1934-02-03 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LVII AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, FEB. 3, 1934 NUMBER 31
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Committees Announced For Annual Military Dance
PLANS UNDER WAY
FOR PRESENTATION
OF ANNUAL AFFAIR
Loyd Richey Named Chairman
Of Executive Committee;
Other Chairmen Named
MEETING CALLED
Decorations Will Be In Charge
Of Architects And Art Stu­dents
With plans for the presentation of
the annual Military Ball on March
second proceeding apace, committees
for the administering of the numer­ous
details of the affair have been
appointed by the Military department.
The Executive Comimttee under
the chairmanship of Loyd Richey con­sists
of Justin Morrill, Hamp Morris,
William Beck, and Lieutenant Phelps
as faculty advisor.
Randolph White heads the Invita­tion
and Reception Committee, and
he will be assistetTby Scotty McRae,
Fred McLaren, George Hardy, and
Captain Grower as faculty advisor.
Lieutenant Watts is faculty advisor
for the Finance Committee which has
as its chaiman Fred Chapman. Other
members of the committee are Joe
Ledbetter, K. G. Taylor, and Phillip
Irwin.
The Publicity Committee is under
the chairmanship of Horace Shepard;
and he is assisted by Charles Rich
and C. E. Hooten. Lieutenant Bow­man
serves as faculty advisor for
this committee.
The decorations have been placed
in charge of the students who are
enrolled in the School of Architecture
and Allied Arts under the chairman­ship
of Robert Rutland. Lieutenants
Gunby and Huggins are advisors of
this committee which includes N. J
Cranford, Leo Donivan, D. 0. Elliot,
Malcolm Freret, Arthur Grower, J.
G. Phillips, Don Pierce, Lynwood
Poole, John T. Spearman, and Rob­ert
H. Williams.
Arrangements for music for the
affair are in the hands of a commit­tee
headed by George White, who
will have as his assistants John Mc­Kay,
John Scott, Harry Orme, and
Captain Almquist, advisor.
V. K. Sims is chairman of the Re­freshment
Committee to be aided by
Bill Gaines, Ellis Royal, Louis Bowen,
Walter Lytz, William N. Sharp, and
Lon Williamson. Captain Metts
serves as advisor for this committee.
Committee chairmen have been in­structed
to contact the members of
their various committees as soon as
possible in order that preparations
may be completed at an early date.
In addition, a meeting of all commit­tee
chairmen has been called for
Tuesday, Feb. 6, at eight p.m., in the
Military office, at which time col­lective
arrangements will be made
and coordination of the various com­mittees
will take place.
Although the various committees
have not as yet divluged specific data
regarding the plans which are under
way, it is expected that a formal an­nouncement
will be made by each
committee chairman in the near fu­ture.
The Military Ball is an annual af­fair
open only to Seniors enrolled
in advanced R.O.T.C. courses; and
it is considered one of the high spots
of the winter social calendar. Ac­cording
to the usual custom, a num­ber
of out of tqwn girls are expected
for the occasion.
PROF. A. D. BURKE TO
HEAD DAIRY FARMERS
Prof. A. D. Burke, head of the
dairy department here, was named
president of Alabama Dairy Products
Association at the annual convention
in Tuscaloosa this week.
Miss Louise P. Glanton Receives Invitation
To Attend Dedication Ceremony At Cornell
Miss Louise P. Glanton, head of the school of home economics at Au­burn,
has been invited by the President and Trustees of Cornell Univer­sity
to attend the dedication of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, home eco­nomics
building, at Ithaca, N. Y., on February 13 to-15.
The dedication program will be attended by many leaders in home
economics training for women, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is scheduled
to speak on the last day of the exercises.
Miss Glanton has recently returned to Auburn after seven months
of travel and study in Europe and the Near East to resume her duties
as head of the school of home economics of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute. While in Italy she made an intensive study of professional
training for women in that country.
Miss Van Rensselaer, for whom the new building is named at Cornell,
was regarded the foremost pioneer in home economics training for wo­men.
She was director of the New York State College of Home Econo­mics
since its beginning to the time of her death in May 1931 and was
the founder of home economics extension work for women. She was the
first vice-president of the President's Conference on Child Welfare held
in 1930.
SOCIAL CALENDAR
ANNOUNCED TODAY
Dates Of Various Functions
Made Known; List As Yet
Is Incomplete
RIFLE PROSPECTS
UNUSUALLY GOOD
Five Matches Have Been Won
By Sharpshooters; Fifty
Five Will Be Fired
The incomplete social calendar as
issued today by Fred Chalmers, pres­ident
of the Interfraternity Council,
and governing the dates for all social
functions during the second semester
is as -follows: Friday, February 2,
Women's Athletic Association girls'
break dance; Saturday, February 3,
Glee Club Dance; Friday, February
9, Pi Kappa Sigma Sorority Dance;
Saturday, February 10, Phi Omega
Pi Sorority Dance and A Club Dance;
Friday, February 16, Honor Society
Ball; Saturday, February 17, S. A. E.
Dance, Chi Omega Sorority Dance,
and Whittle Dormitory Dance7 Fri­day,
February 23, Whittle Dormitory
Dance; Saturday, February 24, Sig­ma
Pi Dance; Friday, March 2, Mili­tary
Ball; Friday, March 9, Interfra­ternity
Council Ball; Saturday, March
10, Pi Kappa Alpha Dance, Theta Up-silon
Omega Dance, and Phi Delta
Theta Dance; Friday, March 16, Phi
Kappa Tau Dance and Alpha Tau
Omega Dance.
Saturday, March 17, Pi Kappa Phi
Dance and Engineer's Ball; Friday,
March 23, Delta Sigma Phi Dance
and Lambda Chi Alpha Dance; Sat­urday,
March 24, Delta Sigma Phi
Dance and Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Club Dance; Friday, March 30, Car­dinal
Key Stunt Night; Saturday,
March 31, A Club Dance; Friday,
April 6, Chi Omega Dance; Saturday
April 7, Alpha Gamma Rho Dance;
Saturday, April 14, A Club Dance;
Friday, April 20, Kappa Alpha
Dance and Sigma Phi Epsilon Dance;
Friday, April 27, Lambda Chi Alpha
Dance; Saturday, April 28, A Club
Dance; and Saturday, May 12, A Club
Dance.
President Chalmers stated that a
number of organizations had not as promising newcomers to the squad
That prospects for a winning rifle
team during the forthcoming season
are unusually bright was the opinion
expressed by Lieutenant Frank O.
Bowman, coach of the team, in a
statement to the press today. Of the
five matches which were fired prior
to semester examinations, all five
were won by the local sharpshooters.
The present schedule calls for the
firing of ten matches during this
week. The team will average ten
matches a week- until March third,
at which time approximately fifty-five
matches will have been engaged
in.
The basis of competition of the
rifle team lies in the selection of the
three best teams in each corps area
of R.O.T.C. to enter the national
meet, and the selection of the winner
of the national meet as national
champion. According to the present
arrangement, Auburn must compete
with teams from the University of
Alabama, Louisiana State University,
the University of Tennessee, Georgia
Tech, University of Georgia, the Uni­versity
of Mississippi, and a number
of minor teams which bring the total
to twenty, in the corps area compe­tition.
