1940-11-29 The Plainsman

              Jan Savitt
At Mid-Terms! 77i£ Plcdndmcuv Claw That
Alligator!
"AUBURN—the friendliest college in the United States'
VOL. LXIV Z-I ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, NOVEMBER 29, 1940 No. 24
Jan Savitt Will Play for API Junior Prom
Music to Soothe-
Members of the Auburn Glee Club for 1940-41 are pictured above. First row, left to right: E. C.
Capell, R. E. Baker, J. Dryden, D. W. Moody, R. Somerville, T. G. Hubbard, C. E. Westbrook, J. F. Pope,
B. M. Thompson, W. L. Ellner. Second row, left to right: F. B. Bryant, H. P. Williamson, M. Griffith,
W. S. Kelly, W. S. Byers, C. R. McDonald, R. E. Wilson, C. D. Wood, J. Clopton, J. H. Staggers, E.
Vandergrift. Third row, left to right: B. W. Peake, S. Ulmer, N. Flood, H. Hinds, R. F. Claytor, C.
Ware, J. W. Bagwell, Will Dennis.
Students Leave for Columbus to
See Tiaer-'Gator Tilt Tomorrow
Christmas Holidays
Are Extended; Will
Include New Year's
Christmas holidays for Auburn
have been extended to include
New Year's Day, according to an
announcement this morning by
President L. N. Duncan.
Classes will be excused begin­ning
with the student's last class
on Thursday, December 19, and
classes will resume with the stu­dent's
first class on January 2.
To explain further, when a stu­dent
has completed all of his
classes on December 19, he is ex­cused
for the holidays; and when
the student's first class meets on
January 2, the student should be
present once again, ready for reg­ular
work.
Jane Green to Lead
Annual Mitec Dance
With Fred Henning
The Mitec's, cooperative engi­neering
society, will have their
annual dance tonight from 9 to
12 p.m. at Graves Center. Fred
Henning, president of Mitec, and
Jane Green of Birmingham will
lead the dance.
Guests who will attend the
dance includes President L. N.
Duncan, Deans Wilmore and Han-num
of the School of Engineer­ing,
Colonel John J. Waterman
and Dean Rosa Lee Walston.
Music will be provided by the
Auburn Plainsmen who are play­ing
daily at the College Inn.
Alpha Epsilon Delta
Views Medical Movies
At Regular Meeting
Two movies were viewed by
the Pre-Med Club at a meeting
held Monday night, which was
sponsored by the local chapter of
Alpha Epsilon Delta.
The films shown were "The In­fluence
of Drugs on Gastrointes­tinal
Motility" and "The Anatomy
of the Abdominal Wall."
A majority of the students in
pre-med were present at the meet­ing.
Membership certificates to Al­pha
Epsilon Delta were awai'ded
Monday night to several members,
by E. W. Jordan, president of the
honorary pre-medical society.
Ag Engineer Society
Shows Film Monday
"The River,'' a sound motion
picture produced by Peree Lorenz
for the United States Department
of Agriculture will be presented
by the local chapter of the Ameri­can
Society of Agricultural Engi­neers
next Monday night at 7
o'clock in Duncan Hall auditor­ium.
Students, faculty, and towns­people
are cordially invited to at­tend
the showing of this produc­tion
which depicts the ravages and
devastating results of allowing a
river to run uncontrolled. The film
is centered around the rivers that
empty into the Mississippi River
which in turn enters the Gulf of
Mexico.
An outstanding feature of the
picture concerns the dam and
power projects at the Tennessee
Valley Project, and the efforts
made there to control erosion with
proper control of the river.
Engineers Will
Hear Dean Hannum
Monday Night at 7
It was announced last night that
an Engineer's seminar will be held
Monday evening at 7:00 p.m. in
Langdon Hall. Dean J. E. Han­num
will speak to the engineers on
"Engineering in Ancient Times".
The seminar will be held for all
freshman and sophomore engineer­ing
students.
Auburn Householders
'Hope' Fills Students Minds as Tigers
Seek to Get Back on the Victory Track
It's off to the wars again as the injured Tiger licks
his wounds and snarls at the thought of battling with an
alligator. And the Tiger's faithful followers prepare to go
to the battle with the spirit that has always led the Plains
Cat through thick and thin, through victory and defeat.
The Tigers of Auburn meet the 'Gators of Florida
in a Southeastern Conference battle that promises plenty
of fireworks at Memorial Stadium in Columbus, Ga., to­morrow
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Most
sports writers are picking Florida
to win over the Plainsmen, but stu­dents
are "hoping" that once again
the dope bucket will be upset.
This will be next to the last game
that the Tigers will play and al­though
they have not been up to
par this season, it is expected that
at least 12,000 persons will be on
hand to witness the clash.
For the second time of the season
| Auburn will perform in Memorial
I Stadium. At the last game, the
Auburn-Georgia classic, many of
the people had trouble locating
seats because of the absence of
ushers. But the spectators at to­morrow's
game need not worry
about finding their seats as the
students of the two Columbus high
schools will be on hand to serve
as ushers. They have already
studied the layout of the stadium
and will be well prepared to act
as ushers.
At the beginning of the season
the students of Auburn did not
expect to see the clash between
the Tigers and the Alligators as
the game was scheduled to be
played in Gainesville, Florida.
However, the scene of the battle-to-
be was changed to Columbus
and the loss to the students of the
University of Florida was the gain
of the local students.
Last week Auburn received their
worst beating of the year and
some of the Tigers are not in their
best condition, but that will not
keep the interest of the Auburn
fans from soaring as Auburn has
always been noted for their ability
to upset the prophecies of the na­tion's
sports writers.
The team will leave by bus to­morrow
morning for the Columbus
game. The band is also scheduled
to make the trip, but it was not
known as the paper went to press
this morning whether or not a pa­rade
would be held prior to the
game.
A pep rally was held yesterday
afternoon in Langdon Hall, and
the famous Auburn Spirit did not
seem to be dimmed by three de­feats
in the last four games. All
six of Auburn's cheerleaders will
be on hand at the game tomorrow.
Auburn Glee Club
Will Sing Sunday
In Capitol City
Barnett Sends Out Call
For More Tenors for
Musical Organization
The Auburn Glee Club's first
appearance of the year will be
before the People's Bible Class at
the Empire Theatre, Montgomery,
Sunday morning when a special
Auburn Day program will be pre­sented
by the Club beginning at
9:30 a.m.
Also appearing on the program
will be Pres. L. N. Duncan who
will be introduced by Neal A. Col­lins,
president of the Montgomery
Auburn Alumni Chapter. The en­tire
program, including the ad­dress
by Judge Walter B. Jones,
teacher of the People's Bible
Class,, will be broadcast over Sta­tion
WSFA, in Montgomery.
Mr. Barnett announced today
that there are still a few openings
in the Glee Club for both first
and second tenors. Students wish­ing
to try out for these places are
asked to communicate with Mr.
Barnett at once. His phone is 810.
Soloists on the program will be
Eugene Jordan, Birmingham, vio­linist,
and Jimmy Overton, Bir­mingham,
bass. Director of the
Club is Lawrence Barnett, and the
accompanist this year is Miss An-niece
Polk, Clanton.
Regarded as one of the finest
clubs produced in several years
at the Alabama Polytechnic Insti­tute,
plans are underway for con­certs
by the club this year in
many parts of Alabama and ad-
Mid-Term Affair to
Feature Six Dances
Tophatters' Now Playing at University
Of Georgia at Athens for Homecoming Hop
Jan Savitt and his Top-Hatters will play for the Junior
Prom, to be held in Auburn January 30, 31, and Febru­ary
1, according to an announcement made by John Dem-ing,
Chairman of the Social Committee, last night.
Deming said that six and possibly seven dances will
be featured in the set. Three afternoon and three evening
dances will be held and possibly one morning dance.
Savitt's band, one of the outstanding musical attrac­tions
in the country, has created
'Top-Hatter"
JAN SAVITT
The Auburn Householders' As­sociation
will hold a meeting next
Tuesday night, December 3, at the joining states.
usual hour in the New Classroom Tentative arrangements for a
Building, according to Dr. J. V. tour by the club through South
Brown's office. ' (Continued on page 6)
Twenty-Third Ag
Fair Attended by
Large Gathering
President Duncan Crowns
Frances Hamilton Queen
Of Annual Festivities
The twenty-third annual Ag
Fair, held last Wednesday night
in Graves Center, was attended
by approximately 800 people, in
spite of adverse weather condi­tions.
Highlight of the evening was
the crowning of the Queen of
Harvest, Frances Hamilton of
Springville, by President L. N.
Duncan. Miss Hamilton's attend­ants
were Margaret Johnston,
Martha D. West, and Frances
Hay.
James Dukes, junior in agricul­tural
science from Atmore, served
as master of ceremonies for the
gala occasion.
A dance, to the music of the
Auburn Plainsmen, was held from
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a host of new records in appear­ances
throughout the nation dur­ing
the past several years. Their
music is new, different, and dance-able.
A great violinist with a brilliant
classical background, Jan Savitt
has injected his tremendous back­ground
into modern music, with
the result, a grand, top ranking,
and in-demand orchestra.
The band is featured over the
three major networks, NBC, CBS,
and Mutual.
Featured with the top-hatters is
Allen De Witt, vocalist.
Appearances at such famous
dance spots as the Lincoln Hotel,
New York; College Inn, Hotel
Sherman, Chicago; Paramount,
New York; Chicago Theatre, Chi­cago;
Palace Theatre, Cleveland;
and Buffalo Theatre, Buffalo, have
established records for the Top-
Hatters that have been marks for
all orchestras in the country to
try for.
