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VOLUME LV AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1932 NUMBER 52
Friday To Be Ag
; Plans For
Event Co
Day
wnpleted
Baseball Game Between Ag
Faculty and Ag Club to Be
Feature
Host of Beauties Attend
Council Ball On Friday
AG DANCE FRIDAY NIGHT
Plate Luncheon to Be Served
In Ag Bottom by Home Ec
Girls
Auburn to Engage
Ft Benning in Polo
Match Here Today
Black, Jones, Johnson,' and
Nunn to Comprise Probable
Line-Up
Miss Dorothy Kitchens, of Ashland
and Hugh Ellis Lead
Grand March
INITIATION OF PHI
KAPPA PHI PLEDGES
TAKES PUCE FRIDAY
MUSIC EXCELLENT
TEAM MUCH IMPROVED
With all committees working busily,
finishing touches are being put
on the plans for Ag Day, which is to
be held by the combined schools of
Agriculture and Home Economics on
Friday, April 22.
The plans have been revised somewhat
during the past few days, the
new plans including several more
events than were originally sched
uled.
As the schedule now stands, classes
will be dismissed for both schools at
10 o'clock Friday. Immediately after
the dismissal of classes, a baseball
game will be played between
members of the Ag faculty and the
team of students representing the
Ag Club. This promises to be a
good game, with the.students, for the
first time, disputing the authority of
the p r o f s . Rumor has it that several
of the students are planning re
venge in a big way.
After the game, a plate luncheon
will be served in Ag Hollow by the
girls of the Home Economics department.
Ribbons entitling one to a
plate will go on sale Monday morn
ing. As the price is only twenty
five cents, it is expected that a large
number of these ribbons will be sold.
Following the luncheon, everyone
will gather at Comer Hall to enjoy
a couple of hours of good, old-fashioned
square dancing. The music
for this dance will be furnished by
the Ag Club Orchestra. Admission
to the floor Vfill be by the luncheon
ribbons. The dancing will continue
until about three o'clock, at which
time everyone will go to Drake field
to witness the baseball game between
Auburn and the University of Florida.
The next event on program is the
Ag Club banquet, which is to be held
in the College Cafeteria at 7 o'clock
Dr. D. W. Daniels of Clemson Col
lege is to be the principal speaker
of the evening. At this time Gamma
Sigma Delta, national honorary Agri
cultural fraternity will present a sil
ver loving cup to the best all-around
junior in Agriculture. The senior
members of the Ag Club will be pre
sented with Ag Club diplomas at this
time also.
At 9 o'clock the closing event of
the day day, a dance in Alumni Gym
nasium, will be given. Music for
the dance will be furnished by the
Auburn Knights. Attendance at the
dance will not be restricted to the
School of Agriculture, but will be
open to all students. A large number
of out-of-town girls are expected
so this event should prove to be the
most popular of the day.
BAND WILL PRESENT
CONCERT ON SUNDAY
Second Spring Concert Will Be
Given At 3 O'clock, in Front
Langdon Hall
The Auburn Band will present a
concert Sunday afternoon, weather
permitting, it was announced yesterday
by P. R. Bidez, director. The
concert will begin at 3 o'clock, and
will be held in front of Langdon Hall.
It will be the second of a series of
spring concerts. The date of the
third will be announced later.
NOTICE!
There will be a meeting of Pre-
Med students on Monday night, April
18, at Ross Hall; Dr. Oppenheimer,
Dean of the School of Medicine at
Emory, will talk.
Bennings Team Made Up of
Men From 83rd Field Artillery
and 29th Infantry
Local polo fans are looking forward
to a very entertaining program
this afternoon when the polo team of
Auburn engages in a combat with a
team from Fort Benning. The team
has secured helmets, which arrived
recently and will aid materially in
the showing made by the team today.
The "A" Club also gave part of their
receipts of "A" Day toward the support
of the polo squad, thus making
possible a continuation of polo at
Auburn for the rest of the year.
Members of the team have been
working hard this week preparing for
the match and spent Friday afternoon
in getting the field in readiness.
Lieutenant Gunby announced that
the starting line-up would probably
be: Calvin Black, No. 1; Louis Jones,
No. 3; Oel Johnson, No. 3; and Virgil
Nunn, back.
The team from Benning will be
composed of men from the 83rd
Field Artillery and the 29th Infantry
divisions, junior teams.
Those who saw the recent Gymkhana
weer loud in their praise of
the performance of the polo squad
and others who participated in the
event. The polo team is coached by
Lieutenant Gunby who is very familiar
with this type of work.
Trans-Atlantic Travel
Discussed By Hartley
The Auburn Chapter of the American
Association of University Women
heard a lecture Wednesday night
at the Practice House by one of the
best known figures in the history of
trans-Atlantic travel — Commodore
Hartley, formerly captain of the Le
viathan.
Captain Hartley, who now makes
his home in Opelika, and is beginning
a lecture tour that will embrace
the nation, kept his listeners enthralled
for over an hour with stories and
experiences of his more than thirty
years afloat. His experiences ranged
from stories of the good old days before
"steam", through thrilling experiences
on the "St. Louis" during
the World War, to glimpses of the
many world-famous personalities who
have crossed the "big ditch" with
him. These ranged from royalty to
motion picture stars, and from tran-oceanic
flyers to channel swimmers.
Speaking to a group mainly composed
of women7 Captain Hartley
gave them some amazing figures
about the housekeeping of a floating
palace. He enumerated the many
thousand tons of beef, poultry, and
thousands of dozens of eggs required
by the ship on one voyage to give
some idea of the immensity of the
job of commanding such a vessel as
the Leviathan.
To give some idea of his experiences,
he related that he had made
860 crossings of the Atlantic before
his retirement, a distance of over
2,500,000 miles, the equivalent of
five round trips to the moon!
Indian Scene Feature Decoration,
with Colorful Figures
Symbolic of Brotherhood
Nearly one hundred visiting girls
thronged to Auburn on Friday to be
the guests of students at the annual
Inter-fraternity Council Dance. One
of the best representations of the
fairer sex, ever to grace the Alumni
gymnasium was displayed as the
greek letter men exchanged business
for pleasure. ,
Miss Dorothy Kitchens, accompanied
by H. W. Ellis, president of the
council, was exceptionally charming
as she led the long line of couples in
the grand march. To the strains of
"Anchors Aweigh" the boys and their
dates filed around the dance floor ,in
twos, fours and finally in eights. Beside
the grand march, two dances
were, reserved for members of the Inter-
fraternity Council and three were
designated as no-breaks. A fifteen
minute intermission was also allowed
to rest temporarily the revelers.
The decorations were very attractively
arranged and set off to the
best advantage by novel lighting effects.
Behind the orchestra was a
scene showing two Indians smoking
the pipe of peace around a camp fire
symbolizing the regular "pow-wows"
of the Interfraternity men. Overhead
was draped a huge cloth hiding
the upper part of the gymnasium and
serving as a background for the novel
chandelier which hung over the center
of the floor. A crystal ball was suspended
from the ceiling and four spot
lights were played upon it during the
leadouts. Finally, around the wall
were arranged placards containing the
name of each fraternity belonging to
the council with the fraternity representatives
underneath.
Music of the most popular sort was
presented by Jimmie Robbins and his
Auburn Knights.
New Initiates are Leading
Scholars in all Schools o n the
Campus
BANQUET AND INITIATION
Purpose of Fraternity t o Furth
, er Scholarship Among Undergraduates
Baskin's Bulldogs to
Engage Tigers Today
A chance will be given Weemie
Baskin, assistant football and track
coach of the University of Georgia,
to win a verdict over his brilliant
teacher, Wilbur Hutsell, when the
Georgia Bulldog tracksters meet the
Auburn Tigers here next Saturday
in the second and concluding dual
track meet at home for the Plainsmen
this season.
