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VOLUME LVIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30, 1935 NUMBER 30
Honor Groups Will
Stage Annual Ball
Here February 22
Honor Societies Ball Will Be
S t a g e d In Gymnasium On
F r i d a y Night, February 22
COMMITTEES APPOINTED
Blue Key Sponsors Affair;
Dance Is One Of Annual
O u t s t a n d i n g Social Events
The annual Senior Honor Societies
Ball will be staged on Friday night,
February 22 in Alumni Gymnasium.
Blue Key will again sponsor the affair
in conjunction with eleven other
senior honor fraternities.
According to Wallace Nelson, president
of the local Blue Key chapter,
tentative plans for the occasion have
been arranged and preparations for
the most successful of these annual
affairs are well underway.
It is planned to hold the honor societies
banquet probably in the Baptist
Church on the same night of the
ball. A banquet committee, composed
of Frank Ellis, chairman, Carl Witti-chen,
and Lynwood Funchess was appointed
to draft plans for this feature
of the program at a meeting of
representatives of the several societies
last Monday night.
Don Pierce, chairman, Buddy Louden,
and Carl Pihl will serve on the
decorations committee which will arrange
for decorating the gym.
The finance committee, composed
of Jack Shaw, chairman, Randall
Parrish, and Bill Hughes, will meet
at an early date and make necessary
financial arrangements for both the
banquet and the ball. Members of
the different societies will probably
be assessed a proportionate sum to
provide for the fund to be used in
staging these events.
Societies participating in the festivities
this year are: Blue Key,
Spades, Omricon Delta Kappa, Kappa
Delta Pi, Scabbard and Blade, Phi
Lambda Upsilon, Scarabs, Phi Delta
Gamma, Alpha Phi Epsilon, Phi Kappa
Phi, Spiked Shoe, and Alpha Phi
Epsilon. An executive committee
composed of representatives from
each society will be in charge of details
for the affairs.
Bids to the ball will be placed in
the Tiger Drug Store in the near
future.
Delta Sigma Pi Holds
Meeting Last Tuesday
Delta Sigma Pi, international busiT
ness and professional fraternity held
its first business meeting of the semester
Tuesday evening in the "L"
building.
At this meeting it was decided that
the first professional meeting would
be held Tuesday evening, February
12. This session will not be conducted
as the previous professional
meetings, but will be in the form
of a banquet. Dr. T. H. Kirby, Superintendent
of City Schools at La-nett,
will be the guest speaker and
conduct the open forum discussion
which will follow his address.
The subject of the evening will be
'Qualities Necessary for Success in
Business." This subject is most appropriate
for the occasion, because
according to Miller Pitts, president,
"The aim and purpose of this fraternity
is to bring before its members
questions of business and professional
interest for discussion."
The meeting of Tueday night was
especially important in that the plans
for the semester's program were discussed
and outlined. It was announced
that "The Lodge," the organization's
outing house which is being
constructed on the Yarborough Place,
is rapidly nearing completion and
will be ready for Use by the middle
of February.
In the report on the standing of
the local chapter, in the International
Efficiency Contest, President Pitts
stated that Beta Lambda, which is
the local chapter, stands twentieth
from the top, showing a rapid climb
since the last report was issued.
To Be Featured Here As Vocalist Contests For High
Schools Be Staged
On March 2 2 , 23
Tournament Will Draw Students
From High Schools
Throughout State—Rutland
IS ANNUAL AFFAIR
Contests In Art, Speech, Journalism,
Dramatics, Music,
Will Be Conducted By A.P.I.
Over Two Hundred Visiting Girls In
City For Mid-Terms; Kay Kyser And
Orchestra Will Play For Dance Set
Auburn Students Who Heard
Kyser At University Pleased
With Excellent Music Report
BAND IS VERSATILE
VIRGINIA SIMMS is the featured girl vocalist with the Kyser
orchestra. Miss Simms is a recent addition to the ensemble, but has
had much experience in vocal work with other bands.
Players To Read New
Play In Practice At
T Hut Next Monday
"S.S. Queen Of Cuba" Will Be
Presented By Auburn Players;
Characters Be Cast Soon
Play reading of 'S. S. Queen of
Cuba," the third production of the
year by the Auburn Players) will take
place at 8 p. m. next Monday night
in the 'Y" Hut.
A week following the play reading,
characters will be cast which will include
a sea captain, a capitalist, his
son, and a private agent; and the
captain's old mother, his secretary,
and a young woman agent. Any person
interested in dramatics is eligible
to try out for any part. The play is
in four acts and concerns the developments
following a sea disaster, with
the scene being layed in a New York
office building sometime last September.
While in New York City during the
Christmas holidays T. Peet, dramatic
instructor, purchased considerable
equipment to be used by the Players
for future productions. An old, open
faced switchboard that has been used
up to the present time will be replaced
by a portable piano box switchboard
of the latest design containing
10 dimmers and 12 switches.
Five baby spot lights were also purchased
at the same time. It is hoped
by the Players that with this added
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Masquerade Ball Given
By Woman's Club Here
The masquerade ball given by the
Art Department of the Woman's
Club, Saturday, Jan. 12 in the Girl's
gymnasium was a complete success
according to Mrs. Keith. Reeve and
Mrs. John Ivey who were in charge
of the affair.
Mrs. J. J. Couch as a Turkish
woman and Dr. H. W. Sawyer as
Harpo Marx were awarded the prize
by the judging committee as having
the most original costumes. The
judges were Miss Louise Glanton,
Miss Lilly Spencer, Dr. Herman
Jones, Dr. B. P. Thomas, and Mr.
Frank Applebee.
Music for the affair, which included
a grand march led by Mr. and
Mrs. Keith Reeve, was provided by
the Auburn Cavaliers. The gymnasium
was decorated by a committee
composed of Mrs. Charles Edwards,
Mrs. H. W. Nixon, and Mrs. Frank
Orr.
It is hoped by members of the club
that the masquerade ball will be
made an annual affair.
Noted Army Lecturer
Will Speak To Cadet
Unit On Monday Night
Fort Benning Officer To Talk
On French Army Unit At
Langdon Hall At 7 : 3 0 P. M.
Major William Holms, faculty member
of the Infantry School at Fort
Benning, Ga. will deliver a lecture in
Broun Hall Auditorium Monday evening,
Feb. 4 at 7:30 p. m.
Major Holm's subject will be "Operations
of the French 66th Brigade,
August 22, 1914, near Bertrix, Belgium."
This lecture is being held
primarily for the benefit of Organized
Reserve officers in Auburn and vicinity.
However, all R. O. T; C. students
are urged to attend, and the
lecture is likewise open to any others
who may be interested.
Major Holms has been to Auburn
twice in the preceding two years for
the delivery of two interesting lectures,
one upon the German Army
and one' upon the Italian Army. He
has traveled extensively in Europe
and is well qualified to talk on the
subject to be delivered next Monday
evening. He is well known as a fascinating
lecturer.
"A" Club Initiates
Pledges This Week
Seventeen members of Auburn's
1934 football team, including the
head cheerleader and manager, have
been elected to membership in the
"A" Club and will be initiated into
the group at a formal ceremony Monday
night, according to Haygood
Patterson, president.
Those selected for membership are
Frank Gantt, Sid Scarborough, Ed
Prewitt, Walter Gilbert, Aubrey Hill,
James Karam, Hugh Rodgers, Sam
McCroskey, Joe Bob Mitchell, Joel
Eaves, John Tipper, Red Hines, Maxwell
Benton, Irving Levi, Bobby
Blake, Wilton Kilgore, and Joe
Stewart.