Provided the local team is success­ful
in ranking as one of the highest
three teams in the area, it will com­pete
with three teams from each of
the other eight corps areas of the
nation in the national championships.
Last year Lieutenant Bowman's
charges finished sixth in the national
ranking, and this year he expects
even better results since most of his
regulars have returned and have im­proved
their marksmanship by ad­ditional
practice. One of the most
yet made arrangements for the dates
of their respective functions and
that they should do so in the imme­diate
future. He further stated that
in approximately one week from to­day
he would turn the calendar over
to the Social Director.
The arranging of the social calen­dar
for an entire semester with the
president of the Interfraternity Coun­cil
was an innovation of this semes­ter,
and acording to authorities it
has proven most successful. Con­trary
to previous -custom, two or­ganizations-
were allowed to have
functions on the same night without
the last to apply for the date having
to obtain the permission of the first.
This change did away with the num­erous
useless but unavoidable breaks
on the part of the several organiza­tions.
In the cases in which three
functions appear on the same night
on the new calendar, the permission
of the first two has been granted
the third.
is Harlow Chapman, a freshman, who
recently broke the individual scoring
record here by firing a score of three
hundred eighty-three out of a pos­sible
four hundred. The former rec­ord
of three hundred eighty was held
by John Reynolds, manager of the
team during last year.
DEBATING SOCIETY
WILL HAVE HEAVY
SCHEDEE-HESS
Forensic Organization Is Under
Leadership Of B. H. Johnson
As President
SCHEDULE GIVEN
Freshman Debate Tournament
Will Be Sponsored To Ob­tain
New Material
According to Professor E. D. Hess,
the Auburn Debating Society antici­pates
a busy season of intramural
argument and intercollegiate debat­ing.
Under the leadership of B. H.
Johnson as president, the organiza­tion
is sponsoring a debate tourna­ment
for freshmen. The outstanding
debaters of the tournament will be
given a chance to participate in de­bates
with first-year teams repre­senting
other colleges. The society
also furnishes most of the material
from which the varsity debate teams
are chosen, and acts as host to visit­ing
debaters.
A partial schedule of intercollegi­ate
debates, as given out" by Professor
Hess, coach of the debate team, in­cludes
a trip to Birmingham, Feb.
22, on which the varsity will debate
Birmingham-Southern on the ques­tion:
Resolved, that the powers of
the President of the United States
should be substantially increased as
a settled policy; on the same trip a
freshman team will debate the South­ern
frosh on the question: Resolved,
that the United States should adopt
the British system of radio broad­cast
and control. On Feb. 23, varsi­ty
and freshman teams representing
Mercer University will debate local
teams; a return trip is planned later
in the season. On March 8, varsity
and freshman teams will travel to
Atlanta to debate Ga. Tech, Emory,
and the Ga. Tech Night School. The
following day, March 9 the teams will
go to Athens to debate freshman and
upperclassman teams of the Univer­sity
of Georgia.
Besides these trips, Professor Hess
has thus far received requests for
home debates from the following col­leges:
Bucknell University, South­western
University, and a girls' team
from the University of Southern Cal­ifornia.
Many others are expected
before the season closes, including a
return debate with Southern, and a
debate with Montevallo.
Professor Hess states that there is
plenty of opportunity for capable de­baters
to earn a place on the debate
team, although there is some excel­lent
material returning from last
year. All those interetsed in trying
out can best do so by attending the
meetings of the Auburn Debating So­ciety,
held every Monday night at
7:00 o'clock, in 301 Samford Hall.
The programs of the next few meet­ings
are as follows: Feb. 5, open
discussion on the question: Resolved,
that the United States should adopt
the British Cabinet system of gov­ernment;
Feb. 12, final of freshman
debate tournament; Feb. 19, fresh­man
debate on the British Cabinet
question.
VARSITY QUINTET
DEPARTS TO PLAY
TULANE AND LS.U.
Numerous Shake-ups Feature
Week Of Strenuous Practice
For Hardwood Squad
SINDLER SHIFTED
Quinney Is High Scorer-"Of
Tiger Outfit; Ariail Fills
Berth At Center
The Tiger varsity aggregation en­trained
last night for New Orleans
where they open a two-game series
with Tulane. L. S. U. will also be
encountered in Baton Rouge Monday
and Tuesday of next week.
Failing to find a clicking combina­tion
against Birmingham-Southern
and Vanderbilt last week-end, Coach
Jordan has done considerable shift­ing
in his first-string line-up, and
several new faces may be seen among
the starting quintet Friday night.
Frank Sindler, who began the season
as the outstanding guard candidate,
has been changed to forward and in
the practice sessions this week has
demonstrated that he can play an im­proved
game at that position. If he
starts at forward in the Tulane con­test,
Sindler will have as his running
mate, George Quinney, who is the
high-scorer of the Plainsmen to date.
Captain Airail, whose obvious posi­tion
at the beginning of the season
seemed to be guard, has replaced Slim
King as center in the last several
games, and appears destined to con­tinue
in that capacity. Bennie Fen-ton
has been making rapid strides
here of late and looks like the most
probable starter at one of the guard
positions, with Cleve Brown at the
other. Brown was a consistent scor­er
on last week's road trip, and has
been turning in a good defensive
game.
"Little M^nk" Simons is expected
to be the most dangerous member of
the Tulane quintet, although Murry
Cleveland, as his running mate, has
proved a dangerous foe to ambitious
forwards several times this season.
Ernie Beck at forward, and Joe Da-vies
at center are the other members
of the Greenies, who are at present
rated among the second division
teams of the Southern Conference.
The Louisiana State University five
is one of the leaders in the Confer­ence,
however, and the Tigers are ex­pected
to have considerably more
trouble with this five than with the
Tulane team. "Sparky" Wade, one
of the high-scorers in the South, has
been dealing fits to his opponents this
year and is a force to be reckoned
with in any game. Wade, who spec­ializes
in crip shots, has two team­mates,
Blair and Harris, who make
for a balanced quintet by being ex­perts
on long shots. -Between these
three hardwood artists the Auburn
five will have a difficult time of
keeping up with who is really the
dangerous man to be watched, but
the new combination that is expected
to be given a try this week-end should
provide both Tulane and L. S. U. stiff
opposition.
Business Men Of Auburn
And Opelika To Attempt
Financing Of New Field
W.A.A. Dance Scheduled
For Nine O'clock Tonight
The Women's Athletic Asso­ciation
will be host at a girls
break dance in the Recreation
Hall at nine o'clock this evening.
An admission price of thirty-five
cents will be charged, according
to information obtainable. One
of the popular student orchestras
which have been heard at num­erous
affairs this year has been
retained to play for the affair;
and a number of no-breaks are
on the program.
This affair will be the second
of its type sponsored by the
Women's Athletic Association
during this year, the first having
been presented in the early Fall.
