1935-02-16 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOLUME LVIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, FEB. 16, 1935 NUMBER 34
BUSINESS FRAT
ELECTS TWELVE
TUESDAY NIGHT
Seniors, Juniors, And Sopho­mores
Are Chosen To Mem­bership
In Delta Sigma Pi
PLEDGES WILL MEET
Local Chapter Of Society Has
Gained In International Ef­ficiency
Contest Says Crow
In Last Game For Auburn Saturday
Twelve students from the sopho­more,
junior, and senior classes of
the school of business administration
were elected to Delta Sigma Pi, in­ternational
honorary business and
professional fraternity, here Tues­day
night.
Those tapped are: seniors—G. G.
McGowin, McKenzie; B. M. Prince,
Opelika; J. R. Howell, Dothan; jun­iors—
M. B. York, Monroeville; Eu­gene
Tomlinson, Lexington; sopho­mores—
J. W. Rainer, Union Springs;
J. A. Clopton, Decatur; J. E. Dun­ning,
Thomasville; R. B. McGee, Au­burn;
J. L. Stewart, Greenville; H.
D. Williams, Andalusia; N. Latimer,
Geneva.
The first pledge meeting of the
newly elected men is called for to­night
at 7 o'clock in the "L" build­ing.
In order to be elected to this fra­ternity
a student must have averaged
above 80 and have shown peculiar
interests in business or professional
subjects. "The purpose of the fra­ternity,"
according to W. C. Crow,
faculty adviser, "is to band together
the outstanding business or profes­sional
students of the various classes
to learn more about the conditions
about us."
Delta Sigma Pi is international in
that its fifty-two chapters are lo­cated
throughout this country, Cana­da,
and Mexico. The recently pub­lished
fraternity directory shows that
since the founding of the organiza­tion
at N. Y. U. in 1908, 9800 mem­bers
have been initiated. These mem­bers
are now located in every state
of the union, every province of Cana­da,
and in 28 foreign countries.
The most recent check up in the
organization's international efficiency
contest shows that the local Beta
Lambda chapter has climbed from
22nd place to tie with Alpha Epsi-lon
chapter of Minnesota for 14th
place.
Officers of the fraternity for this
year are: Miller Pitts, president;
Jack Shaw, secretary; and Johnny
Orr, treasurer. The chapter roll
now totals 28, including the twelve
new men.
Three seniors: Cleve Brown, Frank Sindler, and George Quinney will play their final games on the court
for Auburn in Alumni Gymnasium tomorrow night when the Tigers engage Sewanee. Coach Ralph Jordan,
basketball mentor, is shown with the group of seniors.
Tigers Ring Down Curtain On Current Hardwood
Program With Two Game Series Against Sewanee
Tigers In Local Gym; Auburn Out For Victories
DAWLEY TO SPEAK
IN LANGDON HALL
ON MONDAY NIGHT
Fort Benning Officer Will Ad­dress
Large Crowd Of R.O.
T.C. Cadets On Artillery
Profit Made Here On
F. D. R. Birthday Ball
Of the total receipts from the
President's Ball given here Jan. 30,
a sum of $154 remains as net profit,
of which $108 will be used for local
relief of infantile paralysis, accord-ing
to C. W. Edwards, chairman of
the program committee.
The remaining $46 will be sent to
the national committee on infantile
paralysis research.
A total of 143 people in Auburn
paid twenty-five cents to have their
names put in a birthday greeting
telegram to the president. Of the
$35 raised in this ymanner, $25 will
be returned to be used by the city
for the treatment of those afflicted
with infantile paralysis in this vi­cinity.
At a meeting of the Inter-Club
Council Monday night it was decided
that the proceeds from the Auburn
affair would be expended through the
Alabama Association for Crippled
Children. Dr. Paul Irvine, president
of the Kiwanis Club and a director
in the association, will be in charge
of spending the money for this dis­trict.
It is expected by the Inter-Club
Council that the money raised in
Auburn will be sufficient to rehabili­tate
three children afflicted with in­fantile
paralysis who live in the vi­cinity
of Auburn.
Lieut. Col. E. J. Dawley, instruct­or
at the Infantry School at Fort
Benning, will lecture here Monday
evening at 7:30 o'clock in Langdon
Hall.
Col. Dawley is the third Benning
officer to be brought to Auburn this
year under the auspices of the Offi­cers
Reserve Corp to lecture on in­teresting
subjects pertaining to mili­tary
science.
It is expected that Col. Dawley's
talk will be of great interest to all
Reserve officers and advance corps
students as it will deal entirely with
the Field Artillery in regard to its
organization, employment, team work
with the Infantry, and methods of
communication.
Col. Dawley will first discuss the
origin of the Artillery and will follow
this by a description of the princi­ples
of employment used by this di­vision.
This includes formation for
march and places in march column
or clumns; employment with security
detachments; and the positions and
missions employed during either an
attack or defence.
His talk here on Monday evening
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Feature Writer Here
For Educational Study
Mr. Ben James, special feature
writer for a leading magazine of the
Crowell Publishing Company, was in
Auburn for three days this week to
study the layout and plan of the
School of Education here.
At the present time Mr. James is
in search of material for a special
article on teacher training. From
the Teachers College at Columbia
University he was directed to Auburn
for material on the training of high
school teachers, for which Auburn is
considered one of the best schools
in the South.
Arriving in Auburn Monday morn­ing,
Mr. James spent most of the
day in conference with Dean Zebulon
of the education department. That
evening he was in conference with
several members of the education
faculty, and the following day he
made a special study of the plan of
practice teaching at the Lee County
High School. He left Auburn Wed­nesday
afternoon. '
Large Crowd Expected To
Witness Tiger Five In Clos­ing
Games This Weekend
The Auburn varsity rings down
the curtain on the 1935 basketball
campaign tonight and tomorrow
night as the Purple Tigers from Se­wanee
invade the Plains for a pair
of contests. The Jordan-coached- out­fit
will be making their last stand
as the Tiger from the hills of Ten­nessee
clashes with the Tiger from
the Plains in what promises to be
a stand-out court offering.
f
It is not the first time this season
that the two teams have met. On the
Plainsmen's first road jaunt of the
year the Purple Bengal repulsed the
Auburn contingent 19-18 in an ex­citing
engagement on the Sewanee
battle ground and the Orange and
Blue forces will be seeking to avenge
this one-point defeat, as well as raise
their standing in the Southeastern
Conference rankings, which are just
about to reach their final set-up.
Auburn has had an off and on sea­son,
at times making brilliant forays
into the enemy territory, but on the
whole being comparatively unsucces-ful.
Three one-point losses have been
recorded against the Auburn five and
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Hall And Thornhill
To Debate On Tour
MILITARY ORDERS
CHANGE RANKINGS
IN R. 0. T. C UNIT
Administrative Committee Ap­proves
Shifts Made In Cadet
Corps On Last Wednesday
At a recent meeting of the Ag
Club, W. G. Hall, Dothan and E. P.
Thornhill, Wetumpka, were chosen by
means of a series of competitive de­bates
to represent Auburn in a de­bate
tour which the club is sponsor­ing.
This tour is under the supervision
of Professor H. D. Hess and will in­clude
Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
To date the University of Georgia,
Mercer University, and the Universi­ty
of Florida have been signed. This
is the first time a tour of this nature
has been sponsored by the club.
Recently elected officers for this
semester: R. R. Jones, president; C.
C. Scarborough, vice-president; S. A.
Goodwin, secretary; G. W. Ward,
treasurer; and H. L. Terrell, report­er,
have already begun plans for the
annual Ag Day celebration. The
complete plans are to be announced
at a later date. At this celebration
the best all-round junior will be se­lected
and presented with a loving
cup. The cup was won last year by
Ralph Jones, Collinsville.
NOTICE!
There will be a meeting of the
Executive Cabinet next Tuesday,
February 19, 7 p. m. at the Student
Center.
In a special order issued from the
Military Department on Wednesday,
February 13, several changes in the
cadet rankings of the R.O.T.C. were
made:
Field Artillery Unit
a. To be Cadet Captain, Instructor:
Cadet Pvt. H. O. Biggers, transferred
from the University of Florida.
b. To be Cadet First Lieutenants:
Cadet Second Lieutenant J. H. Bird-sail,
Battery D, 2nd F.A., vice M. E.
