1941-03-14 The Plainsman

              "A" Day
Tomorrow
VOL. LXIV z-i
77i£ Vtain&marv ''AUBURN—the friendliest college in the United States"
ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, MARCH 14, 1941
New Tennis
Courts!
NO. 49
Orange or Blue?
(Plainsman Staff photo—Lewis Arnold)
"Miss 'A' Day of 1941", Annice Watkins, can't decide as to which
she wants to win, the Blue or Orange Squad in tomorrow's "A" Day
intra-squad football game. Henry Monsees, (left), plays end on the
Blue team and Lloyd Cheatham, (right), captain of the 1941 football
team, is quarterback for the Orange team.
New Members Chosen
By Phi Kappa Phi
•A* Club Presents A' Day Tomorrow
WSGA Elections To
Be Held April 3rd
Two From Faculty,
33 Students Picked
Because of their high scholar­ship
at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, 33 seniors have been
chosen for membership in Phi Kap­pa
Phi, national honor society.
The members of the Auburn
staff, Mrs. Marion Spidle, head of
the school of home economics, and
Major Harry L. Watts, Jr., assis­tant
professor of military science
and tactics, were also elected.
The seniors were selected from
those who made high scholastic
averages during their first three
years at Auburn. Also they met
the requirements as to character
and individual initiative as demon­strated
by usefulness and promi­nence
in worthy collegiate activi­ties.
Following is a list of the seniors
selected, as announced by Dr.
Charles S. Davis, president of the
chapter and Dr. Paul Irvine.
School of Agriculture — Merlin
T. Bryant, Dozier; Marlin W.
Camp, Vinemont; David G. Griffin,
Clanton; George Sawada, Crich-ton.
School of Architecture and Al­lied
Arts — Sara Lee Banks, Bir­mingham.
School of Chemistry — James W.
Edwards, Enterprise; H. Leroy
Thompson, Greenville.
School of Pharmacy — Joe M.
Rash, Kingston.
School of Education — Ethel G.
Gardiner, Florence; Freda Rachel
Kyle, Hartselle; Virginia Carroll
Miller, Auburn; Dorothy Virginia
Hurst, Leeds; Ossie Hanson Bow-den,
Cullman; Spurgeon L. Davis,
Hamilton; Junius Earl Thorpe,
Millerville; Augusta G. Williams,
Winfield.
School of Engineering — D. A.
Hixon, Perote; Wilbur B. Daven­port,
Teaneck, N. J.; Clarence Mer-shon,
Fairhope; James C. McCul-lough,
Huntsville; Peter T. Gil­liam,
Pelham; George B. Clarke,
McShan; Arthur T. Feaster, New
Orleans, La.; Nathan J. Adams,
Fairfax.
School of Home Economics —
Frances Hodge, Wadley; Ruth
Sundberg, Fairhope.
School of Science and Literature
— J. W. Deming, Evergreen;
Charles A. Ray, Prattville; Ed­mund
D. Taylor, Birmingham;
Frank B. Wilson, Greenville.
School of Veterinary Medicine—
George L. Lewallen, St. Peters­burg,
Fla.; William M. Thompson,
Camden; and Vernon Lee Wells,
Selma.
Leads Sigma Chi Formal. . .
Petitions Due on
March 26, 4 P.M.,
Walstons Office
Election of officers for the Wom­en's
Student Government will take
place on April 3. The offices that
will be filled include President of
the Student Government, Vice-president,
Secretary, and Treasur­er.
A representative from town
and one from each dormitory will
be elected.
The candidates for president and
vice-president must be Juniors now,
or Seniors next year; the candi­dates
for the office of secretary
must be Sophomores now, and can­didates
for treasurer must be
freshmen at present.
The qualifications, other than en­rollment
in the above classes, in­clude
a petition signed by students
of API, and 80 average, and resi­dence
in the dormitory from which
they are elected of one year pre­vious
to taking office.
Petitions must be in Dr. Wals-ton's
office by 4:00 p.m. Wednes­day,
March 26.
Candidates for Degree
Attention of all seniors who are
candidates for degree at the com­mencement
exercises June 2, is call­ed
to the regulation providing that
the graduation fee of $10.00 is due
when second quarter fees are paid
April 7-8. Fees must be paid be­fore
the registrar's office can or­der
the diploma.
All candidates for degrees who
have not already done so are re­quested
to come to the registrar's
office at the earliest possible mo­ment
and fill out application
blanks.
ASCE Meeting
There will be a meeting of ASCE
Monday night at 7:00 p.m. in Ram-says,
Room 200. Mr. W. H. Culli-more
from the National Brick Pav­ing
Association will speak on the
subject of brick paving. Mr. Cul-limore
is from Washington, D. C.
All Civil students are urged to at­tend
this special meeting.
Delta Sigma Pi, Honorary Commerce
Fraternity, Taps Fifteen Students
Men Chosen for High
Scholastic Ranking at
Meeting Last Tuesday
Beta Lambda Chapter of Delta
Sigma Pi, national honorary com'
merce fraternity, tapped fifteen
members at a meeting last Tuesday
night. The men were chosen from
among Business Administration
students for their high scholastic
achievement.
Those men who were tapped are:
John Scott, SAE, a sophomore from
Auburn; Earnest Goolsby, Theta
Chi, sophomore from Birmingham;
Theo Williams, sophomore from
Bellamy; Neil Wilcoxin, sopho­more
from Lexington; Whatley
Carlisle, sophomore from Enter­prise;
C. R. McMeans, sophomore
from Lexington; Fred Morris,
sophomore from Geneva; A. S. Lu­cas,
junior from Birmingham; Joe
Sanders, Pi K A, junior from
Scottsboro; Otto Poulson, sopho­more
from Selma; Robert Miller,
junior from Fort Benning; Mil­dred
Green, sophomore from At­lanta;
James Gilbreath, SPE, ju­nior
from Collinsville; W. Shealy,
freshman from Dothan; and Felix
Turnipseed, junior from Montgom­ery.
The purpose of Delta Sigma Pi
is to foster the study of business,
to encourage scholarship, and to
form a closer association between
students of the Business School.
President- officers of the local
chapter are Frank Wilson, presi­dent;
"Kench Lee Lott, vice-presi­dent;
Henry Faucette, secretary;
and Archie Hawkins, treasurer.
AS ME Meeting
Tuesday, March 18
The ASME will meet next Tues­day
night, March 18, in Ramsay
109 at seven p.m., at which time
all members who have prepared
technical papers will present them.
All papers as given will be judged
by the faculty members and stu­dents
chosen as judges. The win­ner
will receive a local award and
will be the main representative to
the annual spring ASME meeting
in Atlanta, Ga., March 31 through
April 3, where his paper will be
presented in competition with stu­dents
from other student branches
of ASME in the Southeast.
After the presentation of papers
and the decision of the judges has
been announced the members will
enjoy a smoker during which Pro­fessor
Hixon will demonstrate sev­eral
of his tricks of magic. All
members are urged to attend this
meeting.
Korean Sells Art
Goods in Auburn;
Likee Amended
Mr. Chang S. Lee was in the
Alumni Gymnasium during the
past week displaying his "oriental
art works" for the benefit of the
students.
Mr. Lee was born in Korea "but
has been in the United States for
the past twenty years. He went to
school for the first 12 years and
has been traveling over the coun­try
for the rest of the time. He
has visited most of the nation's
colleges in his "jaunts" over the
country displaying his oriental
curios. He came to Auburn under
the sponsorship of the Women's
Athletic Association.
Mr. Chang yesterday told inter­viewers
how one who is adopted
to this country feels toward it and
its principals. He has learned
most of the customs of the coun­try
during his travels and thinks
he has never seen or heard of any
which are better. He had rather
call America his home than any
other country in the world. One
important reason for this is be­cause
"the people over here are
so friendly," says Mr. Chang.
Yesterday was Mr. Chang's last
day in the Gymnasium and for
the rest of the week he will visit
the different fraternity houses on
the campus.
Track and Football
Included on Program
Annice Watkins Is Miss "A" Day; Will
Sponsor Football and Track Events
By GEORGE HEARD
The annual "A" Day celebration will be held tomor­row
in Auburn's new Stadium. The gala occasion will be
sponsored by the "A" Club and will feature a track meet
and an intra-squad football game.
George Mattison, President of the Birmingham Alumni
Association, will be in Auburn for the occasion and will
bring with him many Birmingham alumni and Auburn
fans. There will also be several groups of alumni from
other cities in the nearby vicinity.
Duo of Frafs Hold
Formal Initiation
Lambda Chi's, Phi Delt's
Welcome 23 Members
. - .Two of .the local fraternities re­cently
held initiations. The two
were Omega Zeta chapter of the
Lambda Chi Alpha and Alabama
Beta chapter of Phi Delta Theta.
The Lambda Chi's initiated nine
men last Tuesday night. They
were John Sanders, Beverly Hen­ry,
Carl Schmidt, Ralph Adams,
Lilbern Stevens, Bill Ashmore,
Jack McNamee, Hal Simms, and
Charles Waggoner.
Fourteen pledges of Phi Delta
Theta were formally initiated into
the fraternity on February 22.
They were Theo D. Baars, Jr., Wil­liam
S. Byers, G. Clifton Colyer,
Tynes Edmonson, Sam Feagin, Jo­seph
Hare, Oscar Northington,
Henry Park, Atwood Rush, Henry
Seawell, William Steed, William
Taylor, Fred Trimble, and Frank
W. Wilmore, Jr.
Notice on Notices
Anyone wishing to have notices
printed the Plainsman is request­ed
to turn them in to the office
by noon on Monday for Tuesday's
issue, and by noon Thursday for
Friday's issue.