Women's Clubs Set
New Clean-Up Week
Hoping to "Set up machinery"
that will keep Auburn one of the
neatest-appearing towns in t he
State, 17 representatives of civic
clubs and. organizations met at the
home of Mrs. S. L. Toomer Wednesday
afternoon and designated April
25 to 30 as' this year's Clean-Up
Week. The town of Auburn will
dispose of all rubbish placed at the
front of residences during this week
and townspeople are urged to cooperate
by cleaning up their premises.
The movement, sponsored by Mrs.
Toomer and Mrs. B. R. Showalter of
the Auburn Women's Club, includes
the appearance of a representative
committee at the town council meeting
Tuesday evening. Here an effort
will be made to work out further
details toward the permanent improvement
in appearance of Auburn
streets and residences.
Dr. James R. Edwards was asked
to look into the matter of working
out a proposed scheme of city planning
which will include necessary regulations
now being used by most up-to-
date towns the size of Auburn.
His report will be considered at the
next meeting of the committee of
seventeen with the hope of bringing
about a cleaner, more beautiful Auburn.
•
The committee hopes to make this
year's CJean-Up Week the beginning
of a permanent movement toward
civic improvement. It is felt that
Auburn must look upon the matter
as a year-around proposition in order
to bring the town to its maximum
possibilities of beauty.
Directions and information on
Clen-Up Week are being prepared by
Dr. B. R. Showalter and will be distributed
to every home and business
house by Boy Scouts directed by
Prof. A. L. Thomas.
Twenty-six outstanding seniors
were taken into Phi Kappa Phi, na
tional scholastic fraternity, Friday
night. These men were elected on
their records, not only as students,
but as men also.
Phi Kappa Phi is organized for the
purpose of encouraging scholarship
and original study among students.
The students selected by the fraternity
are:
Philip Appleby, mechanical engineering,
Birmingham; Joseph C. Barrett,
Jr., mechanical engineering,
Birmingham; William H. Baskervill,
chemical engineering, Birmingham;
Henry L. Beck, electrcal engineering,
Charleston, S. C ; William H. Cowan,
agriculture, Decature; Lemuel B
Crouch, electrical engineering, La-nett.
Sam Burwell Fort, science and lit
erature, Ensley; William E.. Free,
electrical engineering, Bamberg, S.
C; Frank Welborn Hardie, science
and literature, Birmingham; Howard
Hayes, veterinary medicine, Calera;
William M. Keller, science and literature,
Birmingham; Elmer B. Kennedy,
chemical engineering, Wash
ington, D. C.
Tom W. Lumpkin, agricultural
education, Millerville; Robert W
Montgomery, agricultural education,
Moulton; Mary McPhail Newman,
education, Goodwater; George Virgil
Nunn, education, Auburn; Tenriie
Watson Owen, science and literature,
Columbus, Miss.; Thomas N. Pyke,
electrical engineering, Montgomery,
Harold W. Sawyer, veterinary
medicine, Auburn; Charles F. Sim
mons, agriculture, Andalusia; Jesse
D. Simmons, architecture, Andalu
sia; Jack F. Turner, chemical engi
neering, St. Stephens; John F. Turn
er, agricultural education, Pisgah;
Ignacio Villasenor, mechanical engi
neering, Guanajuato, Mexico; Sara
Wilks, education, Opelika; and Roo-ert
E. Williams, electrical engineering,
Little Rock, Ark. ',
IVEY TO TALK ON
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
League of Nations to Be Par
ticularly Stressed in Lecture
by Popular Authority
Possibilities for the adjustment of
international problems and difficulties
inherent in the League of Nations
as now organized will be ex
plained by Prof. O. T. Ivey, of the
department of history, at the third
and last conference of International
Relations next Tuesday, April 19,
2:00 p. m., in Langdon Hall.
Every Auburn student interested
in these important discussions is cordially
invited to attend the conference.
Following Professor Ivey's lecture,
titled "The Work of the League
of Nations", Dr. B. R. Showalter of
the School of Education will talk on
"Is Human Nature Immutable?" in
an effort to answer the realist's eternal
objection to all forward-looking
plans. There will be an opportunity
for questions and discussions following
these two talks.
These conferences have been arranged
toy Dr. Showalter at the suggestion
of Mrs. Bradford Knapp,
chairman of the department of
American citizenship and international
relations of the Alabama Federation
of Woman's Clubs and the
Woman's Club of Auburn.
CORRECTION
The bracket on the third page is
for the golf tournament instead af
tennis as stated in the headline.
CANDIDATES FOR
STUDENT CABINET
TOTAL FORTY-ONE
Heavy Polling is Expeced to
Feature Executive Cabinet
Election
ELECTION ON WEDNESDAY
Seventeen New,Members From
AH Departments of the Coll
e g e to Be Elected
According to George Tucker, chairman
of the Election Committee,
thirty-nine candidates have entered
the race for places on the Executive
Cabinet of the student government.
Wednesday, April 20, is the date of
the election, at which time the student
body will elect the seventeen
members which compose the Cabinet.
This election promises to be one. of
the most hotly contested this
Spring.
Representation in the Cabinet is
apportioned according to the number
of students in each school. The can
didates ares
School of Engineering
Senior Representative (2)—Mar
shall S. Caley; W. E. "Bill" Cone,
James H. Cooper, K. F. "Swede"
Hall, Guy "Kayo" Kimbrough, Isaac
Ledbetter, R. R. "Foots" Martin and
Howart Pringle.
Junior Representative (1)—W. D.
Collins, E. W. McCall, Nelson Parrish
and W. H. "Billie" Reynolds.
Sophomore Representative (1)-
H. H. Altman, W. Wallace Nelson,
W. C. "Billy" Piatt and Edward W
Prewitt.
School of Architecture and
Allied Arts
Senior Representative (1)—Stuart
Pugh, John Philip Roberts.
Junior Representative (1)—^Joe
B. Ledbetter, James G. Phillips, Don
aid Pierce and Robert H. Rutland.
School of Agriculture
Senior Representative (1)—Homer
S. Fisher and M. S. Phillips.
Junior Representative (1)—E. L.
Lowder and Clark Rudder.
School of Science and
Literature
Senior Representative (1)—N. H.
Thomas and Scott Turk. „
Junior Representative—J. M. Hoi
loway and "Hamp" Morris.
School of Veterinary Medicine
Representative—Lee M. Becton
and B. Haskell Rawls.
School of Education
Senior Representative (1)—Virgil
Breland and H. E. Timmerman.
School of Chemistry and
Pharmacy
Senior Representative (1)—Pres
ton "Barney" Wharton, Jack Wil
Hams and R. Eugene Wingard.
Junior Representative (1)—Herbert
E. Harris.
School of Home Economics
Representative—Lucile Johnson.
School of Textile Engineering
Representative (1)—John C. Fon-ville
and Ellis Royal.
UNIFORM
During the period Monday,
April 16 to Friday, April 22,
no part of the cadet uniform will
be worn to class or drill.
During this period all uniform
(Blouses, trousers and shirts)
should be cleaned and pressed in
preparation for the Annual War
Department Inspection. Arrangements
have been made to take
care of cleaning and pressing
every uniform provided it is sent
at the proper time. In order that
the laundry may be able to handle
this volumn it is essential
that uniforms be sent in each
individual's laundry-on his normal
laundry day, and not at
.some other time. Collar ornaments
must be removed from all
garments before being sent to
the laundry.
The uniform for the drill
period Saturday, April 23, will
be grey shirts. -
By order of Captain Ott
Frank O. Bowman,
1st. Lt. C. E. (DOL).