Savitt is playing this week-end
for the Homecoming Dances at the
University of Georgia. Last year
he was featured at the Mid-Winter
hops at Georgia Tech.
Announcements will be made at
early date in regards to prices of
tickets, number of dances, house
parties, and decorations, according
to Deming.
Deming announced late l a st
night that Jan Savitt and his Top-
Hatters had been signed to play
for the Junior Prom on January
30, 31 and February 1.
FFA, FHA to Hold
Banquet Thursday
Haygood Paterson Will
Speak at Annual Affair
Haygood Paterson, Commission­er
of Agriculture for Alabama,
will address the combined FFA
and FHA groups at a banquet to
be held Thursday night, at 7:30
p.m.
Joe Cleland, representing the
FFA, and Frances Ingram, rep­resenting
the FHA, will also speak
to the assembly.
Tickets to the banquet are on
sale now, and will be until Mon­day
night.
Tickets may be secured from
the following persons for seventy-five
cents per plate:
Joe Cleland, C. B. Vickery,
Morgan Wallace, E. B. Nix, James
Dailey, Kallen Stone, and Maxine
Hill.
Engineer Grades
All engineering students are
urged to get their mid-semester
grades from their dean's office.
If they have any doubt as whether
they have received their grades
or not, they should go by the
dean's office at once to make
A TO's Show Power in Crushing
PiKA s, /6-0, on Drake Field
SPE-ATO Battle Will
Decide Champion
By J. O. BRYAN, IV
Alpha Tau Omega trampled the
Pi Kappa Alpha football team yes­terday
afternoon on Drake Field,
18 to 0, in a game that may have
gone a long way toward deciding
the winner of the inter-fraternity
tournament.
This defeat was the second of
the semi-finals for the PiKA's who
were beaten once before by the
ATO's 7-0.
Leading the tourney at present
is the SPE team, who won a tech­nical
victory of 1 to 0 over the
ATO's last week, after tying them
0 to 0 once before. The SPE's
earned their extra point by gain­ing
more yardage than the ATO's
in an overtime period in a second
0 to 0 tie.
The Alpha Tau's, contenders
for the championship, will meet
the SPE's again next week, to de­termine
the tournament winner.
will be officially awarded the in-terfraternity
council trophy as
campus champions. If the ATO's
win, however, the two teams will
have to play off their tie in an­other
game.
This is the second intermural
season in which the ATO team
has not been scored on. They lost
the trophy last year to the Delta
Sigs, after an overtime decision.,
Yesterday's ATO-PiKA game
was, except in the punting depart­ment,
all ATO. The PiKA's punt­ing
average was good for 40.8
yards,-to the 34 of the ATO's.
The ATO's were too busy scoring
to punt. They never really needed
Theta U Bazaar
Theta Upsilon will sponsor its
annual Christmas Bazaar on Mon­day
and Tuesday, December 2nd
and 3rd, from 8 until 6 p.m. at
the Auburn Furniture Store.
The articles sold at this Bazaar
are made by the students at Berea
If the SPE's win this battle, they' College in Kentucky.
to. Most of the game was played
in PiKA territory.
ATO opened fire by scoring in
the first 3 minutes of the fray.
They tallied again in the second
and finally in the fourth quarter.
The PiKA's only scoring thrust
was stopped by time. They carri­ed
the ball down into ATO terri­tory
on successive passes as the
half ended.
The Alpha Tau passing combi­nation,
Carter to Kieffer, was ex­ceptionally
good. They completed
one touchdown pass and passed to
set up another of the three tallys.
ATO end Eddie Taylor played
an exceptionally good defense for
his team, starring with his block­ing.
Standouts in the PiKA back-field
were Reed, Brown and Hen­ry.
Reed stopped two ATO scoring
thrusts with pass interceptions.
Stone wall of the PiKA line was
Snead Thaggard.
Statistics show 10 first downs
for the ATO's and 4 for the Pi
KA's.
Players Rehearsing
For New Production
Cast of Nine Will Present Priestley's
Time and the Conways' Before Holidays
Delta Zeta to Hold
Standards Program
At Center Today
Delta Zeta will hold the second
meeting of the year of their
Standards Program this afternoon
at five o'clock in the Women's So­cial
Center. Prof. C. A. Dilley will
be the speaker, and the meeting
is open to all who would like to
attend.
Standards Program is sponsored
twice each month by Delta Zeta,
and a member of the faculty or
some other qualified speaker is
invited to talk on some question
of interest to students.
Martha Nell Vann, of Abbeville,
Ala., and Virginia Chase, of St.
Petersburg, Fla., were initiated
into Beta Xi chapter of Delta
Zeta at a special initiation last
week.
Home Economics Tea
Room Open for Year
The Home Ec Tea Room, op­erated
by senior girls enrolled in
institutional cookery, is open in
the Social Center every Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday afternoon
from 3 until 5 o'clock.
The public is invited to visit the
tea room, which is under the man­agement
of Ruby Braly.
Illustrated Lecture
The Alabama Power Company
will present an illustrated lecture
on conservation next Monday night
at 7 in Room 206, Animal Hus­bandry
Building. Open to public.
| Rehearsals have been underway
| for some time for the Auburn
Players performance of J. R.
Priestley's English play "Time and
the Conways", which is scheduled
to appear shortly before the holi­days.
The play is under the di­rection
of Prof. Telfair B. Peet.
Setting of the first act is an
English village immediately after
the first World War. The second
act takes place 20 years later, and
the third act jumps back to the
immediate post-war period.
The cast, in the order of appear­ance,
is as follows:
Hazel', Kathryn Blake, Auburn;
Carol, Elaine Freeman, Auburn;
Alan, Bobby Haas, Mobile; Madge,
Martha Daily, Birmingham; Kay,
Lillian Jane Smith, Birmingham;
Mrs. Conway, Claudia Weinmann,
Decatur; Joan Helford, Marjorie
McKinnon, Auburn; Gerald Thorn­ton,
Warren Bridges, West Orange,
N.J.; Robin, G. C. Robinson.
Stage manager is Jim Burt, of
Rochester, N.Y. Allen Odom will
be in charge of make-up.
Alpha Phi Omega
Elects New Heads
John D. Sharp, Jr., senior in
electrical engineering from Wil­son
Dam, has been elected presi­dent
of Alpha Phi Omega, honor­ary
scouting fraternity for this
year, according to an announce­ment
received at the Plainsman
office this morning.
Other officers include Morgan
B u n c h , vice-president; Sabel
Baum, treasurer; Quentin Strong,
secretary; John Nigosian, histo­rian;
and Bobby Dobbins, ser-geant-
at-arms.
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Don't Get the
Big Head, Boys
Some time ago we wrote an editorial to
the coeds about "getting the big head" be­cause
of the greater number of boys than
girls at Auburn. We now turn our thoughts
to the boys, under the same title, but for
a different reason. To the freshmen and
sophomores who are just getting into the
swing of things at Auburn, this might be
a creed, to the juniors and seniors who
have been here for a longer time, this
might be advice, well-meaning advice.
An ambitious student, when entering
college, sets for himself certain goals to
reach, certain activities to participate in.
Some of these students enter politics,
others merely join every organization for
which they are eligible for membership,
and still others strive for the top of the
roster in scholastic achievements.
The student is well-meaning, earnest and
sincere in the first two years of his stay
in college. Probably beginning about the
third year, though, the student sometimes
begins to feel his "importance". "He feels
that the organizations to which he be­longs,
"just couldn't get along without
him". He decides that since he is such a
great politician and the champion of "the
student's rights", he will enter the race
for one of the "big" student offices. He
feels sure that since he has served two or
three years in these important student
" offices, there is nothing left for the student
body to do but elect him once again, be­cause
what other student would be as
capable as him?
And so beginning in his junior year the
student decides that he should hold im­portant
offices in all the organizations to
which he belongs, that this is essential to
the welfare and progress of the club. Why,
after all, hadn't he been the "guiding
light" in these organizations for the past
two years? Also this student decides that
he should hold some of the "important"
offices in the senior class for the next year.
And so begins his political campaign. He
learns the names of all of his fellow class­men,
and speaks to them everywhere he
sees them, even going out of his way at
times to let "the boys" know that he knows
them and that he is a candidate for such
and such an office. His fellow classmen,
being often misled by such manifestations
of friendliness, begin to say that "this is
the fellow we want" for that office for
which he is a candidate.
And so this super-ambitious student be­comes
president or vice-president of sev­eral
organizations, he is duly elected to fill
the esteemed position as one of the "im­portant"
student officials. Subsequently,
he is elected to membership by one or two
or three or even more of the big honor
societies. Of course, this even further
raises his idea of his own importance.
And then the change which has been
taking place for some time now, begins to
show up in the manner, talk, and charac­ter
of this student. Since he is already
elected, and since he has made all the
"honors" that can be made, this student
decides that he does not have to speak to
his fellow classmen any longer. This is
useless. Soon his "superiority complex" is
evident to all of those who know him. A
manner of conceit enters into his bearing.
"After all," thinks he, evidently, "look
who I am, look at what I have done, look
at the honors I have, look at me, J'm really
somebody around this campus. Come on,
girls, call me up for dates when I don't
have anything else to do. After all, I'm a
"big shot" around this place."
The attitude of his fellow classmen that
was once so friendly toward this student
makes an abrupt about-face. Decent stu­dents
do not wish to associate with this
"big shot" any longer. Decent students
want to associate with real, down-to-earth
students, students who are just "plain
people". And thus it is that this so-called
"big shot" is shut in among a certain
group, composed of other such "big shots"
as himself. This small group, smug in
their conceit, think that they "run the
college". But if they only knew what other
students think of them, and what little
worth they actually are, both to the college
and their fellow classmen, perhaps their
ego would be deflated just a little. Per­haps
the props would fall out from under
them and they would hit the bottom with
a resounding crash.
