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Semi-Weekly Plainsman Wednesday Issue ®h£ Auburn Platusmau It's Getting Fair And Warmer TO FOSTER THE AUBURN S P I R IT VOLUME LIX AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1936 NUMBER 33 TIGERS DEFEAT SEWANEE TWICE IN GAMES HERE Fast Stepping Auburn Quintet Downs Sewanee In Two-Tilt Series During First Of Week Auburn From The Air On A Sunday Afternoon PLAY STEADY GAME Plainsmen Will Engage Southern In Alumni Gymnasium; Only Two G a m e s Remaining By EUGENE LEE The fast stepping Tiger quintet has added three more victims to their win . column since the thrilling victory over Georgia Tech last week. A crack team from Fort Benning, Georgia, was defeated Saturday night in Alumni Gym, and the Plainsmen whipped Sewanee Monday and Tuesday nights to sw.eep the four game series with the Tennessee Tigers. In last night's game Auburn found Sewanee offering far more opposition than they had to contend with in Monday night's game. Several times in the early stage of the game, the Plainsmen worked the ball down to their goal but failed to score due to the close guarding of the Sewanee five. Sewanee was the first to break ice. Mitchell scored with a long one from back of the foul circle. Eaves' made a free throw good, and McKissick placr ed one through the hoop from directly under the goal to give Auburn a lead that was held throughout the game. The Sewanee sharp-shooters got busy near the middle of the first period and came within two points of tying Auburn's 17 to 15 lead, but Buddy Crew and Andrew Curlee, two of the Tiger's fast working sophomores, teamed up to pull away from Sewanee* at the end.of the period. Crew sank a free throw, and Curlee followed with two goals from under the basket to place Auburn ahead with a 23 to 15 score at the half. Auburn managed to finish the game with only a two point addition to this lead during the last half. The game ended with the Tigers holding a ten point margin from a 41 to 31 victory. Both teams fought hard during this half. Nearly the same margin was maintained throughout the half. Crew, McKissick, Mitchell, Eaves, Curlee, and Rodgers saw service in this game. Mitchell was high scorer with 13 points. Crew and Curlee followed with 10 and 7 respectively. Auburn won an easy victory over Sewanee in the game Monday night. Every member of the squad saw service in helping the Tigers down the University of the South 42 to 18. The Tigers held the lead throughout the game and ran up the largest margin of the year. McKissick, Crew,- and Mitchell led the scorers. Others to play were Eaves, Curlee, Barnes, Black, Bottoms, Morland, Wood, Rodgers and Hamm. The Plainsmen engage Birmingham- (Continued on page 4) Two Games Scheduled For Local High Team The Auburn high school basketball team will meet two formidable opposing teams this week in Reeltown and Wetumpka. The game with the Reel-town team will be played tonight in the girls gym at 7:00, and the game with the Wetumpka team will be played in Wetumpka Friday night. In a previous game with Reeltown, the Auburn boys were the losers by a six point margin. Tonight, the locals are planning to even up the score in games won. The game Friday night with Wetumpka is the first one of the current season to be played between the two schools. Last Thursday night, the high school cagers affectively bottled up a strong Lanett quintet, and won the game by a score-of 16 to 10. The locals played such a strong defensive game throughout that the Lanett team succeeded in making only one field goal. John and Charlie Ham were high scorers of the game for Auburn. WELLBEING OF AUBURN IS AT STAKE DUNCAN REPORT INFORMS TRUSTEES TODAY FACTS From all appearances it would seem that the above picture was taken sometime during a Sunday when students are either in bed or in the picture show. At any rate, there can be no doubt that the above is a perfect picture of the peace and quietness that is only too common to Auburn. The picture was taken recently by the Photo Section of the Air Corps, Maxwell Field, in Montgomery. FOURTH STRAIGHT BASKETBALL GAME WON BY FRESHMEN Frosh Basketballers Show Excellent Form In Trouncing Both Lanett And Selma High Auburn's freshman cagers rolled up their fourth straight win last night by beating the heretofore undefeated Selma high school five, 44-20. Selma had previously beaten the State champions of last year, Tuscaloosa, twice by sizeable margins and had won 17 straight high school games. Theron Karge, Auburn's lanky center, grabbed the scoring spotlight with six field goals for a total of 12 points. He was followed by Holmes with seven markers. Bryant scored seven points to lead Selma. The Tigers lost no time in asserting their superiority. With Karge, Holmes, and O'Reilly all shooting accurately, Auburn piled up a 9-5 lead at the first period and was coasting along at halftime, 21-7. The third quarter was opened with a basket by Roueche, followed by a basket and a freethrow by Childress. Dudley sank a freethrow, followed by a basket to end the scoring for that period, Auburn leading, 31-13. The last stanza saw Karge cut loose with three baskets, Edwards, Streetman, and Dudley each sinking one apiece. Tommy Edwards came through with a timely basket in the last two seconds of play to give the Auburn rats a 40-39 victory over Lanett Athletic Club last Monday night. The game was the closest of the season, the outcome never certain until the final gun. Lanett got off to a 3-0 lead but it was soon knotted at 8 all. At the half the score stood 17- 17, mainly by the shooting of Bill Dudley who sank three baskets in the opening half. In the second half Lanett gradually grew away to a small lead but it was narrowed down with the able assistance of Holmes. With two minutes left to play the score stood Auburn 36, Lanett 39, but O'Reilly and Edwards sank two timely goals to give Auburn a 40-39 victory. Holmes scored ten points to take scoring honors. He was pressed for the honor by Dudley, who accounted for eight points, and O'Reilly, who gathered six tallies. Auburn has a return engagement with Lanett at Lanett Wednesday night. CLEMSON MEET IS FIRST ENCOUNTER OF LOCAL BOXERS Newly Organized Boxing Team Will Match Skill Against Clemson In Bouts On Friday The first boxing team to ever represent Auburn against a collegiate opponent will depart from the Plains Friday morning for a match with Clemson College. Eight Tiger leather slingers, under the direction of Coach Dell Morgan, are scheduled to tie up with the boxers of the Southern Conference Tigers of Clemson College on Friday night. Representing Auburn in this match are Raymond Callaway, heavy; Travis Vernon, light heavy; William Whitehead, 165 pound class; Everett Owens, 155 pound class; Vaughn Terry, 145 pounder; John Adams, 135 class, and Frank Triolo, 125 division. Cecil Cothran will make the trip and will fight if Coach Morgan is successful in finding a flyweight opponent for him. The squad has gone through two months of conditioning and will enter the match in fair shape. All lack experience and this disadvantage will dispel all hopes of obtaining a victory over the more experienced Clemson team. The Clemson boxing teams have always been a power in the Southern Conference. Although this wjll be the only match the team will engage in this year, the members will continue practice upon their return to the campus. Coach Morgan desires that the ones who do not make the trip also continue the practice. The athletic department purchased equipment for the team this fall with the view of adding boxing permanently as one of the sporting divisions of the department. Coach Morgan will continue to devote as much of his time as possible to the development of the team. Publications Group Will Meet On Monday The Publications Committee, composed by P. O. Davis, Doug Wallace, Herman Harris, Alton Graves, and Blake Campbell, will meet next Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock to determine the eligibility rules for candidates in the coming spring elections for publication offices. A number of candidates will run for offices in spring. Military Ball Program 10:00—First no-break. 10:15—Second no-break. 10:30—Scabbard and Blade lead-out. 10:45—Third no-break. 11:00—Grand March. 11:30 to 12:00—Intermission. 12:15—Fourth no-break. 12:30—Engineer lead-out. 12:45—Artillery lead-out. 1:00—Fifth no-break. 1:15—Sixth no-break. Final Plans Made By Local Glee Club For Extended Tour Soon Arrangements for the annual tour of the Auburn Glee Club have been completed, news from the business staff of the group disclosed. The tour will be taken the week of March 2 and concerts are to be given in six South Alabama cities, including Huntingdon College, Montgomery; Brewton, Fairhope, Mobile, Atmore, and Greenville. Thirty selected members of the club will leave Monday morning by bus for Montgomery where the first concert will be presented at Huntingdon College. Tuesday night the group will sing in Brewton and the following night in Fairhope. At Mobile the Azalea Trail Commission of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the organization's appearance. A special program will be featured in the Battle House with a dance following. The Auburn Knights will furnish the music. Friday night At- (Continued on page 4) Assistance Will Be Given Veterans Here SCHOOL FINANCES FORM MAJOR ITEM FACING ASSEMBLY Special Session Of Legislature - Called By Governor To Raise Revenue For Coming Year Interesting Facts Deduced In City After Heavy Rains During Past Month Believe it or not! Approximately 1,364,160 tons of water in the form of rain fell within the city limits of Auburn during the past month of January. This figure is easily arrived at when it is known that each inch of rainfall on level ground equals a little better than 101 tons per acre, and there are 1,120 acres in Auburn. Exactly 12.06 inches of rainfall were recorded dur- | ing the month. Further facts deduced from this same figure prove exceedingly interesting. For instance, it was found that the total rainfall for the month equalled 327,500,000 gallons of water which would be sufficient 'to provide the needs of the city for one year and two months. Each person consumes on an average of 150 gallons of water per day. Including students, the population of Auburn may be conservatively estimated at 5,000. If all this water were put in tanks the size of the one recently constructed here (200,000 gals.), it would take 1,638 such tanks. A gallon of water equals a fraction more than 62 cubic feet, which is about the same as saying that the January rainfall here equalled about 4,400,500 cubic feet. In other words, if all this water were put in a container one foot square, it would reach more than four million feet-in the air, or approximately 850 miles, or almost the distance between Auburn and Chicago. Members Of Auburn Board Of Trustees Meet This Morning In Governor Graves' Office FINANCES ARE STRESSED Duncan Cites Great Increase In Enrollment; Shows Teachers Not Being Paid For Services Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of news articles concerning the Alabama Legislature now in session. It is expected that many of the bills passed by the body will have a direct bearing on Auburn as well as other similar State institutions. Assistance will be given World War veterans in making applications for bonds by the local John H. Wills Post of the American Legion, it was announced by Prof. A. D. Burke, post commander. In addition, Postmaster Homer Wright states that he also will be glad to help veterans in filling out their applications. Those rendering this service for the Legion are Anderson Blackburn, who may'be found at the Tiger Motor Company and Sgt. S. Fitzpatrick at the Military Office in Samford Hall. Professor Burke stated that the assistance would be given the veterans without charge. By THE EDITOR The present critical financial situation now being faced by the State's educational institutions will be one of the major items for consideration for the special session of the legislature which officially opened shortly before noon yesterday. The primary purpose, of course, of the special session as called by Gov. Graves is to raise the necessary operating revenue for the State. It is conservatively estimated that upward of $10,000,000 will be needed for the next fiscal year in which education is expected to fight for' its due share of the revenue. R presentative Shell Toomer, from Lee County, in an interview Monday, made it definitely clear that he will not under any circumstances vote for any revenue raising bill unless parity for education is established through a constitutional amendment beforehand. An increased State revenue would be of little benefit to the schools, he said, unless education was first put on an equal footing with the other State institutions. Yesterday a proposed constitutional amendment was introduced by Representative Douglass, of Jefferson County, to place education on a parity with all other government functions. This measure has been endorsed by organized education in the State. . A second bill, introduced by Senator Hayse, of Tuscaloosa, provided for a constitutional amendment which would put education on a "preferred" list for State funds. Should this parity bill pass both houses of the legislature, it will then be submitted to a vote of the people as an amendment to the State Constitution. Toomer was confident that the people of the state would favor the amendment by a large ma- (Continued on page 4) Polo Practices Are Now Being Held For Approaching Season Under the direction of Captain W. J. Klepinger, Auburn's varsity polo team will complete its third week of practice this week. The squad has been working out daily but has confined its activities thus far to the preliminary work of training • the ponies and to mallet swinging sessions in the practice cages, two of which have been completed only recently. Scrimmages will probably begin about the first of March, after which a more definite idea of the men who are to compose the team will be had by Capt. Klepinger and his assistant, Capt. McKinnon. At present the squad is divided into two units, the "A" squad being composed of more experienced players. The men composing this squad are: Ivey, Bacon, Brawner, Burson, Chandler, Chapman, Piccione, Clark, Dexter, Hardie, Hicks, Milam, J. O. Rush, Wesley, Worsham, Walter, Johnson, and J. M. Childers. H. G. Kitchens (Continued on page 4) Literature Class To Have Lecture Series (Special to the Plainsman) The board of trustees of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at a meeting in the office of Governor Graves Wednesday morning, were informed by President L. N. Duncan that Auburn is operating this year with 23 per cent more students than were enrolled last year and, on the other hand, with a substantial reduction in funds. Doctor Duncan said that enrollment for all of the 1934-35 session was 1,912 against 2,332 to date this season, with .a few more to enroll before the final date for registration, February 15. £ince 1932-33 Auburn's enrollment has increased 35 per cent. "While more students require more classrooms, more laboratory equipment and supplies, and more instructors our funds have declined substantially from a year ago," Dr. Duncan commented. "We have paid to date this session 60 per cent of our reduced salaries; and we can't expect to pay more than this unless more state funds become available. At present we are expecting only 26.43 per cent of our state appropriations but hoping that the legislature now in session will give us relief. With the help of student fees and federal funds, we have paid to date 60 per cent of- our salaries due, but we don't know how long this can continue." Dr. Duncan reported that Auburn has enrolled this year 870 freshmen. Previously only two freshman classes at Auburn exceeded 600. The school of agriculture now has more than twice as many students as were enrolled a year ago. This is due to d big increase in the freshman class, the total of which in agriculture is 109. The total in agriculture last (Continued on page 4) Riflemen Begin Year With Postal Matches Beginning with the first lecture last night, the class in current literature is sponsoring a series of lectures on various phases of literature by different members of the faculty. The series will continue for an indefinite number of weeks and will be held each Tuesday night at 7 o'clock in Sam-ford Hall. Prof. J. R. Rutland will speak next Tuesday on a few of the outstanding American poets to be followed in succeeding weeks with talks by E. C. Blackshear on Current Drama; H. W. Adams on Current Biography; and Dr. C. P. Weaver on the Novel and Short Story. Other speakers will be added to the list as the series progresses. The public is invited to these lec- Officially opening their season the Auburn Rifle Team last week fired six postal matches, winning two and losing four. The team is rapidly rounding into form, and it is expected that within a short period the squad will be in good form to win the greater majority of matches fired. The ten men composing the team shot a total score in all four positions of 3,596, the five highest making a score of 1,821. Returns from the schools matched last week by the local riflemen include: Western Md., 3,552; Georgia, 3,645; V. M. I., 3,611; University of West Virginia, 3,497; Penn. State University, 1,866; and University of Wyoming, 3,643. The high scorers for the week in the order named are: J. L. Callaway, 370; M. L. Hardeman, 365; N. G. Bradford, 361; E. Tomlinson, 359; W. W. Brunson, 357; A. A. Rich, 356; E. A. Wright, 356; J. Triolo, 353; and J. Robbins, 353. The only perfect score of 100 was made by Strickland in the sitting position. The following men have been selected to fire next week in the Fourth Corps Area Championship match: Booth, Bradford, Brunson, Callaway, Dexter, Hardeman, Lee, Panell, Rich, Robbins, Shwarts, Strickland, Swen-son, Tomlinson, Wells, E. A. Wright, McKenzie, Wilkes, Moyer, and Ellis. The