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VOLUME LVIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, FEB. 9, 1935 NUMBER 32
DR. CARY TALKS
ATBANQUETFOR
LOCALA.V.M.A.
V e t C h a p t e r E n t e r t a i n s Over
T w o H u n d r e d W i t h B a n q u et
H e r e On T h u r s d a y Night
IS A N N U A L E V E NT
V i s i t i n g V e t e r i n a r i a n s Guests
At O c c a s i o n ; N o t e d V e t Con­d
u c t s Course For Doctors
Policy of the Auburn veterinary
school to train practical, all-round
veterinarians will be continued, said
Dean C. A. Cary in addressing atten­dants
at the annual banquet here
Thursday evening given visiting vet­erinarians
at the 11th Short Course
by the student chapter of the Ameri­can
Veterinary Medical Association.
More than 200 faculty members, stu­dents,
and visitors were present.
Instead of decreasing, the demand
for all-round practitioners is on the
upgrade, said Dr. Cary, who is also
State veterinarian. The re-adoption
of the horse and mule for traction
'power on the farms in many mid-
Western states and the expansion of
the veterinarian's to include treat­ment
of small animals, meat and milk
inspection, disease eradication, and
the care of wild animals has resulted
in the demand for veterinarians to be
greater than ever before he explain­ed.
The work of Dr. Cary in developing
the veterinary school at Auburn was
commended in highest terms by many
speakers. At the suggestion of Dr.
P. F. Bahnsen of Georgia, the entire
assembly stood in recognition of Dr
Cary's monumental service to Ala
bama, to Auburn, and to the Ameri­can
veterinary profession.' The vet­erinary
clinic established at Auburn
was characterized as the best and
most extensive in this country.
Dr. L. N. Duncan, extension service
director and member of the College
administrative committee, said that
the Auburn veterinary school was
now the best in the Southeast. He
said that as agriculture develops in
the South there will and must be an
increase in the demand for adequate­ly
trained veterinarians such as those
prepared at Auburn.
The vital function of the veteri­narian
to public health was empha­sized
by Prof. J. C. Grimes, head of
the animal industry group at Auburn.
The veterinarian is making an im­portant
contribution to society in the
control of animal diseases find in
meat and milk inspection for the pro­tection
of human beings, he said.
Visitors and guests were welcomed
to the banquet by Arthur Moore, of
Walterboro, S. C, president of the
student A. V. M. A., and brief ad­dresses
were made by Dr. Thos. F.
Ferguson, of Wisconsin, who is here
lecturing at the Short Course; Dr.
M. R. Blackstock, of South Carolina;
Dr. W. B. Hirleman, of Georgia; Dr.
P. C. McLean, of North Carolina; Dr.
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High School Students
Receive Awards Here
Nineteen students received Highest
Distinction awards and 18 received
Distinction award for that first se­mester
of Lee County High School.
Those receiving Highest Distinction
awards were: Julien Fowler, Elmer
Almquist, Mary Ada Carmack, Julina
Thomas, Carolyn Jones, Louise Schu­bert,
Jean Bealley, Christine Black­burn,
Jeanette Knapp, Herbert Mar­tin,
Emma Nell Parrish, Pattie
Phelps, Mary Olive Thomas, Jule
Tisdale, John Turner Hudson, Julian
Bruce Martin, Winifred Hill, Mar-jorie
McKinnon, and Albert Rauber.
Those receiving Distinction awards
were: Frank McLindon, Eleanor
Scott, Hugh Wright, Charlotte Ed­wards,
John Ivey, Hulda Rutland,
Amy Drake, Ruth Lowe, Betty Sho-walter,
Nelly Ruth Ward, Kathryn
Blake, Mary Florence Roberts, L. Z.
Thornton, Nolen Connor, Dorothy
Floyd, John Scott, Redding Sugg,
and Anne Tamplin.
TWENTY-ONE SCHOOLS TO BE
ENTERED IN LOCAL TOURNEY
Col. Dawley To Speak In
Broun Hall Next Monday
Lieut. Col. E. J. Dawley, instructor
at the Infantry School at Fort Ben-ning,
is scheduled to lecture here on
Monday evening, Feb. 18, at 7:30
o'clock in Broun Hall Auditorium.
Col. Dawley is the third Benning
officer to be brought to Auburn un­der
the auspices of the Oficers Re­serve
Corps to lecture on subjects
pertaining to military science.
It is expected that Col. Dawley's
talk will be of great interest to all
Reserve officers and advanced corps
students at it will give a bird's eye
view of the Field Artillery in regard
to its organization, employment, team
work with the Infantry, and methods
of communication.
His talk here on Monday night will
be given as parts of five conferences
he has given at the Infantry School
at Fort Benning. Several Auburn
students who have heard the talk
given at Fort Benning were very com­plimentary
concerning it.
This is Col. Dawley's first year at
Fort Benning, and already he has a
'reputation as a good talker. He has
obtained an enviable record in the
army and is considered to be an au­thority
on several military topics.
A large crowd is expected to attend.
SOLONS CONSIDER
IMPORTANT BILLS
BEFORE VACATION
N e w Deal M e a s u r e s R e c e i ve
A c t i o n Prior To Six W e ek
R e c e s s ; G r a v e s S e e k s F u n ds
By Doug Wallace
Following several weeks of exten­sive
work in which numerous bills
were considered and almost an equal
number passed, the state legislature
voted to adjourn yesterday for the six
weeks period ending March 19.
During part of the six weeks' vaca­tion
Gov. Graves will be in Washing­ton,
where he will be in session much
of the time with city engineers from
Mobile, Montgomery, and Birming­ham
to talk over Alabama's share of
the five billion dollar Federal relief
bill now being considered by Con­gress.
Graves has estimated that
Alabama will share about $88,000,000
Of the Federal relief funds.
Following his stay in Washington,
Gov. Graves will leave for New York
to confer with officials of the Chase
National Bank regarding the refinanc­ing
of the 1933 bond issue of Alaba­ma
which amounts to approximately
$16,000,000 and which will mature in
1938.
In brief session Saturday, 11 New
Deal bills for the state were passed
and sent to the Governor for his ap­proval.
They were not signed but
were sent back to the legislature for
several minor changes. One of the
bills to be changed is the Harrison
bill authorizing the Governor to re­finance
the 1933 bond issue.
During the first of the week Gov.
Graves called upon city and county
officials to make surveys .and prepare
lists of the possible projects that they
can undertake with the help of the
Washington sponsored New Deal bills.
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S e v e r a l Other High School
G r o u p s E x p e c t e d To Enter
D r a m a t i c C o n t e s t s In M a r ch
Twenty-one Alabama high schools
have already made application to
Prof. J. R. Rutland, head of the Eng­lish
Department, to take part in the
annual dramatic tournament to be
held here March 22 and 23.
The high schools that have signified
their intention of taking part in the
tournament are Union Springs, We-tumpka,
Vincent, Camp Hill, Annis-ton,
Perry County, Collinsville, Ran-burne,
Five Points, Beulah, West
Blockton, Talladega, Flomaton, Tal-lassee,
Mignon, Flenfoe, Fairfield,
Tuscaloosa, Luverne, Oak Grove, and
McAdory.
As the closing date for applications
is set at March 14, it is expected that
the total number of entrants will be
twice the number already registered.
The larger high schools, such as Mur-phey,
Lanier, Phillips, and Ramsay
Tech are almost centain to enter this
year, as they have presented strong
competition for the past several
years.
Fifteen high schools registered to
date will compete for the prize for
the best one act play. Nine will take
part in poetry reading, 10 in prepared
speech, 3 in impromptu speaking, 5
in ready writing, 2 in the boys vocal
solo, 3 in the girls vocal solo, 7 in
piano, 2 in violin, 7 in editorial writ­ing,
9- for the best high school paper,
and 3 in free hand drawing.
Rules concerning the tournament
have been sent to all high schools in
the state.
The competition is an annual event
and attracts hundreds of high school
students each year. Visitors are
housed in various fraternity and
boarding houses and are highly en-ertained
while here.
Prof. Barnett Chosen
To Direct Glee Club
Opelika Legion Post
Hears Major Franke
"Although successful in past waijs
at an excessive cost of lives and
money, America has never in any war
been confronted by a single first class
world power." This statement was
made by Major G- H. Franke in a
speech at a meeting of the Opelika
American Legion Post.
Major Franke stressed this point
reviewing the military history of
America, particularly the six major
wars, the Revolutionary War, The
War of 1812, The Mexican War, Civil
War, Spanish-American War, and
World War.
