1934-11-24 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOLUME LVIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1934 NUMBER 23
ATTENDANCE AT
STUDENT RALLY
BREAKS RECORD
INCOMPLETE 1935 FOOTBALL
MENU ANNOUNCED BY COACH
Largest Crowd In Years Attend
O. D. K. Sponsored Student
Rally On Football Field
BULLDOG IS BURNED
Coaches And Petrie Make
Speeches; Loud Speaking
System Used For Meeting
To Play Saturday
If the number of students attend­ing
the 0. D. K. sponsored rally last
night on the freshman football field
is to be used as a yard stick in ap­proximating
the amount of confidence
Auburn has in Jack Meagher, stu­dents
and townspeople think him to
be one of the nation's finest coaches.
Long before the scheduled time for
the festivities to get underway stu­dents
filled practically all the avail­able
bleacher seats which were erect­ed
for the occasion. By time for
the meeting to start the crowd num­bered
approximately twelve hundred
persons. '
After cheerleaders Ed Prewitt, Bill
McTeire, Bill Lee, and former cheer­leader
Bill Ham had led several yells
the rally got underway with the burn­ing
of the Georgia Bulldog in effigy.
Don Pierce, president of Omega
Circle of Omricon Delta Kappa, pre­sided
at the meeting. Before intro­ducing
Coach Meagher, the first
speaker, Pierce stated that "the Geor­gia
game ends the collegiate athletic
careers of several Auburn players
and marks the end of Meagher's first
season as the Tiger coach". "It is
only appropriate that we gather here
to show some measure of confidence
in the coaches and the team. We wel­come
the opportunity to have these
men with us". He then presented
Meagher.
"One of the most touching things
that has ever come into my life has
been the farewells you have given us
at the station before we depart for
each game", began Coach Meagher.
"The tears have rolled down my
cheeks every time we have left the
depot. You have good spirit. The
team deserves your praise. Saturday
after Saturday they have played sev­eral
of the best teams in the United
States and every time the 'boys' have
given a good account of themselves.
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Landscape Work Is
Plentiful — Biggin
"If you want a job, study landscape
architecture."
Yhis, in effect, is the statement of
Dean Frederic Child Biggins of the
Auburn school of architecture and
allied arts who says that within the
past year the demand for adequately
trained landscape architects has
greatly exceeded the supply.
"Although employment of other
types of architectural graduation is
also now enjoying a post-depression
increasse, the greatest demand is for
those in landscape architecture," he
explained. "We could have placed
last year more than twice the number
of our graduates in this course".
Various agencies of the New Deal
were credited with the increase de­mand
for landscape architects, par­ticularly
the forest service, the TVA,
and various group housing enter­prises.
The Auburn course requires four
years and the degree of bachelor of
landscape architecture. The school of
agriculture cooperates in offering the
course.
Dean Biggin announced Thursday
that 50 detailed designs of building
construction will be shipped this week
to Manhattan, Kan., where they will
be included in the annual traveling
exhibit of the Association of Colle­giate
Schools of Architecture. The
drawings were done by architectural
students taking the construction op­tion
under Prof. F. M. Orr, a phase
of instruction at Auburn which is
not surpassed by any school through­out
the country, according to officials
of the Association.
Schedule Includes Six Confer­ence
Opponents; N e w Gaines
Are Added To Slate
MIGHT PLAY CHICAGO
Intersectional Game With Uni­versity
Of Chicago Expected
To Be Played
Joe BOB Mnc«EiL-iflw«*wflSaty-^«rfe»/
Joe Bob has been out of the
line-up for the past several games
because of an ankle injury. He
will get in action against Georgia
tomorrow and should cause the
Bulldogs plenty of worry.
DIRECTORY TO BE
OFF PRESS EARLY
Student Directories Will Be
Distributed Next Tuesday
Afternoon Says Edwards
The new student directory for 1934-
'35 will be ready for distribution to
students next Tuesday afternoon,
Nov. 27, according to C. W. Edwards,
associate registrar. Distribution will
be made from the Y. M. C. A. office
in the basement of Langdon Hall.
Due to the shortage in finances,
the college has been unable to sponsor
the printing of a directory since Oc­tober
1931. This year, through the
cooperation of the Y. M. C. A., the
classes through appropriations from
class dues, and contributions from
the several fraternities and sororities
its publication has been made possi­ble.
The directory contains the names
of all professors and instructors, giv­ing
their local residence and phone
number; a list of all students with
their phone number, course and class
in which they are registered, their
home and Auburn residence, their
church preference, and name of fra­ternity
to which they are members
A tentative 1935 football schedule
as announced by Head Coach and
Athletic Director Jack Meagher late
yesterday afternoon includes six
Southeastern Conference opponents,
one S. I, A. A. team, one Southern
Conference foe, and probably an in­tersectional
rival.
The tentative schedule is as fol
lows: September 27—Birmingham
Southern at Montgomery, October 5
—Tulane at New Orleans, October 12
—Tennessee at Birmingham, October
19—open, October 26—Duke at Dur­ham,
N. C. or Birmingham, Novem­ber
2—L. S. U. at Baton Rouge, No
vember 9—Georgia Tech at Atlanta,
November 16—Florida at Jackson­ville,
November 23—Georgia at Co­lumbus.
Should negotiations for a
game with the University of Chicago,
one of the leading elevens of the Big
Ten Conference, go through the game
will be played either on October 19,
an open date on the schedule, or after
the Georgia game on November 23.
The game will probably be played in
Chicago if it is scheduled.
There will be no game played on
the campus next season, and only two
.or maybe three tilts will be played in
the State. The usual Birmingham-
Southern encounter in Montgomery
will open the Tigers' slate, with the
Tennessee and possibly the Duke
games being scheduled for Birming­ham.
Since the beginning of the
Duke-Auburn series games have been
played on home and home basis, a
game being played in Birmingham
one year and one in Durham the next.
Since the tilt was staged in the Magic
City this season, in all probability, it
will be played in Durham next season.
Auburn's 1935 schedule will again
be one of the most difficult of any
played by a Southeastern Conference
team. In Tulane, Tennessee, Duke,
L. S. U., Georgia Tech, Florida, and
Georgia the Plainsmen will meet sev­eral
of the likely conference pennant
contenders for next season. In addi­tion,
the pending game with the Chi­cago
Maroons would see Meagher's
team up against one of the nation's
strong teams. Birmingham-South­ern
with a championship eleven this
season, will also furnish Auburn with
tough opposition.
However, even with another hard
list of games to play, the Tigers are
RHODESAWARDS
SOUGHT BY TWO
LOCAL STUDENTS
Robert Rutland And Frank
Grubbs Are Recommended
For Rhodes Scholarships
SELECTIONS MADE SOON
Eighteen Alabama Students
Apply For Awards; Winners
To Study For Two Years
or pledges. There is a roster of fra
ternities containing a list of members L ] r e a d y mentioned as one of the 1935
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GAMES IN SECOND ROUND OF
TOURNEY ARE BEING PLAYED
Robert H. Rutland and Frank E.
Grubbs have been recommended by
the authorities here to compete for
the annual Rhodes Scholarship to Ox­ford
Uuiversity, England. Appli­cations
were made to Dr. O. C. Car-michael,
secretary of the state com­mittee
of selection in Alabama.
Rutland is studying Architecture
here at Auburn and is in his fifth
year. During his first four years his
scholastic average was 88.6. At pre­sent
he is a member of five student
organizations: 0. D. K., Blue Key,
Scarab, Scabbard and Blade,, and the
"A" Club. He has designed frat­ernity
panels for the annual and is
now serving as a student assistant in
football. He was highly recommend­ed
by Dr. J. J. Wilmore, as an appli­cant
for a scholarship.
Grubbs graduated from Auburn
last year and is now employed by
the college as a graduate assistant
in mathematics. He is working
for his master's degree, which he
hopes to get this spring. His scholas­tic
average for his first four years at
Auburn was above 90, he having ma­jored
in mathematics. He is a mem­ber
of the band and of Delta Phi
Omega, honorary fraternity. He was
recommended by Dr. H. H. Crenshaw,
head of the Mathematics Department.
Each year 32 Rhodes Scholarships
are distributed through the United
States for which competition is always
keen. The Scholarship provides for
about $2,000 a year for two years
study at Oxford. United States is
divided into eight districts of six
states each. The several state com­mittees
select two applicants from
their state to appear before the dist­rict
committee, which selects from the
group four applicants who will receive
scholarships.
