1932-03-30 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LV AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1932 NUMBER 49
HAM ELECTED SENIOR PRESIDENT
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Greer and Knox McMillan to Head Plainsman Staff
GARMANY AND HARDY ARE
SELECTED LEADERS OF THE
GLOMERATA FOR NEXT YEAR
W. D. "Billy" Wilson of Gads­den
Is Successful in Race for
Position of Art Editor of The
Glomerata
Members of the Class of 1933, next
year's Senior Class, voted heavily on
the members to take charge of stu­dent
publications for next year.
In the election for officers of The
Plainsman, Robert P. Greer of Bir­mingham,
Knox M. McMillan of Tal­ladega
were elected editor-in-chief and
business manager, respectively, of the
semi-weekly newspaper.
Greer is enrolled in the electrical
engineering course, and McMillan is
taking a general course.
John B. "Red" Garmany of Chat­tanooga
led in the race for the edi­torship
of The Glomerata. Garmany
is taking the architectural course.
Frank L. Hardy of Troy emerged
winner in a three-cornered fight for
the position of business manager of
The Glomerata, and W. D. "Billy"
Wilson of Gadsden was elected art
editor of the college annual. Hardy
is a mechanical engineering student,
and Wilson is taking commercial ar­chitecture.
Cup to Be Awarded In
Ala. Baby Chick Show
A silver loving cup will be award
ed to the entry winning the sweep­stakes
in the Alabama Baby Chick
show to be held Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, April 28, 29, 3D at
the poultry department's farm. A
cup will also be given to second and
third place entries in addition to rib­bons.
In addition, a special prize will
be given by R. B. Jones, state poul­try
inspector, to the accredited hatch­ery
having the highest scoring entry.
This show is sponsored by the Block
and Bridle Club which is composed
of selected animal husbandry stu­dents.
Each entry will consist of twenty-five,
day-old chicks. Six classes are
provided for: single comb white leg­horns,
barred Plymoth Rocks, single-comb
Rhode Island Reds, white Wy-andottes,
white Plymoth Rocks and
all other breeds.
The chicks will be judged upon
arrival and scoring will be made on
the basis of vigor, 30 percent, uni­formity
of color, 20 percent, uni­formity
of size, 10 percent. Five
points will be deducted from the
total score for each dead chick found
upon arrival of the entry.
Postponed Easter Egg
Hunt Held on Sunday
Afternoon, April 3rd
Postponed last Sunday, due to the
inclement weather, the Interfraterni-ty
Council's annual Easter egg hunt
will be held on Sunday, April 3rd.
Hugh Ellis, president of the Council,
stated that the plans for the hunt had
not been altered in any manner, and
that the original program would be
carried out as previously planned.
The fraternity freshmen will meet
at the A. T. 0. house promptly at 2
o'clock, where they will proceed to Ag
bottom for the festivities.
Recalled to repeat his efforts, the
Easter Bunnies have kindly consented
to fill the bottom with eggs for the
fraternity first yea'r men. The prize
for the student having the most uni-que
costume will be awarded as prev­iously
announced, and the annual
scramble for the golden egg is being
anticipated by frosh as the big event
of the year.
All fraternity leaders are urged to
remind their new men of this post­ponement,
and to impress upon them
the importance of attendance.
BLAKE'S ADDRESS
ACCORDED PRAISE
Large Crowd Braves Rainstorm
to Hear Impressive Talk of
Journalist
Another well attended meeting of
the college bible class was held last
Sunday afternoon at four o'clock in
Langdon Hall, when Morgan Blake,
sports editor of The Atlanta Journ­al
and popular leader of the largest
men's bible class in Atlanta, gave
an inspiring talk on "Athletics and
Life".
Those who attended were partic­ularly
impressed by Mr. Blake's phi­losophy
and ableness in so clearly
presenting it to his audience. He
set forth the valuable effects of ath­letics
conducted in a sportsmanlike
way upon conduct in later life.
This class will meet on each Sun­day
afternoon hereafter, so -as not
to interfere with the regular Sunday
(Continued on page 4)
ROGERS REELECTED
CLASS PRESIDENT
BY MEMBERS OF'34
Buddy McCollum Elected Vice-
Pres.; Red Head, Sec.; Hugh
Cottle, Treas., and William
W. Beck, Historian
Members of the Class of 1934 elect­ed
Allen Rogers president of that
body. Rogers is enrolled in business
administration, and is widely known
for his athletic abilities. His home
is in Greenville.
F. G. "Buddy" McCollum, another
prominent athlete, was named to the
vice-presidency of next year's junior
class. He is from Birmingham and
is taking a course in education.
Thomas R. "Red" Head of Troy
was the successful candidate in the
race for secretary. Head is a busi­ness
administration student.
In the race for treasurer, Hugh
L. Cottle was the victorious nominee.
He is a business administration stu­dent
and lives in Montgomery.
William W. Beck coasted along
without opposition right into the of­fice
of class historian. Beck hails
from Charleston, S. C. He is en­rolled
in chemical engineering.
Kiwanis Club Addressed
By Student At Meeting
Joseph C. Camp, freshman student
in chemical engineering and also a
student in public speaking, talked to
the Auburn Kiwanis Club, Monday,
on "Mother." The talk was deliv­ered
by special invitation from the
club through Prof. Eugene D. Hess,
who is ni charge of public speaking
at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
Members of the club were pleased
with the talk made by young Camp
and congratulated him very freely,
who is in charge of public speaking
will be heard by the Auburn Kiwan-ians
from week to week as an addi­tion
to their program and also for
the help of the students, thus making
it a cooperative arrangement.
County Agent C. H. Bedingfield
and County Commissioner Jim Kil-lian
were other speakers at the meet­ing,
Monday.
The meeting was largely attended
by Kiwanians and visitors. It was
announced that the program on next
Monday will be given to aviation in
connection with the dedication of the
Auburn-Opelika airport.
Crippled Children Are
Aided By County Drive
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With all civic, religious and educa­tional
organizations cooperating, the
campaign for the aid of crippled
children in Lee County has made
marked progress in the past two
weeks.
Dr. Paul Irvine of Auburn, Coun­ty
Chairman, has made speeches in
each of the three group centers of
the campaign, Auburn, Opelika, and
Phenix City, explaining the plans
and organization of the campaign.
Dr. Graham of Opelika, county health
officer, and members of the state de­partment
of health have also spok­en
in the interest of the drive.
Different organizations are being
asked to take care of individual cases
to select a child and defray the ex­penses
of its treatments and this
plan is now being followed by the
Eastern Stars and Masons, of Ope­lika.
Organizations are also donat­ing
to the general fund and every
citizen of Lee County is being urged
to contribute at least one dollar to
the cause.
€A9 Day Celebration Will Begin
At 9 o'Clock Saturday Morning
The "A" club will present a varied
program for their annual celebration
here Saturday. The completed plans
for the day make this year's celebra­tion
the largest the school has ever
known and speaks favorably for the
organization of the "A" Club. The
scheduled events of the day include a
mock track meet, a trio of boxing
matches, a baseball game between
Auburn and Minneapolis and the pro­gram
concluding with, what the mem­bers
proclaim, as the best dance of
the year here.
The fraternity or group winning
the mock track meet, will be award­ed
the handsome trophy that has been
on display in the Tiger Drug Co. for
some time. The winner will be de­cided
on the basis of the greatest
number of points scored in the events
and every fraternity is urged to force
their freshmen to participate.
The meeting will start promptly at
9:00 a. m. Saturday and all those
who intend to participate are request­ed
to be present at Drake Field at
that time. The meet will include the
following list of events.
Potato Race, one man; Shoe Race,
two men; Sack Race, three men
(furnish own sack); Three-Legged
Race, two men; Wheelbarrow Race,
four men; One and Over (Leap Frog)
three men; One Up, two teams; Duck
Wadle, no limit; Egg Race (One hand
tied behind, egg in teaspoon), two
men; and The Greased Pole, which
will count fifteen points with no limit
to the entrants. All other events will
be conducted on the usual five-three-one
basis.
Those interested in further' details
will see "Bull" Stier.
The boxing matches are sure to be
one of the most interesting features
of the entire day's program, for three
Auburn students will meet three mem­bers
of the Birmingham Athletic
Club's team. The members of the
B. A. C. team have acquired some
little reputation in Southern amateur
circles, while the Auburn representa­tives
are quite well known; Stover,
Auburn's heavyweight representative,
being the holder of the Southeastern
amateur title.
