1935-02-20 The Auburn Plainsman

              Semi-Weekly Plainsman
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Holiday Friday
VOLUME LVIII
T O F O S T E R T H E A U B U R N S P I R IT
AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1935 NUMBER 35
NEW PRESIDENT
FOR SCHOOL TO
BE CONSIDERED
Board Of Trustees Might Select
Next President Of College At
Meeting On Friday Morning
TO MEET AT CAPITOL
Four Are Likely Selections Of
Board; Special Committee
Will Meet Thursday Night
The Board of Trustees of the college
will convene at eleven o'clock Friday
morning in Governor Bibb Graves' of­fice
to consider the selection of a pres­ident
of Auburn.
A committee, composed of Gov.
Graves, chairman, J. A. Keller, State
Superintendent of Education, T. D.
Samford, C. W. Ashcraft, H. D. Mer­rill,
and Victor Hanson, will meet with
Graves tomorrow night to propose a
list of potential candidates for the of­fice.
All nominees of this committee
will be discussed at the board meeting
Friday and it is likely that one of the
aspirants will be selected as president
at that time.
Much speculation as to whom the
committee will recommend for the va­cant
post has been made and no posi­tive
information as to who their prob­able
selections will be is available.
Whether or not the board will name
one of the men picked by the special
committee is not known. It is under­stood
that the body might delay the
selection of a president until a later
>date. However, it is certain that the
trustees will consider several candi­dates
for the position and a selection
might be made.
When Dr. Bradford Knapp resigned
as president of the college in the sum­mer
of 1932 the Board of Trustees
named this special committee of six
to make investigations and recommend
several men for the vacated chair. In­stead
of recommending one or more
men from which one would be chosen,
the committee suggested that an Ad
ministrative Committee be appointed
to head the college. This plan was
adopted and is still in effect, Drs. Wil-more,
Crenshaw, and Duncan having
served constantly on the committee.
Among the list of men who have
been mentioned for the presidency
are: former State Superintendent of
Education A. F. Harman, former head
of State Board of Administration W
F. Feagin, head of Extension Service
and Administrative Committee mem
ber L. N. Duncan, and former State
Superintendent of Education and pres
ent head of Extension Division of the
University R. E. Tidwell.
Savings Bank System
Put In At City School
Auburn High School has established
a school's savings bank, according to
Professor J. A. Parrish, Principal.
This is the first small school in Ala­bama
to establish such a bank. Only
Anniston, Birmingham, and Mobile be­ing
ahead of Auburn.
Mr. Parrish has made a thorough
study of school banking systems for
more than a year and is enthusiastic
over the installation at Auburn. The
bank is one of those prescribed by the
Educational Thrift Company of New
York. Leading high schools in other
states have adopted the system.
A cashier, elected by the students,
receives the money, issues deposit
slips, and once every week deposits the
money with one of the city banks.
Deposits vary in size from five cents
up only in multiples of five. If a de­posit
reaches ten dollars or more, a
regular rate of interest is drawn.
Thirty-two per cent of the students
are depositors at present and Profess­or
Parrish expects the percentage to
increase.
NOTICE!
All members of the editorial and
business staffs of The Plainsman are
requested to be at the Executive Sec­retary's
office in Samford Hall at
five o'clock this afternoon for the
purpose of having The Plainsman
staff pictures made for the Glomerata.
Five Are Selected
By Ag Society
On Friday
Five students in Agriculture were
initiated into Gamma Sigma Delta,
national honorary agricultural frater­nity,
at a meeting of the society Fri­day
night.
The five students initiated Friday
night were: R. R. Jones, Collinsville;
W. G. Hall, Dothan; R. S. Kimbrough,
Fairfield; C. C. Scarborough, Blue
Springs; and P. A. Tutwiler, Greens­boro.
W. H. Weidenbach, secretary in the
experiment station here; E. A. O'Neal,
president of the Farm Bureau, Chi­cago;
and R. J. Goode, commissioner
of agriculture in Alabama were also
initiated into the society.
Each spring Gamma Sigma Delta
awards a silver loving cup to the most
outstanding junior in Agriculture. The
cup this year will be awarded at the
annual Ag Club banquet and dance to
be held May 10.
Membership in Gamma Sigma Delta
is limited to 15 per cent of the top
quarter of the senior Ag class.
FOUR FRATERNITY
TEAMS WIN TILTS
IN INITIAL ROUND
S. A. E. Only Ranking Quint To
Fall In First Set Of Games;
All Contests Hard Fought
By Jap Parrish
Competition in the Interfraternity
Council Basketball Tournament enters
the second round next week with the
favored teams for the most, part still
in the running. The only upset re­corded
in the initial round was a 25-15
win by Theta Chi over Sigma Alpha
Epsilon. Sigma Phi Epsilon, Theta
Kappa Nu and Sigma Chi. were the
other winners in first-round encount­ers.
Sigma Nu also won a spirited
second-round affair from Kappa Alpha
Monday night.
S. P. E. 22—Sigma Pi 9
A speedy little forward, Joe Dumas,
led his teammates from Sigma Phi
Epsilon to a 22-9 victory over Sigma
Pi in a rather one-sided contest Fri­day
afternoon. Dumas accounted for
thirteen points, all of them being
scored on "crips" after some fancy
dribbling that placed the ball in a
set-up scoring position. Walter Rob­inson,
captain of the S. P. E. five,
made five points with Paul Schollard,
sharpshooting forward, accounting for
four points.
S. P. E., although not looking so
good in this early game, is potentially
one of the strongest teams in the tour­ney.
Passing was fair, but shooting
definitely off in this first test of the
Sig Ep quintet.
Munsey Gresham and Ted Lewis di­vided
scoring honors for Sigma Pi,
each getting four points. David Gag-ley
converted a free throw that ran
the Sigma Pi total to nine.
Sigma Chi 22—Kappa Sigma 11
Sigma Chi opened up its offensive
guns Saturday morning in one of the
most powerful offensive exhibitions
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Professor Ridle Speaks
To Baptist Students
Dr. J. I. Ridle, professor of educa­tion
at A. S. C. W. spoke to the Bap­tist
students Union Sunday morning at
9:45.
Dr. Ridle is very active in student
organizations, being director of the
student orchestra and a Sunday school
teacher at Montevalo. He is also su­pervisor
of secondary education and
of the teachers training division of
the state.
Dr. Ridle's talk on "Peter Teaches
Good Citizenship" was given to a
large audience. The discussion was
centered around ethics of good citizen­ship
in relation to God, taught by Pet-et
1900 years ago. Dr. Ridle also dis­cussed
the specific relation to govern­ment
and God, which is stated at least
four times in the Declaration of In­dependence
of the United States.
HONOR BALL IS
ANTICIPATED BY
STUDENT GROUP
Executive Committee Drafts
Final Plans For Dance And
Banquet Here Friday Night
KNIGHTS WILL PLAY
Every Third Dance Will Be
Program Affair; Four No-
Breaks Arranged For Affair
At a meeting of the executive com­mittee
for the Senior Honor Societies
Ball in Samford Hall last Monday
night final arrangements for the dance
and banquet were made. Both affairs
will be staged Friday night, February
15.
A new feature which, the group add­ed
to the arrangements for the ball is
that every third dance will be a pro­gram
dance. There will be a total of
ten program affairs during the dance.
The menus for the banquet will con­tain
an extra page for the purpose of
listing dates for each of these dances.
Program books will be sold at the ball
for those who do not attend the ban­quet.
The banquet » i l l begin at 6:30 and
will be held in the dining hall of the
Baptist Church. Prof. J. M. Robin­son
will act as toastmaster for the
occasion, while Dean Zebulon Judd will
be the principal speaker. Tickets to
this part of the honor societies' fes­tivities
may be purchased from mem­bers
of the executive committee not
later than tonight. Tickets sell for
$1.25 per couple or sixty-five cents
each.
The dance will get under way at
nine o'clock and continue until one.
Intermission will be held from 11:30
until 12:00. Four no-breaks will be a
feature of the ball. The Auburn
Knights will furnish the music for the
occasion. Scarabs, honorary architec­tural
fraternity, are in charge of dec­orating
the gymnasium.