During the Friday afternoon tea
dance of the Junior Prom, pledges
will be required to attend with dates.
On the following Saturday afternoon
at 3 o'clock the pledges will stage
a play at Toomer's corner as the
concluding feature of the public initiation
ceremonies. Formal initiation
will be held Monday night.
The "A" Club will sponsor the Saturday
afternoon dance of the Junior
Prom.
At this affair several lead-outs
complimenting pledges and members
will be given. The "A" Club dance
during mid-terms is an annual event.I
The annual High School Tournament
held by the college through the
cooperation of the English, Music and
Art departments will be held here on
March 22 and 23. This is the eleventh
annual tournament of its kind to be
staged here.
The tournament is open to all high
schools of the state and will include
contests in dramatics, music, art^ public
speaking, and journalism. Over
twenty five schools are expected to
participate.
The dramatic tournament will consist
of two parts, the preliminaries
and the finals. The plays, which will
be one act each of not. more than
forty minutes, will be judged upon
the quality of the acting, directing
and group interpretation. The winning
cast will be presented with a
trophy.
Dr. Rutland of the English department
has announced that the college
will endeavor to find rooms for all
contestants and diretcors free of
charge. Most of the visitors are
usually quartered in fraternity
houses and dormitories.
The music contests will include the
following parts; boy's vocal solo,
girl's vocal solo, piano contest, and
violin contest. Attractive prizes in
the form of scholarships will be given
to the winners.
The art tournament will include
the following contests: freehand
drawing and freehand design.
The public speaking tournament
will consist of contests in three types
of speaking, impromptu, prepared,
and poetic reading.
In the journalism tournament two
contests will be held, one on editorial
writing and one on the best high
school paper.
The purpose of this competition is
to encourage the teaching of dramatics,
writing, drawing and like arts
in the high schools over the state.
Complete information on the tournament
can be had by writing to the
English Department of Auburn.
New Regulations For
Cadets Are Announced
Special certificate forms procured
from the military office will be required
of all advance corp R. O. T. C.
students who are absent from all
military classes and drill in order
that daily pay reductions will not
be made. The new regulation is as
follows:
In case of illness or when absence
is caused through no fault or neglect
on the part of the student, a doctor's
certificate will be required. Such
certificate forms, requiring only the
doctor's signature and insertion of
proper date, may be procured in the
military office. Certificates must be
turned in to the instructor or to the
military office at.the time a student
returns to classes to be effective.
Other forms may be obtained in
the event a student's absence is authorized
by the college for athletic
or other purposes. They will be
signed by the student and will be
sufficient notice for subsequent check
with the registrar. Such statements
must also be submitted upon return
to classes in order to he effective.
A new grading system for all R.
O. T. C. students has been put into
effect by the Military Department,
beginning with the second semester
of 1934-35. Under the new regulation
fifty per cent of a student's semester
grade will depend upon daily
work c'one by the student. Thirty
per cent will depend upon the final
exam grade and twenty per cent upon
military aptitude.
Vocal Features Of Group Attract
Wide Attention Here
On Eve Of First Dance
Several Auburn students who journeyed
over to the University during
the early part of the week to
hear Kay Kyser and attend the dances
have been loud in their praise of
the Black Hawk Cafe orchestra.
According to several students the
Kyser aggregation was a distinct
success at the Tuscaloosa institution.
Many of the University dancers were
so pleased with the music that they
have planned to attend the Saturday
dances here, it is reported. A number
of University girls will' be here
for the affairs.
The feature of the band which
has proven • so popular where Kyser
has appeared in the vocal work of
the group. Kay features five vocalists,
Virginia Simms, Sully Mason,
Art Wilson, Bill Stoker, and Merwyn
Bogue. Each of this group has his
or her specialty numbers. At times
during the dance programs the entire
orchestra combines to form a glee
club. One of the most popular numbers
which the group sings is a Russian
version of "Dark Eyes."
The band is composed of fourteen
musicians. The saxaphone section
consists of four artists. Other pieces
in the orchestra are: two trumpets,
bass horn, piano, drummer, trombone,
three vocalists, ana Kyser. The sax
players also alternate in playing
clarinets and one or two play fiddles.
The band will be highly entertained
while here. The entire group has
been invited to several buffet suppers
and banquets. They will stop at the
Thomas Hotel while in the city.
Here Tonight Netty Murphey And Bill Mc-
T y e i r e Will Lead Grand
March At P r om F r i d a y Night
Haitsma Will Lecture
To Aero Students Here
KAY KYSER
The genial Kay Kyser brings his
popular orchestra here this afternoon
to play a three day program
for the Junior Prom. Kay is a
graduate of University of North
Carolina and was an outstanding
figure on the campus while there
His first appearance is tonight.
DECORATIONS ACCLAIMED
Seven F r a t e r n i t i e s Give House
P a r t i e s For Visitors; Many
Societies To Give Affairs
Registration Mark Is
Nearing Peak As Many
Students Enroll Here
1,658 Students Have Registered
For Second Semester;
Record 1,775 Says Edwards
W. van Haitsma, director of place
ment for the Boeing School of Aeronautics,
Oakland, Cal., will speak
here Thursday, Jan. 31, at 3 p. m
in Broun Hall auditorium on recent
developments in aviation.
The program will be presented under
the auspices of the local chapter
of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers and will include the
showing of four films picturing many
phases of aeronautics and vocational
aspects of the industry.
For the past year Mr.. Haitsma has
presented aeronautical programs to
student branches of the A. S. M. E.
and other interested groups in scores
of universities throughout the country.
It is expected that a large number
of aeronautical students here will
attend the program Thursday afternoon.
Of the four films to be shown, the
first will trace the development of
airplanes from the Wright Brothers'
to the new Boeing Model 247 Transport
plane. The second film will show
the manufacturing processes involved
in the building of the Pratt and Whitney
engines and the Boeing Transport
plane.
A Boeing school film will be the
third shown and will portray the
flight and ground training methods
and equipment and facilities offered
by the school for the training of
United Air Line personnel.'.
A film entitled "Across the Continent
in 20 Hours" showing the operation
of the United Air Lines in a
coast to coast flight will be the concluding
feature of the program. Each
film will last for approximately fifteen
minutes.
NOTICE!
GLEE CLUB MEETING THURSDAY
NIGHT AT 7 P. M. ALL
MEMBERS ARE URGED TO BE
PRESENT.
Registration .figures for the second
semester of the present session have
reached a total of 1658, according to
Charles W. Edwards, associate registrar
of the college. This figure comes
close to the all-time high of 1775 for
the second semester of 1931-32.
It is expected that within the next
two weeks the total registration will
top the 1700 mark, but there is little
indication that a new record will be
set. Comparative figures for the second
semesters of the past four years
are as follows: 1930-31, 1675; 1931-
32, 1775; 1932-33, 1481; 1933-34,
1464; and 1934-35, 1658.
Total registration for the entire
year has reached 1875, which is less
than 200 short of the record set for
the year 1931-32 when 2025 students
enrolled at Auburn. The second highest
yearly registration figure was
1927 for the 1930-31 session. For the
1932-33 session 1721 students enrolled,
whereas the total dropped somewhat
in 1933-34, when only 1648 students
were enrolled.
Mr. Edwards has announced that
the new college catalog with announcements
for the 1935-36 session,
will be ready for distirbution about
the first of March. It is being printed
early this year because of increased
demand and will be sent to prospective
students and others who are
interested.
