1934-02-24 The Plainsman

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VOLUME LVII AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, FEB. 24, 1934 NUMBER 37
GENERAL BULLARD
WILL VISIT AUBURN
0NFEBRUARY28TH
Auburn's Most Outstanding
Graduate Will Speak Here
Next Wednesday Morning
REVIEW PLANNED
Faculty Members And Students
To Journey To Birmingham
To Meet Noted Son
of
General Robert Lee Bullard, a dis
tinguished alumnus of Auburn
1881, will visit his Alma Mater on
Wednesday, February 28. He will ar­rive
in the forenoon in time for a re­view
of the ROTC unit, starting at
ten o'clock. At eleven o'clock he will
address the Auburn students and fac­ulty
in Langdon Hall.
General Bullard will come to Au­burn
from Birmingham, where he, on
Tuesday, will be the guest speaker at
an Auburn Day program for the Bir­mingham
Kiwanis Club. From there
he will go to Montgomery and spend
the night. Auburn alumni in Mont­gomery
will entertain him while in
their city.
The invitation to General Bullard
to visit again the institution at which
he had his early college training was
extended by the Auburn Administra­tive
Committee which is composed of
Dr. John H. Wilmore, Dr. B. H. Cren­shaw,
and Dr. L. N. Duncan. A busy
two days was arranged for him by the
committee, who are especially anxious
for the Auburn students and faculty
to hear General Bullard, the man who
was second to General Pershing in
command of the American forces dur­ing
the World War, and the man who
did not know how to retreat.
While a student at Auburn he had
his first military training. Records
here show that on March 4, 1881, he
was "promoted from private to cor­poral
in Company B."
Leaving Auburn he went to the U.
S. Military Academy where he gradu­ated
and entered immediately upon
his life-time military career. On the
recent occasion of his birthday anni­versary
General Bullard was quoted
throughout the nation in his press
statement which caused numerous edi­torial
comments, not all the editors
agreeing with his statement concern­ing
the value of wars. It is expected
that he will amplify this statement in
his address in Birmingham and Au­burn.
Members of the Administrative
Committee and others of the Auburn
faculty will go to Birmingham to
meet General Bullard. The student
body will be represented by Justin
Morrill, president of the executive
cabinet, Horace Shepard, editor of
The Plainsman, and Julia Pace, who
has acquired recently the title of
"Miss Auburn." The Kiwanis Club
of Auburn will send representatives.
Sergeant George Moxham will sing,
being accompanied by Mrs. Mary
Drake Askew.
Classes will be suspended from
10:00 a. m. to 12:00, noon, February
28, in order that both students and
faculty may participate in and attend
the Bullard exercises. •
The military review will replace
the regular drill on Thursday, March
1, so that regular classes scheduled
from 11 to 12 Wednesday, February
28, will meet at the same hour (11 to
12) on Thursday, March 1.
RAY LOOMIS RETURNS
WITH GIANT AIRPLANE
Ray Loomis, widely known airplane
pilot, who has been here once before
during the current school session, is
back again with his tri-motored Ford
transport plane, and will carry pas­sengers
for short air rides Saturday
and Sunday at the Auburn-Opelika
Airport.
Mr. Loomis is well known here,
having many personal friends in the
city. He received his aviation train­ing
at Brooks and Kelley Fields, in
Texas, is a graduate of the Univer­sity
of Oregon, and a former air mail
pilot. He has had eleven years' ex­perience
and has piloted thousands of
people in the air.
Phi Delta Gamma Will Sponsor Oratorical
Contest For Upperclassmen In Near Future
Phi Delta Gamma, senior honorary forensic fraternity, will sponsor an
upperclassmen oratorical contest, to be held April 2, according to announce­ment
made today by Charles Workman, president of the organization. A
cup is to be awarded to the winner, and he will also be allowed to represent
Auburn in the oratorical contests to be held during the Southern Associa­tion
of Teachers of Speech tourney, in Birmingham, April 17-21. The topic
is the same as that used in this tourney: "orations such as offer constructive
suggestions with reference to future national policies—economic, soeial, po­litical."
Detailed rules of the contest are as follows:
All upperclassmen of A. P. I. are eligible to enter the contest.
The topic of each speech may be any which offers constructive sugges­tions
with reference to future national policies—economic, social, political.
All speeches must be original and must not contain over two hundred
quoted words; if a quotation of more than three words is made, the author
must be given.
Speeches must be confined to 10 minutes length of delivery.
Contestants shall not be allowed to use notes while speaking.
All students desiring to enter must see Prof. E. D. Hess on or before
Monday, March 5, and leave name and title of speech.
The contest will be held Monday night, April 2, in Broun Hall Audito­rium,
beginning at 7:00 p. m.
Decisions shall, be made from a ranking by three judges.
ECONOMIST CHECKS
GOVERNMENT FUNDS
Agricultural Economist Here
Gives Graphic Account Of
Government Funds
Where the state and county gov­ernments
derive their revenue and
how it is spent, is contained in an
analysis of the financial setup of the
state and county units, by Prof.
James D. Pope, of the agricultural
economist department.
Prof. Pope's story of the income
and outgo of state and county reve­nue
is based on the last financial re­port
of Comptroller Hard for the fis­cal
year ending September 30, 1933.
In an effort to illustrate in detail
the intricate problem of state fi­nances
and taxation, and to present
it in terms easily understood by the
man in the street, Prof. Pope has per-pared
four diagrams which tell the
story of what makes the state and
county governments go and how.
The first of these diagrams show
the amount of revenue paid into the
states' treasury for the fiscal year,
October 1, 1932, to September 30,
1933. The total of which amounts to
$25,656,083.
The property tax was the largest
single source of revenue and accoun­ted
for almost one-fourth of all re­ceipts.
However, the volume of all
business taxes, including licenses, cor­poration,
severance, tobacco gross re­ceipts,
and other business' taxes,
amounted in the aggregate to about
as much as the property taxes paid
to the state. Other sources from
which the money came were Gas Tax
14%, Federal Aid 18%, Auto Tags
8% and Convict Department Earn­ings
6%.
The way in which the state's reve­nue
was spent is shown in the sec­ond
diagram. It is easily seen that
highway expense by far exceeds any
other expense of the state. Follow­ing
the highway expenses, which to­tal
40% of the entire expenditures,
comes the expenses of both county
and state.
In this diagram it is again noticed
that highway expenditures lead the
list as they did in the state's expen­ditures
alone. Likewise education
amounts paid out follow, but with a
reduction of 5% in comparison with
that of the state's alone. Other ex­penditures
were general expenses
25%, and state debt service 7.2%.
This data indicates forcibly that a
large part of the taxpayers' dollar
is spent for local services.
HUNTING ACCIDENT IS
FATAL TO MRS. ANDRESS
QUINTET TO OPEN
SOUTHERNTOURNEY
YMCA ANNOUNCES
START OF CHURCH
ATTENDANCE MEET
Go-To-Church-Month Will Be
Sponsored Again By Local
Chapter Of Y.'M. C. A.
PLANS REVEALED
Annual Competition Begins On
March Third; Loving Cup To
Go to Winning Fraternity
Tigers To Meet Tennessee In
Initial Game; Kentucky Is
Seeded Number One
One of the most tragic accidents of
the hunting season claimed the life of
Mrs. Ida I. Andress, 32, of Frisco
City.
District Game Warden C. V. Hines,
of Monroeville, reported that Mrs.
