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VOLUME LVIII AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1934 NUMBER 26
TWO TEAMS TIE
FOR AWARDS IN
A.P.E. TOURNEY
Captain-Elect, "Mutt" Morris
J o h n s o n And Thompson Will
D e b a t e Roth And Powell
For First Place In Contest
32 DEBATES ARE HELD
Hess Says Much Interest Has
Been Shown In D e b a t e Tour­n
e y This Year By Students
Two debate teams composed of
Milton D. Roth - T. N. Powell and
B. H. Johnson - Emmett Thompson
tied for first place in the round robin
debate tournament, which was spon­sored
by Alpha Phi Epsilon and end­ed
last night. Each.team was award­ed
eight out of a possible twelve votes
by the judges.
As a result of the tie, which was
revealed last night when votes were
counted following the final debate,
the two winning teams will debate
again Thursday night at 8 o'clock in
301 Samford. The winning team of
this debate will be declared winners
of the tournament, and the two mem­bers
each receive a silver loving cup
given by A. Phi E.
The debate Thursday night prom­ises
to be an interesting one as both
teams are evenly matched and well
prepared to meet each other. John­son
and Thompson will uphold the
affirmative side of the question* Re­solved,
That the Nations Should
Agree to the Prevention of the Inter­national
Shipment of Arms and Mu­nitions
of War. Roth and Powell
will debate the negative side of this
question, which is the one that was
debated upon in the tournament.
It is an interesting fact that second
place honors in the tournament also
resulted in a tie, with each team get­ting
seven out of a possible twelve
votes. The second honor teams were
composed of John Liles - W. G. Hall
and R. A. Bolen - E. P. Thornhill.
The entire tournament, which start­ed
four weeks ago, included a total
of 32 debates in which each of the
eight teams participating debated the
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Frosh Teams Compete
In Debating Tourney
The second debate of the freshman
tournament, sponsored by Phi Delta
Gamma, will be held Thursday after­noon
at 4 o'clock in 301 Samford with
two teams debating the question, Re­solved,
That Federal Aid Should be
Granted for the Equalization of Ed­ucational
Opportunities.
In this debate M. Olden and G. L.
Randolph will uphold the affirmative
side of the question with Lewis Thorn
as and Edwin C. Forbes upholding the
negative side.
The third debate in the series will
be given, according to Mr. E. D. Hess,
instructor, shortly after the Christ­mas
holidays. At that time N. A.
Whitten and George Perry will take
the negative case against H. Holm-berg
and J. N. Adams. In the first
debate of the year, held three weeks
-ago, A. A. Rich and D. C. Smith de­bated
the affirmative side and S. Hall
and Philip Gates the negative.
Phi Delta Gamma, national honor­ary
forensic fraternity, is sponsoring
the tournament and will award those
of the winning team a suitable prize.
Last year each member of the win­ning
team was awarded five dollars
in preference to silver loving cups.
Mr. Hess stated that interest in the
tournament is growing as several
students recently signified of their in­tention
to enter the contest, and that
prospects look good for a winning
freshman debate team, though the
number of entrants is relatively
small.
After the Christmas holidays it is
hoped by Mr. Hess that the fresh­man
team will be able to take a trip
through Georgia and then to Atlanta,
where negotiations are in progress
for a debate with the Evening School
of Commerce there. It is also prob­able
that the team will meet the Uni­versity
of Georgia freshmen and the
Martha Berry School at Rome, Ga.
{MUTT) MORRIS -ALABAMA ?QLi~/luBUm
Election of Mutt Morris as captain-elect of the 1935 Auburn grid­iron
forces comes as a fitting tribute to this capable leader and tireless
worker. Always a consistent wingman, Mutt has won the plaudits of
sports enthusiasts all over the Southland. In his first year of varsity
football he performed brilliantly against the powerful Georgia Bulldogs.
DANCE BE STAGED
BY MOBILE GROUP
Mobile Club Affair Is Annual
C h r i s t m a s Event; P l a n s Are
A r r a n g e d By Ed Prewitt
The Mobile Club will have its an­nual
Christmas- dance this year at
the Mobile Country Club from 1 to 5
Christmas morning. Ed Prewitt,
president of the organization, an­nounced
that a popular New Orleans
orchestra will probably furnish the
music for the occasion. .
Among the outstanding features of
the affair will be an undergraduate
lead-out followed by a lead-out for
alumni. A popular debutante of Mo­bile
will lead the alumni affair, with
a member of the Mobile younger set
being honored the other lead-out.
Approximately thirty-five students
here will participate in staging the
annual dance. The group met last
night to arrange details for feature.
Other arrangements will be made
with Mr. Maurice Payne, head of Mo­bile
Auburn alumni.
A e Mobile Club dance is an an­nual
affair and is one of the out­standing
social features given in Mo­bile
each Christmas season. Prewitt
stated that present plans called for
the celebration to be one of the best
ever staged by the group.
SOPHOMORES WILL
START FIRST TILT
J o r d a n Will Likely Use New
Men Against Bevelle A. C.
In Alumni Gym Tonight
The 1934-35 Tiger quintet will open
the current campaign against the ex­perienced
Bevelle Athletic Club five
in Alumni Gymnasium tonight at
7:30.
, Coach Ralph Jordan will probably
start a crop of sophomores when the
two teams tangle tonight. Joe Bob
Mitchell is slated to get the call at
either the center or one of the for­ward
positions. The post that Mitch­ell
leaves vacant will likely be filled
by Slim King. Both of these bas-keteers
are six-footers and adept at
getting the tip-off at the center berth.
Cleve Brown and Joel Eaves are
two steady guards who are slated to
start against the Alex City team.
Brown won his letter last year while
Eaves is a sophomore. Frank Sind-ler
will also see service at one of the
guard posts. He was awarded his
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Honorary Education
Frat Initiates Ten
Ten new members were initiated
into Kappa Delta Pi, national honor­ary
educational fraternity, last Mon­day
night at a formal ceremony in
Langdon Hall. Following the initia­tion
members went to the College Inn
for a social hour.
Those initiated into the fraternity
Monday night were: Mary Enloe,
Dorothy Sellers, Grace Harris, Jean-ette
Sawyer, Helen Gardiner, James
Cooper, T. L. Hicks, Ralph Jones,
George Ward, and J. E. DeVaughn.
The purpose of Kappa Delta Pi is
to encourage in its members a higher
degree of social service by fostering
high professional and scholarship
standards and by recognizing out­standing
service in education.
Juniors and' seniors in education
whose grades rank in the upper quar­ter
of the entire student body are
eligible for membership. Also con­sidered
by the society in electing its
new members is personal traits es­sential
to leadership.
Present ofifcers of the society are
Randall Parrish, president; Velma
Patterson, vice-president; and Mrs.
M. L. Beck, secretary-treasurer.
Ordway Attends Meet
Of Textile Men In N.Y.
Prof. C. B. Ordway of the textile
engineering department returned
Monday from New York City where
he attended the 14th annual meeting
of the American Association of Tex­tile
Chemists and Colorists last Fri­day
and Satuday and was one of the
speakers.
With more than 600 present, the
meeting was the largest in the his­tory
of the Association, said Profes­sor
Ordway. Many foreign countries
were represented including 75 textile
chemists from Canada and Mexico.
The research work carried on at
Auburn dealing with cotton warp
sizing and the application of sweet
potato starch for sizing purposes was
considered of great importance by the
research committee of the Associa­tion.
This work is conducted here by
W. T. Schreiber of the Bureau of
Standards in cooperation with the
Engineering Experiment Station. The
research work carried on here by L.
B. Haley under a Textile Foundation
Fellowship was also brought to at­tention
of the textile technologists.
Dr. Charles H. Herty, main speak­er
at the annual banquet Saturday
evening, made an eloquent presenta­tion
of vital importance to the textile
industry and cellulose consuming in­dustries
of the research study and in­vestigation
now carried on in the
South.