Mr. Lawrence Barnett has been en­gaged
to direct the Auburn Glee Club,
filling the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Mr. Borchers, former
director who is completing work on
his doctorate at the University of
Iowa.
Mr. Barnett, since coming to Au­burn
last fall, has attained a consid­erable
amount of success as a music
teacher and as the director of the
symphony orchestra. He holds the
degree of a bachelor of music in edu­cation
from Northwestern University.
Due to the fact that Mr. Barnett
is the third director that the Glee
Club has had during the school year,
progress of the local musical organi­zation
has been somewhat hampered.
However, with the cooperation and
hard practice of the fifty Club mem­bers,
the group will be ready to take
a tour sometime in April. The tour
will last a week and will be made
through South Alabama. Plans are
being made now by Albert Nettles,
manager of the club, to give concerts
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Forty-One Seniors To
Attend 0. R. C. Camps
Forty-one seniors in the Field Ar­tillery
and 14 in the Engineers who
complete their training in May will
receive active duty training this sum­mer,
according to an announcement
from the Military Department.
Major G. H. Franke said that where
the training will be held and who will
receive it are not yet known but will
be decided sometime in May, when a
list of applicants from Auburn will
be submitted to the War Department.
The training will lead toward a com­mission
in the regular army.
Qualifications of those interested in
the additional army training, as list­ed
by Major Franke, are desire on
the part of the applicant for further
training, high scholastic average, and
a military aptitude that is above the
average.
Applications will be submitted May
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REGULATIONSTO
BE ENFORCED IN
NEXT ELECTIONS
H u g h e s S u b m i t s R u l e s Of Stu­d
e n t A s s o c i a t i o n C o n s t i t u t i on
On P u b l i c a t i o n s Elections
B Y - L A W S A R E LISTED
C a n d i d a t e s Must O b t a i n Affi­d
a v i t s F r o m H e a d s Of Staffs
T o Qualify, Says Cabinet
l February 7, 1935
Auburn, Ala.
To prospective candidate* for
publication offices:
In meeting on Marcb 19, 1931,
John Christian, then Chairman
of the Elections Committee of
the Executive Cabinet, offered
the following amendment to Ar­ticle
3, Section 4, of the Under­graduate
Student Association
Constitution:
All nominees for the offices of
editor-in-chief and business man­ager
of The Plainsman, Glomera-ta,
Auburn Engineer, and Ala­bama
Farmer shall have complet­ed
five semesters of college work
and shall have served at least one
scholastic year on the staff of
that publication to which he is
nominated before he shall be eli­gible
to hold the above named
offices.
Also, in session on September
20, 1932, Hamp Morris moved
that members of any publication
staff, if in running for any major
office on that staff, shall only
run for that office under which
he has served while connected
with the publication. The motion
was passed and incorporated into
the by-laws as a part of Section
13, Article 3 of the Regulations
of Permanent Committees of the
Executive Cabinet.
Due to several questions which
have arisen as to the eligibility
of various candidates for publi­cations
offices, the Cabinet will
require all candidates for such
offices to submit their qualifica­tions
for the offices to the presi­dent
of the body on or before
Thursday, February 14; the Pub­lications
Committee will pass up­on
the eligibility lists. In stat­ing
whether or not they have
worked on the staffs of the publi­cations
for the specified period
all candidates must obtain affi­davits
from the heads of their
respective staffs to this effect.
Affidavits from the Registrar's
Office to the effect that they
have completed five semesters of
college work must also be sub­mitted.
As the student body will re­member
these actions of former
Executive Cabinets were taken
after several embarrassing sit­uations
had developed. After
one election it was necessary for
the editor-in-chief and the busi­ness
manager of the Plainsman
to effect a change of duties in
order to assure the student body
of a high type of publication.
Therefore, to prevent any re-
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Graduate Visits Alma
Mater Last Wednesday
M. R. (Jack) Barker, one of a
family of five brothers and sisters
who have graduated at Auburn, vis­ited
his Alma Mater Wednesday. He
is in the insurance business in Mont­gomery.
The first of the Barker family to
graduate was C. B., class of 1918.
He is now in Texas. M. R. and W.
L. graduated in 1921. W. L. is a
chemist with headquarters at Char­lotte,
N. C.
The other two members of the fam­ily
who hold Auburn diplomas are
Mrs. Harry Williams, who was Miss
Vida, and Mrs. J. H. Pirkle. Mr.
Williams is in school work in Arkan­sas
and Mr. Pirkle is superintendent
of the Cleburne county schools in
Alabama.
Will Start Ball A-Rollin' MARY VAN PELT
TO LEAD MARCH
AT HONOR BALL
P o p u l a r M o n t g o m e r y Girl To
L e a d Grand March With
W a l l a c e N e l s o n F e b r u a r y 22
P L A N S A R E D R A F T ED
S c a r a b s Will D e c o r a t e For
D a n c e ; B a n q u e t T o B e G i v en
I n C h u r c h R o o m s B e f o r e Ball
MISS MARY VAN PELT, of Montgomery, Ala., will lead the Grand
March of the Senior Honor Societies Ball. Her escort will be Wallace
Nelson, president of Blue Key society.
JUNIOR R. 0. T. C.
CAMP PERIOD SET
TO BEGIN JUNE 7
M a j o r G. H. F r a n k e A n n o u n c es
S u m m e r C a m p P e r i o d Of Six
W e e k s ; L o c a l O f f i c e r s T o Go
Summer R. O. T. C. camp at Fort
Benning, Ga., for juniors in Military
Science and Tactics will open June 7
and continue for six weeks until July
18, according to an announcement by
Major G. H. Franke.
Juniors wishing to attend the sec­ond
semester of summer school will
be released July 17. Although the
second session officially opens on the
15th, juniors will be allowed to enter
three days late without penalty. This
arrangement was made with the Mil­itary
Department by Dean Judd, di­rector
of summer school.
Local R. 0. T. C. officers on the
tentative list for duty at Fort Ben-
RANDALL PARRISH
HEADS RELATIONS
CLUB NEXT TERM
M. H. C o n n e r A n d H e l e n Gar­d
i n e r E l e c t e d V i c e - P r e s i d e nt
A n d S e c . - T r e a s . R e s p e c t i v e ly
Randall Parrish was reelected pres­ident
of the International Relations
Club at a meeting of the society last
Tuesday night. Parrish will hold
this office during the present semes­ter.
Other officers elected by the society
were M. H. Conner, vice-president
and Helen Gardiner, secretary-treas­urer.
Also at the meeting it was de­cided
that the group be divided into
three sections. One section will re­port
events that happen in the Far
East, another will cover Europe and
the Near East, while the third will
cover North and South America.
Once during the month each sec-ning
.are Major Franke, who will tion will report on the happenings in
again be in command for the fourth
consecutive time; Capt. Harry L.
Watts; Capt. Tom Gunby; Lieut W.
J. Klepinger, and Lieut. H. W. Ehr-gott.
Also at camp there will be three
officers from the University of Flor-
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House Bill Saves One
Fraternity Freshman
Minneapolis, Minn.—(A.C.P.)— The
Greeks have another word for it.
Fraternity house bills have always
been one of the last points brought
before a rushee. Now house men are
likely to make it the first point in
rushing talks, for recently a fraterni­ty
house bill rescued a University of
Minnesota pledge from jail.
Early one cold morning a couple
of weeks ago Lloyd Albinson discov­ered
a prowler outside the Phi Kappa
Sigma house here. He called police,
but the prowler had disappeared.
About 2:30 a. m. the same morning
a pledge came back to the house.
Finding the front door locked, he
started around to the back door. As
he reached the side of the house, two
burly policemen appeared, hustled
him into a squad car, and took him
to the city jail.
Despite protests, repeated attempts
at identification and many requests
to look at his pledge pin, the unfor­tunate
was lodged in a cell in the city
jail. When he awoke at 8 a. m. a
final determined search of his pock­ets
brought out his house bill. This
was presented to the police sergeant
and after questioning, the pledge was
released.
its respective territory, and the
fourth meeting in each month will be
devoted to general discussion or to
a lecture given by an outsider.
Dr. J. H. Goff, professor of eco­nomics,
has been invited to speak at a
meeting of the society a week from
Tuesday. He is expected to lecture
on some phase of America's foreign
trade.
Prof. O. T. Ivey, faculty adviser of
the group, announced that Miss Mary
Martin, head librarian, has provided
for a new meeting place of the so­ciety.