Tisdale, resigned; Cadet Second Lieu­tenant
W. H. Meadows, Battery F,
2nd F.A., vice P. R. Yarbrough, trans­ferred.
c. To be relieved from present as­signments
and assigned to organiza­tions
indicated: Cadet First Lieuten­ant
A. G. Pass, Battery D, 1st F.A.
Cadet First Lieutenant A. C. Pate,
Battery E, 1st F.A.; Cadet First Lieu­tenant
P. R. Yarbrough, Battery E,
2nd F.A.; Cadet Second Lieutenant
T. T. Wiggins, Battery D, 1st. F.A.
d. To be Cadet First Sergeant: Ca­det
Staff Sergeant L. Pollock, Bat­tery
A, 2nd F.A., vice E. H. Rodgers,
resigned.
e. To be Cadet Staff Sergeant: Ca­det
Sergeant E. M. Lee, Battery A,
2nd F.A., vice L. Pollock, promoted.
f. To be Cadet Sergeants: Cadet
Private J. L. Hendry, Battery B, 1st
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FULL DEBATING
TEAM SCHEDULE
ARRANGED, HESS
Coach Of Debate Group Re­leases
Slate Calling For 11
Campus, 15 Foreign Meets
TRIP IS PLANNED
Freshman T e am To Open Sche­dule
With Holtville High
School Meet Here Monday
Mrs. Henderson Will
Give Plays For Women
The Auburn Music Club announces
that Mrs. Charles B. Henderson, wife
of former Governor Charles B. Hen­derson,
will give two one-act plays in
the Recreation Hall on Saturday af­ternoon
at tljree o'clock. Mrs Hen­derson
is one of the south's foremost
readers and lecturers, and Auburn is
indeed fortunate in having this op­portunity
of hearing her.
Also on the program will be Miss
Mildred Green, formerly a soloist
with the Woman's College Glee Club
of Montgomery. Critics have been
lavish in their praise of Miss Green's
rich contralto, and those who go to
hear her are promised a rare treat.
A tea will be given immediately
following the program.
Prices for tickets will be twenty-five
cents for students and thirty-five
cents for townspeople.
Eleven campus debates and 15 out
of town debates are included in the
schedule of the Auburn Debating So­ciety,
according to Prof E. D. Hess,
coach of the local debaters.
The freshman team will compete
against Holtville High School Feb.
18, debating the question of the
equalization of educational opportuni­ties.
Auburn will uphold Doth sides
of the question in two debates, with
5. Hall, M. Hall, Randolph, and Hair-ston
taking part in the debate. This
will be the only campus debate in
which a judge's decision will not be
rendered.
A second freshman debate is sched­uled
for March 1,. a t which time
Mercer will be debated on the sub­ject
of state medicine. Auburn will
uphold the negative side. That ev­ening
Auburn's varsity will meet
the varsity team of Mercer on the
question of the international ship­ment
of arris and munitions.
Other schools to debate on the
campus are Union University, March
14; Spring Hill, April 5; Montevallo,
April 10; Tulane, April 18; Buck-nell,
April 11 and 24; and Georgia
Tech, May 2. In the above debates
a three judge decision will be ren­dered.
Montevallo will debate the
freshman team at 4 o'clock on the
education question, and the varsity
that evening on the munitions ques­tion,
April 10.
Members of the debating society
taking part in the campus debates
are B. H. Johnson, J. E. DeVaughn,
R. A. Bolen, M. E. Thompson, Helen
Tigner, M. D. Roth, and Clyde War-
Ten.
Leaving Auburn on March 3, a
varsity team composed of Johnson,
DeVaughn, and Thompson will make
a tour in which they will debate
against Bellhaven, L. S. U., Millsaps,
Miss. State, Miss. State College for
Women, and Howard College. The
tour will end with a radio debate
against Montevallo in which De
Vaughn and Bolen will compose the
Auburn team.
Other teams to be met off the cam­pus
are Florida State College for
Women, April 1; Florida, April 2;
Porter, April 3; Mercer, April 4;
Georgia, April 5, and Emory, April
6. These debates will be included in
a second tour to be made by the de
bate society.
'A'Club To Sponsor
Hop Saturday Night
The first "A" Club dance of
the current semester will be held
in Alumni Gymnasium tomorrow
night, according to an announce­ment
by Haygood Patterson, presi­dent
of the athletic group.
Dancing will get underway im­mediately
after the basketball
game between Sewanee and Au­burn,
about nine o'clock.
The Auburn Cavaliers, under
the direction of Happy Davis,
will furnish the music for the
occasion. The band has promised
a varied program of dance mu­sic,
which will include a number
of new song hits.
As in the past, a coterie of
out-of-town girls will be in at­tendance
at the affair. This num­ber
will be augmented by a large
group of co-eds. A large crowd
is expected to be on the floor
when the orchestra strikes up the
first "A" Club dance since Christ­mas.
The hop is anticipated as
one of the outstanding attrac­tions
of the year by a large num­ber
of students.
Several no-breaks and "A"
Club lead-outs will be a feature
of the dance program.
Admission for the affair will
be the usual charge of one dol--
lar per couple.
RIFLE SQUAD OUT
FOR NEW LAURELS
IN FUTURE MEETS
High Marksmanship Being Dis
played By Local Sharpshoot
ers; Successful This Season
SENIOR CADETS
TO GIVE DANCE
HERE MARCH 15
Ellis Announces List Of Com­mittees
Which Wil! Arrange
Details For Annual Affair
PLANS ARE TENTATIVE
Scabbard And Blade Will En­tertain
With Banquet On
Night Of Ball; Plans Drafted
Chemical Society To
Hold Session Monday
Postponed from last Monday night,
the bi-monthly meeting of the Chemi­cal
Society will be held Monday night,
February 15.
Dr. R. W. Allen, outstanding mem­ber
of the chemistry faculty will be
the principle speaker on the program.
Immediately following the program,
officers for the next year will be
elected. All members are urged to
attend the meeting because of its
splendid program and as new officers
are to be elected.
The Chemical Society is a local
organization for students in chemical
engineering and other chemical
courses. The present officers axe,
Joe Parker, president; E. C. Jen­nings,
vice-president; C. L. McDan-iels,
secretary and treasurer; Fred
Moss,- reporter; and Morris Miller,
sergeant at arms.
NOTICE!
There will be an important meet­ing
of the Glee Club for rehearsal
Monday at 7:00 P.M. at the Episcopal
Parish House. All members are urg­ed
to be present.
The Auburn rifle team is exhibit­ing
very high marksmanship and
promises to be a formidable contest­ant
for the National Championship
this year. Auburn won the National
Championship last year but was dis­qualified
because of a technicality.
The official high score for 1934 was
961.
The Fourth Corps Area Gallery
Rifle Competition is well under way.
In last week's 15-10 match, Auburn
scored 3700, New Mexico Military
Institute—3545, Rose Polytechnic In­stitute—
3359, scores of New Mexico
A. and M., and Michigan State Col­lege
have not been received yet. Au­burn
participants in the match were
Capt. Van Hoose, Bradford, Chap­man,
Hardeman, Strickland, Casson,
Dexter, Sevenson, Lee, and Heistand
and the men whose score was not
counted in the match were; Bran­son,
Calloway, Tomlinson, Cooper,
and Booth, who was sick.
A prone-sitting 15-10 match is be­ing
held this week between the con­testing
teams of Iowa State College,
Washington University, Carnegie In­stitute
of Technology, University of
South Dakota, University of Iowa,
University of Nevada, and North
Carolina State.
In the most recent 15-10 match
here, the scoring was: Rich, 385;
Wilkes, 354; Toshee, 343; Edwards,
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The annual Military Ball will be
staged here on Friday night, March
15, according to a recent announce­ment
by Frank Ellis, president of the
local company of Scabbard and Blade.
All arrangements for the affair
will be made by seven committees,
which have already been appointed.
The executive committee, which will
exercise general supervision in ar­ranging
details of the dance, is head­ed
by Ellis. Other members of the
group are: Bill Hughes, H. T. Mar­tin,
Howard Morris, Billy Roberts,
and Lieut. J. V. Phelps.
Other committees and their re­spective
chairmen are: invitation and
reception, Jack Coan; finance, Wal­lace
Nelson; publicity, Fred Moss;
decorations, Bob Klein; music, Ar­thur
Ellenburg, and refreshments,
Bill Collins. A total of fifty three
students and officers will serve on
these several committees.
Cadet Colonel Bill Hughes will
escort the girl who will be selected
by the executive committee to lead
the ball.
According to Frank Ellis, financial
arrangements for the dance have al­ready
been made. He stated that
fifty cents of the allowance each sen­ior
had for the past summer camp
remains in a fund which will be used
to help defray expenses of the affair.