GLEE CLUB PLANS
SPRING CONCERTS
Discussion Is Held At Special
Meeting Of Interested Par­ties
Wednesday Night
PLANS FORMULATED
Committee Journeys To Mont­gomery
To Make Necessary
Financial Arrangements
Tour Of South Alabama Sche­duled
For April; First Con­cert
In Columbus
Cardinal Key Society Plans Presentation
Of Girls Stunt Night On March Thirtieth
That Cardinal Key will sponsor a
girls stunt night on Friday, March
30, was announced at a late hour
today. The performance is scheduled
to take place in Langdon Hall at
seven o'clock in the evening. An ad­mission
price of fifteen cents will be
charged to defray expenses of the
production.
All girls organizations will be ex­tended
an invitation to enter the com­petition
for a silver loving cup which
will be presented to the group having
the best stunt in the opinion of the
judges. It is understood that the
judges will be three in number and
will be ladies residing in Auburn.
Cordelia SmithT, secretary of the
society, has anounced that letters of
invitation will be sent all groups and
that replies must be in her hands
by Wednesday, March 14. Letters of
registration for the affair must con­tain
the title of the stunt to be pre­sented,
the time necessary for the
presentation, and the names of the
players. Should any changes be de­sired
after the date set above, ar­rangements
may be made by commu­nicating
with Miss SmithT.
A complete set of rules regarding
the eligibility of competitors and the
time limits of the several perform­ances
is being sent to all organiza­tions
which intend to enter the com­petition.
A week's tour through South Ala­bama
during the first week in April
will be taken by the Auburn Glee
Club under the direction of Prof.
James A. Bulleit.
The tentative btfokings call for
concert appearances in Monroeville,
Brewton, Greenville, Luverne, Troy,
and at Woman's College in Montgom­ery.
The Club's first concert will be
given in Columbus on March 23. Fol­lowing
the tour, the Club will make
its annual appearance in Langdon
Hall.
Consisting of 40 members, the Glee
Club has been in rehearsal three
times per week since October. The
program will consist of quartets, so­los,
and chorus numbers. Vocal so­loists
with the club are Collins Cam­eron,
tenor, and Peter Hamilton, bass.
Two quartets have been formed, one
consisting of Mr. Cameron, Walter
Crossley, Mr. Hamilton, and J. E.
DeVaughn; the other quartet is com­posed
of Jack Slack, Alfred Nettles,
Cecil Strong, and Robert Freidman.
The banquet and dance Saturday
evening is being held to defray ex­pense
of music purchased by the Club
this year. The dance will be held
at the Recreational Hall following the
banquet at 7:30 at Benson's.
The Glee Club is headed by Collins
Cameron, president, and Robert
Friedman, business manager.
UPPERCLASSMEN ASKED
TO MAKE UP ENGLISH
Prof. J. R. Rutland, head of the
English department, makes a plea
that all upperclassmen who have not
completed Freshman English do so
next semester.
Under the new English deficiency
rule, more than fifty per cent of the
students reported are the ones who
have not completed freshman English.
Students who have been reported
must report to the English depart­ment
and fulfill the requirements
before they can get their degrees,
even though they may have already
passed freshman English.
There is no regular class for de­ficient
students; individual instruc­tions
are given to each one reported.
Twice a year, Nov. 15 and March 1,
a special request is made to the fac­ulty
to report those students who are
deficient. These requests are sent
out by the registrar.
According to Mr. Homer Wright, a
telephone call from Mr. W. C. Bow­man,
president of the First National
Bank, of Montgomery, informed him
that the capitol city bank would ad­vance—
the $35,000 to the City of
Auburn for the building of a new
stadium provided President Roose­velt's
CWA program was extended
beyond the fifteenth of this month.
In company with several Auburn bus­iness
men Mr. Wright journeyed to
Montgomery yesterday to seek a loan
from the Montgomery bank. The
telephone call which was received
about 1:30 this afternoon assured the
business group of the Board of Di­rectors
of the bank's willingness to
make the loan contingent upon the
continuation of the CWA program.
Wednesday night about thirty-five
business men of Auburn and Opelika
met in the Masonic Hall to discuss a
plan for raising necessary funds to
supplement the CWA funds which are
expected to be appropriated for the
building of a stadium in Auburn.
About $35,000 must be raised by these
men should Congress pass the bill
now pending before them, which calls
for additional appropriations to con­tinue
CWA work until May of this
year. The stadium project has al­ready
been approved by the CWA
board in Montgomery and should the
money be received one fourth of the
total building costs is to be raised
by the business men.
Shortly after the meeting was call­ed
to order and the purpose of the
session had been stated, Mr. Homer
Wright obtained the floor and pro­posed
a plan which was adopted after
some discussion and a vote. This plan
calls for the City Council of Auburn
to make notes not to exceed $35,0000
and to use these as security in ob­taining
a loan of the necessary
amount. The business men are to
underwrite these notes. Liquidation
is to come through the leasing of the
stadium and probably the awarding
of a small percentage of the gate re­ceipts
to the underwriters of the notes
until the money has been repaid. An­other
plan to obtain liquidation was
advanced but no definite action was
taken on this proposal. This propo­sition
calls for the selling of five dol­lar
tickets throughout the state to
t'he dedication game played in the
stadium.
Dr. Cecil Yarbrough spoke at length
on the merits of the initial plan and
outlined the benefits which would
come to the school, town, and entire
state should the stadium be construct­ed.
Mr. Shell Toomer, Mr. Thomas
Samford, and several others spoke in
behalf of the proposal and pledged
their support to any efforts which
might be made in obtaining the funds.
Mayor Copeland, speaking in behalf
of the Council, pledged that body's
support in the attempt to raise the
money and said that he felt sure that
the Council would gladly issue the
notes.
The final motion for the adoption
of the proposition was made and the
assembly voted to "recommend to the
City Council the issuance of not over
$35,000 worth of notes to build a
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P A G E TWO 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, FEB. 3, 1934
* AUBURN FOOTPRINTS -:-
"Talk to women as much as you can. This is the best school. This is the way
to gain fluency, because you need not care what you say and had better not be
sensible."—Disraeli.
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"Truth is such a precious article we should all economize in its use."—Mark
Twain.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: For the above quotations we are deeply indebted to an
old maid school teacher. May your career be a long and happy one!)
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And maybe you'd better leave a forwarding address with the postmaster here.
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Buddy, its a shame you don't remember what a good time you had during the
prom. Take it from me, you'll have to live a long time to have a better time.
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And if a great big handsome but tough new student who combines education
and athletics thinks he pulled a fast one recently, he is certainly fooling himself
because our chief dirt gatherer, alias our chief vacuum cleaner caught you in the
act. Heh! Heh! (Villianous laugh).
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Isn't it too bad that the footprints editor cannot publish his picture in this
colyum and give you little kiddies a real laugh some time.
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We have had numerous letters requesting that we sponsor a campaign through
our columns to have Kingfish lead the Military Ball Grand March. So foolish of
you dopes, couldn't you figure out that he has long since conducted that campaign
singlehanded—or is it handed—and now victory is practically in sight.
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I sometimes wonder if "my fine fran" Mr. President Tau Bet Keller is going
to drop the proceedings of that famous Amalgamated Society of Momentous Ec­centricities.
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And if that silly citizen, one Heywood Ellis, is ever going to stop wiggling his
fingers and arms like that celebrated taxicab driver of the short features.
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And if Joe Ledbetter is ever going to stop popping off about how much money
he is going to lose on this year's Glomerata.