From now on they will meet
at the regular time in a special room
in the basement of the library. The
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Tentative plans for the annual se­nior
honor societies ball and banquet,
to be given on February 22, are be­ing
drafted "and work on the pro­gram
for the affairs is rapidly Hear­ing
completion.
Miss Mary Hall Van Pelt, of Mont­gomery,
has been selected to lead the
grand march of the ball with Wallace
Nelson, president of Blue Key, which
sponsors the event. Miss Van Pelt
is a graduate of University of Ala­bama
and a member of Kappa Delta
sorority. While at the University
she was popular on the campus and
won many honors, chief among which
were her selection as Honorary Cadet
Colonel of the R. O. T. C. unit and
a beauty in the photo section of the
Corolla, year book.
Scarab, honorary architectural fra­ternity,
will decorate for the dance.
The scheme for the decorations has
not been determined yet but members
of the society have promised a novel
set of decorative effects for the oc­casion.
Auburn Knights will furnish the
music for the dance. Earl Starnes,
director of the local college band,
has stated that he would probably
add another musician to the personnel
of the orchestra and that a varied
program of popular dance tunes
would be arranged for the affair.
Both the dance and the banquet
will be formal affairs. The banquet
will be given in the Baptist Church
and will precede the ball. Several
prominent speakers will be secured
for the banquet. Members of honor
societies attending the festivities will
also bring dates to this affair.
Societies cooperating in the stag­ing
of the annual celebration are:
Blue Key, Spades, Tau Beta Pi, Sca­rabs,
Omicron Delta Kappa, Scabbard
and Blade, Kappa Delta Pi, Phi Lamb­da
Upsilon, Phi Delta Gamma, Alpha
Phi Epsilon, Phi Kappa Phi, and Spik­ed
Shoe. Representatives from each
of these groups are serving on com­mittees
which have been appointed to
arrange details for the affairs. These
committees will meet in 215 Samford
Hall Monday night at 7 o'clock to
discuss further plans.
Country Club Elects
Officers At Session
A. S. M. E. To Meet In
Ramsay Hall Tonight
There will be a meeting of the Au­burn
chapter of A. S. M. E. next
Monday night at seven o'clock in
room 109 Ramsay Hall. The coming
session of the group is being antici­pated
as one of the most interesting
meetings of the year.
Prof. J. C. McKinnon, of the engin­eering
school faculty, will be the
principal speaker on the program. He
will talk on "Diesel Engines and Their
Application to Modern Trains". Mr.
McKinnon is considered an author­ity
on several phases of engineering
work and a large audience is expect­ed
to attend the A. S. M. E. meeting
to hear him speak on the transporta­tion
subject.
Several members from the Birming­ham
branch of the society are expect­ed
to attend the meetings.
At the annual meeting of the Au­burn
Country Club held Tuesday
night, new officers for the incoming
year were elected and a definite pro­gram
for the year decided upon. A
large number of the stockholders of
the local golf association attended
the meeting, and plans for a tourna­ment
were discussed.
The officers who will direct the ac­tivities
during the next twelve months
are: Dr. B. F. Thomas, President;
Homer Wright, Vice-president; and
H. W. Nixon, Secretary-Treasurer.
The governing board is composed, in
addition to the above, of F. E. Guy-ton,
J. L. Seal, M. L. Nichols, and J.
R. Rutland.
At Tuesday's meeting it was decid­ed
to \ start work immediately upon
improving the course and enlarging
the membership. One of the improve­ments
planned in the course is the
inauguration of grass greens, which
it is hoped will put the local course
in a class with municipal courses.
The committee in charge of the
tournament is composed of Prof. J.
W. Roe, Dean J. W. Scott, W. T. In­gram,
and Leslie Wright.
NOTICE!
There will be a meeting of Omi­cron
Delta Kappa Tuesday night at
8 o'clock in 215 Samford Hall.
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P A G E TWO T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE SATURDAY, FEB. 9, 1935
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More About Politics
Our editorial on campus politics
which appeared in the January 30
issue of the paper was written more
or less in fun. From various chan­nels
we have learned that mere
mention of the issue has "pinched"
in more than a few places, and this
being the case, we can't let the op­portunity
to once more touch upon
the subject escape us.
Had some of the points which we
brought out in the article not tread
upon several of the junior political
aspirants' toes, there would have
been little comment on the subject.
However, several of the office-seekers
must have felt that the edi­torial
was directed at them, judging
from the comment we heard.
We merely pointed out that a
group of supposedly intelligent col­lege
students should not sit idly by
and see incompetent men elevated
to high ranking campus positions.
Why this should meet with opposi­tion
we can't see. Isn't it only right
to believe that only those who pos­sess
the proper qualifications for
the offices to which they aspire
should be elected? Undoubtedly
there are several candidates who
are afraid the student body will find
out which men are best suited to
discharge the duties of the offices.
Fraternity combines continue to
plunge into the political fight wear­ing
blind folds. And fraternity
brothers of candidates belonging to
the "rings" continue to be led into
the skirmishes with instructions to
fight on "our side", i.1 It seems that
some (a few anyway) of these fra­ternity
men would resent being told
how they must vote in the coming
elections.
Yes, the entire political situation
seems to be in a state of most pro­nounced
chaos. As yet, nothing
rational has come out of the fights
being waged for campus offices.
Just what the results are going to be
will be determined by the junior
class in the main. Those voters who
are keeping an open mind and have
resolved to cast their ballots for the
right men would do well to "keep
their ears to the ground" and learn
which candidates are worried about
their qualifications for offices be­coming
known.
A Matter Of Policy
It is often surprising how the human
mind fears the truth and makes every effort
to suppress it. Even in this late day there
are many persons who believe that college
newspapers should be subject to censor­ship.
Occasional outbursts of the truth in
college publications have a naive way of
horrifying many of us. Several college
journalists have been subjected to the
most stringent kind of criticism for print­ing
certain undesirable facts.
But the "young upstart would-be news­papermen"
have persisted and today they
are given a great deal of freedom. But
they are aften cursed when they exercise
that freedom in what is ingeniously known
as the "wrong way".
Truth has an uncomfortable way of com­ing
to light. It is invincible. Though its
foes fight it to a bitter finish it always wins
out. In like manner falsity is short lived.
It may gather disciples for a time, but it
soon loses its prestige and is dethroned by
truth. Truth cloistered, unexpressed, hid­den
behind false walls, is for a time pow­erless;
but let it once glimpse of the sun­light
and it becomes a force that knows
no bounds.
This year The Plainsman has endeavored
to seek out and publish the truth, and in
turn to base its opinions on that truth.
And, in the same manner with which col­lege
authorities have dealt with us, we
have dealth with our columnists. Often­times
we have been criticised for not cen­soring
subject matter appearing in the
columns of the paper. We have made it
our policy to give the columnists a free
rein (of course, up to certain limits which
they have never indicated they would ex­ceed),
and permit and encourage them to
express their real opinion. After all, The
Plainsman is an organ for the expression
of student opinion and we will at least
attempt to fulfil that ideal.-
We care little for guilty conscience and
embarrassed prestige. And so we say with
Pope:
"Whate'er men do, or say, or think, or
dream,
Our motley paper seizes for its theme".
New Standards?
In writing on the subject "Youth Moves
Toward New Standards" in this month's
issue of "Scribner's" Christian Gauss, Dean
of the College at Princeton, holds that sex
and alcohol are no longer the chief inter­ests
of college undergraduates. What a
pleasant surprise it is to learn that we who
think we know college students have been
wrong in our opinion of the group all the
time.
Gauss says that a reorientation is taking
place which is- developing a socially minded
student who is seeking new standards of
political and social thought. Princeton
students must be phenominal to give their
good dean such an idea as to the real
quality of the undergraduates. Should the
writer ever visit Auburn or most any other
Southern college we are sure he Wiould
wonder how he ever had the impression
that college students are moving toward
higher standards.
How many, we wonder, Auburn students
are seeking new political and social
thought? Opinions expressed by most of
us indicate that we are after anything but
new ideas. Recent problems which have
come before the student body reveal that
few students give any thought to political
and other questions.
Out of the student body of over seven­teen
hundred only about five hundred took
the time to answer the questionnaires asked
on the peace poll conducted by the Associa­tion
of College Editors and the Literary
Digest. Also, attempts of The Plainsman
to arouse interest in the question of stu­dent
government herd have failed thus far.
Next to no response has come from the
undergraduate group here to this moot
question.
