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VOLUME LVIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935 NUMBER 28
LEGISLATURE TO
CONSIDER MAJOR
PROBLEMS SOON
Plainsman Will Follow Actions
of Solons In Series of News
and Editorial Articles
WALKER IS SPEAKER
O r g a n i z a t i o n of Both Houses
Is Effected Last Tuesday;
Meet A g a i n On Monday
This is the first of a series of
news articles concerning the Alabama
Legislature now in session
at the State Capitol.
By The Editor
Legislative lobbies at the Capitol
building presented the usual opening
day scene Tuesday as the first meeting
of the 1935 Legislature convened.
Great numbers of job-seekers swarmed
the halls of the building as the
lawmakers met to effect organization
of the Senate and House.
Representative Harry Walker, of
Limestone County, a former senator,
was elevated to the speakership of
the lower house on the first ballot in
the Democratic caucus.
Senator Hardy Riddle, of Talladega,
defeated Senator R. G. Swift,
member of the House of Representatives
in 1931, by a 17 to 14 vote in
the race for president pro tem of the
upper house. x
After organization of both groups
had been effected Gov. B. M. Miller
delivered his retiring address to both
houses. The Chief Executive devoted
a large part of his talk to an appeal
for retention of the State's prohibition
laws, and recommended that the
budget law be extended to all units
and agencies of the State. A prohibition,
repeal organization has already
begun work, however, and a bill call-
7 ing for the legalization of beer was
introduced in the Senate at the opening
session. The repeal drive will
continue as proponents of beer, wines,
and hard liquor rally behind Senator
Samford Mullins, the leader of the
movement. Senator Miller Bonner,
and ardent prohibitionist, of Camden,
will head the dry cause.
Reapportionment of representation
in the Legislature, prohibition, reorganization
of county governments,
relief for schools and colleges, changes
in the taxation system, and many
other important issues confront the
present body of solons. Complete
harmony between Gov-elect Bibb
Graves and the Legislature has been
manifest and there appears to be no
serious obstacles in the path of
Graves legislation. The close feeling
between the executive and legislative
branches is expected to expedite matters
considerably and a • short legislative
session is predicted.
Students Resume Studies After
Christmas Holidays; Exams Are
Scheduled To Begin January 18
Full Calendar of Events is Comp
l e t e for Second Semester;
F e w Holidays During T e rm
Prof. Rauber Elected
To Economists Group
Dr. Earle LeRoy Rauber, professor
of economics, has been honored with
election to membership in the National
Economic League, an organization
of some five thousand leading economists
and scholars.
Object of the League is to "educate
and crystalize public sentiment and
to make such public sentiment an
effective force for good." Since its
organization 1906 its aim has been
to unite the best men in all sections
of the country in an effort to secure
a consensus of opinion as to which
are the most important economic, social,
and political problems; to geminate
the leading facts and arguments
in relation to these problems; and to
promote the widest possible discussion
under non-partisan auspices, of such
questions as are decided to be the
most vital and urgent.
Dr. Rauber is one of five or six
economists in Alabama to be chosen
for membership. He holds the Ph.B.,
M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Chicago
University and has studied economics
extensively in Germany. Since
1930 Dr. Rauber has been a member
of the Auburn school of science and
literature faculty.
Streets of Auburn took on new life
over the past weekend with the influx
of approximately 1800 students returning
after the Christmas vacation
period to resume their studies.
Very few absences have been reported
by professors, who stated that
practically all students were present
for classes last Monday morning, when
scholastic work for the new year was
resumed according to schedule at
eight o'clock. ,-
Students have already begun intensive
work in preparation for first
semester examinations, which are
slated to begin at eight-thirty o'clock
Monday morning, January 18. Review
assignments are being given in
many classes and students are manifesting
a spirit of interest and enthusiasm
in the remainder of the
present semester's work.
Examinations will terminate at
five o'clock on Thursday afternoon,
January 24, and registration for the
second semester of the school year
will be held from the 24 through
Saturday the 26. Class work for
the new semester will begin Monday
morning, January 28.
Plans for the mid-year commencement
exercises were released from
the administrative office. Eighteen
candidates will receive degrees on
Thursday morning, January 24.
Few holidays are listed on the calendar
for the coming semester but a
full list of activities are being planned
by various societies to relieve the
monotony of the long school period
ahead. The first of these is the Junior
Prom, which will be staged from
January 31 through February 2. Kay
Kyser and his orchestra will furnish
the music for the affairs.
OPERATION PROVES
FATAL TO OPEUKA
CO-ED WEDNESDAY
Miss Katherine Stewart Succumbs
In Opelika Following
Operation Wednesday
DEBATE TOURNEY
WINNERS RECEIVE
A. P. E. TROPHIES
. M. Thompson and B. H.
Johnson Awarded Loving
Cups After Vote Count
TOURNEY IS SUCCESS
CLASSES TO BE
DISMISSED FOR
GALA PROGRAM
Many Students, Faculty Members,
Townspeople Will Attend
Graves Inauguration
BAND WILL PARADE
Most Impressive Ceremony In
Years Is Planned By Committee,
35,000 Expected
Many Students Participate In
Alpha Phi Epsilon Sponsored
Contest Here
The annual intramural debating
tournament for upperclassmen was
won Thursday evening Dec. 27 by
Emmett Thompson of Powderly and
B. H. Johnson of Bessemer. As a
result both were presented with handsome
loving cups by Alpha Phi Epsilon,
honorary forensic fraternity
which sponsors the event each year.
Miss Velma Patterson of Verbena,
secretary of the fraternity, made the
presentation which marked the end
of the tournament in which 17 debates
were held and in which 16 upperclassmen
participated.
With an opposing team composed
of Milton D. Roth of Jacksonville,
Fla., and T. H. Powell of Ilailo, Philippine
Islands, the judge's decision
resulted in a tie Tuesday evening.
The second of the final contests was
necessary to decide the winners. The
winners upheld the affirmative of the
question as to whether or not nations
should cooperate in the prevention of
international shipments of arms and
munitions of war.
Judges for the contest were Dean
John W. Scott, Dr. R. L. Johns, and
P. O. Davis.
Auburn's varsity debating team
will engage in 12 intercollegiate debates
in Louisiana, Mississippi, and
Alabama on a tour which begins
March 4, said Prof. E. D. Ross, public
speaking instructor in charge of
debate. Between 25 and 30 each contests
will be held before the close of
the second semester.
Professor Hess said that a tentative
date for a debate over radio with
Alabama College had been arranged
following the Christmas holidays.
Miss Mary Katherine Stewart, of
Opelika, died suddenly Wednesday
afternoon at 5:15 after a brief illness S e V d l S t l l d e i l t S E l l t er
caused from an appendicitis operation.
Miss Stewart was apparently
in good health Tuesday afternoon and
her death came as a distinct shock to
Auburn and Opelika citizens.
In her sophomore year here, Miss
Stewart was a popular member of
the co-ed group on the campus. She
was enrolled in the School of Science
and Literature. Miss Stewart was a
member of the Presbyterian Church
of Opelika and was active in religious
affairs of her church.
Funeral services weer held at ten
o'clock this morning from the home
of her father, Mr. C. W. Stewart,
president of the National Bank of
Opelika. All banks in Opelika were
closed for the funeral services.
