1932-03-02 The Plainsman

              Congratulations
Architects THE PLAINSMAN
TO FOSTER THE A U B U R N SPIRIT
Congratulations
Architects
VOLUME LV AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1932 NUMBER 41
EVELYN YARBROUGH LEADS
GRAND MARCH OF MILITARY
BALL; PLANS ARE COMPLETE
M. J. Sullivan to Escort Miss
Yarbrough In Spectacular
Event Friday Night
SOCIAL HIGH LIGHT
FRAME MAY NOT
GO UNDER KNIFE
Decorations Depict Chinese
War Scene; Realism in Uni­que
Serving of Refreshments
Beautiful women instead of sabers
will be draped to the sides of Au­burn's
cadet officers when they pass
in review in "Grand March Forma­tion"
at the annual Military Ball on
Friday night. Miss Evelyn Yarbrough
of Atlanta, has been selected to lead
the affair. She will be escorted by
M. J. Sullivan, Cadet Colonel.
Chairmen of the various commit­tees
report that final plans are rap­idly
nearing completion, and that the
stage is set for one of the social sea­son's
highlights. George C. Walter,
chairman of the committee on re­freshments
promises a touch of real­ism
by serving punch from lister
bags. Decorations, according to
Bruce Gregory, head of the commit­tee,
will depict a scene from the war
now being staged in China.
The alumni gymnasium will be
converted into a battlefield with
numerous instruments of modern
war arranged to give the most strik­ing
effect. The orchestra will be
surrounded by a barricade of sand
bags over the top of which numer­ous
rifles will protrude. At either
end of the floor will be seventy-five
milimeter guns of the type used in
the field artillery unit, and various
pieces of lighter artillery will be
placed around the floor. The light­ing
will be in the form of Japanese
lanterns suspended from the ceiling
and fastened under the balcony. A
crystal ball will also be used for re­serve
dances and leadouts. As yet
it has not been decided as to whether
or not guidons will be draped from
the balcony, the decision depending
on whether or not these banners will
blend with the other decorations. Be­hind
the orchestra will be a back
drop on which is painted a Chinese
battle scene, and sand bags will have
to be surmounted to gain entrance
to the ball room.
Commandant Has Been Re­sponding
to Treatment At
Washington Hospital
Possibility that Major G. H.
Franke, Auburn commandant, will not
have to undergo a shoulder operation
is held by doctors at the Walter Reed
General Hospital in Washington
where the major is now receiving
treatment. He was ordered there on
February 16 because of continuous
trouble given him from an injury re­ceived
last fall while officiating at
the Tulane-Georgia football game in
Athens.
Major Franke thinks that he may
be released within the next six weeks.
His right arm has, bgen placed in an
"airplane splint" which permits only
the movement of his fingers.
Major Franke was visited recent­ly
by his long-time friend Major John
T. Kennedy, former commandant at
Auburn who is in Washington this
year attending the Army War Col­lege.
Capitalist To Speak
Here Twice Monday
Mr. Charles A. Haden, retired law­yer
and capitalist of Atlanta, Ga.,
will address the Auburn Kiwanis
Club on "The Railroad Situation," on
Monday, March 7. On the forenoon
of that day he will talk to the for­eign
trade class of Dr. J. H. Goff, on
"Cotton As a Commodity in Interna­tional
Trade."
Mr. Haden is an Alabamian by
birth, being born in Madison County.
He has spent most of his life in At­lanta
where, in addition to his legal
practice, he has been active in civic
affairs. He has served as president
of the Georgia State Chamber of
Commerce and also on several com­missions.
He has traveled extensive­ly
in the United States and also in
foreign countries.
Aged Resident Dies
Here This Morning
Arthur McDaniel Swope died at his
home here at 3:00 o'clock Wednesday
morning from complications caused
by a number of ailments. Mr. Swope
has been ill for some 20 years, having
been confined to his room for almost
15 years.
Funeral will be held at 10:00 a. m.
Thursday at the home of Miss Annie
Heard.
He is survived by his widow, five
children, one brother and two sisters.
His children are John, Arthur, Hu­bert,
Frances, and Louise; his broth­er
George Swope of Birmingham; sis­ters,
Mrs. Forest Clowdus of Birm­ingham,
and Mrs. Jack Lawley of
Fitsey.
Mr. Swope was a member of the
Methodist Church.
Rifle Team Finishes
Very Successful Year
With the close of this year's rifle
team season a few days ago the Au­burn
squad completed firing a series
of matches which included teams from
colleges and universities in all parts
of the United States an dthe foreign
territories of Porto Rico and Hawaii.
Matches were fired this year with
teams from thirty-seven schools
reaching from the University of
Maine on the North to the University
of Florida on the South, and from
North Carolina State College in the
East to the universities of Washing­ton
and Wyoming in the West.
Matches were also fired with the
University of Porto Rico and the
University of Hawaii, Auburn win­ning
both.
Of the thirty-seven matches fired
Auburn won nineteen and lost seven­teen,
ending the season with an av­erage
of slightly over 500. The Uni­versity
of Minnesota failed to send
in their score of a match fired with
them and as a result this match was
not counted.
Due to a shortage of ammunition
the rifle squad was cut several weeks
ago from thirty to seventeen men.
Of the seventeen now comprising the
squad ten will receive letters, but at
the present time it is not definitely
known who the ten men will be. Fol­lowing
are the members of the squad
at present: Wullenbucher, Irwin,
Freret, Brewer, Reynolds, Scherer,
Casson, McKinney, Crane, Polk, Wit-tel,
Zachry, Sparrow, Gregory, Moore,
Robertson, and Copeland.
WORK EXPECTED TO
BEGIN ON FEDERAL
SITE IN THIRTY DAYS
Sidney N. Wellborn Gathering
Data for Final Arrangement
of Building Plans
UNEMPLOYED AID SEEN
$90,000 Structure to Be Of Ex
ceptional Worth Due to In
expensive Building Materials
Cadet Officers Are
Awarded Promotions
With the approval of the President
the following promotions and assign­ment
of Cadet Noncommissioned offi­cers
in the Reserve Officers Training
Corps are announced effective at this
date. First Field Artillery Regi­ment:
to be Cadet Captain, Cadet 1st
Lt. C. R. Jager vice Captain T. N.
Pyke, transferred. To be Cadet 1st
Lt., Cadet 2nd Lt. J. W. Mathews vice
Cadet 1st Lt. C. R. Jager, promoted.
Cadet 2nd Lt. L. H. McKinnon is pro­moted
to the rank of 1st Lt. and is
to be a cadet instructor.
First Field Artillery Regiment: to
be assigned to Battery A, Cadet Sgt.
C. W. Jordan; to be Cadet Cpl. Bat­tery
A, Cadet Pvt. J. R. Montgomery;
to be Cadet Staff Sgt. Battery D, Ca­det
Cpl. P. E. Duke vice Cadet Sgt.
J. W. Letson, resigned.
Second Field Artillery Regiment:
to be Cadet Sgt. Battery A, Cadet
Cpl. T. B. Ingram; to be Cadet Sgt.
Battery B, Cadet pvt. S. G. Norris;
to be Cadet Staff Sgt. Battery E,
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With construction of Auburn's $90,-
000 post office building contemplated
to begin within the next 30 days,
Sidney N. Wellborn, architect with
the Supervising Architect's office in
Washington, spent Friday and Sat
urdey in Auburn working out details
and gathering data relative to the
early completion of plans and specifi­cations
fo rthe new building. Here
Mr. Wellborn consulted with Post­master
L. A. Knapp, Mayor W. D
Copeland, Jack Chambers, city engi­neer,
and a number of town officials
who were highly pleased with the ar­chitect's
plans.
Due to the present reduced price
of materials and labor, it is thought
that the $90,000 building would have
cost $20,000 to $30,000 more in normal
times.
Mr. Knapp said the work on the
foundation would "possibly start
within the next 30 days". To aid
local unempolyment, Mr. Wellborn
stated that completion of foundation
specifications would receive his first
attention upon his return to Washing­ton
early next week.
An Auburn graduate with the class
of 1913, Mr. Wellborn expressed him­self
as being highly pleased with the
prospect of designing the Auburn
post office. It is understood that pre­liminary
sketches have already been
completed by him in Washington.
Mr. Wellborn said that he was
planning to do the building in Colon­ial
style in keeping with the other
Auburn structures and to embody
some of the features, such as arched
windows, so effectively carried out in
early buildings of the University of
Virginia designed by Thomas Jeffer­son.
As a result it is believed that
the building will have unusual beauty
and constitute a departure from the
stereotyped style of the usual struc­ture
of this nature.
The new post office will face north
with the main three-door entrance on
Tichenor avenue. There will also be
a single-door entrance from Gay
street. On the Tichenor Avenue side
a commodious loggia will open into an
ample lobby containing twice as much
space as is usually provided in a
building for a town the size of Au­burn.
This provision is made to ac-cbmmodate
the large number of col­lege
students.
Fifteen hundred boxes will be plac­ed
in the lobby—this number also be­ing
double the usual amount required
for a building in this size town.
A system of clear-story lighting,
consisting of 16 windows, forms an
unusual feature which lends height to
the building and provides better light­ing
and ventilation for the work
rooms. This system is considered
more efficient than the usual sky
lighting.