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And if that "you wanna buy a duck?" salesman, Country Chapman is ever go­ing
to stop riding in the ladies riding class.
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What happened to the cute little candy and milk boys who were such a bless­ing
last semester.
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Why they have rainy day schedules when I'm not going to make drills anyway.
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If the burr-headed Willy Gaines is ever going to stop lieing about being a
tee-totaler and if he'll ever settle down to one flossy mae.
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Where some humor that will amuse the readers (if there is any) of this
colyum, can be procured.
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By BILLIE THOMAS
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REPORTERS
Cecil Strong, H. N. White, John R. Rid­dle,
Jr., Thomas Chalmers, Ray Holder,
Frank Hopson, Sam Gibbons.
BUSINESS STAFF
Assistant Business Managers: George
Lester, Dan Parkman, Jack Knowlton.
Advertising Managers: Fred Moss, Max­well
Benton, William Hall.
Circulation Manager: Joe Whiteside.
Circulation Assistants: Speedy Shannon,
V. Rhodes, Bill Lee, Robert Morgan, James
C. Hearn, H. Chapman.
GRATEFUL APPRECIATION
We would take this opportunity to thank
those persons who so graciously stepped
forward in the case of need and offered
their aid toward procuring the sum of
money necessary for the construction of a
stadium here as a CWA project. We offer
thanks from The Plaitisman, from the stu­dent
body, and from the faculty to all who
have aided in this work and add that we
will ever attempt to show our most grate­ful
appreciation.
The realization that the business houses
and townspeople of Auburn and Opelika
are backing the institution in its ventures
toward achievement of greater distinction
in educational circles is indeed gratifying;
and it is a source of renewed hope that the
project may be carried through. We say
renewed hope because, when first confront­ed
with the fact that the school would
have to raise the necessary thirty odd thou­sand
dollars, we could not but feel that
some gigantic and impassable object was
obstructing the pathway. We knew of
course, that the alumni would be more than
glad to aid in every possible way, but the
certainty of raising such a sum from even
the loyal graduates of our Alma Mater was
subject to doubt. Although we fully realiz­ed
that the alumni were backing us to the
limit at heart, we could not expect of them
in times like these to immediately make
suitable arrangements to cover the sum
needed, especially since haste is imperative
if the project is to be completed by May
first, at which time C. W. A. work will
cease.
We would point out to the members of
the student body and the world at large
that once again the merchants and towns­people
of this community have showed
their faith in us and that the least we can
do is live up to that faith and try in every
way to repay them for what they have done.
POLITICAL PARTIES
With the time for the high muck-a
mucks of the political world to show their
respective abilities fast drawing near, we
cannot help but wonder if some effort has
not been made to organize open political
parties on the campus. By political parties,
we mean open and known organizations for
the election of student officers and not the
"I'll vote for your lodge brother if you'll
vote for mine" backdoor and dark night
affairs which have been perebulant in the
past.
It seems to us that political aspirants
would realize by now that the percentage
profit in that sort of procedure is very
poor except in a very few instances, be­cause
this backdoor policy can work two
ways. A person can come to your back
door and say that he and his lodge will
support your candidate or candidates and
turn right around and go to your arch
enemy's back door and say the same thing
with the chances for exposing his tactics
remaining practically negligible, at least
until after it is too late to do anything
about it. Of course there is always the
cry that in future years you will do every­thing
in your power to cut the malefactor's
throat; but it is indeed surprising to find
out just how much can be forgotten in a
year's time.
Would it not be much better to have
open political parties with platforms which
would be carried out on much the same
basis as our national ones? Certainly such
a condition would give the voting students
a much better ground for the selection of
men for the various positions than is pos­sible
the present conditions. Such an idea
is folly, you may say. However, the fact
that just such an' idea has been in actual
operation in various and numerous schools
throughout the country for a number of
years and has proven highly successful
would immediately discount the frivolity of
it.
One of the best examples of the open
political party system may be seen at the
University of Florida where for approxi­mately
fifteen years two parties have
fought for control of the student offices.
Actual campaigns are planned, parades are
held, stump speeches are made, bands are
hired and refreshments served; all to help
convince the voter that their respective can­didates
are more suitably fitted for office.
Similar systems are in operation at a num­ber
of the other larger schools throughout
the South and in each case they have met
with equal success.
You may ask why we should undertake
to sponsor the forming of open political
organizations when a large number of
people lqok upon politics as a degrading
practice which under no conditions should
be allowed to enter the institutions of high­er
education. Our belief is this: that Au­burn
badly needs a more widespread in­terest
in student activities and student af­fairs,
that some students need some kind
of activity to occupy their minds while
they are not in class or studying—and one
would be surprised at the amount of time
which is given over to loafing on this cam­pus—,
that any attempt at organization
such as would be a necessity in a political
party would be a decided benefit to the
students participating no matter what line
of endeavor they intend to follow, and that
anything that would do away with the un­derhanded,
deceitful, knife-in-the-back
methods of present occurence would be a
decided help to both students and the insti­tution.
The organization of one such party here
prior to the coming spring election would
practically mean election for all of its can­didates
provided some other organization
were not speedily formed to oppose it. We
present this question as food for thought
for those who are planning political ca­reers
at any future time, and as a sugges­tion
to those who do not find that they
have enough to do in the school by merely
attending to scholastic work.
JAPAN IN THE PACIFIC
Foreign relations have never bothered
the American public very much. Ameri­cans
are content to drift along in a vague-current
of some sort or other that comes
from some place and appears to be going
some place else. Once in a while they may
wonder where they're going.
We are wondering right now where we
are headed in the Pacific "current" of
foreign affairs. While Mr. Close, in the
series of articles he wrote for this paper,
did not declare categorically that the Unit­ed
States and Japan would go to war soon­er
or later, he left the impression that the
chances were pretty good.
Whether Mr. Close's analysis is right or
wrong is not the question we wish to raise
at this moment. What we should like to
know, granted that Mr. Close is right, is
why under the sun two countries like the
United States and Japan should anticipate
war with one another.
The immediate issues lie in Japan's ex­pansion
in the Pacific, at the expense, so
far, of China. Japanese expansion requires
a big navy—last summer U. S. Secretary
of Navy Swanson proclaimed to the world
that the United States would have a navy
"second to none." Now if this means a
naval race, what are the objects of the
two countries? The casual observer might
say that if Japan wants a big navy for
territorial expansion of her empire, and
the United States wants a big navy for no
specific declared purpose, it would look as
if the United States desired one of two
things: (1) to protect herself against pos­sible
aggression of Japan, or (2) to prevent
further Japanese expansion.
On the face of things it seems down­right
silly to believe that Japan contem­plates
an attack on the United States. It
is possible, however, that the United States
wants a big navy in order to protect the
navy. Or we may be looking toward the
safety of Hawaii and the Philippines, or
of our Pacific trade.
In the last analysis, if anything were to
get us into war with Japan, it would prob­ably
be our Pacific trade. As long as
Japan can expand in China, she doesn't
need our islands. She isn't stupid enough
to try to annex California. The only
thing she can take or wants to take from
us is overseas trade.
This, we believe, is the only dangerous
undertow in the "Pacific current" of for­eign
affairs. The whole drift is vague.