Andress's gun was accidently dis­charged
while she was hunting squir­rels
in Monroe county with her hus-hand,
and a friend, the charge strik­ing
her in the head.
Fourteen fatal hunting accidents
have happened since last September.
Auburn will open, the Southeastern
Conference basketball tournament at
7:30 tonight in Atlanta when the
Plainsmen test the strength of the
University of Tennessee quintet.
This should be a highly interesting
and closely fought match as both
teams have approximately the same
rating. —
Kentucky's undefeated hardwood
artists, who are among the four
seeded teams, have received the al­most
unanimous opinion of coaches
and basketball experts as the proba­ble
winners of the tournament. The
other three class A teams are Ala­bama,
L. S. U., and Vandy; Alabama
having lost but two games, both to
Kentucky, is also conceded an inside
track for the championship. In the
first round Auburn meets Tennessee,
Georgia and Georgia Tech renew a
traditional rivalry, with Alabama,
Kentucky, Louisiana State University,
Vanderbilt, Florida and Mississippi
State drawing byes. Thus, the sec­ond
round will find L. S. U. pitted
against Auburn or Tennessee, neither
of which are expected to give the
crack L. S. U. Tigers very strenuous
competition; Florida against Ken­tucky
with the Gators having some
chance of vanquishing the defending
champions; Vanderbilt playing Geor­gia
or Georgia Tech with a slight
margin of superiority over either, and
Alabama encountering Mississippi
State, who is expected to give the
Crimson a run for their money with
Kimbrough, ace sharpshooter of the
Tide, out with injuries.
For the first time in a decade, the
tournament is without a dark horse
of sufficient capabilities to upset the
four seeded teams, with the possible
exception of ^Florida, whose quintet
is brilliant when at its best, and com­paratively
mediocre most of the time.
Coach Jordan will take ten men to
Atlanta, the first string composed of
Quinney and Barnes, at forwards,
Captain Ariail at center, Brown and
McMahan at guards; and Blake, Sin­clair,
Fenton, King and Ellis.
COMMUNITY PLAYERS
PLAN PRESENTATION
Dick Greer, President of the Y. M.
C. A. announced Thursday that the
annual Go-To-Church Month would
begin on Sunday, March 3, and con­tinue
for four weeks through March
25. The Y. M. C. A. has sponsored
this program for a number of years,
always receiving a hearty invitation
from the pastors of the churches in
Auburn.
The basis will be three attendances
each Sunday instead of four as was
the practice last year. The average
for fraternities will be based upon
the percentage of the membership of
each fraternity attending church dur­ing
this period.
The Y. M. C. A. is awarding a beau­tiful
loving cup to the winner, which
rotates each year. If the cup is won
by the same fraternity three times in
succession, it becomes the permanent
property of that fraternity.' The cup
is now in the possession of the Alpha
Gamma Rho, last year's winner.
Blank reports will be sent to the
various fraternities by the Y. M. C.
A. to be filled in and returned after
each succeeding Sunday. In this way,
the averages may be' immediately
compiled and the records posted.
The reports should be sent in by mail.
Boiling Cooper and Fred Moss corn-comprise
the committee, which is to
work with President Greer in com­prising
the records.
All the local churches are cooperat­ing
with the Y in the presentation of
this affair, and it is understood that
a number of special programs will
be planned which will be of especial
interest to fraternity men.
Recreation Room
Robbed Of Radio
Third Annual Baptist Student Retreat To
Convene This Week End With Local Group
The Third Annual Baptist Student Retreat will convene here this week­end
with the local Baptist Student Union acting as host. - This meeting in­cludes
state B. S. U. officers together with official representatives from the
campuses of the University, Judson, Howard, Montevallo, Troy and Florence.
Thirty delegates from these colleges are expected to arrive for the first ses­sion
of the conference Saturday afternoon.
In addition to this group, Miss Sibyl Brame, of Nashville, Tennessee,
will represent the south-wide B. S. U. organization and Mr. Davis Cooper
and Mrs. John Maguire will represent the Alabama Baptist organization.
The first session of the conference will be held Saturday afternoon with
J. R. Parrish presiding; the second Saturday night with Miss Margaret Cox,
Judson, presiding; the third on Sunday morning with Miss Mary Frances
Merrill, Montevallo, as presiding officer, and the fourth on Sunday after­noon
with Mr. Davis Cooper, Montgomery, in charge.
All students are extended a cordial invitation to attend the Sunday
morning session and the regular church service. At the morning session of
the conference Mrs. Maguire will speak to the combined Sunday Schdbl
classes and at the regular church hour Miss Sibyl Brame will speak on "The
Christian Student in the Modern World."
Officers of the state organization are: Mary Frances Merrill, Monte­vallo,
President; Parks Redwine, Howard, first vice-president; Bob Hingson,
University, second vice-president; J. R. Parrish, Auburn, third vice-presi­dent;
Margaret Cox, Judson, Secretary.
COACH PRESENTED
AT MASS MEETING
Theft Discovered Early This
Morning; Reward Is Offered
For Information
The next offering of the Auburn
Community players will be presented
under the auspices of the Auburn
Girl Scouts in the High School Au­ditorium
Saturday evening, March
third at eight o'clock. The play, a
side-splitting farce called "Second
Childhood," by Covington and Simon-son,
had an extended run in New
York several years ago. Mr. Floyd,
when presenting this play as direc­tor
of the Birmingham Civic Theatre,
was obliged to repeat it the second
week. It was the only play to receive
a like distinction in Birmingham up
to that time.
The story revolves around an old
German chemist, who believes he has
discovered the "Elixir of Youth,"
which, if drunk, will restore one's
(Continued on page 4)
Information was received from
Justin Morrill, president of the stu­dent
Executive Cabinet, at an early
hour this morning that the recently
completed student center under Lang­don
Hall was entered last night and
that the radio was stolen. The rob-berly
was discovered by Mrs. Hoyt
Jolly, secretary in the Y. M. C. A. of­fice
which adjoins the social center,
when she opened the building at eight
o'clock this morning. Investigation
revealed that entrance had been
gained through the rear door of the
room on the North side, and that
nothing was missing except the new
radio. It was described as being a
1933 table model Majestic radio with'
a natural walnut finish.
Immediately upon hearing of the
robbery, Morrill issued a statement to
the effect that the Undergraduate
Students Association would offer a
cash reward of fifteen dollars to any­one
who would disclose information
such as would lead to the arrest and
conviction of the thief or thieves. He
further asked that all students coop­erate
with authorities in finding the
culprit, since the stolen article was
the property of the entire student
body. It was one of the things which
was bought recently by the Executive
Cabinet with funds transferred to
this body by the respective classes
from their class treasuries.
Local police authorities have imme­diately
begun an investigation of the
matter and are in hopes of capturing
the malefactor at an early date. Stu­dents
are advised that they may be of
material aid by reporting to the
proper authorities anything concern­ing
the case which may come to their
knowledge. This is the third of a se­ries
of recent robberies in Auburn.
Large Crowd Present At Bon­fire
For Introduction Of New
Football Mentor
With a "cheering demonstration"
students and town people gathered
around a huge bon-fire to greet
Coach Jack Meagher at the get-ac­quainted
mass meeting held Wednes­day
night between Ross Chemical
Laboratory and Ramsey Hall. This
meeting proved to be one of the larg­est
ever witnessed in the history of
the school. The plans for this dem­onstration
were sponsored by Omri-cron
Delta Kappa and under the su­pervision
of Head Cheerleader Ed
Prewitt.