Over two hundred visiting girls
from several southeastern states began
arriving in the city at noon today
as the entire campus awaits the
opening dance of the mid-term series
in Alumni Gymnasium tonight at
9:30 o'clock.
Kay Kyser and his drchestra are
expected to arrive here early this afternoon
and several hundred dancers
will be on the floor to hear the genial
Southern's band strike up their first
tune of the dance set. The group
comes here direct from the University
where they played on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.
Auburn will be the second college
Kyser will visit during his tour of
several Southern schools.
Much interest is being centered
around the decorations for the affairs.
Alan Jacobs and Bo McEwen, student
architects, are in charge of this part
of the arrangements and their work
on the modernistic scheme for the
decorations will be completed late
this afternoon.
Marion Thrasher, chairman of the
social committee, announced early
this morning that slightly more than
200 out-of-town girls had returned .
acceptance cards for the dances.
This number surpasses that of any
other set of dances here for the past
few years. In addition, many Auburn
and Opelika girls will be in attendance
at the prom to swell the
number to around 300.
Visiting girls will be guests of the
Sigmu Nu, Lambda Chi Alpha, Pi
Kappa Alpha, Theta Chi, Delta Sigma
Phi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Phi
Delta Theta fraternities.
Organizations sponsoring dances
during the festivities are: Black
Hawk, Keys, Blue Key, Scabbard and
Blade, "A" Club, and the Interfra-ternity
Council.
J. E. DeVaughn Chosen
To Head Debate Club
Douglas Wallace Gets
Position With "Post"
A recent announcement from the
office of W. L. Vennell, managing
editor of the Birmingham Post, is to
the effect that Douglas Wallace has
been appointed special Auburn correspondent
for the Magic City newspaper.
Wallace has already taken over
his new duties and a number of his
feature articles concerning campus
news events have been printed in the
Post.
Wallace is a junior in the School
of Science and Literature and is majoring
in English and Journalism.
He is managing editor of The Plainsman
and is a frequent contributor
to the editorial page of the paper.
Having taken an active interest in
debating and theatrical production
work for several years, he is a member
of the Auburn Debating Society
and the Auburn Players.
J. E. DeVaughn, junior in Education,
was elected president of the Auburn
Debating Society at a meeting
of the group Monday night.
Other officers chosen by the society
for the semester were Clyde Warren,
vice-president and T. N. Powell, secretary.
Three members of the varsity debate
team were named by Prof. E. D.
Hess, coach, to represent Auburn in
a debate tour which begins March 4.
They are J. E. DeVaughn, B. H.
Johnson, and E. M. Thompson.
The team will leave Auburn on
Monday Majrch 4 and will debate
S. U. at Baton Rouge on the following
day. After leaving Baton Rouge
they will encounter several teams in
Mississippi and will close the tour
with a debate against Howard College,
Birmingham, on the 9.
J. E. DeVaughn and R. A. Bolen
will compose the team to represent
Auburn in a radio debate against
Montevallo Sunday, March 10. The
debate will be held in Montevallo between
1:30 and 2:30 p. m. on the
question of socialized medicine. This
will mark the first time in several
years that the Auburn debate team
has debated over the air.
Later in the spring the team plans
to make two more tours, one to Florida
and the other to Rome, Ga. to de-debate
Martha Berry College. An
incomplete campus debate schedule
announced by Mr. Hess will include
Mercer, March 5; Union University,
March 15; Spring Hill, April 5; Tu-lane,
April 18; and Ga. Tech, May
15.
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P A G E T WO T H E A U B U R N PLAINSMAN A L A B A M A POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30, 1935
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EDITORIAL STAFF
Associate Editors: Cecil Strong, Walter
Brown, and Henrietta Worsley.
Managing Editor: Douglas Wallace.
News Editors: Floyd Hurt, Kyser Cox.
Society Reporters: Mildred Watkins,
Evelyn Perry, Louella Botsford and Katie
Lou Chapman.
Sports Staff: Jap Parrish, John Cameron,
and Bill Emery.
Reporters: Alvin Morland, Dan Smith,
James Buntin, Howard. Workman, Helen
Tigner, Robert Johnson.
. BUSINESS STAFF
Advertising Managers: Herman Harris
and Bill Lee.
Advertising assistants: Allen Kerr and
Billy Radney, David Cox.
Circulation Managers: Jim Pike and
George Perry.
Circulation Assistants: Maurice Ellis,
Tom McGough, Jimmy Merrell, William
Butler, H. B. Darden.
Campus Politics
Another campus political season approaches.
And again members of the junior
class take a deep and blind plunge
into the political sea. As usual various
fraternity cliques and other combines have
been formed as candidates prepare for the
coming elections. As in the past prospective
student leaders who have organised
the political rings seem to have given little
thought to qualifications of the several
candidates.
Campus politics at Auburn seem always
to follow the same course. Shortly after
the Christmas vacation each year aspirants
for different student offices begin
banding together. Instead of using a true
selective method of choosing the candidates
for various tickets, office-seekers who belong
to strong fraternities are selected for
line-ups.
Some few Auburn students profess an
interest in seing the election to office of
only those candidates who are prepared to
properly discharge the duties of the office
to which they aspire. Yet the majority
of this group never assert themselves, but
sit idly by and see men who have little
actual knowledge of the duties which devolve
upon them chosen to positions of
high importance.
Everyone knows that in political cliques
the "You vote for my man and I'll get
my fraternity's vote for yours" method
predominates the discussions of the elections.
Somehow this method seems tragically
funny. It has always been our idea
that college students should be intelligent
enough to resent being told which candidates
they shall vote for. We always
thought that undergraduates were intelligent
enough to follow the more rational
plan of casting their ballots for the "right
men" . . . right as far as qualifications go
rather than politically right.
Last year several fraternity combines
were formed but the results were not so
disastrous as those which will probably
come from the present political campaign.
When any clique could not effect a tie
up with the man they considered the best
suited to hold an office they remained neutral
on his election and many times the
"promised" voters cast their ballots for
him anyway.
Immature observations have convinced
us that the present combines are capable
of causing a great amount of trouble during
the next school year because of some
of the men they will probably elect to
offices. Yet, those wise enough to recognize
the conditions which might arise from
present political activities may still plunge
in and salvage the elections from such fate.
Sound of Revelry
A general feeling of jollity and merriment
pervades the campus. Yes, Kay and
the lads are "whooping it up" down at the
gym. And girls—ah!. They're here, too.
According to one "Woman Hater" Klein
they're the 'tops."
With the influx of visitors the village
has taken on new "life." May we survive
the weekend festivities.
These radiant juniors strut about the
floor and talk about our dance. And groups
of aspiring politicians from their ranks
huddle about the corners of the gym floor.
Seniors drag their girls about town with
a bored air of sophistication. How unlike
them. Girls, have you ever seen any of
these "fourth year men" during their more
undignified moments?
All in all we're looking forward to the
best weekend ever. The Mid-term Dances,
men.
Hearst's Bugaboo
Many of us have followed William Randolph
Hearst's latest bid for publicity
through creating a fear of radicalism in
American colleges and universities with no
little amusement. While we do not blind
ourselves to the fact that a certain amount
of red activity probably exists within several
of our large and cosmopolitan eastern
schools, we haven't been able to work
ourselves up to a fever pitch over the situation.
Hearst began his campaign against supposed
college radicalism at Northwestern
when he enlarged an insignificant event to
such an extent that the world seemed to
think the university was a veritable hotbed
of red activity. Those students of Northwestern
who are intelligent enough to recognize
the true conditions at their school
have undoubtedly laughed over Hearst's
publicity stunt many times.
