1940-11-15 The Plainsman

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The Best Tiger
VOL. LXIV z-i
*"A UBURN—the friendliest college in the United States"
ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, AUBURN, ALABAMA, NOVEMBER 15, 1940 No. 20
Architects to Gather
Here for Convention
Twenty-Fourth National Scarab Conclave
Will Be Here Beginning on Sunday
The twenty-fourth national convention of Scarab, na­tional
professional architectural fraternity, will begin here
on Sunday and continue through Tuesday, according to
an announcement last night by Charles Kelley of API,
director of activities.
This is the first time that the national convention has
ever been held in the South. National President R. Van
Buren Livingston of Los Angeles, and National Treasurer
Vamer T. Smith of the
faculty
Faculty Members
Attend College
Meet in Chicago
Represent Auburn at
Fifty-Fourth Conclave
Of Land-Grant Colleges
Nine Auburn men and women
have been in Chicago this week
attending the Fifty-fourth Annual
Convention of the Association of
Land-Grant Colleges and Univer­sities.
The group, headed by President
L. N. Duncan, has attended general
and special sessions dealing with
many problems concerning land-grant
colleges, experiment stations,
and extension services.
At the final Wednesday morning
session they heard an address by
Secretary of Agriculture Claude
R. Wickard. In addition they
heard an address, "Toward Inter-
American Cooperation", by Charles
A. Thomson, chief, Division of Cul­tural
Relations, U. S. Department
of State. Chester C. Davis, Com­missioner
of Agriculture in the
National Defense Advisory Council
spoke on "Education in the De­fense
Program."
Faculty Members
' Attending the sessions from Au-
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at the University of Kansas will
be*among the notables attending
the three-day conclave. O t h er
architects will study antebellum
homes in that city. Following this
tour the group will attend the ves­per
services at Tuskegee Institute,
which will be followed by a buf­fet
supper and smoker at the resi­dence
of Prof. Sidney Little.
Students Leaving for LSU Game
'Miss Auburn' Candidates Named
an-for
the
Business Sessions
Monday and Tuesday will be
occupied by general business meet­ing
and a dinner will be held Mon­day
night at the Women's Social
Center. Prof. Marion Dean Ross
of Tulane will address the group
at this affair. Tuesday night the
farewell banquet will be held at
the Pitts Hotel, with Earl Gaug-her,
regional director of the FHA
from Washington D. C, as the
principal speaker. Prof. Little will
act as toastmaster for the occa­sion.
$50 Prize for Sketch
During the convention a prize
of $50 will be awarded to the per­son
submitting the best sketch in
the Scarab Sketch Competition. A
set of entries for each school with
a Scarab chapter are already here
and have been judged. The
sketches will be on exhibition on
Monday night.
President of the Auburn Chap­ter
of Scarab, who are serving as
hosts for the three-day conven­tion,
is A. R. Smith.
8 Coeds Nominated;
Election Scheduled
For Next Wednesday
Eight Auburn coeds have
nounced their candidacy
position of Miss Auburn.
Students will go to the polls
Wednesday to vote on their choice
for this honor. Balloting will take
place between 8 and 5 at the main
gate.
According to Glomerata Editor
"Trigger" McGehee, and Business
Manager Kirk Newell, who are in
charge of the election, the ballots
will be counted by the elections
committee.
Candidates Named
The girls whose candidacy has
been announced were nominated in^
dependency or by the sororities
of the campus. They are:
Christine Blackburn, an Alpha
Gamma Delta from Auburn, has
recently been selected as one of
the eight beauties who will appear
The election of "Miss Au­burn"
by the student body next
Wednesday will not be conduct­ed
under the supervision of the
Executive Cabinet, as the Cabi­net
will not vote on the new
by-law governing elections un­til
their regular meeting Thurs­day
night. However, the Elec­tions
Committee, headed by
Tom Roby will count the bal­lots
in the election. Results will
not be announced until Fri­day's
issue of the Plainsman.
in the 1940-41 Glomerata.
Dorothy Dickinson, an indepen­dent
candidate from Adamsville,
registered in Home Economics.
Elaine Freeman, another local
student and Glomerata beauty, an
independent candidate.
Martha Gerhardt, another Glom­erata
beauty, who is a Chi Omega
pledge from Mobile.
Frances Hamilton, junior in
Home Ec from Springville, recent­ly
elected Harvest Queen.
Adelaide Lindell, of Mobile, who
is an independent candidate.
Margaret McCain, sophomore in
Commercial Art from Montgomery,
who is one of the girl cheerleaders.
Mattybelle Tabor, Phi Omega Pi
president from Owens Cross Roads,
registered in Home Economics.
Results Friday
Results of the election will not
be announced until Friday's issue
of the Plainsman, at which time a
picture of "Miss Auburn" will ap­pear
in the paper.
"Miss Auburn's" picture will ap­pear
in the 1941 Glomerata. If
the coed elected has already been
selected as one of the eight mem­bers
of the beauty section, an al­ternate
member selected at the re­cent
ODK-Glomerata Ball will take
the position vacated by the girl
named "Miss Auburn".
Owls to Present
Girl-Break Dance
Wednesday Night
Owls, honorary society for soph­omore
women who are outstanding
in activities and scholastic aver­ages,
are sponsoring the first girl-break
dance of the year. The
dance will be held in Student Cen­ter
on Wednesday evening, No­vember
20 .
Dr. Rosa Lee Walston, dean of
women, has decreed that 12:30 per­missions
will be granted, as the
following day is Thanksgiving.
So the coeds will at last have a
chance to repay the boys.
The boys may go to the dance
with or without their dates. Tickets
are being sold by the twelve mem­bers
of Owls at the price of 50
cents.
Sheean Addresses Large Crowd
At Gym on European Situation
Writer Appears on
Concert Program
Vincent Sheean, author of
"Personal History" and "Not
Peace But a Sword," addressed a
large crowd of students and
faculty members and townspeople
at the Alumni Gymnasium last
night as the fourth attraction of
t h e 1940-41 Auburn Concert
Series.
Mr. Sheean told his audience
that England has a 60 per cent
chance to resist the German in­vasion
which will undoubtedly
come next' spring. Mr. Sheean has
just returned from England.
The morale of the English peo­ple
is extremely high, he said,
and there is no talk of surrender
or of peace. The port of London
has been seriously damaged by
bombing and shipping has been
extremely hampered, stated Mr.
Sheean, but the ports on the west
coast of England have barely been
touched, and the German efforts
to bomb them have met with lit­tle
success.
To Winston Churchill goes
credit for waking up the British
people, said Mr. Sheean. Until
last June the English people had
• no conception of the gravity of
the situation and had made abso­lutely
no preparations for defense
of the British Isles. More prep­arations
have been made since
June, when Churchill took over
the helm of English government,
than during the regimes of Cham­berlain
and Baldwin, Mr. Sheean
emphasized.
Mr. Shpean is one of the most
widely-traveled men of the pres­ent
day. He has been present to
view and describe almost every
major war in the past decade.
From his wealth of experiences as
a journalist he has written in­numerable
articles on internation-
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40 Students Are
On Farmer Staff
Rouse Farnham, Auburn, '
Is Editor for 1940-41
Forty students in agriculture at
Auburn are working this year on
"The Alabama Farmer," a month­ly
magazine published by the Ag­ricultural
Club.
Headed by Rouse S. Farnham,
Auburn, as editor-in-chief, and
John Haupt, Elberta, as business
manager, the staff has already
published two issues since the
opening of school. The most re­cent
was issued during Homecom­ing
and was an impressive 20-
page publication complete with
pictures and special articles.
Members of the editorial staff
are Merlin Bryant, Dozier; John
Griffin, Thorsby; Ellis Prather,
Autaugaville; Thomas Campbell,
Georgiana; David Gardiner, Au­burn;
Winton Chumley, Birming­ham;
A. C. Allen, Deatsville;
Civille Owen, Aliceville; F. S. Mc­Cain,
Ashland; C. M. Beckham,
Mobile; Thaddeus Lowery, Geor­giana;
B. B. Williamson, Jr., Pine
Apple; Charles I. Alton, Bayou
Labatre; James B. Chastain,
Haleyville; Boyd Pullen, Monroe-ville;
Fred Schultz, Citronelle;
Thomas Whatley, Pyriton; Sam
Tisdale, Auburn; Jim Dukes, At-more;
Aubrey Pettis, Fayette;
William B. Acker, Brighton.
The business staff includes R.
W. Lett, Auburn; Willfred Lord,
Andalusia; Dave Griffin, Thors­by;
Jimmie Seal, Auburn; John
Parham, Highland Home; Tom
Bullington, Athens; H. Wilby
Fancher, Montevallo; K. E. White,
Ashland; Dewitt Alsobrook, Cus
seta; Calvin Jones, Collbran; Glen
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ROTC Uniform to Be
Blouses, Grey Shirts
The uniform for ROTC drill,
beginning on Tuesday, November
19, will be blouse and grey shirt,
according to an announcement
made this morning by the Military
Office. /
The change in uniform was an­nounced
because pf the coming of
colder weather in this section.
Cabinet States
New Amendment
If Passed, Cabinet Will
Control All Elections
In accordance with the consti­tution
of the Executive Cabinet,
the following by-law, which was
run in the last issue of the Plains­man,
is being published for the
second consecutive time in order
that it may be voted on by the
Cabinet. The Cabinet will vote on
the new measure at its meeting
next week.
Any election held on the campus
by any group that affects a large
per cent of the student body shall
be under the supervision of the
Executive Cabinet. A code of
ethics as set up by the Executive
Cabinet must be followed in con­ducting
said elections and at least
one member of the Elections Com­mittee
shall be in immediate con­tact
with said elections at all times.
Students wishing to discuss the
new measure may do so at the
Cabinet meeting next Thursday
night.
Artist Will Lecture
Here Next Wednesday
"From Pyramids to Skyscraper"
will be the subject of a lecture by
Jan Reiner, of Chicago, Wednes­day
afternoon at 2:00 p.m. in the
Architectural Library.