There are such elements as race and pride
drawn into it. But trade seems to be the
basic issue between Japan and the United
States.—Daily Tar Heel.
Dissertations
By Pig
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.
* * * *
GUM HAS marched on to new fields,
and in marching he has vacated a
place that will be hard to refill. He
has suffered much criticism, but he has
given the students what they wanted—and
after all no mortal can do more—(if only
our intelligent student body could realize
it). So my hat is doffed to you} Gum—
and may the ghost of your column finally
wend its way to the happy hunting ground
of all good columnists—and to mingle there
with the ghosts of Invictus and-Casual Ob­server
to cuss and discuss in your-unholy
glee the problems that were so dear to your
heart—YES YOU BIG HE-MEN the "A"
club included.
* * * *
And now for enlightenments sake—other
neophyte columnists have advocated a strict
policy which they have endeavored to ad­here
to- Perhaps that is typical, anyway,
it is distinctive of the essence of all that
is amateurism. So in the beginning I
should like to say that I make no bones
either about the style, the policy or the
content of this column. I propose that I
write what I please when I please and how
I please—and I also propose that you criti­cal
mugs (including the honorable and re­spected
townspeople) read the small print
at the heading of this column and govern
yourselves accordingly. If there be any
criticism forthcoming put it in the form
of a letter and mail it to me in care of
the Editor. I assure you that no adverse
remarks will be overlooked, but to the con­trary
will be greatly appreciated.
Also, I DO NOT wish" to hear comment
from our English Department as to the
punctuation I use. The placing of commas,
semi-colons, etc., are for the use of college
freshmen whp do not know how to express
themselves otherwise. In this column I
SHALL TRY TO EXPRESS MYSELF,
and in that effort I shall probably break
every rule ever established. But back to
the English Department—I cannot respect
any professor who talks of the Adminis­tration
underhandedly and then asks his
students not to mention his name in con­nection
with what has been said—if one
of OUR professors says it, it MUST be
worth saying—and if its worth saying to
one its worth saying to all—so "screw your
courage to the "sticking point" Prof, and
lets hear from you.
* * * *
And since I'm on the subject I'd like to
bring jip a matter that was quietly and
diplomatically hushed up soon after the
first zephyrs of rage had abated. I would
like to see a change in rules governing the
Co-eds. If some of the powers-that-be
would come down to earth and realize that
the Victorian Age has passed I think they
would see that a change in rule is neces­sary—
and I don't believe I am overestimat­ing
their intelligence. When those rules
were made we may as well have had to
contend with the bustle, the horse and
buggy, and the street cleaner. Today we
have to contend with dodging those that
are as bad and as convenient as the bustle,
the horse and buggy, and the street cleaner.
Listen, Old Folks, if you honestly think we
are as bad and as untrustworthy as you
let on to, then please remember that we
are the product of our environment—and
that environment was established by men
and women of your own generation. In
our way we are far better off than you
were—mainly because we are franker and
are not afraid of life—but we can't ex­pect
you to believe that; otherwise you
wouldn't be professors here at Auburn.
* * * *
In parting, I should like to say that there
is a large number of students in school here.
The majority of them came for a purpose.
I wish the Administration would bear that
in mind and attend to student affairs rath­er
than concern themselves with which side
the political fence to hang their carcass on
—or if politics are absolutely necessary for
the functioning of the school then I should
advise the hiring of Huey Long—you know,
he would certainly be in his element here.
A new form of motion picture censorship
emanating from Ohio State University pro­vides
for courses in motion picture appre­ciation
for high school and university stu­dents.
The idea is to put the censorship
in the box office, rather than to attempt to
legislate good motion pictures.
A 600-pound vibrating table has been de­veloped
in the mechanical engineering lab­oratory
at Stanford University which can
create on a small scale the effect of an
earthquake. The purpose of the invention
is to test shock resistance of bridges, dams,
office buildings and other structures.
Students at the Univ. of Berlin are al­lowed
six weeks to select their professors.
Need a wool blanket? Well go to Texas
Tech. An ad in the Toreador read thus:
"The Techshire Weaving Guild will trade
a large handwoven virgin wool blanket to
anybody who brings us 60 pounds of grease
wool in exchange."
Grease wool, the guild manager explain­ed
is the wool as it comes from the sheep's
back, uncleaned and unbleached.
Other articles, all hand made by members
of the student guild include suiting, over­coating,
ladies' dress goods, hand-made
women's purses, scarfs, shawls, baby blan­kets,
and men's ties."
* * * *
In a questionnaire taken at Princeton, it
was found that 339 students to 116 pre­ferred
Phi Beta Kappa keys to varsity let­ters.
In the questionnaire the students
were asked to give their qualifications of
an ideal girl. All one freshman demanded
was a girl who could "hold her liquor" and
was "not too high hat." Another would
not be satisfied without a girl named Mary,
five feet six and one-half inches tall and
an undergraduate at Vassar.
* * * *
ENGINEERS KEEP
LAWYERS SLEEPLESS
. Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 15—The old
rivalry between lawyers and engineers at
the University of Michigan broke out again
last week when 50 law students rushed the
automotive mechanics laboratory, intending,
if necessary, to forcibly stop the motor
testing which the engineering research de­partment
has been carrying out for the past
three weeks on a Chevrolet motor.
Claiming that the almost continuous din
had robbed them of their sleep and prevent­ed
them from studying, the students, some
of them pajamaclad, finally brought mat­ters
to a head by entering the test build­ing
and demanding that the engineers in
charge shut off the motors.
The students claimed that they had ap­pealed
to various University administra­tion
authorities but had received nothing
but promises. They had then taken their
case to the Ann Arbor police department,
which also did nothing.
The engineer in charge, by this time
somewhat nonplussed, called Prof. W. E.
Lay, of the Engineering College, who on
hearing the circumstances stated that "he
might as well shut it off for tonight." He
would make no further promises, however.
* * * *
Disguised as a tramp, Thomas Minehan,
executive secretary of the committee in
care of Federal students at the University
of Minnesota, lived with boys and girls in
boxcars, camps, "jungles," missions, and on
the road in order to collect material for a
book tentatively entitled "Boy and Girl
Tramps of America", which will appear on
the spring list of Farrar and Rinehart,
New York publishers.
"I don't want to be a bum", was the sen­timent
he heard expressed most frequent­ly
by the boys and girls, who, although
proud to have kept themselves alive, were
eager to find jobs and settle down.
"Obtaining clothes is the hardest job
for the transients. Throughout the winter
they are seldom comfortably warm and in
addition are usually hungry." Missions
furnish very rough nightshirts but insist
that the transients go through a fumiga­tion
process before allowing them to oc­cupy
beds.
In commenting on life on the road Mine­han
said that the younger people tend to
stay by themselves in groups of not more
than 12. Often the jobs connected with
camp routine are assigned by one person
and community meals are prepared from
food secured by several people in more or
less unorthodox ways. "You've got to be
quick to get by on the bum" is the creed
of the transient. "Keep moving" is his
slogan.
While Minehan was tramping around he
was jailed twice for vagrancy.