Miss Stewart is survived by her
father; one brother, C. W. Stewart
Jr.; her grandmother, Mrs. Joseph L.
Dean, and several aunts and uncles.
Pallbearers were: Dozier Wood,
Walton Montgomery, Forney Renfro,
Jr., Walton Crossley, David Ingram,
Henry Moore Renfro, Hugh Foster,
Robert Botsford, and Walter Roy
Torbert.
The Administrative Committee of
the college expressed its sorrow over
Miss Stewart's death in the following
statement:
"The unexpected and untimely
death of Miss Katherine Stewart was
a great shock to the students and
faculty of the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute. Her death cast a cloud of
gloom over the entire campus.
"She was in her sophomore year
in the school of Science and Literature
and during her student career
she had made an excellent record as
a student and as a cultured, refined,
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Paris Art Competition
Seven Auburn architectural students
entered the Paris Prize Preliminary
Competition which was held
last Saturday.
This is a contest held among the
architects over the country at large
each year in three stages. Anyone
who is a citizen of the United States
and is under twenty-seven years of
age may participate in the first competition.
Seven of these competitors
are selected for a second preliminary,
which is composed of these seven previous
Paris Prize, contestants and
the high score men of the Beaux Arts
Institute of Design. From the second
preliminary five candidates and
two alternates are selected for the
final competition. One from the final
run-off, which is a ten week problem,
is declared the winner.
The winning design carries a stipend
of $100.00 a month for thirty
months, or $3,000 total. This is to
be spent in attendance in an advanced
class in the Ecole deBeaux Arts in
Paris, and in travel throughout Europe.
Those participating this year were
the fourth and fifth year design students
of the Department of Architecture,
who came back early especially
to take this problem Saturday, January
5. From this participation the
entering drawings of the following
students who received higher awards
in a judgment here were sent to New
York for final judgment: Miss Helen
Sellers, A. B. Jacobs, H. A. Mac-
Ewen, W. N. Chambers, A. R. Winter,
F. Woodruff, Jr., and C. C.
Risher.
. In line with other institutions of
higher learning in Alabama and with
a number of public schools, all classes
at Auburn will be suspended on
Monday, January 14, in order that
students and faculty may attend the
inaugural exercises in Montgomery.
This decision was made by the Administrative
Committee after communicating
with those who are in
charge of the inaugural program.
Classes will be resumed at the regular
hour Tuesday morning.
The Auburn band, by previous arrangement,
will have an important
part in the inaugural parade. The
band will leave Auburn on the regular
train Monday morning and return
that night with Director P. R.
Bidez in charge.
Auburn's 79 piece band will be on
hand to take part in the inuagura-tion
ceremonies of Gov-elect Bibb
Graves at 11 o'clock in the morning.
The inaugural ceremonies will be
the most elaborate in the history of
the state, according to the committee
in charge of the program. Besides
the Auburn band, which will
march in the parade Monday morning,
the crimson and white band of
Alabama has been invited to participate.
At least ten bands and drum
corps have accepted invitations to
take part in the ceremony.
Many from Auburn are planning to
be in Montgomery to witness the celebration,
including members of the
Administrative Committee and citizens
from the city. A minimum of
35,000 visitors are expected to attend
from all sections of the state.
Approximately 1 1 0 0 National
Guard troops will march in the parade,
led by the 29th Infantry band
from Fort Benning. The Fort Ben-ning
band is said to be one of the
largest in the South.
Immediately following the parade
Col. Graves will take the oath of
office on the reviewing stand; Chief
Justice John C. Anderson will administer
the oath. Gov. Graves will then
address the assemblage, after which
he will be the guest of honor at a
luncheon at the Montgomery Country
Club given by Montgomery citizens.
Forty Families Aided
By Interclub Council
Approximately 160 individuals or
between 35 and 40 families in and
about Auburn were provided with
food during the Christmas holidays
by the Interclub Council Christmas
Fund, according to a statement by
Maj. G. H. Franke, chairman of the
finance committee.
From all sources a total of $153.29
was collected, of which all but a little
over $17 was used to purchase food
for the baskets, Christmas decorations,
and- small gifts for children.
Aside from this, many organizations
such as the Business and Professional
Womens Club and the Eastern
Star furnished direct to the distributing
committee such things as toys,
clothes, candy, fruit, and other food.
In the report of the finance committee
it was revealed that one fraternity
and two sororities contributed
to the fund. They were the Lambda
Chi fraternity and the Kappa Delta
and Pi Omega JJhi sororities. Other
organizations to contribute were the
Rotary Club, Kiwanis, Lions, the City
of Auburn, Womans Club, Business
and Professional Womens Club, R. O.
T. C, Brownies and Mrs. Ross's Bible
Class of the Methodist Church.
Eleven business concerns and individuals
in Auburn contributed a total
of $23.90, and from the 46 boxes located
in various places a total of
$43.76 was collected.
Netty Murphey Emerges Victorious In
"Miss Auburn" Contest And Is Chosen
To Lead Grand March Of Junior Prom
Irish And Scotch Strut Together—
MISS NETTY MURPHEY, popular co-ed, will lead the Grand March
of the mid-term dances with Bill McTyeire. Miss Murphey is also
winner of the "Miss Auburn" contest.
FRAT BASKETBALL
PLANS ARE BEING
PUSHED FORWARD
Wallace, Nelson Announces
First Round Pairings For Annual
Event; Ten Draw Byes
Plans for the annual Interfrater-nity
Basketball Tournament are being
pushed forward and complete
rules and regulations, together with
the times the gym court will be available,
will be announced at an early
date.
Only the general eligibility rule in
force for all interfrat competitions
applies at this time but additional
rules will be announced later. The
eligibility rule states: "No student
who is participating or has participated
during the present school year
in the sport in question, or who has
earned a major athletic award in that
sport, will be eligible for Interfrater-nity
tournaments. Participation in
a sport is defined to mean remaining
out for the squad until after the first
game or meet."
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COL KELLEY WILL
LECTURE TUESDAY
AT LANGDON HALL
Ft. Benning Officer Will Speak
On "The Palestine Campaign";
Is Noted Talker
Balloting Is Heavy In Second
Annual "Miss Auburn" Election;
Contest Is Close
DANCE PLANS MADE
Bill McTyeire To Escort Popular
Co-ed In Event of Mid-
T e rm Dances on Feb. 1.
Annual Gymkhana To
Be Held January 19
In spite of inclement weather,
plans are underway for the annual
Gymkhana, which will be given as
scheduled January 16 on Bullard
Field at 3:15 p. m.
It is planned that the program
this year will be especially varied,
including jumping and horsemanship
by all classes, potato races for members
of the Ladies Riding Class and
for cadets, rescue races, and many
other interesting exhibitions.
The junior mounted wrestling
team, captained by Bill Piatt, is much
stronger this year and is expected
to give the seniors plenty of trouble.
The senior team is captained by D.
T. Bowie.
Sections from the Mounted Battery
are training for the gun section race,
which will close the day's program.
A new event this year, a guidon Telay
race with teams from each battalion,
promises to add much to the program.
An admission charge of fifteen
cents will be in effect to help defray
expenses of the meet.
Col. H. Kelley of Fort Benning,
Ga. will lecture here Tuesday night
at 8 o'clock in Langdon Hall, his subject
being "The Palestine Campaign,"
sometimes referred to as "The Story
of the Last Crusade."