PLAYERS ELECT
TEAM CAPTAINS
FOR NEXT YEAR
Mutt Morris And Haygood
P a t e r s o n Will Serve A s Cap­t
a i n And A l t e r n a t e - C a p t a in
BOTH WILL BE SENIORS
Honored A t h l e t e s Have Made
E n v i a b l e Record On G r i d i r on
For Two Seasons At A u b u rn
Millard (Mutt) Morris, end, of
Blountsville, will captain Auburn's
football forces during 1935, and John
Haygood Paterson, Jr., tackle, of
Montgomery, will serve as alternate
captain as a result of a recent election
held by this year's lettermen.
The captaincy comes as a fitting
tribute to Morris for the valuable
service he has rendered the team dur­ing
the past two seasons. Although
not a flashy player, the captain-elect
was considered one of the most im-partant
cogs in Coach Meagher's ma­chine
during the year just ended.
A tackle in 1934, Morris was trans­ferred
to an end position last season
which post he held down like a veter­an.
He teamed with Bennie Fenton,
Auburn's all-Conference terminal ace,
to give the Tigers one of the out­standing
pair of flankmen in Dixie.
A quiet, steady worker, and consid­ered
by many as one of the best
blockers in the South, the popular
Morris will make a capable leader for
the Plainsmen as they tackle the hard­est
schedule a Southern team has ever
faced in 1935.
Paterson, scion of the famous Mont­gomery
Patersons who have made
football history at Auburn, will make
an ideal co-worker with Morris. The
last, and probably the greatest of the
Patersons, John Haygood is consider­ed
one of the outstanding tackles of
the South. He starred in every game
during the season just past, and was
placed on several all-conference se­lections.
Overcoming a hip injury which
would have kept most players on the
sidelines for good, Paterson, by dent
of his enthusiasm and love of the
game, was one of the outstanding men
in Auburn's forward wall last year.
Methodists To Erect
Bronze Marker Soon
The Alabama Conference of the
Methodist Church, South, announced
that it would in the near future place
a stone and a bronze marker at a
point on the Montgomery-Tuskegee
Highway about ten miles west of Tus-kegee
to show the route by which
Methodism entered America.
At the recent Pensacola Conference
Dr. Zebulon Judd was appointed on
the committee to arrange for the de­tails
of placing the" marker. The Rev.
L. S. H. Chappelle, pastor of the
Trinity Church of Opelika, and Dr.
P. A. Brannon, curator of the Ala­bama
Department of Archives and
History, were the others appointed on
this committee which will also ar­range
for a proper celebration in
keeping with the marker's historical
significance.
It was decided at a recent commit­tee
meeting in Opelika that the mark­er
would be placed at the point where
the Indian trail is located which
Mathew Sturdivant journeyed over
from South Carolina to preach to the
pioneers in that section. The exact
spot is to be decided upon when the
Rev. Frank Moseley can meet with
Mr. Brannon.
The anniversary of the creation of
the first bishop of the church in
America is to be December 27, and
the dedication exercises, when held,
will commemorate the incident.
Frances Asbury was the first bishop.
Second Play
The second production of the year
to be given by the Auburn Players
in the Y Hut Tuesday night at 8
o'clock promises to be of a different
type than has been staged for some
time by the Players.
"Susan Hopley", or "The Vicissi­tudes
of a Servant Girl" is an old
fashioned melodramatic play written
during the 17th century by George
Dibdin Pitt. It has been cut by Mr.
Telfair Peet, director,of the Players,
to two. acts and nine scenes and will
be acted Tuesday night exactly as it
was done in the days when it was
first produced.
The author intended the play to
be of a very serious nature, which
today amounts to nothing more than
a burlesque, with the audience laugh­ing
in the most serious places. "It
is so melodramatic that it is funny,"
was the statement recently made by
one well acquainted with the play.
The story is conveniently provided
with three villains of the dime novel
type with handlebar mustaches. Ga-veston,
the leader, will be played by
William Manry. Other villain parts
will be acted by Peter Hamilton and
Gordon Wallace as George Remardin
and Larkin respectively.
A deep plot in the play is woven
about the will of a Mr. Wentworth,
a retired wine merchant, and his
beautiful servant girl, Susan Hopley.
Leon Brown will play the part of
Mr. Wentworth, with Jewel Martin
as the beautiful servant girl. Bill
Guilford is well cast as William Dean,
the dashing young lover of Susan
Hopley. He always shows up just
in the nick of time to save his love
from many harrowing adventures.
Admission price for the affair is
set at 10 cents, which is the lowest
admission price the Players have had
for several years and it is hoped that
a large audience will be present Tues­day
night. Rehearsals have been
progressing rapidly for the past three
weeks.
Theatrical Group CONTEST WILL BE HELD TO
Rehearses For ^ ^ ^ m „ ^
NEXT MONDAY SAYS KLEIN
Alternate Captain
V o t i n g In Contest Will Begin
At Nine O'clock Monday
And Continue Until Five
PLAINSMAN STAFF TO
MEET SUNDAY NIGHT
There will be a meeting of The
Plainsman news staff in the Student
Center Sunday night at 7 p. m. Im­portant
matters will be discussed. A
full attendance is urged.
Prof. Crow Talks At
Delta Sigma Pi Meet
"At the present time the people of
the United States are faced with a
grave decision to determine just what
the outcome of the New Deal will
mean to business. There are three
alternatives: first, competition can be
restored; second, give the monopoly
to certain companies and let the gov­ernment
control them; or allow the
government to own and operate all
business."
With this statement Professor W.
C. Crow, of the department of busi­ness
administration, ended his speech
last Tuesday evening at the open fo­rum
meeting of Delta Sigma Pi, hon­orary
business and profesional fra­ternity.
The topic of Professor Crow's talk
was "Competition", and as stated by
the speaker "this is the one impor­tant
question facing American bus­iness
today."
He went on to say that "Neither
we nor the government know just
where we are in competition. Forty
years ago the government said that
we must have competition for the
life of business. Now the government
says there must be no competition,
and has formulated codes with which
to make industry meet certain speci­fied
standards and thus eliminate
competition."
He went on to say that those who
argue for competition say that it
regulates prices, equalizes capital,
and raises the quality of goods;
whereas, those against the issue say
that competition does none of these
things but rather it does just the
opposite.
At the close of the talk the twenty-two
members and visitors entered into
the discussion and much new life was
thrown on the subject. The practice
of the fraternity twice a month is to
have some important' subject intro­duced
and then allow those present to
discuss it.
Mr. T. H. Kirby, Superintendent of
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John Haygood should serve nobly
a« alternate captain-elect for the
1935 grid team. He play* tackle.'
WINNER T O BE FEATURED
E n t i r e School T o V o t e In Elect­i
n g A R e p r e s e n t a t i v e "Miss
A u b u r n " F r om Co-ed Group
MUSICAL WILL BE
GIVEN HERE SOON
P r e s b y t e r i a n Choir To Give
V e s p e r Music At Church
Next Sunday Night At 7:30
The Auburn Presbyterian Choir
will present a Vesper Musical Sunday
evening, December 16, beginning at
7:30. The choir includes about twen­ty-
five voices and is under the direc­tion
of Mrs. Ralph Doner with Mrs.
Earl Hazel serving as accompanist.
The program for the affair includes
the following selections: Away In a
Manger, to be sung by the junior
choir which is made up of children;
Birthday of a King, by the choir;
Offertory, by Mrs. Earl Hazel, who
will play a Pastoral Symphony from
Messiah; The Holy Night, by the
choir with Mr. John Roe taking the
vocal lead and Mr. Barnett accom-panying
with the violin; Meditation,
by a trio to be composed of Mrs. Ha­zel,
organist, Mr. Hazel, pianist, and
Mr. Barnett, violinist; Peter Hamil­ton
will take the lead in the rendition
of l Will Lift Up Mine Eyes by the
choir.