NORMAN G. HOUSTON
IS NAMED PRESIDENT
OF CLASS OF 1935
Haygood Paterson Vice-Pres.;
Austin Martin, S e c ; James
Cooper, Treas., and Jack
Knowlton, Historian
In election of officers for next
year's Sophomore Class, Norman G.
Houston of Sylvester, Ga., was re­elected
president. Houston is popu­lar
among his class-mates and is en­rolled
in the school of Veterinary
Medicine.
After a close race for the office of
vice-president, John Haygood Pater­son
of Montgomery was declared
winner of this coveted honor. This
formidable tackle on the Tiger's
gridiron machine is a Business Ad­ministration
student.
The office of secretary will be fil­led
by Austin Martin, a promising
Architect from Wetumpka. Martin
is popular among his classmates and
a promising Sophomore-to-be.
James Cooper bested a field of money
handlers for the position of Treasur­er
only after a close contest. Cooper
•is a student in Agriculture who re­sides
in Echola.
Jack Knowlton, a prospective
Chemical Engineer headed the list
for the post of Historian and will
act in that capacity during the com­ing
year. This outstanding first year
man hails from Birmingham and is
a hard working member of the
Plainsman staff.
Best Drilled Battery,
Platoon Are Announced
In accordance with the policy of
the Commandant of the R. O. T. C.
Unit of choosing the best platoon and
battery in each Field Artillery Regi­ment
and the best platoon and com­pany
of Engineers at ceremoines, the
following results are announced from
the parade held Saturday, March 26.
Company "A", Cadet Captain C. B.
Gregory, and the 1st Platoon of Com­pany
"A", Cadet Captain C. W. Mul-lin
were judged the best in the En­gineer
Regiment.
In the 1st Field Artillery Regi­ment,
Battery "D", Cadet Captain
C. E. Sellers, and the 2nd Platoon
of Battery "D", Cadet 1st Lt. S. M.
Cutler had the best lines. Honors in
the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment
went to Battery "A", Cadet Captain
R. M. Howard, and the 2nd Platoon
of Battery "A", Cadet 1st Lt. H. B.
Upchurch.
Auburn Man Misses
Storm in 3 Towns
Johnson, Al Summerlin, Thomas
And Marshall Kaley Are Chosen
Officers Of The Class Of 1933
SCABBARD AND BLADE GIVES BIDS
TO SIXTEEN JUNIORS IN R. 0 . T. C.
Twelve Members of Field Artillery and Four Engineers Are
Tapped at Drill Saturday Morning; Honors Students For
Military Efficiency
Sixteen juniors in the R. O. T. C.
unit were pledged to membership in
Scabbard and Blade, national honor­ary
military fraternity, at tapping
ceremonies held at the drill period
Tuesday morning. The men were
called from the ranks and pinned
with small red, white and blue rib­bons,
the colors of the fraternity.
Twelve of the cadets are in the
field artillery unit. They are James
M. Backes of Mobile; Asa C. Black,
Mobile; John R. Chadwick, Nash­ville;
Theodore W. Clarkson, Gads­den;
John C. Fonville, Montgomery;
John B. Garmany, Chattanooga; R.
Porter Grant, Dothan; William F.
Ham, Cottonton; G. L. Johnson,
Langdale; J. Lake Parker, Panola;
Forney Renfro, Opelika; and Sam E.
Wittel, Demopolis.
The other pledges are Herbert F.
Croen, Jr., North Tarrytown, N. Y.;
William Jackson, Birmingham; R. P.
Lapsley, Selma; and Thomas W.
Sparxow, Auburn. They are mem­bers
of the engineer unit.
Scabbard and Blade honors stu­dents
who have distinguished them­selves
in the military unit, and quali­fication
for membership is not based
on military efficiency alone, but
qualities of character and leadership
are given equal consideration.
Nat Waller of Selma is captain of
the Auburn chapter, which is known
as Company L, Fifth Regiment. G.
V. Nunn of Auburn is first lieuten­ant,
C. ,-E. Mathews of Grove Hill,
second lieutenant, and G. C. Walter
of Birmingham, first sergeant.
Heavy Ballotting Features
•Election of Officers for Se­nior
Class of Next Year As
Ham Is Elected by Large
Majority
AIRPORT TO OPEN
MONDAY, APRIL 4
Stunt Fliers from Pensacola
Will be Feature of Day's
Program
Stunt flying by "The Three Sea
Hawks," a team of fliers from the
Naval Air Station at Pensacola, will
be an attraction on the program for
the dedication of the Auburn-Opelika
Airport on Monday, April 4,
The team has three fast, single
seated fighting planes that fly very
close together in" formation while
executing loops, barrel rolls, and tail
spins. The trio features squirrel-cage
loops in which the three planes
follow each other in a continuous
loop.
Lt. John Cromelin of Montgomery
is leader of the "Sea Hawks," and
included in the team is Lt. W. V.
"Bill" Davis of Macon, Ga.,.who flew
from San Francisco to Hawaii in
1927 with Art Goebel, noted ace, to
win the $25,000 Dole prize for the
first flight from the United States
' (Continued on page 4)
AUBURN DEBATERS
LOSE TO COLORADO
Morrill and Baskeryill Are De­feated
after Closely Con­tested
Affair
The Auburn debating team was
judged loser in a debate with the
team' from Colorado College of Colo­rado
Springs held Monday evening at
Langdon Hall.
The Colorado debaters supported
the negative side of the question,
"Resolved: That Congress should
pass legislation providing for the cen­tralized
control of industry, consti­tutionality
waived."
Justin S. Morril of Mobile and Wil­liam
H. Baskervill represented Au­burn
in the meeting. Dean John W.
Scott of the School of Science and
Literature acted as chairman.
On Saturday evening, the Auburn
negative team won from the Univer­sity
of Florida in a debate on the
same question. Nicholas Hare of
Monroeville and Douglas Brown of
Ozark were the winning speakers.
(Continued on page 4)
Winning by large majority, Bill
Ham of Cottonton was named presi­dent
of next year's Senior class in
the elections today. Ham one of the
most popular students on the campus
is enrolled in the school of Business
Administration.
Lee Johnson of Langdale was the
choice for vice-president. He is a
member of the football team. His
course is Electrical Engineering.
Al Summerlin won a close race
for class secretary. He is an Elec­trical
Engineer, and comes from Co­lumbus,
Ga.
In the race for treasurer Nelson
H. Thomas was declared victor. He
is from Jones, and is' enrolled in the
Business Administration department.
Marshall Kaley was elected with­out
opposition to the position of class
Historian. He is from Marion Junc­tion,
and is a student in Aero­nautical
Engineering.
Timid Child Offers
A Serious Problem
Barely missing cyclones at three
towns in one afternoon was the rec­ord
made last Monday by H. W.
Nixon of the Auburn chemistry de­partment.
Mr. Nixon had been to
Eutaw to testify in a court hearing
and was en route to Auburn.
He arrived at Faunsdale just after
the storm struck there; at Allenville
he was just ahead of it; and at De­mopolis
just after.
"The newspaper reports," said
Mr. Nixon, "did not picture it as
bad as it was. It was terrible. Box
cars were lifted from the tracks,
and big trees were snapped off. .Else­where
pieces of iron were left hang­ing
in trees."
NOTICE!
The bids lor the decorations of
the Senior Dances are due in next
•Saturday} April 2, to L. H. Norris,
chairman of the Social Committee at
the Delta Sigma Phi House.
Any information concerning the
decorations can be obtained by see­ing
the chairman of the social com­mittee.
Dramatic Tourney For State High
Schools To Open Friday Morning
The annual Alabama High School
Dramatic Tournament at Auburn
will begin at 7:10 a. m. Friday when
the Lee County High School, Auburn
will present "The Telegram.;' Stu­dents
from 32 Alabama high schools
will take part in the contest which
will consist, in addition to the dra­matics,
of competition in music, pub­lic
speaking, poetry reading, and es­say
writing. v
Twenty-three schools will present
one-act plays Friday and Saturday.
The finals will take place Saturday
beginning at 6:45 p. m., and the
winning entry will be awarded a
beautiful loving cup. Langdon Hall
will be the scene of the dramatics.