Col. Kelley is one of the instructors
of the Infantry school at Fort
Benning and is in charge of the experimental
section there. He talked
to the seniors at camp last summer
and was proclaimed by those that
heard him as an interesting talker.
On the subject of Palestine Col.
Kelley has done considerable research
and is said to be an authority on
the topic. His talk Tuesday night
will deal with the story of Palestine
from the beginning.
Col. Kelley graduated from the
University of California in 1903 and
was commissioned as second lieutenant
in the regular army that same
year. He has been awarded a Distinguished
Service Medal with the
Silver Star citation and has been decorated
with the Medal of the Purple
Heart.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the lecture by Col. Kelley. He
is being brought here by the Reserve
Officers Training School here, and
all members of the school are asked
to be present as well as advanced
corp students in R. O. T. C.
A lantern and slides will be used
to illustrate the talk.
Miss Netty Murphey was chosen
as "Miss Auburn" in a closely contested
election which ended yesterday
at noon and was selected to lead the
Grand March of the Junior Prom
with Bill McTyiere, president of the
junior class, at a meeting of the social
committee last night.
The "Miss Auburn" contest was the
closest election to be held on the campus
this year and Sara Smith and
Jane Slack closely trailed Miss Murphey.
Student interest in the election
reached a high peak yesterday
morning when numbers of votes were
cast to run the total up to around the
500 mark.
An announcement concerning other
plans for the annual mid-year dances
has set the price of season tickets to
the affairs at $10. Tickets to the
three dances on Friday or Saturday
will sell for $6. Night dances will
carry an admission charge of $3.50
while tickets to day dances will cost
$1.50. Tickets are now on sale and
may be purchased from any member
of the social committee.
Work on the decorations for the
event is well underway and the designers,
Alan Jacobs and Harry Mac-
Ewen, state that their part of the
plans will be concluded in about two
weeks. A modernistic scheme is being
used in the decorations this year
and the designers expect to create
modern night club scenes such as
those portrayed at the Black Hawk
Cafe in Chicago.
Kay Kyser continues to win the
plaudits of Auburn music lovers as
hundreds of students listen to his
nightly broadcasts over radio station
WGN in Chicago. The feature of
the Kyser band which is proving especially
popular is his glee club and
other vocal selections.
In Memoriam
The member* of the sophomore
class and the staff of The
Plainsman wish to express their
deepest sympathy to the family
and friends of Katherine Stewart
upon her untimely death.
Miss Stewart was well known
and had become endeared to us
all, and her passing causes a
blanket of profound grief to
settle over Auburn.
Exhibits Now On View
In Local Art Library
The annual exhibit of the Association
of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
is now on display at the library
of the Auburn school of architecture
and allied arts. The exhibit will continue
through Friday.
Fully 25 per cent of the exhibit
space is devoted to drawings by Auburn
students in architecture taking
the construction option. The 65 detailed
drawings by advanced students
at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute'
comprises by far the largest exhibit
from any of the 17 schools represented.
From the exhibit it is evident that
Auburn gives a more comprehensive
course in construction for architects
than is offered by the other schools
in the exhibit.
Purpose of the exhibit is to acquaint
member schools with the work
of others in association. The exhibit
will be shipped Saturday to Georgia
Tech.
In addition to Auburn other schools
represented in the exhibit are the
University of Illinois, University of
Minnesota, Armour Institute of Technology,
Frjnceton University, Ohio
State University, Cornell University,
Yale University; University of Pennsylvania;
University of Texas, University
of Kansas, Kansas State College,
University of Michigan, Syracuse
University, Carnegie Tech, Harvard
University, and Pennsylvania
State College.
Auburn's part of the exhibit represents
the work of students under
Prof. Frank M. Orr, who is assised
this year by W. C. Breithaupt, instructor,
and J. D. Simmons, graduate
assistant.
P A G E TWO T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M A N -:- A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935
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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
Billy Radney, David Cox.
Circulation Managers: Jim Pike and
George Perry.
Circulation Assistants: Maurice Ellis,
Tom McGough, Jimmy Merrell, William
Butler, H. B. Darden.
Just Wondering
A new year.
Standing on the threshold of this new
year we wonder what part it will play in
the history of the college, how great a part
it will play in the life of each student.
We are told that we are on the verge
of great changes. Such a headline as
"TRADE LEADERS CHEERFUL OVER
1935 PROSPECTS" has been in order in
most of the newspapers. Naturally, any
change in economic, financial, social, religious
conditions will affect the life of
Auburn and its student body. Into the
hands of the university student of today
will fall the affairs of a revolutionized
United States.
The thinking student has begun .to feel
his importance. He realizes that he must
prepare himself to take over the reins
of industry, agriculture, education, etc., and
must arrange his life to fit into a part of
the whole in which he can best serve the
future. He has learned a lesson from the
last few years and has resolved that the
recklessness of the past decade will not be
repeated.
The student has a responsibility which
he can not thrust aside.
Yes, as the student looks to the new year
he wonders. And when he thinks of the
many problems which he must face in this
and ensuing years he is no longer a student.
He is a man.
Properly Prepared?
In a speech on "Auburn and Industry",
which he made here in May 1929, Erskine
Ramsay stressed the doctrine of the college
"preparing men for positions, rather than
for jobs".
"I admire Auburn's training of men and
women so that they will become skilled
technical workers, and I admire your success
in making great superintendents of
schools and great business managers, who
know men and books as well as scientific
laws and scientific ways of doing things",
said the noted industrialist.
Either Ramsay knew little about the
Auburn ideal of education or drastic
changes have been effected since 1929. One
has only to examine the curriculum of an
Auburn engineering course to learn that
students engaged in technical studies learn
little which will make them "awake in soul,
spirit, and imagination to the possibilities
of living and sensitive to the stimuli of
growth". On the other hand, practically
every course an Auburn engineering student
studies after his sophomore year is
purely technical.
Ramsay pointed out that Steinmetz once
made a statement that "the neglect of the
classics is one of the most serious mistakes
of modern education". The speaker seemed
to think that Auburn was not guilty
of this neglect. Few, if any, liberal arts
courses which deal with the classics are included
in engineering courses here.
It is true that Auburn graduates in engineering
probably have good training in
the purely technical subjects, but classical
courses which would prepare them to become
thinking men, to manage ideas, to
write, to be cultivated gentlemen as well
as technical experts are not given. If Auburn
is ever to turn out minds big enough
for big jobs, courses which would "prepare
men for positions, rather than for jobs"
must be taught here.
What-A-Man Philbert
A strange lad is this elusive Philbert!
The American public has grown so extremely
fond of him that it chases him
each week from page to page in COLLIER'S.
His admirers delight in finding
him perched on a lady's hat at the theater
and several pages farther on to discover
him in a more dignified position, sticking
his head from the cookoo's nest in a wall
clock. His popularity has surpassed the
other features of "The National Weekly"
—and rightly so. He is a clever fellow to
be so young. And he appears to be the
most convenient child a mother could wish
for. When mother Philbert finds her young
son in the way, she has no more trouble
disposing of him than a kangaroo has of
hiding her young. He can always cling
to the mop as she waxes the floor, or sit
on the soap and slide among the dishes
as she washes up in the kitchen.
