1936-03-21 The Auburn Plainsman

              Semi-Weekly Plainsman
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TO FOSTER THE AUBURN S P I R IT
VOLUMN LIX AUBURN, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1936 NUMBER 43
FINAL DANCE DECORATION
BIDS MUST BE SUBMITTED
TO CHAIRMAN NEXT WEEK
All Bids For D e c o r a t i n g Dance
Hall Must Be Submitted To
W a l t e r By W e d n e s d a y Night
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN
Bid C a r d s Will Be D i s t r i b u t ed
To F r a t e r n i t i e s Soon; Weeks
Has Well-Known O r c h e s t ra
C. W. Walter, chairman of the So­cial
Committee, announced last night
that decoration bids for the final
dances must be submitted by Wednes­day
night, March 25. All bids received
after this time will not be considered.
An unusual amount of interest has
been voiced concerning the decorating
of the dance hall this year, Walter re­ports.
A number of bids are expected.
Arrangements for decorations will be
on the same basis as for the Mid Term
dances in that all#of the electrical
equipment will be furnished by the So­cial
Committee.
Bid cards will be placed in all fra­ternity
houses and at the Tiger Drug
Store within the near future. Pre-dance
talk has it that Auburn students
can expect more visiting young ladies
than has ever before attended a set
of Auburn final dances.
All in all the campus appears very
enthusiastic over the selection of An­son
Weeks for the set. He is now
playing at the Trianon dance hall in
Chicago and broadcasts twice nightly
over WGN. He has long had one
of the most famous dance bands of the
country, and those who have heard
him play speak highly of his music.
The band consists of 13 pieces, with
Ben Gage as male vocalist and Miss
Kay St. Germain as the featured girl
singer.
Walter said he has had a large num­ber
of inquiries concerning the price
of the entire set as well as for in­dividual
dances. These prices have
not been set yet but" will be announced
in next week's issue of this paper.
Only three dances will be sold to
campus organizations. The entire set
will include five dances, starting Fri­day
afternoon, April 24, that evening,
Saturday morning, Saturday after­noon,
with the set ending at 12 mid­night,
April 25.
"A" Club Entertains
With Dance Saturday
The Auburn "A" Club will give a
dance in Alumni Gym Saturday night
from nine until twelve o'clock.
The Auburn Knights will again fur­nish
the music for the occasion. Con­tinued
playing at Benson's and at
dances on the campus during the year
have given the Knights considerable
experience at playing together, and
they now present a smooth type of
rhythmic music.
A number of visiting girls are ex­pected
to be in Auburn this week end
for the Interfraternity Council Ball
and for this dance on the following
night.
Two lead-outs will be given favor­ing
members of the "A" Club. A
varied program, including the visitor's
lead-outs is being arranged for the af­fair.
The usual admission charge of one
dollar will be in effect for the dance.
Frat Baseball Slate
Given For AH Teams
Appearing elsewhere in this issue
is a baseball schedule for every fra­ternity
to be followed in the annual
interfraternity baseball competition.
The schedule was made yesterday by
a representative from each fraternity,
and it is requested that it be abided
by during the contests.
Cards have been distributed to each
fraternity to be filled out properly
following each game and turned in
immediately to Joe Sarver. Additional
cards may be obtained from Sarver.
Umpires for the games will be chosen
upon agreement of both fraternities.
Class Will Present
One-Act Plays Soon
During the next six weeks students
in Prof. E. C. Blackshear's Play Pro­duction
class will direct and produce
a series of short one-act plays as class
projects. Time, place and cast for
each of the plays will be announced
at a later date.
The following is a list of the minia­ture
dramas to be produced by their
respective producers:
"A Marriage has been Arranged,"
Florine Hodges; "Bumblepuppy" or
"D-289," Lloyd Sutherland; "An Ex­cellent
Thing in Women," Billy, White;
and "The Little Red Mare," M. J.
Rattrey.
"Another Beginning," the first of
this series of project plays, will be
given at the "Y" Hut next Monday
night at 8 o'clock. Eleanor Boyd is
the producer.
Prof. Blackshear plans in the near
future to produce a short play in two
different ways. The purpose of this
production will be to demonstrate the
difference in acting technique of two
periods. The first performance will
be given in the style in vogue in
1890; the second will portray the mod­ern
style of play production.
Leads Interfrat Ball Tonight
Local Debaters Lose
To Mississippi Team
In Contest Thursday
Debaters from the Missippi College
for Women won a close decision over
Auburn last night before a large and
appreciative audience. Representing
Mississippi College were Miss Marice
Collins and Miss Rowena Dodenhoff
who took the negative side. George
Hairston and David Cox debated the
affirmative side for Auburn.
The unfavorable decision for Au­burn
was attributed, probably, to the
fact that Auburn debaters were a lit­tle
too serious in their constructive
speeches. Though very credible and
brilliant, their speeches were lacking
in entertainment. On the other hand,
the Mississippi debaters gave several
interesting examples and instances
and added a few bits of humor in
support of their contentions. The at­titude
of confidence displayed by the
visiting debaters was also instrumen­tal
in their winning.
Points were about even with re­spect
to each team's understanding of
the question,' thought arousing state­ments
and effectiveness of rebuttals.
The decision was rendered by the three
judges on the basis of eloquence of
delivery, which was somewhat lack­ing
on the Auburn side.
Wednesday night an Auburn debate
(Continued on page 4)
MISS ANNIE KATE REBMAN, of Courtland, has been selected to
lead the annual Interfrat Council dance tonight in Alumni Gymnasium.
She will be escorted by Philip Gilchrist, president of the Council.
INTERFRAT DANCE
TO BE STAGED IN
GYM THIS EVENING
Miss Annie Kate Rebman Will
Lead Dances With Gilchrist;
Grand March To Be 11:30
One of the social highlights of the
school.year will take place tonight in
Alumni Gym when the annual Inter­fraternity
Council Ball, led by Miss
Annie Kate Rebman, of Courtland,
and Philip Gilchrist, president, gets
under way at 9:30.
Bids have been sent to more than
70 out-of-town girls and a large num­ber
are expected to be present at the
dance tonight. Many of the seniors
who have been away on the inspection
trip are also expected to return to Au­burn
in time for the affair.
The dance will be featured by the
grand march at 11:00 and four no-breaks
appropriately s c a t t e r ed
throughout the evening. Only council
representatives and their dates will
participate in the grand march. The
Auburn Knights have been engaged to
play and they promise several new
numbers and arrangements for the
occasion.
The decorations will carry out the
Greek theme with a vivid light set­ting
as the background. Imposing
Greek columns will form the entrance
with the Interfraternity Council emb­lem
hung on a background of blue.