We call Auburn the "friendliest college
in the United States". And we still main­tain
this statement. But the lovliest village
would be even more friendly if these so-called
"big shots" that couldn't control
their ambitions and keep their ego from
soaring to the skies, would come down to
earth, and just be "one of the boys". We
hope that the freshmen and sophomores
at Auburn will profit by this word. We
hope that the juniors who are on the verge
of having such a calamity overtake them,
will stop and think about the situation a
while. We are afraid that the seniors who
have acquired such an egotistical attitude
and a "superiority complex" are beyond
hope of saving. But if they've got the guts
that it takes to be real men, they can
climb down off their "high horse" and be
plain Auburn students once again, and let
their ego go to the devil.
It's a great thing for a student to be
ambitious—but it's too bad when he lets
his ego "get the best of him."
Dresses for Dances —
Informal vs. Formal
Recently we overheard a conversation
between several Auburn coeds, during the
course of which one of the young ladies
remarked, "It makes me mad for the girls
to have to wear evening dresses to dances,
where the boys just wear suits. I don't
mind when they're wearing tux' or tails,
but these "informal" dances where the
girls have to wear formal dresses just
aren't right!"
We wholeheartedly agree with that coed.
She seems to be expressing the attitude
of the majority of girls on the campus.
Of course, there are girls who just seem
to get a big kick out of dressing up in
evening dresses on the slightest provoca­tion,
but evidently they are exceptions.
Most of the ones who have expressed their
opinions on the matter to us think just
as that first coed did — that it "just ain't
right."
We hardly think that to change this
unfair system of semi-formality would
take an official decree by the Executive
Council, or a petition by the students—
it's too simple a matter for any such com­plicated
a procedure. The reasonable so­lution
seems to be, if indeed the girls on
the campus do resent having to wear even­ing
dresses to informal dances, that they
should change the system themselves. All
they have to do is to pass the word around
the coed grapevine that they're not wear­ing
formal dresses to any of the dances in
question — and the matter would be par­tially
settled.
Organizations which are giving such
dances could of course stipulate in their
dance bids or announcements that the
dance would be strictly informal. If these
two precautions were taken — things
would probably work out so that any girl
coming to an "informal" dance in an even­ing
gown would feel as out of place as
caviar in Mulligan stew as indeed she
should.
Emily Post would probably back us up
in this statement—that, if a dance is to
be formal, boys should wear dress suits—
tuxedoes or tails—if it is to be informal
(and informality in this part of the coun­try
implies suits, and not tux or tails),
then girls should not wear evening dresses.
B. A.
CAMPUS CAMERA
PI ains Talk
By HERBERT MARTIN
General Delivery
By REDDING SUGG
Editor's Note: The opinions expressed
in this column are those of the writer
and are not to be construed as the ed­itorial
policies of this paper.
One of the most vulnerable parts
of totalitarianism may be found
in its inability to sustain with
composure ridicule or even good-natured
fun. Totalitarianism is
deadly, as we have all remarked;
and in the end it is quite possible
that it will die from taking itself
with such deadly seriousness. In
all the masses of Gei-many it would
be astonishing, nay impossible, to
hear even one giggle at Hitler's
mustache. Likewise in Italy Mus­solini's
strong resemblance to an
English bull dog arouses no merri­ment.
It is left' for our modified
democracy to laugh and lighten the
burdens of the world.
* * *
In Charlie Chaplin's recently re­leased
movie, "The Dictator," there
is one particularly amusing scene
in which Hitler and Mussolini—so
thinly disguised in the movie that
we may as well call a spade a
spade—are found sitting in ad­joining
barber chairs in Hitler's
private tonsorial parlor. Neither
wishes to be on a level with or be­low
his rival, so one of them
cranks his chair up a few inches.
The other retaliates with a few
more inches. They continue their
plays for prestige until they both
crack their skulls on the ceiling
* * *
Here I want to present a dif­ferent
version of the scene, taking
advantage of the ancient rhyme
about the owl in the barber shop.
Hitler is being shaved by an
omniscent barber whom he does
not recognize as God. On the cab­inet
in front of him stands an owl
labeled Democracy, which is God's
pet. Hitler disapproves of the
taxidermy, criticising the job while
the barber maintains discreet si­lence.
"That owl up there,"
Said the man in the chair,
"Is stuffed wrong, I do declare.
See the feet—wrong size!
Wrong feathers, wrong eyes."
And the barker kept on shav­ing.
And then, when the man in the
chair got through,
The owl hopped off its perch and
flew—
And the barber kept on shav­ing.
* * *
You will hardly find a more en­chanting
group of people than the
characters in "The Family," by
Nina Fedorova. The Family are
White Russians exiled in Tientsin,
China, where they are gaining a
bare livelihood from a boarding
house when the Sino-Japanese war
begins. Granny, a noblewoman who
has seen three generations of her
family swallowed up in war and
who suffered the cruelties of the
Revolution, is the lodestone of the
Family's spirit. Madame Militza,
a "scientific fortune teller" who has
fallen upon evil days because of
excessive honesty, and Mrs. Par-rish,
an English lady who has tak­en
to the bottle, are but two of the
Family's boarders. The Family
has a great capacity for enlarging
its circle; for besides the people
in the book whom it adopts, it will
adopt you as well. And I am sure
you will never regret the adoption.
* * *
I hope Henry Ford was remem­bered
with something besides car
sales on Thanksgiving. He and
his enterprises are responsible for
what in my opinion is the most
magnificent program on the Amer­ican
radio. The Ford Sunday
Evening Hour, which comes at
eight o'clock, gets my bow for
slipping in a little beauty among
the war-newscasts.
Clothes make the man, only
sometimes they unmake him. Be­ing
a slave of fashion is often hard
on the folks without movie-idol fig­ures.
These long coats which drape
near the knees — well, if you're
short they shorten you and if you
are long they stretch you. Which
leaves the smug movie idols even
smugger.
* * *
G. K. Chesterton wrote his
books, I feel sure, with an eye
to their being quoted. One of his
neatly packaged paradoxes might
help wake you up in class some­time:
"The bore, by his starry en­thusiasm,
. . . his solemn happi­ness,
may . . . have proved him­self
poetical. The bored has cer­tainly
proved himself prosaic."
It hasn't worked on me, but maybe
your skin is thinner than mine.
Plainsman Forum
Letters to the Editor
The Plainsman
Dear Editor:
It is indeed with grievous heart
that I write this letter. However,
it explains the facts that I feel
Auburn should know.
Several nights ago while on one
of Auburn's main streets, a young
boy walked up to me and explained
that he was on his way to another
city where he had been promised
a job. It seems that luck had been
against him and by chance he had
eaten some spoiled food from a
can. He looked worried and want­ed
to know if I could tell him
where he could get some medicine.
He carefully explained to me that
he was absolutely penniless.
I, feeling sure that the boy
would be given whatever medicine
was deemed necessary, proudly di­rected
him to our new infirmary.
He immediately started toward the
hospital. A few minutes later I
decided that since he was a total
stranger here, he might not locate
our htindred thousand dollar in­firmary,
so I followed along be­hind
him.
He found the infirmary all right,
and went in. I watched him
through the front door. It was
just a little on my soft side to see
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.
And so it's on to Columbus, with
the Florida 'Gators as the main
course of the afternoon, and they
do say that things look pretty
gloomy in the Tiger camp this
week. In fact, they say worse
things than that.
But they don't really mean it.
They know that Florida whupped
Tech 16 to 7, but what the (cen­sored),
we did too. We don't have
much to lose by taking a few
chances tomorrow, and we have a
little personal revenge to gain over
a reptile which was rather ill-mannered
at Homecoming last
year, so a high score is the logical
prediction.
We forecast . . . Auburn 53,
Florida 6, but we wouldn't bet
on it.
* * -
We really get our kicks, and
don't take that too literally, from
the emphasis on socks evidenced
by dormitory inmates. Anyone
who thinks he can predict, with
any degree of accuracy, just what
any given coed will put in her
shoes at any specified date in the
future (besides feet, of course)
would agree that we'll win all foot­ball
games in the future by a
score of 53 to 6.
* * #
Designers drug bottom when
they began cutting up towels to
make fuzzy socks, but they really
scooped up some sediment when
they, with an eye on the High­landers,
and a bagpipe tune in
their heads, came up with these
colloquial garments of the Scottish
hill country.
* * *
When one or two young ladies
appeared before upraised eyebrows
in these brilliant red or green Boy
Scout length socks, or, perhaps, as
they're really neither, sockings,
they caused some disturbance, no
little tumult, clamor, and cries of
anguish, and a death of that little
thing caused taste in dressing.
Or so we thought. Other lads
did too. But the ladies. Ah-h-h,
us, the ladies thought different.
They loved the cunning sockings.
They thought they were stunning,
attractive (!), that indefinable
thing called "cute", and last, and
more practical, warm.
We bow to the inevitable, but,
we think it might be well to let
this end there. Please, girls,
young ladies, and the influences
thereof, don't let this be a field
for growth of ideas of color ma­niacs.
Never dare to step out in
sockings of more than one color.
Don't proudly present sockings in ~J
checks, stripes, or louder designs.
We beg of you, don't let this pes­tilence
fall upon the Auburn cam­pus.
In the words of our noble
editor, God forbid that it should
do so!