A young fellow of his versatility has a
great future in store for him. With the
American people so susceptible to something
out of the ordinary, the young man
will be a dandy mark for income tax collectors
before he is ten years old. Think
of the salary he could demand as an entertaining
magician. Disappearing from the
stage, he could suddenly pop out of someone's
pocket in the second balcony.
He has made a hit with the readers of
COLLIER'S, and if he would just become
a little more ambitious and step off the
printed page and meet the public face to
face, his national popularity would be assured.
Well, Well, Well
In session during the Christmas holidays
at Boston, the National Student Federation
Association selected T. F. Neblett, of L. S.
U., to serve the organization as president
for the next year.
We remember attending the Southeastern
division convention of the association in
Tuscaloosa last spring. While there we
learned that the organization was strongly
opposed to college press censorship and
went on record as favoring freedom of expression.
One recalls that Neblett represents a
school whose newspaper has been subjected
to the most stringent type of censorship.
Yet the N. S. F. A. chose the L. S. U. delegate
to guide the destinies of the organization.
Most amusing. ,
The Legislature
The Alabama lawmakers met at the
State Capitol Tuesday for the first meeting
of the 1935 Legislature. The magnitude
of the various issues which are
scheduled to confront the group indicates
that this will be a most important session.
Undoubtedly, several questions which will
have direct bearing on Auburn and other
state schools will be discussed. It is an
accepted fact that some measure to relieve
the present financial condition of the schools
will be introduced in the Legislature and
the action taken by the solons will be of
interest to many educators and students.
The Plainsman intends to follow actions
taken by the solons in its news and editorial
columns. We have been criticised by
some students for carrying editorials which
deal with topics off the campus. In outlining
our editorial policy at the beginning
of the year we pointed out the need for
student thought on state, national, and
international problems and stated that we
would deal with some of these topics editorially
with the purpose of arousing student
interest in them. Whether or not our
efforts along this line have been successful
we have carried out that part of our policy
with the hope that it might evoke some
interest and thought from the student body.
We will follow the present legislative
session with the same hope. Although
many of us do not realise it the future
welfare of education in Alabama will probably
be determined by steps the Legislature
takes toward alleviating present conditions.
Students should familiarize themselves
with this and other questions to be considered
by the solons. We hope that our discussions
of the topics will prove an aid to
you in the attempt to learn something about
important measures.
Long Live Pop-eye!
"Pop-eye the Sailor Man" is probably one
of the most popular gentlemen of the present
day.
Pop-eye, the little man of iron muscles,
is the idol of the American children because
of his superhuman strength. He is
a boon to their parents, because he has
helped to reduce the number of family
squabbles. Today it is not necessary for
mothers and fathers to beg and coax their
offspring to eat spinach. Pop-eye's spinach-
eating example makes "children cry
for it."
But the greatest acclaim is given Pop-eye
by the spinach producers. He is their
saviour. George Lafbury, president of the
National League of Commission Merchants,
states that the production of spinach has
increased 600 per cent since 1918.
Long live Pop-eye I
FACTS AND FALLACIES
By Flit
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.
NO STUDENT at Auburn need be
told that mid-term exams are not
far off. That is known and has been
known by everyone concerned long before
this; but little thought of the connection
with the finals is the matter of cheating, a
matter hardly given a thought by students
but considered vitally important by the
college heads.
Several years ago the deans and heads of
departments conferred in an effort to curtail
the too common practice of cheating
during examinations and quizzes; and as
a result, a number of rules were adopted
by the Council to supervise examinations.
This action was taken after the suspension
of two students for a full semester because
of cheating during exams and after it had
become apparent that there had been a
marked tendency at the time on the part
of some students to cheat rather than do
honest work. In order to discourage this
i situation as much as possible, the rules
adopted by the Council, though simple and
reasonable, were stringent enough to be as
effective as possible. These same rules are
in force today, and every upper-classman
should be well acquainted with them.
It was realized by the Council at the
time that only through the wholehearted
support of the student body could any
method be really effective which aimed to
stop cheating and unfair practices during
examinations. It is a delicate question
and can only be met in part by rules and
regulations. The student on one hand must
realize that he is fooling nobody but himself
when he gets to the point where he
cheats. And the college on the other hand
is interested in its primary purpose of
turning out of its doors after four years of
study students who have gained a true insight
into the vast pool of knowledge and
who are able to face the world and all its
problems with a clear understanding of
what it is all about.
* * * *
Auburn students are required to take
entirely too many courses each semester
for any one of them to be fully effective.
With the average student registered in
from six to ten courses, it is impossible for
an intelligent connection to be kept between
any of them. The result is a jumbled
idea of the whole, with each course
accomplishing only a part of the purpose
for which it was scheduled. The student
is required to drag along, tangled in a web
of numberless courses, and freed from them
all only after fifteen weeks of hard work.
The quarter system is a welcome relief
from this present inefficient system. The
student is required to take only three
courses of five credit hours for a period of
ten weeks. The classes meet daily, giving
the student and instructor a chance to keep
an intelligent connection between lectures
and labs. All courses are of equal importance
as far as credit received is concerned.
The argument may be brought forward
that it is impossible for courses to be combined—
that one and two hour courses are
necessary. But this is not true as has been
proved by other leading schools and universities
throughout the country. In them
duplication of subject matter is eliminated.
Courses are mapped out to give the student
the essential facts in the courses taught and
not to have a duplication of the same facts
in other courses.
Auburn should be ready to adopt any new
methods which will be of benefit to the
students.
* * * *
President Roosevelt's'message to the 74th
Congress met with the approval of the
great majority. Even those of the opposition
were unable to either criticise or in
any way disapprove of what was said.
They cannot, for they clearly realize that
the President's message showed a clear understanding
of the present situation as
regards many problems; and that the President
neither hedged nor evaded any of the
important issues of the day.
Not even Mr. Roosevelt himself is so bold
as to say that he has accomplished those
many things which he set out to do when
he first took office. The Saturday Evening
Post in scorching editorial of several weeks
ago brought to light many of the promises
that Roosevelt had made in his campaign
speeches, promises which he has so
far evaded or has even, gone in the opposite
direction from. What of it? Probably if
Mr. Roosevelt had been iron bound by his
promises, the country might be in worse
shape instead of better as it is today.
There are two sides to the question. As
the economist says, the roots of a depression
reach far back into time; and so might
the remedies take long before they are able
to show any concrete results. More time
and less impatience is needed in behalf of
the American people.
In his message to Congress, President
Roosevelt stated in few and concise words
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS *
Bids to such prominent movie personages as Joan Crawford, Joan Marsh,
Norma Shearer, and Katherine Hepburn are being filled out rapidly by Small
Breeze Smith, Don Pierce, and Matt Sledge. It is also reported that several girls
are sending dance bids this year. Doodlebug Murphy, "Hortense" Worsley, and
"Itch" Smith, afraid of not making the dances, are sending out their own bids
to boys in order to assure their attendance at the Junior Prom.
* * * * * *
Junior politicians are reported to have begun an innovation this year by passing
out ten cent cigars instead of the usual "two-fors." Auburn is blessed (?)
with an unusually active group of prospective office-holders. It will be interesting
to watch their line-ups etc. as they swing into a hot political campaign.
* * * * * *
The student's lament two weeks from now: How was I to know that she
could come all the way from Hopkins Corners to make the dances.
* * * * * *
And letters continue to come in from girls of only slight acquaintance as the
Junior Prom approaches.