above are requested to report to the range for special practice at 7 o'clock tomorrow night. NOTICE ! Members of O. D. K. are requested to be present at a meeting of the or-tures, and college credit will be given | ganization Thursday evening at 8 to students taking the course. o'clock in Samford Hall. P A G E TWO T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1936 gjg Auburn glatoman Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates, $2.50 per year (58 issues), $1.50 per semester (29 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Alabama. Business and editorial offices at Auburn Printing Company, on West Magnolia Ave. Editor may be reached after office hours by calling 298. Doug Wallace Herman L. Harris Editor-in-Chief .Business Manager 1935 . Member 1936 pLssociated Golle6iate Press Distributor of CoUe6'tate Dl6est EDITORIAL STAFF News Editors: Alvin Morland and Bobby Chesnutt. Sports Editor: Eugene Lee. Sports Assistants: Jack Todd, Bill Troup and Gerald Bilbro. Society Editor: Luella Botsford. Assistant Society Editors: Kay Sibert and Jeanette Sawyer. ' Contributors: Lee Balch and Floyd Barnard. Reporters: Edwin Godbold, Jack Steppe, Bob Johnston, Jack Morton, Lewis Thomas, James Buntin, Max Welden, and Howard Strong. Commentator Extraordinary: Hugh Cameron. BUSINESS STAFF Assistant Business Manager: Jim Pike. Advertising Managers: Billy Radney, Buck Darden. Advertising Assistant: Clarence Pruet. Circulation Manager: George Perry. . Assistant Circulation Manager: Alvin Vogtle. Circulation Assistants: Jack Carr, Har-ey Sargent, Sam Teague, George Weaver. Business Manager's Office Hours: 3-4 Monday through Friday. Sad State Of Affairs It has always appeared as a right peculiar fact that the Plainsman is published from week to week through the efforts of but a small handful of students. In fact, at times it is quite astounding that the paper comes off the press as often as it does. It is possible only through the efforts of a few students who are not afraid of a little exrta work. They are to be commended. Their only compensation is what joy they might realize through the actual writing and the experience they are getting at the same time. In spite of this, the Plainsman could use many more writers. Not every student has the ability to write or even so much as the desire. There is a course being offered at present in advanced writing which includes a number of students who are fairly good writers, yet this class contributes absolutely nothing to the college paper. It seems to us that this represents a rather sad state of affairs. A little investigation was conducted just out? of pure curiosity, and the reason this class was little heard of was only too apparent. Although the subjects upon which the students were to write were not specifically defined, they ran something on the order of: Your most exciting experience, or something that impressed you very much. This is nothing more than high school or even grammar school tripe and naturally is not suited for publication. It would be every bit as helpful in learning to write and infinitely more interesting for the students if they were given the opportunity to write on subjects of a general interest to the student body which could be published in this paper. There is a wealth of material on the campus which is unquestionably beyond the scope of the Plainsman staff to exploit. The class in advanced writing could much to their benefit write on these subjects and thus not only aid themselves but their student paper as well. Generally speaking, the class is confined mostly to learning how to write for magazine publication, yet their efforts are never heard of ,or even mentioned. The Plainsman offers a wonderful opportunity to these writers to experience the thrill in writing for publication. Their efforts would be amply rewarded. Honor At Chapel Hill Brought to light at the University of North Carolina recently was one of the smoothest cheating systems that has probably eve/ existed in any American college or university. Following days of investigation behind closed doors, 98 cases were presented before the student governing body with the result that 48 students were suspended from school. An interesting aspect was thrown on the doings when one of the victims retaliated by charging several members of the student council, including the president, with cheating. Later the charges were withdrawn, only to be followed with a statement by the council president admitting that he cheated in French during his freshman year. Well aware that freshman cheating is not ordinarily cause for suspension, he asked that he be made an exception. He was suspended by a unanimous vote of the council. The situation at Chapel Hill is not an exceptional one, nor is-it one for any great concern. The organization got beyond control, as such things will, which depend for their existence almost wholly upon secrecy among those involved. Behind the Tar Heel affair was one exceedingly clever at the game who saw the possibilities of putting cheating on an organized basis for personal profit. There is no getting around the fact that such a system as was in effect at Chapel Hill is bound to come out into the light before long. The man behind the scenes might be clever enough to evade detection, but as a rule his clients are not so clever and spill the beans sooner or later. There is probably no institution of learning in the country that can truly boast of a perfect honor system. The best any college can do is discourage the practice as much as possible by dealing effectively with those caught with the goods. Any student with a quick eye can detect cheating during examinations. In many cases it doesn't even require a quick eye. It is as evident as the nose on one's face. Cheating is a difficult situation for any college to combat In the first place, not one student out of several hundred will report another student for cheating for various reasons. He feels that it is none of his business, and because he has prob%bly cheated once or twice himself he doesn't have any ax to grind. Any professor knows he is getting into hot water when he accuses a student of cheating. It is much, simpler rather to reprimand the student on the spot and then let the matter drop, hoping that the student will refrain from cheating in the future. And once accused, unless there is plenty of good evidence handy, the average student will swear on a stack of Bibles of any other form of literature that he did not cheat but was simply resting his eyes by looking out the window or doing something else just as plausible. The incident at Chapel Hill only goes to prove that cheating on an organized basis cannot long endure. Cheating on a petty basis which exists at all colleges will probably never be completely curbed. But once let it become organized into a system, and the whole thing will be swept away like cobwebs from the old barn rafters. Study In Comparisons Nothing so clearly shows the sorry condition of Alabama's school finances as do the figures recently published by the Montgomery Parent-Teacher Council. Both those who claim the schools are extravagant and those who claim a few minor reorganization measures in state government would provide sufficient funds should study those fig-ures carefully. • *' The school. system of Montgomery has always been looked upon as one of the better systems of the state. In fact, Montgomery has often pointed with pride to its excellent school system. The buildings and equipment in Montgomery are positively luxurious compared with those in some Alabama schools. Yet, in spite of Montgomery's supremacy in Alabama, her school system is proverty stricken wheh compared with that of cities of the nation having an equal number of school children. With nearly 16,000- students, Montgomery schools, operate on $381,- 000 per year. East St. Louis, 111., with slightly fewer students, spends more than one million, or three times as much, per year. Austin, Texas, with nearly 2,000 fewer children, spends well more than a half million dollars. Roanoke, Va., with a thousand fewer students spends $635,000, or nearly twice as much. Lowell, Mass., with 500 fewer students, spends on her schools $1,125,000, or three times as much as Montgomery demands. Topeka, Kan., another state capital, has approximately the same number of school children, but requires 30 more teachers and spends almost a million dollars. Wheeling, W. Va., has 2,000 fewer students than does Montgomery; yet Wheeling has 502 teachers as compared to Montgomery's 344, and spends nearly a million dollars per year. Almost all of the school systems listed in the study, though their total enrollment is below Montgomery's, employ more teachers than does our capital. Conditions in Montgomery are indicative of those in other parts of the state. Schools are poverty stricken and crowded as compared with those in most other states. Alabama cannot hope to compete with other states in agriculture, industry, culture, as long as these conditions exist. We are almost at the bottom now in wealth per capita; if our education is allowed to continue poverty stricken, we will stay near the bottom. No investment would pay such satisfactory dividends as more money for Alabama schools. While she is near the bottom in per capita wealth, this state has the largest percentage of children of school age of any state. That means, if satisfactory schools are to be maintained, Alabama must sacrifice more than does the average state to raise sufficient revenue. Many states much better off than Alabama have resorted to the sales tax to get school revenue. Why does Alabama hesitate? Bull Session Passes Recently there was printed on this page an editorial on the passing of the famed college bull session. It is true, the bull session has practically disappeared from college life. No more do students gather at night and discuss "wimmin," politics, or generally pass the time in affable conversation. What has taken the place of the bull session? Surely; it can't be that students now are burdened with too much school work to allow for a few hours off in the evening? No, that can't be the case, and neither can it be said that students have resolved to study more and make higher grades. Probably just as many or more flunk today as did in the days of the full session up in Joe's room. The Plainsman is of the opinion that the common subjects of the bull session have been replaced in many instances by a discussion of^whether duces and aces should be wild or just duces, or a discussion on how much will pass hands when the dice unexpectedly total seven. It seems that most students have passed up the bull session for something more exciting, say a fast crap game or a few hours with the cards. This Collegiate World (By Associated Collegiate Press) Two excellent pieces of journalism got into the college press this last week. One was an interview by Samuel Mintz, University of Wisconsin, with the late Huey Long and the other was an accidental interview with a boy just off a chain gang, by a reporter for the Princeton paper. * * * * Mintz' story gave an idea of Long's tremendous bustling, hectic, overflowing energy. Excerpt: A door flew open, Huey's head popped out. A "come on in, boy!" went rumbling down the hall. "I'm a college student." I got no further. "I know all about colleges. I run one." "What do you think should be taught in college?" "Arithmetic. That's all. Plain and simple arithmetic. You've got to show the boys that there's something wrong in nine hundred and ninety-nine hawgs being fed on one portion of hawg feed and one hawg being fed on nine hundred and ninety-nine portions of hawg feed. "What you've got to do, boy, is read." He jumped out of his chair, almost overturning his desk. He elbowed a very pretty secretary out of the way. "I'll give you some real literature. Ever hear about the Share the Wealth idea?" Suddenly he left me. He ran into an adjoining room. I turned to go. "Where are you going?" Mr. Long was back. "Did you say you were a college student?" "Well, listen to me: Don't you grow into a college professor and become a brain-truster. Do you hear?" * * * * The Princetonian interview demonstrated that slave-driving conditions still exist in the southern chain-gang. "All a fellow had to do was even look cock-eyed at a guard and he'd get the lash," said the interviewee. "If you've ever had a lash with a piece of iron on the end come down on your back you'll know how it feels." Shackles, he said, were clamped on his legs and the rivets smashed with an iron hammer. * * * * Governor Martin L. Davey, of Ohio, has been rather tough on the state allotments of funds to Ohio State University. As a result, an old epigram is being passed about on the campus in this new form: "Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do to Davey." * * * * Progression a la undergraduate: Hesitation Trepidation Interrogation Information Investigation Confirmation Jubilation Graduation * * * * Do you follow? * * 1 One boy the principal couldn't lick. He's Robert Wadlow, 17 years old, who has just been graduated from high school in Alton, Illinois. He is going to enter college next fall to study law. We don't know for sure, but we imagine Robert is being deluged by offers from college basket-ball coaches right now. For Robert is 8 feet, 4 inches in height and weighs 390 pounds. AUBURN FOOTPRINTS At last the Laundry has disposed of the button-crusher machine. The new duplex machine, just installed, removes shirt-buttons and shoots them through socks in one operation. * * * . * * * * * * * One of the intelligentia frequently comes forth with a bright saying: "Little Audrey" Taylor asked Doner for a beat the next class. "Let's see," he mused, "A beat is a vegetable. It's either a beet or a turnip, and if I turnip it's not a beet, is it?" Little Audrey sat down. * * * * * * * * * * Small Child (to Sam Gibbons): "Hey, papa." Sam: "Say kid, when you call me that, SMILE!" * * * * * * * * * * Wingo was a chemist, But he ain't so any more. What he thought was H=0 Was HsSO.. • —Herman Laatsch. * * * * * * * * * * "Your methods of cultivation are entirely out-of-date," said Nettles Ivey. "Why, I'd be surprised if you got even ten pounds of apples from this tree." "So wud I," returned Farmer sBrown. "It's a pear tree." * * * * * * * * > * * "My head is getting cold," said Doner as he dismissed his five o'clock class. * * * * * * * * * * If all the girls at Montevallo were seated at one long table, they would undoubtedly reach. (Puny throw-back.) * * * * * * * * * * And didn't those little Montevallo lassies look just too sweet to start a debate. * * . * * * • * . * * * As long as Jarvis Brown wears a tux to Physics Lab.—we are not all farmers. * * * * * * * * * * Imagine a man with a tux on looking into the south end of a north-bound mule. * * * * * * * * * * In a small country town it happens that there is a church at each end of the town. The town paper printed the following notice: "There will be preaching at 11 o'clock in the church at North End, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon at the South End. Infants will be baptized at both ends." * * * * * * * * * * "I'll be frank with you," said Pat when the embrace was over, "you're not the first girl I've ever kissed." "And I'll be equally frank with you," she replied, "you've got a lot to learn." * * * * * * * * * * Why does Godbold always stick out his tongue in the most ungodly manner when drawing a sabre? * * * * * * * * * * ' Joe Purvis is now collecting a fund to aid the widow of the Unknown Soldier. * * * * * * * * * * The other morning as*I slept peacefully, dreaming of a nice quiet war somewhere, a series of echoing and.re-echoing explosions disturbed my calm. "Ye Gods!" thought I, dreaming, "This war is becoming too realistic; that last one sounded louder, too." Suddenly a gigantic explosion lifted me straight up into the air. As I came back to earth, and incidentally to my bed, now thoroughly awake, a figure darted across the room. Oh! Only my freshman closing the window. * * * * * * * * * * Did you ever stop to think what might have happened to American history if the British soldiers at Bunker Hill had had yellow jaundice? On Other Campuses — By The Wanderer Employing methods that would put government G-men to shame, a group of eight University of North Carolina students worked for six days gathering and checking evidence against a gigantic cheating ring existing in the college. Empowered by a search warrant, they entered the room of the suspected ringleader and discovered letters from students who had had correspondence courses done for them, papers in preparation, account books, and many other pieces of evidence. On examination they found that the evidence showed that many of their personal friends and many of the most important campus figures were involved. Unflinchingly they wdnt on with their labor and after days and nights of secret work in guarded rooms, turned the completed evidence over to the student council, to whom the administration of the honor system is left at North Carolina. Sitting in secret sessions, the council tried the involved students. To date, there have been 48 suspensions, 22 acquittals, and 31 cases in which the defendant was not in school. By using a pass key and with the help of a confederate in the mimeographing department, the leaders in the ring were able to secure copies of quizzes "and examinations before the date upon which they were to be given. These were sold to students, along with the answers. Students could purchase any quizzes to be given in the entire university, except those in chemistry, and in all cases could get answers worth A, B, C, or lower, by paying accordingly. Climaxing this series of#events, Jack Pool, president of th estudent body, reported to the council that he cheated on an examination during his freshman year and moved his indefinite suspension. He cast his own vote as the council unanimously suspended him. * * * * The New Rochelle Tatler tells of