The trio of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Ha­zel
and Mr. Barnett will be one of the
features of the program. This group
has played together upon several oc­casions
and has won praise from
many enthusiastic listeners.
The Presbyterian Choir is consider­ed
to be one of the finest musical
groups in the city. The organization
was dormant for several weeks but
was reorganized about a month ago
and has appeared regularly at the
Sunday morning services at the
church since.
The second annual "Miss Auburn"
contest will begin Monday morning
when the entire student body will
start voting in the campus-wide elec­tion.
Voting will be done in the Stu­dent
Center at Langdon Hall. The
polls will be open from nine o'clock
Monday morning until five p.m. that
afternoon.
A committee of Glomerata and
Plainsman staff members will count
the votes Monday night and the three
girls receiving the highest number
of votes will be announced in next
Wednesday's edition of The Plains­man.
Final voting to select one of
this number as official "Miss Au­burn"
will be held in the Student
Center on Wednesday, January 8.
The winner of the contest will be
announced in the January 10 edition
of the paper.
The qualifications which have been
listed and which the contestants
should possess are: personality, beau­ty,
and intellectuality. Bob Klein,
editor of the Glomerata, has urged
that each of these three qualifications
be considered during the voting.
A picture of the winner of the con­test
will appear in the rotogravure
section of the Collegiate Digest, sup­plement
to The Plainsman, in several
leading state newspapers, and on the
first page of the beauty section of the
Glomerata.
Strict honesty is desired by the
staffs of both publications in order
to make the election representative.
To make for this Klein is conducting
the voting in the Student Center
where students 'will have one vote
each, and will be checked as having
voted.
Plans are underway to arrange for
a public appearance of "Miss Au-
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Awards Be Given To
Stall Of Plainsman
To the three best undergraduate
members of the editorial and business
staffs of The Plainsman will be
awarded Plainsman keys during the
latter part of next semester.
A committee which is composed of
heads of the two staffs, Prof. J. E.
Roop, journalism instructor, and Mr.
Kirtley Brown, of the publicity de­partment
of the college, will act as
judges of the contest.
The presentation of the awards will
be based on reliability, type of work
done by the various staff members,
initiative, and general ability.
The work of each staff member will
be observed untU the time for voting
the awards to the several staff mem­bers
and each contestant will be as­sured
of an equal chance to win one
of the keys.
P.T.A. Hears Thomas'
Plan For Legislation
Mrs. Albert L. Thomas of Auburn,
head of the Legislative Committee of
the Alabama Congress of the Parents
and Teachers Association, presented
a legislative program, which included
a nine-month school year throughout
the state, to the Board of Managers
of the teachers association at a meet­ing
held last week in Montgomery.
At the board meeting were forty-four
women present representing
many sections of the state and who
are active in school affairs. Several
members of the group spoke in sup­port
of the program, which included
besides the nine-months school year
provision for a recommendation that
rigid economies be effected by the
elimination of the fee system and the
reorganization of the functions of
county governments into fewer offices.
The economy, it was hoped, would
more than pay for the nine-months
school term.
It was also recommended that their
representatives to the National Con­gress
use all possible influence to se­cure
federal aid that would keep the
schools of Alabama open for the en­suing
year. The group took a strong
stand for world peace and urged that
Congress use all means to promote
a better understanding between na­tions;
to strive for the control and
sale of munitions; and to support
conscription of the nation's wealth in
time of war.
NOTICE!
All fraternities or other organiza­tions
expecting to give social func­tions
next semester must fill out
dates in the Social Calendar before
the Christinas holiday begin.
P A G E TWO THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M A N •:• A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U T E SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1934
"Doodlebug" Murphy, "Small Breeze" Smith, "Knobby" Sledge, and Melba
Holley were so thrilled over being mentioned in Footprints Wednesday that they
have requested regular space each week.
Since our article on hefty Montevallo students we have received many requests
that a similar one be written about Auburn co-eds on the grounds that it would be
more appropriate. Since watching many of the ex-frail lassies eating we are
tempted to write such a story.
Letters to Santa Claus:
Please bring us a new business staff.—Editorial Staff.
Please make our paper the "South's Second Leading Newspaper."—The Plains­man.
»
P. S. We yield first place to The Crimson-White without argument.
Please give us something new to gripe about.—Columnists.
P. S. We probably won't like it, whatever it is. , •
* * * * * *
No, my children, Joe Purvis is not going to make his usual world tour Christ­mas
with Santa. He broke his leg last week while playing in a charity football
game. The game was played in an effort to raise funds to give Japan a larger navy.
It was down in a local chapter
A block or so from the square,
A rat was sprawled as usual
In an easy Morris chair.
In stepped a gallant senior
His eyes were bloodshot red
He eyed askance this lousey rat
And this is what he said:
"I've been up in my room, you hellion,
And I saw no laundry there,
So hike you down to the house of suds
For my chest of drawers are bare."
Sixteen cold black horses
Hitched up to this lousey rat,
Could not with the help of a tractor
Have held him where he sat.
So he hiked him down to the laundry
So wet, so warm, so bare,
And called for 1076
But lordy, it wasn't there.
And then this scum remembered,
(Sad words of tongue and pen)
On the Monday after the Sunday before,
He had forgotten to send it in.
So bring out your downey pillows
Of edges soft and round, <
And ointments of the greasy type
For this moron cannot sit down.
Well, he may get it beat in Russia
Or he may get it beat in Spain,
But he'll never get it beat in Auburn
For being forgetful again.
qtyg Auburn jUatttBmatt
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News Editors: Floyd Hurt, Kyser Cox.
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Calendar Changes
Revision of the school calendar for 1935-
36 moves the opening date of the school
year back one week and shortens the Christ­mas
vacation period from several days over
two weeks to ten days. The latter change
will probably receive criticism from the
student body but we believe it is a warrant­ed
move.
Most of us have agreed for several years
that the best of school work can not be
done during the hot sultry days of early
September and we probably welcome that
t
part of the revision which delays the open­ing
of school a week. However, we must
complete thirty-six weeks of college work;
therefore, the Christmas vacation must be
shortened or graduation delayed. Of the
two alternatives we believe the first is the
more preferable.
A long vacation in the middle of the
school year tends to distract the student's
mind entirely from his work. A little
rest from the routine of school is necessary
but when the rest period is of such length
as to make it difficult for the student to
acclimate himself to college in the middle
of the year it serves to the detriment of
everyone concerned.
We believe that the second alternative
should be dismissed with little or no argu­ment.
Again the stuffy weather in late
May makes it practically impossible for a
student to concentrate on his studies. Also,
early graduation is desirable for seniors
because they have the opportunity of "get­ting
the jump" on graduates from other
institutions in seeking employment. Some­times
a period of two or three days might
mean the difference between getting a job
and going unemployed. Also, the termina­tion
of the school year before early June
gives juniors who attend the summer R. O.
T. C. camp additional time at home before
the encampment begins. From almost
every angle it appears to us that these
revisions are praiseworthy changes. Nat­urally,
they might inconvenience some stu­dents
but we believe that they will meet
with the approval of the majority.
Good News For The South
The eminent Georgia chemist, Dr. Charles
Herty, has made another important an­nouncement.
At his experimental plant in
Savannah, Dr. Herty has recently discover­ed
that the quick growing southern pine
can be used successfully for the produc­tion
of Alpha Cellulose from which rayon
and artificial silk are made.
Prior to this latest discovery Dr. Herty
had already shown how print paper can
be made from these same pines.
It is with keen interest indeed that we
in the south note Dr. Herty's experiments
just at this time. Right now our cotton
farmers are facing governmental control
of cotton production which means, of course,
the cutting down of cotton acreage.
The question naturally occurs to the
farmer, "What shall I do with these extra
acres?" Dr. Herty's latest successful ex­periments
with the pine tree point out one
solution. Uncultivated surplus land can
very easily be changed into pine forests.
It is not unlikely either that Dr. Herty's
discoveries will help to change and improve
the agricultural as well as the industrial
life of the entire south.