Dean Biggin has issued a cordial
invitation to the public to attend
the lecture free of charge.
Girls1 Gymnasium
Is Remodeled for
Dancing Season
It was announced this week by
W. T. Ingram, business manager
for the college, that the old High
School Building, which has been
used for the past few years as
the girls' gymnasium, has been
reconditioned and will now be used
as an auditorium for student
dances and other activities.
Organizations of students who
wish to make reservations for the
hall should do so through the Dean
of Women and Social Director.
The rental rates on the hall will
be $7.50 for events prior to 6:00
p.m. and $10.00 for events at
night after 6:00 p.m.
Battle Will Be Held
On Birmingham Field
"But Boston College Thought Game Was to
Be Played in Baton Rouge"—Phone Call
By THE EDITOR
"Hello—is this Auburn? Well this is Jack Curley from
Boston College. I want to know if the Auburn game Sat­urday
is going to be played at LSU or Birmingham, our
papers up here are all confused as to just where the game
is going to be played—in Birmingham, I see—well, I'm
sending a scout down there to cover your team. Thanks
very much."
(That was part of an actual conversation carried on
from the telephone of the Plains-
Frat Pledges to
Present Annual
Dance Friday
To Be in Remodeled
Girls' Gymnasium;
Music by Knights
Pledges of Auburn fraternities
will hold their second annual dance
next Friday night in the recently
remodeled Girls' Gymnasium.
The dance, which is exclusively
for pledges, will begin at nine
o'clock.
Bobby Adair and the Auburn
Knights will furnish the music for
the affair.
Admission price is fifty cents.
The members of each fraternity
will be invited to the dance by the
pledges, but no one else may attend
except the pledges and their dates.
Chairman o f t h e committee
which is planning the dance is
Jim "Butch" Montgomery, an SPE
pledge.
man office last night at 8:30 with
Mr. Curley from Boston, Mass.)
Now, we could have told Mr.
Curley that the game was going
to be played in Baton Rouge, and
thus left the Eagles from Boston
College "holding the bag" as far
as our plays were concerned. But
we are students of Auburn. We
claim to possess the friendliest
spirit of any college in the Unit­ed
States. And we'll stick to that
statement, " 'til death do us part."
Following last night's mammoth
pep rally in the Auburn Stadium,
students turned their thoughts to­ward
the Magic City and tomor­row's
game, another contest in a
series dating back to 1901.
Intense Rivalry
Even as early as this morning
students began leaving the "love­liest
village" on the trek to the
Steel City of Birmingham. Others
will continue to depart through­out
today and tonight and tomor­row
morning to -witness a Tiger-
Tiger game that always is high­lighted
by intense rivalry.
No parade will be staged in Bir­mingham
preceding the game to­morrow.
The contest will begin at
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Canadians Highly Pleased With
Choice of President Roosevelt
ROTC Band Non-Com
Appointments Made
Bill Moore has been named
Cadet First Sergeant for the
ROTC band unit. Cadet sergeants
will be J. T. Hudson, Jack Berlin,
B. B. Knowles, J. N. Cooper, and
Herbert Martin.
The non-com appointments were
announced by Col. J. J. Water­man,
ROTC commandant.
Two 'Rats' Install An Unusual
s ervice--'Escorts for Coeds'
Park and Dennis State
That "Business Is Good"
By JIMMY GILBERT
Old Auburn seems to be get­ting
up in the world of late. The
latest contribution to the rise
seems to be the formation of an
escort agency, whereby lonely
hearts, both male and female, may
find solace for a nominal fee. The
original idea started in a northern
school, and has rapidly spread to
all parts of the country.
It'* No Joke
And this is no joke! The two
proprietors, Henry Park and Will
Dennis, assure us that with them
this is a strictly business venture,
with no thoughts except towards
that of deriving a profit. Park, in
an interview, said, "This is not a
publicity stunt. We are doing it
as a way to make money, and not
to raise our social or political pres­tige."
These two Georgia boys, fresh­men
pledges of Phi Delta Theta,
in casting about for a way to
make a few extra shekles, first
thought of dog catching. By some
complicated process not revealed
to your reporter this finally grad­uated
to date catching. Dennis
suggested the idea after reading
of a similar agency at another
school. The only catch in this
seemed to be that all other agen­cies
were on campuses where the
girls were more prevalent.
Hopet Are High
Undaunted by such small tech­nicalities,
these plucky rats set
to work, and the present results
are . . . many calls, mostly prac­tical
jokers, and a few appoint­ments.
The boys' hopes are high
however, with a coming succession
of events like "Sadie Hawkin's"
Day, football games, and the usual
winter formals, they are expect­ing
a booming business.
Current advertising methods in­clude
handbills, radio announce­ments,
and the natural talk caused
by such a revolutionary venture.
The entire campus seems to have
taken it as a joke, but sho' nuff,
you lonelies, this is the real Mc­Coy.
There are dates to be had,
and good ones too, just for the
price of a phone call, a dollar fee,
and expenses. The fee is reduced
to fifty cents during the week.
Use the Service
So you frosh, both "he" rats
and "she" rats, who haven't been
able to get around yet, and the
rest of you students who are
lonely for a swell afternoon or
evening, make use of this new
service that's especially for you.
The most surprising of all the
requests to the agency so far is
that one from the gal who didn't
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National Officer of
Theta U Visits Here
Mrs. Palmer D. Lowery, na­tional
vice-president of Theta Up-silon
sorority has been visiting the
Auburn Chapter of the sorority
throughout this week on an in­spection
trip.
While here she was honored by
the patronesses of the sorority at
a dinner on Tuesday night at the
Clement Hotel in Opelika. Alpha
Gamma Delta also entertained
Mrs. Lowery at a tea last Wed­nesday
afternoon. She will leave
Auburn today to visit other chap­ters
of the sorority.
Morale Is High
Among English
By THE EDITOR
While attending the annual As­sociated
Collegiate Press Conven­tion
in Detroit last week, we jour­neyed
over into Canada to visit
the nearby city of Windsor, pop­ulation
of about 125,000. This vis­it
was one of the most interesting
points of our week's journey. We
boarded a bus in Detroit and pass­ed
through a tunnel under the De­troit
River and into Windsor.
We had a quite interesting and
informing talk with a lady who
was proprietor of a combination
drug store and souvenir store. She
soon discovered that we were from
the Deep South and the subject of
conversation inevitably turned to
the previous day's presidential
election in the United States. It
was not so surprising yet it was
indeed interesting to note how
greatly pleased were the people
of Canada with the election of
President Roosevelt.
We purchased a Canadian news­paper
which carried a two line
streamer in blood-red color on the
election, and a picture of F.D.R.
on the front page that measured
three columns by twelve inches.
The issue contained twenty-four
pages, and every page with the
exception of three pages had a
streamer headline on some phase
of our national election. We were
really "knocked-out" by this dis­play
of writing on our own elec­tion.
And the spirit of the Canadian
people was an admirable thing to
note. These British subjects firm­ly
believe that they will win the
war eventually. They are not in
the least bit unnerved or discour­aged.
Their morale is exceptional­ly
high. Every Canadian that we
talked to emphasized the fact that
they did not want our men in
England, that they merely needed
our supplies. And they felt that
with the election of President
Roosevelt for a third term would
insure this source of supplies for
the British Isles.
Posters dotted various business
places with an illustration of a
British soldier and saying "Send
him a present to make him smile
on Christmas Day." And the Wind­sor
Post Office said "Mail your
presents to these gallant heroes
now."
One could buy one thousand
cigarettes for the sum of two dol­lars
and a half to be sent to the
soldiers in the front lines postage
paid.
It was not difficult to pass
through the immigration lines to
and from Canada. When we walk­ed
up to the immigration officers,
they asked where we were from
and when we said "Suh, we ah
from Alabama" they said to pass
on through because "anyone with
a drawl like that couldn't be from
Germany or Russia." And when
we came back through the lines
we were not even searched. The
immigration officials merely smil­ed
when we told them where we
were from and where we were
born.
Fred Waring Appears
Here in Tuesday Show
Fred Waring and his Pennsyl-vanians
are featured in two March
of Time pi-oductions that will be
shown free of charge Tuesday and
Wednesday in Langdon Hall. The
movie includes Fred Waring in
"Pleasure Time" and "Tobacco
Land, U.S.A."
Six showings of the movie will
be given as follows: Tuesday at
2:30, 3:30, 7:30, and 8:30 p.m.,
and on Wednesday there will be
two showings at 7:30 and 8:30
p.m. <
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Congratulations, Heel!
We wish to congratulate the "heel"
who ripped the beautiful Homecoming
banner that is placed across College
Street uptown each year by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce. This noble fel­low
(we don't know whether or not he
was a student) simply ruined several
dollars worth of decorations that were
intended to aid the Auburn student body
in staging a gala Homecoming. But this
most wonderful of "heels" takes hold
of the rope holding the banner up and
rips the colorful banner.
We don't know who performed the
wonderful job. We don't want to know
such a person. And this same person will
probably not read this as a "heel" like
that wouldn't have enough intelligence'
to read an editorial page. But just in
case this noble individual does read the
papers, we will be glad to give him ten
copies of this issue for his scrapbook if
he will call by the Plainsman office. And
if he will bring a picture of himself we
will run it on the front page of this
paper. Yes, sir, a lovely picture of his
head attached to the body of a jackass.
Incidentally, the Chamber of Com­merce
will be glad to pay this person
one thin dime for the return of the rope
that was ripped from the banner.
Those Narrow-Minded
Republicans
The election is over. Franklin Delano
Roosevelt has been elected for a third
term. The Democrats are going back to
work with the idea of national unity and
democracy uppermost in their minds.
But a group of narrow-minded Repub­lican
leaders, who cannot see beyond
the nose on their face, are attempting
to organize their party into an opposi­tion
unit toward the Democratic party
and national unity.
In the course of the campaign the Re­publican
candidate for president, Mr.