The Alabama committee on select­ion,
which meets January 3, is com­posed
of Dr. G. H. Denny, chairman,
William Rogers; R. L. Lange, Earl
McGowin, and Dr. Carmichael. Dis­trict
committee will make their nom­inations
on January 7. Applicants
will be notified of their selection and
will leave for England early next fall.
Eighteen students in Alabama, repre­senting
six institution, have handed
in their applications.
Sophomore Quarterback OLD RIVALS TO
RENEW FEUD IN
TILT SATURDAY
Auburn And Georgia Are Pi­oneers
Of Southern Football;
Playing In Long Series
GEORGIA FAVORED
Plainsmen Are In Good Physi­cal
Condition For Important
Game; Mitchell To Play
SIDNEY SCARBOROUGH
ALABAMA POL,*^ — AUBl/RAt
Scarborough has made a name for himself as one of the brainiest
field generals in the Conference this season. This is his first year
of varsity play and he is expected to go far next year.
ROOSEVELT, WIFE
1NVITEDT0 GAME
Chief Executive Might Accept
Invitation To Attend Geor­gia-
Auburn Game Saturday
Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa
Phi, And T. U. O. Teams
Victorious In Close Games
The second round of the Interfra
ternity Council Touch football tour­nament
is nearing completion as three
more games have been played with
strong teams coming through with
wins. Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa
Phi and Theta Upsilon Omega are
the teams that annexed victories in
their second round encounters.
Pi Kappa Alpha unleashed a bril­liant
and deceptive offensive attack
in the last half yesterday to score two
touchdowns and defeat Sigma Chi
12-0. The first half was even in so
far as the play of each team was
concerned but with the opening of
the second period the Pi K. A.'s open­ed
up their bag of, football tricks
and successfully negotiated two touch­downs.
The first marker was made
by Billy Roberts, who caught a long
pass from Bill Bowers over the goal,
and the second was made by George
Quinney who sneaked through the
center of the line for a five yard
gain and a touchdown.
Theta Upsilon Omega won 8-6 in
a wierd encounter Wednesday from
Alpha Lambda Tau to enter the quar­ter
finals. The T. U. O. aggregation
made their touchdown on a pass from
Black to Curley and won the game
with a safety resulting from tagging
Geter Wood of Alpha Lambda Tau
behind the goal on an attempted punt
return. A. L. T. scored on a pass
from Edwards to Frank Langdon.
Pi Kappa Phi continued unbeaten
in its first test as Hamilton passed
twice to Jones for two markers and
a 12^0 victory over the Kappa Alphas.
As a result of these games Pi K.
A. plays the winner of the Kappa
Sigma-Beta Kappa contest; and T.
U. O. plays Pi Kappa Phi in the
third round. Four more games re­main
to be played in the second round
but according to reports from the fra­ternities
involved all will be played by
Sunday. Kappa Sigma has to play
Beta Kappa; the Sigma Nu-Theta
Chi affair has to be replayed; A. T.
O. and Sigma Phi Sigma have to
meet; and Sigma Alpha Epsilon has
to play S. P* E. All four of these
games should be highly interesting
contests as at least six of these teams
are known to be strong with the re­maining
two's strength an unknown
quantity.
500 Farm And County
Agents Convene Here
Over 500 county farm and home
demonstration agents have been in
Auburn since Thursday morning for
a special meeting called by Dr. L. N.
Duncan, director of the Extension
Service. The session will end this
afternoon.
The main purpose of the conference
is that of receiving instructions with
reference to the referendum on the
Bankhead Cotton Control Act, which
will take place about the middle of
December. Also, they will study and
analyze agricultural conditions and
make plans for the work in 1935.
Brief reports on achievements of 1934
will be made.
At the meet suggestions will be
made in reference to a special Thanks­giving
meeting to be held in each
county of the state on Thanksgiving
Day, for the purpose of celebrating
the achievements in agriculture made
last summer in Alabama.
The initial session was held at 1
o'clock Thursday afternoon and the
final session will be held today.
Through United States Senators
and also direct administrative author­ities
of Auburn and of the University
of Georgia President and Mrs. Frank­lin
D. Roosevelt have been invited to
be the guests of students and faculties
of these institutions at the Auburn-
Georgia football game in Columbus,
Saturday, November 24.
The Auburn invitation was extend­ed
through Senator John H. Bank-head
before the President arrived at
.Warm Springs; and the Georgia in­vitation
through the Georgia Senators
at the request of Dr. S. V. Sanford,
president of the University of Geor­gia.
Following these, invitations, were
sent direct from the Administrative
Committee of the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute after the President ar­rived
at Warm Springs.
Replies have not been received, but
it is hoped by the Administrative
Committee that President and Mrs.
Roosevelt accept.
It is realized by the committee, how­ever,
that the President receives many
invitations to visit different places
and that an exceedingly limited num­ber
can be accepted, because of the
demands upon his time, and also the
precaution and extra work required
by the presence of the President of
the United States on any occasion.
PUNS UNDERWAY
FOR JUNIOR PROM
Thrasher Says Committee Is
Negotiating For One Of Na­tion's
Best Bands To Play
According to a statement by Marion
Thrasher, chairman of the student
social committee, plans for the annual
Junior Prom are rapidly nearing com­pletion
and announcement concerning
the selection of an outstanding dance
orchestra will be made in a few days.
Thrasher said that one of the na­tion's
most popular bands had prac­tically
been signed, but that a com­mittee
ruling prevents him from di­vulging
the name of this group until
the contract has been signed and sent
back to the Music Corporation of
America. Announcement of the or­chestra
selected to furnish the music
for the highlight of the yearly social
activities at Auburn is expected to
be made directly after the Thanks­giving
holidays.
The finest of dance music is as­sured
Auburn this year due to the
new booking arrangement effected by
social committee chairmen at several
Southern colleges and universities.
Sewanee, Alabama, Georgia, Georgia
Tech, and Auburn committees have
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Renewal of a gridiron rivalry which
is as old as Southern football itself
sends Auburn's Plainsmen into battle
tomorrow against Georgia's Bulldogs.
The game, an annual affair for
years at Columbus, will be played
again in that city in beautiful Memo­rial
Stadium which the Tigers and
Bulldogs dedicated two years ago. The
kickoff is scheduled for 2 o'clock.
The air around Columbus is filled
with tenseness as every Auburn and
Georgia man impatiently awaits the
kickoff. Advance ticket sales indicate
a capacity crowd of around 18,000
will fill the stadium to see these two
pioneers of Southern football renew
their traditional rivalry which dates
back to 1892. The game will mark
the thirty-ninth meeting of the two
schools on the gridiron.
Although neither team is listed
among the top group of Southern
elevens as far as records are concern­ed,
the game will be packed with color
from start to finish as only a Geor­gia-
Auburn meeting can be. ,
Georgia, inconsistent all season,
flashed championship form in defeat­ing
Yale several weeks ago in New
Haven. Victories over Stetson, Fur-man,
North Carolina State, and Flor-;
ida, and defeats by Alabama, Tulane,
and North Carolina are recorded in
their schedule to date.
Auburn enters tomorrow's game
in only fair condition. Injuries to
Sam McCroskey, guard; George
Strange, end; Joe Bob Mitchell, half­back,
will hinder the Plainsmen in
their effort to make it three straight
over the Bulldogs. Mitchell, how­ever,
returned to the line-up this week
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NOTICE!
All Auburn students who attended
Starke University School in Mont­gomery
are requested to meet in Sam-ford
213 at 7:30 next Monday night, amount to $28,000,000.
State Agricultural
Conditions Improve
Agricultural conditions in Alabama
are better than in any other state in
the nation. The Nov. 1 crop report
issued by F. W. Gist, state and fed­eral
agricultural statistician, shows
Alabama leading the list with the
highest yield compared to the pre­vious
10-year average. The percent­age
standing of Alabama is 12.7.
The farm value of 12 crops pro­duced
in the state this year, for which
prices are at present available, totals
$137,747,000, compared to a value of
$95,946,000 for the same crops last
year. Total cash income from all
crops in Alabama last year was $65,-
690,000. With the same ratio of in­crease,
the cash income this year will
be $93,937,000.
Gains for Alabama in farm value
of all crops over last year amount to
$53,000,000, and gains in cash income
Glider Club Formed
Last Tuesday Night
A Glider Club was organized on
the campus at a meeting of prospec­tive
members last Tuesday night in
Ramsay Hall with M. L. Hardemen
being elected president. Other of­ficers
elected at the first meeting
were W. Caruthers, vice-president;
and E. Briggs, secretary-treasurer.
Also, a committee was appointed to
formulate by-laws of the club.