The poetry reading contest will be
held at 2:30 Friday afternoon in the
auditorium of Broun Hall, and the
essay writing will be held at 4 o'clock
Friday in Samford Hall.
The music contest will begin on
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock in
the auditorium of the new Auburn
High School. At 2:00 p. m., the
speaking contest will take place in
Broun Hall auditorium.
Medals will be given winners of
poetry reading, music, and public
speaking contests, and a cash prize
to the essay writing winner.
The tournament this year will be
the fourth that has been held at Au­burn.
Murphy High School, Mobile,
has won two of the contests, in 1929
and 1931. State Secondary Agri­cultural
School of Wetumpka was
winner in 1930. As the latter high
school is not entered in this year's
tournament, Murphy will be the only
entrant that has won in previous
years.
The Department of English, of
which Prof. J. R. Rutland is head,
sponsors the contest. Members of
the English faculty whp will assist
Prof. Rutland are Dr. Leo Gosser,
Dr. Charles P. Weaver, Prof. E. D.
Hess, and Prof. Telfair Peet. Prof.
John W. Brigham, head of the music
department, will have charge of the
musical event.
The timid, retiring youngster pre­sents
a problem vastly more serious
than does the mischievous or talka­tive
child. The timid child, who
shrinks from all difficult situations,
derives far less from school, or from
the social activities of his follows
than the more assertive children who
get what they want through their
own initiative.
This is the belief of Dr. B. R. Sho-walter,
director of the Auburn exten­sion
teaching division, who was elec­ted
president of the Alabama Mental
Hygiene Society at the annual meet­ing
in Birmingham last week.
The Society, through the activities
of 12 committees, will continue a sur­vey
started last ye^ar to determine a
suitable program for bringing about
more wholesome adjustments among
adults and school children in Ala­bama.
A child must be a harmonious part
of the environment in which he lives,
continued Dr. Showalter. Many
children and grown-ups looked upon
as "peculiar" or "odd" may remedy
their mental difficulties with the help
of those who understand mental hy­giene.
The ultimate adoption of this pro­gram
contemplates the cooperation
of many agencies including social
workers, ministers, lawyers and
judges, and physicians as well as
teachers. It will embody both an
educative or preventive program as
well as corrective or remedial meas­ures
through various mental hygiene
clinics.
Cabinet Officers Are
Elected On April 20th
Announcement that election of
members of the Executive Cabinet
of the Association of Undergraduate
Students will take place April 20th,
was made today by George E. Tuck­er,
chairman of the Election Com­mittee.
Nominations must be filed not la­ter
than Friday, April 15th at five
o'clock. Members will be chosen
from the departments according to
the usual plan.
Full details will be carried in the
Saturday's edition of this paper.
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Published semi-weekly by the students of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Au­burn,
Alabama.
Subscription rates $2.50 per year (60
issues). Entered as second class matter
at the Post Office, Auburn, Ala.
Business and editorial offices at Auburn
Printing Co. on Magnolia Street.
Office hours: 1M2 A. M. Daily.
STAFF
Victor R. White, Jr. Editor-in-Chief
J. Roy Wilder Business Manager
EDITORIAL STAFF
Gabie Drey Associate
R. A. McMillan Associate
J. W. Letson Associate
J. R. Chadwick Managing
L. C. McCallum Sports
H. W. Moss News
Horace Shepard News
M. M. Spruiel Exchange
Frank G. Keller Contributing
W. W. Beck : . Contributing
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REPORTERS
Billy Hamilton, '34;; Walter Brown, '35;
J. C. Ivey, '34; W. G. Hall, '35; B. C. Pope,
Jr., '33; Jack Knowlton, '35; Walter, Smith,
'35; Marion Kelley, '33; J. A. P a r i s h , Jr.,
'35.
BUSINESS STAFF
James Backes Asst. Business Manager
Knox M. McMillan .... Advertising Manager
Robert Greer Circulation Manager
Phillip M. Benton Asst. Adver. Mgr.
Circulation Department: T. A. Dunlap,
'35; Edward W. Prewitt, '35; George H.
Lester, '35.
THE DEBATING TEAM
As the days go by one hears more and
more about Auburn's debating team, about
the work it is doing, about the interest
that is being gradually aroused, and about
the success the aspiring forensic artists
are enjoying.
It is an accepted fact that the fine arts,
especially the art of literature and all that
pertains thereto, are and have been sadly
neglected here. It is extremely gratify­ing
to learn how well the debating team
is doing, and the Plainsman wishes to en­courage
the active members in their work.
The things learned by active participation
in public speaking are priceless; to be able
to talk on one's feet, and to express clear­ly
one's ideas in public are valuable aids
to business and professional success.
Then lets us urge the debating team on
to greater things, giving them our full
support, and developing a line of student
activity that elsewhere is treated as indi-spensible.
BALLYHOO AGAIN
For fear that John Temple Graves had
done an about face in his attitude towards
the Literary Digest straw vote, it was nec­essary
to refresh our memories on his com­ment
of March 16. Although the Dean of
Alabama Colyumnists has not patently
contradicted himself, his host of readers
must be confused as to his stand on this
"something of a political event."
The previous comment of the Birming­ham
journalist deplored the ballyhoo with
which the prohibition poll was written up.
Today he suggests the criticism of the se­lection
of the voters. Yet, through it all
he rises in defense of the referendum in
taking us to task. May we ask what Mr.
' Graves' opinion of the poll is?
We have enjoyed his lengthy discussion
on the various aspects of this national bal­lot;
but if we may be so bold as to suggest,
Mr. Graves has likened himself unto a poli­tician
when dealing with the prohibition
question.
CONGRATULATIONS
The old ever gives away to the new.
Tonight the front page is bedecked with
the names of the new campus leaders and
publication heads. Present leaders will
pass on to the oblivion of graduation to be
lost in the ever interesting present.
' The torch has been thrown to other hands
to carry as the newly elected see fit.
If any progress has been made this
year there is much to do in the future.
If campus leaders have been inefficient,
then it remains for the incoming men to
begin the upward trend.
the Plainsman offers congratulations to
every man who was the student body's
choice for a position of responsibility on
the campus, and wishes to impress the ob­ligation
that such honor carries. May the
ensuing year be one of advance in the true
field of education. May campus activity
effect to the fullest degree its duties as
the most vital factor in education.
DRAMATIC TOURNAMENT
When the English department came for­ward
a few years ago with the announce­ment
that Auburn would sponsor a High
School Dramatic Tournament, few realized
the significance of such a move or the pro­portions
such a plan would assume in a
few years time.
This week-end we are host to the joust of
dramatic aspirants from the high schools
from every quarter of the state. That there
is state-wide interest in the tournament is
witnessed by the geographical diversifica­tion
of the entries. The schedule of plays
to be presented is indicative of the extents
to which these high schools have gone to
produce the highest type drama.
This should be of lasting benefit to the
youth of Alabama, to the institution, and
to the promotion of dramatic art in the
south. Drama has been replaced to a large
degree in the more youthful minds with
the cinema, and is fast fading as one of
the finest arts.
The English department deserves the
praise of the entire state in the work they
have done in this connection.
Letters to the Editor
Editor The Plainsman:
Dear Sir:
Behold! Another machination of the
mighty Nemesis of the campus! As a lion
sallies forth from its den to create havoc
in the ranks of men, so this mighty monster,
after a period of • inactivity, has sprung
from its den and is now laying waste to
certain of the politicians.
To come down to plain facts, the author
of this epistle is a candidate for an office
in the election being held today. I have
been on the campus of this institution for
quite awhile. As far as I know, I do not
have a single personal enemy. Yet, today,
I find that a certain club is applying the
well-known screws. In other words, they
are "ganging" me. Whether anyone else is
being benefitted by this noble exploit of
justice (from the club's viewpoint) or not,
I do not know. The main thing is, in my
estimation, they're really not hurting me
to any appreciable extent. Of course, I will
lose some votes, but I do not think that
the noble work now being done by this
mighty organization will swing the election.
The point I've been getting down to is
this: I'm not afraid of losing. I firmly
believe that I will win. If I doubted for a
minute that my victory would be conclu­sive,
I would certainly not write this let­ter.
