1936-03-18 The Auburn Plainsman

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VOLUMN LIX AUBURN, ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1936 NUMBER 42
LEADING STATE
SCIENTISTS TO
CONVENE HERE
Leading Scientists From All
Sections Of The State Gather
Here Friday And Saturday
IS ANNUAL MEETING
Sixty-eight Papers Reporting
Many New Discoveries Will
Be Read During The Sessions
Leading scientists from all parts of
the state will gather here on Friday
and Saturday to attend the 13th an­nual
meeting of the Alabama Academy
Science. Sixty-eight papers report­ing
scientific discoveries of as many
members will be read during the two-day
session before those assembled at
the Academy's four divisions in Ross
Chemical Laboratory.
A. G. Overton, of the Alabama By­products
Corporation and president of
the organization, states that some 100
members are expected to be present.
Appearing on the program will be
leaders in scientific research in vari­ous
industries together with those at
the University of Alabama, the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute, and prac­tically
every higher institution of
learning in the State.
The meeting begins with registra­tion
at Ross Chemical Laboratory at
8:30 to 10:30 o'clock Friday morning,
after which committee meetings will
be called. From 1:00 p. m. until 5:00
p. m. that afternoon papers will be
read before the four sections: biology
and medical science; chemistry, phy­sics
and mathematics; geology, an­thropology
and archeology; and in­dustry
and economics.
The general business session is sche­duled
for 5 p. m. Friday with Presi­dent
Overton presiding. That evening
at 7 p. m. the annual banquet will be
held at the Thomas Hotel. The scien­tists
will be welcomed to Auburn by
Dr. L. N. Duncan, president of the
Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and
Mr. Overton will deliver the address
as president of the Academy. Fol­lowing
the banquet a reception will be
held in honor of the visitors at the
President's Mansion where they will
be greeted by Dr. and Mrs. L. N.
Duncan and other members of the
Auburn faculty.
Sectional meetings will be continued
during the forenoon Saturday and
there will also be a geological trip
conducted by Dr. Walter B. Jones,
State Geologist. A trip to Tuskegee
Institute has been arranged for Sat­urday
afternoon.
The Junior Academy of Science will
be in session on the same dates at
the Lee County High School.
Water Color Exhibit
Now On Display Here
Watercolors by J. Kelly Fitzpat-rick,
of Wetumpka, are on display in
the Library of the School of Archi­tecture
and Allied Arts. The exhibit
will be open to the public, during
school hours, through March 24th.
Mr. Fitzpatrick, a director of the
Southern States Art League and
president of the Alabama Art League,
has long been a leader among south­ern
artists. He is a member of the
Art Association of New Orleans, the
Birmingham Art Club, and the Mis­sissippi
Art Association.
Mr. Fitzpatrick's works are widely
distributed. One is hanging in the
White House, placed there by Frank­lin
D. Roosevelt. Recently this artist
was selected; by the government to
paint pictures to be hung in the
American Embassies abroad. Visitors
to the Montgomery Museum are well
acquainted with his work.
Though best known for his work
in oils, Mr. Fitzpatrick is equally at
home in the handling of watercolors.
In both mediums his pictures are built
up by strong color contrasts. His
pictures are almost always full of
sunlight. The watercolors on display
show a spontaneity, a sureness, and
a brilliancy that only the best water-colors
possess.
Fast And Furious Battle Seen For
Tonight When Plainsman And Tiger
Rag Quintets Tangle In Gymnasium
FOI L € D !
Sigma Nu Freshman Outwits
Ed To Learn Name Of
Band For Dances
Once in a great while during the
year the Plainsman has an oppor­tunity
to come out with something
that nobody else knows about. A
good scoop, in other words.
Last Friday morning streamers and
headlines were being written an­nouncing
Anson Weeks for the final
dances. Outside the Plainsman and
C. Witty Walter nobody knew the
name of the orchestra. At least, it
was a dark secret until about 10
o'clock when the entire Sigma Nu
chapter suddenly found out.
The phone rang sharply in the
Plainsman office, and over the wire
a slow, drawling voice asked: "Are
you sure you got the spelling right
on that orchestra for the dances?
How did you spell it?
Answer: "W-e-e-k-s.'J
Voice from the Sigma Nu House:
"Thanks. That's right. I just want­ed
to make sure."
Did the Plainsman bite, or did it
bite? But that voice did sound a
devilish lot like Walter's. Credit goes
to Alvin Vogtle.
STATE SOLONS TO
DISCUSS REVENUE
BILLS MORROW
Final Action Still In Doubt As
Solons Consider Many Bills
Provided To Raise Revenue
With final action still in doubt the
Alabama legislature, now in special
session in Montgomery, continues
consideration of new revenue ade­quate
to supply the unpaid balance
appropriated by the same legislature
in regular session last year to educa­tion
and health, plus a new appropria­tion
for social security.
While no one knows what will be
done in the end, wise observers of
legislative procedure and public af­fairs
are now predicting that before
this special session adjourns a rev­enue
bill adequate to meet the needs,
as stated above, will become a law.
Observers are divided as to whether
or not the act will be submitted to
the voters of the State in a referen­dum
in order that the Alabama elec­torate
may decide for themselves
what they want to do about public
education, public health, and social
security.
A special committee, created by the
house of representatives, worked aver
the week end in the preparation of a
revenue measure. It is expected that
the House, sitting as a committee of
the whole Wednesday, will reach an
agreement of some kind. Since this
will be a committee action it must
go before the house of representa­tives
in a regular legislative session
and, if approved, it will then go to
the senate. A regular session will
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Four Students Named
By Pharmacy Society
Four new members, Harold Wil­liams,
Montgomery; Emmet Cooper,
Columbus, Ga.; James Dumas, Au­burn;
and C. W. Bell, Louisville, Ky.,
were elected Friday by Rho Chi,
honorary Pharmacy society.
Rho Chi was founded at the Uni­versity
of Michigan in 1922 for the
purpose of promoting the advance­ment
of the pharmaceutical sciences.
Chapters are maintained only in col­leges
holding membership in the
American Association of Colleges of
Pharmacy. Zeta chapter was install­ed
in Auburn in 1925.
Membership is restricted to under­graduates
who have shown profici­ency
in the science of pharmacy and
its allied subjects and who may be
recommended by the dean or the sec­retary
of the pharmacy faculty.
Ten Cents Per Head Will Be
Charged; No Exceptions;
To Help Buy Scoreboard
Alumni Gym will be the scene of
the battle of several centuries to­night
when, at 8 o'clock the two bas­ketball
teams representing the Plains­man
and the Tiger Rag will meet to
do or die for their respective sheets.
The carnage will probably be terrific
and spectators, if any, are warned to
come prepared for anything.
All this started several weeks ago
when the Tiger Rag, under the man­agement
of George Quinney, had the
audacity to challenge the Plainsman.
Being ready for anything the Plains­man
immediately accepted. There
will be an admission price of ten
cents per head including "A" Club
members. The proceeds will be given
to Coach Jordan to assist in the pur­chase
of a new scoreboard for the
gym.
Players on the Rags team include";
Bobby (Porky) Blake, Frank (Do­pey)
Ellis, Walter Gilbert, Wilton
Kilgore, Floyd Hutto and Sidney
Scarborough, with George Quinney
as owner and coach and Sam McCros-key
as captain and manager. Joe
Bob Mitchell will do the refereeing
for the Tiger Rag and Jimmie Karam
will do the dirty work for the Plains­man.
The Plainsman warriors will be as
follows: Oscar Bottoms, Ed Briggs,
Russ Paul, Jack Steppe, Jay Barton,
Jack Todd and Marty Mardirosian.
Five of the so-called athletes gracing
the Plainsman roster are "damned
yankees" and it's probable that the
Civil War will be fought over as a
side attraction. Gov. Graves has been
notified of the impending straggle
and he has ordered five companies of
National Guardsmen to hold them­selves
in readiness in case the situa­tion
gets out of the hands of the local
authorities.
All players will be searched before
going on the floor to be certain that
no concealed weapons will hamper
their playing. Brass knuckles will be
permitted and the referees will be
urged to wear their football uni­forms
for their own protection. The
Plainsman has taken out an insurance
policy on Karam but the Tiger Rag
will have to assume the responsibility
for what happens to Mitchell and
Quinney.. Doug Wallace will appear
on the scene with a body guard of
five of Al Capone's former cut­throats.