The total amount in this fund is
about seventy dollars. Additional
money necessary for the dance will
be taken from the clothing allowance
of each^enior cadet. Approximately
sixty-five or seventy cents from each
allowance will be used.
The Auburn unit, Company "L," of
Scabbard and Blade will entertain
members and their dates at a banquet
at six thirty on the night of the ball.
Arrangements are being made to
make this one of the most outstanding
of such events to be staged on the
campus this semester.
Meetings of the various commit­tees
will be called by their respective
chairmen in the near future and full
details of celebration will be made.
Preparations for a gala and unique
affair are underway and later an­nouncements
concerning arrange­ments
will be made in future issues
of The Plainsman.
Two Interfrat Games
Scheduled Next Week
Only two games will be played in
the interfraternity basketball tour­nament
next week, but games will be
played regularly the week of Feb.
24-March 2 and the tournament will
be run off as quickly as possible.
Games next week will be played be­tween
Pi Kappa Phi and Alpha Tau
Omega and Kappa Alpha and Sigma
Nu.
Pi Kappa Phi and Alpha Tau Ome­ga
will meet Monday afternoon at
4:15 and Kappa Alpha and Sigma
Nu Monday evening at 6:45. The
rest of the week will be given over to
the teams in order to allow them to
practice. The freshman and varsity
teams having completed their sche­dules,
the gym will be available in the
afternoons for the teams to practice.
Senator Heflin Will
Speak on Prohibition
Senator Tom Heflin is scheduled
to speak at the Opelika Court House
Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock on
the prohibition question in Alabama.
Sen. Heflin's talk is to be given
under the auspices of the Lee County
Anti-Repeal Association. Rep. N. D.
Denson of Opelika will introduce the
speaker, who will uphold the present
prohibition laws of Alabama.
A committee of 125 citizens of Lee
County have been appointed to assist
C. W. Edwards, chairman of the Lee
County Anti-Repeal Association, to
retain prohibition in Alabama. Sev­eral
speakers are scheduled to speak
in various points in Lee County, in­cluding
Rev. E. J. Richardson, who
will speak in Opelika Friday, Feb.
22 at 7:30 o'clock. Rev. Richardson
will discuss the Virginia system of
liquor control.
The association aims to contact and
bring to the attention of the 3300
voters of Lee County correct litera­ture
in regard to the liquor question.
NOTICE!
There will be a meeting of the
business staff of the Plainsman Fri­day
night at 7:30 in Samford 201.
All members of the staff are urged
to attend.
P A G E TWO T H E A U B U R N 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. 16, 1935
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Associate Editors: Cecil Strong, Walter
Brown, and Henrietta Worsley.
Managing Editor: Douglas Wallace.
News Editors: Floyd Hurt, Kyser Cox.
Society Reporters: Mildred Watkins,
Evelyn Perry, Louella Botsford and Katie
Lou Chapman.
Sports Staff: Jap Parrish, John Came­ron,
and Bill Emery.
Reporters: Alvin Morland, Dan Smith,
James Buntin, Howard Workman, Helen
Tigner, Robert Johnson.
BUSINESS STAFF
Advertising Managers: Herman Harris
and Bill Lee.
Advertising assistants: Allen Kerr and
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Circulation Managers: Jim Pike and
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Butler, H. B. Darden, A. J. Hook.
Lets All Join
The Plainsman wishes to congratulate
at this time the courageous attitude shown'
by several members of the Freshman Class
who are seeking to revivify an old custom
that is distinctly Auburnese, the shaving
of heads.
The abolishing of this quaint old' cus­tom
by President Knapp on an eventful
occasion in 1932 did untold damage to all
that Auburn had come to know as tra­ditional;
it is indeed unfortunate that since
that time the students have given the ap­pearance
of being civilized human beings.
That alumni of the Peeled Head Era have
not taken steps to remedy matters seems,
to say the least, a bit disloyal.
Too, it has been our observation that
the conduct of Auburn students on foot­ball
trips in recent years has seemed some­what
out of character since there were no
skinned heads to indicate that such con­duct
was to be expected. After all, if Au­burn
students are going to be barbarous,
they should at least look like barbarians.
If they fail to observe this little nicety
much of the picturesqueness of being an
ass is lost.
We may mention also that the appear­ance
in class rooms of a round of bald
heads has in the past inspired professors
to all sorts of academic feats. It makes them
feel like wardens in a penitentiary. But
that is only just, for they treat the stud­ents
like criminals anyway.
It is well perhaps to mention at this
juncture the unusual distinction among
Southern colleges given Auburn by the
natty appearance of her bald freshmen; in
the past an Auburn freshman away from
headquarters was immediately recognized
as such. Of course the better class of peo­ple
generally shunned him. But that was
only proper too, for in every football city
there was • usually a swarm of gamblers,
bootleggers and hijackers who were will­ing
enough to associate with him, since
it takes only one stretch 'in the big house
to accustom one to bald-headed confreres.
To be known as a consort of that sort of
people should be inducement enough for
all right-minded freshmen to shave their
heads; it places them in a class by them­selves
— a Hochkopfgeshavungsgesellschaft
let us call it—for they can say to them­selves,
'Of course, I don't really belong to
this class of folks, but it's fun to have
people think I do." And that certainly re­dounds
to the greater glory of dear old
Auburn.
As a parting word, we wish to urge all
long-haired freshmen to cut their hair im­mediately.
Let the sophomores cut theirs.
Let the juniors cut theirs. Let the seniors
cut theirs. Indeed, let the faculty and
townsfolk cut theirs too. And while we are
about it, let's bring in the Legislature, the
P. T. A. the W. C. T. U., the Share Our
Wealthers, the Republican Party, and the
combined congregations of the Methodist
Church South and shave all their heads.
We're for it.
Someone has said that political pie is
made up of boloney, applesauce, plums, and
dough.
Student Activities
Are student activities worth while? This
question is constantly in the thoughts of
the undergraduate during the time he is
in college, whether he participates in ex­tra-
curricula activities or not. Like many
other problems, this is one that can be set­tled
by experience alone.
We believe that the student who ties
himself to his work and who avoids any
form of campus activity is losing an op­portunity
that will never be given again.
Student activities call for a wide associa­tion
with men, and dealing with others in
college will help any student to be more
successful in after life in associating with
his fellows.
It is rather interesting to seek the under­lying
motives which lead students into
campus activities. These motives are mul­titudinous:
the desire for honor, a liking
for some particular work, the desire for
popularity, the love of notoriety, and the
will to create, to master, to do something
worth while.
It is this last motive which impresses us.
The greatest joy any man has is in his
work well done, and the joy of the creator
is the most self-satisfying of all. The stu­dent
who enters an activity, and who in
the end discharges all his duties attendant
with the activity is twice blest. He has
served his fellows in accomplishing the
work which they intrusted to him, and he
has satisfied his ego in the thought of work
well done, of obstacles overcome, and a
work of art created.
We are often haunted by songs—those
that we have murdered.
A Foolish Measure
The primary purpose of law is not to
prohibit but to regulate. When strictly
prohibitive laws are made, there is a re­action
which creates a situation far more
complicated and undesirable than that
which existed before the laws were passed.
With this fact in mind, it is easy to see
how ineffective and foolish the passage of
an anti-sedition bill in Alabama would be.
Communism is recognized throughout most
of the world as a menace to society but
to say that this doctrine should not exist
would meet with about as much success
as has the 18th amendment. Such a meas­ure
as would aim to stamp out commun­ism
would but serve to spread and en­courage
it. ' Experience in European na­tions
has shown us that Communism thrives
on oppression.
The State can best meet this problem
by permitting things to take their natural
course. Alabama already has laws which
are not aimed at communism but which
could be put to effective use in case of any
red uprising. Like many other cure-alls
invented in times of economic stress, com­munism
will die out as soon as faith and
calm are restored.
Also, sedition is too broad a term to be
incorporated into law. The world broadly
covers all talk of discontent with the exist­ing
government. To prohibit free discus­sion
of all phases of governmental activity
would defeat the cause of democracy, and
would involve the State in numerous em­barrassing
situations.
Needed Change
With the second semester in it's third
week, many students are finding themselves
again confronted with a multitude of cours­es.
With the semester still in its infancy,
the students are attempting to get an in­telligent
conception of what is to be their
work for the remainder of the year. But
how many students loaded down with sev­en
or eight courses will be able to find
their way intelligently among all of them?