* * * * * *
This is a land of free speech and free press - - - just so long as one talks
about dead men and writes about himself.
* * * * * *
Women and cravats are alike—they've always around one's neck.
* * * * * *
The girl you usually hear no scandal about is the one without girl friends.
* * * * * *
Joe Purvis turns philosopher and states that the war spark is usually fanned
by trade winds.
* * * * * *
When your last friend fails you remember that there is still something you
can count on—your fingers.
* * * * * *
If life is just one fool thing after another, then love must be two fool things
after each other.
* * * * * *
After years of selective breeding, sheep without tails have been developed.
Which goes to show what may be accomplished by keeping a definite end in view.
* * * * * *
Definition of the classics: something you must admit knowing nothing about
except in the presence of a litt. prof.
* * * * * *
We understand there was once a college journalist who carried a dog everywhere
he went. The dog was very popular.
* * * * * *
Kissing a girl is like opening a bottle of olives. After you get the first one
the rest come easy.
JOCULARITIES - Jeremiah Juttingham
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.
* * * *
BACK TO THE so-called "greasy-grind"
which semi-annually catches
students in the throes of a poorly
done semester's work that must suddenly
be picked up along with enough dough to
make the dances, the idea of learning anything
beyond the relatively, small amount
required for a passing grade being a complete
stranger to most Auburn minds. One
with a satirical bent could put a parenthesized
question after "minds" but practically
everyone at Auburn has a mind, that
most of them fall into a state of fairly
harmless innuendo is of small moment. And
I with a supremely active and fertile mind
sit up on a lofty height of eminence and
frown down on people who believe that the
Dardanelles are a prominent European
family.
But after all, what do grades amount to?
Nothing, says the tea hound. Everything,
says the grind. Probably the latter view is
more nearly correct, but only probably so.
For the first few months after one finishes
college someone is really, or pretends to
be, interested in what kind of scholastic
record was compiled at the deare olde college
but somehow after that, 93.5 averages
don't amount to so terribly much. Of
course the other view of the picture is that
the social satellite can never get down to
it, he's in the habit of loafing and stays
in it the rest of his life. Some college
loafers turn out to be connossieurs of art,
the stage, books and the fine arts. Others
never turn out. They just end.
* * * *
Did you ever notice how the freshman's
ego reaches a new high after Christmas.
He's just, returned from the little town
down in the lumber country or in the red
hills of North Alabama and his angel-faced
gal has told him she'll be true on
down through it all.
That Auburn uniform • with the orange
Tiger on the left sleeve of the coat does
look good in Squedunk. •The first couple
of days, the freshmen wears it around to
let everybody know he's started down the
royal road to information and education.
It's a touching moment when he swears
he'll send his fraternity pin back as soon
as he goes through along in February. Of
course if a freshman didn't go fraternity
the outstanding issues of the day that will
have to be met during the present session of
that body. Such questions as pertaining
public utilities, federal relief to the unemployed,
and the taxes will be fought
over and thrashed out so that the close of
Congress this year will see these matters
settled as far as the present administration
is concerned. They are questions which are
vitally important to the nation at large;
and the President, realizing this, aims to
put across that which he considers will do
the most good for the most people.
he's got a good reason why. All the sweethearts
back at home believe in their particular
freshman, his importance at Auburn,
and how his opinions are respected.
If he's intellectual he'll tell her,how he
likes to read Will Durant, so stimulating,
and all that rot. If he was ambitious along
the social line he'll tell her about the dance
that Phi Psi Chi gave the last week before
he came home, and make her wish she
could go to school at Auburn, to be near
to her forever and forever. College either
makes or breaks a man the first semester.
Everything after that arises from that.
* * * *
And of course, there's the other case—
of the girls. Two or three months at Auburn
does wonders for a girl. They learn
how to dress, many of them learn how to
smoke, and all, except of course the one
from the metropolis to begin with, are improved.
Back to the same little town in
the lumber country or a similar one she
goes. With ideas fairly scarce, but sophistication
noticeably present. To the boy
who was too broke to go off to school it's
just too bad. She may tell him that he's
still the only one, but she knows it ain't
so. She can't forget the difference between
this unpolished gentleman of the woods and
the boy from Birmingham she dated for
the Phi Psi Chi dance. And she swore
she'd come back unchanged. There's all
the difference in the world between Mary
Smith of September and Mary Smith of
December. She knows it, but the boy gets
a shock when he find the gal who left in
September his on down through the years
isn't his any more. Not ever any more.
* * * *
Something is wrong with this college
calendar of ours. We come back on January
7th and start midterm exams on the
18th. Just a little short of two weeks.
And all those holidays we get the first
semester make it not more than two thirds
as long as the second. Thanksgiving holidays
serve no purpose at all, and I think
to the majority of students who much
prefer the same period during the last of
March, when balmy winds begin to blow
and spring fever catches the more susceptible
of us. 'A' Day and Washington's
Birthday are the only breaks in a long,
long semester and if the authorities here
are determined to shorten next year's
Christmas season, it seems that spring
holidays would serve as an admirable balance.
Another suggestion would divide the calendar
into quarters, throwing exams just
before Christmas. This would, however,
necessitate a change in the whole system
of credits and the wisdom of that is dubious.
But the considerable difference between
the amount of work supposed to be
done the" first and second semester would
seem to warrant some sort of change.
Either abolishing Thanksgiving holidays
except for one day and adding spring holidays
or run the calendar so as to have a
quarter-hour basis of credit.
CABBAGES AND KINGS
By C. S. and W. B.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial opinions
of this paper. It is a column oi personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy. /
CONGRATULATIONS to the University
on their impressive victory over
Stanford. Their clear-cut margin
of victory seems to put them in a class by
themselves, as the best football team in the
country, Minnesota not excepted.
Incidentally, those who talk so brashly
of ill-feeling between Alabama and Auburn
should have been in the Tiger Theatre to
hear the Auburn student body roar with
admiration and approval as the newsreels
showed the Tide roll over the Cardinals.
It is my firm belief that Auburn students
will pull for Alabama in any game other
than an Auburn-Alabama struggle. After
all, Auburn has had her full share of conference
championships. And they are not
all in the distant past. To be exact, it has
been only a scant two years since Auburn
and Tennessee divided championship honors.
* * * *
THE IDEA has been advanced that the
upper twenty-five per cent of students
should, in case of need, be admitted to state
institutions free of charge.
This idea seems to be one of the best
methods so far advanced to recognize, in
a material way, worthy students. In the
first place, it offers an incentive for students
to do good work. In the second
place, it will prevent the unfortunate occurrence
of schools yearly losing many of
their best students because of financial
difficulties. Once a school gets a man who
is sufficiently intelligent and energetic to
maintain a position at the top of his class,
they should make every effort to see that
they do not lose him. Too much attention
has been paid in the past to how much
money a student can bring to school with
him rather than how much ability he has.
The prime purpose of the state educational
institutions is to educate men who can
wisely and efficiently conduct the business
and political affairs of this state in the
future. This purpose cannot be realized
by educating that fortunate few wlhose
parents are sufficiently wealthy to pay
their expenses through school. What difference
will it make ten years hence that
Jimmy Jones' father had enough money to
see that Jimmy received every educational
advantage, when little Jimmy had neither
the inclination nor the ability to take advantage
of the opportunities thrust upon
him? Will the state benefit by having such *
a highly educated fool numbered among its
citizens as it would have if it had provided
funds for the education of. those
thousands of intelligent students whose
education was neglected because of the comparatively
trivial reason that their father's
income was not sufficient to send them to
school?