Willkie, seemed to be in favor of the
same platform as the Democrats as far
as national defense and the farm pro­gram
and other important measures
were concerned. The only phase on
which the Republican candidate dis­agreed
was the attitude of the Demo­crats
toward big business. Anyone knows
that the Republicans have always been
in favor of helping big business and let­ting
little business and the devil take
the hindmost.
But, now these same Republicans are
heartily opposed to President Roosevelt
in any move that he will make toward
national betterment, whereas they form­erly
agreed so beautifully with FDR.
What we want to know is—what in the
hell are they yapping about? If they
cannot pitch in and help this nation
through the crisis that now endangers
the world, then why don't they go home
where they belong. In other words, "Get
hot, or get out."
We Proudly Salute
John Winfield Scott
Johh Winfield Scott, the present dean
of the School of Science and Literature,
will evacuate his office at the end of
the present semester in favor of future
Dean Roger Allen. Students of Auburn
can remember when they were in bull
session on the discussion of the deans of
the campus that someone introduced the
thought that Dean Scott was the hard­est
dean on this or any other campus in
the United States.
Dean Scott is an economic theorist
and a legal mentor who received his
A.B. degree at Wichita, his M.A. at Tex­as
University and his Ph.D. at the Uni­versity
of Chicago. In his college days
he was like many present day students
in that he was a believer in sports and
believing in them, he took an active part
in baseball and boxing. Then in 1927
he took the position as the dean of the
School of Science and Literature at API.
Since he has been in this position, he
has made it a policy for all students un­der
him to make good grades and in do­ing
so he asked no quarter and gave
none. For that reason, many students
have had the opinion that Dean Scott
was too hard on them and that he placed
them on too strict a schedule.
In looking back over the past years,
we, the students of the School of Sci­ence
and Literature, know that Dean
Scott has placed a heavy load on us but
also when we accomplish our duties
and are able to lay down the load on
graduation day, we realize that what
we accomplished means more to us than
it would have if our dean had let us do
as we wished. Dean Scott, having gone
through the same experience that we are
going through at the present, has learn­ed
that to get something by the hard
route is more valuable to one than to
get the same thing on a bed of luxury
and ease. It is only human nature that
people value those things that they re­ceived
from hard and miserable work
more than those that are handed out to
them and those things that are received
by work are more rightly yours than the
other type. It is on this basis that our
national government placed the inherit­ance
tax and those men who made that
tax a law were chosen as the most cap­able
men in our great nation by the peo­ple
of that same nation.
Since Dr. Scott has been in his pres­ent
position, many boys and girls have
left Auburn and gone into the world and
using the principles taught them by their
dean, they have become prosperous and
leading citizens of their state. Little
credit is given to Dean Scott by students
who are in school at the present, but
when they graduate and begin their
life's work they give him more credit
than any other man who has aided them.
"Dean Scott, we have all said things
about you that we believed were true,
but now that you are about to leave us,
we know that all the things you have
made us do were for us. For more than
a decade, you have been the pilot of the
ship of Science and Literature and no
one can say that you did not guide that
ship through many rough waters with
the skill that any pilot could be proud.
Now that you are resigning and leaving
your office, we, not only as Science and
Literature students but as students of
all Auburn, want to express our appre­ciation
for all that you have done for
us and we hope that you will continue
to serve your students, your college,
your state and native land in the same
way that you have so long served them
as Dean of the School of Science and
Literature." W.H.
Just Rambling
Rain, Rain, go away (PLEASE).
* * *
Borrowing an idea from the Clemson
Tiger—"To hell with LSU, Willkie, and
Hitler." That takes care of the State,
National, and International situation.
(The national situation has already been
taken care of, we believe.)
* * *
And may the best Tiger win again
(and you know which one was best last
Saturday).
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INCHES HI6H.' HE IS RECORDIN6
THE INTER-RELATION OF fOUTICAL
LITERARY, HISTOR1CAL.ART AND
SCIENTIFIC DATA.
War is Hell.
* * *
We wonder how the Birmingham Post
feels since the November 5 election?
(You guess who they supported.)
* * *
A radio comedian said the other night
that if Yehudi was a joke, his six chil­dren
might not feel that the situation
was so funny (his name was Yehudi).
* * *
What this country needs is—damned
if we know. (Getting tired of reading
this line? Then you tell us what this
country needs.)
General Delivery
By REDDING SUGG
I I HE FIRST COLLEGE Y.M.C.A
BUILDING ERECTED IN
AMERICA IS STILL IN USE /
IT WAS BUILT IN 1885 AT
HANOVER COLLEGE, INDIANA
- . UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR FROM AUSTRALIA
TRAVELED 12,000 MILES TO ATTEND THE
EMPIRE UNIVERSITIES CONGRESS AT
LONDON. ONLY TO FIND THAT HE WAS A
YEAR AHEAD OF TIME..'
THE MISUNDERSTANDING WAS1 CAUSED
BY A TYPIST.? ERROR. /
Parade of Opinion
By ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS
God Bless America
"What's become of 'The Star
Spangled Banner' — or have we
abandoned it as our national an­them?"
asks the Perdue Exponent.
That's a question that a lot of col­lege
newspapers have been asking,
half tongue-in-cheek, half serious­ly.
The Exponent "won't debate the
merits of Irving Berlin's 'God
Bless America' but we do dispute
its right to the same honors as the
national anthem. We think that
the substitution of 'Star Spangled
Banner' for 'God Bless America'
on a few public programs would
be a welcome change — at least
for college students who have built
up a terrific 'hate' for the very
obvious attempt to synthesize pa­triotism
where patriotism has al­ready
existed."
The Daily Reveille raises a pro­test
at Louisiana State university,
taking its readers back to one of
the recent football games.' "When
the band played the super-popular
'God Bless America,' thousands
leaped to their feet, males swept
their hats from pates and slapped
them over hearts, and stood stiffly
at attention while the tune swung
on. We wish that such respect
would be shown 'The Star Span­gled
Banner'." The Reveille be­lieves
that 'if the fervid standees
would stop a moment to consider
the silly tribute they are paying
to the American god, 'Advertising'
they might save their fervor for
true patriotism. God didn't pick
out this geographical spot to endow
all his lofty virtues. We should
be proud that we were born here;
we should also remember that it's
pretty much of a genetical accident
that.we are Americans. God does­n't
'bless' America; 'blessings'
come where people are free to
think and where those men act
decently toward their fellows."
El Gaucho takes up a similar
cry at Santa Barbara college. "Un­derstand,"
says El Gaucho, "we
don't object to people rising to sing
'God Bless America'. We think it
is a very nice gesture to the com­poser
and to the singer who made
it famous, and nothing more. But
one's ability to bellow forth chau­vinistic
babble is hardly an indi­cation
of one's feelings towards
the United States."
Realizing that "there will pro­bably
be FBI men on our trail by
morning," the Dartmouth declares
it is "unable to keep silence any
longer on 'God Bless America'."
The song, says the Dartmouth,
brings up a "mental picture of
someone waving a flag because it's
fun to wave a flag and everybody
else is doing it. It seems as though
we could do a little more than
place America's well-being musi­cally
in God's hands and call it
patriotism."
The Anvil Chorus concludes with
the observations of the Cliff Dwell­er
at the University of Pittsburgh,
which recalls that "when the coun­try
was growing and expanding in
every direction, it sang boisterous­ly
and challengingly. We as a na­tion
must grow and expand again.
We need a song of spirit and cour­age.
Let the song pluggers play
and sing Berlin's tune of apathy,
but let Americans have a song
like 'Onward America'."
It is suspected the collegiate
writers are not really as excited
about "God Bless America" and
its possible implications as they
seem. But most of them feel
America's patriotism must have a
more fundamental expression than
the musical plea ijf divine bless­ings.
Plainsman Forum
Letters to the Editor
Mr. Dan W. Hollis,
Editor, The Plainsman,
Auburn, Alabama.
Dear Sir:
I would like, through the medium
of your paper, to call to the at­tention
of all students and citizens
of Auburn an incident of which
our organization is not so proud.
This incident is the destruction of
the sign hurtg1 across College Street
during Homecoming. It could not
possibly have caused objection from
any citizen or loyal Auburn man
since it was merely a "Welcome"
sign.
On Saturday night some person
or persons literally ripped the sign
from its hangers, thereby render­ing
it of no further use for the
purpose for which it was intended.
It seems to me that this act was
entirely uncalled for and shows
about the poorest spirit we have
ever seen. The sign represented
the part of our organization in
homecoming decoration and was
designed to be of use for several
years.
It seems apparent that there are
still among us those who do not
know the difference between cele­bration
and destruction. I certain­ly
hope that those responsible for
this act will be dealt with as they
should, and at least be taught to
conduct themselves in a gentleman­ly
manner on similar occasions in
the future.
Your very truly,
John H. Farnham,
President,
Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
Editor,
The Plainsman
Dear Sir:
I am not one to complain but
sometimes conditions^ justify com­plaints.
In my two years at Au­burn
I have found the service of
the Ideal Laundry far from ideal.
As the school sees fit to force us
to patronize this laundry I think
that they should see that we get
some consideration.
Most students have to make
every dollar count, and when
clothes are damaged this makes
one lose dollars. In my opinion,
the school is really trying to help
the students. I do not think that
allowing such matters to continue
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.
Attention should be called to the
activities of Edwin Kennedy, a
senior from Atlanta. Since I know
Kennedy only by reputation, I can
hardly introduce you to him; but
I take pleasure in introducing you
to his work. I understand that
Kennedy is enrolled in the School
of Education and that he gets a
meager credit or so for his excel­lent
work with boys of the Auburn
grammar and high schools.
* * *
Kennedy has organized a club
for these boys and has given them
as their motto "Clean scholarship,
clean speech, clean sport, and clean
living." The club seems to have a
healthy, spontaneous overtone of
religion which is only too welcome
in this maddening world.