Parallel thoughts differently expressed in
like courses bring a muddled idea of what
is going on, with the result that on quizzes
the student finds himself in a quandary
as to what he should say. It so happens
that only the definition given him by the
professor in the particular course will do.
If by chance the student becomes confused
on the quiz and defines the terms in the
words of another professor, it is just too
bad. The definition is useless.
For one thing, this is the fault of the
duplication of courses which is so preva­lent
here at Auburn. But this fault is
closely tied in with the heavy load the
student is required to carry. There are
courses in every school which could be suc­cessfully
combined with others or com­pletely
abolished altogether. This would
help to cut the student's load.
For this and other reasons, it is up to
Auburn students to put forth every effort
to have the present inefficient semester sys­tem
changed to the quarter system of
school year division. The quarter system
with the requirement of only three five-hour
courses each quarter would give the
student a chance to learn what he is go­ing
over, and to go into the business world
a more thoroughly educated man.
Says the Montgomery Advertiser: Web­ster
may not approve of the word beautifi-cation,
but it's a good word, nevertheless,
and no other seems to fit when it is needed.
JOCULARITIES
By Jeremiah Juttingham
Women lie about their age and men lie
about their income.
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 he read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
» * * * \
MIDNIGHT on main street, mist and
the gray aftermath of the heavi­est
rain of the year thus far.
Along about one o'clock the main drag is
most depressing, quite deserted with only
an occasional pair of headlights to break
the quiet solitude, the Alabama Power
Company sign the only brightness in an
otherwise completely obscure landscape.
The main clock with a ^not very efficient
spotlight casting a phantasmal illumina­tion
on the face, the cupola on the Chem­istry
building a remote outline of white
dimness, and the whole campus a jumbled
up mass of bulky shapes and shadow.
The clock ticking one jarring me back
into the cold reality of reading boring text­books
that are nothing but anthologies of
what authorities have thought about the
subject, a sort of mass stupidity idea.
* * *
What were once comic strips, taking
"comic" in a more or less literal sense, are
nothing but serialized cartoons. The day
of humor in comic cartoons is gone for­ever,
along with the get-rich-quick spirit
of the past couple of decades. Remember
when Jiggs, Mutt and Jeff, The Gumps,
and Gasoline Alley were the comic strips?
Today they all smack of triteness and the
newer additions to the funny paper fami­lies
are Nick Carter done up with pen and
ink improvements. Little Orphan Annie,
bless her poor misguided soul, philosophizes
with Eddie Guest truisms day in and day
out—sometimes up and sometimes down but
never human. Sidney Smith didn't play
fair when he let Bim get married in the
Gump strip, for the not very funny situa­tions
created by the advent of the De
Strosses into the Gump fireside haven't
made up for the days of Widow Zander,
when Uncle Bim was the most sought after
man in all the world.
Moon Mullins seems to be the most con­sistently
clever of the present crop of
strips, with Joe Palooka and Thimble Thea­tre
(Popeye) probably the most original.
Although the Palooka series consists of
little but odd accents and the crudities
of a ham prize-fighter, the spectacle of a
boxer crashing into the higher society cir­cles
is rather amusing. Popeye brought
to the world some quite original expres­sions
that were funny the first time that
the creator used them, and which local
wits still think the height of humor.
* * * *
There must be a lack of humor all along
the line, however, for motion picture pro­ductions
labelled "comedies" fail to be
amusing in the least and one sits and won­ders
how much longer this short will last—
a little bit more of these crashing dishes
and I'll scream. Tom Kennedy releases
are the most typical of the type of thing
I mean; somehow Kennedy, although pos­sibly
a fair character player, is not my
idea of a comedian. Sterling Holloway of
all the comedians is probably the most nat­ural,
and his antics usually occur without
a bombardment of pies to announce that
something funny is about to happen.
Possibly I'm all wrong to begin with,
maybe you do like the old-time comedy,
"won't be long now" kind of piece, or maybe
the producers have just run out of gags.
Harold Lloyd wasn't the box-office success
in his latest, "The Catspaw" that he might
be and it was one of the weakest of his
many movies. Of course there's Joe E.
Brown, but a robot with a bucket instead
of head would be almost as entertaining
as Joe was in "Six-Day Bicycle Rider."
And after all, it could be that comedies
never amused adults, that kids were the
only ones who ever enjoyed them in the
first place, and Auburn kids are so so­phisticated,
what with baffle ball machines,
etc. •>
* * * *
Although it may seem remarkably like
fence-straddling as compared with remarks
made a week ago in this column, we should
like to commend the writer of the answer
to "By Stander" in the Wednesday issue
of the Plainsman. It represents the first
effort to intelligently answer the annual
criticism of the "A" Club that campus in­tellectuals
indulge in, and while there was
no doubt justification for the condemna­tion
of the initiation staged during the
midterms it seems that the blame should be
placed upon the candidates1 who had to
present a play and took the easiest way
out by presenting as dirty play-as pos­sible.
.
As the other columnists stated in Wed­nesday's
issue, some of the most outstand­ing
men of the school are members of
the "A" Club and with him we plead that
radicals who think athletics are bad for
the school lay off the "A" Club, which af­ter
all has and does do much more good
than harm on the campus. Although there
are several things about any athletic or- '
* AUBURN FOOTPRINTS *:-
Since the last issue of The Plainsman a large number of requests for additional
song hits from publicity seekers have flooded the office. To keep from disappoint­ing
those asking for space in Footprints we are running the following list of
requests:
"There's Something About A Soldier"... Willie Roberts.
"Pink Elephants" - Charlie Price.
"Sweetheart of Sigma Chi". _ _ .Ed Prewitt (Respectfully submitted
by Dopey Ellis).
"I Woke Up Too Soon" >. Chicken Davis.
"Chinatown, My Chinatown"...;.- _ Sammie McCroskey.
"Waltz Me Around Again Elmer" Members of W. A. A.
"Once In A Lifetime" = - Two-points Blake.
"Let's Put Out The Lights And Go To Sleep" Bruce Franklin.
"Here Comes My Ball And Chain" Wallace Nelson.
"Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee" Any Architect.
"Wild Honey" Sara Smith ($1.65 boys, please note).
"Pardon My Southern Accent"... Frank Sindler.
"Just Once Too Often" ^.....Alton Graves.
* * * * * *
Under the spreading campus tree
The Auburn co-ed stands,
And stands, and stands, and stands, and stands,
And stands, and stands, and stands.
* * * * * . *
Now that we've got off all our serious thoughts we shall descend from the
sublime to the ridiculous and print something funny.
* * * * * *
Little boy blue kom bio yore hawn
The beer's drunk up and there ain't no kawn.
* * * * * *
Who was the freshman who wrote in his notebook: "The Sphinx was a woman
with a great head: she hasn't talked for three thousand years."
* * * * * *
I could not love thee, dear, so much
Loved I not to run around with that '
Other co-ed too.
* * * * * *
Famous last words of Kampus Kutter Uppers:
"No Vesstling, Plits" Prof. Sea Hag.
"I'm Going To Study This Semester" Student Body.
" I l l but your britches off" Pinnellizondo.
"They can't get away with that"—. Juniors in camp.
"You will have all your afternoons off during camp" Major Franke.
* * * * * *
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Don't you wish the Plainsman staff
Would try to act its age. (Surprise, it rimes).
/ * * * * * *
Where'd ya get the "U"?
I played on the Auburn football team.
Yes, but "A" is for Auburn.
I know it but I played on the second team.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Auburn, Ala., Feb. 12, 1935.
Editor, The Plainsman
Dear Sir:
In your February 6 issue there appeared
the eligibility regulations for publications
positions as laid down by our Undergradu­ate
Students' Association constitution.
Realizing, of course, that by publishing
these rules the Cabinet was only stating
the regulations in an effort to clear any
doubt in the minds of many students as
to just what the requirements are, there
also arises a question in my mind as to
why so much mystery has seemingly been
overshadowing the activities and rulings of
the Cabinets.
At the first of this year there was pub­lished
a freshman handbook in which the
supposed complete constitution of the Un­dergraduate
Student Association appeared.
However, under Article 111, Section 13 of
the By-Laws, there does not appear any
such regulations as recorded in the min­utes
of the Cabinet, and as appeared in
The Plainsman. This does not necessarily
mean that this year's Cabinet is entirely
at fault, though it is their place to see
that such things should not occur, but also
the Cabinets of other years which have
added By-Laws and changed regulations
without properly recording or making no­tice
of them.