* * *
There's an editorial in this issue
(those things on the left-hand side
of this page) having to do with
the length of raiment worn by
girls at our so-called formal
dances. Our first thought is to go
on record as saying that we like
the idea of cutting the length, and
the shorter they cut them the bet­ter
we'll like them, but that
thought is a trifle vulgar for a
newspaper of this type.
Sudden thought: But it didn't
used to be like that!
* * *
But we've done some more think­ing.
We still think it's up to the
ladies. If they like to let them­selves
in for the trouble of wear­ing
the longer garments, plus the
pleasure of receiving a fair per­centage
of floral offerings from
proud escorts, we think that's up
to them.
But . . . if they think the long
dresses are too much trouble, why
off with their heads (the dresses')
and away with the purty HI' ole
blossoms. We feel sure that most
males on the campus would wel­come
a drop in florist's bills.
* * *
We i-ealize that it is perfectly
proper to wear corsages right
smack in the front of short "dress-up"
dresses, but we think the de­mand
will be lessened in direct
proportion to the lessening of dress
length. That may remain to be
seen.
The whole think is rather far­fetched,
anyhoo. The day, or
night, of informals is over, in the
main, for quite a while.
* * *
KKK (Karrie, the Kampus
Kounselor) kounsels, "That's a lot
of words to the ladies. While
you're on the subject, I'd like to
say to the girls and boys . . .
Must you continue to make spec­tacles
of yourselves by hanging
onto one another all over the cam­pus
in the daytime? I think such
things would be much more appro­priate
at night, din't you?"
No reflection on any particular
couple,- dormitory, or group of any
kind is intended, we feel sure, but
perhaps we'd better ask Karrie.
Karrie . . . "Certainly not!"
-r--
Parade of Opinion
By ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS
Between bomb-blasts in London
and Berlin, Americans catch
glimpses of another war. Many
see in the Sino-Japanese conflict
far-reaching influences on the
western world. In the American
college press, opinions differ as to
the imminence of hostilities with
Japan. But continued aid to China
and ever-stiffening resistence to
Tokyo find vociferous support.
Fact that the recently reopened
Burma Road stays open is called
"significant" by the University of
Minnesota Daily The road, com­ments
the Daily "symbolizes the
remaining bonds between Free
China and the democratic west.
British reversal of policy therefore
stiffened Chinese morale — and
secretary Hull's overtures, which
prompted the British action,
strengthened Chinene faith in the
United States' Far Eastern poli­cy."
American extension of credits to
China is applauded by the Eastern
Illinois State Teachers College
News, which says: "Despite the
fact that our chances of getting
our money back from destitute
China are slim, the loan will fur-him
standing there, tired and rag­ged-
looking. First he talked to a
nurse and then to a man. Turning
from the man he was talking to
he came out of the hospital. I
stopped him out front and asked
him "why the rush". He said that
he had talked to the doctor "and
that he was told that Auburn's
Infirmary had no medicine to give
away and for him to go bum a
drug store.
Well, that may suit some of Au­burn's
men, but as for myself, I
think it was a hell of a note.
Yours sincerely,
A Student.
ther spur her dogged resistance to
Japan, at least delaying, if not
preventing, our entry into a Jap­anese
war. FAR MORE IMPOR­TANT
THAN THE LOAN,
HOWEVER, IS THE EMBARGO
PUT ON SCRAP IRON . . . We
furnish the market for about 75
per cent of Japan's raw silk and
we still buy most of her manufac­tured
wares. Our own industry
would benefit greatly and Japan
might be brought quickly to her
knees if a boycott was placed on
her merchandise."
At Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, The Tech concludes
that "although the attendant risk
is heightened, the steps we have
taken in the east ought not to be
revoked. This aggressive policy, of
course, slices our security in the
east. The Phillippines are still
highly vulnerable and the position
of Americans in China becomes
more perilous. Apart from these
conditions, however, no major risk
is involved."
More concerned is the Daily
Northwestern. "There can be no
doubt," declares this publication,
"that a situation is fast developing
in the east which could very pos­sibly
end in war with Japan. It
certainly means that we have
abandoned any pretense of neutral­ity
in the Sino-Japanese struggle.
It also means that we are per­haps
closer to war today than we
have been since 1918 "
Wisconsin's Daily Cardinal be-lieves
recent developments indicate
that "the seemingly inevitable con­flict
with Japan may be trans­formed
from a long, costly, pos­sibly
futile naval war into a mat­ter
of economic pressures skill­fully
applied. This country is now
in a position to determine the out-
(Continued on page 3)
November 29, 1940 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
Women's Athletic Association Will
Sponsor Gala Night Club in December
Myrna Loy Stars
In Comedy Coming
To Tiger Sunday
Melvyn Douglas Also
Featured in "Third
Finger, Left Hand"
Myrna Loy, teamed for the first
time with Melvyn Douglas, aban­dons
her role as the "perfect wife"
to keep the man who made Garbo
laugh in continuous hot water in
"Third Finger, Left Hand," hila­rious
story of a romantic mix-up,
which will be shown Sunday and
Monday at the Tiger Theatre.
Miss Loy plays a magazine edi­tor
who, because her boss' wife is
jealous, invents a mythical hus­band
whom she's supposed to be
trying to find to get a divorce. The
deception is perfect until Douglas,
who has learned about it and is in
love with her, blandly shows up
and assumes the role of the miss­ing
spouse. Her family likes him.
She doesn't—and proceeds to keep
him in all manner of trials and
tribulations. She scandalizes Ni-agra
Falls on their "honeymoon."
He invites another couple to join
them in a "double honeymoon."
Her attorney plans ways and
means of getting her a divorce so
that he can marry her himself.
" And all three start towards Reno
together. But after all the laugh-packed
troubles they go through,
Myrna and Melvyn find they've
really been in love with each other
all along.
The cast includes Lee Bowman,
latest discovery in leading men, as
the attorney. Raymond Walburn
is seen as Miss Loy's father. Don­ald
Meek, eccentric apiarist and
detective in the Nick Carter series,
plays an equally eccentric and
comical art dealer. Felix Bres-sart,
of "Ninotchka" and "Shop
Around the Corner" fame, adds
more laughs to the situations as
the art editor who helps Myrna in
her deceptions. Bonita Granville,
erstwhile child actress, plays her
first sub-deb role as Miss Loy's
very active younger sister. Ann
Morriss and other featured play­ers
unite to keep the comedy pot
boiling at full steam.
Helen Jordan to Act as
Mistress of Ceremonies
A gala affair will be staged in
Alumni Gymnasium on Saturday
night, December 14 with the in­itial
opening of the WAA Night
Club.
Mistress of Ceremonies will be
Helen Jordan, senior representa­tive
of WAA.
A floor show in the form of an
amateur contest will be the main
feature of the evening's program
and favors of hats, horns, and
balloons will be given to those at­tending
the first performance. A
roulette wheel and other prize
winning amusements are features
to be enjoyed.
Any group or individual who
desires to enter the amateur con­test
may sign up in the Intramural
Sports Office in the Alumni Gym.
A prize of $2.00 will be awarded
to the winner.
Refreshments may be obtained
at tables while double tag danc­ing
will be in order on the floor.
This is the first time this form of
dancing has been sponsored on the
API campus and it is expected to
be very popular. Both girls and
boys will be able to cut in.
The admission to the show will
be 25c for couples and 15c for
stags. Proceeds from this project
will go to Sphinx to aid in build­ing
the recreational cabin for
girls.
Other shows will be announced
whenever a time and building is
available.
Women Students Play Off Final
Round in Intramural Tenniquoits
FHA Makes Plans
For This Season
Sponsored Exhibit at
Ag Fair Last Wednesday
Under the leadership of Frances
Barnes, the FHA has successfully
launched a full program of activi­ties
for the first semester.
A central theme, "Outstanding
Women Who Have Directly and
Indirectly Influenced the Field of
Home Economics" has provided
material this semester for inter­esting
programs at regular meet­ings,
which are held on the first
and third Tuesday nights of each
month at Social Center.
Joint activities with the Collegi­ate
Chapter of the F.F.A. comprise
apother phase of the work being
carried out. The F.H.A. Club spon­sored
an exhibit at the Ag Fair
held Wednesday night.
Plans are now under way for
the annual joint F.F.A.-F.H.A.
banquet and dance to be held at
Graves Center on December 5.
Committees have already begun
work and outstanding progress is
reported from the chairmen of each
group. The committees at work and
chairmen of each are as follows:
Decorations, Miriam Earnest;
Tickets, Maxine Hill; Program,
Sue Freeman; Menu, Eleanor
Hightower.
Auburn Coed Confined
To College Infirmary
Rosa McCleod of Pineview, Ga.,
a student here at Auburn is now
confined to the College Infirmary
.on West Magnolia Street, follow­ing
critical injuries suffered in an
automobile accident on Homecom­ing,
week-end.
Miss MeCleod is in Room 14 at
the infirmary and will appreciate
Sorority Notebook
Delta Zeta
Beta Xi Chapter of Delta Zeta
held initiation services Tuesday
night, November 19 for Martha
Nell Vann from Abbeville, a senior
in secondary education; and Vir­ginia
Chase, senior in home eco­nomics
from St. Petersburg, Flor­ida.
The entire sorority was in
charge of the service which was
held in the sorority room.
Also on the Delta Zeta social
calendar last week was a "back­wards"
party which was sponsored
by the pledges of the sorority for
their active members and alumnae.
The party was held at the home of
Mrs. Leslie Wright.
Virginia Chase from St. Peters­burg,
Florida, and Sara Alice Fin-ley
from Haleyville were in charge
of this affair. The "backwards"
idea was carried throughout the
evening, the guests entering the
back door backwards and express­ing
their enjoyment of the evening
the visits of students between the
hours of 2 and 3 and 7 and 8
o'clock each day. She will not be
able to return to school for several
months.