In commenting on the situation The
Oredigger, Colorado School of Mines, had
this to say:
"All of Mr. William Randolph Hearst's
stench about college reds pains us immeasurably.
A misguided news sense
caused him to jump into the collegiate
field—create a dummy—paint him red—and
then try to destroy him".
And further: "The hullabaloo (at Northwestern)
made good editorial material and
college editors all over the country ran off
at the mouth. Fourteen in particular declared
that he was on the vanguard of
Fascism in America and that he was advocating
the academic goose-step as well as
trying to stir up a red scare".
The Oredigger also points out that Hearst
sent reporters to the Northwestern campus
to ask such questions as "Do you know of
any professors who teach or talk favorably
of the Russian idea in the class room?"
The answers to these questions led the reporters
to write a story for the American
to the effect that the students were evidently
unaware of any red activities on
the campus.
But the response to the inquiry did not
foil the Evening American. On the other
hand this publication came out with an
editorial in which it was stated that: "This
is how communist theory works in practice
in the land which some of our college professors
refer to as 'the worker's paradise'".
"In fact it (the American government) is
called upon by a clique of 'thinkers' in its
universities to adopt that policy, to put
into force here, to scrap American constitutional
government, and live instead under
the Russian plan".
American students may be more radical
now than they have been in the past. However,
many of us are prone to term thought
"radical" when it consists of no semblance
of this bugaboo. A large group of Americans
are afraid of new ideas and seem to
delight in attacking any liberal thought.
Mr. Hearst, through recent action, seems to
be one of this group. We hate to disappoint
him but we will hardly approach the
picture he paints of us in a number of
years.
An Opportunity
The Traveling Fellowships which are announced
on the bulletin board in Samford
Hall are certainly worthy of careful consideration.
These fellowships are offered to American
college graduates who are working for
master's degrees. The stipend for every
fellow is $1,000 and entitles him to study
at a university in either Norway, Sweden,
or Denmark.
Such fellowships as the above are constantly
being offered to our American col-,
lege graduates. It will certainly be to the
advantage of Auburn students, too, especially
those contemplating graduate work
elsewhere, to investigate the particulars of
similar scholarships.
In the first place, graduate study which
is done in foreign countries is often more
valuable than that done in even the largest
American universities. The foreign atmosphere
has a more broadening effect. It
tends to help students from the United
States to achieve a worldwide viewpoint
rather than a purely American one.
Secondarily the expense of attending a
foreign university is very little more than
that of American graduate schools such as
Columbia, Harvard, and the University of
Chicago. But even this little extra expense
is allayed if a student wins a fellowship.
Consequently all prospective post-graduate
students from Auburn will do well, in
the future to be on the lookout for fellowships
in foreign colleges and universities.
JOCULARITIES
By Jeremiah Juttingham
Citrus growers have developed pink
grapefruit. But the average grapefruit
has too much eye appeal now.
—Birmingham. News.
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. ,
,.'! » * «
HORDES and hordes of beautiful women
descending on the hapless,
sadly-bedraggled warriors of the
Plains leaves one slightly groggy and the
very thought of the looming week-end to
come has me walking around and pounding
this typewriter with equal dazedness.
Thrice a year they invade our portals
from the length and breadth of the state,
to bring color and an improved quality to
the Auburn scenery and romance to the
heart of the Auburn student. It is too bad,
unfortunately, that after you have a girl
all the way down from Pine Bottom Creek
or Montevallo or Florence you have to bid
her a fond farewell within a short thirty
minutes after the close of the dance. A
sort of "Loves Labor Lost" affair. But the
powers that be have decided that the innocent
maidens of the mills must be protected
from the roving, stalking Bengal
of the Plains, city-slicker that he is.
For three days he wears respectable
clothes, and tries to act like he read somewhere
a gentleman should. At least his
dear fraternity brothers can meet the only
one, the one who wears his pin, and try
to beat his time—if they can. After all,
those dear fraternity brothers must have
some way to pass the time while the rest
of the lads are at the dances.
* * * *
One of the more promising of the embryo
politicians in the process of formation
in the junior class suggests words
and music for the guys who are having to
rent tuxes, something on the order of
"What Price Glory" . . . . a cute little
freshman suggest a theme song i for the
gals who ain't goin'—Out In. the Cold
Again . . . . the guys who figure out that
kind of the thing have organized another
spasmodic social organization, the Black-hawks,
who will give a spread, buy a dance
and be promptly forgotten . . . . and why
not a prize for the whitest .shoes and the
blackest shirt . . . . a contract bridge tournament
among the Greeks and non-frateni-ty
groups with a cash prize of ten rocks
might be a good thing . . . . a bridge fiend
at the Recreation Hall telling people that
Culbertson said it's 2 per cent luck and 98
per cent skill . . . . not with the hands I
have . ."-. . cold, cold wind and midnight
with a crooner ironically singing "In a
Cozy Little Corner." . . . there's a limit
to everything . . . . even such tripe as this.
» * * *
All of which goes to prove that columnists
have their weaker moments.
* * * *
A brief respite in which to grab a cup
of coffee and a couple of doughnuts and
back to look at this typewriter and wonder
what to write. Not even doughnuts can
suffice on-a night like this. Scandal would
be most interesting but the only scandal
one really knows is on one's best friends,
and you can't tell on your best friends.
Terrible to have such friends, isn't it? Or
maybe I'm bragging, maybe I don't have
any friends . . . . It's discouraging to get
all set to go back to school and then have
the midterms to look forward to. Kind of
too much of a good thing. But the second
semester is long, so long.
* * * *
Final exams and the first semester are
now things of the not remote past and the
air is filled with resolutions to do better.
Observations
It is interesting to note how men's relations
with each other change as the capacity
in which they meet changes.
The experience of "Sharkey", a bellboy
in the hotel Alexandria is a perfect example
of this. "Sharkey" told the following
story to George A. Posner who was writing
for "Real America."
"Sixteen years ago in a military hospital
in France, it was General Pershing himself
who said to me, 'Sergeant, you're a man
the army is proud of!. Recently when I
showed him to his room at the Alexandria
he said, 'Boy, get me a pitcher of ice
water.'"
After sixteen years, Sharkey had
changed, in the eyes of Pershing, from a
man to a boy, and all because of the capacity
in which they met.
How many times the same thing occurs
in the daily business whirl. Position and
conditions under which people are brought
together—circumstnaces which bring together
or tear apart are responsible for
the relations of men.
The financier, forced by the depression
to a level with the clerks who were under
him, found them to be men with ideas,
ideals and spirit-qualities he never thought
existed in the men who called him "boss."
Kathleen Norris writes that while traveling
in Egypt she met and became a close
friend of the occupant of the apartment
adjoining hers in New York. A coincidence—
but of the type occuring daily.
AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
We warn you, gentle readers, nothing we say in this issue of the paper can
be held against us. After being knocked in the head and dragged off to the University
by Will Bruce, Windy Smith, Squint Thrasher, and Bill Hughes, we're,
hardly in condition to do any serious thinking.
* * * * * *
Yes, siree, Kay is okeh. Those of you who wish to hear something about the
orchestra are advised to get.in touch with one of the above four stooges . . . .
that is if they remember hearing the band.
* * * * * *
With over two hundred visiting girls here for the annual brawl the village
will take on new life. Among the first arrivals will be none other than Patty
Tyson from the University. Rumor has it that she is' going strong for the local
publicity department.
* * * * * *
One of the features of the weekend festivities will be the Key banquet Friday
afternoon. Lackeys, jockeys, blue keys, pink keys, and whiskeys will be
in attendance at this notable occasion.