* * * *
WHITE VS. BLACK
New York, N. Y.—Scientists have been
trying for a long time to turn Negroes
into whites, but it looks as though they
would have a better chance of success if
they tried the reverse, recent experiments
indicate.
Only slight differences in skin condition,
which should not prove insurmountable dif­ficulties,
prevent whites from turning black,
Dr. Marc A. Groubard, research assistant
in the zoology department in Columbia Uni­versity
states.
"The skin of the white man has the
capacity for producing Negro pigment un­der
different conditions," Dr. Graubard, ex­plaining
his work, asserted "This happens
in certain diseases, such as Addison's dis­ease
(in which the skin becomes deeply pig­mented)
and certain kinds of tumors are
black."
"Incidentally, there is no such thing as
a 'white' race. It is really 'gray,' for every­one
has a certain amount of pigment. The
pigment of "firhite skin is merely less con­centrated
than that of the Negro."
* * * *
The national collegiate pastime comes
into its own. Loafing is to be the subject
of a new course at Butler University.
* * * *
A new way to beat the six-weeks exams,
Students at the University of Berlin are
allowed six weeks to analyze and select
their professors. —McGill Daily.
DEADLY DEDUCTIONS
By Derf
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.
* * * *
IF YOU have heard Clyde McCoy play
Sugar Blues on a cold wet night, you
have undoubtedly heard something.
First he starts off with some extra fine
trumpet gymnastics, which accelerate, mod­ulate,
and vibrate until you fear there is
nothing left for him to do but eat the horn.
Then close to the end, if you didn't know
the physical construction, you'd swear you
heard him swallow it whole. That's the
way "Sugar Blues" should be played, and
thus done is one of modern music's classics
in jazz.
* * * *
Poets have written of moonlight in the
summertime, or of sunny days in spring,
and of heaps of gleaming snow, but I have
yet to see anyone write about the beauty
of a cold rainy night like tonight. But to
me it is the most wonderful thing in na­ture.
It's wet and cold, and I grant you
not a little uncomfortable, yet there's a
silent mystic friendliness when it rains at
night. It seems to soothe your aches and
ease your pains. Angels may have con­tributed
to the sun and moon, but only God
could have made those rains.
* * * *
Old Gum deserves a decent sendoff and
I'm here to give it to him. In fact nothing
would give me greater pleasure than to give
him a rousing farewell. Gum has written
for a year and a half, during a part of
which time he has written the best, and
during other portions decidedly otherwise.
I still claim that little as he knew the local
co-ed, he wrote a great deal more truth
than poetry about those worthies. And
who can forget his immortalized Candy
Haired Gal, and his Gem of the Ocean,
sometime Queen of the May? Who can
forget his apparently idle suggestion that
Auburn try kicking points after touchdown,
and the effect it had? Oh art, how Gum
has suffered in thy name. You don't re­member
because you wouldn't, I once wrote
Gum's stuff for him, and because of it he
lost a couple of good friends. For the
first few weeks that Gum wrote, everybody
thought he was a girl, the sissie, and even
his fellow journalists didn't know who he
dam was. And now Gum has put his type­writer
away. His pencils and papers are
carelessly tossed aside, and he has gone,
some give thanks because he's gone, some
will shed perhaps a tear for old whatshis-name's
sake, but everybody will know that
Gum don't write here no more.
* * * *
The very ancient grandfather's clock
owned by Mr. Ceresa which was so old that
the shadow of the pendulum wore a hole
in the back of the case reminds me of a
man at my home who was born at the age
of eighty-three. Instead of getting older,
he got younger every day. He never had
to shave because his beard got shorter in­stead
of longer, and if he had shaved, he
would have had ingrown whiskers. The
peculiar phenomenon may be explained by
the fact that his mother was a bearded
lady and his father a nightwatchman. The
poor old man had a hard life,- never got in
any good cracks about what he used to do
when he was a boy, and was in general
looked upon as a freak. He was an invet­erate
sot but he never got sick until the
last drink he took, corresponding in his
chronology to the first in an ordinary man's
life. After this he never drank, but he
grew smaller daily from that time forward,
eventually becoming an infant and at last
he disappeared completely much to the
mystification of the astounded doctors and
populace. There is more to the story, but I
fear that further delving into the affair
would brand my saga as a prevarication,
which same it most certainly is not.
* * * *
Little Willie, just from habit
Skinned his papa for a rabbit,
"Stop it", papa hollered squalling,
Now you've got my flesh to crawling.
* * * *
My favorite gastric pastime is the con­sumption
of salted peanuts. They are
balm to my stormtossed heart and sooth­ing
syrup to my jangled nerves (ain't I a
wreck). Whenever I eat peanuts, I feel
like singing, and whenever I feel like sing­ing,
I want peanuts, and I sing all the
time. If you ever see me and a bag of
peanuts together, make your requests, for
song is forthcoming. If you smell peanuts
and hear a rolling baritone, that's me right
under the song. Peanuts and me go to­gether
like moonlight and roses, black and
white, year in and year out; like a cigar
and a cuspidor, a shave and a haircut, or
pen and ink. Peanuts are the result of
Agricultural endeavor exerted over a period
of months, plus a sun treatment over a
period of days, plus a heat treatment over
a number of hours, plus salt and a pack­age.
The gods on Olympus had nectar
and ambrosia, and the Hebrews had manna,
prisoners get peas and cornbread, but I
still like peanuts.
SATURDAY, FEB. 3, 1934 THE P L A I N S MAN 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 P A G E T H R EE
PROFESSOR A. D. BURKE TELLS OF
OVERPRODUCTION IN DAIRYING
Leader Of Dairying Industry In Alabama Describes Situation
As Critical; Says There Is Under-Consumption As Well As
Over-Production
By Professor A. D. Burke
The dairy industry is facing a criti
cal situation as well as an opportun
^ty. The situation is critical in that
like all other industries it is "over­produced
and under-consumed". There
is nothing to be gained by hiding the
fact that our nation is amply supplied
with food and all the essentials, as
well as a great many non-essentials,
of life. In fact, such an admission
regardless of how hesitant- we are in
making it, is desirable in that it
brings us face to face with existing
conditions and makes us appreciate
the need for concerted action.
The latest cold storage report
shows about 160 million pounds of
butter in storage on November 1,
1933. This Is almost 2% times the
quantity in storage on the same date
last year. Obviously we have a suf­ficient
quantity to last for some time
and its natural effect will be to pre­vent
much of an increase in prices
to the producer of cream for several*
months. Since the prices of milk and
all dairy products are inter-related
and to a large extent influenced by
the price of butter, the situation is
at least interesting and. worthy of
thoughtful consideration.
In addition to an over supply of
a basic dairy commodity, the consump­tion
of dairy products is not up to
par. This, of course, is deplorable
because the value of milk and its
products, in their relation to health,
cannot be measured in dollars and
cents. However, the condition exists
and until the purchasing power of
consumers is increased, not much of
an improvement is to be expected.
Directly affecting the dairy indus­try
is the low price of beef which
has a restraining effect on the num­ber
of cows being slaughtered and is
making the farmer find it a little
more profitable to utilize feed for
milk production rather than for the
production of meat.