Preceding the meeting, the band, in
full uniform and followed by a cheer­ing
body of students, paraded through
the business section of town. The pa­rade
terminated at the bon-fire, and
the band formed on the steps of the
Laboratory where they augmented
the cheers and yells with several
numbers.
Ed Prewitt, acting as Master of
Ceremonies, introduced the speakers
for the occasion, who were: Drs. L.
N. Duncan and J. J. Wilmore, Coach
Jack Meagher, Mr. P. O. Davis, and
Mike Welch, captain-elect of the 1934
football team. In introducing Dr.
Duncan, Prewitt said, "He is one who
is often heard of, but seldom seen, be­cause
he is always out doing some­thing
for Auburn."
Dr. Duncan introduced Coach
Meagher by giving a brief resume of
the prominence of athletics at Au­burn
and of the Administrative Com­mittee's
task in selecting the right
man to be coach. He stated that, ac­cording
to Meagher's history as a
football coach, he felt sure that he
was the type of man "to carry for­ward
the traditions of the school and
build men who are real men as well
as football players—to be a compan­ion
and associate for young men."
Coach Meaegher, in his reply, said,
"I greatly appreciate thi^ display of
the Auburn Spirit of which I have
heard so much. I have found that the
spirit and enthusiasm here at Auburn
is second to none in the United States.
In taking up my duties here, I will
attempt to follow in the footsteps of
my predecessors, Coaches Wynne and
Kiley. Auburn has to face a diffi­cult
schedule during the coming year,
but I believe that the man on the
squad are of-such character and abil­ity
as to welcome such a schedule as
an opportunity to show what they are
really made of."
Mr. P. O. Davis followed Coach
Meagher with the "Football Menu"
for next season. He gave a brief his­tory
of our contests with some of our
most outstanding opponents. Using
past scores as a basis, he predicted
the outcome of the games next fall.
Dr. J. J. Wilmore spoke of our school
spirit. He said that in the coming
season we would need all our spirit as
support to put the schedule over in
the true Auburn way. Captain-elect,
Mike Welch, last speaker of the even­ing,
closed with, "If we don't win
every game next year it will not be
(Continued on page 4)
FROSH DRAW WITH
MERCER DEBATERS
Frosh Debaters Draw No-De­cisions
In Arguments With
Mercer Varsity Team
Two Auburn freshmen debate teams
acquitted themselves well in opening
the 1934 intercollegiate debating
season against teams from Mercer
University. In the first, a negative
team representing the Auburn fresh­men
debated an affirmative team rep­resenting
the Mercer varsity, on the
question: Resolved, That the United
States should adopt the essential fea­tures
of the British system of radio
control and operation. M. D. Roth
and Earnest Thornhill upheld the lo­cal
point of view, while Mercer was
represented by Aaron Land and
Brainerd Currie. The contest, a non-decision
debate, was held in the Stu­dent
Social Center, beginning at 7:30
Thursday night.
Immediately following this argu­ment,
a negative team representing
Auburn freshmen engaged an affir­mative
team representing the Mercer
first year men on the question: Re­solved,
that the United States should
adopt the British cabinet system of
government. In this debate, also a
non-decision affair, Thomas Powell
John Bricken represented Auburn,
while the Mercer team was composed
of John Clark and Jack Gautier.
The next home debate for Auburn
will be held March 15, when a team
from Southwestern is encountered on
the question: Resolved, That the
powers of the president of the United
States should be substantially in­creased
as a settled policy. Before
this debate, the various local - teams
expect to make trips to Birmingham
and to various colleges in Georgia.
A comparatively large and an ap­preciative
audience was present to
hear the initial start of the freshman
debating teaem, and applause greeted
the contestants upon the close of the
affair.
WELL-KNOWN VIOLINIST
TO ORGANIZE CLASSES
CABINET ELECTION
WILL BE HELD ON
SEVENTH OF MARCH
Nominations For Candidates
Must Be Turned In By Next
Thursday Night
OFFICES LISTED
Sixteen Students To Be Chosen
From Various Schools To
Govern Undergraduates
That the annual spring election of
members to the Executive Cabinet
will take place on Wednesday, March
seventh, was announced following, a
call meeting of the Executive Cabinet
last night. All nominations must be
in the hands of George Hardy, chair­man
of the elections committee, at
the Alpha Lamba Tau house by six
o'clock on the evening of Thursday,
March first. A complete list of nom­inees
will be published in the semi-weekly
edition of the Plainsman
scheduled for Friday, March second,
in order that students may have an
opportunity of checking over the list
and thereby selecting representatives
with an idea-of competency.
Nominations must be in the form
as prescribed by the cabinet and writ­ten
on a typewriter as follows:
We, the undersigned members of
the School of. do
hereby nominate for representative
on the Executive Cabinet Mr. or Miss
. To each nomination
must be affixed the names of twenty-five
students registered in the school
from which the candidate is being
nominated. Beneath the signatures
must be the candidates acceptance of
the nomination as follows:
I hereby accept the nomination.
Signed .
Margarete Seale Gray, well-known
violinist of Nashville, Tennessee, and
Montgomeery, will be in Auburn,
Saturday, February 24, to organize a
special class here. She will be at the
home of Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Wilmore,
where she plans to give individual
lessons on Saturday of each week,
Mrs. Wilmore being her mother's sis­ter.
Margarete Seale Grey is an Auburn
girl who has had violin instruction
at different institutions in Nashville
and also abroad. Two of her teach­ers
are internationally known. While
in Nashville she was associated with
two leading orchestras; and she was
frequently heard over radio station
WSM, one of the most powerful in
the nation. She has a diploma in vio­lin
from Ward-Belmont and an A. B.
degree from Cumberland College at
Lebannon, Tenn.
It is her intention to take students
as young as five years of age. Each
individual lesson will be for one hour;
and she will be pleased to see anyone
interested in violin instruction.
The polls will be open from eight
until five on the election day in order
that all members of the student body
may be given an opportunity to vote.
Chairman Hardy, of the elections
committee has stated that official
lists containing the names of the stu­dents
eligible to vote in the respective
schools will be on hand at the elec­tion,
and that all voters will be re­quired
to check their names when vot­ing.
Justin Morrill, president of the cab­inet,
has asked that students consider
carefully the qualifications of the va­rious
candidates with an idea of hav­ing
a governing body next year which
will be worthy of the student body.
Representation in the governing
body is apportioned according to the
number of students in each scool. The
list of schools and the number of rep­resentatives
from each is as follows:
School of Engineering—Senior rep­resentatives,
(2), Junior representa­tives
(1), Sophomore representatives
(1).
School of Architecture and Allied
Arts—Senior representative (1), Ju­nior
representative (1).
School of Agriculture—Senior rep­resentative
(1), Junior representative
(1).
School of Science and Literature—
Senior representative (1), Junior rep­resentative
(1).
School of Veterinary Medicine—
(1).
School of Education—Senior repre­sentative
(1).
School of Chemistry and Phar­macy—
Senior representative (1), Ju­nior
representative "(1). •>
School of Home Economics—Rep­resentative
(1).
School of Textile Engineering—
Representative (1).
At the beginning of the next school
session, a representative will be elec-.
ted from the Freshman class at large
to complete the total number of seven­teen
members.
Election of the president and other
officers of the cabinet will take place
before the close of this school year,
and appointments of the members of
the various student governing com­mittees
will take place after that
time.