The winner of this classic will chal­lenge
the New York Celtics for the
championship of the world, and peti­tion
the Olympic Committee for the
right to represent the United States
in the Olympic games in Berlin this
summer. If the Rags outfit should
happen to triumph the Plainsman will
immediately appeal to the Supreme
Court.
Don't miss it!
Debates Auburn
Tiger Swimmers Lose
To Ga. Tech Saturday
Taking five out of a possible nine
first places, Georgia Tech's swimming
team won over the Auburn tankmen
here last Saturday night by a score
of 48-36 in the Tiger's second meet
of the year.
The meet was closer than the score
might indicate, the victor's margin
being earned on the relay races which
Tech won by a few inches. Due to
the keen competition the times for all
the races were unusually fast.
Gordon McKinney and Brandt
Woodward were the individual stars
for Auburn, McKinney taking first
place in both the 50 and 100-yard
dashes, while Woodward copped the
diving and breaststroke events. Con­ner's
two second places, Jim Smith's
one second place, and Alcebo's third
completed the Plainsmen's scoring.
House led the Tech team with firsts
in the 220 and 440 yard dashes.
In a preliminary match Georgia
Tech's freshman team won over the
Tiger first year men by a score of
43-35. Wingo and Lyons did most of
the Auburn scoring in this meet.
MARICE COLLINS
MARY DODENHOFF
These young women debaters
from Mississippi State College for
Women will oppose the Auburn
debate team here Thursday even­ing
at 8 p.m. in the Student Hall.
Miss Dodenhoff is a senior at M.
S. C. W. where she is a prominent
student leader. She is president of
the Debate Council and a member
of a number of other organizations.
Miss Collins, a Junior, transferred
to M. S. C. W. this year from
Jones County Junior College. She
was one of the leading debaters at
the Mississippi institution.
AUBURN, BENNING
POLOISTS BATTLE
TO 6-6 DEADLOCK
Lt. Thompson Leads Rally Of
Visitors To Tie Auburn In
Final Period Of Struggle
By ALVIN MORLAND
Led by Lieut. Paul Thompson, a
three-goal handicap star, the 83rd
Field Artillery polo team rallied in
the final chukker to overcome a two
point lead and tie Auburn 6-6 last
Saturday on Bullard Field in the
Tigers' first game of the season.
Auburn jumped into an early lead
in the initial chukker when Dexter
sent the ball through the bars for the
first tally of the game, but Thomp­son
tied it in the second period when
he scored in the closing minutes of
the stanza. Thompson made another
goal in the next period and the visi­tors
had a two point advantage when
Dexter's pony kicked the ball through
the uprights in a melee in front of
Auburn's goal. Chandler added one
to the Tigers' total by a spectacular
shot in the final seconds of the pe­riod.
The half ended with Ft. Ben-ning
holding a 3-2'advantage.
Soon after play was resumed
Chandler scored again for Auburn
only to have Thompson's third goal
of the game send the visitors back
into the lead. The two goals were
made within one minute of each
other. Ivey evened the count with
his only tally of the game just before
the chukker ended.
Tom Bacon, who had subbed for
Hicks earlier in the game, turned in
one of the best offensive perform­ances
of the tilt when he chalked up
two markers in less than the same
number of minutes of play, giving the
Plainsmen a two point lead when they
entered the final chukker. Here the
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NOTICE !
All students and members of the
faculty who are interested in golf are
urged to attend a meeting to be held
tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in 301
Samford Hall.
Rapid Progress Is
Made Here In
Fencing
That fencing will soon have a def­inite
place in school activities is evi­denced
by the recent growth of the
newly organized fencing team on the
campus. Five new students, Kate
Quattlebaum, Grady Hicks, Kelly Bry­ant,
Harry Shoaf, and Bill Dexter
have recently enrolled and are re­ported
to be making rapid progress in
learning the game's fundamentals.
According to James M. Davis, fenc­ing
mentor, there will be no contests
tnis year due to the newness of the
sport in Auburn. However, the club
plans to put on a fencing exhibition
the latter part of the year.
The club was visited last Thursday
night during practice by Lieut. H. W.
Ehrgott who was very much impress­ed
and who plans to come back and
work with the class.
Coach Davis requests that anyone
interested should come by the Rec­reation
Hall any Thursday night at
seven o'clock and watch a practice
session without any obligation to join
the club.
Council Decides Not
To Excuse Students
For Class Meetings
At a regular meeting Tuesday the
executive council decided that in the
future students will not be excused
from classes for class meetings and
requested that class officers, arrange
their meetings at hours which do not
conflict with classes.
Discussion revealed that class
meetings in the past have been very
disturbing to many classes and lab­oratories,
some of which students
from more than one class were in­cluded.
The deans felt that late afternoons
or early evening hours can be ar­ranged
without difficulty for class
sessions and thereby avoid interfer­ence
with regular classes as sched­uled.
PLANS FOR SIXTY-FOURTH
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT
RELEASED BY DR. DUNCAN
Blake Made Eligible
For Coming Election
Following a heated debate
Bobby Blake was declared eligi­ble
to compete in the coming
elections for chairman of the So­cial
Committee. This move was
taken by the Executive Cabinet
in a meeting last night.
This action by the Cabinet
brings the total number eligible
for the position up to three. The
other two candidates are Vernon
Merritt and John Maroney. With
three candidates now in the
field, the race for chairman of
the Social Committee gives every
"indication of being one of the
closest contests on the campus
in recent years. The election will
be staged next Tuesday, March
24.
The Cabinet also last night
voted $250 to the Polo team.
Final Plans Made For Annual
Commencement Exercises To
Be Held On May 24 And 25
MANY EVENTS PLANNED
Baccalaureate Sermon Will Be
Delivered by Dr. Dillard;
Dr. Snavely Will Speak
MANY EVENTS ARE
SLATED IN TRACK
MEET WEDNESDAY
Improvement Of Road
To State Park Asked
Improvement of the road from Au­burn
to Camp Chewakla (Wright's
Mill) was urged by the Auburn Ki-wanis
club Monday. President Geo.
Scarseth and Prof. W. D. Salmon
insisted that it should be a major
project and asked that the committee
on public affairs,- of which P. O.
Davis is chairman, consider it accord­ingly.
l t was reported at the meeting that
the matter has been presented to some
of the Lee county officials, each of
whom considered it favorably. It is
exptcted that this road will be trav­eled
extensively following the com­pletion
of thes park now being de
veloped.
Horace Smith, a district game war­den
of the Alabama Department of
Conservation with headquarters at
Camp Hill, spoke on sportsmanship
in hunting and in fishing. He urged
each hunter and fisherman to con­sider
the future as well as the pres­ent
when hunting or fishing.
Captain T. L. Futch was presented
to the club as a new member.
Ten Cinder Events Scheduled
On Program For "A" Day;
Rules Listed By Joe Sarver
Group Formed To Ask
For Road Betterment
Bob Smith has been named by the
Lions Club as the local representative
in a group of East Alabama citizens
who will meet tomorrow morning in
Montgomery with Mr. Gaston Scott,
president of the Alabama State High­way
Commission, in an effort to ob­tain
an improvement in roads in this
section of the state.
Senator I. J. Dorsey, of Opelika,
will be the official spokesman of the
delegation. A large delegation of citi­zens
from East Alabama is expected
to confer tomorrow morning with the
highway commission in the interest of
better roads in this vicinity. One of
the improvements stressed will be the
The Interf raternity Track and Field
Meet, give nannually as a part of the
"A" Day celebration, March 25, will
be held on Drake Field at nine o'clock
as the opening activity on the day's
celebration.
There are to be ten events on the
program including the 100-yeard dash,
220-yard dash, 440-yard dash, 880-
yard run, mile run, 120-yard low hur­dle,
pole vault, high jump, broad
jump and the 880 five-man relay.
Points in these events will be five
for first place, three for second, two
for third, and one for fourth. The
relay will be scored the same as the
other events.
Each fraternity may enter two men
in each event, but only one shall start.