That is why I am writing now instead
of waiting until I get the returns of the
election. In case I should lose I want no
one to accuse me of griping about it. How­ever,
I intend that you know just what
anyone who enters the lists against an ath­lete
is up against.
Up to this morning I was fully confident
of carrying from one-half to two-thirds of
the votes cast. Things have been changed
since this morning though. Now, I am con­fident
of carrying fully enough to win, so
that's not what I am squawking about. The
thing that gripes me is that I've been run­ning
a clean race. It makes a fellow feel
pretty tough to sit still and see a race un-marred
by any bad feeling on the part of
the contestants suddenly turned into a
slough of "politic-ing" through the work­ings
of an organization not at all concern­ed
with politics—or at least that is what
its members say—that they're not having
anything at all to do with politics—that it
is against the purposes for which the or­ganization
was founded.
I want to say that, up to today, I have
had nothing at all against this club. I
don't blame them for supporting a member
fairly. But when they said that they could
not have me in office because of my atti­tude
toward them, they were only using
that excuse as a blind to cover something
much deeper than .that. I number some of
the best friends that I have among the
members of this club, and I hate to say
anything against them. However, I am
saying that they are using some rotten
politics to keep me out of office.
Well, God bless 'em in their work. They
still have three hours before the polls close-to
get in their work. They'll need all of
that time (and more too) if they beat me.
(Signed) A. Candidate, Esq.
TESTAMENT
By Colum Cearnaigh
What message shall I speak who am grown
old?
Grown old with dusty- wanderings in far
lands, .
Whose head is bowed with grief of years,
whose hands
Are rough with delving in the crusted
mould;
When fled is life's achievement, strong and
bold,
And nothing waits this flesh but death's
grim bands,
Watching with feeble eyes the ebbing sands,
What message shall I speak who am grown
old?
To youth I turn, with all my heart's ac­claim
:
"Be true to things of worth, and spurning
fame,
Seek first the treasure that no gold can buy,
Letting naught blind thy vision of the sky,
So when, at eve, the splendid tryst is come,
God lead thy lingering footsteps safefly
home;"
—America (New York).
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E v e n t s multiply.
There is "A Day" for
April 2nd, and the
dedication of the
"Auburn-Opelika Air­port"
for Monday,
April 4. Then comes
the Short Course in
Ornamental Forestry
a n d Highway Im­provement
beginning on April 12th. "Ag
Day" with the banquet and dance comes
on April 22, and the Annual Inspection of
the R. 0. T. C. on April 26 and 27. The
"Boy Scout Jamboree" and the dedication
of the Textile Engineering School are set
for May 6. Baccalaureate Sunday is May
15, Alumni Day May 16, and Commence­ment
Day May 17. During the interval
between the end of the semester and the
beginning of Summer Session comes the
Annual Girl's 4-H Club Conference and
the "Welding Conference" or short course
which will attract many people here. So
Auburn has her programs and her confer­ences
and how greatly she needs a good
hotel.
* * * *
There are two articles in the Regula­tions
of Permanent Committees of the Stu­dent
Executive Cabinet which need study.
One is Article V outlining the duties of
the Committee on Coordination and the
other is Article VI on the duties of the
Point System Committee. In both of these
articles will be found excellent thoughts
but little has been done to put them into
effect. Just who is at fault is a question.
Possibly everyone has had so much to do
that these matters„were overlooked. If we
could find a good room where the Execu­tive
Cabinet and its various committees
might meet possibly that would result in
more systematic work. At any rate the
new Cabinet will need to read these arti­cles
over carefully and study them that
they may be put into effect or revised or
dropped.
Fortunately for all the Social Commit­tee
and the Senior Class have together
worked out a plan which ought to bring
the "Senior Prom" through with flying
colors and at the same time establish a
trust fund for the wise and careful use
of the Student Social Committee in future
years if it can be safeguarded properly.
It is a fine example of good cooperation
and willingness to work together in the
interest of the whole student body.
* * * *
March has been a most unusual month
with sunny days, warm days, and then the
heaviest frost of the winter followed by
the most dreadful storm of many years
bringing destruction of life and property
over a wide area. There will be homes to
be restored, families to make a new start
and distress for many thousands. The
pity of it is that the storm came when
economic disaster is on every side and
people were already heavily burdened in
mind and soul. But the spring will soon
be here with the warmer days and grow­ing
things on every side. I am sure that
the appeal for help will meet a ready re­sponse
and each will give if there is any­thing
to spare.
AND NOW . . . FREE LOVE!
A Woman's church organization has writ­ten
to President Butler of Columbia Uni­versity
charging that one of the professors
is teaching free love in a course in family
relations. A few weeks ago people became
equally incensed because a speaker had fil­led
the innocent minds of University of
Washington students with communistic doc­trines
!
Those who .protest against the radical
teachings in the large universities of Amer­ica
are really insulting the college under­graduates.
Even if a professor vigorously supports
free love, anarchism, or any other ism, his
listeners, supposedly intelligent college stu­dents,
usually do not adopt his ideas. The
majority of students will merely compare
these radical ideas with the reactionary
theories of other professors and. adopt a
sensible middle course.
The suppression of certain doctrines just
because they do not happen to conform
with the established order, has no place
in large non-sectarian universities. Ma­ture
minded students have a right to hear
all sides of a question. The censors and
advocates of "control" should confine their
activities to the religious institutions, the
high schools, and the street corners.—Daily
Bruin.
We are all healthier, the insurance com­panies
keep insisting, since these peculiar
times have come upon us. General Pros­perity
has apparently been superseded by
Corporal Wellbeing.—Boston Herald.
Japan wants the world to believe that she
isn't fighting any war but is winning all the
battles.—Arizona Producer.
* AUBURN FOOTPRINTS *>
Man has learned to fly but as yet, only a bird can sit on a barb-wire fence.
* * * * * , * * » * *
A good example of two living a? cheaply as one is the parents who have a son
in college.
* * * * * * * * * *
A certain student is reported to have justified the similarity of his history
paper with that of another on the grounds that, "history repeats itself".
* * * * * * * * * *
Many of the newly elected will realize next year that the joke is on them.
* * * * * * * * * *
"I wouldn't marry you if you were the only man on earth."
"If I were the only man on earth I wouldn't have to get married."
* * * * * * * * * *
Cigar smoking is hard on the eyes—one has to look at the ground too long.
* * * * * * * * * *
No one fears a cyclone in Auburn there is too much hot air here already.
* * * * * * * * * *
A man touring Europe sent back a picture post card bearing this message:
Dear Son:
On the other side you will see a picture of the rock from which the Spartans
used to throw their defective children. Wish you were here. Your Dad.
—The Alchemist.
* * * * * * * * * *
We hear of people fooling with the stock market—but the market usually
does the fooling.
* * ' * * * * ' * * * *
She was temperamental—90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
* * * * * * * * * *
Expert (examining radio) : Now, if you will take me up stairs and show me
your antenna . . .
Housewife: How dare you, sir!
* * * * * * ' * * * *
Cletus says that the "A" Club room is the best place to seek shelter during a
tornado! Not even the elements would dare defy this organization.
* * * * * * * * * * *
A Georgia paper reports that the public's worst enemy is the public.
* * * * * * * * * *
Believe it or not: A "Rat" cap was seen on the campus yesterday.
* . * * * * * * * * *
Forty-seven throbbing, palpitating hearts anxiously awaiting returns as the
campus goes to the polls today.
* * * * * * * * * *
Some people marry for love when they can't do any better.
* * * * * * * * * *
Then there was the sophomore who didn't mind his girl petting animals ex­clusively
because he was used to being the goat.
* * • * * * * * * * *
Who was the awful pain you had in your arms last night?
WITH OTHER COLLEGES
Signs of educational liberalism comes to
light in the Brenau Alchemist. An edi­torial
reflecting the school's attitude on
smoking is refreshing to those who have
observed the mid-Victorian policies of
some female institutions. To quote:
"Smoking has been judged a per­sonal
matter, and will in the future
be regulated accordingly. As long as
the exercise of your personal choice
does not intrude on another's rights
there will be no ban against smoking.