The purpose of the club is to af-ford
its members elementary instruc­tion
in the flying of gliders and to
provide for inexpensive methods of
learning to fly. In this way it is
hoped that an interest will be promot­ed
on the campus in the art of glider
flying. Faculty advisers of the club
are Joe Barrett and Solon Dixon.
Among the members of the club
are a number of licensed glider pilots.
It is planned that in the near future
•the club may be able to purchase a
Waco Primary glider to be used for
training purposes.
Meetings of the club will be held
weekly on Tuesday night in Ramsay
Hall, with .outside speakers being
planned for each meeting.
Riflemen Engage In
Daily Practice Work
The Auburn Rifle Team, under the
supervision of the Military Depart­ment,
is getting in some good firing
practice at the present time. In ad­dition
to old members returning from
last year there are five newcomers
who are showing great promise and
who should materially bolster the
team's average. The squad is now
composed of sixty-three members but
after the second elimination, to end
Wednesday, November 28, the number
will be reduced to forty. After the
third elimination on December 7, the
squad will be further reduced to thirty
men. Between January 17 and the
end of February the team will be en­gaged
in the Corps Area Small Bore
competition with the 23 other R. O. T.
C. units in the Forth Corps Area.
Lieut. Ergott, assisted by Sergeant
Reeves, of the Engineer Branch of
the local R.O.T.C. unit is coaching the
team this year for the first time but
is expected to continue the brilliant
record of last year's team. The 1933-
34 rifle team finished second in the
Corps Area.
A considerable number of matches
have been arranged, fifty opponents
having been definitely scheduled.
Among the colleges that the team is
to fire are, the University of Alabama,
Georgia Tech, University of Georgia,
University of Porto Rico, New York
University, University of California,
University of Washington, Michigan
School of Mines, and M. I. T. These
matches will be conducted by mail,
but'the shoulder to shoulder matches
are planned with Georgia Tech and
the University of Georgia.
Officers of this year's team are:
Captain J. M. Van Hoose; Manager,
E. E. Casson; and Ass't Manager, J.
E. Moyer. The Birmingham Post has
offered a loving cup on which the
names of the five highest scoring men
of the entire season will be engraved.
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, NOVEMBER 24, 1934
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Let Us Give Thanks
Quite a number of years ago a band of
hardy adventurers hesitated in their search
for a substantial home in a savage land
long enough to thank the same God we wor­ship
today for the few things that they pos­sessed.
The service was simple and brief.
They thanked their God . . . for what?
There were no networks of fine highways
stretching through the nation at that time.
The first steamboat was still an unborn
dream . . . the railroad unheard of. It was
impossible to lean back in a easy chair and
enjoy the papers and digest a meal that all
the world had contributed to.
There wasn't the slightest anticipation of
that big game in the afternoon between two
fine football teams. There was no gasoline
and no car to put it in. There was only
snow and a rather nasty North wind . . .
and a great deal of death. The boat from
England was long overdue and supplies
were running low. But they gave thanks.
It is likely that they were conscious of a
reality that we sophisticates have seeming­ly
forgotten. They believed in their God,
even to the point of undertaking a trip
that would be comparable today to a jour­ney
to Mars, and they were entirely ignorant
of what they would find in the Far Lands.
They thanked Him for good clean air; they
thanked Him for a makeshift shelter again­st
the northern winter; they thanked Him
for enough food to exist on; they thanked
Him for goods wives and husbands and . . .
for Freedom.
Compared to our present civilized states
they were destitute. Most of us moderns
would not think of thanking God for the
things they had. But to those people who
had recently left behind intolerance and
persecution that first Thanksgiving Day
was the beginning of a new deal. And they
belonged to a group who thought appreci­ation
. . . and so they thanked their God.
Today America is standing at the cross­roads
of history. It is entirely possible for
her to go up . . . toward immortality, or
down to the doubtful glory that is Rome's.
And yet, even in view of all the woe and
misery caused by the fading depression, she
• has a thousand more reasons to give thanks.
It might be well for her to remember.
deal of the writing that one is called upon
to do, and a great deal of the speaking
that one is called upon to do, must be pro­duced
under stress. The person who has
not the necessary grasp of fundamentals
to enable him to avoid such errors, even
under stress, as those appearing in that
example, will be a marked man because of
his poor use of English.
It is very probably true that Pres. Roose­velt
does a great deal fo his writing and
speaking under stress. Yet the "purists"
to whom reference was made in the Plains­man,
are able to detect only a minor slip
once in a long time. The example printed
last week from a student paper had eight
errors, very noticeable errors, in one sen­tence.
After all, it seems there is very little
parellel between the problems of Pres.
Roosevelt and the problems of students who
are weak in their English. The president
cannot give them much help, or even solace.
An Answer
The Plainsman deeply appreciates the
lengthy and scholarly defense of poor Eng­lish
which appeared in Wednesday's paper
but is nevertheless forced to call attention
to a few weaknesses which make the argu­ment
ineffective.
The fact that Pres. Roosevelt, Hugh
Johnson, or anyone else occasionally makes
an error in English does not release the
student from the necessity of learning the
elements of grammar, spelling, punctuation
and sentence structure. As a matter of
fact, the few errors which are pointed out
as having been made by the president were
errors that would not even be discovered
by the average freshman or sophomore stu­dent.
They were minor infractions for that
very reason.
Undoubtedly the example from a junior's
paper, appearing in last week's Plainsman,
was written under the stress of a test or
examination. That is an explanation, but
hardly an excuse. Unfortunately, a great
Necessity of Success
For years without number the human
race has been afflicted with the "necessity
of prominence" complex. Maturity of mind
or body is rarely needed for the human
being to become smitten with the desire to
rear his head above the mass by the aid
of the pedestal of false ambition. From
early youth he feels the desire to reach
the center of the stage of pseudo success
where he may bask in the lime-light of
group popularity; all outward actions are
more or less skillfully concealed as he plays
all his vain attempts against the middle
goal—public acclaim, the shrine of all the
groveling aspirants. What matters the
course that is taken to reach the end,
whether it be at the sacrifice of personal
respect or .the subjugating of the basic
ideals which may lay claim to as gifts of
heredity? To sacrifice that which has
taken years to build does not matter.
To bow down, to lie, to steal, to kiss the
hem of the garment of those who have the
key to the door which leads to the throne
room. Giving up the respect and limitless
value of friendships does not remain as
even the slightest obstacles once the course
is laid open. Emotionless in every action,
yet having all emotions bridled to center
upon the goal.
In childhood man has the crude and open
motive, in youth he vaguely learns the cost,
but in maturity he discards everything to
achieve this self-centered ambition. Once
at the pinnacle he rests beneath the cover­ing
of false modesty and carries on the
eternal struggle with remorse.
The Light
Men blink when light suddenly floods a
darkened room. The dark has always con­notated
the mysterious, the insidious, and
the unknown. There are those who prefer
to keep under cover all that is not pleas­ant,
and to reveal only the rose tinged side
of everything. There are men who work
in the dark—men who work in the light.
There is much in Auburn that we are
attempting to straighten out by laboring in
the dark. We seem to find it rather dif­ficult
to distinguish the facts under such
conditions. Why not face the truth and the
light with all problems, and attempt all re­organization
with a clear understanding of
the basic difficulties?
Merchant Marine
"We must carry our own merchandise
if we want to sell it", is the slogan behind
the plan for an intensive campaign to in­crease
the American merchant marine.
At present the United States can carry
only about 30 per cent of her commerce and
most of that in out of date, war-time-con­structed
vessels. It is the fear of the Ad­ministration
that if the United States is
not able to take care of the transporting
of her commerce she may lose a great part
of it. Commerce is considered to be en­tirely
in the hands of those who transport
it.' For this reason the administration is
preparing to ask the next Congress to
legislate in favor of an ambitious merchant
marine project.
Under Joseph B. Weaver, head of the
combined bureaus of navigation and steam­boat
inspection, a plan is to go forward to
obtain government subsidizing of building
and operation of a modern commercial fleet.
Due to the lack of return from individual
investment in merchant marine, it is ne­cessary
that the government take a hand
in bringing the United States to the top
in the size of its commercial fleets.
Besides the need of an improved fleet
to carry on her commerce the United States
must be prepared in case of national emer­gency.
Should the country become engaged
in war, it would be practically impossible,
and certainly impractical to have men and
munitions and other supplies transported
by foreign fleets.
The United States is realizing that no
country is any stronger than its merchant
marine.
FACTS AND FALLACIES
By Hit
Andre de Coppet, New York banker, has
given Princeton University more than 500
volumes which originally formed part of
the library of Napoleon Bonaparte.