Why spend millions of dollars erecting
schools and colleges, and neglect spending
a few thousand more to insure the education
of every promising mind in the state?
* * * *
INCOMING Governor Graves is undoubtedly
one of God's fairheaded children. His
last administration lasted throughout
America's period of abnormal prosperity,
coming to a close just as fiddler-paying time
arrived. Governor Miller, faced by a hostile
legislature, performed that task in a
most commendable fashion. Graves again
comes to the helm, with a yes-man legislature,
with the budget balanced, and with
over five million dollars cash in the treasury.
If he will only prove capable of taking
advantage of the "breaks" that have
been made for him, the forthcoming four
years should be banner years for Alabama.
* * * *
JUST IN PASSING, we'd like to go on
record as saying that out-going Governor
Miller will be remembered as one of the
state's greatest governors.
* * * *
IN A RECENT survey of American colleges,
it was disclosed that southern institutions
have the lowest standards of any
in the country. Far from feeling resentment
over this disclosure, we should appre- .
ciate the publicity given to our deficiency,
and attempt to correct it. After spending
four years in a southern college, I am of
the opinion that if standards are not higher
in other sections of the country, then
American education is indeed in a sorry
state.
The standards of Auburn are such that
the normal student can pass with flying
and spend only two or three hours per
week in class preparation. Yet Auburn
is supposed to be one of the foremost southern
colleges.
In order to avoid confusion, may I state
that the true student can glean a good education
from Auburn's offerings. Yet he
can't help but feel a bit cheated as the idler
is assured of being given the same degree
after four years of loafing as the student
is given for his four years of labor. 'Tain't
right.'
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935 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 P A G E T H R EE
Plainsman Quintet Encounters Strong Opposition On Lengthy Road Trip
TOUCH FOOTBALL
TOURNEY IS WON
BY PI KAPPA PHI
Delta Sigma Phi T e am Extends
T o u r n e y Champions In Hard
Fought Grid Encounter
Pi Kappa Phi succeeds Sigma Nu
as holder of the Interfraternity
Touch Football crown as a brilliant
6-0 victory was recorded over the
Delta Sigma Phi aggregation in the
final round of the tourney. In winning
from the Delta Sigs, Pi Kappa
Phi reached its maximum form of
the tournament as a versatile offense
determined the one-touchdown margin
of victory. Pi Kappa Phi amassed
49 points in annexing the title, the
highest point total piled up in the two
years' competitions.
After a see-saw battle the first half
that left neither team with a particularly
decisive edge, Pi Kappa Phi
opened up its aerial attack in competent
fashion in the early stages of
the second period. With Hamilton
doing the hurling, passes to Martin,
Jones and Heacock moved the ball
from the Pi Kappa Phi forty across
the Delta Sig goal. The touchdown
itself was made on a short pass to
Heacock just over the goal, on fourth
down.
In winning the crown, the Pi Kappa
Phis demonstrated an astute
knowledge of football strategy. With
a set of plays that usually left one
or more receivers in the clear, and
with the passers having adequate
protection, Pi Kappa Phi probably
had the most consistent offense of the
tourney. Only one team succeeded
in holding down the Glenn Avenue
"seven," A. T. 0., but in a play-off
game the Pi Kappa Phis emerged
victorious by a 19-0 margin. The
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In preparation for a period of extensive
training prior to a heavy season
of conference competition, the
gymnasium pool has been repaired
throughout. The walls have been
cleaned and the windows which were
cracked or broken have been replaced.
Also, the plumbing which has been
unsatisfactory for sometime has been
completely reinstalled.
The swimming season will begin
about the middle of February and
will be one of the hardest that Auburn
has yet encountered. Meets
will probably be arranged with the
University of Georgia, Georgia Tech.,
Univ. of Florida, Emory, Clemson,
Birmingham-Southern, and Davidson
College. A number of these meets
are to be held in Auburn. This year's
acquatic squad is one of the strongest
that Auburn has had in several
seasons and Capt. Morris predicts a
successful year on the basis of records
made in training so far.
The greatest weakness of the team
is in diving events. Linwood Poole,
varsity diver of last year, who was
expected to return to school for the
spring session will not be able to enter
school. However, Hugh Wilson,
freshman diver of last year is an able
contender for Poole's place and will
be ably backed by Dizz Morris.
Lewis Rice who swims the breast
stroke is sick and has not yet reentered
school. He will be in shape
for the first meet however, and is an
able contender in this event.
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sBy OBSERVER:
WAVERLY HI BOWS
TO AUBURN 42-11
balance of the Pi Kappa Phi team,
including Adams, Pruett and Charlton
also performed admirably, Charlton
doing some nice rushing that considerably
disrupted the Delta Sig offense.
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It is with a feeling of pride that this column salutes the national
championship Alabama Crimson Tide gridiron machine after its crushing
defeat of Stanford's mighty Indians in the Rose Bowl New Year's Day.
Alabama's record in Rose Bowl competition of three victories and one
tie out of four trips to the famous saucer is one which excites the admiration
of every follower of the game of football. Certainly this record will
stand for many years to come.
The magnificent display of football
prowess of the Crimson Tide in
sweeping aside the vaunted attack of
Stanford has lifted Southern football
i
to a higher level than ever before.
In some sections of the country, exponents
of the gridiron game are
prone to look upon football as played
below the Mason-Dixon Line as somewhat
inferior to that of other sections.
But after Alabama's victory
over Stanford, and Tulane's spectacular
win over Temple, there can be
no doubt that down here in the sunny
Southland they produce, on the
whole, football teams which can more
than hold their own with any in any
part of the Country.
Our salutation* and congratulations,
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The Foreman A. Rogers loving
cup, which will he given to Auburn's
best all-round athlete for
1935, is on display in Burton
Bookstore's window. The winner
of the handsome sterling silver
trophy will be decided by the
members of the "A" Club at a
special meet the early part of
April.
This is the third year that Mr.
Rogers has given a cup to Auburn's
most outstanding athlete. T h is
award replaces a similar one given
by the late Mr. Henry Porter, of
Birmingham.
* * *
Auburn students will get their first
glimpse of the 1935 Tiger basketball
team in a regular scheduled game
January 26, when the Plainsmen play
hosts to Birmingham-Southern in the
Alumni Gymnasium.
Following this one night stand,
the Tigers take the road for four
games. They play Tennessee in
Knoxville February 1, Birmingham-
Southern in Birmingham February 2,
Georgia in Athens February 5, and
Georgia Tech in Atlanta February 6.
The Tigers have games here in a
row starting with a two-game series
with Florida February 14, then two
games with Sewanee on successive
nights, February 15 and 16. The
latter game may be transferred to
Montgomery.
A game with Georgia Tech here
will be played either February 12 or
the 27. In all, the Plainsmen have
scheduled 16 college games and 5
non-conference meetings.
» * *
Plans are being made for another
outstanding interfraternity
council sports event—the annual
basketball tournament. Wallace
Nelson, chairman of the Athletic
Committee of the Council, is busily
engaged in making final arrangements
for the staging of
this tournament. First round
games will start immediately
after the Mid-term dances.