(Continued on page 4)
100 ANNIVERSARY
OF AUBURN TO BE
CELEBRATED SOON
Many Special Events Planned
For Week In Celebration
Of Auburn's 100th Birthday
Plainsman Basketball Team Loses
Fast And Furious Tilt Wednesday
By JACK STEPPE
We hate to admit it but our valiant
warriors, those demons of the court,
were subjected to a most humiliating
defeat at the hands of Quinney's cut­throats,
otherwise known as the Tiger
Rag basketeers. The mad rushes of
Bull McCroskey and the daring down
court dashes of chief chisler, Quin-ney,
were a little more than the
Plainsman forces could cope with. In
fact, they were so fast that the Plains­man
scorer couldn't stay ahead of
them and before he could catch up the
final whistle blew. The scorer wound
up eight points behind them. But the
Plainsman will probably demand a re­count.
No blood was spilled, but the three
(count them) spectators were treated
to one of the most bruising battles
ever known to mess up the floor of
Alumni Gym. Scoring honors, such
as they were, were divided between
head rascal Quinney of the Raggers
and our own Mr. Todd each of whom
took enough time out from maiming
his opponent to send the ball through
the hoop five times. Just in case
you're worrying about it the final
score was 23-16.
Joe Bob' Mitchell and Jimmie Ka-ram
did the refereeing for the strug­gle
and by some strange quirk of fate
they escaped from the scene unscathed.
The thing started off to a furious
pace with the drug store cowboys
jumping into an early lead via the
sharpshooting of the aforementioned
Mr. Quinney and Bobby (social com­mittee)
Blake. With Todd and Ossie
Bottoms doing most of the work,
while their comrades in arms were try­ing,
unsuccessfully, to lay some of the
Raggers among the sweet peas, the
Plainsman crew managed to stay
within shouting distance as the half
ended with the sissies leading by the
count of 10 to 9. As the second half
started Quinney continued to get in
our hair, since we couldn't get in his,
(Continued on page 4)
The 100th anniversary of the Town
of Auburn will be observed at an
inter-luncheon-club dinner Friday eve­ning,
March 27, starting at 6:30
o'clock at the Baptist church. Mrs. B.
B. Ross, who has been closely identi­fied
with Auburn all her life—and
the same is true of many of her an­cestors—
will be master of ceremonies
and the main address will be delivered
by Colonel Thomas 'D. Samford of
Opelika. Mr. Samford was born in
Auburn and his relatives have been
closely identified with the town and
the Alabama Polytechnic Institute all
of their lives. He is a member of the
Auburn board of trustees.
Founded in 1836 by Judge J. J.
Harper and party of Harris County
Georgia (as shown on the DAR
marker in front of the main entrance
to the Auburn campus) the Town of
Auburn is now 100 years old. The
birthday dinner, therefore, wiil be a
celebration; and also a reunion of
many who have been prominently con­nected
with Auburn, or the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute one way or an­other.
The Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, and
Business and Professional Women's
Clubs have voted to join in the birth­day
dinner as an inter-club meeting.
(Continued on page 4)
Engineer Will Speak
To Local Group Soon
Mr. Harold V. Fried, air condition­ing
engineer of the Birmingham Elec­tric
Company, is scheduled to address
the local student branch of the A. I.
E. E. on the subject of modern air
conditioning next Monday evening,
March 23. The meeting will be held
at seven o'clock in Ramsay 109, and
all interested non-members are invited
to attend.
The distinguished visitor to Auburn
has had wide experience in ,the design
and construction of air conditioning
systems, having participated in the
many department store installations
of such equipment in Birmingham.
Mr. Fried is expected to bring some
demonstration models of the outstand­ing
developments in air handling and
refrigerating machinery. This oppor­tunity
to get the latest material on a
rapidly growing industry should not
be overlooked by engineering and ar­chitectural
students.
Second Polo Game
Is Slated For
Saturday
Having been tied by one team from
Ft. Benning in their opening .contest
of the season, the Auburn polo squad
is expecting another tough tilt when
they meet the "Free-Booters" tomor­row
at 2:30 o'clock on Bullard Field.
The "Free-Booters" are composed
of some of the best poloists in Ft.
Benning, with one of the' starters
rating a three-goal handicap while
two others are one-goal handicap
players.
The starting line-up for Auburn
will probably consist of Chandler at
No. 1, Bacon at No. 2, Ivey at No.
3, and Dexter at the No. 4 position.
Bacon is the only new man among
the openers, his offensive performance
last Saturday having earned him the
place. For reserves Capt. Klepinger
has Walter for either No. 1 or 2,
Hurd for No. 2 or 3, and Hicks for
No. 3 or 4.
Capt. Klepinger was not very opti­mistic
over the outcome of the game,
believing that the experience of the
"Free-Booters" would be the deciding
factor in a close encounter.
Students will be admitted upon pre­sentation
of the athletic ticket book,
while general admission will be 25 and
15 cents.
ALL CUSSES BE EXCUSED
FOR 'A' DAY CELEBRATION
DURING NEXT WEDNESDAY
Speaks Monday
IN 1895
Requirements Of Past Years
At Auburn Brought To
Light In Rat Bible
Shucks, Auburn is Utopian com­pared
to what it used to be back in
1895.
One of the Plainsman reporters, al­ways
snooping about, came across an
old "Rat Bible" published back in the
Gay Nineties: Registration require­ments,
as implied in this little book,
are as follows:
"According to college regulations
each student must report to the presi­dent
immediately upon his arrival in
Auburn. After his interview he must
go to the treasurer and pay all fees.
From there he will go to the comman­dant,
Col. Emery, and be assigned to
a military company. Next he must
go before the examining committee,
committee, Professors Thatch, Ross,
Smith and Petrie, and take an en­trance
examination. Upon satisfac­tory
completion of this examination
the new student must go to Mr. Flan-nigan's
office for a uniform and
thence to Professor Smith for a list
of books and' a daily schedule."
The required list of books for each
freshman numbered 14, including such
sources of knowledge as Whitney's
"Rhetoric," Chute's "Physics," Allen
and Greenough's "Latin Grammar,"
and Jones' "First Year Latin, Caesar
and Virgil." *
Some of the "tips to the freshman"
were quaint, if not comic:
"After you have been classified and
(Continued on page 4)
A large audience of students,
faculty, and townspeople will hear
Mr. Beck at 10 a. m. Monday,
Langdon Hall. Mr. Beck is head
of the New York Stock Exchange
Institute and an exceedingly able
and well-informed speaker. Dean
J. W. Scott, who arranged for the
address, issued a special invitation
Friday morning for the public to
attend.
Annual "A" Day Celebration
Will Commence With Frat
Track Meet On Drake Field
FULL DAY IS PLANNED
F i r s t Baseball G a m e Of Season
Followed By Polo Will Be
Feature Events In Afternoon
CABINET WILL BE
CHOSEN AT POLLS
BY ALL STUDENTS
Ten Members Of Executive
Cabinet Will Be Chosen By
Students At Polls Tuesday
The Student Center will be the scene
of considerable activity next Tuesday
when members of the four classes will
go to the polls to elect their repre­sentatives
to- the Executive Cabinet.