We, too, would like to assume an ideal­istic
attitude toward the college youth of
today, but we can't completely fool our­selves
to the extent of believing that youth
is headed toward new standards in political
and social thought. For the present we
are forced to hold the same views as those
expressed by Hemingway in his "The Sun
Also Rises". He pointed out that youth
thought it little worthwhile or necessary
ever to intelligently discuss political or
economic problems. It is true that certain
groups of college students in this and other
sections are seeking the liberal education
which would give them broad reasoning
powers for thinking major problems
through, but for the time being this group
is snowed under by the thoughtless and
bucolic number which continues to place
thoughts of sex and alcohol above all else.
JOCULARITIES
By Jeremiah Jattingham
Society Elections
In the spring young men's fancies turn,
not to thoughts of love, but to thoughts
of honor societies. In the near future sev-eral.
honor groups will begin selecting mem­bers
for the ensuing year.
In this day of farcical campus elections
and various sorts of political maneuvering
honor fraternities have, in a certain sense,
fallen into disrepute. It is to be hoped
that the societies will, at least, attack the
election problem from an unbiased and
independent point of view this spring, se­lecting
only those men who are deserving,
and leaving small politics out of the ques­tion.
It is not always the man who is good
enough politician to gain an office that
makes an honor society the best man-
The real purpose of honor societies is to
recognize outstanding and worthy men;
their value in the eyes of students will be
greatly enhanced if they select only such
men as are deserving. Even though the
various classes may not be intelligent
enough to elect only those qualified to
hold positions, it seems only logical to as­sume
that an honor fraternity group is
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.
YOU PEOPLE who pick up the paper
from your front porch or in a local
emporium twice weekly have no idea
of the numerous conflicts involved in put­ting
out the sheet. To say nothing of the
difficulty of finding news on short weeks
and manufacturing society and sports news
when there isn't any, the most formidable
problem facing the news hounds of The
Plainsman is the problem of editorial ma­terial.
What to write about, how discreet
to be when writing, and who to give the
dubious privilege of writing editorials are
some of the more important factors that go
into the make-up of the editorial page. Of
course, one can clip from other college pub­lications
but that smacks of second-handed-ness
and triteness. Footprints constitute
a real task, how to be funny when one
doesn't feel a damn bit funny, and how to
write columns when one hasn't idea one
about which to write. If all you students
who gripe about there being nothing on
the front or anywhere else worth reading
would 'go out and start a revolution, or
better still come up for one week and help
the staff try to put out Friday's paper",
when one just has come out on Wednesday
before, you might appreciate the plight of
the Editor and four or five other members
of the staff who occasionally write some­thing,
when at twelve o'clock on Wednes­day
only half the front is filled up, no so­ciety
is in and things look dark and
dreary. And the Business Staff standing
on the sidelines razzing the editorialists
about being so damn slow. The sissies,
they had to work late last night, that's
the reason they were laughing.
* '* * *
One of the little surprises you get in
life is to go to a movie you don't think is
going to be anything but mediocre and
have it turn out be interesting. Such a
cinema was "Lottery Lover" the showing
at the local movie house Wednesday whose
title and the very fact that it was a Wed­nesday
show made its probability of being
a good show most unlikely. But with an
all-star cast (a cast that usually has no
stars at .all) and despite the not very
edifying title of the piece it was a re­freshingly
done picture.
* * * *
Monday night I went around to an Au­burn
Players' play-reading of that group's
forthcoming production "S. S. Queen of
Cuba"7 Although a gory and bloody melo­drama
of the old school the play has the
most up-to-the-minute modernity about it.
You people who have or think you have
some talent should try out for the Players
sometime. They aren't so snooty or ex­clusive
that they don't welcome anyone
and I'm sure after you've been to one
tryout session and seen some of the dra­matic
hopefuls, you would be tremendously
encouraged. During the past couple of
years or so, the Players have really done
some remarkable jobs in the matter of pre­senting
various types of plays. From the
satirically sacriligious tone of "Tartuffe"
to the burlesque melodrama of "Susan
Hopley" is quite a step, and although some
presentations of the local amateurs may
have been considered too "highbrow"—
to wit, Maeterlinck's "The Intruder" no
one has yet to say that an Auburn Players'
production failed to sustain its proper mood
throughout. And this latest play to be
presented in approximately six week has
several of the best character portrayal op­portunities
for embryo actors who lean
toward -that kind of thing. And you sweet
young things who have a yen to play some­thing
hard and cold and logically calculat­ing
would have a chance too. For this
play abounds in cold-blooded women, the
kind who like to step on ants just for the
pleasure of seeing them die.
* * * *
Auburn has decided that after all clothes
do make the man, for this week-end there
is to be no less than one formal dance
on the campus. The refining influence of
the demure lassies who decided to change
to Auburn after a year- or so at Monte-vallo
or some others girls' school has made
us appearance conscious. The days of the
unbuttoned knickers dangling grotesquely
to the ground are almost gone. Instead
we see more and more ties, and less mixing
of War uniforms with civilian clothes, and
a general improvement. And the boys who
griped about how uncomfortable tuxedos
made them feel admit they were all wrong,
just like they did when they got used to
shoes back in the not so distant past.
• • I " ' " " ***y»i——••"»—
level-headed enough to choose the "best".
The societies will be "on the spot*', so to
speak, this spring and should they select
men who lack the qualifications for mem­bership
in the fraternities their real worth
will be a much discussed question next
year.
Will Bruce leaves town on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and returns on
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
* * * * * *
A college graduate is the man who can count to twenty without taking off
his shoes.
* * * * * *
She was standing by the rail
And looking deathly pale
, Did she see a whale?
Not at all. . t
She was only papa's daughter
Throwing bread upon the water
In a way she hadn't oughter
v That was all.
* * * * * *
She: "Dqji't you think sheep are the dumbest creatures living?" .
He: "Yes, my lamb."
* * * * * *
Small boy—"Pa, what's a matrimonial bureau?"
Papa—"It's a bureau, son, with six drawers packed full of women's fixings
and one man's necktie." \
* * * * * *
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cubbard
To get her poor dawg a bone,
"April fool", She didn't
Have no dawg.
* * * * * *
There wuz an old woman
Who lived in a shoe,
So she didn't do much entertaining.
WITHOUT THE PALE
"OUTSIDE" EDITORIALS
Some of the more unenlightened mem­bers
of the journalistic brotherhood of the
state have been rather free with their crit­icism
during the past few months, of col­lege
editors "daring" to broaden their
editorial columns to the extent of express­ing
opinion on state, national and interna­tional
affairs — commonly referred to as
"outside" topics. According to our critics,
the college campus furnished enough
ground for the collegiate journalist, and
any attempt to venture into the "outside"
world is more or less an infringement on
the sacred right of the daily editors,
amounting almost to a travesty on right.
With our—shall we say enlightened—
critics, we beg to doffer and to differ
sharply. In the first place, the opinion of
the modern college student is just as im­portant,
if not more so, that the average
citizen now busily occupied in the tasks of
his daily life. In addition to this the trend
of government at the present time is to­ward
a goal, the uncertainty of, which is
beyond the comprehension of mere mortal.
To plan, to think, and at least to experi­ment,
is the right and the duty of youth,
and to venture into these fields of national
thought is the right and duty of every col­legiate
editor. Right or wrong the field
remains open and until forces far stronger
than that now exerted by our critics arise,
we intend to take advantage of this privi­lege.—
Ole Miss Mississippian.
* * * *
FOR GOOD COEDS ONLY!
PAGE MR. BRISBANE
Among Arthur Brisbane's daily syndicat­ed
profundities recently appeared a short
paragraph on the subject of college girls.
Said the noted columnist, "There could be
no better wife or mother than a good col­lege
girl." To The Minnesota Daily, in its
capacity as official student publication at
the University, this statement raises a se­rious
question of philological meaning.
Does Mr. Brisbane in using the term
"good" to describe a college girl have the
classic conception or the common campus
conception of the word in mind? The for­mer
meaning of the word is best illustrated
by a quotation from the poet who said,
"Be good, sweet maid, and let those who
will, be clever." The sort of coed who
would qualify under this definition is noted
for her solid horse sense, and her ability
to please the college professor who is on
the lookout for "good" minds, if not for
her pulchritudity. This sort of coed makes
an eminently good wife and brings up her
children according to the most advanced
psychological theories.
On the other hand, we have the college
girl who is defined as good by Joe College,
himself. The old phrase, "Good, she's got­ta
be good" best typifies her. The highest
type of this sort of coed is renowned for
her ability to catch her man and hold
Rim. She rarely has many ideas outside
the realm of clothes, cute instructors and
men in general. But then, she succeeds
without them. She usually marries and
may develop into a first class social climber.