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to the hostess upon arrival. A
spelling-bee was held where words
had to be spelled backwards. About
40 Delta Zeta members, pledges,
and alumnae were present.
Chi Omega
Pledges of the Alpha Beta Chap­ter
of Chi Omega Sorority are
eagerly making plans for the edi­tion
of a monthly paper. The work
will be very original and concern
the subjects the pledges are most
interested in. The material, how­ever,
will be confined largely to
the activities of the local chapter
and the pledges. Additional in­formation
concerning the alumnae
and the national fraternity, will
of course be published. Articles
condensed from the material pub­lished
by the national office of the
fraternity may be used.
Jean Goodin, a pledge from
Jackson, Tennessee, has been ap­pointed
editor.
Blind for the last ten years,
26-year-old Frances Biery recent­ly
gave an organ recital at the
University of Chicago.
Patronize Plainsman advertisers.
Dormitories One, Two and Three, and the
Town Girls Teams Are Leading Play-Offs
By MERLE WOODWARD
Women's Editor
Tenniquoits, the second team sport on the girls intra­mural
sports program is being played off now. The final
round shows that Dormitory 3 won in League A, Dormi­tory
1 led in League B, Town Girls are winners in League
C, and Dormitory 2 led in League L. One game of the
finals has already been played off between Dormitory 1
and Dormitory 3 in which Dormitory 1 emerged the win­ners
after a two game tie.
Thursday's schedule included
games between Dormitory 3 and
Town Girls; and Dormitory 1 ver­sus
Dormitory 2. Today's games
are being played between Dormi­tory
3 and Dormitory 2; and
Dormitory 4 versus Town Girl.
Winners and high scorers will be
announced next week.
Competition in shuffle board
singles have just been completed
with Dottie Norman, freshman
cheerleader, walking off with high
score. Annie Lou O'Grady cap­tured
second place and Luella
Haselton wound up in third.
The next team sport slated on
the program is team shuffleboard.
Ten pins and duck pins are the
next individual sports.
Also being worked off now is a
basket ball free throwing contest.
All girls entering this competition
should work this off as soon as
possible.
Leaders have been named for
each team participating in the
various tournaments and these
girls will serve throughout the
year and automatically become
members of WAA. They are as
follows: Luella Haselton from
Dormitory 1; Lillie Beulah What-ley;
Dormitory 2; Martha Gordy,
Dormitory 3; Jeanne Bussey,
Dormitory 4; Martha Vest, Phi
Omega Pi; Catherine Richmond,
Chi Omega; Martha Owen, Alpha
Gam; Mildred Brown Davis, The-ta
U; Jule Tisdale, Kappa Delta;
Valera Porter, Delta Zeta; Dot
Dance Club Making
Plans for Christmas
Dancing Festivities
The Dance Club composed of
girls interested in modern dancing
under the leadership of Mrs. Lou­ise
Kreher Forte is planning a
special Christmas program to be
given either December 11 or 12.
A notice will be issued later as to
which date is chosen.
The program will consist of pop­ular
numbers which have been used
in past years such as "Twelve Days
"of Christmas" and "Deck the Halls
With Boughs of Holly". There will
also be several modern numbers.
About 40 girls will take part in
the program which will be pre­sented
in Langdon Hall.
Mrs. Forte also announces that
the Social Dance Class held at Stu­dent
Center on each Tuesday night
between 7 and 8 o'clock will cul­minate
their instruction with a
formal dance to be held before the
Christmas holidays. Details will
follow at a later date.
Parade of Opinion
(Continued from page 2)
come of both wars by her applica­tion
of economic pressure in this
hemisphere and in the Orient."
Summing up and appealing for
more aid to China, the Daily Tex­an
points out that "the spirit of
China is undaunted. There is no
sign of weakening, no sign of sur­render.
The military might of
Japan is at a stalemate. On the
other hand, for the tens of millions
of the Chinese people who are di­rectly
involved in this invasion the
condition is tragic. Let us help our
own people and one another, but
let us not forget the plight of a
noble people whose wisdom and
learning were ancient and great
when the people of the western
lands were little short of savages."
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Sphinx; WSGA, and WAA to Construct
Recreation Center tor Women Students
Cabin to Be Located
Near Dormitories
Sphinx, senior honor organiza­tion
for women, with the invalu­able
aid of the WSGA and WAA
is taking as its main objective of
the year, the construction of a
cabin to be used as a recreation
center for women students. This
cabin will be located near the
dormitories and will be the center
for many recreational activities.
Plans for this cabin are being
drawn by a Sphinx member, Sara
Lee Banks, a fifth year student
in architecture from Birmingham.
It will provide facilities for cook­ing,
picknicking, indoor games,
and informal get-togethers of all
kinds and will be available for all
girls at all times.
Also being sponsored by Sphinx
is Oracles, only freshman honor
society for girls on the campus.
The purpose of Oracles is to en­courage
scholastic achievement,
and all members of the freshman
class who have an average of 85
or above at the end of the first
semester will be tapped by Sphinx.
Oracles is primarily a service
organization and during the year
members will assist Sphinx in
carrying out their,May Day pro­gram
and will further scholastic
and social activities among fresh­men
girls on the campus.
Members of Sphinx include
Frances Barnes, Dorothy Burke,
Freda Kyle, Elizabeth Wheeler,
Bobby Steele, Helen Jordan, Sue
Quattlebaum, and Bettie Belle
Brandt.
Cardinal Key Outlines Program for
Year; Reports on Completed Activities
Sponsor Owls, Tea
Room; Present Awards
Cardinal Key, national senior
honor society for women, has just
outlined their year's program and
has reported on activities already
completed.
Already this year girls have been
selected for Owls, an organization
sponsored by Cardinal Key for
sophomore girls who maintain an
average of 85 or above, their fresh­man
year and who showed out­standing
qualities of leadership,
personality, and service. Girls se­lected
were Henrietta Storey, Lau-
Floyd, Town Girls; Frances Pat­rick,
Smith Hall; Virginia Shoultz,
Susan Smith; Margaret Scar­borough,
FHA.; and Mae Patton,
Dana King Gatchell Club.
ra Wallace, Annice Watkins, Ani­ta
Albright, Clyde Dykes, Margar­et
Dykes, Mary Kathryn Kenna-mer,
Nellie Jim Jerkins, Martha
Gerhardt, Dot Floyd, Delphine
Thomas, and Reid Anderson.
Owls sponsored the first girl-break
dance of the year last Wed­nesday
night at Student Center.
This year Cardinal Key gave
two $100 awards to girls who met
the standard requirements. These
girls were Donnave Brennan, out­standing
senior in commercial art
from Phenix City; and Edith
Hunt, a freshman in home eco­nomics
from Ozark. These schol­arship
awards are to be given each
year in the future.
The Tea Room in Dormitory 1
is operated by Cardinal Key and
is open each week night from 8:30
until 10:00 and on Sunday night
from 6:00 until 8:00.
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Saturday
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Page Four T H E P L A I N S M AN November 29, 1940
Tigers Meet Improved Florida Team Tomorrow
BUD WENDLING
Bud played what sports writers
called the best game of any Tiger
back last Saturday against B. C.
He will start against Florida in
Columbus tomorrow.
CHESTER BULGER
Chet played for short periods
at tackle in the B. C. game last
week and after gaining strength
following his recent illness should
see even more service against the
'Gators tomorrow afternoon at the
Memorial Stadium in Columbus,
Georgia.
Smith Walked and Walked - Stepping
Off Penalties Against Those Tigers
Game Will Be Played
In Columbus Stadium
Alligators Rule Favorites for Memorial
Stadium Clash; Injured Plainsmen Ready
By JOHN PIERCE, Sports Editor
With the old injury jinx still their most faithful follower,
the Auburn Tigers tomorrow afternoon return to the South­land,
taking the field at Columbus' Memorial Stadium
against the up and coming Florida Gators in the grudge
battle that annually closes out Southeastern Conference play
for both teams.
A sudden upswing that has seen the Floridians snap
back from early season lambastings to take four of their
last five games will send them
The Origin of Auburn's
Penalties is Related
By JOHN PIERCE, Sports Editor
There has been a lot of talk
running around as to just where
and when Auburn first started
this business of combining an
eleven game football schedule
with a cross country excursion. I
will go briefly into the matter,
but errors in fact must not be at­tributed
to me. They all came
from a friend who claims to be
in the know about the whole
thing.
If anyone tries to pull this stuff
about Auburn first playing foot­ball
in 1892 don't believe them.
The Tigers first played .at the
sport in the preceding year, 1891,
but have not been recorded in the
school annals for the obvious rea­sons
to be disclosed here.
The Plainsmen of that year
started out the season in fairly
sensible fashion, playing a game
in Montgomery one day and one
in Columbus the next. These short
trips naturally became boring af­ter
about the first five encounfr
ers, so the only thing left as a
medium was a few longer jaunts.
First of these jaunts took the
boys to New York, and the new
settings so appealed to them that
a trek into Ohio was planned
forthwith. This trip was even bet­ter,
and the Plainsmen headed for
Iowa. So it went—Iowa, New
Mexico, Florida, Texas, Maine,
and California, playing two or
three games a week. By this time
the travel zeal was a burning
passion. The team played in Cali­fornia
and took a boat for China.
It was last seen two years later
playing somewhere in Australia,
but there all records vanish. And
that seems to be the whole story.
One more thing that is a ques­tion
of foremost interest to Au-burnites.
This business of the of-
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ficials — Where was Auburn as­sessed
its first penalty? Interest
in this matter is %nly natural,
what with the Tigers averaging
400 yards per game by penalties.