The heats are to be run off the day
before the finals in those events re­quiring
it. Entry blanks have been
given each fraternity. These blanks
should be properly filled out and given
to Joe Sarver, chairman of the Ath­letic
Committee, not later than 12
o'clock, noon, March 23.
This meet is open to any member
of a fraternity, if he has not repre­sented
Auburn in a varsity or fresh­man
track meet, and if a pledge, he
must have been pledged before March
1, 1936. These two rules tend to put
the fraternities on a more equal basis
and to prevent any "ringers" from
taking part.
The Interfraternity Council will a-ward
a trophy cup to the fraternity
scoring the greatest number of points.
Third Resettlement
Unit Moved To City
A third unit of the Resettlement
Administration has been moved to Au­burn
with offices in a portion of the
shops building. The first unit came in
the fall and was located in the old
Drake residence opposite Comer Hall
which was enlarged and modernized.
The second unit came to Auburn
early in January with offices in Broun
Hall. With the coming of the third
unit, the last two have been com­bined
in the shops building. In all
three units more than 100 people are
employed as office personnel and field
workers. •
NOTICE !
All students interested in forming
mixed doubles for a tennis tourna­ment
at the Girls' Gym on Saturday
week are asked to see either Jane
paving of the road between Opelika | Slack or Miss Fannie Stollenwerck
and Columbus. at the gym-
Plans for the 64th annual com­mencement
at Auburn, May 24-25,
were announced today by President L.
N. Duncan. Candidates for degrees
total 274. It will be Auburn's sec­ond
commencement in 1936.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered in Langdon Hall Sunday
morning, May 25, by Dr. James E.
Dillard, pastor of the Southside Bap­tist
Church in Birmingham. The bac­calaureate
address will follow at ten
o'clock the following morning by Dr.
Guy E. Snavely, president of Birm­ingham-
Southern College, Birming­ham.
Immediately thereafter Presi­dent
Duncan will confer degrees, a-ward
U. S. commissions in the re­serve
corps, and present honors, at
the conclusion of which the final cur­tain
for the session will follow.
Sunday evening a reception for
seniors and their relatives and friends
will be given by Dr. and Mrs. Dun­can
at the President's Mansion.
Monday, May 25, will be alumni day
as well as graduation day. A busi­ness
session of alumni will follow
graduation, with Maurice I. Bloch of
Selma, president of the Auburn Alum­ni
Association presiding.
The pre-commencement exercises
will begin on May 12 with the com­petitive
ROTC drill and graduation
parade from 9 a. m. to noon. This
will end the military exercises of the
session.
Final examinations for all students
will begin the afternoon of Thurs­day,
May 14, and end one week later,
May 21. The 1936 summer session
will open on June 8.
Dr. Dillard, a Virginian by birth,
has been pastor of the Southside Bap­tist
Church since 1918. He is widely
known as a lecturer on religious edu­cation;
also as literary editor of the
Alabama Baptist;. He is a trustee of
Howard College.
Dr. Dillard holds the A. B. degree
from William Jewell College, Liberty,
Missouri, which he received in 1900;
and from this institution he received
the D. D. in 1913. From the Clarks­burg,
Missouri, College he received
his A. M. degree in 1901^ and from
Howard College the LL. D., in 1927.
He was president of Clarksburg Col­lege
from 1902 to 1907.
He was a student at Washington
University from 1912 to 1914 and at
the Divinity School at the University
of Chicago during the summer of 1918,
1928, and 1932. Dr. Dillard began
preaching when he was sixteen years
of age, his first charge being at Stur­geon,
Missouri, before coming to
Birmingham. He is an author of
Bible topics along with his work on
the Alabama Baptist and his lectur-
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Frats Must Dope Out
Own Baseball Slates
A number of fraternities are labor­ing
under the impression that their
schedules in the approaching Inter­fraternity
baseball tournament are to
be arranged by Joe Sarver. Each
fraternity must arrange their own
schedule, and must play two games
a week.
Cards will be distributed to each
fraternity soon upon which an of­ficial
scorekeeper will make a record
of each game, giving the score per
inning and other necessary data.
Contests between the two leagues
of the tournament will get underway
next week. Many fraternity teams
have been going through daily prac­tice
for the past week or two with all
indications pointing to plenty of stiff
competition.
P A G E T WO 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 INSTITUTE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1936
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To The Students
The Plainsman is always anxious to en­courage
creative writing among students.
Out of over two-thousand students there is
bound to be a few who get a genuine thrill
out of banging a typewriter in their spare
moments. Who knows but what they may
turn out something original, a little ditty
or a pice of prose that might be of consid­erable
interest to the student body as a
whole? Nobody expects it to be a master­piece,
yet it may be of such a nature as
to be of considerable interest to a number
of readers.
The majority of students, we believe, have
the feeling that The Plainsman is controlled
by a small group of students who run the
paper for their own interest and enjoyment.
Many times we have felt that students did
not offer contribution for fear their efforts
would go unnoticed. In fact, just the op­posite
is true. When any contribution is
turned in it receives far more attention than
does the usual run of copy. The Plainsman
is always on the alert for new material, for
something that is different.
For Immediate Action
Every day the student body as a whole
is becoming more and more concerned about
the present state education problem. It is
serious and they are beginning to realise
that fact. But what is there we can do is
the question raised by those students anxi­ous
to do something.
It seems at present • that the only hope
for education in the State of Alabama lies
in the passage of a selective or "luxury"
sales tax. Putting education on a parity
with other state departments has been tem­porarily
laid aside. Therefore, what is de­sired
right now is the quick passage of a '
selective sales tax that will go in effect
immediately. It would have to to do any
good. It must be specified that all monies
derived from this tax will go ONLY for
education and nothing else. That is educa­tion's
only hope.
The legislature has the power to put this
tax in effect right now if it wanted to.
Governor Graves is in favor of it. A ref­erendum
on the tax by the people of the sen­ate
could be called for next fall at the regu­lar
elections. There is no need for a refer­endum
at present. The need for immediate
action is imperative. It is being demanded.
A sales tax of any description, even a
selective sales tax, is being bitterly opposed
by powerful interests. It is being fought
to the limit by merchants and industrialists
who have a vague fear of the thing. A
number of legislators are influenced in one
way or another by the anti-sales tax people.
That, briefly is the reason why the sales
tax advocates are having such a difficult
time.
The citizens of Mississippi fought a sales
tax. Now they are highly in favor of it.
They have discovered their fear was un­founded.
And so would the people of Ala­bama
soon realize the merits of such a tax,
especially a selective sales tax which is
being advocated at present.
What each student at Auburn can do is
this: They can press upon their parents
the need for immediate action. They can
urge their parents to bring pressure to bear
upon their respective representatives to put
into effect immediately a selective sales tax,
the proceeds of which shall go only for edu­cation.
In this manner students can exert
a powerful influence. Everyone knows only
too well that the legislators are primarily
interested in votes, and the parents of each
student at Auburn represent a considerable
number of votes.
The Plainsman urges each student to give
the matter serious thought and then begin a
little action in the manner suggested. It is
bound to have results. The students at Au­burn,
whether they realise it or not, are as
much concerned with problems as the pro­fessors
or anybody else. The time to act
is right now!
Old Grandpap Is Wrong
The relation of man to nature and to so­ciety
is forever changing. Not one day
passes but what some change is made. Some­thing
is invented or something is destroyed.
Napoleon loses a gigantic empire, Robert
Fulton puts the first steamship into prac­tical
operation. The world, in a compara­tive
state of peacefulness, is suddenly
thrown into a quandry. Dark, menacing
war clouds gather where just the day be­fore
the sun was shining in all its glory.
But there is one thing that never changes.
It is the weather. Yes, it may change
from day to day, but from year to year it
is practically the same.
Old grandpap delights in his tales about
the winters when he was a kid. Especially
is this true in the Northern climate. No
one can convince him that the winters to­day
are just as severe, just as cold and just
as long as the winters in his day. No,
he remembers too well getting up all his
nerve to bounce out of a warm bed and
into his clothes in one jump, because to
tarry meant agony in a room where the
temperature was just as cold as it was out­side.
And those days, too, when there was
nothing to do but sit around the house. The
snow drifts prohibited transportation of any
sort. Those were bleak winters. They were
miserably long and tedious and hard to bear.