Adjutant.
Doddsmen Hold Ahburn
To 6 to 6 Tie; Hurling Of
Talley Saves Tiger Defeat
Sixteen Pledges
Of Military Frat
Initiated Today
Scabbard and Blade Takes In
Ranking Juniors of R. O. T.
C. Unit
SIXTEEN ARE CHOSEN
Initiation to Be Completed Tomorrow
at Sunrise; Public
Ceremonies This Morning
Initiation ceremonies will be held
this morning and tonight when sixteen
juniors are carried through the
degrees for membership into Scabbard
and Blade, national honorary
military fraternity. The public initiation
was to be held this morning
and will be completed at noon, the
whole being completed tomorrow at
sunrise.
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.
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, Gads
den; 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.
Sparrow, Auburn. They are members
of the engineer unit.
Tigers Off Form in Tilt with
Jackets; Capt. Smith's Attack
Ineffective
TALLEY SAVES DAY
Jackets Play Over Their Head
In Nerve-Racking Slug-Fest;
Battle Resumed Today
Evans Society Holds
Interesting Meeting
On last Tuesday evening the Evans
Literary Society held a very interesting
meeting, continuing the eliminations
to decide the members who
would represent the society in the
iriter-society debates to be held later
in the semester.
In an informal debate on the question:
"Resolved: that courses in English
Literature should not be taught
in all courses in the modern technical
school," the affirmative was declared
the winner over the negative, by
Professor Hess, who acted in the capacity
of critic.
Plans were also made at this meeting
to have a picnic next Tuesday
evening at 6:30. All members of the
society are urged to attend. It is
planned to meet at 212 Samford Hall
and go from there to the spot where
the picnic is to be held.
International Study
Group Draws Statues
Adoption of a constitution Tuesday
night completed the organization
work of Auburn's newly founded International
Relations Club. The constitution
is based on a number of
similar documents in use among International
Relations clubs of other
colleges, and contains the principles
and purposes of the organization as
well as the rules by which it will be
governed.
Following the business session,
Charles Davis, president of the club,
discussed the League of Nations. Mr.
Davis made use of a number of
charts in explaining the organization
and accomplishments of the League,
and recommended that the club sus-cribe
to two of the monthly bulletins
sent out by the Publicity Bureau of
the League. This recommendation
was adopted by the club.
Marion Talley, sophomore, saved
the Tiger nine from a smart defeat
Friday by his superb pitching against
the Yellow Jackets.
After Capt. Clifford Smith blanked
the Yellow Jackets for the first two"
frames, extending his record of holding
Tech scoreless to eighteen innings,
the Doddsmen scored four
earned runs in the third and came
back in the sixth to tally twice more
before Coach Sam McAllister rushed
Talley to Smith's rescue.
Talley rallied the team masterly,
giving up only three hits and one
run the three and two-thirds innings
that he pitched. With Talley on the
mound the Plainsmen took heart,
and counted four times in the eighth
and ninth on four hits and three
bases on tialls.
Sheriff Crowley was the starting
hurler for Tech and probably would
have received credit for a victory
over the champions if he had not developed
a sore arm. He could not
twirl the last two innings, and his
successor, Everett was ineffective.
Although the Jackets played one of
their best games of the season, the
Tigers were off form in every department,
making costly mistakes at
crucial moments.
Even with Everett's poor pitching,
Tech would have won in the ninth if
Spradling and Hogsed had played
headsup ball on the bases. Spradling
made a single and was caught in a
chase between first and second and
Hogsed' slammed out a triple and
was out trying to stretch his hit into
a homer. Tech secured two hits, but
only three batters faced, Talley in
the ninth. *,
Cliff Hardin, Tech keystoner, handled
14 chances without an error.
Auburn 000 002 013—6 10 3
Ga. Tech —- 003 003 000—6 14 1
Smith, Talley and Kaley; Crowley,
Everett and Wilson and L. Mathes.
SCOUT HONOR COURT
CONVOKED ON WED.
Leading Scouts Raised to Higher
Ranks; Merit Badges and
Other Honors Conferred
The Court of Honor for the local
Boy Scout troop No. 7 was held on
Wednesday evening in Ramsay Hall.
A large number of the troop advanced
one rank. Many of the boys
passed their tenderfoot requirements
at this time, while others took the
opportunity of getting off their most
advanced work. The local troop's
scoutmaster is Reverend R. B. Mc-
Gehee, assisted by Walter Edwards
and Howard Clark.
Those advancing to the tenderfoot
rank were: Lamar Moon, Judson
Pittman, Wayne Calloway, Homer
Gentry, Byron Yarbrough, Abb
Chrietzberg, Robert Smyer, Herbert
Morgan, Harry Whitten and Daniel
Benson.
Only one scout, Paul Duggar, advanced
from tenderfoot to second
class rating while three boys successfully
passed their first class requirements.
These boys were Dennis
Newton, John Ivey, and B. F. Thomas,
Jr.
Walter Edwards, assistant scoutmaster,
passed merit badges in five
subjects including Personal Health,
Public Health, Carpentry and Bookbinding.
Edwards' passing of these
requirements made him eligible for
the rank of Star Scout, for which
he turned in his application. Mark
Nichols, of the Seascouts, also passed
two merit badges, Plumbing and
Corn Farming.
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THE CABINET ELECTION
It is most unfortunate that the.Executive
Cabinet election is taken so lightly by
the student body. Just what "the Cabinet
is there for, just what it does, is known
by few; and few take the trouble to find
out. '
It is the Cabinet members who elect the
Chairman of the Committees, the most important
of which are the Election, Social,
Ring, and Invitations committees.
To see that the work of these various
committees is carried out in the most efficient
and serviceable manner it is of utmost
importance that the best men from each
department be elected to the Executive Cabinet.
The voters know who these men are,
but all too often friendship rather than real
merit is the determining factor in an election.
The importance of this Cabinet election
can not be over-emphasized. It is the students'
duty to turn out next Wednesday
and to elect the |inost capable men to the
•governing board of the student body.
FAIREST VILLAGE OF THE PLAINS
In so far as the physical appearance of
Auburn is concerned, it seems; to The
Plainsman that this college town has less
civic pride than many other Alabama towns
of its size. The great amount of waste
paper on the streets, the unkempt appearance
of many business houses, the ungodly
piles of trash and rubbish in alleys of
downtown Auburn, and the slovenly appearance
of some premises and houses in
the residential district "give us this impression.
Students will have to accept some of the
responsibility for Auburn's hicktown appearance.
Many of them have no idea at
all as to the function of the modern trash
can.- They will drop on the street any
sort of paper as they come from the post
office. They do not fathom the significance
of keeping to established walks on the campus
or of walking around the plots of
shrubbery and grass which the college has
.gone to great expense to provide.
In the last few years great improvement
has been made in the appearance of Auburn's
residential district, including fraternity
houses, though much remains to be
done in the keeping of vacant lots in a
sightly condition. The business district we
would say, has hardly kept pace with this
improvement-^-many conditions remain
which keep Auburn in the realm of the
usual cross-road metropolis of some 1500
inhabitants.
Some years ago a method of city planning
was attempted which aimed to set up
certain requirements as to" building lines,
etc., which every town with civic pride
should have. Expert information and advice
are available here in the college departments
where such things are studied.
The movement started by the Woman's
Club with the designation of April 25 as
the beginning for a Clean-Up-Campaign
should provoke a rennaissance of neatness
in Auburn. The Plainsman hopes that it
will, and that it will prove to be more than
a Clean-Up-Week. If we CLEAN UP, let's
STAY CLEAN.