Well, it was back in the early part
of the century, my friend tells
me. A referee, whom we will sail
Smith for reasons still vital in
these parts, watched an Auburn
back heave a 75 yard pass and
called the play back. Hlegal use
of the hands he said. Fifteen
yards. Another play came up and
another penalty went down. And
Smith began to take a fancy to
this penalty business.
To skip the details, Smith walk­ed
all over the field that day. His
performance was so effortless, so
graceful, and so entirely indica­tive
of the true blue referee that
the Boy Scouts ran out after the
game and cornered him, then pin­ned
a Merit Badge on him for hav­ing
completed his fourteen mile
hike. Smith accepted modestly and
walked out the main gate onto
highway 60. He was seen months
later walking through Butte, Mon­tana
with a ball under his arm,
counting off yards. Here Smith
disappears from all trace. It is be­lieved
that he was later found and
returned to the U.S. If you see
a guy walking along the highway
painting a yellow line, chances are
it will be Smith.
Manuel Gonda, freshman engi­neering
student at University of
Texas from Asuncion, Paraguay,
must translate his texts as he stud­ies
them.
"Parnassus," magazine of the
College Art Association of Ameri­ca,
is now being published at the
University of Iowa.
University of Minnesota recently
dedicated a new museum of nat­ural
history.
into the game as even choices to
knock over a Plainsman eleven
plagued since late in October with
casualties to key positions. While
Auburn last week was undergoing
its most severe beating in years
the Gators were winning their
third straight, whipping Georgia
Tech by the identical score of the
Auburn-Tech game, 116-7.
Coach Tom Lieb stepped into the
shoes of last year's Gator mentor,
Josh Cody, early in the season with
little prospect of building a grid­iron
power out of a squad hindered
for the past few years by dissen­sion
caused by clubhouse lawyers.
The citrus prodigies, however, af­ter
absorbing two pretty thorough
beatings early in the season have
snapped back to knock off Georgia,
Georgia Tech, Maryland, and Mi­ami,
as well as throw the biggest
scare of the season into Tennes­see's
Vols before losing, 0-14. The
game, in fact, was so close that
the Vols dropped any idea of fu­ture
grid engagements with them
like a hot potato. Writers now
make no bones of electing Florida
the surprise team of the confer­ence.
There are four or five main
reasons why the Gators are going.
Probably reason number one is
Capt. Mush Batista, left guard and
bulwark of a line that stands high
in the South for its defensive soli­dity
against running attacks. Mush
was the ringleader of the mob .who
last year came north and messed
up Auburn's stadium dedication
ceremonies with a 7-7 tie with the
Tigers and so far there haven't
been any indications that Mush is
asleep this year. Also to be remem­bered
from 1939 are backs Tommy
Harrison, Pat Reen, and Charlie
Tate, who ran all over Auburn
Stadium last year and haven't
slowed down since. Ask any of the
teams they've played. Another
member of the all around backfield
is soph Fondren Mitchell, primarily
noted for uncanny pass snatching.
And ah yes!—Here is another
end. Auburn has seen Goldman and
Elrod and Golomb and Goss and
Ison and Skipworth and Blalock
and Goodreault, but the flankers
still keep coming. This time it's
Forrest Furgerson, one of Dixie's
top defensive ends and now battling
in the front lines for posts on the
'all' selections which are at pres­ent
running wild.
Throw this crew into the Florida
lineup alongside such notables as
linemen Kenetsky, Lane, and Rob­inson,
and it's not hard to see why
so many are picking the Gators to
annex their third conference win:
The Plainsmen have forgotten
last Saturday's nightmare and
their workouts have been spirited
despite the necessity of shifting
players to plug up gaps here and
there. In the event that Ty Irby,
sophomore fullback, has not suffi­ciently
come around from his L.S.
U. knee injury there may be a
backfield shift that will see Lloyd
Cheatham playing fullback while
Buddy McMahan moves into the
regular signal calling position, with
Dick McGowen and Bud Wendling
staying at their regular halfback
posts. This combination was test­ed
fairly successfully against Bos­ton
and has been a feature of the
week's practices. If such a lineup
does start Jim Reynolds will be the
Texas Aggies and Minnesota Ranked
First by Williamson and AP Raters
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A s y '. N ' \ > S
HENRY MONSEES, Savannah,
Ga.; sophomore, end; weight, 190;
height, 5' 11". Very promising.
•
Ty did not play last Saturday
because of an injured knee, but
he should be ready for service
again this Saturday at the full­back
post, alternating with Jim
Reynolds.
fullback to share duty with Cheat­ham.
Carl Happer and Bill Year-out,
halfbacks-, remain on the
doubtful list with knee and ankle
injuries. Harkins has moved into
the left halfback slot vacated by
Yearout and doubtless Clarence
will break into play frequently as
Dick McGowen's understudy.
Aside from the absence of Jim
LeNoir, definitely out, the same line
that started last week is on tap
for Florida. It will consist of
Samford and Faulk, or Cremer,
ends; McClurkin and Bulger, tack­les;
Mills and Ardillo, or Morris,
guards; and All-SEC sophomore
Tex Williams alternating at center
with Ab Chrietzberg.
Auburn Named No. 32
By Williamson System
Minnesota, the team that earlier
was given little chance of copping
top honors in the Big Ten, has
finished its season with a string
of eight victories and the western
crown. The Golden Gophers con­cluded
their 1940 activities on the
gridiron with a 22-13 win over
Wisconsin and appeared almost
certain to hold first place in the
final Associated Press rating.
It's not difficult to see why the
writers adjudged the Minnesotans
highly, what with victories over
Washington, Nebraska, Ohio State,
Iowa, Northwestern, Michigan,
Purdue, and Wisconsin.
Texas A. & M. stayed with the
top teams, even though they were
idle Saturday, holding first place
in the Williamson rating and sec­ond
with Associated Press.
Boston College's Eagles, who
last week walloped Auburn, 33-7,
were selected as the nation's
fourth team in both systems.
Associated Press
1. Minnesota
2. Texas A. & M.
3. Stanford
4. Boston College
5. Michigan
6. Tennessee
7. Northwestern
8. Nebraska
.9. Georgetown
10. Pennsylvania
Williamson
1. Texas A. & M.
2. Stanford
3. Tennessee
4. Boston College
5. Minnesota .
6. Michigan
7. Mississippi State
8. Nebraska
9. SMU
10. Pennsylvania
/tt/8 V/ZAS
Buddy tossed his second touch­down
pass last week against B. C.
to Babe McGehee. He has pre­viously
pitched one to McGowen _T-for
a tally against LSU.
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November 29, 1940 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Five
Famous Colored
Girl Singer to
Appear at Martin
Midge Williams Sings
With Louie A r m s t r o n g 's
O r c h e s t r a on Sunday
Midge Williams, the sensational
singing star with the Louis Arm­strong
orchestra, was born May 27,
1918, in Alameda, California . . .
Educated in California . . . Toured
China and Japan in 1933 and 1934
. . . Canidrome Ballroom in Shang-hai,
»China . . . Imperial Hotel in
Tokio, Japan . . . New Grand Ho­tel,
Yokohama, Japan . . . Con­certs
in Japan.
She is probably the only colored
girl in America who sings in Jap­anese
-and Chinese . . . returned to
San Francisco the latter part of
1934 and began a career on the
Columbia network . . . KFRC in
San Francisco . . . KHJ in Los
Angeles . . . became a radio name
in California and all over the West
Coast . . . played theati'es, too,
and was a terrific success . . .
Warfield Theatre in San Francisco
. . . Edgewater Beach Club, San
Francisco . . . Mark Hopkins Hotel,
San Francisco . . . Paramount
Theatre, Los Angeles . . . Troca-dero
Club, Hollywood.
Sang for NBC
In 1936 Midge Williams came to
New York to win new laurels in
the field of radio. She was signed
to a contract by the National
Broadcasting Company . . . a sus-
| taining studio program for one
year . . . Then numerous guest
leading names in radio . . . certain
appearances with some of the
leading names in radio . . . 2
with Rudy Vallee . . . 1 with the
Magic Key Program . . . 1 with
Ben Bernie . . . 2 with Walter
O'Keefe . . . 12 weeks with Rich­ard
Himber . . . 1 with Al Jolson
(Shell Chateau Program).
She has also made records for
Variety and is a recording star in
her own right, as Midge Williams
and her Jazz Jesters . . . Among
her best recordings are: "I Was
Born To Swing" . . . "I'm Getting
Sentimental Over You" . . . "I
Know Now" . . . "Fortune Telling
Man" . . . "Good Night Angel"
. . . and "One Rose". Midge Wil­liams
joined the Louis Armstrong
band March 11th, 1938 . . . She's
among the outstanding singers on
the American stage.
"J oe" College Dials
November 29-December 4
8:30
10:15
12:15
6:00
8:00
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p.m.—
p.m.—
p.m.—
p.m.—
p.m.—
Cavaliers Will Hold
Dance in Montgom'y
Friday, December 6
The Cavalier Club of Sidney
Lanier High School in Montgomery
will present a dance on Friday
night, December 6, at the Clover-dale
Auditorium in the capitol city.
Playing for this dance will be
the Auburn Knights Orchestra un­der
the direction of Bobby Adair.
The dance will last from 9 until
1 o'clock and admission will be
one dollar per couple.
Times Listed Are Central Standard—
Friday, November 29
-Campbell Playhouse—Miriam Hopkins and
Humphrey Bogart in "Air Mail to Red Rid­ing
Hood," by Vina Delmar—CBS.
-Everett Hoagland—CBS.