Departing from the usual proce­dure,
Mr. Wellborn has incorporated
a built-in mailing platform at the
rear of the building that lends itself
to utility and does not mar the beauty
of the structure.
A nicely lighted and ventilated
basement will provide ample space for
any additional government functions
which may be contemplated for Au­burn
in the future.
ELLIOTT STRESSES
LACK OF HONESTY,
PURITY, CONTROL
Speaker Says That What We
Are to Be We Are Now Be­coming
as Theme of Address
ADDRESSES MEN TODAY
That Period of College Has
Great Influence On Later
Life Is "Dad" Elliott's Belief
"Dad" Elliott's message tonight
at 7 o'clock will be for men and
boys only. At 8 o'clock he will
speak to women and girls.
High school students are urged
to attend) these services. Both
meetings will be in Langdon Hall.
Impurity, dishonesty, and lack of
self-control are the three things to
be avoided if a person succeeds in life,
said Dr. A. J. "Dad" Elliott, noted
student religious worker, to Alabama
Polytechnic Institutes students at the
opening service of Religious Week
Tuesday morning.
"What we are to be, we are now
becoming," said Dr. Elliott, in stress­ing
the importance of developing vir­tues
that will prove valuable in later
life. "Every man is desirous of mak­ing
good in the world, possession of'
either of these will prove his undo­ing."
v
He said that the attitudes of later
life are developed during the period
of a high school or college education,
pointing out that only one person in
nine changes his attitudes after high
school and only one in four among
college graduates.
Religious Week is sponsored by the
Y. M. C. A., the college, and Auburn
churches. Services are being conduct­ed
daily, through Friday, at 11 a. m.
and 7 p. m. except on Friday, when
the morning exercises will be held
at 10 a. m.
All of the services will be conduct­ed
by Dr. Elliott, who is associate
national secretary of the student di­vision
of the Y. M. C. A. He is
known by thousands of students in
all ports of the worldl, having engag­ed
extensively in student religious
work since 1907.
Anniversary Program of Architects
Nears Completion; Reception Friday
Evening to Inaugurate Celebration
AUBURN MEN IN CONTEST OF
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME
Result of Recognition by Allied Arts Department; Six Enter
Contest For Study Abroad; Finalist Given Trip to New
York
As a result of the recognition of 1931; Mr. Walter S. Swettman, in-the
Auburn Architectural and Allied
Arts Department by the American
Academy in Rome two students in the
department, two faculty members and
two graduates of the school of archi-techture
have entered the annual
contest for a two year fellowship
sponsored by the American Academy
in Rome.
Starting at 9 o'clock yesterday
morning and continuing until Sat­urday
morning the first preliminary
for the Rome Prize for the award of
a two-year fellowship at the Ameri­can
Academy in Rome is being held
in the architectural design quarters
of the-School of Architecture and Al­lied
Arts under the supervision of
Professor E. Walter Burkhardt for
the first time in the history of the
school.
Those eligible and contesting are
Mr. George C. Morgan of the class
of 1929, Messrs. Chas. F. Davis, Jr.,
and Samuel Pope, Jr., of the class of
structor in design, and Messrs. Eu-fiene
L. Bothwell and J. Clyde Seale,
candidates for a degree in May of
this year.
To be eligible for participation,
candidates must be a graduate from
or candidate for a degree in school
accredited by the American Acade­my
in Rome, have a minimum of six
months of office experience, be un­married
and under 30 years of age.
The participants work independ­ently
of each other in loges, or com­partments,
hence are known as loge-ists,
are pledged not to use docu­ments,
the design submitted, there­fore,
is entirely an original concep­tion,
i
The problem this year is the de­sign
of an Art Centre in New Eng­land,
to be done in three consecutive
days. These are sent to New York
City and judged for choosing candi­dates
for the final competition. Can-
(Continued on Page 4)
Program to Feature A Series of
Historical Tabloids; Recep­tion
At High School Friday
BALL SATURDAY NIGHT
Biggin and Knapp to Speak
Preceeding Opening of Pro­gram
Meeting Of Women's
Club Held March 10
The meeting of the art department
of Women's Club of Auburn that was
scheduled for March 3 has been post­poned,
and will be held on Thursday,
March 10 instead of on the former
date. The meeting will be held at
the home of Mrs. R. L. Johns.
Mr. Frank W. Applebee, of the
School of Architecture, will speak on
the subject of "Art and Religion".
Departmental Head Is
Showered With Letters
Of Languishing Maiden
The slogan "We Get Our man"
may have been originated by the
Royal Northwest Mounted Police,
but, according to P. O. Davis, has
been successfully adopted by the
unmarried population of South
Carolina. Unable to escape the
. leap-year menace, Auburn's Di­rector
of Public Information is
reported as being in the throes
of a desperate damsel from the
Iodine State. The vampire ap­pears
to be unscrupulous, and
fully aware of her rights during
1932.
Our muckraking reporter wit­nessed
the arrival of a letter from
a young women today, which
seemed to cause Mr. Davis much
concern. He refused to be inter­viewed
on the subject, and pre­ferred
to class the matter under
the proverbial alibi of business
correspondence. However, later
reports from the snooping news-hounds
confirmed campus gissip.
It seems that the young lady •
in question has lately turned six­teen
and was possessed with a
desire to write someone in Ala­bama.
It is evident that the ac­complishments
of Mr. Davis are
widespread, and quite logical that
he should be favored with the
overflow of this young heart. "
Numerous friends of Mr. Davis
state that he had, until this inci­dent
came to light, successfully
concealed his Don Juan traits
from them.
KAPPA DETA PI
WILL INITIATE 14
POLO TEAM HOLDS
FIRST SCRIMMAGE
Alumni and Members of Mon-t
e v a l l o Chapter To Be Pres­ent
for Ceremony
NOTICE!
The time of the Scabbard and
Blade banquet has been changed to
7:15 Friday night, instead of 6:30
as original plans provided for.
Initiation of 14 members into Kap­pa
Delta Pi, national honorary educa­tional
fraternity, will take place on
Monday evening, it was announced
today by J. W. Letson, Jr., of Colum­biana,
president of the local chapter.
The initiates, who were selected at
a recent meeting, are: Mrs. Mae Wil-more,
H. F. Gibson, Mrs. G. W. En-loe,
A. J. Killebrew, H. E. Logue,
Jewel Golden, Mildred Enloe, Carolyn
Jenkins, H. M. Finney, R. W. Mont­gomery,
R. C. Brown, G. H. Connor,
Virgil Breland, and J. T. Green.
Preceding the initiation, an exami­nation
of each candidate will take
place, and, following the ceremonies,
a banquet will be held at the Lee
County High School building.
Alumni of the chapter and members
of the Kappa Delta Pi chapter at
Alabama College, Montevallo, are ex­pected
to be present for the exercises.
Letson said that the chapter was
represented at the national convention
of Kappa Delta Pi, held last week at
Washington, by Gordon , Fowler of
Pell City, member of the junior class.
The convention occurred in conjunc­tion
with the meeting of the National
Education Association.
Other officers of the local chapter
are Virgil Nunn of Auburn, vice-pres­ident;
Mrs. Sara McDonald of Au­burn,
secretary; Tom {Lumpkin of
Millerville, treasurer; and Miss Sara
Wilkes of Opelika, reporter.
Regulation Match Interspersed
by Coaching of Lieut. Gun-by;
Football Helmets Used
Irish Players Give
Performance Today
Two excellent plays by Lennox Rob­inson
will be presented in Tuskegee
Institute on Wednesday afternoon and
evening by the famous Abbey Irish
Players.
In the afternoon at 3:00 o'clock, the
players will give a matinee perform­ance
of Robinson's "The White-Head-ed
Boy", following it at 8:00 p. m.
fith his "The Far Off Heroes".
Admission to one or both perform­ances,
to take place in Tuskegee's
new auditorium, Logan Hall, will be
$1.00 to the public and 50 cents to
students. Tickets may be secured at
the Department of Public Informa­tion,
first floor Samford Hall, or from
Bama Lynn Ayres, student in charge
of sales.
The polo team held its first scrim­mage
last Saturday, February 27, on
Bullard Field after a number of
weeks of individual practice and
drill. The teams played four peri­ods
at the slow gaits of the trot and
walk in order that the polo coach,
Lt. Gunby, and assisting officers
might observe the play closely, call
for frequent halts to explain the va­rious
plays, and instruct the play­ers
for their correct positions. Par­ticular
attention was paid to "riding
off", to the location of the different
positions, and to fouls. Practically
all of the men on the squad were giv­en
an opportunity to play at one
time or another during the four peri­ods
of scrimmage.
Red and blue football jerseys were
used to distinguish the two teams,
and in place of the expensive polo
helmets football helmets were bor­rowed
from the athletic department.
It has been tentatively decided to
reserve Wednesday's and Saturday's
for scrimmage, and as soon as the
players have reached a reasonable
degree of proficiency as to how they
should play their positions the scrim­mages
will be held at the regulation
gaits of the fast gallop and run.
Arrangements and plans are rapil-ly
nearing completion for the two
day celebration on Friday and Sat­urday,
March 4 and 5, of the 35th
anniversary of the establishment of
the Department of Architecture at
Auburn. The features of the pro­gram
include a series of historical
tabloids, an exhibit of architectural
works, and a masquerade ball.