Far-Sighted Action
The Executive Council's action in de­clining
a group of sophomore's request for
permission to organize a new social honor
society met with disfavor among the peti­tioners,
but it was one of the most? com-
*
mendable moves made by the executive body
this year.
We are not able to see the need for such
an organization here. The group from
which most of the members of the society
were to be drawn are fraternity men and
already enjoy the social privileges which
such affiliation affords them. Also, Au­burn
is over run with similar societies. At
present there are so many honor societies
on the campus until students are prohibit­ed
from centering a great amount of inter­est
upon any one society.
When such plans for recognition of un­derclassmen
are effected they tend to min­imize
the importance of the senior honor
societies which are supposed to bestow hon­or
and recognition upon students only after
they have proven their worth. No student
can possibly fulfill the qualifications for
membership in such a society in three short
semesters of college work.
When we begin organizing such societies
among one lower class we might as well
extend the plan to include each of the
three groups. Yes, the idea of a sophomore
social society seems foolish to say the least.
It's the same old story — every student
seems to be out to make some society and
gain recognition and a key. Whether or
not such an honor is deserved is of little
consequence.
Letters to the Editor
Auburn, Ala.,
Dec. 13, 1934
Editor, The Plainsman,
Auburn, Ala.
Dear Sir:
Throughout the many years of Auburn's
existence there has been ample verification
of the time-worn statement: "History re­peats
itself." However, history can be
either good or bad; the results: advanta­geous
or disadvantageous. At the present
time we are again faced with this repetition
in the form of bad history, the effects
having always been disadvantageous. This
time it is the organization of Knaves honor
society whose eligibility list is confined to
the sophomore class, the purpose being that
of giving additional social activities for the
sophomores, since it is their feeling that
more would be gained by class social life.
The Executive Council, realizing the fal-acy
of such an organization, has refused
the group permission to organize upon this
campus. We feel that this decision is wise
and just for many reasons.
In the past, similar groups have been or­ganized
for the same purpose, and without
exception they were all short lived, useless,
expensive, and were finally disbanded, us­ually
because the treasurer had absconded
funds ample enough for a trip to points
unknown. Furthermore, there has been a
great deal of discussion over the fact that
Auburn has too many organizations alrea­dy.
Nevertheless, there are many of them
doing good work on the campus, and these
select their personnel from members of the
senior class or from the junior class in
the latter part of the year. These men
are selected for what they have accomplish­ed
and for their potential ability. In case
of sophomores, they have had neither time
to accomplish anything nor to become ac­climated
enough to have any apparent abil­ity.
Therefore, such an organization would
be only a stumbling block for the worth­while
societies, an obstacle slewing their
forward movement and detracting from
their rightful importance.
In reference to social activities there are
some 250 opportunities' in Auburn, the ma­jority
of which are open to any person
wishing to partake of them. This figure is
in comparison with about 100 similar activ­ities
on other campuses and should lead
us to believe that this side of our educa­tional
enterprise is well rounded and that
we should turn our abilities to other fields.
Such an organization of "elect and col­lect"
would have little claim to the word
honor. It would, in a course of time, con­sist
of "hail fellows well met" who like to
have banquets and dances and can afford
such costly recognition.
This letter is to be taken as constructive
criticism without intention of hurting the
feelings of those involved. On the contra­ry
we applaud their initiative, but give
at the same time a word of advice. Wait
until your time comes, and then if you have
the accomplishments and potential ability
you will be amply awarded by organizations
that are hoifors. And remember, being a
prospective chain-bearer is not an accom­plishment.
Signed,
A National Honor Fraternity.
The name of the Gulf Stream should be
changed to "Caribbean Current", according
to Prof. Albert E. Parr, of Yale. His
researches have proved that there is little
or no Gulf of Mexico water in the current.
CABBAGES AND KINGS
By Cecil Strong and Walter Brown
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.
* * * *
IN THE ISSUE of Thursday, December
6, the Montgomery Advertiser comments
approvingly on the recent decision of
the U. S. Supreme Court upholding the
right of the University of California to
compel able bodied male students to enroll
in its course of military training. In the
course of the editorial, it is remarked that
this decision will do much toward removing
a "sore spot" that has long troubled the
American colleges—that sore spot being
the use, by certain "radical" groups, of the
objectionable feature of compulsion in R.
O. T. C. as a "cloak" for their pacifistic
and socializing ideas.
One of the most interesteing things to
note in connection with this editorial is the
fact that the Advertiser, in this matter at
least, stamps itself as just another news­paper
doing lip-service to that which is the
accepted and established thing. I don't
think I'm stretching a point when I say
that evidently the Advertiser would like to
see "radical" ideas, that is, doctrines of
drastic reform, shoved completely out of
the American college. That all-too-human
attitude, the dislike of the new and uncon­ventional,
is the greatest possible drag on
the progress of the human race.
Now, although I'm ashamed to admit it,
I don't know anything about pacifism. I've
never read any literature on the subject,
nor have I been exposed to pacifistic teach­ings.
However, any movement that has as
its object the elimination of war should be
encouraged rather than hindered by the
disapprobation of established members of
society. Few people, excepting General
Robert Lee Bullard, maintain that war is
anything but a detriment to civilization
which has attained such efficiency in its
weapons that it may eventually accomplish
the destruction of mankind. Pacifism may
rankle the Advertiser's soul because it aims
at the downfall of war, one of our most
venerable institutions without which man
would hardly know how to fill his news­papers,
but if there is any slight chance
of any form of pacifism attaining its end,
I say keep it and foster it in our colleges.
Let me depict for you a scene that took
place at Fort Benning during the R. O. T.
C. encampment last summer—a scene at
once amusing and omnious.
The regular infantry regiment is staging
a demonstration of infantry weapons for
the benefit of the boys in the R. O. T. C.
The next step oh the program is an exhi­bition
of machine gun fire by indirect lay­ing.
The performance is to be witnessed
from the top of a hill on one of the ranges,
and the boys have just arrived in the dinky
little narrow guage trains.
Out of those little trains there pours a
laughing, shoving, happy bunch of boys.
They start up the hill and make a pleasing
discovery — the ground is covered with
blackberry bushes which are thick with
ripe luscious fruit, and the whole crew for­gets
machine guns and starts cramming its
collective stomach with blackberries as it
continues up the hill. The officers are in
a good humor and their admonitions are
delivered with a grin. "You, Speedy, leave
those dam berries alone and get on up this
hill."
After the consumption of an unbelievable
number of blackberries, the demonstration
gets under way. A mild mannered, soft
spoken officer computes his data, sends his
directions to the gun crew, and two sput­tering
machine guns slap lead into targets
a thousand yards away, which can't even
be seen by the men operating those guns.
Very little imagination is needed to picture
what that hail of lead would have done to
a human target. The demonstration is a
success. The immaculately dressed officer
conducting the first turns around and says
with a slow smile, "That, gentlemen, was
unnecessarily close."
The boys trudge back down the hill to
the trains. I don't eat any blackberries
this time. I, and these boys with me, seem
to be the object of sardonic, unheard laugh­ter.
I think I would gaze disinterestedly
at a blackberry two inches long.
The Yankee General, Sherman, said,
"War is Hell," and the world nodded its
head in agreement. Ask the next person
you see on the streets if he believes war
in hell, and he will answer that he does.
He is mistaken. He may have a hazy idea
that war is a very bad thing, but he doesn't
believe it, else he, the average man, would
not lend himself as a pawn, as he certainly
will, in the death-game when the next war
comes along. Neither you nor he nor I
have ever seen war and we do not< have
any real conception of what it is like.
The nearest thing to war that we have
seen is the shadows that flicker across the
screen while we sit in a comfortable seat
at the movies. We have an uneasy feeling
in the pit of the stomach when we see the
cleverly faked slaughter scenes. We feel
sad when the gentleman playing the second
DUKE ALUMNI TO
CELEBRATE SOON
Some 3,000 Duke alumni will gather in
various cities throughout the country dur­ing
the coming week for the express pur­pose
of celebrating Duke-University Day,
which will officially take place on Monday,
December 10. In previous years this day
has been celebrated on December 11, but
because of the conflict with the celebration
of the tenth anniversary of the Duke En­dowment,
the observance has been moved
forward a single day.
