advisors Program," the second one will be "The Executive Committee Ruling on Inactive Membership" and the last one will be on the subject of "Conscription and its possible effects on Chapter memberships." A recess will then be declared until the banquet at 6:15 at the Pitts HoteL-The toastmaster of the banquet will be the president of the host chapter, Felix Turnipseed, and the speaker of the night will be Dr. Herman D. Jones, Auburn. The convention will terminate on Sunday morning when the unfinished business will be discussed and the problems of "Fraternity Ideals" and "Intramural and In-terfraternity Activities" will be talked about. The Convention will end with dinner at the Alabama Alpha Chapter House at 1:00. The Chapters at the Universities of Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Louisiana and Mississippi will be represented as well as the chapters at Georgia Tech and Mississippi State. KELLY CABS Nice Cars — Courteous Drivers PHONE 9155 _____ Students! When ever possible patronize the BIRMINGHAM CONCERNS Advertising in this PLAINSMAN They are real Auburn supporters "The Business Staff Of The Plainsman" April 25, 1941 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Five College Libraries Receive Many More Books; Main Library Gets Majority All Six Department* Get Book Allotments The following new books were added to campus libraries during the two weeks from April 3 to April 17, according to an official list released by the Main Library. Main Library Arnold, "A Son of the First People." B u c h a n, "Mountain Meadow." Holmes, "Salt of the Earth." Niven, "Mine Inheritance." Sinclair, "Mountain City." Panneton, "Thirty Acres." Mc- Cluskey, "Bronson Alcott, Teacher." Winslow, "The Life of Hermann M. Biggs." Guerini, "The Life and Works of Giuseppangelo I Fonzi." Derleth, "Still Small Voice; Biography of Zona Gale." Holmes, "Holmes-Pollock Letters." Leopold, "Robert Dale Owen." Percy, "Lanterns on the Levee." Ware, "Jacob A. Riis." Hughes, "The Gentle Hereford, Her Life and Letters." Valtin, "Out of the Night." "Journal of Adult Education, V. 22." "Proceedings, National Conference on Planning." "Stamps, A Weekly Magazine of Philately." Cannon, "American Book Collectors and Collecting from Colonial Times to the Present." Santayana, "Little Essays Drawn from the Writings of George Santayana." Maritain, "The Degrees of Knowledge." Woodger, "The Technique of Theorgy Construction." More, "Platonism." Shorey, "What Plato Said." Maritain, "Three Reformers: Luther — Descartes — Rousseau." Love, "How to Read the Bible." Gewehr, "The G r e at Awakening in Virginia." Knappen, "Tudor Puritanism." Fincher, "Democracy at Work." Beard, "The Old Deal and the New." Eskew, "Guinea Pigs and Bugbears." Frankfurter, "Mr. J u s t i ce Holmes and the Supreme Court." Holoway, "Government and Politics in Alabama." Education Records Bureau, N. Y., "Guidance in Public Secondary Schools." Baird, "Baird'a Manual of American College Fraternities." Bowman, "The College Professor in America." Yeager, "Home-School-Community Relations." Orthovis Company, Chicago, "The Bird Kingdom." Borsook, "Vitamins." G o r d o n , Vitamin Therapy in General Practice." Stepp, "The Vitamins and their Clinical Applications." Salter, "The Endocrine Function of Iodine." Polowe, "The Home Book of Medicine." Lufkin, "A History of Dentistry." Better Vision Institute, "Why We See Like Human Beings." Wood, "Grow Them Indoors." Gregory, "ABC of the Vitamins." Wakefield, "Toll House." Swann, "An Approach to Choral Speech." Reference S h e l f , "Western Hemisphere Defense," "Compulsory Military Training," and "The Monroe Doctrine." Crane, "The Collected Poems of Hart Crane." B r o n s o n , "American Poems." More, "The Demon of the Absolute." Noyes, "Pageant of Letters." Tinker, "The Poetry of Matthew Arnold." Masefield, "Tribute to Ballet." Maxtone, "The Glass- Blower and Other Poems." Santayana, "Poems." Jones, "Spenser Handbook." Grieson, "The Oxford Book of Seventeenth C e n t u r y Verse." White, "The Metaphysical Poets." Schultz, "Gay's Beggar's Opers." France, "On Life and Letters." Toynbee, "A Study of History." Jungman, "Norway" and "Holland." Wilgus, Histories and Historians of Hispanic America." Bemelmans, "The Donkey Inside." Gosnell, "Spanish P e r s o n al Names." Lacroix, "Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance." Pol, "Suicide