This seems a thoroughly fair and just­ifiable
attitude to be taken in regard
to what, in the final analysis, is neith­er
a crime nor a virtue, but merely
a matter of taste. Certainly, no
girl's character is to be condemned
because she smokes, nor recommend­ed
solely because she doesn't. The
revision of the old regulation is not
to be considered a revolution nor to
be taken as a signal for all to start
smoking; it IS a recognition of. the
fact that, after all, smoking is not so
important an issue as the forbidding
of it might lead us to believe".
* * * *
From the radio column of the Wash­ington
and Lee Ring-Turn Phi we glean
the following information that should hold
interest to Auburn's loudspeaker fans.
"Wayne King, who just lost a $2,-
000 bet by getting married before he
was 40 (he's 31) is about to go on
tour, but his regular broadcasting will
be continued from the WEAF-NBC
chain. His regular schedule is for
5:30 p. m., Wednesdays."
I
"The following type of thing has
caused this writer to be accused of
Winchellizing: Eddie and Ralph, Sis­ters
of the Skillet, are not even broth­ers,
and they don't own a skillet, but
they are fraternity brothers. Eddie
was a lawyer, and his first client is
still in the penetentiary . . . Herman
Hupfield (When Yuba Plays the Rum­ba)
composes about fifty songs a year
. . . Elinor Smith, aviatrix, recent­ly
spoke on a program commemorat­ing
the twentieth anniversary of the
Camp Fire Girls; she Was twenty on
the same day . . . Ruth Etting got
her Chesterfield job without an audi­tion
. . . She's on tomorrow night at
10 out of WABC . . . If you want
dance music, try WLW at Cincinnati,
'Henry Thies and his orchestra seems
to have camped there . . And Ilomay
Bailey, NBC songster, carries a self-inking
rubber stamp with her where-ever
she goes. It's for autograph
seekers . . . "
* * * *
Duke University springs something new
on hopeful college editors. Each pros­pective
editor of The Chronicle is given
an issue of the paper to prove his merits
before any selection is made. In this
manner he has the chance to voice his
policy and advocate the changes he wishes
in the college paper.
* * * *
At the University of Paris there is a
course in the appreciation of fine wines
and liquors. After attending an American
University it should be very easy to ap­preciate
fine wines and liquors.
Reports from the collegiate world indi­cate
that Auburn is not the only school
that is under financial pressure in a social
way. Washington and Lee is experiencing'
difficulty in staging their finals, and Wes-leyan
University has called their dances
off in view of the stress.
* * * *
The Daily Tar Heel, up to the insistent
trick of discovering unique facts about the
campus, now announces that the faculty
and not the students read trashy magazines.
We assume that intelligence must have di­version
although we thought the students
furnished that.
"Bfembers of the student body, it has
been observed, ridicule the detective
story, refuse action thrillers, and seldom
demand the weird, supernatural, hor­rible,
or pseudo-scientific articles. At
one stand practically no students buy
action stories, but the clerks admitted
a profitable sale to University instruc­tors.
Another storekeeper commented
that the 'trashy' magazines were
bought chiefly by faculty members and
townspeople, student purchases being
almost negligible. The third esti­mated
that his sales of cheap magazines
were practically .evenly divided be­tween
students and faculty and towns­people.
"Miss Co-ed prefers The Woman's
Home Companion and Vogue and, with
all sophistication, avoid? the 'love' mag­azines.
She purchases The American
Magazine frequently, and for her hum­or,
relies upon College Humor, ignoring
The New Yorker which the men stu­dents
prefer more than all others of
the same type".
A tax of $1 on after-dinner speeches is
suggested in Ontario. The financial condi­tion
of the province must be desperate.
Rarely, in ordinary times, is anything taxed
at 200 per cent of its value.—Detroit News.
Women of Russia recently celebrated an
international woman's day for a couple of
hours, after which they went back to clean
out the stable and guide the plow.—Port­land
Oregonian.
Golf-widows are advised to follow their
husbands round as a slimming exercise. Our
thoughts are with the husbands.—Punch.
INSIGHTS
By Conscientious Cletus
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in this
column are not necessarily the editorial opinions of
this paper. It is a column of personal comment,
and is not to be read as an expression of our
editorial policy.
THERE is a Negro in Auburn who is
able to tell the time at any period
during the day or night and not
miss it more than ten minutes. It would
,be an excellent thing if the college authori­ties
would capitalize on this .local talent
that has recently been discovered, and give
this Negro a job setting the college clock
every hour. We would then have the as­surance
that the clock was within ten min­utes
of the correct time, and that would be
much better than our present uncertain
state.
* * * *
It was pointed out the other day that the
college clock is more neai'ly right when it
is not running at all, because then it is
exactly correct two times during every
twenty-four hours. Having never been
right Cletus is not in a position to judge,
but it does seem that it would be better if
our clock was exactly right two times dur­ing
the day than never to be right at all.
To put that in the form of a motion would
be out of order, and not according to the
rules of Parliamentary procedure, and any­way
it might not be constitutional after
some patriotic genius looked it up in the
CONSTITUTION OF THE ASSOCIATED
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF
THE ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTI­TUTE.
* * * *
Far be it from me to imitate Cletus, but
when he asked me to write this column for
him I thought it would be better to start it
off in the same general style that he would
have used. I realize that I now have the
power to say anything that I like, and judg­ing
from the success that Cletus has had
during the year I could get away with
murder. On the other hand I pride myself
on being patriotic, and I think too much
of myself, my fellow students, and my Alma
Mater, to say'anything that would cause
anybody trouble.
I believe in democracy, and have absolute
faith in what the majority decides is right.
I believe that all family troubles should be
kept within the family, which means that
I do not agree in any way with the policy
that this column has followed during the
year.
I am a member of several honor fraterni­ties
on the campus, and I credit my success
in these elections to one main quality that
I have developed during my four years at
Auburn, and that is the ability to make
friends. A lot of times during my college
career I have had opinions that were far
from those accepted by my fellow students,
but I have kept them to myself. The only
way to have a lot of friends, and the only
way to make a real success in college is to
be agreeable, and to be agreeable you have
to agree with all the leaders on the campus.
The term "brown-nose" might be used to
express exactly what I mean. It is very
unfortunate that success at Auburn requires
such a method, but the end is important
enough to warrant any means to attain it.
* * * *
It seems to be a strange trick of fate that
Cletus should be called a failure in his own
column, but I told him exactly what I -was
going to do and he agreed to it. After all
Cletus has said several times that a mere
difference of opinion should not cause any
change in personal relationships, and that is
one of the few things that I can agree with,
him on. As I said I try to make it a policy
not to disagree with anyone, but in this
case the popular thing to do is to disagree
with Cletus. All of my friends do, and I
value my many friends more highly than
anything else that I have received from my
four years at college. For this reason I
am going to do the things that will help
me keep my friends.
* * * *
If Cletus started out at the first of this
year with the one objective, to get people
to read his column, he has certainly suc­ceeded
to that extent, because from my ob­servation
the column is read. That is one
reason that it is so unfortunate that the
policy has not been a little different from
what it has. ;
* * * *
"Being funny is a serious business. We
have noticed that one or two college hum­orous
magazines, during the last year, have
been put on the black list by authorities—
their publications suspended—because they
have stepped beyond the bounds of good
taste. Usually in such cases, its been our
observation, the trouble has been caused by
an idea of the editors that there are only
two subjects for "Humor"—necking and
drinking. The humor in such magazines is
pretty flabby. The good humorous publi­cations
are those that put a ban on these
subjects and find their material in good-natured
satire, light comment on student
foibles, amusing verse—they've obeyed the
dicta of good taste."
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1932 T H E P L A I N S M A N -:- A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE PAGE THREE
LARGE CROWD SEES GYMKHANA
EVENTS SATURDAY AFTERNOON
L a d i e s ' Riding Class and Members of Polo Class Stage Exhibi­tions
at Bullard Field; Polo Match Between Officers and
Student is First Played Here
A large percent of Auburn's popu­lation
"went horse-minded" Saturday
afternoon, March 26, when it turned
out for the gymkhana held on Bul­lard
field by the Polo and Riding
Club.
The surrounding hillsides of tall
pines provided a flattering back­ground
for the bright red coats worn
by the members of the ladies' rid­ing
class as, in the opening event of
the afternoon, the class entered the
show ring riding in single file and
went through the complicated figures
of a "grand march on horseback."