My sincere congratulations to "By
Stander" who wrote a most appropriate
letter to the editor in the last issue of the
semi-weekly sheet concerning "A" Club
initiations. After all, there's a limit to
everything, even crudity. Not even the
saving grace of cleverness can excuse the
last several public initiations of the athletic
group, no matter how much we can defend
some of the more creditable activities of
the letter-winners' organization.
However, less marked coeds of this type
make excellent wives and think that their
husbands and babies are the best in the
world.
Mr. Brisbane, just what did you mean?
—Minnesota Daily.
* * * *
MYSTERY MAN SEEN
ON DUKE CAMPUS
A well-dressed man about flirty years
has caused considerable speculation about
the campus. The identity of the stranger,
who is rapidly gaining fame as the "Enig­ma,"
has not yet been ascertained as the
Chronicle went to press this afternoon.
The mysterious visitor was first noticed
last Tuesday evening in the dope shop,
where he spent several hours closely scan­ning
every student who entered. Since
that night he has confined his appearance
to a few occasions when he was noticed in
various public places on the campus.
Avoids Conversation
Efforts on the part of the Chronicle
"board of strategy" to connect the "Enig­ma"
with anyone in the university have
failed. As yet, no one has been able to
converse with the gentleman. When ap­proached
on several occasions in an at­tempt
to start a casual conversation with
him, he feigned muteness and strolled
away.
Letters to the Editor
February 7, 1935.
The Auburn Plainsman
Neil 0. Davis, editor
Auburn, Alabama.
Dear Editor:
We, the Auburn Social Committee, wish
to express our appreciation to you and
your entire staff for the cooperation we re­ceived
from your paper preceding the mid­term
dances. There is no doubt that your
paper played a major part in making the
dances a success both socially and finan­cially.
We also wish to thank the student
body for their attendance and the fine
spirit they showed throughout the set of
dances, which proves that Auburn can af­ford
the country's finest orchestras and that
they will be appreciated by the students.
Miss Zoe Dobbs, Dean of Women, and the
faculty social committee deserve a great
deal of credit for the order and smoothness
under which the dances were conducted.
No thanks or praises could be given to the
success of any set of dances without giv­ing
full credit to "Monk" Wright, through
whose efforts and splendid advice we were
able to obtain such an orchestra.
We feel that the student body should
know what is to be done with the money-that
was made on the dances. At a later
date we expect to publish an itemized ac­count
of the expenditures and proceeds of
the Social Committee. With the approval
of several members of the faculty advisory,
the money is to be invested in state bonds,
which will not be spent to defray extra
expenses, but will act as a security and
collateral when money is to be borrowed
to obtain future orchestras. In the past
the Social Committee has had to undergo a
great deal of trouble to borrow money to
meet the terms offered in contracts of music
corporations by borrowing this money from
class dues and other methods, but we 'feel
that by this investment it will eliminate
such transactions.
Again thanking you for your coopera­tion.
Gratefully
Auburn Social Committee.
CABBAGES AND KINGS
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.
WE WONDER why it is that Auburn
voted so definitely against the
United States entering the League
of Nations? We venture to say that the
greater portion of the voting was done
with little or no knowledge of the subject.
The majority of the students whom we
have questioned on the subject have an­swered
with an evasive, "I don't think that
we should get mixed up with those foreign
countries". Almost none of the answers
showed any thought or understanding of
the purpose and workings of the League.
To us it seems inevitable that the United
States must in the near future become a
member if we are to retain our rightful
position as a world power. The day of
sailing ships and' rugged individualism in
international politics and economics is a
yesterday. No longer are we so isolated
by the Atlantic' and Pacific oceans that we
can continue to disregard our fellow na­tions.
China for thousands of years, in­closed
in self-complacent walls, ignored, to
her ultimate sorrow, the outside world.
While we are not attempting to draw any
analogy between- our own country and
China we do believe that we have a right
and that it is not only our duty but our
privilege to accept a leading position in
any international organizations. Even in
our own little local world of Auburn we
band together in organizations and sub­merge
to some extent our individualism
for the good of the group. This column,
as stated before, would welcome any stu­dent
thought along this or other lines.
However, from the response that we have
received in the past we have decided that
there is no such thing as student thought,
or maybe (happy thought) no one reads
this column.
"LIKELY the heaviest coffee drinkers",
O. 0. Mclntyre tells us, "are night-taxi
drivers", who think nothing of drinking
over a dozen cups of coffee a night. We
are tempted to disagree, however, when
we note the number of times per day that
some of our hopeful politicians herd their
prospective supporters into Benson's. As
an interesting addition to this we read that
more coffee and more cigarettes were con­sumed
last year than in several years past.
For every man, woman, and child in the
United States 2.8 cigarettes were smoked
and 2.86 cups of coffee were drunk. If a
smoke is required with every cup of coffee
we predict that fewer votes will be cast
at the coming elections if the dances left
the campus back-slappers as flat broke as
we find ourselves.
CLASS ROOM GLEANINGS . . . Our
prof, in a discussion of the present excite-mesnt
over whether or not the Supreme
Court will uphold President Roosevelt's
money policies, brought up an interesting
question. He asks, "Has the Supreme
Court of the United States the constitu­tional
power itself to decide upon questions
involving finances?" 'Tis a moot question.
Just who, we wonder, is to decide upon the
Supreme Court's constitutional rights. We
are inclined to think it a trifle undemocratic
for a body as removed from the public
pulse as the Supreme Court to over rule
the decisions of congress and the President,
both the closest possible expression of the
public will. Just another example of the
complexities of democratic government . . .
or government of any nature, for that
matter.
BY STANDER stirred up quite a hornet's
nest when he publicly criticised the "A"
club. We did not witness the incident
which caused Mr. Stander to raise his voice
in holy indignation, and hence cannot com­mit
ourselves as to the justice of his criti­cism.
However, Mr. Stander shold bear
this thought in mind. The "A" club is,
has been, and always will be the privileged
organization of the Auburn campus. And
it is its right. "A" club members are the
athletes in a school in which athletic pro­ficiency
is worshiped with a fervor that
has been excelled only by the early Chris­tians.
As such they deserve the adulation
of every student who considers himself a
true son of Auburn. Stander's unseemly
remarks are sheer heresy, and we think
that he should be dealt with by the Black
Hand, that worthy organization which so
courageously subdued the obstreperous
Cletus. As long as our loyal alumni con­tinue
to spend their hard-earned dollars in
purchasing for us the indispensable ath­letes,
we, the paying students of the col­lege,
should do our part by offering humble
obeisance to the worthy, deserving students
whom they send to us to win our athletic
contests. Down with By Stander and his
heretical outbursts.
SATURDAY, FEB. 9, 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
Auburn Hardwood Five To Engage Florida Gators In Feature Tonight
FROSH HARDWOOD
QUINT WILL PLAY
TWO GAMES HERE
Coach Del Morgan's Quintet
Will Engage Hustsboro And
Auburn High Teams Today
Coach Del Morgan's frosh court
aggregation plays three games this
week-end, Hurtsboro High being play­ed
this afternoon at 3:30 and Auburn
High tonight at 6:20 in a preliminary
to the varsity game. Columbus In­dustrial
is the third opponent carded
for the week-end, furnishing the op­position
in the prelim to the second
Florida engagement Saturday.
Since the opening of the current
season, Coach Morgan has made a
tremendous improvement in the scor­ing
efficiency of the plebes. In
games early this week the freshman
outfit defeated three of the strongest
teams of the district, recording victo­ries
over Dadeville, the C. C. C. quin­tet
of Camp Hill, and Reeltown. Dade­ville
fell by the board to the tune
of 33-12, the C. C. C. representation
was defeated 40-23 and Reeltown was
eliminated 42-24.
The personnel of the first team has
changed considerably since the early
part of the current campaign and a
number of unheralded basketeers
have won places on the first five.
The probable starting lineup for the
frosh this week-end has Edward No-len
and Gordon Black at the for­wards,
Joe Wood at center, and An­drew
Curlee and O. Bottoms at
guards. Other yearlings who have a
better than average chance to see
service in some of the games are, for­wards,
Bill Gilchrist, T. W. Webb,
Rex McKissick, and Robert Mosely.
Buddy Crewes is second in line for
center and is just about on a par
with Wood at playing the pivot po­sition.
Guards who are showing up
well in addition to the two probable
starters include Warner Camp, O.
Ace Forward TIGER GROWLS
By OBSERVER = —
Sindler is p l a y i n g his last season
on the hardwood under the Orange
and B l u e Banner. He is o n e of the
s t e a d i e s t performers for the Tiger
c o n t i n g e n t this year.