API Building Ten Tennis Courts
Miss Doris Bradford, Atmore, will lead the Sigma Chi dance to­morrow
flight at 9 in Graves Center. She will be escorted by George
Maxwell, Atmore, president of Sigma Chi fraternity. Miss Bradford
is a sophomore at Judson College.
Project Includes
Two Athletic Fields
By JIMMY GILBERT
The plans for a greater and
more beautiful Auburn campus in­clude
the construction of ten new
tennis courts and two athletic
fields which when finished, will
be modern in every respect.
The new courts and the intra­mural
athletic fields are being
constructed at present behind the
new Veterinary Building. Presi­dent
Duncan stated recently that
this property, and also the line of
houses on the south side of Mag­nolia
Avenue have been purchased
by the school for the purpose of
furnishing ground for these courts
and intramural athletic fields.
The tennis courts will be ar­ranged
in two groups of five each
on the east end of the five-and-a-half
acre plot. All courts will face
north-and-south, and they will be
fenced separately for the players'
convenience. They will be located
just east of where Cox street runs
now. This street will be closed
permanently so that the plot may
be laid out correctly.
According to Mr. Sam Brew­ster,
Director of Buildings and
Grounds, the courts will be built
up, layer upon layer, in order to
furnish the correct drainage with
a solid base for the top-surface.
The courts will be topped with a
good grade of clay, but, said Mr.
Brewster, "If the students feel
the need of it, we can blacktop
(asphalt) them very easily."
The two groups of courts will
be on two levels, the south five
being the lower, because a good
base for a tennis court cannot be
made on a fill. As the land is
somewhat rolling, terracing will
be done to get level areas for the
courts and the other fields.
"All the courts," said Mr. Brew­ster,
"Will be fenced with a good
grade of tennis fence, and fences
will be put between the courts.
They are being made as perfect
as possible by official specifica­tions."
The courts that were started
last year will definitely not be
completed, because they will in­terfere
with other necessary camp­us
planning. According to Mr.
Brewster, they were not construct­ed
according to official specifica­tions
and were not the right size.
The two athletic fields will be
on two terraces back of the new
Vet Building, and west of the ten­nis
courts. These fields will pro­vide
space for four softball dia­monds
and two touch football
fields. The west terrace will be on
about the same level as the courts,
but the middle terrace, between
the courts and the west field, will
be higher than both of the others.
The original master plan that
was laid out at the beginning of
the "Auburn Five-Year Plan" pro­vided
for boys' dorms in this
space, but the plans have been re­vised
to meet the needs of the
growing school.
At present the school owns all
land on the south side of Mag­nolia
Avenue—from college street
to the golf course. There has been
no provision yet for the removal
of the existing houses on the
south side of the street.
Mr. Brewster would not state
definitely just when the tennis
courts would be ready for use,
but he ventured the guess that
the time would come close to the
end of the present school term.
Three Frats Elect
Officers Recently
Delta Sig, KA, and
SPE Announce Results
Delta Sigma Phi, Kappa Alpha,
and Sigma Phi Epsilon held their
annual elections at their recent
meetings. Installation of the new
officers will be held later in the
year.
The new officers of Delta Sigma
Phi are Bert Simpson, president;
Joe Sprague, vice-president; Bill
Califf, secretary; Robert Kloeti,
treasurer; Donald Hopton-Jones,
chaplain; Sumner Nesbitt, sergeant
at arms; B. W. Peake, editor; Rob­ert
Crook, house manager; and
Woody Peake, historian.
Kappa Alpha elected Sam Net­tles
as president for next year.
Other officers elected were War­ren
Patrick, vice-president; and
Bill Moore, recording secretary.
Men appointed to serve in other
capacities were Ed Davis, corres­ponding
secretary; Fred Curtis,
historian; Tommy Schuessler,
treasurer; Frank Hutchings, cen­sor;
Harry Reynolds, doorkeeper;
Bill Weissinger, usher; Jimmy
Reynolds, rush chairman; and Jack
Becker, social chairman.
Newly elected officers for SPE
are Felix Turnipseed, president;
John M. Davis, vice-president; Ar­chie
Diegel, secretary; Jack Fields,
treasurer; Russell Kulp, historian;
Roy Lockhart, guard; and Leroy
Spearman and James Gilbreath,
marshals.
Miss Annice Watkins will reign
over the day's festivities as Miss
"A" Day. She is a member of
Kappa Delta sorority and is a
sophomore enrolled in commercial
art. Miss "A" Day was elected by
the student body in an election
held last Monday.
The program will begin with a
track meet at 1:45 p.m. Coaches
Wilbur Hutsell and Jeff Beard
have divided the track team into
two fairly even squads which will
be called the Orange and Blue
teams, for the day.
The football candidates have
also been divided into squads and
the football game will be between
the Orange and Blue squads. This
game will conclude the regular
spring training season for the
football boys. Coach Meagher will
call out all the regulars later on
in the spring for about a week of
review work.
The probable starting line-up
for tomorrow's Orange-Blue game
is as follows:
For the Orange Team:
Nos. 66, Cheatham, quarter­back;
63, Williams, center; 19,
Morris and 51, Ardillo, guards;
31, McClurkin and 17, Crimmins,
tackles; 43, Samford and 29,
Cremer, ends; 68, Harkins and 25,
Gafford, halfbacks; and 46, Reyn­olds,
fullback.
And for the Blue Squad:
Nos. 11, Simms, quarterback;
24, Pharr, center; 57, Cornelius
and 47, Park, guards; 58, Wesley
and 20, Hinton, tackles; 10, Mon­sees
and 53, Canzoneri, ends; 12,
Jenkins and 34, Finney, halfbacks;
and 72, Irby, fullback.
Leads ATO Orchid Ball. . .
Miss Jo Ann Ulrich, above, will lead the annual Orchid Ball of
Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, tonight at
9 o'clock. She will be escorted by Eddie Taylor, Birmingham, chapter
president. —Photo by Jimmy Wilson.
Page Two T H E P L A I N S M AN March 14, 1941
Prestidigitator Vs. Poet
Auburn students went in mass to see
Birch, the Master Magician, Wednesday
night. They went with the six-and-seven-and-
eight-and-twelve-year-olds, and they
acted like them, and dressed like them.
Some of them went to marvel, some to
boo and hiss, some to try to detect the
mystery of the tricksters tricks. A few
even went to hear the Marimba solos.
All of them enjoyed it, or seemed to.
We enjoyed it too.
Not so very long ago, Robert Frost,
perhaps the best of contemporary poets,"
lectured and read from that same stage
upon which Birch and Company staged
their show.
Birch had a capacity audience. In
fact, the audience overflowed into win­dow
sills, onto the porch of Langdon
Hall, sat on the edge of the stage, sat in
chairs in the aisles, on radiators, on
pianos, on the floor. Frost's audience,
though perhaps just as appreciative, or
more, was small. The empty seats at his
lecture would have well taken care. of
the overflow at Birch's performance.
Yet, which is the greater artist?
A World Peace Plan
We head the other day of a Bishop in
Ohio who has a plan, the purpose of
which is to bring peace to the world. It
seems that it works this way—all the
churches throughout the entire world
will send representatives to the meeting.
•The delegates of those nations at war
will bring the conditions under which
they will consider peace. Then all to­gether,
these diplomats will sit down and
discuss what terms are essential for
peace.
To those who believe that the modern
economic system controls the universe,
this id^a might sound preposterous. But
there are others who know that the
churches of the world on one front for
one worthwhile cause can dictate the ac­tions
of the world.
But as yet this bishop has been unable
tojnfluence the proper national authori­ties
to give any consideration whatso­ever
to his plan.
Throughout time man has been trying
to win with blood and hatred. Today he
is still playing the same game with but
one inevitable answer — more blood,
more hatred.
Thus it seems that through the process
of elimination, if by no other way, the
world would awake to the realization
that it needs something else to settle its
difficulties. Now we're running around
in a mad circle. First, we fight; next we
repair and build up; and then we'tear
down again. That's what we've been do­ing
for thousands of years and unless
different tactics are pursued, that's
what we'll be doing for the rest of time.
The strongest groups in the world, if
united, are our churches. This is the one
institution that presents a different ans­wer
to the world's problems-—the solu­tion
that will win out in the long run.
It is necessary that we fight to settle
our misunderstandings just because
those before us fought? Or has the time
not come to try something different, to
try something that requires character of
its followers.
Down in our hearts we know what is
right, what we really want to do; yet
we fall victim to the propaganda of
those whose economic interests neces­sitate
war.
The plan of this bishop is not perfect,
but with a little polishing up, here might
be the answer to our sufferings, our
needless killings of those we do not hate.
—Pow Wow, NE Junior College, La. .
Student Opinion
Last year, and for the first half of
this year, The Plainsman conducted on
this campus, and printed the results of,
a poll of student opinion. This particular
poll was conducted nationally by "Stu­dent
Opinion Surveys of "America," an
organization of the University of Texas.
This poll was discontinued this semes­ter,
because Auburn students didn't
seem interested in what their fellow stu­dents
in other schools thought about im­portant
questions.
In the "Letters to the Editor" column
on this page is a letter sent to the Plains­man
by The Harvard Guardian, which
is a "review devoted to history, govern­ment
and economics," published by the
students of Harvard.
We haven't answered that letter.
We wanted first to find out if the stu­dents
of Auburn would be interested in
participating in another nation-wide stu­dent
opinion poll. We wanted to present
the matter to the student body — to
leave it up to you, to say whether or
not you were interested.
If The Plainsman does continue to use
either the poll of the students of the
University of Texas,'or of the students
of Harvard, there is an excellent op­portunity
for some student of economics,
or social sciences, or sociology, in Au­burn,
to conduct the local polling, to
handle all correspondence with the na­tional
office, and to write reviews and
reports of local poll findings.