* * * * * * '
We're wondering if "Romance" Hughes will be in the same predicament during
the mid-terms as the one which haunted him during the opening dances.
"Romance" holds the record for smoothing troubled waters when it comes to handling
three girls at one set of dances.
* * * * * •
What's this about Klein going "weaky"? Tut, tut.
* * * * * *
"Well," said the heiress as she eloped with the family driver, "I've got something
to chauffeur my "money." (Blame the weather for that one).
* * * * * *
Sledge: "Shap do you know Humpher"?
Drunker: "Humpher who"?
Sledge: "Humpher ever blowing bubbles".
Miss Auburn: "My sweet thinks I'm the cutest girl in the world,
if I should ask him to call."
Something: "No, let him keep on thinking so".
I wonder
Our conception of the Dark Ages: The period directly preceding and the
period during examinations. Followed by the Rennaissance or the mid-term dances.
* * * * * *
Continuing a custom which we started before the openings, we have again
written Miss Post for suggestions to those atending the mid-terms. Here they are:
1. Never make dates for a meal for the next day on the dance floor. Music
goes to one's head.
When dancing on a lady's feet try not to shift your weight unnecessarily.
If a young lady has on one of the newer type evening dresses it is good
form to speak of the tent like effect they create. Act as if you enjoy
dancing with a girl who gathers her "train" about her in the most cumbersome
manner.
When breaking make an especial effort not to tear coats. Remember you,
too, rented a tux once.
2.
3.
4.
WITHOUT THE PALE
TEXAS TECH STUDENTS
CONVICT HAUPTMAN
Richard Bruno Hauptmann may be
thankful that his fate does not rest in the
hands of Tech < students and professors,
for if it did he could be sure of a verdict
of "guilty."
A straw vote of 1048 students and faculty
members on the likelihood of a conviction
or acquittal for Hauptmann according
to evidence thus far presented in the
trial resulted in a total of 786 ballots cast
for conviction and 262 cast for acquittal.
Press Club Makes Survey
This expression of opinion on the outcome
of the sensational kidnaping trial
was sought by the Tech Press association
in connection with the program theme of
its next meeting. The program will stress
the influence of newspapers on public opinion
on the Hauptmann trial.
THE COLLEGIATE PRESS
Very few people have a true conception
of all that a college newspaper involves,
or of the many things it stands for. Even
at McGill, the annual budget of the Daily
runs close to the ten thousand dollar mark,
so that the running of a college paper is
no child's play. There are many other
college papers whose outlay, runs into a
sum of twenty-five, thirty and even forty
thousand dollars per year. At the recent
conference of College Daily Editors held
No more loafing, just hard conscientious
work so I can enjoy a good vacation after
I graduate.
* * * *
"Stardust", which stays popular, reminds
me of student directors. If "Stardust" and
"Sophisticated Lady" can get by this set
of dances without a murderous crooner
bellowing the same forth with horrible volume
another one of those things you devoutly
wish for will have been granted.
For Kay Kyser •brings the nation's most
accomplished group of singers to Auburn.
And somehow I don't think he needs amateurs.
* * * *
Prospective candidates for spring elections
try their wings in early-campaign
line-ups and blocs. Funny thing about
these blocs, they look fine on paper but
along about election time they don't mean
much; everyone votes for whom he thinks
is his friend. And such unimportant details
as qualifications are tossed into the
well-known waste basket. We seniors sit
around and enjoy the frolic. Just like the
seniors last year did. For thirty-seven administrative
nonentities and four publications
heads. The student body just looks
bored and apathetic when such things as
reform are mentioned. To have anything
efficient around Auburn would be a departure
from precedent
in Washington, a set of Canons for the
Intercollegiate Press were adopted, and
the preamble to them expresses in a full
and concise manner the duties of a university
paper. The following is the text.
The college newspaper is a serious and
important student activity; it is a newspaper
in every sense of the world, and
must fulfill for its readers the primary
function of all newspapers—to communicate
to the human race what its members
do, feel, and think. It must accept all
the obligations and duties of a responsible
press, and it has the right to expect all
the privileges granted a responsible press.
The undergraduate newspaperman must
realize that the collegiate press provides
essentially a means of giving students interested
in college newspaper work an opportunity
to develop their talent and ability
in this field. While all journalism demands
of its practitioners the widest range
of intelligence, of knowledge, and of experience,
as well as natural and trained
powers of observation and reasoning, collegiate
journalism demands, even more, a
constant and sincere effort toward improvements,
both of the individual practitioner
and the practice of journalism as
a whole.
It must be remembered that the collegiate
journalists of today are in many cases
the nation's journalists of tomorrow. What
they do and what they are encouraged to
do, to better their press today will reflect
improvement in the nation's press tomorrow.
To a newspaper's opportunities as a
chronicle are indisolubly linked its obliga-ttions
as teacher and interpreter. The
college newspaper can render a most valuable
service in the presentation and interpretation
of events and incidents of mutual
interest to the students, faculty, and administration
of the University.
—McGitt Daily.
30,000 PEACE POLL BALLOTS
COME FROM MINNESOTA
Thirty thousand peace poll ballots have
been returned to the Literary Digest by
students in 30 colleges in the United States
and one in Canada.
Returns from the University of Minnesota
have not yet been compiled.
First returns showed that majorities in
all these institutions voted their belief
that the United States could stay out of
another war; that they would fight if this
country were invaded, but that they would
refuse to bear arms in the invasion of another
country; that government control of
armament and munitions industries was
necessary, and that universal conscription
of labor and capital was also necessary in
1 time of war.
CABBAGES AND KINGS
By Observer
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 have been gracious
enough to read this column will miss
in the future the writings of Walter
Brown, my collaborator, whose work gave
this column what claim it had to literary
merit. Sorry I couldn't persuade him to
continue writing for us this semester, but
it seems that this column interferes rather
seriously with school work. Which, incidentally,
gives me an idea for a good excuse
to send home my grades.
* * * *
THE LITERARY DIGEST, in its peace
poll questionnaire, asks two especially significant
questions. First, "Would you support
your country in case of an invasion
of its borders," and, second, "Would you
take part in the invasion of a foreign country?"
I'll be so bold as to prophesy that
there will be many negative votes to the
first question, and many more, if not a
majority, of negative votes to the second
question. While it is agreed that most of.
us will immediately join the army to repel
any invasion, I know of many individuals
who say now that they will not bear arms
in an offensive war. What puzzles me is
how these negative voters are going to be
able to so easily differentiate between an
offensive and a defensive war. In this day
of interlocking international interests, of
swift transportation of troops, of the airplane,
how are we to know but that the
best way to defend ourselves against an invasion
by, say, England, is to immediately
launch an attack against her? In the time
of international unrest, when the war'
clouds are forming, it is impossible for the
citizen to know which country is in the
right, and hence what is the just and sane
policy for his country to pursue. To me
it seems that the only policy for the American
citizen is to back his government to
the limit, as his government has at its
head men who were elected by the country
at large because of the particular qualifications
which they had for leadership, for
courage, and for clear, intelligent thinking
in any crisis. The proper time for the
citizen to do his heavy thinking is when
he goes to the polls to decide what men
are to direct the destinies of this country.
While war is just exactly as Mr. Sherman
described it, being recognized by all clear
thinking individuals as a wholly unnecessary
and monstrous evil, it would neither
be conducive to peace nor our health to
become a nation of pacifists, and say "I
won't fight" when the men whom we have
chosen as our leaders decide that we should
fight.