These facts make it easy to under­stand
why price advances cannot be
obtained by strikes, boycotts or the
unethical trade practices of price cut­ting,
which are breeders of discon­tent
and disloyalty. Progress in na­tional
recovery cannot be attained by
such activities.
In direct contrast to this rather
critical situation, the dairy industry
is facing a magnificent opportunity.
Within the past few weeks President
Roosevelt's recovery administration
has set in motion a marketing cor­poration
which has at its disposal
thirty millions of dollars for the pur­pose
of removing from trade channels
enough butter to help stabilize prices.
This marketing corporation is doubt­less
responsible for having maintain­ed
the butter market during the past
few weeks. But it cannot go on for­ever.
President Roosevelt has start­ed
the ball rolling but it will not con­tinue
unless we help remove the ob­stacles
in its path. All of us, and by
all of us, I mean consumers as well
as producers of dairy products, have
been clamoring for home markets.
Home markets cannot be attained by
legislation - regardless of political
howlings, but they can be attained by
the concerted action of every citizen.
A few calculations have convinced me
that if only half the people of the
SEE THE NEW
1 9 3 4
Now on display at
our show room.
TATUM
MOTOR CO.
CHEVROLET DEALER
Opelika, Alabama
United States, each day would eat
just one additional "sliver" of butter
such as is served in hotels and res­taurants,
the butter surplus would
disappear in about four months, our
home market would be developed and
the health of a nation would, doubt­less,
be improved because butter con­tains
a large percentage of vitamin
A which is beneficial in helping to
protect against common colds. In
addition an industry which is basic
to a successful and permanent agri­culture
would be supported and the
purchasing power of the farmer in­creased.
Here then is an opportunity
for every one to contribute "his mite"
to a national recovery program and
a basic industry. It is not out of
place to mention that the farmer-pro­ducer
can materially benefit himself
by utilizing a little more butter at
home in place of butter substitutes
which are all too frequently exchang­ed
for cream at the city market.
Finally there is an opportunity for
the dairyman interested in improving
his herd and reducing the surplus of
dairy products^ There never was a
time when a good cow failed to pay
for her keep and return a profit. Our
troubles are the direct result of an
over supply of the one, two and three
gallon cows. A well known dairy
magazine describes how a dairyman
with 20 cows secured a greater in­come
than a neighboring dairyman
with 31 and at the same time "put
665 less pounds of butterfat on the
market", thus helping to reduce the
surplus. In addition he reduced his
labor, feed and barn space by 11
cow requirements. We speak of kill­ing
the non-profitable cows, sending
them to the butcher. That may be
entirely unnecessary. Possibly when
conditions improve a sub-marginal
cow may become a paying proposi
(Continued on page 4)
HIGH SCHOOL TO
PLAY TWO GAMES
DURING WEEKEND
Coach Fowler Has Developed
One Of Smartest And Fastest
Teams In District
Under the direction of Coach Gor­don
Fowler, the local high school
quintet has developed into one of
the best aggregations in the district
having defeated some of the out­standing
teams from whom a victory
has not been won in several years.
Opelika, Tallassee, Reeltown, and
Waverly have been among the vic­tims
of the locals and although sev­eral
defeats mar the record of the
Auburn Hi boys, when the district
tournament opens, this year the team
has a good chance of being one of
the . seeded quintets. Union and
Hurtsboro have both given the first-string
stunning defeats, but these
can be accounted for by unfamiliar-ity
with the court in the case of
Union, and the lack of practice for
the Hurtsboro encounter.
The first-string forwards for Au­burn
Hi are Junior Whatley, and
Hugh Wright. In all of the games
played to date Whatley and Wright
have both turned in outstanding of­fensive
performances, and have play­ed
good defensive games. Phillip
Smith, who participated as a substi­tute
in several games last year, has
the edge on the other candidates for
the pivot position, although John
Ham has on several occasions dem­onstrated
that he can when called on,
do a capable job at center. The
guard positions are well taken care
of by Charles McKinnon and Julian
Fowler, a pair of defensive aces.
In addition to this first-string
quintet, Fowler has a second team
that performs nearly as well compos­ed
of the following: Dan Friel and
Charles Yarbrough at forwards, John
Ham at center, and Albert Wilde and
Bill Gilchrist at guards.
The Lee County High School's next
games are with Lanett and Waverly,
who are encountered this week-end.
Tiger Growls
By B. C. Pope
Auburn's new head coach and ath­letic
director, Jack Meagher (or
Marr, if you please) is expected to
arrive on the Plains within the next
few days to take up his official du­ties.
Formal announcement for the
start of spring football training will
be forthcoming next week.
Coach Meagher comes here with
highest recommendations, both as a
coach and as a man. His fine recond
as a football mentor in Texas is' fa­miliar
to us all inasmuch as it has
been reprinted in leading state papers
during the past few weeks.
This column bids Coach Mea­gher
welcome, and calls upon all
students, alumni, and friends of
Auburn to rally solidly behind
him, in order that the Plainsmen
may continue on the high plane
to which Coach Wynne lifted
them during the past four years.
* * *
Auburn's inexperienced basketball
aggregation opens a four game inva­sion
of Hiiey Long's stronghold to­night,
meeting the Tulane Greenies
in New Orleans. Tomorrow night the
two teams will play again after which
the Plainsmen move on to Baton
(Cqntinued on page 4)
GALAXY OF STARS
WILL BE SHOWN ON
SCREEN AT TIGER
THREE TEAMS IN SEMIFINALS
OF INTERFRAT TOUCH TOURNEY
Many Screen Notables Shown
In "Dinner At Eight" At
Local Theatre
Marie Dressier! John Barrymore!
Wallace Beery! Jean Harlow! Lionel
Barrymore! Lee Tracy! Edmund
Lowe! Billie Burke! Madge Evans!
Jean Hersholt! Karen Morley! Phil­lips
Holmes!
These are the names in the amaz­ing
aggregation of stars who appear
together in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
sensational picture, "Dinner at
Eight," which opens Sunday at the
Tiger Theatre as the most remarkable
picture filmed in the last decade.
The picture is based on the play
by George S. Kaufman and Edna Fer-ber,
which ran on Broadway for more
than a year. It describes the emo­tional
experiences of a heterogeneous
group of people who are brought to­gether
at a dramatic dinner party.
Shifting its focus from one angle
to another, the camera picks out a
retired musical-comedy star, a ship­builder
facing bankruptcy, a "wash­ed-
up" matinee idol on the verge of
suicide, an unscrupulous millionaire
and his faithless wife, a Broadway
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Sigma Nus, Pi Kappa Alphas, And Alpha Gamma Rhos Enter
Semi-Final Round By Victories Over Theta Chi, Beta Kappa,
And Sigma Pi Respectively
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Three of the quarter-final matches
in the Interfraternity Touch Football
have been played to date with the
Sigma Nus defeating Theta Chi, 12-0;
Pi K. A. winning from the Beta
Kappas 14-6; and the Alpha Gamma
Rhos winning from the Sigma Pis
8-6. The Kappa Sigma-Lambda Chi
Alpha game has not been played.
The Sigma Nus had little difficulty
in conquering the Theta Chis 12-0
in the first game played in the third
round. Cam Mitchell and Bill Turk
again stood out for the Sigma Nus,
Mitchell running 40 yards, and Turk
50 for the two scores of the game.