This only brings out more clearly the
need for revision of the present constitu­tion,
with the proper omissions and addi­tions
as are deemed necessary at present.
The constitution, as it now stands, is about
six years old, which does not mean that
it should be condemned for old age, rather,
the experience with it in past years should
be a guide in the revision of the entire
system.
My object in writing this letter is not
ganization that make it very vulnerable
to criticism we think that any further
comment is entirely unnecessary from
either side.
* * * *
Sauntering up main street . . . it fair­ly
not crowded . . . into Burton's to see
new books I might want to read . . . and
out again . . . David Cox, Delta Sig
freshman powerhouse, purchasing a heart-shaped
box of candy . . . Pope, Woodall,
Roberts, Ham and others congregated about
marble outfit in Tiger . . . bonsiderable
number of people preparing to enter lo­cal
theatre to see "Bright Eyes" with
Shirley Temple . . . someday that kid's
going to grow up, it makes one sad to
think of it.
to raise an objection to any action of any
particular individual, but to point out
something which, in my mind, appears to
be of beneficial interest to the entire stu­dent
body. '
Just fiddlin',
Nero.
Auburn, Ala., Feb. 14, 1935.
Editor, The Plainsman
Auburn, Ala.
Dear Sir,
As you have undoubtedly noticed Auburn
boisterousness has continued to exert its
disconcerting influence on campus life. The
Tiger Theatre, chief amusement center of
the the city, and basketball games still are
frequented by those unversed in any sym­bol
of respect for their fellow man.
The management of the theatre has pro­vided
one of the most complete plants in
the state in an effort to serve the student
body. The sound effects are practically
unsurpassed, until marred by the nauseat­ing
repartee that certain individuals insist
in throwing out for the benefit of an unt
appreciative audience.
There are those who still think they
could referee a basketball game better than
any official who has served here this year.
Any decision going against the home team
meets with ready disapproval from this
group and they let" their feelings be known
through childish booing. Undoubtedly this
exerts a harmful influence on both teams
and the official. When most of the audi­ence
is booing during crucial stages of the
game it tends to make a wild scene of the
whole affair. To say the least, it doesn't
help the team one bit nor does it make the
the game more interesting to those who
entertain a little respect for their fellows.
The exponents of such actions seem to
be attempting to nourish something that
was mislabeled "Auburn Spirit" sometime
in a primitive past. They seem to feel
a deep sense of obligation to carry on
something that has .been unjustly called an
Auburn trait.
There are many students in Auburn that
do not approve of the .uncouth action of
a few.
Yours for better behavior of students at
public entertainments.
Oswald.
If we have begun to create two separate
languages the fault lies not with talkers
but the writers.—Heywood Broun.
CABBAGES AND KINGS
By Cecil Strong and Bill Emery
I judge people by what they might be,
hot are, nor will be.—Robert Browning.
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.
* * * *
ITALY prepared to spend $850,000,000
on Ethiopian war. Thus state the news­papers.
Yet Italy is too poor to pay
its debt to the U. S.???
* * * *
THE DRYS are making a determined
effort to stem the repeal tide that seems
to be swamping this state. They are mak­ing
as the base of their defense of our
prohibition laws the miseries and evils
caused by liquor. This seems entirely be­side
the point. The evils of intemperance
are too well-known to merit further dis­cussion.
The advocates of repeal through­out
the state make no attempt to make an
issue of the advantages or disadvantages
of liquor. They too well recognize that
liquor has been the cause of widespread
misery and crime. Yet has not the period
of greatest misery and crime due to liquor
been during the prohibition era? It is a
change in our present ineffective prohibi­tion
laws that is being asked . . . not a
return to the wide open saloon. An effect­ive
system of liquor control by the state is
all that the repealists ask.
* * * *
ACCORDING to a story appearing in the
Montgomery Advertiser, the trustees of
Auburn will, on the 22 of February, elect
one of four men to the presidency of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute. These four
men are Dr. L. N. Duncan, William Fea-gin,
Dr. Harmon and Dr. Tidwell. All four
of these men are politically prominent
throughout the state, and have been for
many years. Auburn is presumably an
educational institution.
* * * *
THE ADVERTISER, in commenting
editorially on the question of Auburn's
next president, States; "Auburn wants
money and power." A poll of student
opinion would probably convince the Ad­vertiser
that what. the students of Auburn
desire most is a president who is sufficient­ly
noted and capable as an educator to
better the educational facilities of Auburn.
And by educational facilities we do not
mean merely new buildings, equipment,
etc, but in improved faculty, higher schol­astic
standards, improvements in the cur­riculum,
and in general an intelligent ad­ministration
of this college from an educa­tional
point of view. It seems that the
students desires should have some consid­eration
in this matter, since they are the
ones most vitally affected.
* * * *
SOUTHERN COLLEGES have been
the subject of much comment recently by
writers who have made studies of American
colleges. They upbraid us for our shock­ingly
low educational standards, for our
over-emphasis of athletics, for our nar­rowness.
One writer went so far as to
state that "students in southern colleges
are totally oblivious to what is going on
about them in the world. They are con­cerned
only with the frivolities of campus
life. They rarely ever think." We would
like to rush to the defense of our beloved
South . . : but we are kept silent by the
awful knowledge that these writers are in
the main, speaking the truth.
* * * *
BUGABOO . . . That old bugaboo, "COM­MUNISM"
seems to be giving the authori­ties
at Georgia and Emory universities
some concern. However, at the first threat
of an investigation the respective and re­spected
presidents of the two institutions
vigorously denied that their faculties were
anything but "red-blooded' Americans," al­though
one admitted that there might be
some "Reds" among the students. Some­how
my professorial ideal is not a man
who can be completely summed up by that
expression "Red-blooded American."
"One of the greatest troubles with the
country today is the fact that there are
too many educated fools at large, and not
enough "men." So says Judge Walter B.
Jones in his column "Off The Bench which
appears in "The Montgomery Advertiser"
"The day will come," he, continues, "When
the youth of the land who go to college
will be picked and carefully selected." It
is Judge Jones' opinion that those enter­ing
college, in the near future will be
picked for their common sense, open mind-edness,
intellectual curiosity, and genuine
love for learning. And there must be some
reasonable prospect that he will go there,
make the best of his opportunities, and
when he comes out will be ready to be
of some service to his family and to the
state."
Some' of our hunches turn out to be true
-too late for us to take advantage of them.
The only way to get rid of a temptation
is to yield to it.—Oscar Wilde.
Great spenders make poor lenders.
SATURDAY, FEB. 16, 1935 T H E A U B U R N PLAINSMAN •:• A L A B A M A POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE P A G E THREE
Pi K.A. And A*T*CX Win First Round Games In Interfrat Tournament
VANDERBILT CAGE
ARTISTS DEFEAT
AUBURN PASSERS
C o l e m a n Of V a n d y A n d E a v es
Of A u b u r n T i e For S c o r i ng
H o n o r s With Ten Points
A rejuvenated Plainsman quintet
took the floor against the formidable
Vanderbilt five last night and turned
in one of its best games of the sea-soii
in losing 37-25. It was an excit­ing
game as had been staged in Alum­ni
Gymnasium this year and the first
half found the Plainsmen only a few
points behind the Commodores dur­ing
the entire period.
Cleve Brown opened the Auburn
offensive with a brilliant field goal
from outside the foul circle on the
initial play of the game, with Scog-gins
of Vanderbilt popping one from
almost the center of the court to tie
the score temporarily. Eaves tossed
an over shoulder shot into the basket,
Scoggins duplicating his feat of the
minute before in again tying the
count. Eaves converted a free throw
although Coleman forged the Com­modores
into the lead a few seconds
later with another one handed throw
that made the score 6-5. Auburn
never caught up after this, pulling
up by halftime to a 19-16 margin.
During the second half, the offens­ive
guns of Vandy started booming
and gradually the Vandy five pulled
away to a ten and then a twelve-point
lead. Coleman starred in this
second half offensive as he hit from
angles all around the court in a ten
point shooting exhibition.
Two members of the 1934 Vander­bilt
grid aggregation performed on
the hardwood representation last
night. Dick Plasman, center, and
Red Geny, guard were also regulars
on the Commodore eleven and both
received considerable recognition in
All-Southeastern ballotting.
Joel Eaves continued the pace set
in former games as he turned in an
excellent floor game and led the Tig­ers
in scoring with ten points. Cap­tain
Cleve Brown, George Strange,
Joe Bob Mitchell and Woodrow
Barnes, and C. D. King also turned
in general all round excellent per­formances
and are expected to be in
Soph Mainstay
Hugh Rodgers, guard who has
been a mainstay at his position
since joining the basketball squad.