This column, and possibly the Digest,
would appreciate the expression of your
opinion on this subject.
* * * *
HINT TO COLLEGE . . . . Submitted
most humbly. I believe that a better way
to encourage class attendance than the one
recently adopted is to leave class attendance
in the hands of the individual professors,
and then encourage each professor
to make his course sufficiently difficult to
impress on the student the necessity of
meeting classes. It is only too human
for a student to cut a class as much as
possible when he realizes that he can attend
a class regularly and still pass the
course. There is also the thought that
class attendance is much more important
in some courses than in others . . this
question, too, should be left to the discretion
of the professor. It seems to me that
the general idea is, anyhow, to get a certain
knowledge of a certain subject, and
if one is able to do that by attending class
once per semester, well and good. The
mere fact that one is in a stated class
at stated hours each week seems to me
of little import. It is the new knowledge,
and new thoughts that you have gained
from the course that matters. And only
your professor can be judge of this, and
not the absent-checker-ups in the registrar's
office.
* * * *
On the eve of Kay Kyser's arrival in
the lovely village it seems not amiss to
congratulate Squint Thrasher and his social
committee on securing an orchestra
of Kay Kyser's caliber to play for the
mid-terms. It has been many a year since
we have been so fortunate and we students
should appreciate the achievement of a
really outstanding social committee. It is
not often that student organizations function
so well.
* * * *
BOOKS . . Barrie's "Dear Brutus",
though of sufficient literary merit to make
it appeal to any lover of literature, will be
especially attractive to those who like a
good bit of phantasy mixed in with their
fiction. From a purely personal standpoint,
I consider it the best play that I have
yet read. . . . Robinson Jeffers' "Women
at Point Sur" is the acme of spiritual and
moral filth and rottenness.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 30, 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
350 PERSONS IN CITY ATTEND
F.D.R. BIRTHDAY PARTY HERE
Approximately $190 Contributed To Fund For Fight Against
Infantile Paralysis By Students And Townspeople Reports
Franke; Three Crippled Children In Vicinity To Be Helped
Three hundred and fifty persons
participated in the Birthday Party
for the President sponsored by the
Auburn Inter-Club Council' Tuesday
night, Jan. 29. Maj. G. H. Franke,
chairman of the finance committee,
reports the net proceeds available for
the fight against infantile paralysis
to be approximately $190. This includes
contributions for a telegraphic
birthday greeting to the President.
Some 200 persons attended the reception
at the President's Home, a
large number remaining for the
bridge tournament afterwards. In
the receiving line at the reception
were the members of the Administrative
Committee and their wives and
the presidents of the eight civic
clubs of Auburn. One hundred couples
attended the dance at the Gym-
FEATURING
for
MID-TERM DANCES
Permanent - - $3.50 to $10.00
Shampoo and Finger Wave 50c
Manicure - . - • - - - - 50c
Thermo-Pac Facials - - - 50c
Be charming and alluring during
the dances. Our skilled
operators will aid you.
Co-ed Beauty Shop
Since 70 per cent of the proceeds
of the party were to be used locally,
something like $130 will be available
for the treatment of Lee County crippled
children. Three of the children
are in the vicinity of Auburn. The
Inter-Club Council has not yet decided
on the method of distributing local
funds.
The remaining 30 per cent of the
proceeds will be sent to Washington,
to be presented by President Roosevelt
to the President's Birthday Ball
Commission for infantile paralysis research.
None of the money this year
will go to the Warm Springs Foundation.
Charles W. Edwards, associate registrar
at the college, was general
chairman in charge of the Birthday
Party. Serving with him on the
committee were representatives of the
eight civic clubs as follows: Woman's
Club, Mrs. Herman D. Jones; P.-T.
A., Mrs. J. C. Grimes; B. & P. W.,
Miss Jennie Igou; Auxiliary, Mrs. J.
H. Hanson; Rotary, Maj. G. H.
Franke; Kiwanis, Dr. Paul Irvine;
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Our Library Members Are Happy
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for they can snuggle into a big chair with the kind of literature they
like best. Why not insure yourself against that bored and restless
feeling? For a few cents you can rent the newest and best books.
Call as soon as you can and look over our library. We add the
pick of the new books as soon as they come off the press.
Boob Just Added to Our Shelves
Werfel: The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Graeme: The Vengence of Monsieur Blackshirt
Ostenso: The White Reef
Lincoln: The Peel Trait '
Sprigg: The Perfect Alibi
Since we believe you will be especially interested in these books,
we call them to your attention.
Burton's Bookstore
Earliest With the Latest
BOYS
i
For hospitality and service bring
your guests to the COLLEGE INN
during the dances . . . .
Good meals at low prices.
Hear
HAPPY DAVIS AND HIS CAVALIERS!
Open All Hours.
The College Inn
"Where Old Grads Meet"
The following is an article submitted
to Dr. Allen by two ambitious and
undoubtedly humorous students of
chemistry. It deals with the discovery
of the 93rd element, only 92 being
known today. The credit for this
probable satire on the discovery of
elements goes to two freshmen, W.
F. Drawbaugh and C. Dean.
Wolfbane . . . Sym. x" . . . . At.
Wt. -1 x 10' . . . . Discovered by the
Ogneto-Maggot method.
It will react with all elements including
the six inert gases and itself.
It possesses an" anti-gravitational
force of 49 x 16" dynes per cc: consequently
it has to be tied down.
It absorbs all elements in its immediate
vicinity, forming a complete
vacuum in its container.
It has a melting point of -273 C.
at which temperature it sublimes
readily but freezes instantly in boiling
water.
All salts are soluble in cast iron.
Wolfbane will flow freely at all
temperatures, yet will support a load
of 100,000 lbs. per sq. in. under tension
or compression without appreciable
elongation.
It is absolutely non-compressible
but can be drawn into an invisible
wire so small in diameter as to be
nothing more than a string of molecules.
From this invisible wire is
made an excellent lariat for snaring
germs and sub-microscopic bacteria.
Perfect elasticity renders it useful
as a rebounding armour plate. Projectiles
striking it are hurled back
without detonation at the same speed
with which they struck.
Wolfbane can be approached only
by stealth as it emits a force ray
when surprised, effective within a
radius of one light year. Thus it can
only be come upon in the darkness.
It makes absolutely frictionless
bearings.
It will grow hair on Dr. Petrie's
head.
One drop on the tongue of a dog
will kill a man at sixty paces.
It emits a flexible light ray that
can be used for illuminating circular
staircases.
It is possible to measure the fourth
dimension with rulers made from
Wolfbane.
One drop of Wolfbane Sulfate in
the sink will remove the ting from
the bathtub.
It is so perfect a conductor of electricity
that current doubles in both
voltage and amperage when passed
through it. Silver appears to set up
high resistance by . comparison
Young's modulus = 00
This versatile and amazing element
was discovered quite by accident on
the night of January 17, 1935 by
three 'rats'' while studying for a
Chemistry Examination on the morrow.
Material compiled and edited by
Mr. Wm. F. Drawbaugh assisted by
Mr. C. Hutchinson Dean.
Johns Will Lecture
On Education Monday
Dr. R. L. Johns, professor of School
Administration here and member of
the fact finding committee of the Alabama
Education Association, will
speak in Langdon Hall Monday evening,
Feb. 4, on the "Equalization
of Educational Opportunities in Alabama."
The talk is being sponsored jointly
by Kappa Delta Pi, honorary education
fraternity, and the Auburn Parent
and Teachers Association. All
those interested in the subject are
invited to attend the lecture by Dr.