The tabloids will be given at an
informal reception on Friday evening,
March 4 at eight o'clock in the high
school auditorius. Dean Frederic C.
Biggin and Dr. Bradford Knapp will
make the melcoming addresses at the
reception, preceding the tableaux con­sisting
of eight episodes representing
different periods in the history of
art. The eight periods which will be
depicted in the tableaux are: prehis-t'oris,
Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Ro­man,
Byzantine, Gothic, and Renais­sance.
Appropriate costumes will be
used with the scenes and artificial
colored lighting effects will be used
to produce unusual scenes. All work
in the production of the tableaux bas
been done by the students of archi­tecture
who have devoted a great deal
of time in the past few weeks to the
making of costumes and scenery.
The ball will be given on Saturday
evening in the display rooms of the
architecture building and is open to
all students in the School of Archi­tecture,
alumni of the Architectural
School and representatives of the ma­jor
organizations on the campus. The
display rooms will be decorated to
ceiling will be hung with a red cloth
canopy and the windows will be cov­ered
with Spanish draperies. Sprink­lings
of artificial flowers and Span­ish
lanterns hanging from the ceiling
will add greatly to the attractiveness
of the decorations. The decorations
were designed by Miriam Toulmin of
Mobile, and W. M. Chambers of Bir­mingham,
students in Architecture.
In making preparations for the cel­ebrations,
members of the architectu­ral
faculty are working in conjunc­tion
with the student committees.
Chairmen of the committees are: H.'
H. Hillman of Selma and C. F. Davis
of Hartford, executive; G. W. Swain
of Little Rock, Ark., decorations; Mrs.
Betty Buchanan Ward of Auburn,
costumes; and Howard B. Upchurch
of Montgomery, music.
Pyke Voted Winner
Of Oratorical Meet
Thomas N. Pyke of Montgomery
was voted winner of the annual ora­torical
contest held Tuesday evening,
winning the certificate of merit
awarded by Phi Delta Gamma, hon­orary
forensic society and sponsor of
the contest. Pyke represented the
Websterian Literary Society.
"The Development of George Wash­ington
as a Military Leader" was the
subject chosen for Pyke's oration.
Walter Edwards of Atmore, repre­senting
the Evans Society, was the
other entry in the contest.
Judges were Prof/ H. W. Adams,
Dr. Lee Gosser, and Prof. Arthur
Medlock, of the English department.
In addition to the oratorical con­test,
Phi Delta Gamma sponsors inter-society
debating and debating contests
annually. It was decided at a recent
meeting to hold the debate on April
25.
Polo Squad Sponsors
Gymkhana Here Soon
Sponsored by the polo squad and
the ladies' riding glass, and under
the direction of Lieuts. Gunby and
Phelps, a gymkhana will be held on
the drill field in the near future—
probably the last Saturday in March
or the first Saturday in April.
Members of the polo squad will
contest in a bending race, stick and
ball race, schooling of polo ponies
and other events that will test the
usefulness of the horses for polo. It
is also planned to have either mount­ed
wrestling or a mounted tug of
war between teams from the junior
and senior classes.
By members of the ladies' riding
class there will be an exhibition ride,
jumping and other events not yet de­cided
on. Entries are open to pre­sent
and former members of the
ladies' riding class.
Completing the program will be
pair jumping in which a lady and a
gentleman will ride as an entry.
Admission will be twenty-five
cents and any profit will be used to
buy helmets for the polo squad.
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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
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Business and editorial offices at Auburn
Printing Co. on Magnolia Street.
Office hours: 11-12 A. M. Daily.
STAFF
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EDITORIAL STAFF
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REPORTERS
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Jr., '33; Jack Knowlton, '35; Walter Smith,
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'35.
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A MATTER OF POLICY
It has been the policy of this publication
to conduct a "Letters to the Editor" col­umn
as an open forum for the airing of
student opinion. The staff urges that all
students avail themselves of their right of
expression by contributions.
However, the editor reserves the right
to print no communications unless the au­thor
is known. On request no names will
be published.
This is done as a matter of protection
to the paper. Should charges be brought
against any assertions in these anonymous
letters The Plainsman will be held respon­sible,
unless the author can be called upon
to stand by his opinions.
It is solely for this reason that we ask
that all letters be signed.
If the author of any letters which have
been submitted and not yet published, will
make himself known to the editor his letter
will be published in the next issue of this
paper.
"DAD" ELLIOTT
This is a most unusual man. Unlike
most evangelists, "Dad" Elliott does not
spend so much time in a ballyhoo effort to
rescue lost souls from fire and brimstone;
he is more concerned with the more tangible
life on earth. Never have we heard a more
ruthless orator. Mr. Elliott does not hesi­tate
to enumerate in detail the shortcomings
of his hearers; no one is spared, and all
is said without apology of any kind. This
kind of messages are most stimulating, and
no student body needs them more than the
undergraduate group here does. For once
we have heard the raw truth told about
ourselves, and this time we have believed it.
In his opening address, Mr. Elliott dis­cussed
honor, honesty, character, and the
development of character. Using the Amer­ican
"Who's Who" as a criterion, he dis­cussed
the kind of students who succeeded;
Mr. Elliott held that the student's attitude
in college determined his future attitude
in life and gave concrete illustrations to
prove the point. These things and many
others of vital importance were discussed,
and an authoritative viewpoint was given.
"Dad" Elliott is here in the interests of
the Auburn student body, and those who
have heard him will attest that he has
something to say; The Plainsman urges
everyone to try to hear Mr. Elliott and feels
sure that the student body will make the
revival services a success.
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STANDARD OF LIVING IN COLLEGE
In an editorial noting the reduced bud­gets
on which many American colleges will
be forced to operate the next few years,
the Chicago Tribune yesterday flayed the
"sumptuous building," and particularly the
"sumptuous living accommodations for stu­dents"
on the average college campus.
"Money has been flowing to the colleges
too freely," accuses the Tribune. "Much
of it has been spent in building, which has
added greatly to overhead costs without a
proportionate return in educational values."
The accusation is not entirely fair that
the return in educational values has not
been proportional to the money invested in
college expansion programs. The period
of years since the World War has seen
a phenominal growth in the number of
American youth in quest of a college edu­cation.
Until two years ago, when people
first began to feel the effects of the de­pression,
scarcely a college in the nation
had adequate facilities to handle all stu­dents
who came to its doors. The only
logical thing to do was to expand. Perhaps
in periods of rapid expansion returns in
educational values, as the Tribune puts it,
are inclined to lag temporarily in compari­son
with the amount of money invested,
but this is only a temporary effect of rapid
growth. After a period of readjustment
the "larger college" will yield proportion­ately
just as much in "educational values"
as before.
In the same article the Tribune would
picture the average American college stu­dent,
living in a dormitory that offers as
much or more in the way of personal com­forts
and luxuries than does a good club,
entrenched in the belief that luxury is his
by divine right. Here again the writer
of the editorial has isolated more or less
individual cases and applied his conclusions
to the entire group of college students.
The great majority of college students,
while they do not have to arise at four
o'clock in the morning to split wood with
which to start a fire in the kitchen stove,
have sufficient problems and work of a
somewhat different nature to keep them
thoroughly impressed with the value and
necessity of hard work.
The mere fact that some people from
Vermont who didn't have electric lights,
who never sat on overstuffed furniture,
who walked two miles to school each day
succeeded in their business is surely no
indication that no one else has a chance.
Perhaps these same people, endowed with
their natural ability, would have been still
more successful had they been exposed to
some of the so-called luxuries of the modern
college campus. They would have had ad­ditional
time for the pursuit of those more
intellectual traits which figured in their
successes.-—Purdue Exponent.
With Other Colleges
We have all seen the windows of female
colleges bedecked with lately launderied
"what-nots", and secretly wondered if the
girlies amused themselves by constantly
rewashing garments, which we know about
only from the advertisements. An insight
is given here from the girls down at Tal­lahassee
:
"The daily wash", are three little
words synonymous with the college
girl's daily worry. Like banners of
old it waves in the dormitory windows
and flaunts the passers-by with its
cleanliness.
"If cleanliness is next to Godliness",
said one girl triumphantly surveying
a mass of clean clothes last Sunday
morning, "the Lord will forgive me for
not going to church this once. I just
hand to wash. I put it off as long as
mine and my roommate's clothes lasted.
They gave out today."
* * * *
The ditor of International Disarmament
Notes quite patently reveals his ignorance
on the subject of R. O. T. C. in the follow­ing
paragraph. We wonder if he attended
a summer camp, groomed a hourse, or ex­tinguished
forest fires at noon in mid-July.
His effort to brand us as the "big sissy"
are set forth here!
Under the fire of much criticism and
- vigorous opposition from students,
church groups and citizens generally,
the War Department dropped bayonet
drill from the R. O. T. C. and made
other changes to give the cadet corps
social and sex appeal. The service uni­forms
worn by the doughboys were first
given to students, but proved socially
inadequate, so more expensive and nat­ty
outfits were supplied. Pretty girl
officers are used in many institutions.
Colleges boast that polo, once the sport
of princes, is now within the means of
any student, thanks to generous old
Uncle Sam. Many prizes, public dis­plays
and special honors appeal to the
ambitious youth. This is all supposed .
to show what a pleasant institution the
army really is—how non-militaristic.