* * *
At present the club is playing
football. There is a 105-pound
team, a 95-pound team, and an
80 pound team. The club is plan­ning
a Homecoming game here on
Thanksgiving Day, and they will
charge an admission of ten cents.
I have a hunch that this midget
football game will be a lot more
interesting than some of the $2.50
college games. If you go to the
club's Homecoming game, you will
see good playing and at the same
time will be aiding one of the most
commendable enterprises I know.
* * *
It is my hope that this small
recognition of Edwin Kennedy and
his club will result in a general
appreciation of a campus leader
— a leader, I believe, in a truer
sense than are some of our poli­tician
BMOC's.
* * *
Meditation upon the virtues of
another, drat it, always leaves me
in a remorseful state of mind. Be­ing
chiefly characterized by a
clacking tongue which has the
deadly habit of speaking my mind,
I sometimes ponder upon the un­fairness
of the primordial cell in
willing me my unsatisfactory set
of attributes. (The thousands up­on
whose tpes I have trod may
take this as an oblique apology.)
* * *
I would pick the Homecoming
issue of the Plainsman, the one
with the vast circulation, to make
a vulgar display of ignorance.
Several people have been super­cilious
because I very bravely
started off with something about
Fielding's "Tom Brown's School
Days". Seems 't wasn't Fielding,
but Hughes, who wrote the mushy
thing. In self-defense may I re­mind
you that Fielding wrote
about Tom Jones. At least I got
the first name right.
* * *
"General Delivery" popped up
in the preceding issue of the paper
without my consent. It was a dia­tribe
against the Memorial Sta­dium,
and a justifiable one. But it
was written as an editorial care­fully
couched in the editorial "we".
The editor thought it would be
safer (for whom?) to print it as
my column; instead of an unob­trusive
RS at the bottom, the thing
came out with my name plastered
all over it. Safe for whom, I re­peat
in an emotional voice.
* * *
(Editor's Note: Mr. Sugg's ar­ticle
on the Memorial Stadium in
Columbus was printed under his
name as a column, because as a
columnist it was established as his
opinion, and not necessarily that
of the editor. Mr. Sugg's prating
on the Columbus stadium was well
written. Granted that the stadium
is not the best. But we suggest
that our esteemed columnist look
further into the matter of sched­uling
football games by consulting
the Athletic Association. Perhaps
this would throw new light on the
matter for him. However, we are
still grateful that this is a country
where a man can express his opin­ion
without fear of more than per­haps
a verbal reproof.)
* * * *
People are getting themselves
into a lather about the Band uni­forms,
which they seem to con­sider
drab and unattractive. The
latest suggestion is that the Band
wear white pants like those of the
Clemson crack drill squad. Al­though
I spend most of my time
glancing furtively about to see
whether or not the big horns have
drowned out my meek but raucous
clarinet, I am a Band member; and
I most certainly do not wish to
clothe myself in ice cream pants
for a winter full of football games.
I like the Band uniforms just as
they are, and I wish the agitation
for circus uniforms would subside.
* * *
The local movie theatre, admir­able
as it may have been in past
years, is sadly in need of refur­bishing
and a good insecticide. A
little space between rows of seats
wouldn't hurt, either, and it would
be pleasant to have a floor slanted
so that the screen is fully visible.
* * *
And now, it you don't mind, I
shall go off and die noisily in a
corner. Id izn't that I'm weary
of id all. It's just that I have
pneumonia, which also arrived
when the rains came.
Student Opinion
By STUDENT OPINION SURVEYS
• AUSTIN, Texas, November 15—
College students, exempted from
the draft at least until next June
and told by President Roosevelt
that they are more useful in the
classroom than in the army, face
today a world plagued with ever-spreading
war.
With the election over, increased
aid to Britain appears certain, and
whether from circumstances or
from blundering, the possibility
exists of armed conflict against the
axis powers. If war were declar­ed,
how many men now in college
would volunteer, how many would
wait until called?
That was the question scores of
interviewers for Student Opinion
Surveys of America presented to
a cross section representing the
entire male enrollment of U.S. col­leges
and universities. Nearly
one-fourth of the men are ready
now to join the army in case of
war. The rest, a majority of 76.5
per cent, say they would wait until
drafted.
These national weekly polls of
college thought are sponsored by
15 0 campus newspapers, The
Plainsman among them. Personal
interviewing is the method used in
gathering opinions from a propor-is
a great help, however. The
school should at least require sat­isfactory
service from the laundry.
Very truly yours,
Marion McMullen
Several hundred gold objects
dug up from ancient Indian burial
grounds in Panama by University
of Pennsylvania archaelogists have
been placed on exhibition in the
university museum.
tionate sample that contains cor­rect
ratios of men and women,
lowerclassmen and upperclassmen,
and all types of colleges, distribut­ed
over six geographical sections
of the country.
This was the question used: "If
the U.S. went to war against Ger­many,
Italy, or Japan, would you
leave school and volunteer or wait
until your turn came in the draft?"
These were the returns, section
by section:
Men Only:
Volunteer Wait
New England 36% 64%
Middle Atlantic . 20 80
East Central 21 79
West Central 16 84
South 28 72
Far West 28 72
ALL MEN Students 23.5 76.5
From the South and West, se­lective
service officials have stated,
are coming the greatest number of
volunteers for a year of military
training. These two sections, with
the exception of New England,
contain the largest number of stu-,
dents who at this time believe they
would join the army if war broke
out. Only 7 per cent were unde­cided
on the problem, and the per­centages
above have been adjusted
to eliminate this "no opinion" ele­ment.
One year ago last month Stu­dent
Opinion Surveys found 42 peY
cent declared they would volunteer
if "England and France were in
danger of defeat and the U.S. de­clared
war on their enemies." The
Surveys measure the tenor of stu­dent
opinion for the present. What
college youth will do if war act­ually
breaks out no poll can pre­dict.
November 15, 1940 T H E P L A I N S M AN Page Three
PI ains Talk
By HERBERT MARTIN
Raid Ramblings
London, Nov. 12
£. j There's the bomb shelter on low­er
Eighth Street which calls it­self
the "East Side Social Center
and Tea Room", and even has spe­cial
insignia for members who pay
their dues of a pinch of tea per
night. The insignia consists of an
arm symbol of a. cup resting on a
violin. Under this is the inscrip­tion,
"Nero fiddled; we'll drink tea,
and London will not burn."
* * *
And there's the story going
around telling how suspected fifth
columns or German parachutists
may be tested. "Just pour out a
glass of real beer," say the direc­tions.
"If he's a German, he'll
faint!"
* :;: #
This war makes people stand on
equal footing, and may prove to
be a good thing for England.
When before could you find a toff
lying shoulder to shoulder with
grocery clerk, and glad to be there?
* * *
Down on the Corridor the other
night they had to take turns drop­ping
books on the floor after the
RAF chased the Heinies away so
early. The silence was deafening,
they said.
* * *
The men on the lookout detail
state that they wish more Italian
planes would come over. "They
look so much cuter falling," was
the way Simon Glass, of 221 Tuck-t
er Street, put it.
* * *
Injuries to Willie, boxer pup
belonging to the H. G. Welton's,
of Circle Drive, are not as serious
as an early examination indicated.
Willie was injured when a German
bomb actually hit within the city,
and some of the flying debris
struck Willie around the head.
Willie will recover, however, and
the Huns have been cheated of
another "enemy of the Reich".
* # *
This bombing's a confounded nui­sance,
but it's not half as bad as
it could be. Suppose Hitler had
decided to protect us instead of
fighting us?
Young Terry Dawson is capital­izing
on this war business. He has
made ear stoppers of cotton and
rubber, and sells them nightly at
shelters near his Eleventh Avenue
home.
* * 4
Notice: There will be a dance
in the large shelter at the corner
of First Street and Fifth Avenue
next Saturday night. The music
will begin immediately after the
first raid signal. Script is fifty
shillings per couple, and dancers
are asked to wear light colored
clothes, as outside attractions will
prevent the use of many lights.
* * *
Advertisement in a downtown
window: "Treat your friends to
Air Raid pastries. These may be
had in the shape of either our own
or enemy ships. The enemy ships
complete with refreshment cabinet
containing 3.2% beer similar to
that which was such a notable suc­cess
in the United States some
years ago."
* * *
Personal to Adolph Hitler:
Dear Scum: Could you please
postpone your evening call tomor­row
night until after dinner? My
wife is cooking a very delicate
pudding, and any undue shock
might cause the poor thing to fall.
We'll bring you a slice. when we
come to Berlin.
* * *
Have you tried the new Bomb
Cheese Patties? They're delicious!
* * *
Karrie, the Kampus Konfidant,
Konfides, "That's enough of that
stuff. I think your point is rather
well-hidden. Anyway, I want to
say something to Cheezhawlm, of
Keyhole Kapers fame."
Karrie's message? 'Twas this:
"Dear Cheezhawlm: The "very
nattily dressed colored man" who
"amused" you by leading the
"stands in a rousing 'War Eagle' "
Saturday, was (we feel sure you'll
be glad to know the identity of
this personage) none other than
"Doc" Jerry Moore, ATO house-boy
for nearly three decades, and
president of the Ebony Council.
"Doc" was attired as befitted his
station in tails and bowler, not
derby. Shame on you, Cheez­hawlm,
for casting mud on one al­ready
so identically colored."
Butler Made Honorary
Member of ALT Frat
Prof. A. D. Butler was initiated
as an honorary member of Alpha
Lambda Tau social fraternity at
the regular meeting of the frater­nity
last Wednesday night.
Prof. Butler is connected with
the English Department and has
been faculty adviser to the frater­nity
for the past year.
Three sophomore pledges were
also recently initiated into mem­bership
in Alpha Lambda Tau.
These are Buck Byrd, Citronelle;
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Welcome
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center; weight, 180; height,
5' 10". Light for his post, but very
willing. Clean, hard player.
Visit us for
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when you are
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407 N. 20th St.