* * *
Coach Jack Meagher will begin his
annual Spring football training grind
February 4. How Auburn's football
fortunes go next fall will depend to
a large extent on how well the boys
progress in the Spring workouts.
Auburn P.-T. A. Will
Meet Saturday Night
The Auburn Parent-Teachers Association
will meet Friday night, January
l i , at 7:30 o'clock at the high
school.
Prizes will be given by the association
to the grade having the most
parents attending the meeting. All
fathers are urged to come as their
attendance counts double that of the
mothers toward winning the prize.
Mrs. W. N. Arnquist, director of
the nursery school, will lecture on
"Sex Education of the Child." The
regular business meeting will be held
after the lecture followed by a social
half hour.
"The difficulty I find in directing an
orchestra of feminine musicians is in
making the orchestra balance", says
Prof. Jose Onate, of Boston U,
Auburn High's 1935 basketball
team got off to an impressive start
in its first home game of the season
as Waverly High was smothered 42-
11 in the college gym Wednesday
night. Although Waverly had an extremely
impotent quintet, the locals
looked considerably improved over
last week.
John Ham was high point man of
the encounter as .he hit a brief scoring
spree that netted 16 points for
the locals. Junior Whatley, ace forward
and a versatile floor player, was
runner-up with ten markers. Bunchy
Fowler and Hugh Wright hit the
baskets for six points each, with Philip
Smith as the other member of the
first-string neting only two points
but being a valuable cog in the local
court machine on the defense. Dan
Friel and Harry Bush in substitute
roles also accounted for a field goal
each.
The next opponent for the Auburn
team is the crack Lanett high-school
aggregation, one of the representatives
of the Fourth District at the
State Tournament last year and one
of the stand-out fives of the section.
This game will be played in Lanett.
Coached by Fob James, the Lanett
team will present a formidable front
to the locals who are trying for their
third straight win. Camp Hill High
was the first victim of the Auburn
High team, losing 29-22 last Friday
night.
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After less than one week of practice
Auburn's freshman basketball
tossers will open fire against the Industrial
high school team at Columbus,
Georgia tonight.
Coach Morgan will pick his squad
to make the trip from the forty-seven
rajs that reported for practice
last Tuesday. The boys have been
working unusually hard this past
week because of the opening game
tonight and the competition for posts
on the team has been keen.
Several of the freshmen that are
working out daily are Crew, Yar-brough,
Hitchcock, Franke, Hamm,
Paul, and Bazemore. Hitchcock from
Staunton Military Academy in Virginia,
Crew from the Georgia Military
Academy, Franke, and Yar-brough
from Auburn high are some
of the more promising recruits. It
is yet too early to even suggest the
team that will take the floor against
the Georgia opponents.
Later in the season the freshman
team will schedule games with other
teams in the near vicinity.
TIGERS DROP TWO GAMES TO
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Jordanmen Outclassed By Strong 1934 Southern Conference
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The University of South Carolina's
battling Gamecocks proved victorious
over the Auburn Tiger five in the
first two tilts of a five game tour
last Tuesday and Wednesday at Columbia,
South Carolina.
The opening game of the trip was
a hard fought battle in which a hustling
Plainsman quintet was barely
nosed out by a 35-34 score. The Tigers
held a five point advantage at the
halfway ma|rk but an eight point
rally in the final minutes of play
spelled victory for South Carolina.
Joe Bob Mitchell, playing center,
annexed thirteen points by sinking
five baskets and three free throws
to lead the scoring for both quintets.
King, holding down one of the forward
positions, counted ten points on
five field goals.
Wednesday's battle proved more
disastrous to the Plainsman, the
South Carolina quintet trouncing the
Tigers to the tune of 42-26. Quinney
made nine points to lead the Tigers,
point making and Eaves was a close
second, ringing up six points.
The outlook for a successful cage
season is fairly good. Besides the
three collegiate tilts Auburn has met
and defeated four other opponents.
On January fifth Lanett took it on
the chin for the second time this season,
the Tigers winning, 44-25.
The Plainsman will close their road
trip tonight and Saturday night when
they meet the Vanderbilt Commodores
in Nashville. This is expected to be
a real battle for the Tigers and the
results will be a good indication of
Auburn's strength in the basketball
world. The Commodores have the
same men that licked the Plainsmen
twice last year.
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P A G E F O UR T H E P L A I N S M A N -:- A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935
Architectural School
Gets Welton Library
Gift of the professional library of
the late William Lelsie Welton,
prominent architect of Birmingham,
to the Auburn school of architecture
and allied arts is announced by Dean
Frederic Child Biggin.
"These valuable books rich in important
works on architecture and
the fine arts will bear a special book
plate and be placed in the architectural
library as a useful and fitting
memorial to Mr. Walton," said Dean
Biggin. "They will make a splendid
addition to our library which is used
daily by Auburn students."
The gift was made through the
generosity of Mrs. Leo Maria Welton
of Birmingham, wife of the former
architect.
In recalling the many years of successful
practice by the late Mr. Welton,
it was remembered that he was
the only southern architect ever to
win the coveted Rotch Traveling
Scholarship of Massachusetts.
PERSONAL
MENTION
Kappa Delta Dance
Be Given Saturday
The annual Kappa Delta dance this
year will be given Saturday night in
the Student Center with the Auburn
Knights furnishing the music for the
affair.
This dance is one of the outstanding
social events of the season and
is given each year shortly after the
Christmas holidays. At 7 o'clock before
the dance members of the sorority
and their dates will be entertained
at a banquet to be given in the banquet
hall above Benson's. Jane Dixon
is in charge of the committee to
decorate the hall.
Many local alumnae as well as out
of town members are expected to attend
the sorority affair.
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-:- FRIDAY, JAN. 11 -:-
SHIRLEY TEMPLE in
"Now and Forever"
SATURDAY, JAN. 12
REX BELL in
"The Fugitive"
On the Stage
'The Blue Grass Trio'
-:. SATURDAY NITE -:-
O W L S H OW
WARNER BAXTER in
'Hell in the Heavens'
-:- MONDAY, JAN. 14 -:-
"Chu Chin Chow"
with ANNA MAE WONG
The most lavish musical production
ever witnessed on the
screen!
-:- TUESDAY, JAN. IS -:-
MAY ROBSON in
"Mills of the Gods"
Miss Frances Williams, who teaches
at Hartselle, Ala., spent the holidays
with her mother, Mrs. Mc Donald.
* * *
Visiting in Auburn during the
Christmas season were Mr. and Mrs.
Hartwell Davis of Montgomery.
» • *
Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Chesnutt and
children were guests during the holidays
of their parents, Prof, and Mrs.
S. L. Chesnutt.
* * •
Miss Marguerite Kennedy, daughter
of Colonel Kennedy former head
of the R. 0. T. C. regiment here,
and now stationed in Washington, D.
C, spent the holidays as the guest
of Miss Elizabeth Chesnutt.
* * *
Roy Wages, graduate in electrical
engineering in '33, is now with the
Georgia Power Company with headquarters
in Atlanta, Ga.
Vet Short Course To
Be Held In February
The Hth annual short course for
graduate veterinarians will be conducted
by the school of veterinary
medicine of the college here on February
4 to 9, 1935. Dr. C. A. Cary,
dean of the school of veterinary medicine
will be in charge.