Societies participating in staging
the annual celebration are: Blue Key,
which sponsors the event, Omicron
Delta Kappa, Spades, Phi Kappa Phi,
Scarabs, Scabbard and Blade, Tau Be­ta
Pi, Spiked Shoe, Alpha Phi Epsilon,
Phi Delta Gamma, Cardinal Key, Eta
Kappa Nu, Phi Lambda Upsilon, and
Kappa Delta Pi. Representatives
from each of these societies are serv­ing
on the executive committee.
Miss Mary Hall Van Pelt, of Mont­gomery,
Ala., will lead the Grand
March of the ball. Wallace Nelson,
president of Blue Key, will act as her
escort. The "march" will be held at
eleven o'clock.
Financial arrangements for the af­fairs
are being handled by Jack Shaw,
Randall Parrish, and Bill Hughes.
Members of the participating socie­ties
will be assessed a proportionate
amount of the total expenses. A man
who holds membership in more than
one of the societies taking part in
the affairs will be assessed for each
society to which he belongs.
Wildlife Project Is
Studied By Foresters
The feasibility of undertaking a
wildlife development project in Ala­bama
is now being studied by govern­ment
authorities.
Ernest Holt, chief forester of the
United States Soil Erosion Service at
LaCrosse, Wis., spent several days in
Alabama last week to discuss the plan.
More than 100,000 acres of land has
been set aside in Tallapoosa County
for the purpose of experimenting with
the project.
The fundamental objectives of the
wildlife plan will include the bettering'
of conditions for wildlife as a whole,
both from a biological and social
standpoint. Also included in the pro­ject
will be the providing of an an­nual
replaceable crop of game and
fish.
Sketch Exhibit Is
Presented Here
' By Scarabs
The local temple of Scarab, nation­al
honorary architectural fraternity,
is sponsoring the Scarab Traveling
Sketch Exhibit here. It is to be held
open to the public in the architectural
library from February 18 through 23.
The exhibit consists of over a hun­dred
sketches in water color, pencil,
lithographed crayon, oil, and other
mediums.
Scarab holds a yearly sketch com­petition,
and the drawings, submitted
by the thirteen Scarab temples, are
judged at the yearly convention. The
convention this year was held at the
University of Illinois.
The following are the schools repre­sented
in the exhibit: Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, Washington Univer­sity,
University of Virginia, Armour
Institute of Technology, University of
Cincinnati, University of Illinois, Uni­versity
of Kansas, Penn State, George
Washington University, Carnegie
Tech, University of Minnesota and
University of Southern California.
CABINET SESSION
HELD AT STUDENT
HALL LAST NIGHT
Prof. J. E. Roop Explains Ap­pointive
System Of Choosing
Publications Heads At Meet
In a regular meeting of the Execu­tive
Cabinet last night, Bill Hughes,
president of the body, announced that
a radio had been purchased for the
Student Center and will be installed
in a few days. i
The radio is a Philco table set and
contains eight tubes. According to
Hughes it is of the latest design with
all modern improvements. A cabinet
is being built in which the set will be
kept at night. Last year the radio
which the Cabinet bought for the hall
was stolen.
Prof. J. E. Roop, journalistic in­structor,
appeared before the Cabinet
and discussed the appointive system of
selecting publications heads. He ex­plained
all features of the plan and
gave several of its advantages and
possible disadvantages. After his talk
an open discussion on the subject was
held and several questions concerning
various phases of the system were
asked.
Calvin Arant, reporting for the Fi
nance Committee, stated that about
half of the dues from different organ­izations
on the campus due the Cab­inet
had been collected. The question
as to whether or not interfraternity
social organizations included fraterni­ties
was raised and the group inter­preted
the term to include local chap-
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NOTICE!
There will be a joint meeting of
Alpha Phi Epsilon and Phi Delta
Gamma tonight in 301 Samford Hall
at 8 o'clock. All members of both so­cieties
are requested to be present.
Debaters Will Meet
F. S. C. W. On April 1
The intercollegiate debate tourna­ment,
which is being sponsored by the
local Ag Club, will begin April 1 when
the team debates the Florida State
College for Women, Tallahassee.
The subject for these debates will be,
Resolved: that all nations should
agree to prevent the international
shipment of arms and munitions. The
affirmative side of the question will
be upheld by the Ag Club team, W.
G. Hall and Earnest Thornhill.
The trip is arranged so as to include
debates with the University of Flori­da
at Gainesville, April 2; Mercer
University, Macon, Georgia, April 4;
University of Georgia at Athens,
April 5. This is the first time that
the Ag Club has sponsored an ac­tivity
of this sort.
Two members of the varsity debat­ing
team will accompany the Ag team
on this tour. They will deliver de­bates
on the same subject at Porter
University, Jacksonville, Florida,
April 3, and Emory University, At­lanta,
Georgia, April 6.
Professor E. D. Hess, head of the
local speech department, will be in
charge of the trip.
COMMITTEE DECLARES EIGHT ASPIRANTS
TO PUBLICATIONS OFFICES ARE ELIGIBLE
FOR NOMINATION IN COMING ELECTIONS
Col E. J. Dawley Lectures On Function Of Artillery
In Actual Combat To Cadets In Langdon Hall Monday
An interesting lecture, strengthened
by the use of illustrations to show the
part played by the Artillery in actual
combat, was delivered to cadets and
townspeople Monday night in Lang­don
Hall by Col. E. J. Dawley of Fort
Benning.
First discussed by Col. Dawley was
the organization of a division of Ar­tillery,
including the duties of all units
such as the battery, battalion, and
regiment. The headquarters of the
respective units, he said, are mainly
concerned with command, fire control,
observation, and communication. Col.
Dawley made clear the fact that the
Artillery is not an independent unit of
the army but acts as a supporting
agent for the other units.
Much of the lecture was devoted to
the system of wire communication
within the Artillery from the high­est
to the lowest units. The system
that is always strived for was illus­trated
as well as were the set-ups
used when time is limited. Other
methods of communication used that
were discussed by Col. Dawley includ­ed
visual, messengers, and radio.
Theatrical Group
Chooses Officers
For Second* Term
Officers for the second semester of
this year were elected at a meeting of
the Auburn Players Monday night.
Those elected were: Franklin Wood­ruff,
president; Willard Manry, vice-president
; Sue Morton, secretary; Ma­ry
Elizabeth Watson, treasurer; Peter
Hamilton, stage manager; and Doug
Wallace, publicity director.
Also at the meeting several changes
were made in the cast for the play,
"S. S. Queen of Cuba." Woodruff was
named to replace W. R. Hebblewhite
for the part of Mark Dupree, son of
Rex Dupree. Elliott Kaplus will re­place
Jimmy Lovelace for the part of
the old sea captain.
Work on the next production has
been going ahead at a rapid rate, with
rehearsals being held every night dur­ing
the week. The scenery and light­ing
effects for the play are being con­structed
and will be ready for dress
rehearsals within a week.
Col. Dawley illustrated the organi­zation
of the Artillery in time of com­bat,
stressing the weak points of the
rolling barrage. He went further to
explain the most effective form of fire,
known as the rolling concentration,
wherein the possibilities of destroying
enemy machine guns and observation
and supply posts are much greater.
As the concluding feature of his
lecture, Col. Dawley explained in de­tail
the operation of a battery unit in
destroying a nest of enemy machine
guns through the aid of a liason offi­cer.
Col. Dawley is instructor at the In­fantry
School at Fort Benning and is
the third Benning officer to lecture in
Auburn under the auspices of the O.
R. C.
CHANGES MADE IN
LOCAL GLEE CLUB
SAYS INSTRUCTOR
Little Interest Shown In Club;
Changes Effected In Attempt
To Strengthen Organization
Arruzza Makes High
Mark Past Semester
Albert Francis Arruzza, freshman
student here from Stamford, Conn.,
maintained during his first semester
of college work study the fine record
which he made in high school.
When first-semester grades were
announced this week by the registrar,
it was found that he averaged 90.5
in all subjects of his aeronautical
engineering course—the exact aver­age
for his four years of high school
work in Connecticut.
Arruzza, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
P. Arruzza of 93 Stillwater avenue,
Stamford, Conn., has not joined any
student organizations but is spending
most of his spare time, he says, pre­paring
himself to enter the field of
aviation.
His scholastic record places him
among the leaders of his class and
far above the "all-college" scholar­ship
average.