All students are asked to adhere
carefully to rules of the Undergradu­ate
Students Association which cover
the nomination and election of stu­dents
to student offices. Electioneer­ing
at polls is positively prohibited.
P A G E TWO THE P L A I N S M AN 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. 24, 1934
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the Post Office, Auburn, Alabama.
Business and editorial offices at Auburn
Printing Company, on Magnolia Avenue.
Office hours: 11-12 A. M., daily.
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SENIOR PETITION
There is being passed around among
members of the Senior Class at present a
petition to allow students who are candi­dates
for graduation to take examinations
two weeks before the regular time called
for in the college catalogue. It is evident
that some of the seniors feel that they have
not been treated fairly by college authori­ties
in that the calendar was altered to
make fourth year men take their final ex­aminations
at the same time that under­classmen
do.
The arguments of the petitioning mem­bers
of the class are varied both in con­tent
and in degree of intelligence. Some
of the most outstanding are that seniors
who fail on examinations will not have
time to take re-examinations in time to re­ceive
their diplomas with the remainder of
the class, that underclassmen will have an
opportunity to apply for positions before
graduates since graduation does not take
place until after the undereclassmen have
gone home, and that no large audience will
be available to see the graduation exer­cises.
Concerning time for re-examinations, we
would like to point out the fact that final
examinations are scheduled to begin on
May seventeenth and to end on May twenty-fourth.
Most assuredly do men who have
been here for four years realize that almost
everyone finishes examinations within five
days after the opening day, or in other
words, there will be only a slight minority
who will have to take examination after
May twenty-second. With the awarding of
degrees not scheduled until May twenty-ninth,
it is quite evident that one week will
be available for any conditioning students
to clear their respective records and still
graduate with the class. In this event, too,
students may rely on the fullest coopera­tion
of the members of the faculty who will
be anxious and willing to aid in every pos­sible
way.
Of the failure to get jobs because under­classmen
are given the first opportunity
to apply for them, it may be said that men
and women who are finishing school and
actually beginning to walk the path of life
are not inclined to seek the same jobs that
those who are only trying to pick up a lit­tle
money over the vacation months will
seek, even in times of adversity such as
these are. We do not mean that just be­cause
a person has received a degree from
college he feels that he is above certain
forms of work, for that would be totally in­correct,
but that his aspirations should be
higher and consequently his primary at-temps
at a start in business should be on
a slightly elevated plane. And then there
are always those concerns which will not
hire a person for the summer months,
whereas they may find room for an em­ployee
who intends to stay with the firm
for an indefinite time.
Since what time, we would like to know,
have the members of the graduating class
been so anxious to have a large audience
present for the commencement exercises?
Of course there have always been more
people at the exercises than the auditorium
would accommodate, but we would venture
the opinion that not five per cent of the
audience were undergraduates. In fact,
college authorities purposely advanced the
regular time for the commencement exer­cises
from its present status some years ago
in order that the underclassmen might be
present; but |after observation into the
matter, it was easily discerned that the un­derclassmen
were going home during the
senior exercises^ and trying to get jobs and
then returning to take their final exami­nations.
Realizing this, the college authori­ties
returned the graduation exercises to
the original time, which is, by the way, the
time at which the majority of the schools
throughout J&e country have their exercises,
with the idea that students would have the
benefit of a more complete course of in­struction
during the second semester of
their senior year.
Whatever be the arguments of the pe­titioning
group or whatever be their feel­ings
on the matter, it has been definitely
stated by competent authority that the pe­tition,
should it be presented as planned,
will be of no avail; and we would offer the
suggestion that they save their time and
energy by dropping the matter without fur­ther
ado. »
THE ADVERTISERS
The Plainsman is the official student
publication of the Alabama Polytechnic In­stitute.
Nearly two thousand persons, in­cluding
students, faculty members and
townspeople living both in Auburn and in
other parts of the state read the Plains­man
semi-weekly-
The merchants and business men of this
and adjoining towns have contributed in a
large measure to the success of this publi­cation
by their continued patronage of the
advertising columns of the paper. Were it
not for their support, it would be a diffi­cult
matter, indeed, to publish a semi-weekly
paper here for the student body. In
the advertisements, may be found practi­cally
every necessity and luxury which col­lege
students are interested in with suffi­cient
other information to facilitate pur­chasing
of these articles.
• We would have the students realize that
the merchants of Auburn are not advertis­ing
in the Plainsman entirely from a chari­table
point of view, but rather with some
idea of increased sales. Therefore, we ask
that students read the ads as published and
patronize the business houses which make
possible the publication of the student pa­per.
Certainly we must realize that the
local merchants have borne the brunt of the
load during the past years of financial de­pression
by extending liberal credit to both
students and townspeople, although the as­surance
of liquidating deficits at any fu­ture
time was a matter of great doubt.
It seems that the least members of the
student body could do would be to read the
ads of the merchants and to patronize
them at every opportunity.
AMERICANS AND THE NEXT WAR
With the front pages of the daily papers
proclaiming the fact that Austria is vir­tually
in a state of civil war, Germany an
interested and possibly involved spectator,
France just recovering from a week of dan­gerous
rioting, open tension between Ja­pan
and Russia, economic war between
France and England, and the possibility of
the United States being at least diplomati­cally
involved, and with the editorial pages
saying that was is nearer an eventuality
than it was in June, 1914, it behooves this
country to plot a course in case of Euro­pean
war. It is to be hoped that those in
control of the government and its policies
have a wider vision than those who led this
country into war to save a theoretical de­mocracy
at the cost of human life. Intel­ligent
and conscientious statesmen were
administering the government in 1917, but
certainly we have learned a lesson since
then on the futility of war.
If the government should show signs..of
blundering again, will the college men of
today forget all that has been learned and
follow the first military band? Not all the
men in college today or who have been
graduated within the last three years are
physically fit to enter the army, nor would
any army of today be made up entirely of
college men, but the undergraduates and
those recently graduated would make no
small part of the army. Especially would
the recruiting officers look to the college
world to supply the new crop of junior of­ficers.
On March 24, 1933, the Daily Herald of
Brown University started a campaign to
prevent any war, condemning it as futile,
against the real interests of any country,
admitting of only one instance when armed
opposition is justifiable—when the home
country is invaded. Within the year the
Oxford Union went on record as against
fighting for "King and Country" save upon
invasion. At one time the Wandervogel of
Germany was all for peace; but the mem­bers
of that one idealistic band have grown
up to become the henchmen of Hitler.
Many of the most ardent of the Fascisti
now were at one time members of a youth­ful
peace movement in Italy. In France
the Old Guard kept too much of a strangle
hold on youth for it to make known its
sentiments. Accordingly, it is us to the
youth of the English speaking nations to
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in this
column are not necessarily the editorial opinions or
this paper. It is a column or personal comment,
and is not to be read as an expression of our
editorial policy.
* * * *
THE WIND swept around the brow­beaten
corner and howled a howl of
rejoicing at the bleak and shivering
mail box. A sojourn without and came the
wind in huffs, squalls, puffs, and other
modes of transportation much too frigid to
discern without risking frost-bitten ears.
_A breath taken seemed to reach on down
into the $3.95 shoes. The shoes, besmirched
and outraged by a clumsy K. D. at the last
"A" Club encounter.
Inside and to watch with a hope of up-and-
swirling skirts. Success . . . and
chapped knees that know each other all too
well. Again, and an ogling at an under­carriage,
one member of which is in a huff
at the other and is bowed out to match the
bow assumed by the first.