Students can help and certainly should
if there is any connection between college
training and the maintaining of a tidy appearance
in the places where they live.
We have a growing body • of students who
are conscious of civic responsibility and who.
will respond in this campaign for a more
beautiful Auburn. They will cooperate in
the effort to make Auburn a town which
can justly be called "The Fairest Village
of the Plains."
ARE STUDENT ACTIVITIES
WORTH WHILE?
This question is constantly in the
thoughts of the undergraduate during the
time that he is in college, whether he participates
in extra-curricula activities or
not; like many other problems, this is one
that can be settled by experience alone.
We believe that the student who ties
himself to his work, who keeps his head constantly
in a book, and who avoids any
form of campus activities is losing an opportunity
that will never be given again.
As a rule, student activities call for a wide
association with men, and dealing with
men in college will help any man to be
more successful in after life in his association
with his fellows.
It is rather interesting to seek the underlying
motives that lead students into
campus activities; these motives are multitudinous,
the desire for honor, a liking for
some particular work, the desire for popularity,
the love of notoriety, and the will
to create, to master, to do something worth
while.
• It. is this last motive that we are concerned
with here. The greatest joy any
man has is in work well done, and the joy
of the creator is the most self-satisfying of
all. The student who enters an activity,
who ultimately is given charge of it, and
who in the end discharges his duty with assiduity
and industry is twice blest; he has
served his fellows in accomplishing the
work that they set before him, and he has
satisfied his ego in the thought of work
well done, of obstacles overcome, and a work
of art created.
COLLEGE JOURNALISTS
A perusal of college newspapers of many
different schools over a period of time would
show that the student editor frequently
falls prey to a feeling of futility. He
learns that a reformer is never liked
whether his reform is successful or a failure.
He finds that he has a rapid turnover
of friendships.
He becomes aware of those mighty barriers—
the smaller mossybacked administrative
and faculty interests. He frequently
is outlawed by the thick-skulled and the
brothers of his fraternity. He knows that
few care or w%ill long remember his work.
He expects his intentions to be misinterpreted,
no matter how obvious: the motivation
for his acts may be.
He feels like tossing in the towels fifty
times in as many days. He says: "What's
the use?" The minute he gives in to his
own inclinations for peace, he places himself
beneath the sod. If he stops and looks
over his problems and troubles in a quizzical
fashion, he feels the old animosity stir
within him and realize what a life it would
be if someone wouldn't disagree and tlfere
were nothing to fight about.
There need be no envy of those college
editors who are flag pole sitters for two
semesters and permit the rest of the world
and even the campus to go by without molestation.
The boys who really have the
fun are those who never know how long
they will have their scalps, who laugh and
defy the bigots and moth-eaten vested interests,
who openly flaunt the epitaphs
which have been written for them in advance,
and who take matters seriously without
becoming over serious.. There is an
art in raising the hornets land doing it so
well that they have no comeback.
Most of the esteem accorded the active
college editor is worth considerably less
than the good wholesome hatred he gathers.
He usually has a few staunch friends
who are large enough to overlook his hastiness,
a faux pas now and then, the seemingly
inane and meaningless news or editorials
he sometimes prints, a! nd his somewhat
blind adherence to his. own peculiar code.
One- consolation, howeve r, makes up for
the lost peace and sleek <e ontentment. The
adversities of one who cam openly differ are
far more desirable than the dull rote of
living which attends the college editor upon
whom the blemmings fl< n? because every
Tom, Dick, and Harry lai ;ge and small, has
a mortgage on his soul. "Then, too, he always
reaches the point Wihere he realizes
that his most important fessaes and bad setbacks
will make exee dent material' for
smiles within another d .ecafle.—Daily Illini.
IDLE EMS
— D —
Last Year i n Auburn
As recorded in the cc >li jmns of The Plainsman.
Many students wen t to the polls to
select- members o £ the Executive Cabinet
. for next y/ .jar. A .s a result, seventeen
new me jnbers a', re ready to take
over the duties of the C abinet when the
present menjbers retirt; from office.
—0—
The new , airport, whi'ch is owned
jointly by; the cities! °f Auburn and
Opelika, is now read y for .use, according
to Lieutenant V. C. Finc'ii, instruc-
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in this
column are not necessarily the editorial opinions ol
this paper. It is a column of personal comment,
and is not to be read as an expression of our
editorial policy.
* * * *
About our recent editorial on the Literary
Digest prohibition poll The Daily Tar
Heel says:
" . . . It seems probable that the
Auburri writer is a disgruntled Dry,
seeking to discredit the poll in any way
possible. If the Drys can not find betT
ter methods of explaining the preponderance
of anti-prohibition sentiment
than are advanced in this unthink and
ungrounded editorial they had better
accept their stinging defeat as gracefully
as possible."
Thus spake the holy of holies. In true
school-boy glee the writer speaks with infantile'
enthusiasm about being "lucky"
enough to receive a ballot. Do not worry
sonny boy, you'll soon be old enough to
vote. The Plainsman has been called a
great many things, but a political tool is a
an entirely new name for it. It has never
concerned itself in any decisive way over
national politics, and its opinion of the
Literary Digest straw vote is free from
all party affiliations. If The Daily Tar
Heel has the unthinking indelicacy to call
us a "disgruntled dry", will we not be just
in terming their editorial writer a misguided
Wet?
Anyway, we still contend that the Literary
Digest poll, is a farce, but,since The
Plainsman can not boast of being a solver
of all national problems, it must content
itself with the editorial dicta of that paragon
of editorial writers.—"B. P."
* * * * ' .
From many sources we learn that the
town is fairly running over with mad dogs.
The fraternities are urged to muzzle all
their freshmen.
* * * *
And too, we hear that the City of Auburn
has passed an ordinance against mosquitoes.
Well, that is settled.
* * * *
Amid the storm of comment that the expulsion
of Reed Harris, former editor of
the Columbia Spectator comes this jab from
the Southern California Daily Trojan:
" . i . He would probably have done
more good to the cause of independence
in college journalism had his own attitude
been more intelligent."
From this we infer that it is simply unintelligent
to expose existing evils, to hold
forth against the dicta of an august and
refined faculty that was reared in the days
of horse-hair sofas and virtuous maidens.
It is then unintelligent to print the truth,
to expose the fact that education, like
government, is under the direction of big
business and the monied classes that seek
material wealth, cost what it may. Furth-eermore,
since Harris' expulsion strikes a
fearful blow to the freedom of the collegiate
press, we may infer that the end of
this freedom is also very desirable end, and
that it too is the fruit of this super-intelligence.
* * * *
It seems that the authorities at Columbia
have their hands full in this matter of
Reed Harris. In the issue of April 4 the
Spectator fairly blazed in protest. One of
the more subtle mechanisms employed by
this unusual staff was a streak of blank
space, formerly filled by the "radical" editorials
of the sensational editor. This is
what the staff thought about the situation:
"Reed Harris who detested mediocrity
and finally smashed his head against •
the bulwarks of intrenched traditionalism,
is gone. Columbia College was
too small to hold him.
• "President Butler and Dean Hawkes
have taken away from Columbia the
element which in the past raised it to '
a preeminent position—i£s liberalism.
They have curtailed freedom of thought
and expression. They have said that
an undergraduate who pierces the veil
of stifling tradition is dangerous to the
life of the College.
"While the world is crying for men
of light, Columbia has decreed that it
will graduate honorably, only those
who have been poured into the antique
and rusted molds of leaden thinking.
"Spectator has no apologies to make
for its conduct during the past year.
Harris is gone, but the editorials which
have appeared in this paper, have, in
the main, been the product of the editorial
staff. The policies of the Spectator
have belonged and will continue to
belong to the entire Managing Board
rather than to any one man."