Birmingham
Comes to Tiger
Sunday, Monday
Claudette Colbert and
Ray Milland Starred in
Adventure-Love Story
A cloud-hopping trouble maker
meets a trouble hunting newspaper
girl—and boom!—it's love!
That's how it all starts out be­tween
Claudette Colbert and Ray
Milland in the scintillating Para­mount
romance, "Arise, My Love,"
which will be shown Sunday and
Monday at the Tiger Theatre.
When Claudette, the fashion
writer, gets a yen to write man-sized
stories for Associated News
she just casually snatches an avia­tor
from a Spanish firing squad,
and flies across the border with
him to France. But the girl doesn't
count on love; and pretty soon she
finds her heart melting under the
effects of the Paris moon and Ray
Milland's ardent wooing.
When the assignment to the Ber­lin
bureau comes her way, Claud­ette
thinks its her escape. But the
inescapable Milland turns up in
her railway compartment. Before
she realizes what is happening, she
is off on a stolen vacation with the
handsome flier.
Love changes them. With the
breaking of war, their first thought
is to hurry back safe to America.
But when this hope is frustrated by
the sinking of their boat, they re­turn
to their duty. Milland is off
to fly with the English fighting
squadrons, Claudette goes to Ber­lin
to carry out the grim assign­ment
of covering the war from that
side.
While grim and amazing pages
of history are being written.
Claudette and Ray are in the
midst of exciting new events. They
grow more sober, their love grows
deeper as the picture draws them
together again for its magnificient
emotional climax.
"Arise, My Love" is the direc­torial
job of famed Mitchell Leisen,
and was produced by Arthur Horn-blow.
The supporting cast is led off
by Walter Abel, with Dick Purcell,
Dennis O'Keefe, Esther Dale and
George Zucco featured.
'Arise My Love' WAA to Sponsor Sadie Hawkin's Day
In February With Girl-Break Dance
Dr. Otto Loewi, co-winner of
the 1936 Nobel prize in medicine,
has joined the staff of the New
York University college of medi­cine.
L. T. McMillian, Brewton; and
Evan Zieger, Langdale.
Latest College Styles
"Plainsman" Will Not
Hold Event Next Week
The Women's Athletic Associa­tion
will sponsor Sadie Hawkins'
Day on the Auburn campus next
February 21. It had been pre­viously
announced that the Plains­man
would sponsor the annual
event on November 22.
Last year Sadie Hawkins' Day
was sponsored by the WAA and
this organization plans to make
the event an annual part of their
program of activities.
Feature part of the "day" will
be a girl-break dance, according to
members of the group. Other plans
will be formulated and announced
in the near future.
The annual college event was
proclaimed a "great success" by
those who participated in the week­end
festivities last February.
API to Take Part
In Art Exhibits
Display Will Be Shown
Later in This Month
The Department of Applied Art
will participate in the Nation-wide
Art Fair which will be held No­vember
25 to December 1. Ala­bama
artists have been invited to
send works to Auburn to be dis­played
in the Art Library during
that week.
The public of Auburn and Ope-lika
is urged to view the exhibit
which will include paintings, draw­ings,
and prints. Those desiring
to purchase works will have the
opportunity to buy at specially re­duced
prices.
The United States Government,
through the WPA, is sponsoring
"Art Week" throughout the coun­try.
It is an effort, on a national
scale, to bring the work of Ameri­can
artists into the American home
and business office. Artists have
been urged to send their works to
one or more exhibits and to price
them as moderately as possible.
The public will be urged, through
radio talks and newspaper articles,
to see what is being done by local
artists.
A. M. Chickering, Albion College
biologist, reports that in Panama
there are small spiders that seek
security from the world's dangers
by taking up residence in the webs
of larger spiders.
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WELCOME
To The
MAGIC CITY
Birmingham
Alumni
Association MARINE JACK MEAGHER,
Auburn head coach and athletic
director. Attended Notre Dame.
Best coach in America.
Delta Zeta Holds
Standards Program
Dr. Walston Addresses
Group on "Modern Girl"
Dr. Rosa Lee Walston, Dean of
Women, was guest speaker at the
first meeting of the Delta Zeta
Standards Program, which was i
held last week in Social Center.
Standards Program meets once
a month, and some outside speaker
is invited to talk on some subject
of interest to college girls. Guests
are invited for these meetings, and
an open forum is held after the
talk, with all members participat­ing.
About 30 members, pledges,
and guests heard Dr. Walston
speak at this meeting on "The
Modern Girl's Philosophy".
Other recent activities included
a party held in the sorority room
Monday night when Hazle Garri­son,
president, entertained mem­bers
and guests. Tuesday night,
the pledges honored members with
a Backwards Party at the home
of Mrs. Leslie Wright on Wright's
Mill Road.
Hazle Garrison and Dorothy
Hurst, president of the sorority
last year, were recently presented
with small golden gavels to be
worn on the pin guard chain in
recognition of the work these two
have done as presidents of this
chapter of Delta Zeta.
3 API Coeds Attend
WAA Convention at
Montevallo This Week
Three girls, selected by the Au­burn
WAA, are attending the an­nual
convention of the Alabama
Women's Athletic Association at
Alabama College, Montevallo on
November 14, 15, and 16.
The girls who are attending this
three day sports meeting are Mar­tha
Gordy, junior in laboratory
technique from Columbus, Ga.;
Luella Haselton, sophomore in phy­sical
education from Jamaica, New
York; and Ruth Price, junior in
physical education from Decatur.
Miss Fannie Stollenwerck will ac­company
the group.
Luella Haselton will speak at a
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Above several college girls show some of the latest fashions that
were exhibited at the New York World Fair during the past summer
at the Ford Pavilion.
general assembly of all the girls,
choosing as her subject, "College
Spirit".
A Physical Education Carnival
is being planned by the WAA to be
held late in November.
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University of Alaska has discover­ed
a town-site indicating a non-
Eskimo race lived 100 miles above
the Arctic circle thousands of years
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edition of the Auburn Tigers to
Birmingham for their annual
scrap with Louisiana State.
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Page Four T H E P L A I N S M AN November 15, 1940
Plainsmen Tackle Louisiana State Tomorrow
CAJZL. M4PPEG.-/1U8U/ZM
Carl Happer, a Birmingham boy who starred for Ramsay High
four years ago, who may start at right half against the LSU Bengals
in his home town tomorrow. Happer weighs in at 165. He almost got
off for a touchdown run against Clemson last week, bringing the
ball back 36 yards.
Minnesota and Texas Aggies Hold Top
Places in AP and Williamson Ratings
Williamson R a n k s API
In N i n e t e e n t h Position
In what is turning out to be
one of the hottest battles in re­cent
years between the sectional
football leaders, the Texas Xggies
and Minnesota's Golden Gophers
cling to top positions by slim mar­gins
in the Williamson and Asso­ciated
Press system, respectively,
of football ratings.
Auburn failed to place in the
first 20 of the Associated Press
but held 19th place in William­son's
rating.
The Aggies got over their sea­son's
biggest hurdle when they
thumped the previously unbeaten
Mustangs of SMU, 20-7, now have
once-defeated Rice ahead. Minne­sota
won its second one point vic­tory
in a row as the Gophers stop­ped
Tommy Harmon long enough
to outscore Michigan, 7-6.
The two systems, almost paral­lel
in their selections to date, have
split and now differ widely in
their choices of the first ten teams
of the nation. Sectional leaders
remain unchanged, however, be­ing
Cornell, Minnesota, Notre
Dame, Tennessee, Texas A & M,
and Stanford.
Williamson
1. Texas A & M
2. Stanford
3. Tennessee
4. Minnesota
5. Cornell
6. Duke
7. Michigan
8. Northwestern
9. SMU
10. Nebraska
Associated Press
1. Minnesota
2. Cornell
3. Texas Aggies
4. Stanford
5. Tennessee
6. Michigan
PIZITZ WELCOMES
CAPT. DICK McGOWEN, Em­pire,
Ala., senior; weight, 190;
height, 6' 1". Swell all-around back
and No. 1 punter in the nation.
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jPassing May Feature
Tiger-Tiger Contest
Chet Bulger May See Action at Came in
Birmingham; LSU to Be Seeking Revenge
By JOHN PIERCE
Back to Legion Field, Birmingham, go the Auburn
Tigers as they run into the Bengals of LSU tomorrow after­noon
in the first stop of another extended tour which will
eventually wind up the 1940 grid activities on the Plains.
The cold weather should in no way cool off the quality
of football scheduled for the Magic City as both teams,
judging by the two or three most recent meetings, pull
punches for this annual brawl and never fail to make a
high scoring battle of it. The home
Cats have taken the last two of
the long series, winning 28-6 in
'38 and 21-7 last year.
Auburn Has Best Record
Auburn thus far exhibits the
better record of the two teams,
but football teams have long since
quit depending on past perform­ances
to pull them through, sure­ly
in this conference, and that
must hold true tomorrow. The
Bayou boys are as unpredictable
as Little Orphan Annie and if you
don't believe it look at what they
have pulled since the start of the
current season, winning and los­ing
alternately in their first sev­en
games. They've whipped LPI,
Holy Cross, Vanderbilt and Mer­cer,
and lost to Mississippi, Rice,
Tennessee, and Mississippi State.
Probably the most impressive
showing was the 25-0 shellacking
of Holy Cross that took place on
the night of the Auburn-Tulane
encounter.
Kavanaugh Missing
Coach Bernie Moore started
practice some weeks ago with ev­ery
prospect of a team which
would improve with every game
and be a real power toward the
latter part of the season. The Ben­gals
were minus All-American
Ken Kavanaugh and equally po­tent
regulars who had played out
their time and departed, but by
now there are gridders down in
Baton Rouge who have seasoned
with the season and who will keep
the Plainsmen busy for a full six­ty
minutes.