* * * *
Michigan State College ha srecently
adopted a new cut system by which stu­dents
with high academic standard are
granted wider privileges in class attend­ance.
Here are the details of the plan,
taken fro mthe Michigansian:
1. All seniors, in the last term before
they graduate, may have unlimited "cuts"
up to 25 per cent of their total class hours.
2. All sophomores, juniors and seniors
having a "B" average and no grade below
a "C" may have unlimited cuts up to 25
per cent of their total class time.
3. Illness of one day or less than one
day, appointments will not be excused. Two
successive absences for illness may be ex­cused.
4. Those not on the honor roll may cut
in each class one less than twice the num­ber
of credits that class carries. Twice the
number of credits will cause the student to
be dismissed from class with a grade of
"WA".
5. Students on probation will have their
registration cancelled when their cuts in a
Prexy's Paragraphs
, By Bradford Knapp
This is Religious
Week and an import­ant
week it is at Au­burn.
We are in a
period when men's
minds are disturbed,*
when men are pessi­mistic
and much in­clined
to look on the
dark side of things.
Such a condition of mind makes people un­happy
and discontented at a time when we
need every atom of fortitude and courage to
live through such a situation. There never
was a more opportune time for us to hear
the blessed philosophy of life of Him who
came to redeem the world than this very
time. It is an opportunity for us to repent
of our sins, ask forgiveness, renew our faith
and, above all, to renew and strengthen the
most powerful influence we can have any­where,
an influence of tolerance, brotherly
love, consideration and an infinite faith in
the redeeming power of the Christian re­ligion.
* * * *
That there is an answer to prayer seems
to me more manifest every day. The excite­ment
and difficulties of the past week have
brought the answer to prayer and many of
the matters which have disturbed and even
threatened to drive a wedge between us here
at Auburn have been put aside and I feel
that we are in a fair way to come together
in greater unity and finer loyalty. In such
a spirit let us get out no petitions that can
condemn anyone, let us censure no one, let
us renew our devotion to this institution, let
us this week record our belief and faith in
fairness, in honor, in integrity of purpose
and particularly in the integrity of educa­tion.
Let ue see if we cannot develop a
spirit of patience, hopefulness and resolu­tion
that we as students and faculty may
work out every problem here on the highest
and finest plane we can conceive and let
that include the unity of purpose amongst
all of us, attitude of faculty toward stu­dents,
attitude of students toward faculty
and the faith of all of us in the good that
can be accomplished here at Auburn.
* * * *
"United Sons of Auburn." Why would
not that be a good slogan? "U.S*A." There
it is, "United Sons of Auburn". We belong
to a lot of different things. Is there not
something above the belonging to these
other things? Criticism is a good thing.
Thtjre is a proper time for it and a proper
place. But after awhile it wears out; its
usefulness becomes destroyed. Constructive
criticism is always of value and I know
that everyone of us, in which I include my­self,
will get a lot of good out of criticism
and the fault-finding. I hope we are past
that sort of thing now and that we may
have out of this Religious Week a period of
peace, contemplation and devotion which
may restore our minds to the task of study
and of sincere effort to straighten every
rugged way and adjust every difficulty. In
prayer and spirit I shall be with everyone
of these religious meetings but the inexor­able
duty of doing my utmost for this insti­tution
may keep me away from many of
them. I believe in "Dad" Elliott. I know
the consecration which is his. I know his
deep religious convictions. I pray earnest­ly
that he may bring his message to Auburn
as I know he has brought it to many anoth­er
college in America.
Miss Law's "Donna Ciccia, Sicilian
Peasant" (October 24) had great success
with our readers, and we offer another
from "Stratford Magazine" (New York):
ON A TRAIN
By Margaret Lathrop Law
Who could be lonely given a train
With sun against the window-pane?
As poppies flaunt their crimson heads
In gay, apportioned garden beds,
Until the suburb pavement yields
To swallow-guarded, russet fields,
Then silvered green of cabbage patch,
And tapered poplar trees that match;
Peninsulas with opened lips,
Beyond them crested waves and ships,
Then tunneled heights upon a peak
Which only clouds and engine seek,
With hemlock forests whirling by,
Toward snow that dents our very sky,
Who could be dreary given a train
Traversing village, highland, plain?
An arrow shot from west to east,
There are no boundaries built by man
While friendly eart hspreads like a fan.
class equal the number of credits in that
class. ^
6. Prolonged absences on account of ill­ness,
more than 25 per cent of the total class
time of a student will oblige the student to
return to school with a reduced schedule.
7. The grade "WA" means "withdrawn
on account of absence" and may only be re­moved
by repeating the subject in class.
* AUBURN FOOTPRINTS 4>
Maybe the stars and planets don't af­fect
human conduct, but it's the most
charitable explanation.—Minneapolis Star.
Then there was the Scotchman who refused to drink from a bottle because it
had to be tipped.
* * * * * * * * * *
When you feel that your last friend is undependable remember that there are
several things that you can count on—your fingers.
* * * * * * * * * *
In the spring when a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of—what
girls think about all the year.
• * * * * • • ' * * *
When impressed with wide difference of their ranks by a senior the freshman's
reply was "thank the gods".
* * * * * * * * * *
Disarmament has not entirely failed. The Chinese army has finally discarded
bows and arrows.—Florence Herald. . N
* * * * * * * * * *
Has there ever been a man able to understand how a woman could dislike him?
* * * * * * * * * *
We are told that man sprang from the apes—we still would, should one get
after us. r
* * * * * * * * * *
We quote the following from the Alexander City Outlook: "Auburn is to ob­serve
March 1-4 as 'Religious Week'; from what we personally know of some of
that bunch, they really need more time than that." Could it be possible that they
were implying that we are imps of Satan. Yet, the readers of the esteemed publi­cation
in question must have their belly laughs. We congratulate the editor on his
ridiculous effort to be funny for once. One wonders, however, if he were not a bit
pressed for humor to make sport of sincerity in this fashion.
Let us suggest that Alexander City Outlook reform the rest of the.world before
undertaking the mammoth task of straightening us out.
* * * * * * * * * *
A successful man stands for something—the failure falls for something.
* * * * * * * * * *
Virtue is its own reward—who wonders at the scarcity?
* * * * * * * * * *
i
Who was the freshman that asked his professor if a submarine was an under-member
of the Marine Corps?
* * * * * * * * * *
We hear that honor is a garment—cut to fit the wearer.
* * * * * * * * * *
Women are by nature untruthful—some lie almost as often as men.
• • * * * * , * * * *
Could it have been that Congress had some hand changing the football rules?
* * * * * * * * * *
Footprint editors are born, not made. It is reported that one of wit is in the
rearing.
* * * * * * * * * *
At the constant requests of the Managing Editor we. are letting this one
through: Marriage is \the triumph of imagination over intellect.
* * * * * * * * * *
Some people not only feel equal to any kind of work—tut above it.
* * * * * * * * * *
Then there was the young husband who had his wife stop making biscuits
because she was too light for such heavy work.
BOOK REVIEW
THE BLIND BOW-BOY, by Carl Van
Vechten; Alfred A. Knopf. 236 pp.
The jacket on Carl Van Vechten's The
Blind Bow-Boy warns the reader that the
contents are ' neither romantic, realistic,
life, art, fantasy nor satire. The publisher
stops short of denying that the affair is a
book at all only by falling back on the au­thor
himself who explains that it is a car­toon
for stained glass. Conscious of the
necessity for caution, the reader starts the
first chapter like a child to whom the ice
cream and cake at the party cannot be ex­pected
to make up completely for the strain
of required good conduct.
Once in company with those of The
Blind Bow-Boy, however, the reader's mis­apprehension
ends. It is a lively crew.
There is a tremendous rattle of rare china
going on in the book, noisy before a vast
parade of lovely continental loot on which
the reader's queer hosts and hostesses make
foreground and talk nights through. There
are no broad open spaces visible; none
broader, poener at any rate than each min­ute
hiatus of green wall-silk in the Gram-ercy
Park flat where Campaspe Lorillard
is first discovered, smoking among needle-'
point. There are no two-fisted men to be
found, outside of a pair of butlers, virile
enough to pick up whole trays of cocktails
and bear them off as though they were old-fashioned
heroines. It is a cartoon of the
1920's: locale; New York. And in America,
as unique as a painted Trojan horse.
Its sad and conquering central figure is
Harold Prewett, who comes of age, as the
legend opens, in a Shavia situation. He
meets for the first time his father, rich, ec­centric,
a victom of the cloak and suit trade.
By him Harold is handed over to be tutored
by a man who has answered the paternal
advertisement demanding a person with­out
morals.
Harold, fresh from country and an aunt,
struggles in Gramercy Park with the tutor,
a pair of butlers, Zimbule O'Grady, an un­successful
serpent charmer with lovely
flesh, the dubiously chaste Campaspe, her
Cupid, Bunny, whose modern music elicits
the best pages for phrase in the book, and,
in the trail of dubiously chaste Campaspe,
the merely dubious Lord Middlebottom.
Struggles against them and others who
like Bacardi; against his wife who likes
none of them and no drink. But as con-querer
he is seen at last, mature Harold,
outlined by a steamer's rail with the pati­ent
London lord, and behind them, to their
surprise, eyen her's, rare Campaspe, bound
"with faint intentions" for the Orient.