—The Columbia Spectator.
tor in Aeronautics. Two runways
have been completed, and are ready to
receive planes landing on them. One
runs north and south, and the other
east and west. They are both one-half
mile long and four hundred feet
wide.
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
Someone has said that what ever is not worth saying is sung.
* * * * * * * * * *
Then there was the garbage man's daughter who inherited a swell dump.
* * * * * * * * * *
15th child is born;
Dad runs for Sheriff.
' —Omaha World Herald.
We hear that spinach is good for the eyes. Why not cross it with grapefruit?
* * * * * * * * * *
"This means a good deal to me" said the poker player as he stacked the cards.
* * * * * * * * * * , -
Checking over the fair visitors last night one is inclined to believe that most
Montevallo girls like farmers after all.
* * * * * * ' * * * *
Why not an anesthetic to make tax payment painless?
* * * * . * * * * * *
Guessing which way the crowd wants'to go is the most important element of
leadership it seems.
* * * * * * * * * *
Someone has said that there was nothing to the ballyhoo issue of The Plainsman.
We are so glad someone caught the true significance.
* * * * * * * * * *
A rolling pin has been adopted as the insigria of a Massachusetts girl scout
group. Like the Boy Scouts they seemed to be prepared.
* * * * * * * * * *
Toledo Blade has wished the Ohio kidnapper, who was sentenced for a life term
in prison, a long life.
* * * * * * * * * -*
Statistics show that it now costs 9.3 percent less to live. On what?
* * * * * * * * * *
Just around the corner, says the man of the hour, must be a helluva good parking
place.
* * * * * * * * * *
A topographical contradiction—mountain dew on the Plains.
* * * * * * * * * *
That she
Has charmes
I must
Confess
BUT WHAT
Are charmes
Without
Access?
i —Saturday Revue.
* * * * * * * * * *
The best argument we can suggest in behalf of birth control is the statement
that saxophone and picolo players are born, not made.
* * * * * * * * * *
After looking over a map of the United States and the last issue of The Plainsman,
I'd say, O. K. Terre Haute.
* * * * * * * ' * * *
A recent issue of a college weekly reports that the seniors in a .well known
university declared a preference for Zane Grey and Eddie Guest—that Ghandi and
Jean Harlow were their choices for their greatest admiration. It's a wonder they
did not include Bert Green and "Red" Grange.
According to the Christian Science Monitor
jazz, crooners, and all the paraphernalia
of modern music is on a distinct decline:
"Is the age of jazz passing? Recent
reports from the music publishing field
indicate that it may be. An official of
a publishing house the other day let
it be known that sales of 'classical'
music are exceeding those of the type
called popular.
"Many will cast about for explanations
of this shift of interest from sizzling
syncopation and bleating blues to
the quiet gentility of Beethoven's 'Minuet
in G,' Chopin's 'Waltz in D Flat'
and Bach's Bourree from the second
violin sonata, which are now listed
among the best sellers.
"There is another service that radio
may have done the better type of music.
That is, it has done much to wear out
the popularity of jazz. For jazz is
one of those things of which one can
have too much. It is a proverb among
musicians that popular music is merely
familiar music and that the best music
would become popular if it were made
familiar to enough people. Perhaps
the 'jazz boys' have counted too much
on the exactness of their proverb, forgetting
the other one about familiarity
and contempt.
* * * *
This from the lads of the land of "Alfalfa
Bill":
(The Reveille)
"The University of Oklahoma is waging
a war against murderers of the
King's English, according to an Associated
Press story of this week. .
•"Degrees may be withheld from all
students who do not display a satisfactory
knowledge and use of English
grammar, it became known with the
appointment of a committee by the dean *
of the college of arts and science to
lead a battle against campus slang."
Little boys mustn't say naughty words!
* * * *'
It seems that the boys of old Oregon
State talk politics too:
"Many times when a freshman makes
a good start in some field people say,
'So and so got him there.' This may .
be true, but not because he just literally
dragged the freshman in, but because
he could tell this freshman just
how to prepare himself for the position.
"Since a large per cent of sophomores
and freshmen have no way of
knowing how to get started in some
activity as well, because in most cases
the activity needs the student as much
as the student needs the activity. Also,
it will encourage students to enter activities
who would not do so otherwise.
—Oregon State Barometer.
* * * *
When the entire student body at the government's
Indian agricultural school at
Chapingo went on strike as a protest
against new methods of study, the university
immediately advertised for a new student
body.
The more than 400 students declared they
would not return to their classes unless the
reforms were abolished.
* * * *
In the future Yale should pick its athletic
coaches without regard to where they
graduated, the Yale Daily News declared
editorially recently.
"There is no reason," the Neivs said,
"why a graduate of Yale should make a
better coach than a non-graduate."
The News criticised the university for its
alleged attitude in thinking it could prove
its football was not over-emphasized merely
by pointing the maintenance of its alumni-
coach policy.
"There is little or no connection between
the Alma Mater of the coach and overemphasis,"
the Neivs said.
As a matter of fact, the paper said, the
alumnus coach might feel he had to win
his game with Harvard at any cost.
"A good coach," the editorial said,-"is a
coach who can inspire men with ideas of
good sportsmanship and who knows that
football is not everything in the player's
life, and who develops a moderately successful
football team. In other words, a
good coach looks at football in a sensible
light."
* * * *
To relieve unemployment in local trades,
Princeton University is to erect a memorial
dormitory to house sixty-five students.
Maybe they should have waited to give the
jobs to June graduates of the university.
* * * * -
Progress is noted in the move by Tennessee
Tech to eliminate the baccalaureate
sermon. Most college seniors would be happy
to abolish the entire Commencement
program, and issue the diplomas by mail.
. * * * *
At the University of Berlin students are
permitted a period of six weeks at the
beginning of each course in which to analyze
and select their professors.
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.
* * * *
BILL JACKSON was one of the most
outstanding men at Utopia college.
His scholastic record was good, and
his athletic accomplishments were the talk
of the whole South. His quiet and unassuming
manner, even after his most brilliant
successes, was one of his most outstanding
personality traits. Friends flocked
to him from all directions because he
was an all around good fellow. The modesty
with which Bill was able to conduct
himself in all his affairs about the campus
was an indication of real strength of character.
Bill was a real leader and his col-lge
mates recognized him as such.
* * *
The Administration of Utopia College
had been severely criticized during the year
regarding its policy toward students who
used unfair means on examinations. Regardless
of whether the .criticism was just
or not the Administration adopted a set
policy and published to the world, exactly
what would happen to all students caught
using unfair means during any Utopia examinations.
As a result of this policy, several
students were required to leave college,
and the problem was fast approaching
a complete solution.
* * * *
Finally Bill Jackson was caught in a situation
that looked very much like he was
guilty of unfairness. There was some doubt
about the case, however, and it was brought
before the Executive Council to be decided.
It seems that the professor in charge, during
"the examination, had seen Bill with an
extra sheet, of paper, but instead of causing
a disturbance had waited until the end
of the class to ask him for it. When asked
for the paper Bill refused tp give it up.
After tearing it to pieces and stuffing it
in his pocket, Bill stated that it was nothing
but a blank sheet of paper.
* * * *
The Executive Council, after carefully
considering the case, found Bill guilty of
using unfair means on the examination,
and decided that he would have to leave
school. The Council fully understood that
the decision was based on nothing but circumstantial
evidence, but the case was settled
on one common principle of law—"any
man who, himself, destroys the evidence in
a case is guilty."
* * * *
No doubt the Executive Council of Utopia
will receive a lot of criticism for its action
regarding Bill Jackson, but in view of the
fact that other students, whose cases were
decided with no more evidence, were expelled,
there was nothing else that the
Council could do.