I
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial opin­ions
of this paper. It is a coiumn of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
* * * *
IWAS figuring it was about tune that
"BS" on the opposite side of this sheet
was changed to read a little differently.
It is a wonder to me that they chose such
a name in the first place unless it was
their modesty, and I hardly think that.
"BS" stands for more things than Boy
Scouts.
My friend across the page brings up the
question of liquor in Alabama which, he
says, confronts the new state legislature.
Well, even if the state did decide to let
a little fire water seep in, we wouldn't get
any of it here in Auburn. I don't care
much for the strong stuff, but I do like beer
that is not too green and thought that
someday we might have it in Auburn. But
I was told recently by somebody who ought
to know that there is a college ruling in
effect here that prohibits any alcoholic
beverages of any sort on the campus
whether the state has it or not. Woe is me!
Which on second thought doesn't mean
so much because anybody who wants a
little drink can get it with out much trou­ble.
The only hitch is the price—too high
for the average college student.
* * * *
Whoever started the rumor, anyway,
about the college hauling all us fellows to
Columbus for the game Saturday? The
latest, though, was that we are first going
to meet the president at Warm Springs and
then beat it to the game, or something like
minute flash and hope that there is some
provision in it to have all classes excused
for the following week. We might as well
do it up well while we are at it. It would
be swell, too, if we could talk the president
into making us fellows assistant brain
trusters and have us get a little salary on
the side. Oh well, there is no limit to
what might be done; and I am getting
dizzy thinking about it.
* * * *
The I. S. A. has turned out to be a little
better than a flop. It seems to be dying a
slow death. If its sole purpose is to act
as a political organization about two times
a year and remain dormant in between
times, it might just as well not exist.
Even as an efficient political organization
the I. S. A. could hardly hope to do much
real good. If two men, one a fraternity
man and the other a non-fraternity man,
are candidates for some office, the I. S. A.
will in all probability choose to back the
non-fraternity man for no better reason
than that he is a non-fraternity man. The
I. S. A. does not consider ability of can­didates
up for election, but acts only for
the purpose of fighting the fraternities.
It would be better if the I. S. A. would
do for the non-fraternity man what the
fraternities do for the fraternity man.
That is, to act as a social organization
which considers politics only one of its
many activities. The organization could
throw a few dances, get up a football team,
and do many other similar things that
would tend to draw non-fraternity men
into fellowship with one another.
* * * *
From now until next spring we will hear
a good bit about the Debate Club. That
is one organization on the campus that
really does things in a big way. Its mem­bership
is composed only of those who are
not afraid of plenty of hard work, and
not of a bunch of tag ends who join dif­ferent
things on the campus just to be
able to say that they participate in student
activities. It takes nothing but initiative
to join the Club, perseverance to work up
a good debate, and plenty of guts to get
up before an audience and talk as though
you really meant it. Mr. Hess is due a
good bit of credit for his work as organizer
of a club which does as much for Auburn
as a dozen champion football teams.
* * * *
Scraps—Why not a coed cake race as
something a little out of the ordinary?
So far this week there has been no less
than nine burglaries, so I was told. Some
of you fellows have gone just about far
enough with your racket. The ticking of
a watch worries me, but I am crazy about
these windy nights. These follows who
say that they are going to quit smoking
tickle me. That's just another way for
one to brag of his will power, and brags
never, amount to much. About 75 ticket
books were taken up at the game last
Saturday. Anybody with even one grain
of sense knows that something is screwey
when a dimple faced coed with silken hair
tries to get by with a Jones MacZilch name.
I wonder if Morris Pelham is still saving
that five bucks he got for climbing up the
college flag pole. Believe it or not, but
Sarg Reeves plans to buy himself an Austin
coupe about the first of June. He and
his wife plan to do some extensive travel­ing
this summer.
-:- AUBURN FOOTPRINTS <*
Stranger: "Are you an instructor in this college, sir?"
Auburn Stude: "Naw, my room mate got up before I did."
* * * * * *
SUGGESTED FOOTBALL YELL
Onions! Carrots! Cabbage! Beets!
Look at all those empty seats!
Hit the crowd, you lazy fellers—
Cop the coin, you ticket sellers.
Shakespeare! Shelly! Swinburne! Keats!
Swell the tiny gate receipts!
• • * • • *
We're doubtless the worst of meanies. . .
But we don't like girls who wear Eugenies.
Note: Not so good as verse, but very expressive.
* * * * * *
The college journalist sighed for there was no more to master. His efforts
had met with the approval of the English Department.
* * * * * *
It is often hard to endure the sound of a sound sleeper.
* * * * * *
A collegiate humorist has suggested that the modern co-ed has been tried and
found wanting—everything under the sun.
* * * * * *
Several ways to make a million dollars in Auburn:
1. Start a new honor fraternity.
2. Make pajamas long enough.
3. Own an auto, take people to football games and charge them "their
part of the expenses". '
4. Move away from Auburn.
* * * * * *
Someone said that the stenographer who killed her employer and pleaded
insanity was doubtless insane.
* * * * * *
Three and a half years of college life and unmoved by the wiles of women or
of the softer emotions—that was the record of "Duckie" Ellis. Alas, he takes
his place among the fallen, for he was discovered recently doing the dance of the
Spring to the music of Wayne King.
* * * * • •
Information from freshman themes reveal the following facts:
X. A goblet is a male turkey.
2. A buttress is a woman who makes butter.
3. A grass widow is the wife of a vegetarian.
* * * * * *
How sweet to waken in the morn
When sunbeams first begin to creep
Across the lea—and then to lie
Right back down and go to sleep.
* * * * * *
A man touring Europe sent back a picture post card bearing this message:
Dear Son,
On the other side you will see a picture of the rock from which the
Spartans used to throw their defective children. Wish you were here.
Your Dad.
* * * * * *
Leo Landers is rapidly assuming the position of Auburn's new Prince Charming.
"Trie Barretts of Wimpole Street"
In Which The Author Contends That The. Cinema Production Left A
Slight Feeling Of Incompleteness To The Original
Besier Story
take up books—but my heart goes walking
up and down constantly through that house
of Wimpole Street, till it is tired, tired."
The cinema production of "The Barretts
of Wimpole Street" gave to all who saw it
a feeling of satisfaction by ending as the
favorite daughter, Elizabeth, freed herself
from her tyranical father. But was not
there a slight feeling of incompleteness to
the story? Some desire to know something
of the father's reactions—some history of
the Brownings after their elopement.
Elizabeth's letters to her sister, Hen­rietta,
give the best key to what happened
after leaving England. After about a
month in Pisa on the honeymoon, Eliza­beth
wrote: "We both delight in the quiet­ness,
and give no sign of being tired of
one another, which is the principal thing."
Later in the letter, "It is not so bad a
thing, to be sure, for a woman to be loved
by a man of imagination."
This is a bit vague, probably because it
was written on the honeymoon. From an­other
letter to Henrietta some years later
a more definite view of the poets' relations
is given. "There is more love between us
two at this moment than there ever has
been . . . ours is a true marriage, and not
a conventional match."
Ba regained her strength steadily.
Slightly more than a month after leaving
Wimpole Street she delighted her sisters
with: "My appetite is certainly improved
. . . at dinner we have Chianti, which is
an excellent kind of claret; and fancy me
(and Wilson) drinking claret out of tum­blers!"
There is no doubt that Elizabeth
was contrasting the pleasantries of the
claret with the detested "Porter". which
her father forced her to drink.
Later, a son was born to the poets and
Ba's feelings toward him were typical of
the fond mother. She wrote, "You never
saw such *a fat, rosy, lively child at two
months and a week old—really he is re­markable."
Of the word "mama", she
wrote, "What a deep sounding word! Yes,
indeed—it has music."
Her father never answered the letters
she wrote him. Five years after her mar­riage
she returned to England on a visit
and her father had all the letters returned
to her with the seals unbroken. Yet her
letters to her sisters contained such ex­pressions
as "Tell me everything. Always
mention dearest papa. I dream of him and
pray for him . . . Mention papa's cough
particularly." To show that his attitude
toward her did not make her forget him
she wrote Henrietta at his death, " . . . I
Henrietta, after a five-year engagement
married as Elizabeth had. In her congrat­ulations
to Henrietta, Elizabeth expressed
the subtle hope that Arabel too might
find a husband. Henrietta's first child was
a boy, her second a girl. Elizabeth spoke
on several occasions of having to guard
against jealousy because she had no daugh­ter.
(This feeling of jealousy no doubt
resulted from Elizabeth's desire to give
her own daughter the kind of happy girl­hood
she had missed.)