Competition for a number of the posts
is reported to be especially keen as
candidates work late these few nights
before the election.
Polls will be open from 8 o'clock
in the morning until 5 o'clock that af­ternoon.
Results of the vote will be
announced in the Wednesday issue of
this paper.
Competition between three juniors
for chairmanship of the Social Com­mittee
probably occupies the spotlight.
The candidates for this position are
Bobby Blake, Vernon Merritt and
John Maroney. Complications in this
race resulted the first of this week
when Blake, by a vote of the Execu­tive
Cabinet, was declared eligible to
run. Although classed as a senior this
year, Blake is a junior and will grad­uate
a year from this spring.
Five juniors are in the run for the
four senior cabinet positions. They
are Joe Sarver, Wilbur Kelly, M. H.
Laatsch, Thomas Powell, and Rolf
(Continued on page 4)
Latest Scientific Discoveries Will
Be Subject Of Talks In Meet Here
Alabama's program in scientific re­search
will be reflected in 68 formal
papers read here Friday and Satur­day
at the 13th annual meeting of
the Alabama Academy of Science.
At the Friday afternoon and Sat­urday
morning sectional meetings in
Ross Chemical Laboratory there will
be reported the latest discoveries by
the State's leading scientists in biol­ogy,
medicine, chemistry, physics,
mathematics, geology, anthropology,
archeology, economics, and industry.
Friday morning beginning at 8:30
o'clock the scientists arriving in An-burn
will register at Ross Laboratory.
Committee meetings will be held later
in the morning, and the first session
of sectional meetings will begin at
1 p. m.
That evening at 7 o'clock the an­nual
banquet will be held at the
Thomas Hotel with the principal ad­dress
being by A. G. Overton, of the
Alabama By-Products Corporation,
president, will welcome the visitors
to the Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
A reception given by Pres. and Mrs.
L. N. Duncan at the Mansion begins
at 9 o'clock that evening.
The meeting Saturday morning of
the geology section will take the form
of a field trip to Camp Chewakla,
where the Chewakla State Park is
being developed upon the old site of
Wright's Mill. Dr. Walter B. Jones,
State geologist, will conduct the trip.
At the same time the Alabama
Academy of Science is meeting at Au­burn,
the Junior Academy of Science
will hold its annual session here at
the Lee County High School. ' Some
75 brilliant young scientists from high
school science clubs over the State will
attend. Two dances have been ar­ranged
as entertainment features for
the visiting students.
In charge of arrangements for the
meeting are Dr. C. A. Basore, Prof.
Herman D. Jones, Prof. P. P. Powell
All classes will be suspended next
Wednesday in order that the entire
student body may participate in the
annual celebration of "A" Day.
Featuring a baseball game between
Auburn and Troy Teachers and a Polo
match between the Tigers and Ohio
State, the annual "A" Day celebration
is expected to be one of the most suc­cessful
of its kind ever offered at the
Plains. Three organizations, the In­terfraternity
Council, Spiked Shoe and
the "A" Club, are cooperating to make
the celebration an interesting affair
that will start in the morning and
terminate at midnight.
The Interfraternity Track and Field
Meet will be held in the morning on
Drake Field, beginning at 9 o'clock, as
the opening attraction of the day.
Slips from each fraternity must be in
the hands of Joe Sarver before noon
Monday giving the men entered in
each event. Any fraternity failing to
submit their slips on or before this
date will not be eligible to compete.
Heats will be / u n off Tuesday af­ternoon
on Drake Field. A silver lov­ing
cup will be given by the Inter­fraternity
Council to the fraternity
having the highest number of points
in the meet. No runner-up cup will
be given.
Coach Dell Morgan's baseballers
will open their 1936 season of 25
games in the "A" Day tilt with Coach
A. B. Elmore's Troy Teachers, who
were barely trimmed in the Tiger's
first test last year. The game will
start at 1:30 o'clock.
Ohio State University will present
keen competition to the Orange and
Blue polo squad later in the afternoon
a't3:30. This match will be the first
of two, the second will be played
Thursday.
The baseball scrap with the Teach­ers,
who will be met again at Auburn
March 26, and will be met in a return
series in Troy on May 1 and 2, will
be the first of four successive en­gagements
facing the Plainsmen next
week.
The day's festivities will' be brought
to a close Wednesday evening with an
"A" Club dance in Alumni Gym for
which a record attendance is expected.
Tarrant. Dr. L. N. Duncan, Auburn and Dr. C. R. Saunders.
Valuable Books Are
Donated To Library
Miss Mary Martin, head librarian,
announces that two sets of books, each
composed of two volumes, have been
donated to the college by the Port­land
Cement Co. of Atlanta.
Each set of books is calculated to
have a value of $20.00. One set will
remain continually in the main library
with the other to be placed in the ag­ricultural
library. A similar set of
books have been distributed to various
other Land-Grant Colleges and agri­cultural
or mechanical colleges.
One volume of each set is devoted
to information on cement and the
other two on concrete. Some of the
topics discussed in the books on con­crete
include housing and farm con­struction
with home and other per­manent
improvements by the use of
concrete, including designs, plans, es­timated
costs; paved streets and
roads; ornamental concrete garden
furniture; steps; porches; walks; con­crete
lily pools; and soil erosion con­trol.
The other two volumes contain nu­merous
educational and technical ref-erences
including the manufacture of
Portland Cement, storage of cement,
prevocational course in concrete de­sign,
control of concrete mixtures, and
facts concerning concrete masonry and
construction with concrete.
P A G E T WO T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M AN A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1936
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Let Them Struggle Along
Senator Robin Swift of Escambia county
was reported in the press last week to have
made some such statement as this: We all
know the higher institutions of learning in
Alabama have always found a way to strug-
' gle along in some manner, and they probably
would do so this time." At the time, Mr.
Swift was advocating on the floor of the
senate that corporation franchise taxes due
this month be diverted to the use of the pub­lic
school. He opposes all new tax bills.
This simply serves to show the attitude
of many in the state toward the college.
"They have always struggled along; they
can keep on doing it." The attitude is evi­dent,
although to a lesser extent, even in
the case of the public schools. Now that
the legislature has failed to provide funds
to keep the schools open, many schools are
adopting makeshift methods to keep run­ning,
and the threatened closing of the
schools is being largely averted. It looks
as if those who said there was no crisis,
that the schools would not close, may have
been right.
Let us see, then, who is bearing the brunt
of the lawmakers' failure. In Coffee Coun­ty,
we believe it was, the teachers decided
to keep on teaching in hope that the legis­lature
would come to their rescue; if the
.legislature fails, it is simply the teachers'
loss. In Chambers County, or part of it,
a committee raised private subscriptions to
reopen the schools, and the teachers prom­ised
to finish the term at reduced pay. Of
course we all know that the college here
has been kept running for four years be­cause
the faculty have kept on teaching in
spite of their failure to receive a half mil­lion
dollars of pay.