In thirty or forty cities in this country
and in a single city in Japan Duke alumni
will convene on the date which is deemed
most convenient for that certain town. The
first program was held in Atlanta where
several hundred alumni gathered to cele­brate
the annual observance. Speakers at
the Atlanta celebration included four rep­resentatives
of the administration of Duke
university, namely, President W. P. Few,
Hollard Holton, Dean W. K. Greene, and
Dean Alice Baldwin.
* * * *
FROSH TO WEAR CAPS AT
SOUTH CAROLINA
The importance of wearing "rat" caps
was stressed at a meeting of all men in the
freshman class held Monday night of last
week in the chapel. The meeting was call­ed
as a result of the intensive drive on the
part of the Kappa Sigma Kappa fraternity
to enforce the regulations requiring all
freshmen to wear the caps.
male lead expires in the arms of his buddy.
We experience a mild form of hate when
the lone American 'plane is shot down by
the fiendish German, and we are exultant
when the tables are turned as usual and the
hero destroys half the enemy squadron sin-glehanded.
I wonder how those second-hand emo­tions
would compare with the real ones if
we ever saw the actual events that inspired
the screen productions. How does one feel
when he sees the guts of a friend or ac­quaintance
spilled out on the ground? What
does a human body look like in the last
stages of decomposition? It is true that
mustard gas will eat one's skin and flesh
away?
If the gentleman writing for the Adver­tiser
had sufficient imaginative power to
picture his own body spewing guts, or
suddenly being de-limbed, or being rotted
by chemicals, I think he would not look with
such apprehension on those "radicals", the
pacifists.
PWA MONEY BE GIVEN
COLORADO SCHOOL
That the Federal government will grant,
as an out and out gift, 30 per cent of any
amount up to $200,000 that the Colorado
School of Mines can raise, in any manner,
for the construction of a new building, is
the information given this morning to The
Oredigger at the PWA offices in Denver.
Three strings are attached to this offer
of the government. They are: 1, the labor
used in the construction work must come
from the ranks of the registered unemploy­ed
in Jefferson county. 2, the laborers can­not
work more than 30 hours per week.
3, all labor must be paid a minimum wage
or more, established by State law.
Both a loan and a grant are impossible
as this time because, it was stated at PWA
headquarters, the Public Works appropria­tions
have been used. Authorities said,
however, that there is every likelihood that
another appropriation will be forthcoming
from Congress after Januay 1.
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SOUTH CAROLINA TO HAVE
NEW COACHES
There will be a definite change in the
personnel of the University coaching staff
when the Athletic Advisory Board meets
next week it was learned from a reliable
source yesterday. The present contracts of
the coaching staff expire January 1.
At the meeting the board will consider
the nominations for the positions of head
coach and assistants for the term 1935-36.
The board will also consider the discontin­uation
of all complimentary passes to
games except those of newspaper men. It
has been stated by Dr. R. K. Foster, direc­tor
of student activities, that the present
athletic season has been one of the poorest
financially ever experienced. Last year
and the present season proved a failure as
far as the financial end of the athletic
program was considered.
* . * * *
CO-EDS AT HOWARD LEAD
IN SCHOLARSHIP
Once again the co-eds outnumbered the
boys in a scholastic achievement. In an
honor roll of one hundred and five students,
released by Dean Hale, the co-eds outnum­bered
the boys by almost two to one.
The early maturity of females was shown
by the contrast between the lower division
in which there were seventeen boys as com­pared
to thirty-eight girls on the honor
roll, and the upper division, in which there
were nineteen boys as compared to thirty-one
girls on the honor rolL
FACTS AND FALLACIES
By Flit
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial opin­ions
of this paper. It is a column of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
* • * *
THE MOVE taken by the college au­thorities
to shorten Christmas holi­days
next year to a little over a week
hardly meets with the approval, I dare
say, of the student body as a whole. About
the only argument offered by the authori­ties
to back up their action in this case
is that doors won't swing open next fall
until one week later than usual. That
reason may be discarded or thrown out,
as you wish, as being ridiculous. The au­thorities
will have to provide a stronger
argument than that if they expect students
to like the plan.
Probably those at the head didn't have
in mind the student who lives out of the
state, say in the New England States, when
they said: "A holiday period of ten days
during the season of 1935, which is con­sidered
ample." For those living 500 miles
or more away from Auburn, the Christmas
holidays are about the only chance out of
the entire year they have to get home and
enjoy a little relaxation from the monot­onous
grind of college work. Ten days for
such students could hardly under any cir­cumstances
be considered as "ample". And
who cares about starting a week later in
the fall?
I would suggest that the college authori­ties
think it over and see what they can
do about amending the present order and
handing us a deal that is not quite so
round.
* * * *
The following is an introductory edito­rial
written by a member of the staff on a
plan which is still in an embryonic stage.
It provides for the present semester system
used here being scrapped in favor of the
quarter system. Subsequent editorials ap­pearing
in this column yrill g0 into the plan
in more detail, pointing out its many ad­vantages
over the present system.
* * • * *
With the Christmas holidays coming on
and plans being made by all students for
leaving school, studies are taking a back
seat with all thought being centered on the
approaching holidays. How unfortunate it
is that we Auburn students must come back
in January with neglected work to be made
up and final exams staring us in the face.
We have two weeks to again orient our­selves
and "warm up" in our work before
we are slapped in the face with questions
calling for minute details which, though
thoroughly mastered perhaps four months
before, have become cold.
Such are the evils of the semester system
used here at Auburn. But this condition
is entirely unnecessary. There are num­bers
of schools throughout the country
which have realized the evils of this sys­tem
and shifted to the quarter system of
division of the school year. In such schools
exams are over by Christmas. The demor­alizing
effect of two weeks holiday is not
reflected in exams taken by the students
in these schools, because they have done
away with this unnecessary break in com­pletion
of work.
Here is a chance for Auburn to step for­ward.
It is a chance she has for leaving
a system, which is obviously inefficient and
adopting one which would add much to the
educational advantages of the students who
come here for their higher training.
* * * *
The fame of many an Auburn student
is sometimes great and breaks out in far
and remote places of the world. A rather
lengthy column appearing in the Shanghai
Evening Post of several weeks ago was
devoted to telling all about the election of
an Auburn student into an honor society
here and of the merits of Auburn as an en­gineering
institution. I knew tihat this
fellow (He's from Shanghai, by the way)
had been elected into an honor society and
had paid his dough and all that to get in,
but it is news to me that Auburn had such
a fine engineering school. You fellows in
engineering, keep up the good work. You
might get a job in China by and by. Sell­ing
Fuller brushes.
* * * *
No doubt, you have all read a good bit
lately about this seven year old boy in
New York who had an I.Q. of 196. He
explained to a psychologist how, given a
3 qt. and a 5 qt. pail he could draw 7 qt.
of water. It's beyond me. Oh well, my
I.Q. hangs somewhere around the fifty
mark, so I'm not supposed to know how
to do all those things, and neither can I
read a book a day. But I can argue politics
with my dad or anybody else who wants
to listen.
* * * *
All those who witnessed the play last
Thursday night by the Hedgerow Theatre
will probably agree with me that it was
really a fine piece of work. Much better
than the leg show going on at the same
time.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1934 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M A N -:- A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE P A G E T H R EE
TENTATIVE BASKETBALL SCHEDULE RELEASED BY JORDAN
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Twenty*One Football Players Awarded Major Letter By Coach Meagher
CHEERLEADER AND
MANAGER RECEIVE
ATHLETIC LETTER
FOUR INTERFRAT
TEAMS CLASH IN
TILTS THIS WEEK
Five Seniors Receive Last Maj­or
' A ' ; T h i r t e e n Sophomores
Get First Major Award
Twenty-one members of Auburn's
1934 fotoball squad have been award­ed
letters by Coach Jack Meagher,
with the approval of the athletic
council.