We're leaving that opportunity open
for any Auburn student. If you'd like
the job, come by The Plainsman office,
or drop us a card, or telephone—let us
know. We think the idea of a student
opinion poll is indeed worthy. We would
like to recontinue its use. If the students
want us to.
Or perhaps there is some class in one
of these subjects, whose professor would
be interested enough to allow his class
to undertake such a project—a project
educational in itself, in addition to its
worthiness to the student body.
The Little Man
The boy and girl moved down on the
bench to make room for the newcomer.
The newcomer, with the appearance of
a boy of six, except for his face, took
his seat on the end and sat silently.
His face made one hardly dare guess
his age. It had some "little boy" fea­tures,
but the expression in his eyes and
the lines around his mouth suggested
endless centuries of living.
He lifted his bandaged leg gingerly
with his good arm, and thoughtfully
fingered the bruise on his cheek.
"Where are you going?" the boy on
the bench asked.
"I don't know," the little man ans­wered.
He said nothing else for a while.
"Where have you been?" This time
the girl asked the question.
With an air of discouragement, the
little man told his story. -/
"I've been in Europe, lately. Before
that I was in Japan. Everywhere I went
I got kicked around. Folks over there
didn't like me much any more. I've
traveled so mQch I don't know where I
am now. Everything is mixed up in this
world. What country is this?"
"This is the United States."
A smile spread over the face of the
little man, making him look alitlost
cherubic. He selected an arrow from his
heart-decorated quiver, then Hesitated
before drawing the bow. "I'm glad," he
said. H.M.
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By REDDING SUGG
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed
in this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the ed­itorial
policies of this paper.
Hitch-hiking as a fine art has
more aspects than most people or­dinarily
realize. Auburn is the
hub of a beautifully developed
and cultivated thumbing area
which includes on its outer bound­ary
Mobile, Montgomery, Birming­ham,
and Atlanta. Within this
are an authentic identification as
an Auburn student and an ener­getic
thumb are worth more, in
both time and interest, than a bus
or a train ticket.
* * *
Most obviously in Auburn and
Montgomery, but in other cities as
well, the Auburn communal sys­tem
of hitch-hiking is extremely
effective. Corners have been of­ficially
recognized as hitch-hikers'
stations by a sort of inherited and
unspoken agreement, and motor­ists
are induced to stop by the
very convenience of the arrange­ment.
An even stronger induce­ment
to motorists is the smooth
and well-oiled machinery which
allows them to hold up as many
fingers as they want passengers
and actually get what they ask
for." Instead of a mob of people
fighting to grab a seat, motorists
are treated to an orderly perform­ance
which follows the principle
first come first serve. Motorists
have come to appreciate such con­sideration,
and hitch-hikers are
repaid many times over for their
good manners.
* * *
Thus the Auburn hitch-hiking
system is an efficient piece of
social cooperation, and there is
nothing wrong with it until the
individual hitch-hikers are on their
own riding toward their destina­tion.
As often as not they refuse
to pay for their ticket. A hitch­hiker's
ticket consists mostly of
skillful conversation which deftly
follows the mood of the motorist.
If talk is desired, it- should be
forthcoming; if silence is desired,
it should not be broken. Motorists
usually and not unreasonably
want the fun and stimulation of
new acquaintance and the ex­change
of ideas, but they aren't
always satisfied with what they
get.
I have heard it said by an in­veterate
benefactor of hitch­hikers
that college students, Au­burn
students, are about as in­spiring
as clams. They expose few
opinions, ask silly questions, stum­ble
over their own slang, give flat
accounts of themselves, and in
general appear incapable of con­versation.
Such individual per­formances
sully the dignity of the
Auburn system. I should think
that Auburn hitch-hikers might
practice a little on their conver­sation
and be as considerate in
paying for their rides as they are
in getting them.
* * *
Last fall a little girl was sit­ting
on the front row for the
concert given by the Cossack
chorus, and her mother and older
sister were sitting just behind
her. The older sister soon became
uncomfortable under the steady
stare of the blond tenor who took
solo parts, but shortly she noticed
that it had been transferred to
her little sister. During the rest
of the concert the mother and
older sister were aware that the
tenor was intently watching the
child, who at the close of the pro­gram
turned to ask whether she
might ask an autograph of the
man she liked best rather than of
the leader. As if by mutual at­traction
she ran over to the tenor
as he came toward her. She of­fered
her small calling card for
his signature, but he dropped it
in his pocket and autographed a
program instead. He stooped and
hugged her close, and then with
emotional face he left the room,
refusing further autographs. The
little girl has received several
cards from him since. Could it be
that she looks like another little
girl somewhere in Russia, far
from a lonesome blond father or
brother?
» * *
I have been reading in Burton's
"The Anatomy of Melancholy,"
which forbidding title masks a de­lightfully
erratic book which a-natomizes
melancholy no more
than it serves to carry its author's
various and curious thoughts and
comments on various and curious
subjects. The book is a tissue of
quotations, the wonder of which
is the facility with which Burton
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.
The time has come, the hungry
walrus sayeth, to palaver of many
subjects. Not of ships nor sails
nor sealing wax nor brussel
sprouts nor dictators, but rather
of a subject dear to the hearts of
all of us . . . that of personal
comfort.
* * *
Not necessarily, quoth the wal­rus,
of the type found in ankle
deep grass with no red bugs and
a warm sun overhead making the
shade of the tree even more in­viting.
That is out of the question.
* * *
We're speaking, quoth the wal­rus
and his friend, of making the
best of any situation in which one
finds oneself, not of making the
best situation one can dream up,
if one might speak.
* * *
For instance, there is the prob­lem
of finding physical comfort
in class on wooden seats rivaled
for hardness by nothing since the
days of Stony Waters. Stony
Waters is a historical event
thought up to find something as
hard as a classroom desk. It re­fers
to the time of the Petrified
Ocean, over which men walked.
* * *
Cushioned desks sound fine,
but are impractical . . . imprac­tical
in this sense means that it
won't be done in our lifetimes.
* * *
And at the picture show, to
mention a place more frequented
by students than classes, we hear
that Hollywood moguls frown on
the practice of putting cushions
on the back of the seat in front
of you in order that your knees
may emerge unscarred from a
performance. Supposedly in lea­gue
with chewing gum manufac­turers,
they claim that gum has
been used for that purpose for
years, and shall continue to be so
used.
* * *
At church, the benches are hard
and slanting, as devotion comes
easier that way.
* * *
When you die, you may be
lucky enough to have a pine board
between you and the surrounding
ground, earth, or vegetation, and
could point his own sentences
with obscure tags from numerous
authors. Compendious is, the word
for the "Anatomy," which would
be the perfect book to buy to keep
around for odd moments. In
Christopher Morley's "The Haunt­ed
Bookshop" I recall that Roger
Mifflin considered the "Anatomy"
one of the best bedside books. It
is a constant source of anecdote,
adventure, and erudition.
then again, you may not. Roclft,
which inhabit the soil, may per­haps
press upon once tender por­tions
of one's anatomy.
* * *
Sitting on benches, sitting in
cars, loafing on the steps of build­ings,
our comfort is either marred
by pressure or confinement. We,
in partnership with the walrus,
are prepared to offer the solution
to this painful puzzle. The fee
will be reasonable from "our point
of view. Prices will be set ac­cording
to the difficulty of the
The secret of our plan is the
accurate placing of assorted cush­ions
and spikes, to be worn as a
part of one's daily garb. The
cushions, or pads, are to be worn
to relieve pressure, and the spikes
will take care of the confinement
angle.
* * *
For example, and freshman
may find this handy, a thin, but
soft and sturdy, cushion will be
worn in the place freshmen might
find the handiest. Others are
higher on the back, on the elbows,
and on the knees.
* * *
The spikes will be on the toes
of shoes. 'These are said to be ex­cellent
for acquiring more room
under picture show and church
seats, and at dances.
* * *
With the complete set of cush­ions
and spikes we give away ~
free our "Small space stretcher,"
which will enable one to stretch
in comparative ease in the con­fines
of a motorcycle side-car.
* * *
Purchase price of these boons
to mankind is six box-tops and
gix thousand dollars ($6,000.00)
to cover cost of wrapping and
mailing. Checks may be made to
Plains Talk in care of this paper.
This does not include the business
staff or the editor.
* * *
With all polite appreciation to
Art Jones, Karrie, the Kampus
Kribber, states on her return from
her visit to Chisolm, "Had a won­derful
time. Wish you wuz him."
If Hedy Lamarr or Betty Grable
should make a personal appear­ance
on the Auburn campus, in
what building could they appear
that would have the capacity for
taking care of the students who
would desire to attend such an
appearance?
Students who see a gigantic
machine moving about over the
campus need not fear an invasion
by Hitler, for such a machine is
the work of Mr. Sam Brewster
and is used for moving large trees
and transplanting them on other
parts of the campus.
Hot Lines
By BEVERLY KILIAN
THE PLAINSMAN Letters to the Editor
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Gentlemen:
This Tetter will introduce a plan
for consolidating the nation-wide
opinion of college students into
a unit which will not only carry
a degree of national significance,
but which will also benefit indi­vidual
college publications by
making them effective organizers
of opinion in their respective
schools.
What we propose to do is to
distribute through principal stu­dent
publications a set of ques­tions
to be answered by the un­dergraduate
bodies of major col­leges
throughout all sections of
the country. A copy of the ques­tions
will be sent to each of the
participating publications. They
will prepare the ballots and con­duct
the voting on their own
campuses. The totals for each col­lege
will be sent to "The Guard­ian".
We shall compute the grand
totals and mail them to each col­lege
for publication. You will
thus be able to compare the opin­ions
of your students with the
national results and with any in­dividual
college which you may
designate.