To Wilson, the faithful maid, Italy be­came
home and no longer one of the "for­eign
places" she had so dreaded. Italy
truly was preferable to her after her happy
marriage to the Browning's manservant,
Ferdinando Romagnoli.
The maid was quite shocked at the nudes
in the Italian art galleries. Elizabeth spoke
of Wilson as she at last ventured into the
gallery. "Wilson has at last ventured into
the gallery; but she only went to the door
of the Tribune, being struck back by the
indecency of the Venus . . . she thinks she
shall try again, and the troublesome modes­ty
may subside—who knows?"
The dog Flush, even though free from
the disturbance of Papa Barrett did not
seem to do so well in Italy. Of him the
poetess wrote: "Poor dear Flush has been
very ill . . . is now quite well and insolent
as ever. The castor oil did the good work,
we think. He calls me 'Miss Barrett' still,
and has all his old ways, and behaves better
than at Pisa."
Strong, healthy Henrietta died in the
fourteenth year of Elizabeth's marriage.
The great shock, along with her failing
health seemed to hasten Ba's own death.
It seems impossible that a story, based
on the true life of a person, could take the
sudden turn from darkness to supreme hap­piness
which Elizabeth's did and continue
so until the end. But the words of Robert
Browning as Elizabeth lay dying in his
arms prove that nothing but love and un­derstanding
existed between the two poets
until the end. Browning said: "Then came
what my heart will keep till I see her again
and longer—the most perfect expression of
her love to me within my whole knowledge
of her. Always smilingly, happily, and
with a face like a girl's, and in a few
minutes she died in my arms, her head on
my cheek."—By Floyd Hurt.
CABBAGES AND KINGS
By Cecil Strong and Walter Brown
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this coiumn are not necessarily the editorial opin­ions
of this paper. It is a coiumn of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
* * * *
THE DESIRABILITY of maintaining
R. O. T. C. in the American college
is a question that is open to debate.
One cannot disregard the necessity for
taking steps which will prepare the country
for the seemingly inevitable misfortune of
war; on the other hand, sharp criticism
may be made of student military training
in general and the R. O. T. C. in particular.
One of the most pregnant objections to
R. O. T. C. is the fact that there is a
profound dissonance between the ideals be­hind
liberal education and the principles
upon -which military training is founded.
As I understand it, one of the main objects
of a liberal education is to train its re­cipients
to be relentless, courageous, and
bold in his pursuit of truth and examina­tion
of dogma. Particularly important is
the precept of liberal education that one
should not accept blindly propositions laid
down and statements made by authorities
for no other reason than obedience to
authority.
With those facts in mind, it is strange
to find, flourishing in an institution which
purports to be one of liberal education, a
department devoted to military training.
Such training always has and always will
carry a decided connotation of blind obe­dience
to authority. Whatever else good
discipline may include, when we use the
word in its military sense, its very essense
is that unquestioning obedience which lib­eral
education strives to replace with a
spirit of honest doubt.
"Unquestioning obedience" and "honest
doubt" are antonymous terms. It is not
likely that institutions promulgating the
one or the other will b£ able to flourish on
the same ground. I leave it to you to judge
which should disappear.
* * * *
ALUMNI of the University of South­ern
California are raising a tremendous
howl because so many native California
football players are being hired by other
schools. They are now determined to
make such attractive offers to their local
talent that the offers of out of state
schools will seem the offers of pikers.
This open avowal of professionalism on
the part of California should put them
on the blacklist of other institutions.
I sugggest that Auburn authorities draw
up a resolution never to schedule Califor­nia
teams as long as they openly admit
that their players are subsidized. To do
so would most assuredly impair our ama­teur
standing.
* * * *
AFTERTHOUGHT. It seems that the
California alumni are very indiscreet.
What do they think will happen to their
school spirit if they go around admitting
that the foolball team is hired to come
there and play football for dear old alumni.
Don't they realize that college students still
cherish the illusion that the football team
is made up of genuine students, fighting
for the glory of dear old California? Local
authorities should invite the leaders of the
California alumni to come here* to Auburn,
and see what it means to have a real
amateur football team, supported always
by that great AUBURN SPIRIT.
* * * *
COACH MEAGHER deserves all praise
that may be directed towards him. Our
few contacts with him, coupled with re­marks
he has made in his speeches to the
student body, has led us to believe that he
sees himself not merely as a football coach,
but as the athletic director for some two
thousand students. He has a tremendous
job, in which the possibilities are almost
unlimited.
* * * *
WHY doesn't Auburn have at least one
course in philosophy? There are several
men here who, with the aid of a good text­book,
could conduct a decent class in that
subject.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1934 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
Two Tigers Named On Plainsman's All-Southeastern Conference Team
FEW CONFERENCE
ELEVENS TO PLAY
TILTS TOMORROW
Only Four Loop Teams Will
Play In Conference Games;
Rest For Thanksgiving Tilts
Only four games involving South­eastern
Conference elevens are on
the schedule for tomorrow, most of
the loop teams taking a Saturday off
in preparation for their big games
on Thanksgiving. The Georgia-Au­burn
tussle in Columbus and the
Georgia Tech-Florida game in Gaines­ville,
are the week-end's best en­counters
with the Centenary-Mississ­ippi
game of some importance.
Georgia and Auburn furnish the
most attractive offering on this rather
meager grid menu in a game that
winds up the season for the Tigers.
Georgia is rated as the favorite to
win this traditional meeting but when
the Bulldogs and Tigers meet every
year about this time in Columbus such
things as ranking scores and paper
ratings can be discarded. Georgia
has lost three games this season—
to North Carolina, Tulane and Ala­bama—
and is not as strong as in
the past few seasons. The most note­worthy
victory that the Mehre-coach-ed
squad has registered to date is
over Yale who did a nice bit of up­setting
themselves last Saturday in
defeating the Princeton Tigers. John­son
and Bond are the aces of the
Georgia backfield and it will prob­ably
take Auburn's best defense to
stop the charges of this speedy pair
of ball carriers. On the basis of com­parative
scores, a very dangerous
factor on which to base an opinion,
Georgia stacks up better, however.
Georgia defeated Florida 14-0 several
weeks ago and lost to Tulane by
only one point. Both Tulane and
Florida conquered the Auburn team
by one touchdown margins.
Georgia Tech and Florida clash in
the 'Gators own pond down in
Gainesville in a contest that should
provide an interesting afternoon's
entertainment. Tech has had a dis­couraging
time this season with in­juries
and will still be a crippled
eleven in tomorrow's game. Florida,
fresh from a 14-7 victory over Au­burn,
should take the Jackets in stride
but Coach Bill Alexander's teams
have the uncanny habit of being
mediocre one week and a fairly res­pectable
eleven the next, so the
Saurians may be extended. If Tech
should happen to play in the satis­factory
manner that it did against
Tulane a . month or so ago Florida
might have trouble but with a 18-6
loss to Auburn and a 40-0 submerg­ence
by the Tide all too recent his­tory
the Golden Tornado will prob­ably
be dispersed by its more water-
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our specialties during
the cool days . . . A tasty
hot fudge sundae, delici­ous
i c e cream covered with
a whirl of snowy whipped
cream and then topped
with a generous amount
of hot fudge that adds
just the right zest to the
whole thing. You'll enjoy
it!
—Then there is delicious
hot chocolate, golden
brown and delicious, serv­ed
with whipped cream
and wafers. It gives you
pep and vigor!
—Or if you prefer a cool
drink with ice cream,
there are ice cream sodas
to suit your taste. Practi­c
a l l y any flavor ever heard
of, we have it.
—If you are a connoisseur
of ice cream w e should be
your headquarters. What
i s your choice ?
—If you had rather have
other fount drinks or sun­daes,
w e are only too glad
to satisfy your individual
taste. When hungry or
thirsty, drop in.
OUR FOUNT SERVICE
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CAPTAIN
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AUBURN
1 . V 'u. * ••:'«••' -
Fenton received a unanimous vote for the Plainsman's all-South­eastern
team. He has worn the colors of Auburn on the grid for three
seasons and is in his last college game in Memorial Stadium at Colum­bus
tomorrow afternoon.
TIGER GROWLS
= B y OBSERVER = =
Auburn meets Georgia tomorrow in the renewal of one of the South's
oldest and greatest gridiron classics. Since 1892, the Tigers and Bulldogs
have met annually on the football field, and, with few exceptions, the
winner has been decided by the margin of a few points.
Tomorrow's encounter will mark the 38th time that Auburn has faced
Georgia on the grid. Of this number the Bulldogs have won 18 and the
Tigers 16. Auburn leads Georgia in the number of points scored, however,
with 337, against 330.