Nine Auburn Persons
Listed For Pensions
Nine of the thirty-three persons
listed for confederate pensions in Lee
county are Auburn residents. One is
among the four of class A receiving
$150.00 per quarter each. Seven are
listed under Class 1 and represent
more than one-third of the entire group
receiving $175.00 per quarter each.
The ninth Auburn citizen is in class
3, receiving $30.00 per quarter.
According to Prof. Lawrence Bar-nett,
director of the Glee Club, several
changes in the organization of the
group have been affected in an effort
to present the best possible group of
singers at performances here and on
the annual concert tour which the or­ganization
makes.
Barnett stated that little interest in
the club had been shown this year and
that if an improvement along this line
was not noted in several weeks the
club would be disbanded.
It is understood that the group has
been handicapped this year because of
three changes of directors. However,
Barnett stated that if thirty-two mem­bers,
equally divided into groups of
first tenors, second tenors, baritones,
and bases, would attend practice ses­sions
of the club from now until some­time
in April, the organization would
be prepared to present concerts.
The director said that there is am­ple
material for all sections except
that of first tenor. A call for all stu­dents
interested in trying out for a po­sition
in this group to contact Prof.
Barnett has been issued.
Barnett has expressed himself as
being 'willing to devote as much of his
time as possible in an effort to build
up a first rate Glee Club if members
of the organization will attend prac­tice
sessions in the future.
Last year the group made an ex­tended
concert tour through South
Alabama and drew large crowds in
most of the towns in which they ap­peared.
The Auburn Knights, local
student orchestra, accompanied the
club on the tour and besides appearing
on programs with them, played for
several dances.
Seven Are Ruled Ineligible To
Seek Nomination At Meeting
Of Publications Committee
MEETING HELD MONDAY
Much I n t e r e s t In Coming Races
E x p e c t e d To Be Shown; Po­l
i t i c a l Activity Is Underway-
Eight candidates for Glomerata and
Plainsman offices were declared eli­gible
for nomination to the chief edi­torial
and business positions of the two
publications at a meeting of the Pub­lications
Committee last Monday af­ternoon.
Those qualified to seek election to
publications offices under the Under­graduate
Students Association consti­tution
are: editor of the Glomerata—
Alton Graves; business manager of
the Glomerata—Elizabeth Fletcher,
Bob Chandler, and Glenn Smith; edi­tor
of the Plainsman—Kyser Cox,
Douglas Wallace, and Harry White;
business manager of the Plainsman—
Joe Whiteside.
Fifteen applications for the com­mittee's
approval of their qualifica­tions
were submitted to the group
from fourteen candidates, one aspir­ant
submitting eligibility affidavits for
two positions.
The committee, which consists of
Mr. P. O. Davis, chairman, Bob Klein,
Will Bruce, Fred Moss, Neil Davis,
and Bill Hughes, ex-officio, announced
that action on each case was deter­mined
by findings of the committee
and the affidavits sent in by candi­dates.
A thorough check on eligibility
of the various candidates was conduct­ed.
Each regulation concerning the
eligibility of aspirants to publications
offices was considered in the discuss­ion,
according to P. O. Davis.
Rules which disqualified candidates
for the offices are sections of the stu­dent
government constitution. The
requirements that, to be eligible for
nomination, candidates must have
worked on the staff of the publication
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Committees Named By
Lions Club President
Community Players
Work On Next Play
Characters have been cast and re­hearsals
are in progress for the third
production of the year by the Auburn-
Opelika Community Players. The
play, "Helena's Boys," will be pre­sented
during the latter part of Feb­ruary.
Several plays presented last year
are being revived by the group and
will be staged in neighboring towns,
including Tuskegee and Newnan, Ga.
during February. The plays being
revived for the road trip are "Sun
Up," "Three Wise Fools," and "Sec­ond
Childhood." All three plays were
presented in Auburn and Opelika last
year and were received with favor­able
comment.
"Sun Up" will be given by the Com­munity
Players in Opelika Monday
evening, Feb. 18, in Palmer Hall.
There will be no admission charge.
Members of the 16 committees in
the organization of the Auburn Lions
Club were named by the president, J.
L. Seal, at a meeting of the group last
week.
Members of the committees under
the direction of first vice-president R.
E. Smith include: W. F. Ham and E.
S. Winters, Attendance; A. F. Nickel
and J. Cammack, Finance; E. S. Win­ters
and W. F. Ham, Membership; A.
D. Duffee and J. E. Roop, Program;
and F. M. Orr and R. D. Doner, Con­stitution.
The second group of committees un­der
the direction of second vice-presi­dent
L. S. Blake include H. L. Watts
and C. W. Edwards, Lions Education;
G. W. Hargreaves and H. W. Nixon,
Extension; R. D. Doner and J. F.
Badgett, Sight Conservation and Blind
Work; W. T. Ingram and H. Cottle,
Boys and Girls Work; and J. R. Jor­dan
and W. C. Huggins, Patriotism. •
The third group under the direction
of third vice-president C. B. Ordway
include J. E. Roop and H. W. Nixon,
Publicity; G. J. Ward and A. D. Duf­fee,
Civic Improvement; J. Cermack
and W. T. Ingram, Community Better­ment;
C. W. Edwards and J. R. Jor­dan,
Education; W. C. Huggins and
G. W. Hargreaves, Health and Wel­fare;
and H. C. Trier and H. L. Watts,
Safety.
Directors of the club are W. T. In­gram,
J. E. Roop, H. W. Nixon, and
F. M. Orr.
At the meeting last week it was de­cided
by the group to meet with Delta
Sigma Pi, honorary fraternity, at
their next meeting. They also made
plans toward the cooperation with the
Inter-Club Council in completing their
crippled child project, which is being
financed through funds received from
the proceeds of the President's Ball.
P A G E T WO T H E A U B U R N PLAINSMAN A L A B A M A POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1935
0bp Auburn plainsman
Published semi-weekly by the students of
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn,
Alabama.
Subscription rates, $2.50 per year (68
issues), $1.50 per semester (29 issues).
Entered as second class matter at the Post
Office, Auburn, Alabama.
Business and editorial offices at Auburn
Printing Company, on West Magnolia
Avenue.
Office hours: 11-12 A. M., 3-4 P. M. daily.
STAFF
Neil 0. Davis
Fred Moss
Editor-in-Chief
Business Manager
MEMBER
Associated gbllegiate fllt*»»
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
Billy Radney, David Cox.
Circulation Managers: Jim Pike and
George Perry.
Circulation Assistants: Maurice Ellis,
Tom McGough, Jimmy Merrell, William
Butler, H. B. Darden, A. J. Hook.
Committee Action
Action taken by the Publications Commit­tee
Monday afternoon will probably meet
with opposition from several sources, but
rulings of the body on eligibility of candi­dates
for publications offices follow strictly
those sections of the Cabinet constitution
which deal with eligibility requirements.
All eligibility applications which the
group received were dealt with and dis­cussed
at length. All constitutional regula­tions
pertaining to the question were read
and kept before the members during the
meeting. Applications were investigated
thoroughly, and final action on each was de­termined
by information gained through the
investigations.
Several candidates were ruled ineligible
under Article 3, Section 4, of the Under­graduate
Student Association constitution.
This rule contains the following regula­tions
: "Nominees for the offices of editor-in-chief
and business manager of the Glomera­ta
and The Plainsman shall have completed
five semesters of college work and shall
have served at least one scholastic year on
the staff of the publication to which he is
nominated before he shall be eligible to
hold the above named offices." Each case
was considered impartially, and candidates
were ruled eligible or ineligible according to
whether or not they had met the qualifica­tions
as stated in the rules.
One regulation which declared a candi­date
ineligible for nomination is embodied
in Section 13, Article 3, of the constitution.
This rule provides that candidates shall run
only for that office under which they have
served while connected with a publication
here. Therefore, since the candidate had
not filled this prerequisite there was only one
course open for the Publications Commit­tee
to take: or—namely, to declare the can­didate
ineligible.
Whether or not necessary actions of the
committee are to the advantage of all those
concerned is neither here nor there. This
was not one of the questions with which the
group is supposed to deal. As a committee
of the Student Executive Cabinet, the group
had to follow regulations which affected
the various cases. The body discharged the
duties entrusted to it. It has performed its
job and only those candidates who failed
to meet the requirements were declared eli­gible.