If you care to participate in
this national poll of collegiate
opinion, please let us know as
soon as possible. You will be sent
full details with the first ques­tionnaire
which will be released
on the fifteenth of March. Thank
you for your co-operation in this
matter.
Yours truly,
Robert F. McGivern
Poll Director
Harvard Guardian
Between seven and nine p.m. (or 'most any other time), the girls'
dormitory telephones are attached to hot lines—both literally and
figuratively.
The first problem in getting in touch with one of the beautiful(?)
inhabitants of the 'squared circle' is to find a phone which isn't in use.
If you don't know what dormitory she's in, that greatly simplifies
matters, because out of all four of them you should be able to find
at least one line which isn't busy. Of course she'll be in the last place
you call anyway, so it doesn't matter where you start.
Half an hour later, when you find her domicile, you'll begin the
grind through the mill. First you'll encounter something like this:
"Hell-o, Dormitory One. Who? Sally Smith? Just a second."
Slight pause of ten minutes.
"There isn't a Sally Smith here. Oh, Sally Swift? Well, wait a
minute."
What this, you should settle down for a smoke. Soon (?) you'll
hear a screech, "Sally, telephone 301. You think she's in the dorm?
Okay, go find her, he can wait." That's your cue to get a pillow and
take a nap.
An eternity later, you'll actually get to speak to her. But just as
you're saying, "Hello, Sally? This is__", a sweet voice will interrupt,
"Pardon me, brut did you hang up 302?"
"No, I didn't," replies Sally.
"Sally, this is—".
"Pardon me again, but do you know who did?"
"No, I don't," says Sally.
"This is Bill. Would you like to go to the show Friday?"
"Pardon lue again, but would you please see if 302 IS off the hook?"
"No, I wouldn't," returns Sally—to you don't know who.
"Sorry, but your five minutes are up, Sally."
"Call back in a minute, Bill, and I can talk another five. Goodbye."
And that's the last you hear of Sally. Unless, of course, you want
to go through all that again. It's easier to wait until you see her again
on the campus, or call in the "booth". The booths are the only straight
lines in the dormitories, and their only disadvantage is that you mights
have to wait while the damsel dresses, combs her hair, and puts on
fresh make-up, before making a "public" appearance in the office.
Please, though, do not follow the course of waiting until you see
her again, because if you do, Yours Truly will probably be none too
gently evicted from her room in Dormitory One.
Moral: It is advisable to call the pay station in the offiee, rather *
than the other dormitory phones, unless your call occurs between
eleven p.m. and seven a.m.; at which time is is advisable not to call.
March 14, 1941 THE P L A I N S M AN Page Three
ATO and Sigma Chi
Dances This Weekend
Jo Ann Ulrich to
" Lead Orchid Ball
Alpha Epsilon chapter of Alpha
Tau Omega will hold its annual
Orchid Ball tonight in Graves Cen­ter.
The dance will begin at nine
o'clock.
Leading the dance will be Miss
Jo Ann Ulrich of Birmingham,
with Eddie Taylor, Birmingham,
president of the chapter. Music
for the dance will be furnished by
the Auburn Knights.
Festivities for the weekend in­clude,
besides this dance, a Kappa
Alpha breakfast dance, an ATO-Sigma
Chi tea dance, these affairs
to be held in the Girls' Gym, and
the Sigma Chi dance Saturday
night. ATO is exchanging blank­et
bids with these fraternities for
the social affairs of the weekend.
Delegations are expected from
ATO chapters at the University,
Mississippi State, Birmingham-
Southern, Georgia Tech, the Uni­versity
of Georgia, and the Uni­versity
of Florida.
The dates of members of the
fraternity for the dance include:
Miss Ulrich, Emily Farnell,
Mary Gaither Blau, Margaret Spi-dle,
June Adams, Elaine Reddoch,
Anne Caudle, Sara Jordan.
Monta Mitchell, Jere Davison,
Ellen B. Williams, Dorothy Wrye,
Florence Hillhouse, Maysie Hill,
Ann Brooks, Sarah Frances Wat­s
o n , Sara Glenn, Virginia Shan-don.
Mary Myrtis Walsh, Annette
Bourgard, Elaine Freeman, Pat
Bozenhard, Lucie Jones, Anne
Wright, Charlotte Kennedy, Joyce
Moore, Florence Blount, Martha
Goode, Bette Hays, Mary Carolyn
Reed, Louise Thornton, Agnes Fos­ter,
Sarah Ellen Schmidt, Lea
Akans, Alice Marbury.
Inez Hooge, Carol Berryman,
Ernestine Bazemore, Christine
Blackburn, Allen Odom, Hazel
Maudling, Billy Connolly, Ann
Reynolds, Natalie Allison.
LOST: Alpha Epsilon Delta Key.
Reward. John Norton engraved
on back. Harvey Norton, Tel­ephone
417.
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Doris Bradford to
Lead Sigma Chi's
Gamma Sigma Chapter of Sigma
Chi Fraternity will entertain at
its annual dance tomorrow even­ing,
March 15, at Graves Center,
at 9 o'clock.
Miss Doris Bradford, of Atmore,
will lead the dance with George
Maxwell, also of Atmore, the pres­ident
of the local chapter.
Music will be by the Auburn
Knights Orchestra. The decora­tions
for the dance will feature
a large white Sigma Chi cross of
flowers on a backdrop of dark blue,
draped with light blue. At the op­posite
end of the hall, a large Sig­ma
Chi crest will be placed on a
dark blue background, also draped
with light blue.
During the weekend the "Sweet­heart
of Sigma Chi" will be chosen
by the members and presented at
the dance Saturday night.
Invitations have been extended
to several hundred friends of the
members, to other fraternities on
the campus, and to other Sigma
Chis throughout the State.
A large number of out-of-town
guests have been invited to attend
the dance and the weekend house
party.
Dates of members of the frater­nity
this weekend include: Misses
Bradford, Monta Mitchell, Ann
Hale, Nell Lazenby, Bebe Gragg,
Jean Duvall, Martha Rowe, Mar­garet
Gibson, Nina Abernathy, Ju­lia.
Wynne, Margaret Lee Brad­ford,
Jean Laird, Mrs. Earl Guy,
Lil Culley, Dotty Bowen, Carolyn
Rowe, June Stallings, Sue Sharp,
Frances Young, Janie Strickland,
Mary Louise Enochs, Winifred Hei-denreich,
Annie Lyde Lewis, Juan-ita
Shelton, Nancy Ray, Ann Butt,
Jean Screven, Mary Hazel Ford.
Also Erin Crum, Margie Wun-derlich,
Nelda Beasley, Julia Har­vard,
Katherine Hall, Avon Holt,
June Kelton, Evelyn Singley, Bar­ton
Perry, Sophia Young, Helen
Rittenour, Ruth Renfro, Betty
Barnes, Mary Martha Sellers, Julie
Gaillard, Sue G r e e n , Mildred
Moore, Kathryn Blake, Geraldine
Abernathy, Rebecca Lide.
Rodeo . .'. March 29 and 30 . . .
ASAE Meeting
There will be a meeting of ASAE
Monday night at 7 o'clock in the
Agricultural Engineering Build­ing.
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Only two more weeks until Rodeo time, and local cowboys are getting their spurs shined up and
their ropes coiled. In the upper left of this group of pictures, "Cowboy" Haworth waves his hat at the
cameraman. Upper right, Miss Barbara Blunschi adds a feminine touch to the rodeo, by having her pic­ture
snapped with the boys. Right center, Mr. K. G. Baker, a rodeo judge, director of the Black Belt
Experiment Station, Marion Junction. Center, John Blunschi twirls his lariat. Lower left, two cow­hands
hold James Green's bronco while Jim gets ready for the bustin'. Lower right, James Carney and
a few of the many horses to be used in the rodeo.—Photos of Haworth and Bunschi by Lewis Arnold.
Air Corps Accepts Thirty-Six
Flying Cadet- Board
In Auburn-Two Days
By ART JONES
Fifty aspirants for admission to
the Army Air Corps were exam­ined
by the Traveling Flying Ca­det
Board Tuesday and Wednes­day
in the Engineering Building.
Of this number, 36 were accepted
and 14 were rejected, due to physi­cal
defects.
The examining board, comprised
of Major Louie C. Mallory, 1st Lt.
Charles E. Melcher, 1st Lt. Percy
H. Sutley, and 1st Lt. Carl J.
Weinmeister, is one of nine such
boards located throughout the na­tion,
one for each Air Corps area.
The "Traveling Flying C a d et
Boards" were created December 3,
1940, for the purpose of recruiting
as many men as possible for ser­vice
in the United States Air
Corps, in compliance with the tre­mendous
expansion of the nation's
fighting forces.
Qualifications for admission to
the Army Air Corps" remain as
rigorous as ever, despite the fact
that a greater number of men than
ever before are being sought for
the service.
Before the applicant can be ac­cepted,
he must pass one of the
toughest physical examinations
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ever to be given, and he must have
completed two years of college
work. If the applicant has not
completed the required college
work, he may take a special ad­mittance
examination covering in­formation
on United States histo­ry,
English grammar and compo­sition,
general history, geography,
arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trig­onometry,
and elementary physics.
It is necessary for the applicant
to present a letter of approval
signed by his parents if he is un­der
21 years of age, also three let­ters
of recommendation, and a
birth certificate. It is urged that
these documents be turned in as
soon as possible, as the board will
be dissolved on July 13. Married
men are not eligible for training.
Flying cadets receive pay at the
rate of $75.00 per month, in addi­tion
to uniforms, dental and med­ical
attention, and board and lodg­ing.
The best full course training
available in civilian schools costs
from $2,000 to $4,000 and up for
tuition alone.