Grandpap remembers those old winters
too well. They are stamped on his mind
so clear and so deep he will always remem­ber
them. Who wouldn't. And of course
it is hard to convince him he is all wrong.
Today he eases out of bed into a room com­fortably
warmed, takes his sweet time about
dressing, even though there may be a severe
blizzard howling outside with the snow
heaped in huge drifts. It's of little con­cern
to him. He doesn't have to bother
about. dashing into the woodshed to pry
lose an armful of frozen logs and then have
to fret through half an hour of a patience-tester
trying to get the old pump to work­ing.
Shucks no. And as for leaving the
house and going wherever he pleases, why,
it's no sooner said than done. Nothing like
those old days. So why shouldn't grandpap
believe that winters are a good deal more
humane today than they were in his day?
But even at that he is all wrong. Grand­pap
had a devilish time in his day, but that
has nothing whatsoever to do with the
weather. It hasn't changed a particle. The
generation of today is just now pulling
through one of the toughest winters in the
history of the weather bureau. And that
record extends over a long period of time.
In some sections the winter was without
doubt the severest on record. Nothing came
even close to it. It made the "Sunny South"
look silly.
In spite of all this, though, the facts and
the figures, Grandpap will still maintain
that "we ain't been through nothin'." As
for thawing out the pump, we haven't, but
as far as the tough winters go we have.
No doubt this generation will someday be
telling their kids all about the past win­ter
( when it snowed six inches and the
Chattahoo.chee froze over from bank to
bank. Mark Twain was right.
Letters To The Editor
Editor, The Plainsman,
Dear Sir:
As a member of the A. P. I. faculty, I
wish to congratulate you and to express
my personal, although anonymous, apprecia­tion
of your efforts with regard to the fi­nancial
situation affecting payment of fac­ulty
salaries. •.
Recognizing The Plainsman primarily as
a student publication, I have waited im­patiently
for the appearance of concrete
suggestions from the student body, as re­quested
by you. None having been pub­lished,
I submit the following, preferring,
however, to remain anonymous:
1. Work in close harmony with President
Duncan on any program put through. He
knows the inside working of the entire mat­ter.
2. Organize a committee of three to five
good speakers (preferably from influential
families and one, at least, of whom should
be a co-ed) and present the matter to the
Governor, legislative committees and, if pos­sible,
on the floor of both houses.
3. Urge every Auburn student and fac­ulty
member to write at least five letters
to parents and influential friends, asking
them to write their representatives and sen­ators
in support of the measures designed
to meet the situation.
4. Prepare duplicate petitions for stu­dent
signature and presentation by commit­tees
mentioned above.
5. Suggest similar action by other Ala­bama
educational institutions.
6. Endeavor to stimulate the preparation
and presentation of petitions throughout
the state—in high schools, etc.
7. Direct your heavy artillery against
the known recalcitrant members of the leg­islature
and senate, telling them frankly
that, unless they get behind these measures,
they will not be re-elected.
8. Let your effort be known as one orig­inated
and put into effect by students—
coming voters.
9. Inform President F. D. Roosevelt and
the two Alabama Senators of the matter
and endeavor to get an expression of
opinion. If obtained, use same as appears
advisable.
10. See that your efforts are well pub­licized
throughout the state newspapers.
With the hope that the above may be, at
least in part, of some help, I am,
Sincerely,
AN AUBURN FACULTY.
MEMBER.
Cats and Canaries
Do you know ?
C. Witty (Gums shoe salesman again),
Hardie Deer, and Co. went agalivanting
down around the apartments a few nights
ago.
* * * *
"Rat" Chambers, Phi Kappa Tau hope­ful,
has an aversion to fixing flat tires.
(P. S. He took the gal with him—the com­ments
of the other party are unprintable.)
* * * *
Has Peacock (Fll-run-and-tell) learned to
drive that car yet. We also hear that he
has turned cradle snatcher.
* * * *
Part of the Resettlement Act (a blond
part no less) did a complete fadeout at the
"rat" brawl Saturday night.
* * * *
The funniest thing in Auburn—Fred Bos-well's
typewriter story—told when about
three sheets to windward.
* * * *
Roland (Power-house) Scott got his face
slapped by that blond the other night.
"Rat" Johnson, who put on the glass eat­ing
act at the dance Saturday night, claims
that he doesn't have to be inebriated to do
it. Shades of P. T. Barnum! ',
* * * *
Prof. Darling thinks that Georgia cracker
is just that,—and maybe more. *
* * * *'
Brasfield (how did she get in here) was
actually seen entering the Tiger theatre
without an escort. Maybe he met her in­side.
* * * *
The Pi Kappa Phis have a swell supply
of home brew.
* * * *
Add Similes—As honest as a politician
and as long lived as one of their promises.
They've installed a revolving searchlight
by the President's Mansion recently. A dis­appointment
to M. W. and N. W. no doubt.
* * * *
If that gal who slipped me that note
Monday night will give me a little more
evidence, I'll begin to have a lot of fun
taking somebody off their high horse. More
fun!
* * * *
That Chi 0. shouldn't tell secrets in pub­lic
places or else she should learn to whis­per—
I might hear better the next time.
* * * *
Max Welden has been giving Marian
Stanley the rush. He couldn't be politicing*
because she's a junior. It's Spring!
* * * *
Martha Petrosky spent the week-end in
town. Oh me!
* * * *
The Alumni Hall boys are running the
Kappa Sigs a close race for the title of the
"Monte Carlo" of Auburn.
.:- AUBURN FOOTPRINTS
Book Review
IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE
By SINCLAIR LEWIS
Published Doubleday Doran Co. $2.50
Doremus Jessup was a country editor.
His people had been Vermonters for genera­tions.
He believed in the American democ­racy—
but he believed too that no country
in history was so ripe for a dictatorship as
America. "It Can't Happen Here" the hard-headed
business men of Fort Beulah, Ver­mont,
told him—but Jessup had seen the
rise of Long's empire in Louisiana, had
seen Father Coughlin and Bishop Prang
sway millions over the air, had watched the
swift rise to power of Senator Berzelius
GALLANT SONS
The chemist has a vacant stare as he saunters along his way.
He's thinking of the atom small and dreaming of the day
When he shall synthesize success and fill up every beaker
And sell it by the pound to us, the ones whose minds are weaker.
He ponders of the radical and valences that touch
And fuse together for and aft and make compounds and such.
He yearns to satisfy each bond and keep down chemic trouble,
And if the demand is strong enough he'll make the bonds go double.
/
He says that matter can't be destroyed and heat is never lost,
That calories change the state of things, t h | t sweat is liquid frost,
That sixteen elements go into man and that some day maybe
The chemists will work up a storm and make a test tube baby.
If that is true, and who are we to say that it is not,
We hope our Auburn days are o'er and we our dip have got,
For odors from the lab right* now are bad enough indeed,
And who could stand the sound of it with a baby off it's feed?
And now we see another breed, there're two who walk together,
They're talking very earnestly and trying to decide whether
It's best to kill English profs outright or let them slowly suffer,
They know S. Legree bred this lot, but this generation is tougher.
One of them took 101 until all hope had flown,
To every English prof in town his face was too well known.
The library stock had been read through, but still he had no credit,
The prof talked of the beauty of speech, but this man failed to get it.
The freshman course is all he took, but took it o'er and o'er
He took it every Fall and Spring and in the Summer some more.
He vows that when an English prof brings animals to be treated
His goose he'll cook through pocket book and satisfy hate deep seated.
—CLAYTON STEPHENS.
* * * * * * * * * *
A Hebrew and an Irishman were returning to their native homes on one of
t
the large ocean liners. As the ship neared the Irish coast, the Irishman, leaning
over the rail, cried, "Hurrah for Ireland!" •
"Hurrah for Hell!" returned the Hebrew.
"That's all ight," replied the Irishman, "every man for his own country."
• —Yellow Crab.
* * , * * * * * * * *
"How did you find the girls, Oscar?"
'!Just opened the door marked 'Women' and there they were."
* * * * * * * * * *
Love shot an arrow into the air,
And now it's getting in his hair.
Dedicated to Geo. Quinney.