Rodgers is a sophomore.
RAINY WEATHER
HAMPERS EARLY
GRIDIRON DRILLS
M e a g h e r A n d Staff M a k e Sev­e
r a l C h a n g e s In Positions
D u r i n g S e c o n d W e e k ' s W o rk
The first two weeks of spring train­ing
will be brought to a close to­morrow
by Head Coach Jack Mea­gher,
conducting his second spring
training period at the Plains. Bad
weather has hampered drills this
week and Coach Meagher has not
been able to bring his charges along
as fast as he had hoped. Drake
Field has been a quagmire since Mon­day
and any really efficient rough
work has been out of the question.
Several changes in the positions
of players have been made by Coach
Meagher and his associates in the
hope of strengthening several places
on the eleven that are short on .like­ly
looking material. Outstanding
among the changes has been the shift­ing
of Wesley Loflin who is a big, husky
youngster and should develop rapid­ly
at his new position. An adequacy
TIGER GROWLS
=By OBSERVER;
The annual Interfraternity basketball tournament is now in full swing,
the first round having begun yesterday with three gam^s being played.
The initial round is scheduled for completion tomorrow, and Monday the
tourney will go into the second round.
Much interest is being manifested in the tournament this year. The
event is usually the most exciting and colorful of all the tourneys spon­sored
by the Interfraternity Council. Everyone is invited to attend these
games which are played at the gymnasium. There is no admission charge.
* * * * * *
Auburn's basketball team has now entered the final stages of its sched­ule.
Although Coach Jordan's charges have not won many games, they
have gained much needed experience which will be of great help to them
during the next few years. All students are urged to attend the remaining
games on the campus, and lend the quintet your moral support. Coach
Jordan and the players have worked hard this year. They deserve your
backing.
top shape for the season's curtain-ringers
tonight and tomorrow night.
For
every type
of work you will
find just what you need in our
art department. We carry a very com­plete
assortment at all times.
Visit us regular­ly
for new
trends.
Burton's Bookstore
Sarliest eWitk the Latest
AUBURN CASH GROCERY
Week-end Specials
KRISPY CRACKERS-po«nd - 15c
HEINZ BABY FOOD - « • - 10c
SOMETHING NEW - SMACKS — lb. - 17c
BULK COCOANUT — pound - - - 21c
CALUMET
BAKING POWDER - 1 lb. 23c; 10 lbs. $1.40
CORN FLAKES - Miller's - 2 pkgs. - 15c
CAULIFLOWER - per pound - - - 10c
STRING BEANS — pound - - - - 15c
CELERY-stalk - - - 10c
AUBURN CASH GROCERY
F a n c y G r o c e r i e s —:— Western M e a ts
P i t t s B r o s . , O w n e r s — P h o n e 3 2 0 — A u b u r n , A l a b a ma
The greatest thrill in golf—a hole-in-
one came to Leslie Woodall while
playing on the local links Sunday af­ternoon.
He scored his ace shot on
the No. 2 hole, a distance of 155
yards. He was a member of a four­some
which included Linwood Funch-ess,
Prof. Williamson, and Prof. May-ton.
Woodall contends that the per­fect
shot was an accident, but we are
inclined to disagree with him and
give him full credit for taking per­fect
aim at the hole.
* * *
Some interesting facts about Au­burn's
basketeers:
There are four three-sport athletes
on the squad. They are Joel Eaves,
Joe Bob Mitchell, Hugh Rodgers and
Bobby Blake. All three play foot­ball
and basketball, while Mitchell
is a star pitcher on the diamond and
Rodgers and Blake perform on the
track outfit..
There are six players on the squad
who stand over the six foot mark.
These include George Strange, and
Hugh Rodgers, guards, Mitchell and
Clark, centers, and C. D. King, and
Eaves, forwards. King and Mitchell
are both six feet, four inches tall.
Kyle Wood, sophomore forward from
Wetumpka, and brother of Commo­dore
Wood, former Auburn football
star, is the shortest member of the
squad. He is five feet, eight inches
in height.
Beard Will Compete
In N Y. Track Meets
C i v i l I n s t r u c t o r L e a v e s For In­d
o o r C o m p e t i o n In N e w Y o rk
F o l l o w i n g Melrose Success
of good tackles was one reason for
the change, together with the fact
that only two lettermen are return­ing
as guard material, and neither
of these had any great amount of
experience in the fall campaign. Huie
showed promise as a halfback but
there is a superabundance of halves
and Huie will add needed speed to
the guards.
In the backfield, Joe Stewart has
been changed from halfback to quar­terback
in the hope of finding a su­perior
field general. Sidney Scar­borough
and Aubrey Hill, the letter-men
back from last year that are
available, while both satisfactory are
not versatile enough to fill all the at­tributes
of a good signal-caller. Stew­art
was a quarterback his freshman
year so his change is not of such a
radical nature.
Bunky O'Rourke, a brilliant half­back
as a freshman in '32 has been
added to the roster of fullbacks as
that position is definitely short on
fast, dependable material. O'Rourke
can turn in as good performance as
a ball-carrier as anyone on the squad
and should materially add to the line-plunging
department. Harry Whit-ten,
an ex-fullback, has never quite
come through at that post, and Skip­per
Meagher has changed him to
right half, the blocking back. Whit-ten
is big and fast but has always
been considerably held back on ac­count
of leg injuries. He should be
an asset to the halfback corps.
The football outfit will be strength­ened
next week by the addition of
six members of the hardwood squad
to the roster of gridiron hopefuls.
Bobbie Blake and Joe Bob Mitchell,
half-backs; George Strange and Joel
Eaves, ends; Hugh Rodgers, tackle,
and Sam McCroskey guard are the
court artists who will report to
Coach Meagher Monday in football
togs. All except Strange were let­ter-
winners in football, and Strange
came along rapidly toward the end of
the season and is expected to be a
valuable member of the wingmen re­porting
for duty both now and next
fall.
LOST: Rhinestone evening bag at
Pan-Hellenic dance last Saturday
night. Finder please return to
Sarah Hooper.
Successful in both his heats and
in the finals at the Millrose games
in New York, Feb. 2, Percy Beard,
instructor in civil engineering at Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, his alma
mater, left here Thursday morning
on the Crescent Limited for New
York seeking additional honors in
indoor meets in the East.
Beard left Auburn this morning
to enter the New York Athletic Club
games at Madison Square Garden,
Saturday night, and the National A.
A. U. meet at the same place, Sat­urday
week.
Beard, who might retire from in­door
competition after these two
races, flashed ahead of a swift field
to carry off ranking medals at the
Millrose games, his first indoor meet
this season, and he is being counted
on to win honors at the N. Y. U.
games and at the N. A. A. U. car­nival.
Holder of all recognized world
marks in the high hurdle events,
Beard, a member of Uncle Sam's 1932
Olympic team and Auburn's track
ace of all time, is one of the most
popular athletes ever to run in New
York and receives an ovation each time
his name is called out for a race.
He is so much of a favorite in
New York that so many autograph
seekers and shoulder slappers seek
him after his peerless races that it
generally requires police protection to
escort him to his dressing quarters.
High Scorer OUTSTANDING OUTFITS OF '34
TOURNEY COP IN INITIAL ROUND
A l p h a Psi A n d S i g m a Phi S i g m a Lose T o F a v o r e d Q u i n t e t s In
O p e n i n g G a m e s Of I n t e r f r a t e r n i t y Council C o m p e t i t i o n;
F e n t o n A n d F a r l e y L e a d S c o r e r s F o r Pi K. A . A n d A. T. O.
Joel Eaves, high scorer last
night, who will open tonight
against Sewanee in the first of a
two-game series.
AUBURN HIGH TO
INVADE WAVERLY
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with Duke University seal. Return
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Coach Gordon Fowler's 1935 Au­burn
High quintet moves into the
final stages of.the current campaign
this week as Waverly High School is
encountered in Waverly tonight.
Boasting a season's record of eight
wins and three losses, the Fowler-coached
quintet should make a sea­son's
average of .750 after tonight's
encounter .Waverly was swamped
early in the season by the locals and
although the Chambers County five
has probably improved some since
that time, the Auburn quintet should
add another victim to its list. Lanett
High, Hurtsboro High and Tallassee
are the only teams to register wins
over Auburn and the latter two won
by two-point, margins. Tallassee de­feated
the locals 18-16 Tuesday night
in a game that found the Auburn
team dead the first half, but play­ing
a somewhat improved game the
last half.