Johns.
Dr. Johns' work on the committee
was devoted primarily to research on
the finances of education in Alabama
concerning elementary and secondary
education. The results of his survey
will be published by the state association
within three weeks and will contain
certain aspects of the state support
of education in Alabama as
found by Dr. Johns.
Lions, Dr. J. L. Seal; American Legion,
Prof. John W. Roe.
Other committee chairmen were
Finance and Tickets, Maj. G. H.
Franke; Program, Mrs. H. C. Hoff-sommer;
Dance, Emmett Sizemore;
Publicity, P. O. Davis; Decorations,
Miss Dana Gatchell.
Jan. 30 is the birthday anniversary
of the President, so most of the birthday
balls, including the one in Ope-lika,
are scheduled for tonight.
57TH ANNIVERSARY
OF BOOK STORE IS
CELEBRATED HERE
Burton's Store Established In
1878; Has Record Of Great
Achievement In City
By Dan Smith
In the year 1878 on January 23,
Burton's Book store, Auburn's oldest
business establishment, was founded.
Fifty seven years later, 1935, the
store looks with pride upon the progress
which it has made.
Robert Wilton Burton established
Burton' Book Store in 1878 at the request
of the Board of Trustees and
faculty of the East Alabama Male
College, now the Auburn Polytechnic
Institute. During the fifty seven
years of service to the college and
to the town, the store has been managed
by the same family. Its present
manager is Miss Lucille Burton,
a capable and efficient business woman.
Besides being authority on school
books and supplies, Burton's also
handles a line of gifts, novelties, and
similar merchandise. The store possess
a rental library where one may
rent copies of the latest and finest
books.
The slogan of the store expresses
its policy. The present slogan and
one which the store invariably lives
up to is, "Earliest With the Latest,"
and "Something New Every Day."
Attention is called to the splendid
window display commemorating the
store's fifty-seventh anniversary. The
small fountain pen in the right window
represents the size of the store
when it was first estalished. The
large fountain pen in the left window
represents the present size. It is
worthy to note that the small pen
will actually write and hold ink.
The anniversary was observed with
a dinner party at the home- of Miss
Lucille Burton, on the evening of
January 23.
Vandy And Wildcat
Fives Forge Ahead
In Court Standings
Vanderbilt and Kentucky ,sit securely
astride the Southeastern Conference
pinnacle as a result of court
victories registered in loop competition,
the Commodores having garnered
six wins and the Wildcats five
in games to date. Vanderbilt is the
surprise quintet of the Conference
as at the beginning of the current
campaign the Commodores were figured
as just another loop aggregation.
But a one-point victory over
the 1934 champions, Alabama, Saturday
night demonstrated conclusively
the strength of the Vandy five.
The Blue Grass team threw a monkey
wrench into Tennessee's championship
aspirations Saturday as the
Vols went down like chaff before the
wind in a 48-21 barrage that sent
Kentucky stock soaring. With Posey
Edwards, the key man of the offense,
hitting the baskets with swishes that
speak only too well of bullet-like accuracy,
Tennessee's sophomore five
wasn't in it.
Louisiana State continues its system
of playing but few Conference
opponents in the early stages of the
season, and has won both of its two
encounters to date. The Swamp Tigers
undoubtedly have one of the
South's standout teams, however.
Tennessee with only the discourag-
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Fast Hilltop Cage Team Grabs Early Lead And Wins 37-20
Game From Plainsmen In Alumni Gymnasium; Teams Will
Meet In Return Match In Birmingham Saturday Night
Birmingham-Southern's fast traveling
Panthers trounced the Auburn
Tiger basketball tossers last Saturday
night at Alumni gymnasium to
the tune of 37-20. The Birmingham
boys ran up a total of six points before
the Plainsmen found the basket.
Southern managed to maintain the
lead throughout the game and at the
half led, 18-7.
It could plainly be seen that the
Tigers were having one of the "off
nights." Next Saturday night the
Tigers will get a chance for revenge
when' they meet Birmingham-Southern
in Birmingham.
An Auburn rally in the second
half brought the Tigers to within seven
points of the Panthers. The rally
fell short and Southern retaliated,
regaining their heavy lead.
The Auburn scoring honors were
largely divided. Eaves, Quinney, and
Sindler topped the Tiger scoring with
four points each.
Windham, Birmingham-Southern
forward, was in top form and sank
six baskets and three throws for a
total of fifteen points to lead both
teams in scoring.
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KODAKS, FILMS and SUPPLIES.
Old photos COPIED and REFINISHED.
MAIL ORDERS given special attention.
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PLAYERS TO READ NEW
PLAY IN PRACTICE AT
"Y" HUT NEXT MONDAY
(Continued from Page 1)
equipment future productions will be
given in a more elaborate style than
those of the past.
At a meeting of the Players Monday
the advisability of cooperating
with numerous Auburn clubs in the
staging of a mammoth outdoor pageant
a year from this coming spring
were discussed. The pageant will depict
the history of Auburn from its
founding up to the present day and
will include a cast of characters larger
than any production ever staged
in Auburn. Nothing definite has
been decided by either the Auburn
Clubs or the Players as many important
questions have still to be settled.
Dr. Weatherford Will
Be Here Next Sunday
Dr. W. D. Weatherford, founder
of Blue Ridge, N. C, and the Graduate
School of the Y. M. C. A., Nashville,
will be in Auburn Sunday to
contact any student -who is interested
in Christian work as a vocation.
Dr. Weatherford has travelled
widely and has been in almost every
college and university in America,
lecturing and having personal interviews
with students. He is the author
of several books.
Dr. Weatherford will occupy the
pulpit at the Methodist Church at
eleven o'clock Sunday and will interview
students in the parlors of the
church from two to five o'clock.
Come and see a beautiful selection
of taffeta and crepe Dresses.
THE LADIES' SHOP
Mngt. Mrs. Geo. Kirby
Koplon's Shoe Store
Opelika, Ala.
AGENCY FOR
Friendly Boots
and
Fortune Shoes
Opelika, Alabama
THURSDAY, JAN. 31
Pat Patterson and Nils Asther
in
"Love Time"
FRIDAY, FEB. 1
"Men of the Night"
On the Screen.
On the Stage
"Heffner - Vinson
Revue"
With 9 piece band, 6 girls, elaborate
scenery, songs, dances,
Novelty acts—25 people.
SATURDAY, FEB. 2
"Man from Hell"
S A T U R D A Y N I G HT
—: OWL SHOW :—
"Ladies Should
Listen"
Kiwanis Club Hears
Harman Give Speech
Addressing the Auburn Kiwanis
club Monday, Dr. A. F. Harman, who
recently retired as state superintendent
of education, declared that the
biggest need of education in Alabama
is educational statesmanship. With
this statesmanship three-fourths of
the financial problems of Alabama
schools would be solved, he declared.
As a step toward educational
statesmanship he advocated that state
laws be changed to place the election
of a state superintendent of
education in the hands of a state
board with authority to locate and
employ the best man for the job regardless
of residence.
The speaker said that the office
of the state superintendent of education
should not be limited to four
years of service by one man but that
it should be continued indefinitely the
same as members of the supreme
court, the state health office, and
other high offices of the state. He
insisted that the office should be remunerated
as much as any other
state office in the state of Alabama.
Da. Harman advocated that the
board of education empowered to select
and employ a state superintendent
of education be appointed by the
governor, provision being made for
no one governor to appoint a majority
of the members of the board.