Saturday, November 30
-Army-Navy Football Game—With Ted Hus-ing—
CBS.
-People's Platform — Lyman Bryson and
guests in discussion—CBS.
-Your Hit Parade—With Barry Wood, Bea
Wain, Mark Warnow's Orchestra, Hit Pa-raders
Chorus—CBS.
Sunday, December 1
2:00 p.m.—New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orches­tra—
John Barbirolli, conductor; Deems Tay­lor,
commentator—CBS.
3:30 p.m.—Andre Kostelanetz and Albert Spalding in
"Music That Refreshes"—CBS.
7:00 p.m.—Helen Hayes Theatre — Starring Helen
Hayes with guests—CBS.
12:00 a.m.—Richard Himber—MBS.
Monday, December 2
8:00 p.m.—Lux Radio Theatre—Dramas starring Holly­wood
stars—CBS.
11:30 p.m.—Tommy Dorsey—NBC Red.
Tuesday, December 3
8:00 p.m.—We, The People—With Gabriel Heatter —
CBS.
8:30 p.m.—Professor Quiz—With Bob Trout—CBS.
9:00 p.m.—Glenn Miller—CBS.
Wednesday, December 4
8:00 p.m.—Fred Allen Program — With Kenny Baker
Portland Hoffa—CBS.
11:05 p.m.—Artie Shaw—NBC Red.
MITEC Engineering Society Will Hold
Dance at Graves Hall Friday Night
"The Ox-Bow Incident," a west­ern
novel by Walter Van Tilburg
Clark, former instructor in Eng­lish
at the University of Vermont,
has just been published by Ran­dom
House.
The late Don L. Love, former
mayor of Lincoln, Neb., bequeath­ed
$25,000 each to the Universi­ties
of Nebraska and Iowa for stu­dent
loan funds.
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Annual Affair Will
Begin at 9 O'Clock
The Mitec Engineers, co-opera­tive
engineering organization, will
entertain with its Annual Ball Fri-da
night at 9 p.m. at Graves Cen­ter.
Miss Jane Green, Alabama
College, Montevallo, has been chos­en
to lead the grand march with
A. Fred Henning, president of the
organization.
Dr. L. N. Duncan, president of
A.P.I., Dean John J. Wilmore and
Assistant Dean J. E. Hannum, of
the Engineering School, Colonel
John J. Waterman, Professor of
Military Science and Tactics, and
other college officials are to be
honor guests, along with the pres­idents
of the fifteen engineering
organizations on the campus and
the members of the Auburn Stu­dent
Engineers Council.
The members of the Mitec En­gineers
taking part in the affair
are:
Salter, H. T.; Morris, Frank;
van Aller, H.; Thomas, K.; Riddle,
K.; Dennison, P.; Fenn, Wm.;
Weaver, H.; Smith, J. H.; Don­ovan,
H.; Henning, F.; Sims, M.;
Bridges, J.; Weems, J. A.; Du-mont,
Eric; Brush, Jack; Suttle,
Frank; Willard, George; Mc-
Knight, D. J.; McClanahan, H. C ;
Jones, Jim; Eiland, F.
Bishop, Billy; Ewald, Ray; Jen­nings,
D. C ; Kennon, P. F.; Allen,
J. W.; Campbell, W. N.; Almon,
Sam; Ussery, J. H.; Bledsoe, W.
C; Zeiger, H. E.; Lineberry,
James; McClanahan, J. H.; Pitt-man,
Bill; Sherling, Bill; Hoover,
Milton; Blackwell, Guy; Nelson,
Frank; Wright, C. G.; Frazier, C;
Ingram, L. R.; Vandegrift, Ers-kine;
Urquhart, Homer.
Seale, Billy; Housel, Ralph;
Wood, Clyde; White, M. W.; Dou­glass,
Stuart; Wojohn, Fred; Wo-john,
Albert; Mitchell, * Robert;
Withers, Howard; Pomeroy, Rob­ert;
Flemming, Jack; Martin,
Ross; Blake, John; Gregory, W.;
Andrews, L. H.; Wood, Ray; Rol­lins,
John; McAuliffe, Ernest.
Thigpen, B. F.; Mosley, S. A.;
Thigpen, H. S.; Kitchens, B.;
Moody, M.; Holt, Joe; Christopher,
Joe; Wallace, R. E.; Smith, Perry;
Pearce, H.; DeWitt, H.; Ledyard,
R. E.; Baxter, O. W.; Winnette,
C. R.; Brooks, J. P.; Wells, Al­bert;
Pritchard, E. C ; Seelbinder,
Van; Maxwell, J. P.; White, J. H.;
Clinton, W. R.; Hollingsworth, A.
G.; Sawyer, Bob; Griswold, J. L.;
Hurston, R. L.; Gentle, E. Cuth-bert.
Young Attending
National Meeting
Of Fraternities
W e n d e l l Willkie Will
Deliver Address at
Principal Banquet
R. T. Young, of Fairfield, will
represent Auburn at the National
interfraternity conference which
begins today in New York City.
Young is president of Auburn's In­terfraternity
Council.
Undergraduate members of six­ty
national college fraternities
from many campuses throughout
the United States will be included
among the more than 3,500 fra­ternity
men who will attend the
dinner of the Conference at the
Hotel Commodore, New York City,
tonight, at which Wendell L. Will­kie,
a member of Beta Theta Pi,
will be the guest speaker. This
dinner will be the highlight of the
32nd annual two-day session of the
conference and will be the largest
get-together of college Greeks in
history.
Lowell Thomas Toastmaster
Lowell Thomas, news commen­tator
and a member of Kappa Sig­ma,
will be the toastmaster, and
the combined orchestras and glee
clubs of Cornell University and
Dartmouth College, numbering 150
men, will furnish music and enter­tainment
of the collegiate type.
The dinner program will be opened
by the singing of "The Star Span­gled
Banner" by Reinald Werren-rath,
Metropolitan opera star.
A handsome four-foot high
bronze statue, the work of a noted
European sculptor and the gift of
an unnamed friend of fraternities,
will be presented by the president
of Union College, Dr. Dixon Ryan
Fox, Alpha Chi Rho. It is to be
awarded annually for temporary
possession to the undergraduate
interfraternity council at any edu­cational
institution in the country
which, in the judgment of the Edu­cational
Advisory Committee of
the conference, has made the most
constructive contribution to the ed­ucational
and social program of
its institution that year. The sta­tue
is to be displayed in some suit­able
building on the campus of the
council to which it has been award­ed,
and a plaque will be given to
the institution recording the fact
of the award after the statue is
re-assigned.
Medal to Be Awarded
Dr. Henry Merritt Wriston,.
Delta Tau Delta, president of
Brown University, will present a
solid gold medallion, which is to
be awarded annually, but for per­manent
possession, to the individ­ual
who has done the most to fur­ther
fraternity causes that parti­cular
year.
Arrangements for the dinner are
in charge of L. G. Balfour, past
president of Sigma Chi and pres­ent
chairman of the Conference.
1940 North Carolina Master Award
For Teaching Made to Auburn Grad
Oliver Manning Named
From 3 6 0 Teachers
Oliver O. Manning, former Au­burn
student, and graduate of
Agricultural Education in 1934 has
just been declared "Master Teach­er"
of Agriculture of North Caro­lina
from 360 teachers of agricul­ture
in that State, by Roy H.
.Thomas, State Supervisor of Ag­ricultural
Education.
According to Dr. Clarence Poe,
editor of the Progressive farmer,
Manning should also qualify for
"Master Teacher of the South"
for the very extensive agricultural
program that he has promoted in
North Carolina and in the South.
For his accomplishments, Man­ning
was given a free trip with
all expenses paid to the National
FFA Convention and the American
Royal Livestock Show in Kansas
City that has recently been held.
• Among the outstanding accom­plishments
may be listed that Man­ning
had one of the outstanding
community programs of work of
the state. He conducted two even-'
ing classes for adult farmers in
the Dunn community where he is
teaching, established a refrigera­tion
food locker plant for fresh
meats, placed approximately 50
head of beef cattle in the commu­nity,
encouraged better pastures,
the increase of from four to 150
head of purebred hogs, and a prop­er
balance between livestock and
crop enterprises on the farm.
The Dunn chapter of FFA of
which Manning is adviser won the
district chapter contest. Some of
the activities were the landscaping
of the Dunn Postoffice, and the
Dunn High School, planted 18
home nurseries, has established a
complete FFA library. The group
took a 2,200 mile tour to the New
York World's Fair and the World's
Poultry Congress in Cleveland,
Ohio, and this summer took a 3,000
mile tour to Miami, Fla., and other
southern states, won first place in
Harnett County Fair exhibits, con­structed
much equipment for the
new $7,000 agricultural building.
Manning has one of the out­standing
shop programs in the
state, having developed a complete­ly
modern electrical shop and his
boys build over $1,000 worth of
farm furniture and equipment an­nually.
While in Auburn, Manning won
the Danforth Fellowship in 1933
given to an outstanding student in
agriculture, which gave him a free
five weeks tour over the central
states, to St. Louis, Chicago, and
Camp Minawanca, Michigan. Man­ning
was also awarded the Amer­ican
Farmer degree while in Au­burn
and had previously served as
state secretary of the Future
Farmers of Alabama.
Manning gives much credit to
the fine faculty of API including
Mr. S. L. Chestnutt, teacher train­er,
Mrs. Emma Cary, wife of the
late Dr. Cary, dean of veterinary
medicine, with whom Manning
worked to earn his way through
Auburn, and to Dr. Duncan, who
inspired him with encouraging
words.
Manning's home is at Maples-ville,
Alabama, but has been in
North Carolina since his gradua­tion
from Auburn in 1934.