a freshman at Allegheny College who, on an intelligence examination, answered the question, "When do the leaves begin to turn?" with the statement: "The same night the midnight oil begins to burn—the night before Bobbie is still growing. Doctors think he may become the tallest man in recorded history. * * * * One would think Mr. Wadlow should be able to impress a jury. According to the Lehigh Brown and White, the University of Maryland has hired a trained nurse for its book store. Her job is to quote prices on text books, and then administer restoratives to the inquiring student. Fear of "classroom ballyhoo" and exercises in "exhibitionism" caused Harvard students to oppose a plan to adopt oral examinations in literature and history courses. * * * * 1 When you first saw this You probably thought It was a poem. 2 By this time you have Surely found out That it isn't. 3 Isn't it funny People will keep Right on reading when They know darn well They're being fooled? —^The Reveille. * * * * The Daily Tar Heel says that despite the fact that a University of Minnesota student failed in a course on "How to Study," he made a "B" average. * * * * A Colorado University student caught drinking is forced to attend Sunday School for three years. Yes, every Sunday. * * * * Not so long ago we cited in this column what we thought was a pretty good definition, but our all-time medal for definitions goes to the co-ed from a mid-western college who recently crashed through with this one: "A bolt is a thing like a stick of hard metal, such as iron, with a square bunch on one end and a lot of scratching wound around the other end. A nut is similar to a bolt, only just opposite, being a hole in a chunk of iron sawed off short with wrinkles around the inside of the hole." * * * * Students at the University of Kansas have petitioned to change beginning classes from 8:30 to 8 o'clock in the morning. A Daily Texan columnist suggests that someone write a letter "explaining to them exactly what they are getting into." Fraternities at the University of California at Los Angeles have gone on record as opposing the abolition of compulsory military training. Thunderations By Cum 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. * * * * TIMELY ending of the kid next door's prayer: "And if my feet get cold again tonight, Lawd, my nickle goes for candy next Sunday. * * * * These are the kinds of weather ice boxes just waste their time. But if you are cold just think of the earth worm. That ground outside is froze harder than a cross word puzzle . . . even fit to skate on, were one in the mood to skate on. Temperatures in the Dakotas read like 1930 stock quotations. Temperatures here read like Freshman English grades I used to make when I had to read "Paradise Lost." A dill pickle in the ice box is fortunate in comparison to we who take our noses and ears out to turn blue as the July sky.. * * * * In my estimation a polar bear is a white faced fool. * * * * Sitting writing on a frigid typewriter is neither fun when one has to wear top coat, hat, and mittens at 1:30 A. M. iA gas heater is good only for lighting cigarettes one shouldn't smoke because of the three cent tax for some politician to spend. The cold isn't minded so much when one can think that politicians, architects, and bridge players can also get cold. * * * * A bass fiddle is a swollen violin, and a, harp is when someone slaps the frame off the piano after intermission. * * * * Shep Fields, and his alleged band, are now playing at the Coconut Grove in L. A., and can be heard via KRI. The Coconut Grove, a California imitation of Miami's Roney Plaza's palm garden. Fields plays the same but better than Hal Kemp, who looks as if he is cold, too. Even looks that way in May. The local minister who advocates a hoss n' buggy for courtin' in preference to the automobile must remember the exhaust pipe of the auto is behind instead of in front of the scene of action. The hoss had his advantage in that one never much heard of a hoss trying to bodac-iously run over a freight train at a crossing. He didn't give a drun about stumps and hedges when he decided he wanted to run away, tho. * * * * Will my friend, the shoe salesman of the Sigma Nu House listen tomorrow night to Clyde Lucas on the Columbia chain so as we can have a decent orchestra down here for the final dances? The music tomorrow night won't be so awfully good because of the fact that the programme is most entirely made up of the new Irving Berlin tunes for the new Ginger Rogers show, "Follow the Fleet." Those tunes were introduced Sunday by Lombaro and even he couldn't make them sound like anything, but Lucas may get around to playing something else, and even his kid brother may sing his Chinese piece. That particular number would lay you Auburn students in the aisle. * * * # As for Irving Berlin and his new tunes: Until the time that he can hire better men to write his tunes for him he should go fishing with Hemingway . . . who con't write either. It is thought that Berlin hasn't written a tune since he did "What'll I Do," "Blue Skies," and the like. The remainder of the stuff sounds as if it were written by a bunch of twenty dollar a week office force. Sixty-two per cent of Simmons College school of English graduates are engaged in some one of the writing professions. Variations in short-wave radio signals form the basis of a new system of weather prediction. Twenty-one professors and other experts have issued a booklet condemning the Town-send Plan as a "delusion." SWEET AS HONEY THE ONE AND ONLY Starts Sweet Smokes Sweet Stays Sweet NOTHING ELSE HAS ITS FLAVOR Aim Imperial Yillo Boh $1.50 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1936 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C INSTITUTE PAGE THREE DRAKE SERVICES HELD SUNDAY AT HOME OF SISTER Dr. Richard Drake, Vet School Graduate And Former Resident Here, Dies In B'ham. Dr. Richard Drake, graduate of the Sqhool of Veterinary Medicine at Auburn and former resident here, died at his home in Birmingham Friday night. He was the son of Dr. J. Hodges Drake, college physician at Auburn for 50 years, and Mrs. Drake who resides in Auburn. Funeral services were conducted at the home of Mrs. Mary Drake Askew, sister of Dr. Drake, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial followed in the Auburn cemetery with J. W. Crossley, of Opelika, in charge. Dr. Drake was unmarried, and the only surviving relatives are Mrs. Drake, his mother, and Mrs. Askew, his sister. He was related to Jesse Drake, of Auburn, and the Samford family in Opelika. Marion Anderson Will Appear In Tuskegee Marion Anderson, negro contralto, will appear at Logan Hall at the Tuskegee Institute, Saturday, February 15. She was born in Philadelphia, made her debut with the Philadelphia Philharmonic Society, and later with the New York Philharmonic. For the past four years she has been touring Europe and was a phenomenal success in England, Russia, Italy, France, Germany, Scandinavia, and Russia. Negro spirituals and old English airs of Brahm and Schubert that comprise the classics of song literature of all times will be included upon her program. Under the management of S. Har-ak, Marion Anderson plans to make an extensive tour of this country during this season. LOST—One Brown Felt Hat. FOUND—One overcoat. Lopez Man-toux, Phone 259. SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES LUELLA BOTSFORD, Society Editor Draughon Is Speaker Before Woman's Club (JUL "Xka/rro J5L BURTON'S BOOKSTORE "Soniething New Every Day" Professor R. B. Draughan was the visiting speaker at the meeting of the Auburn Business and Professional Women's Club on February 5. The topic of discussion was the question of a sound neutrality policy for the United States. Interest in the problem, he said, has been created in recent years by the astonishing revelations concerning America's entry into the World War. The depression, re-armament by European countries, expansion of the Japanese into Asia, the German Nazi party, aijd German abrogation of the Versailles Treaty have intensified the interest of the American Public concerning an American policy of neutrality in the future. Professor Draughon, who is an "isolationist," believes that President Roosevelt opposed the Clark Resolutions because he favors the League of Nations. The resolutions would give the President no power to throw the support of this country to weaker nations when opposed by stronger ones. Preceding the address by Prof. Draughan, Prof. Ivey reviewed the work of the Auburn International Relations Club. Auburn Prexy Attends Mississippi Convention Dr. L. N. Duncan, President of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and Director of the State Extension Service, attended the 37th annual convention of Southern Agricultural workers in Jackson, Miss., during the week of February 3. Ten other extension workers also attended the meeting and several appeared on the program. Lecture On Christian Science Given Thursday Dr. John M. Tutt, member of Lectureship of the Mother Church of Scientist of Boston, was presented in Langdon Hall Thursday night by Mrs. L. N_ Duncan. Dr. Tutt's belief being based on this reasoning: first, God never made evil; second, that he knew it not, and third, that we need not fear. GUARANTEED RADIO REPAIRS Have your Radio repaired by an experienced radio service man. TONSOL RADIO TUBES Replacements Guaranteed 6 Months HUBERT STONE Tiger Drug Store Phone 200 Phone 222 • FLOYD PLACE FOR RENT On Opelika Street Large House and Garden Spot < Robert L. Burkes AGENT Phone 264 - - - Auburn, Ala. Come to the College Inn FOR THE CANDLE LIGHT HOUR 6:00 P. M. — FRIDAY, FEB. 14 — VALENTINE'S DAY TURKEY DINNER Also Baked, Stuffed Fish and Other Fresh Sea Foods A Special Planned Musical Program at The COLLEGE INN Announce Marriage Of Recent Graduate The announcement of the engagement of Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens Weeden to Lieut. Edward Warren Virgin, Air Corps, U. S. Army, is of wide social interest in Alabama. Lieut. Virgin is a graduate of Alabama Polytechnic Institute in the class of 1927, and member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. The ceremony will be performed at the home of the bride's parents in Aomeda, Calif., on February 12. The bride-elect is a member of the Junior League in Oakland, Calif., and is an alumnae of the University of California. After the marriage and a wedding trip, Lieut. Virgin and his bride will be at home at Hamilton Field, Calif., where he is stationed. The Students' Friend CLIFTON A. JONES Local Kiwanis Club Hears Talk By Walter Randolph Walter L. Randolph, extension service representative and specialist in farm organization work, believes that the decision of the United States Supreme Court which invalidated the agricultural adjustment act will expedite the agricultural improvement program in the United States. He so declared himself Monday in a talk before the Auburn Kiwanis Club. The speaker said that it was the intention of the leaders in the Administration of the adjustment act to get to a more permanent program within two or three years, but that the Supreme Court decision will start it this year if the new agricultural bill now before congress is enacted into law. Mr. Randolph explained also that during the first seventy-five years of the Supreme Court only two acts of congress were declared unconstitutional. He said that "these two and the majority of the subsequent laws of the Supreme Court invalidating acts of congress were later overruled by the people of the United States." Final passage of farm legislation, now pending in congress, within two or three weeks was predicted by the speaker. Student's Fear Of English Unfounded . Auburn students having a hostile or fearful feeling when the English department is mentioned should apply in their themes the simple rules learned in the elementary grades and surprise their instructors. According to a survey recently made at the University of Alabama, 75 per cent of errors in English made by college students are violations of rules learned in grammar school. The error most frequently made was the omission of a period at the end of sentences and abbreviations. The rules for the use of a period are taught in the first grade. Ceremony Is Had By Local Girl Scouts Troops II and III of the local Girl Scouts had a combined meeting last week for the investure ceremony. The ceremony was conducted by Coach Hutsell. Troop II drew names to have a valentine box today before they joined with Troop III for the ceremony. Valentine Dance Planned By Alpha Psi Group Alpha Psi fraternity will entertain at a Valentine Dance at the Recreation Hall on Friday night from 9:30 to 1:00. There will be four no-breaks and one fraternity lead-out. Music will be furnished by the Auburn Cavaliers. PERSONAL MENTION Informal Radio Dance Had By Phi Delta Theta Members of Phi Delta Theta fraternity entertained at an informal radio dance at the chapter house last Wednesday night from 8:30 to 12:00 for their pledges and dates. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere appreciation of the kindness of Mr. Fick's many friends during his last illness. Mrs. George Fick. Mr. Hermann T. Fick. Mr. O. W. Fick. Mr. C. A. Fick. Mrs. Lyda Sharpe. Mrs. Elizabeth Fick. Albert Marshall, Phil Carter, Kyser Cox, John Cravey, and John Fonville, all former Auburn students, were in town the past week end. ** * * Mr. and Mrs. Bob Mercer spent tlje week-end here. * * * Among the out-of-town girls who attended the Kappa Alpha dances last week-end were: June Wilson and Marie Stokes, of Montgomery; Ann Plant and Dorothy Wicker, of Selma; Leigh McMeans, of Birmingham; Dot Butler, of Fort Benning; Martha Vinion, of Evergreen; and Rene Moore Locklin, of Monroeville. * * * John Farris and Bob Greer, both Auburn graduates, were in Auburn this past week. * * * Edward Duncan is ill at his home in Alexander City. * » » C. Witty Walter spent the past week-end with Mrs. Van Pelt and daughter, in Montgomery. * * * Louise Lee, of Monroeville, who attended Auburn during the 1934-35 session, was a visitor here during the week-end. * * * Libby Jeanne Isrell, graduate of 1933, was the week-end guest of Caroline Lawson. * * * - Denzil Blue and John Harrell were in Montgomery during the week-end. * * * Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Deathridge, of- Lansing, Michigan, were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Reeve. * * * Herman Harris spent the past week-end at his home in Clanton. * * * Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Randall, of Birmingham, spent the past week-end as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edwards. * * * Agnes Smith is visiting Margaret Mullins at her home on East Magnolia Ave. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Walters (Erma Fort) were in Auburn recently. * * * Floyd Pugh visited her home in Union Springs during the past weekend. * * * Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Murphey, of Norris, Tenn., were recent guests of their daughters, Mary and Nettie Murphey. Dot Sellers was Saturday. in Montgomery Martha Snelling is at home in Columbus, recuperating from the flu. * * * Susan Anne Wallace has returned from Nashville, where she has been convalescing from a recent illness. * * * Lucille Lewis spent the week-end in Tuskegee. * * * Miss Eloise Miller, who is teaching in Aliceville, spent the past week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Miller. Kappa Delta Sorority Will Entertain Friday On Friday night Sigma Lambda Chapter of Kappa Delta Sorority will entertain at a formal dance at the Girl's Gym from 10:00 to 1:00. Helen Jones and Eleanor Wright are in charge of decorations, and are planning a novel scheme in the Valentine motif. During the evening there will be two no-breaks, a pledge lead-out, and a member lead-out. The Auburn Knights have been engaged to provide the affair with a medley of popular dance selections. Dance Is Planned By Phi Delta Theta Frat Phi Delta Theta fraternity is giving a dance on Saturday night, February 15, at 9 o'clock, at the Recreation Hall. The Auburn Knights will furnish the music. The decoration scheme will carry out the fraternity's colors of blue and silver. Ham-Hamby Marriage Is Held January 25th Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Ham announce the marriage of their daughter, Mary Louise to Lieut. Frank Talley Hamby, of Durant, Miss., formerly of Geor-gianna and Birmingham. The ceremony was performed in Greenville on January 25th. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hamby are Auburn graduates. He is a graduate of 1931, being a member of Sigma Chi social fraternity and of Eta Kappa Nu honorary fraternity. She finished with the class of 1934, and during her college career was a member of Pi Kappa Sigma Sorority, Pan-Hellenic Council, W. A. A., and Vice- President of Woman's Student Council. After March 1st they will make their home in Durant, Miss., where he is in charge of C. C. C. Camp. Jane Goslin Engagement Is Of Interest Here An announcement of recent interest was the engagement of Miss Jane Goslin, of Cincinnati, to Mr. George Hardy, of Washington, D. C, and formerly of Utah, Ala. Mr. Hardy is an Auburn graduate of 1933, having been a member of A. L. T. Fraternity. He was active in campus affairs, having been affiliated with Spades, 6. D. K, Phi Delta Gamma, Inter-Fraternity Council, Executive Cabinet, and Staff of Glom-erata. He is now associated with W. P. A. in Washington, where he and his bride will make their home after the marriage in April. Emily Hillman Marriage Is Held January 31 The marriage of Miss Emily Hill-man to Julius Porter Paterson, a graduate of Auburn, took place January 31, in Troy, Alabama. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. J. H. Hillman and the late Mr. Hill-man, of Montgomery. She made her debut at a brilliant party at Beaunoir Country Club early in the winter. Mr. Paterson is associated with the firm of Rosemont Gardens, of Montgomery, and is a member- of various civic and patriotic organizations of the city. Kappa Alpha Pledges Entertained At Dance Nu chapter of Kappa Alpha entertained their pledges with a series of dances last Saturday, February 8, at the reception hall. The first dance was a tea dance, held from four to six and the second dance was a formal held from nine to twelve. Music for both dances was furnished by the Auburn Knights. The decorations were an adaptation of the valentine motif. Flowers for all Occasions KING'S NURSERY Phone 69S-J OPELIKA, ALABAMA OB. W. C. TROCNTREE, Pellagra Specialist, 8723 Travis Avenue. Fort Worth, Texas. Sufferers from Pellagra should com. munlcats with me for a remedy which has proven successful tor more than fifteen years. CAUTHEN'S COAL Keeps You Warm Phone 11 Bill Is Drawn To Legalize Sale Of Plot A bill legalizing the sale of the property on Tichnor Avenue, adjoint to the postoffice, which is to be used for the building of the new telephone exchange, has been formulated for presentation to the special session of the Legislature. This property was formerly used by the school, but is held by the city. No deeds existed to the property because of its being presented to the use of the college through its land grant. If the bill becomes an act, it will authorize the sale and disposal of the property possessed for the phone exchange and also ratify the disposal of other plots already made. State-Wide Celebration Planned By U. D. C. The Auburn chapter of U. D. C. plans a state-wide celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Jefferson Davis' becoming President of the Confederacy. Leaders of the organization »hope to cooperate with the governor in making the day a holiday for schools and the capitol. A full program featuring a famous southern speaker will be given in launching the celebration of the holiday. The local chapter will announce the program in the near future. Many Register To Vote In Lee County Primary One hundred and thirty-eight new voters will cast their ballot in the next Lee County primary which will take place in May. The Lee County Board of Registrars, of which Mrs. J. T. High is a member, closed the registration book with the completion of the usual local registration period. ENTIRE ADDRESS ON ALL STUDENT MAIL REQUESTED Local Postoffice Urges All Students To Have Entire Street Address Put On Their Mail All students are urged to have their entire street address put on their mail. This should be done since the population is increasing and new residential sections are being developed. Post Office officials will appreciate this consideration. Mail that is taken to the depot is frequently delayed by being placed on the wrong train. If letters are mailed in the post office 20 minutes before train time, they will not be delayed. Those accustomed to these practices should avoid it in the future. Those persons having post office boxes receive their mail about 15 minutes after it arrives in the city. This is an advantage since regular mail which is received in the morning is not delivered until the afternoon, and Saturday's until Monday morning. P. O. Davis Is Appointed Kiwanis Publicity Chairman Mr. P. O. Davis has been appointed Publicity Committee Chairman of the Alabama Kiwanis to serve the state organization during 1936. Sam Helburn, Governor of Alabama Kiwanis District, announced the appointment of all other committee chairmen last week. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. Formal Dance Staged By Chi Omega Sorority On Friday evening Alpha Beta chapter of Chi Omega sorority entertained at a formal dance at the Girl's Gymnasium from 9:30 to 1:00. Decorations were carried out in Valentine motif. Members and pledges were honored with two lead-outs. Music was furnished by the Auburn Knights. Steak Supper Had By Epsilon Mu Epsilon Epsilon Mu Epsilon gave a steak supper and theater party Saturday night. This was in honor of the newly elected officers and members; and for Doctors Louis E. Rosen and Morris D. Schneider, E. M. E.'s first Alumni. QUICK PICK-UP FOR I RED EYES % Want to give your eyes a lift? Use Murine. Soothing, refreshing to hot, tired, reddened eyes. Great for eyes irritated by read-i n g , dust, wind, smoke, or light glare. Use it daily. (/ff/iVk YOUR L* 1 JL*«3 CP. totillsri«a.Ise. TOOMER'S Will Give You SERVICE! Drug Sundries Drinks -:- Smokes Magazines On the Corner P A G E S IX 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 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1936 WELLBEING OF AUBURN AT STAKE REPORT OF DUNCAN TELLS BOARD (Continued from page 1) year was 105. "The records show," Dr. Duncan added, "that enrollment in each school at Auburn increased this year over last. Our total increase is about twice the average for the nation. "In addition to teaching more students we must continue to add new courses to meet the requirements in a social structure which is ever changing and always become more complicated. To illustrate, we are now teaching four times as many subjects as were taught at Auburn twenty years ago. This increase is a response to increased demands for higher education which Auburn must meet to grow and serve." Going back to the beginning of the 1932-33 session, Dr. Duncan said that while enrollment has increased from that date to this by 35 per cent, the Auburn faculty has failed to receive $476,649.54 of the salaries due under a reduced budget. "This enormous penalty," he said, "covers ^the period of October 1, 1932, to January 31, 1936. It is increasing each month and will continue to increase until funds are available to pay reduced salaries in full." OPELIKA . THEATRE • «1 WEDNESDAY WELCOME HOME" WITH James Dunn Arline Judge MUSICAL COMEDY NOVELTY THURSDAY "ESCAPADE" WITH William Powell Luise Rainer OPELIKA THEATRE MOVIETONE NEWS CARTOON Dr. Duncan told the governing board that Auburn must have more rooms for students to occupy if this institution is to grow. "We have about reached the point of saturation of student living rooms and class rooms and laboratories," he added. The board approved the operating budget for the current school year, this being the first meeting of the Auburn board since February 22, 1935. They also authorized President Duncan to represent Auburn on a committee composed of Gov. Graves and the presidents of Auburn, the University, and Montevallo, empowered to lease Radio Station WAPI in Birmingham for a period beginning at the expiration of the present lease on July 31, 1937. Dr. Duncan praised the faculty for their loyalty in spite of the enormous sacrifice suffered. He insisted, however, that the very life of Auburn is now involved and made an earnest appeal for enough money to meet the appropriations made by the 1935 legislature. Members of the Auburn board are Gov. Bibb Graves, Supt. J. A. Keller, Dr. George Blue, Montgomery; H. H. Conner, Eufaula; C. S. Culver, Gadsden; Paul S. Haley, Jasper; Dr. Victor H. Hanson, Birmingham; Judge H. D. Merrill, Anniston; Dr. W. H. Gates, Mobile; Edw. A. O'Neal, Florence; J. A. Rogers, Gainesville; and Col. T. D. Samford, Opelika. LOST—Dark grey double-breasted Knitex overcoat at the Chi Omega dance Friday night. The name, Blackburn Brothers, on inside pocket. 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Rew THE TOGGERY At Varsity Barber Shop We Can Supply Your Needs in Building Materials for any purpose Quality Material at Reasonable Prices "Prompt and Courteous Service" Auburn Ice & Coal Company Phone 239-J FINAL PLANS MADE BY LOCAL GLEE CLUB FOR EXTENDED TOUR SOON (Continued from page 1) more is to be the guest city and Saturday night the club will make its final stand during the tour in Greenville. Lawrence Barnett, director of the club, has planned a variety of selections by the entire group, several solos, a skit, quartettes, and trios. R. S. Coggin, piano instructor here, will furnish the accompaniment for the voice and also render several solos. Albion Knight and Gordon Hubbard are the vocal soloists who are to give numbers. A quartette composed of Walton Crossley, Thomas Jester, William Benefield, and Sam Teague and a trio including Ross Ogletree, George Perry, and Derwin Dimmer-ling will sing several selections. The Glee Club as a body is scheduled to render* ten choruses and the Alma Mater as the final number on each program. Instructive Talk Is Given By Ross White As an indication of their effectiveness of dams in flood contrQl on Tennessee River basin, Ross White, general construction superintendent for TVA, told Auburn engineering students Monday evening that the Norri| Dam during the past year had prevented three floods on the Tennessee River. The Norris Dam, the only one practically completed of several which will be constructed to make the Tennessee River navigatable and to control its flood waters, already demonstrates the effectiveness of the development, said Mr. White. Broun Hall auditorium was filled to capacity by student members of the Federated Engineering Societies, faculty, and townspeople. Mr. White was introduced by James H. Williams, of Shanghai, China, president of the electrical engineering society. Preceding the speaker, Dr. J. J. Wilmore, engineering school dean, welcomed Mr. White to Auburn and endorsed the plan adopted by the Federation of bringing prominent engineers to Auburn each month. With the aid of lantern slides Mr. White explained the details of dam construction on the Tennessee River. The progressive photographs showed the Norris dam from its beginning to its present state of practical completion. Mr. White said that the matter of safety for the thousands of workers was carefully supervised by at least three men who did nothing else on each shift. He also showed several slides which pictured the recreational and housing facilities for those employed at Norris Dam. POLO'PRACTICES ARE NOW BEING HELD FOR APPROACHING SEASON (Continued from page 1) is the team manager. y. Although most of. the last year's first team has been lost by graduation there are many experienced reserves on the squad and prospects are bright for another good team. No schedule has been definitely decided upon but it is expected to include many of the teams Auburn encountered last season. While a comparatively new sport here at Auburn polo is rapidly gaining an enthusiastic following among the student body. SEWANEE IS DEFEATED TWICE BY TIGERS HERE Government Housing Program Is Subject The benefits of the Federal Housing Act and the New Deal in general under the leadership of President Roosevelt was extolled in glowing terms here Monday evening by Former Senator J. Thomas Heflin, who spoke in L'angdon Hall. "The American home," he said, "is the very foundation of the Republic, and the President has been trying through the Federal Housing Act to aid the great mass pf average American home owners. • Not only does the •act permit the refinancing of obligations oh homes or the making of repairs, but it is a distinct aid to some 26 separate industries." In passing Mr. Heflin paid his respects in no uncertain terms to the Liberty League, members of which he termed "the brave knights of the Liberty Lobby League." "The'New Deal," said the former Senator, "has brought us back to peace and good fortune. Business is improving everywhere." President Roosevelt was referred to as the "greatest President in many a day" . . . "He has fought the moneychangers more than any President since Andrew Jackson. He has battled with the giants of big finance to prevent a panic which they produce purposely every ten years. . . . Not only that, but the matchless leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt has prevented a revolution in this country," declared Mr. Heflin. Contact Camp To Be Held At Ft. Benning Acquaintance with the latest teachings of the Infantry School on organization and tactics and opportunity for officers to meet and know members of their own and allied organizations will be given the Reserve officers who attend the Contact Camp at Ft. Benning, Ga., during the coming week-end, February 15-16. Officers may arrive at Ft. Benning any time after 3 p. m. Friday, February 14, and the first class will assemble at 8 a. m. Saturday, February 15. Upon arrival at Ft. Benning, officers will inquire at the Main Gate, Out Post No. 1, for directions as to quarters, Officer's Club, classroom locations, and other information. A credit of seven hours per day is authorized for attendance at this camp. Application blanks may be obtained at the R. O. T. C. office in Samford Hall. Writer Recalls Doc Brown As Tough Guy In the column "20 Years Ago," the Dothan Eagle carried the following: "J. V. Brown, for ten years superintendent of the city schools, resigned to accept the presidency of San Marcos Baptist Academy, in San Marcos, Texas. And it's only fair to say that a large number of hell-raising school boys were glad of it. For Professor Brown ruled with an iron hand. Or rather it was long, large switches, and lengths of garden hose." NYU's five "iron men" have been the sharpest menace to Eastern basketball leagues this season. New York City's public education system has received $34,500,000 from PWA during the depression years. (Continued from page 1) Southern here tomorrow night. Auburn defeated the Panthers in Birmingham earlier in the season. After the game with the Panthers, only one more game remains on the Tiger's schedule for the campus. Georgia's hardwood performers come here for a game Saturday night. The Bulldogs have in Frank Johnson the highest scorer in the conference. This conference foe has compiled a record for the season that is comparable with any of the other teams of the conference. Athletic officials expect Alumni Gym \o be packed for this game, for it promises to be a thriller from the start. Text-books in history have been singled out for attack by "Red Scare" promoters, according to Dr. Dixon Ryan Fox, president of Union College. Tiger Theatre "Showplace of East Alabama" Auburn, Alabama WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12 "THE PERFECT GENTLEMEN" With Frank Morgan and Cicely Courtneidge Added: Comedy, "Coun.elite." and short subject, "Seeing Stars" THURSDAY, FEB. 13 James Cagney in "FRISCO KID" With Margaret Lindsay Ricardo Cortez Lili Damita Also short, "Broadway Highlights" Ray Perkins "Club-House Party" • S H M B s W H • FRIDAY, FEB. 14 "THE THREE MUSKETEERS" With Walter Abel, Paul Lukas, Ralph Forbes, Heather Angel, Ian Keith Also "Toonerville Trolley" Color Cartoon And Latest News of the Day SCHOOL FINANCES FORM MAJOR ITEM FACING ASSEMBLY (Continued from page 1) jority, knowing full well the precarious financial situation of the State's educational institutions! In his message to the joint session yesterday Gov. Graves declared he was against the proposed 3 per cent general sales tax, advocating in preference legislation taxing what he termed as luxuries. A luxury tax would levy up to 20 per cent and not less than 3 per cent on such articles as sporting goods, candy, radios, firearms; toilet articles and such kindred drug store articles and the like. Not only is the governor against a general sales tax but also a number of persons, predicted at 5,000, who will attend an anti-sales tax meeting in the capitol city today. The Alabama Federation of Labor and the Alabama Independent Merchants Association are the major sponsors of this movement against the sales tax. The other alternative for the purpose of raising revenue would come from legalizing the sale of liquor. In his message yesterday Gov. Graves failed to make any mention of prohibition repeal. It is believed, however, that some sort of liquor bill will be presented presently under the general heading of revenue, being enacted by the legislature without a referendum. Many plans for beer, wine and whiskey bills have come to light recently in the hotel lobbies and elsewhere. It remains for them to be consolidated into one general plan. The principal weapon of the anti-sales tax group is that the present stringent financial economical situation has come about because of waste and extravagance by the government, with a major portion of the blame laid to Gov. Graves. This group feels that an definite economy program would go far toward relieving the present situation. . Senator James Simpson, from Birmingham, ardent sponsor of the economy movement, demanded that an impartial survey be made soon in connection with the school,, situation, charging that the politicians are hiding behind the skirts of the school teachers in attempting to force the people of the state to pay more taxes. Going to town with Luckies A LIGHT SMOKE of rich, ripe-bodied tobacco Over a period of years, certain basic advances have been made in the selection and treatment of cigarette tobaccos for Lucky Strike Cigarettes. * They include preliminary analyses of the tobacco selected; use of center leaves; the higher heat .treatment of tobacco ("Toasting"); consideration of acid - alkaline balance, with consequent definite improvement in flavor; and controlled uniformity in the finished product. All these combine to produce a superior cigarette —a modern cigarette, a cigarette made of rich, ripe-bodied tobaccos—A Light Smoke. Luckies are less acid Cotrrilht 1939, Trie American Toheico ComMnT Recent chemko.iesH show'thotother popular brands have an excess of acidity over lucky Strike of from Excess of Acidity of Other Popular Brands Over Lucky Strike Cigarettes S. 5 * .3 8 SA1ANCE | L U C KY S T R I K E . i : . . . « : :: • i I! •RESULTS VERIFIED BY INDEPENDENT CHEMICAL LABORATORIES AND RESEARCH 6ROUPS OF RICH, RIPE-BODIED TOBACCO IT'S TOASTED"
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Title | 1936-02-12 The Auburn Plainsman |
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Date Issued | 1936-02-12 |