Senator Swift voices the idea that the
colleges will keep on struggling along; what
is the use to come to their aid? Other
so-called lawmakers say "Let's not bother
about taking care of the schools. Let's fight
these political battles out if it takes all
summer. The schools will struggle along
somehow; why should we risk our political
necks in passing tax measures for their
benefit?" Meanwhile the poor, downtrod­den,
befuddled teachers stretch their meagre
budgets a little further and carry the state's
school system.
To whom does the school system of Ala­bama
belong, to the people or to the teach­ers?
Does Auburn belong to the faculty
here, that they should provide funds for
running it, or does it belong to the people
of Alabama? Does the legislature down at
Montgomery represent the people of Ala­bama,
or an organized group that has sworn
to give no more tax money to the schools?
It is time these questions were answered,
and there be a showdown.
Sunday's Birmingham, News carried some
potent facts concerning Alabama's need to
improve educational facilities. Yet the News
stubbornly insists that there be no new
taxation for the benefit of the schools. The
Plainsman would like for the News, as well
as other foes of new tax measures, to pre­sent
a sound concrete plan by which the
schools of Alabama may run a satisfactory
length of time, and the teachers in the pub­lic
schools and college receive decent pay.
If they present conclusive evidence that this
can be done without further taxes, all right.
So far no one has given such evidence.
Grand And Glorious .
By C. W. BELL
Everyone is jeminded that March has
really come to town when people may be
seen chasing hats across the campus and
the wind starts whistling up "Fourth Ave­nue."
Maybe you are one of those people
who thinks that if you can only live through
the month of March, the remainder of the
year will be easy. Yet, this is the month
that brings to us a general consciousness
that the back of Winter is broken. Even if
the powerful monster is not dead, we know
that April is coming over the hill. TJiis
is the time of year when Grandma or Aunt
Lizzie, many years ago, would insert into
your mouth a tablespoonful of sulphur and
molasses while the cook held you firmly by
the nose with one hand and steadied the
chin with the other. What a pity it must
have been to spoil such a beautiful season
with such an awful dose.
March is the corridor by which we must
travel in order to reap the joys of spring
and summer. There is an awakening of
the joy of living as we begin to smell the
evaporating of the earth's moisture and
with the coming of balmy days and soft
breezes. There is a wonderful sunlight that
warms without burning. Lord, how won­derful
warmth is! Spring seems to wake
us up. We feel curiously strong and well
again. Our excessive energy seems suffi­ciently
great to enable us to step from hill
to hill and race with the wind. The joy
that comes with the fastidious young flowers
gives us new life and a new world of fas­cination
and enchantment.
Spring is the most enjoyable season in
the yearly cycle of most of our lives. It
is a wonderful feeling to be able to stretch,
unwind oneself without shuddering, and feel
no sudden drench of coldness. All around
us there is an ocean of warm air with no
chilly draft along the poor tired bones. The
campus is full of gaiety and liveliness and
we are all as happy as a lark—even if our
best sweetheart is mad.
Suppose we take a stroll in the green
fields of grass and flowers and listen to the
bluebirds sing their quaint little songs—
even permit a co-ed to stroll along with us,
if necessary. There is no rush, no hurry.
We are able to walk slowly and without
effort; move like a snail between the
ploughed fields and the woods. In the dis­tance
among the beautiful flowers we see
a small brook trickling slowly, so narrow
that a very big foot might span its banks.
In it there are small minnows swimming
along< the bottom, doing nothing that we
can understand, but very eager about it.
It is good to be shut in on every side with
hills—to feel out of sight and hearing for
a while and protected even from a mild
wind.
Let's recline for a few minutes on the
soft inviting bed of grass and flowers be­neath
our feet. How refreshing and sweet
everything seems. Time is lost count of and
anyway, we possess more time than money.
Ho, hum! there is no reason why we can't
even lie down and sleep in the warm de­lightful
sun; face down on the grass and
listen to the birds. The last words con­scious
to our peaceful minds are, "Oh well,
whas ther use anyway; sprig. has
cubb."
For More Loafing
Walter F. Crowder of the University of
Iowa faculty claims people do not idle
enough. He urges bigger and better loafing
for everyone. It would be a great thing.
Especially do college students need time to
idle, to think things out a t their leisure. In
that way does one learn.
Mr. Newton was idling under a tree when
an apple descended to his head. He discov­ered
the law of gravity. Benjamin Franklin
idly flew his kites. Master John Watt, in
moments of leisurely loafing, wondered what
raised the cover of the tea kettle. Great
idlers, these.
A student isn't graduated from a univer­sity
with a factual knowledge of the world.
Even if he were, that wouldn't be an educa­tion.
College properly teaches a student to
mull over facts, think things out, weigh
theories. That takes time—idling time.
There is something out of balance in a col­lege
curriculum which causes a student to
feel he is wasting time if he isn't doing
something that is required.
A university, too, should teach one how
to enjoy life. "Culture" is an overworked
word. But it takes a virtuoso idler to loaf
through symphony concerts, current books,
Eisenstein dramas and other "good cogars."
A proper university curriculum should not
only allow time for loafing. ' I t should teach
the idlers' art.—Minn. Doily.
Letters To The Editor
Editor, The Plainsman,
Dear Sir:
Before any more criticism is leveled at
The Plainsman, I would like to enlighten
the student body as to some of the difficul­ties
under which your staff is working.
Most of the department heads, commit­tee
chairmen, B. S. O. C.'s, etc., seem to
think that they are doing The Plainsman a
great favor by giving it a story for publi­cation.
I. should think that it is The Plains­man
that is doing the favors, since it is
giving free and valuable publicity.
Several times I have been flatly refused
an interview. And, often-times, when I did
manage to get one, I got impatient and in­adequate
answers to questions that were
necessary no matter how foolish they seemed
to others. They do not realize that a re­porter
has a large area to cover and, .con­sequently,
that it is impossible for him to
be familiar with characteristics, customs,
etc. of every group on the campus.
And then they shout "Bloody Murder!"
if their story doesn't make the first col­umn
of the.front page.
What can be done about the situation?
Yours,
STAFF MEMBER.
Cats and Canaries
*
Do you know ?
Hazel would like for some one to intro­duce
her to Charlie Lawrence—Does she still
think he's "Dangerous Dan"?
Speaking of the Smith Hall blonds (once
more), Bake Dean is doing all right by
himself—and is Crew steaming!
* * * *
Romeo Hamilton (the co-eds sweetheart)
was stood up the other night by an ex gal
friend. It seems that the athletes rate first.
* * * *
My friend Gum, who doesn't believe I'm
a columnist, admits that I admitted that I
imitated him. What does that make him?
* * * *
Jane Dickson's quartet, which gave a con­cert
in front of the College Inn the other
a. m., was very much off key. Or maybe
it was the acoustics.