It seems to be a cartoon of orientation.
And the consistent and sad development of
Harold holds it in such good shape that the
whole seems a sketch for a more than fair
drawing, for the moment under-estimated.
Mr. Van Vechten has a talent, granting an
erotic circumstance to each character, to
hold the character to its own premise, thus
letting each one, as Jurgen said, "deal fair­ly"
by itself. Not one novelist in forty
has such a talent. And if the characters,
so far as wit goes and talking all the time,
have better success in their house decora­tions,
theirs is indeed a very human frailty.
And even pretty houses are rare.
Such a type of book, gladly started by
the author here in America, demands per­fect
writing as a prerequisite. Or a preface
such as Mademoiselle de Maupin had: some­thing
better than the famous gem-glossery
from Dorian Grey: something reached once
only by Beardsley in the mutinies and cra­vats
that were settled in Under The Hill. It
demands good writing as a city woman rea­sonably
demands clean gloves. Ronald Fir-bank,
whose corpulent Varmouth duchesses
were present here, direct from London, by
Mr. Van Vecten, shows an interesting in­difference
to haste, or opinion, and has sua­vity
in his result. America's precious writ­ers,
beginning with Huneker, are a little,
behind the British, what with the delay our
culture suffered here, fighting Indians,
British, and later, railroads.
STATES RIGHTS'IN THE CONFEDER­ACY,
by F. Lawrence Owsley; 178 pp.
Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press.
Here is a book that is no longer new, for
it was published late in 1925, but its con­tent
matter is so vitally interesting to one
who knows the War of 1861-65, only by
histories and tall yarns that it is well worth
reviewing.
Doctor Owsley claims that the confeder­acy
was defeated from the inside by its
component states rather than by a superior
Union force. He cites instances, including
the case of Governor J. E. Brown of Geor­gia,
who appointed 15,000 men as home
guards, thereby exempting them from mili­tary
service in the field. Again, Doctor
Owsley brings forth the case of Governor
Vance of North Carolina, who, at the close
of the war, had some 90,000 uniforms stored
in his warehouses along with a large supply
of shoes and blankets. The Hon. Governor
refused these outfits to the survivors of
Appomattox even when they came stragg­ling
back half-naked and barefoot, citing
as his reason the doctrine of states rights.
Doctor Owsley's book is amply document­ed.
Perhaps he, and other young Southern-ers
can put an end to this obscurantism
which has sullied, as we Victorians say, the
Southland for half a century. S
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.
DON'T worry gentlemen, I will not
try to sell you anything", stated the
suave stranger as he entered the
Kappa Kappa House. "I am representing
the National Advertising Company and the
cheapest thing I sell costs $7800.00, so you
know that I do not expect to make a sale
here.
r
"Our company realizes that the good
will of college men, who will soon become
leaders of the nation, is very important,
so in order to get this good will our organ­ization
has originated the idea of giving
every fraternity house in the United States
a valuable present absolutely free.
"This Atlas of the World is published by
the National Geographic Society, and it
is by far the best in the whole country. If
you were to purchase it direct from the
publisher it would cost more than $20.00,
and our company has a plan whereby you
can have it without paying one cent.
"This proposition is made possible
through the cooperation of College Humor,
whose circulation has dropped over 100,000
in the last year. College Humor can af­ford
to spend a million dollars in building
up a circulation that will allow the maga­zine
to make five million in increased ad­vertising
rates. You see it is really a busi­ness
proposition, and the advertisers are
paying for the free goods that we are of­fering.
"All that is necessary to get this wonder­ful
Atlas is for ten boys to each purchase
$8.40 worth of magazines or magazines and
books from me and I will send the Atlas ab­solutely
free as a present of the company.
"Thanks a lot boys" called the advertis­ing
salesman as he went out the door, "I
certainly do appreciate your orders and I
know the Atlas will be here in a few days.
You certainly do have a fine house here, and
I think that Kappa Kappa is by far the
most congenial fraternity on the campus.
"And just think", remarked the president
of Kappa Kappa, "the cheapest thing he
sold cost $7800.00.
* * * *
A question has been raised by a large
number of students, and because of its vital
importance to such a large part of the stu­dent-
body it should be made the subject of
all our honorary fraternity programs for
the next month. The question that is caus­ing
so much discussion is, "What will the
cafeteria do when the five water glasses
now in use are broken"?
Anyone who has a practical solution to
this problem should send it to the manage­ment
of the cafeteria, much in the same
manner that you would send a Listerine
advertisement to your best girl.
*, * * *
\
A lot has been said in the past regarding
the great service that a cooperative book­store
would render the Auburn student
body. This large amount of discussion has
been a result of the common opinion
throughout the campus that our present
system is not operated with any idea of
serving the student-body, but as a private
business forcing monopoly prices for per­sonal
gain.
It is likely that this opinion held by the
student body is very unfair to the manage­ment
of our present bookstore, because a
majority of the students know very little
about wholesale book prices. Also because
books are always relatively high it is easy
to form the opinion that the local retailer
is getting a larger percentage of the selling
price than would be possible if the condi­tions
at Auburn were different.
At least there is no excuse for allowing*'
to continue a condition which the students
are thoroughly dissatisfied with and one
that a little effort would easily change.
If our present store is selling books to the
students at just as low a price as a coope­rative
organization would be able to, then
this fact should be well established and is­sued
to the students because the present
dissatisfaction is unfair to all concerned. If
this is not true, however, and the general
opinion in Auburn is correct then some
change should be brought about immediate­ly.
The largest amount of criticism of our
present system comes as a result of the
handling of second-hand books, and it is in
this line that a cooperative bookstore should
prove of especial value.
A committee, appointed by the Executive
Council to investigate this matter, that
would give the students some actual facts
about our book prices compared with other
schools throughout the South, and that
would act one way or the other regarding
the establishment of a cooperative or col­lege-
owned bookstore at Auburn, would cer­tainly
be doing the institution a service. At
least it would help to clear up the very
unsatisfactory condition that we have at
the present. «
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 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
LEE COUNTY SCHOOL CHILDREN
TO HAVE PLAY DAY ON FRIDAY
Program Will Consist of Rythmics, Group Games, and Contests
That Have Been Learned During the Play Periods in the
Schools Over the County
The children in the elementary
schools of Lee Courfty will gather in
Auburn for a Play Day on Friday,
March 4. The program of play will
consist of rhythmics, group games,
and contests, that have been learned
during the play periods. In addition
to this each school will be allowed
five minutes for a feature number.
All schools will unite in singing some
familiar songs and in giving the flag
salute. In the building there will be
exhibits of school work from each
grade. These exhibits are composed
of papers, drawings, charts, etc.,
which have been done in the different
grades during the year. There will
be prizes given for the best exhibit
in each grade, and also, for the best
' single piece of work in each grade.
These prizes are books suitable for
the respective grades.
Mrs. T. B. McDonald, supervisor of
elementary schools, has worked to­ward
this county wide Play Day since
last August. • She has been assisted
by a general committee, composed of
Mrs. Glenn Bradley, Mrs. Leroy
Prince and Mrs. Boothe Ingram. In
January, due to illness, Mrs. Brad­ley
had to resign and Mrs. Mae Wil-more
was appointed to take her place
as general chairman. Mrs. LeRoy
Prince has charge of all play ground
activities. Mrs. Ingram has charge
of the exhibits, both have had com­mittees
working with them since Sep­tember.
Mrs. Wilmore has charge of
the prizes and general arrangements.
The judges for the day will be Miss
Norma Smith, state supervisor of ele­mentary
education, Montgomery; Miss
Ada Causey, supervisor of elementary
schools, Chambers county; Miss Jes­sie
Garrison, director of physical and
health education, Montgomery; Miss
Minnie' Sellers, supervisor of physical
education, Chambers county.
Each school will be responsible for
its own equipment for play and for
its own food at lunch. All persons
interested in school children are cor-ffn
ST. LOUIS
Our Food has made
our Imputation
COFFEE SHOP OPEN
U N T I L M I DN I QHT
dially invited to be present. Since
the play area will be reserved strictly
for elementary school children, we are
asking that no other children be ad­mitted
to the playground. The Boy
Scouts of Auburn are going to assist
in parking the cars and directing the
visitors about the grounds and build­ing,
y
At one o'clock the children will pa­rade
from the school building west on
Samford Avenue to College Street,
then north as far as the Baptist
church. The order of the schools in
the parade will be Beauregard, Beul-lah,
Salem, Loachapoka, Botsford,
Pepperell, Smith Station, Auburn.
The Drum and Bugle Corps of the
Lee County High School will assist in
the music and lead the parade.
Lecture Material Of
Elliott In Books At T
Books regarding "Dad" Elliott's
lectures may be bought at the Y. M.
C. A., or in Langdon Hall. The title
of, the books are: "Ways of Jesus,"
"Christian Apprehension," "Men, Wo
men and God," "Realizing Religion,"
"Christian Life a Normal Experi
ence," "Love the Laws of Life,"
"Modern Discipleship," "Christ of the
Class Room," "Jesus Among Men,"
"As He Journeyed."
Here is a brief synopsis of two of
the books, that are on sale: "Men,
Women and God" was written by A.