The administration of Utopia is to be
congratulated on its action because even
though it will mean criticism it will also .
mean that the Administration's policy still
holds weight in the eyes of the student
body. If Bill Jackson's case had been overlooked,
all the recent improvement in student
honesty during examinations, would
have been entirely lost.
* * * *
Twenty years ago the Baltimore Sun offered
a prize for the best definition of a
gentleman. The answer chosen was:
"The true gentleman is the man
"whose conduct proceeds from good will,
and an acute sense of propriety, and
whose self-control is equal to all emergencies;
who does not make the poor
man conscious of his poverty, the obscure
man of his obscurity, or any man
of his inferiority or deformity; who is
himself humbled if necessity compels
him to humble another; who does not
flatter wealth, cringe before power, or
boast of his own possessions or achieve- .
ments; who speaks with frankness,
but always with sincerity and sym-pathy,
and whose deeds follow his
word"; who thinks of the rights and
feelings of others rather than of his
own; who appears well in any company,
and who is at home what he
seems to be abroad—a man with whom
honor is sacred and virtue safe".
Cletus wishes to thank the • student who
contributed the above quotation.
* * * * '
A statement was recently made by an
Auburn professor that a student's liberal
education was far from complete until he
had read, "Letters from a Self-Made Merchant
to his Son" by George Horace Lorim-er.
Every senior who still has left some
hope of starting out for himself next year,
should make it a point to read this book.
Interior decorators say old-fashioned
horsehair furniture is coming in again.
Where are they going to get the horses?—
Dayton Journal.
Some of our hunches turn out to be true
—too late for us to profit by them.
S
SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 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
LANDSCAPE SPECIALISTS HERE
FOR THREE-DAY SHORT COURSE
Object of Short Course Was to Study Ways of Maintaining
Natural Beauty of Trees on Alabama Highways and
Streets
To study ways of maintaining natural
beauty of trees on Alabama
highways and streets, more than
fifty landscape and forestry specialists
attended a three-day Short
Course in Ornamental Forestry and
Highway Improvement here \this
week. Believing that the artistic
and utilitarian development of the
State can go hand-in-hand with the
ultimate beautification of Alabama,
these attendants heard lectures on
many phases of highway and street
planning together with the proper
conservation and care of trees which
grow luxuriantly throughout the
State.
Utility representatives and members
of the State highway and forestry
departments expressed themselves
as highly desirous of conserving
Alabama's natural beauty in the
construction of their power lines so
as not to mar beautiful shade trees
on streets and highways. To this
end company and State officials come
to Auburn where the many technical
phases of planting, tree pruning, and
care of trees was studied. Actual
demonstrations in pruning of trees
along power lines in Auburn were
held toe show that both the requirements
of utility and beauty may be
satisfied without loss to either.
Officials | expressed their willingness
to cooperate with all local movements
in the State toward the highway
and street beautification. They
emphasized the value of the sponsors
obtaining expert advice on such
matters from landscape and forestry
men at Auburn and thos,e with the
State department and specialists
with, various utility companies.
Addresses of welcome by President
Bradford Knapp and Julian
Brown of the Alabama Extension
Service opened the conference on
Tuesday morning. R. D. Jordan of
the State highway department spoke
on "The State Highway as a Landscape
Problem." Sam F. Brewster,
extension landscape architect, followed
with a discussion of "Highway
Planting in Relation to Landscape
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"You can live better at the
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Improvement." Later Mr. Brewster
and Mr. Jordan conducted a demonstration
and study of highways in
the Auburn vicinity.
Beauty hazards on highways in the
form of sign, boards were discilssed
by Mr. Brewster in the afternoon.
He pointed to the vast amount of improvement
which could be made in
the State along this line and commended
the progress already accomplished
in certain places.
The nominal cost for the proper
care of trees was explained by R. S.
Marshall, superintendent of Birmingham
parks, who pointed to the
valuable possibilities resulting from
the expert care of Alabama's beautiful
trees.
" • Colonel Page S. Bunker, State
forester, flew to Auburn by airplane
Tuesday afternoon to discuss the
"Technique of Highway Planting."
Both Colonel Bunker and Mr. Marshall
conducted a field demonstration
of highway planting problems later
in the afternoon.
The Wednesday session was opened
by Dr. Hiram F. Thut, Auburn
botanist, who talked upon "How
Plants Grow." Problems relating to
the proper planting of trees on
streets in towns and cities were dis
cussed by Prof. John W. Hyde, in
charge of landscape gardening at
Auburn. The need for the people
of Alabama to conserve the beautiful
and economically valuable forests
was explained by Lylo Brown
extension forester.
Coming to the all important problem
of tree diseases, Dr. James L.
Seal of Auburn explained the latest
and most adequate control measures.
Prof. J. M. Robinson, Auburn entomologist,
went further into the subject
with a discussion of tree insects
and explained the various control
measures. Both later conducted
a demonstration in tree spraying.
Tree drainage, grading, and fertilizing
was the subject of Mr. Hyde's
lecture Wednesday afternoon. Later
Comer W. Evans, forester for the
Alabama Power Company, discussed
tree pruning and surgery after which
he demonstrated important points in
actual tree surgery.
Loss of many valuable trees because
of inadequate line clearance
was explained by E. S. Neighbors of
the Birmingham Electric Company at
the opening session Thursday morning.
Mr. Evans followed with a discussion
of types of line construction
and classification of types of tree
pruning.
Mr. Evans was heard again Thursday
afternoon, speaking on efficiency
in line clearance and cost of maintenance.
The Short Course closed
with a field demonstration on the
subject conducted by Mr. Evans.
Mrs. Judd Entertains
Local Chapter D.A.R.
The annual meeting of the Light
Horse Harry Lee Chapter of the D.
A. R. of Auburn was held at the
home of Mrs. Zebulon Judd on the
evening of April sixth. Mrs. Judd,
Mrs. Luther Duncan, Mrs. W. M.
Askew, Mrs. Cleburne Basore and
Miss Alice Glenn were joint hostesses.
Miss Mary Martin, regent, presided
over the program which opened
with a report on the recent state convention
at Gadsden, by Mrs. J. C.
Cannon, state corresponding secretary.
Miss Mary Martin gave a
short talk on her visit to two state
D. A. R. schools.
The featured speaker of the program,
Dean George Petrie, pointed
out in his talk on "Washington Today,"
the influence the first president
has on national life at the present.
At the conclusion of the talks,
Mrs. Basore presented Miss Martin
with an ex-regent pin.
Following the presentation, Mrs.
Clara Yarbrough, acting as installing
officer, ushered the following new
officers into their chairs: Mrs. J.
W. Scott, regent; Mrs. Fred Allison,
vice-regent; Mrs. Herbert Martin,
secretary; Miss Lucille Burton, treasurer;
Mrs. K. D. Lipscomb, chaplain;
Mrs. J. T. Anderson, registrar.
Several non-resident members
were present and were entertained
at the conclusion of the program by
a social hour. The hostesses served
an ice course.
PAIRINGS MADE FOR INTER-FRATERNITY TENNIS TOURNAMENT
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QUARTER FINAL SEMI-FINAL
By April 25, 1932 By April 30, 1932
FINAL
May 1, 1932
QUARTER FINAL
By April 25, 1932
WALLER BACK FROM
MILITARY MEETING
Local Representatives Favorably
Impressed by Scabbard
. and Blade Convention
SEMI-FINAL
By April 30, 1932
Most School Children
Immune To Diptheria
According to a survey of the Lee
County Health Department, diphtheria
is far more prevalent among
babies and people over school age
than among school children. During
the year 1931 there were forty cases
of the disease reported in the county.