Although the records of both teams have been unimpressive this season,
this will in no wise detract from the glamour of the struggle. One has
only to recall last season's epic battle in which the down trodden stfns of
Auburn rose to golden heights to smash Georgia's Rose Bowl bound eleven,
which had won from Yale and N. Y. U. in addition to defeating the South's
outstanding teams, to realize how little pre-game dope is worth in trying
to predict the winner.
This is Columbus' game. The
bustling little city on the Chatta-hoochie
goes football mad on the
day Auburn plays Georgia each
year. It is their one outstanding
game and nothing is left undone
to make it successful.
* * *
Before the football season is over
we would like to pause for just a
moment in this column to say a few
words in praise of Auburn's football
coach, Jack Meagher, for the wonder­ful
work which he has accomplished
here this season.
Coming to Auburn at a time when
the Tigers had just graduated prac­tically
their entire team the year be­fore,
Meagher found himself bereft
of seasoned material. Only one reg­ular,
Bennie Fenton, was left for him
to start the season. Added to this
the entire first string freshman back-field
was ruled ineligible. He found
himself faced with perhaps the hard­est
schedule ever drawn up for an
Auburn team. The cause seemed hope­less.
But Meagher, undaunted in
spirit, full of fire and enthusiasm,
went to his task with abandon. He
is not the driver type of coach,
but rather a leader. The boys
quickly followed his direction.
They believed in him and he in
them.
As a result of this, Jack Meagher
has produced a team here his first
year at Auburn that has been the
defensive sensation of the South.
Fourteen points bas been the greatest
margin by which the Tigers have been
defeated this season. In the majority
of games, notably the Duke, Vandy,
and Florida affairs, the Tigers held
the upper hand until the last few
minutes. Their reserve strength
simply was inadequate to cope with
their better armed adversaries.
Coach Meagher has given each man
out ample opportunity to display his
wares. It cannot be said that a cer­tain
man did not make the team be­cause
he was not given a chance.
Next year Coach Meagher will
have most of his team back. He
will receive several bright pros­pects
from the freshman ranks.
And we believe that Auburn will
have a team strong enough to hold
their own with any in the South.
Our hats are off to Jack Mea­gher,
peerless leader and outstand­ing
coach.
We INVITE your inspection of the
new things arriving daily in dress­es
and hats.
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minded hosts in Gainesville.
Centenary, another strong eleven
from the cane brakes of Louisiana,
clashes with Ole Miss in a promising
battle at Shreveport with the Gen­tlemen
probably winners. Mississ­ippi
has played an imposing array of
grid combinations this season, and
while not having any outstanding
conquests to their credit still stand
high as a worthy opponent for any
team. Centenary has lost only two
games, to Tulsa and Oklahoma, and
are one of the South's premier elev­ens.
Tulane plays host to the impotent
University of the South (Sewanee)
representation at New Orleans in a
game that might warm up the Greenie
second team. This game is scarcely
more than a preparatory game for the
all-Louisiana embroglio next week
when the Green Wave will attempt
to surge, submerge and drown Coach
Biff Jones Louisiana State Tigers,
who have the most competent loud­speaker
in the country, Ass't Coach
Huey Long.
LET OUR experienced operators give
you your permanent wave for
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BENSON'S
PLAINSMEN TRAIL
GEORGIA IN TOTAL
NUMBER OF WINS
Bulldogs Hold 18 To 16 Edge
In Games Played In Long
Series; First Game In 1892
Auburn's most ancient grid rivalry
will be continued in Columbus tomor­row
as the Auburn Tigers and Geor­gia
Bulldogs clash in the 39th meet­ing
between the two teams. Renew­ing
a hotly-contested series begun in
1892 the game tomorrow promises to
be another close battle.
Of the thirty-eight encounters to
date the Red and Black shirted war­riors
have annexed eighteen victories,
the Orange and Blue aggregations
have come through with sixteen wins,
and four games have been ties. The
deadlocks were recorded in 1898, 1901,
1911 and 1914. The most decisive
score in the long series was in 1900
when the Auburn team piled up 44
points while holding Georgia score­less.
In points scored Georgia holds
the slim margin of 4 points, the actual
figures being 333 points to 329.
In the early stages of this always
interesting competition Auburn had
a decided advantage, the Bulldogs an­nexing
only three victories between
1892 and 1919. However, since that
time the odds have been reversed,
Auburn emerging victorious over
Georgia only three times during the
ensuing decade and a half; and two
of those wins were in 1932 and 1933.
In 1922 Auburn managed to win 7-3
but after that the Bulldogs completely
dominated things, amassing 188 points
to the Tigers' 22 between 1923 and
1931. Georgia's most impressive vic­tories
were 1925, 1927 and 1929 when
the Bulldogs won 33-0, 33-3 and 39-7,
respectively.
During the current season neither
Auburn or Georgia has been of much
consequence in the Southland, Auburn
winning from Oglethorpe and Tech
and losing to Birmingham-Southern,
Tulane, L. S. U., Vandy, Duke, Ken­tucky,
and Florida. The Bulldogs
have won from Furman, Stetson,
Florida, Yale, and North Carolina
State and have lost to North Caroli­na,
Alabama, and Tulane.
Probable Starter
MUSSOLINI L&/I
AUSORN
After subbing most of the year
Irving Levi has come into his own
and is likely to start at a guard
post Saturday.
FENTON AND GILBERT NAMED
TO POSITIONS ON FIRST ELEVEN
Alabama Places Four Men On Mythical Team; L. S. U. And
Tulane Have Two Each, While Vanderbilt Is Represented
By One Man; Competition For Positions Is Unusually Keen
Five schools are represented on the Plainsman's 1934 all-
Southeastern football team. Alabama leads the list with four,
followed by Auburn, L. S. U., and Tulane with two each. Vandy
placed one.
In order to get Throgmorton of Vandy and Mickal of Louis­iana
State on the first team it was necessary to shift them out
of their usual positions at tackle and halfback. There is no
doubt that either of these men are top-notch football players,
and in a mythical selection such as this one the shifting of a
tackle to guard and a halfback to quarterback makes little if
no difference.
BULLDOG ELEVEN
SLATED TO BEAT
TIGERS SATURDAY
Georgia Rated Highly After
Upset Victory Over Yale
Two Weeks Ago
Last week Yale astounded the foot­ball
world in performing one of the
biggest upsets of the year when she
beat the undefeated and untied
Princeton team that would probably
be at the Rose Bowl on New Year's
•day if it wasn't for an agreement
made by the school officials against
post-season games. It was exactly
two weeks ago tomorrow that Yale
succumbed to the ferocious Georgia
Bulldogs, Georgia being the first
team in history to register five con­secutive
victories over the Eastern
team.
So when Coach Harry Mehre brings
his growling Georgia Bulldogs to Co­lumbus
Saturday to meet the Auburn
Tigers he will bring with him a cork­ing
team—a team that knocked Yale
over with ease; and Yale for one hour
made Princeton forget about its high
football ranking.
First Team
Fenton (Auburn) . . . .
Rukas (L.S.U.)
Tessier (Tulane)
Gilbert (Auburn) . . . .
Throgmorton (Vandy)
Lee (Alabama)
Hutson (Alabama) . . . .
Mickal (L.S.U.)
Howell (Alabama) . . . .
Simons (Tulane)
Demyanovich (Alabama)
Position
. End .
. Tackle .
. Guard .
, Center .
. Guard .
. Tackle .
. End .
Quarter
. Half .
. Half .
. Full .
Second Team
. . Gibson (Ga. Tech)
. . Paterson (Auburn)
. . . Wilcox (Ga. Tech)
. . Robinson (Tulane)
. . . . Marr (Alabama)
Crawford (Tennessee)
. . . Morris (Auburn)
, . . Smith (Alabama)
. . . . Dixori (Vandy)
. Vaughn (Tennessee)
. . Chapman (Georgia)
Honorable mention:
Ends—Moye (Fla.), Rupert (Ky.),
Tinsley (L. S. U.).
Tackles—Williams (Tech), Claffey
(Vandy), Opper (Ga.).
Guards — Johnson (Ga.), Simon
It must not be forgotten that Geor­gia
lost to North Carolina, Alabama,
and Tulane; but since then the Bull-
(Continued on Page 4)
(Tulane), Gantt (Auburn), Brown
(Vandy), Morrow (Ala.).
Centers—Robinson (Tulane), CBax-ton
(Tenn.), Dildy (Ala.).