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OCR Transcript | Semi-Weekly Plainsman Wednesday Issue ®h£ Auburn Platusmau It's Getting Fair And Warmer TO FOSTER THE AUBURN S P I R IT VOLUME LIX AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1936 NUMBER 33 TIGERS DEFEAT SEWANEE TWICE IN GAMES HERE Fast Stepping Auburn Quintet Downs Sewanee In Two-Tilt Series During First Of Week Auburn From The Air On A Sunday Afternoon PLAY STEADY GAME Plainsmen Will Engage Southern In Alumni Gymnasium; Only Two G a m e s Remaining By EUGENE LEE The fast stepping Tiger quintet has added three more victims to their win . column since the thrilling victory over Georgia Tech last week. A crack team from Fort Benning, Georgia, was defeated Saturday night in Alumni Gym, and the Plainsmen whipped Sewanee Monday and Tuesday nights to sw.eep the four game series with the Tennessee Tigers. In last night's game Auburn found Sewanee offering far more opposition than they had to contend with in Monday night's game. Several times in the early stage of the game, the Plainsmen worked the ball down to their goal but failed to score due to the close guarding of the Sewanee five. Sewanee was the first to break ice. Mitchell scored with a long one from back of the foul circle. Eaves' made a free throw good, and McKissick placr ed one through the hoop from directly under the goal to give Auburn a lead that was held throughout the game. The Sewanee sharp-shooters got busy near the middle of the first period and came within two points of tying Auburn's 17 to 15 lead, but Buddy Crew and Andrew Curlee, two of the Tiger's fast working sophomores, teamed up to pull away from Sewanee* at the end.of the period. Crew sank a free throw, and Curlee followed with two goals from under the basket to place Auburn ahead with a 23 to 15 score at the half. Auburn managed to finish the game with only a two point addition to this lead during the last half. The game ended with the Tigers holding a ten point margin from a 41 to 31 victory. Both teams fought hard during this half. Nearly the same margin was maintained throughout the half. Crew, McKissick, Mitchell, Eaves, Curlee, and Rodgers saw service in this game. Mitchell was high scorer with 13 points. Crew and Curlee followed with 10 and 7 respectively. Auburn won an easy victory over Sewanee in the game Monday night. Every member of the squad saw service in helping the Tigers down the University of the South 42 to 18. The Tigers held the lead throughout the game and ran up the largest margin of the year. McKissick, Crew,- and Mitchell led the scorers. Others to play were Eaves, Curlee, Barnes, Black, Bottoms, Morland, Wood, Rodgers and Hamm. The Plainsmen engage Birmingham- (Continued on page 4) Two Games Scheduled For Local High Team The Auburn high school basketball team will meet two formidable opposing teams this week in Reeltown and Wetumpka. The game with the Reel-town team will be played tonight in the girls gym at 7:00, and the game with the Wetumpka team will be played in Wetumpka Friday night. In a previous game with Reeltown, the Auburn boys were the losers by a six point margin. Tonight, the locals are planning to even up the score in games won. The game Friday night with Wetumpka is the first one of the current season to be played between the two schools. Last Thursday night, the high school cagers affectively bottled up a strong Lanett quintet, and won the game by a score-of 16 to 10. The locals played such a strong defensive game throughout that the Lanett team succeeded in making only one field goal. John and Charlie Ham were high scorers of the game for Auburn. WELLBEING OF AUBURN IS AT STAKE DUNCAN REPORT INFORMS TRUSTEES TODAY FACTS From all appearances it would seem that the above picture was taken sometime during a Sunday when students are either in bed or in the picture show. At any rate, there can be no doubt that the above is a perfect picture of the peace and quietness that is only too common to Auburn. The picture was taken recently by the Photo Section of the Air Corps, Maxwell Field, in Montgomery. FOURTH STRAIGHT BASKETBALL GAME WON BY FRESHMEN Frosh Basketballers Show Excellent Form In Trouncing Both Lanett And Selma High Auburn's freshman cagers rolled up their fourth straight win last night by beating the heretofore undefeated Selma high school five, 44-20. Selma had previously beaten the State champions of last year, Tuscaloosa, twice by sizeable margins and had won 17 straight high school games. Theron Karge, Auburn's lanky center, grabbed the scoring spotlight with six field goals for a total of 12 points. He was followed by Holmes with seven markers. Bryant scored seven points to lead Selma. The Tigers lost no time in asserting their superiority. With Karge, Holmes, and O'Reilly all shooting accurately, Auburn piled up a 9-5 lead at the first period and was coasting along at halftime, 21-7. The third quarter was opened with a basket by Roueche, followed by a basket and a freethrow by Childress. Dudley sank a freethrow, followed by a basket to end the scoring for that period, Auburn leading, 31-13. The last stanza saw Karge cut loose with three baskets, Edwards, Streetman, and Dudley each sinking one apiece. Tommy Edwards came through with a timely basket in the last two seconds of play to give the Auburn rats a 40-39 victory over Lanett Athletic Club last Monday night. The game was the closest of the season, the outcome never certain until the final gun. Lanett got off to a 3-0 lead but it was soon knotted at 8 all. At the half the score stood 17- 17, mainly by the shooting of Bill Dudley who sank three baskets in the opening half. In the second half Lanett gradually grew away to a small lead but it was narrowed down with the able assistance of Holmes. With two minutes left to play the score stood Auburn 36, Lanett 39, but O'Reilly and Edwards sank two timely goals to give Auburn a 40-39 victory. Holmes scored ten points to take scoring honors. He was pressed for the honor by Dudley, who accounted for eight points, and O'Reilly, who gathered six tallies. Auburn has a return engagement with Lanett at Lanett Wednesday night. CLEMSON MEET IS FIRST ENCOUNTER OF LOCAL BOXERS Newly Organized Boxing Team Will Match Skill Against Clemson In Bouts On Friday The first boxing team to ever represent Auburn against a collegiate opponent will depart from the Plains Friday morning for a match with Clemson College. Eight Tiger leather slingers, under the direction of Coach Dell Morgan, are scheduled to tie up with the boxers of the Southern Conference Tigers of Clemson College on Friday night. Representing Auburn in this match are Raymond Callaway, heavy; Travis Vernon, light heavy; William Whitehead, 165 pound class; Everett Owens, 155 pound class; Vaughn Terry, 145 pounder; John Adams, 135 class, and Frank Triolo, 125 division. Cecil Cothran will make the trip and will fight if Coach Morgan is successful in finding a flyweight opponent for him. The squad has gone through two months of conditioning and will enter the match in fair shape. All lack experience and this disadvantage will dispel all hopes of obtaining a victory over the more experienced Clemson team. The Clemson boxing teams have always been a power in the Southern Conference. Although this wjll be the only match the team will engage in this year, the members will continue practice upon their return to the campus. Coach Morgan desires that the ones who do not make the trip also continue the practice. The athletic department purchased equipment for the team this fall with the view of adding boxing permanently as one of the sporting divisions of the department. Coach Morgan will continue to devote as much of his time as possible to the development of the team. Publications Group Will Meet On Monday The Publications Committee, composed by P. O. Davis, Doug Wallace, Herman Harris, Alton Graves, and Blake Campbell, will meet next Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock to determine the eligibility rules for candidates in the coming spring elections for publication offices. A number of candidates will run for offices in spring. Military Ball Program 10:00—First no-break. 10:15—Second no-break. 10:30—Scabbard and Blade lead-out. 10:45—Third no-break. 11:00—Grand March. 11:30 to 12:00—Intermission. 12:15—Fourth no-break. 12:30—Engineer lead-out. 12:45—Artillery lead-out. 1:00—Fifth no-break. 1:15—Sixth no-break. Final Plans Made By Local Glee Club For Extended Tour Soon Arrangements for the annual tour of the Auburn Glee Club have been completed, news from the business staff of the group disclosed. The tour will be taken the week of March 2 and concerts are to be given in six South Alabama cities, including Huntingdon College, Montgomery; Brewton, Fairhope, Mobile, Atmore, and Greenville. Thirty selected members of the club will leave Monday morning by bus for Montgomery where the first concert will be presented at Huntingdon College. Tuesday night the group will sing in Brewton and the following night in Fairhope. At Mobile the Azalea Trail Commission of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will sponsor the organization's appearance. A special program will be featured in the Battle House with a dance following. The Auburn Knights will furnish the music. Friday night At- (Continued on page 4) Assistance Will Be Given Veterans Here SCHOOL FINANCES FORM MAJOR ITEM FACING ASSEMBLY Special Session Of Legislature - Called By Governor To Raise Revenue For Coming Year Interesting Facts Deduced In City After Heavy Rains During Past Month Believe it or not! Approximately 1,364,160 tons of water in the form of rain fell within the city limits of Auburn during the past month of January. This figure is easily arrived at when it is known that each inch of rainfall on level ground equals a little better than 101 tons per acre, and there are 1,120 acres in Auburn. Exactly 12.06 inches of rainfall were recorded dur- | ing the month. Further facts deduced from this same figure prove exceedingly interesting. For instance, it was found that the total rainfall for the month equalled 327,500,000 gallons of water which would be sufficient 'to provide the needs of the city for one year and two months. Each person consumes on an average of 150 gallons of water per day. Including students, the population of Auburn may be conservatively estimated at 5,000. If all this water were put in tanks the size of the one recently constructed here (200,000 gals.), it would take 1,638 such tanks. A gallon of water equals a fraction more than 62 cubic feet, which is about the same as saying that the January rainfall here equalled about 4,400,500 cubic feet. In other words, if all this water were put in a container one foot square, it would reach more than four million feet-in the air, or approximately 850 miles, or almost the distance between Auburn and Chicago. Members Of Auburn Board Of Trustees Meet This Morning In Governor Graves' Office FINANCES ARE STRESSED Duncan Cites Great Increase In Enrollment; Shows Teachers Not Being Paid For Services Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of news articles concerning the Alabama Legislature now in session. It is expected that many of the bills passed by the body will have a direct bearing on Auburn as well as other similar State institutions. Assistance will be given World War veterans in making applications for bonds by the local John H. Wills Post of the American Legion, it was announced by Prof. A. D. Burke, post commander. In addition, Postmaster Homer Wright states that he also will be glad to help veterans in filling out their applications. Those rendering this service for the Legion are Anderson Blackburn, who may'be found at the Tiger Motor Company and Sgt. S. Fitzpatrick at the Military Office in Samford Hall. Professor Burke stated that the assistance would be given the veterans without charge. By THE EDITOR The present critical financial situation now being faced by the State's educational institutions will be one of the major items for consideration for the special session of the legislature which officially opened shortly before noon yesterday. The primary purpose, of course, of the special session as called by Gov. Graves is to raise the necessary operating revenue for the State. It is conservatively estimated that upward of $10,000,000 will be needed for the next fiscal year in which education is expected to fight for' its due share of the revenue. R presentative Shell Toomer, from Lee County, in an interview Monday, made it definitely clear that he will not under any circumstances vote for any revenue raising bill unless parity for education is established through a constitutional amendment beforehand. An increased State revenue would be of little benefit to the schools, he said, unless education was first put on an equal footing with the other State institutions. Yesterday a proposed constitutional amendment was introduced by Representative Douglass, of Jefferson County, to place education on a parity with all other government functions. This measure has been endorsed by organized education in the State. . A second bill, introduced by Senator Hayse, of Tuscaloosa, provided for a constitutional amendment which would put education on a "preferred" list for State funds. Should this parity bill pass both houses of the legislature, it will then be submitted to a vote of the people as an amendment to the State Constitution. Toomer was confident that the people of the state would favor the amendment by a large ma- (Continued on page 4) Polo Practices Are Now Being Held For Approaching Season Under the direction of Captain W. J. Klepinger, Auburn's varsity polo team will complete its third week of practice this week. The squad has been working out daily but has confined its activities thus far to the preliminary work of training • the ponies and to mallet swinging sessions in the practice cages, two of which have been completed only recently. Scrimmages will probably begin about the first of March, after which a more definite idea of the men who are to compose the team will be had by Capt. Klepinger and his assistant, Capt. McKinnon. At present the squad is divided into two units, the "A" squad being composed of more experienced players. The men composing this squad are: Ivey, Bacon, Brawner, Burson, Chandler, Chapman, Piccione, Clark, Dexter, Hardie, Hicks, Milam, J. O. Rush, Wesley, Worsham, Walter, Johnson, and J. M. Childers. H. G. Kitchens (Continued on page 4) Literature Class To Have Lecture Series (Special to the Plainsman) The board of trustees of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at a meeting in the office of Governor Graves Wednesday morning, were informed by President L. N. Duncan that Auburn is operating this year with 23 per cent more students than were enrolled last year and, on the other hand, with a substantial reduction in funds. Doctor Duncan said that enrollment for all of the 1934-35 session was 1,912 against 2,332 to date this season, with .a few more to enroll before the final date for registration, February 15. £ince 1932-33 Auburn's enrollment has increased 35 per cent. "While more students require more classrooms, more laboratory equipment and supplies, and more instructors our funds have declined substantially from a year ago," Dr. Duncan commented. "We have paid to date this session 60 per cent of our reduced salaries; and we can't expect to pay more than this unless more state funds become available. At present we are expecting only 26.43 per cent of our state appropriations but hoping that the legislature now in session will give us relief. With the help of student fees and federal funds, we have paid to date 60 per cent of- our salaries due, but we don't know how long this can continue." Dr. Duncan reported that Auburn has enrolled this year 870 freshmen. Previously only two freshman classes at Auburn exceeded 600. The school of agriculture now has more than twice as many students as were enrolled a year ago. This is due to d big increase in the freshman class, the total of which in agriculture is 109. The total in agriculture last (Continued on page 4) Riflemen Begin Year With Postal Matches Beginning with the first lecture last night, the class in current literature is sponsoring a series of lectures on various phases of literature by different members of the faculty. The series will continue for an indefinite number of weeks and will be held each Tuesday night at 7 o'clock in Sam-ford Hall. Prof. J. R. Rutland will speak next Tuesday on a few of the outstanding American poets to be followed in succeeding weeks with talks by E. C. Blackshear on Current Drama; H. W. Adams on Current Biography; and Dr. C. P. Weaver on the Novel and Short Story. Other speakers will be added to the list as the series progresses. The public is invited to these lec- Officially opening their season the Auburn Rifle Team last week fired six postal matches, winning two and losing four. The team is rapidly rounding into form, and it is expected that within a short period the squad will be in good form to win the greater majority of matches fired. The ten men composing the team shot a total score in all four positions of 3,596, the five highest making a score of 1,821. Returns from the schools matched last week by the local riflemen include: Western Md., 3,552; Georgia, 3,645; V. M. I., 3,611; University of West Virginia, 3,497; Penn. State University, 1,866; and University of Wyoming, 3,643. The high scorers for the week in the order named are: J. L. Callaway, 370; M. L. Hardeman, 365; N. G. Bradford, 361; E. Tomlinson, 359; W. W. Brunson, 357; A. A. Rich, 356; E. A. Wright, 356; J. Triolo, 353; and J. Robbins, 353. The only perfect score of 100 was made by Strickland in the sitting position. The following men have been selected to fire next week in the Fourth Corps Area Championship match: Booth, Bradford, Brunson, Callaway, Dexter, Hardeman, Lee, Panell, Rich, Robbins, Shwarts, Strickland, Swen-son, Tomlinson, Wells, E. A. Wright, McKenzie, Wilkes, Moyer, and Ellis. The above are requested to report to the range for special practice at 7 o'clock tomorrow night. NOTICE ! Members of O. D. K. are requested to be present at a meeting of the or-tures, and college credit will be given | ganization