Twenty-six of these were,babies and
the remaining fourteen were over
fifteen years of age.
Few people over school age have
taken the diphtheria preventive inoculations
and likewise the diphtheria
toxoid is rarely given to children under
six years of age, which accounts
for the susceptibility of these two
groups to the disease.
The Health Department is making
an earnest. appeal to all parents of
young children to see that they are
inoculated. They also recommend
the diphtheria toxoid for adults and.
believe that such action will totally
eliminate the disease in this county.
It's the time a boy turns in that
determines how he will turn out.
Dance Revue At High
School Is Successful
Transformed into a night club
with its spectators and entertainers,
the stage of the Auburn .High School
became the scene of a dance revue
Tuesday night, April 12. Sponsored
by the P.-T. A. and under the direction
of Miss Mary Lou Watts, the
show was for the purpose of raising
funds to buy cafeteria lunches for
needy children. This has been financed
by the P.-T. A. heretofore
this session from money raised by a
play given in the high school auditorium
early last fall, and it is hoped
by the P.-T. A. that the proceeds
from the entertainment Tuesday
night will be adequate for continuing
the lunches for .the remainder of
the 'school year.
Members of Miss Watts' tap dancing
class took part in the revue.
Nat Waller, who attended the
eighteenth national convention of
Scabbard and Blade, honorary military
fraternity, held at George Washington
University, St. Louis, Mo., on
April 7, 8, and 9, expressed himself
as greatly impressed by the meeting.
Waller was the official delegate from
the Auburn chapter, Company L, the
Fifth Regiment, of Scabbard and
Blade. There were over two hundred
delegates from forty-six states
present to hear the many prominent
speakers.
The delegates were welcomed by
Major General Johnson Haygood,
Commanding General of the Seventh
Corps Area. Other speakers were:
Chancellor Troop, president of George
Washington University; Lieut.
Col. Hartman Butler, Commandant
of R. 0. T. C. at George Washington
University; Captain Abbott, U.
S. N.; Major General Frank Parker,
Commanding General of the Sixth
Corps Area; and Brig. General
Henry J. Reillly, member of the Advisory
Council, O. R. C.
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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 SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1932
FOUR LEADING COLLEGE HURLERS
APPEAR ON DRAKE FIELD, 22-23
Florida Coach, Brady Crowell, Will Use Ben d e m o n s and Al
Rogero, Stars of the Gridiron, While McAllister Depends
Upon Captain Smith and "Ripper" Williams for Victory
Four of the leading college hurlers
in America, three of whom have
starred on the gridiron, will be seen
in action here on Drake Field, Friday
and Saturday, April 22 and 23,
when the University of Florida 'Gators
clash with the championship Auburn
Tigers in a crucial two-game
series in the Dixie College League.
For Florida, Coach Brady Cowell
will depend upon his two aces, Ben
demons and Al Rogero, both football
luminaries, for triumphs over
Coach Sam McAllister's sterling club,
demons and Rogero won their first
starts in the box against Oglethorpe
and will face the Plainsmen with a
flawless record on the mound in the
college loop.
Rogero holds the distinction of being
the only pitcher to win a couple
decisions from the 1931 Tigers, one
of the hardest-hitting teams ever to
perform on a college diamond. In
his first game against the champs,
Rogero gave Florida a 3-1 victory,
giving up only three hits, two of
which were doubles garnered by Joe
Burt, who is now with the Birmingham
Barons. Porter Grant secured
the safety off Rogero.
Facing the Orange and Blue wearers
from the Plains for the second
time during his sophomore year,
Rogero won a 8-6 verdict over Clifford
Smith, the only loss suffered
during the season by Auburn's all-
American moundsmen, although
Smith was touched for only six safeties,
while the Plainsmen slammed
out 10.
Coach McAllister will give Smith,
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a chance to avenge his lone 1931
setback, probably starting him on the
firing line Friday against Florida. It
is more than likely that he will be
opposed by demons. Like demons,
Smith has also been very effective
this season.
In the final Auburn-Florida diamond
contest, Ripper Williams, a
sophomore with a curve that cuts
the outside corner and a fast ball
that breezes by the plate, is carded
to be pitted against Rogero, a junior.
Along with Capt. Smith, Williams, of
Tuscumbia, ranks as a great member
of the Tigers twirling staff.
Since the 'Gators made a clean
sweep of their initial Dixie League
series with Oglethorpe and will not
play any more games in the college
circuit until battling the Tigers, they
will come to the Cornerstone with
a perfect record in the league that
has stimulated interest in college
baseball in this section. «
No one will deny that Auburn and
Florida have the leading teams in the
Dixie League, so the tilts at Auburn
will be watched with much interest.
Two hard-fought and close frays are
in the offing when the Tigers and
Spaurians meet in a series that probably
will determine the 1932 champions
of the Dixie League.
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
April 17, 1932
3rd Sunday after Easter
Church School and Bible Class—
9:45 a. m.
Morning prayer and Sermon—11
a. m.
The sermon will be preached by
Rev. V. W Edwards, of Atmore, Ala.
Meeting of the young people—6:30
p. m.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Plans Are Completed
For Legion Barbecue
Final arrangements have been
completed for the big barbecue to
be given by the John H. Wills Post,
number 36, of the American Legion
on Monday, April 25, in honor of the
two War Department inspectors who
will be in Auburn to inspect the R.
O. T. C. Unit.
Major R. E. Sharrer, who- will inspect
the Engineers, and Major T.
W. Wrenn, who will look over' the
Field Artillery cadets, will be' the
officers honored at this annual affair,
which will be attended by Legionnaires
and their guests.
It was also announced by Captain
S. Ott, Commander of the post at
Auburn, that Department Commander
James T. Conner of Huntsville, and
Department Adjutant Trotter Jones
of Troy will be present. The barbecue
will be held in the grove of oaks
near Major Franke's home at five-thirty
p. m. The final arrangements
for the affair are in the hands of a
committee composed of Mr. Jack
Tamblyn, Dr. J. E. Oliver, Professor
J. E. Pitts and Sargeant T. Moxham.
Auburn Schools Lead
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By almost two percentage points,
Auburn public schools led seven
other schools in the county in at^
tendance for the month of March.
Salem and Smith Station followed in
the order named with high attendance
records.
Auburn enrollment outnumbers the
largest of the seven other schools by
over one hundred pupils. The total
enrollment in the county numbers
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The complete record for March was
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School Enr. Pet.
Auburn ' 486 84.6
Salem 154 92.8
Smith Station 381 90.5
Loachapoka 102 90.3
Pepperell 216 90.1
Botsford 1-8 88.
Beaureguard 280 85.1
Beulah 215 81.2
Winners Of Music
Contest Announced
Contest Winners Go to Huntsv
i l l e to Receive Prizes and
Render Special Program
Behind the Mike
Scenes behind the mike:
Paul Whiteman, although plump,
perfectly healthy, and ruddy-cheeked,
constantly imagines himself on
the verge of illness. Always carries
a vial of pills in his vest and often
summons his doctor in the middle of
the night because of some fancied
crisis. His doctor prohibits his reading
of medicine ads; it seems that he
can read one and feel all the symptoms
described immediately. In
emergencies Whiteman is as cool as
a frozen cucumber; he bears a marked
resemblance to Nero, (figuratively)
the late well known musician of
Rome.
Ben Bernie, "Ye olde maestro"
waves his violin like a fan when indulging
in his "battles of the ether"
with Know-it-all Winchell. And when
on a long program he caresses that
fiddle like an Auburn student during
a campus lab class. Bernie is
famous for his spontaneous wisecracks.