Upon graduation as a flying ca­det,
he is commissioned as a sec­ond
lieutenant in the U. S. Army
Air Reserve, and becomes eligible
for three years of active duty with
the Regular Army Air Corps under
his reserve commission with month-
(Continued on page 4 )
Fourteen Initiated
By SAE Last Sunday
Alabama Alpha Mu of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon held its formal in­itiation
March 2, Sunday after­noon,
for fourteen neophytes. Judge
Walter B. Jones, former national
president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon
from Montgomery administered the
initiation. The initiation followed
a period of pledge training and
an informal initiation held March
1. Immediately after the initia­tion
a banquet was held for the
new members. John Deming pre­sided
and speeches were given by
Judge Jones, retiring senior mem­bers
of the chapter, and by the
newly initiated members. Visitors
present during the initiation and
banquet were Prof. H. R. Albrecht,
Frank Harvey Miller, and Prof.
W. C. Sherman.
The initiates were: Jimmy Con­ner,
Bardstown, Ky.; Jack Kieth,
Newnan, Ga.; Bobby Baker, An-niston;
Fred Allison, Auburn; Jack
Pease, Columbus, Ga.; Jule Mitch­ell,
Eufaula; Young Johnston, Eu-faula;
James Cooper, Montgomery;
Merrill Giradeau, Montgomery;
Jack Hans, Birmingham; Jimmy
Waitzman, Birmingham; Lloyd
Guice, Birmingham; Charley Jones,
Birmingham; and Jim McCrory,
Birmingham.
WELCOME
To A U B U R N gn
A
D A Y
During your stay here drop by our modern
store and let us be of service to you! Be sure to
visit us every time you get back to Auburn.
BEN FRANKLIN
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Open to ROTC and
Ladies' Riding Class
The 19th annual Alabama Poly­technic
Institute Horse Show will
be held here on Sunday, April 27,
at 2 p.m. The show classes will be
open to all members of the ROTC
unit who have taken equitation and
also members of all the ladies rid­ing
classes. .-*
This announcement was made
Monday by Colonel John J. Water­man.
All entries should submit
their names to Lt. C. C. Adams as
soon as possible.
According to the statement, all
entries in the Sophomore Horse­manship
event must be recommend­ed
by their equitation instructors
in order to qualify for participa­tion
in any of the events of the
show. Qualified entrants will be
allowed to practice on Wednesday,
Saturday and Sunday from 1 to
3 p.m. in the riding pens beginning
April 2, 1941.
Stable room and forage will be
provided at no cost for outside en­tries
by the War department. No
fees are required for entrance in
any of the events. Trophies and
ribbons will be awarded to winners
in all classes.
The following classes are con­templated
for the annual event.
Class I—Sophomore Horseman­ship.
This is open to all sopho­mores
who have or are taking equi­tation.
Class II—Junior jumping. This
event is open to all ROTC juniors.
Entries are to turn their names
in to Lt. Adams, who will set prac­tice
dates.
Class III—Ladies jumping. This
is open to members of the advanc­ed
and intermediate ladies riding
classes. ,
Class IV—Senior jumping. All
ROTC seniors - interested turn in
names to Lt. Adams, who will set
practice dates.
Class V—Pair jumping. This
event is open to members of ladies
riding classes and partner to be
chosen by lady.
Class VI—Ladies' Horsemanship
(first year). Open only to mem­bers
of first year class not stu­dents
of A.P.I. Event will be
shown at walk or trot.
Class VII—Ladies horsemanship,
All first year class A.P.I, co-eds
are eligible for the event. It will
KA Gives Morning
Dance Tomorrow
Affair to Be at Girls'
Gym, Knights to Play
Kappa Alpha will be host at a
morning dance tomorrow from
eleven to one. The dance will be
held at the Girls' Gym, and music
will be by the Auburn Knights.
KA is extending blanket bids to
both ATO and Sigma Chi who are
also having dances this weekend.
be shown at a walk or trot.
Class VIII—Ladies Horseman­ship.
Ladies of the intermediate
and advanced riding classes. Event
will be shown at walk, trot and
gallop.
Class IX — Junior class. This
class is for riders of 14 years of
age and under. This event will
also be shown at walk, trot and
gallop.
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Page Four T H E P L A I N S M AN March 14, 1941
Tigers To Battle in Auburn Stadium Tomorrow
All Members of First
String Are Lettermen
Line Is One of the Heaviest in Recent
Years; Halfback Combination Speedy
By JOHN PIERCE
Tomorrow afternoon Coach Jack Meagher takes the
cover off Auburn Stadium and interested football fans
will have a chance to see what's on deck in the grid line
for 1941.
The occasion is the annual "A" Day celebration which
closes out the spring drills. Two picked squads will take
the field at 2:30 and battle each other in a full length
game.
Reserves are plentiful and the
lines are large. This, added to
new offensive tactics now being
used, should serve to signify some
of the power for which the '41
squad is now being heralded.
All members of the present first
string are lettermen. The line
shows up as one of the heaviest in
recent years and the backfield of­fers
a halfback combination which
is hard to beat for speed. Proba­bly
running in the starting lineup
for the Oranges will be ends Sam-ford
and Cremer, tackles Crim-mins
and McClurkin, guards Ar-dillo
and Morris, center Tex Wil-lians,
halfbacks Harkins and Gaf-ford,
fullback Irby or Reynolds,
and quarterback Cheatham.
That's the lineup that has been
doing most of the rough stuff dur­ing
the recent drills though with
minor changes sometimes being
made in the backfield combination.
Ty Irby can be moved from full to
left half upon occasion, leaving
Jim Reynolds at the fullback spot,
Gafford at right half and Cheat­ham
at quarter. In any form the
backfield has both power and speed.
Cheatham, Reynolds, and Irby will
be counted on for the yardage in
the middle while Harkins and Gaf­ford
will make up the speed array.
With veterans in every spot the
line can't help but keep up with
the ball carriers' versatility. Led
there by Alternate-Captain Fran­cis
Crimmins a well known name
can be found in every spot. Tex
Williams still holds his monopoly
in the pivot slot, Nick Ardillo re­turns
to right guard, Max Morris
moves over from right to left
guard to fill in for Ernie Mills,
and Jim McClurkin, a letterman
as a soph, leads contenders for
the other tackle spot. At the ends
is the same combination which
started in many games last year,
THIS WEEK
The Auburn Grille
ANNOUNCES THAT
Warren C. Darty
has been selected to receive
a Steak Dinner for his out­standing
service to Auburn
during the last three years.
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Latest Andy Hardy
Film to Show at
Tiger on Sunday
What's next for Andy Hardy?
Mickey Rooney, who has made this
particular lad an American house­hold
word, is pondering this weigh­ty
problem. In the newest of the
Hardy Family series, "Andy Har­dy's
Private Secretary," coming to
the Tiger Theatre Sunday for an
engagement of two days, Andy
passes an important milestone. He
graduates from high school.
"That leaves two courses open to
him," says Rooney. "Either he can
go on to college or he can get him­self
a job. Personally, I don't
know what the Hardy writers have
decided to do with him but I know
what I'd like to see. First I'd have
him go out and get a job, find out
what it's like outside of Carvel.
Then, I think Andy would appre­ciate
the security and the oppor­tunity
for a good time that college
offers."
Rooney is dead serious when he
considers Andy's career, for Andy
and Mickey have become closely
associated during the past eight
Hardy films.
"Andy's a swell kid," he says,
"But he needs to get some of the
freshness knocked out of him. He
has always been the big shot of
Carvel. He runs the graduating
class in 'Andy Hardy's Private
Secretary.' >. He usually manages
to get everything he really wants.
His dad is wonderful and always
gives him the right advice. But
Jim Samford at right end and
Theo Cremer at left.
With this lineup on tap for the
starting detail and plentiful re­serves
awaiting the call for any
position there's bound to be a show
worth seeing when the squad pre­views
itself tomorrow afternoon.
It'll be the same bunch pliying to­morrow
that you'll see i.i action
through the ten games of next sea­son's
schedule.
Cheatham to Rank
Among Nation's
Best Captains
Lloyd to Answer the
Call of the Diamond
In at his third year of regular
signal calling for Auburn is Cap­tain
Lloyd Cheatham, Dixie's num­ber
one blocker and Auburn's 1941
candidate for Ail-American honors.
He made his start early in his
sophomore season, took over the
job as regular quarterback mid­way
in the year, and" hasn't missed
starting a game since. The only
senior in the present first string
Tiger backfield, he'll form the hub
around which all offensive plays re­volve.
The experts won't hesitate
before calling him the backfield's
best defensive player.
Lloyd came up from Nauvoo,
Alabama, and made his first re­sounding
impression when he pull­ed
in a Boston College pass two
years back and galloped 80 yards
for an Auburn touchdown in Fen­way
Park. Though usually per­forming
in the blocking role he
showed his ball carrying ability
late last season when an epidemic
of injuries hit the fullback spot
and caused him to be moved over
to that position. During the '40
season he started every game and
wasn't injured once, was doing
sixty minute duty in the last few
tilts.
As a field general he'll stack up
as among the nation's best. It's
Lloyd who was. behind the offen­sive
machinery of the Auburn team
jLi-OYD CHEATHAM
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Andy takes it, not because he is
convinced that his father's expe­rience
makes him more qualified to
judge, but because he can't very
well help himself.
"Of all the Hardy pictures, how­ever,
Rooney admits to getting the
biggest thrill out of the current
adventure.
"You see, I've always gone to
studio schools since I've been old
enough to know what was going
on," he grinned. "Studio schools
are fun but they aren't completely
like the real thing. When you see
fellows outside getting ready for
graduation, there is always a little
feeling that perhaps you have miss­ed
something.
"But no more. Boy, we give
graduation the works in this new
Hardy. It's all there, the Year
Book, the class play, even grief
over the budget. I'm not the only
one that feels we've caught up with
something we should have had. Ann
Rutherford, Kathryn Grayson and
Margaret Early feel just as I do.