Thursday evening at 8 to students taking the course. o'clock in Samford Hall. P A G E TWO T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1936 gjg Auburn glatoman Published semi-weekly by the students of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. Subscription rates, $2.50 per year (58 issues), $1.50 per semester (29 issues). Entered as second class matter at the Post Office, Auburn, Alabama. Business and editorial offices at Auburn Printing Company, on West Magnolia Ave. Editor may be reached after office hours by calling 298. Doug Wallace Herman L. Harris Editor-in-Chief .Business Manager 1935 . Member 1936 pLssociated Golle6iate Press Distributor of CoUe6'tate Dl6est EDITORIAL STAFF News Editors: Alvin Morland and Bobby Chesnutt. Sports Editor: Eugene Lee. Sports Assistants: Jack Todd, Bill Troup and Gerald Bilbro. Society Editor: Luella Botsford. Assistant Society Editors: Kay Sibert and Jeanette Sawyer. ' Contributors: Lee Balch and Floyd Barnard. Reporters: Edwin Godbold, Jack Steppe, Bob Johnston, Jack Morton, Lewis Thomas, James Buntin, Max Welden, and Howard Strong. Commentator Extraordinary: Hugh Cameron. BUSINESS STAFF Assistant Business Manager: Jim Pike. Advertising Managers: Billy Radney, Buck Darden. Advertising Assistant: Clarence Pruet. Circulation Manager: George Perry. . Assistant Circulation Manager: Alvin Vogtle. Circulation Assistants: Jack Carr, Har-ey Sargent, Sam Teague, George Weaver. Business Manager's Office Hours: 3-4 Monday through Friday. Sad State Of Affairs It has always appeared as a right peculiar fact that the Plainsman is published from week to week through the efforts of but a small handful of students. In fact, at times it is quite astounding that the paper comes off the press as often as it does. It is possible only through the efforts of a few students who are not afraid of a little exrta work. They are to be commended. Their only compensation is what joy they might realize through the actual writing and the experience they are getting at the same time. In spite of this, the Plainsman could use many more writers. Not every student has the ability to write or even so much as the desire. There is a course being offered at present in advanced writing which includes a number of students who are fairly good writers, yet this class contributes absolutely nothing to the college paper. It seems to us that this represents a rather sad state of affairs. A little investigation was conducted just out? of pure curiosity, and the reason this class was little heard of was only too apparent. Although the subjects upon which the students were to write were not specifically defined, they ran something on the order of: Your most exciting experience, or something that impressed you very much. This is nothing more than high school or even grammar school tripe and naturally is not suited for publication. It would be every bit as helpful in learning to write and infinitely more interesting for the students if they were given the opportunity to write on subjects of a general interest to the student body which could be published in this paper. There is a wealth of material on the campus which is unquestionably beyond the scope of the Plainsman staff to exploit. The class in advanced writing could much to their benefit write on these subjects and thus not only aid themselves but their student paper as well. Generally speaking, the class is confined mostly to learning how to write for magazine publication, yet their efforts are never heard of ,or even mentioned. The Plainsman offers a wonderful opportunity to these writers to experience the thrill in writing for publication. Their efforts would be amply rewarded. Honor At Chapel Hill Brought to light at the University of North Carolina recently was one of the smoothest cheating systems that has probably eve/ existed in any American college or university. Following days of investigation behind closed doors, 98 cases were presented before the student governing body with the result that 48 students were suspended from school. An interesting aspect was thrown on the doings when one of the victims retaliated by charging several members of the student council, including the president, with cheating. Later the charges were withdrawn, only to be followed with a statement by the council president admitting that he cheated in French during his freshman year. Well aware that freshman cheating is not ordinarily cause for suspension, he asked that he be made an exception. He was suspended by a unanimous vote of the council. The situation at Chapel Hill is not an exceptional one, nor is-it one for any great concern. The organization got beyond control, as such things will, which depend for their existence almost wholly upon secrecy among those involved. Behind the Tar Heel affair was one exceedingly clever at the game who saw the possibilities of putting cheating on an organized basis for personal profit. There is no getting around the fact that such a system as was in effect at Chapel Hill is bound to come out into the light before long. The man behind the scenes might be clever enough to evade detection, but as a rule his clients are not so clever and spill the beans sooner or later. There is probably no institution of learning in the country that can truly boast of a perfect honor system. The best any college can do is discourage the practice as much as possible by dealing effectively with those caught with the goods. Any student with a quick eye can detect cheating during examinations. In many cases it doesn't even require a quick eye. It is as evident as the nose on one's face. Cheating is a difficult situation for any college to combat In the first place, not one student out of several hundred will report another student for cheating for various reasons. He feels that it is none of his business, and because he has prob%bly cheated once or twice himself he doesn't have any ax to grind. Any professor knows he is getting into hot water when he accuses a student of cheating. It is much, simpler rather to reprimand the student on the spot and then let the matter drop, hoping that the student will refrain from cheating in the future. And once accused, unless there is plenty of good evidence handy, the average student will swear on a stack of Bibles of any other form of literature that he did not cheat but was simply resting his eyes by looking out the window or doing something else just as plausible. The incident at Chapel Hill only goes to prove that cheating on an organized basis cannot long endure. Cheating on a petty basis which exists at all colleges will probably never be completely curbed. But once let it become organized into a system, and the whole thing will be swept away like cobwebs from the old barn rafters. Study In Comparisons Nothing so clearly shows the sorry condition of Alabama's school finances as do the figures recently published by the Montgomery Parent-Teacher Council. Both those who claim the schools are extravagant and those who claim a few minor reorganization measures in state government would provide sufficient funds should study those fig-ures carefully. • *' The school. system of Montgomery has always been looked upon as one of the better systems of the state. In fact, Montgomery has often pointed with pride to its excellent school system. The buildings and equipment in Montgomery are positively luxurious compared with those in some Alabama schools. Yet, in spite of Montgomery's supremacy in Alabama, her school system is proverty stricken wheh compared with that of cities of the nation having an equal number of school children. With nearly 16,000- students, Montgomery schools, operate on $381,- 000 per year. East St. Louis, 111., with slightly fewer students, spends more than one million, or three times as much, per year. Austin, Texas, with nearly 2,000 fewer children, spends well more than a half million dollars. Roanoke, Va., with a thousand fewer students spends $635,000, or nearly twice as much. Lowell, Mass., with 500 fewer students, spends on her schools $1,125,000, or three times as much as Montgomery demands. Topeka, Kan., another state capital, has approximately the same number of school children, but requires 30 more teachers and spends almost a million dollars. Wheeling, W. Va., has 2,000 fewer students than does Montgomery; yet Wheeling has 502 teachers as compared to Montgomery's 344, and spends nearly a million dollars per year. Almost all of the school systems listed in the study, though their total enrollment is below Montgomery's, employ more teachers than does our capital. Conditions in Montgomery are indicative of those in other parts of the state. Schools are poverty stricken and crowded as compared with those in most other states. Alabama cannot hope to compete with other states in agriculture, industry, culture, as long as these conditions exist. We are almost at the bottom now in wealth per capita; if our education is allowed to continue poverty stricken, we will stay near the bottom. No investment would pay such satisfactory dividends as more money for Alabama schools. While she is near the bottom in per capita wealth, this state has the largest percentage of children of school age of any state. That means, if satisfactory schools are to be maintained, Alabama must sacrifice more than does the average state to raise sufficient revenue. Many states much better off than Alabama have resorted to the sales tax to get school revenue. Why does Alabama hesitate? Bull Session Passes Recently there was printed on this page an editorial on the passing of the famed college bull session. It is true, the bull session has practically disappeared from college life. No more do students gather at night and discuss "wimmin," politics, or generally pass the time in affable conversation. What has taken the place of the bull session? Surely; it can't be that students now are burdened with too much school work to allow for a few hours off in the evening? No, that can't be the case, and neither can it be said that students have resolved to study more and make higher grades. Probably just as many or more flunk today as did in the days of the full session up in Joe's room. The Plainsman is of the opinion that the common subjects of the bull session have been replaced in many instances by a discussion of^whether duces and aces should be wild or just duces, or a discussion on how much will pass hands when the dice unexpectedly total seven. It seems that most students have passed up the bull session for something more exciting, say a fast crap game or a few hours with the cards. This Collegiate World (By Associated Collegiate Press) Two excellent pieces of journalism got into the college press this last week. One was an interview by Samuel Mintz, University of Wisconsin, with the late Huey Long and the other was an accidental interview with a boy just off a chain gang, by a reporter for the Princeton paper. * * * * Mintz' story gave an idea of Long's tremendous bustling, hectic, overflowing energy. Excerpt: A door flew open, Huey's head popped out. A "come on in, boy!" went rumbling down the hall. "I'm a college student." I got no further. "I know all about colleges. I run one." "What do you think should be taught in college?" "Arithmetic. That's all. Plain and simple arithmetic. You've got to show the boys that there's something wrong in nine hundred and ninety-nine hawgs being fed on one portion of hawg feed and one hawg being fed on nine hundred and ninety-nine portions of hawg feed. "What you've got to do, boy, is read." He jumped out of his chair, almost overturning his desk. He elbowed a very pretty secretary out of the way. "I'll give you some real literature. Ever hear about the Share the Wealth idea?" Suddenly he left me. He ran into an adjoining room. I turned to go. "Where are you going?" Mr. Long was back. "Did you say you were a college student?" "Well, listen to me: Don't you grow into a college professor and become a brain-truster. Do you hear?" * * * * The Princetonian interview demonstrated that slave-driving conditions still exist in the southern chain-gang. "All a fellow had to do was even look cock-eyed at a guard and he'd get the lash," said the interviewee. "If you've ever had a lash with a piece of iron on the end come down on your back you'll know how it feels." Shackles, he said, were clamped on his legs and the rivets smashed with an iron hammer. * * * * Governor Martin L. Davey, of Ohio, has been rather tough on the state allotments of funds to Ohio State University. As a result, an old epigram is being passed about on the campus in this new form: "Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do to Davey." * * * * Progression a la undergraduate: Hesitation Trepidation Interrogation Information Investigation Confirmation Jubilation Graduation * * * * Do you follow? * * 1 One boy the principal couldn't lick. He's Robert Wadlow, 17 years old, who has just been graduated from high school in Alton, Illinois. He is going to enter college next fall to study law. We don't know for sure, but we imagine Robert is being deluged by offers from college basket-ball coaches right now. For Robert is 8 feet, 4 inches in height and weighs 390 pounds. AUBURN FOOTPRINTS At last the Laundry has disposed of the button-crusher machine. The new duplex machine, just installed, removes shirt-buttons and shoots them through socks in one operation. * * * . * * * * * * * One of the intelligentia frequently comes forth with a bright saying: "Little Audrey" Taylor asked Doner for a beat the next class. "Let's see," he mused, "A beat is a vegetable. It's either a beet or a turnip, and if I turnip it's not a beet, is it?" Little Audrey sat down. * * * * * * * * * * Small Child (to Sam Gibbons): "Hey, papa." Sam: "Say kid, when you call me that, SMILE!" * * * * * * * * * * Wingo was a chemist, But he ain't so any more. What he thought was H=0 Was HsSO.. • —Herman Laatsch. * * * * * * * * * * "Your methods of cultivation are entirely out-of-date," said Nettles Ivey. "Why, I'd be surprised if you got even ten pounds of apples from this tree." "So wud I," returned Farmer sBrown. "It's a pear tree." * * * * * * * * > * * "My head is getting cold," said Doner as he dismissed his five o'clock class. * * * * * * * * * * If all the girls at Montevallo were seated at one long table, they would undoubtedly reach. (Puny throw-back.) * * * * * * * * * * And didn't those little Montevallo lassies look just too sweet to start a debate. * * . * * * • * . * * * As long as Jarvis Brown wears a tux to Physics Lab.—we are not all farmers. * * * * * * * * * * Imagine a man with a tux on looking into the south end of a north-bound mule. * * * * * * * * * * In a small country town it happens that there is a church at each end of the town. The town paper printed the following notice: "There will be preaching at 11 o'clock in the church at North End, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon at the South End. Infants will be baptized at both ends." * * * * * * * * * * "I'll be frank with you," said Pat when the embrace was over, "you're not the first girl I've ever kissed." "And I'll be equally frank with you," she replied, "you've got a lot to learn." * * * * * * * * * * Why does Godbold always stick out his tongue in the most ungodly manner when drawing a sabre? * * * * * * * * * * ' Joe Purvis is now collecting a fund to aid the widow of the Unknown Soldier. * * * * * * * * * * The other morning as*I slept peacefully, dreaming of a nice quiet war somewhere, a series of echoing and.re-echoing explosions disturbed my calm. "Ye Gods!" thought I, dreaming, "This war is becoming too realistic; that last one sounded louder, too." Suddenly a gigantic explosion lifted me straight up into the air. As I came back to earth, and incidentally to my bed, now thoroughly awake, a figure darted across the room. Oh! Only my freshman closing the window. * * * * * * * * * * Did you ever stop to think what might have happened to American history if the British soldiers at Bunker Hill had had yellow jaundice? On Other Campuses — By The Wanderer Employing methods that would put government G-men to shame, a group of eight University of North Carolina students worked for six days gathering and checking evidence against a gigantic cheating ring existing in the college. Empowered by a search warrant, they entered the room of the suspected ringleader and discovered letters from students who had had correspondence courses done for them, papers in preparation, account books, and many other pieces of evidence. On examination they found that the evidence showed that many of their personal friends and many of the most important campus figures were involved. Unflinchingly they wdnt on with their labor and after days and nights of secret work in guarded rooms, turned the completed evidence over to the student council, to whom the administration of the honor system is left at North Carolina. Sitting in secret sessions, the council tried the involved students. To date, there have been 48 suspensions, 22 acquittals, and 31 cases in which the defendant was not in school. By using a pass key and with the help of a confederate in the mimeographing department, the leaders in the ring were able to secure copies of quizzes "and examinations before the date upon which they were to be given. These were sold to students, along with the answers. Students could purchase any quizzes to be given in the entire university, except those in chemistry, and in all cases could get answers worth A, B, C, or lower, by paying accordingly. Climaxing this series of#events, Jack Pool, president of th estudent body, reported to the council that he cheated on an examination during his freshman year and moved his indefinite suspension. He cast his own vote as the council unanimously suspended him. * * * * The New Rochelle Tatler tells of a freshman at Allegheny College who, on an intelligence examination, answered the question, "When do the leaves begin to turn?" with the statement: "The