No other action can be taken on the eli­gibility
rulings since the committee has
used the law, Undergraduate Student As­sociation
constitution, as basis for their
action. The Cabinet will receive a report
from the group and will undoubtedly sanc­tion
their action, for the Cabinet is certain
to uphold them in applying the laws of
the constitution.
Which Gives Force To Our Points
In discharging their duty in ruling on the
eligibility of candidates for publications
offices Monday afternoon the Publications
Committee was forced to take several ac­tions
which might serve to the disadvan­tage
of the Glomerata, Plainsman and the
school as a whole.
Five candidates for the offices of editor-in-
chief and business manager of the two
publications were ruled ineligible for nom­ination
to these positions under regulations
of the Undergraduate Student Association
constitution. In one or two cases students
having poorer qualifications for publication
office than those ruled ineligible had to be
declared eligible. Undoubtedly, the student,
body will agree that this is an unfortunate
condition, but it is one which can't be
helped according to the present method of
selecting publication heads and the consti­tution
of the association to which every
Auburn undergraduate belongs.
The Plainsman has advocated a revision
of the present Student Association consti­tution
and the change from the elective
method to the appointive method of select­ing
publication heads from the beginning
of the current school year. However, our
editorials on these two subjects have evoked
little or no thought. That there is a need
for changes in the constitution has been
apparent for several years. And now, it
is an undisputed fact that revisions in the
method of selecting publication heads are
needed.
Should editors and business managers of
the Glomerata and Plainsman be appointed
no such condition as that which is now
prevalent would ever arise. These en­trusted
with the task of selecting students
for these important offices would choose
the aspirants who were best suited for the
positions rather than those who had the
longest record of service to the publication.
Some students can work on the staff of
a publication for several years and still be
unfit to serve as head of a staff, while a
student who has the talent and a will to
do the work might serve the publication a
shorter period and be better prepared to
head it.
Of course, students who aspire to lead­ing
publications offices should work long
enough to obtain a thorough knowledge of
the duties which would devolve upon them.
A body chosen to select candidates for
these positions would necessarily lay down
rules which would contain certain stipula­tions
as to the required period of service
plus requirements as to amount and type
of work done and other points which should
be considered in choosing the chiefs of
staffs.
Everything considered, an appointive
system of choosing publication heads is the
only selective method which could be in­stalled.
It would assure the student body
that they would be served by the best can­didate
for the position besides eliminating
such conditions as that created when the
Publications Committee had to rule quali­fied
candidates for Plainsman and. Glome­rata
positions ineligible.
Will This Folly Continue?
Another editorial in this issue of the
paper deals with an unfortunate condi­tion
which has been created because of an
inefficient student government constitu­tion.
It also points out that this condition
bolsters this newspaper's contention that
there is a definite need for revision of the
constitution.
We have wondered why situations simi­lar
to this one (furor caused by eligibility
rules governing election of publication
heads) have not arisen before. Possibly
they have, and little attention was paid
them by those who were supposed to ad­minister
student government .here. Still,
whether or not this is true, it remains that
the constitution is wholly inadequate to
fill the present needs of a governing sys­tem.
Auburn has a legislative body and
if that is what the student body wants the
present constitution is all right. But if
we really want a student government the
document is not worth the paper it is writ­ten
on.
The Plainsman has dealt at length with
portions of the constitution it thinks should
be scrapped. It has brought out the fact
that there is little for the Student Execu­tive
Cabinet to do because it is bound by
an impotent constitution. It has been
forced to busy itself with trivial matters
while it should have performed important
tasks.
Very few of its committees are impor­tant
since they have so few duties to dis­charge.
Under the present set-up it can
never be an important factor in under­graduate
activity here because it is such a
large and unwieldy group. It can not as­sume
the authority entrusted to it when
the real tests come because it has no pow­er.
It can not supervise all student activ­ities
(which is one of its purposes) toward
the best interests of the student body as a
whole and to the credit of the college be­cause
the constitution does not state what
its right to perform this duty is.
In fact, the whole plan is a glowing ex­ample
of inefficiency, saturated with de­ception
as to its true functions on the
campus. Because of the constitution stu­dent
government has hopelessly floundered
into the oblivion of utter disregard for any
of its duties. Now is the time for some
action toward effecting a reorganization
of student government to be taken. Does
the student body want an efficient plan
of government installed or will this folly
continue?
The best minds always advise people to
mind their own business.
JOCULARITIES
By 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.
* * * *
YESTERDAY we received a very inter­esting
and illuminating letter from a
member of the senior class, who signs
his name as "Percival"—probably a pseudo­nym,
for nobody would ever call himself
that.
Dear Jeremiah,
Havin' read your comments from time to
time on affairs of local interest, I thought I
would take this opportunity of expressing
my beliefs that there ain't no justice. We
love our country, but there still ain't no
justice. Take for example that lecture we
had to go to Monday night. The War De­partment
let us cadets out of class Monday
mawning but to make up for fifty minutes
of class work we had to listen to two hours
and fifteen minutes of info' we had all heard
before, at least the seniors. You know, Jer­emiah,
I ain't ever seen such a stupid look­ing
bunch as that there audience in Lang-don
Hall night before last, and when some­body
groaned "oh-h-h", I thought I'd die,
along about the beginning of the third hour.
After it was all over we went up town and
wondered why Bill Hughes didn't ask some
questions, being as he's Cadet Colonel and
all that, but it seems like the little Colonel
knew all the answers Monday. They say
anybody can learn anything in three years
so I reckon Colonel Hughes didn't have to
ask no questions. We wuz all thankful for
that.
Of course, we all mightily appreciate the
officer from Fort Benning comin' all the
way over here to lecture us, but it seems to
me, course I don't know much about it, that
a wee bit shorter talk would have been much
better. If I'd a known he was agoing to
speechify that long I would have brought
some cough drops, for I can't cough all
night, even starting so late as- eight o'clock.
Yes, Jeremiah, it was quite a waste of time.
Not even the Engineers were much inter­ested.
I hopes that you agree with me on
this, for I know you, are very intelligent
and you didn't seem so interested yourself
last night. I even had to hit you on the
back of the neck once to keep you awake.
Sincerely, your old friend,
Percival.
* * * *
I'm afraid, dear Percival, that you are
most unpatriotic. After all, all's fair in
love and war.
* * * *
A recent popularity poll by "Radio Guide"
on broadcasting orchestras gave Kay Ky­ser
seventh place among all the nations'
bands. For an orchestra that has but re­cently
been skyrocketed into prominence
this is quite an achievement. Wayne King
devotees might be interested to know that
the Waltz King led the orchestras in votes
polled, with Guy Lombardo and Jan Garber
second and third respectively. Ben Bernie
rated fourth, Fred Waring fifth and Glenn
Gray, sixth. Jack Benny led in individual
stars with Joe Penner runner-up.
What the radio needs, in my humble
opinion, is a passably fair comedy team. I
must have a perverted sense of humor for
very few movie comedians or radio comedi­ans
or comic strips amuse me. Lum and
Abner, Mutual Broadcasting Company's mo­nopoly,
is a recent acquisition to top-rank­ing
acts, with Amos and Andy, Joe Penner,
Eddie Cantor, Burns and Allen and others
still trying nobly to be funny. Jack Benny
is humorous on occasions as is Joe Penner,
the latter falling off miserably the past
few weeks. And the Little Orphan Annie
act for the benefit of children and Ovaltine,
hooey.
A Wise Plan
Senator Thomas, Democrat from Utah,
suggests that Congress provide an annual
appropriation for five years to bring, de­serving
Japanese students to United States
universities and colleges. He also suggests
that Japan might provide the same thing
for American students. It is the Senator's
idea of another step toward world peace.
According to Senator Thomas, 10,000
students from Japan could study here for
four years each "at a total cost of but
slightly more than one battleship."
No doubt the Senator is right. Such ac­tion
would in a measure eliminate the bit­ter
distaste of the Japanese for the Exclus­ion
Act of the United States. In raising the
bars to the Japanese in this manner the
United States could be assured of only the
highest type of Japanese students coming
in. Competitive examinations could be giv­en
in selection of those most worthy of the
scholarship and thus assure the government
that only the "best" would be admitted.