Bowser and his little master following
to whistle in protest at one of Bowser's
nosey comrades.
The postman with coat and gloves, bear­ing
a letter to some Wittlitte shivering be­hind
card-board walls. A letter which
says: "Yore Paw says yore calf, Bossy, is
taken down with a cold. Wear yore wool
draws or you might ketch some too."
Two girls whose rolled hosiery is woe­fully
inadequate to protect blue and shiv­ering
lower chassises. Such whether-ho
weather and such unprotected "rags 'n
bones 'n hanks 'o hair" no doubt, explain
the wretched shapes and bluges of various
local underpinning.
But bow-legs . . . bow-legs are not and
were not affected by the freteful elements.
They may be worn out at any time.
. .. . Well, damn you Sumpter, if you
think you can make it sound any other way,
come out of bed and be a'making it sound.
* * * *
Fe 'n Fi 'n Fo with added Fums for your
literary lassitudes, my dear Jason. Left
over Fi's for Barnes' put-on . . . Sumpter
caroling, folks.
* * * *
Headlines . . .' Weather and Away.
And away to yon gas-house heater, who's
garglings. and sputs warm cold hands and
warm cold feet. A round-de-lay (Gum
word) with a blue dancing flame and back
to pound for you Pansies . . . Inexclusive
of Gaines, who is a Buttercup. Buttercup
'n see me some time, Wee-Wrought Willie.
I hear Ledgetter is snatching a dime and
five more pennies out of the Glomerata
graft than you are.
* * * * *
BIG SHOTS *
Some say the lesser headed-Wright daz­zles
the dandys (Tiger Drug) with the
horse habit get-to-gether she assumes on
Mondays and Fridays. We assumed you've
lamped the really-rather lassie. One girl
who deserves the breaks, and at least a
Sigma Nu or a Pi-Face-K. How did that
face get in there?
* * * *
Slack's another the horses deem a pleas­ure.
And Fletecher.
* * * *
Beats on the drum for Joy-to-Behold
Joiner. Looks most unlike a co-ed. Most
like one of those millions Ledgetter will
gather from that Two-weeks-and-out book
of his.
Seems a dark-curled bit of lassie with
stick 'o candy in hand, and dreams of china
dolls in dark plashed eyes.
* * * *
Sumpter says his gal says from Up-State
she says: "Your dog, Jacob, is just pining
away since you left Christmas."
And the hard-bitten. Sumpter says he can
just pine away for all he cares, and if he
doesn't like pines, he can try oak, on ac­count
of the bark ain't so rough. He says
the hedges up there ain't so bad either.
* * * *
Yeah, and if Jacob gets huffy about it,
he ain't getting this collar I bought for his
birthday . . . Sumpter.
* * * *
Jacob's got himself a brother on the other
end of town that he ain't got'wind of in a
long time. They ain't on speaking terms,
and merely sniff on passing.
show the world an example of level-headed-ness
and thought.
If the most dismal forecasts of the hot­heads
should come true, it should be ex­pected
of the collegiate youth of this coun­try
to vindicate their training and make
every effort to keep this country from tak­ing
the same misstep twice. We, the young
men of the country, will be expected to
fight if there is a war in which the United
States is engaged; but to be true to our­selves
we should keep a war from taking
place, or at least keep our country out of
it. Should the yellow journalists and the
war hawks attempt to force this country
into war to please those vultures who profit
off the slaughter of human life, it is to be
hoped that we, the young men, refuse to
fight their battles.—Ring-Tum-Phi.
It was both surprising and gratifying to note the small number who were
"George Washington" at the dance last night. Would have expected to see at least
three-fourths of the town sots trying to chop down cherry trees all over town.
* * * * * * * *
We are indignant to note that the Honor Societies Banquet entered into open
competition with Footprints in the I'11-give-you-publicity-for-consideration business.
As yet we have been unable to discover whether or not their prices were under our
current ones, but judging by the number who-took advantage of the publicity offer
at that affair and judging by the usual attitude of the publicized persons, we would
say that they cannot operate a successful business for any length of time at the
rates they must have offered.
* * * * * * * *
And we are just waiting to hear that celebrated Florida editor, one DeVan
Williams, make a crack about his sunny state after our basketball team went down
there for a recent series and shivered and shook in a cold rain. What's the come­back
this time, DeVan?
* * * * * * * *
Were we surprised to find that those supposedly fine fellows at the Georgia
School of Technology were taking wooden nickels and only recently found it out!
The name of farmer may be applied to Auburn students, but we have yet to get
caught accepting a load of imitation fertilizer.
* * * * * — * * *
Come to think of it, it's about time for the noble Architects of the institution
to pitch their annual "brawl," or is it ball?
* * * * * * * *
Joe Purvis has been warming up of late for the approaching track season even
though he still remains the mainstay of the basketball team. Of course he has not
been used much during the past season because he asked that he be saved for a
time when he would really be needed. His latest statement to the press was that
whenever he were needed in the tournament, he would gladly enter the game and
score sufficient points in five minutes to insure a victory. Good old Joe, never
seeking publicity and extending himself only when absolutely necessary so he won't
show up the other players so much. And could it be that Maw Hines is a second
Joe Purvis? Just ask him.
* * * * . * * * *
If the managing editor returns safely from his expedition this week-end, he will
have a chance to even the count with the footprints editor, who will be out of the
city on Tuesday next. We understand that said managing editor had not contem­plated
taking a trip until a cute little turtle dove whispered sweet nothings into his
ear over long distance the other night.
* * * * * * * *
An added attraction to the Kappa Sigma-Sigma No touch football game for the
championship of the fraternities on Sunday afternoon will be a grudge fight be­tween
Oliver Jackson, the mighty midget, and Haygood Patterson, the battling bevy
from the bottom, on the sidelines. Odds at present are three to one and six points
on young Jackson.
* * * * * * * *
If you can see any humor in the above mess, that is the best joke we have heard
in years. * . ..
* * * * * * * *
Wonder if George Quinney is ever going to stop talking about the unexpected
marriage of one of his ex-flames (with whom he never got to first base). It appears
that she didn't even write him for approval before signing up with the bridegroom.
With Otker Colleges
By BILLIE THOMAS
Playing football is one thing and making
good grades is another. But, when a foot­ball
player makes good grades—well, see
for yourself.
Of the 37 members of the L. S. U. var­sity
squad, the scholastic average was
83.63, figures released showed. This is the
second year in succession the men have re­ceived
a scholastic average of high rank. -
Pete Burges lead the averages with 93.7.
Following Burges' average were some five
others in the nineties. Jack Torrence, star
player for the Tigers, had an average of
83.6.
* * * *
A professor at Harvard prepared a mid­year
exam for his advanced course in in­tricate
mathematics, and then discovered
that there' was no one to take the, exam.
He taught his course to three students, two
of whom dropped out, and he learned that
the third was merely listening to his lec­tures,
with neither the right nor the desire
to take the test.—Mississippian.
* * * *
Yukichi Yoshida, student "prince" who
shot a fellow student at the University of
South Dakota last month, has been ordered
deported to Japan by the Immigration bu­reau.
Failure to maintain his status as a
student was charged by the bureau. Yo­shida
will be ordered to leave South Da­kota
immediately. He will not be prose­cuted
on the shooting charge.
* * * *
In an editorial of the Red and Black,
the women students at the University of
Georgia were severely criticized for their
fickleness. It appears that the Red and
Black was sponsoring a movement to get
the college officials to install busses to
carry the students free of charge from the
Coordinate College Campus to the main
campus. Much to the disdain of the Red
and Black, the women united and voted
against the movement, which, in the opin­ion
of the writer, was being done chiefly
for them.