* * " * *
Plumlee and Petrie-head Quinney (lovers
of confusion) caused some in Bensons the
other night with that sizzling steak.
* * * *
Hudson has been beating Coles time with
the dame-killer—Friedman.
* * * *
McAllister can't seem to keep his love
affairs and late dates out of the hands of
someone else.
* * * * «.
Sam won't have to play second fiddle now
that he has become a big shot. But Yank
swears that he'll import the Amazon of his
from way down yonder.
* * * * >
Fenton is still courting up a storm across
the tracks even though Bill Lee does his
best. Incidentally that late date that Bill
stood up a few nights ago had the patience
to wait until two a. m. when she woke up
half his lodge brothers with the aid of the
Bell system.
* * * *
Lester and Walter Heath had quite a
time Saturday night we are given to under­stand.
Also—Is it true that Les is chal­lenging
Sammy for his cowboy reputation?
* * * *
What man about town lost pretty near
everything but his pants playing African
golf during the past week or so.
One phase of Harvard's 300th anniver­sary
celebration will be the payment of
$300,000 to the Cambridge city treasury, if
the college honors a resolution passed by
the city council.
It must be true. Prof. Thomas A. Lang-lie
of the Wesleyan University psychology
department adds his voice to the chorus of
professors who say that cramming is futile.
It "inhibits the memory."
Americana: Gov. Floyd B. Olson of Min­nesota
has had a bronze pig, one-third life
size, cast as a trophy for the winner of the
annual Iowa-Minnesota football game.
The University of North Carolina has
ruled that any student "who does not habit­ually
write good English" must go to the
English department for periodic polishing.
Among suitable objects for justifiable
homicide, say Northwestern University co­eds,
is the man who hums while dancing.
Nothing to it, says WPA authors of a
guidebook to America. Pocahontas didn't
love Capt. John Smith, she saved his neck
merely because she liked Englishmen.
A flood more disastrous than that of 1927
threatens the South this year, according to
Prof. Vernon C. Finch, University of Wis­consin
expert in climatology.
"Well I think I'll put the motion before the house," said the chorus girl as
she danced out on the stage.
* . * * * * * * * * *
"Why do you bring suit for divorce against this man?"
"Well, your honor, he made me wash his back every Saturday night."
"And you consider this sufficient grounds for divorce?"
"No, judge, but last Saturday night his back was already clean."—Ghost.
* * * * * * * * * *
BILL DEXTER TO LOUISE LILES
Yes my love, but can't you see ,
We couldn't live on toast and tea. ,
Steaks and chops cost an awful lot
And that is more than I have got.
But in a year or two I hope,
To make enough and We'll elope.
Let us look before we leap
My God, woman! you've gone to sleep!
* * * * * * * * * *
There are going to be some Aero seniors in foul shape after the inspection
trip to Pensacola.
* * * * * * * * * *
Sloppy Sam, the second section savior, says someone should start selling simple,
safe, stable, and scientific slipticks soon.—The Log.
* * * * * * * * * *
One of our leading professors, we hear, has succeeded in crossing a honey-bee
with a woodpecker; The hybrid is capable of tapping the maple sugar trees, ex­tracting
the sap, and converting it directly into maple syrup.
* * * * * * * * * *
Landlord: "It has been discovered that you are selling liquor here. You know
the consequences, the rent will go up $25.00 tomorrow."—Stolen.
* * * * * * * * * *
The devil's mind did cause the wind
To lift her skirts way high,
But God was just and blew the dust
Right in the bad man's eye.
* * * * * * * * * . *
Toast heard at a fraternity banquet:
"Here's to the land we love and vice versa."—Stone Mill.
* * * * * * * - * * *
"What's the difference between a big sophomore paddling a freshman and
an army mule kicking a sergeant in the stomach?"
"It's the intelligent look on the mule's face."
* * * * * * * * * *
Co-ed: "I want a little pink tablet." f
Druggist: "What's your trouble?"
Co-ed: "I want to write a letter."
* * * * * * * * * *
"I say, ole deah, how about a little game of ping-pong?"
"I'd rather not, old fellow, I'm afraid of 'athlete's foot'."—Yellow Jacket.
* * * * * * * * * *
Sweet Thing (disgustedly): "My boy friend has cold feet."
Maid: "Shame on you young lady, in my day* we didn't find out those things
until after we were married."
* * * * * * * * * *
Inspecting Officer: "Your hair needs cutting badly."
Freshman: "That can't be, sir. It's been cut badly ever time I've had it cut
here."—Stolen.
* * * * * * * * * *
Happy Sivill: "Say Coach, is Gilbert double-jointed?" .
Coach Morgan: "No, why?"
Happy: "Then I've broken his leg."
Six weeks after the student council had
passed the sentence of "suspended" upon
them, nineteen students connected with the
recently exposed cheating ring at the Uni­versity
of North Carolina have been re­instated.
* * * *
At Cincinnati University the Phi Delts
rise up in wrath to deny the story printed
recently to the effect that a duck had been
found in the chapter bath tub. The Phi
Delts contend that this is false because the
house has no bath tub.
* * * *
The honor system in the cadet corps at
the University of Minnesota will in the
future be enforced through a "court mar­tial"
board of five appointed by the cadet
colonel. Charged with enforcing military
regulations of all kinds, the trial board
will be unknown to the corps and will meet
secretly to consider the cases submitted to
it. A different board is appointed for each
case. All decisions of the board must be
submitted to the cadet colonel for approval
and then to the commandant for punish­ment.
Punishments will range from repri­mands
to recommendations for expulsion
from the corps or the university.
* * * *
Recently uncovered at the University of
Nebraska were these two ingenious observa­tions:
One student identified Milton's
"Sonnet on His Blindness" as the one be­ginning,
"I think that I shall never see."
Another sage defined the Papal Bull as
"the animal kept in the Vatican to give
milk for the Pope's children."
* * * *
To our Slips That Pass in the Night de­partment
we refer this account of an un­fortunate
episode that took place at a Uni­versity
of Minnesota dance recently: One
of the guests was so enthralled in the dance
that she did not notice the absence of her
slip (a dainty feminine article, as we un­derstand
it) until it had slithered to the
floor and her escort had gallantly picked
it up and returned it to her. Shades of
Lady Godiva!
To the editor, who is so set on having
personal mentions in his paper, we recom­mend
the following: A reporter for a small
college paper, after being chastised for omit­ting
the names of persons concerned in his
articles, submitted this copy: "The recent
cold wave sweeping the country caused the
freezing to death of three cows out at the
dairy barn, they being Myrtle, Bossie, and
Penelope."
* * * *
The following ideas on how to keep out
of war were suggested by the Oredigger:
1. That all congressmen and senators that
vote for war be given the choice of enlist­ing
in the shock troops or being shot on the
Capitol steps.
2. That each warship shall carry as ex­cess
baggage one or more of the stock­holders
in battleship concerns.