The same team that has perform­ed
together in the last several con­tests
will take the floor. Junior
(Continued on page 4)
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DURHAM. N. C.
Four terms of eleven weeks are given
each year. These may be taken con­secutively
(graduation in three years)
or three terms may be taken each year
(graduation in four years). The en­trance
requirements are intelligence,
character and at least two years of
college work, including the subjects
specified for Grade A Medical Schools.
Catalogues and application forms may
be obtained from the Dean.
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Two favorite teams in the Inter­fraternity
Council Basketball Tour­ney,
Pi Kappa Alpha and Alpha Tau
Omega, made their debut yesterday
in first-round encounters that are but
fair indications of the strength of
the relative fraternity representa­tions
Pi Kappa Alpha met surprisingly
stubborn resistance from vtlpha Psi
in winning 15-8 last night in a game
considerably closer than the score
would indicate At half time only
four points had been registered by
each team in a game fraught with
discounted scoring opportunities and
wild passes. Coming back into the
second period, Alpha Psi's center,
Powell counted a free throw and
Berry sent one swishing through the
basket to give a three point lead to
the Vets. Jimmy Fenton knotted the
count a few minutes later as he also
connected on a free shot, and sank
a long-range attempt from outside the
foul circle. Dopey Wright added two
more to the Pi K. A. total with a
brace of converted fouls and Fenton
ran the total to 11 with another field
goal. Wright hit his first field goal
to run the count to 13-7 where Ma-loney
of Alpha Psi broke even one-one
on a hacking award. Fenton made
the final score of the game as he suc­cessfully
negotiated a "crip" to make
the final result, 15-8.
It took Pi Kappa Alpha consider­able
time to get started last night
and on the whole the quintet lack
coordination. Shooting was consid­erably
off, many crips as well as clear
longer tries being muffed. In the
later stages of the contest, the of­fense
got to clicking, however, and
with some more practice, the Pi K.
A. outfit should still be one of the
strong teams of the tourney; they
won the crown last year, but Joe
Bob Mitchell, George Strange and
Sam McCroskey are absent from the
line-up.
Alpha Tau Omega, semi-finalist,
last year, demonstrated a shooting ef­ficiency
in annexing 42-3 decision
from Sigma Phi Sigma in a one sided
game that found Flake Farley hitting
the baskets for 24 markers and the
A. T. O. offense clicking generally.
If any weakness was observable yes­terday
it was a tendency trf pass high
and sometimes wide, but the offensive
set-up insofar as deceptive plays are
concerned is undoubtedly one of the
best in the tourney. Schley Gordy
and F. H. Richter also counted for
ten and six points respectively in yes­terday's
scoring spree. Bill Sellers
rounded out the A. T. O. scoring with .
one field goal. Winston Boyles count­ed
for the Sigma Phi Sigma field goal
and Pearce Jackson for the free
throw.
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TUESDAY DRILL PERIOD WILL
BE USED FOR CLASS LESSONS
Cadet Unit To Assemble In Front Of Samford Hall By Regi­ments
For Instruction In Class Work Says Franke; Unit To
Be Divided Into Groups For Special Work; Seniors Instruct
On Feb. 19 and during the period
from March 5 to March 26, inclusive,
the regular Tuesday morning drill
period from 11 to 12 o'clock will be
used for class work for all cadets in
the Field Artillery. _
Assembly will be by regiments in
front of the main building for roll
call, after which cadets will be march­ed
to their respective class rooms in
accordance to the regulations stated
below:
Freshmen will be marched by the
platoon commander of the first pla­toon
in each battery to Langdon Hall.
All sophomores will assemble in
their respective groups at five paces
in front of the interval between units
concerned unless otherwise specified.
Group 1 will include all sophomores
of A and B batteries of 1st F. A.
They will be marched by cadet Capt.
L. C. Brown to 311 Broun Hall.
Group 2, composed of sophomores
from C and D batteries of the 1st
F. A. will be marched by cadet Capt.
R. J. Friedman to 309 Broun.
Group 3, composed of sophomores
of E battery 1st F. A. and A battery
of the 2nd F. A. will assemble five
paces in front of interval between 1st
and 2nd F. A. units and will be
marched by cadet Capt. J. E. Cooper
to 308 Broun.
Group 4, composed of sophomores
in B and C batteries of the 2nd F. A.
will be marched by Capt. M. W.
Sledge to 315 Broun.
Group 5, composed of sophomores
in D and E batteries of 2nd F. A.
will be marched by cadet Capt. P. A.
Tufrwiler to 304 Broun.
Group 6, composed of sophomores
in F battery 2nd F. A. will be march­ed
by Cadet Capt. E. T. Rouse to
303 Broun.
Group 7, composed of sophomore
cadet instructors will assemble in in­terval
between 1st and 2nd F. A. and
will be marched by cadet Maj. H. J.
Morris to 213-B Broun.
Juniors will be assembled in simi-
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lar groups as indicated below:
Group 8, composed of juniors in
A and B batteries of 1st F. A. will
assemble 10 paces in front of 1st Bn.,
1st F. A. and will be marched by
cadet Capt. G. H. Lester to 211
Broun.
Group 9, composed of juniors in
batteries D and E of the 1st F. A.
and battery A of the 2nd F. A. will
assemble 10 paces in front of 2nd
Bn, 2nd F. A. and will be marched
by cadet Capt. J. M. Van Hoose to
206 Broun.
Group 10, composed of juniors in
batteries B, C and D 2nd F. A. will
assemble 10 paces in front of 1st Bn.
2nd F. A. and will be marched by
cadet Capt. M. R. Martin to 203
Broun.
Group 11, composed of juniors in
batteries E and F 2nd F. A. will as­semble
10 paces in front of 2nd Bn.
2nd F. A., and will be marched by ca­det
Capt. J. M. Fitzgerald to 202
Broun.
All seniors, other than those desig­nated
above, after supervision of
assembly and roll call, will report to
call rooms in accordance with their
schedule of assignments. Any senior
in doubt as to where he is to report
will find a notice to this effect posted
on the bulletin board.
All members of the Band and
Mounted Artillery will be requested
to attend their respective classes.
RIFLE SQUAD OUT
FOR NEW LAURELS
IN FUTURE MEETS
313;
(Continued from Page 1)
Triolo, incomplete. The ten
highest scores of the prone match
of the week of Feb. 1 was: Strick­land,
100; Tomlinson, 99; Bradford,
99; Chapman, 99; Hardeman, 98;
Casson, 98; Cooper, 97; Lee, 97;
Heyes, 97; Brunson, 94. The ten
highest scores of the sitting match
of the week of Feb. 9 were: Brad­ford,
100; Chapman, 100; Casson, 99;
Tomlinson, 99; Van Hoose, 99; Dex­ter,
98; Hardeman, 98; Strickland,
98; Cooper, 94; and Rich, 94 All
the matches are fired on new N. R.
A. targets and all the conditions of
the match are complied with.
Lt. Ehrgott, coach of the rifle team,
announced that negotiations for a
shoulder to shoulder match between
Auburn and L. S. U., to be fired here
on March 4, and also a match be­tween
Auburn and the University
of Alabama, to be fired at Tuscaloosa
on Feb. 23, are under way. He also
announced that the third stage of
the corps area match, which will be
fired Friday night at 7:30.
MILITARY ORDERS
CHANGE RANKINGS
IN R. O. T. C. UNIT
TIGERS MEET SEWANEE
IN FINAL GAMES ON
1935 CAGE SCHEDULE
(Continued from Page 1)
in a number of games they have
turned in good performances that
rank them on a par with the Confer­ence
leaders.
If the Plainsmen can continue the
pace set against Vanderbilt last
night, victories over Sewanee are not
improbable. The Auburn quintet
demonstrated their best form of the
season last night and with a little
more accuracy from the shooting
standpoint would have made an in­teresting
game much more so. Joel
Eaves led the Auburn offensive with
ten points and turned in one of the
best floor exhibitions seen in Alumni
Gym this year. Joe Bob Mitchell,
who started at center, handled the
ball exceptionally well and got the
tip his share of the time from Dick
Plasman, rangy Vandy center, al­though
missing shots rather regular­ly.
Woodrow Strange, who has
crashed into the first-string, line-up
the past two weeks, has come along
rapidly in basketball togs and seems
destined to become a guard of out­standing
capabilities before his col­lege
career is closed.