Quoting from the Red and Black:
"Women at the University, many who
are the butterflies of fashion, are not the
ones who make good homes in the future.
The women who are easily persuaded to
change their minds on subjects concerning
their welfare, do not need the consideration
of those who would help them.
In considering words of advice, the Red
and Black believes that the most useful
women are not the bright peacocks of fash­ion
and.dance who would like to flaunt
their pictures, pulchritudinous feminitity,
and their pretty doings before the colle­giate
eye."
As a punishment for stealing pencils
from the library at the University of Ore­gon,
students are deprived of their shoe
laces which are used to tie the pencils to
the desk.—Crimson White.
* * * *
Feminine beauty, once the Creator's
business, is now big business. American
women spend over two billion dollars a
year on cosmetics.—Jeanette Eaton.
WUZ DAT YOU SHARLIE?
A Freshman went to hades once,
A few more things to learn;
Old satan sent her back again,
She was too green to burn.
* *
Lives of great men all. remind us
As their pages o'er we turn;
That we're apt to leave behind us,
Letters that we ought to burn.
—Entre-Nons.
* * * *
The Committee for the "Common Pee-pul's"
Ball at Minnesota U. has laid down
the law to those students planning to at­tend
the ball. The Committee states that
these students must undergo a vast change
within the realm of P. A. (Personal Ap­pearance,
if you have forgotten your ad­vertisement
symbols) before they will be
admitted inside tjhe gate that leads to
dancing thrills. Tuxedos must be put
aside and some garment of less splendor
be obtained to adorn their manly forms.
Above all"things, spats must not be a part
of the ensemble. To wear spats would be
to commit a social error of great reproach.
If there are those among the student body
who feel that unless they be permitted to
wear their spats on account of health con­ditions,
the committee recommends that
they wear overshoes instead. The women
are asked to wear the country boy's uni­form
(overalls).
The Oredigger, in commenting on this
social attire, thought it quite the berries.
They even went so far as to state that
they would like to adopt such a costume
for their Junior Prom were it not for the
fact that the Junior Prom Committees got
so much pleasure out of seeing the students
enduring a modified hell caused by wearing
hot, stuffy dress suits when the thermom­eter
was wavering around a hundred.
Whether their real reason for wanting
to change is on account of the heat is
hard to tell, but, in our opinion, it is be-1
cause most of them are from the country,
and would feel at home in an environment
which these clothes would produce.
DEADLY DEDUCTIONS
By Deri
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.
* * * *
SAGA OF THE VILLAGE
Canto the First
ONCE UPON a time there was a pub­lic
institution called Awbrin. It was
a sprawling mass of brick and wood
buildings just like any other institution.
The city in which this institution was lo­cated
was called Awbrin too.
The inhabitants of this institution were
-for the most part male and female incom­petents.
The endowment of brains was
about equal, but the pulchritudinal honors
were all carried off by the boys. Because
the girls were just plain run of the mill
girls. Ah, but the boys weren't just run
of the mill stock. No mill runs that low.
This institution was ruled by two sets of
governors. There was the human board
composed of three members, Faith, Hope,
and Charity, and there was the superhu­man
board composed of members elected by
the patients and headed by a super human
personality of extraordinary physical and
mental development, Mr. Moral. These two
governing bodies functioned together
smoothly and efficiently unless Mr. Moral
was crossed by a member of the human
board. But Faith, Hope and Charity were
very, very careful and did not cross Mr.
Moral, for he was Justin Fair to every­body.
And so these men ruled the institu­tion
with the aid of minor politicians known
as Joel Ed Better, Will Libeck, Georgia D.
and Bilk Haines. More later.
Far many, many, many, many, many
years things had functioned very, very,
very, very, very smoothly at this institu­tion.
But that was before Mr. Moral was
elected H igh-lord-of - j ust-about-everybody-in-
tbwn. Then Mr. Moral and his faithful
henchmen got very ambitious and said,
"Verily, we shall make of this institution
a more sociable place," said Mr. Moral.
"Yes we shall," said Will Libeck, Joel
Ed Better, Bilk Haines, and Georgia D.
But Awbrin was already a pretty good
place as places go, so the highs and might-ies
had to concentrate on the sociability
part of their agreement. That is how Aw­brin
became a more social organization.
And as the fly in the social ointment
there loomed Miss Arabella Armstrong,
who was Bean of the Woman, and high
chief of the social affairs of the entire in­stitution.
When it came to society, Miss
Armstrong was The Last Word, believe me.
But even then the anticipated trouble did
not break. Arabella ran the thing along
smoothly and with an iron hand. The Aw­brin
Tights were busy day and night fur­nishing
music; , that well known
and exclusive distiller was busy day and
night furnishing the inmates with his caus­tic
product. Ah, but the more elusive ele­ment
of that happiness trio, wine, women,
and song was at a premium. Notwith­standing
and arguments to the contrary,
things went along like the well-oiled thing
they were. Order reigned in the village.
And that's just why Mr. Moral was so
worried. That's why Bilk Haines was wor­ried.
That's why Joel Ed Better was wor­ried.
That's why Will Libeck was worried.
That's why—aw heck—just add the rest of
the worried guys yourself. They were all
worried. So they formed the Honest So­cieties
Club for Crooked Politicians. The
membership in this club was astounding be­cause
nearly every fore-year inmate could
qualify. An honest man wasn't in the lot.
"Now," said Moral, "that we birds of a
feather have flocked together, we got to
throw a social function and cause some
trouble so the local copy-boys will have
something to write about."
"Yes," echoed the rest of the members.
So Mr. Moral appointed Ran DeWheit as
president of a group of committeemen and
called them the Blue Kegs. Then he said,
"The blue kegs will plan the affair." But
they didn't plan it alone, for Mr. Moral and
his faithful followers dictated the policies.
Mr. Moral was all for a banquet because he
liked olives, and Will Libeck was all for a
dance because he didn't like olives. There­fore
they said they'd have them both.
Plans went along rapidly, for the Blue
Kegs were the most efficient crooks in
town. All plans were completed, and every­thing,
then Ran went to see Miss Arabella
Armstrong to fix up her side of the deal.
Arabella was silent—would not talk. When
she did, she said "get out" and Ran got.
Time wore on, and a date was set for the
Honest Societies Ball. But ulterior forces
had been at work. The plans were no
longer like Mr. Moral's originals. He was
furious. "Gentlemen," he whined, " I have
always been Justin fair to everybody, and
now I'm crossed again. I resign as head
big shot of the institution." But they
wouldn't let him. He was the chief draw­ing
card for the out-of-town ladies.
The Ball was held and, lo, it was a suc­cess.
But Moral wept. He was no longer
Justin fair to everybody, but Justin other
busted Big Shot.
SATURDAY, FEB. 24, 1934 T H E P L A I N S M AN 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
LEE COUNTY TEAM
CLOSES SUCCESSFUL
HARDWOOD SEASON
Local Basketeers Close One Of
Best Seasons At Tournament
In Langdale
By Roy Powell
Auburn High will officially close
its best season in many years at
Langdale next week in the district
tournament. Although Auburn is
not one of the seeded teams, the local
quintet will be a difficult team to
beat.