They always went to studio schools,
too."
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student to re­ceive
this award.
The Grille is Auburn's
finest and most modern
restaurant.
The Grille invites the stu­dents
to come in often for
"the best food in town."
The Auburn Grille
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which last season battered its way
to at least, one touchdown on every
one of the eleven opponents. Mis­sissippi
State is still cussing him
for the one-man drive he put on
at Legion Field which marred the
Bulldog record with its only blem­ish,
a 7-7 tie.
When the close of the season
rolled around no one was even
mildly surprised when Lloyd was
called to Clinton, S. C., to receive
the Jacobs Memorial trophy an­nually
awarded to the finest block­ing
back in the South. Aside from
this honor he was placed on many
All-SEC teams and even has re­ceived
offers from two professional
football clubs, the Brooklyn Dod­gers
and the Chicago Cards. Noth­ing,
he says, is definite in this
line, though, and he plans to finish
school before considering any pro­fessional
jobs.
His other sport is baseball and
he'll scarcely finish the Spring
grid drills tomorrow before he'll
have to answer the call of the dia­mond.
There he plays in the out­field
and stacks up as the team's
leading hitter.
He's the best and most likeable
quarterback in the Conference
right now and looks for a good
teams during the coming season.
"Things look good now but it's
pretty early to tell anything defi­nite.
Of course we'll depend quite
a bit on the boys coming up from
the freshman squad. With the right
breaks we'll have a good season."
Francis Crimmins
Will Lead 1941
Auburn Linemen
Virginian Will Serve
As Alternate-Captain
You can just put Unc Crimmins
down as the international tackle,
for this 210-pounder who's been
named the Auburn Alternate-Cap­tain
for 1941 has been just about
everywhere. A Virginian by birth,
he's traveled through all of the
United States and has spent sum­mers
working in three countries
and four states.
All of which adds up to a lot
of summers, but they'll tell you he
has 'em .all. That, he says, is
where the name of "Unc" came
from.
His home town is East Falls
Church, Virginia, but he began his
football career at Tech High in
Washington. Washington is a small
town just across the Potomac from
East Falls Church. There he made
the All-City team during his ju­nior
year, then transferred to
Staunton in Virginia where he
landed on the Virginia All-State
outfit and met Billy 4Iitchcock. It
was Billy who talked Francis into
coming on down to Auburn for his
college education.
So he's been here three years and
finishes up next year as the leader
of one of Auburn's strongest lines
of the past decade. The weight
charts have him down at -195 but
Benson's best scales show him to
be closer to 210. A bulwark of
strength on defense and a deadly
blocker on offense he'll take up in
the vacancies left by Bo Russell,
Hatch Howell, and Ernie Mills.
Off the football field he's a mem­ber
of advanced ROTC, an Ag
student with a three-year average
of "B", a CAA trainee, and at
present a candidate for the cham­pionship
of the social committee.
About those summers we men­tioned
— well, he has spent time
on odd jobs in Canada, Mexico,
Georgia, Minnesota, the Texas oil
fields, and at New York's World
Fair. He's been in New York and
the larger Eastern cities quite a
bit but still prefers the South, likes
San Antonio, Texas, as his favor­ite
city.
He names Mississippi State as
the best team to face Auburn last
season, calls Jim LeNoir the best
lineman he saw, and was most im­pressed
by the backfield abilities
of Nick Basca and Frankie Sink-wich.
Unc's the football squad's best
liked guy and won't miss as the
heart of the Plainsman forward
wall. He's plenty pleased with the
prospects or, in his own words,
"Things are really looking fine. We
should have a good season. If
Cheatham can just develop his
shoulders we'll probably go to the
Rose Bowl."
Auburn Swimmers To
Meet Emory Today
Cammage, Austin
To Lead Local Boys
The Auburn swimming team
meets its third foe today at Em­ory.
Capt. Davis Gammage, one
of the South's leading back-strokers,
will lead the Auburn
team to meet the Emory swim­mers
and will receive aid from
the other members of the local
squad, who are Jim Burt, breast
stroke; Douglas Wingo, sprint;
Jim Gaston, sprints; and George
Austin, diving and breast strokes.
Gammage is also a participant in
the distances.
In Auburn's previous tank en­gagements,
those with Georgia
and Georgia Tech, Gammage and
Austin figured prominently in the
Tiger scoring, finishing first in
the -main events in which they
were entered in both meets. Gam­mage
took the 150-yard back­stroke
for Auburn against the two
opponents and finished first and
second in the 440-yard free-style
event. Austin took all diving hon­ors
and twice placed second in
the 200-yard breaststroke. How­ever,
the local boys bowed to de­feat
in both meets.
The swimming team will meet
Tennessee at Knoxville tomorrow
and end up the season with the
SEC at Atlanta on March 21-22.
In an Auburn student could get
the squeeks that are made in
Samford Hall when an individual
goes up one of the several flights
of stairs on a sound track, he
could easily sell such an item to
some movie company that is pro­ducing
a movie such as "The
Ghosts Creep".
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Air Corps
(Continued from page 3)
ly pay at the rate of $205.50 to
$245.50.
The War Department strongly
recommends that young men com­plete
their college training if pos­sible,
although satisfactory comple­tion
of one half of the credits ne­cessary
for graduation will exempt
the applicant from the educational
examination.
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WAS SMELLY-but
he's out of the dog house now!
"NO BLANKETY-BLANK
rookie who smokes such
blanketv-blank tobacco can
ever marry my daughter!
Phew! Either stay away or
switch to thcdmry'sfavorite!"
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for fragrance under fire! You
can, too! You puff Sir Walter
in your pipe and every nose
agrees it's the miW burley
blend of grand aroma!"
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in a scene from "Gone with the
Wind," which has influenced fashion trends throughout America. A
limited engagement of the full-length picture which will be shown
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at the Tiger Theatre—nothing
cut but the price.
The local board wishes to ex­press
its gratitude for the splendid
attitude of cooperation on the part
of the Auburn faculty, and Colo­nel
Waterman and his staff.
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March 14, 1941 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Five
What Goes on Behind the Scenes When
The Auburn Players Produce a Play
Writer Tells of Job
Of Backstage Workers
By ALBERT SCROGGINS
"Cut your work lights".
" 0 . K."
"House lights."
"Going off."
"O. K., take it away!"
And so backstage and house
lights are cut, the curtain rolls
back on a stage lighted by spot
and flood-lights, and the show is
on.
The audience stops talking and
settles back for an evening of
amusement without realizing it is
missing a vital part of the pro­duction.
For every Auburn Player who
appears on the stage at Langdon
Hall there are two persons back­stage
who make it possible for
the "show to go on". If front and
backstage positions could be re­versed,
playgoers could still con­sider
their time well spent.
A typical night of work for this
group during plays is full of ac­tion.
They start arriving about 6
p.m. and 30 minutes later finds
sets being erected, properties be­ing
brought from the storeroom,
and light and telephone lines
strung out.
Food has to be prepared, for
tables are set with real coffee,
hot toast, and what else goes with
it. The tea seen is real tea, but
the audience has the wool pulled
over its eyes occasionally, for in
"George and Margaret", the sup­posed
brandy was no brandy nor
was the music heard being play­ed
by the person at the piano,
but from sound equipment operat­ed
with near-perfect timing by the
sound operator.
By 8 p.m. practically everything
is ready and between then and
play time at 8:15, there is a check
and re-check of the lights, stage
arrangements, and props. Just
before the deadline the prompter,
the person operating the light
switchboard, and the sound op­erator
disappear under the hood
in front of the audience and tele­phone
communication is set up
from there backstage to await the
"all's ready" signal.
After actors and all commit­tees
have reported to the stage
manager, the latter signals "O.K."
to someone on the telephone who
informs operators under the hood,
and with a directed timing, house-lights
are swapped for stagelights
and *t the "take it away" signal,
the curtain is pulled.
In the case of the last play,
most of the work of the evening
came at the end of the first act.
By the time the curtain had come
together there was a swinging into
action and what seemed just a dis­tant
rumble to folks out front was
a moving of sets, placing of new
props, and wiring in of new lights.
Every person has a job to do
and to get it done in the few min­utes
between acts requires fast
and efficient work. Everybody is
hurrying but there is no commo­tion.
Not until the last curtain rings
down does this unseen crew take
a deep breath and then with a
feeling of relaxation the members
go leisurely about their work of
removing their sets, props, and
lights until the next performance.
List of 73 Vocational Ag Seniors, Who
Are Teaching in High Schools, is Given
Seventy three Auburn seniors
in Vocational Agriculture are
spending three weeks at - high
schools throughout the state where
they are engaged in apprentice
teaching—learning to teach from
the regular teachers already in
charge.
Following is a list of the train­ees
and the towns where they are
teaching: -
J. B. Chastain and T. H. Hollis,
Sardis; J. H. Brown and W.
Rodgers, Fyffe; W. 0. Wood and
J. J. Still, Danville; Sam Pierce
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Four Debaters Have
Week's Vacation in
Middle of Semester
How would you like to have a
week's vacation right in the mid­dle
of the semester with all cuts
excused and all expenses paid?
Such was the privilege of the four
members of the Auburn Debate
Team last week when they cov­ered
a total of 1300 miles, debated
thirteen times in nine different
schools, and had a really unforget­table
good time.
The question for debate was
the Pi Kappa Delta question: "Re­solved
that the Nations of the
^Western Hemisphere Should Form
a Permanent Union," Charles
Dubberly and Bob Guillot com­posed
the affirmative team, while
Vernon Morgan and Bill Moore
upheld the negative side of the
issue. Professor Hess, who accom­panied
the party, furnished the
laughs, gave the orders, and main­tained
discipline.