In addition, student manager Max­well
Benton, Birmingham, and cheer­leader
Ed Prewitt, Mobile, for their
work during the past season.
The players honored include the
following:
Ends, Alternate Capt. Bennie Fen-ton,
all-Southeastern Conference se­lection,
Lakeland, Fla.; Millard Mor­ris,
Blountsville, and Joel Eaves, At­lanta;
tackles, Haygood Paterson,
Montgomery, and Hugh Rodgers,
Langdale; guards, Capt. Mike Welch,
Atlanta, Mussolini Levi, Gadsden,
Norman Houston, Sylvester, Ga., Sam
McCroskey, Birmingham, and Frank
Gantt, Lavonia, Ga.; centers, Walter
Gilbert, Fairfield, and Barney Mus-grove,
Jasper; quarterbacks, Cleve
Brown, Montgomery, Sidney Scar­borough,
Atlanta, and Aubrey Hill,
Sulligent; halfbacks, Joe Bob Mit­chell,
Alexander City, Bobbie Blake,
Auburn, James Karam, Lake Village,
Ark., Joe Stewart, Greenville, and
John Paul Tipper, Carbon Hill; full­back,
Wilton Kilgore, Wadley.
Lettermen definitely lost for the
for the 1935 season are Fenton, whose
shoes will be hard to fill; Welch,
Houston, Levi and Musgrove. Brown
also is a senior, but is eligible for
another term of college football.
Juniors in the group of monogram
winners include Morris and Paterson.
All of the others are sophomores.
Walter Gilbert, one of the most
outstanding sophomores of the South
last season, was voted by the letter-men
as the team's most outstanding
player.--
A. T. O., P i K a p p a Phi, Delta
Sig, K a p p a Sig Sevens B a t t le
For P l a c e In T o u r n e y Finals
CORRECTION
Coach Del Morgan has announced
that freshman basketball practice will
• not start until after Christmas. An
announcement in The Plainsman last
week stated that practice sessions
would begin next Monday. The defi­nite
date will be announced later.
Four strong touch football teams
will clash this week-end as Pi Kappa
Phi meets Alpha Tau Omega and
Delta Sigma Phi engages Kappa Sig­ma
in the semi-finals of the Interfrat
Touch Football Tourney.
Pi Kappa Phi has demonstrated an
effective scoring combination in its
games to date as Hamilton, Jones,
and Co., have amassed four touch­downs
in their two encounters with
Kappa Alpha and Theta Upsilon Ome­ga.
The aerial circus staged weekly
by James Hamilton and Sam Jones
has been a feature of the PL.Kappa
Phi games.
Alpha Tau Omega, who provides
the opposition in today's engage­ment,
slated to be played on Drake
Field at 3:30, has one of the fastest
running attacks in the tourney with
Flake Farley its principal threat.
Farley, a triple-threat back, is also
adept at hurling passes and with a
pair of capable pass receivers should
more than match the Pi Kappa Phis.
Reynolds and Rush are two of the
principal linemen on the A. T. O.
"seven".
Kappa Sigma, last year's runner-up,
has bowled over its opposition in
games so far handily and if the de­ceptive
offense built around Robert
Rutland continues to function, the
Delta Sigs will have a tough after­noon.
According to reports from
both fraternities, the game will be
played tomorrow afternoon at 1:30.
Thomas Kimbrell, Phil Gilchrist, and
Bob Mercer have also been important
| cogs in the Kappa Sig machine.
Delta Sigma Phi, winner from Sig­ma
Pi and Sigma Nu, looms as a
real contender of championship hon­ors
in the current competition. Del­ta
-Sigma Phi has looked potentially
effective in their past encounters and
if Busenleiner, Collins, Tabor and
others get going right tomorrow, the
game with Kappa Sigma will be high­ly
interesting. Bill Stanford is also
an outstanding figure on the New
Fraternity Row team.
Patronize Plainsman Advertisers.
HAGEDORN'S
DEPARTMENT STORE
DRY GOODS
LADIES' READY TO WEAR
LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S SHOES
DRAPERIES — CURTAINS — CARPETS
A MOST COMPLETE GENT'S FURNISHING DEPARTMENT
OPELIKA, ALABAMA
TIGER GROWLS
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King Football is dead, that is, so far as Auburn is concerned for this
season, and with its passing, basketball takes the spotlight.
Tonight, Coach Ralph Jordan's hardwood artists make their initial ap­pearance
of the year in a practice game with Bevelle Athletic Club, of
Alex City. Tomorrow night the Tigers play host to Fort Benning.
Although it is a bit early to predict the strength of Auburn's 1934-35
quintet, it is safe to say that the youthful Tiger mentor will present a team
in the conference race which will hold its own with the best. The aggre­gation
this year will probably feature several sophomores in the lineup
with four lettermen returning to form a nucleus.
A large crowd should be present in the gym tonight to greet the Tigers,
and wish them well as they start t.heir annual campaign.
Congratulations to Millard Morris and Johnny Paterson, two of
the finest athletes Auburn has ever had, for the honor which will be
theirs in leading Auburn's gridiron machine in 1935.
It is seldom that a team is ever blessed with two men of the calibre
of these players, and the show of confidence by their" teammates should
serve to spur them on to greater athletic glory their final year.
And to one of the South's outstanding sophomores, Walter Gilbert,
we offer our felicitations on his selection by his teammates as the team's
most valuable player during 1934.
Auburn lost one of her most valued supporters in the passing of Mr.
Victor Cherry, of Opelika, last week.
Although not an alumnus of Auburn, he was closely connected with
the college, and an ardent follower of Auburn's football fortunes. His
interest in Auburn nevei' waived, and his passing will be mourned by all
who had the privilege of knowing him.'
* * * * * *
The most enthusiastic inter-fraternity football tournament in Au­burn's
history is rapidly drawing to a close with only four teams left
in the running. To date all contests have been cleanly fought. The
tournament has done much to keep alive the friendly rivalry of
Auburn's Greeks.
* * * * * *
A future football star has been added to Auburn with the arrival of a
new son at the home of Coach Jack Meagher.
Congratulations and best wishes are being extended to the popular Tiger
mentor, and this column takes this opportunity to do likewise. We hope
for the little fellow a long life full of happiness.
* * * * * *
The annual cake race sponsored by the 0 . D. K. honor society brought
forth much track talent which we know will gladden the heart of Auburn's
veteran track coach, Wilbur Hutsell. Although the existing record for the
run was not broken, the fact that four participants had bettered the time
before the race seems to indicate that Auburn will be well fortified on the
cinder path in the next few years.
FOWLER HAS FINE
QUINT PROSPECTS
AT LOCAL SCHOOL
A u b u r n High Five Should Be
One Of Classiest Quintets
In This Section This Year
Annual Christmas Sale
at
FAIRFAX TOWEL
SHOP
Beginning December 10
and continuing through
December 22
Fairfax, "Alabama
Practice Sessions Are
Started By Riflemen
The 1935 Rifle Team has started
its regular practice sessions after
three eliminations. The team is now
made up of thirty-two men. Strick­land
is the high scorer to date, and
he is followed by Captain Bradford,
team captain Van Hoose, Tomlinson,
Panell, Wright, team manager Cas-son,
McKinney, assistant manager
Lee, Swenson, Booth, Heistand, Cal­loway,
Kolbe, Mize, Fochee, Ullman,
assistant manager Moyer, Wilkes,
Rodgers, Rich, Hayes, Johnson, Tri-olo,
Harkins, Hardaman, Strother,
Edwards, Cooper, and Fincher.
The rifles have hoped for a good
season next year as half of the squad
is made up of veterans with one, two,
or three years experience.