As a result of this win the Sigma
Nus play the Pi K. A.'s in the semi­finals.
The Pi Kappa Alphas, although
winning by a one-touchdown margin,
completely subdued the Beta Kappas
in a one-sided contest, 14-6. Bill
Bowers was the most outstanding
player on the field as he hurled the
two touchdown passes, and the two
extra-point tosses. The first score
of the game came in the second quar­ter
when a long pass from Bowers to
Hines was completed for a touch­down;
Bowers then hurling another
to Shepard for the extra point. The
Beta Kappa marker came in the
third quarter as a result of a
series of long passes from Merkle
to Pierce, who completely dominated
the offense and defense of the Beta
Kappas. The final score of the game,
by the Pi Kappa Alphas was also
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THREE TEAMS IN SEMI­FINALS
OF INTERFRAT
TOUCH TOURNAMENT
(Continued from page 3)
scored via the aerial route, again
from Bowers to Hines for the touch­down;
and Bowers to Knowlton for
the extra point.
The other quarter-final game play­ed
to date was won by the Alpha
Gamma Rhos from the Sigma Pis,
8-6. This, the closest game of the
third round, was freakish from every
standpoint, the first Alpha' Gamma
Rho score coming after a fluke pass
was caught over the goal by an Al­pha
Gamma Rho lineman, and the
other by the Alpha Gamma Rhos, a
safety, was the direct result of a
fumbled punt by O'Barr who was
caught behind the goal. The Sigma
Pis scored at the opening of the sec­ond
half after a series of short passes,
and a run by O'Barr placed the ball
within the five-yard stripe, Bagley
dashed /around right' end for the
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(Continued from page 3)
Rouge to engage the Louisiana State
Tigers Monday and Tuesday. The
following Saturday, Feb. 10, the
Plainsmen will play their lone re­maining
home engagement, enter­taining
the Georgia Bulldogs in
Alumni Gymnasium. The final game
of the season is scheduled for Feb.
14, a return game with Georgia Tech
to be played in Atlanta.
* • *
Coach Lefty Jordan has work­ed
with unceasing efforts with
this season's green squad. Sev­eral
of the number have shown
marked improvement over early
season form which indicates that
there is a fine chance for the
Tigers to break into the win col­umn
at an early date.
The return of Warren McMahan,
regular guard of last season, has con­siderably
bolstered the. strength of
the team, and his presence should
prove to be the spark which the boys
have heretofore been lacking. Mc­Mahan
and either King or Brown at
guards, Captain Ariail, at center, and
Quinney and Ellis at forwards seem
to be about the best combination
Coach Jordan can assemble.
* * *
The Interfraternity Football Tour­nament
is fast nearing completion.
Only five teams remain in the tour­ney,
Sigma Nu, Pi Kappa Alpha,
Lambda Chi Alpha, Kappa Sigma, and
Alpha Gamma Rho.
All games have been closely con­tested,
and unusual interest has been
manifested in the tournament. The
remaining tilts should prove even
more interesting.
* * *
When Captain Gump Ariail
left the game up in Birmingham
last Friday night late in the
fourth quarter it marked the last
appearance of the flashy all-southern
star in his native city in
an Auburn uniform. His friends
and admirers paid him due tri­bute
with thunderous applause
as a parting gesture to one of
the Magic City's greatest ath­letes.
Only a few more days are left in
which to play the remaining matches,
and the Athletic Committee of the
Interfraternity Council urges that
the few games left to be played be
completed in a few days, as the bas­ketball
tournament is scheduled to
start immediately after this tourna­ment
is over.
PROF. A. D. BURKE TELLS
OF OVERPRODUCTION IN
DAIRYING IN ALABAMA
(Continued from page 3)
tion. But regardless of this supposi­tion,
there is nothing to prevent a
dairyman from putting his sub-mar­ginal
cows out of commission by dry­ing
them up. In either event produc­tion
will be curtailed and the indus­try
benefitted. The southern produc­er
cannot accomplish this alone. As a
matter of fact any action of the kind
may be ill-advised because of the low
consumption of dairy products in most
of our southern states and the lack
of cows on many farms.- Neither
would the southern producers activity
along this line have much influence.
The major activity must originate
.within the leading dairy states. The
point is that something must be done
and the sooner we start it the better.
All of us have an aversion to the in­terference
of government in business
but unless we demonstrate our ability
to manage our own affairs in a busi­ness
like way and properly regulate
production, the government is likely
to make some suggestions for us. We
appear to be headed in that direction.
Production must be controlled to the
point where consumption and produc­tion
are properly synchronized. -The
wise producer of dairy products will
"take stock" of himself and his cattle
and build for the future,—the un­wise
will continue his unprofitable
practices yet a short while, and fall
by the wayside. There never was a
more opportune time for each to
travel his chosen path.
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GALAXY OF STARS
WILL BE SHOWN ON
SCREEN AT TIGER
(Continued from Page 3)
theatrical agent, a philandering
young doctor, a Park Avenue hostess,
a cook with a toothache. Each of
these individuals has his or her own
emotional conflict and then they are
brought together in one blasting dra­matic
climax.
This million dollar cast, comprising
most of the outstanding stars in Hol­lywood,
sets a new record for lavish-ness
in film entertainment. It has
never happened before, and in all
likelihood it will never happen again.
Patronize Plainsman Advertisers.
Tiger Theatre
Auburn, Alabama
"The Show Place of""
East Alabama"
SATURDAY, February 3
William Powell returns as Philo
_ Vance in
"THE KENNEL MURDER
CASE"
with Mary Astor and Eugene
Pallette
Also Clark and McCollough in
"Hey, Nanny Nanny" and
Cartoon "Lullaby Land"
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
February 4 and 5
"DINNER AT EIGHT"
Marie Dressier, John Barry-more,
Wallace Beery, Jean Har­low,
Lionel Barrymore, Lee
Tracy, - Edmund Lowe, Billie
Burke
Added Baby Rose Marie in
"Sing, Baby, Sing"
TUESDAY, February 6
"THE MASQUERADER"
with Ronald Colman and
Elissa Land!
News Events and Comedy
"A Trifle Backwards"
Our Buyers Are In
The Eastern Market . . .
New Spring Merchandise is arriving daily.
A visit to our store will be appreciated.
We accept Alabama Polytechnic Institute
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For Style. Quality and Economy — for men
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stadium in Auburn with the business
men of the city underwriting them".
At the suggestion of Mr. C. J.
Young, a committee composed of Mr.
Homer Wright, Dr. Cecil Yarbrough,
and Mr. Shell Toomer was appoint­ed
to make contacts in an effort to
issue the notes and borrow the money.
A sub-committee, which will include
several Opelika men, will be appoint­ed
to assist in this work.
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Metro-
Goldwyn-
Mayer's
Mightiest
Entertainment
"Dinner at Eight"
will be remembered
as the most astound­ing
project ever con­ceived
by the motion
picture industry!
also
Baby Rose Marie in
"Sing, Baby, Sing"
Sunday's Schedule
2:00, 4:00, and 8:45
TIGER THEATRE
Sunday &. Monday, Feb. 4 & 5
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