3. That all manufacturers of war mate­rials
be hanged when their profits reach
the million dollar mark. '
4. That all holy men who say "God is
fighting with us" be dispatched immediately
to see Him personally and find out.
5. That college professors be stopped from
delving into history to prove that the enemy
always was a scoundrel, anyway.
6. That the secret police be restricted
from discovering plots everytime someone
turns on the light in the parlor.
7. That the cause of war shall be clearly
stated to the nation as the reduction of un­employment
and not disguised as a "holy
war to save civilization."
* * * *
Through the Lawrence Tech News we
learn of the frat pledge at Lehigh Univer­sity
who was sent for a mummy, of any
type. Lacking funds and time for an arch­aeological
foray to Egypt, but blessed with
ingenuity, the hard-pressed pledge bound a
salted mackeral in a muddy gauze. The
fraters decided against making him eat his
"mummy."
* * * *
It was in anatomy class. The junior
who hated girls was reciting, pointing out
the main characteristics of a skull.
"It is a well-shaped skull," he said. "This
woman—"
"Woman!" said the instructor. "Just how
do you know that this is a woman's skull?"
"The mouth is open," said the junior.
The Indian.
* * * *
To the old-fashioned girl: Be good, sweet
maid, and let who will be clever.
To the co-ed: Be good, sweet maid,
and let who will. Be clever.
—The Old Gold and Black.
Thunderations
By Gum
EDITOR'S NOTE: The opinions expressed in
this column are not necessarily the editorial opin­ions
of this paper. it is a column of personal
comment, and is not to be read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
* * * * WE GOT Anson Weeks. Weeks is
known as one of the "Smoothe"
orchestras. Music, you know, that
makes one want to -shut his feverish eyes,
hold his breath and his room mate's gal in
a tight clutch, and just glide around like
he was a big bo-loon.
* * * *
According to my estimation Weeks is the
only California orchestra to ever have been
that is worth listening to. Sure, I know,
Harris is from California too, but so is Her­bert
Hoover. Both of them like to pop off
at the mouth when we respectable people
are trying to read Shaskespeare.
* * * *
According to the Chairman of the Social
Committee, this little girl, Kay St. Germain,
who Leah Rays for Anson, is prettier than
Molly Brasfield. Not knowing Brasfield, he
may be mistaken, or he may be mistaken
for not knowing Brasfield.
However, after alloting the usual three
lines to the dark haired lady of her dreams,
it may still be said, after having seen the
picture in question, that Kay St. Germain
is prettier than any red haired girls—with­out
the freckles. I couldn't go all the way
there for theije isn't anything—not nothing
—as pretty as a sun-set headed girl with the
freckles. But saying she is prettier than
any red haired girl without the freckles is
still going a long ways, as I have known
quite a few of those people I would give up
eating pop corn for.
Big Ben Gage and Frank Saputo "(who
lays aside his guitar to render....") are the
other Crosbys in the orchestra. With Gage
and Miss St. Germain we will have a better
line-up than we did'with Joe Sanders. And
we did very well there.
* * * *
1 have been listening to Weeks for eleven
years—starting in 1925 with a one tube
"whistler" when he was playing the Mark
Hopkins and St. Francis hotels in San Fran­cisco.
And getting KPO, a five hundred
watt station in those days, was quite a feat.
He is one of the old timers like Sanders,
Weems, and Lombardo, who have always
been good.
Finally, it may be said his theme song is
as smooth as that of Clyde Lucas', and that
is also saying something.
There are only a few theme songs in the
country worth hearing. Weeks has one
Clyde Lucas Shep Fields Joe Sanders
(two)—Kay Kyser and Jack Denny.
Guy Lombardo has the most-very-terrible
one on the air Ted Weems stole his from
the immegrunt Russians he could do bet­ter—
Jan Garber ruined "My Dear" with
that news reel opening he puts on it Jack
Hylton has a Bullard Field march Hal
Kemp should know better.
Add Henry Busse and Isham Jones to the
first list.
* * * *
Best wishes for a hot slug in the pants
for the local lion-o-typer who tried to make
merry with me and my punch dribbling in
Wednesday's last paragraph.
A lion-o-typer, needing another line to fill
out a column, will run the proceeding line
twice every time. All the time they do it.
Me and Mclntyre have the awfulest time
of anybody. And if I misspelt anything
herein—the lion-o-typer did it. They are
such a help on that score. And such a help
when one has nothing else to write about.
* * * *
2 a. m.'s: Gladys Galvin has got the
freckles the next time Molly Brasfield
dances on the local theatre stage, one well
known promoter intends to sell tickets
June Tooker, one little damn yankee who
looks as nice as we Southern girls "Sun­shine"
will also have the freckles as soon as
the sun gets hot enough the K. D. pledges
being'initiated the other 4 a. m. when it was
still so dark they couldn't see what they
were getting into listening to the flood
reports Wednesday night and was wonder­ing
what one story house people do when
a two story flood comes Doris White with
Pensacola Bay blue eyes Dot Wright with
laughing eyes And "Powhatan" with pool
pocket eyes Quinney thinks the sun rises
over Society Hill every morning, but it
comes over the nigger Baptist church every
time—it just looks like it does the moon
rises under Esther Weeks' phone table
stars come out in Jane Dickson's eyes
and I'm thinking of going a bit more into
the science of astronomy and learning of the
comets with the flaming tails to know some­thing
else to say about Quinney that for
his threatening little line beginning: "What
well known Shoe Salesman and what- infa­mous
columnist were seen ."
A seven year experiment by University
of Wisconsin scientists has proved the value
of copper as a preventive and curative for
anemia in children.
SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1936 T H E A U B U R N P L A I N S M A N -:- A L A B A M A P O L Y T E C H N I C I N S T I T U TE P A G E T H R EE
PROSPECTS GOOD
FOR SUCCESSFUL
DIAMOND SEASON
Favorable Weather Aids Au­burn
Hurlers In Practice;
First Opponent Wednesday
After a number of days of prac­tise,
the baseball nines are rapidly
rounding into tip-top shape, the
weather of the past few days enabling
the team to get in some good train­ing.
The personnel of the team includes,
pitchers, James Edwards, Rayford,
Purlow, Millard Morris, Prenchy
Gunter, M. D. Thomas, Joe Bob Mit­chell,,
John Tipper, Sellers, and Mar­tin;
catchers are, Frank Turner, Col­lins
Fenton, Zip Adams, Fred Black,
and Norman Whitten.
Candidates for the infield are, Joe
Stewart, 3b; Billy Hitchcock, ss; Mal­colm
McDonald, ss; Frank Hamm, 2b;
Billy Masterson, 2b; Bruce Taylor, lb;
and Monroe Hayes, lb. Candidates
for the outfield are, Gilbert McMil­lan,
If; Sidney Scarbough, cf; Baze-more,
rf; and G. Black, rf. Of the
above players, nine were freshmen of
last year.