Hurbert Gray and it deals in a dis­cussion
of sex questions from the
Christion point of view. Some of the
outstanding chapters, are: Knowing
of Facts', Falling in Love and Getting
Engaged, A Man's Struggle, A Girl's
Early Days, and The Art of Being
Married. This book deals with this
question very plainly and it will prove
very beneficial to both men and wo­men.
"Love The Law of Life" was writ­ten
by Toyohiko Kagawa. An inspir­ing
message from an outstanding Jap­anese
Christian. Some of the prin­ciple
topics that he discusses are Love
and Creation, Evolution of Love, Love
and Sexual Desire, Love and Ro­mance,
Love and Marriage, Love and
Science, Love and Fate and Love, and
God. This book is a challenge to try
the Ways of Love. Kanawa's first
book went through 180 editions in
Japan and it is well worth your time
to read it.
Business Womens Club
To Join National Week
We ASKEW in—
Uncle Billy's
Shoe Shop
We ASKEW in—
Uncle Billy's
Barber Shop
The Barber Shop calls in num­bers:
6160, 6265, 6185, 6272,
6133, 6016—week ending Feb.
27, inclusive. Thank you—
UNCLE BILLY
Always Ready to Serve You
BANK OF AUBURN
Bank of Personal Service
TOOMER'S
WILL GIVE YOU SERVICE
DRUG SUNDRIES
DRINKS, SMOKES
DON'T FORGET OUR SANDWICHES
ON THE CORNER
THE BIG STORE WITH THE LITTLE PRICES—
HAGEDORN'S
Visit our enlarged Gents7 Furnishing
Department
Arrow Trump Shirts
Interwoven Socks
Beau Brommel Neckwear
Hickok Belts -
Athletic Shorts & Shirts
k HAGEDORN'S
OPELIKA'S BEST STORE
The Auburn Business and Profes­sional
Women's Club will celebrate
National Business Women's Week
March 6-12 in conjunction with other
clubs throughout the nation, this be­ing
the fifth annual observance of the
week.
The purpose of Business Women's
Week is to' bring to the public the
achievements of business women, and
to point out the increasingly impor­tant
contribution which women are
making to the commercial and profes­sional
life of the day. Its observance
is sponsored by the National Feder­ation
of Business and Professional
Women's Clubs, largest organization
of business women in America having
1325 local clubs and over. 60,000 mem­bers.
The local club will begin the week's
observance with a tea on Sunday af­ternoon
at the home of Miss Alma
Lamar, club president. The Opelika
and LaFayette clubs are to be guests
at this occasion, also representatives
from the Woman's Club of Auburn.
The LaFayette club was organized
last year by the Auburn club.
The club plans another inter-club
meeting during the week at which
other clube will be represented. There
will be business equipment shows in
which merchants will exhibit all the
up-to-date appliances which are rec-commended
for the modern business
women. There will also be nation­wide
radio programs during the week
which will give the local members
an opportunity to listen in on broad­casts
from a number of notable bus­iness
and professional women. The
schedule for the nationwide programs
will be announced later.
The program for the week has been
arranged by Mrs. A. F. Nickel, Public
Relations Chairman, and Miss Jessie
Aycock, Publicity.
The following proclamation has
been issued by the Mayor of the City
of Auburn:
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS; The Business and
Professional Women's Club of Au­burn,
Ala., will participate in the
fifth annual observance of National
Business Women's Week, March 6 to
12, 1932, and
WHEREAS; The Natnonal Feder­ation
of Business and Professional
Women's Clubs has grown in the
short period of ten years to be one
of the largest women's organizations
in the world, with 1325 local clubs
and over 60,000 members, and
WHEREAS; This special week is
sponsored by the National Federation
and its affiliated clubs in an endeavor
to give the individual communities of
the nation a better conception of what
a business women's group means, so
that they may the better utilize the
resources of that group in projects
which make for community welfare,
and
WEHERAS; The Auburn Club is
one of our most progressive civic or­ganizations,
ready at all times to
assist in enterprises and projects for
the betterment of our community.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, W. D.
Copeland, Mayor of the City of Au­burn,
Alabama, do proclaim National
Business Women's Week, and urge
the citizens of this city to cooperate
wholeheartedly with the members of
the Auburn Business and Professional
Women's Club, in their efforts to pro­mote
a program that will result in
the realization of their clogan: "Bet­ter
Business Women for a Better
Business Wor^d."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hand and have
caused the seal of the City of Auburn
to be affixed, this the 2nd day of
March, in the year of our Lord One
Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-two.
W. D. Copeland,
Mayor of Auburn.
PI KAPPA PHIS
GIVE DANCE ON
FRIDAYEVENING
Opelika Country Club Is Scene
Of Annual Dance of Frater­nity,
February 26
Amidst the colorful surroundings
of the Opelika Country Club, the Pi
Kappa Phi fraternity held its annual
dance last Friday evening, February
26th.
All of the members and their guests
were unanimous in their enthusiastic
approval of the affair as one of the
most enjoyable of the informal dances
given thus far this year. The com­mittee
was congratulated upon the
selection of such an appropriate* set­ting
for the occasion. All of the dan­cers
expressed their delight as Jimmie
Robbins, a member of the fraternity,
led his orchestra, the Auburn Knights
in their many varieties of rhythm..
The picture was completed with the
presence of a great many young ladies
from Auburn and Opelika; among
whom were: Misses Nora Towles,
Kathryn Bayne, Sue Parsons, Lucille
Johnson, Sarah Glaihber, Lilly
Barnes Cherry, Louise Johnson, Helen
Dunn, Mary G. Lamar, Dabney Hare,
Mary McGehee, Lilly Barnes, Mary
Lou Watts, Nelle Crook, Martha
Moore Milligan, Virginia Dudley,
Jean Funchess and Lillie Pitts.
The fraternity was also honored by
the presence of Lieutenant and Mrs.
H. L. Watts, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. Bryan, as chaperones.
No-Decision Debate
Is Held On Monday
As a part of the regular program
of the Auburn Debating Society, a
no-decision debate was held Monday
night, February 29, at the weekly
meeting of the society, between the
two teams chosen to represent the col­lege
on the spring debate schedule.
Douglas Brown and Ncholas Hare
argued the negative side of the ques­tion:
Resolved—that the government
should enact legislation for the cen­tralized
control of industry, constitu-tionallity
waived. W. H. Baskerville
and Justin S. Morrill upheld the af­firmative
side.
It was announced at the meeting
that the date for the debate between
the co-ed debating team and Monte-vallo
would take place on April 15.
The Auburn team will take the affirm­ative
side of the question: Resolved
—that the United States government
should recognize Soviet Russia. The
debate scheduled with the University
of Wyoming debating team was can­celled.
Several students from the County
High School, located at Eclectic were
present for the debate.
Dr. Herty Stresses
Research Importance
The importance of chemical re­search
was stressed by Dr. Charles H.
Herty last Friday afternoon in his
monthly address before the chemical
students and faculty of Auburn. The
subject taken by Dr. Herty was "Tur­pentine
and Resin Industry".
The speaker, who is nationally
known in the field of chemical re­search,
was recently awarded the
medal of the American Institute of
Chemists for the most productive
amount of chemical research in the
country this year. This award was
made last year to former secretary
of treasury Andrew Mellon, and his
brother, Richard B. Mellon, for their
support in the establishment of ma­terial
and laboratories for the ad­vancement
of chemistry. Dr. Herty,
who serves in the capacity of consult­ing
chemist, has been giving monthly
lectures at Auburn for the past two
years.
B. W. M. U. Observes
Home Mission Week
Auburn Alumnus Has
Leading Article In
Radio Publication
L. B. Hallman, Jr., engineer for
Station WSFA in Montgomery, is the
author of the leading feature article
in the February issue of "Radio En­gineering."
The subject of his ar­ticle
is "Notes "on the Frequency Sta­bility
of Quartz Plates."
Mr. Hallman is an alumnus of Au­burn
and has been in radio work
most of the time since graduation.
He was a student engineer of WAPI
when the station was located in Au­burn.
The week of March 6 to 1.1 has
been designated by the Baptist Wo­man's
Missionary Union as the Home
Mission Week of Prayer and Study.
Following a special missionary ser­mon
on Sunday by Dr. Jas. R. Ed­wards,
pastor, meetings will be held
each day through Friday with a spe­cial
topic of study for the various
meetings.
On Monday, Mrs. S. F. Brewster
will discuss "Roger Williams, Pioneer
of Religious Freedom"; Tuesday,
"Luther Rice, Advocate of Missions
and Christian Education"—Mrs. Rog­er
Allen; Wednesday, "Marcus Whit­man,
Hero of the Oregon Country"—
Mrs. G. A. Schrader; Thursday,
"Isaac McCoy, Champion of Indian
Rights"—Mrs. R. A. Whitten; and
Friday, "John Mason Peck, Christian
Pioneer of the Missionary Valley"—
Mrs. C. P. Austin.
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Chi Omegas Initiate
Six Into Fraternity
Initiation exercises were held re­cently
by the Chi Omega sorority in
their newly acquired sorority house,
at 138 West Glenn Avenue. Six
girls were initiated at these exer­cises.
They were: Sarah Glaiber,
Marian Sundburg, Frances Sundburg,
Margaret Turner, Mrs. Brooks and
Mrs. Gibson.