* * * * * * * * * *
We have just learned why Georgie Dibble won't go near a lunatic asylum.
He went once but returned with dwindled sails. It seems that he* saw a man in­tently
angling over a flower-bed. Wishing to amuse himself and be affable, he
sauntered over and asked, "Catching many?"
"You're the ninth," was the calm reply.
* * * * * * * * * *
We know a professor that should make a world champion semaphore sender.
That is he would if his habit of talking with his hands would be of any assistance.
* * * * * * * ' * * *
"This reminds me," said the victom of a hold-up, "my son will be home from
Auburn this week-end."
To the shrill notes of "Dixie," a student
climbed dripping wet from the University
lake Wednesday night after he had been
mercilessly given a thorough ducking by a
vengeful crowd of "natives".
Because he characterized the southerners
of the University as being indolent and "in­active
in mind", in a letter in the Letters
to the Editor column of the LSU Reveille
Tuesday, A. S. Pearlman, sophomore from
New York City, suffered a shaved head and
was pitched into the lake.
A crowd estimated at more than 100 took
Pearlman from his room in the West Sta­dium
and tossed him into the water. The
crowd followed the drenched victim to his
room, singing "Dixie". Then his head was
shaved and a promise forced from him that
he would write an apology for the next is­sue
of the Reveille.
* * * *
The Technique tells of a more-than-slight-ly-
inebriated gent who drove up to one of
the frat houses the other night and hit a
tree trunk that was leaning over the curb.
Backing up, he tried again, but with the
same results. After several trials, during
which the entire left side of his car was
smashed, he finally cut off the ignition and
slid out of the door, mumbling, " 'Sno ushe.
I'm lost in a damn forest."
* * * *
A Maroon columnist tells about the acro­batic
dancer who was "so wrapped up in
herself that a three-cent stamp on her fore­head
would have mailed her out of the
city."
Windrip, greatest of the demagogues, and
his league of forgotten men. He sensed the
changes in the air, the coming of the day
when freedom, constitutional guarantees and
truth as a democracy understands it would
be lost to America. But even Doremus Jes­sup
could not foresee the full force of the
terror that was to sweep, the country; the
maelstrom that was to crash across America
in a fury of blood and hate, carrying to de­struction
himself and all that he held dear.
In the rich pages is a challenging picture
of our times and the years to come; a novel
to stand with Babbitt and Main Street on
the shelf of great American novels; a furi­ous
and inspiring story that probes deeply
into the troubles of our chaotic modern
world.
"A professor who comes in ten minutes
late is rare," says the Illini. "In fact, he's
in a class by himself."
From the Davidsonian: Man is but a
worm—he comes, squirms about a bit, and
then some hen gets him.
The world's smallest college course is now
Geography 34 at Harvard which deals with
the astronomical determination of fixed
points. There's just one student and one in­structor.
But then it's reported that Prof.
J. L. Coolidge of Harvard discovered a few
years ago in a course in abstruse mathe­matics
that he was lecturing only to the
monitor who wasn't taking the course and
didn't understand a word.—Minnesota
Daily.
* * * *
A strange tale of the consequences of a
mistake made in translation of a book on
basketball rules is brought to the University
of Minnesota by a student who has just re­turned
from the University of Vienna.
He said he found the Austrian students
playing basketball as they learned it from
an American rule book. But in the trans­lation
they thought they were to use an
oval ball instead of a round one. So night
after night, before cheering throngs, the
Austrian college men fought around the
wooden floor, tripping over one another try­ing
to dribble a football. Eventually they
came out on the court with a round ball—
but whether the translator's mistake had
been found out or their own ingenuity 'was
responsible, the student did not know.
* * * *
It is almost time for the "Wiskerino" at
Spring Hill College. Every year, two weeks
before this annual ball, sophomores are not
allowed to shave. Following an age-old
custom, the sophomore vigilance committee
will enforce the law by giving a good duck­ing
into the lake to any one who does not
appear at the dance, whiskers and all.
* * * *
The problem of earning a living is not
rea'lly complex according to a California co­ed.
Here's how it is done:
First one borrows a dollar from a wealthy
friend and places a penny on it. . Then one
goes out and catches a nice, fresh, unsophis­ticated
worm of sufficient brevity so that
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 he read as an expression
of our editorial policy.
* * * * SOMEONE accused the Shoe Salesman
of being a hoss thief. Such an accusa­tion
is entirely unfounded, for, being
new at the game, he is learning the business
from the ground up, and is only stealing
ponies at the present time.
* * * *
As soon as I can find my "Now It is
Time For This One" story in my files I am
going to run it in all haste. The story
entitled: "We should have had Lombardo,
but I hear Whoozis from Chicago is adept
and adorable too."
* * * *
To continue our argument: Phil Harris
sounds like an over-stuffed green fly in a
brown beer bottle, and not a good grade of
green fly at that.
* * * *
My self-confessed imitator out in the cen-terfield
section of the page finds it hard
to make up his mind just as to whether, he
should mention the name of Brasfield or
not. I too found out by phoning that she
has many other things she had rather do
than sit up and listen to me talk of Shakes­peare
and hamburgers.
* * * *
But there is no need of accusing a girl
of not being the best looking girl in town
just because you can't go to see her. May­be
someone else would like to hear of
Shakespeare, and I know some of the Kap­pa
Deltas would like to hear and see some
hamburgers.
* * * *
But on the other contested point I will
have to stand my ground and state again
that Mark Twain and Shakespeare undoubt­edly
had more sense than the lady in ques­tion.
To prove my point, neither of the gentle­men
mentioned would attend a dance every
night and then have four dates on Sunday.
* * * *
A little paring reminder to some of you
poetic souls: The same breath taking moon
that gently caresses the sleeping babe in
the nursery and shines upon star studded
lakes, in which tall pines dip their shadows,
also looks upon the hiccoughing individual
who noisily surrenders his hash and cof­fee
supper into a pool of faltering moon­beams
behind the local beer jernt.
* * * *
Which reminds me of the time a friend
and I stopped and looked while another
until-then friend repaired a punctured tire.
The red big blobby October moon had
sent scurrying beams to grasp the yellow
sagebrush by which it pulled itself over
the horizon. It hung, saffron, two feet off
the sand on the side of the field, then turn­ed
golden and released the sage to boom
golden and start its climb. We looked
until the one who called himself our friend
spoke. "You know," he said, "that old jack­ass
in that nigger stable down yonder must
have romance on his mind the way he is
hollering."
* * * *
Sometime I wish I could withstand the
bite of chewing tobacco. I know several
people with perfect spitoon eyes.
* * * *
The convening of the Alabama Legisla­ture
is the only spectacle in the State that
can draw as big a bunch of ignorant farm­ers
and tobacco chewers—unless it is the
burning of a screaming nigger on the court
house lawn of some South Alabama settle­ment.
* * * *
It's probably the puppy dog in us that
caused the Sunday's show to be announced
as:
Gable-Loy
Jean Harlow
I know, I'm just like any other incor-rible;
I'd give thirty-five cents any Sunday
for a glimpse of a beer bottle blond in a
Saturday fitting dress.
* * * *
However, watch for the show called,
"Next Time We Love" which features the
boy friend of Harlow's in this past Sunday's
show. He is supported by Margaret Sula-van.
And even that lady, who misspells her
last name, is enabled to so some fine acting
opposite him.
* * * *
Oh for the dipping of this feverish brow
into the wetty-purple contents of a bull
bottomed punch bowl, and licking, on
straightening, the coursing drops which
straighting, the coursing drops which
came chinward.
he doesn't hang over the edge.
Now one finds a friend who has not had
the benefits of higher education and kagers
him that the worm won't crawl off the
penny to the dollar.
The worm won't crawl because a current -
is set up by the metal and the worm can't
take it, and th« financial problem is solved.
Try it. We have, and it works.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 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 PAGE THREE
PARADE IS HELD
BY CADETS HERE
FOR D. A. R. HEAD
Mrs. William A. Becker, U. D.
C. President General, Made
Honorary Colonel Of Cadets
Mrs. William A. Becker, of Summit,
N. J., president general of the Na­tional
Society Daughters of the
American Revolution, was made an
honorary colonel of the cadet corps
at Auburn Saturday morning when
1,400 gray-clad cadets paraded in her
honor on Bullard Field.