same night the midnight oil begins to burn—the night before Bobbie is still growing. Doctors think he may become the tallest man in recorded history. * * * * One would think Mr. Wadlow should be able to impress a jury. According to the Lehigh Brown and White, the University of Maryland has hired a trained nurse for its book store. Her job is to quote prices on text books, and then administer restoratives to the inquiring student. Fear of "classroom ballyhoo" and exercises in "exhibitionism" caused Harvard students to oppose a plan to adopt oral examinations in literature and history courses. * * * * 1 When you first saw this You probably thought It was a poem. 2 By this time you have Surely found out That it isn't. 3 Isn't it funny People will keep Right on reading when They know darn well They're being fooled? —^The Reveille. * * * * The Daily Tar Heel says that despite the fact that a University of Minnesota student failed in a course on "How to Study," he made a "B" average. * * * * A Colorado University student caught drinking is forced to attend Sunday School for three years. Yes, every Sunday. * * * * Not so long ago we cited in this column what we thought was a pretty good definition, but our all-time medal for definitions goes to the co-ed from a mid-western college who recently crashed through with this one: "A bolt is a thing like a stick of hard metal, such as iron, with a square bunch on one end and a lot of scratching wound around the other end. A nut is similar to a bolt, only just opposite, being a hole in a chunk of iron sawed off short with wrinkles around the inside of the hole." * * * * Students at the University of Kansas have petitioned to change beginning classes from 8:30 to 8 o'clock in the morning. A Daily Texan columnist suggests that someone write a letter "explaining to them exactly what they are getting into." Fraternities at the University of California at Los Angeles have gone on record as opposing the abolition of compulsory military training. Thunderations By Cum 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. * * * * TIMELY ending of the kid next door's prayer: "And if my feet get cold again tonight, Lawd, my nickle goes for candy next Sunday. * * * * These are the kinds of weather ice boxes just waste their time. But if you are cold just think of the earth worm. That ground outside is froze harder than a cross word puzzle . . . even fit to skate on, were one in the mood to skate on. Temperatures in the Dakotas read like 1930 stock quotations. Temperatures here read like Freshman English grades I used to make when I had to read "Paradise Lost." A dill pickle in the ice box is fortunate in comparison to we who take our noses and ears out to turn blue as the July sky.. * * * * In my estimation a polar bear is a white faced fool. * * * * Sitting writing on a frigid typewriter is neither fun when one has to wear top coat, hat, and mittens at 1:30 A. M. iA gas heater is good only for lighting cigarettes one shouldn't smoke because of the three cent tax for some politician to spend. The cold isn't minded so much when one can think that politicians, architects, and bridge players can also get cold. * * * * A bass fiddle is a swollen violin, and a, harp is when someone slaps the frame off the piano after intermission. * * * * Shep Fields, and his alleged band, are now playing at the Coconut Grove in L. A., and can be heard via KRI. The Coconut Grove, a California imitation of Miami's Roney Plaza's palm garden. Fields plays the same but better than Hal Kemp, who looks as if he is cold, too. Even looks that way in May. The local minister who advocates a hoss n' buggy for courtin' in preference to the automobile must remember the exhaust pipe of the auto is behind instead of in front of the scene of action. The hoss had his advantage in that one never much heard of a hoss trying to bodac-iously run over a freight train at a crossing. He didn't give a drun about stumps and hedges when he decided he wanted to run away, tho. * * * * Will my friend, the shoe salesman of the Sigma Nu House listen tomorrow night to Clyde Lucas on the Columbia chain so as we can have a decent orchestra down here for the final dances? The music tomorrow night won't be so awfully good because of the fact that the programme is most entirely made up of the new Irving Berlin tunes for the new Ginger Rogers show, "Follow the Fleet." Those tunes were introduced Sunday by Lombaro and even he couldn't make them sound like anything, but Lucas may get around to playing something else, and even his kid brother may sing his Chinese piece. That particular number would lay you Auburn students in the aisle. * * * # As for Irving Berlin and his new tunes: Until the time that he can hire better men to write his tunes for him he should go fishing with Hemingway . . . who con't write either. It is thought that Berlin hasn't written a tune since he did "What'll I Do," "Blue Skies," and the like. The remainder of the stuff sounds as if it were written by a bunch of twenty dollar a week office force. Sixty-two per cent of Simmons College school of English graduates are engaged in some one of the writing professions. Variations in short-wave radio signals form the basis of a new system of weather prediction. Twenty-one professors and other experts have issued a booklet condemning the Town-send Plan as a "delusion." SWEET AS HONEY THE ONE AND ONLY Starts Sweet Smokes Sweet Stays Sweet NOTHING ELSE HAS ITS FLAVOR Aim Imperial Yillo Boh $1.50 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1936 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C INSTITUTE PAGE THREE DRAKE SERVICES HELD SUNDAY AT HOME OF SISTER Dr. Richard Drake, Vet School Graduate And Former Resident Here, Dies In B'ham. Dr. Richard Drake, graduate of the Sqhool of Veterinary Medicine at Auburn and former resident here, died at his home in Birmingham Friday night. He was the son of Dr. J. Hodges Drake, college physician at Auburn for 50 years, and Mrs. Drake who resides in Auburn. Funeral services were conducted at the home of Mrs. Mary Drake Askew, sister of Dr. Drake, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial followed in the Auburn cemetery with J. W. Crossley, of Opelika, in charge. Dr. Drake was unmarried, and the only surviving relatives are Mrs. Drake, his mother, and Mrs. Askew, his sister. He was related to Jesse Drake, of Auburn, and the Samford family in Opelika. Marion Anderson Will Appear In Tuskegee Marion Anderson, negro contralto, will appear at Logan Hall at the Tuskegee Institute, Saturday, February 15. She was born in Philadelphia, made her debut with the Philadelphia Philharmonic Society, and later with the New York Philharmonic. For the past four years she has been touring Europe and was a phenomenal success in England, Russia, Italy, France, Germany, Scandinavia, and Russia. Negro spirituals and old English airs of Brahm and Schubert that comprise the classics of song literature of all times will be included upon her program. Under the management of S. Har-ak, Marion Anderson plans to make an extensive tour of this country during this season. LOST—One Brown Felt Hat. FOUND—One overcoat. Lopez Man-toux, Phone 259. SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES LUELLA BOTSFORD, Society Editor Draughon Is Speaker Before Woman's Club (JUL "Xka/rro J5L BURTON'S BOOKSTORE "Soniething New Every Day" Professor R. B. Draughan was the visiting speaker at the meeting of the Auburn Business and Professional Women's Club on February 5. The topic of discussion was the question of a sound neutrality policy for the United States. Interest in the problem, he said, has been created in recent years by the astonishing revelations concerning America's entry into the World War. The depression, re-armament by European countries, expansion of the Japanese into Asia, the German Nazi party, aijd German abrogation of the Versailles Treaty have intensified the interest of the American Public concerning an American policy of neutrality in the future. Professor Draughon, who is an "isolationist," believes that President Roosevelt opposed the Clark Resolutions because he favors the League of Nations. The resolutions would give the President no power to throw the support of this country to weaker nations when opposed by stronger ones. Preceding the address by Prof. Draughan, Prof. Ivey reviewed the work of the Auburn International Relations Club. Auburn Prexy Attends Mississippi Convention Dr. L. N. Duncan, President of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and Director of the State Extension Service, attended the 37th annual convention of Southern Agricultural workers in Jackson, Miss., during the week of February 3. Ten other extension workers also attended the meeting and several appeared on the program. Lecture On Christian Science Given Thursday Dr. John M. Tutt, member of Lectureship of the Mother Church of Scientist of Boston, was presented in Langdon Hall Thursday night by Mrs. L. N_ Duncan. Dr. Tutt's belief being based on this reasoning: first, God never made evil; second, that he knew it not, and third, that we need not fear. GUARANTEED RADIO REPAIRS Have your Radio repaired by an experienced radio service man. TONSOL RADIO TUBES Replacements Guaranteed 6 Months HUBERT STONE Tiger Drug Store Phone 200 Phone 222 • FLOYD PLACE FOR RENT On Opelika Street Large House and Garden Spot < Robert L. Burkes AGENT Phone 264 - - - Auburn, Ala. Come to the College Inn FOR THE CANDLE LIGHT HOUR 6:00 P. M. — FRIDAY, FEB. 14 — VALENTINE'S DAY TURKEY DINNER Also Baked, Stuffed Fish and Other Fresh Sea Foods A Special Planned Musical Program at The COLLEGE INN Announce Marriage Of Recent Graduate The announcement of the engagement of Mrs. Elizabeth Stephens Weeden to Lieut. Edward Warren Virgin, Air Corps, U. S. Army, is of wide social interest in Alabama. Lieut. Virgin is a graduate of Alabama Polytechnic Institute in the class of 1927, and member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. The ceremony will be performed at the home of the bride's parents in Aomeda, Calif., on February 12. The bride-elect is a member of the Junior League in Oakland, Calif., and is an alumnae of the University of California. After the marriage and a wedding trip, Lieut. Virgin and his bride will be at home at Hamilton Field, Calif., where he is stationed. The Students' Friend CLIFTON A. JONES Local Kiwanis Club Hears Talk By Walter Randolph Walter L. Randolph, extension service representative and specialist in farm organization work, believes that the decision of the United States Supreme Court which invalidated the agricultural adjustment act will expedite the agricultural improvement program in the United States. He so declared himself Monday in a talk before the Auburn Kiwanis Club. The speaker said that it was the intention of the leaders in the Administration of the adjustment act to get to a more permanent program within two or three years, but that the Supreme Court decision will start it this year if the new agricultural bill now before congress is enacted into law. Mr. Randolph explained also that during the first seventy-five years of the Supreme Court only two acts of congress were declared unconstitutional. He said that "these two and the majority of the subsequent laws of the Supreme Court invalidating acts of congress were later overruled by the people of the United States." Final passage of farm legislation, now pending in congress, within two or three weeks was predicted by the speaker. Student's Fear Of English Unfounded . Auburn students having a hostile or fearful feeling when the English department is mentioned should apply in their themes the simple rules learned in the elementary grades and surprise their instructors. According to a survey recently made at the University of Alabama, 75 per cent of errors in English made by college students are violations of rules learned in grammar school. The error most frequently made was the omission of a period at the end of sentences and abbreviations. The rules for the use of a period are taught in the first grade. Ceremony Is Had By Local Girl Scouts Troops II and III of the local Girl Scouts had a combined meeting last week for the investure ceremony. The ceremony was conducted by Coach Hutsell. Troop II drew names to have a valentine box today before they joined with Troop III for the ceremony. Valentine Dance Planned By Alpha Psi Group Alpha Psi fraternity will entertain at a Valentine Dance at the Recreation Hall on Friday night from 9:30 to 1:00. There will be four no-breaks and one fraternity lead-out. Music will be furnished by the Auburn Cavaliers. PERSONAL MENTION Informal Radio Dance Had By Phi Delta Theta Members of Phi Delta Theta fraternity entertained at an informal radio dance at the chapter house last Wednesday night from 8:30 to 12:00 for their pledges and dates. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere appreciation of the kindness of Mr. Fick's many friends during his last illness. Mrs. George Fick. Mr. Hermann T. Fick. Mr. O. W. Fick. Mr. C. A. Fick. Mrs. Lyda Sharpe. Mrs. Elizabeth Fick. Albert Marshall, Phil Carter, Kyser Cox, John Cravey, and John Fonville, all former Auburn students, were in town the past week end. ** * * Mr. and Mrs. Bob Mercer spent tlje week-end here. * * * Among the out-of-town girls who attended the Kappa Alpha dances last week-end were: June Wilson and Marie Stokes, of Montgomery; Ann Plant and Dorothy Wicker, of Selma; Leigh McMeans, of Birmingham; Dot Butler, of Fort Benning; Martha Vinion, of Evergreen; and Rene Moore Locklin, of Monroeville. * * * John Farris and Bob Greer, both Auburn graduates, were in Auburn this past week. * * * Edward Duncan is ill at his home in Alexander City. * » » C. Witty Walter spent the past week-end with Mrs. Van Pelt and daughter, in Montgomery. * * * Louise Lee, of Monroeville, who attended Auburn during the 1934-35 session, was a visitor here during the week-end. * * * Libby Jeanne Isrell, graduate of 1933, was the week-end guest of Caroline Lawson. * * * - Denzil Blue and John Harrell were in Montgomery during the week-end. * * * Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Deathridge, of- Lansing, Michigan, were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Reeve. * * * Herman Harris spent the past week-end at his home in Clanton. * * * Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Randall, of Birmingham, spent the past week-end as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edwards. * * * Agnes Smith is visiting Margaret Mullins at her home on East Magnolia Ave. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Walters (Erma Fort) were in Auburn recently. * * * Floyd Pugh visited her home in Union Springs during the past weekend. * * * Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Murphey, of Norris, Tenn., were recent guests of their daughters, Mary and Nettie Murphey. Dot Sellers was Saturday. in Montgomery Martha Snelling is at home in Columbus, recuperating from the flu. * * * Susan Anne Wallace has returned from Nashville, where she has been convalescing from a recent illness. * * * Lucille Lewis spent the week-end in Tuskegee. * * * Miss Eloise Miller, who is teaching in Aliceville, spent the past week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Miller. Kappa Delta Sorority Will Entertain Friday On Friday night Sigma Lambda Chapter of Kappa Delta Sorority will entertain at a formal dance at the Girl's Gym from 10:00 to 1:00. Helen Jones and Eleanor Wright are in charge of decorations, and are planning a novel scheme in the Valentine motif. During the evening there will be two no-breaks, a pledge lead-out, and a member lead-out. The Auburn Knights have been engaged to provide the affair with a medley of popular dance selections. Dance Is Planned By Phi Delta Theta Frat Phi Delta Theta fraternity is giving a dance on Saturday night, February 15, at 9 o'clock, at the Recreation Hall. The Auburn Knights will furnish the music. The decoration scheme will carry out the fraternity's colors of blue and silver. Ham-Hamby Marriage Is Held January 25th Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Ham announce the marriage of their daughter, Mary Louise to Lieut. Frank Talley Hamby, of Durant, Miss., formerly of Geor-gianna and Birmingham. The ceremony was performed in Greenville on January 25th. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hamby are Auburn graduates. He is a graduate of 1931, being a member of Sigma Chi social fraternity and of Eta Kappa Nu honorary fraternity. She finished with the class of 1934, and during her college career was a member of Pi Kappa Sigma Sorority, Pan-Hellenic Council, W. A. A., and Vice- President of Woman's Student Council. After March 1st they will make their home in Durant, Miss., where he is in charge of C. C. C. Camp. Jane Goslin Engagement Is Of Interest Here An announcement of recent interest was the engagement of Miss Jane Goslin, of Cincinnati, to Mr. George Hardy, of Washington, D. C, and formerly of Utah, Ala. Mr. Hardy is an Auburn graduate of 1933, having been a member of A. L. T. Fraternity. He was active in campus affairs, having been affiliated with Spades, 6. D. K, Phi Delta Gamma, Inter-Fraternity Council, Executive Cabinet, and Staff of Glom-erata. He is now associated with W. P. A. in Washington, where he and his bride will make their home after the marriage in April. Emily Hillman Marriage Is Held January 31 The marriage of Miss Emily Hill-man to Julius Porter Paterson, a graduate of Auburn, took place January 31, in Troy, Alabama. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. J. H. Hillman and the late Mr. Hill-man, of Montgomery. She made her debut at a brilliant party at Beaunoir Country Club early in the winter. Mr. Paterson is associated with the firm of Rosemont Gardens, of Montgomery, and is a member- of various civic and patriotic organizations of the city. Kappa Alpha Pledges Entertained At Dance Nu chapter of Kappa Alpha entertained their pledges with a series of dances last Saturday, February 8, at the reception hall. The first dance was a tea dance, held from four to six and the second dance was a formal held from nine to twelve. Music for both dances was furnished by the Auburn Knights. The decorations were an adaptation of the valentine motif. Flowers for all Occasions KING'S NURSERY Phone 69S-J OPELIKA, ALABAMA OB. W. C. TROCNTREE, Pellagra Specialist, 8723 Travis Avenue. Fort Worth, Texas. Sufferers from Pellagra should com. munlcats with me for a remedy which has proven successful tor more than fifteen years. CAUTHEN'S COAL Keeps You Warm Phone 11 Bill Is Drawn To Legalize Sale Of Plot A bill legalizing the sale of the property on Tichnor Avenue, adjoint to the postoffice, which is to be used for the building of the new telephone exchange, has been formulated for presentation to the special session of the Legislature. This property was formerly used by the school, but is held by the city. No deeds existed to the property because of its being presented to the use of the college through its land grant. If the bill becomes an act, it will authorize the sale and disposal of the property possessed for the phone exchange and also ratify the disposal of other plots already made. State-Wide Celebration Planned By U. D. C. The Auburn chapter of U. D. C. plans a state-wide celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Jefferson Davis' becoming President of the Confederacy. Leaders of the organization »hope to cooperate with the governor in making the day a holiday for schools and the capitol. A full program featuring a famous southern speaker will be given in launching the celebration of the holiday. The local chapter will announce the program in the near future. Many Register To Vote In Lee County Primary One hundred and thirty-eight new voters will cast their ballot in the next Lee County primary which will take place in May. The Lee County Board of Registrars, of which Mrs. J. T. High is a member, closed the registration book with the completion of the usual local registration period. ENTIRE ADDRESS ON ALL STUDENT MAIL REQUESTED Local Postoffice Urges All Students To Have Entire Street Address Put On Their Mail All students are urged to have their entire street address put on their mail. This should be done since the population is increasing and new residential sections are being developed. Post Office officials will appreciate this consideration. Mail that is taken to the depot is frequently delayed by being placed on the wrong train. If letters are mailed in the post office 20 minutes before train time, they will not be delayed. Those accustomed to these practices should avoid it in the future. Those persons having post office boxes receive their mail about 15 minutes after it arrives in the city. This is an advantage since regular mail which is received in the morning is not delivered until the afternoon, and Saturday's until Monday morning. P. O. Davis Is Appointed Kiwanis Publicity Chairman Mr. P. O. Davis has been appointed Publicity Committee Chairman of the Alabama Kiwanis to serve the state organization during 1936. Sam Helburn, Governor of Alabama Kiwanis District, announced the appointment of all other committee chairmen last week. Patronize Plainsman advertisers. Formal Dance Staged By Chi Omega Sorority On Friday evening Alpha Beta chapter of Chi Omega sorority entertained at a formal dance at the Girl's Gymnasium from 9:30 to 1:00. Decorations were carried out in Valentine motif. Members and pledges were honored with two lead-outs. Music was furnished by the Auburn Knights. Steak Supper Had By Epsilon Mu Epsilon Epsilon Mu Epsilon gave a steak supper and theater party Saturday night. This was in honor of the newly elected officers and members; and for Doctors Louis E. Rosen and Morris D. Schneider, E. M. E.'s first Alumni. QUICK PICK-UP FOR I RED EYES % Want to give your eyes a lift? Use Murine. Soothing, refreshing to hot, tired, reddened eyes. Great for eyes irritated by read-i n g , dust, wind, smoke, or light glare. Use it daily. (/ff/iVk YOUR L* 1 JL*«3 CP. totillsri«a.Ise. TOOMER'S Will Give You SERVICE! Drug Sundries Drinks -:- Smokes Magazines On the Corner P A G E S IX 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 WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12, 1936 WELLBEING OF AUBURN AT STAKE REPORT OF DUNCAN TELLS BOARD (Continued from page 1) year was 105. "The records show," Dr. Duncan added, "that enrollment in each school at Auburn increased this year over last. Our total increase is about twice the average for the nation. "In addition to teaching more students we must continue to add new courses to meet the requirements in a social structure which is ever changing and always become more complicated. To illustrate, we are now teaching four times as many subjects as were taught at Auburn twenty years ago. This increase is a response to increased demands for higher education which Auburn must meet to grow and serve." Going back to the beginning of the 1932-33 session, Dr. Duncan said that while enrollment has increased from that date to this by 35 per cent, the Auburn faculty has failed to receive $476,649.54 of the salaries due under a reduced budget. "This enormous penalty," he said, "covers ^the period of October 1, 1932, to January 31, 1936. It is increasing each month and will continue to increase until funds are available to pay reduced salaries in full." OPELIKA . THEATRE • «1 WEDNESDAY WELCOME HOME" WITH James Dunn Arline Judge MUSICAL COMEDY NOVELTY THURSDAY "ESCAPADE" WITH William Powell Luise Rainer OPELIKA THEATRE MOVIETONE NEWS CARTOON Dr. Duncan told the governing board that Auburn must have more rooms for students to occupy if this institution is to grow. "We have about reached the point of saturation of student living rooms and class rooms and laboratories," he added. The board approved the operating budget for the current school year, this being the first meeting of the Auburn board since February 22, 1935. They also authorized President Duncan to represent Auburn on a committee composed of Gov. Graves and the presidents of Auburn, the University, and Montevallo, empowered to lease Radio Station WAPI in Birmingham for a period beginning at the expiration of the present lease on July 31, 1937. Dr. Duncan praised the faculty for their loyalty in spite of the enormous sacrifice suffered. He insisted, however, that the very life of Auburn is now involved and made an earnest appeal for enough money to meet the appropriations made by the 1935 legislature. Members of the Auburn board are Gov. Bibb Graves, Supt. J. A. Keller, Dr. George Blue, Montgomery; H. H. Conner, Eufaula; C. S. Culver, Gadsden; Paul S. Haley, Jasper; Dr. Victor H. Hanson, Birmingham; Judge H. D. Merrill, Anniston; Dr. W. H. Gates, Mobile; Edw. A. O'Neal, Florence; J. A. Rogers, Gainesville; and Col. T. D. Samford, Opelika. LOST—Dark grey double-breasted Knitex overcoat at the Chi Omega dance Friday night. The name, Blackburn Brothers, on inside pocket. Reward for return to Frank Barton, 327 Broun Hall or to Plainsman office. —WANTED 100 JINGLES— Go to Toomer'i, get a dope For good jingles you have wrote • about HOWARD'S 5c & 10c Riding Boot SPECIALS! for Men, FRIDAY w THE LONE WOLF RETURNS" WITH Melvyn Douglas Gail Patrick ALSO "Shorty at Coney Island" MARCH OF TIME Brown Let m fit you wWi a pair of th»M euaa. tlonally low pried Colt Riding Boots. You will like their •mart English «yle lee anil •Pmfortabla lair -•—- - • — —<^™ Koplon's Shoe Store We Carry a Complete Line of DRESS SHOES OPELIKA Spring Line Custom Tailored Now Ready for Your Inspection ALSO FREEMAN SHOES G. W. Rew THE TOGGERY At Varsity Barber Shop We Can Supply Your Needs in Building Materials for any purpose Quality Material at Reasonable Prices "Prompt and Courteous Service" Auburn Ice & Coal Company Phone 239-J FINAL PLANS MADE BY LOCAL GLEE CLUB FOR EXTENDED TOUR SOON (Continued from page 1) more is to be the guest city and Saturday night the club will make its final stand during the tour in Greenville. Lawrence Barnett, director of the club, has planned a variety of selections by the entire group, several solos, a skit, quartettes, and trios. R. S. Coggin, piano instructor here, will furnish the accompaniment for the voice and also render several solos. Albion Knight and Gordon Hubbard are the vocal soloists who are to give numbers. A quartette composed of Walton Crossley, Thomas Jester, William Benefield, and Sam Teague and a trio including Ross Ogletree, George Perry, and Derwin Dimmer-ling will sing several selections. The Glee Club as a body is scheduled to render* ten choruses and the Alma Mater as the final number on each program. Instructive Talk Is Given By Ross White As an indication of their effectiveness of dams in flood contrQl on Tennessee River basin, Ross White, general construction superintendent for TVA, told Auburn engineering students Monday evening that the Norri| Dam during the past year had prevented three floods on the Tennessee River. The Norris Dam, the only one practically completed of several which will be constructed to make the Tennessee River navigatable and to control its flood waters, already demonstrates the effectiveness of the development, said Mr. White. Broun Hall auditorium was filled to capacity by student members of the Federated Engineering Societies, faculty, and townspeople. Mr. White was introduced by James H. Williams, of Shanghai, China, president of the electrical engineering society. Preceding the speaker, Dr. J. J. Wilmore, engineering school dean, welcomed Mr. White to Auburn and endorsed the plan adopted by the Federation of bringing prominent engineers to Auburn each month. With the aid of lantern slides Mr. White explained the details of dam construction on the Tennessee River. The progressive photographs showed the Norris dam from its beginning to its present state of practical completion. Mr. White said that the matter of safety for the thousands of workers was carefully supervised by at least three men who did nothing else on each shift. He also showed several slides which pictured the recreational and housing facilities for those employed at Norris Dam. POLO'PRACTICES ARE NOW BEING HELD FOR APPROACHING SEASON (Continued from page 1) is the team manager. y. Although most of. the last year's first team has been lost by graduation there are many experienced reserves on the squad and prospects are bright for another good team. No schedule has been definitely decided upon but it is expected to include many of the teams Auburn encountered last season. While a comparatively new sport here at Auburn polo is rapidly gaining an enthusiastic following among the student body. SEWANEE IS DEFEATED TWICE BY TIGERS HERE Government Housing Program Is Subject The benefits of the Federal Housing Act and the New Deal in general under the leadership of President Roosevelt was extolled in glowing terms here Monday evening by Former Senator J. Thomas Heflin, who spoke in L'angdon Hall. "The American home," he said, "is the very foundation of the Republic, and the President has been trying through the Federal Housing Act to aid the great mass pf average American home owners. • Not only does the •act permit the refinancing of obligations oh homes or the making of repairs, but it is a distinct aid to some 26 separate industries." In passing Mr. Heflin paid his respects in no uncertain terms to the Liberty League, members of which he termed "the brave knights of the Liberty Lobby League." "The'New Deal," said the former Senator, "has brought us back to peace and good fortune. Business is improving everywhere." President Roosevelt was referred to as the "greatest President in many a day" . . . "He has fought the moneychangers more than any President since Andrew Jackson. He has battled with the giants of big finance to prevent a panic which they produce purposely every ten years. . . . Not only that, but the matchless leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt has prevented a revolution in this country," declared Mr. Heflin. Contact Camp To Be Held At Ft. Benning Acquaintance with the latest teachings of the Infantry School on organization and tactics and opportunity for officers to meet and know members of their own and allied organizations will be given the Reserve officers who attend the Contact Camp at Ft. Benning, Ga., during the coming week-end, February 15-16. Officers may arrive at Ft. Benning any time after 3 p. m. Friday, February 14, and the first class will assemble at 8 a. m. Saturday, February 15. Upon arrival at Ft. Benning, officers will inquire at the Main Gate, Out Post No. 1, for directions as to quarters, Officer's Club, classroom locations, and other information. A credit of seven hours per day is authorized for attendance at this camp. Application blanks may be obtained at the R. O. T. C. office in Samford Hall. Writer Recalls Doc Brown As Tough Guy In the column "20 Years Ago," the Dothan Eagle carried the following: "J. V. Brown, for ten years superintendent of the city schools, resigned to accept the presidency of San Marcos Baptist Academy, in San Marcos, Texas. And it's only fair to say that a large number of hell-raising school boys were glad of it. For Professor Brown ruled with an iron hand. Or rather it was long, large switches, and lengths of garden hose." NYU's five "iron men" have been the sharpest menace to Eastern basketball leagues this season. New York City's public education system has received $34,500,000 from PWA during the depression years. (Continued from page 1) Southern here tomorrow night. Auburn defeated the Panthers in Birmingham earlier in the season. After the game with the Panthers, only one more game remains on the Tiger's schedule for the campus. Georgia's hardwood performers come here for a game Saturday night. The Bulldogs have in Frank Johnson the highest scorer in the conference. This conference foe has compiled a record for the season that is comparable with any of the other teams of the conference. Athletic officials expect Alumni Gym \o be packed for this game, for it promises to be a thriller from the start. Text-books in history have been singled out for attack by "Red Scare" promoters, according to Dr. Dixon Ryan Fox, president of Union College. Tiger Theatre "Showplace of East Alabama" Auburn, Alabama WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12 "THE PERFECT GENTLEMEN" With Frank Morgan and Cicely Courtneidge Added: Comedy, "Coun.elite." and short subject, "Seeing Stars" THURSDAY, FEB. 13 James Cagney in "FRISCO KID" With Margaret Lindsay Ricardo Cortez Lili Damita Also short, "Broadway Highlights" Ray Perkins "Club-House Party" • S H M B s W H • FRIDAY, FEB. 14 "THE THREE MUSKETEERS" With Walter Abel, Paul Lukas, Ralph Forbes, Heather Angel, Ian Keith Also "Toonerville Trolley" Color Cartoon And Latest News of the Day SCHOOL FINANCES FORM MAJOR ITEM FACING ASSEMBLY (Continued from page 1) jority, knowing full well the precarious financial situation of the State's educational institutions! In his message to the joint session yesterday Gov. Graves declared he was against the proposed 3 per cent general sales tax, advocating in preference legislation taxing what he termed as luxuries. A luxury tax would levy up to 20 per cent and not less than 3 per cent on such articles as sporting goods, candy, radios, firearms; toilet articles and such kindred drug store articles and the like. Not only is the governor against a general sales tax but also a number of persons, predicted at 5,000, who will attend an anti-sales tax meeting in the capitol city today. The Alabama Federation of Labor and the Alabama Independent Merchants Association are the major sponsors of this movement against the sales tax. The other alternative for the purpose of raising revenue would come from legalizing the sale of liquor. In his message yesterday Gov. Graves failed to make any mention of prohibition repeal. It is believed, however, that some sort of liquor bill will be presented presently under the general heading of revenue, being enacted by the legislature without a referendum. Many plans for beer, wine and whiskey bills have come to light recently in the hotel lobbies and elsewhere. It remains for them to be consolidated into one general plan. The principal weapon of the anti-sales tax group is that the present stringent financial economical situation has come about because of waste and extravagance by the government, with a major portion of the blame laid to Gov. Graves. This group feels that an definite economy program would go far toward relieving the present situation. . Senator James Simpson, from Birmingham, ardent sponsor of the economy movement, demanded that an impartial survey be made soon in connection with the school,, situation, charging that the politicians are hiding behind the skirts of the school teachers in attempting to force the people of the state to pay more taxes. Going to town with Luckies A LIGHT SMOKE of rich, ripe-bodied tobacco Over a period of years, certain basic advances have been made in the selection and treatment of cigarette tobaccos for Lucky Strike Cigarettes. * They include preliminary analyses of the tobacco selected; use of center leaves; the higher heat .treatment of tobacco ("Toasting"); consideration of acid - alkaline balance, with consequent definite improvement in flavor; and controlled uniformity in the finished product. All these combine to produce a superior cigarette —a modern cigarette, a cigarette made of rich, ripe-bodied tobaccos—A Light Smoke. Luckies are less acid Cotrrilht 1939, Trie American Toheico ComMnT Recent chemko.iesH show'thotother popular brands have an excess of acidity over lucky Strike of from Excess of Acidity of Other Popular Brands Over Lucky Strike Cigarettes S. 5 * .3 8 SA1ANCE | L U C KY S T R I K E . i : . . . « : :: • i I! •RESULTS VERIFIED BY INDEPENDENT CHEMICAL LABORATORIES AND RESEARCH 6ROUPS OF RICH, RIPE-BODIED TOBACCO IT'S TOASTED" |
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