Next on the program was the best
schooled polo pony class. Since the
winner of this had to be decided by
the slow process of elimination and
the entries in the class were numer­ous,
this event took a longer time
than any other on the program. The
cup awarded for the first place in
this class was won by J. Newman,
riding Rabbit; G. S. Samford on
Eagle was second, and W. 0. John­son,
mounted on Preston, came third.
Following this event was. ladies'
jumping in which a course of four
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jumps was ridden. Mrs. J. W. Brig-
Kam on Strawberry and Miss Dabney
Hare riding Rabbit tied for first
place. The jumps were then raised
for the jump off and the cup for first
was won by Miss Hare. Mrs. Brig-ham
placed second and Miss Ernes­tine
Hill riding Spark Plug was third.
The stake race winners were: T.
W. Harwell, first; J. L. Pincher, sec­ond;
W. O. Johnson, third.
In the ladies walk, trot, canter
class the security, control, and rid­ing
form of each rider was judged,
and a cup was presented to the one
chosen as being the most perfect.
This was won by Miss Ernestine Hill,
mounted on Bill. Second place was
claimed by Miss Dabney Hare whose
mount was Don. Miss Nora Towles
on Judge, was selected as the third
best of the group.
The formality of the occasion was
broken by a round of mounted wrest­ling
between teams from the junior
and senior classes. The seniors were
the victors, receiving theatre tickets
for proving their prowess.
The needle and thread race was
won by Miss Nora Towles and W. S.
Pope, first, Miss Dabney Hare and
Jim Wood, second, and Mrs. C. Liv­ingston
and G. E. Tucker, third.
In the bending race L. M. Jones
and K. G. Taylor won first and sec­ond
places respectively.
The spoon race winners were:
Mrs. M. V. Davidson, first; Miss Er­nestine
Hill, second; Miss Dabney
Hare, third.
Last on the program was pair
jumping in which five couples rode,
each couple in turn riding abreast
a course of four jumps. In this
Miss Helen Franke on Bill, and Mr.
C. E. Sellers on Shorty, placed first;
Miss Nora Towles on Strawberry and
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pennant chase this season. Hitchcock has been placed at
short by the Auburn coach and is expected to see service in that po­sition
for the larger part of the season. He will probably be the only
infielder in the starting line-up who is not a senior. Grant, who per­formed
at third base for the greater part of last season, has been
seeingi service in the outfield during spring practice games in order to
help fill the gap caused by the graduation of three regulars of the 1931
squad. He has shown marked improvement as a ball-hawk since the
beginning of practice.
PERSONAL
MENTION
Auburn has three men at the Fed­eral
seed loan office in Memphis this
week assisting in getting loans for
Alabama farmers. The three are
Thomas A. Sims, Sam Brewster, and
Kirtley Brown. Sims has been in
Memphis two weeks.
—0—-
Elmer G. Salter spent Easter Sun­day
in Montgomery with his mother.
—0—
Howard Gray of New Market came
to Auburn to be initiated into Gam­ma
Sigma Delta, last Friday after­noon.
Howard was president of the
senior class of 1931, but resigned
from college at the end of the first
semester in order to take charge of a
farm and a business at New Market.
—0—
Sam Berney Hay, Jr., weight sev­en
pounds, arrived Saturday night.
Mother and baby, at Opelika Hos­pital,
are doing splendidly.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Perry Robin-
Son, formerly of Auburn now of Bos­ton
Mass., announce the birth of a
daughter, Pattie Perry.
State Commander
Visits Local Post
The State Commander of the
American Legion, Jim Conner of Bir­mingham,
paid a visit to the local
post here last Friday afternoon.
While here he conferred with vari­ous
legionnaires including Sergeant
S. Fitzpatrick, post adjutant.
Mr. Conner says that he hopes to
be able to return to Auburn on April
25 to attend a barbecue given at that
time by the local post for the offi­cers
here to inspect the R. O. T. C.
unit.
The unemployment work now be­ing
carried on by the Legion is meet­ing
with much success, he said.
Mr. Tom Pyke on Sammy were sec­ond;
and Miss Ernestine Hill on
Sparky and Mr. G. V. Nunn on Bum,
came third. Cups were presented to
the winners of second and third
places as in all of the other events.
The goal shooting contest and the
glove race were called off to allow
ample time for four chuckers of polo
that were played at the close of the
program. Two student teams, Red
and Blue, were matched for a chuck-er
each against the officers team and
then for two chuckers against each
other. This was the first polo play­ed
for exhibition in Auburn.
The officials for the afternoon
were: Judges—Capt. E. C. Betts, Ft.
Benning, Ga.; Dr. I. S. McAdory and
Prof. J. W.' Roe of Auburn; Ring­master—
Lt. J. V. Phelps; Clerk of
course—Urton Nunn; Charge of
paddock—F. V. Williams.
' Though a number of the students
had left Auburn to spend Easter at
their homes, it was stated that a sat­isfactory
crowd attended and gate
receipts were encouraging. Any
profit made is to go toward buying
polo helmets. The polo squad has
expressed appreciation for the sup­port
given them by those who at­tended,
to the members of the ladies'
riding class who did so much toward
making the show a success, and to
the members of the military depart­ment
and faculty who assisted them.
First Meeting Tennis
Candidates Is Called
for Thursday Night
By K. G. Taylor
Every one interested in trying out
for a Tennis Team to represent the
college in matches which are to be
scheduled are requested to meet at
Langdon Hall Thursday night at sev­en
o'clock.
The object of this meeting is to
get a list of all candidates for the
team and to elect a captain and man­ager.
Tentative plans are to have an
elimination tournament within the
next two weeks and a team is to be
formed from the men who have the
best tournament records. All matches
must be played in the near future
as a match has already been sched­uled
with Miss. A. & M. to be played
here April 23rd.
The varsity squad will be composed
of ten men who will be picked by the
be permanent at any time as any
captain, however, this squad will not
other player may become one of the
squad provided his play justifies such
a change. Owing to expenses only
four men will be allowed to make
the road trips.
Coach Wynne will be in charge of
the team and has been carrying on
extensive correspondence with neigh­boring
schools in an effort to sched­ule
the best possible matches. One
match has already been scheduled
with Miss. A. & M. and it is thought
that Howard, Birmingham-Southern,
Emory, and Georgia Tech will be
added to the list.
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Rooms painted with one
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pictures the same day!
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Auburn Returns to Practice at
Drake Field for Games'This
Week-End
Imbued with plenty of confidence
after leading the Minneapolis Millers
for seven and a half innings in their
opening game of the current cam­paign
in Montgomery, the Auburn
Tigers returned to diamond warfare
on Drake Field Tuesday afternoon in
preparation for a lone tilt with La-nett
Athletic Club in Lanett Friday
and a return engagement with the
strong American Association club
here Saturday. The second Plains­men-
Miller struggle will head Au­burn's
annual "A" Day program,
which will start Saturday morning.
In holding an outfit that is picked
to be a leading contender for a
double A pennant to a 6-4 score,
Coach Sam McAllister's collegians
played a brand of ball that probably
will net them many victories before
the 1932 season is history.
Both defensively and offensively,
the Dixie League and Southern Con­ference
champions looked impressive.
The team surprised even their, men­tor
in matching the Millers' nine
safeties, only four of the 11 Auburn
players who were used failing to
slam out one or more hits.
Duck Riley, of Birmingham, a
senior keystoner with no peers as a
fielder, and Sam Mason, who has been
transformed from an infielder into an
outfielder, led the swatting brigade,
each with two for four. Riley, whom
Coach McAllister predicts will do
some heavy-hitting his final year
under the Orange and Blue banner,
collected a triple and a single as his
day's efforts at the plate and Mason
banged out a pair of singles. Ma­son's
hits drove in two tallies. They
also looked good afield.
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INFIELD OF BASEBALL SQUAD IS
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Harry Lloyd at First, Riley at Second, Jimmie Hitchcock at
Short, Ike Lewis at Third and Kaley and Aubrey Lewis
Make Only One Miscue in Contest
Auburn's infield, of alternate-cap­tain
Harry Lloyd at first, Riley at
second, Jimmie Hitchcock at short,
Ike Lewis at third and either Charles
Kaley or Aubrey Lewis receiving,
functioned almost perfectly in the
initial conflict, only one miscue being
credited to this group. The lone
bobble occurred in the eighth when
Aubrey Lewis threw to second at­tempting
to catch the occupant of
that base and no one was there to
receive his peg.