In an official order read before
the unit and signed by Dr. L. N.
Duncan, president of the College, and
Lt. Col. G. H. Franke, commandant
of cadets, the recognition was accorded
Mrs. Becker because of "her patriot­ism,
fidelity, and abilities as demon­strated
in the attainment of the high­est
office, that of president general, in
the Daughters of the American Rev­olution."
The order was read by Ad­jutant
William C. Piatt, of Birming­ham.
Mrs. Becker stood next to Cadet
Colonel William T. Wingo, of Birm­ingham,
whp took the parade. Three
other national D. A. R. officers were
in the reviewing stand, Mrs. Julius
Talmadge, Athens, Ga.; Mrs. William
H. Pouch, New York City; and Mrs.
Zebulon Judd, Auburn. In addition
in the receiving stand were Mrs. Val
Taylor, Uniontown, State D. A. R. re­gent;
Mrs. Fred Allison, regent of
the Light Horse Harry Lee Chapter,
SOCIETY AND NEWS FEATURES
LUELLA BOTSFORD, Society Editor
Mary Crawford Will
Be Married Shortly
Miss Mary Crawford, of Hurtsburo,
is to be married at an early date to
George Dewey Mitchell, of Atmore.
The marriage is to take place at an
early date.
Both Miss Crawford and Mr. Mit­chell
attended Auburn. He received
his degree in Electrical Engineering
with the class of 1934, having been
a member of S. P. E. Fraternity. She
was a student here during the 1933
and 1934 sessions.
Flowers for all Occasions
KING'S NURSERY
Phone 695-J
OPELIKA, ALABAMA
1934 Graduate To Be
Married On March 29
Recent announcement was made by
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Black, of
Montevallo, of the engagement and ap­proaching
marriage of their daughter,
Lucyle, to Aubrey A. Taylor, of Clan,
ton. Mr. Taylor is a graduate of
1934 and was a member of T. U. O
Fraternity during his stay in Auburn,
The marriage is to talce place on
March 29th.
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Mrs. Appleby Will Be
Hostess To Art Club
On Friday afternoon, March 20th,
Mrs. Frank W. Appleby will be hos­tess
to the Department of Art of the
Auburn Woman's Club. The club will
have as its speaker Miss Louise Glan-ton.
Her subject will be "Contem­porary
Art Exhibits."
Auburn; Colonel Franke; President
Duncan; Mrs. E. R. Barnes, Mrs. Mc-
Lemore, and Mrs. John R. Hudson,
regents of Montgomery D. A. R. chap­ters;
Mrs. B. B. Ross, and Mrs. Fred
DeWees; Mr. and Mrs. P. 0. Davis;
and officers of the R. O. T. C. unit.
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MENTION
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Ramsey, of
Montgomery, visited their son, Robert,
here Saturday.
* * *
Molly Brasfield, Sarah Goode, and
Jane Slack spent the week end in De-mopolis.
* * *
Jack Ramsey, of Brewton, was in
Auburn this past week end.
* * *
Among the Auburn students who at­tended
the Cotillion Club dance in Co­lumbus
last Saturday, were: Esther
Weeks, Sarah Smith, Perry Gordy,
Gayle Riley, Wales Wallace, Roy Tay­lor
and George Burrus.
* * *
Johnnie Laumer was the guest of
Jack Carr at his home in Tallassee
this week end.
* * *
Ira Grimes attended the Esquire
Dance in La Grange la^t Saturday.
* * *
Marguerite Dickson and Elsie
Wood, of*Montgomery; Betty Jones
and Miriam Roundtree, of Birming­ham;
and Doris Reed, of Clearwater,
Florida, were guests at the Lambda
Chi Dance last Friday night.
* * *
Elsie Ferguson, of Atlanta; Martha
Petrosky, a former Auburn student;
and Nelson Parrish, Casey Hill, and
Mr. and Mrs. John P. White, all
former students here, were present at
the Phi Kappa Tau dance last Satur:
day night.
* * *
Ed McKenzie spent Monday in At­lanta.
* * *
Ralph Melton visited in West Point,
Georgia, last week end.
* * *
Mary Haygood went to her home in
Greenville last Sunday.
* * *
Louise Laatsch, of Birmingham, at­tended
the Chemical Ball.
* * *
Joe Vincent and Robert Kincey
spent the week end in Birmingham.
" * * *
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Johnson, of
Bessemer, spent the week end here
with their son, B. H. Johnson, Jr.
* * *
Mary Wharton, of Gadsden, visited
her brother, Merrill Wharton, here
during the past week end.
* * *
Clairce Payne, graduate of 1935,
was the guest of Miss Jewel Davis
last week end. ^
* * *
Franklin Woodruff had as his guest
last week end Marion Kelley, Auburn
graduate of 1934.
* * *
William Chambers, former Auburn
student who is now in business in
Birmingham, spent several days last
week in Auburn.
* * *
Mary Jim Enloe, Nellie Fuller and
Verna Patterson, Auburn graduates
now engaged in Home Demonstration
work, attended the district meeting of
Home Demonstration Agents here last
week.
* * *
Lois Bailey, Bill Friel, Doug Flan-nagan,
Ruth Carlson, and Mr. and
Mrs. T. H. Friel spent last week end
in Pensacola.
* * *
Amy Weston, former Auburn stu­dent,
is visiting in Auburn this week.
* * *
Bill McConnico spent last week end
in Atmore.
* * *
Sarah Lee Stanley, of Montgomery
and Birmingham, and Carolyn Jenk­ins,
of Alex City, attended Kappa
Delta initiation here last week end.
Legion Auxiliary Has
Meeting Last Week
Mrs. Earl Rauber and Mrs. A.
Carnes gave interesting discussions
at the America Legion Auxiliary
Meeting held last week at the home of
Mrs. G. O. Hunter.
The following new members have
been added to the junior division of
Auxiliary: Vonicle Teal, Marilyn
Meagher, Patricia McDaniel, Marjorie
McKinnon, Miriam Keeler, Ann
Draughon, Christine Blackburn and
Bobbie Thomas.
Large Audience Sees
Comic Opera Monday
Despite inclement weather the Na
tional Music League Opera Company
presented Von Flotow's "Martha" to
a large and appreciative audience
which voiced loud its approval of the
performance given by world renowned
singers.
Too much praise cannot be bestow­ed
upon Miss Marion Packard, the
troupe's accompanist. Besides giving
a most creditable performance at the
piano Miss Packard told the plot of
the opera at the beginning of the pro­gram,
thereby adding much value to
the concert for those not so familiar
with the play.
Each part was well received, most
with about equal amounts of applause,
but "The Last Rose of Summer" and
"The Spinning Song" stood out as the
most popular numbers. Miss Cecile
Sherman, Alabama girl who sang the
role of Lady Harriet, received a tre­mendous
ovation at the conclusion of
her solo, "The Last Rose of Sum­mer,"
while Mr. Henry, Miss Selee,
Miss Sherman, and Mr. Laramy shar­ed
honors in the spinning wheel quar­tette.
Miss Selee teamed with Mr. Wil­liams
to add just enough touch of com­edy
to the performance. Although
most of her singing was in duets and
quartettes, she sang enough solo parts
for one to easily recognize her voice
as the richest and clearest of the
group.
Between the third and last acts Miss
Christine McCann, Southern represen­tative
for the company, urged the resi­dents
and students of Auburn to sup­port
the proposed tour of artists next
spring, and thus make Auburn one of
the 20 Alabama towns to enjoy the
privilege of seeing various groups of
the world's most talented performers.
The plan is to bring to Auburn a se­ries
of four entertainments chosen
from other English operas, the Man­hattan
String Quartette, Marionettes,
the Strawbridge-Parnova dancers, and
other artists. Season tickets for stu­dents
will be only one dollar.
Stowers And Garrett
Be Married In April
An announcement of engagement
and approaching marriage which is of
interest here is that of Miss Kath-erine
Stowers, of Snowden, and John
A, Garrett, of Montgomery and Bay
Minette. Both Miss Stowers and Mr,
Garrett are former Auburn' students,
He received his degree in Civil Engin­eering
with the class of 1935. She
attended Auburn during the first se­mester
of the current session and
during the 1934-35 session, being a
member of Kappa Delta Sorority.