of a Democracy." Knollenberg, "Washington and the Revolution." Simkins, "The Women of the Confederacy." Summers, "Annals of Southwest Virginia." Rojas, "Estudias Indig-nas." Agriculture Library Whittaker, "A History of Economic Ideas." Hoagland, "Real Estate Principles." Architecture Library McNamara, "Landscape Architecture." Silcock, "Introduction to Chinese Art and History." National Association of Housing Officials "Housing Yearbook." Von Erdberg, "Chinese Influence on European Garden Structure." Chemistry Library American Pharmaceutical Association, Journal. Davision, "Manual of Toxicology." P e r k i n s, "Cause and Prevention of Disease." Mellan, "Industrial Solvents." Engineering Library ' ' Commercial Aeronautics . ' ' "Technology Review." Alabama Personnel Department, "Classification Plan." Fallis, "The Chield and Things." Fielding, "Photoelectric and Selenium Cells." Williams, "Exploring the Arts and Industries." Jackson, "Present Status and Trends of Engineering Education in the United States." Stoever, "Applied Heat Transmission." Ricker, "Electrical Engineering Laboratory Experiments." Smith, "Washroom Methods and Practice in the Power Laundry." Frailey, "How to Write Better Business Letters." M a r i e t, "Vegetable Dyes." Fielding, "The Ferrous Metals." Rayon Publishing Corporation, "Textile Chemical Specialty." Veterinary Library Strain Technology, A Journal for Microtechnic. Gorgas, "William Crawford Gorgas." Luciani, "Human Physiology." Complete dramas, staged and produced at an average cost of $10, are being developed by Wellesley college students in an effort to create inexpensive army camp entertainment. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. THE LADY EVE HAS EVERYTHING! Everything that men go wild about. . . . Everything to make this the fri»kie*t, riskiest entertainment to ever roar across the screen! n SUNDAY MONDAY TIGER DRAKE FIELD 2:00 p.m. - Sunday 1941 Horse Show Events and Contestants CLASS I. SOPHOMORE HORSEMANSHIP—Entrants will exhibit their horses at a walk, trot, and gallop. They will be judged on horsemanship, handling, turns, and backing. Alfred Green Norman Cohen C. D. Hopkins George Heard E. B. Kersh Bill Lynn R. A. Dobbins W. W. Cunningham A. L. Jones J. L. Petrey R. E. McFerrin E. H. Stratmeyer Jim Heard Abe Rosenthal 0. D. Alsobrook E. T. York P. M. Boyd L. E. Bassett George Cowart R. P. Knowles CLASS II. JUNIOR JUMPING—Entrants will follow a coures of six jumps, each three feet, three inches in height. Robert B. Allan Harry B. Huff Davis M. Gammage Charles Dubberly W. B. Moore Charles L. Davis J. H. Gilley J. E. Tanner Jack Fields Charles Grace Robert M. Huff A.. H. Nottingham Sam L. Tisdale CLASS III. LADIES' JUMPING—Entrants will follow a course of five jumps, at a height of three feet, three inches. Jean Yarbrough Doris Greeson Mozelle Breeden Katherine Wright Janet Welsted Jane Smith Suzelle Hare Mary Claire Burns CLASS IV. feet, six inches. Paul Ellis Drew Hale Ross Snellings David Savelle Anna Breeden Melissa Winters Shirley Smith Annice Watkins Mary Helen Smith SENIOR JUMPING—Entrants will follow a course of five jumps, at three Jean Laird Susan Dick Mary B. Bidez Charleroi McCue R. D. Hall W. F. Miller J. M. Hinson A. C. Allen Mitchell Wadkins V. W. Chumley Bill Ellner M. S. Esslinger Marlin Camp L. B. Freeland J. H. Staggers N. J. Adams CLASS V. PAIR JUMPING—Entrants will take a course of six jumps and will make each one three feet, six inches. Anna Breeden-Robert M. Huff Doris Green-Billy Elenor Annice Watkins-Paul Ellis Jean Laird-Charles Cox CLASS VI. LADIES' HORSEMANSHIP—Entrants in this event must be first year riding students not enrolled in Alabama Polytechnic Institute. It is for ladies only. They will show their horses at a walk and trot. Virginia Williamson Susan Lawson Marilyn Reynolds Vina Ditto Betty S. Eaton Frances Fuller CLASS VII. LADIES' HORSEMANSHIP—Entrants in the Ladies' Horsemanship class will exhibit their horses at a walk and a trot. They must be first year students enrolled in API. Doris Carpenter Margaret Kilburn Carolyn Kinsey Beulah Crawford Luella Hasselton Shirley Sargent Katie Lee Robinson Dorothy Johnston CLASS VIII. LADIES' HORSEMANSHIP—Entrants in the Intermediate and Advanced Ladies' Horsemanship class will exhibit their horses at a walk, trot and a gallop