Coach Jack Meagher ends up the first week of spring training tomorrow
after a week devoted mainly to fundamentals and limbering up drills.
Although it is too early as yet to predict any results, Coach Meagher and
his talented corps of assistants have gotten in some good work this week
towards fashioning a formidable football aggregation. Coach Meagher is
being assisted in these early sessions by Jim'mie Hitchcock, Buddy McCollum,
Irving Levi, Boots Chambless, Barney Musgrove and Del Morgan. Basket­ball
Coach Ralph Jordan will also take a hand in aiding after the close of
the basketball season. With the exception of Morgan, all of the assistant
mentors are former Auburn players. Hitchcock devotes his time to tutoring
the" backs. Chambless and Levi are handling the guards, Musgrove is
teaching the rudiments of snapperback strategy to the prospective centers,
McCollum is in charge of tackles, and Morgan is in charge of the ends.
Morgan is also frosh basketball coach and varsity baseball coach.
Dependable Guard
CO-ED ATHLETIC
ASSOCIATION TO
HAVE FULL YEAR
W. A. A. Plans Extensive Ath­l
e t i c Program For Semester;
Dance Be Given Next Friday
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Opelika, Alabama
The Womens Athletic Association
held its. first meeting of the semester
last Monday afternoon. During this
meeting which was presided over by
Nellie Fuller, president of the society,
extensive plans for the coming se­mester
were mapped out.
The Association has a membership
of 26 women students. The purpose
of the organization is to create and
maintain an active interest in sports
of all kinds. To maintain this inter­est
and to recognize outstanding wo­men
athletes letters are given to
Morris and J. K. Holmes.
On the whole the season thus far
has been highly successful and the
plebe quintet is expected to round out
the season in a blaze of glory, figura­tively
speaking.
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The track squad has been reporting
to Drake Field daily for instruction
by Coach Wilbur Hutsell, Auburn's
genial cinder coach and trainer. Hut-sell-
coached teams have lost only
three dual meets in thirteen years,
and while prospects for a successful
aggregation this year are very
remote, Coach Hutsell has succeeded
in fashioning winners out of extreme­ly
inadequate material before. Only
three letter men are back and all of
these are distance men. It will re­quire
considerable juggling to get
together a passably versatile set of
thinly-clad artists but with several
men back from last year, there is a
possibility of Auburn again having a
winning team. In addition to Gait,
Pihl, and Funchess, the letter win­ners,
others back are: Emrey,' Law­rence,
Wright, Langdon, Martin,
Meadows, Blake, Mercer, McGehee
and a number of sophomores from
which probable point makers will
come.
* * *
Fraternity basketball gets under
way next week in great fashion as
early practice games among the
Greeks are now history. From sev­eral
fraternities not hitherto con­sidered
as being in the running come
reports of a month or so of practice
while from other teams that are sup­posed
to be good little interest is
being shown. The gym is not avail­able
at any particular time due to the
various trips of the varsity so unless
a satisfactory scheme is worked out
by which a definite schedule can be
set up it seems as if fraternities will
have to take the gym when available.
* * *
Congratulations to Coach Morgan!
Faced with a dearth of good material
at the opening of the season, Coach
Morgan has fashioned a dangerous
quintet out of his frosh hoopmen.
Except for an early season loss to
Columbus Industrial, the "rats" have
been most successful against the out­standing
high school teams of the dis­trict.
* * *.
Football prospects were consider­ably
helped with the reporting of
Bunky O'Rourke, Dopey Wright and
Welch Huckaby for spring training.
O'Rourke and Huckaby were stars as
freshmen on the '32 plebe eleven and
Wright was a most capable end on
the '33 frosh outfit. Their presence
considerably strengthens their respec­tive
positions.
AUBURN HIGH TO
OPEN HOME CARD
AGAINST PLEBES
Early Season Losses To Lanett
And Hurtsboro Discounted
As Locals Prepare For Tilt
Auburn High's 1935 basketball rep­resentation
makes its first home ap­pearance
in several weeks tonight as
Coach Del Morgan's freshman quintet
clashes with the locals in a prelimi­nary
to the varsity encounter. The
game is scheduled to start at 6:30 in
Alumni Gymnasium.
The local five have made consider­able
progress since early season losses
to Lanett and Hurtsboro and will be
prepared to give the frosh an inter­esting
game tonight. The last loss,
recorded against the Fowler-coached
five was a two-point defeat by Hurts­boro,
and in their last quartet of en­gagements
the Auburn aggregation
has emerged victorious by consider­able
scores. Reeltown dropped one
game to the locals 21-14 as did We-tumpka,
usually one of the standout
fives of the section, 18-12. Opelika
furnished little but a warm-up affair
in losing 22-9 and 32-8.
The same team that started the
season will continue for the balance
of the campaign with the exception
of Bunchy Fowler, who graduated
several weeks ago. Roy Powell and
Dan Friel are both making a deter­mined
bid for the place vacated by
PLAINSMEN WILL BE OUT FOR
WIN IN IMPORTANT TILT HERE
After Dropping Several Close Games During First Of Week
Auburn Cage Artists Will Be Pointing For Saurians; d e m ­ons
Is Bringing Tall And Rangy Quintet Here Tonight
Auburn's varsity hardwood five
makes its first home appearance of
the second semester tonight as Coach
Ben demons' quintet from the Uni­versity
of Florida invades the Plains
for a pair of engagements. Fresh
from two close losses' to Georgia and
Georgia Tech, the Tigers seem to
have hit their best form of the sea­son.
The Georgia Bulldogs annexed
a 4-point decision Tuesday and the
Jackets made a desperate rally in the
At-tiBA/vi/l POt-Y
AUBUK.N
Cleve came t o Auburn a f t e r mak­i
n g the a l l - s t a t e high school live at
Lanier High in Montgomery. He
is a regular at a guard p o s i t i o n and
i s a s e n i o r this season.
COLUMBUS QUINT
BRINGS GIANT TO
AUBURN COURT
Six-foot Ten Industrial High
School Player Is Tallest Cen­ter
In This Section Of South
Probably the tallest basket-ball
player ever to perform on the hard­wood
in Alumni Gymnasium at Au­burn
will be seen in action on the
local court when Columbus Industrial
High School invades the Plains to
meet Auburn's frosh five Saturday
evening at 6:20 in a return conflict.
The plebes engagement with Indus­trial
will be played as a preliminary
to the second of a two-game series
between the varsity cage fives of
Alabama Polytechnic Institute and
University of Florida.
The giant who will appear at Au­burn
Saturday evening is King Kong
Howell, Industrial center. Howell is
Tomato Named After
Penn State College
State College, Pa.—(A.C.P.—An­other
high honor has been added to
the long list claimed by Pennsylvania
State College: It has had a tomato
named after it.
Penn State, as the new tomato de­veloped
by that institution's agricul­tural
experiment station is to be
known as, is the result of careful
breeding tests conducted for seven
years by Dr. C. E. Myers. Originally
known as the Keystone, its name was
changed to Penn States after it was
discovered that that name is used by
a western seed house to designate a
line of seeds.
The parents crossed in the breeding
of the new tomato were Penn State
Earliana and Self Pruning. From
the latter Penn State inherited a
compact form of growth which per­mits
close pruning. From the Penn
State Earliana tomato the new va­riety
derives earliness of ripening.
The fruits are formed in clusters, are
evenly colored a rich scarlet, and are
unusually free from blemishes.
closing minutes of Wednesday's af­fair
in winning by a one point margin.
Coach Ralph Jordan apparently has
his best combination of the season
working together and the lineup com­posed
' of Joel Eaves and Woodrow
Barnes at forwards, Joe Bob Mitchell
at center, and Cleve Brown and Hugh
Rodgers, will take the floor against
the 'Gators tonight. Rodgers, a re­cent
addition to the squad due to
the injuries which prevented his re­porting
before the holidays, has come
along rapidly and has earned a place
on the coveted five. George Quinney
and Frank Sindler are also likely to
see some service against the Clemons-coached
aggregation.
Although the record of the Florida
five has not been particularly impres­sive
to date, Coach demons still has
one of the most dangerous outfits in
the loop. Tall and rangy, the 'Ga­tors
split with Georgia in a pair of
games earlier in the season and are
also expected to reach top form in the
game with the Plainsmen tonight.