This is Lieut. Ehrgott's first year
as coach and the entire squad along
with the assistant coach of last year,
Sgt. Reeves, is doing their best to
make the lieutenant's first year as
tutor highly successful.
One of the most interesting fea­tures
of the season will be a three-way
match fired in Atlanta February
2nd, 1935, against Georgia Tech and
the University of Georgia. This is
the first time in Auburn history that
the rifles have traveled to meet an
opponent.
The scheduled matches start soon
after Christmas Holidays, and con­tinue
into early April.
Large Crowds Attend
1934 Plainsman Tilts
The following are the figures for
the number of paid admissions to Au­burn
football games during the past
season:
Birmingham-Southern _! 10,000
Oglethorpe 5,000
Tulane — .- 9,000
L. S. U. 11,000
Vanderbilt ...-,. 6,000
Kentucky .. 9,500
Duke .. ........... 4,500
Georgia Tech ;.. 11,000
Florida .•__.. 9,000
Georgia 11,571
Total 86,571
Let Plainsman ads help suggest
appropriate Christmas gifts.
LOST: A black slip over sweater at
the freshman cake race Tuesday
afternoon. Finder please return to
J. L. Avant at 147 W. Glenn St.
Basketball prospects at Auburn
High are encouraging this year as a
veteran quintet from last year's crack
team returns together with a number
of promising newcomers. With at
least five very capable basketeers and
several other players of better than
average calibre, Coach Gordan Fowl­er
has a chance of duplicating on the
court the enviable showing made on
the gridiron this year.
Junior Whatley, Hugh Wright,
John Ham, Philip Smith, and Julian
Fowler are the first-stringers from
last year who are expected to come
through in the current campaign but
a number of unheralded performers
have been blossoming forth as well as
the more seasoned quintet listed above
and may oust what looked like the
probable starting lineup from their
places by the opening of the playing
season. Roy Powell, Harry Bush,
Dan Friel, and Elmer Almquist have
been showing up well in the initial
practice sessions for the local basket­eers
and any one or several may be­come
varsity performers before the
initial game. Duncan Wright has
been out this week with injuries but
will be a valuable asset when he re­ports.
Whatley is one of the smoothest
court players in East Alabama and
is expected to have another good year
at one forward position. A fairly ac­curate
shot and a highly satisfactory
floor artist, Whatley should make his
final year at Auburn his best. John
Ham and Philip Smith are a pair
of rangy passers who are formidable
both on the defense and offense. Ham
is a forward and Smith cavorts at
center. Fowler and Wright can ad­equately
handle the guards, and op­posing
forwards will find manufac­turing
points over this pair of stal­warts
a difficult proposition.
In addition to the above .ten or
more other prospective hardwood ar­tists
have been working out daily and
several are showing definite promise.
John Earle Atkinson, Junior Thomas,
Joe Yarbrough, Abb Chrietzberg,
Hamlin Tippins, Henderson Boddie,
Herndon McGehee, Junior Long, Fred
Hammock and others have been re­porting
and will add considerable re­serve
strength to the squad. This is
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JOURNALISM SOCIETY
TAPS NOTED EDITOR
New York City—(A.C.P.)—Doug­las
S. Freeman, editor of the Rich­mond
(Va.) News-Leader, has been
elected as a national honorary mem­ber
of Sigma Delta. Chi, professional
Journalistic fraternity, it has been
announced here by John E. Stempel,
national president of the organization
and a member of the staff of the New
York Sun. This -honor is extended
each year to one newspaperman out­standing
in his' field in recognition of
his contribution to journalism.
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At Least E i g h t College T i l t s Will P r o b a b l y Be P l a y e d In Alumni
G y m n a s i um This Season; Plainsmen To T a k e Extended
Road T r i p I n t o South C a r o l i n a A n d T e n n e s s e e In J a n u a ry
Auburn will be the scene of at
least eight basketball games accord­ing
to a tentative schedule as an­nounced
yesterday.
Outside of the practice games with
athletic club teams, the Plainsmen
will engage Ole Miss here in a two
game series on February 1 and 2.
Coupon 11 Be Used
For Basketball Tilt
According to the Athletic Depart­ment,
Coupon No. 11 will be admis­sion
for students to the Bevelle A. C.
-Auburn basketball game tonight. Ad­mission
for visitors wil be fifty cents.
Students are urged to have their
own ticket books ready to present at
the gym. Athletic books will be taken
up as in football season if^any per­son
other than the owner attempts to
use them. Students are also asked
not to sit on the east benches of the
gym floor.
the largest squad to report for local
basketball in a number of years.
No definite games have been sche­duled
as yet but Coach Fowler is
arranging games with the strongest
teams of the section. LaGrange, Co­lumbus,
Wetumpka, Alex City, and
other outstanding quintets loom as
possible opponents for the Auburn
team.
Florida will follow the Mississippians
here when they tangle with the Tigers
on February 8 and 9. On February
14 Vanderbilt will be here for a lone
game. Sewanee will furnish the Ti­gers
with plenty of opposition in a
two game series here on February 14
and 15.
After the home stand the Bengal
quint will take a long road jaunt
through Tennessee and South Caro­lina.
Also several games will proba­bly
be played with Georgia and Geor­gia
Tech. One tilt with Georgia Tech
will probably be scheduled to be play­ed
here.
On the road trip tne' Jordanmen
will meet South Carolina on January
8 and 9. The dates for the Univer­sity
of Chattanooga and University of
Tennessee games have not been defi­nitely
settled.
The present schedule indicates that
Auburn will meet seven Southeastern
Conference teams in about twelve or
fourteen games before the annual
tournament in Atlanta. Quite a num­ber
more games will be played 'here
than were last year. In playing Flor­ida,
Vandy, Tech, and Tennessee the
Plainsmen will meet several of the'
contenders for the conference diadem.
Current prospects point toward Au­burn
being at among the top-notch
fives and wins in many of these tilts
are expected.
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F A G E F O U R THE A U B U R N P L A I N S M A N - . - A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U T E SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15. 1934
Majors Abolished By
Faculty At Wesleyan
Delaware, 0.— (A.C.P.)— The se­lection
of a major course of study will
no longer be a requirement for grad­uation
from Ohio Wesleyan Univer­sity,
according to a unanimous vote
of the faculty on what Dean Harold
J. Sheridan calls "the only plan of
its kind in American colleges".
Under the innovation each student
will be allowed to decide at the out­set
of his junior year whether he
wants to follow a major field of
study. Those not registered as majors
will be classified as general program
students and will be under a special
committee responsible for their work.
"Each of these students will have
as a special adviser a member of this
committee and his program of studies
must be approved by that adviser,"
the new provision in the. university
catalogue will read.
The plan will aid those students
who find they have chosen the wrong
major, Dean Sheridan explained. The
faculty, he added, believes that more
students, both those taking majors
and thos^ following the general
course will benefit.
A maximum of 32 and a minimum
of 20 hours will be required of each
major if he maintains a one-point
average. Any student may be requir­ed
to drop the major whenever his
work is not satisfactory, according to
the faculty vote.
"This is the only plan of its kind
in American calleges so far as I know.
Every college has a number of stu­dents
who are able to profit by a
college education but who are not do­ing
entirely satisfactory work," the
dean commented.
"The presence of these students in
major groups makes it difficult for
TWO TEAMS TIE
FOR AWARDS IN
A.P.E. TOURNEY
-:- T O D A Y -:-
Friday, Dec. 14
"Student Tour"
-:- Saturday, Dec. 15 -:-
REX BELL in
• "The Man From
Arizona"
- : - Owl Show, 10 P. M. -:-
"Fugitive Lady"
- : - Monday, Dec. 17 -:-
"Cleopatra"
- : - Tuesday, Dec. 18 -:-
"I Am A Thief"
with
Ricardo Cortez and Mary
Astor t
-:- COMING -:-
"The Captain Hates
The Sea"
(Continued from Page 1)
same question four times—two times
on the affirmative and two on the
negative. Three judges were present
at each debate, making it possible for
a team to receive a maximum of
twelve votes. The decisions of the
judges were sealed after each debate
and were not opened until last night
when all votes were counted.