Backs—Chase (Fla.), Loflin (Tu­lane),
Vaughn (Tenn.), Roberts
(Tech), Johnson (Ky.), Boozer
(Ala.), Mitchell (Auburn), Brown
(Fla.), Mintz (Tulane), Minot (Ga.),
Bond (Ga.), Dickens (Tenn.), Riley
(Ala.), Hutson (Miss.).
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AT AG CLUB MEET
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
Four Freshmen Give Talks
At Session Of Agricultural
Group
The freshman members of the Ag­ricultural
Club entertained the mem­bers
at their meeting Wednesday
night. Four freshmen gave instruc­tive
talks of agricultural topics.
Eat A. A. Clements talked of the
operation of the Bridges Hatchery
at Notasulga; Rat N. R. Crawford
told the club how to maRe Bermuda
grass produce milk; Rat L. K. Fred­erick
discussed the use of land rented
to the government in the cotton re­duction
program for producing home
orchards; and Rat Browning related
some astonishing facts concerning the
drastic conditions facing the Ameri­can
farm.
PLANS UNDERWAY
FOR JUNIOR PROM
(Continued from Page 1)
formed an association for the purpose
of securing a noted band. These
schools will all book the same orches­tra,
thereby assuring the booking
agency of a long time road trip en­gagement.
Washington and Lee was
a charter member of the organization
but has withdrawn. One of the North
Carolina colleges is expected to join
the group in the near future.
In their negotiations with a rep­resentative
of the M. C. A. the group
listed names of several orchestras
which they would consider for the
engagements at each of the respective
schools in the event that they were
available. The list included such
bands as: Hal Kemp, Glen Gray, Kay
Kayser, Guy Lombardo, Wayne King,
Rudy Valee, Ted Fio Rito, Jan Gar-ber,
Ozzie Nelson, and several others.
Each of this group is considered as
among the outstanding dance orches­tras
in this country.
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Better Housing Program To Begin
Here Next Monday Morning-Long
Chairman Sums Up Provisions Of Government-Sponsored Plan
To Restore City's Residential And Business Structures To
Normal State Of Repair
Auburn will swing into line with
the Federal Housing Administration's
Better Housing Program Monday.
Under the direction of a committee
headed by W. L. Long the plan will
open here under the most favorable
circumstances.
Cooperating with the committee
will be financial institutions, contrac­tors,
building supply dealers and other
factors directly or indirectly connect­ed
with the huge nation-wide pro­gram.
Monday, a group of workers
will begin a house-to-house canvass
of every property owner in the city
with the purpose of explaining to
them how they can take advantage of
the credit facilities made available by
the National Housing Act for mod­ernizing
properties. They will dis­tribute
to property owners free a
booklet suggesting ways in which they
can bring their properties up-to-date.
"Under the Act," Mr. Long com­mented
today, "private financial insti­tutions
are enabled to make invest­ments
having the same degree of se­curity
and liquidity as is possessed
by their best collateral loans. The
Government makes no direct loans to
property owners, but, rather, creates
the machinery by which borrowers
may obtain funds from established
credit sources with greater ease than
in normal times."
Mr. Long pointed significantly to
figures proving the need of property
modernization — 16,500,000 buildings
in a more or less serious state of
repair—3,000,000 of the total requir­ing
immediate repairs to put them
in sound shape. Further, he explain­ed,
the need is just as great to pro­vide
millions of building trades work­ers
with employment as to protect
property investments.
After detailing the methods by
which the Government is cooperating
with financial institutions to make
adequate credit facilities desirable
and available, Mr. Long continued:
"The Federal Housing Administra­tion,
in its rules and regulations cov­ering
the making of loans, will not
require collateral, except in cases
where the State law demands mort­gages
as security for loans. This is
true of some building and loan asso­ciations
and saving banks, but the
great majority of loans to be made
under this plan will be in the form
of character loans, based solely on
the reputation of the borrower and
his ability to repay. Endorsers and
co-signers will not be required.
"James A. Moffett, Housing Admin­istrator,
has emphasized that while
the Administration is anxious to re­ceive
the heartiest cooperation from
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property owners and the public, no
modernization loans that are not fully
justified on the grounds of sound
judgment are desired. He stated
clearly that pressure will not be put
on property owners to borrow just' to
make this program a success; that his
administration's one aim is to make
property improvement loans available
to the owner who is in a position to
repay the loan and whose property
may be # made more efficient through
modernization."
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loans ranging from $100
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as three years. The total charge for
a loan, including interest, fees, etc.,
will not exceed an amount equivalent
to $5 per $100 of the original face
amount of a one year note, deductible
in advance. The approved financial
institutions here are prepared to give
full information, without obligation,
as well as to receive applications. The
applicant does not have to be a de­positor
in the institution to receive a
loan.
GREEN PERFORMS
BEFORE AUDIENCE
HERE LAST NIGHT
Exhibition Of Diving Well
Received By Enthusiastic
Crowd At Gym
OLD RIVALS TO RENEW
FEUD ON SATURDAY
IN TILT IN COLUMBUS
ATTENDANCE AT
STUDENT RALLY
BREAKS RECORD
(Continued from Page 1)
t hope they'll do the same always",
he said.
Pierce then introduced Coach Wil­bur
Hutsell, trainer, track coach, and
faculty for O. D. K. "Either joy or
sorrow lingers at the conclusion of
every football season—this year joy
will linger", said Hutsell. "The team
has trained and played hard all sea­son.
The scores have been disap­pointing
several times, but the boys
have kept trying. Everyone tried to
win for Jack Meagher. They tried for
him as much as for a victory in each
game," Hutsell stated.
Assistant Coach Del Morgan was
the next speaker. He said, "We are
all gathered here because of the same
common desire—to go to Columbus
Saturday and defeat the Georgia Bull­dogs".
He then told about the Ad­ministrative
Committee's visit to the
football team during the Wednesday
afternoon practice. "It is evident
why such excellent spirit prevails
here — everyone lets us know his
heart is with the team", he said.
"We hope to turn the trick against
Georgia Saturday as the first Auburn
team under Petrie did in 1892. No­thing
would suit me better than to
see us kick those Bulldogs all over the
field", he concluded.
Coaches Ralph Jordon, Jimmie
Hitchcock, Buddy McCollum, Boots
Chambless, Allen Rodgers, and Ster­ling
Dupree were then introduced to
the crowd. Coaches Jordon and Hitch­cock
made short talks in which they
completed the gathering upon their
display of enthusiam and assured
them of the team's appreciation for
the support.
Dean George Petrie, dean of the
Graduate School and Auburn's first
coach, was then introduced as the
featured speaker. Cries of "Take
off your hat"' greeted Dean Petrie
when he arose. He obligated the
crowd and then said,"You have the
advantage over me, I'm bald on the
outside of my head".
"This is the largest class I've ever
lectured to at Auburn. The attend­ance
is complete and no one has ask­ed
to be excused", Petrie continued.
"This display looks like Auburn. This
is a suggestion of power, of harmony,
and of pent up spirit. I'm thinking
of the 'Spirit of Auburn' tonight.
You come and go but old Auburn
stays here always," he said.
In speaking of the first Auburn-
Georgia football game Dean Petrie
gave a short self-concocted rhyme:
"In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean
blue,
In 1892 we beat old Georgia black
and blue."
After the merriment of the crowd
subsided he told of the difference
between football today and the old
game.
"We've got a good team, if you
doubt it ask Vanderbilt, ask L. S. U.,
or ask Georgia after the game Sat­urday.
We're proud of our team.
Football is an uncertain game, but
win or lose we love our team, we re­spect
them, and we want to win Sat­urday",
he concluded.
Meagher then introduced the sen-
A large and enthusiastic group of
swimming fans witnessed the diving
and aquatic exhibitions last night in
the college pool by Al Green, 1933
Junior Diving Champion, and the Au­burn
Swimming team. It was the
first public appearance of the swim­mers
this season and due to popular
request the same program will be re­peated
tonight at 7 o'clock.
In addition to the sentational and
perfectly-executed diving of Al Green,
the swimming team contributed to
the sucess of the affair with a number
of events and contest that met with
the crowd's approbation. A regular
swimming meet between the varsity
and the freshmen tankmen which in­cluded
the 50 and 220 yard dashes,
50 yard backstroke, medley and free
style relays received the whole-heart­ed
approval of the crowd. A water
polo game between the freshmen and
vaf sity and a comedy skit staged by
Coach Diz Morris and Al Green add­ed
to the attractivness of the program
and the applause of the audience.
In his performance last night
dives including a one and a half
gainer, a one and a half forward with
a full twist, forward two and a half
somesault, and a forward double. He
was called back on several of these
dives and requested to repeat.