Interfraternity Baseball League Schedule
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Letters Are Awarded
To Frosh Footballers
At the recommendation of Coach
Ralph Jordan, and approval of Ath­letic
Director, Jack Meagher, Dean C.
L. Hare awarded numerals to twenty-six
frosh football gridsters.
The Freshmen honored are, Oscar
Burford, Morris Cook, Malcolm Craw-der,
Robert Childress, Carlisle Davis,
Tom Edwards, Ted Ferriera, Oliver
Fletcher, J. M. Fowler, James D. Har­ris,
Lydel Howell, Lamar Hart, V. C.
Hill, T. R. Hill, J. J. Jigger, Jack
Market, Malvin Morgan, W. D. Mims,
Robert Neeley, W. F. Nichols, Charles
O'Reilly, Francis Riddle, G a r th
Thorpe, Marion Walker, George Wolfe
and Manager W. T. Ginn.
Most of these freshmen are good
prospects for varsity football and will
report next season to help form one
of the strongest teams in the South.
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Many Lost And Found
Articles Being Held
Lost articles in the Plant Service
Department include a number of men's
and women's hats, a lady's pocket
book, a pair of lady's glasses, and sev­eral
note books. Losers may obtain
the articles by calling at the office of
the Plant Service Department and giv­ing
proper identification.
LEE JAMES
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SPECIAL DISCOUNT TO AUBURN STUDENTS
High G r a d e - All Wool Suits
For Men
9.75 - 14.75 - 19.50 - 22-50
OPELIKA
FIVE MEETS ARE SCHEDULED
FOR AUBURN'S CINDER TEAM
Tiger Trackmen Will Meet Georgia, Florida, Tech, And
B i r m i n g h a m - S o u t h e r n During 1936 Campaign; Will Be
Coach Hutsell's Fifteenth Year; McKenzie Is T e am Captain
Meeting Georgia, Florida and Geor­gia
Tech, all Southeastern Conference
rivals, and Birmingham-Southern in
dual meet competition land entering
the conference meet in Birmingham
on May 15 and 16, Auburn's track
and field team will appear in' five
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Tiger Swimmers Will
Meet Vols On Friday
Auburn's swimming team will clash
with Tennessee's tankmen this Friday
night at 7:15 p. m. in the Alumni
Gymnasium in what promises to be an
interesting affair. Ticket books will
be required for entrance.
Auburn has been practicing hard all
week after their setback by Georgia
Tech, stressing sprints and turns. The
mainstays of the team and the men
who have shown the most development
are Woodward, undefeated in the
breaststroke; Keirsted in the free
style events; Connor in the backstroke
and 440 yard free style; and McKin-ney,
also undefeated, in the 50 and
100 yard free style event. It is ex­pected
that the same men who started
against Tech will start against the
Vols.
On Wednesday or Thursday of the
following week, Auburn's splashers
will meet Emory in Atlanta. On
March 27, they will encounter Georgia
in Athens, and on April 16, will swim
against University of Miami here.
Admission requirements of Ameri­can
universities have reached a dan­gerously
low level, according to Frank
Bowles, Columbia authority.
meets during the 1986 campaign,
which will be Coach Wilbur Hutsell's
fifteenth at the helm of the Plains­men
cinder squad.
Auburn's tracksters, captained by
Ed McKenzie who tied for second in
the pole vault at last year's confer­ence
carnival, will clash with Georgia
and Birmingham-Southern . on Drake
Field here. The Bulldogs will be met
on April 18 and the Panthers on April
25 in the Tigers first two tests of
the year.
Florida will be encountered in
Gainesville on May 2 and Georgia
Tech in Atlanta on May 9. Both the
Gators and Yellow Jackets will be
stronger this season than they were
a year ago and Auburn's spikemen
will have a tough time adding to their
already incredible record, of having
lost only three dual contests in 14
years.
Coach Hutsell will build around
Capt. McKenzie and Wilton Kilgore,
fourth best quarter miler in the S. E.
C. as a sophomore in 1935. Bruce
McGehee is also expected to be a pot­ent
factor in the high jump.
The schedule mapped out for Au­burn's
1936 track and field team is
as follows:
April 18, Georgia at Auburn; April
25, Birmingham-Southern at Auburn;
May 2, Florida at Gainesville; May 9
Georgia Tech at Atlanta; May 15 and
16, Southeastern Conference meet in
Birmingham.
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SEVEN QUINT MEN
Only One Of Seven To Get
Letters Is Senior; Others
Will Return For Next Year
After having closed one of the most
successful seasons of basketball in a
number of years, Coach Ralph Jor­dan
gave recommendations of varsity
letters to seven members and manager
of the 1936 basketball squad, wnich
was approved by Coach Jack Meagher
and awarded by Dean C. L. Hare,
chairman of the athletic committee.
The members and manager of the
team to receive varsity monograms
are, Woodrow Barnes, W. R. Crew,
A. D. Curlee, Joel Eaves, Rex Mc-
Kissick, Joe Bob Mitchell, Hugh Rod-gers
and manager B. D. Godbold.
Of the above members, only one is
a senior and will be lost from next
year's team. All the rest are juniors
and will return next season to form
one of the strongest teams in the
conference.
The team will probably hold a meet­ing
in the near future to elect a cap­tain
for the coming year and pros­pects
seem to indicate bigger and bet­ter
things for the next season.
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All fraternities are requested to
abide by the baseball schedule that
appears on this page. Two games
must be played by each fraternity
every week.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 21
BARBARA STANWYCK in
"ANNIE OAKLEY"
with Preston Foiter, Melvyn
Douglas, Moroni Olsen, Pert
Kelton, Andy Clyde.
Added:
Novelty: "ALL AMERICAN
DRAWBACK"
Cartoon: "MAYFLOWER"
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
March 22 and 23
FRED ASTAIRE and GINGER
ROGERS in
"FOLLOW THE FLEET"
with Randolph Scott, Harriet
Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 24
"LAST of the PAGANS"
with Mala and Lotus.
Added:
Comedy: "A QUIET FOURTH"
Screen Vaudeville: "VITA-PHONE
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BASKETBALL TEAM
LOSES FAST AND
FURIOUS BATTLE
(Continued from page 1)
and with the aid of Captain, manager,
assistant crook McCroskey and the
three other stooges the Rag ran up
their winning points.
Doug Wallace, minus his cutthroats,
appeared on the scene to make the
thing official and to see that Quin-neys'
gang didn't steal the Plains­man's
uniforms. Doug witnessed the
conflict in complete subjection but
when approached for a statement af­ter
the so-called game Doug com­mented
that the Plainsman outfit were
just five guys named Alfonso as far
as he was concerned. Quinney, for
a change, didn't have anything to
say.
Undaunted by the outcome of the
game the Plainsman forces have gone
into serious training and will chal­lenge
the Tiger Rag for the checker
championship of Auburn and points
south in the near future.
The warriors who saw service for
thib paper were: Todd, Bottoms, Paul,
Steppe, Mardirosian and Barton.