Leading the aboveTmentioned
array is left halfback Adrain Dod-son,
a leading scorer in the South-
7. Notre Dame
8. Boston College
9. Georgetown
10. Northwestern
eastern Conference and class "A"
ball-carrying threat otherwise. To
help Adrain along in his duties
the Louisianans boast of Gerald
Hightower, a veteran of last year's
Auburn game, blocking backs To-czlylowski
and Jenkins, and full­backs
Kendrick and Gorinski, all
of whom have proved major fac­tors
in the State offensive to date.
J, W. Goree, a veteran, is the top
Bengal lineman, works from a
guard position along with Vivian
Gianelloni. This famed guard duet
pitches in with center Bill Hogan
to form the nucleus of a rip-and-tumble
forward wall that stands
off everything from a fullback to
a steamroller.
Bulger May Play
There were no serious injuries
suffered in the Plainsmen camp
against Clemson so the same line­up
should begin against LSU. Chet
Bulger and Rufus Deal have re­turned
to the Tiger practice ses­sions
and rumor has it that Chet
will be available for part time
play at his tackle post though
Deal, much to the glee of LSU
fans who saw the Rufe in action
last year, will definitely remain
benched until possibly the Boston
trip next week.
Cremer and Lenoir will have
the starting end calls, along with
tackles McClurkin and Eddins,
guards Mills and Ardillo, center
Tex Williams, and a backfield
consisting of Reynolds or Irby at
fullback, McGowen at left half,
Wendling at right half, and Cheat­ham
at quarter.
McGowen Leads Team
Dynamite Dick McGowen gave
the top performance of his foot­ball
career Saturday and stands
to continue his fine work in the
four remaining games, all of which
is bound to spell out the blues for
Ramblin' Around
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Jim is one of the best defensive
ends in the conference. Although
injured last Saturday he should
start against LSU in Birmingham
tomorrow afternoon.
Texas Aggies Signed
Up for 1941 Schedule
The Texas Aggies from College
Station, Texas, out where the
blue bonnets grow, have been
signed up on the Plainsmen's 1941
football schedule, according to re­ports
received here this week.
The Aggies, undefeated in two
seasons behind "Jarring" John
Kimbrough, who graduates this
year, will replace Boston College
,on the schedule. The game will
be played in a .new stadium in
San Antonio, Texas.
According to another report,
Cornell's Big Red may replace
Villanova's Wildcats on the Tig­er's
schedule for next year. At
the present time, Cornell and Tex­as
A. and M. are rated among
the three best teams in the na­tion.
Saturday
GEORGE O'BRIEN
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City"
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SUNDAY-MONDAY
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the opposition. Birmingham fans
will also get a second look at
Lloyd Cheatham, the back who
caused all the commotion along
about the last three minutes of
t h e Mississippi State fracas.
Rounding out the Meagher start­ers
will be three sophomores who
were this week selected on the
All-SEC sophomore team. The
three are center Tex Williams,
right tackle Joe Eddins, and right
guard Nick Ardillo, now rated as
one of Dixie's finest at that posi­tion.
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OPELIKA
By JOHN PIERCE
All the chatter now running wild
as to the respective gridiron abili­ties
of Tommy Harmon and Red
Grange leaves one to wonder just
how hot this Grange could have
been to eclipse the magic now
being uncorked everywhere from
Ann Arbor to Calcutta by the
Michigan ace.
I quote from an article of last
year by Tom Siler of Associated
Press describing the Red's great­est
performance.—"That was the
Fall day in 1924 when the junior
halfback star returned the opening
kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown,
then ran 70, 57, and 43 yards for
three more touchdowns, all within
the first 10 minutes of the game.
In that short span he got his hands
on the ball six times, scored four
touchdowns and gained 266 yards.
In all that day he played 42 min­utes,
picked up 402 yards in 21
tries, completed six passes for 64
yards, one for a touchdown, and
rang up five touchdowns himself.
Needless to say, Illinois won, 39-
14."—Harmon, get on your horse.
Saddest story of the week: Ten­nessee
has replaced Florida and
Virginia on its slate with Dayton
University and Cincinnatti Univer­sity
for 1941. We can all under­stand
why the Vols would throw
out Florida after that close 14-0
call with the Gators, but why Vir­ginia?
For all Knoxville knows
Virginia may be an easy win. The
match you've all expected—Tennes­see
vs. Slippery Rock—failed to go
through. "We heartily disagree,"
quoth Slippery, "with the princi­ples
of subsidation now so exist-ant
in the Southeast."
Maybe it's coincidence or maybe
there's more to it than that—but
the story told by the scores in Au­burn's
seven games to date runs
directly along this line: The team
to score first is assured of at least
a tie and probably a win. Look back
and see that the above has held
true in every case. Against How­ard,
Tulane, Tech, and Clemson,
it was Auburn who leaped ahead
to score in the first quarter and
hold the lead. In the other three,
two losses and a tie, the direct op­posite
occurred with Mississippi
State, SMU, and Georgia doing all
the first period dirty work, then
settling back on the defensive.
Boston College May Lose
Georgetown stands a step ahead
of the Plainsmen on Boston Col­lege's
schedule and enjoys an ex­cellent
chance of knocking off the
Eagles. A record of some 29 con­secutive
games without a loss just
can't be ignored and the Hoyas
haven't even been approached this
season, holding decisive wins over
Temple, Syracuse, V.P.I., and
N.Y.U. Boston thus far has aver­aged
36 points per game and
Georgetown 35, so the encounter
looms as a two-way track meet. If
it gets any wilder than that 45-41
scramble last week between Man­hattan
and Marquette they'll be
taking down the score in short­hand
and running in officials by
teams.
Poetry Department: This by
Dan Parker of the N. Y. Mirror.—
(News Item—Harvard Crimson
charges Cornell has a professional
team.)
HAIL CORNELL
Far above Cayuga's water,
So the story goes,
Playing for their Alma Mater
Are a bunch of pros,
Hustled up by Coach Carl Snavely,
Over hill and dell.
Harvard says he hadn't oughter,
What the hell, Cornell!—
Texas Aggies in 1941
Auburn has played to over 136,-
000 fans so far this season. A good
tui'nout at Boston could help shove
this year's total up over the 200,-
(Continued on page 6)
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— All Times Are Central Standard — ,
Friday, November 15
—Al Pearce and His Gang—with Arthur Q. Bryan, Hoff s
orchestra, popular small station artists as guests—CBS
—Sammy Kaye—MBS
Saturday, November 16
-Yale-Princeton Football Game—with Ted Husing—CBS
—People's Platform—with Lyman Bryson and guests—
CBS
—Your Hit Parade—with Barry Wood, Mark Warnow's
orchestra, Bea Wain, Hit Paraders Chorus, Marie Greene
—CBS
- A r t i e Shaw—NBC Blue
Sunday, November 17
—Maxine Sullivan and John Kirby in "Flow Gently Sweet
Rhythm"—CBS
—Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra — John Barbirolli,
conducting; Arthur Rubinstein playing Beethoven's
Fourth Piano Concerto—CBS
—Screen Guild Theatre—Roger Pryor and guest s t a r s—
CBS
-Helen Hayes Theatre—Starring Helen Hayes—CBS.
-Teddy Powell—CBS
Monday, November 18
- L a n n y Ross—singing star in song recital—CBS
- L u x Radio Theatre—Cecil B. DeMille, director—CBS
-Guy Lombardo—CBS
Tuesday, November 19
-We, The People—Gabriel Heatter, Warnow's orches
tra—CBS
Wednesday, November 20
- F r e d Allen—with Kenny Baker and Portland Hoffa—
CBS
-Ray Herbeck—CBS
Auburn Plainsmen May Play at
Havana in Post-Season Battle
Crimson Tide Tackles Georgia Tech;
Georgia Meets Tulane in SEC Games
T e n n e s s e e , M i s s i s s i p pi
M e e t Minor L e a g u e F o es
Plenty of action is in the books
for Southeastern Conference teams
tomorrow, although Tennessee and
Mississippi, conference leaders will
be playing minor league foes.
Aside from the thriller that is
due at Legion Field in Birming­ham
when the Tigers from Auburn
tangle with the Tigers from Lou­isiana
State, other games will draw
much interest in their respective
localities.
Alabama's Crimson Tide moves
into Atlanta tomorrow afternoon
to tackle the unpredictable Engin­eers
from Georgia Tech on Grant
Field. The Technicians have suf­fered
three tremendous wallopings
during their last three games with
Auburn, Duke, and Kentucky, but
many observers believe that they
may show new power tomorrow.
Georgia's sophomores, also un­predictable,
will tangle with Tu-lane's
Green Wave at the Sugar
Bowl stadium in New Orleans in
a game that promises to show
much fireworks, as both teams are
potentially strong and each suffer
ed defeats last week.
Vanderbilt m e e t s Tennessee
Tech, Florida meets Miami, and
Sewanee meets Washington and
Lee. Mississippi State's Maroons
also engage a minor league oppo­nent
in playing Millsaps. Ole Miss
will tangle with West Tennessee
Teachers, and Kentucky's Wildcats
meet West Virginia. Tennessee's
undefeated and untied Vols will
engage Virginia in a non-confer­ence
"breather".
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Ed Ruth Is Promoted
To First Lieutenant
In API Army Unit
Second Lieutenant Ed Ruth, sta­tioned
at Auburn with the ROTC,
received notice from the War De­partment
last week of his promo­tion
to first lieutenant.
Lieut. Ruth is an Auburn grad­uate.
He has had one year of ac­tive
duty w<ith the ' U.S. Army
under the Thompson Act and was
stationed with the 83rd Field Ar­tillery
at Ft. Bragg, N. C. He
has also served with the 83rd at
Ft. Benning, Ga., and was named
to the military staff at Auburn in
September.
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OPELIKA
JIM REYNOLDS
Jim has turned in a stellar per­formance
at the fullback position
since Rufus Deal was forced to
the sidelines with an injury in the
Tech game.
Would Be Played
Against U. of Havana
According t o an Associated
Press story, there is a possibility
that Auburn's Plainsmen may play
a post-season game in Havana,
Cuba, against the University of
Havana.