Here at home there might be quite a bit
of opposition to such a plan because many
people might hold that Congress should
first think of our own young men and wom­en
who are unable to gain a college educa­tion.
But the diplomacy of such an action
should overshadow any such opposition.
• According to one B. S. O. C. it's a helluva job to keep 'em happy in Auburn,
attached in Montevallo, and fooled in Montgomery.
* * * * * *
"Who was that lady I seen you with last night?" ,
"That warn't no scene, that was an act."
• * * * * *
We want to know the name of the freshman who 'phoned Major Franke and
asked him to look out the window and see how many flags were up.
* * * * * *
From the number of political stories that fill the air one is led to believe that
politics is in .full swing. One aspirant for a position has had the editor getting a
job with a newspaper by favoring a candidate for ed's job. Not a bad proposition,
he should look into it.
* * * * * *
Ye song hits of the season: i
"A Boy And Girl Were Dancing" Honor Society Ball
"All Night Long" Same function
"I Believe In Miracles" Junior politicians
"Believe It Beloved" Will Bruce to Christie at "A" Club dance
"Blame It On My Youth" Gordon Roy Meadows
"Out In The Cold Again" Ineligibles
"What A Difference A Day Makes" Willie Pearce morning after mid-term dances
"Going To Heaven On A Mule" Chesty Morris and his Mounted Battery
"Congratulate Me, I'm In Love" _ Red Latham
"Happy Days Are Here Again" Boys sitting in back of Tiger on
sunshiny afternoons.
"Me And My Shadow" Dopey Ellis and Snuffy Smith
"I Gave My Fraternity Pen, etc." Ed Prewitt by special permission of Dopey
"The Prize Waltz" Frank Sindler
"They Didn't Believe Me" Betrayed politicians
* * * * * *
Oh Fred brewed a peck 'o malt
And Henny and Mary came to see
If there was enough malt in it.
* * * * * *
Auburn men are warned to be on their guard when they go to Montevallo for
"College Night" this week-end. Remember, there are those who would still like to
have a date. Your success at making a hit would be enhanced if you took a few
biscuits along.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Feb. 17, 1935.
To the Editor of the Auburn Plainsman:
The need for changes and revisions in our
student constitution have been apparent for
several years, and yet nothing has been done
about it.
Why Should a supposedly intelligent stu­dent
body continue to let themselves be su­pervised
(not governed according to the pre­amble
of the constitution) by such a slip­shod
and loose constitution and by-laws
as we now have?
The constitution should be re-worked. The
needed changes be made. Useless commit­tees
and repetitions be abolished. The by­laws
of all committees should be brought
up to date, and revised where necessary.
One criticism of the Cabinet that has been
prevalent in the past, and is recognized by
those who have studied it in the present, is
that it is not nearly as centrally organized
as it should be. So many committees have
been appointed, from without the Cabinet,
that the Cabinet itself, aside from the
Chairman of the various committees
(usually a Cabinet member) has very few
definite things to do.
The appointive system for publication
heads, as advocated in the Plainsman, is a
very intelligent forward step, and would no
doubt prove beneficial to both the school, as
well as the publications. A rigid and accur­ate
system of eligibility requirements should
be enforced. This would mean an accurate
system of checking and recording, as well
Sunday night to see "David Copperfield"
and out late at night and into Unk's to see
all the bigshots and others congregated
around drinking coffee. As society editors,
in their weaker moments, sometimes say,
among those present: Beverly Biggin shin­ning
up and down with handfuls of paper
cups apparently filled with lime drops or
something . . . . Jimmy Vance and Sue Mor­ton
looking slightly bored, and at the same
table with Margaret Wakefield and Bob
Darling . . . . and still another saxophonist
on hand, Merwyn York, who was taking ex­cellent
care of Bessie Swanson both before
and after the show . . . . Joe Bob Mitchell
and Jane Slack swaggering around, seem­ing
important, and joined in the show by
Sidney Scarborough . . . . Virginia Wads-worth
and Richard Woods, Ester Weeks and
Jo Barrett all gathered about a little table
trying to stay awake and not be sad after
what might be termed a depressing show . . .
Bob Klein and Dopey Ellis terribly indif­ferent
about it all, the latter astraddle a
chair and acting as master of ceremonies to
a happy group of five stags . . . . Cecil
Strong, voluminous Plainsman columnist,
also stagging it along with Jimmy Hurd
and Red Latham, one of the most fertile
fields for Plainsman newshounds in Auburn
. . . . Hugh Cameron up too late for the
third night straight, he a most f request hab-ituee
and late coffee drinker—also likes to
eat crackers in bed . . . . Albert Sidney
Matthews and Sarah Coleman eating dili­gently,
the latter propped up on her arm
and just looking . . . . Davis barely in and
out again . . . . Janett Sawyer and Henry
Fuller just glimpsed as they walked sedate­ly
out . . . . and outside a bitter cold that
made one not want to go out in the cold
again.
as filing the records or efforts of the pros­pective
heads of staffs.
The point system should either be adopted,
or completely- scratched from our constitu­tion.
However, believing that it would prove
of value, not only to the school, but to the
student body as a whole, it should be adopt­ed
and enforced. There was never a com­plete
system worked out, but there should
be.
Whereas, the Student Executive Cabinet
seems rather large and unwieldy at present,
we hear rumors that several of its members
would like to see it enlarge. According to
the method of selection, as stated in the con­stitution,
there may be a possibility of the
enrollment of some schools permitting the
addition of another member or so to the
Cabinet, thus increasing a body which is
already too large. The prospect of new of­ficers
may interest our office-craving set of
politicians.
Yours truly,
Little Acorn.
February 21, 1935.
Editor, The Plainsman
Auburn, Ala.
Dear Sir:
For a long time I have felt that all is
not well along the college front. There is
something lacking in the make-up of the
college student of today. I wish to express
my views on this matter and so I take op­portunity
of using a letter to the editor as
a medium of written expression.
Should the college boy be stripped of his
"rah-rah" spirit, his banners of collegiate
pretentiousness, then throw aside his illus­ions
and a very maladjusted person will be
discovered. You will have a most unhappy
being that has been cajoled into thinking
himself a fine, wholesome creature.
Now, this letter is not a dramatic ges­ture,
neither is it an outburst from a self-styled
radical or a result of the morbid
aftermath of failure. It is a floundering
attempt to look at youth in a manner we
all fear.
Authorities thunder the glorious oppor­tunities
of the age, and our pulses surge
with ambition. Ambition for money, for
material gain, for power to suppress the
weak. We have all been made drunk with
the desire to become materially successful.
All of us secretly long for the freedom to
search out the best life and work out our
own salvation. Yet, we are forced to stum­ble
along fearing to defy what we feel is
wrong. By far the greatest American trag­edy
is for firey, young, and often times
gloriously wrong, individuality to sink com­placently
into the machine of the common
place.
The heritage is ours. We must carry
on the infinite fallacies of our whole sys­tem.
Must continue respecting much that
we despise . Yes, we must fight to become
one of the few that control the greater part
of our country's wealth . . . that is the pur­pose
of our education.
All is well. AH is well. This theme
keeps ringing in our ears, and we hasten
to back our illusions. The gods must smile
when we deal gently in iconoclasm.
Yours turly,
Just fiddlin'.
CABBAGES AND KINGS1
By Cecil Strong and Bill Emery
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.
* * * *
TO BE or not to be! That is the fatal
question that is facing the fraterni­ties
today. In the north, especially
at Swathmore and Yale, the fraternity sys­tem
is definitely tottering toward extinction
while in the south they seem to be firmly
entrenched. In a poll conducted by the
NEW YORK TIMES of college editors, faculty
members, and college presidents in thirty-two
key institutions in all parts of the coun­try,
the indication is that fraternities are
too firmly entrenched with vast holdings of
real estate and "real esteem" to be killed
off in any short time. The poll does predict
that some definite changes are due to come
in the very near future.
The greatest problems that fraternities
have to face are of both a social and eco­nomic
'nature. Many colleges, even some of
the state owned institutions have begun to
build dining halls, dormitories, and recre­ation
buildings that in many cases far out­shine
the fraternity houses in magnificence.