and will be judged on backing and turning also. Christine McGehee Moselle Breeden Ada Wright Annice Watkins Shirley Smith Anna Breeden Susan Dick Mary Claire Burns Jane Smith Charleroi McCue Jean Laird Mary Helen Smith Melissa Winters Doris Greeson Suzelle Hare Janet Welsted CLASS IX. JUNIOR-RIDING—Entrants in this class will be members of the Boy Scout Riding Class and must be under 14 years of age. They will exhibit their horses at a walk and at a trot. Pete Blair Charles Thomas Wallace Johnson Robert Sparks Howell Newton Buddy Moring TRICK RIDING CLASS—Entrants in this class will do some bareback jumping and will also give an exhibition of Roman Riding on two horses. They will stand erect on the two horses at the same time. Entrants—Bareback Jumping: Drew Hale John Dumar John (Red) Hinson Montgomery Truss Abe Rosenthal Paul Crow Harry Morgan Jack Willis Bill Spence Jorge Guzman Paul Crow Bill Spence Roman Riding Harry Morgan Alumnus Takes Part In Rotary Club Convention Plans Homer D. Cogdell, of Denver, Colorado (Class of '11), is taking an active part in preparations for the 32nd annual convention of Rotary International which will be held in Denver from June 15 to 20, and which is expected to attract more than 10,000 Rotar-ians and their families. Mr. Cogdell is Manager of the Denver branch of the International Harvester Company. As a member of the Overseas Committee, he is assisting in plans for welcoming and entertaining the many guests from outside the country who will attend the convention. According to Mr. Cogdell, delegates to the Denver convention will represent the majority of the 210,000 Rotarians and 5,000 Rotary clubs of more than 60 countries of the world. FOR SALE — A black four-door standard 1939 Ford. In excellent condition. For additional information, call Mr. W. Mc. Moore at 189. > i i Jorge Guzman "My favorite disft-soup- and-fish!" A / f EN actually like to •*•*•'" dress, now that there's a shirt 100% easy-to- get-into, and comfortable! The shirt is Arrow SHOREHAM —put it on like a regular shirt; collar attached. It has a semi-soft pleated bosom. It has a *£<*/>«* body. Well worth$3. For tails, we suggest A r r ow KIRK, a very smart, comfortable shirt. $2.50 to $3. HAGEDORN'S Opelika Alabama ARROW m > SHIRTS SANFORIZED I < < < < i' I < Ruise... at the familiar red cooler Opelika Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Phone 70 M-64-1 Glomeratas Given To Many Tuesday Night Maddox Elected IRC President Margaret Kilburn Is . Vice-President; Emma Jean Vick, Secretary Hugh Maddox, recently elected president of the senior class for 1941-42, will be installed formally as president of the International Relations Club on next Thursday night, May 1, at the regular meeting. He was elected by the members of the club at a meeting held April 17. Margaret Kilburn, Delta Zeta sophomore, has been elected to the vice-presidency of the organization, and Emma Jean Vick, freshman, will serve as secretary-treasurer for the coming year. All officers will be installed next Thursday night. ACSS Tours Farm Tillage Laboratory The Agricultural Graduate Student Society made a very interesting inspection tour of the Federal Farm Tillage Laboratory on Thursday of last week. The tour was conducted by Mr. I. F. Reed, Associate Agricultural Engineer, for the United States Department of Agriculture. After the inspection of the laboratory, a three reel technicolor motion picture was shown to the society. Mechanical cotton picker, kinds and types of tractor plows, and the actual operation of the laboratory were among the many interesting topics shown and discussed. A survey by students at Sarah Lawrence college resulted in $325,- 000 slum clearance grant for Bronxville, N. Y. LOST — High school class ring with initials S.L.K. on it. Reward. Finder call M. C. Pitts, -78-W. • We Buy Men's Used Clothing and Shoes. Jake's Place 123 So. 9th Street Opelika, Alabama Miscellany Attenders Get 800 Yearbooks By ART JONES Eight hundred Glomeratas were issued under cover of night last Tuesday evening following the presentation of the annual ODK Musical Miscellany. Eager faces hastily scanned the pages of the 1941 yearbook by light of the starlit sky. As soon as the musical came to an end, Bill "Trigger" McGehee unlocked the doors of the Graft Wave office, admitted the members of his staff, and then departed