At a Hollywood premiere, not so
long ago, Jimmy Durante had to
stand off and shout at the "mike".
He couldn't talk directly into the
"mike" because of his famous
"schnozzle".
Vincent Lopez can talk to friends,
perform capers, direct his orchestra,
and talk over the radio without a
flinch during a program, but away
from duty, ah! that's another matter.
He is terrorized as a guest at private
parties, is awkwardly self conscious,
and is subject to blushes when
meeting strangers. But when the
signal glows and he says, "Lopez
speaking", all his fears vanish.
Kate "When the Moon Comes Over
the Mountain" Smith was born in the
city of Washington, D. C, and studied
medicine before following a theatrical
career. Her latest Broadway
appearance was in "Flying High".
She belongs to the Columbia Broadcasting
System—the Bernie, Downey
and Crosby clique.
Rudy Vallee's popularity still holds
out. He is now among the surviving
veterans of the early days of broadcasting.
In spite of bad breaks, rotten
tomatoes, grapefruit and myriad
hostile receptions, he and the Connecticut
Yankees still rank "top
notch" among Radio's entertainers.
"Such popularity must be deserved!"
Winners of the State finals in the
annual music contest, sponsored by
the Alabama Federation of Music
Clubs, held in the Jefferson Davis
Hotel in Montgomery, on April 9,
were announced by Mrs. S. L. Teenier,
of Auburn, president of the
fourth district.
The winners who will go to Huntsville
on April 16, to receive the
prizes, appear in a special concert
and be the honor guests at the convention
of the Alabama Federation
are:
Piano, class A, Billy Crum (Montgomery),
first, and Gene Howe
(Tuskegee), second; class B, Ann
Merritt (Montgomery) and Mary
Caroline Ray (Montgomery), tied
fo" rfirst; class C, Mary Elizabeth
Francis (Montgomery), first, and
Margaret Stewart (Montgomery, second;
class D, Doris Miller (Montgomery),
first, and Evelyn Ledbet-ter
(Montgomery), second; class E,
Jane H. Wadsworth (Montgomery).
Voice, Isabelle Edith Haigler
(Montgomery).
Hymn playing, Ann Merritt
(Montgomery), first, and Elizabeth
Piper (Montgomery), second.
Violin, class A, Margaret Lee Weil
(Montgomery), first, and Betty
Buck (Montgomery), second; class
B, Jeanne Fay Roberts (Montgomery),
first, and Edward Wadsworth
(Montgomery), second; class C, Le-
Roy Ousley (Montgomery), first, and
Ethel Mae Tankersley (Montgomery),
second; class D, Louise Tharpe
(Montgomery) and Sim Fair (Pratt-ville),
tied for first, and Alice Cooper
(Prattville), second.
Mrs. Zebulon Judd To
Go To D.A.R. Congress
When Mrs. Zebulon Judd, D. A. R.
State regent, attends the president's
general reception during the National
Society D. A. R. Continental
Congress, April 18 to 24 in Washington
she will wear a colonial dress
made of cotton material that was
grown and woven in the South. Material
for the dress was provided by
Donald Comer, president of the
Avondale Mills of Birmingham.
The reception will be held in the
magnificent ball room of the new
Willard Hotel on the evening of Patriot's
Day commemorating the Battle
of Lexington, April 19. A number
of prominent Alabamians in
Washington have been asked by Mrs.
Judd to occupy box seats on various
evenings during the meeting. The
opening evening will find in the Alabama
box, Senator and Mrs. Hugo
Black, Major G. H. Franke, Congressman
H. B. Stegall, and Mrs.
Ralph Emme'tt Porter, whose husband
is Major Porter, at the head of the
Marine Hospital, Pittsburg, Penn.
Mrs. Porter was formerly-Miss Edna
Lewis of Mobile.
CLOSE COMPETITION EXPECTED
ON TRACK MEET WITH GEORGIA
Closest Battle to Be Fought in Century, Furlong, and Quarter-
Mile; Kimbrell and Dupree Entered In the 100; Kimbrell
and O'Hara in the 220; Creighton and O'Hara in the 440
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With less than a week remaining
until Ag Day, interest among the
Agriculture and Home Economics
students is running high. Beginning
at, 10 o'clock, a program has been
planned to run through the remainder
of the day. Ag Day is something
new to this campus, and it is
hoped that every student will cooperate
to the fullest extent toward the
success of the day.
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To make the atmosphere ' more
homelike, the students of the two
schools are to wear overalls and gingham
dresses on this memoriable day.
Now, if we could only get a pair of
plowlines in our hands, we would
really be at home.
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Entries for the Baby Chick show,
which is sponsored by the Block and
Bridle Club, have steadily mounted.
The directors of the show expect
from seventy-five to eighty entiies
by the time the lists close. This
show, the first of it's kind to be held
in Auburn, and one of the first in the
entire South, will be in session in the
old Burton's Book Store building on
April 28, 29, and 30. From the interest
that has already been manifest
throughout the state, the show should
be one of the best the South has
ever seen.
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Along this same line, plans are
now being made for the celebration
of "National Egg Week, from May 1
to 7. The committee for Alabama is
composed of the follownig state agricultural
leaders: L. N. Duncan, Miss
Helen Johnson, P. O. Davis, H. R.
Bailey, J. E. Tvey, F. G. Bridges,
George Ashley, J. Litt Edwards, J.
A. Reddoch, and G. A. Trollope.
They are hard at work now perfecting
the plans. They will probably
be announced next week.
'Plant Physiology" by Benjamin
M. Duggar, a graduate of Auburn,
is one of the books selected for the
"List of Books for College Libraries"
by Charles B. Shaw, compiled for the
Advisory Group on College Libraries
of the Carnegie Corporation, and published
by the American Library Association.
The list, selected with the
aid of some 200 specialists in different
fields, comprises a minimum book
collection for a four-year liberal arts
college library.
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In Auburn's second dual track meet
of the 1932 season against Georgia
at Auburn, Saturday, April 23, the
closest battles are expected to be
fought in the century, furlong and
quarter-mile. •
For Auburn, Coach Wilbur Hutsell
will enter two sophomore football
stars, Casey "Hunchback" Kimbrell
and Sterling "Silver" Dupree, in the
100; Kimbrell and Alternate-Captain
O'Hara in the J£20, and Felix Creighton
and O'Hara in the 440.
Coaches Herman J. Stegeman and
Weems Baskin, erstwhile star Plainsman
track and field hero, of Georgia,
will pit Capt. Ralph Owens against
Kimbrell, Dupree and O'Hara \n the
100 and 220 and Williams against
O'Hara and Creighton in the 440.
Williams holds the Southern Conference
indoor championship for the
quarter and has looked good for the
Bulldogs in their two dual meets this
season with Presbyterian College and
Clemson.
Creighton annexed first place in
his specialty in the Tigers opening
dual meet against Tulane, while
O'Hara carried out Coach Hutsell's instructions
and also ran a fine race
against the Greenies, 1931 conference
outdoor champions Creighton's winning
time was 51.3.
Kimbrell and Dupree finished one-two
in the 100 against Tulane while
Capt. Owens has been Georgia's outstanding
sprinter. In his first varsity
meet, Kimbrell streaked down the century
in 10 flat and conquered the
straightaway in 22.6. O'Hara was
second in the 220 when the Green
Wave was defeated, 70% to 41%.
Owens has equalled the conference
record of 9.8 for the 100, performing
this amazing achievement against
Clemson this year.
Kimbrell and Owens will also compete
for first honors in the broad
jump. Owens is the conference indoor
champion and holds the record
for this event. His record is 23 feet
seven and a quarter inches. Kim-brell's
second place jump against Tulane
was 22 feet and three-quarter
inches.
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