The Florida team played a one night
stand in Tuscaloosa last night, and
although losing to the Alabama quin­tet,
one of the strongest teams in the
Conference, made a creditable show­ing
in holding the highly-touted Uni­versity
five.
a mare lad of 245 pounds and stands
Fowler with Powell possibly having s i x feet> 1 0 inches under the shower.
a slight edge at present. The for­ward
combination of Whatley and
Ham remains unchanged, and Smith
and Wright are holding down the cen­ter
and other guard position satisfac­torily.
District officials voted last Satur­day
to have a split tournament this
year for the district and Auburn will
play in the northern division. Al­though
Auburn's first-round opponent
has not yet been chosen, there are
several strong teams, notably Lang-dale,
Lanett, and Fairfax.
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EMMETT A. RODGERS
KENNETH M. RODGERS WILSON D. RODGERS
those members who make 100 points
during the year. These points are
given for the participation in the
different sports. Among the sports
which count as points are baseball,
basketball, tennis, horse-back riding,
and hiking. During the course of the
year tournaments are held and these
also count as points toward letters.
One of the first functions of the
year which W. A. A. is sponsoring
is their dance which is to be held
on Friday night, February fifteenth.
This dance which is an annual affair
will be held in the girls' gym and will
be a girl break affair.
At the meeting Monday it was de­cided
that a picture would be placed
in this year's Glomerata. It is also
planned that the Association will par­ticipate
in the state-wide "Play-Day".
Patronize Plainsman advertisers.
He is pretty agile for his size and
generally controls the tipoff for his
club. He has been high scorer for
his team in several games this season
and hit the cords for 32 points in one
game against a keen rival. He makes
most of his points by standing close
to the baskets and dropping the ball
through the hoops after snagging
high passes from his mates.
Howell, however, is not the only
scoring threat on Coach B. T. Regis­ter's
fine Red Jacket quintet, winner
of 21 out of its first 22 starts and
boasting of an offensive record of
over 30 points per game. Jones and
Dennis, forwards, and Tillman and
Upton, guards, are other first rate
players teaming with King Kong, who
is probably a double for the giant in
the Orphan Annie comic strip.
LOST — Black and Pearl Parker
F o u n t a i n Pen lost during exams.
Wm. Pope, Wittel Dormitory.
KODAK SNAPSHOTS
Of the children, friends and loved ones
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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GLORIA DIANNE HUGHEY
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Hughey take
great pleasure in announcing the
birth of a daughter Saturday, Jan­uary
26, at the Pensacola hospital.
She will be named Gloria Dianne.
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LOANS TO FARMERS
WHY YOU
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IOU can borrow at cost from us
because ours is a nonprofit coop­erative
association of farmers.
The interest rate is 5% a year
'and you pay only for the time you
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AUBURN PRODUCTION CREDIT
ASSOCIATION
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LOCAL R E P R E S E N T A T I VE
C. M. Weissinger, Opelika, Alabama
LOANS TO FARMERS
Hear Judge Walter B. Jones at Methodist Sunday School, 9:45, Feb. 10.
EVERY ONE C O R D I A L L Y I N V I T ED
P A G E FOUR T H E A U B U R N PLAINSMAN A L A B A M A POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE SATURDAY, FEB. 9, 1935
RE-EXAMS TO BE GIVEN HERE
BEGINNING MONDAY-EDWARDS
Two Dollar Fee Will Be Charged For Each Exam; Passing
Grade On Test Will Give Those Eligible For Make-up Exam
Credit On Courses; Schedule Is Prepared By Registrar
Students who have received condi­tioned
grades or were absent from ex­aminations
with permission during
the past year may take re-examina­tions
during the week of Feb. 11-16.
Only one re-examination will be al­lowed
in each subject.
Students concerned must first se­cure
cards from the registrar's office
and notify the instructor in sufficient
time to allow preparation of exami­nation
questions. Absences from
class work conflicting with exam
schedule will be excused.
A fee of $2.00 will be charged for
each re-exam, wiljh the maximum
charge for three or more re-exams at
$5.00. Those absent from exam be­cause
of illness will not be required to
pay the fee.
All conditioned subjects must be
repeated in class unless the re-exam
is passed within a year after the se­mester
in which the condition is in-curredi
Grades of incomplete will
also be recorded as failures unless
made up within a year, says the no­tice
from the registrar's office.
The complete re-exam schedule is
as follows:
3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, Botany,
Business Administration, Machine De­sign
and Drawing, Mathematics.
10 a.m. Tuesday, Home Economics,
Horticulture, Industrial Engineering,
Physical Education and R. O. T. C.
3 p.m. Tuesday, Agricultural En-
JUNIOR R. O. T. C.
CAMP PERIOD SET
TO BEGIN JUNE 7
(Continued from Page 1)
ida, one from Alabama, one from
Tennessee, and three from Ga. Tech.
It is contemplated that Capt. W. C.
Huggins and Lieut. J. V. Phelps will
be ordered from this station as well
as another officer from either Florida
or Alabama.
Major Franke stated that the ear­lier
part of the camp will be some­what
easier than usual, otherwise no
other changes have been made.
Infantry School troops, which are
regularly engaged in maneuvers end­ing
just previous to the termination
of the school year will be moved up
this year to June 25. As a result all
demonstrations covering approximate­ly
5 or 6 days will be shifted to the
first days of camp rather than
throughout the camp period. This
fact, according to Major Franke, ac­counts
for a somewhat easier schedule
for the beginning of camp.
gineering, Architecture, Electrical
Engineering, Physics, and Sociology.
On Tuesday night at 7 P.M. the
re-exams in Physics Lab. 207 and
208 will be given.
3 p.m. Wednesday, Agronomy, Ag­ricultural
Economics, Civil and High­way
Engineering, Economics, (first
period) English, and Textile Engin­eering.
10 a.m. Thursday, Animal Husban­dry,
Dairy Husbandry, Poultry Hus­bandry,
Religious Education, and Vet­erinary
Medicine.
3 p.m. Thursday, Applied Art, Bac­teriology,
Chemistry, Economics (sec­ond
period), Pharmacy.
3 p.m. Friday, Aeronautical Engin­eering,
Education, Foreign Lan­guages,
History, and Mechanical En­gineering.
9 a.m. Saturday, Zoology and En­tomology
and conflicts in above sche­dule.
DR. CARY TALKS
AT BANQUET FOR
LOCAL A. V. M. A.
(Continued from Page 1)
W. D. Hiscock, Jr., of Florida. Oth­ers
who spoke included Prof. H. D.
Jones, Maj. G. H. Franke, Dr. L. S.
Blake, and Dr. W. B. McGehee.
The vets' celebration will close to­night
with a dance in the Student
Social center. A. V. M. A. members
and their dates, and a number of vis­itors
wil attend this function.
More Upperclassmen
Attending Harvard U.
Cambridge, Mass.—(A.C.P.)—Con­trary
to prevalent reports that Har­vard
University's ever rising academ­ic
standards have produced an equiva­lent
increase in the number dropped
for scholastic reasons, Dean Hanford
reports there has actually been a
steady drop in the mortality list dur­ing
the last decade. But at the same
time the proportion of upperclassmen
approved as candidates for honors
has shot up.
Despite this improvement, Dean
Hanford feels that "the proportion
of failures . . . is still too high for
a college which has a selective pro­cess
of admission and we should con­stantly
strive to see to it that all the
assistance legitimately desirable is
given to the willing but less gifted
student and that our curriculum and
general plan of education are such as
to interest, broaden, and develop the
non-scholarly type of youth."
In detail, Dean Hanford said that
"now and then one hears complaints
that with the increasing attention
given to honors work and with the
improvements in scholarship it has be­come
more difficult for the student
of average ability to remain in Har­vard
College. This conclusion is not
borne out by the statistics regarding
the number of students who do so
poorly that their connection has to
be severed.
"During the same period that the
proportion of men graduating with
honors has increased so markedly, the
proportion of undergraduates who
have had their connection severed has
in general shown a slight downward
trend from 7.9 per cent in 1923 to
8.5 per cent in 1924 to 6.2 per cent,
5.4 per cent and 6 per cent respective­ly
in 1932, 1933, 1934."
SOLONS CONSIDER
IMPORTANT BILLS
BEFORE VACATION
(Continued from Page 1)
The Governor has made clear that
he wants to help the white collared
man who has been "too proud to beg
for relief". His aim is to put at
least 20,000 unemployed men in the
state to work if possible.
One of the high spots of the Wed­nesday
session was the passage by
the House of the sedition or anti-communist
bill to exclude from the
mail such matter that is considered
to be of ji communist nature. An
amendment to the bill was added pro­viding
that the act did not apply to
writing and cartoon* that appeared in
the newspapers. In other words, the
amendment guaranteed the freedom
of the press, so to speak.