According to Prof. E. D. Hess, de­bate
coach, more interest has been
shown in the tournament this year
than in any other tournament of pre­vious
years and that as a result of
the practice gained by the contest this
year Auburn will be represented by
a powerful team in the inter-collegiate
debates, which will begin in the near
future.
Members of the other four teams in
the tournament were Bill Emery and
Herman Harris, S. B. Kitching and
R. C. Boles, Clyde Warren and J. E.
DeVaughn, and Helen Tigner and De-
Aubry McCollough, the last team be­ing
composed of two girls.
PROF. CROW TALKS AT
DELTA SIGMA PI MEET
(Continued from Page 1)
the City Schools at Lanett has been
invited to lead the next round-table
meeting. His subject will be "Quali­ties
Necessary for a Successful Bus-the
departments to maintain high
standards and the departments would
have a distinct advantage in being re­lieved
of these students. Such cases
will be shifted to the general program
committee.
"The committee to be in charge of
the general program students will re­quire
that their schedules be well-balanced
and that the programs of
study be integrated, making up in
breadth and organization of work the
lack of specialization and independent
study."
Tiger Theatre
AUBURN, ALABAMA
"The Showplace of East
Alabama"
SATURDAY, December 15
"ONE EXCITING
ADVENTURE"
With Binnie Barnes, Paul Cav-anaugh,
and Eugene Pallette
Cartoon: "Jungle Jitters" and
Comedy "Prise Sap"
SUNDAY and MONDAY
December 16 and 17
"MRS. WIGGS OF THE
CABBAGE PATCH"
With Pauline Lord, W. C.
Fields, Zasu Pitts, Evelyn
Venable, and Kent Taylor
Added: "Taking Care of Baby"
and Charlie Chase in "You
Said a Hatful"
TUESDAY, December 18 .
"THE GAY BRIDE"
With Carole Lombard and
Chester Morris, Zasu Pitts,
' Leo Carillo, Nat Pendleton,
and Sam Hardy
Comedy "Contented Calves"
and Latest News Events of the
World.
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Just bring your trunks, baggage and per­sonal
belongings to this Railway Express office
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home on fast passenger trains (in most cities and
towns we deliver right to the door). You can
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Twenty-Five Chosen
To Keys Fraternity
At a meeting last night Keys, in-terfraternity
social organization,
elected twenty-five students to mem­bership
in the society.
The meeting, which was held at the
Lambda Chi Alpha house, was the
semi-final one to be held before the
Christmas holidays. The society will
meet again next Tuesday night at
eight o'clock at the Lambda Chi
house. The men will probably be
formally pledged at this time. Names
of the neophytes will not be disclosed
until the Keys dance, which will be
given during the mid-term dance se­ries.
The public tapping ceremonies
will be held at that time.
At the next meeting initiation of
the newly elects will be discussed. It
is planned to hold the initiation im­mediately
after the holidays.
Plans for the mid-term Keys dance
and the banquet to be held at the
Clement Hotel in Opelika are under­way
and final arrangements for these
two affairs will be announced later.
SOPHOMORES WILL
START FIRST TILT
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monogram in 1933.
George Quinney, spark.plug of last
year's attack, will probably be on the
sidelines when the game starts since
Jordan wants to get a slant on the
new crop of men out for the court
team this year. However, Quinney
will see considerable action before the
game is over. He is a fast and cool
forward w\th a good eye for the
hoops. The varsity combination
might find Barnes teamed with Quin­ney.
This sharp shooter is also a
letterman and should enjoy a good
year on the hardwood.
The Alex City quint is expected to
furnish the Plainsmen with plenty of
tough competition. Composed of tall,
fast and veteran players the Bevelle
Athletic Club team is one of the best
amateur fives in this section of the
state. Last year they met the Au­burn
freshman cage team in a fast
setto and emerged victorious.
Tomorrow night at 7:30 the Tigers
will encounter a team from the 29th
Infantry of Fort Benning. The sol­diers
handed the Tigers a surprise
lacing last year and another good
battle is expected tonight.
Patronize Plainsman Advertisers.
WILLIAMS COLLEGE
PRESIDENT DECRIES
FERA STUDENT AID
Dennet Says Practice Of Giving
Federal Aid To Students Is
'Little Less Than Deplorable'
Williamstown, iMa^s.— (A.C.P.)—
Characterizing the current practice
of the federal government in giving
aid to every needy student as "little
less than deplorable," Dr. Tyler Den­net,
president of Williams College,
has refused FERA aid for students
attending the institution which he
heads.
Dr. Dennett's chief objection to the
FERA was that it would, in his opin­ion,
eventually be harmful to the col­lege
by placing it in a position of
dependence upon the government and
that it would inflate the anuual bud­get
of college finances, a budget, "that
on the whole should be readjusted to
existing conditions."
"I find it also difficult to square the
plan with a very definite impression
that there is in this country at the
present time a larger proportion of
college trained men than can be ab­sorbed
in the channels of the profes­sions.
It would probably be a con­siderable
aid to college education in
the country if the total college en­rollment
was reduced. The effect of
that would be that only the superior
men needing aid would reach college
and for them there is certainly avail­able
in a great many colleges such as
Williams sufficient funds in the form
of scholarships, the income of which
is derived from private donations and
endowments. In short, what appears
to be needed is not more college grad­uates
but fewer and better ones.
"The FERA aid to college students
appears to rest upon the assumption
that every student not in college and
in financial need is worthy of federal
aid. The assumption appears to be
unwarranted by the facts. Many stu­dents
now enrolled in college may be
tolerated so long as they maintain
certain minimum standards of schol­arship
and deportment, but to be wor­thy
of the exceptional status of re­ceiving
aid from the government of
the United States they should be re­quired
to meet exceptionally high
standards such as the FERA does not
require and cannot. Williams Col­lege
has ample funds to take care of
the exceptional student no one of
whom would be permitted to with-
Frats At California
Keep Plebes In Hand
Los Angeles, Calif.—(A.C.P. )—
"Necessity is the mother of inven­tion"
runs an old adage, and when
Greek letter fraternities at the Uni­versity
of Southern California recent­ly
were banned from paddling their
pledges by an edict made by Pres.
Rufus B. von KleinSmid they were
forced to uncover an alternative
method to keep their neophytes in
hand—and find it they did.
Discarding their guiding motto
"spare the rod and spoil the child"—
another good old adage—the U. S. C.
fraternities through concerted action
taken by the interfraternity council
have adopted a "fool-proof" merit
system that bids fair to instill respect
and decorum in the hearts of the low­ly
freshman pledges,
s Under the new system now in op­eration
on the Trojan campus, a
pledge starts out his fraternity ca­reer
with a clean slate. For per­forming
his assigned duties in the
proper manner he may earn merits,
but if he should stray from the
straight and narrow path he is the
recipient of demerits which can only
be removed by doing additional work.
If penalties of work fail to remedy
a pledge's conduct, he is placed on
probation, and if this fails he is ex­pelled
from the group and is denied
the right to pledge another U. S. C.
fraternity during his college days.
CONTEST WILL BE HELD
TO CHOOSE "MISS AU­BURN"
NEXT MONDAY
draw from college for financial reas-
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burn" sometime after Christmas.
Last year Miss Julia Pace, winner of
the contest, appeared o nthe stage of
the Tiger Theatre as a feature of the
amateur night program.
Klein stated that work on the year­book
is progressing at a rapid pace
and much copy has already been sent
to Benson Brothers, printers, who
have the printing contract.
A call for snapshots depicting cam­pus
life has been issued by the Glom-erata
heads. Plans for the book call
for a large and representative snap-shop
section and an extended effort
is being made to obtain as many pho­tos
of campus scenes and students as
posisble.
. Let Plainsman ads help suggest
appropriate Christmas gifts.
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