To these school-owned quarters the students
are flocking in ever increasing numbers to
the depletion of the fraternities. At Har­vard
and at Yale where recently the "house
plan" has been adopted by the school, the
fraternities' plight is serious indeed. This
substitute for fraternity houses not only
takes members out of the house but causes
a new social grouping of students and a new
loyalty under college auspices which is sure
death to the fraternity.
The poll indicates that the fraternity sys­tem
is weaker in urban colleges where there
is so much outside activity to interest the
student.
One* of the greatest draw-backs to the
fraternity is the depression. With huge
houses to be paid for pledging has to be
done in wholesale lots and so the fraternity
becomes less exclusive and less desired by
the college man. The "Join our fraternity
and help us pay our mortgage" slogan has
a very bad effect on any possible fraternity
enthusiasm.
It has also been said that college men are
more serious than in the past and are now
going to college for an education and not
for the social life which a fraternity offers
in return for hard earned dollars.
Quoting Marvin C. Wahl of the Syracuse
Daily Orange, " . . . The fraternal spirit is
now expressed in card games and 'bull ses­sions.'
The need for these is not strong
enough to allow it to exist much longer."
* * * *
THE HORSE DOCTORS, true to the
finest traditions of old Auburn, have shaved
the heads of their freshmen. With all these
onion headed freshmen roaming the sacred
precincts of Vet Hill it will be hard to de­termine
whether the Hill is a place for study
of the ailments of the horse, or his country
cousin, the jackass.
* * * *
AFTER THE FASHION of Hugh Cam­eron,
columnist who made good in the local
post-office. Eddie Cantor is a louse . . . I
don't- see why we can't have Guy Lombardo
for the finals . . . 'Tis high midnight, and a
strangely sweet calm envelopes the usually
boisterous campus-wisps of fog swirl about
the dimly outlined spires of our ' school
houses—a beaten cur, ribs protruding, grabs
a morsel from a garbage can and slinks
off, tailed tucked, up main drag. A cold
wind rattles down from those icy regions
above the rail-road tracks, bringing with it
shivers, bits of flying paper, and wails of
anguish from the Four Hundred cooped in
the S. A. E. lodge . . . With collar upturned,
I trudge homeward, dreaming of a cozy
room, a crackling fire, and a candy-haired
girl to whom I may confide my woes.
* * * *
BOB KLEIN, supreme misogynist of the
campus, in a moment of weakness composed
the following poetical masterpiece. May the
one lady who has ever been able to cause
Klein moments of weakness please take
note.
INSCRIPTION ON A VALENTINE BOX
The day is almost over
This day of heart-shaped cards.
And I would like to join
The ranks of the Valentine bards.
I hope you like the box
Much better than the verse
But I am writing now
Before I get much worse.
Eat it all, every drop today
So for no more you'll pine.
And for my poor sake
Just be my Valentine.
Now I ask you, how could fair damozel
resist that plea?
Men over 50 are the best auto drivers,
says an authority. They have too much
sense to drive with one arm on the wheel
and the other around a flapper.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 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
ACCIDENTS CLAIM
SEVEN IN OPELIKA
DURING PAST WEEK
Seven Injured And One Dead
As Result Of Three Mishaps
Occurring Past Weekend
Automobile accidents in Opelika
caused a toll of seven injuries and one
death on the night of Feb. 16th.
W. B. Tucker, Jr. was crushed
against the steering wheel of his car
and died of internal hemorrhage. The
accident resulted when Mr. Tucker's
car skidded into a ditch.
An automobile driven by Charles
Smith, deputy United States Marshall,
collided with the Atlanta-Montgomery
bus in downtown Opelika. Edna
Smith, received the only serious in­juries.
The others escaped with minor
lacerations.
M. A. Barnes, Opelika salesman,
was severely injured by a hit and run
driver Saturday night.
SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES
MILDRED WADKINS, Society Editor
Sigma Pi Fraternity
To Give Festivities
Collins Appointed To
Textbook Committee
Albert H. Collins, professor in Sec­ondary
Education has been appointed
on the State Textbook Committee. The
committee,, composed of seven out­standing
educators, will make recom­mendations
upon which will be based
final selection of textbooks to be used
in the Alabama Public Schools during
the next six years.
Meetings of the committee will be
held periodically during the next three
or four months. Choosing of texts
will be based on the report of the State
courses of study committee which was
submitted to and approved by the
State Board of Education. Three sep­arate
selections of texts will be rec­ommended,
designating them as first,
second, and third choice, respectively.
Federal Government
To Sell 'Baby Bonds'
The government will put on sale
March 1, at all first, second, and third
class post offices, a "baby bond." These
bonds Will be issued in denominations
as low as $25 so every one who wishes
to save some money can do it.
The official name is "United States
Saving Bonds" and will yield 2.9 per
cent compounded semi-annually if held
until their 10-year maturity. Pur­chasers
will buy the bonds on a dis­count
basis which means the interest
will be deducted from the purchase
price of security/
For instance, $25.00 will be paid on
the maturity of a bond costing $18.50.
Bonds w,ill also be issued in denomi­nations
of $50, $100, $500 and $1,000.
Alpha Delta chapter of the Sigma
Pi fraternity will entertain with a
number of festivities Saturday com­memorating
Founders Day. From 9
to 12, Saturday night, the fraternity
will be hosts at a dance in the Recre­ation
Hall. Susie Freeman from Co­lumbus
has been engaged to play. Fol­lowing
the dance, a buffet supper will
be held at the chapter house. Many
out-of-town visitors and alumni are
expected to be present.
Haley To Manage Huge
Martin Lake Project
Paul S. Haley, Auburn graduate of
1901 and member of the board of trus­tees,
has been appointed manager of
the Martin Lake Project for Planned
Land Use.
Mr. Haley graduated from Auburn
in 1901 as an engineer and received
his Master of Science in 1902. Since
graduation he has engaged in engin­eering
work of different kinds.
Work on the project, which is under
the direction of the Federal govern­ment,
will begin within a few days.
W. A. A. Dance Given
Last Friday Night
The Womans Athletic Association
were sponsors last Friday night of an
enjoyable and unique girl-break dance.
Music was furnished by the Collegians
and several no-breaks and lead-outs
were featured during the evening.
This was the second dance given by
the organization - during the school
year. Plans however, are being made
for'the presentation of another in the
near future.
Mary Francis Jones
Is Wed To H. Weaver
Miss Mary Francis Jones of Leeds,
Alabama, was married * recently to
Havell Weaver of Riverview.
Weaver entered Auburn two years
ago and plans to enter the Chattan­ooga
College of Law in the fall. The
bride is a graduate of Leeds High
School, and at present is connected
with the Telephone Exchange here.
Mr. Weaver and his bride are resid­ing
with her brother in Auburn.
Steiner Is Donor of
Library Books
According to Miss Mary E. Martin,
the school library was recently pre­sented
two most unusual books by Mr.
Leo K. Steiner of Birmingham. The
books are: "Rise and Destiny of the
German Jew," by Markus, and "All in
the Name of God" by Clinchy. These
books should prove valuable additions
to our library.
Thomas Speaks To Boy
Scouts of Opelika
Prof. Albert Thomas, president of
the Auburn, Scout Council gave an in­teresting
talk on "Youth" at a pro­gram
presented by the Boy Scouts of
Opelika at the regular chapel period
of the high school.
The program opened with the Lord's
prayer followed by the singing of
"America the Beautiful," by the stu­dent
body. Prof. Thomas then gave
this talk stressing that you must have
an objective, and you must be good no
matter what obstructions fall in your
path.
PERSONAL
AENTION
Seventeen Make Honor
Roll At City School
Seventeen students were placed on
the Honor Roll for January in Auburn
grammar school.
Sixth grade: Fred Allison, Jack
McKinnon, Shirley Needhorn, Louise
Sims, Billy Tamplin, Virginia Watts.
Fifth grade: Florence Belcher.
Fourth Grade: Anne Black, Lilabel
Carlovitz, Eleanor Dean, Elizabeth
Grimes, Bunney Hay, Velma Hunter,
Sarah Pierce, Anne Claire Tisdale,
and Virginia Williamson.
Four Auburn alumni are now teach­ing
vocational agriculture in Union
County, South Carolina. They are
Ex Ray Stucky, Sam Norris, Oliver
Manning, and Howard Worley.