The first point of combat was
the University System of Georgia,
in Atlanta. Next the team argued
with Oglethorpe, and then Emory.
These contacts served to work out
the rough spots and to rouse that
good old Auburn fighting spirit,
making them all the more ready
to meet other opponents.
Sewanee was the next foe, and
then two schools at Athens, Ten­nessee.
It was here that two of
our lads became too playful in the
local library, and were thrown
for chasing coeds.
Wednesday night found the
team in old Virginia, where they
engaged the debaters from a girls
school by the name of Virginia
Intermont. Here the boys found
as complete collection of feminine
pulchritude as ever existed, and
as debaters, they were more than
competent.
Next came a clash with Ashe-vflle
College in Asheville, N. C,
and the following day, our Auburn
party wound its way through the
beautiful Carolina scenery, so
famous over the country.
The climax to the week of de­bating
came Saturday at the
Georgia State College for "Wom­en.
After a bit of firey oratory,
the boys ended the week's jaunt
with a bit of celebrating, and on
the following day headed for the
village of the plains.
C. Hart, and Dal Shields, Floma-ton;
L. Buttram and E. L. Mc-
Graw, Lyeffion; J. A. Curry and
R. S. Payne, Beatrice; J. Barnes
and C. O. Mann, Luverne.
U. K. Wise, M. Wolf, Slocomb;
W. F. Brumley and L. C. Fields,
Pleasant Home; Edward Davis
and A. V. Thomas, Red Level; J.
Cleland and M. Hines, Samson;
J. Bozeman and T. T. Webster,
Autaugaville; W. T. Porter and
R. S. McMillan, Ashford; L. 0.
Baldwin and C. B. Vickery, We-tumpka;
W. F. Coppage and H. C.
Gregory, Clayton; W. F. Ras-berry
and B. B. Holley, Five
Points; J. H. Staggers and E. M.
Rhodes, Elba.
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Nutrition Conference
Meets Here Tomorrow
Program Includes Speeches by Salmon,
Koehn, Sherman, Engel, Isbell, Ackerly
The First Alabama Nutrition Conference, to be held
in Auburn tomorrow, will bring together representatives
from every organization in the state that can contribute
to the solution of the problem of nutrition.
Results of some recent research work in nutrition at
the Alabama Experiment Station will be discussed by three
able speakers at the conference. ,
Mrs. Marion W. Spidle, chairman of the Alabama Nu-trition
Defense Committee and
head of the School of Home Eco­nomics,
has completed arrange­ments
for the conference, which
will feature reports of the work
of the State Health and Welfare
Departments, the Alabama Exten­sion
Service, the Farm Security
Administration, and experts in
nutrition from Alabama College
and the University of Alabama.
Professor W. D. Salmon, of
the Experiment Station, will dis­cuss
"Nutrition in Defense," as
the keynote address of the meet­ing.
Dr. C. J. Koehn will show the
importance of milk and butter as
a source of vitamin A. Particular
emphasis will be given to the sea­sonal
variation of the vitamin A
content of milk and butter under
average conditions and to the pre­vention
of this by proper feeding
of dairy cattle.
The protein content of southern
diets will be discussed by Dr. W.
C. Sherman. He will show that
certain edible varieties of soy­beans"
may be used to improve
both the quantity and the quality
of protein in these diets. Dr. Sher­man
says that edible soybeans
have a place in every home gar­den.
Dr. R. W. Engel will report the
results of hemoglobin determina­tions
on 3,500 men who register­ed
for the selective draft in Lee
County.
The home garden presents pos­sibilities
for greater improvement
of nutrition in Alabama than any
other single factor. Dr. C. L. Is­bell,
of the Experiment Station,
will show how an all-year supply
of vegetables may be obtained
from the home garden at the con­ference,
and will illustrate his talk
with lantern slides in natural color.
Dr. Lois Ackerly, director of
the School of Home Economics at
Alabama College, will speak on
"Food Preparation as an Essen­tial
to Adequate Nutrition".
The entire program for the
conference is as follows:
9 a.m., coffee served, Duncan
Hall studio.
9:20, welcome address, Dr. L.
N. Duncan.
9:30, "Nutritional Deficiencies
as a Public Health Problem", by
Dr. J. N. Baker, of the State
Health Service.
10:00, "Nutrition as a Welfare
Problem," by Miss Lula Dunn,
Commissioner of the Alabama
Welfare Department.
10:20, "Nutrition of Rural Ten­ant
Families," by Miss Erna Proc­tor,
Regional Chief of Home Man­agement
of the Farm Security
Administration.
- 10:40, "Food Production Plans
for Alabama", by Miss Mildred
Simon, Nutritionist of the Ala­bama
Extension Service.
11:00, address by Dr. Koehn.
11:20, address by Dr. Sherman.
11:40, address by Dr. Engel.
12:00, luncheon.
1:00, visit to Animal Nutrition
Laboratory, Experiment Station.
1:30, address by Dr. Isbell.
2:00, "Feeding Children," ' by
Mary Currier, Department of
Home Economics, University of
Alabama.
2:20, address by Dr. Ackerly.
2:40, address by Dr. Salmon.
3:00, open forum.
3:30, adjournment.
All of the meetings of the con­ference
will be held in the Studio
of Duncan Hall.
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Campus Barber
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Duncan to Take
Part in Annual
Publicity Meet
Will Discuss Publicity
At College Presidents
Round-Table Forum
Dr. L. N. Duncan left today to
attend the annual meeting of Dis­trict
V of the American College
Publicity Association in Birming­ham
for today and tomorrow. The
meeting will be composed of all
the Publicity Directors of the col­leges
in Alabama, Tennessee,
Georgia, Florida, and South Caro­lina
and the presidents of vari­ous
colleges in these states.
The two day session will begin
at 2 p.m. today at the Tutwiler
Hotel in Birmingham. Dr. Ray­mond
R. Paty, president of Bir­mingham-
Southern College will
deliver the welcoming address. A
Newspaper Round-Table will fol­low
with talks on several types of
newspapers. "Small City Daily"
will be discussed by Tom Twitty,
Editor of the Milledgeville Daily
Times, "The Weekly" will be talk­ed
on by Charles G. Dobbins, Ed­itor,
The Anniston Times, "Large
City Daily" will be taken up by
Vincent Townsend, City Editor
Birmingham News, and "The As­sociated
Press" will be discussed
by Leroy Sims of Birmingham.
The third part of the program
will be taken up with a Round
Table Discussion on Colleges and
National Defense. This will be
participated in by W. C. Capel,
Georgia State College for Women,
chairman, Frank Wright, Univer­sity
of Florida, and Frances
Scruggs, Vanderbilt University.
Ollie Atkins, Birmingham Post
(Continued on page 6)
Coeds! If You Ever Marry a Flyer,
Don't Worry About His Safety
Madam Donna
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of life such as love, marriage, and
business.
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Auburn Hitchhiker Rides
With Flying Man's Wife
By JIMMY GILBERT
The stocky young man in the
brown jacket and Auburn war
hat stood on the corner and
thumbed hopefully. The shiny new
coupe stopped and its occupant, a
young lady of quite nice appear­ance,
beckoned to the thumber.
As he opened the door he was
greeted by a tough looking bull­dog's
bark, but as the boy recoil­ed
from the pooch the lady said,
"Shut up Kelly, and let him
alone!"
Then to the boy she said,
"Come on and get in. He won't
hurt you at all."
The lady seejned quite a talker,
and in the first five miles she had
revealed that she was the wife of
a Maxwell Field flying instructor,
and that her husband was at pres­ent
ferrying new ships back to
Maxwell from California.
Recalling that questions have
often been asked about how a
flier's wife feels when her hus­band
is in the air, the student
asked about how she felt at pres­ent
with him so far away. She
kinda grinned and said, "Well, I
used to worry, but one night he
told me that he knew better than
to take any kind of a chance
while he was in the air. "Then
too," she went on, "I know that
he has his 'silk' (that means a
parachute) under him, and that
he will use it if things look the
least bit bad."
After a moment she added, "I
really don't worry so much now,
but I am going back to the field
from my little trip in order to
be nearby in case he is grounded
somewhere."
The thumber noticed that she
carefully avoided saying "In case
something happens to him."
Getting warmed up to her sub­ject,
she told about her being able
to ride in government planes 30
minutes each month, but in case
of an accident or an emergency
she could be taken anywhere in
the United States in a government
plane. Smilingly, she said, "Even
the dog can ride, only once he
got sick when they were caught
in a severe thunderstorm.
• The husband (she revealed no
other name than "Claude") got
his training at Randolph and
Kelly Fields in Texas. Kelly Field
was his first post as an instruct­or,
and in honor of the event, the
dog was christened "Kelly". The
wife called the Texas Panhandle
home, which explained the no­ticeable
drawl. She expressed an
undying hatred for Yankees,
chiefly because one of "those
yankee bright boys" as she called
him, got her husband lost once on
a night flight. She can fly a plane
herself, but she has not yet soloed
because of bad eyesight. She
seemed wrapped up in the job of
being a good flier's wife.
She did confess though, that in
spite of the husband's ultimatum,
she did worry a great deal more
than he thought she did. "I would­n't
tell him for the world though."
So girls, the moral is that if
you ever marry an aviator, don't
worry about his getting killed.
He'll do that for himself and he
needs no help.
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SO powerful that its atom-smashing beam
of ions would melt an ordinary brick
as fast as a blowtorch would melt a pound
of butter will be the U. of California's new
ioo,ooo,ooo-volt cyclotron. The 4900-ton
giant—16 times more powerful than the
present outfit—will generate atomic ener­gies
greater than any now in existence except
in distant stars or elsewhere in cosmic
space.
Atomic particles will be fed into a circu­lar
chamber where they will receive suc­cessive
"kicks," whirling them around in
continually widening circles until they reach
a window or port on the side of the chamber.