Rep. Owens introduced a humorous
bill at the Wednesday session in
which he proposed that Senator Huey
Long be invited to address the session
as a "substitute for a circus." It was
received with loud shouts of "No!"
PROF. BARNETT CHOSEN
TO DIRECT GLEE CLUB
(Continued from Page 1)
at the following towns: Troy, Mon-roeville,
Fairhope, and' Tallahassee,
Florida. Other cities will be booked
later to complete the trip.
The general set-up of the program
that will be presented on this tour
and in the one local appearance after
the club's return to Auburn includes:
Eight songs by the entire club, quar­tet
numbers, piano numbers, vocal
solos, accordian numbers, several spe­cialties,
and the Auburn Knights.
This year the Knights will be a fea­tured
part of the program. Mrs.
Earl Hazel is the .Glee Club's accom­panist.
NOTICE!
The R. O. T. C. unit will form in
front of the main building at the
drill period Tuesday, February 12.
Cadets will be marched to the Tiger
Theatre where they will see a train­ing
film on "Driving in Draft".
NOTICE!
All those interested in trying out
for parts in the play "S. S. Queen of
Cuba" are asked to be present in the
Y Hut Monday night at 8 o'clock.
Any student is eligible to try out for
a part.
NOTICE!
A weiner roast will be given by the
local chapter of F. F. A. Friday night
at 7 o'clock in the wooded section back
of Duncan Hall. Members are re­quested
to bring dates.
NOTICE!
r i i i U J U^
Opelika, Alabama
MONDAY — TUESDAY
Constance Bennett
Frederic March
i
in
"The Affairs of
Cellini"
Also
Musical Comedy—
"The Girl from Paradise"
Metrotone News
WEDNESDAY
Spencer Tracy
Ketti Galliane
in
"Marie Galante"
Also
MGM Oddity and Pete
Smith in Another
Goofy Movie
L. Heyman Succumbs
In Atlanta Hospital
Officials of the Alabama Polytech­nic
Institute and hundreds of the
Alumni are saddened by the death of
Louis Phillip Heyman of West Point,
Ga., which occurred early Tuesday
evening in an Atlanta hospital. Death
of the prominent '92 graduate of Au­burn
came unexpectedly.
Funeral services were held Thurs­day
morning from his home in West
Point and interment was made in the
Georgia city.
After graduation with a brilliant
record at Auburn in 1892, Mr. Hey­man,
though very young, instructed
here *for sometime in mathematics.
Later he graduated at Harvard Uni­versity.
For several years before en­tering
the furniture business in West
Point he was a reporter for The At­lanta
Journal.
He was a member of the firm Lee
Heyman & Co., West Point furniture
dealers; was a Mason; president of
the Sunday School of the Jewish
Synagogue in West Point, and teach­er
of a group of children in Sunday
school. He was the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Heyman, pio­neers
of West Point.
Surviving Mr. Heyman are his two
brothers, Lee and Arthur Heyman;
and four sisters, Mrs. Zach Hager-don,
of Montgomery; and Mrs. Helen
Herzberg, Mrs. Lula Hagerdon, and
Miss Bertha Heyman, all of West
Point.
There will be a meeting of the A-merican
Legion Monday night at 7:30
o'clock in the Student Recreation
Hall.
REGULATIONS TO
BE ENFORCED IN
NEXT ELECTIONS
HAZING IS GIVEN
WALKING PAPERS
AT WAKE FOREST
Resolution To Abolish Hazing
Approved After Hair-Cut­ting
Escapades In Carolina
Wake Forest, N. C— (A.C.P.)—
Hazing has definitely been given its
walking papers by the students and
faculty of Wake Forest College here.
Roused with indignation over the
hair cutting escapades of 27 students,
Dean D. B. Bryan gave a ringing
speech which definitely placed the
pranksters in shame, forced them to
make a public apology, and brought
more than 1,000 students to their feet
in approval of a resolution to stamp
out hazing once and for all.
"Go to your rooms, men, get your
shotguns and blackjacks out of your
drawers, and send them off this cam­pus.
You will no longer have to
sleep first in one room, then in an­other,
to avoid the hooded hazers who
have terrorized this campus," the
dean concluded.
During this address the 27 men
sat in the front two rows in mute
witness of Dr. Bryan's statement that
haircutting days were over. At the
end of this speech each man stood up
and faced the audience. All of these
had confessed to some part in hair-cutting,
and through a spokesman
promised the student body that no
more victims would have their heads
bared to the public gaze.
The mass apology of the 27 self-confessed
hazers marked the culmi­nation
of a hectic week of activity by
the faculty and student council. Im­mediately
before Christmas an un­precedented
crop of shining domes
appeared on the campus, topping off
three months of steady haircutting.
During the holidays the college ad­ministration
was flooded with letters
and telegrams of protest, and even
several intimations of ensuing legal
acion if conditions were not improved.
"Some of the reasons set forth for
haircutting were amazing," Dr. Bry­an
stated. "Some victims were chos­en
because they kept clean-shaven
and neat in their appearance; others,
because they were assiduous in their
class work and were helping to raise
RANDALL PARRISH
HEADS RELATIONS
CLUB NEXT TERM
(Continued from Page 1)
room has been fixed to provide for
the needs of the club.
At a meeting of the club Tuesday
delegates to the annual South East­ern
International Relations Club Con­ference
will be named. Two mem­bers
will be named to attend the con­ference,
which will be held this year
at Davidson College, Davidson, N. C.
This will be the first time in two
years that the society has sent dele­gates
to the convention.
Enrollment in the society has been
growing steadily since it was founded
several years ago. At the present
there are 25 members, which is five
less than the minimum as set by the
constitution of the club.
the scholastic standards of the col­lege;
while transfer students from
other institutions were automatically
'put on the spot.'
FOR SALE: Milk-fed broilers and
fryers, 1 % to 2 % pounds. See A.
Clark at 275 E. Thach.
Tiger Theatre
AUBURN, ALABAMA
"The Showplace of East
Alabama"
SATURDAY, February 9
"KANSAS CITY
PRINCESS"
with Joan Blondell and Hugh
Herbert
Also: Comedy "One A. M." and
Mickey Mouse Cartoon
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
February 10 and 11
WILL ROGERS in
"THE COUNTY CHAIR­MAN"
A Treat for the Whole Family
Also Yacht Club Boys in
"HEAR YE HEAR"
and SPORTSLIGHT
TUESDAY, February 12
Ann Harding and Robert
Montgomery in
"BIOGRAPHY OF A
BACHELOR GRIL"
Also "Feminine Rythm" and
News Slants
CAPTAIN ALMQUIST LECTURES
TO ROTARY CLUB ON "SPAIN"
Local Army Officer Tells Of Customs Of Spaniards In Address
Yesterday; Speaker Spent Several Months In Spain In 1928;
Attended Military Academy At Madrid During Visit
Capt. E. H. Almquist of the School
of Military Science and Tactics talk­ed
at a meeting of the Auburn Ro­tary
Club yesterday on the subject
of Spain.
In 1928 Capt. Almquist was detail­ed
by the United States Army to
serve in Spain where he made a study
of the Spanish language. During his
stay in that country he attended the
Military Academy at Madrid and
learned many of the customs of the
Spanish people.
During his talk Capt. Almquist de­scribed
Madrid as being an art center
of some note and as having severe
climatic conditions. Of the customs,
he particularly stressed bull-fights,
the favorite pastime of Spain. He
said the children of Spain are as
much affected by this sport as are
the children in this country with foot­ball
and baseball. It is a common
sight, he said, to see the children
there playing "bull-fighting" in the
city streets.
Capt. Almquist described the typi­cal
Spanish day with business hours
between 9 and 11:30 o'clock, followed
by the siesta, which lasts until two
in the afternoon. Further business
is taken up at 3 o'clock and lasts
until 7 o'clock. In the evenings it
is the custom of the people to prom­enade,
lasting until as late as 2
o'clock in the morning, at which time
there are more people on the streets
than at any other time.
The Spaniards, said Capt. Alm­quist,
consider us not as Americans
but as North Americans to distinguish
us from the South Americans. They
consider the United States as a very
imperialistic nation.
Students • • •
Send
WE PLAINSMAN
home for the remainder of
the year for
$1.00
Office at the Auburn Printing Co.
(Continued from Page 1)
currence of such situations, and
to protect all those interested in
the coming elections, the Execu­tive
Cabinet will stringently en­force
each of these rules.
Yours respectfully,
Student Executive Cabinet,
William M. Hughes, president.
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