Lectures will be delivered and clinics
will be conducted by Dr. Cary,
members of his staff, and by visiting
veterinarians invited to Auburn for
this particular work.
Among the visitors will be Dr. R.
E. Jackson, federal livestock inspector
for Alabama, Dr. Thos. R. Fergu-i
son of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin and
others.
Dr. I. S. McAdory, professor of veterinary
medicine, will lecture on how
to detect mastitis in cows; Dr. C. B.
Line will give directions for a microscopic
diagnosis of Bipilar septicemia
in cattle and for diagnosis of Char-bon
in cattle; and Dr. H. W. Sawyer
will lecture and demonstrate new
method of immunizing dogs against
distemper, infectious entertis in cats,
some new methods of handling fractures
in dogs, canine dystocia, differentiation
of rabies from infectious
bulbar paralysis, the present status
of heart worm treatment in dogs, diagnosis
and treatment of Calculus in
bladder, in uretherea and in pelvis or
kidney of dogs; causes, diagnosis and
treatment of cataract in dogs.
Auburn Sharpshooters
To Fire Fort Benning
Auburn's crack rifle team will fire
in a shoulder to shoulder match with
Company A, 29th Infantry, Saturday
in their gallery. The 15 men to fire
in this match will be named at a
meeting <of the team Friday night,
according to Lieut. H. W. Ehrgott,
coach.
Half of the squad this year is made
up of veterans, and Lt. Ehrgott has
said that he has hopes of turning out
another championship rifle team this
year. However, the team has failed
to measure up to its pre-holiday
stride and will have to do better if
a win is expected over the Benning
riflemen.
Emmett Casson, manager of the
team, announced that a triangular
meet had been arranged with the
University of Georgia and with Ga.
Tech in Atlanta during the early
part of February.
Of the 32 men composing the team
this year Raymond Strickland is the
leading marksman, followed in the
order named by Nat Bradford, Van
Hoose, Captain Mcintosh, Wright,
Casson, Lee, Swenson, Booth, Hies-tand,
Callaway, Kolbe, Mize, Foshee,
Ullman, Meyer, Wilkes, Rodgers,
Rich, Hayes, Johnson, Trilo, Harkins,
Hardeman, Strother, Edwards, Cooper,
and Fincher.
WORD-JONES WEDDING
IS OF WIDE INTEREST
A wedding of interest was that of
Miss Elizabeth Word and Alton Jones
of Athens, Ala. The ceremony was
performed Dec. 23, by Rev. Milligan
Earnest at the home of the bride's
parents in Shawmut.
Mrs. Jones received her degree
from Auburn with the class of '34,
her major being in Home Economics.
Mr. Jones completed his education
here several years ago, finishing in
Agricultural engineering.
Keys Group Discusses
Plans For Initiation
At the Lambda Chf house last
Tuesday night the Keys interfrater-nity
held their meeting of this year.
Plans for several important events
were discussed, including the plans
for initiation, annual dance, and ban-quent.
The initiation will be held next Friday
night, January 11, at 7 p. m.
from the Lambda Chi house. Twenty-five
men will be initiated into the organization.
The Keys, organized to
promote friendship between the fraternities
on the campus, picks its men
from the freshmen groups, the election
being held just before Christmas.
Plans for the mid-term dance were
made at the meeting and it is announced
that the affair will be held
Friday morning, (during the Junior
Prom) February 1, from 11 o'clock
until 1. Immediately following the
dance, a fraternity will hold its ban-quent
at the" Clement Hotel in Opelika.
The officers of Keys this year are:
president, Neil Davis; vice-president,
Gene Heacock; secretary and treasurer,
Rudy Martin.
KIRBY TO SPEAK
AT MEETING OF
DELTA SIGMA PI
Lanett Educator Will Talk To
Business Students On Feb.
12; Has Interesting Topic
Dr. T. H. Kirby, Superintendent of
City Schools in Lanett, Alabama, will
lead the discussion at the professional
meeting of Delta Sigma Pi which
will be held February 12.
The topic for discussion will be
"Qualities Necessary for a Success
in Business." This meeting will not
be conducted in the same manner as
previous professional meetings of the
semester, but plans are underway to
hold a combined social and professional
meeting at this time. Attendance
will be by invitation only.
According to a recent bulletin from
the national office, the local chapter,
Beta Lambda, has advanced from
twenty-sixth to thirteenth place in
national standing in the last two
months. This classification is in the
International Efficiency Contest held
each year for the fifty-two chapters
of the order.
"This year we are out for the top
place that was won by Kappa chapter
of Georgia Tech last year," asserted
Miller Pitts, president.
Miss Dorothy Breedlove and Jo
Tippins, graduates of the class of '34,
spent Christmas in Auburn.
Dr. Rosa Lee Walston spent the
holidays with her sister in Birmingham.
Tiger Theatre
AUBURN, ALABAMA
"The Showpiece of East
Alabama"
SATURDAY, Jan. 12.
"CASE OF THE
HOWLING DOG"
with Warren William and
Mary Astor
Comedy: "How to Break 90 at
Croquet" and cartoon "A Good
Scout."
SUN. & MON. Jan. 13 & 14
'JHERE IS MY HEART"
with Bing Crosby and
Kitty Carlisle
Musical Revue "Grandfather's
Clock" and novelty.
TUESDAY, Jan. 15
Joe E. Brown in
"6-DAY BIKE RIDER"
Also Musical Brevity "PAREE
PAREE" and latest news events
PERFECT
DINING ROOM
Service and Food!
Our soda fount service has been
acclaimed by hundreds of students
who visit our confectionery daily.
Fresh shipments of HOLLINGS-WORTH
and WHITMAN'S candies
received regularly.
London-made YARDLEY'S toilet
articles on sale at attractive prices.
Try our sizzling steaks — They're
delicious.
We employ college students throughout
the year.
Dollars Spent at Benson's
Will Return to You!
BENSON'S
Contrary to certain rumor*, the Benson dining and banquet
hall will continue to serve the students and townspeople
throughout the rest of the year.
Plan to have your next banquet here.
FRAT BASKETBALL
PLANS ARE BEING
PUSHED FORWARD
(Continued from Page 1)
The fraternities that play in the
first round are: Sigma Phi Sigma-
Alpha Tau Omega, Pi Kappa Alpha-
Alpha Psi, Sigma Phi Epsilon-Sigma
Pi in the top bracket, and Kappa Sig-ma-
Sigma Chi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon-
Theta Chi, and Theta Kappa Nu-
Lambda Chi Alpha. The teams drawing
byes in the first round are: Kappa
Alpha, Sigma Nu, Pi Kappa Phi,
Phi Kappa Tau, Beta Kappa, Alpha
Lambda Tau, Alpha Gamma Rho, T.
U. O., Delta Sigma Phi, and Phi Delta
Theta.
OPERATION PROVES
FATAL TO OPELIKA
CO-ED WEDNESDAY
(Continued from Page 1)
and wholesome young lady.
"By her manner and her personality
she had endeared herself to all
with whom she had become acquainted.
She will be greatly missed.
"We extend our deepest sympathy
to her father, brother, and to all
others of the bereaved family."
The Auburn-Opelika Community
Players will have their third reading
of the year Saturday, Jan. 12 at
7 o'clock in Director Floyd's studio,
Opelika, for parts in the next play,
"Helena's Boys."
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