Starting with no experienced play­ers
whatever, Coach Gordon Fowler
has built up the best team to repre­sent
Auburn' in nearly a decade. Not
since the famous James boys were
playing has the Lee County High
School has a team to compare with
the fast combination of Whatley,
Wright, Smith, McKinnon and Fow­ler.
In Captain Junior Whatley, Coach
Fowler has one of the fastest for­wards
that has ever played for Au­burn
Hi. Whatley has one more year
in high school, as has every member
of the team, and should make his fi­nal
year his best. McKinnon is also
a fine player, and can hold his own
at guard with any player he has met
this year. Wright and Whatley are
-the high scorers of the season with
McKinnon closely following them. Al­though
Smith and Fowler are not
sharpshooters, they have played ef­fective
floor games all season.
John Ham, Bill Gilchrist and Dan
Friel are capable substitutes that are
making the tournament.
The record for the year is eight
wins and four losses. The results of
the individual games follow:
Auburn 15- Waverly 10
Hurtsboro ..20
Opelika 16
Tallassee ,...14
Reeltown 8
Opelika 13
Union 12
Lanett 26
Waverly 10
Waverly 9
Roanoke 11
Reeltown 6
Auburn.—
Auburn._..
Auburn ._.
Auburn'"'
Auburn-
Auburn--
Auburn...
5
25
?,4
26
19
5
16
Auburn 8
Auburn....
Auburn ...
Auburn.—
2.3
-.12
-.10
188 155
SCOTT UNHURT IN FALL
FROM DORMITORY ROOF
It is extremely doubtful if Rupert
Scott, promising freshman halfback
at Auburn, from Spartanburg, S. C,
will ever have to be removed from a
grid contest because of injuries re­ceived
while tackling or being tackled.
He recently fell three stories while
fixing the aerial of his radio on the
roof of one of the college dormitories
and was only slightly bruised.
K O D A K
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TIGER GROWLS
By B. C. POPE
Auburn's basketball aggregation left last night for Atlanta where they
will meet the strong Tennessee team in the opening rounds of the South­eastern'Conference
tournament.
Although, on first thought, the average person man conclude that the
Tiger quintet will prove weak opposition for almost any team -in the meet,
this column holds a belief that the boys from the Plains may upset the dope.
Not that we consider the Tigers outfit a championship contender by any
means, but Auburn may surprise even their most loyal supporters by going
further than expected.
Auburn has been placed in the
same bracket with Tennessee, L.
S. V., and Alabama. A victory-over
the Crimson Tide would
hardly be possible, but there is
an outside chance that the Tigers
will take Tennessee and maybe
L. S. U. into camp. In a tour­nament,
anything is likely to
happen. It is a well known fact
that the best team seldom wins
the championship.
The hunch we have is based on the
fact that the Plainsmen have just
found themselves. Coach Jordan, af­ter
experimenting with various com­binations,
has at last molded together
a clever quintet in George Quinney
and Woodrow Barnes, at forward;
Captain David Ariail, at center, and
Cleve Brown and Warren McMahan,
at guard.
The criticism of Auburn's tourna­ment
play in previous years has been
that the teams seem to have burned
themselves out in the stretch. Many
have entered the meet with a fine .rec­ord,
only to display mediocre form
and go out in the opening rounds.
The 1934 team is entering the
tournament with a poor record,
according to wins and losses du­ring
the season. It is Auburn's
time to turn tables with the
favorites.
While on the subject of the tour­nament,
a little statistics compiled by
Ed Danforth, of the Atlanta Geor­gian,
on the subject of close games
may prove of interest. We pass it
on:
"Basketball fans long for these
Hair-Breadth Harry finishes when
only one point decides the winner.
They hang on at tournaments waiting
for the big act—the home run with
bases loaded in the last half of the
ninth with two strikes and three balls
on the batter and the home club three
runs behind—yet chances are rela­tively
slim for such a denouement. •
"Out of the "206 basketball games
that have been played in the tourna­ments
here since 1921, only 11 have
been decided by one point.
"There is not quite one chance in
nineteen games of seeing the issue
decided by a razor-edge score.
The chances have been greater of
seeing a one-point game when Geor­gia
is playing.
"The Bulldogs have participated in
five tournament games that were de­cided
by one point. Of these, they
have won three and lost two.
"Auburn ranks next in furnishing
excitement. They have been in four
and have won three of them. In 1928
(Continued on page 4)
RIFLE TEAM ADDS
SIX WINS TO THIS
SEASON'S RECORD
Local Sharpshooters Defeat
Some Of Nation's Outstand­ing
Squads During Week
The rifle team was most successful
in its matches this week, winning six
and losing one. Three have not been
heard from. The wins were over Uni­versity
of Dayton, Washington Uni­versity,
University of Missouri, South
Dakota State College, Colorado State
School of Mines; the lone defeat was
suffered in the hands of Cornell.
Lieutenant Bowman pointed out
that the team, having- a score of 3668,
is only one point behind L. S. U'S.
score of 3669, which won the Corps
Area championship last year, and 80
points above the last year's score. If
the figure holds, the team will be ex­pected
to do well in the National
Matches. Every indication leads one
to believe the team will continue its
fine markmanship because the shoot­ing
chart shows this year's team to
have the highest average of any in
the past five years.
The first team, which will shoot
^(Continued on page 4)
VARSITY TANKERS
SHOW UP WELL IN
TRIAL WEDNESDAY
Conner, McKinney, Abel Im­pressive
In Early Trials Con­ducted
Recently
Time trials were held for the Var­sity
-Swimming Team Wedneseday,
and, according to Captaitn Howard
Morris, the team showed up excep­tionally
well, especially Herschel Con-
Tier, backstroke; Gordon McKinny,
free style; Prentice Abel, breast-stroke.
Four of the members are out
with colds and Lynwood Pool, leading
Southern Conference diver last year,
is out with eye trouble; but all are
expected to report back soon. The
freshmen are also showing improve­ment,
and arrangements have been
made for them to swim against the
Montgomery Y. M. C. A. team here
on March 9th. The varsity has
scheduled Tech, Georgia, Emory and
Clemson for their opponents this
spring.
Water polo, a sport as popular as
football in the north, has been started
by the team, and if as much interest
is shown later in the year as is now
being shown, the team will probably
PRELIMINARY WORK ENDS FOR
EIGHTY-TWO GRID CANDIDATES
Work So Far Has Consisted Of Blocking And Charging Inter­mingled
With Dummy Scrimmage On Offensive Plays;
Abundance Of Raw Material For Every Position
We are very appreciative for your lib­eral
patronage and always, our best
efforts will be directed to giving to
you, the very best service at the least
possible cost. Thank you.
"Uncle Billy"
With the eighty-two men now re­porting
for spring training fast
rounding into shape, Coach Meagher
is preparing to start off the coming
week with mid-season rough work.
The work so far has consisted of
blocking and charging. Dummy scrim­mages
emphasizing offensive work
have been carried out daily so that
the men might have a complete
knowledge, of the fundamentals be­fore
any real rough work begins.
The ends and line have been drilled
in charging and the back-field has
been given a thorough coaching in
blocking.
There is an abundance of raw ma­terial
available for every position,
fullback and quarterback being, at
present, the only places on the team
schedule some games in the spring.
The Varsity team is composed of:
(Continued on page 4)
for which there are not at least a
half-dozen aspirants.
Since the work at present has been
done with very little actual competi­tion,
Coach Meagher stated that no
person has shown that he is the man
qualified for a berth on next year's
eleven. However, with a regular
scrimmage scheduled for next Tues­day,
an idea about the different berths
will be determined soon. Beginning
Monday the work will consist of reg­ular
scrimmages. Blocking and tack­ling
along with the usual condition­ing
exercises will also be done.