The story reports that if pres­ent
arrangements are successful
the game will be definitely schedul­ed,
of course with the consent of
the officials of the Southeastern
Conference.
If such a post-season game is
scheduled, it will be the second ap­pearance
of the Tigers in the Cu­ban
bowl. In 1937 they met Villa-nova's
Wildcats in the Rum Bowl
at Havana and battled the eastern
team to a 7-7 tie under a broiling
sun befoi-e a crowd of some 25,000
people.
The Tigers have also played one
other post-season game. That was
at the Orange Bowl in 1938 where
the Plainsmen won, 6-0, over a
strong Michigan State team, in a
game played before approximately
20,000 fans.
Thirteen Tigers
Have Made Points
M c G o w e n , Y e a r o u t Lead
1 9 4 0 S c o r i n g M a c h i ne
Checking back over the Plains­men's
seven games this season we
find that 13 men have points to
their credit in scoring 117 points
for the Tigers in these seven en­counters,
including four conference
games.
Leading the team in scoring is
Captain Dick McGowen, halfback,
who has chalked up 31 points. In
second place is sophomore halfback
Bill Yearout with three touchdowns
for 18 points.
Rufus Deal, who has been on
the sidelines for the last two games
with an injured arm, is in third
place with 12 points, followed by
the new soph sensation, Clarence
Harkins with 7 points.
Those scoring one touchdown
each include Jim Reynolds, Tex
Williams, John Chalkley, Lloyd
Cheatham, Teedie Faulk, Babe Mc-
Gehee, James Samford, and Bud
Wendling. Buddy McMahan rounds
out the list of scorers with one
point after touchdown.
Interesting is the fact that five
of the scorers are linemen; one of
these linemen is a center, and an­other
is a tackle.
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Auburn Is Fourth
In SEC Standings
Auburn's Plainsmen f o u nd
themselves shifted into fourth
place in Southeastern Conference
after last week-end's games. Ala­bama's
Crimson Tide moved into
third position following their 13-
6 victory over the Tulane Green-ies.
Tennessee and Mississippi are
still in a tie for the number one
spot in the conference with un­blemished
records with Mississip­pi
State following close behind
with only a tie against Auburn to
mar their record.
The conference standings fol­low:
TEAM W. L. T. Pts. Op.
Tennessee 3 0 0 69 12
Mississippi 3 0 O 60 27
Miss. State 2 0 1 54 21
Alabama 2 1 0 50 33
Auburn 2 1 1 56 42
Kentucky 1 1 2 40 46
Ga. Tech 1 2 0 33 42
Florida 1 2 0 25 52
Georgia 1 2 1 48 66
LSU 1 3 0 20 69
Vanderbilt 1 3 1 34 46
Sewanee 0 1 O 0 20
Tulane 0 2 O 20 33
Student Finds That the Old 'Orange
And Blue' Was an Amusing Newspaper
T / /JG8/
"Ty" gave a performance at
fullback last Saturday that "did
our hearts good." He smacked the
line with fury reminiscent of Rip-pin
Rufe.
McGowen Climbs in
SEC Scoring List
M i s s i s s i p p i ' s H-Boys
L e a d S c o r i n g P a r a de
Auburn's Dick McGowen made
the greatest gain among leading
scorers in the Southeastern Con­ference
last week-end by scoring
two touchdowns and kicking three
extra points. Di&k rose from far
down the list to eighth place in
the standings.
Mississippi's two H-boys, Junie
Hovious and Merle Hapes con­tinued
to lead the pack, Hapes
with 54 points and Hovious rack­ing
up 52 points to follow his
team mate closely.
The standings among leading
conference scorers follow:
R e v i e w s an I s s u e of
1 9 1 5 t o S h o w t h e Point
The ORANGE AND BLUE was
the API paper in the old days. To
get a glimpse of the life and af­fairs
on the campus then the stu­dent
need only to read this paper.
The outcome is both amusing and
delightful.
Of course there were the Au­burn
yells and songs, such as:
What's the matter with Auburn?
Who-ha-hey! She's O.K!
Auburn-Auburn-Who-ha-hey!
Rack-ey-te-yak, te-yak, te-yak!
Rack-ey-te-yak, te-yak, te-yak!
Zip-rah, Zip-rah, here we are.
Here we are!
"When in Opelika visit Hotel
Clement Pool Room."
And of course they were welcom­ing
" r a t s " with "The older men
will be glad, at any time, to offer
you a helping hand, so show your
Auburn spirit and keep at it."
Finally, remember a few little
rules, too, for the Auburn man
must look, as well as feel, "spirit­ed":
no loafing up town, no smok­ing
up town, coats must be worn,
all rats must wear green buttons
with the word "Rat" in red across
them, effective October 15, 1915.
Three fine new buildings were
nearing completion then. The new
gymnasium, "that monument to
the never dying Auburn Spirit and
to the zeal and enthusiasm of her
noble sons, is at last a tangible
reality," at a cost of $60,000. The
President's Mansion, "adorning the
southern side, of the quadrangle,
this handsome $17,000 home adds
much to the beauty of our cam­pus."
The Hog Cholera Serum
Player, School Td.
Hapes, Miss. 9
Hovious, Miss. 7
Mullins, Ky. 7
Spencer, Ala. 7
Plaster, Ga. T. 6
Brown, Ala. 6
Dodson, LSU 6
McGowen, Aub. __3
Th'pson, Tenn. 4
Butler, Tenn. 4
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Registered at the main center
of New York's City College are
1,000 men and two girls. Total
enrollment is over 22,000.
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plant, at a cost of $25,000, "is evi­dence
of the rapid development of
our veterinary department and the
extent of its operations."
"Razors, blades and straps at
Wright & Co."
The Auburn Band was doing
quite well and was praised as be­ing
widely known.
"The Bee-Hive Store, Chas.
Kurtz, Proprietor — Dry Goods,
Clothing, Shoes, Etc. — Phone 8 1 ."
A r a t was giving his impression
of the first mass meeting held.
"Everybody had been tickled to
death and rolled out to facilitate
the collection of dimes for the pic­ture
show."
"See Beasley for wood, kindling
and coal."
One hundred men Were attend­ing
a social rally given by the Web-sterian
and Wirt Literary Socie­ties.
After the program was pre­sented,
refreshments consisting of
ice-cream and cake were served.
"M. J. Haynie & Co. Picture
frames and things for your rooms."
The football practice was getting
under way in earnest: "With Rob­inson
at center weighing 162,
Wynne at right tackle weighing
165, and Sample at left tackle
weighing 172, we shall have the
lightest line almost in a decade."
"Rice's College Clothes are un­mistakably
the Clothes for you."
The upper classes were reorgan­izing,
with seniors and juniors
electing officers.
The last item in the paper was:
"Tresslar's Studio, Montgomery,
Alabama. Kodaks and Films. Mail
Orders Solicited. Dept. B. We fin­ish
your Snaps."
In this manner, one issue of the
ORANGE AND BLUE rolled
away, and betokened a further
rise, a greater Auburn.
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Page Six T H E P L A I N S M AN November 15, 1940
TIGER TALES
By "BOOTS" STRATFORD
BooTf STKATFoliD
All Auburn has to do to win a ball game is to score
first and, conversely, the opposite is true. The Tigers got
the jump on Howard, did the same against Tulane, Tech
, and Clemson. These games were all mark­ed
up in the win column.
But look at the others. In the State
game the Tigers were pressured with a
looping pass that connected to give
the Maroons a 7 point lead early in the
first quarter. From then on it was uphill
all the way until the last couple of min­utes
when Teedie Faulk snagged one as
he balleted along the end zone line and
N a s t y Neil McGowen plunked one
through the middle to knot things up.
And then out in Dallas when SMU, riding in the lap
of some favoring djinn, blew themselves to a sweet 20
points and then settled back to watch a futile Tiger die
in slow agony. Needless to say, that Tiger was far from
dead and nearly scared the pants off the men of Matty
Bell before bowing to them and adverse fate by a 20-13
count.
And so it was when Georgia amazed everyone includ­ing
themselves by stacking up a 14 point lead. Again the
Orange and Blue rallied but could not quite turn the tide,
going down 14-13.
We can only hope that Knocking Neil and his mates
don't wait again 'til just before the dinner bell rings to
get hot against LSU.
* * *
Colonel Eddie Brietz comments in his daily de­light
for AP that the Plainsmen have sent out a call
for Frank Buck to help them through their remain­ing
games with the Tigers, Eagles, Alligators and
Wildcats. How about the three Bulldogs, the Yellow
Jackets, Mustangs and Tigers that the Orange and
Blue has already met, Colonel? Tulane's Green Wave
is the only team on the schedule that does not bear
some animal's name.
• * *
And speaking of names, look at these. Blue Ridge Col­lege's
grid team proudly bears the name of "Vultures";
Franklin and Marshall goes by the title of "The Diplo­mats";
"The Terrapins" signifies Maryland; and Pomo­na's
warriors are hailed as the "Sagehens."
But the fur lined mustache cup goes to the students of
Ohio Wesleyan who proudly cheer their "Battling Bish­ops"
on to glory every Saturday!
"Bowl" prestige means nothing to the Plainsmen.
Look how the Men of Meagher have treated Sugar
Bowl's Tulane, Orange Bowl's Georgia Tech and the
Clemson Tigers from the Cotton Bowl. The other Cot­ton
Bowl contestant, Boston College, may well take
note. And we tried to schedule Tennessee's Vols from
last year's Rose Bowl.
* • ' * ' " *
Only 26 days till the ODK-Hutsell Cake Race, fresh­men
! You'd better start getting in shape; it's a long grind,
that 2.7 miles.
Ramblin' Around
(Continued from page 4)
000 mark . . . . It's the Texas Ag­gies
in San Antonio's brand new
stadium for Auburn in '41. They
get tougher every year for these
Plainsmen. Couldn't someone book
the Green Bay Packers and sand­wich
them in between the Aggies
and Tulane? . . . . Nick Ardillo is
being called by the best as the
Conference's greatest sophomore
guard. Don't be too surprised if
someone just drops that 'sopho­more'
out altogether. Nick and
Ernie Mills are probably the best
pair you'll see all season around
these parts.