Captain Cleve Brown, a stalwart
on the first team for two years, open­ed
up the Auburn offensive last night
and played an inspired game against
the heavy Vanderbilt five. Brown
was in there scrapping from the op­ening
whistle on through and de­serves
much credit for his indomni-table
performance in leading the Au­burn
basketeers. His place at guard
will be a hard one to fill after to­morrow
night.
Two other seniors write finis to
college basketball careers in the ser­ies
with Sewanee. George Quinney,
forward, and Frank Sindler, for­ward
and guard, are the other mem­bers
who graduate in May along with
Brown. Both, have been valuable
members of the basketball squad for
thee seasons and leave big gaps in the
ranks of the Tigers.
Preliminary encounters will be
played by the frosh five before both
games. The plebes will meet Wood­land
High School at 6:15 and La
Grange, Ga. High tomorrow night
at the same hour. The varsity games
are scheduled to get under way at
7:30. '
(Continued from Page 1)
F. A.; Cadet Private P. C. Scollard,
Battery C, 1st F.A.
Engineer Unit
a. To be Cadet Second Lieutenant:
Cadet Private W. B. Crane.
b. To be Cadet Sergeants: Cadet
Private W. T. Avery; Cadet Private
W. M. Wallace.
c. To be Cadet Corporals: Cadet
Private W. H. Caruthers, Cadet Pri­vate
R. A. Coleman, Cadet Private H.
B. Drew, Cadet Private W. Schuster,
Cadet Private J. A. Turnipseed.
d. To be reduced to the grade of
Cadet Privates: Cadet Corporal J. J.
Cain, Cadet Corporal H. E. Cox, Ca­det
Corporal R. L. Wood.
HAY GIVES BOOK
REVIEW AT MEET
OF LOCAL GROUP
Rotarians Are Entertained On
Thursday By R e v i ew Of "Au
tobiography of Paul Harris'
A review of the book, "Autobiogra­phy
of Paul Harris," was presented
yesterday at a meeting of the Rotary
Club by Rev. Samuel Hay. Paul
Harris was founder of the Rotary
Internationale.
In his review Rev. Hay discussed
some of the experiences in the life
of Paul Harris that caused him to
form the Rotary Internationale. Har­ris
was born in Wisconsin of a large
family, but because of adversity and
family hardships, Harris was brought
up by his grandparents in Vermont.
After several years attendance at
a number of schools, Paul Harris
traveled the world for five years.
In 1896 he settled in Chicago for the
practice of law. The low ethical
standards of Chicago in this decade,
together with the experiences gained
in travel abroad, led him to conceive
Rotary in 1900, although the first
meeting wasn't held until five years
later.
Because of contacts-made by Har­ris
in his travels, the reception of
Rotary principles by one country
after another soon made Rotary an
international organization.
By order of Major Franke.
The order for the above changes
was issued by Major Franke, signed
by J. V. Phelps, 1st Lt., F. A., Adju­tant,
and approved for the Adminis­trative
Committee by Dr. Jno. J. Wil-more,
chairman.
AUBURN HIGH TO
INVADE WAVERLY
FRIDAY FOR GAME
(Continued from page 3)
Whatley and John Ham at forwards;
Philip Smith at center; and Hugh
Wright and Rojf Powell at guards
are likely choices to continue as the
first-string. Harry Bush, an elon­gated
youngster who covers the floor
exceptionally well and is a fair shot,
is also slated for duty, as is Dan
Friel, Powell's understudy at one
guard.
Preparations by Coach Fowler at
present are pointing toward the dis­trict
tournament, to be held in the
near future. On the basis of its im­pressive
record to date the local quin­tet
looms as one of the seeded teams
of the section, and unless it "blows
up" in an early-round contest stands
a good chance of going to the semi­finals
of this half of the district.
Lanett, probably the section's strong­est
quintet, defeated the Auburn team
14 points in the latter's third test of
the season in giving the locals their
worst defeat of the campaign so far.
ELIZ0ND0 SPEAKS ON MEXICO
AT SESSION OF LOCAL WOMEN
Business And Professional Women's Club Hears Auburn Pro­fessor
Monday Evening; Speaks On International Relations
Between United States And Mexico; Contrasts Our Customs
DAWLEY TO SPEAK
IN LANGDON HALL
ON MONDAY NIGHT
WANTED: Local salesman. Pay $40
week or more. Prefer student with
retail sales experience. See Mr.
Johnson between 2 and 6 P. M.
Saturday, February 16th, only, at
the Jones Hotel.
(Continued from Page 1)
will be given as parts of five con­ferences
he has given at the Infan­try
School at Fort Benning. Several
Auburn students who heard the talk
were very complimentary concerning
it.
This is Col. Dawley's first year at
Fort Benning, and already he has
gained a reputation as an excellent
speaker. He has obtained an envia­ble
record in the army and is con­sidered
to be an authority on many
military topics.
An address on Mexico was made
by Prof. Y. A. Elizondo at the meet­ing
of the Auburn Business and Pro­fessional
Women's Club which met
Monday evening at the home of Mrs.
Alma Whatley. .
Professor Elizondo said, in effect,
that relations between this country
and Mexico will always be harmo­nious
if "the human element", which
is common to all peoples, is thorough­ly
understood by representatives of
the two countries.
"Both countries are full of inef­fective
laws and many other undesir­able
things, but in appproaching in­ternational
relations we must not for­get
the human element. Tolerance
in one country will be met by toler­ance
in the other. . . . We must
keep in mind always that the same
principles of justice should predom­inate
in both countries."
In contrasting the sports of the
American and Mexican people he said
that we like football because we un­derstand
it and that Mexicans like
bullfighting for the same reason.
Whereas Americans thoroughly un­derstand
the game of football, with
an accurate knowledge of the rules
and acquaintance with the best play­ers,
the Mexicans likewise have de­veloped
a similar interest in bull­fighting.
Program for the meeting of inter­national
relations was arranged by
Mrs. Whatley, chairman of this phase
of the club's work. A report of the
district meeting in Birmingham was
made by Miss Mary E. Martin, state
chairman of legislation.
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Something unique in the way of
entertainment will be presented Fri­day
night by the B. S. U. at 7:30
o'clock in the form of a penny fair
at the First Baptist church.
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ENLARGEMENTS from your kodak films.
TINTING AND FRAMING.
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and 302 N. 20th St.
P O. Box 2622, Birmingham, Ala.
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AUBURN, ALABAMA
"The Showplace of 'East
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SATURDAY, February 16
"THE FIRST WORLD
WAR"
(Secret films from the nations'
archives—first time the real
world war has been shown
on the screen!)
Comedy: "Everything's Ducky"
and cartoon: "Tom, Tom, the
Piper's Son" ^ ^
SUNDAY and MONDAY
February 17 and 18
The immortal story of
"DAVID COPPERFIELD"
with'
W. C. Fields, Maureen O'SulIi-van,
Lionel Barrymore, Frank
Lawton and many others.
Also: color classic:
"An ElephantNever Forgets"
TUESDAY, February 19
"THE PRESIDENT
VANISHES"
with Paul Kelly, Andy Devine,
Edward Arnold, Arthur Byron,
and many others
Extra "Million Dollar Notes"
and NEWS
MRS. BEARD HONORED
Mrs. Percy Beard, a recent bride,
was entertained with a tea on Thurs­day
afternoon by Mrs. C. A. Baugh-man
and Mrs. V. Watwood. The af­fair
was held at the home of Mrs.
Baughman, and a number of guests
called during the afteroon.
The house was decorated in a pro­fusion
of jonquils and other appro­priate
effects.
This is another of a series of en­tertainments
which are being given
Mrs. Beard. •
Early Colonial planters
shipped hundreds of
pounds of tobacco to
England in return for
goods and supplies.
.. .and tobacco has been like gold ever since!
The tobacco raised in Virginia and exchanged
for goods helped the struggling colonists to get a
foothold when they came to America.
Later on, it was tobacco that helped to clothe
and feed Washington's brave army at Valley
Forge.
Today it is tobacco that helps—more than any
other commodity raised in this country—to pay
the expense of running our Government.
In the fiscal year 1933-34 the Federal
Government collected H25,000&00 from
the tax on tobacco. Most of this came
from cigarettes — six cents tax on every
package of twenty.
Yes, the cigarette helps a lot—and it certainly
gives men and women a lot of pleasure.
Smokers have several reasons for liking
Chesterfields. For one thing, Chesterfields
are milder. For another thing, they taste
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