The average weaight of the team
will be equal-to if not larger than the
nineteen-thirty-three eleven. The
backfield prospects will average ap­proximately
170 pounds. The roster
includes only six lettermen, but they
will be pushed to the limit by the ca­pable
list of reserves now reporting.
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P A G E FOUR THE P L A I N S M A N •:• A L A B AM A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U T E SATURDAY, FEB. 24, 1934
RIFLE TEAM ADDS
SIX WINS TO IT'S
SEASON'S RECORD
(Continued from Page 3)
for the William Kandolph Hearst Cup
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Middle Central, Western and
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370.8; J. M. Van Hoose, No. 3, aver­age
370.6; R. C. Brewer, No. 4, aver­age
368, and C. P. Irvin, No. 5, whose
average is 365.
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By B. C. Pope
(Continued from page 3)
Auburn set a tournament record for
close games by winning two in a row
by one point and losing in the finals
by one point to Mississippi.
"Kentucky has staged three one-point
games, winning one for the ti­tle
in 1921 and losing two others.
"Only twice has the championship
been decided by one point. Kentucky
beat Georgia 20 to 19, in 1921, and
Mississippi beat Auburn 31 to 30 in
1928.
"Three times the title has been de­cided
by a two-point margin.
Vanderbile beat Georgia 46 to 44
in 1927 in the finals, Maryland beat
Kentucky 29 to 27 in 1931, and Geor­gia
beat North Carolina 26 to 24 last
year."
* * * *
Coach Jack Meagher wa* giv­en
a baptism of the famous
Auburn Spirit Wednesday night
at one of those old-fashioned
bonfire mass meetings here. He
was well received by the huge
crowd which gathered to formal­ly
welcome him to Auburn, and
he seemed to be impressed by
the enthusiasm.
"Genial Jack Meagher, Auburn's
new heaedmaster of football, was fit­tingly
acquainted with the real Au­burn
spirit last night when the stu­dent
body turned out enmasse to greet
him. The Tiger yells were given with
a spirit that is aglow, not from emo­tional
hope of the future, but from
a confidence inspired by preceding
Auburn men.
Coach Meagher will find that spirit
ever paramount, in victory or defeat,
and it will do his heart good when he
sees that Auburn student body rise
to a man when the going is toughest.
Coach Meagher can count heavily on
the Auburn student body and when
he feels low from a defeat he can al­ways
find comfort by facing the stu­dent
body, chin up.
"I don't know how to account for
it, but I have seen them stand in the
rain and sing their songs—and know­ing
there was no hope for victory. I
have seen them send their teams away
on long trips with a spirit that at
first seemed shallow and superficial.
But it wasn't that at all. It has gone
on and on and from time to time the
teams returned with the spoils, con­quests
that appeared impossible.
* * * *
"Coach Meaegher has won a great
part of his fight by winning the loy­alty
of the student body. It was dem­onstrated
last night."
VARSITY TANKERS
SHOW UP WELL IN
TRIAL WEDNESDAY
COMMUNITY PLAYERS
PLAN PRESENTATION
(Continued from page 3)
Relay Team, Howard Wheeler, G.
McKinny, Howard Conner* Miner
Peagler; Breast Stroke, Prentice
Able; Back Stroke, Herscshel Con­ner;
Fifty-Yard Dash, H. Wheeler,
G. McKinny, M. Peaegler; Eour Forty
Swim, Howard Conner, Jack Bible
and Captain Morris; One Hundred
Yard Dash, McKinny and Peagler;
Two Twenty Dash, Wheeler, Howard
Conner and Captain Morris; Diving,
L. Pool and Captain Morris; Medley,
Hershal Conner; Back Stroke, Pren­tice
Abel; Breast Stroke and Free
Style, not decided.
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FRIDAY, February 23
"DINNER AT EIGHT"
Dwarfing "Grand Hotel" with
its dazzling pageant of stars!
Eclipsing all previous triumphs
of stage and screen!
Also Charlie Chase Comedy
SATURDAY, February 24
KEN MAYNARD in
"GUN JUSTICE"
A fast-moving Western thriller!
Also Added Attractions
MONDAY, February 26
The screen's most amazing per­sonality
in the screen's most
amazing picture!
"I AM SUZANNE"
With LILLIAN HARVEY
GENE RAYMOND
TUESDAY, February 27
"MADAME SPY"
with Fay Wray and Nils Asther
Added Short Subjects
i (Continued from page 1)
yquth. The doctor has difficulty in
finding someone to try his elixir, but
finally persuades his aged friend, the
General, to take it.
The cast includes favorites of pre­vious
presentations including Cecil
Stowe, the "bad boy" in "The Brat,"
who plays the difficult part of the old
German chemist, and Professor Wade,
the "boob" detective of "The Vul­ture,"
who takes the part of the old
General, who returns to babyhood.
Mary Jo Foster and Wheeler Black-stone,
.of "The Brat" cast also have
leading parts. The slick New York
detective, Bill Drake, of "The Vul­ture,"
fs again cast as "the law." Al­so,
new talent, Mrs. Hoffsommer, in
the role of "Aunty," Mrs. Caddell, as
"Mrs. Henderson," Mrs. Stowe, as
"Marcella," Velma Blanton, as "Mrs.
Virvert," and Anderson Blackburn, as
"Judge Sanderson" will be shown.
Patrons will be assured of not
only a delightful evening's entertain­ment,
but a knowledge that they are
helping to financially aid and estab­lish
the Girl Scouts in Auburn. Tick­ets
are priced at thirty-five cents each
or two dollars and fifty cents for a
theatre party of groups of ten, and
can be purchased from Mrs. H. B.
Tisdale, Mrs. Jack Tamblyn, Mrs. H.
L. Watts, or any Girl Scout.
COACH PRESENTED
TO STUDENT BODY
AT MASS MEETING
(Continued from page 1)
because we do not believe in our
coach and the school."
After the talks Cheerleader Prewitt
led "Three Highs for Meagher" and
"The Loudest 'War Eagle' you ever
gave." With the dying embers of the
mon-fire, the mass meeting was
brought to a close by singing the
Alma Mater, being instructed by
Prewitt "to sing, hum, whistle, or-do
something."
Women are intellectually equal to
men, asserts a Boston U. professor.
COMING TO
OPELIKA THEATRE
The Musical Comedy Sensation!
PEP AND FUN REVUE
GIRLS!
BIG STAGE BAND
MUSIC! DANCERS! COMEDIANS!
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28
Tiger Theatre
Auburn, Alabama
"The Show Place of
East Alabama"
SATURDAY, February 24
"FROM
HEADQUARTERS"
with George Brent and
Margaret Lindsay
Also "Circus HooDoo" and
Cartoon "Pettin' in the Park"
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
February 25 and 26
"GOING HOLLYWOOD"
with Marion Davies, Bing Cros­by,
Fifi Dorsay, Stuart Erwin,
and Ned Sparks
—Something entirely new in
musical romances, bringing to­gether
for the first time lovely
Marion . Davies—your screen
favorite—and . Bing Crosby—
"King of Radio".
Added: "What Makes a Champ"
and Novelty
TUESDAY, February 27
PAUL MUNI in
"HI, NELLIE"
with Glenda Farrell
Also News Events and musical
comedy "Jail Birds in Paradise"
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