The marriage is to be an event of
April.
Officers Are Elected *
For Phi Omega Pi
At a recent meeting Phi Omega Pi
Sorority held election of officers. The
following officers were elected by the
Active Chapter: Elizabeth Zachry,
President; Marie Hodges, Vice-Presi­dent;
Sarah Williams, Secretary;
Eileen Pilgram, Treasurer; Mary
Louise Griffin, Rush Captain; and
Charlotte Bowdon, Reporter.
This sorority also held formal in­itiation
recently. Those initiated were
Marie Hodges, Elizabeth Zachry, Ei­leen
Pilgrams, Sarah Williams, Mary
Louise Griffin, and Charlotte Bowden.
Bridge Club Meets at
Home of Mrs. Seal
Mrs. J. L. Seal was hostess to her
bridge club last Wednesday morning.
High score and second high score
prizes were won by Mrs. W. H. Cap-pedge
and Mrs. A. D. Burke, respec­tively.
Following the game, luncheon
was served at the card tables.
In the afternoon of the same day
Mrs. Funchess and Mrs. J. W. Scott
entertained at bridge for a number of
their friends at the home of Mrs.
Funchess. Mrs. George Scareth won
high score prize and Mrs. M. L.
Nichols won the cut prize.
Sunday Movies For
Opelika Legalized
Sunday movies for Opelika has been
legalized by the city council, but a
$500 license will be placed on the
theatre for the privilege.
The' $500 license is in addition to
the regular yearly theatre license.
This city license shows to be only
$25.50. ;
James A. Biggers, Manager of the
Opelika Theatre says he is not ready
to make an announcement as to when
the Sunday movies will begin.
Irvine Named To Head
Crippled Children Group
Dr. Paul Irvine of the Education
Department was elected president of
the Lee County Crippled Children's
Committee at a meeting at the court­house
on Wednesday night, March 11.
Other officers elected were Travis
Ingram, of Auburn, treasurer; John
Lewis Whatley of Opelika, vice presi­dent,
and Miss Eulen Hawkins of
Opelika, secretary.
Pledges To Kappa Delta
Initiated On Sunday
Kappa Delta sorority initiated the
following pledges Sunday, March 16:
Marion Stanley, Montgomery; Doris
White, Pensacola, Fla.; Pearl Ru­dolph,
Selma; Virginia Wadsworth,
Fort Benning; Evelyn Johnson, Fort
JJenning; and Susan Anne Wallace,
Memphis, Tenn. Marion Stanley was
given a Kappa Delta ring as an award
for being the most outstanding pledge
to be initiated. Virginia Wadsworth,
also an outstanding pledge, was given
a recognition button.
Garden Department To
Meet Thursday Afternoon
The regular monthly meeting of the
Garden Department of the Auburn
Woman's Club will be held on Thurs­day
afternoon, March 19th, at 3:00
at the home of Mrs. Walter Schreiber
on College Street. An interesting talk
on "Pointers for Flower Show Ex­hibitors"
will be given by Dryden
Baughman.
Williams Is Speaker
Before Rotary Group
James H. Williams, senior in elec­trical
engineering from Shanghai,
China, was the featured speaker of
the Rotary Club meeting in Opelika
last week. His talk concerned the
historical and industrial facts of his
native country.
Mr. Williams pointed out that there
are about 15,000 Americans in Shang­hai,
and that American business is
showing rapid increase in the Chinese
Empire. The operations of the Stan­dard
Oil Company in his country were
described as extensive.
At the conclusion of the talk, the
members of the Rotary Club were
given an opportunity to ask questions
on the customs and habits of China.
Although Mr. Williams has spent
most of his life in China, he is of
American descent. His parents were
formerly residents of Alabama.
Chi Omega Pledges Are
Initiated Recently
, The following pledges of Chi Omega
sorority were, formally initiated re­cently:
Marie Kelly, Jasper; Gretchen
Talley, Greenville, S. C; Lucile Be-thune,
Clayton; and Ruth Holcombe,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Alpha Beta chapter
makes an award, annually, to the wo­man
student on the campus making
the highest scholastic average for the
year in Sociology. This award is
made to a senior majoring in Soci­ology.
TIME OUT TAKEN
ON AZALEA BILL
BY LEGISLATORS
State Solons Diddle Time In
Discussing Pressing Matter
Of Changing State Flower
The legislature abandoned its prob­lems
of welfare, education, and repeal
last week .to spend a period of time on
the distressful and pressing matter of
changing the state flower.
The McDermott bill, which was in­troduced
by Representative William V.
McDermott of Mobile and the Azalea
Trail, would substitute the Azalea for
the goldenrod, which is the present
official state flower.
Representative Eugene "Bull" Con­nor
of Jefferson was a leader in the
discussion. He admitted he didn't
know the state flower until the crisis
came last week in the legislature.
Connor will offer a bill to make the
azalea the "assistant" state flower.
Chances are poor that the important
change will be made due to the fact
that Speaker Walker referred the bill
to the Rules Committee of which he
is chairman. His grandmother led
the fight to have the goldenrod rec­ognized
as the official state flower
in 1927.
Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe
Down to Howard's we must go
To get for the kiddies those cute toys
Dolls for the girls, trains for the
boys.
See Jay Bozeman
Tonight at
Reed's Billiard Parlor
I am leaving town for a
period of six months. The
Birmingham News a nd
Age-Herald will be under
the supervision of Mrs.
Leon Jones during that
time. I will appreciate all
my subscribers cooperat­ing
with her in the same
way that they have coop­erated
with me.
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STATE SOLONS TO
DISCUSS REVENUE
BILLS TOMORROW
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be held Thursday.
If the senate makes any change—
as appears certain—the bill will then
go to a joint committee where it will
be re-written in accordance with fi­nancial
needs of the state as seen by
Governor Graves and his leaders in
both houses of the legislature.
In the meantime, schools are clos­ing
weekly throughout Alabama. This
is confined not to the rural counties
but includes the more populous coun­ties.
Jefferson county schools (not
the city schools of Birmingham) will
close about April 1, unless more rev­enue
is made available. All Mont­gomery
county and city schools are
in a financial dilemma.
As the schools close parents and
school officials generally are becom­ing
more alarmed. They are still
hopeful that the legislature will do
something to keep the schools going
longer this session but many are be­ginning
to feel that it is too late to
do anything this session. They are
hopeful that finances can be put on
a sound basis so that all Alabama
schools may be kept going full terms
hereafter, beginning next fall.
Auburn students are still keenly
interested in the situation. Their
thinking includes not .only the Ala­bama
Polytechnic Institute but other
institutions of higher learning, and
also the public schools and high
schools. They want a complete sys­tem.
It is obvious to all who study the
problem that it is one of finances
and that this can be provided only
by the legislature and Governor
Graves. Further delay, they insist,
i s unwise and unnecessary.
More than 50 Yale graduates are
presidents of American colleges.
KOPLON'S
SHOE STORE
Shoes and Repairing
OPELIKA
Agency For
"FORTUNE SHOES"
OPELIKA
. THEATRE *
Wednesday
"TWO IN
THE DARK"
With
WALTER ABEL
MARGOT GRAHAME
Also
"Flicker Fever"
Armies of the World
Thursday
LAWRENCE TIBBETT
"METROPOLITAN"
Added: Comedy—
Return Engagement
Friday
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
In
"THE LITTLEST
REBEL"
With
JACK HOLT, JOHN
BOLES
Betty Boop Cartoon
Also Comedy
Monday & Tuesday
"CAPTAIN
BLOOD"
With
ERROLL FLYNN
GUYKIBBEE
ROSS ALEXANDER
Father Of Freshman
Dies In Montgomery
Harry E. Snow, ST., father of
Harry E. Snow, Jr., a freshman in
pre-law at Auburn, died at an infirm­ary
in Montgomery, his home city,
Tuesday, after a ten-day illness.
Mr. Snow had been in Montgomery
17 years, making Montgomery his
home shortly after the World War.
He came from Kentucky to take
charge of the new stock yards in
Montgomery which he has developed
into the biggest and best livestock
market in the Southeast.