The element to be bombarded will be
placed over this window where it will re­ceive
the full force of the ion beam.
For this machine General Electric is
building electric equipment, which will
occupy the space of a two-story house. The
chief function of this equipment will be to
make ordinary electric current capable of
operating the giant atom smasher.
DETECTIVE STORY
ALBANY HOSPITAL was in an uproar.
• The technicians in charge of the hos­pital's
radium supply had lost. a radium
"needle"—only 2-3 milligrams to be sure,
but enough to burn a person seriously if the
needle were caught for long in his shoe or
clothing.
An appeal for help was senii to the Gen­eral
Electric Research Laboratory in Sche­nectady
for a "Geiger Counter"—an electric
"ear" which detects and amplifies the
otherwise inaudible "explosion" of the
radium as it breaks down.
When Dr. C. W. Hewlett (N. C. State,
'06) of the G-E Research Laboratory
entered the suspected operating room, the
counter immediately began to "cluck" its
warning of radioactivity nearby. After a
false start, the counter took to the trail
like the Hawkshaw it is, and eventually,
as Dr. Hewlett lowered it to the floor in
front of a radiator, the clucks became barks.
And there, snuggled against the wall under
the radiator, was the missing radium.
GENERAL » ELECTRIC
Page Six THE PLAINSMAN March 14, 1941
Intra Team Track Meet
Is "A" Day Feature
Events Begin at 1:45
Tomorrow in Stadium
Hoyt, Stephenson, Holley, McGehee,
Wendling, Ball Are Star Performers
Opening the afternoon's program of athletics which
is the main feature of the annual "A" Day will be an
exhibition tomorrow by two teams selected from the Au­burn
track squad. The track events will begin at 1:45 in
Auburn Stadium.
The meet will throw the trackmen into their last
stretch of the training period which takes them toward
their initial meet of the coming season, the Florida Relays
at Gainesville on March 29.
SPORTS PEN
Highlighting the individual per­formers
from the point of his ac­complishments
against conference
competition will be Hoyt Hall,
Tiger pole vaulter, who took a tie
for first place in the SEC meet
last year. Hoyt is back with a
form that promises to better his
record jumps of last year, will
enter on the Orange side tomor­row.
Captains of both the Orange
and Blue aggregates'will be par­ticipants
in the high jump. James
Stephenson, regular captain of
the track team, will show in the
high jump, discus, and shot for
the Blue while Capt. Hall of the
Orange squad will take a part in
the high jump and pole vault.
Alternate - Captain Jim Holley
will run in the 880 for the Blues,
the event in which he took fifth
place in the league meet at Bir­mingham
last year.
Babe McGehee, president of the
"A" Club, is the leading hurdler
of the squad and will appear in
both the high and low hurdle
events.
Number one sprinter on the list
is Bud Wendling, a senior and vet­eran
of the last year's team, who
is entered in the 100 and 220
dashes.
John Ball, Southeastern Con­ference
Cross Country record
holder for 1940 and also record
holder over the cake race course,
will make his first official ap­pearance
since fall when he takes
the track for the two mile run.
Ball will run for the Blues and
will face Harry Binford, winner
of the 1940 race. Jack Hans, run­ner-
up in the December cake
race, will appear in the 440.
Added attraction on the cinder
show will be Chet Bulger, a regu­lar
on the last year's team who
is now ineligible for collegiate
competition. Chet, a tackle on the
football team, will take part in
the shot and discus events.
Another performer with the
weights who may be heavily
counted on is Hugh Maddox, a
center in football.
By JOHN PIERCE
<U*IYtES STE&lENSON- rtOBdRN
James Stephenson captains the
track squad which will perform
tomorrow in Auburn Stadium.
He's entered in the high jump,
shot, and discus.
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photographer will then give a talk
on "College Pictures Wanted by
the Newspapers."
"The College Presidents Round-
Table" will compose of all the
presidents attending the meeting,
including Dr. Richard E. Foster,
University of Alabama, Dr. Ray­mond
R. Paty, Birmingham-
Southern Colege, Dr. A. F. Har­mon,
Alabama College, and Dr.
L. N. Duncan, Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute.
The fifth item on Friday's
events will be a talk on "Dramat­ics
as a Publicity Medium" given
by John A. Walker, Technical Di­rector,
College Theatre, Alabama
College. This will be followed by
Naylor Stone, Sports Editor of
the Birmingham Post, telling of
the "Relationship of Sports Editor
to College Publicity Agent".
The Annual Banquet will be
held at the Tutwiler Hotel at
Tomorrow the sports fan will have the chance to lounge around
in Auburn Stadium and watch the Spring antics of both track and
football teams without having to turn his head. The doings will get
under way at 1:45 and should wind up at 4:30. If one wants a quick
and inexpensive preview as to the qualities or components of either
of the two major sports here is the best chance available.
The football game will come off in the form of a regular bona-fide
contest, running in 15 minute quarters with no heckling at all
from the coaching staffs, while the track exhibition which precedes
the grid battle will size up at a real competitive meet.
The price to students of high school or college mentality is but
15c, to all others, 25c. It's a small price when weighed against the
amount to be seen within a three hour period.
Maybe the average grid fan will see the two football squads in
action for awhile, marvel now and then at a long run or fancy kick,
but remain in the dark as to just how this Auburn team may be
expected to surpass that of last year.
The difference lies mainly in two words—reserve strength and
experience. A letterman will be available at every position, with six
being left over to make up the bulk of a second eleven. Here is ex­perience.
To examine the outlook in the case of reserves take tackles.
Twelve of 'em are now listed as candidates for the two posts. Four
of the twelve are lettermen, and the average weight of the whole
twelve is 199. There are two lettermen in the list of 13 guards. Tex
Williams leads Jack Ferrell and Jim Pharr to the center jobs, and
Jim Samford, Theo Cremer, and Henry Monsees are the veterans in a
crew of nine ends on the field.
Returning to backfield posts are seven lettermen: two quarter­backs,
three halfbacks, and two fullbacks. The ball carriers thus have
practically two complete backfields to use before they have to call
upon any of the remaining reserves. The quarterbacks are Lloyd
Cheatham and Buddy McMahan, Jim Reynolds and Ty Irby fill the
fullback spots, and Clarence Harkins, Bill Year*ut, and Monk Gafford
are the speed merchants at the halfback spots.
One thing almost certain to be seen tomorrow is the regular daily
two-man rampage by Harkins and Gafford. Clarence tips the scales
at 175 and Monk probably weighs no more than 170 wearing a wet
overcoat but the two can work together from the right and left half
positions like a pair of greased whirlwinds. It's bad medicine for a
defensive team when just one scatback leers from behind the oppos­ing
line, but when two of them start throwing their hips and legs
in every direction and butterflying through for dashes of twenty
and thirty yards a shot—then, brothers, the towel-throwing stage is
nigh.
Outstanding linemen to watch tomorrow might be Jim Pharr,
freshman center; Bill Schuler, freshman tackle from Birmingham
who's been in at regular duty recently; Vic Costellos, fiery junior
guard; and Fagan Canzoneri, sophomore flanker whom many call
the top defensive end on the field.
Intramural Department
To Hold Open House
Basketball, Minor
Sports Featured in
Thursday Program
By GEORGE HEARD
The Intramural Sports Depart­ment
will hold its first open-house
next Thursday night from 6:30
p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at the Alumni
Gymnasium. There will be an
exhibition of the various sports
which the students participate in
their classes. There will be no
admission charge.
The official program will begin
with a badminton contest in the
large gymnasium between an Au­burn
team and some outside team,
probably a Y.M.C.A. team compos­ed
of young people of college age.
Also at this time the all-campus
table tennis playoff will be held to
determine the champion for the
year.
At 7:30 the final play-off of
girls' basketball will be held. The
champion will be determined in the
girls' intramural program. Between
halves an interesting program of
foul throwing is being arranged,
as well as a fencing exhibition by
campus fencing experts.
At 8:30 the fraternity basketball
play-off will begin. The elimina­tions
among the fraternities are
being carried on now. Between
halves of this game there will be
a tumbling exhibition and a mod­ern
dance staged by the girls in
the modern dance classes of the
college. Weight lifting will also
be a part of this program as will
an archery contest.
At 9:30 the Independent basket­ball
tournament will be held. The
half will feature a boxing match
among the students. There have
been no boxing teams on Auburn's
campus for several years.
The finale will come at 10:30
with a volley ball tournament in
which independent teams will par­ticipate.
At the same time the preceding
events are going on there will be
separate events taking place in the
other parts of the gymnasium.
Downstairs the varsity swimming
team, which is having its final
meet in the Tennessee tank tomor­row,
will have a swimming and
diving meet competing with the
freshman team. One meet will be­gin
at 7:30 and the second meet
at 9:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m. with Randolph Fort of
the University of Alabama presid­ing
as Master of Ceremonies and
Mitchell Cox of Georgia Tech the
principal speaker of the evening.
The closing session will begin
at 9 a.m. Saturday morning with
Frank Wright acting as presiding
officer. There will be a round
table discussion participated in by
all the college publicity directors.
The topic under discussion will be
"Publicity Highlights in My
School". The directors will state
their major publicity successes
and their major problem of the
past year in regards to publicity
for their separate schools.
After this there will be several
talks given by prominent people
connected with newspapers and
colleges in the south. These are:
"Sports Features I Want from
the Colleges" by Zipp Newman,
Sports Editor of the Birmingham
News.
"Publicity Records" by Doyle
Buckles, University of Alabama.
"Feature Possibilities on Col­lege
Campuses," George Nagel,
Birmingham News.
"Cooperation Between Colleges
and Newspapers" by E. D. Mc-
Cluskey of the Birmingham Post.
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