* * *
Miss De Aubery Maculough spent
the week-end at her home in Elba.
* . * *
William Letford spent the past
week-end in Montgomery.
* * *
Mrs. E. B. Stowers of Montgomery
is the guest of her daughter, Helen
Womelsdorf.
» * *
Mrs. Ruth Waldrop is convalescing
at her home on the Opelika road, af­ter
undergoing an operation several
weeks ago.
. * * *
Bill Hughes spent the past week­end
in Montgomery.
* * *
Miss Louise Whatley, who is now
teaching in the Tallasee schools passed
the week-end with her mother, Mrs.
Alma Whatley.
* * *
Miss Margaret D'Orsay spent the
past week-end in Montgomery.
» * *
Mrs. R. B. Madre continues ill at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wal­lace
Tidmore.
* * *
Misses Ester Weeks, Kay Sibert,
Henrietta Wofsley, and Virginia
Wadswortr spent last week-end in Co­lumbus.
* * *
Jean Batigne spent the past week­end
in Birmingham.
Columbus Club Hears
Review By Mrs. Judd
Mrs Zebulon Judd gave a book re­view
of "John Wesley," by Abraham
Lipsky, before a large group o"f Co­lumbus
women at St. Luke Church, in
that city last Friday afternoon.
Mrs | Judd stated that John Wesley
was an outstanding pioneer in the
south, and an outstanding personage
in religious work. She told of the
life the noted man lived and mentioned
the fact that he preached 40,000 ser­mons.
Mrs. Judd stated that John Wesley
of present day conditions, stating that
the world is growing better, that re­ligious
sects are more tolerant, and
that there is an indication of a more
united religion.
The occasion- for the book review
was a banquet given by members of
Circle Five of the auxiliary of the
Columbus church. About seventy-five
persons attended the affair. Pro­ceeds
of the banquet will be used for
a scholarship fund which is being built
by the women.
Delta Sigma Phi Host
At Dance Last Friday
On Friday evening Kappa Chapter
of Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity was
host at a dance at their local chapter
house from 9:30 to 1:00. Among the
high-lights of the evening were the
fraternity leadout and several no-breaks.
Music was provided by the
Auburn Knights, -under the direction
of Earl Starnes. A number of Alum­ni
of the chapter and several out-of-town
girls were among the guests
present.
AUBURN GRABS TWO VICTORIES
FROM SEWANEE LAST WEEKEND
Plainsmen Close Out Season With 28-13 And 33-24 Wins Over
Strong Purple Quintet; Barnes Tallies Nineteen Points In
Saturday's Tiff To Lead Scoring; Season's Record Is Fair
NOTICE!
Wednesday night is the deadline for
all those wishing to buy banquet tick­ets
for the Honor Societies Ball. .
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keep them young. Don't wait until it is too
late, make snapshots of them now.
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Films DEVELOPED 10c per roll, PRINTS
3c, 4c, 5c and 6c each, depending on the size.
ENLARGEMENTS from your kodak films.
TINTING AND FRAMING.
KODAKS, FILMS and SUPPLIES.
Old photos COPIED and REFINISHED.
MAIL ORDERS given special attention.
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A. T. O. Chapter Will
Give Dance Saturday
Alpha Tau Omega Dance on Satur­day
night will be among the social
events of the coming week-end. It will
be held at their local chapter house
on South Gay. A number of out-of-town
visitors will be numbered among
those present.
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Two decisive victories over Sewa-nee
last Friday and Saturday nights
at Alumni Gymnasium provided a
thrilling finish-to Auburn's 1934-35
basketball season.
In Friday's tilt the Tigers appeared
stronger than they have all season and
emerged at the forward end of a 28-
13 score, the Tigers limiting their
Tennessee opponents to one field goal
and four free throws in the final per­iod.
At the halfway mark, before the
Plainsmen succeeded in building up an
iron wall defense, the Tigers led 10-7.
Woodrow Barnes snared 19 points
in Saturday's battle to give Auburn
a 33-24 victory over Sewanee. Sewa-nee
held a two point lead at half time
but, with Barnes sinking fifteen of
the Tiger's last sixteen tallies, the
Plainsmen slowly pulled into the lead.
Barnes succeeded in leading both
teams in scoring by sinking nine field
goals and one free throw. In the Fri­day
game Barnes also topped the scor­ing
in conjunction with Mitchell, both
boys marking up a total of seven
points each.
LOST:—Rhinestone belt at Pan-Hel­lenic
dance. Finder please return
to Sarah Hooper.
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SIGMA NU WINS GAME FROM
K. A. QUINTET BY 21-13 SCORE
K a p p a A l p h a Q u i n t e t L e a d s T o u r n e y F a v o r i t e s A t H a l f T i m e;
G a m e P r o v e s T o B e One Of Most I n t e r e s t i n g Of T o u r n a ­m
e n t ; O t h e r S e c o n d R o u n d T i l t s T o B e P l a y e d T h i s W e ek
Sigma Nu, finalist for the past five
years, in the Interfraternity Basket­ball
Tourney, rallied late in the game
Monday afternoon to win 21-13 in a
contest with Kappa Alpha, much clos­er
and much more interesting than
the score would indicate.
Kappa Alpha led at the half 8-7
and held its own against the reputedly
stronger Sigma Nu outfit until the
last four minutes of the game when,
with Beverly Biggin and Bo McEwen
out of the fray, the K. A. offense and
defense were considerably weakened.
Robert Turk and Bruce McGhee
split honors, each hitting the cords for
eight points. Turk, a freshman and
brother of Will Turk, indicated an
ability to nobly carry on the Turk tra­dition
as he played his first game un­der
the Sigma Nu banner. Will Turk
was bottled up and held to four points
by the K. A.'s who fought and played
heads-up ball from the opening whis­tle
to the final minute. A. K. Allen
was responsible for the other point for
the '34 runner-up as he converted a
free throw for the first score of the
game.
Mack Binion was the hero in what
almost turned out to be glory for the
North College street outfit Monday.
Binion after slipping two through the
hoops from almost the center of the
court was watched closely, and was
held to a couple of free shots after
that brief scoring spree, but neverthe­less
was an important cog in the K. A.
offensive machine. Harry Hooper,
showed remarkable agility in cover­ing
the floor, and accounted for four
points. Beverly Biggin, of whom the
Sigma Nus had been forewarned,
didn't count but two points, but was
probably the smoothest floor player in
the contest. Albert Marshall made an
extra point to run the K. A. total to
thirteen.
Although second-round games don't
amount to very much in final stand­ings,
Sigma Nu was disappointing in
their first trial in the tourney. Not
until the last quarter did the boys
from Ag Bottom begin to click and
then against the K. A. second-string.
Many easy shots were missed and de­fensively
the K. A.'s ran rings around
the Sigma Nus. For almost the whole
of the second quarter Binion was com­pletely
clear in a disorganized Sigma
Nu defense that was lacking in coor­dination
somewhere. Sigma Nu plays
the winner of the Pi Kappa Phi-A. T.
0. contest in the quarter-finals.
Other second-round games, to be
played next week include: Phi Kappa
Tau-Pi K. A.; Beta Kappa, S. P. E.;
A. L. T.-Alpha Gamma Rho; T. U. O.­Sigma
Chi; Delta Sigma Phi-Theta
Chi; Phi Delta Theta-T. K. N.
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creamy, creosoted Emulsion known to
pharmacists as Bronchuline Emulsion.
It's a medicine for grown-ups for
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trouble. Get a bottle and enjoy a
good night's rest.
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ters of fraternities. All fraternities
fall in the Group B classification of
activities and will therefore pay a $1
fee to the Cabinet. The Y. M. C. A.
and Y. W. C. A. were changed from
Group A to Group B in the classifica­tion.
The Invitation Committee, of which
Gene Heacock is chairman, reported
that dummies for invitations had been
received and that sale of invitations
would begin around the latter part
of March or the first of April.
Arthur Moore raised the question of
whether or not there should be an in­crease
in the membership of the Cabi­net.
The Undergraduate Students
Association constitution provides for
the election of one additional member
for each 200 students or major frac­tion
thereof enrolled in a division.