In recent years he has been secre­tary
of the Montgomery Chamber of
Commerce in addition to his livestock
work. He is one of the best known
and most loved citizens of Mont­gomery.
Harry, Jr., came to Auburn at the
beginning of the current session. He
is a member of the Kappa Alpha fra­ternity.
Small Balance Left
To Be Paid On Fund
Of the $2,267.97 subscribed to the
Auburn Welfare Fund, $1,752.22 has
been paid, according to information
released by officials this week. A bal­ance
of $515.75 is yet to be paid by
subscribers.
Expenditures for charitable pur­poses
on February 25 had amounted
to $492.20, leaving a cash balance on
hand of $1,260.02.
List of disbursements follows:
$77.49 for hospitalization and inciden­tal
expenses of Wendell Allen; 80
cents to transient; $245.36 to Boy
Scout Troop No. 7; $29 to Red Cross;
$135.05 to Christmas fund, and $4.50
to Willie Brooks.
AUBURN, BENNING
POLOISTS BATTLE .
TO 6-6 DEADLOCK
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artillerymen staged a rally with
Thompson's goal being followed with
another by Lang to tie the score in
the last minute of the game.
Lieut. Thompson was by far the
most outstanding player on the field,
scoring four of the visitors' goals.
For Auburn, Bacon and Chandler led
the offense with two each, while Dex-ter's
field play was a feature of the
encounter.
The next game will be played on
Bullard Field at 2:30 against the
"Free-Booters", another Ft. Benning
team.
Lineups:
Auburn Position 83rd F. A,
Chandler (2) _No.l Chapman
Ivey (1) No.2__ Lang (1)
Hicks No.3— Thompson (4)
Dexter (1) Back Hennigar
Score by chukkers:
83rd F. A. 012 101—6
Auburn - 101 220—6
Substitutions—Auburn: Bacon (2).
Referee: Fleming (Montgomery).
Duke University plans for a cen­tennial
celebration in 1938 include con­struction
of two new buildings, en­largement
of the library to million-book
capacity, and founding of 100
scholarships.
Amherst students once packed a
town meeting and voted the erection
of a new city hall, to be one foot
wide, 100 feet long, and made of
glass.
Annapolis expects increased enroll­ment.
Legislation now pending would
allow each Congressman five, instead
of four appointments.
Dr. Walston To Speak
Before P.-T. A. Group
Dr. Rosa Lee Walston, associate
professor of education at Auburn, will
deliver an address Thursday evening
before Parent-Teachers Assaciation at
Cullman. The address is scheduled
for 8 p. m. at the Cullman High
School.
Subject of Dr. Walston's address
will be "Parents and Children of
1936."
During the year Dr. Walston has
been requested to appear before vari­ous
educational and civic organiza­tions
over the State. She is a spe­cialist
in English education and holds
the Ph. D. degree from Duke Univer­sity.
New Union College eligibility rules
allow any student, no matter what his
grades, to participate in one extra­curricular
activity.
Officers Are Chosen
For Relations Group
The local I. R. C. elected, at their
meeting last night, the officers that
will preside over the Southeastern
Conference of the International Rela­tions
Clubs which will be held here
next February.
The officers are: R. C. Boles, presi­dent;
Fred Schomberg, vice-president,
and Kay Sibert, corresponding secre­tary.
The recent south-eastern conference
which was held at Winthrop College,
Rock Hill, S. C, elected to come to
Auburn over Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt
was the leading contender for the con­ference,
however, Randolph-Macon
was also a bidder. R. C. Boles and
R. A. Roberts were local delegates to
the convention, and were instrumental
in getting enough votes to bring the
conference here next year.
The scope of the conference may be
ascertained by the fact that between
200 and 250 delegates from all the
leading schools in the south-east will
attend; also the national director of
the International Relation Clubs, Miss
Anna Hemingway Jones. Several out­standing
speakers on international
questions will be here to address the
assembly.
The general officers of the south­eastern
division of the I. R. C. are:
first vice president, Miss Martha Wal­ling,
Randolph-Macon College for
Women, Lynchburg, Va.; second vice-president,
John Weems, Mississippi
College, Clinton, Mississippi, and re­cording
secretary, Robert James, Win­throp
College, Rock Hill, S. C.
Recently, twelve new members were
pledged to the club. The new mem­bers
are: R. C. Barker, Kay Sibert,
Evelyn Johnson, Billy McGehee,
Byron Cowart, Anna Morris, Mary
Love, Mary Ward, Merwin York,
Frances Ramsey, Raymond Callaway
and John Lowery.
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Tiger Theatre Will
Feature Stage Show
"Miami Shores Revue," a stage
show direct from the Miami Shores
Hotel will be presented at the Tiger
Theatre Friday afternoon and even­ing.
Serge Abagoff, the famous Rus­sian
dancer who performed in "Cos­sacks"
with the late John Gilbert, is
the feature of the show.
Other features of the entertainment
are Jack Norton and his Florida Or­chestra,
the Hickory Nuts, Ruthel Sis­ters,
the Whirlwinds, Sonny Fleming,
and Ruth Warren.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy will
be on the screen in their latest pic­ture,
"The Bohemian Girl."
Billiards Expert To
Give Exhibition Here
Hiram College, Ohio, celebrated leap
year by ordering all men in at 12
every night, giving co-eds complete
freedom.
Thirty-one Columbia students were
made ill recently when contaminated
ice-cream made a mysterious appear­ance
in John Jay Hall dining rooms.
General Meeting Of
County Agents Held
A general meeting of county
agents and extension service special­ists
is being held in Auburn today
(Wednesday) in Langdon Holl. The
meeting was called by Dr. L. N. Dun­can
to discuss several important mat­ters
pertaining to extension service
work.
LOST—Silver metallic evening jacket
at Freshman Ball. If found please
return to Plainsman office.
Jay N. Bozeman, speediest of all the
three-cushion billiards experts, will
appear in a two hour exhibition to­night
at Reed's Billiard Parlor. Dur­ing
his engagement Bozeman will of­fer
ah exhibition at three-cushion bil­liards
and fancy shots to be followed
by one "hour of free instructions to
both men and women.
Bozeman is the youngest of all the
world's greatest three-rail stars and
also the speediest shot-maker. His
fast play has made him a prime fav­orite
wherever he has appeared.
PLANS FOR SIXTY-FOURTH
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT
ANNOUNCED BY DUNCAN
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ing, preaching, and pastoral duties.
Dr. Snavely was born in Maryland
and attended the public schools of that
state. In 1901 he received the A. B.
degree from Johns Hopkins and the
Ph. D. in 1908. He studied in Paris
in the summer of 1905, received the
LL. D. from Emory University in
1905; Litt.D. from Southern College
in 1930, and the same degree from
Cumberland University in 1932.
He has been president of Birming­ham-
Southern since 1921, prior to
which he was dean of Spartanburg
College at Spartanburg, S. C, regis­trar
of Allegheny College from 1908
to 1919, assistant professor of French
at the same institution from 1907 to
1909 and principal at Milton Acad­emy,
Baltimore, 1902 to 1905; in­structor
in Maryland Nautical Acad­emy
from 1901 to 1902. Dr. Snave­ly
has many scholarly connections in
Birmingham and elsewhere in con­nection
with his college work. He is
now national president of ODK, sec­retary
of the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools, and
widely known in college circles as
well as in church work.
Meal prices at Harvard will be up-ped
75 cents a week next year.
Little Audrey Taylor wants some
nice person to help defray her
room expense. Gas heat. Apply
at once.—Pd. Adv.
Tiger Theatre
"Showplace of East Alabama"
Auburn, Alabama
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18
Edmund Lowe and Ann Sothern
In
"GRAND EXIT"
with
Onslow Stevens, Russell Hicks
Added:—Comedy, "Just Speed­ing"
Novelty—"Camera
Hunting"
THURSDAY, MARCH 19
Leslie Howard and Bette Davis
In
"THE PETRIFIED
FOREST"
Added: Musical, "Star Re­porter"
Color Cartoon, "Molly
Moo Cow and the Indians"
FRIDAY, MARCH 20
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
In
"THE BOHEMIAN GIRL"
Added: "Crime Doesn't Pay"
series "Hit and Run Driver."
News Events
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