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100 ANNIVERSARY
OF AUBURN TO BE
CELEBRATED SOON
LOVEMAN, JOSEPH & LOEB
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
(Continued from page 1)
The UDC, DAR, and other organiza­tions
will be represented. The town
council, under the direction of Mayor
W. D. Copeland, will participate and
officials of the college will cooperate
for the town and college are insepar­able
and function as a unit.
A musical program for the dinner
is being arranged by Mrs. Mary Drake
Askew, another of the Auburn pioneer
stock, she being the daughter of the
late Dr. J. H. Drake who for 53 years
was physician for the Alabama Poly­technic
Institute, prior to which he
was a physician in the Town of Au­burn.
Dr. Drake was the only physi­cian
the college had prior to Dr. B.
P. Thomas, present physician.
An alumnus of the class of 1888,
Colonel Samford is a member of a
family which has been intimately con­nected
with the town and college since
it became a state institution. His
father, Ex-Governor Wm. J. Samford,
attended the old East Alabama Male
College, predecessor of the Alabama
Polytechnic Institute. He helped to
make it a state institution and served
it officially, being chairman of the
board of trustees while he was gover­nor.
The administration building was
named for him, Wm. J. Samford Hall.
Governor Samford had four broth­ers
to attend Auburn; also four sons.
His oldest son, Judge Wm. H. Sam­ford
of Montgomery, sent four sons
to Auburn and Colonel T. D. Sam­ford
sent three.
On his mother's side many others
related to the Samford family have
been students at Auburn and served
in various capacities.
Colonel Samford was born in Au­burn
and is expected to relate many
interesting experiences in his talk at
the birthday dinner. ,
The Montgomery Advertiser, which
has furnished news daily to Auburn
at the breakfast hour for more than
a century, will publish on March 29
an Auburn Centennial Section. It
will include many articles about the
town and also the college.
At the celebration on Friday eve-
IN 1895
(Continued from page 1)
have purchased your books, you must
select a seat in the Study Hall in the
row reserved for your class.
"As good accomodation, board,
room, fuel, and lights as can be found
anywhere can be obtained for from
ten to fifteen dollars per month.
"Should you be so unfortunate as
to leave home short of funds, do not
hesitate to call on a Blue Ribbon man
for assistance, at the same time pre­senting
this book as a pledge. It will
pass current at all times.
"Be sure to attend the Sunday
School of your denomination or the
superintendent will inquire about you.
"Of the twenty-eight regular and
substitute football players last session,
only five received honor certificates at
commencement, three of whom barely
made them. This is not a brilliant
record from whatever point of view
we may look at it.
"Don't be a 'sport' and do not as­sociate
either temporarily or perma­nently
with a student or body of stu­dents
that is or attempts to be 'sporty.'
"For each rooming house an inspec­tor
is appointed whose duty it is to
report those who, without permission,
leave their rooms after 'Call to Quar-
Quinneys' outfit beside himself were:
Kilgore, Ellis, McCroskey, Blake,
Scarborough and Hutto. All partici­pants
in the battle will receive the
Congressional Medal of Honor at a
special review of the entire cadet
corps at a date to be announced later. I
ning honor will be paid to the cour­ageous
pioneer spirit of Judge John
J. Harper and his little band of in­trepid
of settlers from Harris County
Georgia who came to this section and
founded the Town of Auburn in 1836.
At that time Andrew Jackson was
spending his last stormy year in the
White House and the removal farther
west of the Creek Indians that year
and next made possible the settle­ment
of this section of Alabama.
Though a few straggling Indians
remained, to harrass the settlers at
times, the hardy Georgians lost no
time in felling trees, erecting crude
houses; and Judge Harper himself
laid out the Town of Auburn.
The first post office opened 1837,
and two years later the town was in­corporated.
Mail arrived irregularly
by horseback and stage coach until
the coming of the railroad in 1847.
The double-pen log house erected
at the time by Judge Harper at that
time was one of the first houses built
in Auburn. It remained until 1891,
and the property was owned at the
time of its removal by the late J. W.
Wright. Its location was on the
southeastern outskirts of present-day
Auburn.
CABINET WILL BE
CHOSEN AT POLLS
BY ALL STUDENTS
(Continued from page 1)
Searcey. The presidency of the Cabi­net
will be determined by student vote
in the second election this spring.
From six candidates to chose from,
members of the sophomore class will
decide which three shall hold office as
Junior Cabinet members next year.
The candidates are: Max Welden,
Billy Radney, Jack Vann, George Leh-nert,
A. D. Holmes, and Bill Butler.
Four freshmen are in the race for
the two sophomore posts for next year.
They are: Curty Farley, Billy Mc-
Gehee, Cecil Pittman and Van Shep-pard.
*
From the women student body at
large one co-ed will be named to serve
as their representative to the Cabinet.
Two co-eds, Albena Pierce and Doris
White, have announced their candi­dacy
for the post.
All Cabinet members elected Tues­day
will begin their term of office
at the first of school next year. A
representative from the freshman
class next year will be chosen at the
regular fall elections, which will bring
the Cabinet membership to 11 mem­bers.
The Cabinet next year will be
about half its usual size, the change
having been voted upon by the stu­dent
body at large last fall. Having
a smaller number, it is expected that
the Cabinet in the future will be able
to accomplish many more worthwhile
projects than they have in the past
due to the large membership.
INTERFRAT DANCE
TO BE STAGED IN
GYM THIS EVENING
be given Authority to Override De­cisions
of the Supreme Court."
Missionary To Speak
To 6. S. U. Group Here
The Baptist Student Union is bring­ing
Miss Essie Fuller, foreign mission­ary
to Sao Paulo, Brazil, here next
week to teach the book "Witnessing at
Home and Around the World" in a
Cooperative Study Course week.
Miss Fuller is at home on furlough,
and has been speaking at different as­semblies
over the South. She will
come to Auburn from Bessemer where
(Continued from page 1)
Pennants of each fraternity repre:
sented in the Council will decorate
the wall.
Invitations for the ball have been
extended to the faculty committee
along with several other members »f
the faculty. The house mothers have
also been invited and a special place
has been provided for them. Captain
and Mrs. W. J. Klepinger and Dr.
and Mrs. H. G. Good are official
chaperones for the affair.
LOCAL DEBATERS LOSE
TO MISSISSIPPI TEAM
IN CONTEST THURSDAY
t
s (Continued from page 1)
team composed of Morris Hall and
Dan Smith lost a decision to Union
College, Tenn., debaters. The Au­burn
team upheld the negative side
of the question: "Resolved, That Con­gress
Should by a Two-thirds Vote
she has been one of the speakers at
the state Womans Missionary Union
Convention which has been in session
this week.
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"Students, after selecting their
boarding house, are not permitted to
make .changes without the consent of
the president, and this permission is
only given at the close of a term, ex­cept
for special reasons."
And so on.
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