Under this provision one or two
schools will be entitled to an extra
member since their enrollment has in­creased
enough to warrant the elecr
tion. Velma Paterson, Glenn Plumlee,
and Jarvis Brown were appointed on
a committee to investigate the matter.
TheJ>ody extended Marion Thrash­er
and other members of the Social
Committee congratulations for the set
of mid-term dances which the group
staged several weeks ago.
The next meeting of the Cabinet is
scheduled for seven o'clock next Tues-
FOUR FRATERNITY
TEAMS WIN TILTS
IN INITIAL ROUND
(Continued from Page 1)
seen yet in the tourney. With a fair­ly
polished offense, the Sigma Chis
had little difficulty in trimming the
Kappa Sigs, who never once threaten­ed
the smooth-going quint from West
Magnolia.
Joe Ford Baxter led the Sigma Chis
in points scored, hitting the baskets
for a total of twelve points. Baxter
demonstrated as much ability at get­ting
the ball away from his opponents
and dribbling down through them for
points as any scoring ace seen yet in
the tournament and gave warning that
his lodge will be one of the contenders
in the tourney. Frank Phillippi,
rangy center and pivot man, account­ed
for six points with Joe Stewart
successfully negotiating two field goals
and a foul shot for five points. Stew­art
was an important factor in the
Sigma Chi victory, as he played an ex­cellent
floor game and contributed to
a coordinated offensive. Billy Mastin
and Bill Butler completed the scoring
for the winners with three and two
points respectively, Butler's marker
being the first of the game.
Duncan Finley scored eight of the
losers' eleven points and was the most
outstanding player on the Kappa Sig
outfit. He played desperately in try­ing
to stem the tide of Sigma Chi
points but the offensive tactics of his
opponents were too much. Robert Rut­land
and Sam Westbrook divided the
remaining three points on a two-one
basis.
Theta Kappa Nu 21—Lambda Chi 18
In the closes game of the tourna­ment
this far, T. K. N. won from
Lambda Chi Alpha in a game that was
rather haphazardly played by both
teams. With Fred Wood leading the
way, the Theta Kappa Nus piled up a
13-4 lead by the end of the first half,
holding a ten point margin up to the
closing minutes of the game, when
Lambda Chi Alpha began popping just
a few moments too late. Robert
Ward got four points and Wayne
Hamilton two in the last minute rush
for points but it was too late to do
much good. Wood scored thirteen
points for T. K. N., Ponder four, and
Wilson and Edwards two each for the
twenty-one point total. Hamilton and
Ward each got six points for Lambda
Chi; and Thompson, Hagan and Green
two each.
Neither team looked particularly
impressive, although if T. K. N. can
build up an organized offensive set-up
they might go far in the tourney.
C. J. CHUNN WILL
WORK WITH STATE
LABORATORY HERE
A u b u r n Grad A p p o i n t e d To
S e r v e A s A s s i s t a n t In C h e m i ­c
a l L a b o r a t o r y Last W e ek
day night, Februaiy 26, in the Student
Center.
C. J. Chunn, of Jackson, has been
appointed assistant in the State
Chemical Laboratory here and began
his new work this week, acording to
announcement of Prof. C. L. Hare,
state chemist and dean of the Auburn
school of chemistry and pharmacy.
Mr. Chunn graduated in chemical
engineering at Auburn in 1933 and
was awarded his Master's degree here
the following year.
Necessity of an additional chemist
in the laboratory was occasioned, said
Dean Hare, by a recent ruling of the
State Board of Agriculture which re­quires
all fertilizers sold in the state
to bear a tag indicating whether or
not they are acid or non-acid form­ing.
In addition to regular tests on
fertilizer samples it is now necessary
to determine their calcium carbonate
equivalent.
COMMITTEE DECLARES
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Passing was quite erratic by the win­ners,
and shooting just fair.
Theta Chi 22—S. A. E. 15
With Bob Wallen on the sidelines,
Theta Chi won a close game from Sig­ma
Alpha Epsilon Saturday after­noon.
Leading at halftime 15-8 the
Ag Bottom five ended up still seven
points ahead, S. A. E. pulling up with­in
two points of the winners on one
occasion.
Of all the teams seen thus far, The­ta
Chi probably demonstrated more
practice than any other. With appar­ently
a definite system of plays, and
some one to shoot goals after the ball
was placed in scoring position, the
Theta Chis looked good in this opening
tussle. Jim Pike led the scorers with
9 points, Home. Gossett and Buck Dar-den
getting six and five points re­spectively.
P. P. Powell rounded out
the Theta Chi scoring with a long-range
show that swished decisively
through the net.
S. A. E.'s scoring was well distrib­uted,
Samford and Garrison making
three points each, Scott, Lovelace,
Weissinger, and Houston getting two
apiece. Billy Kent made the odd free
throw point.
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for the period of one scholastic year,
that they must have served on the staff
on which they seek office for this per­iod,
and that they must have completed
five semesters of college work were
the basis for most of the disqualifica­tions.
However, two stipulations in
Article 3, Section 4, of the constitu­tion,
disqualified one of the candidates.
They are: "All persons shall vote only
with the class to which they are as­signed
by the Registrar," and "A per­son
is eligible to hold an office in the
class in which he is a voter."
A check up with the Registrar and
deans of schools was used in determin­ing
whether or not candidates had
completed five semesters of college
work. In addition, this checking sys­tem
was used to determine the class
rating of. the various candidates. Rec­ords
of the Glomerata and Plainsman
were used in investigating each can­didates'
length of service on the two
publications.
Political activity is expected to
reach a peak in a few weeks as candi­dates
for publications offices begin
their campaigns. Announcement con­cerning
the date for executive Cabinet
elections will be made in a few days,
according to Bill Hughes, president of
the Cabinet, and Linwood Funchess,
chairman of the elections Committee.
The election of class offices and pub­lications
heads will be held during the
second week in April.
INTERMENT FOR STEADHAM IS
HELD ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON
R i t e s For A u b u r n G r a d u a t e H e l d In L o a c h a p o k a C e m e t e r y;
F u n e r a l S e r v i c e s H e l d F r o m A u b u r n H o m e ; W a s One Of
T h e F o u n d e r s Of T h e Local C h a p t e r Of S i g m a Phi E p s i l on
Funeral services for John B. Stead-ham
were held Saturday afternoon at
three o'clock from the home in Auburn.
The remains were interred in the cem­etery
at Loachapoka.
Dr. Bruce McGhee of Auburn, as­sisted
by Dr. John C. James of Opeli­ka,
officiated at the funeral. Pallbear­ers
were John Turner Hudson, T. H.
Burton, Hugh Tamplin, Clyne Tamp-lin,
P. R. Bidez, and J. W. Wright, Jr.
Mr. Steadham passed away at his
home in Auburn Friday night after an
illness of three months. He was un­married
and is survived by his mother,
Mrs. 0. M. Steadham, and three sis­ters,
Mrs. J. G. Beasley, Mrs. G. G.
Stewart and Mrs. H. M. Martin, all of
Auburn.
Mr. Steadham received his elemen­tary
schooling at Auburn and attended
Alabama Polytechnic Institute. He
was one of the founders of the Ala­bama
Chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon.
The Auburn Public Schools led the
Lee County school attendance for Jan­uary
according to a report made by
Miss Mary Wilson, attendance worker.
Auburn, with a percentage of 92.9
was followed by Loachapoka with 92
per cent. Beauregard had the lowest
attendance record with 76 per cent.
Tiger Theatre
AUBURN, ALABAMA
"The Showplace of East
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WEDNESDAY, February 20
"TRANSATLANTIC
MERRY-GO-ROUND"
with Jack Benny, Nancy Carroll,
Gene Raymond.
Alio cartoon in color,
"Pastry Town Wedding"
THURSDAY, February 21
NANCY CARROLL in
"JEALOUSY"
with Donald Cook and
George Murphy.
Added Brevities, "Cher Sez La
Femme" and Oddity.
FRIDAY, February 22
"ANNE OF GREEN
GABLES"
with Anne Shirley and an all
star cast.
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THURSDAY, February 21
"GIRL OF MY DREAMS"
with Mary Carlisle
Plus: "HORSE HEIR" a Comedy
FRIDAY, February 22
ON THE SCREEN-
"MENACE"
with Gertrude Michael and Paul Cavanaugh
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