Chi Omega is the first sorority on
the campus to have a sorority house.
For some time they have been plan­ning
to build a home of their own,
and it is hoped that these plans will
be consumated next year.
At present there are eleven girls
in the house. Mrs. Kate Smith is
house mother. This sorority is to
be congratulated on their initiative
in breaking away from the establish­ed
custom and securing a home of
their own.
LADIES NIGHT IS HELD MONDAY
BY MEMBERS OF KIWAN1S CLUB
Address Is Made by Lt. Governor J. P. Hagerty on Work of
Kiwanis; Banquet, Dancing, Bridge, and Colonial Minuet
Are Features
NOTICE!
King Fish of the Ebony Council
will meet March 8, 1932. Ask all
officers and members to be present.
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An evening of delightful entertain­ment
took place at the Kiwanis
Ladies' Night celebration Monday
evening, 7:00 to 1:00 o'clock, at the
Thomas Hotel. An address by Lieu-tenant
Governor Julius P. Hagerty
of Anniston at the banquet, which
opened the festivities, a Colonial
minuet by a group of High School
girls, dancing, and bridge were feat­ures
of the program.
Mr. Hagerty explained the work
and organization of Kiwanis, ampli­fying
its motto, "We Build". He com­mended
the important work being done
in Auburn.
Prof. A. D. Salmon announced re­ceipt
of a $100 check from the Army
Athletic Association at West Point to
augment the local unemployment
fund. The sum is one of several such
checks donated from proceeds of the
Army-Navy charity football game
last fall to the unemployment funds
in hometowns of players who partici­pated
in the game. Travis Brown,
son of Dr. J. V. Brown, took part in
the game.
The Colonial dance feature was
staged following the banquet by high
school girls under the direction of
Misses Marie Sewell and Hightower.
A minuet and act titled, "When Geor­ge
and Martha Washington Return­ed"
was cleverly done in costume and
received an enthusiastic ovation from
those present. The following young
ladies took part: Kathryn Mitchell,
Bessie Ruth Smyer, Louise Swope,
Sarah McCreary, Marion Prather,
Lillie Mae Tippins, Virginia Dudley,
Mildred Franke, Dorothy Ward, Doris
Chrietzburg, Bessie Lee Hamilton,
Frances Shi, Avolee Moses, Elizabeth
Wright, Frances Passmore, and Helen
Franke. Mrs. Mary Drake ,Askew
played the piano accompaniment.
Music for the dance was furnished
by Billy Askew's orchestra. Seven
tables of bridge held the interest of
other members who did not care to
dance.
Three new members were welcomed
to th*e club by Dr. John T. Oliver.
They were Frank L. Davis, C. O.
Prickett, and Harvey Pitts.
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The cafeteria room of the Auburn
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Friday night, February 26, when the
"sub-deb" set of Auburn entertained
with a dance. Members of the high
school student body and the faculty
attended. Music for the occasion was
furnished by the high school orchestra'
and a special feature of the enter­tainment
was a tap dance by Eliza­beth
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CHICAGO NEWSPAPER HEAD CALLS
COMPETITIVE SPORTS BENEFICIAL
(By Ralph Cannon, The Chicago
Daily News.)
Chicago, 111., Feb. 27.—The wide-opened
and perhaps flamboyant in-terest
in college athletics in the last
ten years, as epitomized in the pop­ular
catch-word "over-emphasis," has
developed as a counter reaction
which is revealed in the vogue for
scurrilous magazine articles on col­lege
sports, superficial investigations
by such parasitical groups as the
Carnegie Foundation for the Ad­vancement
of Teaching and the
North Central Association of Col­leges
and Secondary Schools, and in
the snooty attitude among the whole
puny clique of quasi-intellectuals
that all who condescend to play child­ish
games may be dismissed \ as
"sweaty-guys", while anyone who
glorifies a remarkable athlete must
be a little Pollyannish.
There are two distinct attitudes to­wards
education—one, the older,
that a college is a training ground
for scholars and orators; and the
other that a college is a socializing
agency, still a training ground to
groom good citizens that will leaven
the whole of society. Both tenets,
however, include that education is
training, just as we might train or
educate a horse to saddle, or season
a soldier or' professional ball player.
Philosophies Back Education
We have these two points of view
variously expressed by our leading
minds. To Carlyle a university was
only "a selection of books", whereas
Elbert Hubbard said that "the object
of education is that a man may bene­fit
himself by serving society". Eng­lish
imperialism requires hat a uni­versity's
function is "to discover and
train those minds best able to di­rect
the ship of state," whereas Pro­fessor
Corwin of Yale holds that a
"university exists primarily for the
purpose of prospering young men
for service." Dr. Henry Pritchett
says that "the purpose of a college
is to teach the boy to think," while
Chancellor Day has the broader view
that "athletics have a place in college
life and training. They are not an
excrescence but the fiber and essent­ial
integrity of the best educational
system and plan."
During many years of direct as­sociation
with several generations of
college athletes, I have always been
impressed with their maturity and
poise in comparison with those stu­dents
who have never been in com­petitive
sport. I do not believe it
can be controverted that competition
in athletics does knock the rough
edges oft5 a boy and give him self-assurance.
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Books Are Not Everything
After all, too much of our educa­tion
is still merely from books. Few
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SATURDAY, MARCH 5
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Bad Man"
of the big men attribtue their suc­cess
to what they get out of books
in college. The big majority say
that most of the stuff they got out
of the books was good only to be
forgotten, and that the real value
of their college years came out of
inspiration from association with in­teresting
personalities on the facul­ty.
.The book work was only hand­writing
practice in a copy book.
But even in that sense, work in
athletics can be useful. Athletics,
competitive games, are educational
in at least two respects. A student
endures the torture of a course like
Latin on the grounds that the mere
exercise of drudgery is good training
for him: yet a boy can get just as
good training by bringing up his
tackling and blocking, perfecting his
all-around game in football, as in
memorizing Latin declensions. All
the time put in on many of the obso­lete
and useless courses might be de­voted
just as profitbaly and more
pleasurably in developing a good golf
swing, or in learning physics and ge­ometry
by sailing a boat.
Cultivated Growth
There is, however, another and
greater educational value in compet­itive
games. Education is nothing
more than a cultivated growth.
Teachers, institutions, professors are
like gardeners going among the
growing plants with pruning hooks,
straightening, cultivating. Often a
coach's function is of more import­ance
than that of any of the profes­sor's
because he deals in a primary
fundamental of character—courage.
Life is a fight. There is no eupho-nism
for the struggle of existence.
We have been trying for ages to ra­tionalize
this out, but we can't get
around it. Competitive sports are
training, education is fighting, and
for that reason and if for no other
they are of the utmost value to any
educational progress. Competitive
athletics teach a man how to fight,
and a man who can't fight, is useles,s
no matter how much "book learn­ing"
he may have acquired.
The old order of college, to which
many still cling, aimed of turning
out scholars and orators. In the new
order, those who go in for intercol­legiate
sport, come out, if not schol­ars,
then what is mre valuable—com­petitors.
AUBURN MEN IN CONTEST OF
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME
(Continued from Page 1)
didates for the final competition are
invited to New York City, with trav­eling
expenses paid.
The fellowship carries a stipend
of $1500.00 per year for two years,
free residence in the magnificent
American Academy in Rome, trans­portation
and incidental expenses and
is considered worth about $5000.00
for the two years. The fellow spends
a part of his time at the Academy
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Melodrama
Being Used As Relief Against Stilted Present-Day
Drama
Melodrama is cockeyed tragedy.
That is, it is still tragedy, but it no
more resembles it than the Wagner
of the farcial "Der Berggeist" re­sembles
the stereotyped Wagner of
"Au Weber's Grabe". That very
fact constitutes, the best reason for
the successful revival of melodramas.
These old plays are relieving after
months and years of sophisticated
plays which consist almost wholly of
denials of statements people have ac­cepted
as facts for a millenium and
nine centuries; they are sophisticat­ed
in the sense that a sophomore out
with a chorister and loaded with rot-gut
likker is sophisticated.
There are three indictments
against melodrama which can be con­sidered
serious enough to damn it.
The first of these is that it is full- of
such delicatessen as: "Liar! Base
liar".
"A blow . . revenge . . . and . . . "
"Armed? 'tis well, and so am I.
Son of a robber—fire!"
"No . . . no: You are her father."
"Coward . . . die!"
Dr. Petrie Addresses
Clubs in Montgomery
Dr. George Petrie, was guest speak­er
at Woman's Club in Montgomery
on Tuesday at the luncheon which is
each month a membership assemblage.
Mrs. B. L. Parkinson presided and in­troduced
the speaker. Dr. Petrie
spoke on women who influenced the
life of George Washington.
In a. clever and rather humorous
vein, he explained that George Wash­ington
was quite susceptible to the
charms of the many attractive women
in Virginia, described his early sweet­hearts,
his great friend, Sally Fairfax,
Martha Custis, the wealthy widow
who he made his wife, and the great­est
woman in his life, his mother
Mary Ball Lewis Washington.
Dr. Petrie related amusing experi­ences
of the great soldier who pre­sented
an Indian princess with a fur
coat and a bottle of rum, which the
speaker surmised, was a gift "to melt
her affections". Another interesting
woman described by Dr. Petrie, was
Mary Phillipse, who according to the
speaker, "was prim in her picture but
mischievous in reality."