Lloyd also hit a single, Hitchcock
a timely three-bagger and Aubrey
Lewis a long double.
The inner works, listing all vet­erans,
is better this year and was
decided upon earlier in the season,
but who would perform in the pas­tures
regularly was not settled until
the first fray.
Against Minneapolis, Juicy Wood,
Porter Grant and Mason fielded flaw­lessly,
grabbing several hard hit
drives that rookie outfielders do not
catch, and it is a certainty that they
will continue to roam the gardens as
first-stringers. Wood accounted for
Auburn's first run Monday with a
single that sent Riley across the
plate.
Unless other hurlers besides Capt.
Clifford Smith and Ripper Williams
show superb form, McAllister will
have to depend upon a two-man
pitching staff for triumphs for the
second successive year. In 1931,
Smith and Dunham Harkins annexed
16 of the 18 wins annexed by the
Bengals.
Smith twirled five frames against
Donie Bush's professionals and was
nicked for only seven hits and two
runs. It looks like he will have an­other
banner year. He won nine and
lost one last year.
Williams, a sophomore, failed to
show up well at Cramton Bowl be­cause
he was wild, issuing free trans­portation
to first to six Millers in two
stanzas. However, he was cool in
making his varsity debut and will be
counted on for several wins this sea­son.
In an effort to correct the mistakes
shown by several of the Tigers when
batting against pitchers whose forte
is curves, McAllister intends to take
a turn on the rubber and throw noth­ing
but twisters to his weakest bat­ters.
Curves proved to be the ne­mesis
of six of the Auburn players in
the Minneapolis game.
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PAGE FOUR T H E P L A I N S M A N -:- A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1932
CAPACITY CROWD PRESENT AT
ORATORIO ON SUNDAY NIGHT
Capacious Baptist Church Filled with Overflowing Crowd to
Hear Auburn's Choral Society Present Gounod's Oratorio.;
Comes as Fitting Close to Easter Celebration
A capacity audience which filled nists, Mrs. Hazel at the organ and
every available seat and overflowed 'Mr. Hazel at the piano
into adjoining rooms of the capaci-ous
edifice heard the Auburn Choral ed performances: Mrs. Earl Rauber,
Society present Gounod's oratorio at soprano; Mrs. L. D. Lipscomb, so-the
Baptist Church Sunday night.
' The rendition of the famous ora­torio
came as a fitting close to the
Easter celebration, combining as it
does, not only the story of the pas­sion
and the resurrection but link­ing
these two events with creation
and the subsequent spread of Chris­tianity
throughout the world and the
musical epic was admirably and ade­quately
interpreted by the Auburn
Choral Society whose custom has
been to give Auburn the best of
musical classics.
Preceding the oratorio an expla­nation
of the story told in the music
was given by the pastor, Dr. James
E. Edwards. A silver offering was
taken following the completion of
the First Part to defray the expen­ses
involved in the presentation.
While the oratorio is considered a
reasonably difficult undertaking for
professional singers, the rendition
Sunday night does not suffer by com­parison,
and the painstaking techni­que
which characterizes the director­ship
of Mr. Brigham was evident
throughout. The presentation as a
whole was remarkably well done and
reflects great credit on all those who
took part, including the accompa-
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The following soloists gave finish-prano;
Mrs. A. Carnes, soprano; Mrs.
R. D. Jorier, soprano; Mrs. N. D.
Wilson, contralto; Mrs. W. D. Sal­mon,
contralto; Collins Cameron,
tenor; J. W. Brigham, tenor; George
Moxham, bass; Harold Hoffsommer,
bass; C. J. Rehling, bass; N. W. Wil­son,
bass; J. M. Jones, bass.
American Legion to
Honor Inspectors Here
As has been the custom for the
past few years, the John H. Wills
Post, Number 36, of the American
Legion will give a barbecue on April
25 in honor of the inspectors of the
Auburn R. 0. T. C. unit.
Major R. E. Sharrer, District En­gineer
of Montgomery, and Major T.
W. Wrenn, senior instructor of the
Alabama National Guard, whose
headquarters are in Andalusia, will
be the visiting officers.
On a recent visit to the local post
here in Auburn, Jim Comer, of Bir-ingham,
state commander of the Le­gion,
announced that he hopes to be
in Auburn for the barbecue.
The following committee has been
appointed to make arrangements for
the annual affair: Mr. Jack Tamb-lyn,
Dr. J. E. Oliver, Professor J. E.
Pitts, and Seargent T. Moxham.
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JOHN BOLES
SATURDAY, April 2
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JAY MORLEY
Graves of Confederate
Soldiers Being Marked
The Federal Government is mark­ing
all Confederate soldiers' graves
with stone markers similar to those
used by the government to designate
the graves of the Federal soldiers.
About twenty-five have already been
placed in the Auburn cemetery. Any­one
wishing the grave of a Confed­erate
relative or friend marked
please notify Mrs. G. G. Nunn, as
soon, as possible.
This movement is sponsored by the
U. D. C. chapter of Auburn.
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Final Plans Are Laid
For Baseball Tourney
Final plans for the inter-fraternity
play ground baseball tournament
have been completed and the tourney
will swing into action immediately.
The following rules are in effect dur­ing
the entire tournament, and spe­cial
attention is called to them.
1. Each team must furnish balls
and bats.
2. Opposing teams will decide date
for the match.
3. If team fails to appear on the
date agreed upon, the match will be
considered forfeited to its opponents.
4. Games must be played on of­ficial
sites.
5. Umpire must be selected from
specified list of inter-fraternity and
Blue Key members.
The first round of the tournament
must be played off before April 11 or
matches will be declared forfeited.
The second, third, and fourth rounds
must be- played off before April 19,
April 25, May 2, respectively. It has
been asked that these dates be care­fully
noticed in order that there will
be no hitches in the progress of the
tournament.
The sites selected for the games
have been as follows: The N. E*
corner of the drill field; the gymna­sium;
Knapp stadium; the old high
school; the N. W. corner of the rat
football field. No other sites will be
considered as official.
The umpire is to be selected from
the following list of men: J. D. Bush,
V. Callahan, L. Gholston, Tip Math­ews,
R. A. Wible, J. Farrish, S. Fort,
J. T. Harris, V. White, G. Anderson,
F. Campbell, J. Turner, J. Tartt, W.
Patterson, S. Cutler, C. Hooks, F.
McGraw, J. Metcalf, M. Phillips' G.
Fowler, G. Boyles, A. Summerlin, N.
Sullivan, R. Payne, W. Troup, F. Col-lum,
W. Johnston, H. Pringle, W. Lit­tle,
L. Parker, G. Walters, H. Ellis,
J. Jenkins, C. Stanley, E. Jones, J.
Garmany, C. Braswell, L. Norris, H.
Moss, J. Roberts, B. Scantland, M.
Fink, R. Miller, F. Bond, S. Bernard,
T. Richardson, J. Scherer and A. Tay­lor.
Following is the list of first round
matches to be played off before April
11:
Bye
Phi Delta Theta
Bye
A. L. T.
Theta Kappa Nu
A. D. A.
T. U. 0.
Alpha Gamma Rho
Phi Kappa Tau
Bye
Bye
Kappa Sigma
K. A.
Sigma Phi Sigma
Pi Kappa Phi
Sigma Nu
S. A. E.
Bye
S. P. E.
Pi K. A.
Phi Kappa Delta
Lambda Chi Alpha
Alpha Sigma Phi
Bye
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A. T. 0.
Bye
Sigma Pi
Bye
Bye
B. K.
Bye
-Theta Chi
Bats and balls may be purchased
from John T. Harris at the A. T. 0.
house.
Officers Installed
By White Shrine
For Ensuing Year
Thursday evening, March 24th,
Nazareth Shrine No. 4, Order of the
White Shrine of Jerusalem installed
the following officers for the ensu­ing
year:
Mrs. Susie L. Nunn, Worthy High
Priestess; Mr. Allen B. Kling, Watch­man
of the Shepherds; Mrs. Bertha
Schubert, Noble Prophetess; Mrs.
Julia K. Watt, Worthy Scribe; Mrs.