in a cloud of dust for parts unknown. After taking one look at the Glomerata, members of the Auburn student body began contributing toward a fund to be used as a reward for the person or persons who capture the Glom Chief dead or alive. While carousing in the vicinity of the Glomerata office, your reporter overheard a number of opinions expressed. The opinions ran something like this: "Well, I have two more lines to stand in here at Auburn, one to collect my contingent deposit, and the other to receive my diploma." "Every year they say it (the Glomerata) is not half as good as last year's but I don't think anyone will say that this year." "I'm a freshman and this is the first Glomerata I've seen, but it looks good to me." Said a member of the Glomerata staff. "I believe without a doubt that the 1941 edition of the Glomerata is the most beautifully bound, most attractively composed, most exquisite and lovely, most magnificent and colossal, most stupendous and astounding, and positively the most amazing volume I have even had the honor or pleasure of caressing with my ocular orbs." Said editor Trigger McGehee, just before his departure: "Ah'm gettin' tha H__ out of here!" These Days Perfect Grooming Is Compulsory Campus Barber Shop BLACH'S FEATURES Fortune Foulards AS THE FAMOUS Beau Brummell Here's a colorful splash to brighten up every spring wardrobe . . . beautifully made from the cleverest of new patterns. BLACH'S BIRMINGHAM $11.0 0 Exclusively shown at Black's Page Six THE PLAINSMAN April 25, 1941 Track Team Leaves for Atlanta Best Team in Years Reported for Auburn Inexperienced Performers Counted on Heavily Against Toughest Foes in South By WARREN FLEMING Track squads from all over the South will descend on Atlanta today and tomorrow for what promises to be one of the most hotly contested AAU track and field meets in recent years. Auburn is taking a talented though inexperienced team to the meet. Coach Wilbur Hutsell is basing heavy hopes on practically untried warriors, who are led by the promising John C. Ball, Auburn athlete who won the annual cake rraaccee here last year, and broke cross country records on every course on which he ran last fall. Ball is an ace two miler. Troubled by a foot blister last week, he ran the race against Georgia in cross country shoes, and still managed to win easily. Another sophomore who is counted upon to rack up points for the Auburn aggregation is Dudley Tyler, miler and half-miler. This lad combines endurance and speed, and is one of the best prospects seen here in several years. Captain of the team this year is James Stevenson, who will enter the weight events. Hugh Mad-dox, 200 pounder, will enter the discus competition. Alternate-Captain Jim Holley, and "Bud" Reed, a sophomore, will run the 440-yd. dash. Jim Holley ran the quarter mile this year in 51.1. Both of these men will be relied upon heavily by Coach Hutsell. Hoyt Hall, one of the Southeastern Conference's leading pole vaulters, will have a chance to display his powers again this Saturday. His highest jump this year was made at the Florida Relays. Here he made a jump of 13 feet. Hall and Burton will represent Auburn in the high jumping events. Herbert Burton, another sophomore who has shown great promise this year, will also jump for Auburn in the high and the broad jumps. Ty Irby and Frank Manci will jump with him in the broad jumps and Hoyt Hall and James Stephenson will assist him in the high jumps. Auburn's main entries in the dash event will be '.'Bud" Wend-ling, "Chuck" Finney and Jack Brush. Wendling is one of the best dash men on the squad and is the fastest man on the football team. Finney, the fastest man on the track team, has been absent from the last few meets with a pulled muscle in his leg, but Sickness and Accidents Respect No M a n ! Hosp Prepare today with adequate ital Insurance —•— J. P. REED, SOLICITOR Phone 657-R & 375 Coach Hutsell said he would probably be in good shape for the AAU Meet this coming Saturday. Herbert Burton will represent Auburn again in the javelin throwing event. Herbert is a bit new at javelin throwing but is expected to make a creditable showing. Next week the Auburn Tigers will meet the University of Florida 'Gators here in Auburn. This meet will be held in honor of the visiting alumni who will be in Auburn on May 10 for Alumni Day. The field