The exhibition last night met with
one of the most enthusiastic recept­ions
that a performance of this kind
has ever received and Coach Morris
expressed the opinion that Auburn
was fortunate in having an aquatic
and diving notable as Green come
here.
A large crowd is expected to be on
hand tonight for the second perfor­mance.
The same admission of 25
cents will be charged again tonight
and all those students who missed last
night's demonstration are urged to
come tonight as everyone who saw
the first exhibition enjoyed it
throughly and expressed favorable
comments.
Ag Groups Will Have
Full Glomerata Page
The local F. F. A. chapter and the
Alabama Farmer staff will have a
page in the Glomerata this year, ac-'
cording to information received by
The Plainsman. One half of the
page will be used by each group.
The 37 charter members of the
F. F. A. chapter met Monday and
had a group picture made on the
steps of Duncan Hall. Each mem­ber
of the group is paying his part
in paying for the panel.
BULLDOG ELEVEN
SLATED TO BEAT
TIGERS SATURDAY
(Continued from Page 3)
dogs beat Yale, 14-7 and last week
thoroughly whipped North Carolina
State, 27-0. Georgia has improved
considerably since the three losses in
a row and should be at the height
of her power Saturday in Columbus.
The Bulldogs also whipped Stetson,
Florida, and Furman earlier in the
season.
One of the most important linemen
for the Bulldogs is John Brown, a
brilliant guard whose play this sea­son
has made him a possibility for
All-Southeastern honors. Brown may
not be in the best of form against
the Plainsmen due to a mouth injury
in the Carolina State game. Another
guard that may be dangerous to the
Tigers is Julius Caesar Hall who has
played both end and tackle this sea­son.
He is rather light, weighing
only 185; but his lightness of weight
is made up in his tackling ability.
Al Minot, diminutive halfback, is
definitely out of the game with a
charley horse received in last Sat­urday's
tilt. The burden of right
half will fall to Cy Grant, one of the
Bulldog's best backs.
Two sophomores that may be able
to play Saturday are Cavan and An­derson.
In scrimmage these two ran
wild and their play may earn them
the chance to show their power to the
Tigers.
ior members of the football squad
and the crowd gave them loud ap­plause.
The rally ended with the crowd
singing the Alma Mater Song.
(Continued from Page 1)
and will probably be in fair shape
for tomorrow's encounter.
Georgia, too, will enter the game
hampered with injuries as Brown and
Minot, two of their aces, are both
hurt. Brown is a first-string guard
and has been a defensive mainstay
in the Bulldog forewall in games to
date. Minot has been a dependable
offensive star at right halfback and
his absence from the the Georgia
lineup may slow down their advance.
The starting line-up for Auburn
will probably be the same as last
week. Bennie Fenton and Mutt Mor­ris
earned for themselves additional
honors in the Florida game and they
will undoubtedly start on the termi­nals.
Paterson and Rodgers continu­ed
their demonstration of superlative
tackle technique and they are the
linemen who will man the tackles.
Captain Mike Welch, Irving Levi, and
Frank Gantt all did well at the guards
against Florida and the starting
guards will probably be chosen from
that trio. Walter Gilbert ran his
standard as an outstanding center up
a notch higher against the Floridans
and his starting at the pivot position
is a certainty. The backfield of
Brown, Mitchell, Stewart and Kilgore
will probably take the field against
the Bulldogs.
Going into the game slight under­dogs
the Auburn team is planning to
ring down the curtain on the 1934
campaign in great style. Georgia and
Auburn forget all the other games
they have ever played in this annual
battle and tomorrow's encounter
should prove no exception.
Four Initiated Into
Business Fraternity
Four pledges to Delta Sigma Pi,
honorary business professional frater­nity,
were initiated into the society
last night at a formal ceremony in
the "L" Building.
Those initiated last night were Mil­ton
D. Roth, Jacksonville, Florida;
Harry L. Hooper, Selma; and Her-,
man Harris, Clanton. Following the
initiation a banquet was held in the
new banquet hall above Benson's at
which new members and the alumni
members delivered short talks.
Also, at the banquet the Delta Sig­ma
Pi scholarship cup was awarded
to Milton Roth by Jimmy Vance, win­ner
of the cup last year. This cup
is awarded each year to the Fresh­man
in business having the highest
scholastic average.
Following the Tech game two weeks
ago the local chapter was the guest of
the Kappa chapter at Tech at a steak
fry.
Approximately three-fourths of the
college women in the United States
attend co-educational colleges.
Tiger Theatre
AUBURN, ALABAMA
"The Showplace of Eait
' Alabama"
SATURDAY, NOV. 24
"AMONG the MISSING"
with Richard Cromwell, and
Henrietta Crosman.
Added "SOUP FOR NUTS",
and "LION'S FRIEND".
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
November 25 and 26
"COLLEGE RHYTHM"
with Joe Penner, Jack Oakie,
and Lannie Ross—"Wanna Buy
a Duck?"
Also Cartoon in color "TALE
OF VIENNA WOODS" and
Comedy "OLD SHEP".
TUESDAY, NOV. 27
"THE PURSUIT OF
HAPPINESS"
Vitaphone act "GEM OF THE
OCEAN and Latest News
Events.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28
"BLIND DATE"
with Ann Sothern and Neil
Hamilton.
Musical revue "GENTLEMEN
OF POLISH".
Special Thanksgiving Day
Program
CHARLES RUGGLES in
"FRIENDS OF MR.
SWEENY"
Screen Souvenirs and "NO
SLEEP IN THE DEEP".
Fishing Rodeo To Be
Held In Mobile Bay
Alabama's seventh annual deep sea
fishing rodeo will be held in the gulf
waters off Dauphin Island next sum­mer
on July 22, 23 and 24.
The dates for the rodeo were an­nounced
following a business meeting
of officials of the Alabama Deep Sea
Fishing Rodeo Association in Mobile
at which all officers were re-elected.
L. G. Adams, who has been pres­ident
since the association was or­ganized,
again heads the organization
and Mark Lyons and Sam Lackland
continue as vice-president and secre­tary-
treasurer respectively. All live
in Mobile.
The seventh annual contest will be
held earlier in the summer than any
of the rodeos in the past and will
take place a month earlier than the
1934 rodeo. Seasonal conditions and
the fact that July is a big vacation
month guided the officials in the
selection of the dates.
"Late July was considered the most
convenient time as this is the real
vacation period of the year and the
waters are in better condition for
fishing," declared Game Commission­er
I. T. Quinn, who founded the rodeo
in 1929. "This also removes the
rodeo from the season of the year
when squalls frequent the coast."
The "sliver king" tarpon is the
big game fish of the rodeo and al­though
tarpon were plentiful at the
time of the last rodeo, they struck
best during July. Late July also is
considered ideal for king and Span­ish
mackerel and ' t he dozen other
sport fish for which handsome rodeo
prizes are offered.
The 1934 rodeo set a new atten­dance
mark, a total of 525 anglers
from 15 states registering for the
three-day fishing classic. The larg­est
tarpon was caught by Jake Rubel,
a Corinth, Miss., merchant, and
weighed 104% pounds, almost 22
pounds less than the record rodeo
catch. The catch of smaller fish,
however, was the greatest in the his­tory
of the tournament.
COL. JESSE BOYD
RETURNS TO ALMA
MATER FOR VISIT
Retired Army Officer Spends
Two Days In Auburn En
Route To San Antonio
Lt. Col. Jesse W. Boyd, U. S. army
retired, visited his Alma Mater—the
Alabama Polytechnic1 Institute—on
Tuesday and Wednesday enroute to
San Antonio, Texas, where he will
make his home.
Colonel Boyd graduated at Au­burn
in 1900 and served as assistant
in the history department under Dr.
George Petrie. His father, David
F. Boyd, was president of Auburn in
1883 and 1884. Colonel Boyd's sis­ter
is the wife of the late Dr. W. L.
Fleming, dean at Vanderbilt Univer­sity.
His brother, David Boyd, a
naval officer, was one of the surviv­ors
at the sinking of the Maine du­ring
the Spanish-American war. One
of his uncles was for a time the chan­cellor
of the University of Louisiana.
DIRECTORY TO BE
OFF PRESS EARLY
(Continued from Page 1)
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Students are allowed one copy each
and Mr. Edwards requests that as
many as can to report for their copy
either Tuesday afternoon or Wednes­day
so all may be distributed before
the Thanksgiving Holidays.
TODAY'S express has brought us the
newest in handkerchiefs, bags, and
scarf sets.
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