Laura L. Dowdell, Worthy Treasur­er;
Mrs. Elba Wicker, Worthy Chap­lin;
Mrs. Hattie Cole, Worthy Shep­herdess;
Mrs. Frances King, Worthy
Guide; Mrs. Carey P. Bailey, Worthy
Herald; Mr. A. Z. Wright, 1st Wise
Man; Sergt. Geo. Moxham, 2nd Wise
Man; Dr. I. S. McAdory, 3rd' Wise
Man; Mr. Carl Smith, King; Mrs.
Myrtle Smith, Queen; Mrs. Emma
Yarbrough, 1st Hand Maid; Mrs.
Bert King, 2nd Hand Maid; Mrs.
Lena Ray, 3rd Hand Maid; Mrs. Kit-tie
Kling, Organist; Mrs. Hattie
Laura Kennon, Worthy Guardian;
Mr. L. B. Yarbrough, Worthy Guard.
Mrs. Ernestine Dunn, retiring
Worthy High Priestess, opened the
Shrine and introduced the installing
officers: Mr. O. C. Prather, Supreme
Deputy of the Watchman of the
Shepherds; Mrs. Winnie Miller, Chap­lain;
Mrs. Lottie Grimes, Worthy
Herald; Mrs. Elmer Creel, Organist.
The hall was decorated with pot
plants and cut flowers. After the in­stallation,
Mrs. Mamie Moore, of Roa­noke,
presented Mrs. Ernestine
Dunn, with a past Worthy High
Priestess pen and Mr. Prather pre­sented
Prof. Schubert" the retiring
Watchman of the Shepherds, with a
gold watch chain. •
Several readings were given by
Miss Mitchel and Miss Durham and
a violin solo by Mrs. Stewart accom­panied
on the piano, by Mrs. Kling,
after which refreshments were ser­ved
to about one hundred including
guests from Roanoke, Salem, Ope­lika,
and Notasulga.
BLAKE'S ADDRESS
ACCORDED PRAISE
'A' Day Ball Game to
Be Warmly Contested
The Auburn-Minneapolis baseball
game will be a return engagement.
The first game was played in Mont­gomery
Monday and Minneapolis won
by a score of 4 to 6. The Tigers are
sure to be out for revenge and they
stand a good chance of getting it be­cause
their Monday showing against
the northern ball club was excellent.
The admission to the game will be
fifty cents.
The "A" club dance Saturday night
will conclude the program of the day,
and it is predicted that this will be
the best dance that the "A" club has
presented this year. A number of
feminine visitors will be in town and
their presence at the ^function will
lend an added zest to the occasion. The
Auburn Knights will play as usual.
Red Cross Requests
Help For Sufferers
While the Red Cross relief organi­zation
centered at Birmingham is
proceeding methodically with the re­habilitation
of sufferers in the recent
tornadoes, the people of Alabama are
contributing to a fund to finance the
work immediately at hand. The need
of public support of this fund was put
by Senator Hugo Black, himself a
contributor, in these words:
"I am pleased to make my own con­tribution
to the Red Cross tornado re­lief
fund, as I am firmly of the opin­ion
that the Red Cross is the best and
only agency for emergency and rehab­ilitation
relief.
"I urge the citizens of Alabama to
contribute liberally so tha't the fund
may be adequate. The bill to be in­troduced
by the Alabama delegation
will supplement the services of the
Red Cross. Those services are neces­sary
and indispensable. We must all
give to the limit. The Red Cross must
be aided to help many who can not
secure help otherwise."
Henry Upson Sims of Birmingham,
former president of the American Bar
Association and member of the Cen­tral
Governing Committee of the Na­tional
Red Cross, said in a telegram
sent to civic leaders over Alabama a
few days after the disaster:
"The National Red Cross furnishes
the machinery, but our people must
provide the money which will be need­ed,
if we can do so. Every Citizen
and Community in the State is urged
to deny himself that this emergency
can be met."
The federal aid to which Senator
Black referred, would be in the form
of long term loans and not direct re­lief,
which is the task of the Red
Cross.
The Red Cross maintains a perm­anent
staff of disaster workers, who
are constantly in the field. They or­ganize
and direct relief on an aver­age
of seventy-five disasters a year,
great and small, in the United States
and outlying possessions. Immediate­ly
upon news of the storm of March
21st, the Red Cross set up an emerg­ency
organization at Birmingham.
Calls began to come into the Jeffer­son
County Red Cross Chapter with­in
ten minutes after the storm struck
Columbiana and Sylacauga. Miss
Roberta Morgan, executive secretary
AIRPORT TO OPEN
MONDAY, APRIL 4th
(Continued from page 1)
to Hawaii. Lt. Davis was formerly
in the same squadron with Lt. V. C.
Finch, professor of aeronautics here.
The official program of the dedica­tion
exercises will begin in the morn­ing
with the arrival of army, navy,
national guard, commercial, and civ­ilian
planes. From noon until 1:30
p. m,, the visiting airships will be
parked for inspection.
At 1:30 p. m., addresses will be
made by M. H. Bremer, U. S. govern­ment
engineer, Mayor H. K. Dick­inson
of Opelika, Mayor W. D. Cope-land
of Auburn, and Dr. Bradford
Knapp, president of Auburn-Opelika
Airport, Inc.
The air maneuvers and'stunt flying
will take place immediately follow­ing
the speeches. *
AUBURN DEBATERS
LOSE TO COLORADO
(Continued from page 1)
School classes held in the forenoon.
It has not been decided yet who will
be the featured speaker next Sunday
but an announcement will be made
later in the week. All Auburn stu­dents
are urged to attend these meet­ings
as vital problems will be discus­sed
each time. It is felt that this
organization will fill a long-felt need
here on the Auburn'campus.
(Continued from page 1)
The Auburn team has won two of
its three debates held thjs season,
winning from Mercer University and
the University of Florida, and losing
to Colorado College.
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A careful survey has shown that
there are over a hundred crippled
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APRIL COURT OF HONOR FOR
BOY SCOUTS SET FOR APRIL 5
Night Designated as Parents' Night and Special Invitations Are
Extended to Parents; Court to Meet at 7:00 P .M. In Wood-,
man Hall, Opelika
The April Court of Honor for Boy
Scouts in the Opelika District has
been definitely set for April 5, by
Chairman Flake E. Farley. The night
is to be known as parents' night, and
all scouts have been urged to make
attempts to gain advancement at
that time. A special invitation has
of the chapter, directed the concen­tration
of doctors, nurses and ambu­lances
at the stricken points. Simul­taneously,
the chapters in centers ad­jacent
to places requiring help in
other counties went into action. C.
H. McFarland, Red Cross field repre­sentative
for northern Alabama, who
happened to be in Birmingham, where
he resides, set up an emergency relief
organization that night', under in­structions
from headquarters.
Mr. Sims, who is in charge of the
state fund campaign, asks that con­tributions
be sent to the local Red
Cross chapter or to the Jefferson
County Red-Cross Chapter at Birm­ingham.
All money collected within
the State will be spent wholly in the
aid of tornado sufferers of Alabama.
The neighboring states of Georgia and
Tennessee are collecting funds simi­larly
for their own sufferers. No mat­ter
how small the contribution, it will
further the work of relief to that ex­tent,
and collectively these small sums
are important. In fact, Mr. Sims
looks to the small givers, as times are
such that people of wealth could form­erly
be counted upon for large sums
must themselves give relatively less.
been issued to parents of the scouts
in that district. The Court will be
held at 7 p. m. in Woodman Hall, in
rear of the Boy Scout offices.
The Southern Bell Telephone Com­pany,
through its local manager,
George Moore, has already ordered
two reels of moving pictures as well
as a comedy, which will be borrow­ed
from the Extension Department
at A. P. I., to be shown as part of
the entertainment. In addition, Miss
Rebecca Ellison will have the Ope­lika
High School orchestra play a
few numbers.
The main feature of the program
will be the advancement of scouts,
and the chairman is urging all troops
to be represented at the court.
Robert Blount, national representa­tive
and former president of the co
tive and former president of the
council, reminds scouts that this will
be the last court of honor in which
Opelika troops will have an oppor­tunity
to secure points toward the
Blount Efficiency Cup Contest to be
awarded following the Jamboree, to
be held in Auburn on May the 6th.
Professor J. W. Watson stated
that there has been an increased use
of the scout library at the high
school and invited all scouts to make
use of these books in the future.
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