Dr. and Mrs. Harman were in Auburn
visiting their son, Marion Harman,
who is a student at the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute, and Marion's
wife and the two grandchildren. He
spoke before the Kiwanis club by
special invitation from Dr. PauJ Irvine,
president.
The club sponsored the 20th anniversary
of the founding of the Kiwanis
organization at Detroit, Mich.,
in January, 1915. A special message
concerning Kiwanis ideals and purposes
from the president of Kiwanis
International was read by Dr. John
T. Oliver, member of the Auburn club.
A statement was read recording
the fact that Kiwanis clubs in the
United States and Canada have
grown in the twenty years to a total
of 1,850 clubs with 90,000 members.
TIGER SWIMMING TEAM IS OUT
FOR CHAMPIONSHIP THIS YEAR
Coach Howard Morris Puts Candidates Through Paces In Preparation
For Conference Opponents; Meets With Tech, Emory,
Florida, Tennessee, Clemson, And Furman Are Planned
Mrs. Judd Nominated
To Fill D. A. R. Post
The Tiger mermen are primed for
an unusually successful season and
have been hard at work for several
coming tank meets.
Although the team will be weak in
some events the squad as a whole
has shown much improvement over
last year and is now rounding into
good early season form.
Uncovering a diver who can fill
Linwood Poole's place will cause Captain
Howard Morris great worry.
At present there isn't a likely point
winner on the entire squad. Morris
might give up quarter mile competition
and enter the diving event, but
this would weaken .the team considerably
in the distance event. Hugh
Wilson and B. Woodward are the
only diving aspirants out for the
team and one of these candidates
might show up well enough to fill
Poole's vacated post.
The acquatic team will be gunning
for Conference honors this season
Georgia Tech will give Auburn the
closest race in the fight for the flag.
The tentative schedule for the semester
is as follows:
February 16—Emory, in Atlanta;
April 6—Georgia Tech, in Auburn;
March 6—Florida, in. Auburn; and
meets with Furman, Clemson, Presbyterian,
Maryville, Tennessee, Birmingham-
Southern, and Georgia.
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THE LADIES' SHOP
BEAUTY PARLOR
Mrs. Zebulon Judd of Auburn will
attend the 44th Continental Congress
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution in Washington in April
at which time her name will be presented
as a candidate for vice-president
general of the D. A. R.
Mrs. Judd was nominated by the
Alabama Society of the D. A. R. She
has served the society as chapter
treasurer five years, chapter regent
two years, vice-chairman of national
magazine committee two years, president
of the Alabama Officers' Club
one year, and state regent three
years.
VANDY AND WILDCAT
FIVES FORGE AHEAD
IN COURT STANDINGS
FOR SALE.—Alto saxaphone, reasonable
terms. Any interested
party get in touch with Bill Black-marr,
210 S. Gay St.
Auburn Grad Receives
Post At Kentucky U.
J. B. Brooks, 1933 graduate of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, has
been appointed instructor and field
agent in the college of agriculture of
the University of Kentucky, Lexington,
where he will report on February
1 for duty. He will be in the department
of agricultural engineering.
Mr. Brooks, after graduation from
Auburn, has been assisting in agricultural
engineering while doing
gaduate work. He was instructor
in the 1934 summer session.
He came to Auburn from Killen
in Lauderdale County, having graduated
from the Coffee High School at
Florence. He made an excellent record
as a student, being elected to
membership in Phi Kappa Phi, and
also having other honors conferred
upon him.
Receiving almost daily newest in
Dresses, Hats, and Suits.
THE LADIES' SHOP
Mrs. Geo. Kirby
Moored Market
MEAT OF ALL KINDS
FISH and OYSTERS
(Continued from Page 31
ing Kentucky game on the loss side
of the ledger is in fourth place with
a three-one ranking, and Georgia
follows shortly behind boasting a
two-one balance of favor. Alabama
shows a four-three standing in sixth
place and the last ranking above the
.500 mark. Florida and Sewanee
have broken even in two games each,
with Tech, Auburn, Mississippi, Tu-lane
and Mississippi State yet to
break into the win column.
Patronize Plainsman Advertisers.
LOST.—Ladies brown leather purse
containing pair brown kid gloves,
blue spectacle case, brown handkerchief,
two one-dollar bills, small
change, deposit slip on First Natl.
Bank, Albertville, Ala. Return to
J. T. High's residence. Reward.
Just received early Spring Dresses
—$7.95.
THE LADIES' SHOP
Mrs. Geo. Kirby, Mngr.
WANTED: One double decker bed,
must be reasonable. Call Kyser
Cox at 351-W, . 1 3 5 Gest Glenn
Street.
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Now is the time to invest in Auburn. Some
choice lots near Public School Building.
FOR RENT: Cottage on Ross Street; also
two nice rooms close in.
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Educational Contracts for
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Phone 346-J
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TIGER THEATRE
: S H O W P L A C E OF EAST A L A B A M A :—
Wednesday, January 30
"MILLS OF T.HE GODS"
with MAY ROBSON, FAY WRAY, VICTOR JORY
Comedy "JAILBIRDS OF PARADISE".
Thursday - Friday, January 31 - February 1
WALLACE BEERY in
"THE MIGHTY BARNUM"
with
ADOLPHE MENJOU, VIRGINIA BRUCE, ROCHELLE
HUDSON, JANET BEECHER.
Added — "BETTY BOOP'S PRIZE SHOW".
Saturday, February 2
"BIG HEARTED HERBERT"
with GUY KIBBEE, ALINE MacMAHON, PATRICIA ELLIS,
PHILLIP REED.
Also—Comedy, "BLASTED EVENTS" and Cartoon "IRISH
SWEEPSTAKES".
We/come FCay Kyser
And Your Great Band
Make our store your rendevous during your
visit in Auburn.
STUDENTS
Bring your visitors in for Delicious Food and
Excellent Service
SWANK evening sets for the particular man
$1.00
The AUBURN KNIGHTS featured
twice daily.
BENSON'S
LOST.—Fox terrier dog—female,
white with chocolate brown markings.
Red collar brass inoculation
tag. Return J. T. High's residence.
Reward.
LOST.—Sorority pin with the name
Anne Ruth Jones on the back. If
found please call 371.
Watch Your Insurance
Figure on insuring your LIFE for your loved ones
and your PROPERTY just as carefully a s you figure your
bank account.
Come in.
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Phone 49 Auburn, Ala.
Let US Handle YOUR
INSURANCE and REAL
ESTATE
A section of the department
where Chesterfield tobaccos
are blended and cross-blended.
J ust what is meant
by cross-blending tobaccos . . . and
how does it make a cigarette milder
and taste better...
Well, in blending you take two or more tobaccos
and mix them together—a rather simple process.
But cross-blending goes a step further. . .
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MONDAY
LUCREZIA
BORI
WEDNESDAY
LILY
PONS
SATURDAY
RICHARD
BONELLI
IN making Chesterfields we take
Bright tobacco from Virginia, the
Carolinas, Georgia and Florida. We
take Burley tobacco from Kentucky
and Tennessee, and tobacco from
Southern Maryland.
Then in addition to these homegrown
tobaccos we take tobacco
grown in Turkey and Greece.
We balance these mild, ripe homegrown
tobaccos with the right
amounts and the right kinds of
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aromatic Turkish.
Then, instead of just mixing the
tobaccos together, we blend and
cross-blend them so that all the different
flavors go together into one
full flavor—the Chesterfield taste
that so many smokers like.
Cross-blending tobaccos as it
is done in Chesterfields gives
the cigarette a pleasing taste
and aroma—they're mild and
yet They Satisfy.
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