No Accurate Measure
For Time, Says Prof.
Although there has been perfected
an instrument which can split time
into one one hundred billionth of a
second, we have not yet, nor will we
ever, acquire the ability to measure
time accurately, according to Profes­sor
E. W. Brown, Yale University
astronomer.
Some of the sources of error, he
said, are known, so that allowances
can be made.. But there are many
causes, celectial and terrestrial, he
asserted, that act as thieves of time.
The moon is one.
"Just lately," he said, 'the action
of the moon, which is the greatest ex­ternal
effect, was measured by the
Loomis chronograph (the 100,000,-
000,000th measurement instrument),
and shown to give accumulated effors
which were always less than two ten-thousandth
of a second as indicated
by theory. Raising a clock one foot
from the ground will change the rate
of its pendulum by one part in twen­ty
million."
and the, rest of the time in approved
travel in Europe and is required to
do problems and research under the
direction of the Academy in Rome.
Other schools accredited by the
Academy are: Department of Archi­tecture
of Armour Institute of Tech­nology,
University of California,
Carnegie Institute of Technology,
Cleveland School of Architecture,
Columbia University, Cornell Univer­sity,
Georgia School of Technology,
Harvard University, University of
Illinois, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, University of Michigan,
University of Minnesota, New York
University, Ohio State University,
University of Pennsylvania, Prince­ton
University, University of South­ern
California, Syracuse University,
Tulane University, Washington Uni­versity,
University of Washington,
and Yale University.
To prove to your friend how little
you know try giving him advice.
and far worse:
"And now, young hero, in the aged
man you have preserved, embrace
and own a doting father . . . "
"A father! ha! does that sacred
sound, like heaven-descended dews,
speak comfort to my heart!"
The second condemnatory feature
of -the Melodrama is its greedy use
of action. A Melodrama requires al­most
as many types of murdering,
theiving and assault as the Old
Sleuth novellas back in the nineties,
or, to take a more recent parallel,
The Shadow. Often the writer of a
melodrama used his best climax near
the beginning of his play, leaving
him in the predicament of a juggler
in a six-minute turn who, having
performed his best feat of juggling
in the first three minutes, using 3
red balls, attempts to hold the inter­est
of his audience by repeating the
trick, this time using 3 blue balls.
The final detraction is the simply
excruciating^ gesticulation! required
in the script of practically every mel­odrama
of the first half of the la?t
century. Each character imposes
upon its expositor no necessity for
the finer shadings of emotion but
only emotions that have been cal­loused
by long and hard usage into
a, b, c. Delsarte stuff and nonsense.
Often this compelled compelling virt­uosity
in the way of bad acting is
an amazing creation. Take the case
of Harry Spoctsail, the dashing, dar
ing young romantic of "The Dream
Spectre." For eloquence, we have
violent waggings of the head; for
decision and defiance, the left foot
thrust forward and the right leg set
to quivering with every spoken syl­lable;
for despair, the head dejected
and face cupped in palm after the
technique of the more fashionable
Sixth Avenue photographers; for ex­altation,
the shoulders thrown back,
the eyes raised to heaven and the
right index finger pointing toward
the heart, as in a Nathan Hale stat­ue;
for passion, a mere making of
bedroom eyes and an excessive iml
petuosity of breath.
Baptist Church Holds
Cosmopolitan Sunday
Cosmopolitan Day, designed by the
Baptist's Student Union primarily
for the out-of-state and foreign stu­dents
at Auburn, was held last Sun­day
at the Baptist Church. This event
was arranged so that these students
may become better acquainted with
the work of the B. S. U. and also that
the members of the B. S. U. may learn
to know these students better.
-Following the Sunday School classes
and the regular program, snort talks
were given by M. H. Assadourian of
Armenia, Theodore Kummer of Ger­many
and Raul Nieto of Mexico, on
religion in their respective home
lands.
There were a large number of stu­dents
present at this meeting, repre­senting
the above four countries and
in addition twenty-two states.
On Sunday evening many of the
students attended the B. Y. P. U. ser­vices,
where in addition to the regular
program, music was rendered by the
members.
PLAN TO PREVENT CHEATING
DEMISED BY CENTRE COLLEGE
Starting Anew At 52
How many men and women would
take a new name and start a new
career at the age of 52?
James Branch Cabell whose writ­ing
career ran into a storm when he
published "Jurgen" in 1920—the
book was suppressed for a period—
has clipped his name and with the
publication of a new work next
month he becomes Brahch Cabell.
Moreover, he has written a definite
"Finis" to a type of writing that has
occupied him since' 1905, and in his
new books, he is to appear, we are
told, in an entirely new literary
character, for he is through forever
with Dom Manuel, the hero of a long
series of fanciful romances. One rea
son for altering his name, perhaps, is
a desire to help his readers to realize
that he is entering upon an entirely
new phase.
To be able to close a chapter of
your life or work that has been fin­ished
is an accomplishment all too
rare, for most of us do not cultivate
the fine art of forgetting as we
might.
Just as the body must cast our un­usable
materials if it is to keep in
health, so the mind must finish with
experiences and cast out matter
which if it is allowed to remain, be­comes
mentally or emotionally toxic.
If we make mistakes—and all of
u s do—and we realize our errors, the
one sensible thing to do about them
is to forget them. Storing up disap­pointments
and regrets is as bad for
the mind and spirit as storing up
poisons in the body is a dangerous
process.
If you made a bad investment or
if you have lost money after using
pour best judgment in its investment,
the one sane thing to do is to fling
the thought of it over your left
shoulder and free yourself for the
next effort.
If you are producing something
that has had its day and served it, is
wise to start a new enterprise just
as Branch Cabell is doing jn the writ­ing
of books. And if altering your
name would make the new venture
easier for you, why not follow in the
train of Cabell who aspires to become
a new literary personality?—Edith
Johnson in The Daily Oklahoman.
Church Ladies Entertain
United Missionary Group
Owing to repairs being made on
the Methodist' Church, the Methodist
Missionary Society entertained the
United Missionary Society of Au­burn
at the Baptist Church on Mon­day
afternoon, February 29, at three
o'clock. Mrs. R. B. McGehee presided
and Mrs. J. T. Williamson gave the
devotional. Mrs. S. L. Toomer talked
on the life and work of Dr. Grenfell,
the noted doctor whose missionary
zeal has been an insipration to other
missionaries the world over.
The program was followed by a so­cial
hour during which light refresh­ments
were served in the dining room
of the church.
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(across from Post Office)
Haircuts - 25c
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COLUMBUS
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Centre college, Iowa, has finally
produced what educators all over the
world have tried to find—a system
which is guaranteed to be infallible in
the prevention of cheating during ex­aminations,
relates The Daily North­western.
The first step of the complicated
process will be to psychoanalyze all
students before they enter the exam­ination
room. Those who are found
to have intentions of cheating will of
course not be allowed to take the
examination.
When this preliminary step is com­pleted,
students and professors enter
the classroom and the doors are seal­ed.
Then each student puts a hand­kerchief
in his mouth and a pair of
horse blinkers on his eyes and seats
himself two seats from any of his
fellow students. As he looks around,
the walls are appropriately and in-spiringly
decorated with mottoes,
"Honesty Has Its Own Reward," and
"Think Before You Cheat." In ad­dition
a pair of professorial eyes may
be seen peering through a peep-hole
in the wall.
Under the student's seats are small
but sensitive dictaphones which will
catch their slightest whispers. As a
final step, the student is submitted to
a lie detector for reasonable certainty
that there has been no cheating.
But even then the school is not
sure the work is that of an individual
student; the professor takes off ten
points from the paper before he marks
it.
The Daily Northwestern adds that
the only way to fool the college is for
the student to shoot himself before
going on the examination.
—Daily Tar Heel.
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AWARDED PROMOTION
A FEW SPECIALS:
Good shirts - $1.00
3 Shorts - - - 1.00
3 Undershirts 1.00
7 pair socks - 1.00
4 Unionsuits 1.00
DOGGY SHOES
$4.00 pair
A small College
Shop crowded
with values.
H. Glenn McNair
Clothes . . . Made for you
(Continued from page 1)
Cadet Sgt. W. O. Johnson vice Cadet
Staff Sgt. A. S. Speegle, resigned.
To be Cadet Sgts. of Battery E: Ca­det
Cpls. C. A. Clem, T. H. Ellis, and
M. Koplon. To be Cadet Sgt. Battery
F., Cadet Cpl. J. T. Millsap to fill
existing vacancy.
Honest now . . . . 'fess up . . . .
in building air castles do you always
put the same person them?
It is the tinkling temple bells of
imagination, vanity, adventure that
lures us to the sacred shrine of love.
LOST:—Collie dog with white collar
Monday night. Last seen at the
dormitory. Answers to name of
"Prince"—Reward. Tel. 66-W.
Alma Lamar.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2
Ruth Chatterton
in
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AND
Tomorrow »>
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THURSDAY, MARCH 3
"Strangers in Love"
with
Frederic March
Kay Frances
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FRIDAY, MARCH 4
"Freaks"
with
Wallace Ford,
.Leila Hyams,
Olga Baclanova
Also Paramount News and
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