Mark A. Smith
Smith is president of Kiwanis
International. He visited and ad­dressed
the Auburn Kiwanis Club
last Monday.
Kiwanis International
Prexy Visits Auburn
Auburn's Kiwanis Club was hon­ored
last Monday by the visit of
Mark A. Smith of Thomaston, Ga.,
who was recently elected president
of Kiwanis International at the
annual convention in Minneapolis.
Mr. Smith addressed the organi­zation
following the regular month­ly
meeting and dinner.
Superintendent of the Thomaston
Public Schools and the Upson
County Schools, Mr. Smith has
long been one of the most active
members of Kiwanis. He is one of
few Southern members of this or­ganization
ever to be president.
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Campus Events
December 2-8
Tuesday, Dec. 3
7:00 p.m.—Current Events. Dr. Petrie. Broun Hall.
8:15 p.m.—Concert—Kryl Symphony Orchestra. Alum­ni
Gymnasium.
Wednesday, Dec. 4
7:00 p.m.—Faculty Recreation. Alumni Gymnasium.
Thursday, Dec. 5
11:00 a.m.—Women's Convocation. Dean Sarah Bland-ing,
University of Kentucky, speaker. Meth­odist
Church.
7:00 p.m.—Current Events. Dr. Petrie. Broun Hall.
Saturday, Dec. 7
2:00 p.m:—Football—Auburn vs. Villanova. Montgom­ery.
Coining Events
Monday, Dec. 9—Faculty Forum Dinner. John Temple
Graves, II, speaker, Women's Dining Hall.
Dec. 19 through Jan. 1—Christmas Holidays.
NOTE TO FACULTY:—Instead of being mimeographed and dis­tributed
through campus mail, Campus Events is now being published
each week in the Friday issue of the Plainsman. Members of the
faculty and students who wish to have an event listed in Campus
Events are asked to notify the News Bureau in Samford Hall (Phone
122) not later than Thursday noon of each week.
Dick McGowen Named
On All-Southeastern
Rufus Deal Wins
Second Team Place
Auburn's C a p t a i n Dynamite
Dick McGowen was named to the
backfield of the annual Associat­ed
Press All-Southeastern team
for 1940, it was learned here this
morning.
Other backfield stars included
in the first team selection includ­ed
Jimmy Nelson of Alabama, Bob
Foxx of Tennessee, and John Ho-vius
of Mississippi.
Said the Associated Press in
selecting McGowen: "McGowen,
whose standout play made him the
most valuable player in Auburn's
star-studded backfield, was an
easy winner of the fourth back-field
spot on the all-conference
team. A punter, passer and place-kicker,
as well as a runner, he
was described by many coaches as
"a great all-purpose back."
McGowen was one of the re­peaters
from the 1939 all-confer­ence
eleven.
Rufus Deal, Auburn's pile-driv­ing
fullback, who has been out of
action most of the season with a
broken arm, was selected as num­ber
three back on the third team.
It was stated that Deal would
have probably made the first team
had he not been injured early in
the season.
Several Tigers made honorable
mention, in fact Auburn placed
as many or more men on honor­able
mention than any other con­ference
eleven. Plainsmen ends
Jim Lenoir and Jim Samford were
recorded this rating. At tackles,
the Tigers placed five men, Chet
Bulger, Gordon McEachern, John
Chalkley, Jim McClurkin, and Joe
Eddins.
Ernie Mills, alternate-captain,
was the only Tiger to receive hon­orable
mention for the guard posi­tion.
Tex Williams, sophomore
center was accorded honorable
mention for that position.
In the backfield these Auburn
players were included for the hon­orable
mention roster: L l o yd
Cheatham, Bill Yearout, and Ty
Irby.
Tennessee and Alabama each
placed three men on the first
team, Mississippi State placed two,
and Vanderbilt, Mississippi and
Auburn each placed one on the
mythical squad.
Glee Club
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Alabama and Florida have been
made. It is expected that the club
will include Mobile, Tallahassee,
Fla., and perhaps Miami will be
included in the tour.
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JIM REYNOLDS, LaGrange, Ga.; THE SHQP 0F ORIGINAL
sophomore; weight, 180; height, STYLES
6 ft. Regular fullback. U09 BROADWAY
Four Tigers Named on Soph Ail-Star Team
Williams and Ardillo
Named on First Team
Nick has stamped himself as one of the outstanding guards in
the South. Although he is only a sophomore, he has gained wide recog­nition.
He was named on the AP All-Star Soph team for the South­eastern
Conference this week.
McGowen Leading
Auburn Scoring
Fourteen Men on Team
Have Tallied Points
Though suffering their worst de­feat
in a decade at the hands of
Boston College last Saturday, the
Tigers scored in the last five sec­onds
of play to continue their
record of scoring in every game
this year, nine games thus far.
However, it was the second game
this season in which the Plainsmen
scored only one touchdown.
Captain Dick McGowen continu­ed
to lead the Tigers in scoring,
although adding only one point to
his last week total. Dick now has
scored 39 points and remains one
of the leading scorers in the South­eastern
Conference.
Bill Yearout, although not scor­ing
in the past few games still
holds second place with 18 points,
garnered from three touchdowns.
Babe McGehee made the largest
gain of the week, by scoring the
Tiger's lone touchdown against
B. C. McGehee's total for the year
is now 12 points, as is Rufus Deal's
total, but Rufe is out for the sea­son.
Other Tiger scorers who have
scored one touchdown include Clar­ence
Harkins, Lloyd Cheatham,
Teedie Faulk, Jim Samford, John
Chalkley, Tex Williams, Jim Rey­nolds,
Bud Wendling, Theo Cremer,
and also Buddy McMahan who has
kicked one extra point after touch
down.
In nine games this season the
Plainsmen have won four, lost four
and tied one, scoring 137 points
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Lloyd Cheatham Is
Named as South's
Greatest Blocker
Lloyd Cheatham, first string Au­burn
quarterback, has been award­ed
the Interference Trophy of the
Southeastern Conference, for 1940.
The trophy is presented annual­ly
to the Southeastern Conference
played who best exemplifies block­ing
and team play.
Cheatham has been selected by
the United Press for the position
of Quarterback on the All-South­eastern
second-string eleven. He
was awarded honorable mention in
the Associated Press All-South­eastern
selections.
The Interference Trophy winner
selection is made by balloting
among the coaches and athletic di­rectors
of the conference.
The award is made by Dr. Wil­liam
P. Jacobs, president of Pres­byterian
College. The trophy will
be formally presented to Cheatham
in Clinton, South Carolina, at a
banquet on December 10, when
awards will also be made to win­ners
of similar honors.
Second to Cheatham was Ike
Peel, of Tennessee. Others receiv­ing
votes were: Battista, Florida;
Hazel, Mississippi; Suffridge, Ten­nessee;
Bennett, Mississippi; Hick-erson,
Alabama; Nowell, Georgia;
Jones, Kentucky; Foxx, Tennessee;
Jenkins, Vanderbilt; Rast, Alaba­ma;
Goree, LSU; Elrod, Mississ­ippi
State; Deshane, Alabama.
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Eddins, Yearout Make Second Team; API
Places More on First Two Teams in SEC
By JOHN PIERCE, Sports Editor
Two Auburn gridders have been named on the Asso­ciated
Press 1940 All-Southeastern Conference Sophomore
team.
The two are center Tex Williams and guard Nick Ar­dillo,
both of whom have played as regulars since the
early part of the football season. Williams is fast develop­ing
into one of the conference's ace pivot men, while Ar­dillo
already is seriously being considered as a future
candidate for other All-Confer­ence
selections.
Bill was selected as the number
three back on the second team of
the Associated Press AH - Star
Southeastern Sophomore t e am
this week.
Bill Yearout flash first year
halfback and second ranking
scorer in the Tiger camp was
placed on the second all star team
along with Joe Eddins, 198-pound
tackle who leaped into prominence
when he was called to fill the gap
left by Chet Bulger during his
sickness.
Henry monsees, end, and backs
Clarence Harkins, Ty Irby, and
Monk Gafford all received honor­able
mention.
First Team
E—All Hurst, Tennessee
T—Clark Wood, Kentucky
G—Floyd Konetsky, Florida
C—Tex Williams, Auburn
G—Ardillo, Auburn
T—Len Simonetti, Tennessee
E—George Poschner, Georgia
B—Frank Sinkwich, Georgia
B—Jack Jenkins, Vanderbilt
B—Bill Nowling, Tennessee
B—Dave Brown, Alabama
Second Team
E—William Hornick, Tulane
T—Jack Barrett, Louisiana
G—George Hecht, Alabama
C—Dan Wood, Mississippi
G—Len Stern, Tulane
T—Joe Eddins, Auburn
E—Harry Richter, Vanderbilt
B—Lamar Davis, Georgia
B—Charles DeShane, Alabama
B—Bill Yearout, Auburn
B—James Ely, Tulane
JOE EDDINS
Joe's consistent tackle play
throughout the year won him a
berth on the second team of the
AP Sophomore All-Stars for this
year.
Ag Fair
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9 until 12 following the program,
in Graves Center Hall. The dance
was featured by a thirty-minute-broadcast
over Station WJHO at
10 o'clock.
The program of the Fair, the
exhibits, and the dance were all
held in the auditorium at Graves
Center. A carnival, sponsored by
Alpha Zeta honor society, was
held in front of the auditorium.
Senior manager of the Fair was
Marlin Camp from Vinemont.
Junior manager was Jack Snow,
from Jasper.
Feminine enrollment in the Uni­versity
of Vermont engineering
college is three, tripling that of
last year.
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