events start about 2:00 o'clock while the running events will begin about' 2:30 o'clock. Another Old Auburn Landmark Removed From Village An Auburn landmark is in the process of its death struggle. As familiar to present day students as those of the gay nineties —and even further back in history, as familiar as Samford tower, as Langdon Hall's columns, as the spires of the Architectural Building, even as the fickle Auburn weather, is the cornfield in the middle of town, on the corner of College and Tichenor. That cornfield has been a landmark since before the days of the oldest member of API's staff. The sound of the wind whistling through its corn and weeds was present long before the first loyal Auburn throat loosed an exultant War Eagle. And now that cornfield is no longer to exist. The machine age once again is glorying in triumph over nature. Trucks and shovels and perspiring laborers are removing the dirt from its aged embankment. In its place they say there is to be a drug store, and a bus station. Where stalks of corn once waved green on its soil, and rustled brown after the harvest, there will be a soda fountain and a drug dispensary. Soft drink bottles will replace the ears of corn. The rows of the plow will be replaced by the tire tracks of busses. Auburn will doubtless be proud of its new bus station and drug store—but something will be missing. Wilson college has begun preparation for the celebration of 1944 of its seventy-fifth anniversary. JAMES HOLLEY Alt. Capt. of 1941 Track Team Be sure to attend the track meet between AUBURN and FLORIDA in the New Stadium on May 3 Auburn Tennis Men Handed Setback by Georgia Netmen Two More Meets to Be Played This Season Auburn's 1941 Tennis Team was handed it's first defeat of the present season last Wednesday by the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia on the Georgia courts. Auburn showed fine form but was unable to cope with the superior Georgia team who took all six matches. The complete scores are given below. Auburn has two more games to play before going to the Southeastern Conference Meet in Nashville on May the 8, 9, and 10th. They play Mercer next and then will tackle Birmingham-Southern for their last game of the year. Captain McKee (Auburn) lost to Reynolds, 6-1 and 6-2; Drake (Auburn) lost to Byrd, 6-2, 6-2; Hazzard (Auburn) lost to Russell, 6-4, 6-4; Wells (Auburn) lost to Whiting, 6-2, 6-3; and Schoffner (Auburn) lost to Walker, 6-4, 6-4. Venezuelan Hiker (Continued from page 1) He was also vexed at the gaping interest and stares he got from the audience crowded about. He remarked that some of the friendly Indians he has met showed less surprise and had nicer manners than some of the people he has met here! As a whole, however, he likes Americans, and is "crazy about" their President "Roosvet", with whom he has corresponded. He met Governor Dixon in Montgomery, and was agreeably surprised to learn that the Governor spoke excellent Spanish. His biggest reception was in New Orleans, where he was feted, and where the mayor came out to see him. He has an interesting scrap-book of newspaper clippings about his travels, which he showed us, and he has been honored in many U.S. towns. He spent Wednesday night here before continuing his walkathon. ' He asked Tony to deliver a message to the "young people" here, and the Plainsman takes pleasure in printing it. He advises that we "Forget about Europe and European people, their customs and languages, their imports and exports. Stay in this hemisphere, for here alone you'll have more than you'll ever be able to learn. Forget the 'Oui, monsieur' and learn 'Si, senor'." "Learn to know other flags than your own, and make friends with their people. Don't let the Europeans steal this friendship, for you need it and needed it badly. If I can feel that I have helped to make the Americans realize the need of better understanding and relationships between the Americas, I would be satisfied." Julio's skin has been turned so dark by the sun that he had to get an affidavit from the chief of police of Beaumont, Texas, to prove that he is of Spanish extraction. The hiker said that he had anticipated trouble in the South because of his color, but that his documents had been of valuable assistance. Speaking of his return trip, Julio plans to ride back in style. When asked if he planned to walk back, he replied, "I'd be crazy to try to do that!" High School Band Concert to Be Given Tuesday The Auburn and Opelika high school bands will present a concert next Tuesday night in Langdon Hall, beginning at eight o'clock. Tickets for college students to the "Parade of Melody", as the program is entitled, will be 25 cents. Proceeds from the show will go toward the purchase of a sousa-phone for the Auburn High Band. A varied program will be presented, and include novelty numbers and modern arrangements as well as purely classical music. Plans call for a duplicate concert to be given in Opelika soon after the Auburn program. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. Horse Show (Continued from page 1) Final eliminations for the show have been completed and 110 persons have qualified to enter the program. Class I, Sophomore Horsemanship, is open to ROTC sophomores in the Field Artillery. The entrees will show their horses at a walk, trot, gallop, turns, and backing. Contestants will be judged on the ability of the rider. Class II, Junior Jumping, is open to ROTC Juniors, and the contestants will take their horses over five 3 foot 3 inch jumps. Class VI, Ladies' Horsemanship is open to members of the first year Ladies' Riding Class who are not students of API. They will show their horses at a walk, trot, backing, and turns. They will be judged on the ability of the rider only. Class III, Ladies' Jumping, is open to members of the Ladies' Riding Class. Those entered will compete in five 3 foot 3 inch jumps and will be judged on their performance. Class IX, Children's Horsemanship is open to riders under the age of 14. They will show their horses at a walk, trot, backing, and turns, and will be judged on the ability of the rider. Class XI, Harnessing Race is open to members of the Enlisted Men's Detachment of the ROTC unit. This will be a race in which time only will count, time penalties to be added for faults in harnessing. Class IV, Senior Jumping, is open to ROTC Seniors. These men will run their horses over a course of five 3 foot 6 inch jumps, and will be judged on their performance. Class VII, Ladies' Horsemanship, is open to members of the first year class who are students at API. They will show their horses at a walk, trot, canter. Entrees will be judged on their abilities as riders. Class V, Pair Jumping, is open to pairs consisting of a woman student, and a Field Artillery Junior or Senior. Those entered will show their horses over five 3 foot 3 inch jumps, and will be judged on performance only. Class XII, Roman Riding, is an exhibition given by four members of the volunteer bareback riding class. This class is not competitive. Class VIII, Advanced Ladies' Horsemanship, is open to members of the advanced and intermediate classes. The horses will be shown at a walk, trot, and gallop, turns, and backing. Contestants will be judged on their abilities as riders. Class X, Bareback Jumping, is open to members of the volunteer bareback riding class. Those entered will put their horses oyer five 3 foot 3 inch jumps, and will be judged on performance. ?W:^::.:^':;::::;:::;>:;:::::^:::-.:::>:^:o::.::-;- ^ K ^ S f f l ^ i v ^ S : : V Initiation Held By Pi Tau Sigma Eight New Men Taken Into the Fraternity The Chi Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma, National Honorary Mechanical Engineering fraternity, initiated its eight new members last Wednesday and Thursday. The initiation began on Wednesday morning and lasted until Thursday night. The eight new members which were inducted are: Richard C. Calloway, Huntsville; John N. Cooper, Natchez, Miss.; Charles A. Dubberley, Tallassee; Reese Gwillim, Birmingham; James P. Lewallen, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Samuel Jones Price, Birmingham; Charles W. Scott, Birmingham; and Thomas M. Smith, Bessemer. One faculty member was inducted. This was Professor T. W. Sparrow, assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department. During the informal initiation the neophytes were required to wear coveralls with Pi Tau Sigma written across the top and also an engineers cap similar to the one worn by railroad engineers. They were also required to carry a large wrench, wheel or other article of a mechanical nature. On Wednesday night each candidate was required to take an entrance examination. The formal initiation was held on Thursday night and immediately following this a banquet was held in the Pitts Hotel Green Room. The new officers will be elected at the next meeting but will not assume their offices until the next meeting of the fraternity. Pi Tau Sigma elects its members on the basis of scholarship, character, extra-curricular activities and their potentialities as leaders. Queens college is offering a new historical survey of the American scene in terms of its ballad and song. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. Bowery Ball To Be Given By Sigma Pi Cay Ninety Air to Prevail at House The Alpha Delta chapter of Sigma Pi will hold its second annual Bowery Ball Saturday night at the chapter house on the campus of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. The chapter house will be decorated to resemble a saloon during the height of the gay Nineties. A bar will be at one end of the dining room, from which refreshments in the form of soft drinks, pop-corn and pretzels will be served. Numerous signs will be placed about the room to further create an air of realism. A gaming room will also be open, where one may play cards, dice, and rou-lettee. Songs of the Gay Nineties will be sung by a barber shop quartet. Group singing will also be on the program. Prizes will be given to the best-dressed girl and the best dressed boy. The official hostess of the affair will be Mrs. D. W. Cros-land, the house mother. Members and their dates are: Don Brewer, Bebe Faust, Birmingham; Bob Brewer, Sarah Boles, Notasulga; R e u b e n Brawner, Elaine Wilkins, Roanoke; Jack Easterling, Lillian Thrower, Hef-lin; Dolph Mosley, Margy Graham, Birmingham; Tommy Prid-more, Mary Helen Smith, Auburn; Melvin Hagood, June Wilson, Mobile; James McCrea, Marion Fitch, Opelika; John Pope, Anne Goss-ett, Columbus, Ga.; Jim Warren, Jean Armstrong, Birmingham; Haskell Johnson, Henri Lucille P r a t h e r, Rockf ord; Cromwell Cleveland, Ann Barnes, Montgomery; Joe Johnson, Doris Ruth Bed-dingfield, Auburn; Alvin Strati-gos, Jeanne Mangum, Columbus, Ga.; Don Nebrig, May Edwards, Auburn; Eric Anderson, Virginia Riley, Auburn. Buddy Boteler, Jack Holt, James Holley, Bill Shealy, Mike Blevins, John Christopher, Buck Freeland, W i l b u r Davenport George Garrett, Ed Lindsey, and James West. John A. Pope is president. Expl; Through February, 17,742 cases had been treated this school year at the University of Indiana health center. University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru, is the oldest university in the new world. Scientists Unable to ain Different Effects of Drinking STANFORD UNIV., Calif. — (ACP).—Science still is unable to explain why some persons can drink heavily while others cannot, according to Dr. Henry Newman of the Stanford University faculty. Experiments have been made at the university to prove or disprove every thesis that has been advanced on the subject. They were all found untrue. "Many people," said Dr. Newman, "believe an habitual heavy drinker can 'take it' because al-ehohol passes more slowly into his blood stream. But experiments showed that the chronic drinker's blood absorbs alcohol more rapid- •ly. "Many believe that alcohol goes more slowly to the brain of the heavy drinker, but our workers here found it goes more rapidly. "Others suggest that the habituated drinker remains sober because his body burns up the alcohol at a high rate of speed. But our experiments showed alcohol is burned up in both amateur and professional drinkers at exactly the same rate." Dr. Newman holds that the only possible explanation is that the chronic drinker has acquired some mysterious "tolerance" to alcohol, a mechanism that permits him to absorb alcohol without showing its effects. Its Chesterfield Everybody who smokes them likes their COOLER, MILDER, BETTER TASTE On the movie lot or wherever you go, the Right Combination of the best tobaccos from our own Southland and from distant Turkey and Greece makes Chesterfield the one cigarette that truly Satisfies. Note how many more smokers are enjoying Chesterfield's definitely Milder, Cooler-Smoking, Better Taste, r • PRISCILLA LANE, •tarring in Warner Bros.' forthcoming hit "MILLION DOLLAR BABY' Copyright 1941, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co / |
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