Vassar College is in its seventy-sixth
year.
Land-Grand Meeting
(Continued from page 1)
burn were President Duncan,
Ralph B. Draughon, executive sec­retary;
John J. Wilmore, dean of
the school of engineering; J. E.
Hannum, assistant dean, school of
engineering; Charles R. Hixon,
head professor of mechanical en­gineering;
Mrs. Marion Spidle,
dean of the school of home eco­nomics
; M. J. Funchess, director of
the Alabama Experiment Station;
P. 0. Davis, director of the Ala­bama
Extension Service; Miss Et­na
McGaugh, State home demon­stration
agent.
ATO, SPE, PiKA, Remain in Playoff
For Interfrat Football Championship
Pre-Med Society
Inducts Members
Dr. Jones Makes Talk
To Group on Pathology
Alpha Epsilon Delta, honorary
pre-med society, initiated seven
members at their meeting held
this week. The newly initiated
members are H. C. Fenn, Louis
Landrum, Dan Galvin, Ed Davis,
Roy Stinson, Earl Jordan and
Malcolm Hunter.
The initiation was conducted by
Teresea Boyd, president of the
Alpha Epsilon Delta.
Dr. Herman D. Jones, associate
professor of chemistry, was the
speaker at the meeting. The sub­ject
of his speech was "The Path­ological
Condition of the Body."
Hugh Ford, a senior from Au­burn
in pre-med, assisted Dr.
Jones in the demonstration.
Auburn Ag Students
Will Debate Georgia
Ags at Meeting Here
Auburn's Ag Club has sched­uled
a debate with the Ag Club
of the University of Georgia
which will be held on November
28, it was announced by Dave
Griffin, vice-president of the lo­cal
club.
The subject of the debate will
be: "Resolved, that the Cotton
Reduction Program Has Been
Beneficial to the Farmer." The
Auburn debate team will repre­sent
the negative side of the sub­ject.
Debaters for the Auburn Ag
Club were selected after tryouts
at the regular .meeting that was
held last Wednesday night. The
debaters that were picked to rep­resent
Auburn in the debate are
R. C. Horn and Robert Dunn, with
R. W. Dunnaway as alternate de­bater.
On to Birmingham
(Continued from page 1)
2 o'clock at Legion Field, where
a crowd of approximately 15,000
is expected for the Southeastern
Conference battle.
A cheering note came from the
stadium this week with the ap­pearance
of Rufus Deal, fullback,
and Chet Bulger, huge tackle, in
uniform. Both of these stellar per­formers
have been missing from
the lineup in the past few games
with injuries and illness.
New students at New York's
Union Theological Seminary rep­resent
54 universities and colleges.
Date Service
(Continued from page 1)
want a nice date . . . but wanted
someone to go to the stadium with.
In this weather, she must be pret­ty
sure of herself.
Officers Meeting
• The first meeting of the Re­serve
Officers School will be held
in the Basement of Samford Hall
Tuesday, November 19th, 1940, at
7:30 p.m.
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Sigma Nu Team Is Out
Of Intramural Playoff
Following four games played
this week in the final playoffs to
determine the champion among
fraternity touch football teams on
the campus for this year, the
ATO, SPE, and PiKA teams re­main
in the running. Sigma Nu
lost its two games this week and
is out of the running.
The ATO's defeated the PiKA's
in the first game of the week 7-0
At the same time, the SPE's were
handing the Sigma Nu aggrega­tion
a 12-0 setback.
The winners of the first two
games, the ATO's and the SPE's
met yesterday afternoon on Bul-lard
Field and fought to a 0-0
deadlock. The PiKA team eked
out a 7-6 win over the Sigma Nu's
to keep in the running and push
the Sigma Nu's out of the play­off.
ATO-SPE Playoff
ATO and SPE must play off
their tie next week and the loser
of this game will meet the PiKA's,
If the Pikes lose in their next
game they will be out of the play­off
also, leaving the ATO's and
the SPE's to battle again for the
championship. However, if the
Pikes win they will play the win
ner of the ATO-SPE game next
week for the championship.
A team must lose two games
before it is out of the running
for the championship.
3 LSU Players Out
For Rest of Season
Three Louisiana State players
are definitely out for the season,
Coach Bernie Moore annbunced
Thursday night on the even of the
Bengal squad's departure for the
game with Auburn tomorrow at
Birmingham.
They are Herb McDonald, guard
with torn elbow ligaments, and
Leo Bird, tailback, and Aswell
Stell, end, both receiving hospital
treatment.
Bird is in New Orleans being
examined for a head injury and
Stell, in a hospital at Baton Rouge,
has an internal injury suffered in
practice last week.
Iowa State College is ready to
supervise training of more than
1,000 technicians for national de­fense
purposes this year.
Today
That Hit Musical
"The Boys from Syracuse"
OWL SHOW TONIGHT
AT 10:00
DON AMECHE
TYRONE POWER, ALICE FAYE
in
"In Old Chicago"
Sunday-Monday
TIGER
Community Chest
Drive Underway
Allen Urges Students
To Contribute to Fund
Auburn students are being ask­ed
this week to cooperate with the
Auburn Community Chest and to
make small contributions to the
community fund for relief and bet­terment
projects.
Dr. Roger W. Allen, co-chair­man
of the local campaign, appear­ed
before the Interfraternity Coun­cil
Monday night and spoke in be­half
of the Chest. He also spoke
at the convocation for women stu­dents
last week.
Dr. Allen is requesting Auburn
students to "fall in line with Au­burn
citizens and make the Com­munity
Chest a real community
project."
The Chest budget, adopted here
last week by the Inter-Club Coun­cil,
amounts to $2,550. Canvass­ing
for the Chest started by mail
last week and is proceeding this
week by personal canvass.
All students who are interested
in making contributions are asked
to see Dr. Allen.
Phi Omega Pi Editor
Visits Chapter Here
Mrs. C. A. Benowitz, national
editor of Phi Omega sorority and
a member of the National Grand
Council, is visiting Psi chapter at
Auburn this week. Mrs. Benowitz
edits the Pentagon which is the
national magazine of the sorority.
She is from Chicago, 111.
After leaving here she will
travel to a dedication ceremony in
Lexington, Ky., at which time the
Phi Omega Pi Ward for blind
babies is to be dedicated, with
members of the Grand Council of­ficiating.
Farmer Staff
(Continued from page 1)
Richardson, Jasper; Claude Cart­er,
Weogufka; Troy Brumley, Au­burn;
Harvey Gordon, Greenville.
Members of the board of con­trol
are J. D. Sellers, Adamsville;
Ralph Davis, Kennedy; Jack Snow,
Jasper.
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Dr. Roger Allen, recently ap­pointed
Dean of the School of
Science and Literature, is Chair­man
of the Community Chest
drive in Auburn, and urges all
students to contribute to the fund.
Vincent Sheean
(Continued from page 1)
al situations, and at the same time
has published several best-sellers
on these same subjects.
Mr. Sheean has viewed, first­hand,
battles of the Chinese-Jap­anese
war, the Italian-Ethopian
war, the Spanish Civil War, and
also the present World War II.
Married in 1935
Marrying the former Diana
Forbes-Robertson in 1935, Mr.
Sheean settled down in a cottage
on the cliffs of Dover, England,
to write fiction. But he was often
called away from his cottage by
the desire to view international
history in the making from a ring­side
seat. He now is the father of
two charming young daughters.
He was born in Pana, Illinois,
and received his higher education
from the University of Chicago.
His first newspaper experience
was working on the New York
tabloids. Later he joined the
Chicago Tribune foreign staff and
began his career as a war corres­pondent,
a career which has made
him famous all over the world to­day.
Gary Cooper, the
Lazy Guy, Stars
In Martin Film
"The Westerner" Shows --*
At Opelika Theatre on
Next Sunday and Monday
Gary Cooper is a symbol of
calm and judicial indolence. While
the fantastic world of pictures
roars around him, he reserves the
right to drape his long and awk­ward
legs over two chairs and to
speculate on the bustle of men
at work. Of all the actors in Hol­lywood
he is an exponent of the
philosophy of still-motion.
And yet, it is important to re­member
that this Cooper of 1940,
although more lines are etched on
his face, is the same grown boy
whom Samuel Goldwyn twelve
years ago experimented with in
"The Winning of Barbara Worth."
He was shy then, aware of his ap­prenticeship.
He refused a tent
next to the glitter actors, and
chose instead quarters in the
slums of the canvas film city. He
was still as shy as then, when he
starred recently in Goldwyn's
newest production, "The Western­er,"
which is slated for a local
premiere at the Martin Theatre
on Sunday. Observed on the Gold­wyn
location set at Goldwyn City,
Arizona, near Tucson, it was no­ticeable
that he was bashful in the
company of his supporting play­ers.
Cooper Is Cartoonist
Cooper was once a cartoonist .*
so he is constantly on the alert
for the absurdities and melodra-matics
of life. His interest is
aroused by those who, in the
scheme of cinematic things, are
unknown outside of Hollywood.
Never one to seek conversation,
he hitches his chair to overhear
the chatter of extras and their
adventures. His closest associates,
therefore, are the grips, the car­penters
and laborers who work
with him in pictures.
Columbia University recently
awarded 40 scholarships with a
total value of $11,125.
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Welcome
to ^Birmingham-}
and BLACH'S
Home of Society Brand
and Hickey-Freeman
clothes . . .
BUD WENDLING, Birmingham,
senior; right half-back; weight,
175; height, 5' 10". Fast and ef­fective.
Fine ball carrier.
Auburn Fans
Auburn plays only one more game in
Alabama. Be sure to see . . .
The
AUBURN-VILLANOVA GAME
in
Montgomery's Cramton Bowl
on
December 7
CHET BULGER, Maine Flash;
height, 6' 2"; weight 225. Very
capable all around athlete.